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Describe the specific context (who is speaking to whom, about what, etc.) and explain the significance of the following passage from Ovid’s Metamorphoses (4-6 good sentences): he dresses it up and puts diamond rings on its fingers, gives it a necklace, a lacy brassiere and pearl earrings, and even though all such adornments truly become her, she does nto seem to be any less beautiful naked. He lays down with her on a bed with a bright purple cover and calls her his bedmate and slips a few soft, downy pillows under her head as though she were able to feel them!

Into what kind of bird were the nine daughters of Pierus and Evippe transformed?

How does Juno torment Io near the end of Book I?

Which is a quote from the song of the nine sisters as they challenge the Muses for supremacy? 

In the “Apollo and Daphne” section, why was Apollo feeling so boastful on the day that he meets and then proudly belittles Cupid?

What deity wearing “crescent horns upon her brow / and a garland made of gleaming sheaves of wheat” comes to visit Telethusa in a dream-vision?  

What aids Hippomenes in his quest to be Atalanta’s husband?

Iphis makes an allusion to a fabled Greek craftsman who built wings made of wax so that he and his son, Icarus, could escape the labyrinth and the Minotaur.  What was his name?  

One more extremely important group of people, namely, the users of information systems. These include innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards.  Which one of these groups do you identify as? Explain why with an example of a recent technology adoption.

The Productivity Paradox was shown to be untrue because advantages in using technology were not alsways directly relatable to higher productivity, but to “softer” measures, such as the impact on organizational structure.