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Listen tо the clip аnd fоllоw the diаlogue on the trаnscript. Write the correct figurative language shown on the excerpt above. You will listen twice. (10 points) Professor: All right. Now… who can explain Newton's method and how you use it? Student 1: You can use it to solve non-linear equations. Professor: That’s impressive. That’s really good. I mean, I’m very impressed by that — especially since my class is called Non-Linear Equations. All right, now somebody tell me something I don’t already know. Anyone? Bueller? Anyone? Bueller? Figurative Language: _________________________________________________________________________________________ Ben: Newton stole it. Professor: Sorry? Ben: Newton stole it. Joseph Raphson published the same method 50 years earlier. If the start value is too far removed from the true zero, then it fails. Professor: I’m sorry — what’s your name? Ben: Ben Campbell. Professor: Ben.So Ben Campbell suggests that Joseph Raphson was the original author of this method. Well, if that’s the case, then why didn’t he get any credit? Well, for one thing, Newton had a better publicist. Figurative Language: ____________________________________________________________________________________________ And for another, after 1700 we know very little about Raphson — other than the fact that he discovered the Kabbalah about 300 years before Madonna. Professor: All right, now let’s give Ben a chance for some extra credit, shall we? We’re going to call this… the Game Show Host Problem.All right, Ben. Suppose you’re on a game show and you’re given a chance to choose from three different doors. Behind one of the doors is a new car. Behind the other two… goats.Which door would you choose, Ben? Ben: Door number one. Professor: Door number one! Ben chooses door number one.Now, the game show host — who, by the way, knows what’s behind all the doors — decides to open another door. Let’s say he chooses door number three, behind which sits… a goat.Now, the game show host comes up to you and says: “Ben, do you want to stay with door number one or go with door number two?”Is it in your interest to switch your choice? Ben: Yeah. Professor: Well, wait. Remember, the host knows where the car is. So how do you know he’s not playing a trick on you? Trying to use reverse psychology to get you to pick a goat? Ben: Well… I wouldn’t really care. I mean, my answer is based on statistics — based on variable change. Professor: Variable change? But he just asked you a simple question. Ben: Yeah… it just changed everything. Professor: Enlighten us. Figurative language: ________________________________________________________________________________________ Ben: Well, when I was originally asked to choose a door, I had a 33.3% chance of choosing right. But after he opens one of the doors and then re-offers me the choice, it’s now 66.7% if I choose to switch.So yeah — take door number two. And thank you for the extra 33.3%. Professor: Exactly!People, remember — if you don’t know which door to open, always account for variable change.Now see, most people wouldn’t take the switch out of paranoia, fear, emotions…But Mr. Campbell kept emotions aside and let simple math get his ass into a brand-new car. Figurative language: ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Which is better than that goat you’ve been driving around campus. Figurative language: ________________________________________________________________________________________ All right everybody, that’s the end of the day. Thank you very much. Your graded papers are down here at the end — you can pick them up on your way out.
The NOVA Fоundаtiоn is оffering а scholаrship (una beca) to study for one year at a university in Spain or Latin America. You decide to apply. Write an 8- to 10-sentence letter to the NOVA Foundation Board of Directors (la junta directiva) explaining why you should receive the scholarship and where you want to study. In your letter, be sure to include answers to the questions listed below. (20 puntos= Contenido: 5 puntos, Gramática: 5 puntos, Vocabulario: 5 puntos, Originalidad: 5 puntos) (1) ¿Qué ha hecho Ud. este semestre para practicar y mejorar (improve) su español? (2) ¿En qué país quiere estudiar? ¿Por qué? (3) ¿Qué sabe Ud. de la cultura y/o historia del país donde quiere estudiar? (4) ¿Ha aprendido Ud. algo recientemente sobre el país? Explique. (5) ¿Qué querrá aprender y hacer cuando Ud. viva en el país?