Write a comparison-and-contrast essay in which you compare and contrast the character of Beowulf with that of a modern hero in a television show, video game, or other medium. In your comparison, consider the type of monster or threat each hero faces, as well as each hero's characteristics. Based on your comparison, draw a conclusion about differences between Anglo-Saxon and modern-day values. Include these elements in your essay: $\bullet$ quotations from Beowulf that support your statements $\bullet$ relevant examples from your other source $\bullet$ transitional words and phrases that clarify comparisons and contrasts. You may wish to use point-by-point organization, in which you move between your subjects as you discuss points of comparison and contrast. Alternatively, you may wish to use subject-by-subject organization, in which you compare and contrast your subjects as complete units.

Decide whether the events are mutually exclusive. Being one of the ten tallest people in the United States and being under 4 feet tall.

Design an elevator-like device that can lift you to your dorm room by blowing air across the top surface of the elevator. Be sure to provide the details in your design and indicate any difficulties you might encounter.

A modern sculpture in a park contains a parabolic arc that starts at the ground and reaches a maximum height of 10 feet after a horizontal distance of 4 feet. Write a quadratic function in vertex form that describes the shape of the outside of the arc, where y is the height of a point on the arc and x is its horizontal distance from the left-hand starting point of the arc.

Operating Leverage. What is the lowest possible value for the degree of operating leverage for a profitable firm? Show with a numerical example that if Modern Artifacts (see Practice Problem 15a) has zero fixed costs, then DOL = 1 and in fact sales and profits are directly proportional, so that a 1% change in sales results in a 1% change in profits.

From 1987 to 2003, the number of indoor movie screens M in the United States can be modeled by

$$M=-11.0t^3+267t^2-592t+21,600$$

(a) Design a pseudo NMOS inverter to operate from $V_{DD} = 1.8 V$ with $V_L = 0.2 V$ and a power of $100 \mu \mathrm{W}$. Assume $V_{TN} = 0.5 V$ and $V_{T P} = −0.5V$. (b) Find the noise margins for your design.

In accounting for available-for-sale debt securities, the a. securities are reported on the balance sheet at their fair value.
b. securities are reported at cost.
c. increases in fair value are reported in income.
d. increases in fair value are not reported in income.
e. both a and d arc correct.

Consider the activities undertaken by a medical clinic in your area.

Required
1. Do you consider a job order cost accounting system appropriate for the clinic?
2. Identify as many factors as possible to lead you to conclude that it applies a job order system.

Marena is using a certain number of blue beads in a bracelet design. She will use 7 more red beads than blue beads. Write an expression in simplest form that represents the total number of beads in her bracelet design.

For the following term or person, write a sentence explaining its connection to the expansion of the United States in the mid-19th century: James K. Polk

Graph the functions described. First and second derivatives everywhere negative.

At one time, UNIX systems used disk-layout optimizations based on the rotation position of disk data, but modern implementations, including Linux, simply optimize for sequential data access. Why do they do so? Of what hardware characteristics does sequential access take advantage? Why is rotational optimization no longer so useful?

ZIP Codes in the United States are five-digit combinations of numbers such as 48104 or 02134. How many possible five-digit ZIP Codes are there?