Read the following excerpt of published criticism of Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use”.  For each excerpt, note whether it repeats something that has already been said in the critical conversation or adds something new to the critical conversation. If the excerpt adds something new, which of the three approaches to joining the conversation (adding new evidence, adding new interpretations, or disagreeing with previous interpretations) do you see the critic using? I agree with Hirsch when she mentions Mama’s “ability to take pleasure in her daughter’s difference without conceding any of her own choices and values” and her ability to maintain a distance from Dee “without visibly rejecting her” (203). While critics often point to Dee’s aggressiveness, which intrudes into the pastoral calm of Mama’s home, by quoting Mama’s comment that the dress Dee wears is “so loud it hurts my eyes,” they fail to note that Mama says shortly after, “I like it” (28). Mama has held a place for “Dee,” and if “Dee” is no longer htere, she will try to accommodate “Wangero.”

Read the following excerpt of published criticism of Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use”.  For each excerpt, note whether it repeats something that has already been said in the critical conversation or adds something new to the critical conversation. If the excerpt adds something new, which of the three approaches to joining the conversation (adding new evidence, adding new interpretations, or disagreeing with previous interpretations) do you see the critic using? [Wangero] wants the photographs–and presently the churn lid, the dasher, and the quilts–for purposes of display, reminders that she no longer has to live in such a house, care for such a cow, have daily intercourse with such a mother and sister. She “makes the mistake,” says Donna Haisty Winchell, “of believing that one’s heritage is something that one puts on display if and when such a display is fashionable” (81). Wangero seems to think the African-American past can be rescued only by being commodified.

What is an alternative type of bar graph that uses pictures to show the frequency of the data?

Community Hospital conducted a year-long study to measure the effect of smoking upon the birth weight of a newborn. In 20XX, the following information was collected for each mother and her newborn, who participated in the study.   Mother smoked during the pregnancy: Yes   No Newborn birth weight (g): ____________________ (g) APGAR score after 1 minute: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 APGAR score after 5 minutes: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Birth date: _____/_____/2010 Sex of newborn: Male   Female   The scales of the above variables are:

What do the wedges or divisions in a pie graph represent?

An organized arrangement of data, usually in columns and rows.

You have fallen and injured your ankle. The emergency room doctor has asked you to describe your pain level using the following 1 to 5 scale. What type scale is depicted below? 0 = No pain 1 = Mild pain 2 = Discomforting 3 = Distressing 4 = Intense 5 = Excruciating 

A type of diagram that is used to display frequency distributions for continuous numerical data (interval or ratio data).

Which one of the following is correct about the second paragraph in col. 1 on p. 172? (the paragraph that begins, “Moreover, some argue”)

Where in his article does Lipkin first mention placebos?