Final exam questions. Literature & Language Assignment.

Description
The final exam is timed. You will have 120 minutes (2 hours) to complete the exam. Do not open the exam until you are ready to answer the questions as your time starts to count down once the exam is opened.
The exam covers the writing process, narrative writing, cause and effect, writing a summary and paraphrase, synthesis, analysis and MLA docuemntation.
Question 1 (10 points)
Documentation is important when writing a paper that uses source material. It is also important to avoid submitting plagiarized material in a paper. Write a detailed response that addresses the following:
1. What exactly is plagiarism and how can it be avoided in writing a paper? Include in your response the importance of in-text or parenthetical documentation and a works cited page. Also explain in detail how to write/create/format a works cited page.
Question 2 (20 points)
Read the following article and write a brief summary of the article, indicating the main points. In-text documentation should be used as needed. Create a works cited entry for the article.
Mattel’s New Action Figures Honor ‘Everyday Heroes” on the Coronavirus Front Lines.
By Ben Cost
New York Post April 29, 2020 (https://nypost(dot)com/2020/04/29/mattel-action-figures-honor-everyday-heroes-on-frontlines/)
It’s not just Baby Yoda plush toys and “Inspirational” Barbies anymore.
Toy giant Mattel is now honoring workers on the front lines of the coronavirus fight, by releasing a special series of action figures modeled after the first responders who are valiantly putting their lives at risk to save others from the disease. Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that at least 9,200 US healthcare professionals had been infected with COVID-19 during the nationwide epidemic.
“#ThankYouHeroes is designed to immortalize and honor health-care and everyday heroes,” says Chuck Scothon, senior vice president of Mattel subsidiary Fisher-Price in a statement.
The brand’s new collectible line features a range of emergency worker figurines, including EMTs, nurses and doctors who come complete with scrubs and stethoscopes. They also pay homage to the heroic delivery drivers who are sacrificing their own quarantines to transport essential items to the millions of US citizens sheltering in place amid lockdown.
Those for whom one hero isn’t enough can even buy the “special five-character Little People” set that comes with a doctor, nurse, EMT, delivery driver and grocery store worker.
However emergency worker-tributing toys aren’t a cheap way to cash in on a crisis. The collection’s proceeds will benefit #FirstRespondersFirst, a campaign created to support first responder health-care workers.
“It will be wonderful to see this new Fisher-Price collection not only bring joy to children,” says Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO of Thrive Global, one of the organizations behind the #FirstRespondersFirst initiative. “But give parents and caregivers a new way to honor health-care first responders and everyday heroes and their families.”
The #ThankYouHeroes will be available to preorder on the site for $20 starting Wednesday through May 31, 2020 — although customers might not receive the collectibles until December 31, 2020, per the release.
If that wasn’t enough, Mattel has pledged to produce 500,000 face shields for health-care workers in order to help curb the rampant supply shortages plaguing US hospitals.
Unfortunately, the pandemic’s toll on first responders isn’t merely physical. A New York City EMT and ER doctor recently committed suicide after being overwhelmed by the onslaught of coronavirus deaths, while a survey of Chinese health-care workers revealed that over half of the hospital employees experience depression.
Chuck Scothon, who’s also the global head of infant and preschool at Mattel, says: “It is our hope that Fisher-Price toys, and play in general, can ultimately make these difficult times easier for both kids and adults.
Question 3 (20 points)
Read the following poem and write a developed 1 - 2paragraph response that explains the theme of the poem and one of the elements (word choice, symbolism, form, rhyme, rhythm, allusion, imagery, speaker) that the poet uses to develop the theme. Include the title of the poem and author in your response. Include supportive evidence from the poem in your response. In-text documentation is required (use the author's last name and line number).
Harlem
By Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?
Question 4 (10 points)
Write a developed, detailed explanation of how to write a causal analysis. in your explanation you need to list and explain the steps involved in writing a causal analysis. In your explanation you will also need to discuss necessary and remote causes and the impact they have on a causal analysis.
Question 5 (10 points)
Write a detailed response that addresses the following: What are the steps or stages in the writing process? What happens in each step?
Question 6 (10 points)
Write a developed and detailed response that explains how to write a rhetorical analysis. Discuss the steps that are involved in writing the rhetorical analysis. In your response you will need to also discuss the importance of highlighting and annotating a text/literary work before you start to write an analysis.
Question 7 (10 points)
Write a brief paragraph that defines and explains synthesis. In your explanation you need to indicate how synthesis is used when writing a researched essay.
Question 8 (10 points)
This question consists of two (2) parts.
Part 1: In your own words explain what a paraphrase is.
Part 2: Carefully read the following passage and write a paraphrase of the passage. Do not include direct quotes in your passage. In-text documentation is required.
While the Sears Tower is arguably the greatest achievement in skyscraper engineering so far, it's unlikely that architects and engineers have abandoned the quest for the world's tallest building. The question is: Just how high can a building go? Structural engineer William LeMessurier has designed a skyscraper nearly one-half mile high, twice as tall as the Sears Tower. And architect Robert Sobel claims that existing technology could produce a 500-story building (Bachman 15).