On the poem of "the road not taken" what do you think would have happened had the traveler made a different choice?

I think the purpose of the poem is to make the reader
consider the impact of decisions made during life. My interpretation of what will happen
as a result of the poet's decision to take the road less traveled isn't as important as
that every reader finds his/her own meaning.

In answer to
your question, however, I think the traveler would have been disappointed if the choice
had been to take the more traveled path. In reading the poem, I think the traveler
enjoys time to discover and experience on his/her own, without lots of company along the
way. Therefore, I don't think the traveler would have enjoyed the trip as much if it had
not been taken on "the road less traveled."

What is the appropriateness of the title "The Slave's Dream"?

The title of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "The
Slave's Dream" is completely appropriate given the action of the text. The poem details
the dream of a slave.

The poem beings with the slave laying
by rice, with a sickle in his hand. The slave has not yet, or has stopped, begun working
on harvesting the rice. Instead, the slave lays down and begins to
dream.

Beside
the ungathered rice he lay,/ His sickle in his hand;/ His breast was bare, his matted
hair/ Was buried in the sand,/ Again, in the mist and shadow of sleep,/ He saw his
Native Land.

After falling
asleep, the slave dreams of his home. In the end, his sleep was what saved him from ever
being beaten by a master's whip or the heat of the day. The slave never awakes from his
final sleep. Instead, his soul is able to finally find rest in
death.

Therefore, the title of the poem offers a direct
link to what the poem is about. A reader does not have to "read between the lines" or
use any type of inferences or assumptions to realize the action of the
poem.

What are some signs of the Great Depression from Chapter 8 of To Kill a Mockingbird? Explain please!

There really aren't as many obvious signs of the Great
Depression in Chapter 8 of To Kill a Mockingbird as there are in
other chapters. One sign that it is the 1930s is the lack of electrical heat in the
Finch home. Because excessively cold weather was a rarity in the Deep South, Southern
homes rarely had electric heaters (and because it was still a luxury in homes anywhere).
The Finches depended upon the heat from their fireplaces, and Scout claims that "we were
cold." Miss Maudie's house was wooden and susceptible to fire; concrete block houses
would not become common until after World War II. 

The
town's fire engine was old and would not start; when they attached a hose to the nearest
fire hydrant, the hose burst. The town probably had little money for upkeep during the
Great Depression, and they had neglected the importance of maintaining a properly
working firetruck. Miss Maudie's house had a tin roof, normal for many Southern houses
of the time. She also planned to rebuild with extra bedrooms so she could take in
boarders, a sure sign that money was scarce. African-Americans are referred to as
"nigger" and "colored man," outdated epithets now but common in the
1930s.

What messages and ideas were conveyed in Leo Tolstoy's "The Penitent Sinner"?

I would argue that the central message of this fascinating
piece of short fiction is the supremacy and power of grace. Let us just remember that
before the story begins, Tolstoy adds the quote from the Bible refering to the sinner
who dies on the cross next to Jesus and repents, and how Jesus says to him that, even
though he is repenting just before death, he will be with Jesus that day with him in his
kingdom. As the story begins, we realises we are being given another example of the
supremacy of grace, as the description of the man who dies makes
clear:

There
was once a man who lived for seventy years in the world, and lived in sin all that time.
He fell ill but even then did not repent. Only at the last moment, as he was dying, he
wept and said:

'Lord! forgive me, as Thou forgavest the
thief upon the cross.'

And as he said these words, his soul
left his body. And the soul of the sinner, feeling love towards God and faith in His
mercy, went to the gates of heaven and knocked, praying to be let into the heavenly
kingdom.

The parallels
between the two men are obvious. Both live a life of sin and turn to God in the last few
moments of their life, trusting in God's overwhelming grace to be sufficient to more
than make up for all of their sins. As the sinner speaks with first Peter and then
David, he forces these figures to recognise the way that grace has played a vital role
in their own journey to heaven, and thus is able to finally gain admittance into heaven
thanks to the Apostle John and his creed of love. The theme of this short story is
definitely that grace conquers all, even the most darkest and blackest sin, as even
heroes of the faith, such as David and Peter, are shown to be just as dependent on grace
as sinners like you and me.

Why mud-guards are provided to the wheels of the vehicles.Please explain.Physics

Mud guards are used on larger vehicles for several
reasons.  One reason has to do with Newton's laws of motion.  Newton stated that "an
object in motion stays in motion."  In this case, this means that when mud is carried
around the tire, it is given enough momentum to continue in a straight path until
something stops it.  Without a mud guard, the mud and debris would continue and possibly
cause a problem for the car behind.  Trucks are higher than cars, so the level at which
the mud would sling out from their tires would be likely to impact the following car's
windshield.  To prevent trucks and other larger vehicles from being a road hazard, we
install mud flaps behind the tires.  The mud and debris kicked up by the tires is then
stopped and redirected harmlessly towards the ground.

Share at least 2 ways in which our everyday lives intersect with biology is all about.

One way is how we obtain our food.Everyone has to eat,
right? Where did our food come from? How was it grown (cattle and fish farms), farmed,
caught, or even gotten from a processing plant? What is the trail our food has come
from..i.e. where was the rice grown for sushi? where did the fish come from? where did
the caviar come from? what fish and where? seeweed, where in the world did that come
from? Our food and where it came from is a story of its
own.

Another way how our everyday lives
intersect with biology is how our body changes. Whether you are getting older- your body
changes. Every living being changes as they get older.

What are the locations of Rainford's journey from the time he falls of the yacht to the end of "The Most Dangerous Game"?

"The Most Dangerous Game" starts out with big game hunter
Sanger Rainsford on a yacht in the Caribbean Sea, bound for his next hunt along the
Amazon River in South America. The yacht is passing the mysterious Ship-Trap Island when
Rainsford falls of the yacht. He swims ashore to the island, making his way to an
unexpected mansion owned by General Zaroff, a former Russian Cossack and big game hunter
himself. Before Zaroff begins his nightly hunt, he reveals to Rainsford a false channel
that he uses as a lure to wreck ships upon the reef. The next day, Zaroff hunts
Rainsford. The general warns Rainsford about the Death Swamp located on the island,
which includes an area of quicksand. Rainsford heads into the wooded wilderness of the
island, managing to avoid the quicksand, and he eventually escapes by reaching a cliff
by the sea that overlooked a cove from which he could see Zaroff's chateau. Rather than
facing the armed Zaroff and his dogs, Rainsford chose to jump from the cliff into the
waters below.

How many diagonals are there in a polygon with n=50 sides?

In a polygon, the sides are the lines that join
consecutive points. All other lines between points that form the polygon are called
diagonals.

For example, the simplest polygon which is a
triangle does not have any diagonals as all the lines drawn between points that form the
polygon are sides of the triangle. A rectangle has 4 sides and 2
diagonals.

The number of sides that a polygon has is equal
to the number of points that make up the polygon. As examples, triangles have 3 sides
and are formed by 3 points, rectangles have 4 sides and are formed by 4 points,
etc.

A polygon with 50 sides is formed by 50 points. The
number of lines joining consecutive points is 50 and these are the sides of the polygon.
All lines between non-consecutive points are called
diagonals.

From each point of the polygon we can draw 47
diagonals. But the diagonal between two points is the same irrespective of which point
is considered the starting point and which is considered the ending point. This gives
the number of diagonals as 50*47/2 = 1175

The
number of diagonals in a polygon with 50 sides is
1175.

What is the moral of the story? The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant.

The moral (or theme) of "The Necklace" by Guy de
Maupassant depends on your view of the short story.  For instance, we early on learn
that Mathilde longs to be a part of the upper class.  All she wants is to go to the
party and have a great time.  When her dream comes true, reality leaves her crushed when
she realizes that she lost Jeanne's necklace.  Instead of beginning a life of grandeur
in the upper class, Mathilde plummets all the way to the lower class as she has to work
harder to make up for the loss of the necklace. This theme would be an example of man
versus society - or the conflict between classes within a
society.

Another potential theme maybe the conflict between
generosity and greed.  Who is generous in the story?  Mathilde so longs to be a part of
the upper class that she covets what she does not have.  Even though she has more than
some (one servent) she wants more and more.  This is a sign of greed.  Contrast that
with her husband's selfless act of giving up what he wants (the hunting trip) in order
to make sure that Mathilde gets her dream.  Even Jeanne is generous in allowing her
friend to use the necklace for her special night.  By the end of the story, we can see
the moral of the story for this view is to be careful what you wish for because the
grass always looks greener on the other side, but reality will
prevail.

Please illustrate foreshadowing in Henrik Ibsen's play, A Doll's House.

A Doll's House is one of Ibsen
best-known and well-received plays—though this was not the case when it was first
presented on stage. However, it wasn't long before the demand to see the play increased
throughout Europe. And although Ibsen insisted this was not a play written about women's
rights, but about human rights, as with any piece of art, it took on a life of its own
when released to the world.

Foreshadowing is when the
author provides information as to what is going to happen later in the story (or play),
but it is generally not recognized until the event takes
place.

An example of foreshadowing can be found at the
beginning of the play, when Nora has been shopping. Torvald says she should be careful
in spending. As a father would instruct a child, he reminds her that if he borrows to
pay for things and something happens to him, what would happen to the person he had
borrowed from? Nora explains that she wouldn't care about that
person.

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NORA:

If
anything so awful happened, then it just wouldn't matter if I had debts or
not.

TORVALD:

Well,
but the people I'd borrowed
from?

NORA:

Them?
Who cares about them? They're
strangers.

This foreshadows
Nora's debt with Krogstad, a semi-shady man that she borrowed money from when Torvald
was ill and could only be saved by moving to a warmer climate. She forged an I.O.U. with
her father's signature. (Women were not allowed to borrow money.) While she has no
regard for Krogstad, his threats will soon pressure Nora and cause her to re-evaluate
her marriage and her life.

Another example of foreshadowing
is found very soon after, as Torvald, acts as if borrowing money is a
sin:

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TORVALD:

Nora,
Nora, how like a woman!...No debts! Never borrow! Something of freedom's lost—and
something of beauty, too—from a home that's founded on borrowing and
debt.

This foreshadows
Torvald's initial response when he learns that Nora took a loan from Krogstad. He does
not care that it saved his life. He hates Krogstad and first worries about being in debt
to him. He is also concerned about his reputation—if word gets out. He has no
appreciation for Nora's actions, but treats her like filth. He refuses to let her care
for the children anymore—until he learns that Krogstad has returned
the I.O.U., with no further plans to pursue the
matter.

Lastly, Nora speaks of the miracle she expects to
occur when it comes out that she borrowed the money, as Krogstad has threatened to
expose her for her forgery. She believes that her husband will be noble and sacrifice
himself to save her—though she will not allow such a thing. She is
actually ready to take her own life rather than let Torvald shoulder any of the blame.
It seems that he might when he
says:

...time
and again I've wished you were in some terrible danger, just so I could stake my life
and soul and everything, for your
sake.

However, when the time
comes for Torvald to do just that, he fails Nora when she needs him most. The miracle is
not what Nora expected. The miracle is that she finally sees Torvald for who he
is:

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NORA:

I've
loved you more than all this
world...

TORVALD:

...You
stay there and give me a reckoning. You understand what you've
done?...

NORA:

Yes.
I'm beginning to understand everything
now.

What she understands is
that she has been living a lie, loving a man who has no capacity to appreciate her as a
person, or love her as a man should love his wife—not treating her like a child, but as
a partner; appreciating her sacrifices for him.

Is story written in third person dramatic? I know the author is narrating the story but confused about in what person.

D. H. Lawrence's short story "Rocking-Horse Winner," is
written in what we technically call third person omniscient.  This point of view is used
when several character's thoughts are revealed.  For instance, we know early on that
despite what others may believe  the mother had a coldness in her heart toward her
children:

She
had bonny children, yet she felt they had been thrust upon her, and she could not love
them.

We also know the
children's thoughts.  They hear the whisperings of the
house:

The
children could hear it all the time, though nobody said it
aloud.

Later, we follow
Paul's thoughts:

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He wanted luck, he wanted it, he wanted
it.

And later Uncle Oscar's
feelings:

The
uncle was delighted to find that his small nephew was posted with all the racing
news.

Because the narrator
enters into the minds of several characters revealing their thoughts and feelings, the
narrator is said to be omniscient, or all knowing.

What would be some good quotes from 1984 that some up today privacy issues?

Invasion of privacy in George Orwell's
1984 extends all the way into a person's
thoughts:

"It
was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or
within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an
unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself--anything that carried
with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear
an improper expression on your face...was itself a punishable offense. There was even a
word for it in Newspeak: facecrime..."  Book 1, Chapter
5

Privacy, or lack thereof,
is an important issue in this day and age.  Social networking, online billpay services,
simple email accounts--these are just a few of the things most Americans, and indeed
people around the world, use daily, in the process of living; whether we wish to or not,
and whether we think about it or not, we are sending volumes of information about
ourselves and our personal lives out into the world with the simple clicking of a
mouse.  While we are not--at least in this country--susceptible to police authority for
our expressions, we are certainly visible to people we don't even realize might be
seeing us.  Americans are filmed on security cameras hundreds of times each day, whether
we are visiting the bank, grocery store, or the local Quik Trip.  Internet access makes
it possible to see who is walking through Times Square in NYC, and numerous other places
around the world, 24 hours a day.  So while we don't have "facecrime" per se, our faces
are visible to many more people every minute of every day than we are even aware of most
of the time. 

What threat does Haimon make and how does Creon misinterpret it?

The argument between Creon and Haemon progresses through
several stages. In certain ways, both father and son are equally concernded for the good
of the city, but Creon believes, in light of the devestation of the fratricdal wars,
that the city can only prosper under a single strong ruler (technically, a tyrant)
whereas Haemon sees submission to the gods and cooperation among factions, as advocated
by Antigone, as the road to peace.

At first Creon, focussed
on the question of individual power, sees Haemon`s arguments as an attempt to usurp
power within Thebes, but only later realizes that the threat was not to challenge Creon,
but to depart from the household, and indeed, life itself.

What are some elegiac aspects of the Old English poem "The Seafarer"?

The Old English poem “The Seafarer” can be considered
elegiac – that is, sorrowful in tone – in many different respects, including the
following:

• The poem opens with its speaker
  explicitly declaring that the sea has swept
  him

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. . . back

And forth
in sorrow and fear and pain,

Showed me suffering in a
hundred ships . . .
(2-4)

• While the
  lines just quoted emphasize emotional pain, ensuing lines make it clear that the speaker
  has suffered much physical pain as well.


• Sometimes
  physical and emotional pain are united, as when the speaker declares, “Hunger tore / At
  my sea-weary soul” (11-12)and when he describes how he
  was

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Alone in a world blown clear of
love,

Hung with icicles.
(16-17)

• The
  speaker feels both physically isolated and emotionally alienated; he is cut off from
  most sources of social pleasure and consolation.  His only companions are sea birds who
  themselves seem to be suffering and in pain.  He is distant from even from kinsmen, and
  no romantic companion is even mentioned.


• The speaker is
  not only aware of his past, present, and future sufferings at sea but is also aware that
  death of some kind, from some source, is inevitable, thus giving him another reason to
  feel sorrow:

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No man has ever faced the
dawn

Certain which of Fate's three
threats

Would fall: illness, or age, or an
enemy's

Sword, snatching the life from his soul.
(69-72)

• Another
  reason for sorrow, the speaker also soon suggests, is that the world itself has declined
  from what it once was. Sorrow, then, is felt not only personally by this particular
  speaker but is also felt more broadly, by many humans living at this
  time:

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. . . All glory is
tarnished.

The world's honor ages and
shrinks,

Bent like the men who mold it.
(92-94)

By the second half of
the poem, it is clear that the speaker is mourning not only for his own suffering but
for the suffering of all people at all times. His lamentation is mainly for the painful
mutability of life on earth.

• Ultimately,
  however, in the second half of the poem and especially in its final lines, the attention
  of the speaker becomes focused increasingly on God and heaven as alternatives and
  answers to earthly suffering. Paradoxically, then, a poem that spends much of its
  phrasing engaged in elegiac lamentation ends with a tone of clear celebration of God and
  of the glories of the life to come. The sufferings the poem details for most of its
  length help make the satisfactions of eternal life in heaven with God seem all the more
  appealing.