Look below to view the entire question.The face of a clock is inclined at 30 degrees to the vertical. If the hour hand is in horizontal position at...

a) The clock is a circle, so the sum of the angles is 360
degrees.

The clock is divided equally in 12 equal angles.
Then, the angle between each two o'clock is 360/12 = 30
degrees.

a) Now, the inclination between the 1 o'clock and
3 o'clock is 2*30 degrees = 60 degrees.

b) The
inclination between 10 o'clock and 3 o'clock is 5*30 = 150
degrees.

c) Between the clock 4 and 5 , the
angle is 15 degree from each (4 and 5 o'clock, then the angle from (3 o'clock) is 30 +
15 = 45 degrees.

Please help me create a thesis for my practice US History AP essay on the early days of the United States government.My prompt is analyze and...

I would say that you are right about the Articles of
Confederation, but I would also argue that Washington's administration was more
effective than that of Adams.

The reason I say this is that
there seemed to be more crises under Adams.  The biggest of these was the crisis over
the Alien and Sedition Acts.  The fact that Adams presided over this attempt to
completely abrogate the right of free speech is a major stain on his
administration.

Therefore, I would say something like "As
the American Revolution ended and the new country was being created, there were serious
problems facing the country.  The Articles of Confederation failed to give the national
government enough power to deal with the problems.  During George Washington's time, his
personal authority helped to keep the problems from becoming serious.  However, the
problems came to the surface once again during John Adams's
presidency.

(3x-1)^3^ = exponents, so it's (3x-1) cubed

You did not specify what is the required
information.

I assume that you either need to expand or
find the roots.

First, let us expand between brackets using
the formula:

We know
that:

`(a-b)^3 = a^3 - 3a^2 b +3ab^2 -
b^3`

`==> (3x-1)^3 = 27x^3 -27x^2 +9x
-1`

`` If you need to determine the roots (
zeros):

==> `(3x-1)^3 =
0`

`==> 3x-1 =
0`

`==> 3x =
1`

`==> x =
1/3`

``

What are some of the important contributions of the Sumerians to later society?

Perhaps the greatest contributions of the Sumerians was
the invention of the wheel; it allowed merchants and others to transport items over much
further distances and soon was adapted to a plethora of other uses. Among their other
accomplishments was the creation of bronze by combining copper and tin, and later the
ability to forge tools and weapons from iron. Another important contribution was the
development of a system of writing, in the case of Sumeria this was cuneiform. The
development of writing led to the expansion of knowledge and scholarship, and allowed
for its preservation for future generations. Finally, the Sumerian numerical system of
base 60 is the foundation of our modern system of measurement of degrees, distances,
even time. The Sumerians were the first to develop a twelve month calendar, a sixty
minute hour, and a sixty second minute.  

How does the Orson Welles broadcast of War of the Worlds in 1938 relate to the social concerns of the time, like WWII and the Depression?

In 1938, the Great Depression and the looming danger from
Europe (combined with memories of World War I) created a social situation in which Orson
Welles' broadcast could seem more believable and
frightening.

At this point in history, people felt very
vulnerable.  They had been scarred by almost a decade of economic downturn.  They would
have felt that the evidence of World War I showed that technology could be used not just
for good, but also to create horror and devastation.  They would have been on edge as
Hitler pushed Europe to the brink (at that point) of another war in which technology
would be used in negative ways.  In this context, it makes sense that Welles' broadcast
would have had a more powerful impact than it might have at another time in our
history.

Welles' broadcast would have played into the fears
that people were feeling.  It would have confirmed in them the idea that they were
vulnerable to forces (economics, Hitler, and now Martians) that were completely beyond
their control.  It would have seemed plausible because it would have been clear to them
that technology could be used to devastate in the way the fictional Martians were using
it.

In these ways, the fears and experiences of people in
1938 would have helped to make Welles' broadcast seem more credible and to make it have
more of an impact on people than it might have in better times.

HELP! how does Steinbeck present language in of mice and men and describes powerlessness of Curley's wife's character?

The powerlessness of Curley's wife is in part because she
is never named other than by her association/possession by Curley.  She is also ignored
and condemned by the men on the ranch because they are afraid of Curley.  She is
powerless to change her position or better it, and listlessly goes from one
uncontrollable situation to another, with the presumption that she has control.  She
left her mother’s house when she married Curley, thinking that it would prove a point to
her mother.  Since her mother is not present in the text, one can assume that the point,
whatever it was, was never proved.  She thinks she has control, but does not, which is
cemented when Lennie breaks her neck by simply shaking her.  She is weak and
insubstantial.

As for language in Of Mice and
Men, there is a contrast between Steinbeck’s descriptive prose and the vernacular of the
men.  They speak like men on a ranch would have spoken—roughly and bluntly and without
recourse to who might hear them.  The language is very
realistic.

I'm writing a compare & contrast essay on prejudices (other than racism). Just need ideas to start it and how to format given I have never written...

A good compare and contrast essay examines two, or more,
somewhat similar ideas or objects. The ideas or objects need to be similar enough for
the writer to make concrete similarities understandable for the reader. For example, one
cannot compare and contrast an apple and their favorite singer. While the essayist may
like both, they are not similar enough to construct a solid paper around
them.

That being said, good compare and contrast ideas
are:

1. Prejudices of the lower class and upper
class.

2. Prejudices of gender
stereotypes.

3. Prejudices of men and women in the
workplace.

4. Prejudices of differing cultures (does not
have to be racial- you can examine Southern cultures with Northern
cultures).

As for the formatting, I am assuming that you
will be using MLA or Chicago Manual of Style. The best site that I have ever found, I
always point my own students in this direction, is the Writing Lab at Purdue University.
You can find the link below.

Compare and contrast essays
can be written in either Block Format or Point-By Point
format.

The Block format looks at one "object" first in
completion and then the other. Here is an outline of Block
Format:

I. Introduction

II.
The East Coast

A. The
Climate

B. The Activities

C.
The Culture

III. The West
Coast

A. The Climate

B. The
Activities

C. The Culture

IV.
Conclusion

The Point-By-Point alternates each. Here is an
example of this format:

I.
Introduction

II. West and East Coast
Climate

III. West and East Coast
Activities

IV. West and East Coast
Culture

V. Conclusion

What is an example of irony in The Crucible Act 4?

I think that one of the most interesting elements of the
closing act to Miller's drama is that the relationship between Proctor and Elizabeth is
actually better once he makes the commitment to die.  It seems that their strength as
husband and wife is only enhanced when he commits himself to dying and she stands for
his decision.  When he speaks to her about being strong and not shedding a tear for him
along with the importance of his name, it is a moment where it is evident that he has
assumed a moral stature where he has become more than a man.  He towers in moral
strength and ethical austerity. It is here where their marriage is absolutely the
strongest.  It is also a point where he is going to die, and they will no longer be able
to be with one another.  This collision is ironic, for the entirety of the play had seen
them endure a fragmented notion of relationship, one fraught with hidden doubts and
accusations and a lack of complete totality.  Yet, this is not what is seen in Act IV,
where Proctor is going to die and for this, there is irony present.  When Elizabeth
refuses to take his "goodness" from him, it is a statement of ironic proportions because
his goodness can only be present with his own death and their marriage showing strength
is only evident when he dies.

Gun, Germs and Steel, what is one important impact of domesticating animals on the relationships between people in society regarding state...

I would turn to Chapter Eleven if I were you and look at
the way in which proximity to large numbers of domestic animals meant that populations
gained a resistence to diseases which therefore led them to carrying such diseases to
the new countries that they "discovered" with an absolutely lethal impact. It is clear
that this gave European societies a real "edge" in terms of their dominance over other
societies, and not just in the New World of the Americas, as the following quote makes
clear:

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Eurasian germs played a key role in decimating
native peoples in many other parts of the world, including Pacific islanders, Aboriginal
Australians, and the Khoisan peoples... of southern Africa. Cumulative mortalities of
these previously unexposed peoples from Eurasian germs ranged from 50 percent to 100
percent.

This clearly
indicates that although domesitcating animals was of course important for many societies
in terms of their development and the ability to farm more effectively and transport, by
far the biggest (and most unknown) advantage was the diseases that such a close
proximity to animals brought with it.

What does the father gain from this experience with the boy?In the answer, please consider the father's treatment of his son.

It is interesting that Hemingway chooses the father,
rather than the mother as the observer of his child; also, it is rather curious--if not
unnatural--that the mother does not become involved in the situation involved in the
short story "A Day's Wait." 

Be that as it may, the
father's initial close observation of the boy's condition seems incongruous to his lack
of anxiety about his son's illness when he says, "I'll see you when I'm dressed." Here
the reader may well wonder if Schatz has had the flu before. Then, when the doctor is
called and he explains to the father (still no mother in the scene!) that "there was no
danger if you avoided pneumonia," the narrative seems more
realistic.

Nevertheless, the father fails to sense the
magnitude of his illness for the boy when he tells him,"...you don't have to stay if
it's going to bother you."  For, the father simply feels that the boy is worried about
his contracting the flu germs.  Instead, however, the boy speaks of what he believes is
his approaching death.

Because of the father's lack of
intuition and perception, Schatz faces alone the greatest of existential crises: the
possibility of death.  Schatz bravely "holds" himself against nothingness in a
conflict marked by his sense of terrible aloneness.  And, when the father finally
comprehends the struggle of his boy, he speaks to him as though he is merely a fellow
soldier, "Poor old Schatz....." only consoling him logically. Perhaps, Hemingway wishes
to convey that this struggle with nothingness is, ultimately, one that man must endure
alone.

Finally, it is a detached narrator/father who
observes that his son's "gaze" at death relaxes, but he "cried very easily at little
things that were of no importance."  This emotional response of Schatz to little things
indicates the trauma that the boy has suffered, his release of his courageous
attitude, yet the father offers no physical or emotional comfort to his son.  This lack
of reaction on the part of the father suggests the point of view that each person must
face alone existential issues.

In "Cranes," what is the real reason that Songsam unties Tokchae?

You need to analyse the role of the flashback which we are
told about just before the end of the story. In this flashback, we are persented with
the two men as children, and how they together caught a crane, and then realised that
its freedom was worth more than anything. Consider how this release of the crane is
described:

But
the next moment, as another crane from a nearby bush fluttered its wings, the boys'
crane stretched its long neck with a whoop and disappeared into the sky. For a long time
the two boys could not take their eyes away from the blue sky into which their crane had
soared.

Clearly the way in
which the boys are mesmerised by the blue sky shows the way that they value freedom more
than capture. The decision of Songsam to therefore let his friend escape and enjoy the
same freedom indicates their understanding that freedom is infinitely more important
than capture, and also symbolises how the strength of friendship can overcome the power
of competing ideologies.

In Shirly Jackson's "The Lottery," what is the meaning of Old Man Warner's quotation, "Things ain't the way they used to be"?

As the eldest man in the community created by Shirley
Jackson in her short story, "The Lottery," Old Man Warner can remember best the earlier
lotteries when he was a boy. For example, the black box from which the lottery names are
drawn is a replacement for the original, which

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... now resting on the stool had been put into
use even before Old Man Warner, the oldest man in town, was
born.

There is even talk in
other towns of abolishing the lottery, to which Old Man Warner
responds,

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"There's always been a
lottery... Pack of young
fools!"

Old Man Warner does
not believe in change, and he thinks that the old traditions are best--not a wholly
unusual response for people who can remember older, simpler times of the past. He does
not approve of the sympathy voiced by some of the villagers, such as when a girl
whispers, "I hope it's not Nancy." Old Man Warner still believes in the ancient purpose
of the lottery--to insure good crops--and he is near the front of the crowd when it's
time to use the stones they have been gathering.

Some argue that"A Rose for Emily" is an indictment of the decadent values of the aristocratic Old South as symbolized by Emily. Do you agree?

I certainly agree that Emily Grierson symbolizes more of
the decadent aspects of the Old South than Homer Barron represents Northern corruption.
Homer may be viewed by some people of Jefferson as a "damn Yankee," but the negative
aspects of his character are few. He may have led Miss Emily on, and even deserted her,
but he was a likeable fellow who may well have seen the dark side of Emily's character
and decided to move on to greener pastures. Miss Emily, on the other hand, represented
many of the antebellum South's worst values. Friendless and unfriendly, she was "a
little too high" for what she really was. She considered herself above the law, and she
refused to change with the times. Her eccentric ways emulated the actions of pre-Civil
War Southern aristocrats, and she died unapologetic,

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... passed from generation to generation--dear,
inescapable, dear, tranquil and
perverse.

can you please explain the psychodynamic approach please and freud ideas?? thanks

Their are many facets to the psychodynamic approach but
the main ideas are that human behavior is driven from forces within the mind. In Freud's
belief, unconscious forces are what drive human behavior. Freud said this unconscious
was crucial in understanding humans. There are three main parts of the brain that are in
continual conflict that drive this behavior: the id (your basic urges), your superego
(part of your brain that tries to repress your id and moderate/ temper impulses) and
your ego (what is ultimately done).

The ultimate drives
were sexual and for survival (freud was influenced by Darwin). In other words, many of
our unconscious urges were to mate and were repressed which could cause psychic conflict
and would lead to many conditions that Freud viewed as problematic. Therapy would
consist of trying to uncover these unconscious urges that were "repressed" through
processes of free association. Dreams were also thought of as gateways into the
unconscious.

Developmentally Freud believed most behavior
was set at age 5, and that were stages where some psycho-sexual task needed to be
completed (such as weaning, potty training). All of these focused on erogenous zones
(pleasure zones).

Psychodynamic theory was considered less
scientific espeically when in contrast to the behavioral view (which focuses on external
behavior and does not conceptualize anything with the mind). Freud's theories are
interesting and inspirational but his methods weren't always scientific. His sample was
generally upper class viennese women and a lot of his ideas cannot be
tested.

What do we learn in the opening narrative that is important to the events that follow?

Readers of Miller's play "The Crucible" can learn many
things from the opening narrative about the events to follow. While there are very
direct statements which one can use to highlight upcoming events, there are many more
ways one could examine the imagery provided in the opening narrative which one could
justify as important foreshadowing.

The mentioning of the
date, 1692, is one large clue as to what is to come. The linking with Salem makes the
historical date even that much more important. One who knows their history can easily
recall the Salem witch trials happened during this
period.

The narrow window to the left (as described in the
opening) could be used to illustrate the narrow ideologies which the Puritans held.
These ideologies led to the witch trials and the hysteria which
happened.

Miller offers readers a very direct
characterization of who Reverend Parris is. The opening narrative states that he had
"cut a villainous path" and "there is very little good to be said for him." This lets
readers know that Parris is not a man to be trusted and that the people of the town do
not like him.

One last part of the introduction allows
readers to see the impending threat of something dark bearing down on the
village.

The
edge of the wilderness was close by. The American continent stretched endlessly west,
and it was full of mystery for them. It stood, dark and threatening, over their
shoulders night and day, for out of it Indian tribes marauded from time to time and
Reverend Parris had parishioners who had lost relatives to these
heathen.

This quote allows
readers to see the darkness which lies just at the edge of the village. While it is not
the Indians which the villagers need worry about, the imagery of darkness
is.

Why can I only read partial essays on certain sites devoted to helping students cheat on homework?

Many sites claim to offer "free" essays for students who
are trying to cheat their way through school by downloading work rather than writing it
themselves. These sites will sometimes put full essays up for view -- which can easily
be detected by plagiarism software -- but more often put up partial essays so that the
student must pay for the privilege of submitting someone else's work for a course. These
teasers are intended to lure potential buyers to the site by simultaneously advertising
wares and making them unusable in the advertised form. Since posting genuinely free
essays limits revenue to advertising, most sites are more interested in selling you
already written essays or enticing you to pay even larger sums of money for custom
written essays. The problem with using such sites is not only limited to the dangers of
(1) downloading malware and (2) getting caught, but ebven more important, even if you
have no moral qualms about cheating, is (3) that you do not learn anything by doing this
and do not build a foundation of skills usable in future academic endeavours or a
career.

In Shakespeare's Othello, what does Iago mean when he says "in following him I follow but myself"?

Early in Shakespeare's Othello, Iago,
the villain of the piece, tells one of his dupes, Roderigo, this about Othello: "In
following him, I follow but myself" (1.1.55).  This statement is typical of Iago in many
ways:

• He openly confesses his villainy. Often he
  confesses his evil directly to the audience, but here and in other places he confesses
  his evil both to us and to another character onstage -- a character
  he assumes he can trust because he assumes that that person is either too stupid or too
  self-interested or too vicious himself (or all three) to be botherd by Iago's
  villainy.


• He shows enormous, almost cocky self-confidence
  in stating his motives so blatantly.


• He reveals his
  self-centeredness to another person, and yet that person fails to realize that Iago's
  self-centeredness may boomerang on the person to whom Iago confides. It never seems to
  occur to Roderigo, at least at this point in the play, that Iago might deceive Roderigo
  as well as Othello.


• Statements such as this one
  paradoxically make the term "honest Iago" -- a term used often throughout the play --
  seem ironically appropriate.  Here he is ironically honest about his plans to be
  dishonest.


• This statement, in its highly self-referential
  language, exemplifes the sin of which Iago is chiefly guilty -- the sin from all his
  other sins flow: his pride, his arrogance, his self-centeredness and
  conceit.


• This statement sums up and foreshadows much of
  the rest of the action of the play.  Iago will indeed "follow" Othello in several
  senses, both literally and figuratively, but his chief concern will also be first and
  foremost with and for himself.

Iago is one of
Shakespeare's most memorable villains precisely because he is capable of speaking so
forthrightly about his own lack of forthrightness.  As he says earlier to
Roderigo,

O,
sir, content you.

I follow him [Othello] to serve my turn
upon him.
(1.1.38-39)

Roderigo, of
course, fails to realize how pertinent this statement is to his own relationship with
Iago.

How is the title of the story "A Snake in the Grass" by R. K. Narayan significant?

The title of R. K. Narayan’s story “A Snake In the Grass”
seems relevant to the story in various ways, including the
following:

• Most obviously, the title refers to
  the cobra which (according to a passing biker) has slithered into a compound owned by a
  family in India.


• The family’s old servant, Dasa, is
  scolded by the family members for not cutting grass and foliage on the property in ways
  that would discourage snakes from visiting the compound. Dasa asserts that there is no
  snake, but the family members not only swear at him but threaten to fire him if the
  snake is not found. Since the phrase “snake in the grass” conventionally refers to a
  treacherous or untrustworthy person, it is possible, especially when the story is
  re-read, to see the members of the family as figurative snakes in the grass. They are
  willing to fire an old servant simply because they suspect that a
  snake may be on the property and because they blame him entirely for the snake’s
  presence. Surely Dasa must feel that he cannot trust this family; he may even consider
  them treacherous.


• Visiting neighbors also blame Dasa for
  the presence of the snake and accuse him of laziness. It would not be surprising if Dasa
  also considered these people “snakes in the grass,” especially if they criticize him
  when they know his job is at risk.


• A college-educated son
  – a member of the family – claims to have read that 30,000 people die of snake bites
  each year.  It would therefore not surprise this son if there were many, many literal
  snakes in many yards or fields throughout the
  world.


• Finally, near the end of the story, Dasa claims to
  have caught the snake in a pot, which he has covered with a slab of stone. The family
  members are said to have

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stood at a safe distance and gazed on the pot.
Dasa had the glow of a champion on his
face.

Dasa takes the pot out
of the compound, his job apparently
secure.

• Later, a cobra does indeed appear but
  then quickly slithers away. This snake is quite literally a snake in the
  grass.


• By the end of the story, the family and Narayan’s
  readers are faced with the real possibility that Dasa lied when he claimed to have
  caught a cobra in the pot.  Dasa, then, may have been the literally untrustworthy person
  in this story – the figurative snake in the grass.  It is, however, hard to blame him,
  and certainly the tone of the story seems light and almost comical. The title of the
  story seems serious; the tone of the story seems relatively light.
  

What part did the Hebrew Bible, Law, and the Prohpets play in the developement of Hebrew religion and society?

The law was essential for forming the identity of Israel
in the late 13th century BCE. The laws passed down orally by Moses shaped tradition
which set the Israelites apart from other nations. Israel was a confederacy of tribes
with no central government. The tribes were linked through the
covenant.

The Monarchy changed a tribal confederacy into a
complex empire organized under the crown. King David probably commissioned the first
written accounts of the Hebrew Bible in the 10th century BCE to recount Yahweh’s saving
action in order to draw the tribes together into one society using a common
history.

The Prophets reminded the people of the
stipulations in the covenant, but the people would not listen. Yet after Assyria
conquered Northern Israel in 722 BCE and the Babylonians conquered Judah in 597 BCE, the
prophets became essential. They offered an explanation for the fall (God’s justifiable
punishment for not following the covenant law) and kept hope alive for the future (God
will not abandon you).

In the Hebrew Bible, the Pentateuch
takes on its final form, probably in the 6th century BCE, reminding the people of their
stories and giving them a common heritage to unite
them.

After the Jews return from exile in the 5th century,
the law again plays an essential role. With no geographical boundaries or national
institutions, the Jews needed to find an external form for their identity. They relied
on Sabbath laws, circumcision, and ritual purity laws to differentiate them from their
neighbors.

During the card game at the fire station, what questions does Montag asks?

Montag asks some questions that grow suspicion among his
peers. Montag asked what happened to the man whose library they burned last week. He
then wonders how it would feel to be hunted by firemen like them. He wonders how it
would feel to have a house and books burned. Next he
asks:

Was-was it always like this? The
firehouse, our work? I mean, well, once upon a
time...

This may not have been the brightest set
of questions to ask because the men begin to wonder about him
Then he
says:

Didn't firemen prevent fires rather than
stoke them up and get them going?

This puts him
in a bad situation and he doesn't realize it until the question is out of his mouth. He
was only expressing legitimate curiosity after a discussion with Clarisse. He was being
human and talking about his thoughts. What he should have done was guard his thoughts
considering the company he was keeping. The men wonder why he wanted to know this and
quickly quote the code of firemen as they know it.

How does John Edwards use syntax and diction in his sermon?

SYNTAX: Sentence structures
are typically long. He particularly uses periodic
sentences. These sentences build and build not getting to a main point until the end of
the sentence. This allows Edwards to add detail building the fear of the people with
each phrase or clause. This sentence exemplifies the concept of a periodic
sentence:

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Thus all of you that never had the great change
of heart, by the mighty power of the Spirit of God upon your souls; all of you that were
never born again, and made new creatures, and raised from being dead in sin, to a new
state, and never experienced light and life, are in the hands of an angry
God.

He also uses
polysyndeton sentences. These employ the use of several
conjunctions for the purpose of emphasis:

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The bow of God's wrath is bent,
and the arrow made ready on the
string, and justice points the arrow
at your heart, and strains the bow,
and it is nothing but the mere pleasure of God, and
that of an angry God, without any promise or obligation at
all, that keeps the arrow one second from being made drunk with your
blood.

DICTION:
Edwards' purposefully uses language to paint word pictures of the relationship between
God and man. He positions God in His anger holding man over a pit of flames as man
dangles uncontrollably hoping God will not release His grasp of man. The words he uses
to demonstrate the connection between God and man include a spider's web, and a hanging
thread; both of these are easily broken. Continued language puts God in a position of
great power and man in a position of hopelessness. He uses the imagery of flames and
fire coupled with the thought of a bottomless pit, and the metaphors of God's wrath
being an arrow ready to strike and a storm ready to descend. All of these negative
connotations to the relationship between God and man heap the guilt on Edwards' audience
and earn him a spot among the best at delivering "fire and brimstone" sermons. However,
by the end (after sitting through 38 minutes of language suggesting that man will burn
in hell forever) he offers the hope of God's salvation which only comes through belief
in Christ.

My 10 yr old girl & a 10 yr old girl both pushed each other at school during soccer. The Mom is talking about prosecuting attorneys. What...

Laws on bullying differ from state to state (see examples
below); however, most states do have a least some laws dealing with bullying between
minors.  Honestly, I don't think I would be too concerned about legal ramifications with
10 year olds.  Unless this is a repeat incident, I doubt any prosecutor would take the
case. 

With that said, do you have any evidence of the other child
bullying your daughter?  You stated that the other child has been bullying your daughter
for the last two years.  Do you have any incident reports or other proof of these
incidents?  It might be good to put them together in some type of notebook just in
case.  It might also be a good idea to set up an appointment with the school counselor
or principal and try to come to some sort of understanding.

The school
officials are going to be the first step, even for the other mother.  It might be good
to go ahead and try to work something out with them before the other mother can push
things out of hand. If the school officials won't listen, considering making an
appointment with the superintendent or school board. If this other child has been a
problem before, I would certainly see what can be done to separate the children at
school.  No child should have to put up with bullying in an educational
environment.

How did Kipling express his thoughts on manhood in his poem "If"?

The poem is a father defining for his son the qualities of
a good man.. He is setting the parameters or boundaries for his son and giving him a
goal to achieve.  The poem deals with life’s  challenges and how to deal with
them.

Stanza one deals with being confident about the
decisions you make and taking responsibility for those decisions. If others, who cannot
take that responsibility for themselves  react negatively, you will be patient with them
and not reduce yourself to their level by telling lies or dealing in hate. However,
don’t ever think you are above anyone else. 

Stanza Two
 states that it is good to dream, but don’t let your dreams control your life.  It is
good to think, but don’t just think and not put those thoughts into action.  You will
experience triumph and disasters in your life, but don’t take them seriously because
they are not the substance of life, they are the extremes.  If you hear things you said
misused  or things you have done destroyed, you need to be able to pick yourself up and
rebuild them with everything that you have left in
you.

Stanza Three counsels don’t be afraid to take risks
and possibly lose everything. If you do lose everything, don’t talk about it, just start
all over again at the beginning.   When you are tired and exhausted and your body just
feels like it can’t continue on, use your mind and your will to tell yourself to “Hold
on” and persevere. Push through it.

Stanza four deals with
a person’s reaction to others.  You need to be able to talk to large groups of people
and yet not let them influence your belief in what is right,wrong, moral, or immoral. 
You need to be able to walk with men of power and influence and yet not forget the
common man and his needs. You need to know yourself and your beliefs so well that
neither your friends nor your enemies can hurt you because you know who you are and what
you stand for.  People can depend on you, but don’t let others become too dependent on
you. You need to live every single minute of your life to the fullest.  If you do these
things, then the world is yours, and you will be  a good man.

Prove that (cosx-sinx)(cosx+sinx)=cos2x?

We'll manage the left side because we notice that the
special product from the left side returns the difference of two
squares:

(cosx-sinx)(cosx+sinx)=cos^2 x - sin^2
x

But this difference of two squares represents the double
angle formula:

cos 2x = cos^2 x - sin^2
x

Another way to solve the problem is to remove the
brackets from the left side:

(cosx-sinx)(cosx+sinx) = cos
x*cos x + cos x*sin x - cos x*sin x - sin x*sin x

We'll
eliminate like terms:

(cosx-sinx)(cosx+sinx) = cos x*cos x
- sin x*sin x

We'll recognize the
identity:

cos x*cos x - sin x*sin x = cos (x + x) = cos
2x

Therefore, the given expression
(cosx-sinx)(cosx+sinx) = cos 2x represents an
identity.

Please elaborate on the following lines from "My Last Duchess."Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands As if alive. Will't please you...

You have quoted the final section of this impressive and
rather chilling dramatic monologue, which reports how the "smiles" of the last Duchess
stopped completely after the Duke had given certain "commands," which we are meant to
understand referred to the death of his Duchess for his displeasure with her. The way in
which the Duke is able to comment on this in such an unaffected way and then carry on
the conversation as if nothing untoward has actually taken place adds to our impression
of the calculating and chilling nature of his character. He is certainly somebody that
believes he is so important that he can kill with
impunity.

Even more disturbing is the way that these final
lines reveal the identity and the purpose of the listener to this monologue. It is the
servant of another lord who is trying to marry his daughter to this Duke. This of course
forces us to re-examine the entire monologue and the purpose of the Duke for showing
this man the portrait of his last Duchess. He clearly is sending a message of the kind
of obedience and loyalty that he expects from a wife. The way that he describes "his
fair daughter's self" as his "object" reflects his objectification of women and how he
refuses to treat them as humans. As if to underline the point, the poem ends with the
Duke showing off yet another of his treasures in the form of a sculpture. Wives to him
are yet another art form to be owned and displayed according to his whims, and are never
allowed a reality of their own.

In the short story "A Deal In Wheat" by Frank Norris, naturalism is the basis of the theme but how would you describe the means in which he...

Naturalism is a genre which highlights the power of nature
over mankind. Under no circumstances will man ever be able to win out over nature,
nature always has the upper hand.

This being said, the
Naturalistic writer takes an observational role when writing the Naturalistic text. The
author considers him/herself a scientific observer. They are simply recording events as
they happen without interference.

As for Norris' short
story "A Deal in Wheat", the most prominent illustration of how the text exemplifies the
Naturalistic genre is the wheat itself.

The price of wheat
is the overall most powerful "character" in the text. Given that wheat is a part of
nature, the power that the wheat holds over all other aspects of the text is, by far,
the most convincing example as to what makes the text Naturalistic. Regardless of what
man/woman tries to do to change things, the wheat will always be the one in
control.

As a side note, nature is typically personified in
texts which depict Naturalistic characteristics. By doing so, the author is able to more
directly assign power to the natural image depicted.

What is Candy's attitude towards other characters in the book Of Mice and Men?

Candy is generally welcoming to all characters. As the man
who greets George and Lennie, he is especially kind and
informative. His congenial behavior suggests he longs for friends and is therefore
approving of George and Lennie from the beginning. As the story continues and he learns
of their dream, he is anxious to join and willing to offer a great sum of money to join
their idea.

Candy classifies Curley's
wife as a tart. He does not trust her and warns other men of her
flirtatious behavior.

When Candy's dog smells up the
bunkhouse because he is old, Carlson encourages that it is
time for the dog to be put to sleep. Candy disagrees, but reluctantly allows Carlson to
take care of this situation to maintain his relationships with the entire group.
Although it hurts him greatly, he makes this sacrifice to maintain the guys'
respect.

Candy does not like
Curley, the boss' son. He thinks Curley is mean and that
he's pretty "handy". What he means is that Curley is pretty good in a
fight.

Why is Miss Brill a lonely old woman in Mansfield's "Miss Brill"?

First, Miss Brill doesn't know she is a lonely old woman
until the Romeo and Juliet couple in the park tell her she is. Her life has been rather
pleasant up until this encounter with Romeo and Juliet; it has been rather like her
Sunday honeycake that generates great anticipation and "a dashing way" to her
life:

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Sometimes there was an almond in her slice,
sometimes not. It made a great difference. If there was an almond it was like carrying
home a tiny present ... She hurried on the almond Sundays and struck the match for the
kettle in quite a dashing
way.

Second, we are told very
little about any of her circumstances but we do
know:

1. she feels pleasantly happy at all times,
   which is confirmed by her dedicated attention to her beloved
   fox.


2. she has two costly and elegant possessions that we
   know about: the fox fur necklet and the Eider duck down eiderdown comforter, coveted by
   luxury lovers.


3. her room is a small one as the red
   eiderdown is before her as soon as she walks
   in:

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she ... climbed the stairs, went into the little
dark room–her room like a cupboard–and sat down on the red
eiderdown.

We can make
inferences from these random bits of information. We can infer that she once had a more
elegant life and that she had some level of social prestige. We can infer this because
of her fox and red eiderdown, which are each costly and a suitable part of a less
constrain lifestyle.

These puzzle pieces don't provide much
of a picture from which to answer your question but the cumulated inference is that
once, she lived differently until some unknown circumstance occured (perhaps the death
of her parents and loss of wealth or the death or loss of her fiance ...) that reduced
her situation to near poverty, though she took it bravely and kept up her spirit and
good cheer.

She may have cherished a secret hope that at
sometime, things might change and she might regain her former position. With such a
secretly cherished hope, time passes without being noticed and the remarks of Romeo and
Juliet might have shattered the mental images of her life that she had frozen in time.
So she may have become (not been) a lonely old woman that day
because she recognized the reality of her life and future or because her secret hope was
shattered.

Please explain the meaning of the following quote and how it relates to life and death: "So bitter is it that death is hardly more."

You haven't told us which short story this quote comes
from, so I will have to respond as best I can just from the quote. However, please
remember that whenever you are trying to establish the meaning of a quote, it is really
important to try and read it in context, as this will help you greatly to deduce its
meaning.

The quote you have cites seems to make a bitter
comment about life, if life is the "it" that it refers to. For some people, I am sure,
life is so harsh that death itself is "hardly more" or nothing worse, or even, for some,
a welcome escape and something to look forward to. However, this is why you must read
this quote in context to discover the kind of life that is being described. It speaks of
an intensely sad and painful life that is devoid of joy and life, and to which death can
only be a continuation.

What does Montag learn from the woman who gets burned with her book? include a quote from the book

This woman had a tremendous impact on Montag.  She burned
with her books.  When he is talking with Mildred about it later, he says "There must be
something in books, things we can't imagine to make a woman stay in a burning house,
there must be something there.  You don't stay for nothing." (pg 51)   Mildred tries to
say that the woman was simple-minded and that it is water under the bridge.  Montag
knows that the experience will last him a lifetime. He cannot put it out of his mind. He
goes on to explain that for the first time he realized that a man wrote the books  He
had to think them up and put them down on paper, and then he came along and in two
minutes burned it all up and it was over.  It seriously bothered
him. 

Must human beings have religious faith?

Faith is like the earth. Once you are born into it, you
continue to strive to live in it. But sure, one can decide not to continue living on
earth. That is, if one comes of age. This is no longer dependent on parents. Now, one
can fully understand that, once one is on earth, faith must come to play. This we call
religious faith. If one likes it or not; some kind of faith fate falls on one. So in
other not to allow this, each one goes out at one stage to take a faith or continue a
faith. To conclude, I will say, it's a natural law that one either go take a faith or
the faith fate takes one. Thank
you.

Smile

What is some textual evidence of Boo Radley being misunderstood in To Kill a Mockingbird?

Arthur "Boo" Radley's troubles began when he was a
teenager and began running around with the "wrong crowd"--the Cunninghams from Old
Sarum. He was arrested for disturbing the peace, disorderly conduct, assault and battery
and "using abusive and profane language in the presence and hearing of a female." The
charges were somewhat exaggerated, since the group's actions were little more than a
boyish prank, but the whole group was sentenced to the state industrial school. Arthur's
father would not allow young Boo to go, and he convinced the judge to release Boo into
his custody. Boo was confined to the Radley house and "Mr. Radley's boy was not seen
again for 15 years.

Boo apparently had no say in the
matter, and he must have deteriorated--mentally and physically--greatly during his
lengthy home confinement. When he was next heard from again, it was because he had
stabbed his father with a pair of scissors. This time, Boo was locked in the basement of
the courthouse--"The sheriff hadn't the heart to put him in jail alongside
Negroes"--until his father took Boo back home
again. 

Nearly all of the rumors about Boo had no basis in
fact and no witnesses to support them. His purported peeping in windows at night,
slaughtering pets and animals, and poisoning pecans were all unfounded. Instead, Jem and
Scout discovered that he was a man in need of young friends, even if he wasn't willing
to leave his house to meet them. Jem and Scout eventually recognized that the gifts in
the secret knothole of the Radley oak were from Boo, and that he meant no harm. The
children decided to respect his privacy, and they hounded him no
more.

No one knew just how closely Boo watched the Finch
children, but he was there when they needed him on the night of the Halloween pageant.
After he saved their lives, killing Bob Ewell in the process, Scout understood that he
was a neighbor who had not received acts of kindness in return. Scout recognized Boo's
plight and his true feelings when she stood on his porch in the final chapter, gazing
upon the neighborhood and seeing the events of the past two years through Boo's eyes.
What he must have seen was not much different from what Scout remembered--summetime,
children playing, colorful azaleas, a burning house, a shot
dog.

Atticus
was right. One time he said you really never knew a person until you stand in his shoes
and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was
enough.

How was Reconstruction a failure?

Reconstruction was a failure in that it failed to ensure
civil liberties for former slaves or provide a life for them which came anywhere close
to equality.

Slavery was ended by the Thirteenth Amendment
(NOT, contrary to popular myth, by the Emancipation Proclamation.) However, once freed,
slaves had no means of providing for themselves or their families or of ensuring
equality of treatment. Congress attempted to remedy this first by creating the
Freedman's Bureau and also by passing the Fourteenth Amendment which presumably gave
them the equal protection of the law and the Fifteenth Amendment which presumably gave
them the right to vote.

Both Amendments were circumvented
with abandon. The U.S. Supreme Court in Plessy vs. Ferguson in
1896 sanctioned "separate but equal" facilities. it was not until 1954 with
Brown vs. Board of Education that the heinous doctrine of "separate
but equal" was abrogated. Southern states imposed poll taxes, literacy and residency
requirements, among others to keep blacks from voting, and also listed certain crimes
assumed to be common among Blacks (wife beating, public drunkeness, etc.) as
disqualifications for voting. Vigilantes such as the Ku Klux Klan terrorized Blacks to
prevent their exercising their rights as U.S. citizens. Rather than deal with these
injustices, Congressional Republicans agreed to withdraw troops from the South in 1877
to ensure the election of their candidate, Rutherford B. Hayes, to the White House.
Reconstruction was left only partially completed, and true rehabilitation did not occur
for another one hundred years.

After the Cuban Revolution, how did Cuba rebuild its government in the 1960s?

After the Cuban Revolution, Cuba (or Fidel Castro) tried
to rebuild the government by creating a vanguard communist party that would serve as the
effective leaders of the country.

Before and during the
revolution, there had been many different groups that had opposed Batista.  After the
revolution, Castro unified these groups under his own leadership.  By 1965, these
organizations had been become the Communist Party of Cuba.  This party was the real
government of Cuba.

So, the basic process was one of
amalgamation of the revolutionary groups that had opposed Batista.  These groups were
combined into a communist party which took control over all major groups in society such
as labor unions.  It used its control over these groups to give it enough power that it
essentially became the government of Cuba.

How did Switzerland avoid getting dragged into World War II along with the rest of Europe?

Switzerland prided itself on its neutrality in world
affairs at that time(and still does).  It also did not participate in World War I or any
other wars for centuries prior, so there was a longstanding tradition of neutrality that
the Swiss wished very deeply to maintain.

A second reason
is geography.  Switzerland is surrounded by the Alps mountain range, with limited passes
and access points for armor and infantry to invade.  This makes it both discouraging for
attacking armies and easy to defend.  Hitler's air force, the Luftwaffe, was engaged in
small skirmishes with the Swiss Air Force (who, ironically, had bought German Me-109's
for their defense) but Hitler was never that interested in actually invading the
country.  The one time he brought it up, his generals quickly talked him out of it.  He
also did not feel the least bit threatened by them.

Lastly,
Switzerland was no pushover militarily.  They maintained a large standing army and were
reasonably well equipped, in the belief that the best way to avoid war was through a
strong defensive  force (armed neutrality) that would make an invasion too costly to
attempt.

Any ideas on what I can write for an essay on how emotions and relationships can be as valid as material reality?

I think that there might be a couple of items upon which
to reflect as you compose this essay.  One might be to focus on how valuable emotional
attachments can be to an individual.  For example, consider someone who lost a loved one
during the terrorist attacks of September 11.  I am confident that many of them would
sacrifice all of their wealth and possessions in order to have one more conversation
with a loved one who was lost on that day.  We hear of many stories of those who lost a
loved one calling the deceased's cell phone just to hear their voice on a message.  This
might be one example to demonstrate how emotions and relationships are just as valid as
material reality.

Another instance would be the idea that
individuals can feel love as a part of their own lives, a realm that material reality
cannot touch.  Being able to explore this on a personal or anecdotal level might be one
of the best approaches here.  There are people in both real life and in literature who
would willingly sacrifice anything and everything for someone they love.  Think about
individuals who enjoy a lifetime connection with they think is their "soulmate."  While
it cannot be proven, it is as real to them as anything else, and one that supersedes
material reality.

In A Tale of Two Cities, what is the name of the person's grave that Jerry Cruncher's dad digs up?

The answer to this question can be found in Chapter
Fourteen of Book the Second. Having heard the testimony of one Roger Cly, who sought to
incriminate Charles Darnay with his evidence, only to be proven to be a liar by Stryver,
we are told that this same Roger Cly dies soon after the trial, and is buried to great
public delight due to his position as a "spy" and the general dislike that the public
have of such people. Note what the text tells us:

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At length, a person better informed on the merits
of the case, tumbled against him, and from this person he learned that the funeral was
the funeral of one Roger
Cly.

Of course, this fills
Jerry with excitement, as due to his unofficial job as a Resurrection Man, he is able to
find an opportunity to profit in such a situation, as by digging up the grave of a
recently deceased individual, he can sell the body to a number of different people who
are eager to perform medical research or find some purpose for a dead
corpse.

How was Machiavelli influenced by the classics and how did these translate into his work?His "work" being "The Prince."

While few details are known about Niccolo Machiavelli's
early life and education, we can make some assumptions. As a son in an aristocratic
family in Florence in the late 1400's, it is likely that he was familiar with the Greek
and Roman classic authors and philosophies. He also was familiar with the power of the
Roman Catholic Church and the influence of the Pope in matters secular as well as
theological.

The Prince gave voice to
Machiavelli's admiration of the highly organized and powerful military and social
structures of the ancient Roman Republic. He felt that this type of control had been
lost by the Italian city-states, the republics of his day. Machiavelli also argued that
the corruption in the Roman Catholic Church was resulting in the loss of religious
commitment among the populace. Machiavelli wrote The Prince to
explain his reasons for advocating the development of a very strong central government
that could reclaim the power and prestige of Italian cities for
themselves.

"I
believe that the fortune which the Romans had would be enjoyed by all princes who
proceeded as the Romans did and who were of the same virtue as
they."

If one perform the starch test with variegated leaves, what section of the leaf where one expect to find starch ?

Variegated leaves are those that are not completely green
in color but there are areas on the leaves that are white in color. This is due to the
absence of plastids or mutant plastids that cannot produce the chlorophyll
pigment essential for photosynthesis.

If a variegated leaf
were to be soaked in alcohol to remove all the pigmentation and then an iodine test were
to be performed, the areas on the leaf that were originally green will show the presence
of starch while the portions that were originally white will not give a positive
result.

Photosynthesis is essential for the production of
monosaccharides and their storage in the plant as starch. The iodine test can only
detect starch. In areas of the leaf that are white and where photosynthesis does not
take place monosaccharides are not produced which in turn does not allow their storage
as starch.

what test does Danforth devise to determine why Abigail was put out of the Proctor house?

In Act III, Danforth finds himself in unfamiliar
territory.  He, and the court, believing they have doing God's work and saving the
afflicted girls from the devilish witchcraft, are faced with Proctor's confession that
he has had a relationship with Abigail.  Knowing that the confession will soil his name,
and embarrass his family, Proctor confesses that he has "known" Abigail.  Abigail,
enraged, vehemently denies the accusation.  So what is Danforth to do?  He summons
Elizabeth (who has been in prison since Act II) to court.  He warns Abigail and Proctor
to turn their backs to Elizabeth and to make no motion or noise when she enters.  Calmly
he asks why Elizabeth fired young Abigail.  Elizabeth is now faced with a dilemma.  Does
she lie (remember Proctor has just told us that Elizabeth would never lie) in order to
protect her husband, or does she charge him with the crime of lechery in open court. 
Sadly, Elizabeth chooses to lie for her husband, and Danforth trick has worked.  In his
mind the evidence is clear- Abigail is innocent and Proctor has
lied.

Define the opposing forces in the confrontation that occupies most of part I, and how does Miss Emily “vanquish them.”William Faulkner's "A...

In section one of William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily,"
the confrontation that is most prevalent is that between Miss Emily and the "Board of
Aldermen" regarding Miss Emily's taxes. In no uncertain terms, Miss Emily has refused to
pay the taxes. She bases this upon a remittance of her taxes, granted by Colonel
Sartoris.

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...Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and
a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the down, dating from that day in 1894 when
Colonel Sartoris, the mayor...remitted her taxes...on into perpetuity. Not that Miss
Emily would have accepted
charity...

In essence, once
Miss Emily's father died, the gallant Colonel Sartoris, the man of a generation long
gone—that idealized and protected women (the weaker sex?)—pretended
that the special arrangement came from a loan her father had made to the town that had
never been repaid. As the generations (including Sartoris) passed, leaders of the
community that followed were displeased, and so they tried to
collect the taxes.

In January a notice was delivered to her
house. She ignored it. A letter followed and Miss Emily wrote a response, not mentioning
the taxes, returning the notice to community leaders, declining an invitation to meet
with the sheriff. Because Miss Emily would not go to them, they
decided to "call" on her. This "deputation" was shown into the
house by Tobe, Miss Emily's manservant.

It is quite
possible that the mere physical presence of Miss Emily made the men ill at
ease:

...she
entered—a small, fat woman in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist and
vanishing into her belt, leaning on an ebony cane with a tarnished gold head. Her
skeleton was small and spare; perhaps that was why what would have been merely plumpness
in another was obesity in her. She looked bloated, like a body long submerged in
motionless water, and of that pallid
hue.

And while she was small,
older and of another generation ("old-fashioned" they might have thought), these things
possibly deceived the men into believing that they would be able to handle her without
much trouble. It is safe to infer that Miss Emily was not what they
expected—certainly not a member of the "weaker" sex. She did not
indulge in social niceties—never asked them to sit, but she did
make it quite clear that she did not owe any taxes.

The men
tried to explain that they were the "city authorities;" that the "sheriff" had contacted
her (she was unimpressed); and, that there was no paperwork to support her claim that
Sartoris had indeed dismissed any payment of taxes by her until her death. In essence,
she told the men that it was not her problem, and instructed them
to look elsewhere for their answers:

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"But there is nothing on the books to show that,
you see. We must go by the—"

"See Colonel Sartoris. I have
no taxes in Jefferson."

"But, Miss
Emily—"

"See Colonel Sartoris...I have no taxes in
Jefferson. Tobe!...Show these gentlement
out."

(It is also noted here
that Colonel Sartoris had died ten years earlier.) There was no further discussion.
Perhaps because the agreement was made during a time when a handshaked sealed a business
agreement and no contracts were necessary, the aldermen found it impossible to force
Miss Emily to pay taxes based on an arrangement that was so old. Miss Emily refused to
budge; she refused to listen. She repeated herself and then dismissed the men. She never
did pay taxes again in Jefferson.

How is the theme of retribution depicted in the epic poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"?

I would want to respond to this question by focusing on
the way the Mariner himself receives the retribution of nature for what he does in his
foolish act of killing the albatross. We can see that this act of meaningless violence
against nature has an immediate impact on the Mariner and his fellow sailors, as is
shown in the following stanza:

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And I had done a hellish
thing,

And it would work 'em
woe:

For all averred, I had killed the
bird

That made the breeze to
blow.

The subsequent trials
and tribulations that the Mariner and his fellow crewmen suffer, which include the death
of all of the other sailors, are part of nature's retribution against the Mariner for
what he had done and the way that he had abused nature and exploited it. First of all,
there is no breeze whatsoever, and then "slimy things" come up from the detphs of the
ocean. These trials continue until the Mariner is able to bless nature in a different
form, and thus break the curse that hangs around him. However, retribution is a central
theme of this poem and occupies a major part of the poem.

How was "A & P" influenced by the political events during the time period it was wrote?

I am not too sure that examining the political events of
the day and discussing their influence on the story can actually yield fruitful results.
What is much more important to realise is how society has changed and how it was at the
time of the story. Today, we have slipped into an informality that would have been
completely alien to Sammy and his contemporaries. For Sammy and his generation,
standards of how we should act and what we should wear were rigid and unyielding. This
conservative approach to dress was paralleled by a similar approach to values and norms.
Conformity was something that was greatly prized, and the desire above all was to fit in
and not be different. Consider the way that suburbs were built consisting of identical
houses. If you rejected conformity, you risked being known as
"bohemian."

The way in which the 1960s have become known as
a decade of rebellion is partly thanks to the way in which children felt that their
parents were imposing strict rules onto them. You might want to analyse the character of
Sammy to help you understand how this is a major cultural influence on the story. He
disdains the "sheep" and refers to housewives as "houseslaves," which shows his contempt
for following the crowd and conformity. His decision to quit in this kind of world is
one that will make the world "hard" for Sammy from this point onwards, as it would be
for anybody who rejects conformity and tries to live their own life in opposition to the
values that are championed by their society.

Will writing and reading mainly be a thing of the past in the electronically advanced countries by 2050?William Crossman, founder of the Institute...

I do not believe that Crossman is correct about this.  The
written word (whether on paper or on the computer screen) is a much better store of
knowledge than the spoken word.  Even if computers one day have great voice recognition
and speech capacities, it will still be better to read information from the computer
screen.

The reason for this is that it is much easier to
process and understand complex information when it is in writing than when it is
spoken.  It is too easy to miss a word or a sentence in listening and then have a hard
time understanding.  If you are reading, you can simply go back to where you were
before.  This is less easily done when listening.

We must
also think about the logistics of this.  There is no way that people will be in offices
all listening to their computers talk to them.  It would be chaotic if they did not have
headphones and inconvenient if they always had to wear headphones to listen to the
computer because they would be unable to interact with colleagues as
easily.

I think that there is a place for voice
recognition, but I do not think it will change us from a written to an oral
society.

Did Mary implicate herself in the crime at any point in "Lamb to the Slaughter"? Did she leave any clues that might have led to her arrest?

This is a carefully plotted story. Mary Maloney had to
have a motive for killing her husband, but it had to be a motive no one would have
suspected. It was essential that she be above suspicion. This would seem necessary in
any perfect-crime story in which the murderer gets away with it. That is why Roald Dahl
refrained from giving the husband any obvious
faults.

Patrick was not a heavy drinker. Mary notices that
he is drinking rather heavily that evening.

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He lifted his glass and drained it in one
swallow although there was still half of it, at least half of it
left.

When he came back, she noticed that the new drink was
dark amber with the quantity of whisky in
it.

These observations
characterize Patrick as a strong, silent type who is finding it hard to say what he has
to say. They also prove that he is not normally a heavy drinker. Patrick cannot have
told anybody about his wantinig a divorce, since he is finding it so hard even to tell
his wife.

From the way Patrick speaks to Mary, it is
obvious that he is not an abusive husband. He is cold, but he does not threaten or
insult her. He does not appear to be a womanizer, either. He comes home right around
five each workday. He tells her:

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"Of course I'll give you money and see you're
looked after. But there needn't really be any fuss. I hope not anyway. It wouldn't be
very good for my
job."

Patrick has not done or
said anything away from home which would give anyone cause to suspect that he does not
have a perfect marital relationship with Mary. This means that she has the most
important element of a perfect murder working in her favor. If the police thought she
might have had a motive for killing her husband, they might have tried much harder to
find any evidence against her.

It was a good idea to make
Patrick a policeman. He could have made a lot of enemies in his work. That plus the
brutality of the murder detracts from any possible suspicion that Mary could have been
responsible. It looks like a crime that could only have been committed by a strong man
using a metal club--and it only looks that way because Mary was using a frozen leg of
lamb and acting in a spontaneous fit of rage.

The fact that
the victim was a policeman works in Mary's favor another way. It brings a horde of
fellow policemen to the house. There are far more men investigating the crime than usual
because he was "one of ours," and they stay longer than detectives and uniformed cops
would normally stay at a crime scene. This does two things: It gives Mary plenty of time
to cook the leg of lamb, and the men work long past their regular dinnertime, so that
they are hungry enough to consume the whole murder
weapon.

Once the leg of lamb has been consumed, it is hard
to see how the police could find any evidence against Mary--especially since she is
known to be such a meek, devoted wife. She is not pretending to be loving and devoted;
she actually is that way--up until the time when her husband makes the totally
surprising and devastating announcement that he wants a
divorce.

A spouse is almost always the first person to be
suspected in a murder case. This is because the spouse is usually the one who is guilty.
But Mary Maloney gets away with the perfect crime because she is above suspicion and
because her husband preserved such a clean reputation that no one would suspect he could
have given his wife any cause to want to kill him.

There is
no motive and no murder weapon. It must have been an outside
job!

If I was in World War I at about 1917, and I had to write a letter to someone, what would be included in it?

Certainly, I think that one of the elements that would
have to be conveyed is the massive amount of death that surrounded you and the entire
continent.  World War I was one of the bloodiest affairs in human history and it really
took the participants by surprise as to how bloody it actually was.  Warfighting was
seen as it really was:  Horrific.  New inventions in technology such as the machine gun
made killing more "efficient" and chemical advances in technology proved to make killing
something that happened on a larger scale.  The horror of war made it impossible to
ignore, and I would think that this has to be part of your letter at 1917.  I think that
there would be a parallel conveyance of the excitement and prospect of going to war.  So
many in Europe saw it as something to behold and with which to be enthralled as opposed
to seeing it as simply awful or a terrible affair.  In my mind, your letter might be
best to convey how much excitement there was at the start of the war effort, only to be
replaced by the despondency and despair at seeing the natural result and consequence of
war on a large scale.

I need help analyzing and assessing the effectiveness of the Articles of Confederation in dealing with national problems of the 1780s and 90s.My...

The Articles of Confederation really failed to address the
problems the U.S. faced in the 1780’s and 1790’s. The Articles of Confederation failed
because they did not give Congress and the national government enough power.  The new
United States just fought a war to end what they considered tyrannical rule of a strong
government that overpowered local government and the leaders of the U.S. feared a
powerful central government.  Because of this, they did not give the central government
the power it needed to rule effectively.  It did not give Congress the power to tax, so
the government ended up printing money which caused inflation. It did not give Congress
the power to draft troops, so the U.S. military was small leaving the U.S. weak. 
Congress did not have the power to control interstate commerce or stop states from
printing their own money, causing economic chaos within the U.S. The Articles did not
give Congress the power to place tariffs on foreign goods, hurting American businesses
that could not compete with cheaper British goods. The U.S. government had no chief
executive so there was no one to enforce the laws that were passed.  The list can go on.
With the rebellion led by Daniel Shays in Massachusetts, the leaders of the U.S.
realized the Articles were not working which led to the Constitutional Convention where
the Articles were abandoned and the new U.S. Constitution was written, which addressed
many of the problems found with the Articles.

In Hamlet, how many examples of revenge are there?

There are actually five. The first three are obvious.
There is Hamlet's revenge for his father, there is Prince Fortinbras' revenge for his
father, and then Laertes' revenge for his father, Polonius. But there are two
more.

The exposition the Player King recites for Hamlet at
the end of 2.2 has an irony because Pyrrhus' slaughter of King Priam is an act of
revenge for the death of his father, Achilles. The images here are stark. The object
of Pyrrhus' revenge should be Paris, son of King Priam, who killed Achilles, but Paris
is already dead.  Revenge though is unreasoned blood lust. Pyrrhus doesn't just kill the
"Old grandsire" Priam, he made "malicious sport" in "mincing" Priam's limbs. This
snippet of a play has preserved historically and as somewhat mis-remembered by Hamlet,
shows Pyrrhus to be "hellish" like the "Hyrcanian beast" with "black purpose". In other
words revenge is not an admirable endeavor. But through this all Hamlet makes no note of
it.

The next revenge is a little more obscure. It involves
Julius Ceasar, who is referenced three times in the play. And by coincidence he was the
focus of of one of Shakespeare's recently written plays. A play that has these ominous
words spoken by Mark Antony:

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And Ceasar's spirit ranging for
revenge

With Ate by his side come hot from
hell

Shall in these confines with a monarch's
voice

Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the dogs of
war

Ate, pronounced Ah-tay,
was the goddess of rashness and folly.

Legend has it that
in Shakespeare's company of actors, the actor playing Julius Ceasar was the same actor
who would play Polonius. Brutus and Hamlet would also share the same actor. So the
 undercurrent of the humor in 3.2 when Polonius tells us he enacted Julius Ceasar and
was killed in the capitol by Brutus and then Hamlet offers that it was a brute part of
him (Brutus) to kill so capital a calf there just drips with irony when the brute part
of Hamlet in his rash lust for blood kills the "unseen good old man" and father of
Laertes.

How did William Shakespeare die?

Shakespeare's death is a mystery. Consequently, there are
a number of theories about his death. Fifty years after Shakespeare's death, John Ward,
a Stratford vicar and physician, claimed that Shakespeare, Michael Drayton,  and Ben
Jonson "had a merry meeting, and it seems drank too hard, for Shakespeare died of a
fever there contracted." 

Another theory is that
Shakespeare died of a cerebral hemorrhage, something sudden. Evidence for this is that
Shakespeare was revising his will and it seems possible that he had not finished
revising it. 

Shakespeare's death could also have been
caused by typhus, influenza, alcoholism, heart attack, etc. Yet another theory is that
Shakespeare died of some contagious disease - this would make sense if the claim that
his grave was put 17 feet underground was true. 

How would someone determine who is the author of the works attributed to William Shakespeare?

To determine who is the author of the works attributed to
William Shakespeare, one would need to consult all the available evidence and then try
to make a rational judgment based on probabilities.

Serious
academics who have examined all the available evidence have come to the conclusion that
William Shakespeare is the author of the works attributed to William Shakespeare.  There
is actually quite a bit of contemporary evidence to support this claim, and more of it
turns up from time to time.

In fact, there is so much
evidence (which is easily available; see for instance the literally massive works of
Samuel Schoenbaum) that in order to argue against Shakespeare's authorship, skeptics
have had to deny or explain away or torturously interpret all kinds of hard
data.

If there is a major academic who doubts Shakespeare's
authorship, I'm not aware of that person.  This is a highly unusual situation, since
academics disagree passionately all the time about almost everything -- except this. 
Skeptics about Shakespeare's authorship often have to imagine conspiracies in the 16th
and 17th centuries and then imagine conspiracies in the modern period as
well.

Here's a good site that deals with the issue in some
detail:

http://shakespeareauthorship.com/

The
burden of proof really rests with the people who doubt Shakespeare's authorship.  If we
had even a tenth of the hard, obvious, undeniable evidence in favor of another candidate
that we have in favor of Shakespeare, the debate would be much more lively than it is. 
The debate, instead, now consists of people making claims that seem
dubious.

All I can do is urge anyone who doubts
Shakespeare's authorship to examine the claims of the skeptics very
skeptically.

One of the most powerful tributes to
Shakespeare by a contemporary was written by Ben Jonson, his friendly rival (see link
below), who memorably proclaimed,

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. . . the race
Of Shakspeare's mind and
manners brightly shines
In his well turned and true filed
lines

In fact, a very strong
case for Shakespeare's authorship could be built simply from the evidence that survives
from Jonson alone (unless, of course, he was part of some massive secret
conspiracy).

What are the major functions of the major parties in the United States?

Different textbooks will give slightly different answers
to this so you might want to check in your text to see if there is a specific answer you
are expected to give.  In general, political scientists say that the functions of
parties are to:

• Make government work.  If the
  members of Congress, for example, were not joined together in political parties with
  leaders and such, imagine how much trouble they would have ever agreeing on anything or
  how much trouble they would have even getting
  organized.


• Help make politics simpler for the people. 
  There is so much going on in the world that it is hard to keep up on everything and to
  know what to think about everything.  When it comes to election time, it is hard to know
  what each candidate thinks about each issue.  Having parties makes things simpler.  We
  might know that we are Democrats or Republicans and that allows us to know more or less
  who we will agree with when new issues come up or when there is an
  election.


• Get people interested in politics.  Because the
  parties want to win, they are constantly trying to get more people to vote for them or
  to agree with them on the issues.  When they contact us through the mail or by phone or
  when they air ads on TV, they can increase the amount of interest we have in politics. 
  That is a good thing for a democracy.

what is the significance of ISI ? what is the signficance of Agmark?

ISI The product certification scheme is basically
voluntary and aims at providing quality, safety and dependability to the ultimate
customer. Presence of certification mark known as Standard Mark on a product is an
assurance of conformity to the specifications. The conformity is ensured by regular
surveillance of the licensee's performance by surprise inspections and testing of
samples, drawn both from the factory and the
market.

AGMARK

AGMARK-Quality standards for agricultural
commodities are framed based on their intrinsic quality. Food safety factors are being
incorporated in the standards to complete in World trade. Standards are being harmonised
with international standards keeping in view th WTO requirements. Certification of
agricultural commodities is carried out for the benefit of producer/manufacturer and
consumer. Certification of adulteration prone commodities viz. Butter, Ghee, Vegetable
Oils, Ground-Spices, Honey, Wheat Atta etc. is very popular. Blended Edible Vegetable
Oils and Fat Spread are compulsorily required to be certified under
Agmark.

Facilities for testing and grading of Cotton for
the benefit of cotton growers is provided through six cotton classing centres set up in
cotton growing belt in the country.

During the year
1999-2000, agricultural commodities worth Rs. 429767 lakhs were graded and marked under
AGMARK. Check is kept on the quality of certified products through 23 laboratories and
43 offices spread all over the country.

How does "There Will Come Soft Rains" comment upon humanity now while presenting a disturbing image of the future?

One of the fascinating aspects about dystopian society is
the way that it takes one aspect of our society today and extrapolates that feature into
the future, painting a picture of a future dystopia that acts as a kind of warning about
what our society could look like if we carry on the way that we are going or fail to
moderate or curb our more concerning excesses. This story is no exception. The biggest
comment that Bradbury seems to be makign about our present is the way that technology is
dominating our society, and what that says about
us.

Consider the tremendous irony in the tale. There are no
human characters that feature in this story, and this reinforces the irony. The same
technical genius that was responsible for the creation of a house that carries on doing
the normal household tasks without the need for humans is also responsible for the
technological creation of weapons that can completely annihilate humanity. Thus this
story set in a chilling future where all mankind has been wiped out is actually more
about the present than anything else. Technological innovations are certainly
incredible, Bradbury seems to be saying, however, without wisdom and common sense to
temper our sense of scientific hubris, we face a very uncertain and precarious future in
our world.

What are the characteristics of speaker, the narrator, and Porphyria in "Porphyria's Lover"?

I think you have become slightly confused between the two
main characters of this excellent poem. Your question implies that there are three
characters, but do not forget that the speaker and the narrator are actually the same
character, and, in fact, there are only two central characters in this excellent example
of a dramatic monologue.

The principal character is of
course the speaker of this poem, who is shown to be a character who is obsessed with his
lover, Porphyria, and quite literally insane. He is in love with Porphyria, but reacts
violently when told that Porphyria is not able to be with him because of the way she
would have to reject society and the demands that it placed on her. Note how he reacts
to possessing her utterly for one last time before she will leave him
forever:

That
moment she was mine, mine, fair,

Perfectly pure and good: I
found

A thing to do, and all her
hair

In one long yellow string I
wound

Three times her little throat
around,

And strangled her. No pain felt
she;

I am quite sure she felt no
pain.

Possessing her utterly
is something that he never wants to end, and so he decides to kill her so that he can
gain eternal possession of her and she can be "his" forever. Note the way that he
deceives himself in the last two lines of the above quote into thinking that she felt no
pain when she was killed. The narrator is therefore an incredibly disturbed
individual.

The only other character to feature in this
poem is Porphyria, who is blonde and beautiful, but also who rejects her lover and her
emotions for the sake of society and the expectations placed upon her. However, at
various points, her emotions overpower her and force her to meet with her lover, and
this is what brings her to the speaker of the poem on this fateful night, when her
inability to be with him forever will ironically lead him to kill her in order to
possess her.

Was European colonization of the New World beneficial?

The answer to this question revolves around another
question; "beneficial to who?"

If we are talking about the
Native Americans, the European colonization of the New World was in no way beneficial. 
The colonization killed off a huge percentage of the natives who were living at the time
of European contact.  It took away the natives' land and made them, at best, second
class citizens of the new countries that were created.

For
the Europeans, and indeed for us today, the colonization was beneficial.  They
benefitted (and we benefit today) from the riches of the New World.  In the United
States, we are able to live in freedom because the colonization of the New World helped
to lead to the rise of democracy in what is now the United
States.

So, the legacy of European colonization is very
different depending on the point of view from which we look at
it.

What are fixed assets?

Fixed assets are pieces of property that are used by firms
to make their products and which are expected to last for a number of years.  These
sorts of assets are sometimes referred to as the firm's
"plant."

Fixed assets can come in many forms.  If a firm
actually owns the land on which its facilities are built, the land is a fixed asset.  If
a firm is in the business of producing goods, then the machines that it uses to produce
those good are part of its fixed assets.  If the firm has a front office with computers
and desks and chairs and such, all of those things are fixed assets as well.  In all of
these cases, the assets are things that are needed for the firm's production process but
are also things that will last for years rather than being used
up.

In other words, fixed assets are the things that are
used in the process of making products but which are not actually consumed to make the
product.

Explain 2 examples of tragic irony from section 1 in Night by Elie Wiesel.

In my mind, the most evident example of tragic irony in
the first section would reside with the reaction Moshe the Beadle receives upon
returning to Sighet.  Moshe has lived through unspeakable atrocity and has only one
desire upon living in terms of returning and letting others know what horror awaits and
for them to escape now.  Yet, the reaction he receives is one of disbelief, derision and
denial.  This is ironic because Moshe's attempts at building solidarity and community
are negated by those who are in the community of Sighet.  It is particularly poignant
and ironic that he sits broken not because of the Nazis but because of his own people. 
Another tragic irony that comes out of this section of the narrative is something more
subtle in the discussions between Eliezer and Moshe the Beadle.  From their discussions
about the questions to ask God, a tragic irony develops that will be enhanced when
Eliezer begins to question God himself.  Moshe teaches Eliezer that there is a
fundamental importance in asking God the questions that help provide answers to identity
in the world.  This is something that acquires greater meaning when Eliezer begins to
ask God why he has inflicted such punishment on him throughout his ordeal, eventually
resulting in a repudiation of God.  It is here where I think that another tragic irony
is evident in the first section.