Monday, September 30, 2013

Chemistry help please! State one technological and Lifestyle change for the following details below! Thanks!? 1. Aluminium ore from South...

As aluminum grows more expensive, the need to recycle
aluminum will become more important.  One social change wil be to place a greater
premium on recycling, as more money can be earned for collecting aluminum cans, the more
incentive there will be for people to separate out their aluminum cans from regular
garbage.  As recycling becomes a more conscious part of social fabric (like the deposits
that used to be collected for returning glass bottles when in the past they were the
dominant container)-people will be less cavalier about the difference between recycling
bins and trash bins. When raw materials were cheap, a lax attitude toward recycling grew
in the U.S., as incomes fall and raw material costs increase, economic necessity will
bring about social change.


Necessity is also the mother of
invention.  Technological change will be given an incentive as costs rise.  This could
lead to the use of alternative materials for packaging of beverages.  Plastics are
already regularly used, but as they are petroleum based, the need for recyling these
will also become more and more important.  Also altering the shape of the can to
conserve resources is already occuring.

Sunday, September 29, 2013

Solve the equation:Sin(x) + root3*cos(x) = 1

Solve the equation: `sin x + sqrt(3)cos x=1`
.


`sinx+sqrt(3)cosx=1` Given
equation


`sin^2x+2sqrt(3)sinxcosx+3cos^2x=1` Square both
sides


`sin^2x+cos^2x+2sqrt(3)sinxcosx+2cos^2x=1`


`1+2sqrt(3)sinxcosx+2cos^2x=1`
Pythagorean identity


`2sqrt(3)sinxcosx=-2cos^2x` Subtract
from both sides


`sqrt(3)sinx=-cosx` Divide by `2cosx`
;`cosx!=0`


`tanx=-1/sqrt(3)`


Here
`x=(5pi)/6 +- kpi` with `k in ZZ` . However, squaring both sides introduced an
extraneous solution. `(5pi)/6` does not work.


Thus the
solution is `x=(11pi)/6 +- 2kpi` ;`k in ZZ`

Saturday, September 28, 2013

Describe how Vianne was a good mother. Use quotes from the text to support your answer.One example is how Vianne is a positive role model for her...

In describing Vianne as a good mother, it is a good idea
to brainstorm some ideas before looking for quotes.  I like what you have so far in
labeling her as one who accepts everyone's beliefs.  If I'm correctly understanding you,
a better way to say this might be to simply call her "open-minded."  This seems to
maintain the same positive connotation, but doesn't present the arguable side that all
accepting could also be translated to non-confrontational and weak (which she certainly
isn't).  Also, it isn't necessarily true that she actually accepts everyone's beliefs. 
If she did, she wouldn't be pushing to keep her chocolate shop open in a town which
attempts to fully observe sacrifice during Lent.


Similar to
your first idea and playing off the open-minded description, you could look at Vianne's
general acceptance of all people, no matter who they are, where they come from, what
they are hiding, nor how society feels about them.  Even her enemy, the priest, is
welcomed in her shop and spoken to with kindness.


When she
meets Guillaume she hands him a box of treats and says, "They're your favorite kind...I
know everyone's favorite.  Trust me, this is yours."  (p.
18)


When she meets Josephine, who has just shoplifted from
her, she gives her a package similar to the one the woman has stolen and finishes with,
"On the house, Josephine...It's all right.  They're your favorites."  (p.
20)


You could find several other quotes throughout the book
to support the way Vianne builds relationships without judgment and with kindness.  This
certainly could be considered a key trait of good motherhood and role
modeling.

What is the conflict in "Hills Like White Elephants?"

" Hills LIke White Elephants" by Ernest
Hemingway


The conflict faced by the main characters is the
unexpected pregnancy.


the American point of view single and
in his prime, he makes the most of his lifestyle by traveling and seeing new sights. The
story is set on one such excursion, at a train station in Spain. Of the complications
that might arise from starting a family, one is certain to him: traveling, sight-seeing,
and his current lifestyle would be things of the past. These are some of his motivating
thoughts as he pleads his case for terminating the pregnancy. He chooses his words
advantageously

Friday, September 27, 2013

What would you consider to be the three most important points in Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay, "Self-Reliance?"

There are many meaningful points made in Emerson's
"Self-Reliance," three stand out, and while presented here separately, they all are
interrelated—each depending upon the other.


The first is
"genius."



To
believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is
true for all men—that is
genius.



Emerson states that
genius is not only knowing what is true for each of us, but also
knowing that the same truth holds fast for all
men. He praises the ability of one to have faith in himself. He notes that genius is
looking at what we believe and holding to that even if other's criticize us. Each of us
is unique:


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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron
string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you,
the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done
so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their
age...



[*the divine
providence
: God]


Emerson
notes...


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...society, by its nature, coerces men to
conform.



And
so...



Whoso
would be a man, must be a
nonconformist.



Next, Emerson
speaks of foolishly conforming for others. As alluded to in the previous point, society
criticizes rather than praises those who are different; many people will do anything to
please society and remain "consistent" for fear of what society will say if an one
changes his mind.


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For nonconformity the world whips you with its
displeasure...



Society wants
all of its parts to be in complete agreement. Emerson dismisses
this:



My life
is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a
spectacle.



In terms of
"foolish consistency," Emerson also writes:


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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little
minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great
soul has simply nothing to
do.



Emerson believes that to
change one's mind is necessary if one finds reason to do so; to be constant
simply for what others will think is
nonsense:


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...if you would be a man speak what you think
to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in
hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said
to-day.



Will a man then be
misunderstood? Great men of the past, he writes, have been misunderstood: Socrates,
Jesus, Luther, etc.


Finally, Emerson speaks also to
self-worth. He notes that it is not easy to be your own person, but that a truly great
person will turn his back on what society thinks and find his personal value in doing
what is right for him, regardless of the opinions of
others.



What I
must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think...It is the harder because
you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know
it.



The author says it is
easier to conform, but...


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...the great man is he who in the midst of the
crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of
solitude.



There are other
"themes" in this piece, and all seem tied by the need to be unique and satisfied with
one's place in life—not to worry about what others believe, but to follow one's heart.
And in all, Emerson refers to man's connection to God. God places us in the position we
occupy in the world, with the ability to be our
best...



...but
God will not have his work made manifest by
cowards.



Emerson insists that
individual strength and belief in one's chosen path, will lead us to self-satisfaction,
as God would have it.

What might the author be trying to say by creating both Mildred's attempt to commit suicide and Beatty's actual death?

The quickest answer to your question would be that in this
particular society, most would prefer death to life. It must have been that terrible to
live in. But a closer look at each person will reveal even further
truth.


Mildred had no concept of the length to which her
life had really been destroyed. This society had beaten all thought, emotion, and desire
for human contact out of her. If you think about it, those attributes are what we really
live for. Her attempt was somewhat unknown to her. She had no idea how unfeeling she had
become and would not have noticed if she died. Her attempt occured out of her own
futility.


Beatty knew better. He is a man who had been
well-read. He was living a double life and it killed him. He put himself in front of an
angry Montag and antogonized Montag when Montag had a weapon of fire in his hands.
Beatty knew the potential of a life with thought and emotion, but he could not live it
because he had to play the role given to him as fire captain in order to stay alive. By
the time he dies, I believe he dies with the peace that death would be better than the
world they live in.

In "The Interlopers," why is the narrow strip of woodland so jealously guarded by the Gradwitz family?

The absurdity of the long-enduring feud that exists
between these two families is expressed in the qualities of this narrow strip of land.
The narrator is very careful to tell us that it is remarkable neither for the quality of
game nor the opportunities that it gave for shooting, but in spite of this, it was the
"most jealously guarded of all its owner's territorial possessions." Although we can
infer that Ulrich von Gradwitz inherited vast tracts of land and territory, it is this
unattractive and undistinguished, narrow piece of land that he obsesses over. The
narrator goes on to tell us why:


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A famous lawsuit, in the days of his
grandfather, had wrested it from the illegal possession of a neighbouring family of
petty landowners; the dispossed party had never acquiesced in the judgment of the
courts, and a long series of poaching affrays and similar scandals had embittered the
relationships between the families for three
generations.



Thus it is that
we are shown Ulrich von Gradwitz guarding the property that he sees as belonging to him
by himself on this dark and stormy night, and this piece of land becomes the focus of
the personal feud between him and Georg Znaeym.

Why is Alexander the Great considered the first true superhero of the Western Civilization?

Alexander the Great is considered to be a very significant
figure in Western Civilization because of the extent of the empire that he conquered and
the lasting impact that his conquests had.  However, it is going a bit far to call him a
"superhero" given that that term is generally used to refer to people who have
superhuman powers that they use for the good of their
societies.


Alexander, of course, conquered an empire that
stretched as far as what is now India.  He and his descendants were not able to hold all
of those conquests, but their actions did create a large Hellenistic civilization in the
Middle East, stretching as far as what is now Iraq.  The Hellenistic culture also had a
great impact on the Romans, who saw Alexander and the Hellenistic culture as their role
models.  Because he conquered so much territory and because the Hellenistic society that
arose from his conquests was so influential, Alexander is a major figure in Western
Civilization.


However, calling him a super hero seems
excessive.  Even if we say that his leadership was superhuman, it is not as if he was
selflessly working for the common good in the way that superheroes do.  Instead, he was
trying to gain more power for himself.  This is not the act of a
superhero.

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Why are the children not allowed to go outside at the beginning of the story?

The children cannot go outside because the
sun is too dangerous during the day.  They have to wait until twilight, when the sun
goes down.


The short story “Games at
Twilight” takes place in India.  In the beginning of the story, the children have been
trapped in the stifling hot house with all of the curtains closed because the sun is too
hot outside.  Although it is still hot in the house, it is the sun that is
dangerous.


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They had had their tea, they had been
washed and had their hair brushed, and after the long day of confinement in the house
that was not cool but at least a protection from the sun, the children strained to get
out. (para 1)



The
children are bored and feel suffocated from being cooped up.  The house is hot and
stuffy, and they tell their mother they will stay on the porch and out of direct
sunlight, but she knows they won’t.  She knows her children.  As soon as she opens the
door, they forget about the porch.

Discuss the symbolic signisicance of the title of Hawthorne's novel:"THE SCARLET LETTER"plz answer in detail

Toward the beginning of The Scarlet
Letter,
 Hester Prynne is forced to wear a scarlet letter "A" on her clothing
at all times because it was discovered (that though married) she'd had an adulturous
union with an unknown man and bore a daughter. At first, Hester's punishment continually
haunts Hester and separates her from the other members of her community. However,
through the course of the novel, we see the letter burn, glow, and change, as though
taking on a life of its own. In fact, because Hester does not flee from wearing the
brilliant red symbol of adultery, and stands up to what she's done, she "purge(s) her
soul" and is able to achieve a new life with more "purity than that which she had lost."
Therefore, the title is significant because it not only refers to the punishment Hester
initially receives but also to the way Hester achieves salvation and becomes superior to
her fellow citizens by bearing it without shame and facing her past and her
fears.

Why does Montresor hate Fortunato in "The Cask of Amontillado"?

This is a question that has puzzled readers of Edgar Allan
Poe's short story, "The Cask of Amontillado," ever since its publication. It is likely
that Poe deliberately did not give more information or a specific reason about the
relationship between the two characters, probably to maintain the mystery that surrounds
the two men. We know that the two, Fortunato and Montresor, are acquaintances, and that
they come from old, wealthy families. As for Montresor's hatred, we are only given two
hints: We know, from the first line of the story,
that



THE
THOUSAND INJURIES of Fortunato I had borne as I best
could...



The injuries are
never explained by Montresor, and there is no further mention of them in the story. We
also know that


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... when he ventured upon insult I vowed
revenge.



Again, the specific
insult is never identified, but judging from Montresor's decision to kill Fortunato for
the offense, it must have been fairly serious.

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

What main points should be focused on when criticizing or analyzing a play?How to write a reflection of a play: what are the important elements or...

There are several aspects of a theatrical performance that
must be included in a review.


First, make sure to state
what you saw, where you saw it, and when you saw it.  You should give a brief synopsis
and discuss the theme of the play.


The rest of the critique
should focus on three major elements: Acting, Directing, Production
Values.


You should describe the principal actors in detail
- what they did well and what was wanting.  You might also mention a chorus or smaller
role if they were noteworthy in some way (either good or bad).  Make sure to not confuse
the actors and the characters.


Directing is a little more
difficult to see, especially if it's good.  You should discuss the blocking (movement of
the actors), the pace, and the overall vision of the piece.  This last bit is the hard
part to see.  Consider whether the production is unified -- all of the pieces working
together to communicate the playwright's theme.


Production
Values is a large umbrella term for all of the technical aspects of a performance: set
design, lighting, props, costumes, lighting, sound, special effects, etc.  There may be
separate designers to credit, so be careful who you are blaming or
praising.


You want to tie your piece together by discussing
the message that was sent, either purposefully or by accident, by the various
constituencies involved.  Was the performance effective communicating a message? Did it
move you?

Why are there so few female characters in The Wind in the Willows?

The Wind in the Willows is an
acclaimed children's book by Kenneth Grahame, published in 1908. Like many books written
around the turn of the century, it is very much a product of its
time.


At its core, Willows is an
adventure story, told about brave heroes and cowardly villains. The stories were
originally told by Grahame to his four-year-old son, and so reflect the sorts of things
a male child of that age enjoys; car chases, capsized boats, last-minute rescues, and
the heroes always triumph and return to their homes. The most important female role in
the book is not even a female character, but a disguise that several characters use to
get in and out of sticky situations. There is a barge-woman of indeterminate species,
but she exists solely to throw Toad into the river when she discovers his uselessness.
Moreover, the jailer's daughter, in her empathy for Toad's plight is the one to organize
Toad's escape from jail, but her altruism is equaled later by the railroad
conductor.


At the time of publication, Woman's Liberation
organizations around the world were taking root. The accepted roles of women in society
were being redefined, and Grahame's marriage was a troubled one; it is possible that by
not including females in the story, Grahame was unconsciously remarking on a world where
women didn't live at home and do the washing, but didn't exist at all and so caused no
strife. Again, this attitude towards women is typical of the era, and should not
necessarily be interpreted as it would be today.

Monday, September 23, 2013

How do the psychological and moral aspects of this story make it relevant for today's readers

In order to answer this question fully, consider the long
list of psychological and moral themes which run through this story.  At its core
The Scarlet Letter is about ostracism, judgment, hypocrisy,
introspection, acceptance, forgiveness, and revolution.  Humans find themselves facing
all of these issues at one time or another, throughout our
lives.


The Scarlet Letter is a classic
because of how often its themes have been repeated in history.  For every person (famous
or not) who has done something against the acceptable "moral code," been publically
shamed as a result, but ultimately did something revolutionary for a society or a
culture, there is a comparison back to Hawthorne's most famous
text.


I encourage you, a high school student, to consider
how the story is personally relevent to you.  Which character(s) have you ever
identified with, personally?  Which character(s) could you compare to people you know or
circumstances which you've observed?  Let this story resonate with you now, because
certainly it will continue to do so throughout your life in different
ways.

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Based on "Harrison Bergeron," discuss what the author is saying about enforced equality and whether it can ever be successful or not.

We are presented in this hilarious satire with a dystopian
world where political correctness has gone mad. The idea that everybody must be equal in
terms of their abilities is clearly one that is ludicrous, and this story presents us
with the many different ways that such equality is achieved. However, it is made clear
that the government, ran by the violently able Diana Moon Glampers in her role as
Handicapper General, has suceeded in this, but only at the cost of massively invading
our personal freedoms and liberties. George talks about how this system of equality is
designed to prevent competition between humans:


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"If I tried to get away with it," said George,
"then other people'd get away with it--and pretty soon we'd be right back to the Dark
Ages again, with everybody competing against everybody else. You wouldn't like that,
would you?"



However, it is
clear that this equality has created a situation that is worse than the original
problem. It appears that the government can achieve enforced equality, but that this is
something that leaves humans to lead a pitiful existence as they have to deny who they
are to become equal. Thus although such a system can be achieved, the author is clearly
saying that it is not a success, as is displayed by Harrison Bergeron's short-lived
rebellion.

Saturday, September 21, 2013

What is the difference between an endothermic and exothermic reaction and what is a catalyst?

The sum of the kinetic energy and the potential energy of
a substance is known as its enthalpy. During any reaction there is a difference between
the sum of the enthalpy of the reactants and that of the products. If the enthalpy of
the products is greater than the enthalpy of the reactants, the reaction is known as
endothermic. On the other hand if the enthalpy of the products is less than the enthalpy
of the reactants the reaction is called exothermic. Endothermic reactions absorb energy
from the environment when they take place while exothermic reactions release
energy.


A couple of examples of exothermic reactions are:
burning of a fuel, freezing of water, etc. Formation of carbohydrates during
photosynthesis, evaporation of water, etc. are examples of endothermic
reactions.


A catalyst is substance that changes the rate of
a reaction when it is added with the reactants. Catalysts can either increase or
decrease the rate of the reaction. At the end of the reaction when the reactants have
been converted to the products the catalyst is found in the same state that it was
added.

Were the political and religious authorities of Massachusetts Bay determined to get rid of Hutchinson or was Hutchinson a threat to the colony?

These two options are not mutually exclusive.  They are
both true.


The political and religious authorities were
determined to get rid of Anne Hutchinson, but they were determined to do so because they
felt that she was a true threat to the colony.  The Puritans of the Bay Colony believed
that God had made what was called the "national covenant" with them.  According to this
covenant, their community would be punished if they allowed "wrong" beliefs and
behaviors to persist there.


Because they believed this, a
dissenter like Hutchinson would have been seen as a real danger.  They would have felt
that they would risk God's wrath if they allowed her to stay.  Therefore, they were
determined to get rid of her because they believed she was a
threat.

How did Jig get pregnant?

In the modern era it is fairly easy for a woman to avoid
getting pregnant if she wants to. But this story is about the 1920s. There was no such
thing as a birth-control pill or a morning-after pill or antibiotics. Contraceptive
measures were primitive and unreliable. Young people today often fail to realize how
much things have changed in the past hundred years or so. Looking around my small
apartment, I can see many things that were nonexistent and even undreamt of in the
1920s. There were no microwave ovens. No refrigerators or freezers. No garbage
disposals. No electric clocks. No synthetic fabrics. No plastic items. Certainly no
computers or even electric typewriters. No ballpoint pens. No television. Radio was very
crude and limited in range. No recording devices for home use, e.g., no telephone
answering machines. Virtually no air transportation. No wristwatches. Obviously no cell
phones. No electronic gadgets.


Jig and the American have
been together for a long time. It should have come as no surprise that she became
pregnant. They are young. Sometimes people get careless, don't they? Nature has a way of
playing tricks on lovers. The name of the game is procreation. Jig may have gotten
pregnant deliberately, hoping that the man would accept it as a fait accompli and agree
to give up their nomadic existence, settle down, become a father and a breadwinner.
(This would certainly not be the first time such a thing had occurred.) He is pressuring
her to get an abortion, but she is subtly pressuring him to let her have the baby. She
is making him feel like a heel--which he is. He needs that second anis del toro.

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Are Boo Radley and Tom Robinson related in To Kill a Mockingbird?

Tom Robinson is an African-American man, married with
children, who lives in the Negro Quarters just outside Maycomb. Arthur "Boo" Radley is a
white man, single and with no children, who lives in Scout's neighborhood. Aside from
the fact that they symbolically represent two of the innocent, human mockingbirds in
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, and that their stories--Tom's
rape trial in which he is defended by Atticus, and the Finch children's fascination with
the unseen Boo--serve as the focus for the two parts of the novel, Tom and Boo are NOT
related.

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Find all the values of x in the interval [0, 2(pi)] that satisfy the inequality: 8cos(x)+4>0.The answer should be in interval notation.

8*cos(x) + 4 > 0


First
we will subtract 4 from both sides.


==> 8*cos(x)
> -4


Now we will divide by
8.


`==> cos(x) >
-4/8`


`==> cos(x) >
-1/2`


`==> cos(x) + 1/2 >
0`


But we know that `cos(x) = -1/2 iff x= (2pi)/3,
(4pi)/3`


 ==> [ 0, 2pi/3 ] ==> cos(x)
> 0


==> [ 2pi/3 , 4pi/3] ==> cos(x)
< 0


==> [ 4pi/3 , 2pi] ==> cos(x)
> 0


Then, we notice that the solution
to the inequality is the interval [2pi/3 ,
4pi/3]


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List three adjectives you would use to describe "The Interloopers."

Well, I think the best way that you can answer this
question is to actually read the story yourself and come up with your own adjectives to
describe the impressions that you had, because this is a rather general and broad
question. However, just to get you started and maybe to give you some ideas, here are my
suggestions.


Firstly, I would describe this story as
suspenseful. The way in which the setting is introduced with the feud between the two
families and the storm during the night strongly suggests that something violent is
going to happen during the course of the story.


The second
adjective I would use to describe this story would be heartwarming. The way in which the
tragedy that befalls both Georg and Ulrich forces them to confront each other and become
reconciled to each other is something that gives us hope that even the worst forms of
emnity can be healed.


Finally, the ending of the story
causes me to describe this story as despairing. The way in which the men are not found
by other men who will help them but by wolves who will only kill them makes this story
despairing in terms of the way it presents the fate of these two
men.

In The Cay, what does Phillip find while looking for the fishing poles?

Following Timothy's death in Theodore Taylor's
The Cay, Phillip is left all alone. He manages to find a solitary
coconut among the debris on the beach, but he also realizes he must provide food for
himself and Stew-Cat. Then he remembers about the fishing poles that Timothy had tried
to protect against the storm. Although Timothy had told Phillip that the poles were in a
"safe place," Timothy had forgotten to tell Phillip where they were. While stumbling
around the beach in his search and running his hands over tree
trunks,



... I
touched rope. I followed it around to the lee side with my fingers. And there they
were!



Timothy had not left
only a few poles, but


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... at least a dozen, lashed together with a
barbed hook and bolt sinker. They were one more part of the legacy Timothy had left
me.


Monday, September 16, 2013

In Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, what quotes show Cassius being an ambitious person?

Brutus becomes disillusioned with his partner Cassius just
before the Battle of Philippi, and during their violent quarrel Brutus tells him what he
thinks of his behavior and his character. Most strikingly, Brutus
says:



Let me
tell you, Cassius, you yourself
Are much condemned to have an itching
palm,
To sell and mart your offices for gold
To undeservers. 
(IV.2)



It is significant that
right after Caesar's assassination when Brutus and Cassius are trying to win Antony's
acceptance of their new order, Cassius tells Antony:


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Your voice shall be as strong as any
man's
In the disposing of new dignities. 
(III.1)



Since this power is
of great importance to Cassius, he naturally assumes it would carry equal weight with
Antony. There is nothing Cassius cares as much about as gold. He is a real miser. Caesar
says he "has a lean and hungry look." This is because he hates to spend money even on
himself. It would seem that Cassius is ambitious for political power mainly because of
what he could gain from it in property and gold. He would have been a corrupt ruler if
he had managed to stay in Rome or if he and Brutus had won the crucial battle at
Philippi.


Casca understands Cassius very well. They grew up
together and went to school together. When Cassius invites Casca to dinner, Casca
bluntly responds:


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Ay, if I be alive, and your mind hold, and your
dinner worth the eating. 
(I.2)



He has dined at
Cassius' home before and knows what kind of meal to expect. It is amusing that after
their quarrel, when Brutus calls for a bowl of wine and says, "In this I bury all
unkindness, Cassius," Cassius says:


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My heart is thirsty for that noble
pledge.
Fill, Lucius, till the wine o'erswell the cup.
I cannot
drink too much of Brutus'
love.



Cassius is a greedy
miser. Both qualities are shown in these lines. He cannot drink too much of Brutus'
love--or of Brutus' wine. He is an opportunist. Cassius himself seems to acknowledge
this early in the play when he says:


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Well, Brutus, thou art noble; yet I
see
Thy honorable mettle may be wrought
From that it is disposed.
Therefore it is meet
That noble minds keep ever with their
likes;
For who so firm that cannot be seduced?
Caesar doth bear me
hard, but he loves Brutus.
If I were Brutus now, and he were
Cassius,
He should not humor me.  
(I.2)



What this says about
Cassius is appalling. He is exclusively concerned about his own welfare. He wants to
achieved the absolute power he was seeking. With Caesar gone, Cassius can profit
personally, although the Roman people might be no better off than
ever.

what is the impact of geography upon the development of roman civilization

Most of the population of the Roman empire lived within
easy reach of the Mediterranean, and the imperial government promoted and protected
sea-trade and naval communications . The Romans were active in dredging ship channels
and in building river ports at likely places - such as London, Paris, Cologne, Vienna,
Belgrade and so forth - and maintaining river fleets to maintain security and order on
these watery highways.


- spot had mild climate, good
farmland, strategic location


• Built city on seven hills
that could be defended


- farmed at base of the hills; lived
on hilltops


• City was close to Mediterranean Sea and its
trade routes


- lay next to Tiber River, which aided trade
and provided protection


• Romeʼs location on Italian
Peninsula helped its development


• Roman ships could sail
to other lands surrounding Mediterranean


- helped in
conquering new territories, developing trade routes


• Alps,
Apennines mountains protected Rome, but didnʼt isolate it



Italyʼs large plains made farming easier than in Greece

Short critical analysis of Poem 5.

Catullus' "Poem 5" is perhaps the most famous of his
works. The poem, all about the love between two people, depicts the importance of
placing their shared love above all other things. For Catullus, the speaker, it seems
that he wishes nothing more than to focus his life on the love between himself and his
love.


That being said, critically, the poem offers a very
specific light on the power of love. It seems that regardless of anything else, the love
shared grows from the initial "brief light" to the "many kisses
shared."


One could justify that this is one of the most
romantic poems ever written. Focus does not lie upon anything but the singular kiss. The
kiss, or more specifically the thousands of kisses, become symbolic of the love the two
share. The melting of one kiss into another simply acts as a metaphor for the love
shared. While one can not witness the emotion of love from an outside viewpoint, one can
examine the physicality of a kiss.


Therefore, the kiss
represents love. A love grows exponentially over time. The kisses shared in the poem do
as well--to the point one kiss cannot be separated from
another.


Ultimately, Catullus is providing a new look at
love. Here has accomplished it. He has provided a image which many are familiar with and
aligned it with a concept few truly understand.


In the end,
nothing matters but the love between Catullus and Lesbia. In reality, nothing else
should when love like this is found.


What is curious is the
name "Lesbia." Catullus used the name as a pseudonym for himself. Also, the name can be
seen as a reference to the island of Lesbos--a place notoriously depicted as a place
filled with erotic descriptions.

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Using evidence from American literature, describe the religious, domestic, and political aspects of the Puritan world in the 17th century.I am...

Puritan society was basically one in which religion,
politics, and domestic affairs, were all guided by one basic belief: that God was an
ever wrathful and judging God, that He had "selected" (or predestined) individuals to go
to Heaven, and though no one truly knew if they were saved or damned, they lived as
though their every action was indicative of their fate.  In short, these people lived in
fear of eternal judgement.  As a result, politics and religion were nearly one and the
same.  The ministers and governors were revered for their sense of "holiness" and
therefore made the rules and consequences, and acted as judges for citizen behavior. 
Citizens meanwhile, did their best to live lowly, humble, and hardworking lives, not
drawing attention to themselves negatively or
positively.


Some texts which help portray the above ideas
in better detail include almost anything by Nathanial Hawthorne, but especially
The Scarlet Letter, William Bradford's Of Plymouth
Plantation
, and Jonathan Edwards' Sinners in the Hands of an Angry
God
.  Arthur Miller's "The Crucible," though not specifically about Puritans,
also provides a similar picture of life, religion, and politics, coming together in an
extremist way.

Please help me argue that Australian government should be focusing on international issues rather than domestic issues.We are having a school...

One thing that you could do here would be to identify a
number of foreign policy issues that face Australia and to talk about why those issues
are so important that the government should focus on them.  Two examples
are:


  • Trade and China.  Much of Australia's
    wealth lies in things like iron ore and coal that are largely exported to Asian
    countries such as China and India.  Australia's relations with countries like China,
    then, are vital to its domestic economy.

  • Boat people. 
    One of the major problems facing Australia is the issue of what to do with refugees
    trying to reach Australia by sea.  Australia has tried to put these refugees in places
    like Malaysia and Nauru.  This affects Australia's image in its region of the
    world.

  • Islamism and terrorism.  Australia is a Western
    country that is very near to Muslim countries like Indonesia.  There are also issues
    such as the instability in East Timor that can easily spill over to affect Australia. 
    Australia needs to maintain good relations with governments and societies in the area in
    an attempt to prevent animosity that might lead to attacks on
    Australia.

Saturday, September 14, 2013

What are the two drastically different situations compared in "What Saves Us" by Bruce Weigl?

In Bruce Weigel's poem "What Saves Us," the two situations
being compared is the narrator's attempt to make love to a woman the night before he
ships out to war, and surviving that war.


In his fear and
anxiety, the narrator believes that by making love to this young woman, that if he would
die, he refused to do so never having made love to
her.



The next
morning I would leave


for the war and I thought...to
myself


that I would not die never
having


been inside her
body.



The past between them
he refers to as the "parking lot of the high school of our failures." We might infer
that enlisting was one of the few choices open to him upon graduation. This act of
making love may remind him that he is fully alive, and give him the sense that he would
be protected from death—which allows us to infer that he is frightened about what will
happen to him in the war.


However, before they consummate
the act, they stop: perhaps his shuddering alludes to his early "culmination" before the
act can be fully completed, and reality stepping in with the sound of bells going off in
the hallways of the empty school.


The bells going off may
foreshadow the actual fighting on the battlefield—the bells symbolic of the "rockets
roaring in" in the last line of the poem.


With the end of
their passionate "interlude," the young woman gives the narrator a crucifix—Jesus on the
cross...


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...the tiny savior's
head


hanging, and stakes through his hands and his
feet.



This might indicate
that the narrator at the moment also feels that perhaps the war will lead to his own
sacrifice—his own death. The poem's title refers to "What Saves Us," and with the gift
of the crucifix and the deep, long hug that the young woman gives him, the narrator is
comforted. His fear and "release" is alluded to with the
phrase:



...my
heart's black wings were
calmed.



It is at this point
that we notice the poem's turning point: the poet
writes...



We
are not always right


about what we think will save
us.



The narrator reminisces
about the time spent in the back seat of his father's car. The girl he was with he
refers to as an "angel:"


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I thought that dragging the angel down that
night


would save
me...



However, he finds that
there is something spiritual that he carries in the form of the crucifix: that instead
of his memory of making love with his girl, he depends on her gift, which he
carried...


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...in my pocket


and
rubbed it on my face and lips


nights the rockets roared
in.



We can assume that he is
saved in that he has written this poem. He comments about the ravages of war around him,
knowing that death is very close to him:


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People die sometimes so near
you,


you feel them struggling to cross
over...



Ironically, the poem
starts with images of the tangled bodies of lovers in a car, and ends with tangled
bodies of war...


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...the deep untangling, of one body from
another.



...as their spirits
struggle—also as the soldier's spirit had struggled at the beginning—but
this time, the struggle comes from sorting through the dead and
wounded bodies around him, while the spirits of the dead try to cross
over.


We assume this crossing is spiritual between life and
death. It may also mirror the soldier's individual struggle to face the prospect of
death in war—crossing over from youth and innocence (believing that making love will
save him) to a place where he can only depend on his faith to lift him up amid the
chaos, and protect him from the same fate of so many others around
him.

Friday, September 13, 2013

What hints about the ending appear in “The Interlopers”?What hints does Saki give the reader that the story will not end happily for Georg and...

After the pinioned foes have reached amelioration, there
is a space of time in which the men are quiet as they ponder the changes to come.  As
they lie and wait for help, each praying that his men will arrive first so that he can
be the gracious one to give his own enemy attention.  However, the forest is yet cold
and gloomy, and the wind rips through the naked branches of trees, whirling in fits
around the trunks of these vulnerable trees.


Then, "the
wind dropped for a moment" and Ulrich speaks up, suggesting that they shout for
help. Joining their voices together, they break through the trees and undergrowth with
sound.  It is at this point that Ulrich and Georg are
heard--unfortunately.


As is so often the case, the weather
provides the foreshadowing for the brutal ending.  For, Saki
writes, 


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In the cold, gloomy forest, with
the wind tearing in fitful gusts through the naked branches and whistling round the
tree-trunks
, they lay and waited for the help that would now bring
release and succor to both
parties. 



That the weather is
cruel presages the fearful situation in which the men will soon find themselves
since frequently in narratives, the weather reflects the psychological or
emotional state of people.  In the hiatus in which the wind does not blow, there is the
moment of truth for the two men.

What is the meaning of lines 53-54 of Yevgeny Yevtushenko's poem "Babi Yar" ("We are denied the leaves, / we are denied the sky")?

Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s famous poem “Babi Yar” is a
meditation on a particular place in the Soviet Union (a place in fact named in the
title) where tens of thousands of Jews were killed by Germans during World War II.
Yevtushenko’s poem takes this particular place as a symbol of a broader, more widespread
anti-Semitism which has plagued the Jewish people at least since the times of ancient
Egypt (see lines 6-7). Yevtushenko also alludes to French anti-Semitism during the
so-called “Dreyfus affair” (line 10) as well to anti-Semitism inflicted on the Jews
during other times and places, including anti-Semitic pogroms (or persecutions) in
Russia (see links below).


At one point, Yevtushenko alludes
to the well-known story of Anne Frank, a young Jewish woman who lived in Holland during
World War II. She and her family, along with another family, were forced to hide
themselves in a small, secret annex during the war in the hope that they would not be
sent off to concentration camps, as so many Jews in occupied Holland were at that time. 
In the following lines, Yevtushenko alludes to Frank and, apparently, to her romantic
relationship with Peter, a youth her age, who was also an occupant of the
annex:



It
seems to me that I am Anna Frank,
Transparent, as the thinnest branch in
April,
And I'm in love, and have no need of phrases,
But only that
we gaze into each other's eyes.
How little one can see, or even
sense!
Leaves are forbidden, so is sky,
But much is still allowed -
very gently
In darkened rooms each other to
embrace.



The phrase “leaves
are forbidden, so is sky” seems to allude to the cramped interior conditions in which
Frank and Peter conducted their brief romance.  They were shut off from the outside
world, prevented from enjoying the kind of natural surroundings that might have nurtured
and symbolized their love in better times. Nevertheless, they were able to embrace and
kiss despite their surroundings. In fact, Anne, in her diary, vividly describes their
kisses and their brief but poignant romance.


Later,
Yevtushenko uses natural imagery in different ways when he
writes,



Wild
grasses rustle over Babi Yar,
The trees look sternly, as if passing
judgement.



Earlier, the
reference to leaves and the sky had suggested the beautiful, open, vital aspects of
nature.  Here, however, the beauty of the grasses contrasts with the ugliness of what
Babi Yar now symbolizes. Trees, rather than being symbols of life, now almost seem to
stand like stern judges, harshly condemning the ugliness that anti-Semites have created
in a place that might otherwise have seemed a beautiful part of
nature.

Thursday, September 12, 2013

The meaning of the quote, "We're oft to blame and this is just too much proved that with devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the...

This quotation is the advice Polonius gives to his
daughter Ophelia as he, the king and the queen plan to stage a "chance" meeting between
Hamlet and Ophelia.  They hope to determine if Hamlet's insanity has been caused by
Ophelia's rejection.


Polonious demands that his daughter
pretend to be reading a book of prayers even though she is waiting to encounter Hamlet.
This is the "devotion's visage and pious action" from the quote.  The intent, "to sugar
o'er the devil himself," is for Ophelia to appear godly and innocent as she
waits.


Truly, all three of the adults here could be talking
about themselves.  They appear to be good on the outside, but inside they are all guilty
of plotting and manipulating.

In Alice Walker's short story "Everyday Use," did Maggie go to school ? Did she she have any knowledge?

In Alice Walker’s short story “Everyday Use,” the daughter
named Dee (Wangero) seems to be far more highly educated than her sister Maggie. She is
also better-educated than her mother. It is not surprising, then, that Dee often treats
her mother and sister as if they lack the knowledge and insight that Dee herself
possesses.


Ironically, however, it was Dee who helped
contribute to the formal learning of both her mother and sister.  At one point early in
the story, for instance, the mother says of Dee,


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we raised money, the church and me, to send her
to Augusta to school. She used to read to us without pity; forcing words, lies, other
folks' habits, whole lives upon us two, sitting trapped and ignorant underneath her
voice. She washed us in a river of make believe, burned us with a lot of knowledge we
didn't necessarily need to know. Pressed us to her with the serious way she read, to
shove us away at just the moment, like dimwits, we seemed about to
understand.



This passage
seems ironic in many different ways.  First, it seems ironic that although the church
helps Dee to become educated, she doesn’t seem to treat her mother and sister with the
kind of respect and love that Christians prize. Second, instead of sharing her knowledge
with her mother and sister in ways that will make them love to learn, she bullies them
with whatever knowledge she gains. Third, instead of using learning to help promote the
self-confidence and self-respect of her mother and sister, she teaches in ways that
produce just the opposite effects. Fourth, the lessons she teaches seem impractical and
even brutal; they are alienating rather than affirming. Finally, for Dee, teaching seems
to be a way of empowering herself rather than empowering those she teaches.  One last
irony: the lessons her mother learns from this experience are not the lessons Dee hopes
to teach (i.e., subservience to Dee). In fact, the lessons the mother learns from Dee
are just the opposite: disrespect for the daughter who has disrespected her mother and
sister.


Speaking of her own history, the mother reports
that



I never
had an education myself. After second grade the school was closed down. Don't ask me
why: in 1927 colored asked fewer questions than they do
now.



The very next sentence
notes that Maggie would read to her mother, although in a stumbling way, so Maggie must
have received some kind of education. The mother seems to welcome Maggie’s reading and,
just as important, she welcomes the generous spirit in which the reading is done. In
this matter as in so much else, Maggie is the opposite of
Dee.


One of the great paradoxes of the story is that
ultimately Dee, despite her education, seems less wise than either Maggie or her mother.
She may have book learning, but she lacks common sense and common decency. She lacks the
kind of concern for others that true education should help nourish. She may have read
much and traveled widely, but her mental and moral universe is incredibly narrow and
constricted. All she can think about is herself.  Her mother and sister are in many ways
far more intelligent than Dee will ever be.

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

What is the purpose of Willa Cather's dedication to My Antonia?

The dedication to My Antonia
reads:


TO CARRIE AND IRENE MINER In memory of affections
old and true
Optima dies... prima fugit
VIRGIL


Writers usually choose to dedicate books to people
who have had significant influence on their personal or artistic lives. A dedication can
be a mark of gratitude or admiration.


The quotation from
Virgil, "Optima dies prima fugit" or "the best days are the first to flee" (or "the most
fleeting"; cf. Horace, "Eheu, Postume, fugace, fugace"), suggests that the novel is
about memories of an idyllic past which has disappeared. This fits the theme that the
prarie communities of Cather's choildhood have disappeared, and moreover she herself is
no longer the innocent rural child of her past. The narrator's journey to the past
echoes this theme, in that Antonia is grown and married, and he cannot retrieve the
relationship or circumstances of his past.

What sound devices does Poe use in his poem "The Bells" besides onomatopoeia, alliteration, rhyme, and repetition?

"The Bells" is a fascinating poem. If it is read aloud
correctly, the listener can almost hear bells tolling in the bell tower. I think you've
pretty much covered the poetic sound devices with the examples you've listed, but I
think I can still help you.


One sound device that Poe uses
expertly in this poem is rhythm. Each stanza of the poem is about a different kind of
bell, and the rhythm of each stanza seems to fit the way each different bell rings. Just
as the sleigh bells of the first stanza constantly "tinkle, tinkle, tinkle," you almost
feel as if you have to read the stanza quickly to keep up. If you've ever watched a
royal wedding or heard wedding bells tolling, you'll understand how the short lines of
the second stanza seem to mimic the musical quality of wedding bells. Click on the link
in the sources section and listen to them for yourself.


The
rhythm of the third stanza will leave the reader breathless! You feel the urgency of the
alarm bells. The final stanza's rhythm conveys the somberness of the solitary tolling
bell. Combined with the repetition and alliteration of "bells, bells, bells," again the
rhythm lets you hear that bell tolling. It is not the tinkling jingle of the sleigh
bells or the happy music of the wedding bells or the urgent call of the alarm bells. It
is slow and ponderous. Click on the link to listen to a funeral bell
tolling.

What attitudes is Marquez criticizing?

With no fixed truth to his short story "A Very Old man
with Emormous Wings," Gabriel Marquez complicates readers' efforts to assign
explanations and morals to his narrative.  Thus, with his depiction of characters,
Marquez, in effect, satirizes the adherence to conventional wisdom, religious beliefs,
and superstition.


Conventional
wisdom


Pelayo and Elisenda, his wife, are
initially frightened by the old man lying face down in mud, impeded by his enormous
wings.  But, later


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They looked at him so long and so closely
that....very soon overcame their surprise and in the end found him very
familiar.



Once he is familiar
to them, he is part of their world.  So, Elisenda decides to charge admission to see him
and make money.  When this money-making venture succeeds, she is happy, but later
Elisenda wearies of the old man's presence and wishes him gone because he is no longer
popular.


When the people come to see the old man with
enormous wings, they cannot understand him and are nonplussed, but after the appearance
of the spider woman with the human head arrives and the people recognize the humanity in
her and are allowed to ask her questions, the people feel
that 



[A]
spectacle like that, full of so much human truth and with such a fearful lesson, was
bound to defeat without every trying that of a haughty angel who scarcely deigned to
look at
mortals.



Superstition


After
the neighbor woman is called upon by Pelayo and Elisenda to interpret the meaning of
their strange guest, the old man is declared an angel who has been knocked down by the
rain because he is so enfeebled and old. She suggests that this angel be beated to death
because it is a "fugitive survivor of a celestial conspiracy"; however, Pelayo and his
wife do not have the heart to kill him.


The superstition
attached to the angel makes Pelayo and Elisenda famous.  Yet, it also frustrates
Elisenda who cries that "it was awful living in that hell full of angels" with an old
one who is "delirious with the tongue twisters of an old
Norwegian."


Religion


Since
Marquez's Colombia has a mixture of superstition with religion, a priest is soon called
upon to interpret the arrival of the angel.  Father Gonzaga is reluctant to make any
pronouncements on his own after the angel does not respond to Latin which every
celestial being should know.  Suspecting that the angel is an impostor, Father Gonzaga
reminds Pelayo and Elisenda that the devil uses carnival tricks to confuse the unwary.
He informs them that he will write a letter to his bishop so that he will write to the
"Supreme Pontiff in order to get the final verdict from the highest courts." With this
advice, Marquez clearly satirizes the bureaucratic hierarchy of the Catholic
Church.


Along with these three areas of satire, with the
subtitle being "A Tale for Children" Marquez suggests also that the characters in the
story exhibit childish points of view toward the events that they
witness.

What are the mementos of Crooks?

I would say that one of the mementos of Crooks would be
cleaning supplies.  Crooks' stable and living quarters are quite clean and very tidy. 
It is evident that Crooks takes pride in where he lives, albeit small and removed from
others in that he cleans his living space.  I think that another object to represent
Crooks would be his books, his only real company.  The California Civil Code and
dictionaries would be examples of the types of literature he reads.  At the same time, I
think that it would be essential to have personal pictures or photos of his family,
people that he misses in the life that he leads alone.  In his conversations with
Lennie, we recognize how lonely Crooks is.  He is cut off from the rest of the world
because of race and because of a social condition that does not value bonds between
human beings.  In this, Crooks is alone, so pictures of family members that he knew and
bonds that are important to him, though cannot be lived out now would be one such
example of how a personal emotion can be brought out in an
object.

What strategies should I use to complete a report for an assignment in human resources?Can you please help me with: 1. Summarize research on...

You need to select a company for which the assignment is
to be written first, using whatever criteria your teacher has supplied for company
selection. Next, you need to start researching best practices in human resource
management in the area in which the company specializes; performace in sales, software
development, or manufacturing may be evaluated
differently.


Next, you need to think about the levels on
which assessment will be performed. Will you be asking individuals and teams to do
self-assessment? Will you also be designing performance reviews by managers tied to
salary? Are you trying to measure productivity as a tool for corporate profitablity?Will
the assessment be handled by HR or by individual
units?


Finally, consider what assessment tools you will
use. Will you create forms or questionaires? Track performance indicators? Do
interviews?


Your last step will be to think about how to
seperate out individual from unit performance? How can you identify high performing
individuals in weak units or weak individuals in effective
teams?

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Where are the various forms of irony found in "A Rose for Emily"?

Much of Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" is predicated on
situational irony, or the contrast between what we (the
reader) or the characters expect to happen and what actually happens.  Examples are as
follow:


  • We don't expect a citizen like Emily to
    refuse to pay taxes:

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"I have no taxes in Jefferson. Colonel Sartoris
explained it to me. Perhaps one of you can gain access to the city records and satisfy
yourselves."



  • We
    don't expect the sheriff to acquiesce to her demands of not paying
    taxes.

  • We (and the townspeople) don't expect the awful
    smell coming form Emily's house to be a dead body.

  • We
    don't expect a daughter like Emily to refuse to give up the dead body of her late father
    Southern clout, like Emily, to marry a Northerner like Homer
    Baron

  • We don't expect a homosexual, like Homer, to marry
    a woman:

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"Homer himself had remarked--he liked
men..."



  • We don't
    expect the townspeople not to investigate the very obvious murder of Homer Baron by Miss
    Emily, especially after she bought the means
    publicly:

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"I want some poison..." and "I want
arsenic."



  • We don't
    expect Emily to be sleeping with Homer's dead body for all these
    years.

Why did john bring flowers in the house?

At the beginning of Act II John brings his wife,
Elizabeth, flowers.  He tells her the flowers are to brighten the gloomy room, but
judging from the stilted interactions between the couple, the reader can tell that the
room is not the only thing that is gloomy.  As the two talk- in short, choppy sentences-
we learn that Elizabeth is still upset over Abigail.  John finally erupts telling her
that she "forgives and forgets nothing!" and that her "justice could freeze beer."  We
realize that he confessed his sins to Elizabeth, but that she has not forgiven his
transgressions.  Like a modern day couple, John hopes bringing his wife flowers will
help.

Monday, September 9, 2013

What is Tom's biggest struggle?

Tom feels sympathy for his sister Laura, and wants to help
her break out of her shell. He invites his friend for dinner to help achieve this. But
Tom also feels a great deal of anger at his mother, and her neurotic, melodramatic
behavior, as well as her control and possessiveness, make Tom's life unbearable. He
can't wait to leave home to break free of his mother, but leaving laura alone would make
him feel guilty, since he knows that without him Laura would sink even deeper into her
loneliness. Tom struggles with a sense of responsibility for his sister, which suggests
he also feels responsible for Amanda, his mother, but his anger at Amanda prevents him
from realizing this.

Sunday, September 8, 2013

Use the product rule to find the derivative of g(x)=(1+2 sin x) e^(x/2) + cos x

The product rule must be applied to the first term of the
sum only, if the expression of the function is g(x) = (1+2 sin x) e^(x/2) + cos
x.


If the expression of the function is g(x) = (1+2 sin
x)(e^(x/2) + cos x), then the product rule will be applied as it
follows:


g'(x) = (1+2 sin x)'*(e^(x/2) + cos x) + (1+2 sin
x)*(e^(x/2) + cos x)'


g'(x) = 2cos x*(e^(x/2) + cos x) +
(1+2 sin x)*((e^(x/2))/2 - sin x)


Therefore,
the requested derivative of the function g(x)= (1+2 sin x)(e^(x/2) + cos x) is g'(x)
=  2cos x*(e^(x/2) + cos x) + (1+2 sin x)*((e^(x/2))/2 - sin
x).

Write a diary entry for Elizabeth Proctor the night of Abigail's dimissal.

Your post seems to resemble an assignment one would
receive when reading "The Crucible". This being said, I want to help you help yourself.
So, I will provide the information which you will need to complete the assignment in
your own words.


Abigail Williams is removed from service at
the Proctor's house given that Elizabeth Proctor has become aware that her husband,
John, and Abigail have had an affair.


Not only is the
affair inappropriate given that John is married to Elizabeth, the high moral code that
the Puritans held would look down upon the relationship as
well.


That being said, the diary entry would need to
include information as to how Elizabeth gained the knowledge of the affair. This is not
directly stated in the text. You will need to create the circumstances by which
Elizabeth found out about the affair.


You will also need to
describe Elizabeth's feelings about Abigail and about her husband. She knows that she
must let Abigail go, she cannot risk the affair's continuance. Also, how does Elizabeth
feel about her husband? Is she going to forgive him? How will she insure that their
marriage will survive? What does she see in the future? What are the possible revenge
tactics which she fears from Abigail?


If you answer all of
these questions you will be able to create a diary entry as
assigned.

Saturday, September 7, 2013

How does scientific progress relate to cultural advancement?

Scientific progress itself is a fairly objective thing. 
If scientists come to know more things, that is progress.  What is more debateable is
whether we should equate scientific progress with cultural advancement.  In other words,
does science really make our cultures and our societies
better?


We clearly have experienced scientific progress. 
That is not something that can be argued.  We have, for example, ways to extend our
lives longer than ever before and we have ways to communicate that surpass anything that
could have been widely imagined even as recently as three or four decades ago.  The
question is, have these things advanced our culture?


That
is a much more difficult question and one that should really be subject of discussion. 
I would argue that the tangible benefits of scientific progress have advanced our
culture and our society.  The fact that our lives have become easier (physically
speaking) and so many more diseases can be cured or managed outweighs things like the
greater amount of stress we experience through our hustle and bustle lifestyles or the
fact that our lives are sometimes prolonged even when we might be better off
dead.


However, this is something I would like to see moved
to discussion because there are many ways to argue this
question.

I am leading a reading group asked the group to bring a favorite passage. Do you recommend any questions for an interesting discussion?

The novel The Fixer was written by
Bernard Malamud. Published in 1966, the novel depicts the true story of an unjustly
imprisoned Jewish man. He is imprisoned in Russia (Tsarist to be
exact).


That being said, there are many different questions
which could be asked to bring about an interesting discussion for your
group.


1. Did the novel deserve a Pulitzer
Prize?


2. What did Bok's political views have to do with
his imprisonment?


3. What part does the role of forgiveness
play in the text?


4. What impact does Bok's final quote
from the book have on you as a reader?


5. Do you think that
Bok deserved the accusations made against him? (Whether or not you found him to be
guilty or not.)


6. How did you feel about Bok's treatment
in prison?


7. Do you think the narrative voice suited the
text?


8. What impact do you think that world views had on
the novel's popularity?


9. Do you think the themes of the
novel were appropriately defined and discussed?


10. How
does the end of the novel make you feel?

Friday, September 6, 2013

Sets P1,P2,S1,S2 | (P2 intersection S1) C P1,(P1 intersection S2) C P2 and (S1 intersection S2) C (P1 U P2),Demonstrate that (S1 intersection S2) C...

We are given sets `P_1, P_2, S_2, S_2` and know
that:


1. `P_2 nnS_1 subset
P_1`


2. `P_1 nn S_2 subset
P_2`


3. `S_1 nn S_2 subset P_1 uu
P_2`


We must show that `S_1 nn S_2 subset P1 nn
P_2`


(In English: show every everything in both S1 and S2
is also in both P1 and
P2)


Proof:


Let `x` be an
element of `S_1 nn S_2` . This implies that `x in S_1` and `x in S_2` . By (3), we also
know that either `x in P_1` or `x in P_2` .


Case one:
suppose `x in P_1` : By (2), we see `x in S_2 ` and `x in P_1` and by (2) `P_1 nn S_2
subset P_2` , therefore `x in P_2` .


Case two: suppose` x
in P_2` . Since` x in S_1` and `P_2 nn S_1 subset P_1` , it follows that `x in P_1`
.


Since each of these cases shows x must exist in both P1
and P2, it follows that `S_1 nn S_2 subset P_1 nn P_2`

In Wuthering Heights, what name does Mr. Lockwood notice on the threshold of Wuthering Heights?

The answer to this question can be found in Chapter One of
this incredible and memorable novel. This chapter narrates the first visit that Lockwood
pays to the owner of the house that he is renting, Thrushcross Grange, and his
impressions of the misanthropic Heathcliff and of his abode, Wuthering Heights. Consider
the following quote and the gothic details that we are presented
with:



Before
passing the threshold, I paused to admire a quantity of grotesque carving lavished over
the front, and especially about the principal door; above which, among a wilderness of
crumbling griffins and shameless little boys, I detected the date "1500," and the name
"Hareton Earnshaw."



Lockwood
goes on to say that he would have liked to inquire for more information about the
history of this date and name, but the surly and reticent disposition of his host did
not exactly encourage his inquisitive nature. Thus the name on the threshold is that of
Hareton Earnshaw, and the history is something that the rest of the novel will come to
reveal.

Thursday, September 5, 2013

In Life of Pi, how is Chapter 86 the climax in Pi's development as a character?

I think one of the central ways that this chapter points
towards the development of Pi as a character is the way in which Pi reacts to Richard
Parker once the tanker has passed them by and disappears over the horizon. Clearly Pi is
very emotionally wound up by the way that he has missed out on being saved. However,
when the tanker disappears, he looks over at Richard Parker and sees that the only thing
he is aware of is that he is somewhat upset or agitated. Pi's response is very
interesting. Note what he says in the quote that ends the
chapter:



"I
love you!" The words burst out pure and unfettered, infinite. The feeling flooded my
chest. "Truly I do. I love you, Richard Parker. If I didn't have you now, I don't know
what I would do. I don't think I would make it. No, I wouldn't. I would die of
hopelessness. Don't give up, Richard Parker, don't give up. I'll get you to land, I
promise, I promise!"



The
arrival and departure of the tanker and the way that it represents a hope of salvation
that is cruelly dashed thus forces Pi to realise how important his relationship with
Richard Parker has become to him, and how, in a sense, he is a part of
himself.

What concepts of love are presented by the female characters in Act I scene 3 of Romeo and Juliet?

I assume that you are talking about Act I scene 3, which
is when Lady Capulet first approaches Juliet with the idea of marrying Paris, and I have
edited your question accordingly.


In response to being
asked about whether she is ready to marry, Juliet responds that it is an "honour" she
has not thought of. However, from Lady Capulet's words, it is clear that marriage does
not actually have much to do with love. Juliet has reached an age where many of her
peers are already married, and it is clear that this marriage is more about the standing
and wealth that the Capulet family can gain than Juliet's own personal feelings. Love is
presented as a secondary motivation for marriage.


However,
Juliet, ever the dutiful daughter, agrees to look at Paris that night,
saying:



I'll
look to like, if looking liking move;


But no more deep will
I endart mine eye


Than your consent gives strength to make
it fly.



Note the way that
Juliet recognises that when it comes to whom she will marry, her own feelings will have
little consequence. The consent and wishes of her parents are paramount. The hilarious
Nurse in this scene points towards the way that, through marriage, "women grow by men,"
and is delighted at the thought of her little charge becoming a woman, but again,
marriage is shown not to be an affair of the heart. Love in the way that we conceive
this emotion is curiously absent from this scene.

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Please provide examples of political euphemisms used in a positive sense, without hidden intentions.Any recommendation of a video or a song...

Unfortunately, I do not have a song or a video to lead you
to as an example of current political euphemisms, but I will provide several examples
and hopefully, they will be memorable enough for you to come up with some on your own as
well.


Keep in mind that a euphemism is
an appropriate (or socially acceptable) word or phrase that is substituted for an
inappropriate (or possibly offensive) word, phrase, or idea.  The term euphemism is most
often associated with sexual connotation, thus, giving them the very nature of being
considered generally negative (or inappropriate).


Politics
is a great place to look for euphemisms that are meant to be positive.  These euphemisms
have become political "catch phrases" in our history and society that spark up around
annual election times.  Essentially, political euphemisms are those words and phrases
Americans have adopted as being "politically correct."  It is difficult to assert that
there are no "hidden meanings" behind these euphemisms, however, as their purpose is to
generally cushion a potentially unacceptable idea into one that is not only okay to
think about, but to speak openly about as well.  Notice the following
examples:


Historical
Euphemisms:


"A chicken in every pot," or "A car in every
garage." = essentially, these catch phrases were used to promote the idea that all
Americans deserved wealth and success.


Political
Groups:


"Pro Choice" and "Pro Life" = these euphemisms have
become completely acceptable and in fact, defining terms for the position an individual
takes on what was once a socially unacceptable subject:
abortion.


"Undocumented Workers" = has become the term for
illegal aliens living in the US.  This euphemism takes the negativity out of the term
and suggests that despite the fact that this group of people may be breaking the law, it
is acceptable for them to be here.

What is "sameness", and why does Jonas's community decide to practice it?

Sameness can come in a few different forms. My examples
would be colour blindness, the community being geographically contained, and the way of
life.


Colour blindness is 'mastered' in the community
because the limited range of colours that the people in the community can perceive
limits their choices, and choices would mean differences. It also increases uniformity
and Sameness in the appearance of the colour of skin.


The
community being geographically contained is another form of Sameness. In this case,
climate control. This is necessary because during times like rainy seasons,
transportation is difficult. Climate control is also found to be necessary for the
community as the unpredictabel weather like snow made growing food difficult and it
limited agricultural periods.


Finally, the way of the life
of the people in the community would reflect on Sameness. The people have limited
choices and are unaware of alternatives. There is no room for mistakes, and in other
words, no room for choices. For instance, people in the community are only allowed to
apply for spouses where they are carefully matched according to their interests and
personalities. Happiness isn't important in the community, efficiency is. Also,
decisions are carefully made by the committee of elders so that no wrong choices are
made.

how does the flow of energy move through a food chain.please give an answer that is good for a grade 9 student

A food chain or a food web is a way to trace energy
through an ecosystem. For most ecosystems (deep ocean vents being the exception),
sunlight is the source of energy. The sunlight is captured through photosynthesis in the
cells of plants, which are primary producers. The plants are eaten by herbivores, which
are primary consumers (examples: insects, deer, squirrels). The primary consumers are
eaten by secondary consumers (insect-eating birds, weasels, bobcats). Tertiary consumers
eat secondary consumers; these are usually the top carnivores, such as hawks and
wolves.Saprobes and detritivores eat dead organic materials and recycle nutrients back
into the soil - these would be things like worms, maggots, and
fungi.


At each step along the way some of the energy is
lost as heat, so the sun's input is needed to keep the web supplied with new energy all
the time.

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

What makes Atticus Finch a good father, lawyer, and friend in To Kill a Mockingbird? Provide details and quotes.

As the unofficial conscience of Maycomb, Atticus takes all
of these titles seriously. As a lawyer, Atticus is willing to accept cases he never
hoped to take, such as in the trial of Tom Robinson. He was handed the job by Judge
Taylor, who knew Atticus would provide Tom the best defense possible; and Atticus took
the case knowing that it might bring him enemies--for both himself and his family. He
represents men who cannot pay in cash (Walter Cunningham), but he has enough faith in
humanity to know that he will be paid in some manner at some later time. As a father,
Atticus does his best to raise his children in a single-parent household. Though the
family has few luxuries, his children are never wanting for the necessities of life. He
gives his children a great deal of independence, and he serves as the best possible role
model in the hopes that they will trust him enough to come to him with their
problems.



"I
just hope that Jem and Scout come to me for their answers instead of listening to the
town. I hope they trust me
enough."



Atticus is
color-blind when it comes to the races, and he considers just about everyone he meets
(aside from Bob Ewell) as his friend. People come to Atticus when they need advice, and
they hand over their biggest problems to him because they know he is the right man for
whatever job may arise. According to Miss Maudie,


readability="6">

"... there are some men in this world who were
born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of
them."


Why didn't the advanced German technology in the last years of World War II such as guided missiles and jet aircraft make a greater difference in...

The major reason for this is that they were a case of too
little, too late.  By the time that these weapons came online, the Allies had already
invaded Europe.  It was too late for the new weapons to do much good and they were not
available in sufficient numbers to be decisive in any
case.


Although the Me 262 jet fighter was introduced into
combat just before the D-Day landings, it was only as a test concept.  It was some
months before significant numbers of these planes were available.  Even when they did
become available in larger numbers, they could not make a huge dent in the Allied
forces.  An example of this is a March, 1945 air raid in which Me 262s shot down 12
bombers out of over 1000 that were on the raid.  Clearly, this was not going to make
enough of a difference, especially since the Allied ground troops were on their way into
Germany.  If there had been thousands of these planes, it might have made a difference,
but there were not and it did not.


Overall, then, the new
German technologies were simply not ready in time to be produced in enough numbers to be
decisive in the war.

What's the significance of Mrs Peters' recollections of incidents in her life: her kitten and her baby's death. What role do they play in her...

Mrs Hale is initially the most empathetic of Minnie
Wright’s life, but, as she recalls specific events from her own life, Mrs Peters begins
to understand Minnie’s plight.


When the dead canary is
found with its neck broken, it is obvious that it was deliberately killed. Mrs Peters
remembers a kitten she had which was killed in front of her by a local boy. She
remembers her own passionate reaction, which helps her to understand why Minnie may have
killed her husband-


readability="8">

"If they hadn't held me back I would have"--she
caught herself, looked upstairs where footsteps were heard, and finished weakly--"hurt
him."



Mrs Peters remembers
the quietness and isolation she felt after the death of her
child-



 I
know what stillness is," she said, in a queer, monotonous voice. "When we homesteaded in
Dakota, and my first baby died--after he was two years old--and me with no other
then--"



She is able to see
that Mrs Wright would be tormented by the silence after the joyful song of the canary,
as she was plagued by the lack of the comforting sounds of a
child.


 Mrs Peters has a strong sense of justice, and on
reflection is able to see that justice for Minnie would be for her to be free of any
more punishment.

Monday, September 2, 2013

How does one write topic sentences explaining how Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a story or revolt, using the points family, religion, and other...

A topic sentence is the first
sentence of any paragraph. It is sort of like a mini-thesis for the paragraph in that it
states precisely what you intend to argue or prove in the paragraph; the topic sentence
should especially relate to your thesis. In order to write your topic sentences for
these paragraphs, you must first figure out exactly
what it means to revolt and exactly how
Shakespeare portrays the theme of revolt
through family, religion, and
character rebellion. To revolt means to break away from or
to fight against an authority. There are many different ways in which the characters
revolt in Romeo and Juliet: The two families revolt against society through their feud;
characters like Tybalt and Mercutio revolt against the law by breaking Prince Escalus's
ordinance; Romeo and Juliet revolt against their own family members through siding with
the enemy; and even characters revolt against their own religion through breaking
religious laws. In order to write your topic sentences, all
you have to do is first figure out what points of revolt
you want to talk about. It will also be much easier for you
if you talk about revolt as a general theme in the play and
use the points of revolt as examples proving the theme. Since we are limited to space,
below is an idea to help get you started.

One thing you can argue is
that the two families revolt against society through their
feud. Their feud not only harms the members of their own households, it also causes
great destruction for all of Verona because even Verona citizens take sides on the
families' issues. Since even the citizens feel compelled to take sides, the fighting the
feud causes does not remain within just the two families, it causes
whole-city riots, as we learn from Prince Escalus's
lines:



Three
civil brawls, bred of an airy word
By thee, old Capulet, and Montague,

Have thrice disturb'd the quiet of our streets.
(I.i.85-87)



Since
the feud destroys all of society, we can say that the two
families are revolting against the normal, organized
structure of society. Hence, one idea for a
topic sentence
relating the revolt against society as an example proving
the theme of revolt could be,


  • One way in which
    Shakespeare illustrates the theme of revolt is through pointing out that the Montagues
    and Capulets are revolting against
    society.

From there, you would continue to
discuss how a disruption of peace and social stability is a revolt against society and
social norms.

What were the changes in education during the Renaissance?

Renaissance is the French word for
rebirth
. It is the time of change that happened in Europe between the
14th and 16th centuries.


It was an age
of growth in Europe. New, powerful
city states emerged. A new
middle class had more and more money to spend. Great artists, writers and thinkers lived
during this time.


The Renaissance was
especially
strong in Italian cities. They became centres of trade,
wealth and education. Many cities, like Venice, Genoa and
Florence had famous citizens who were very rich and gave
the city a lot of money.



In 1445 the German
Gutenberg invented the printing
press
. He changed the lives of millions of people
throughout
Europe. For the first time, bookmaking became cheap and
Gutenberg was able to print many books very quickly.


In the
Middle Ages books were very expensive because they were written by hand. Only priests
and monks could read them because most of them were
written in Latin.


In the Renaissance the middle classes had
the money to buy books but they wanted books that they could read in their own language.
A publishing boom broke out and buying and selling books
began to prosper in many European countries. People bought
travel books, romances, poetry
and almanacs. They read more and became
better educated.

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