What type of voice tone is used in Catch-22?

Sarcastic, sardonic, satirical, and darkly humorous are
just some of the words that describe the tone of Joseph Heller's anti-war classic,
Catch-22. Heller tells his World War II tale in an atypical
fashion. The protagonist, Yossarian, is an anti-hero whose bravery can be questioned at
every turn. Of course, it is the absurd notions and actions of his superiors and the
other men around him which cause Yossarian to doubt the reasoning behind their
decisions, and which put his life unnecessarily in jeopardy on a daily basis. Although
Yossarian is believed to be insane, in reality, he is about the only sane character in
the novel. Heller shoots down the traditional views of heroism and the necessity of war,
turning their real goals into materialistic objectives and financial profiteering. There
is little common sense in Heller's nonsensical world, where the will to survive is
considered madness, and where madness is considered the norm. 

Was the Wounded Knee massacre an exception or continuation of American policy towards Native Americans in the late 19th century?

By the time that it happened, I would say that the
massacre was an exception to American policy towards Native Americans.  It was much more
in keeping with the way things had been decades before at, for example, the time of the
Sand Creek Massacre.

By 1890, US policy towards Native
Americans had turned much more towards trying to assimilate them into US society.  1890
was, after all, three years after the passage of the Dawes Severalty Act.  This law was
passed to promote private land ownership among the Native Americans. The Carlisle Indian
Industrial School had already been in operation for more than ten years.  The creation
of boarding schools and the passage of the Dawes Act show that the American policy was
now that of trying to "kill the Indian to save the man."  American policy was no longer
centered around literally killing the Indians.  It was much more about trying to make
them like whites.

Therefore, the Wounded Knee massacre was
an exception to the policy that was current at the time of the
massacre.

What were the Coercive (Intolerable) Acts?

The Coercive Acts, known as the Intolerable Acts in the
colonies, were a series of enactments by Parliament in response to the Boston Tea Party.
They were designed to punish and also bring to heel the people of Boston. Among the
acts:

• The Boston Port
  Act: closed the Port of Boston as of July 1, 1774 until the tea destroyed
  in the raid was paid for.


• Act for Imperial
  Administration of Justice: provided that the Royal Governor could
  transfer the trial of any British official or soldier to England for disposal. It was
  believed that colonial juries might easily convict such persons on a
  technicality.


• Second Quartering
  Act: Provided that if no suitable quartering could be provided, British
  soldiers should be housed in private
  homes.

Massachusetts Government
Act: Provided that all colonial offices in the colony would no longer be
elective; but rather appointed by the Royal Governor. It also provided that juries would
be chosen by the Sheriff, and that town meetings could be held only with the consent of
the Royal Governor.  Shortly after the Act was passed, General Thomas Gage was appointed
governor, which in essence placed Massachusetts under military rule.
 

What was different about the fire Montag saw after leaving the river? from the novel fahrenheit 451

At the beginning of the novel, Montag sees fire eating
things, blackening and changing them.  He sees it as a destroyer, burning to "bring down
the tatters and charcoal ruins of history." (pg 3) He feels like he is conducting a
symphony, and the smile it gives him never goes away.  He enjoys its destructive
power.

After Montag leaves the river, he sees a fire and
watches it from the cover of some bushes.  He felt it was a strange fire because it
meant something different to him.  It was not a destructive, burning fire.  It was a
warming fire. He saw men sitting around the fire warming their hands.  It had never
entered his mind that fire could give something to mankind.  He had only seen it as a
destructive force. He noticed that even the smell was different. He listened to the
crackle, and he even describes the crackle as "warm".  (pg 146)

What is an example of Endothermic change and Exothermic Change? Not the difference but some example?

An exothermic reaction releases energy into the
environment. Some examples of these are:

• The
  combustion of carbon to form carbon dioxide. Heat is released in the
  process.


• Solidification of a liquid releases heat. This
  is one of the reasons why water does not get converted to ice spontaneously; the heat
  that is released has to be eliminated for the reaction to proceed. This is what happens
  in a refrigerator.

An endothermic reaction
absorbs heat from the environment. Some examples of these
are:

• The evaporation of a liquid is an
  endothermic reaction. If you place some alcohol on hand and let it evaporate you will
  find your hand feels cold.


• Photosynthesis is an
  endothermic reaction which requires energy that is obtained from
  sunlight.

I am writing a paper on W. E. B. Dubois and I have to use Harbrace footnote style. What does that mean and where can I find examples of the...

The Writer's Harbrace Handbook states that footnotes need
to adhere to either the CMS (The Chicago Manual of Style) when using footnotes in a
paper.

According to CMS, footnotes in this style
must:

1. Need to appear at the bottom of the page and be
single-spaced.

2.Each footnote needs to include name of
author, title of work, source of publication, and date of publication. If only specific
pages are used from a text, one must include specific page
numbers.

3. Use “Ibid.” You will use this notation when
referring to a text previously notated (only if the next footnote is from the same
text). If a previously notated footnote, use the last name of the author and page number
only.

4. If using secondary sources, one must first name
the secondary source and then the
primary.

Examples:

1. Seymour
Miles, The Long and Winding Road (New York: Traveling Books, 1969),
231.

2. Ibid., 231.

3. Norris,
132-135.

4. Theodore Sedgwick, Thoughts on the
Proposed Annexation of Texas to the United States (New York: D. Fanshaw,
1844), 31, quoted in Lyon Rathbun, "The Debate over Annexing Texas and the Emergence of
Manifest Destiny," Rhetoric & Public Affairs 4, no. 3 (Fall
2001): 479.

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What were the special characteristics of the population of Virginia in the seventeenth century

The most important "special characteristics" of Virginia's
population during this time had to do with race, age, and
sex.

Those who came to Virginia in the seventeenth century
were mainly young, single men.  This was true to such an extent that the sex ratio in
Virginia in 1650 was six men to every one woman.  By the end of the seventeenth century,
it was still about three men to every two women.  The population was also quite young. 
This was because most people died early, with half of those born in the Chesapeake
colonies dying before they reached 20 years of age (Source for all statistics:
The American Pageant 11th edition, page
64.)

Because of the tobacco trade, Virginia also had a
large number of slaves.  The slave population was still small in 1650, but it grew to
the point that slaves made up almost 15% of the population by 1700.  So, Virginia's
population was younger and more male than other colonies' populations.  It also included
a significant number of African and African American slaves.

Can someone tell me the reason why some kids cant talk about when they have been sexually abused?I'm doing an essay about abuse that needs to be...

There are a number of reasons why children keep silent
about sexual abuse. One issue is that younger children may not really understand what is
happening to them, and may lack the vocabulary to talk about it. This is why
psychologists sometimes give children dolls and ask them to have the dolls interact; the
child may be able to directly demonstrate something that they are not able to put words
to.

Another reason is related to imbalance of power.
Children are taught that adults are always right, and they are conditioned to submit to
adult decisions. While this is, in general, a way to protect children and assure their
well-being, it can be used by an abuser to assure the child's compliance and silence;
all the abuser has to do is tell the child to keep the
secret.

Some children, particularly those who are a bit
older or more sophisticated, can be coerced into silence with threats. The abuser may
threaten to injure or kill the child's family members or pets, or may tell the child
that the child will get in trouble if the story comes out.

How was a newspaper in 1938 made?I was reading a copy of a 1938 New York Times (about the Orson Welles War of the Worlds debacle) and noticed...

Newspapers in the United States date back to the 18th
century, when Benjamen Franklin's older brother, James, created what is usually known as
the first proper newspaper. Instead of old and outdated news, James created a private
club to write satire, letters, and opinion essays. The newspapers were laboriously
printed off movable type, each letter moved by hand and locked, inked, rolled, and
re-inked.

Much, much later, in the 1930s, William Randolph
Hearst's newspaper syndicates were the most powerful in America. He used the power of
the press to smear rivals and promote friends, and it is commonly assumed that his
support of Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 resulted in the Roosevelt
Presidency.

In 1938, when Orson Welles hoaxed the world
with his adaptation of "War of the Worlds," newspaper presses were massive machines that
operated automatically. Most were probably rotary printing presses, which used metal
reliefs, curved around drums, to print quickly against a continuous roll of paper. The
reliefs were cast from paper-mâché molds, which were in turn made from the original
typeset frame. The number of errors in the paper you describe probably had a number of
origins; the speed of printing, which can make certain letters smudge and seem like
others (compare 'h' and 'n'); the fact that the Orson Welles story was a huge seller and
they wanted to get it off as fast as possible, so errors might have been ignored; the
number of "allowed" errors before the frame would be re-set with type; the age of the
paper; and of course, simple human error. The process was certainly labor-intensive, but
the Hearst syndicates had a lot of employees; still, with a story that big they would
all be working around the clock.

My personal guess is that
they were in such a rush to get the paper out before their rivals that they allowed and
missed a number of errors. Comparison of that paper with others from the same period
might provide more information; if they have comparable numbers of errors, it might be
more than I could find here.

How does Lenina demonstrate that her childhood conditioning has been effective?From chapter 4-6

It has been effective to some degree since she is shallow
and seems to have absorbed the values of their society/training.  She does, however,
have a problem:  she seeks a more lasting relationship with one man, something that is
clearly against all her conditioning and is also interested in Marx who is a little
strange;  Fanny warns her abou both these situations.  However, her conditioning returns
when she meets the Savage and is attracted to him.  John attempts to relate to her as he
has been "taught" in Shakespeare --- with the passions and emotions that are familiar to
us, and she is unable to deal with these feelings that are contractory to all she has
been conditioned to think about human/sexual relationships.  If she had been able to
ovecome these, we might have had a most interesting relationship between these two
characters; of course, this would have been a totally different book
:)

Identify a moment you found moving in "Of Mice and Men" describe the action and the language and symbolism. I'd appreciate if you...

While Of Mice and Men has numerous
scenes filled with imagery and other figurative devices, Chapter 5 is always moving to
me. As the chapter opens, we see the stillness of the barn interrupted only by Lennies
stroking his dead puppy. Since the book began, the reader has heard George warn Lennie
not to mess up- again, and so we've been waiting for something bad to happen.  In
Chapter 5 we see the bad.

Lennie's moment of solitude is
interrupted by Curley's wife.  Alone again, she wants someone to talk to, and though
George has warned him to stay away ("Lennie glared at her. “George says I ain’t to have
nothing to do with you—talk to you or nothing.”) he finds she won't leave him alone.

The reader holds their breath as she asks Lennie if he
likes soft things and continues to compare her hair to velvet. She tells him, "mine is
soft and fine. ‘Course I brush it a lot. That makes it fine. Here—feel right here.” She
took Lennie’s hand and put it on her head. “Feel right aroun’ there an’ see how soft it
is.” The dialect allows the reader to hear her broken English while wanting to yell to
her NO!.  Instead, gentle Lennie begins to pet her until she becomes uncomfortable and
only wanting to silence her, he unwittingly breaks her neck.

The following image compares the dead puppy to Curley's
dead wife.  Both lay covered, motionless in the hay until Lennie picks up the puppy to
throw away and head to the safe spot.

What events do you think contribute the most to the narrator's coming of age in "By the Waters of Babylon?"

I would point to two events that have the most to do with
John's coming of age.

First, there is the event that John
refers to that happened in his childhood.  This was when he was willing and able to wait
for his father in the doorway of the dead place and to hold the metal his father brought
out.  It was then that he knew he was special, beginning his coming of
age.

Second, of course, is John's time in the apartment in
the ruins of New York City.  It was while he was there that he came to truly understand
what the Place of the Gods was.  He was, for the first time, able to understand the
truth about the world in which he lived.  This is, perhaps, the ultimate coming of age;
the ability to see and to deal with the truth about the world.

What exactly is the difference between monism and monotheism?

Monism and monotheism are not the same thing, though some
people are both monist and monotheist at the same
time.

Monotheism is the simpler concept.  Monotheism is the
idea that there is only one god.

Monism is more
complicated.  It is the idea that all things are truly part of one overarching whole. 
There are not truly many things, all is one.

It is possible
to interpret monism and monotheism to be compatible.  In such a view, God and the
universe are the same thing.  The whole universe comes from God and is part of God.  So
long as one believes that there is only one god, this type of monism would be
monotheistic.

Monism, then, is one way to be monotheistic. 
However, many monotheists, as seen in the newadvent.org link below, would see monism as
a heretical form of monotheism.

When was "The Prince" first translated to English?

The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli,
first appeared in 1513. The original title of the work, written in Latin, was
De Principatibus. It was not until 1532 that the first actual publication was
released.

The main reasoning behind the text was to show
the importance of the means by which royalty went to in order to survive. This included
the general acceptance of anything the noble did, even when considered
immoral.

The first translation of The
Prince, from its original Latin to English, appeared in 1640. The text was
translated by E.D. London and printed by R. Bishop.

The
first original edition, in Latin, arrived in England in 1540. It was brought to England
by Thomas Cromwell.

The very rare first edition sold for
$16,000 by Bauman Rare Books for $16,000.

I need to analyze "Town Smokes" in order to show what the story reveals about becoming a man. Is there someone who can help me?I need a good...

Pinckney Benedict's stories "Town Smokes" depicts the life
of a boy in search for a better life and manhood. During the story, the boy loses his
father, all of his worldly possessions (at the hands of two older boys), and
hope.

In the end, the death of his father forces the boy to
become a man. At one point in the story, one can see that he lies in a middle area, a
border, between boyhood and manhood.

What the boy comes to
realize is that the path to becoming a men is a long one. Like the rain which falls
throughout the text, the change into manhood is slow and steady. It is not something one
can force at will.

A good thesis statement one can form in
regards to the text, and about manhood, would examine the imagery of the rain and how it
symbolizes the slow and steady voyage into
manhood.

Therefore, a proper thesis would look like
this:

In Benedict's story "Town Smokes", the path to
adulthood is filled with challenges one must overcome. The protagonist's understanding
of the rain, which falls around him almost constantly, is the key to finding the path to
adulthood.

How does Zlata's Diary teach the reader about geography?

Zlata Filopovic lived in Sarajevo during the Yugoslavian
civil war.  The city was under siege for four years, starting in 1992 when she wrote her
diary.  Especially at the time it is written, most people in the world would neither
recognize nor be able to locate the new nations that had been formed out of the old
federal state of Yugoslavia. 

Slovenia, Croatia,
Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo and Macedonia all were former provinces
within Yugoslavia, and many had broken away by the time of Zlata's experience, including
the city where she lives, which is the capital of Bosnia then and now.  The war and her
diary forced people in other countries to look again at the geography of the region and
the reasons why the civil war was happening.

How do you simplify a number?

When asked to simplify something in mathematics, this
generally means bringing it to the most basic, concise form while still meaning the same
thing.

For example, consider the fraction "10/5". This
could be simplified by writing is as "2". There is no way we could further make this
more concise, so we now say it is simplified.

Another
example, consider the fraction "10/15". We notice that we could divide both the
numerator and denominator by 5, giving us "2/3". At this point the numerator and
denominator share no other common factors so the fraction is
simplified.

You can also simplify expressions. For example,
consider "2x + 5x". We notice that both of these terms contain x, so we could simplify
is simply as "7x".

Another example: "(6x  * 2) / 3x" -- we
notice that both that the x's cancel each other out, giving us "(6 * 2) / 3". This could
then be further simplified as "12/3", which could then be finally simplified as
"4".

So to recap, simplifying means bringing
an expression so the simplest form possible, which still representing the same thing.
The approach you take to simplifying an expression will vary from problem to problem,
and may involve things such as reducing fractions and combining like
terms.

PRENCENTILE QUESTION37 1/2% OF THE CANDIDATES IN AN EXAMINATIONWERE GIRLS. 75% of the boys & 62 1/2 % of the girls passed & 342 girls failed. The...

This means 37.5% of the girls failed. 
100%-62.5%=37.5%

So 342=37.5%(Total # of girls taking
test)

So Total # of girls taking the test = 342/(0.375)=912
Girls took the test.

Now 37.5% of the candidates taking the
test were girls so,

912=37.5% * Total # taking
test

So Total # taking the test =
912/(0.375)=2432

Since 37.5% of the candidates were girls
then 62.5% of the candidates were boys.

So Total # of boys
taking the test were 62.5%*2432 = 0.625(2432)=1520

Finally
since 75% of the boys passed the test, 25% failed so

25% of
1520 = 0.25*1520=380

So the answer is
380.

whats an example of a possible negative effect for a child that has been ignored?example a child who is ignored due to lack of attention at home.

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In our fast paced
society, more and more parents are admitting that they simply do not have enough time to
spend with their children. A child needs that one-on-one, undivided attention from its
parents. Frequently ignoring a child could have a serious negative impact on several
aspects of that child's development. One area that could suffer is the child's self
esteem. The child might grow up feeling forgotten and unimportant. Some children will
shrink under this type of stress. They become detached and withdrawn. Others seem to
explode outward. They seek the attention they are missing from others. Sometimes this
attention seeking behavior takes very negative forms. For instance, a child might start
acting out in school to receive attention from teachers. This type of child will find
even negative attention appealing. Other children might grow into adults who seek
inappropriate relationships to fill the void of missed attention in childhood. Children
who are ignored will typically have low self esteems and have difficulty building
healthy relationships.

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What are three ways that Amir receives redemption in the novel The Kite Runner?

Amir begins his long quest for redemption when he returns
to Pakistan, and then Afghanistan, in June 2001. Meeting with Baba's old friend, Rahim
Khan in Pakistan, Amir learns that Hassan is dead; Hassan has a son somewhere in
Afghanistan; and that Hassan is actually his half-brother, fathered by Baba and
Sanaubar. Amir's step toward atonement comes when he rescues Sohrab from the Taliban
while nearly being beaten to death in the process. It is during the beating that Amir
first feels the freedom of his sins.

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My body was broken--just how badly I wouldn't
find out until later--but I felt healed. Healed at
last.

Safely arriving with
Sohrab in Pakistan, Amir heals his wounds before beginning the search for the Caldwells,
who were to take Sohrab into their home. But Amir discovers that the Caldwells are
fictitious, contrived by Rahim Khan in order to guarantee that Amir would locate Sohrab.
So, Amir decides to return home to California with Sohrab, and make him a member of his
family--something that he had never been able to accept with Hassan. But Sohrab's
suicide attempt lengthens Amir's stay.

When they finally
arrive in California, Sohrab is unable to adapt to his new surroundings, rarely speaking
and withdrawing into a world of his own. But in the final chapter, when Amir takes
Sohrab kite-flying, Amir finds himself acting out one final form of redemption: He
volunteers to run Sohrab's kite, just as Hassan had done so many times for
him.

What is ironic about the animal's pride in the mill when it's finished and the results of all Boxers hard work?George Orwell's Animal Farm

In Chapter Five of Animal Farm,
Snowball, who has studied some of Mr. Jones's books, contends that the animals will
prosper if they build a windmill which can provide electricity, thus automating some of
the farm work.  However, after Snowball has completed all the blueprints for the
windmill and he gives an inspiring speech, Napoleon sics the dogs upon Snowball, driving
him from the farm.  Then, Napoleon takes command and tells the others that
Sunday-morning meets would come to an end; in the future a committee of the pigs would
make decisions.  After this, Squealer, Napoleon's propagandist explains that Snowball
was no better than a criminal.

Ironically, after Snowball
has been gone for three weeks, the animals are told by Napoleon that the windmill will
still be built.  Later, Squealer, the propagandist, explains that Snowball had really
stolen the plans for the windmill from Napoleon.  The animals are rather dubious, but
Squealer is convincing and the dogs growl threateningly, so the intimidated animals
accept his words.

With the windmill half finished, the
animals are extremely proud.  However, a terrible storm comes in the night; the next day
the animals stare at the ruins of their windmill. When Napoleon looks at it, he again
makes Snowball the scapegoat.  Snowball, who originally thought of the windmill and who
has been run off for suggesting the creation of this windmill is now, ironically,
accused of its destruction.

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"Comrades,...do you know who is responsible for
this?  Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown our windmill? 
SNOWBALL!"

He tells the
others that they will rebuild the windmill to demonstrate to Snowball that he cannot
defeat them. This statement is doubly ironic since Napoleon was originally against the
windmill and ran Snowball off for having designed it.  Then, he took credit for these
very plans and has the animals build it. When the windmill is destroyed by a gale,
Napoleon then blames Snowball.

How does setting lead to contradictions and confusions in the minds of the men? (What is the effect of setting given this story near a zoo?)

The story,"A Better Way To Die", was written by Haruki
Murakami. It appeared in the New Yorker on January 20, 1997. The
piece for the New Yorker was translated by Jay
Rubin.

The piece, which takes place in August of 1945 (the
ending of the war--to the month), takes place in the city of Hsin-ching at a local
zoo.

The piece details the events surrounding the deaths of
many different Chinese men wearing baseball uniforms with numbers on them.
Systematically, a lieutenant forces two prisoners to kill the Chinese men in the
baseball uniforms after asking the veterinarian if he is afraid of
death.

The veterinarian, previously putting what the
government deemed dangerous animals at the zoo to death, begins to understand the
different types of death one can face.

Basically, the
setting of the zoo adds to the contradictions and confusions which arise in the minds of
the men given the slaughter of both the animals and the men are based upon simplistic
ideologies of those deemed in power. In reality, some may not see the deaths necessary
based upon personal thoughts regarding individuals over maintained
stereotypes.

In the end, death is not picky. Death takes
people regardless of rank, education, or physicality if human or
animal).

What does Orwell mean by the statement "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."

George Orwell, in his 1946 essay, "Politics
and the English Language", argues for an inherent connection between
political freedom and clear language. In many ways, Orwell's ideas derive from John
Stuart Mill's essay "On Liberty`which argues that the most important form of liberty is
free speech, because it is only in an open marketplace of ideas, where viewpoints are
questioned and tested against one another that truth can emerge. Improvements in
society, whether political, ethical, or commerical all depend on the ability of citizens
to put forth new ideas and discuss them openly; where there is no free speech, there is
only stagnation and tyranny. Orwell adds to Mills concept of free speech the addition of
clear speech. In an era with increasing power of mass media, Orwell sees that the
putative freedom of speech possessed by citizens in mass culture was illusory of part of
the debate was framed in speech so unclear that the fundamental mechanisms of liberty,
those of open debate, were undermined by language so obfuscatory that those in control
of the media could constantly reframe the grounds of debate to reinforce their own
power, as do the rulers in 1984. Mass communication  shifts the locus of power in the
novel to those who control the means of communication.

how did the treaty of versailles lead to world war 2

The Treaty of Versailles was well intentioned, but created
more problems than it solved. It contributed to the outbreak of World War II in a number
of ways:

• The "war guilt clause" compelled
  Germany to assume complete responsibility for the war, which of course is ridiculous.
  There were many causes; but this language was forced upon Germany. Article 231
  stated:

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The Allied and Associated Governments affirm and
Germany accepts the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss
and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been
subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and
her allies.

• In
  addition to saddling Germany with responsibility for the war, the Allies also insisted
  that Germany assume full responsibility for the costs of the war. Article 232
  provided:

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The Allied and Associated Governments recognise
that the resources of Germany are not adequate, after taking into account permanent
diminutions of such resources which will result from other provisions of the present
Treaty, to make complete reparation for all such loss and
damage.

The Allied and
Associated Governments, however, require, and Germany undertakes, that she will make
compensation for all damage done to the civilian population of the Allied and Associated
Powers and to their property during the period of the belligerency of each as an Allied
or Associated Power against Germany by such aggression by land, by sea and from the air,
and in general all damage as defined in Annex l
hereto.

Reparations were intended to cripple Germany as
well as indemnify the Allies. Total reparations were eight times the entire GDP of
Germany. Had Germany paid all reparations, the last payment would have been made in
1998.

Finally, in attempting to create an "independent
Poland with access to the sea" as Wilson proposed in his Fourteen Points, a portion of
German territory was ceded to Poland even though the people there were ethnically
German.

These several factors caused deep resentment in
Germany, which played into the hands of Adolf Hitler and others who blamed the Treaty
for Germany's post-war woes.

Mary feels torn: should she tell him the truth now or should she rely on human resources staff to tell him?Mary works as a secretary in a...

 Mary feels torn: should she tell him the truth now or
should she rely on human resources staff to tell him?

Mary works as a
secretary in a department within a branch of a large corporation. The branch director
has decided that the job of her department director, Jim, will soon be discontinued.
Although Mary and a few others in her department have this knowledge, Jim does not.  For
a few weeks, Jim is directed to work on an array of special projects at his home office.
In the meantime, an employee from a different department is told to move in to Jim's
office.

The branch director instructs Mary and other support staff to
change Jim's voice mail, move his files out of the office, and erase his name from his
assigned parking spot. Mary is told the human resources department will call Jim to let
him know what has taken place.

That week Jim calls Mary
because he cannot get into his voice mail. He wants to know if there are any technical
problems about which he should know.

What was the political system in Germany during WWI?

During World War I, Germany was led by a King. His name
was Kaiser Wilhelm II. He became King after his father, Kaiser Wilhelm I, had died.
During his rule, Germany did have an elected Parliament that made laws even though
Germany was considered a monarchy.

Kaiser Wilhelm II made
several blunders as the emperor of Germany. For example, he really didn’t believe going
to war was a good idea, but he went ahead and declared war against Russia and then
against France after Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia and Russia declared war on
Austria-Hungary. Even though he was the head of the army, it was really a few generals
who made most of the decisions for Germany during World War
I.

As Germany faltered in the war, the Kaiser lost the
support from political leaders, and he was forced to give up the throne. He went to the
Netherlands where he lived until his death in 1941.

What type of luxaries did the Indus cities have?

There is little known for certainty about the early
Harappan (Indus River) civilization because much of its artifacts are under water, and
its language has not yet been deciphered. However, such artifacts as have been
discovered indicate a very advanced and sophisticated
society.

Streets appear to have been laid out on a grid,
the earliest evidence of such an accomplishment. Private homes had two and three rooms
with showers and flush toilets which drained into a central sewer system. Some larger
homes had over a dozen rooms. At least one city had a very large pool with dressing
rooms for bathers. There is strong evidence that the people of this society sent ships
to Mesopotamia for trade which carried ivory, gold, and pearls which were traded for
wool, leather and olive oil. The picture is thus of a very affluent and advanced society
long before such societies appeared in Western Europe.  

Give three examples of how geography played a role in the outcome of the Battle of Gettysburg in The Killer Angels.

The terrain around the college town of Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania offered excellent defensive positions for an army who might want to fight
there. To the south of town, Cemetery Hill, Cemetery Ridge and Culp's Hill all offered
strong protection. Three areas to the west of the town--Seminary Ridge, McPherson Ridge
and Herr Ridge--all served as adequate positions for the delaying action initiated by
Union cavalry General John Buford on the first day. Buford saw that if the Union army
was forced to abandon the western ridges, the protection offered to the south would be
an excellent spot to make a stand. General Winfield Scott Hancock, who assumed command
of the Union army until new commander George Meade arrived, stated
that

"I think
this the strongest position by nature upon which to fight a battle that I ever saw... I
select this as the
battle-field."

General Robert
E. Lee also recognized the significance of Cemetery Hill. He ordered new corps commander
Dick Ewell to take the hill at the end of the first day--"if practicable." Ewell did not
understand Lee's order--Lee actually meant for Ewell to take the hill immediately--and
he decided against making the attack. Most historians agree that if General Stonewall
Jackson had still been alive and in command (Ewell had replaced Jackson, who died from
wounds received at the Battle of Chancellorsville), Jackson would have taken the lightly
defended Cemetery Hill, and the ensuing battle would have gone much differently for the
Confederates. Ewell's lack of action is considered one of the great "lost opportunities"
in all warfare.

Two other geographical areas, the Devil's
Den and Little Round Top, also became crucial Union positions. Lee ordered both of them
taken, but his losses in the Devil's Den were heavy. Little Round Top, at the far south
of the battlefield, was initially undefended; Lee saw its importance, recognizing that
Confederate artillery would have a clear shot at the Union's flank, which could also be
turned and routed by rebel infantry. But before Confederate troops could arrive, a
brigade under Colonel Strong Vincent marched to the hill without orders. Vincent's
initiative would prove crucial to the eventual outcome of the
battle.

Lee's greatest mistake was making the monumental
Pickett's Charge on the third day. The ground chosen for the assault was a mile-long
stretch of open field which the Confederates would have to cross. They emerged from
Spangler's Woods on Seminary Ridge, aiming for a "clump of trees" on Cemetery Ridge. The
Union artillery and infantry were waiting, however, and as the 15,000 Confederates
approached, their ranks were decimated. Union troops and artillery were able to flank
the attackers as they advanced, causing more destruction to the men led by General
George Pickett. Only a handful of Confederates reached their objective, and the attack
suffered casualties of more than 50%.

In The Scarlet Hetter what is Hawthorne saying about the Puritan women of the New World ?

As The Scarlet Letter opens,
Hawthorne takes the opportunity to give the reader his opinions of the New World women. 
Long before we see Hester and her baby exit the jail, we hear what the women think about
the young mother.  The women (or as Hawthorne calls them the "gossips") claim that the
men of the town have been to lenient on young Hester because of her beauty.  They
believe that if they were in charge she would have received her due punishment-
branding, deportment, or even death.  Instead, they feel that simply forcing her to wear
a letter (which they point out can easily be covered or removed) doesn't adequately give
Hester the opportunity to learn her lesson from her
mistakes.

In this chapter Hawthorne is showing us the
harsh, judgmental side of the Puritan town.  A town that was built for people wishing
religious freedom is still quick to judge (and punish) those who step away from their
moral codes.

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“This woman has brought shame upon us all, and
ought to die. Is there not law for it? Truly there is, both in the Scripture and the
statute-book. Then let the magistrates, who have made it of no effect, thank themselves
if their own wives and daughters
go.

The harsh women feel that
Hester has brought embarssament to the town, and that without punishment others may
follow her nefarious example.

How well did the Third Reich meet the challenges of total war on the home front?

Overall, the answer to this is that the Nazi government
did not do all that well in meeting the challenges of total war.  The government did not
change its economy to a wartime footing nearly as much as it could have.  This caused
problems for the German economy.

During the war, Hitler was
very concerned about the idea that the German people might stop supporting his regime
and the war effort.  Because of this, he did not do as much as he might have to put all
of Germany's efforts towards the war effort.  One example of this was the fact that
Germany never did make a concerted effort to get women working during the war in the way
that other countries did.  He is said to have worried that such a big change would
antagonize the German people.  Similarly, the government did not institute rationing or
make average Germans cut back much on their way of life for much of the war.  Once
again, they feared that the people might rebel if they were asked to make such
sacrifices.

Because of this fear of domestic strife, the
Nazis were not able to meet the challenges of total war as well as they might
have.

I am trying to understand the effect of rythm in The Voice by Thomas Hardy. KatherineI am looking to understand RYTHM in Thomas Hardy's Neutral...

the rhyme scheme is ABAB, creating a cyclical structure
--> rhythm is repetitive, cyclical, representing the way people can become locked
into grief, inescapable process of emotions ect

in the
final stanza, the anapaestic metre is broken down with use of caesura (punctuation
within a line) : 'Thus I: faltering foward'. this disruption in rhythm implies Hardy is
becoming physically worn by his grief, he's
exhausted!

contrast this to the rhythm of the
last stanza of 'The Going'. here, the last line of the first stanza is
exclamatory:

'To gain one glimpse of you ever
anon!'

as is the last line of the
poem:

'Not even I—would undo me
so!'

-> a cyclical strcture is created, sense of
exasperation repeated at beginning and end implies Hardy can't escape the shock,
frustration of Emma's death.

compare the two
(exhaustion v exasperation) and you have evidence of Hardy's turmoil and confusion
(typical display of grief)

What is the irony of the dead parachutist landing on the mountain in Lord of the Flies?

Golding creates dark irony in Lord of the
Flies when the boys wish for a message from the grown-up world, and within
the same night, a dead parachutist drifts onto the island and becomes snagged in a
tree. 

In chapter five, "Beast from the Water," Ralph,
Simon, and Piggy yearn for the calming presence of the adult
world:

"'If
only they could get a message to us,' cried Ralph desperately. 'If only they could send
us something grownup...a sign or something"
(94).

The boys' desperate
wish for a sign from the grownups is granted in Chapter Six: a dead parachutist drops
out of the sky from an aerial battle at sea.  The moment is full of irony, because the
boys wished for grownup intervention on the island, and they received an actual grownup;
however, the parachutist is dead upon arrival and his presence will not be a balm to the
boys.  In fact, his drooping figure and blowing chute will scare Samneric so badly they
run from their post on the mountain side, convinced that they have seen the beast.  The
appearance of the grownup actually causes more harm than good, creating a difficult,
tense situation among the boys who are incredibly frightened by the beast. 

Please comment upon these lines from "Ode to a Nightingale" by Keats.Forlorn! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole...

The lines you have quoted come from the first half of the
last stanza of this famous Romantic poem, in which the speaker has a kind of out-of-body
experience and reflects and meditates upon the human condition thanks to the song of the
nightingale that he listens to. As the song of the nightingale ends, so the poet is
brought back to earth, and this is what occurs at the beginning of this
quote.

Note the use of the word "Forlorn." This is of
course a word that is used in the previous line of hte poem, and the repetition
underlines the speaker's mood and echoes the sound of the tolling bells that he compares
it to, which calls the speaker back from his reverie to harsh reality. Although, in the
middle of the poem, the "fancy" or imagination that is spoken of here is shown to
operate in full power, transporting the speaker away from the trials and tribulations of
life on earth, at the same time, the power of fancy and its limitations are indicated
here, as the speaker refers to her as a "deceiving elf." The tone is one of reflective
resignation as the speaker bids farewell to the "plaintive anthem" of the nightingale
and is forced to rejoin reality.

What were the Bards or Scops?

Bards or Scops were the Old English poets. Their job was
to travel and tell the tale of the great heroes, and so it is becaue of these traveling
performers epics like Beowulf were preserved in an oral tradition until they were
finally written down.  These positions were respected in the Anglo-Saxon society, for
the only way to gain fame in the Anglo-Saxon time was to perform a duty worthy enough to
be remembered and told by the scops.  The rhythm and rhyme of the epics were often
crafted in such a way to assist the scop in remembering the
details.

Should victims be allowed to participate in the criminal justice process or should the government be the "objective" arbiter of justice?

Certainly, victims are included in the calculus of
justice.  On one hand, the prosecution represents the "rights" of the victims.  The
voice of those who have been wronged is represented by the prosecution and the forces
that it has at its disposal.  At the same time, I think that the use of "victim impact
statements" at sentencing helps to allow some audible and acknowledged voice of the
victims to those who have been found to do wrong.  From this, I think that one can say
that victims are allowed participation in the criminal justice process.  I think that
this might be the extent to which victims should participate in justice.  Too great of
intervention of the victims into the realm of justice in terms of its adjudication and
deliberation transforms the pursuit of justice in terms of vengeance.  While the
prosecution acknowledges the experience of the victims, to allow the victims to guide
the pursuit of justice creates a realm where vengeance is too close, too great of a
reality.  In the conception of justice as an ideal, something which vengeance is not the
intended purpose.

In Sophocles' Antigone, what is the implied impact of the invisible woman, Jocasta, on the community and the characters?

Jocasta is implied as having
had an impact on the city of Thebes because she committed an act that is said to have
poisoned the land. As we learn in the first play of the
trilogy, Oedipus Rex, Jocasta and King Laius were given a prophecy
that their son would kill Laius and then bed with his mother. Fearing the prophecy,
Laius had Oedipus bound by the ankles and ordered for him to be killed. Jocasta gave the
boy to a shepherd who was supposed to abandon him on a mountain top but instead gave the
boy away to be cared for, which resulted in the fulfillment of the prophecy. One might
say that Jocasta is blamable for not having had the boy killed properly. But even if she
is not, she married her son and committed incest, which is immoral in the gods' eyes.
Any immoral or impure act was considered to
be poisonous to not only the people who committed the act but also to the
rest of the community thus bringing more and more grief and
hardship. Hence, Jocasta is implied as being responsible for the hardships named in
Antigone, such as the death of both of Jocasta's sons and her
daughter Antigone.

Ismene particularly reflects on all of the
tribulations her family has suffered due to her parents' transgression when she reminds
Antigone of how many lives in their family have been lost, begging Antigone not
jeopardize her own life as well by breaking Creon's decree. We see her reflect on all of
the deaths of her family in the lines:

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Think, my sister, how our father
died
hated and infamous from offenses
self-detected ...
...His wife and
mother--
both words at once!--took her life with twisted
noose;
then, third, our two brothers in just one day
slew each
other. (50-56)

The phrase
"offenses self-detected" refers to the fact that Oedipus figured out that he had
fulfilled his prophecy by killing his own father and marrying his own mother, and
"infamous" refers to the fact that he died hated because his deeds polluted the city,
showing us how both Oedipus and Jocasta have an implied impact on the characters and
events in Antigone. In addition, Ismene's reference to Jocasta being both Oedipus's
"wife and mother" also show how Jocasta has an implied impact on the
city.

In Romeo and Juliet, how does the 'ancient grudge' inevitably destroy Romeo and Juliet? Give evidence.

Your question refers to the opening speech made by the
Chorus, which tells us about the state of affairs in Verona and in particular draws our
attention to the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets, and how their "ancient
grudge" has broken out in a "new mutiny." We can see that the subsequent tragedy of
Romeo and Juliet is actually, at least in part, a result of this "ancient grudge" by
analysing a key scene of this play.

In Act III scene 1,
having just married Juliet, Romeo runs into Tybalt. The "ancient grudge" that has
created a seemingly permanent emnity between the two houses means that Tybalt tries to
pick a fight with Romeo. Romeo, being aware that now Tybalt is actually his kinsman,
refuses, and so Mercutio fights with Tybalt instead, and is killed. Romeo is now honour
bound to gain revenge for the death of his friend, Mercutio, and does so, killing
Tybalt. We can see in this chain of events that the "ancient grudge" had a vital role in
the subsequent tragedy that befell the two young lovers. Were it not for the feud
between the two households, Romeo would not have killed Tybalt.

Would financial incentives for people taking public transportation to school or work be a good strategy for carbon dioxide emissions?Would any of...

This strategy would not be very likely to work unless the
financial incentives offerred were quite substantial.  The main reasons for this
are:

• Traditions and tastes.  Americans are not
  very inclined to use mass transit.  American tastes are very centered around personal
  automobiles.  Cars are a part of our tradition and it is very difficult to get people
  out of their cars and on to busses or trains.  The financial incentives would have to be
  high to overcome these attitudes.


• Convenience.  American
  cities and towns are generally quite decentralized.  In many places, it would be very
  difficult to create transport systems that would serve enough different places so as to
  get near to most people's workplaces and homes.  People who use their own cars can go
  wherever they want without having to worry if it's on a bus route.  They can go whenever
  they want without having to worry if there is a bus running at that particular time. 
  This kind of convenience is something that Americans do not like to give up.  Again, the
  incentives would have to be quite high indeed to get Americans to change their
  ways.

Overall, then, it is hard to believe that
it would be possible to significantly reduce emissions by offerring incentives for using
mass transit.  It is likely that the size of the incentives that would have to be
offerred would be more than the government could afford.

What did Africans primarily come to the Americas as?

Assuming that you are asking about the time between the
European "discovery" of the Americas and the late 1800s, Africans primarily came to the
Americas as slaves.

Beginning in the early 1500s, Europeans
were bringing Africans to the New World as slaves.  As can be seen in the link below,
there were 10,000 African slaves being brought just to the Caribbean (not counting
Mexico or mainland South America) each year.  According to some historians, the total
number of slaves brought to the Americas was around 11 million by the time the slave
trade ended.

During that time, then, most Africans who came
to the Americas came as slaves.

The measure of a supplement of an angle is 6 times the measure of the complement of the angle. Find the measure of the angle, its supplement, and...

Two angles are complimentary if they sum to 90 degrees.
 Two angles are supplementary if their sum is 180 degrees. To find the solution, 3
variables exist.

x: The measure of the
angle

y: The measure of the
supplement

z: The measure of the
complement

Equations:

x+y=180
(sum of supplemental angles is 180 degrees)

x+z=90 (sum of
complementary angles is 90 degrees)

y=6z (The supplementary
angle is 6 times the complementary angle)

Using
substitution for y, the top equation becomes
x+6z=180.

Using elimination with x+6z=180 and subtracting
x+z=90, the result is 5z=90 and z=18.  So the complementary angle is 18
degrees.

x=90-18=72

y=6(18)=108
or y=180-72

The solution checks when the measure of the
angle is 72, the measure of the supplement is 108, and the measure of the compliment is
18.

Discuss the portrayal and role of women in the Odyssey.

You can find an excellent portrayal of women in
The Odyssey in Margaret Atwood's The
Penelopiad. That said, notice that the very few women in the story make only
brief appearances. Even Penelope, by far the most important one, is mostly spoken of.
Anyway, each woman stands for a different archetype. Penelope is the faithful wife whose
guile protects her husband's estate from the suitor's greed. She's also a mother
contending with the ineluctable fact that her teenage son will no longer be ruled by
her, and a kind mistress to a bunch of -with some exceptions- treacherous servants who
more or less openly serve what they deem will, in the long run, be the winning side;
namely, the suitors. Bold and determined when alone, once her husband is back and her
prudent test of his identity is satisfied, Penelope contentedly stands in his shadow as
he regains his authority.

Old Euryclea seconds Penelope,
watches over the maids, and keeps her eyes and ears open to the schemes devised by the
suitors. As Ulysses' former nurse, she's instrumental in ascertaining that he's no
fraud when, on his return, she bathes him and recognizes an old scar on his leg. At
times one has the feeling that the whole Laertian household would collapse were it not
for her moral strength and unyielding belief in the return of the
master.

Helen, true to her nature, plays the gracious
hostess to Telemachus when his quest takes him to Sparta. Nothing in her demeanor hints
to her shady past; it's as if she has never cuckolded her husband, let alone kindled a
war that cost so many lives. (We know the war was due to other reasons, but need to
stick to Homer's version.) Menelaus dotes on her as on day one; these two have succeeded
in erasing the past, which has taken on the characteristics of a
narration.

Nausicaa is a clever literary device to
introduce Ulysses into the Phaeacian royal palace, where her mother, Queen Arete,
encourages her husband to aid the hero. While Arete clearly stands for the dominant
wife, she doesn't flaunt her power for, as every woman knows, in a world of men,
sweetness achieves better results than authoritarianism. Although Nausicaa was engaged
to some prince, the Phaeacian monarchs offer her in marriage to Ulysses, an offer that
he of course refuses but that stresses her role as a compassionate soul (see the scene
on the beach) and an obedient daughter.

Penelope's maids do
not differ much from one another, but Melantho is the one whose voice and behavior stand
out. The maids' attachment to the suitors could be understood as a desire to cast off
their anonymity, or as a manner of survival if they were threatened with rape and
ill-use. The part they played in the story and their execution at the end is open to
debate, which brings us back to Atwood's novel. She provides a wonderful explanation of
the murders, one that is too intricate to summarize in this brief
comment.

Can a essay being addressed to one specific audience?For example, if I want to address it to my dad, can write "Do you remember, dad? That time our...

Given that an essay is, simply, a piece of writing on a
particular subject, I could not find any reason as to why it could not be written to a
specific audience.

For example, if you are writing an essay
to explain the Naturalistic period, you would want to know who your audience is so that
you could customize the language so as to elevate it (when your audience is a board of
professors) or lower it (when your audience is high school
students).

Any essay is best produced when the author keeps
the audience in mind. Using terminology which is over the head of your audience will
always force them to become confused or turn off completely. If writing about medical
procedures for someone getting ready to have surgery, one would not want to use the
medical terms used by doctors. Instead, they would use layman's terms to insure
understanding for the audience.

As for writing an essay and
addressing it to your father, based upon the answer provided above, there should be no
problem. The only thing that you would need to watch would be if the assignment requires
you to follow the general rule of not using the pronoun "I" in formal
writings.

cos4thita/cos2phi+ sin 4 thita/sin2phi=1 given to prove cos4phi/cos2thita+ sin 4 phi/sin2thita plz if u provide online chating with tutor u...

We'll re-write the condition, multiplying both sides by
the least common denominator, that is the product of denominators of the terms from the
left side: cos2pi*sin 2pi.

But cos 2pi = 1 and sin 2pi = 0
=> cos2pi*sin 2pi = 1*0 = 0

cos 4theta/cos2pi+ sin 4
theta/sin2pi=1

(cos2pi*sin 2pi*cos 4theta)/(cos2pi)+
(cos2pi*sin 2pi*sin 4 theta)/(sin2pi)=1*cos2pi*sin
2pi

We'll reduce like
terms:

sin 2pi*cos 4theta+ cos2pi*sin 4 theta
=1*0

sin (2pi + 4theta) =
0

2pi + 4theta = arcsin 0

2pi
+ 4theta = 0

4theta =
-2pi

theta = -2pi/4

theta =
-pi/2

Under this conditions, we'll calculate the
expression, having theta= -pi/2.

cos4pi/cos2*(-pi/2)+ sin 4
pi/sin2*(-pi/2)

cos -pi = cos pi =
-1

sin -pi = -sin pi = 0

-1/-1
+ 0/0

Since the second fraction is
meaningless (we cannot divide by 0), the expression cannot be computed under this
conditions.

In "The Garden Party," how do the relationships between the Sheridans cope with the expectations of society? I was thinking along the lines of...

Well, let us remember that the key divisive factor if we
examine the relationships between the Sheridans is Laura, who, in her youth and her
dismissive attitude towards class differences requests that the garden party be
cancelled because of the death of the workman who lives nearby. However, her request is
met by stony indifference by both her sister and her mother. The response of her mother
in particular is interesting to examine:

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"You are being very absurd, Laura," she said
coldly. "People like that don't expect sacrifices from us. And it's not very sympathetic
to spoil everybody's enjoyment as you're doing
now."

Laura's lack of class
consciousness is leading her to fall into the fatal mistake of believing that everybody
is equal and should be treated as if they were equal. However, Laura's mother is able to
distract her daughter by the gift of a new hat, and Laura's vanity is sufficiently
flattered so that she forgets about the death of the workman and her moral scruples and
enjoys the party.

In response to the explanation that you
give of your question, however, I don't think there is any proof that the Sheridans are
belittled because of the united front they present. Laura's objections are quickly dealt
with and we are told that the party was actually a success. Note the comments that we
are given from the various guests:

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"Never a more delightful garden party..." "The
greatest success..." "Quite the
most..."

Thus there appears
to be no evidence of the Sheridans being mocked because of their division or because of
their class.

In Life of Pi, list some scenes of violence and discuss how it contributes to the work overall.

Well, a good place to start would be in Chapter 46, which
is when the hyena savages the poor defenceless zebra. The description of the violence is
very graphic and rather disturbing as the hyena disembowels the zebra and mortally
wounds it. Consider the following description:

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The zebra's attempts at self-preservation only
whipped the hyenea in to a frenzy of snarling and biting. It made a gaping wound in the
zebra's side. When it was no longer satisfied with the reach it had behind the zebra,
the heyna climbed onto its haunches. It started pulling out coils of intestines and
other viscera. There was no order to what it was doing. It bit here, swallowed there,
seemingly overwhelmed by the riches before
it.

Rather brutal stuff, but
what this does is to highlight the plight that Pi finds himself in. Whether you believe
that this is an allegory and Pi is actually talking about humans or not, this
description serves to highlight the desperate straits in which Pi finds himself and the
way that both humans and animals can react with a kind of violent madness to being
trapped on a lifeboat with no room to move and others around.

What did Dutch explorers discover?I need it for a school test.

During the 1500s in the Age of Exploration, when strong
European countries with powerful ships began exploring the world,  the British and the
Dutch began trading with Asian countries.

In the late 1500s
the Dutch (Holland) or the newly formed Republic of the Netherlands built trade routes
with the islands of Indonesia which was called the Dutch East Indies back then. By early
1600s Portugal was losing power in South-East Asia. Holland on the other hand was
becoming more powerful and controlled the Dutch East Indies. After the Portugese and
Spanish had reported that there were new lands in the South Pacific Ocean, the Dutch
sent ships to investigate. Willem Jansz, and Dirck Hartog were some of the captains who
lead these ships and explored the new area and coastlines of
Australia.

Batavia, on the island of Java was the main
Dutch base and Dutch traders sailed to the East Indies to take spices, gold and precious
metals back to Holland. The route to Java took the Dutch sailors around the Cape of Good
Hope in Africa and then they would head south where the Roaring Forties would provide
such strong winds that they would travel very quickly across the Indian Ocean before
heading north for Java.Sometimes the Roaring Forties blew the sailing ships further east
than the captain intended and sometimes, the captain made mistakes in navigation. This
led to some Dutch ships being shipwrecked along Australia’s west coast. When this
happened, ships were sent from Java to search for the wrecked ships, and through their
voyages, more knowledge about Australia’s western coastline was
charted.

Dutch explorers were:

Willem
Barentsz

Henry
Hadson

Willlem
Janszoon

Abel
Tasman

Dirck
Hartog.

What is an example of dramatic irony in "The Monkeys Paw"?

I am struggling to come up with an example of dramatic
irony in this excellent short story. It is certainly a brilliant example of situational
irony, but I don't think we can identify any instance of dramatic irony. Let us remind
ourselves that dramatic irony occurs when the audience, and sometimes one or more
characters, knows a vital piece of information that another character or group of
characters does not. The classic example is of course in Romeo and
Juliet when we know that Juliet is not dead, and that she is about to wake
up, but Romeo doesn't, and kills himself just before she wakes
up.

The closest we can perhaps come to dramatic irony is
the ending, when we as the audience and Mr. White recognise that what is knocking on the
door is not going to be their son as they remember him, but a hideous, terrifying corpse
that will make them wish that they had never meddled with their fate. The way in which
the mother responds to this knocking shows that she does not understand this,
however:

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"You're afraid of your own son," she cried
struggling. "Let me go. I'm coming Herbert; I'm
coming."

Mr. White's success
in getting to the monkey's paw before his wife manages to open the door shows this
dramatic irony at work, but I don't necessarily think this is a particularly good
example of dramatic irony. This story is a much better example of situational
irony.

Why The Invalid's Story by Mark Twain considered funny?I need a few ways on why its considered funny, for example, cause it expresses irony, etc.

"An Invalid's Story" seems old-fashioned now, but it was
undoubtedly considered very funny when Mark Twain wrote it. Americans were simpler in
those days. Most of them lived on farms or in small towns. Life itself was much simpler.
What is supposed to be funny is the fact that the two men don't realize that the bad
smell is created by the Limburger cheese but assume it is coming from the decaying
corpse. This is situational irony. The reader would have to visualize the entire setting
and the two characters in order to think it was funny. But perhaps we have been spoiled
by watching movies and television and can no longer visualize scenes and situations the
way readers had to do before movies and television were invented. The other thing about
the story that is supposed to be funny--although it may not seem funny to modern young
readers--is the dialogue of the expressman. He is described as simple and good-natured.
He doesn't like to complain because he feels obliged to show respect for the dead man
and sympathy for the narrator, but the smell keeps getting worse and worse, until it
finally drives them out into the cold. A lot of Mark Twain's humor was based on his
depiction of colorful characters and his replication of their use and misuse of American
English. Mark Twain's great novel Huckleberry Finn is full of
simple, rural characters and imitations of their colorful
vernacular.

It is noteworthy that Mark Twain, like any good
fiction writer, tries to appeal to all five of the reader's senses. In this story the
appeal to the reader's sense of smell is unusually strong. The reader sees and hears the
expressman, smells the cheese, is touched by the bitter cold, and tastes the strong
cigars. In addition to the smell of the Limburger cheese, there are all the other smells
the men create in their attempt to camouflage the smell they think is coming from a
decaying corpse.

What literary ideals are implied in Ben Jonson's poem "To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us"?

Ben Jonson's famous elegy of William Shakespeare implies a
number of significant literary ideals, including the
following:

• The best praise of a
  writer should be well-informed and judicious. It should be praise offered by someone who
  knows what s/he is talking about. Such praise should come from someone who is himself
  respected, but it should not be blind, fawning flattery
  (1-16).


• Great writers can enhance the reputations of
  their nations, and Shakespeare is one of the greatest of English writers (19-21, 29-30,
  41-42).


• Ideally great writers should know the classics,
  although a writer can be greateven if he does not read the classical languages. In any
  case, the classical authors provide a standard by which we can judge modern writers, who
  can sometimes surpass the ancients (31-40).


• Great
  writers can become historical figures who will never be forgotten
  (43).


• Great contemporary writers can be effectively
  praised by using language associated with the Greek and Roman classics (44-46,
  51-53).


• Nature can be the subject of great poetry, but
  great writing is also the result of great skill and art. Great works are works that are
  well designed and well-constructed (47-50).


• Natural
  talent, and nature as the source of literary subjects, are both  important in creating
  great writing, but craftsmanship and art are also very
  significant:

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. . . though the Poet's matter Nature
be
His art doth give the fashion. (57-58; see also
68)

• Anyone who
  hopes to produce writing that will really last must work hard at his/her writing
  (58-60).


• Hard work at writing is a process that
  transforms the writer as well as the work (62).


• A
  careless writer may earn scorn (63), “For a good Poet’s made as well as born”
  (64).


• A great writer’s character and intelligence
  survive in what he writes (66-68).

How are the main conflicts resolved in "The Most Dangerous Game?"

There are two main conflicts in The Most
Dangerous Game. The first is Man Vs. Man and the
second is Man Vs. Nature.

The
conflict of Man Vs. Man is obvious; protagonist Rainsford is forced to fight for his
life against the sociopathic Zaroff. Both men are expert hunters, with mastery of their
skills, and as Rainsford sets traps and uses his knowledge to evade pursuit, Zaroff
negates the advantage by predicting Rainsford's decisions and path. Ultimately,
Rainsford is willing to risk a possible death to avoid a certain one, and is victorious
over Zaroff.

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Two slight annoyances kept [Zaroff] from perfect
enjoyment. One was the thought that it would be difficult to replace Ivan; the other was
that his quarry had escaped him; of course, the American hadn't played the game -- so
thought the general as he tasted his after-dinner
liqueur.

The conflict of Man
Vs. Nature is more subtle. Rainsford hears pistol shots and falls overboard; the salt
sea keeps him from crying out, and the ship leaves him behind. After swimming in the
direction of the shots, Rainsford finds himself on an island, shored by jagged rocks and
filled with a dense jungle. When he sets out as prey for the hunt, he realizes that the
island is too small to simply run, and he uses his knowledge of woodcraft to set false
trails. However, Zaroff is equally skilled. After wounding Zaroff with a trap, Rainsford
finds himself blocked by a quicksand swamp; instead of giving up, he digs a pit in the
soft dirt and plants another trap. This fails as well, and as a last ditch effort,
Rainsford ties his knife to one of the many saplings that had been slowing his pace. The
springy tree fails to kill Zaroff, and in final desperation Rainsford gives himself to
the very ocean that brought him to the island.

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"Nerve, nerve, nerve!" he panted, as he dashed
along. A blue gap showed between the trees dead ahead. Ever nearer drew the hounds.
Rainsford forced himself on toward that gap. He reached it. It was the shore of the sea.
Across a cove he could see the gloomy gray stone of the chateau. Twenty feet below him
the sea rumbled and hissed. Rainsford hesitated. He heard the hounds. Then he leaped far
out into the
sea....

Ultimately, by using
the harsh environment of the island to his advantage, Rainsford is
triumphant.

What kind of character is Polonius in Act 1 to Act 2 Scene 1? with examples please.Shakespeare's Hamlet

A character who loves to spy and whose advice contradicts
his behavior, the pompous and hypocritical Polonius is part of the something that "is
rotten in Denmark."  Given to loquaciousness, Polonius lauches into a lengthy diatribe
to his son Laertes before his parting as he,ironically, advises him to be honest and
forthright,

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This above all: to thine own self be
true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then
be false to any man.
Farewell, my blessing season this in
thee!(1.3.78-82)

Then, when
he speaks to his daughter Ophelia, he cautions her against Hamlet and urges her to not
even be near him or speak to him,

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I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth

Have you so slander any moment leisure
As to give words or talk
with the Lord Hamlet.
Look to't, I charge you. Come your ways.
1.3.139-143)

However, at the
beginning of the next act, Scene 1, he calls his servant Reynaldo to go and spy on
Laertes in France and report on his conduct.

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You shall do marvellous wisely, good Reynaldo,

Before you visit him, to make inquire
Of his
behaviour.(2.1.3-5)

After
this, Ophelia enters to describe to her father the strange conduct of Hamlet.  Instead
of cautioning Ophelia again to stay away from Hamlet, Polonius suggests to her that they
inform the king.  He later informs Claudius and Gertrude that their son is mad. He
arranges for Claudius and himself to spy on a meeting between Hamlet and Ophelia which
he will arrange.  Thus, with both his children, he contradicts the advice which he has
given them, proving himself a hypocrite and a spy.

Explain what is meant by market efficiency.

Market efficiency is the idea that markets, when left to
themselves, will always result in the production of the exact "right" amount of a good
or service.  When market efficiency has been achieved, there will be no customers left
who would like to have bought a good or service at the prevailing price.  Similarly,
there will be no suppliers left who still had goods or services they would have liked to
sell at that price.

Market efficiency relies on prices
being free to move and suppliers being free to increase or reduce production.  When
these conditions exist, there will be market efficiency.  If a shortage of a good or
service develops, the price will rise or producers will produce more of the good or
service.  If a surplus develops, the price will fall or the producers will reduce
production.

When these things happen, an equilibrium will
eventually be reached at a price and quantity where all demand has been met and all
supply has been sold.

How do acts of violence contribute to the themes of Water for Elephants?

Water for Elephants contains several very brutal acts of
violence. The story of an idealistic but emotionally-closed vet who joins a circus is
far more realistic than many similar tales.

The story, set
in the Great Depression, opens with an act of (accidental) violence. Jacob Jankowski's
parents are killed in a car accident just as he sits down to take his final exam. After
he joins the Benzini Brothers Circus, he witnesses August, the animal trainer,
inflicting harm on the animals as well as on his wife, Marlena. The latter violence
brings Marlena and Jacob closer together. August's beating of the titular elephant,
Rosie, has dire results for him, and near the middle of the book, two of the sideshow
performers are thrown from the train in the night; an example of institutionalized,
accepted violence for breaking the insular laws of the
circus.

Every moment of joy and beauty in the book --
Marlena's performances, Rosie's gentle understanding -- is echoed by an act of violence
-- Marlena's feet are damaged by a fall, Rosie is abused and finally retaliates. In the
end, Jacob and Marlena escape the circus and travel with some of the animals, and
although they find happiness, they are always haunted by the
past.

What was Thomas Jefferson’s vision for the United States?

Thomas Jefferson's vision of the United States was that it
would be a nation of small farmers.  This is somewhat strange given that he owned a
large plantation but he, nonetheless, believed that the US should be a very democratic
and egalitarian nation made up mainly of independent
farmers.

To Jefferson, the only person who was really free
was one who worked for himself.  He felt that only small farmers were truly their "own
men" because they had no bosses.  Only those who had no bosses could be trusted to vote
in a democratic society because people who had bosses would surely vote in the way that
their bosses told them.

Jefferson was dedicated to the idea
of a nation made of men who were independent of one another.  It was for this reason
that he wanted to maintain the US as an agrarian nation rather than allowing it to
become industrialized and stratified (between workers and bosses) as Hamilton and the
Federalists wanted.

If a 6 year old shot someone would the courts declare him a juvenile or would he be tried as an adult?

It is almost inconceivable that a 6 year-old would ever be
tried as an adult, regardless of how heinous a crime they
committed.

Juveniles can, of course, be tried as adults at
times.  However, most states do not waive a person's juvenile protections unless the
person is 17.  This age may be lowered to as low as 13 or 14 if the crime is
particularly bad, but it is almost unheard of to go lower than that.  (The case of
Lionel Tate is one case where this has happened as he was tried as an adult for an act
he committed at age 12.)

For most states, 6 is about the
lowest age that a person can even be charged with a crime as a juvenile.  Most states'
laws hold that a person younger than that cannot even tell the difference between right
and wrong well enough to be responsible for what they do in any
way.

So, since 6 years of age is the lowest age that a
person can typically be charged even as a juvenile, there is no way a child of 6 could
be tried as an adult.

calculate the area of the region bounded by curves f(x)=x^2 +5x and g(x)=2-x^2

First we need to find the intersection points of the
curves.

==> f(x)=
g(x)

==> `x^2 +5x = 2-
x^2`

`==> 2x^2 +
5x -2 = 0`

`==>
x1= (-5 + sqrt(25+16))/4 =
(-5+sqrt41)/4`

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(-5-sqrt(41))/4`

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class="AM">`` Now we know that the area bounded by the curve
is:

`A = int g(x) dx - int f(x) dx =
int g(x)-f(x) dx`

`A =
int 2-x^2 - (x^2 +5x) dx = int -2x^2 - 5x +2
dx`

`A = -(2x^3) /3 -
(5x^2) /2 + 2x `

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(-5-sqrt41)/4.

 `A1=-2/3
((-5+sqrt41)/4)^3 - 5/2 ((-5+sqrt41)/4)^2
+2(-5+sqrt41)/4`

`A2 =
-2/3 ((-5-sqrt41)/4)^3 -5/2 ((-5-sqrt41)/4)^2 +2
(-5-sqrt41)/4`

class="AM">``The area bounded is A = A1 -
A2

`A = -2/3 ((-5+sqrt41)/4)^3 +2/3
((-5+sqrt41)/3)^3 +(25sqrt41)/2 +
sqrt41`

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Why does the tinker throw away the chrysanthemums?(i.e. What is the significance of that act--for him and for Elisa?) John Steinbeck's "The...

When the tinker arrives on the Allen farm, his main
objective is to be able to repair something so that he can earn money.  After Elisa
tells him that she has nothing in need of repair, he does not leave; instead, he uses
his skills as a salesman and opportunist by cajoling her into talking about her beloved
chrysanthemums.  When he sounds poetic in his description of them--"Looks like a quick
puff of colored smoke"--Elisa's aesthetic nature is awakened and excited.  Of course,
the tinker then takes advantage of this awakening and feigns an interest in the flowers,
saying that he would love to take some to a lady down the road that he
knows.

With shining eyes and an awakened spirit, Elisa
gladly puts some of the chrysanthemums in a pot for the tinker to give to his friend. 
As he drives off after Elisa has given him some work, she feels alive and encouraged
that he will give the flowers to the lady.  However, as she and her husband travel the
road later on their way to supper in town, Elisa spots the discarded chrysanthemums on
the side of the road. 

Elisa feels betrayed at the sight of
the mutilated chrysanthemums. She turns from her husband so that he will not see her
crying "weakly--like an old woman."  Elisa has been humiliated by the sight of the
flower for which she has become so excited in its promise of bloom and life; instead,
her aesthetic passion and connection of spirit with nature has been ridiculed and
sullied.  Towards both men, the tinker and her husband, she is now
frustrated.

This stanza is taken from poem "Afterwards" by Thomas Hardy. I need explanation of following stanza.When the Present has latched its postern behind...

The stanza in question, from Thomas Hardy's poem
"Afterwards", comes from the first stanza of the poem.

The
poem refers to the fact that things are changing in the world. The phrase "the Present
has latched its postern behind" refers to the fact that the present is now the past. It,
having already happened, can no longer be considered the
present.

The line "May month flaps its glad green leaves
like wings" also refers to the fact that May is now over and June has
arrived.

The last line of the stanza refers to the fact
that "he" (the speaker) is the type of man to notice that time was continuous. The man
would notice that May is moving on and that the present does not stay around for
long.

The speaker is reflecting on the fact of how others
perceive him after his death. This is notated by the use of the past
tense.

Basically, this stanza refers to the fact that the
man was cognative that life simply moved on with the change of the world around him.
Much like the delicate silk of the spider which typically goes unnoticed, time simply
passes.

According to Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs and Steel what is the defenition of food production?

Food production according to Jared
Diamond is the process of growing food by agriculture or
herding.

People until the last 11 millennia survived by
hunting wild animals and searching for edible plant products in the wild. This was a
very difficult task as food which we can consume is very difficult to obtain in the wild
and does not have enough of the nutrients that we
require.

When people started domesticating wild animals and
plants and ate the livestock and crops which were the result of doing this, they created
sources of food that were easy to obtain nutrients from and had enough of what was
required. This made the shift to food production one of primary reasons for the
development of groups of people around the world. Groups of people living in parts that
adopted this practice earlier were able to dominate those that did not do
so.

Given |a| = 2, |b| = 5, and |a-2b| = 7.5 Determine |a+b|a and b are vectors.

Let a be a vector such
that:

a = ti + uj

==> l
a l = sqrt(t^2 + u^2) = 2

==> t^2 + u^2 =
4...............(1)

b= xi +
yj

==> l b l = sqrt(x^2 + y^2) =
5

==> x^2 + y^2 =
25..............(2)

a- 2b = (ti+uj) - 2(
xi+yj)

a-2b = (t-2x)i +
(u-2y)j

==> l a-2b l = sqrt( t-2x)^2 + (u-2y)^2 =
7.5

==> t^2 - 4tx + 4x^2 + u^2 - 4uy + 4y^2 =
7.5^2

==> t^2 + u^2 + 4x^2 + 4y^2 - 4tx - 4uy =
7.5^2

==> (t^2 + u^2) + 4 (x^2 + y^2) - 4(tx+uy) =
7.5^2

==> 4 + 4*25 - 4 (tx + uy) =
7.5^2

==> 104  - 4(tx+uy)=
7.5^2

==> -4(tx+uy) =
-47.75

==> (tx+uy) =
11.9375............(3)

a+ b= ti + uj +
xi+yj

        = (t+x)i +
(u+y)j

==, l a+ b l = sqrt(t+x)^2 +
(u+y)^2

==> l a+bl = sqrt( t^2 + 2tx + x^2 + u^2 +
2uy + y^2)

==> l a+bl = sqrt( t^2+u^2 + u^2 + y^2 +
2tx+2uy)

==. l a+bl = sqrt( 4 + 25 +
2(tx+uy)

==> la+bl = sqrt( 29 +
2*11.9375)

==< la+bl =
sqrt(52.875)

==> l a+ bl =
7.272

What is the exposition in "The Most Dangerous Game"?

Exposition is a rhetorical
device used to provide background information about events and characters. In "The Most
Dangerous Game," author Richard Connell develops the exposition in the opening
paragraphs. We are told that Sanger Rainsford is a famous big game hunter and that he is
sailing to South America to hunt jaguars along the Amazon River. We discover that he has
little regard for the animals he kills, and that he believes they have no understanding
and feel no fear. A great deal of exposition centers around General Zaroff, primarily
during his talks with Rainsford at dinner. He tells Rainsford about his past life in
Russia, his military service, and his great love of hunting. We later find that Zaroff
has grown bored with hunting wild animals, and that this boredom has led him to hunt a
new, more dangerous game: human beings. Zaroff tells Rainsford about the men that he has
deliberately shipwrecked in order to use them as human prey. During his hunt of
Rainsford, we learn some of the tricks that Rainsford has learned during his career, and
he eventually uses them with some success.