What are the quotes supporting the good and bad reasons for George killing Lennie?Im making an essay about the desicion for George killing.......

The decision that George makes to kill Lennie is made so
that Lennie will not have to suffer the consequences of killing Curley's wife. Generally
Steinbeck gives the impression that this was the right thing to do. A clear signal for
this is the killing of Candy's old dog. The dog is described as 'no good to
himself' much as Lennie is incapable of looking after himself and staying out of
trouble. Lennie is often compared to an animal such as a bear suggesting that his
strength is dangerous and uncontrolled.

Slim also goes
along with the decision saying 'A guy got to sometimes' and we feel at the end that the
men will cover up what has happened to protect George. George feels that this is the
kinder thing to do as Lennie would not survive prison.          

How was the Roman government failing to meet the needs of the people?

Over the long course of Roman history, there were surely
many times when the Roman government failed to meet the needs of its people.  If you are
asking about one particular time period, please let us know so that we can give you an
answer that refers to that time period.

One of the
best-known times when the government failed to meet the needs of the people was at the
time just before the fall of the Republic.  During this time, the tremendous expansion
of Roman territory had led to a huge gap between rich and poor and a situation in which
many people felt that their rights were being abused by those who held political
power.

For example, during this time, the military was
becoming much more powerful.  Many military leaders demanded land that they could give
out as rewards to their troops.  Because the military had power and the common people
did not, land was often taken from the common people and given to the military.  This
led to a great deal of strife within Rome as poor people who had been dispossesed moved
into the city.  This strife eventually helped lead to the fall of the Roman
Republic.

This was one very important way in which the
Roman government failed to meet the needs of its people at a very important time in its
history.

In a U tube manometer, the height of water in one arm is 10.0 cm and the height of oil in the other arm is 20.0 cm. The density of water is 1.0....

The basic principle behind this problem is for the weight
of the oil and the weight of the water to be equal.  When the weights are equal, the
liquids are in static equilibrium and stop moving up and down in the tube.  If one knows
the weight then one can determine the mass and
density.

However the problem as stated does not provide
enough information to determine the mass directly because we do not know the volume of
the water or oil.  Therefore we must determine it
indirectly.

We will use a lower case 'w' to label the
variables associated with the water and a 'o' for the
oil.

Wo = Ww  so, MoXg = MwXg  where g is the acceleration
due to gravity.  We can cancel the g, so

Mo =
Mw

We can now use the definition of density to get an
expression for the masses:  D = M/V  which gives M = DV

Mo
= DoVo   and Mw = DwVw   Therefore

DoVo  =  DwVw  which
gives

Do = DwVw/Do

Volume of
the cylinder of water in the tube is given by V =
HxPiR^2

where H is the height of the liquid and R is the
radius of the tube.

So

Do  =
Dw (HwxPiR^2)/(HoxPiR^2)

The PiR^2 cancels out in
denominator and numerator leaving

Do = DwHw/Ho
 substituting values into the equation:

Do = 1.0g/cm^3 x
10cm/20cm

Do = 0.5 g/cm^3

The
density of the oil is half the density of the water.  This answer should "feel" right
considering the relationship between the heights of the liquids.

According to Mrs. Granger, how do words get their meanings and when do new words enter the language in Frindle?

Mrs. Granger says that words enter our
language when people begin using them, and their meaning comes from the
people.

When Nick gives his report on the
dictionary, he tries to distract Mrs. Granger by asking her where words come from.  He
does not get the answer he expects.

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We all agree … But of course, the dictionary was
worked on by hundreds of very smart people for many years, so as far as we are
concerned, that dictionary is the law. (ch 5, p.
31)

In an interview, Nick
tells Alice Lunderson that his teacher told him words get their meanings from
people.

“Well,
my teacher Mrs. Granger said that all the words in the dictionary were made up by
people, and they mean what they mean because we say they do.” (ch 12, p.
75)

Mrs. Granger’s lesson was
not lost on Nick.  He realizes that he can create his own word, and he does.  As a
result of his experiment, the whole school and then the whole town begins using the word
frindle, and soon it makes the national media and even enters the
dictionary.   

How has Mercutio's quote 'A plague on both your houses' predicted the future in ' Romeo and Juliet'?Explain and give evidence

Mercutio's quote "a plague o'er both your houses" predicts
future events in several ways.  For one thing, it highlights the consequences of the
feuding.  Of course, Mercutio probably wasn't the first and will not be the last to die
because of the bitter tension between the two families.  Mercutio's quote foreshadows a
continuing of aggressions.  While he doesn't know that Romeo has a reason to stop the
fighting, he sees the high price of the feuding.  Eventually, Romeo will kill Tybalt and
bring about his own exile.  The death of Mercutio marks the downturn of Romeo and
Juliet.  In the end, the plague of hatred destroys both houses and "heaven finds means
to kill your joys with love...all are punish'd."

Compare the responsibilities of renters and home owners.

In general the owners of single-family homes have fewer
legal responsibilities than renters do.  However, they have more financial
responsibilities.

Renters have entered into leases that
spell out their responsibilities.  They must generally, for example, maintain their
homes in a condition that is similar to that in which they found it.  For example, they
can typically be penalized if they cause damage to walls or if they leave an apartment
in a state in which the landlord deems that it needs to be cleaned.  Home owners have no
such legal responsibilities.  People who own their own homes can make holes in the walls
if they want to.  They do not need to have the home clean when they leave.  These are
things that are up to them.

However, owners have financial
responsibilities.  If the toilet breaks in an apartment, the landlord is generally
responsible for fixing it.  If you own your own home and the toilet breaks, you must pay
to fix it.  In other words, the financial responsibility for the upkeep of the home is
yours.

Where did Thomas Jefferson see the Indians as belonging in the nation?

In Thomas Jefferson's vision of America, Native Americans
needed to become "civilized" or be removed from the
scene.

On the one hand, Jefferson wanted to civilize the
Native Americans.  In his second inaugural address, for example, Jefferson sets out his
ideas about the fate of the Natives.  He says that

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...humanity enjoins us to teach them agriculture
and the domestic arts; to encourage them to that industry which alone can enable them to
maintain their place in
existence...

As this shows,
Jefferson had a vision in which the Native Americans would be helped to assimilate into
white society.  This was, to him, the only way that they could continue to exist in a
country where they had been overwhelmed by the numbers of white
settlers.

Jefferson believed that this was the only choice
for the Native Americans.  They could live as white people lived (and they should be
helped to do so) or they could leave the country.  As he said in href="http://www.adl.org/education/curriculum_connections/Excerpt_Jefferson1803.asp">this
letter to William Henry Harrison, who was then governor of the Indiana
Territory,

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...they will in time either incorporate with us
as citizens of the United States or remove beyond the
Mississippi...

To Jefferson,
Americans needed to be small farmers.  Native Americans could change to that way of life
or they could leave the country.  That was his vision for how Indians fit into the new
country.

How is this statement true in Lord of the Flies: "Throughout the novel, the boys undergo a transition"?

Taken as an allegory, William Golding's Lord of
the Flies traces the loss of innocence in the boys stranded on the island
that resembles a Garden of Eden.  Away from the corruption of society, some of the boys,
nevertheless,degenerate into savages and all the boys but Simon become
selfish. 

The innate evil and selfishness in man emerges in
such characters as Roger and Jack.  His arm conditioned by society, Roger's sadistic
nature is still controlled when little Henry in Chapter Four plays by the shore.  For,
Roger throws stones at him, but he aims them outside an imaginary circle around Henry. 
Later, however, he follows Ralph up the trail on the mountain and pounds the log on
which Ralph sits threateningly. In the final chapters, he beats Sam'n'Eric, forcing them
to join Jack's group, and he sharpens his spear on both ends when Ralph is forced to
hide in the undergrowth as Jack's savages hunt him.

Jack,
too, regresses to a savage as, like Satan in Milton's Paradise
Lost, he feels it is better "to reign in hell than serve in heaven." That is,
Jack would rather be the leader of the hunters than follow Ralph as leader.  He is,
thus, the dark force of the allegory, painting his face and descending further and
further into base savagery as he creates the ritual of enacting the killing of the sow
that eventually does kill Simon who emerges from the forest and the frenzied boys
bludgeon him to death.  At this point, the boys no longer listen to Ralph or to the
voice of reason, Piggy.  Even Piggy has lost sight of truth as he refuses to believe
that the savages were aware that they killed Simon.

In the
last chapter, irrationality has overtaken all the boys but Ralph and Piggy as they have
set fire to the entire island.  This "inferno" is only stopped by the intervention of
civilization--albeit flawed--in the form of the British naval officer who anchors his
war ship to come ashore and rescue Ralph and the others.

Would you puchase genetically modified seeds? why or why not? Give three reasons.As a farmer you corn crop has been affected for the past two years...

I would not purchase GMO seeds. I believe that GMO
organisms have a great potential to do harm. We now know that some GMO plants can href="http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100806/full/news.2010.393.html">escape from
cultivation and grow wild, which may have the potential to cause permanent
harm to ecosystems. As a farmer, I would want to maintain the ecosystem on and around my
farm in good health, because a healthy ecosystem stays in balance and is less likely to
experience large outbreaks of nuisance creatures like locusts and
rodents.

GMO organisms may harm the href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10937400306469"> digestive tracts of
the animals and humans who consume them, which would be an unethical way to
make a profit.

GMO organisms are href="http://www.jstor.org/pss/4222768">bad for the environment even if
they do not escape. Also, GMO crops are patented organisms, and once you have grown
them, if the genetics are found on your farm later on, you can be sued by the company
that owns the patent; hence once you have tried GMO organisms on your property, there is
no going back.

Organic farms are healthier, and people are
willing to pay more for organic crops. I would convert the farm to
organic.

What is the meter of Campion's "There is a Garden in Her Face?"

I've marked below, above the words of the first few lines,
the stress and rhyme pattern.. This process is known as "scanning" and it is how you
analyze poetic meter. I use - for a weak syllable and / for a strong syllable and | to
indicate foot divisions.

/        -  | -  /  | 
-   / | -    /                       A

There is |a Gar| den
in| her face,

-          /  | -     /   |   /      /  | 
-    /           B
Where Ro|ses and | white Lill| ies grow
;|

-       /   | -  /   | -  / | -   -      /
A
heau'n|ly par|adice| is that place,|             A

Wherein
all pleasant fruits doe flow.              B
There Cherries grow, which none
may buy     C
Till Cherry ripe themselues doe cry.              
C

The basic metrical pattern is iambic tetrameter, with an
average of 1 rhythmical variation per line (fairly typical of the period) oincluding
spondaic, trochaic, and anapestic substitution, with occasional use of ellision. The
stanzas are sestets, rhymed ababcc.

Did ancient Egyptains have to trade or did they trade only for pleasure items such as jewelry?

The ancient Egyptians traded with their foreign neighbors to obtain
rare, exotic goods not found in Egypt. In the Predynastic Period, they established trade
with Nubia to obtain gold and incense. In exchange for its luxury imports and raw
materials, Egypt mainly exported grain, gold, linen, and papyrus, in addition to other
finished goods including glass and stone objects.

The ancient
Egyptians prized the blue stone lapis lazuli, which had to be imported from far-away
Afghanistan.

Egypt's Mediterranean trade partners also included
Greece and Crete, which provided, among other goods, supplies of olive
oil.

Describe how being fit can help your cardiovascular system?

There are four basic elements of physical fitness:
cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, and flexibility. Each
can be measurably improved with regular exercise. But keep in mind that exercising to
build fitness is not the same thing as working out to improve athletic performance. To
be truly fit, you should develop all four elements, not just one or
two.

While each element is a part of being fit, the most
vital is cardiovascular endurance. Physiologically, cardiovascular endurance is the
sustained ability of the heart, blood vessels, and blood to carry oxygen to the cells,
the ability of the cells to process oxygen, and the ability of the blood, once again, to
carry away waste products. Since every cell in the body requires oxygen to function,
there is no more basic element of fitness than this - to see that the heart, lungs, and
circulatory system do their job.

Cardiovascular endurance is built up
through exercises that enhance the body's ability to deliver even larger amounts of
oxygen to working muscles. To achieve this, the exercise must utilize the large muscle
groups (such as those in the legs) and, most importantly, it must be sustained. With
regular aerobic exercise, your heart will eventually be able to pump more blood and thus
deliver more oxygen with greater efficiency. Moreover, your muscles will develop a
greater capacity to use this oxygen. This is part of what is called the aerobic
"training effect." Because your heart is stronger, it can pump more blood per beat, and
as a result your heart rate, both at rest and during exertions, will decrease. Your
heart will also acquire the ability to recover from the stress of exercise more
quickly.

How does Conrad create atmosphere and mood in "Heart of Darkness?"

Atmosphere and mood are highly subjective. For the
purposes of this answer, we will define Atmosphere as
sense of place and mood as sense of feeling.
Additionally, Heart of Darkness is about 40,000 words long,
so there are many, many examples throughout the text. One of each will be provided here,
which should inspire deeper
reading.

Atmosphere: For a
sense of place, the prose should be simple and direct. There is a
certain amount of license allowed for longer descriptions and metaphor; "purple prose"
is often seen in longer novels, but Conrad's prose is short and very
descriptive:

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"I avoided a vast artificial hole somebody had
been digging on the slope, the purpose of which I found it impossible to divine. It
wasn't a quarry or a sandpit, anyhow. It was just a hole. It might have been connected
with the philanthropic desire of giving the criminals something to do. I don't know.
Then I nearly fell into a very narrow ravine, almost no more than a scar in the
hillside. I discovered that a lot of imported drainage-pipes for the settlement had been
tumbled in there. There wasn't one that was not broken. It was a wanton
smash-up."

The jumbled pipes
in a narrow ravine, the artificial hole with no purpose; each of these is simply
described and solidly realized in the description. No extra words, no glorified
metaphor, just a couple of holes that Marlow almost falls into. They serve no higher
purpose in the story but they establish the terrain he is traveling and the activities
that may have happened there. We don't need to know the composition of the dirt, or if
the pipes are corrugated or smooth; the simple description is all we need to visualize
the place completely.

Mood:
For a sense of feeling, the license for metaphor is greater. Less
significance is placed on description and more placed on the feel generated by the
words. A feeling can be created using phrases that have little meaning in the larger
text:

"The
smell of mud, of primeval mud, by Jove! was in my nostrils, the high stillness of
primeval forest was before my eyes; there were shiny patches on the black creek. The
moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver -- over the rank grass, over the
mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation standing higher than the wall of a temple, over
the great river I could see through a sombre gap glittering, glittering, as it flowed
broadly by without a murmur. All this was great, expectant, mute, while the man jabbered
about himself."

A jungle,
thick and unfeeling, drenched with mold and moonlight,  yet completely silent while the
bricklayer talks. His words echo in the night, even reflecting off the silver moonlit
mud, and fill the silence as easily and uselessly as crickets or night-birds. This is
purely a sense of feeling, of words emptying in a cold impassive jungle, by a river that
flows eternally without care. Is the mud important in the text? Will it be a key part of
the climax? Does it matter when we have a sense of a bleak, entirely inhumane world
which simply doesn't care about a bricklayer's life story?

calculate the lateral surface area of the solids resulting from rotating the following curves about the x-axis f(x)=sinx on the open interval...

Use the formula:

S=Integral
2pi y ds, y=f(x)=sinx

S=Integral 2pi sin x
ds

Calculate ds
with:

ds=sqrt(1+(dy/dx)^2)

calculate
dy/dx=cosx => ds=sqrt(1+(cos x)^2)

Calculate
S:

S = Integral 2pi sin xsqrt(1+(cos x)^2)
dx

Let (cos x)=k=> (cos x)'=k' => -sin
x=dk/dx

S = -Integral 2pi sqrt(1+(k)^2) dk=-2pi Integral
sqrt(1+(k)^2)
dk

S=(-2pi/2)(ksqrt(1+(k)^2)+ln(k+sqrt(1+(k)^2)))

Do
the substitution k=cos x

S=pi(cos 0sqrt(1+(cos0)^2)+ln(cos
0+sqrt(1+(cos 0)^2)-cos (pi/2)sqrt(1+(cos(pi/2))^2)-ln(cos (pi/2)+sqrt(1+(cos
(pi/2))^2)))

S=pi(sqrt2+ln(1+sqrt2)-ln(0+sqrt1))

S=pi(sqrt2+ln(1+sqrt2)-ln(1))

S=pi(sqrt2+ln(1+sqrt2)-0)

S=pi(sqrt2+ln(1+sqrt2))

Answer:
the lateral surface of the solid of
revolution:S=pi(sqrt2+ln(1+sqrt2))

I need help with this introduction paragraph based on "The Scarlet Ibis." What are ways that I can improve it?What is the joy of having a...

Is this an introduction to an essay? If so, would you be
able to post the question? Anyway, just some general tips on essay
writing:

1. You need a thesis. A thesis is your
understanding of the question and what you believe to be the answer based on information
within your source/text. Eg. Simply put, for the question 'How does Richard's character
make an impact on the audience?' you may choose to say 'Through the characterisation of
Richard as a selfish and proud boy, The Scarlet Ibis highlights the importance of
gratitude and love within a family,' as a simple example. This makes up the first part
of the introduction to your essay. What point are you trying to make and what is the
purpose of your essay? More importantly, how are you going to answer your
question?

2. Briefly introduce the themes, values and ideas
that you wish to discuss in your essay. Basically sum up the points you will be
making.

3. Once you have done this, follow this simple
essay structure to explain the points you made in your intro: Point- what do you wish to
say in this paragraph, or 'the moral of the story', Evidence- include a quote which
highlights your point. (make sure you reference the technique present in this quote and
explain its effect), Explain- Explain how this effect and quote shows your point and
relate back to question always make sure that you sum it up to relate it back to your
question. (Are you answering the question?).(PEER)

Simplify (a^2b^0c)^0 x^-2y^3 3x^-2 n^2/n^-3

1.
Simplify `(a^2b^0c)^0`

Anything to raised to the zero is
equal to one, so the answer here is 1.

2.
Simplify `x^{-2}y^3`

We can write `x^{-2}` as
`frac{1}{x^2}` ,so this simplifies to `frac{y^3}{x^2}`

3.
Simplify `3x^{-2}`

Same strategry as in #2, this simplifies
to `3/x^2`

4. Simplify `n^2 /
n^(-3)`

Here we use the rule `x^a / x^b = x^(a-b)` , giving
us the simplified result `n^5`

What is Buck's response to Huck's as to how the feud started, and how does this relate to satire of the South in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

Let us not be blind to the way in which Mark Twain is
obviously poking fun at the South and their tendency to hold grudges for years, even
when the initial reason for the feud is long forgotten. Huck's conversation with Buck in
Chapter 18 is a hilarious satire on feuds and how ridiculous they truly are. Note how
Buck describes a feud to the ignorant Huck:

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...a feud is this way: A man has a quarrel with
another man, and kills him; then that other man's brother kill him; then the other
brothers, on both sides, goes for one another; then the cousins chip in--and by and by
everbody's killed off, and there ain't no more feud. But it's kind of slow, and takes a
long time.

The rather
nonchalant way in which Buck describes such a terrible process, only concluding to say
that it is "kind of slow," indicates that Twain is satirising this aspect of Southern
society. As if to emphasise this, note how Buck says that he has no idea of how the feud
actually started. People are still killing each other and hate each other for some
reason that is now long forgotten in the past.

What does "identify one or more insights from the text" mean?

Your instructor most likely wants you to find quotations
in the book or story you're reading and explain how they relate to a particular theme or
topic.

For example, if I asked my students to find
"insights from the text" in the novel Fahrenheit 451 (a story that investigates the
value of books) that reveal attitudes towards literature, I would expect my students to
quote passages from the book that relate to the value of literature, and then clearly
explain to me how these passages show the different characters' thoughts and values
pertaining to books and reading.

Explaining the
relationship between the quotation and the topic your instructor asks you to discuss is
key; just finding a quotation in the book won't show your instructor that you understand
the "insight" it gives to the topic.

What do we learn about the theme, not letting go of the past, using examples of not paying taxes to the new city board and not lettin go of her...

In Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," Emily's refusal to let
go of her past is analogous to the South's refusal to let go of its pre-Civil War glory.
 Using Emily, her house, and her compact with death as symbols for the South's morbid
denial, Faulkner shows that the Old South is a corrupt and decaying culture with many
skeletons in its closet.

Miss Emily is a victim of the
patriarchal and Southern debutante culture of the Antebellum South.  Her father was
aristocracy and paid no taxes; therefore, Miss Emily likewise refuses.  In her family's
eyes, taxes are paid to the North, and the South has had a long history of not paying
taxes or labor (slavery) to Washington bureaucrats.

Not
only does Emily want to hold on to her father's legacy and exemptions, but she wants to
hold on to his body--out of fear and denial.  She feels protected by the name and
reputation he affords her.  Why would she want to get married?  She is, effectively,
married to her father (a kind of Electra complex).

As a
Souther woman, however, Miss Emily knows she must get married; otherwise, she will
become an "old maid," the worst moniker afforded to a Southern Belle.  So, she marries
the antithesis of a Southern gentleman: Homer Baron, a Northerner who is gay.  She
marries him not to escape public rumor, but as a kind of revenge against the North and a
means to seclude herself from society.  Again, she hides behind the protection of the
male.  This time, however, she refuses to give up his
body.

So, just as the South was reluctant to give up its
institutions (slavery, agrarian culture, Southern belles, patriarchal aristocracy), so
too is Emily reluctant to cede her past.

In Frankenstein, please provide a character sketch of Henry Clerval.

We are first introduced to Henry Clerval in Chapter Two,
who is said to be the one friend that Victor Frankenstein made in his childhood. Note
how he is introduced:

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Henry Cleveral was the son of a merchant of
Geneva. He was a boy of singular talent and fancy. He loved enterprise, hardship, and
even danger, for its own sake. He was deeply read in books of chivalry and romance. He
composed heroic songs, and began to write many a tale of enchantment and knightly
adventure. He tried to make us act plays, and to enter into masquerades, in which the
characters were drawn from the heroes of Roncesvalles, of the Round Table of King
Arthur, and the chivalrous train who shed their blood to redeem the holy sepulchre from
the hands of the
infidels.

However, let us not
dismiss him as a mere romantic. As the novel progresses, we see again and again that his
main function lies in the way that he is juxtaposed to his friend's character. Henry is
a man of moderation who is able to balance his emotional and rational involvements. In
sharp contrast to Victor, Clerval's aspiration is "to become one among those whose names
are recorded in story as the gallant and adventurous benefactors of our species." Note,
too, how when Victor flees from his creation, it is Clerval who cares for Victor and
protects him, which is of course precisely what Victor was unable to do for his own
creation. Clerval is finally killed by the creature as part of his revenge for the way
in which his mate was killed by Victor.

Determine the flux through the top face and the left face of a cube of side 0.01m? The electric field where cube is placed is 10N/C.

Electric flux is a concept used in the field of
electromagnetism. Every electric field creates an electric flux that is proportional to
the electric field lines that go through a given
area.

Electric flux over an area S is equal to the integral
of E*dA over the entire surface area. Electric flux is expressed in the units
N*m^2/C

Here, the electric field is 10 N/C. As the electric
field is constant we can calculate the electric flux through the top face and the left
face by multiplying the electric field by the area of two
faces.

The electric flux through the top face is 10*0.01^2
= 10^-3 Nm^2/C

Similarly, the electric flux through the
left face is also 10^-3 Nm^2/C

How do the comparisons in lines 1, 14, 20, and 23-24 contribute to the effectiveness of "Dulce et Decorum Est"?

The comparisons you refer to are notable for the way that
they deliberately attempt to present war in an incredibly brutal and realistic way.
Given the title, and its presentation of soldiers, we automatically summon up an image
of smart soldiers in their uniform marching together and bravely fighting. The image in
line 1 therefore deliberately contradicts our expectations by presents the soldiers as
being "like old beggars under sacks." There are no smart, young, brave soldiers here,
but only men who have been prematurely aged by their
experiences.

The image in line 14, when the speaker sees
his fellow soldier "drowning" through the gas mask likewise challenges our expectations
of soldiers. We expect soldiers to meet their deaths in battle fighting against the
enemy, but here we see the speaker's friend dying ignomoniously away from the from the
front line by a gas attack, and "drowning" rather than dying in hand to hand
combat.

In line 20, we are given an incredibly grim image
of the corpse as "the hanging face" is described as being "like a devil's sick of sin."
No noble, glorious death for this soldier, only a death that horrendously disfigures his
body with his sufferings.

Lastly lines 23-24 emphasise the
pain and agony that this dead soldier endured by focusing on how terrible his death
was:

Obscene
as cancer, bitter as the cud

Of vile, incurable sores on
innocent tongues--

All of
these images are therefore alike in the way that they profoundly challenge our ideas and
expectations of soldiers and battle, presenting it as a terrible, dehumanising and
demeaning experience involving tremendous suffering and no glory whatsoever. This of
course supports the main message of this excellent poem.

How can Macbeth can be a hero as well as a villain?Character of Macbeth......

Shakespeare was, of course, not acquainted with the
psychiatric terms "Disssociative Identity Disorder" or "Multiple Personality Disorder,"
commonly called "split personality," but he must have been familiar with its symptoms in
the Elizabethan English population. Macbeth can be both a hero and a villain because he
acquires more than one identity. He is the loyal Thane of Glamis, and he inherits the
mantle of the treasonous Thane of Cawdor. As Cawdor he commits the murder of Duncan and
schemes against Malcolm and Donalbain; and as Cawdor he orders the murders of Banquo and
Fleance and later of Macduff’s wife and children. By inheriting Cawdor’s title, he has
also inherited his wicked character. Significantly, Macbeth says at the end of Act 2,
Scene 3:

To
know my deed ‘twere best not know
myself.

His trances, his
depression, and hallucinations are all symptoms of Dissociative Identity
Disorder.

Like Dr. Jekyll in Robert Louis Stevenson’s
story, Macbeth cannot cope with both identities. Becoming Thane of Cawdor leads directly
to his becoming King of Scotland, and this is far more than Macbeth can handle. His
misrule of his kingdom, which we only know of by report, sounds like the behavior of a
lunatic king.

How was W. E. B. DuBois a social/political activist? What were his views of education?

W. E. B. Du Bois was a social and political activist in
several different ways and had very pronounced views about education.  Du Bois became
especially active socially and politically after serving as a teacher of poor African
Americans in the rural south. One of his most important academic accomplishments was a
detailed study of the lives of black people living in Philadelphia at the very end of
the nineteenth century. This work, like so many of his writings, was designed not simply
to call attention to problems but to suggest solutions to
them.

As he grew older and had more personal experiences
with racism, Du Bois became an increasingly outspoken advocate of political and social
responses to racial discrimination. He also became increasingly disenchanted with the
ideas of Booker T. Washington, who had achieved great prominence by arguing that African
Americans needed to find ways to cooperate with whites and who particularly advocated
the need for practical education for black people rather than the more traditional
education in the liberal arts to which whites were exposed.  Du Bois argued, instead,
that black people should have as wide and as varied opportunities for education as
whites, depending on their individual interests and
talents.

As a scholar, journalist, editor, and political
activist, Du Bois sought to make African Americans fully equal citizens of the United
States, especially at the ballot box.  He was vigorously involved in the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He fought lynching and became
increasingly interested in improving the lives not only of African Americans but of
Africans as well. By the end of his life his thinking had become increasingly associated
with the left wing of American politics.

Regarding
education, Du Bois believed that all people should have access to the kind of learning
that best fitted their interests and capacities.  Thus he criticized people such as
Washington for forgetting

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the rule of inequality: – that of the million
black youth, some were fitted to know and some to dig; that some had the talent and
capacity of university men, and some the talent and capacity of blacksmiths; and that
true training meant neither that all should be college men nor all artisans, but that
the one should be made a missionary of culture to an untaught people, and the other a
free workman among serfs.  And to seek to make the blacksmith a scholar is almost as
silly as the more modern one of making the scholar a blacksmith; almost, but not quite. 
(The Souls of Black
Folk)

According to
Du Bois,

the
function of the Negro college . . . is clear: it must maintain the standards of popular
education, it must seek the social regeneration of the Negro, and it must help in the
solution of problems of race contact and co-operation. (The Souls of Black
Folks)

Throughout
his life, Du Bois refused to accept any limitations on the rights and opportunities that
should be available to black people, both in the United States and throughout the
world.

In Chapter 10 of To Kill a Mockingbird, why does Jem say that Atticus is a gentleman?

At the beginning of Chapter 10, Scout and Jem think of
Atticus as "feeble." An older man than most of their schoolmates'
parents,

Our
father didn't do
anything.

The children soon
found out differently. When Tim Johnson, the mad dog, came ambling down the road, it was
Atticus who Sheriff Tate called upon to take the shot that killed the dog. Jem and Scout
soon learned that Atticus had been known as "Ol' One Shot" when he was younger--the best
marksman in the county. They were amazed that Atticus had never bragged about this
talent before, but Miss Maudie lectured them that

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"... he's civilized in his heart. Marksmanship's
a gift of God, a talent... People in their right minds never take pride in their
talents..."

Jem understood
this lesson in humility, and when Scout told him she couldn't wait to tell her friends
at school, he told her not to "say anything about it." Although Scout was too young to
understand, Jem recognized that Atticus' humble and gentle nature was the mark of a true
gentleman. It was a trait of which Jem could be proud, and one that he wanted to emulate
himself. That's why he said

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"Atticus is a gentleman, just like
me."

Who was most responsible for the problems that Jamestown settlers faced: the company directors in London, or the leaders in Virginia?

The main responsibility for the problems of the Jamestown
settlement had to do with the way the colony was imagined, not with the way that it was
run once it was set up in Virginia.  Therefore, the fault is more with the company
directors.

The company directors assumed that the settlers
would be able to find a labor force among the natives.  They expected to make money by
trading with those natives, using them as workers to produce goods, and by extracting
precious metals from the earth.  None of these things turned out to be possible.  The
colony suffered mainly because of this.  The strong leadership of John Smith (though he
had flaws) was what kept the settlement together until a different economic model could
be devised.

In Mockingjay, why did President Snow leave Katniss the white rose?

There are multiple instances where Suzanne Collins uses
the symbolism of the white rose. The imagery surrounding the rose in this book is
incredibly vivid and telling of Snow's true character. Remember, Snow masks the smell of
blood from the sores in his throat with these roses in his
lapel.

The roses are genetically altered, there is nothing
natural about them. It is a common theme in these novels that things that are unnatural
are bad (muttations, people in the capitol's skin color, makeup etc, the colors of the
buildings in the capitol) and that natural things are innocent and beautiful (Rue, the
various districts specialities, etc). It is interesting that Snow does not cultivate a
natural flower but rather a genetically altered one that has a "perfect"
scent.

It is after examining the connotations that these
Roses embody that we can figure out why Snow decides to leave her a rose in her home
after the bombing. In Mockingjay, Katniss returns to her home in
District 12 after the bombing and while everything is in ruins, she can still smell the
white rose upstairs in her old bedroom. The rose is in this case is a symbol of his
power and his omnipresence. He is not just in the capitol controlling Peeta's torture,
but he also is able to emotionally torture Katniss all the way out in District
13.

Snow therefore gives Katniss the rose to show her that
he is still has the power to unsettle her just as he has throughout the entire triology.
She still has not found safety and stability after leaving the core of Panem and living
in District 13. She will not be able to find safety until Snow is done in
altogether.

What is Bel Kaufman's universal truth in "Sunday in the Park?"

In Bel Kaufman's "Sunday in the Park," there are probably
several universal truths or themes. Literature speaks to different people in many ways,
depending upon each person's individual experiences.

Common
themes might be that everyone is different. Another might be that children learn from
their parents. However, the universal truth (or theme) that resonates most with me is
"there are no perfect solutions in an imperfect world."

A
woman sits in the park with her family—her husband Morton and their son Larry. Another
boy is aggressive, throwing sand at Larry. At first Larry (like his father) takes no
notice. The mother corrects the other little boy. Despite her warning, the other child
throws sand again, and this time a dispute develops between the other child's father and
the mother. The stranger announces that the park is a public place; therefore, his son
can do as he pleases. The mother, frustrated because reason does not change the man's
mind, turns to her husband who has been reading the paper. Morton stands up to speak to
the other father finding—as his wife had before him—that not only will the other
man not be reasoned with, but that now he is
ready to settle the argument with a physical
fight.

The mother becomes fearful, trying to find a way
avert what seems to be an impending altercation of fists. As Morton tries to deal with
the man in a reasonable manner one more time, "I must ask you...," the other responds
with a bully's cliché:

You and
who else?

Words will
obviously not work, as Morton sees it, so instead of standing his ground (because he
does not want to get into a fist fight), he packs things up, gathers together his wife
and child, and walks away.

The mother, who had originally
despaired that the men might start beating each other, is now
disappointed in her husband, and angry. She is thankful that there was no fight, but she
is bothered because her husband backed down.

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Always before she has been proud of her husband's
and her son's sensitivity and
delicateness.

At this point
in time—and we cannot be certain why—her husband's peaceful resolution to the problem
does not satisfy her but leaves her feeling "beaten" or "defeated."

The mother does value peace: the peace of the day in the
park, as well as the wish for a peaceful resolution between the two men over the other
child's behavior. At the same time, however, the mother is not satisfied with her
husband's benign behavior. Perhaps she is upset as a mother because her son was bullied
and her husband did nothing. Perhaps she realizes that a peaceful resolution is
attainable only under certain circumstances—not when her child's comfort or safety is at
stake.

However, what most upsets the mother is that
Morton's frustration with the confrontation causes him to turn on
his son in anger, threatening the same violence toward the little
boy for crying, that the stranger threatened him with. He tells his
wife that if she cannot successfully "control" Larry, he will do it for her. His wife
turns to him and says:

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Indeed?...You and who
else?

There is a time for
peace. However, as the mother learns by watching her husband wrestle with his sense of
impotence, and then by experiencing a need to fight back personally, she realizes that
not all conflicts respond to peaceful negotiation. The ideals we hope and work for
sometimes have no place in the real world. At the end, her anger
makes her threaten her husband for her child's sake.

aluminum foil laminates are used in food packaging which contain chlorine dioxide disinfectant. Will the chlorine dioxide attack or oxidize the...

Aluminum is a not a very stable elements and reacts with
substances like steam, oxygen at slightly elevated temperatures and dilute and
concentrated acids.

Chlorine dioxide is a very efficient
disinfectant of water and this leads to its many applications in disinfecting food
products.

Aluminum reacts with chlorine dioxide to form
aluminum chlorite:

Al + 3 ClO2 -->
Al(ClO2)3

This reaction corrodes aluminum and acidic
conditions and high concentrations increase the rate of reaction. Plastics are not
affected by chlorine dioxide.

Some substances that can
react with chlorine dioxide to reduce it to chloride ions are borohydrates, highly
concentrated iodide, sulphurous acid, ferrous chloride manganese and vitamin C. It may
not be possible, though, to use many of these chemicals in food
products.

In The Joy Luck Club, what prevents Jing-Mei from embracing her identity and how does she overcome this?

Throughout most of the novel, Jing-Mei is the character
who struggles most with accepting and incorporating her Chinese identity into who she is
as an adult. This is of course mostly due to the unrelenting pressue which her mother
caused her to live with. Her mother's idea that Jing-Mei could be a prodigy and the way
that she forces her to do things that Jing-Mei herself does not want to do, such as take
piano classes, leaves Jing-Mei feeling inadequate and like a failure. In addition,
Jing-Mei is constantly being compared by others, unfavourably, to Waverly, who is
tremendously successful at everything she turns her hand to. Consider the following
account from Jing-Mei about how she failed her mother after her disastrous piano
recital:

It
was not the only disappointment my mother felt in me. In the years that followed, I
failed her so many times, each time asserting my own will, my right to fall short of
expectations. I didn't get straight A's. I didn't become class president. I didn't get
into Stanford. I dropped out of
college.

This sense of being
a failure expresses itself in her rejection of her Chinese heritage. In particular, she
views the Joy Luck Club as being "a shameful Chinese custom." What changes this view is
when Jing-Mei joins the club and replaces her mother. She realises the richness of her
Chinese heritage and understands the desperate struggle of the Chinese mothers to ensure
that their Chinese heritage is not forgotten, and this suddenly fills her with purpose
and finds a new confidence and self-respect for herself. This change in her character,
and her ability to embrace her identity, is cemented when she goes back to China to meet
her half-sisters for the first time.

How is the theme of conflict portrayed in the Prologue of Act III in Henry V?

The theme of conflict in this rousing speech by the Chorus
is mostly related to the way that the English army is depicted and how its might and
bravery is contrasted with the French army in this speech. We are given a vision of an
England stripped bear of every able-bodied man that is able to fight, as all are swept
up in a patriotic frenzy by Henry's call to war and gleefully leave their homes to fight
for Henry. When we arrive at the siege of Harfleur, we are given a picture of the way
that the siege engines are said to have their "fatal mouths gaping" on Harfleur, which
clearly presents the English as being the superior force that is able to crush the
French in their wake. Consider the way that conflict is presented in the following
quote:

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Suppose the ambassador from the French comes
back;

Tells Harry that the king doth offer
him

Katherine his daughter, and with her, to
dowry,

Some petty and unprofitable
dukedoms.

The offer likes not: and the nimble
gunner

With linstock now the devilish cannon
touches...

The French are
presented in this quote as being insulting, deliberately offering Henry "petty and
unprofitable dukedoms." Conflict is the immediate response to this paltry and insulting
treaty, as Henry responds with immediate force and violence that shows that conflict is
a means of getting what you want from those who oppose you.

Describe what happened in the early months of World War I, on the Western Front in 1914, before it devolved into trench warfare.

At the start of the war, the Germans implemented the
Schlieffen Plan.  They fought through Belgium quickly (they had hoped to be allowed free
passage but were not) and then hit France.  In the meantime, the French were attacking
into Alsace-Lorraine in the South, they had initial success but were then thrown back by
counterattacks.

The French, by then joined by the British
Expeditionary Force, then concentrated their power in the north to try to stop the
German attack that had come in through Belgium and the Ardennes.  They were slowly
pushed back, but at that point, it became clear that the Schlieffen Plan would not work
as implemented.  The Germans had not put enough manpower into their attack and their
supply lines were stretched and vulnerable.

Once the
initial German thrust was stopped, the "race to the sea" ensued.  In this process, each
army tried to get around the other's flank and advance.  This series of flanking
maneuvers ended when the armies got near the sea (at the First Battle of Ypres) and
winter set in.

From there, things devolved into trench
warfare.

What were the major problems did the new American government under George Washington's administration face?Establishment of the new american...

There were many problems faced by the new American
government.  I will mention two that were very
important.

The first of these was a domestic problem.  This
was getting the states to be happy in the new system where they had so much less power
than they had had under the Articles of Confederation.  A crisis in this regard came in
the Whiskey Rebellion.  This was an incident in which some people in a state rebelled
because they did not like being taxed by the national government.  Washington had to
overcome these sorts of opinions to create a true
nation.

The second was a foreign policy problem.  After the
French Revolution, France and Great Britain came into conflict with one another.  The US
had to decide what stance to take with regard to this conflict.  The conflict led to
dissension within the US and to dangerous decisions that had to be made so as not to
antagonize either France or Britain, both of which were much stronger than the infant
US.

In 'Games at Twilight', how is the interaction among the children from a social theory perspective?Analyse the interaction among the children from...

Social theory, otherwise known as Sociological
Perspective, systematically examines social behaviors and social groups. Originating
during the enlightenment period, this theory examined the self regarding spiritual
insight. This also examined how people interacted within a
group.

In regards to Anita Desai's story "Games at
Twilight", one could examine the treatment of Ravi by his older siblings. The older
siblings continuously tell Ravi that he is a baby. This tends to damage his own personal
understanding, or lack of understanding, of who he is (enlightenment). Ravi feels
inferior and lacks satisfaction with his life. Given his insecurities, one could justify
that the story examines his life through a Sociological perspective's
lens.

Ravi's escape into the dark garage supports the fact
that he does not feel as if he can be a true part of the group (examination of social
groups within a society--Ravi's family). Given that, in the end, he removes himself from
children's play all together, he admits that he has no place in the social group of his
family.

What is the theme of Gail Godwin's short story "A Sorrowful Woman"?

Gail Godwin’s short story “A Sorrowful Woman” deals with a
number of themes, including the
following:

• ambivalent
  feelings, as the opening two sentences suggest:


• One
  winter evening she looked at them: the husband durable, receptive, gentle; the child a
  tender golden three. The sight of them made her so sad and sick she did not want to see
  them ever again.


• cooperation in marriage, as the second
  paragraph suggests.


• the tensions that can result from
  being a mother and wife, as the third paragraph implies.
  


• the comfort of having an understanding spouse, as the
  fourth paragraph suggests.


• the idea that parenthood is
  not entirely pleasurable, as the fifth paragraph suggests.
  


• the wife’s growing lack of control, which is contrasted
  with the husband’s consistent calmness and adaptability (as the seventh paragraph
  implies).


• the contrast between the moods and
  personalities of the hired girl, the father, and the child (on the one hand) and those
  of the mother (on the other hand).


• the mother’s growing
  impetuousness and (self-) destructive behavior, as when she fires the young nanny.
  


• the exceptional devotion of the man, both as a husband
  and as a father, as suggested by his behavior after the nanny is fired.
  


• the consolations (but perhaps also the escapism)
  provided by art, as when the woman’s reading and writing are described.
  


• the increasingly odd behavior of the woman (which
  creates growing suspense), as when she no longer wants to see her own child and
  husband.


• The even more odd behavior of the woman when she
  engages in a flurry of activity just before apparently committing
  suicide.
  

The
absence of commentary by the narrator (aside from the opening epigraph, which may imply
sympathy for the woman) makes it difficult to know how to respond to this story. Is it
simply a slice of one particular family’s life? Does it suggest some larger meaning
about life in general? Should we feel sympathetic toward the mother? Is she genuinely
sick? If so, why did neither she nor the husband seek professional help for her? (He
doesn’t seem surprised by her apparent suicide.) Is the woman simply selfish, or can she
truly not help herself? These are the kinds of questions the story might raise in the
minds of some readers, and raising questions – rather than answering them – seems to be
the story’s main effect. Many will find it difficult to feel much sympathy for this
woman, but perhaps we are meant to question such a reaction. If there is a larger theme
to this story, perhaps it is “the mystery of life.”

By the
way, a story worth comparing and contrasting with this one is “The Yellow Wallpaper,” by
Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

What are 5 symbols of Atticus Finch and why are these symbols?Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

The moral voice of To Kill a
Mockingbird, Atticus Finch possesses many sterling qualities that are
displayed throughout the novel.  While there are many qualities that render themselves
to symbolic representation, here are a few
suggestions

1. the
   finch- Since this is the surname of Atticus, this little bird must be
   used by Harper Lee for good reason.  He is a community bird, for one thing; Atticus,
   too, certainly has a strong sense of community as he always tries to maintain amicable
   relations with his neighbors and townspeople.  Also, the little bird possesses a gentle
   personality just as Atticus does.  Whenever there is conflict, Atticus calmly explains
   what is right to the children.
   


2. spectacles/eyeglasses -
   Atticus is known for having a bad eye, yet he can still shoot well.  He compensates for
   his weak eyesight by understanding that he must "climb into the skin" of others in order
   to be objective about them.


3. the Mobile
   Register - Atticus is a very literate man who teaches his children so
   subtly that they do not even realize they are learning.  Miss Caroline is upset that her
   father has already taught her to read, but Scout does not know when he has done so; she
   believes that she just picked up the paper one day and read.  In addition, this
   newspaper can symbolize Atticus as he is very civic and extends his horizons beyond
   Maycomb.


4. the
   courthouse/courtroom-  As a lawyer and representative of Maycomb, Atticus
   strives to be fair to all.  He defends the rights of the oppressed Tom Robinson because
   he does not want his children to grow up with the "usual disease" of
   Maycomb.


5. a three-pieced pinstriped
   suit- Always a gentleman, Atticus is well-bred and kind.  In the film
   version of the novel, he is always portrayed as wearing his
   suits.

What is an excerpt of imagery in the book "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles?

There is very little in the text of A Separate
Peace that is not imagery of one sort or another. Knowles carefully crafted
his words to build and reinforce the themes contained in his story at every
opportunity.

When some of the boys from Devon volunteer to
shovel out the railroad yard, the effort is approached in their minds at first as a
working holiday - an opportunity to make some money while helping the "war effort" that
was immortalized as being "a bore." Upon arriving at the railroad yard, however, they
discovered not pristine white snow but "drab and sooted, wet and heavy" snow that
quickly became exhausting to shovel. When the first train was finally able to travel
through the newly cleared tracks, the boys prepared to celebrate their victory over the
snow with the passengers on the train.

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It was a troop train....They were not much older
than we were and although probably just recruits, they gave the impression of being an
elite as they were carried past our drab ranks. They seemed to be having a wonderful
time, their uniforms looked new and good; they were clean and energetic; they were going
places.

The contrast between
the students, grimy and sweaty in their safe school existence, and the soldiers, looking
rested and crisp in clean clothes as they headed off to war, creates an image that
reflects the contrast between the peace of Devon and the war that is highlighted
throughout the book.

Why is Jane imprisoned in the attic in the first place?

The woman in "The Yellow Wallpaper" is suffering from
post-partum depression.  At that time, the treatments for things like depression were
very different from what we have today.  Women were often prescribed bed rest, quiet,
and solitude to help them recover.  Sometimes, women were even asked to eat animal fats
and drink strange (by today's standards) concoctions.  The doctor for the woman in the
story thinks she will get better if she avoids mental simulation like reading or
writing.  Of course, we now know that staying in bed and having no distractions but
thinking are not the most helpful things for depressed patients.  The woman's husband
and her doctor persist in this line of supposed treatment until the woman basically goes
insane.

What happened to Mariam after Laila, Tariq and their two children left for Pakistan in A Thousand Splendid Suns?

After the brutal battle that results in Mariam killing
Rasheed with a shovel,

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... she needed the night to think things over...
and devise a plan.
     "There is a way," she said, "and I just have to find
it."

Though Laila believes
that they all must leave immediately, Mariam realizes that there is little chance they
can escape the authorities for long. If Laila and Tariq are also caught, they, too, will
be blamed for Rasheed's death. So, Mariam decides to make the supreme sacrifice: She
will take full blame for the murder, allowing the others to escape. Mariam is eventually
imprisoned, tried and found guilty, and sentenced to death. She meets her end at Kabul's
Ghazi Stadium as part of the horrible halftime show of the soccer match (reminiscent of
a scene in the author's previous novel, The Kite Runner). She is
made to kneel near the south goalpost, and a Taliban man ends her life with a bullet to
the back of the head. 

Please describe Hareton Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights.

The first time we meet Hareton Earnshaw is in Chapter Two,
when Lockwood decides to take his second ill-advised visit to Wuthering Heights. Let us
remember that Hareton is the soon of Hindley Earnshaw and his wife, who dies soon after
his birth. He has been left to be brought up by his dissolute and drunken father and
then by Heathcliff, who has delighted in treating Hareton in the same way that he was
treated by Hindley as a child. Heathcliff has therefore taken away his birthright from
him and also deprived him of the education that his position in society demanded,
leaving him to grow up to be a rough, uncouth young man. Note how he is described in
Chapter Two:

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Meanwhile, the young man had slung on to his
person a decidedly shabby upper garment, and, erecting himself before the blaze, looked
down on me from the corner of his eyes, for all the world as if there were some mortal
feud unavenged between us. I began to doubt whether he were a servant or not: his dress
and speech were both rude, entirely devoid of the superiority observable in Mr. and Mrs.
Heathcliff; hs thick brown curls were rough and uncultivated, his whiskers encroached
bearishly over his cheeks, and his hands were embrowned like those of a common labourer:
still his bearing was free, amost haughty, and he showed none of a domestic's assiduity
in attention on the lady of the
house.

So, when we are first
introduced to Hareton, just as when Cathy is first introduced to her cousin, his status
is rather confusing, as he appears to be a common man but there is something about his
bearing and attitude that does not fit this station in life. Of course, as the novel
develops, we discover that Hareton's attitude is something that changes, and his love
for Cathy is the principal vehicle that is responsible for that change, until, in the
final chapter, we are introduced to him as a handsome young man who is quite clearly a
gentleman.

In Fahrenheit 451, what two important conclusions does Montag reach immediately following the incident with the old woman who decides to die with...

After the old woman burns to death with her books, Montag
returns home with one of her books that "fell into his hands." He sees this not as an
act of theft, but of something his hands themselves did without his conscious
instruction. He speaks with his wife and experiences fear and
doubt.

The first important conclusion Montag reaches is
that he feels no substantial connection to his wife. She goes to the bathroom and takes
sleeping pills, and he tries to think of what he would do if she died. He comes to the
conclusion that he would not weep, because she and he are not truly connected. This in
itself, coupled with her complete dispassion over their neighbor's death, brings him to
tears.

The second important conclusion Montag reaches is
that books are not simply a collection of words on paper, but the physical
representation of the writer's life and experiences. Instead of being inanimate objects,
powerful only to those who read, they are the equivalent of a person's life, distilled
into a form one can hold, lend, and experience more than once. This revelation, compared
with the intangible TV walls and short attention spans of the world's inhabitants,
brings him to wonder if there is any underlying truth in the rest of the
world.

What is the climax of "There Will Come Soft Rains"?

"There Will Come Soft Rains" is a science fiction short
story by Ray Bradbury whose title is taken from a poem of the same name by Sara
Teasdale. The story tells of the nuclear destruction of Allendale, California and a
single house which stands shortly after the debacle. The house is automated: It calls
out the time of the day, prepares food for the inhabitants (now dead), and has robotic
devices which clean the home. The climax of the story comes when the house, which has
survived the nuclear blast, is accidentally set ablaze when a falling tree limb breaks
through a window, knocking over a flammable solvent. The house tries to save itself,
automatically shutting windows and setting off water sprinklers, but nature's fury
proves too powerful for the human technology inside.

Compose a Topic Sentence (with 3 Characteristics) about "Your Most Embarrasing Moment"umm is for english class i cant think of any i need some help...

I think that this is a really hard question to pose. Given
that your teacher is wanting something personal from you, it would be difficult (if not
impossible) for another person to create a thesis statement which speaks to you--someone
unknown to them.

That being said, a thesis statement (or
topic sentence) is a sentence which introduces the topic of an essay (or paragraph).
What your teacher is needing for this assignment is a sentence which describes three
reasons why your most embarrassing moment was your most embarrassing
moment.

Therefore, say your most embarrassing moment was
walking out of your bedroom to grab something to eat and your brother's friends were
over. You have no make-up on, your hair is in a towel, and your shirt has holes in
it.

The topic sentence would look something like this: My
most embarrassing moment happened when I walked out of my bedroom with no make-up, a
towel on my head, and ratty clothes on only to find my brother and his friends staring
at me.

If you have never had any embarrassing moments, make
one up. Think about something that would embarrass you and simply create a
moment.

Is there a significance in the way Beelzebub and Satan refer to God in Milton's Paradise Lost, Book 1?

There is an interesting difference between the way in
which Satan refers to God and the way in which Beelzebub, his second-in-command refers
to God. Let us look at the beginning of their conversation to show this. Satan opens
refering to God as "the potent Victor in his rage" and then only goes on to refer to him
as "him," refusing to name him or give him the respect that it his due. Note the
following example:

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To bow and sue for
grace

With suppliant knee, and deify his
power

Who from the terror of this arm so
late

Doubted his empire, that were low
indeed...

It is as if Satan
continues in his rejection of God after the failure of his rebellion. He refuses to
acknowledge the power and authority that God has and has amply demonstrated through his
victory over Satan.

However, by contrast, Beelzebub clearly
seems to recognise the authority of God, as he refers to God as being "Heave'n's
perpetual King" and tells his "Prince" that God has shown himself to be supreme through
his victory:

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But what if he our Conqueror, (whom I
now

Of force believe Almighty, since no
less

Than such could have o'erpow'red such force as
ours)...

Beelzebub clearly
regards God in a different way, that reflects his understanding of his new position and
the way in which he and his fellow angels were vanquished by God's
angels.

Is ionisation of acids and bases in water is a decomposition reaction?

No it is not.

A decomposition
reaction is one in which the products on the right side of the chemical equation are
different than the reactant on the right side of the chemical equation. There is a
chemical difference between the reactants and products. In addition, a key factor in
recognizing a decomposition reaction is that there are more products than
reactants.

An example of a decomposition reaction is the
breakdown of water into hydrogen and oxygen.  2 HOH -->  2 H2  +
O2.

Another example is the breakdown of potassium chlorate
into potassium chloride and oxygen.   2 KClO3  -->  2 KCl  + 3
O2

In the ionization process, a compound is added to water
and the water separates the positive and negative ions in the compound.  This is a
physical separation and when the water is removed you still have the same compound you
started with.

Why does gas escape when a bottle of ginger ale is opened?

Ginger ale is a beverage that generally contains as its
ingredients ginger, sugar and carbonated water. Some brads of ginger ale may also
contain other spices or fruits to impart a unique
flavor.

Carbonated water contains carbon dioxide dissolved
in water. At normal pressures the solubility of gases in water is very low. To dissolve
gases in water, the pressure that is relevant is that just above the liquid surface. At
high pressures, the gas molecules are pushed into the water and forced to remain
dissolved. When the pressure is decreased the molecules escape from
water.

A bottle of ginger ale is tightly sealed and has a
very high pressure inside which forces the carbon dioxide gas to remain dissolved. When
the bottle is opened, there is sudden drop is pressure. This makes the carbon dioxide
escape in the form of a foam that is seen when bottles containing carbonated drinks are
opened.

Suppose a firm that manufactures aluminium is emitting large amounts of pollution into the air. Suggest ways in which the government can deal with...

One way that the government could deal with this would be
to simply mandate that the company reduce its emissions of the pollutants to a given
level that the government feels is acceptable.  The company would then be free to
determine how it wished to go about reducing the
emissions.

Second, the government could decide exactly how
it wanted the pollution to be reduced.  It could then order that the company take those
particular steps.  In this case, the company's role would be to install whatever
equipment the government told them to install.

Finally, the
government could require the company to pay for the estimated costs of the pollution. 
This would mean that the true price of the aluminum would be accounted for because the
company's costs would go up (there would no longer be externalities).  The company would
then determine whether it was more practical to continue to pay for the costs of the
pollution or to take steps on its own to reduce it.

how do you solve for x in this type of equation 5= 200/4x or A=B/CX I am confused because the X is not alone

Well AtTom'sRiver, x doesn't need to
be alone.  In the placeholder equation
A=B/Cx,
A, B, and C are holding the place of numbers.  So, let's look at the placeholder
equation and then we'll substitute it with the first equation:
5=200/4x.

A
= B/Cx

A and B are constants, and C is a coefficient of
x.

A(Cx) = B(Cx)/Cx

To get rid
of the denominator (division), we multiply (the opposite of division) both sides of the
equal sign by Cx.

A(Cx) = B

On
the right side of the equal sign, Cx in the numerator cancels with the Cx in the
denominator.  On the left side of the equal sign, Cx is multiplied by A, because what
you do on one side you must do to other side.

ACx =
B

Carry out the multiplication of the constant A and the
coefficient C.  Now, we'll want to isolate the variable
x.

ACx/AC = B/AC

To get rid of
the coefficient AC, divide both sides of the equal sign by
AC.

x = B/AC

This is what we
are left with!  Now here is the substitution:

A=5; B=200;
C=4

x = 200/(5)(4)

x =
200/20

x = 10

What minor characters contribute to Owen and John's lives throughout the narrative?

In John Irving's quirky novel A Prayer for Owne Meany, the
novel moves throughout time, but there is prevalent through this time, the spectre of
John's mother whom Ownen accidentally kills with a foul ball that he hit while playing
little league baseball.  This death, of course, affects the relationship between John,
the narrator, and Owen.

John's mother's presence in the
novel leads to two key motifs:  the dressmaker's dummy that she has kept in her bedroom
and the red dress that she bought on one of her trips to Boston where she took singing
lessons.  In addition, Owen has had a dream when he went to Tabitha's bedroom once that
he saw an angel; later, he tells John that because this angel was interrupted by his
presence, it brought death to John's mother with Owen as its
agent.

Another character who influences the lives of John
and Owen is John's cousin Hester Eastman who is pivotal to the themes of the burgeoning
sexuality of the boys and gender relations.  Bitter about what she perceives as her
parents' favoritism toward her brothers, Hester becomes an emotional and very aggressive
female in sexual relations.  There is also a somewhat murky identification with her
cousin John both sexually and emotionally as Hester is deeply affected by Owen Meany's
death, just as is John Wheelwright.

How can you relate "The Interlopers" with a real life event?

Based upon the fact that Saki's story "The Interlopers"
deals with a feud between tow families, one could relate the action of the story to many
real life events.

1. Many schools today have rivals. These
"generations" long feuds have been fueled by the desire to win over the other school.
The feuds are relived year after year, game after game, as the rivals come together to
prove who is superior.

2. Countries throughout the world
have had very similar feuds. Countries have, and presently still do, warred over the
claiming of lands. These wars have been both deadly and ongoing for
generations.

3. One last way to examine the real life
events which mirror the story are when two life-long enemies are able to call a truce.
Many times, unfortunately, another person interferes (like the wolves) and ends the
truce. We have also seen this in warring across the globe (ties into
#2).

Why does Mariam blame Laiila for marrying Rasheed, and why does she see Laila as a competitor in A Thousand Splendid Suns?Answers with evidence and...

It is simple feminine jealousy that creates the chasm
between Mariam and Laila in A Thousand Splendid Suns. Following the
death of her parents, Laila is nursed back to health in Rasheed's home. Rasheed's motive
soon becomes obvious: He is smitten with the fourteen year old girl, and he wants to
make her his second wife. Laila could have turned him down; after all, there was at
least a 35 year difference in their ages. But Laila has no money and nowhere else to go.
When she discovers that Tariq is dead, there is nothing left to do but accept Rasheed's
proposal. To Laila, Rasheed seems sincere, as he previously appeared to Mariam. Mariam
sees that Rasheed is enamored with the young girl, and she recognizes that her new
position will be that of the second wife: She is the sturdy Volga (a Russian auto),
while Laila will become the Mercedes Benz. Rasheed will now spend his nights with Laila,
and Mariam will become an outcast in her own home. Her jealousy borders on hatred, and
she tells Laila that she will neither be her servant nor her
friend. 

"I
wouldn't have fed you and washed you and nursed you if I'd known you were going to turn
around and steal my husband." 

I need help with an opening paragraph on my essay. It's about Golding's views on mankind in the novel "Lord Of The Flies."

Many readers see Lord of the Flies as Golding's statement
on the nature or state of mankind.  By stranding the boys on the island without the
presence of adults or any real sign of civilization, he creates an experiment in "man"
in his natural state.  The society created by the British school boys becomes a
microcosm for society at large.  Although the children attempt to establish roles of
responsibility and rules of conduct, without the constraints of civilization, their
fragile society falls apart and chaos ensues.

Without the
rules of adults, school, and general mores of a civilized society, the boys turn on each
other.  They destroy the symbols of order- the conch shell and Piggy's glasses. They
kill Simon and Piggy and are hunting Ralph when they are rescued at the end of the
novel.

The final irony is that the naval officer who
rescues the boys is himself (along with his whole country) at war.  Golding seems to be
saying that mankind can't help but turn on and destroy itself.

In Guns, Germs, and Steel, what is one important factor directly related to how agriculture styles cause societies to develop into the different...

In order to answer this, I would suggest you look at Table
14.1.  There, you can see a number of attributes that differ in the various political
structures (bands, tribes, chiefdoms, and states).  One of the attributes is food
production.  Diamond argues that societies move from having no food production to some
food production and finally to intensive food production as they become more complex
politically.

Bands, Diamond says, have no agriculture. 
They are hunter-gatherer societies.  Tribes that are less complex have no agriculture
but tribes that are complex have it.  Less complex chiefdoms have simple agriculture
while more complex chiefdoms have intensive agriculture.  All states have intensive
agriculture.

The reason for this general correlation is
that societies need a great deal of excess food production in order to grow larger and
more complex.  In order for a society to support a number of people who do get their own
food (who are government officials and priests and such), it must have farming.  The
larger the number of officials and priests (and eventually merchants and artisans and
teachers and everyone else who's not a farmer) the more intensive the agriculture must
be.

So, the major factor is the intensity of agriculture. 
The more complex the society, the more it needs to have agriculture and, in the most
complex societies, intensive agriculture.

How is the theme of gender explored in the prologue to Act 3 of Shakespeare's play Henry V?

Issues of gender are among a variety of issues raised in
the Prologue to Act 3 of Shakespeare’s play Henry V. The prologue
opens with a Chorus (a male actor presumably playing a male character) addressing the
audience as a gender-neutral “you” (1). The first reference to a male occurs in line 4,
when the “king” is mentioned. He is described in ways traditionally associated with the
male gender – he is headed off to war, thus behaving actively rather than passively and
thereby asserting his power.  He is in possession and command of a “brave fleet” (5), so
that his power (an attribute often associated with males in Shakespeare’s society) is
once again emphasized.

Indeed, the next line refers to the
sun as Phoebus, a male god who possesses enormous power of his own. Boys are next
mentioned as workers on the ships (8): young males are being trained in the ways of male
power. The idea of girls or young females serving in a similar capacity would have been
unthinkable to most people during Shakespeare’s day.

The
Chorus himself, of course, is presented as a very lively and active male, as when he
urges the audience to react in various ways and uses vigorous verbs to do
so:

. . . 
Follow, follow!

Grapple your minds to sternage of this navy
. . . (17-18)

Presumably the
actor playing this role would have been loud and boisterous and would have moved
actively around the stage, exhorting the audience. In all these ways, he would have been
behaving in ways that were far more acceptable among males of Shakespeare’s days than
among mature females, who were on the whole expected to be much quieter and more passive
than males of this period.

Interestingly, the first
explicit reference to females in the speech refers to “old women” (20), who are listed –
along with “grandsires” and “babies” -- as those who must stay behind in England while
vigorous young men go off to France to fight. Old women are thus linked here with the
weak, while even the youngest men (those who have just one hair on their chins) are
imagined as eager to go off with Henry to battle the French
(21-24).

The only other explicit reference to a female in
the speech refers to Princess Katherine, daughter of the French king. Obviously she is
more powerful than most women of her time would have been, but even she is imagined as
the daughter of her father (rather than as an independent person in her own right), and
she is also imagined as someone who is “offer[ed]” as a marriage partner by her father
to Henry . Even this powerful woman, then, is presented as a possession of a male who
offers her to another male. The whole Prologue, then, presents men as powerful and
active and presents women (when they are mentioned at all) as relatively weak and
passive.

In the blast furnance(Iron ore) process which element displaces Iron and classify that element as metal, non-metal or metalloid?

In a blast furnace, iron is extracted from its ore
hematite. The substances added in the blast furnace which undergo reaction are hematite,
coke and limestone.

The coke, which is primarily carbon
burns to form carbon dioxide

C + O2 -->
CO2

The carbon dioxide reacts with excess carbon to form
carbon monoxide

C + CO2 -->
2CO

Carbon monoxide is a reducing agent and reacts with the
oxide of iron Fe2O3

Fe2O3 + CO --> 2Fe +
3CO2

The limestone that has been added, is decomposed to
calcium oxide

CaCO3 --> CaO +
CO2

Calcium oxide reacts with impurities, primarily silicon
dioxide that is present in the iron ore to form CaSiO3

CaO
+ SiO2 --> CaSiO3

The resultant compound floats
above the molten iron as slag which is extracted
separately.

Iron produced in a blast furnace has a lot of
carbon as impurity which makes its direct application difficult. The iron has to be
treated further before it can be used to make products or iron or converted to
steel.

The response to your questions are: Carbon is the
element that displaces iron in the iron ore. Carbon is a
non-metal.

What philosohical issues are raised by Iokaste's (Jocasta) judgment on the oracles (Scene 2)?

In trying to comfort her husband, visibly shaken on both
personal and political levels, Jocasta brings out an interesting conception regarding
the manner in which the divine reveals their own sense of revelation towards the
individual.  Essentially, when Oedipus starts to panic about things, Jocasta tries to
convince her husbands that prophecies are only weak means by which the Gods convey their
wishes to mortals.  Her argument revolves around the idea that the Gods are strong
enough to convey what they think and neednt have to hide behind vague philosophical
tenets in order to convey what they wish:

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Such things the speeches of seers
predict,
you should ignore; for whatever the god
requires, he
himself will easily
reveal.

The philosophical
implications of this are very interesting. On one hand, Jocasta affirms the power of the
divine to her husband, Oedipus.  Yet, at the same time, she also tries to rationalize
this power in order to make him feel better.  Essentially, she says that the divine is
so powerful that outside of any message directly from them, all is well.  Jocasta
demonstrates her own intellectual craftiness in being able to "spin" whatever is there
in order to make her husband feel better about something that she recognizes has settled
into him and made him emotionally unstable.  It is interesting to note that her reaction
after this scene is to go to the Gods herself and pray in a temple, and make offerings
and incense in the hopes of appeasing them, reflecting that she herself understands
their power and recognizes the need to adhere to them in such a
predicament.

What happened in the resolution of Leo Tolstoy's "The Penitent Sinner"?

The resolution of Leo Tolstoy's story "The Penitent
Sinner" shows how the penitent sinner, after pleading his case to St. Peter, King David,
and John the Divine, is finally allowed in heaven.

The
story reads,

And the gates of Paradise were
opened, and John embraced the penitent sinner, and admitted him into the Kingdom of
Heaven.

This, however, was no easy feat. At all
times that the sinner would request to be allowed in the Kingdom of Heaven, each of the
men he encountered would deny him entrance because the man is a sinner. They would argue
that heaven is for saints and good people, and that he-the sinner- would not be allowed
in.

At each of these arguments, the sinner would reply how
each of those great saints in heaven once were sinners too. He would then relate to each
of the saints which specific sins they have committed and how God was so merciful upon
them. This would end up granting him a closer step inside
Heaven.

The final encounter with John the Divine is what
seals the deal. Just when John is about to tell the sinner that the sinner cannot get
inside the gates of heaven, the sinner takes a different approach and reminds John that,
because Jesus loved him the most, he is sure to have learned how to have mercy on
others.

And the sinner rejoiced and said: “Now
thou can'st not refuse to let me in. Peter and David might have let me in because they
knew the weakness of man and the mercy of God. And thou wilt let me in because thou
lovest much. Didst not thou, oh, John the Divine, write in thy book that God is Love,
and he that loveth not knoweth not God? Didst thou not in thine old age say this one
sentence to the people: ‘Brethren, love one another’? How then can'st thou now begin to
hate me and drive me away? Either deny what thou thyself hast said, or else let me into
the Kingdom of Heaven.”

Therefore, the resolution
of the main character's problem is that his plea aided him to be able to enter
Paradise.

What is an example of symbolism in "Contents of a Dead Man's Pocket"?

The primary symbol in this
story is the yellow paper that is so very important to Tom. It contains the development
of his idea that he is so eager to submit to his boss. We are told little about his idea
for "a new grocery-store display method," though it took two months to accomplish,
because, as Tom comes to see, it isn't as important as his life and happiness. Tom's
idea, as we come to see, is as ephemeral as the wind and thus can be destroyed by
something as commonplace as the wind. We also come to see along with Tom that if he
chases ideas and lets his life slip by him, his life may truly slip by
him:

he
watched scenes in his mind like scraps of motion-picture film--he ... saw his upper body
arc outward, arms flailing. ... He saw himself falling with a terrible speed as his body
revolved in the air, ... moaning
softly.

This all-important
"creased yellow sheet, covered with his own handwriting," which Tom wants to transfer
into an Interoffice Memo to give to his boss "tomorrow," granted, contains gems of
thoughts that may or may not come back to him in time if lost to the wind and heights.
We can say that this paper symbolizes the
two avenues of Tom's life, indeed, in a
third sense, it symbolizes the sum of his life: "All they'd
find in his pockets would be the yellow sheet. Contents of the dead man's
pockets."

The first avenue it
symbolizes is the one leading to his happiness and personal fulfillment, also symbolized
by Clare (not "Claire"; a scrambled spelling of clear, as in
clear-sighted). This first avenue of symbolism is a reverse one: as
the yellow sheet goes scuttling along the ledge, Tom turns his back on his personal
happiness and life to chase it: "He understood fully that he might actually be going to
die." The second avenue is his dreams, goals and
aspirations: "[when] I'm known as the Boy Wizard of Wholesale Groceries." The yellow
sheet hovering above an ignoble death is his future, and he is chasing
it.

This complex symbol represents (1) that which is taking
him from his personal happiness and fulfillment (2) and that which may very well lead to
his literal death and his spiritual death (should he survive his ideal). This complex
description of this symbol is confirmed by the resolution when he takes his topcoat and
hat to go join his wife at the movies:

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As he saw the yellow paper, the pencil flying,
scooped off the desk and, unimpeded by the glassless window, sail out into the night and
out of his life, Tom Benecke burst into laughter and then closed the door behind
him.

The questions raised
are, does this scenario and symbolism still apply to and is it acceptable to today's
culture? After all, men's hats are no longer required; maybe these distinctions are no
longer required, acceptable, appreciable or even possible as the world's economic
situation plummets further downward.

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Then, glancing at the desk across the living
room, [Clare] said, "You work too much, though, Tom--and too
hard."