What does "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" say about the nature of transcendent or religious experience?

This is a fascinating question to discuss in response to
this story. The issue is that we and the villagers are never actually sure what the
arrival of the angel signifies or means. Does it actually represent a transcendent or
religious experience? The villagers offer up a whole flotilla of theories concerning the
arrival of the angel, and the narrator tantalises us by never providing us with any
concrete meaning or conclusions that we can make. If the angel is a celestial visitor,
it is clear that the villagers do not treat him as
such:

...they
found the whole neighbourhood in front of the chicken coop having fun with the angel,
without the slightest reverence, tossing him things to eat through the openings in the
wire as if he weren't a supernatural creature but a circus
animal.

Even the priest of
the village, Father Gonzalo, who we expect to be slightly more knowledgeable than his
flock, shows his ignorance and petty nature through his assumption that since the angel
can't speak Latin he can't actually be an angel. If transcendent or religious experience
is there for us to participate in, this story suggests that we often miss it or are
blinded to it becuase of our own ignorance, perspectives prejudices. How often are
transcendent experiences available to us that we miss because of our own
stupidity?

In what ways can Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray be seen as an "Irish national tale"?

A particularly detailed discussion of Oscar Wilde’s novel
The Picture of Dorian Gray as an “Irish national tale” has been
offered by Maureen O’Connor (see link below).  O’Connor begins by asserting that
it

has become
increasingly common to link Oscar Wilde’s self-identification as Irish to his radically
oppositional stance vis-à-vis late-Victorian Britain.
(194)

In other words, critics
and scholars increasingly assume that because Wilde thought of himself as Irish during a
time when Ireland was oppressed and dominated by Britain, he may have rebelled against
other kinds of oppression and domination, particularly any kinds associated with
conventional British morality of the late nineteenth
century.

According to O’Connor, Wilde saw Ireland mainly as
an imaginary place – a place created by the imagination of other people, including
Britons.  Only outside Ireland could Wilde feel powerfully Irish because his Irishness
then became a symbol of his status as an outsider who refused to be dominated by another
culture.

In perhaps the most relevant statement of her
article, O’Connor asserts that it

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is the central contention of this essay that
Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray not only participated in his native
country’s engagement with the gothic, as has often been noted, but also that it
resurrected the Romantic genre of the national tale.
(195)

O’Connor interprets
this resurrection partly in autobiographical terms, in which Wilde himself is the
central figure who explores his own Irishness by writing the novel. She argues, however,
that Wilde’ use of the Irish national tale is extremely complex and full of ambiguities
and ambivalences.

O’Connor reports that when the novel was
first published, it was roundly condemned by British reviewers for being frivolous and
immoral.  Similar charges of frivolousness had also greeted one of the most influential
Irish national tales, a book titled The Wild Irish Girl. Both this novel and Wilde’s
(O’Connor suggests) were seen as politically dangerous. Wilde, according to O’Connor,
deliberately embraced identities that were regarded as subversive during his time,
especially when they were embraced by a male.

Dorian, for
instance, is associated with the beauty of his mother (his father is barely mentioned),
and his fixation on memory is connected, by O’Connor, with the similar fixation by the
Irish.

What is the irony of General Zaroff's character?

In the short story, "The Most Dangerous Game"
by Richard Edward Connell, the irony of Zaroff's character is that he becomes
a victim of his own treachery.  He begins hunting humans because he becomes bored with
hunting animals.  When Ranisford arrives on the island , Zarroff decides to hunt
Rainsford. After many hunts Zaroff has become very arrogant in his believe that he is
superior to all me.   In the end the tables are turned on Zaroff and he becomes the one
who is victimized.  Zaroff is not hunted as he has hunted so many, but Rainsford does
beat Zarrof at his own game.  When Zarrofarrives back at his house he finds Rainsford in
his bedroom and Zaroff pays the price for his
hubris. 

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"Rainsford surprises Zaroff in his bedroom.
Rainsford refuses to end the game there, however, and kills Zaroff. Rainsford then
spends a comfortable night in Zaroff's bed, which raises the question of whether he will
simply replace the evil
Zaroff."

The author does not
say that Rainsford kills Zaroff, but the reader can infer that this is the outcome
because as the story ends, Rainsford has had the best sleep of his life.  He awakes in
Zaroff's bed and is no longer the hunted.

What is the climax in the most dangerous game? is it when he swims back to the chateau? why is that?

The climax of a story is where the conflict or problem is
resolved.  When Rainsford swims back to the chateau, the problem has not been resolved. 
Zaroff is still hunting him, and he still has to survive.  The climax comes when Zaroff
is surprised by Rainsford in his bedroom. Even though Zaroff tells him that he
(Rainsford) has won the game, Rainsford says "I am still a beast at bay" (pg 11) That is
an idiom that means he is still being hunted. He challenges Zaroff, and Zaroff says "One
of us is to furnish a repast(meal) for the hounds.  The other will sleep in an excellent
bed." (pg 11)  Zaroff then says, "On Guard" which is what is said before a fencing or
sword fight.  The Resolution or Denoument of the story is very short.  It just says that
Rainsford slept in the bed.  That means he won the fight, and Zaroff furnished a repast
for the hounds.

What is the rising action and climax in A Raisin in The Sun? Please explain briefly!

It may be best to identify the play's conflicts here as
these represent the narrative threads that culminate in the play's climax where they are
(mostly) concluded. 

There are several minor conflicts in
the play, though each is important to the characters and to the thematic content of the
play. These minor conflicts include Ruth's pregnancy (Will she keep the baby or not?),
Beneatha's relationships with Murchison and Asagai (Will she choose assimilationist
ambition or Pan-African seperatism?), and Walter's plan to open a liquor
store. 

Each of these conflcts drive the action of the play
and contribute to the play's larger conflict, which is essentially defined by the
question of what will happen to the family and symbolized by the house that Mama buys in
the Caucasian neighborhood. Will they move (and stay together) or will they fail to grow
and change positively together and, in so failing, fall
apart? 

The rising action then will include conversations
on each of these topics and the play's climax comes in the moment of decision when
Walter stands up to Linder and defies him, saying that the family will be moving into
the new house. Walter fulfills Mama's earlier exhortation here to "be the head of this
family from now on like you supposed to be."

What is the main advantage of a 501(c) organization over a 527 organization?

A 501(c) organization is a group that
is allowed to claim non-profit and tax-exempt status. Simply put, this allows the group
to receive and spend donation without worrying about paying taxes. Many different types
of 501(c) groups exist; at the moment there are 28 subcategories: 501(c)(1) through
501(c)(28). They perform hundreds of different functions, including charity, religious
work, advocacy, public service, private service, medical research, and technological
experimentation.

A 527 organization,
while still tax-exempt, is created specifically to advocate for or against a political
candidate. 527s do not self-identify with any political party or figure, and so avoid
taxation under the Federal Election commission, or the contribution limits places on
Political Action Committees. Their function is to raise awareness and inform the public
about little-known facts, and influence the eventual
election.

The main advantage a 501(c) has over a 527 is
that it can be formed for almost any purpose. While a 527 is limited in the ways it can
spend money and cannot outright endorse a political figure, a 501(c) is not bound by the
same rules in its pursuits. However, many 501(c) organizations
cannot engage in political action; 501(c)(3)s are specifically
prohibited from such. In contrast, 501(c)(4) and 501(c)(6) organizations are allowed to
lobby and advertise in favor of specific political policies and
figures.

To reduce the issue to its essentials, remember
that a 527 has little other purpose than to advocate politically, while a 501(c) may use
its main purpose -- for example, raising awareness about environmental concerns -- to
nudge thinking towards their chosen candidate as long as they do not engage in any overt
political activity.

How does racism impact Troy in Fences?

One way of responding to this excellent question is to
consider the way in which fences operate in this provocative play. Clearly, racism is
one fence that encloses black characters such as Troy and prevent them from achieving
their dreams and hopes. The opening of the play gives us an excellent example of this,
as Troy is telling Bono about how he has complained about how it is only white men that
can drive the truck for garbage collection, and it is the blacks, like him, who actually
have to handle the garbage:

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I went to Mr. Rand and asked him, "Why? Why you
got the white mens driving and the coloured lifting?" Told him, "what's the matter,
don't I count? You think only white fellows got sense enough to drive a truck. That
ain't no proper job! Hell, anybody can drive a truck. How come you got all whites
driving and the coloured
lifting?"

As the play
progresses, we see that this is just one way in which racism represents a fence that
fences in characters such as Troy and prevents them from achieving their dreams and
goals. What is interesting though, is the way that Troy responds to the way that he has
been fenced in by wanting to similarly fence in his son and prevent him from trying to
acheive his goals and follow his dreams and become a footballer.

What was the relationship between Shays' Rebellion and the calling of the Constitutional Convention?

The relationship between these two events is that Shays's
Rebellion led to the calling of the Constitutional
Convention.

Shays's Rebellion was a call for the
Massachusetts state government to make laws that helped out poor farmers in debt.  Many
other states had made such laws already.  The rich in America at the time were very
worried by such laws.  They were worried by the fact that states had been passing such
laws.  This made them want a new system of government in which the states would have
less power.  Because they wanted a new system like that, they called the Constitutional
Convention.

"All the seas of the world tumbled about her heart." Explain with reference to context.James Joyce's "Eveline"

In his Dubliners, James Joyce wrote
of the tragic Irish, a people for whom the assertion of psychological freedom is
impossible because of the historical, political, religious, and social patterning of
Ireland's Dublin in the 1900s.  Eveline is among these tragic Irish, for she cannot
break the ties of her promises to Blessed Margaret Mary Alacoque and her dying mother to
take care of her little brother.  Also, she lacks the courage to leave what she has
known:

It was
hard work--a hard life--but now that she was about to leave it she did not find it a
wholly undesirable life.

As
she stands among the crowd in the station at the North Wall, a dock on the river Liffey
from where the ferry boat to Liverpool leaves each day, Eveline prays to God to direct
her and show her her duty.  As the boat blows its "long mournful whistle into the mist,"
Eveline feels much distress as the adult world of desire ebbs and her fear of the
unknown rushes in:

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All the seas of the world tumbled about her
heart.  He was drawing her into them: he would drown her.  She gripped with both hands
at the iron railing.

It is at
this point that Eveline experiences what Joyce has termed a psychological paralysis.
For, she is caught in the circumstances of her life at home and she surrenders to her
religious servility, her subservience to her father, her promises to her mother and her
self-deception--a tragic figure.

What word should be used to describe the farming of chickens?Can the word "rearing" be used?

The connotation of the term "rearing" is typically a
parent-child situation, and it implies that care is provided for the child by the parent
(including protection, provision, and education).  While "rearing"
can be used in an animal situation, it would apply more toward the
animal mother rearing her litter or
offspring.

It would be assumed from the fact that this is
chicken farming, that you are talking about humans taking care of
the chickens.  In this case, the most acceptable word would be "raising."  Many critics
believe the term raising chickens is most appropriate for a farm
with a smaller number of chickens.

Example: My neighbor
raises chickens and sells the eggs at the farmer's market on
Wednesdays.

If you are talking about mass-production
chicken farms (like Tyson or Perdue), the term "raising" is still used, but applied
liberally, at best.  Have you heard the term CAFO (Concentrated Animal Feeding
Operations)?  CAFO critics would assert that the term "raising" in this case implies a
little bit too much personal human involvement.  A more appropriate term to describe
these kinds of chicken farms would be chicken production and
distribution.  More often than not, such farms are not egg farms,
but rather, chickens are produced for their meat.  Such critics
believe it is a little too generous to suggest the farm "raises" the chickens, as they
are largely penned up for the duration of their short lives, fed by machines, and
slaughtered in an assembly-line fashion.

Given triangle ABC, A(2, 1, 4), B (-2, 1, 3), C (5, -1, -7). Determine the perimeter of triangle ABC. Is triangle ABC a right angled triangle?

The distance between two points (x1, y1, z1) and (x2, y2,
z2) is given by sqrt[(x2 - x1)^2 + (y2 - y1)^2 + (z2 -
z1)^2]

Here, the vertices of the triangle are A(2, 1, 4), B
(-2, 1, 3), C (5, -1, -7)

AB = sqrt[(-2 -2)^2 + (1 - 1)^2 +
(4 - 3)^2] = sqrt(16+1) = sqrt 17

BC = sqrt[(5 + 2)^2 +
(-1-1)^2 + (3 +7)^2] = sqrt(49+4+100) = sqrt 153

CA =
sqrt[(5 - 2)^2 + (-1-1)^2 + (-7-4)^2] = sqrt(9+4+121) = sqrt
134

The perimeter of the triangle is sqrt 17 + sqrt 153 +
sqrt 134

If the triangle is a right angled triangle, the
sum of the square of the shorter sides is equal to that of the longest
side.

Here 17 + 134 = 151 whereas the square of the length
of the longest side is 153. The given vertices do not form a right angled
triangle.

The perimeter of the triangle
formed by the given vertices is sqrt 17 + sqrt 153 + sqrt 134. This is not a right
angled triangle.

In philosophy and theology, what is meant by the phrase "passing over and coming back"?

In contemporary philosophy and theology, the term “passing
over and coming back” seems to be associated with the theologian John Dunne, who in 1972
wrote that the modern holy man would seem to be a
person

like
Gandhi, a man who passes over by sympathetic understanding from his own religion to
other religions and comes back again with new insight to his own. Passing over and
coming back, it seems, is the spiritual adventure of our time. [see links
below]

The phrase has since
been used by many other people in many different contexts, as a search for this phrase,
using Google Books, will show [see links below]. In general, though, the phrase still
seems to be largely understood as Dunne used it.  “Passing over and coming back” thus
means acquainting oneself with what other religions teach, but without abandoning one’s
own religion. The perspectives provided by an honest attempt to understand other
religions can enhance one’s own religious
experiences.

“Passing over and coming back” seems to differ
from “empathy,” which is defined by href="http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/empathy?region=us">www.oxforddictionaries.com
as “the ability to understand and share the feelings of another”
(emphasis added). “Passing over and coming” back implies the ability to understand other
religions without necessarily sharing in them completely.  After all, “coming back” to
one’s own religion is an explicit part of the idea. “Passing over and coming back” also
seems to imply an emphasis on understanding rather than simple
feeling.

Given the fact that we live in an increasingly
multicultural society in which globalization is also a major feature, it is not
surprising that an understanding of other religions has become increasingly
important.

what is solution of equation arrangements(x+1,2)=combinations(x-1,2)+12?

A(x+1,2) = C(x-1,2)+12

We'll
recall the formula of arrangements:

A(x+1,2) =
(x+1)!/(x+1-2)! =  (x+1)!/(x-1)!

But (x+1)! =
(x-1)!*x*(x+1) => (x+1)!/(x-1)! =
(x-1)!*x*(x+1)/(x-1)!

We'll reduce like
terms:

A(x+1,2) =
x*(x+1)

We'll recall the formula of
combinations:

C(x-1,2) = (x-1)!/2!*(x-1-2)!
=(x-1)!/2!*(x-3)!

But (x-1)! = (x-3)!*(x-2)*(x-1)
=>C(x-1,2) = (x-3)!*(x-2)*(x-1)/2!*(x-3)!

But 2! =
1*2 = 2

We'll reduce like
terms:

C(x-1,2) =
(x-2)*(x-1)/2

We'll re-write the
equation:

A(x+1,2) = C(x-1,2)+12 <=>
x*(x+1)=(x-2)*(x-1)/2 + 12

We'll remove the brackets and
we'll multiply by 2 both sides:

2x^2 + 2x = x^2 - 3x + 2 +
24

We'll move all terms to the left
side:

x^2 + 5x - 26 = 0

We'll
apply quadratic formula:

x1 =
(-5+sqrt(25+104))/2

Since sqrt129 is an irrational number,
then the solutions of the equation are irrational, which is impossible because x must be
a natural number.

Therefore, the given
equation has no natural solutions.

What is the exposition in "Good Country People" by Flannery O'Connor?

An exposition, in a short story, provides information on
the main characters of the story and the
setting.

Therefore, in Flannery O'Connor's short story
"Good Country People," the exposition ends at the introduction of the main conflict: Joy
Hulga's distrust of Manley Pointer.

The exposition, itself,
begins with the opening of the story. Mrs. Freeman and Mrs. Hopewell are both
introduced. Each of the women have daughters, Mrs. Freeman’s daughters, Glynese and
Carramae, and Mrs. Hopewell's daughter, Joy-Hulga, are introduced as well. Another
character introduced, a little later in the story, is Manley
Pointer.

The exact location of the story, a tenant farm in
Georgia, can easily be pictured by the reader given the title, descriptions of the
surroundings, and the mentality of the women in the story (stereotypical
characterizations provided by O'Connor).

Background is
given on Joy-Hulga. Her education in Philosophy and her accident allow readers to
understand her mindset and own personal ideologies.

That
being said, the exposition ends when Joy-Hulga admits her distrust in Pointer. This is
where the rising action begins and the story begins to move toward the
climax.

Discuss the biospheric importance of the following abiotic factors: water, soil, light, and temperature.

Climatic factors include light, temperature, water , rain,
humidity and wind.

Light
:Light directly or indirectly affects the life activities. For the
photosynthetic activity of green plants light is essential. Growth, germination,
flowering and other functions of plant are controlled by photoperiodism and different
light rays. In animals, the light directly influences the sensation of sight, colour of
skin, sensitivity to different
colours.

Temperature:- Life
can exist within certain limits of temperature. Some organisms can tolerate temperature
from 20oC to 60oC.

Water and rain:-
Life is impossible without water. Water content varies from 60% to 90% in
living organisms. In organism, there is water regulation system to maintain definite
water level in body. The maintenance of definite water level in the body is termed as
osmoregulation.

Soil factor:-
Soil factors are important for plants. Plants remain attached to soil.
Plants obtain minerals, nutrients and water form soil. The upper layer of earth forms
soil. Soil formed of mixed particles is suitable for organisms. There is addition of
excretory products and dead bodies to the organic content of soil. Soil is a mixture of
organic and inorganic matter. Water retention capacity of soil is increased by the
organic matter. Soil is also the store house of mineral nutrition. Water and air content
of soil are also important. Soil in which water and air is present is porous. Such water
is absorbed by plants. Underground parts of plants and organisms in soil depend on air
in soil.

What is the difference between race and ethnicity?

The general distinction between these two concepts is that
race is made up of physical traits while ethnicity is made up of cultural traits.  Both
of these concepts are socially constructed and it can be very difficult at times to
determine what race a person is or what ethnicity they are.  Even so, we can generally
say that race can be determined by looking at a person’s physical characteristics while
ethnicity is determined by looking at their cultural
traits.

We place people into given races based solely on
their physical appearance.  All people with dark skin and tightly curled hair tend to be
seen as “black.”  People with skin that is browner and with straight black hair are
called “Hispanic” or “Asian” depending on some other characteristics.  You can tell a
person’s race by looking at them (although you may be mistaken as, for example, Asians
and Hispanics can look similar.  This is not a stereotype; it is my personal experience
of my race being mistaken by many people.).

We place people
into ethnic categories based on their culture.  People of different races can have the
same ethnicity.  People of the same race can have different ethnicities.  A “black”
person from the Dominican Republic is ethnically Hispanic or Dominican while a “black”
person from the US is American.  Almost all American citizens can be seen as having the
same ethnicity as we tend to have practically identical cultural traits even though we
are from different races.

Thus, race is physical and
inherited while ethnicity is cultural and learned.

According to Guns, Germs, and Steel, what caused the Chinese to develop into a society with a hierarchical structure?

Diamond argues that hierarchical societies in all areas
come about because of agriculture.  He does say that agriculture and complex societies
sort of help one another develop and so it is hard to determine what the causal
relationship is.  However, societies with intensive agriculture are essentially always
hierarchical.

According to Diamond, agriculture makes it
possible for a society to have a high population density.  When many people live
together in close proximity, there is a need for a strong government.  If there is not a
strong government, the people (who have no kinship or friendship relations with one
another) will come into conflict all the time as the Fayu of New Guinea
do. 

With agriculture, then, comes the need for a strong
central government.  When there is such a government, society inevitably becomes
hierarchical because those in the government or those near to them come to have much
more power and wealth than those who are not. 

In addition,
hierarchy comes about because intensive agriculture frees up many people to do work
other than food production.  These people become merchants and artisans and even
bankers.  When this happens, hierarchy is much more possible because there is inequality
of wealth.

In short then, China, like all other societies,
became hierarchical because it had a dense, sedentary population made possible by
farming.

Can Ahab be called a tragic hero? Comment.

Captain Ahab (a character from Melville's Moby
Dick), according to the definition of the Tragic Hero as provided by
Aristotle, weakly fits into the definition of a tragic
hero.

According to Aristotle, the tragic hero is defined by
five main characteristics.

1. A tragic hero is born of
nobility.

2. A tragic hero possesses hamartia (a tragic
flaw) which leads to his downfall.

3. A tragic hero
experiences peripeteia (reversal of fortune forced because of the tragic
flaw).

4. The actions of the tragic hero result in an
increased self-awareness and knowledge.

5. The audience
must feel pity, sympathy, or fear for the
character.

According to this, Captain Ahab is not the
typical tragic hero. He was not born of nobility. Instead, readers simply know he was
orphaned.

Captain Ahab does possess a tragic flaw--the
inability to give up on the hunt of the whale.

Captain Ahab
never possesses increased self-awareness. Instead, his hamartia leads to his
death.

The last characteristic of the tragic hero is for
the reader, or audience, to feel pity, sympathy, or fear for the hero. This is the
tricky aspect of naming Captain Ahab a tragic hero. Some readers may feel these feelings
for him, and other readers will not.

In the end, Captain
Ahab only qualifies as a tragic hero under one, maybe two, of Aristotle's
characteristics. Therefore, one could easily state that Captain Ahab is not a tragic
hero.

When reading Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, how might the term "efficiency" be defined in the context of imperialism?

Very early in the first chapter of Joseph Conrad’s novel
The Heart of Darkness, Marlow, the character who narrates much of the book, discusses
the fact that Britain itself was once an uncivilized, savage land. He imagines the Roman
conquerors who invaded Britain, and in particular he imagines the reactions of some of
the rather ordinary Romans who must have come to Britain after it had been conquered.
They weren’t professional soldiers; they were citizens visiting the very outskirts of
the Roman empire. These were people (he says to his comrades) who had to encounter
metaphorical darkness and who would have felt the

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“fascination of the abomination--you know.
Imagine the growing regrets [they must have felt], the longing to escape, the powerless
disgust, the surrender, the
hate."

“Mind,” he continues
(meaning “mind you” or “I readily admit”),

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“none of us would feel exactly like this. What
saves us is efficiency--the devotion to efficiency. But these chaps were not much
account, really. They were no colonists; their administration was merely a squeeze, and
nothing more, I suspect. They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force .
. . .”

This is a crucial
passage. Indeed, only one other explicit reference to efficiency appears in the entire
novel – a fact that gives the passage just quoted special
weight.

What, then, does Marlow mean by “efficiency,”
especially in the context of colonialism?  Here are some
possibilities:

• He seems to distinguish between
  mere conquerors and true colonists (or colonialists). Conquerors use brute force to
  subjugate other peoples so that they may essentially steal from them. Colonialists, on
  the other hand, plan to settle in a foreign country for an extended period of time and
  plan to exploit its resources for the foreseeable future. In order to be effective at
  such exploitation, they must be efficient. They must establish smoothly functioning
  systems that allow them to use the colonized land and people to maximum advantage. They
  don’t intend simply to steal and then leave in a few years; they intend to establish a
  long-lasting colonial enterprise that will repay handsome, dependable, and continuing
  returns on any investment.


• “Efficiency” implies
  planning, forethought, and intelligence. It is not merely the taking of a quick,
  momentary advantage of an opportunity that just happens to present itself. Instead, it
  suggests the use of the power that is necessary to accomplish a preconceived task. By
  the time Conrad was writing, “efficiency” was a word that had come to be often
  associated with industrial production and business acumen. It implied effectively using
  tools (literal or metaphorical) as means to an end, even if those tools happened to be
  human. It implied (and still implies) energy, commitment, and the ability to achieve the
  most output for the least amount of effort. All these connotations, of course, are
  highly relevant to colonialism.


• “Efficiency” in this
  context also implies the setting up of actual established colonies, not mere temporary
  outposts. Colonies would lure colonists eager to profit and perhaps even settle. 
  Efficiency would make a colony the kind of place where one might want to settle for an
  extended period of time.

How does the theme of loneliness work in Charity?Please talk about the effect of loneliness on Charity.

Charity Royall, in Edith Wharton's novel
Summer, feels loneliness in many different aspects of her
life.

First, her guardian, Lawyer Royell, alienates her
because of her detest at his advances. She is not interested in her guardian at all and,
once she tells him, he begins to leave her more often. This advance is ironic given the
fact that they had lived under the same roof for years and, basically, ignored each
other.

Another example of Charity and loneliness appears
when the Mountain is brought up. Charity had come from the Mountain. Given that she must
live with Lawyer Royell in North Dormer, she cannot connect to her heritage, her true
home. This, too, forces Charity to feel alone.

Once Charity
meets Lucius Harney her life changes. At the end of the relationship with Harney,
Charity finds herself abandoned and pregnant. Once again, Charity is
alone.

While the entire novel depicts Charity as searching
for independence, her need to feel comfort and stability outweigh all
else.

2x+4x-6=?

Simplify
2x+4x-6

We can add like terms (i.e. those
terms with the same variables to the same powers) so we add 2x to 4x to get
6x.

Note that 6x and -6 are not
like terms since the term -6 doesnot have a variable, so we cannot add
them.

Thus the answer will be
6x-6.

** The question as originally written indicates an
equation. Equations can be solved,
while expressions can be simplified or
evaluated. If this had been an equation, then there would be no
unique answer, as the solution depends onthe value of x -- for each value of x the
expression takes on a new value. **

Considering the film Frankenstein, what does it have to say about scientists and the pursuit of science and knowledge?

You don't specify which film you are actually talking
about, and there have been plenty! However, I am sure that the basic premise is pretty
much the same in all the films. I have included a link below to the study guide section
of the novel as well to help you with this theme a bit
more.

Certainly the central theme of the story of Victor
Frankenstein is one of the dangers of pursuing scientific knowledge to the exclusion of
everything else. If you look at the original book, Frankenstein does this at the expense
of his family and devotes himself to this science, only to find that his success is
actually a hugely bittersweet moment, as he is repelled by what he creates. The story,
with its framing narrative of Walton trying to do something similar by finding a passage
through the North Pole and then deciding to turn back after hearing Frankenstein's
story, clearly indicates that there are some boundaries of scientific knowledge that we
are not meant to penetrate, and if we do, we will unleash terrifying consequences both
upon us and upon the world.

Why did the whispering increase in the "The Rocking-Horse Winner"?

The voices that rang throughout the house in D. H.
Lawrence's short story, "The Rocking-Horse Winner" always seemed to give the same, if
unspoken, message: "There must be more money! There must be more money!" Paul's desire
to help the family out financially drove him to ride his old rocking horse, and soon he
was able to amass a small fortune, which he decided to parcel out to his mother. But
when she decided she wanted the entire amount, Paul agreed to secretly advance her the
money. But the whispering only became louder.

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And yet the voices in the house, behind the
sprays of mimosa and almond blossom, and from under the piles of iridescent cushions,
simply trilled and screamed in a sort of ecstasy: "There must be
more money !  Oh-h-h; there must be more
money.  Oh, now, now-w !  Now-w-w --- there
must be more money ! --- more than ever
!   More than ever !
"

The more money Paul made,
the more money his mother spent, and the essential bills and necessities of the house
still grew. The whispers got louder and louder as more money was
spent.

Understanding Poetry Solitude How still it is here in the woods. The trees Stand motionless, as if they did not dare To stir, lest it should...

The poem posted, "Solitude",  is a work written by Henry
David Thoreau. Thoreau was a Transcendentalist. Transcendentalists were artists
(included authors, poets, painters, etc.) who wished to part with culture and society's
doctrines based upon their dislike of empirical
ideologies.

Instead, the Transcendentalists focused upon
the individual. They believed that honest reality came for the understanding of one's
own spirituality. Given the overlap with the Romantic movement, nature was very
important to the Transcendentalists.

Therefore, based upon
the thoughts and ideologies of the Transcendentalists, the poem "Solitude" shows
Thoreau's grounding in nature and finding one's self through one's own appreciation for
nature.

Thoreau enjoyed being alone. The poem helps one to
understand why. In nature, he is able to concentrate on the elements and himself alone.
He, according to a personal interpretation, finds strength and power in the solitude
that nature provides him. While not truly alone, nature is all around, he can listen to
the things which allow him to look with all of his senses.

Please explain the following lines from "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London."Deep with the first dead lies London's...

The central point of this poem is the author's radical
reassessment of death given his belief that when we die we actually rejoin nature, which
is an incredibly powerful force of regeneration and life in the universe. Thus, the
speaker says, he deliberately eschews the forms of mourning that humans adopt because
they fail to recognise the way that life metamorphosises and continues rather than
ceases to be.

In the final stanza, which is the section of
the poem that you are asking about, the dead girl that the poem's title refers to is
said to join life in her death, becoming reunited with the "long friends" who have
passed away before her and the "grains beyond age," which is a symbol of the sands of
time and seeds, and finally the "dark veins of her mother," which refers to the earth
and the way that the veins of the earth are its rivers. What is interesting is that
nature itself is depicted as "unmourning" in the form of the river Thames, even though
the girl is called "London's daughter." This is because, given the view of death and
nature, the Thames is regarded as the river of regeneration, and is teeming with life as
the cells of "London's daughter" form a part once again of the city. There is a pleasing
symmetry in the way that rivers, journeying from their source, then flow into the sea,
all being part of the same matter, just as humans, when they die, become part of the
bigger life of nature and the universe, as it is all part of the same thing as
well.

The final line of the poem cements the main argument
of the speaker. Whilst individual life forms can die, we rejoin nature, which is a
scientific force that is built to endlessly regenerate. Because of this, our first death
will be our last, because when we rejoin nature, we can no longer "die" in the way that
humans can.

What does the author mean when he says the elephants "attack of 'must'" had worn off?

Bull elephants sometimes go into must, a condition in
which testosterone levels are very high, causing extremely aggressive behavior.  No one
knows exactly why they do this, though it has been linked to mating. Urine taken from
these animals in zoos showed high levels of ketone.  When an elephant is in must it can
kill humans.

What do you think is the most important passage in this story?

The denotation of a "most important passage" in any text
can only be considered objective. When reading, people come to texts with different
backgrounds, morals, upbringings, and ideologies. Therefore, each reads the story in a
different way. To denote a singular passage as the most important in the text is
impossible.

Therefore, an important passage in the story
"The Cold Equations" is:

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He leaned back in the pilot's chair and drew a
deep, slow breath, considering what he would have to
do.

This passage from the
text shows the fact that Barton knows that something is going to happen. He recognizes
the fact that whatever does happen, it will not be something that he can take lightly.
He will be challenged; he will be pushed; he will need to contemplate many different
things before making a decision.

This passage allows
readers to define one aspect of Barton's character--the author has given readers an
indirect clue as to the type of person Barton is. Barton is not one to make snap
decisions. He is not one to take anything lightly. He is a "considerer", a
"contemplater."

Suppose a law is enacted in which everyone is compensated fully for whatever environmental damages he or she suffers. What would the incentives of...

Great idea! I suppose the main incentive would be that it
would encourage the chief polluters of the world to curb their excesses and invest in
greener forms of energy. When I first read this question, I immediately thought of the
way in which those that suffer most from environmental pollution are actually those that
are the poorest and most vulnerable individuals in the world anyway. I am thining of,
for example, tribes in the Amazon rainforest who have had their way of life destroyed
thanks to logging, or the poor in Bangladesh who have found the increased incidence of
flooding damaging their already precarious existence. Even though such a law is
extremely unlikely to ever be introduced, as there would be massive difficulties in
terms of identifying those who had suffered, it would cause developing countries and
multi-national businesses to definitely consider their carbon footprint and investigate
other greener ways of doing what they do.

In one sense,
this is the biggest issue with environmental pollution. There is no tangible cost that
comes back straight away at the polluters. Whilst there is of course a cost, it is much
more long-term and often impacts others far more than it ever impacts those doing the
polluting. Such a law would make polluting hurt for the polluter, which should cause
them to think twice about their actions.

In the movie Do the Right Thing, how do the characters feel when dealing with people from different cultural, ethnic, and racial backgrounds.

I think that there is not going to be a direct answer in
this question because there is not a direct answer offered in the movie.  For example,
Mookie might demonstrate some initial apprehension meeting new people who come from
different backgrounds, but it is shown that he is able to work with anyone, once these
initial presuppositions are put to the side.  He works with Pino, who has nothing but
contempt for those who come from a different background.  Vito, Pino's brother, has
little problem interacting with those who are different from him.  He is able to
represent both the White majority and also build bridges with those who are different
from him, in particular, those who live in the Bed- Stuy neighborhood.  Sal has been
building those very bridges for over two decades in the film.  Yet, in the most critical
of moments, Sal is unable to understand Radio Raheem, calling his music "Jungle music"
and denigrating much in which he believes by using the "N" word.  Senor Love Daddy might
be the most effective in being able to deal with those who are different, as he calls
for a stop when each ethnicity is misrepresenting the other one.  Indeed, it is here
where Lee presents the reality that those who are different from one another might
possess different tools in order to work with those who come from different backgrounds
or identities.

Demonstrate how to convert miles/hour to cm/s by converting 45 mi/h to cm/s.

The best way to do any kind of conversion, but especially
those which switch between the English system and SI (metric system) is to use
conversion factors.

A conversion factor is a fraction which
is created from a mathematical expression of a definition relating measured quantities.
 The fraction is constructed in such a way as to cause the units we wish to eliminate
 will cancel and the units we wish to have left remain.

To
do this conversion we need to have some expressions that relate the quantities to be
changed.  They would be

1.0 miles = 1.6 km which gives two
conversion factors 1.0 mi/1.6 km and 1.6 km/1.0 mi

1.0 km =
1,000 m = 100,000 cm which gives the conversions 1.0km/100,000cm and
100,000cm/1km

1.0 hour = 3,600 s which gives 1.0h/3,600s
and 3,600s/1.0h

To change 45 mile/hour we need to multiply
by the appropriate fractions

45 mi/h X 1.6 km/1.0 mi = 72
km/h

72 km/h X 100,000cm/km = 7,200,000
cm/h

7,200,000 cm/h X 1.0 h/3,600s = 2,000
cm/s

Or we can do it in one string of
calculations:

45 mi/h X 1.6km/mi X100,000 cm/km X 1.0
hr/3,600 s =

2,000 cm/s

In Matilda, did Matilda begin school as a First Grader or in Kindergarten?

We need to understand how the education system in England
is different from the education system in the United States. In the US, you guys start
in Pre-Kinder, and then go into Kindergarten, then Grade 1 and so on. In the UK, our
first year of school which is equivalent to Pre-Kinder is called Reception. Then we go
into Year 1, which is the equivalent of Kindergarten. Our Year 2 is therefore the
equivalent of Grade 1 in the American system.

Now, if we
look at the novel, in the chapter entitled "Miss Honey," we are told that Matilda,
although she starts school a little late, is put into the bottom
class:

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Naturally Matilda was put in the bottom class,
where there were eighteen other small boys and girls about the same age as
her.

This indicates that
Matilda was put into the Reception class, which is the equivalent of Pre-Kinder in the
American system.

How does John Donne talk and think about the enlightenment in his poems?

John Donne, the great English poet, lived in the late
sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. He thus lived well before the so-called
“Enlightenment,” which is usually associated with the late seventeenth century and
especially with the eighteenth century.

Nevertheless,
Donne, like many figures of the Enlightenment, had a great respect for reason. Reason,
in Donne’s day, was considered one of the greatest gifts given by God to human beings. 
Reason, in fact, was one of the traits that made human beings resemble God and that
helped lift human beings above the level of animals.

In
Holy Sonnet IX, for instance (beginning “If poisonous mineralls”), the speaker
nonsensically asks why he should be held accountable for sins simply because he
possesses reason. Animals, after all, are not considered sinners (he says), and the only
explanation for this exemption is that they lack reason. This question, of course, is a
splendid (and ironic) example of poor reasoning on the speaker’s
part.

In Holy Sonnet XIV, the speaker, addressing God,
says,

Reason
your viceroy in mee, mee should defend,

But is captiv'd ,
and proves weake or untrue.
(7-8)

The idea that reason
was God’s deputy, implanted in humanity in order to help defend humanity from sin, was
standard Christian doctrine at the time. The speaker here claims that Reason has been
captured by Satan and is weak and unreliable.  Yet it is the speaker, by failing to
adhere to Reason, who has in fact proved weak and unreliable. Nevertheless, the speaker
can (and does) appeal to God for assistance: Reason, for Donne and his contemporaries,
was not mankind’s only source of assistance in the battle with
sin.

This latter idea is emphasized in Holy Sonnet IV
(beginning “Oh my blacke Soule!”), which makes clear that human beings are ultimately
and utterly dependent on God, entirely, for their salvation. Reason can help, and we
have an obligation to use our reason wisely and well, but we are imperfect, sinful
creatures and can never rely on reason alone.

The
Enlightenment was a period in which an emphasis on reason alone was greater than in
Donne’s time, as Donne’s poetry shows.

Compare and contrast the effectiveness of the endings of the stories "The Gift of the Magi" and "Lamb to the Slaughter".

Both "Lamb to the Slaughter" and "The Gift of the Magi"
have endings that are unique, creative, and definitely a distinct twist on the stories
themselves.  They both surprise the reader:  in "The Gift of the Magi," we are surprised
to learn that both Jim and Della sold their own precious possessions to show their love,
which in turn rendered the gifts they bought useless.  Though the loss of money is sad,
the reader is touched by their love for one another.  In "Lamb to the Slaughter," the
reader is surprised by Mary Maloney's clever way of hiding the muder weapon, and by the
fact that she is brazen enough to feed it to the police investigating her crime.  Both
endings also show resourcefulness and cleverness on the part of all of the
characters.

Some differences between the effectiveness of
the endings is in the emotions that they elicit.  In "Lamb to the Slaughter," we are
left feeling awed and slightly horrified by what has happened.  In "The Gift of the
Magi" however, we are left feeling sad but then touched and moved.  "Lamb to the
Slaughter" also has less of a surprise element to the ending; we knew she put the lamb
in the oven.  We just didn't know she would feed it to the cops.  In "The Gift of the
Magi," it isn't until the very end of the story that the surprise
comes.

I hope that those thoughts help to get you started;
good luck!

A resto agreed to serve snack to 100 people charged per person is $5 for A, $10 for B & $20 for C. The total bill is $975. (continued...

There are three kinds of snacks served, A for $5, B for
$10 and C for $20.

Let the number of people who took A be
a, those that took B be b and those that took C be c.

As
the total number of people served is 100, a + b + c = 100
...(1)

The total bill is: 5a + 10b + 20c = 975
...(2)

If the charge of A and C are interchanged, the bill
increased by $450, this gives: 20a + 10b + 5c = 975 + 450 = 1425
...(3)

(3) - (2)

=> 15a
- 15c = 450

=> a - c =
30

=> a = 30 +
c

substitute in (1)

=>
30 + c + b + c = 100

=> 2c + b =
70

=> b = 70 -
2c

Substitute a and b in
(2)

=> 5(30 + c) + 10(70 - 2c) + 20c =
975

=> 150 + 5c + 700 - 20c + 20c =
975

=> 5c =
125

=> c = 25

a =
55

b = 20

The bill when a =
55, b = 20 and c = 25 are substituted is 5*55 + 10*20 + 20*25 =
975

On reversing the charge for A and C, the bill is 20*55
+ 10*20 + 5*25 = 1425 which is 450 more than
975

The number of people that took A is 55,
those that took B is 20 and 25 people took C.

Which is the most sympathetic out of the three characters in the story "Hunters in the snow"?

This is a great question, because in a lot of ways the
story itself confounds sympathy. The trick is to define what we mean when we are trying
to be "sympathetic."  In general, the most common definition would be that sympathy is
the act of feeling sorry for someone else's misfortune. But to feel sorry for someone we
must care a little bit about them, and these three characters can make it
difficult.

First, Kenny. He's a bit of a jerk, so it's hard
to feel sorry for him for much of the story.  But in a real way, he is also the most
sympathetic character (ironically, considering his jerk-a-tude.)  I think that this
stems from the fact that even though he's a jerk, that doesn't mean we want to see him
die in the back of the truck.  He was shot by Tubs for what amounts to a prank (not
telling the others he had permission to kill the dog) and in this respect it is possible
to feel sorry for him, especially when the other men seem to make so many pit-stops on
the way to the hospital and seem largely indifferent to his
suffering.

Tubs would make the most obvious character for
sympathy, but it's a bit of a false-lead.  At first the reader feels bad for Tubs
because he is a bit of a buffoon that gets picked on by the others (especially Kenny.)
 He is out of shape and can't keep up.  We can even forgive Tubs shooting him because
Tubs was genuinely afraid for his life.

The reason that
Tubs fails to be a sympathetic character in the end is because A) He ultimately isn't
too concerned with getting Kenny to the hospital, despite the fact that he's erroneously
shot him, and B) He admits that much of his weight problem stems from overindulgence
(shown in the way he wolfs down the pancakes.)  Yes, he got teased in a way that most
people can relate to, but in the end he is the cause of his own ridicule.  His lack of
morality when it comes to Kenny makes it hard to feel bad for
him.

Frank is more in the middle.  He's not as much of an
a-hole as Kenny, but he's not exactly sticking up for Tubs, either, nor does he make any
effort to hurry his friend to the hospital (or even remember where the hospital is, for
that matter.)  We also get the weird confession that he is in love with his children's
underage babysitter and is considering abandoning his family in pursuit of her.  That
alone makes him creepy enough to reject.  I suppose in a twisted way it might be
possible to find sympathy for him in that he is so lovesick, but it is in such a
repugnant way it's hard.

So there you have it.  In the end,
the character who is outwardly the least likable is also the most sympathetic in the
story.  This stems not from his character, which appears slightly sadistic, but from the
fact that being a foul human being is not enough of a reason to deserve bleeding out in
the back of a frozen truck when your fat friend gobbles pancakes in a
roadhouse.

The musician in Langston Hughes' poem "The Weary Blues" sings, "Ain't got nobody in all this world, / Ain't got nobody but ma self." Are there any...

The musician in Langston Hughes’ poem “The Weary Blues”
seems to feel lonely and isolated.  Several clues suggest why he may feel this way. 
Among those clues are the following:

• In line 3,
  the singer is identified explicitly as “a Negro.” This identification would
  automatically have made him feel somewhat lonely and isolated in early twentieth-century
  American, when racial discrimination was common.  In other words, his isolation is not
  merely personal, it is also (paradoxically) communal, since most African Americans felt
  isolated during this period from the rest of American
  culture.


• The singer plays “on Lenox Avenue,” in the
  Harlem neighborhood of New York City (4). Harlem was essentially a black neighborhood –
  even a black ghetto – at this time and was isolated in many ways from the rest of the
  city. Once more, then, the singer’s isolation is partly communal, because he is a black
  person living in a largely segregated city.


• Various
  details of the poem, such as the references to the “pale dull pallor of an old gas
  light” (5), the reference to the “poor piano” (10), and the reference to the “old piano”
  (18), suggest that the singer is poor rather than wealthy. If he were rich, he would be
  less likely to feel isolated.


• Given the various details
  already mentioned – the fact that the singer is a member of a minority group subject to
  harsh discrimination; the fact that the singer lives in a segregated neighborhood and
  probably has little choice but to live in such a neighborhood; and the fact that the
  singer seems to be poor as well as black and is thus subject to discrimination on both
  counts – it is little wonder that the singer feels lonely. It seems highly appropriate,
  then, that he sings,

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“Ain’t got nobody in all this
world,

Ain’t got nobody but ma self.”
(19-20)

In what ways are love and lust as understood in the archaic world of Sappho different from those in contemporary western society?

Archaic Greek society was primarily homosocial. in other
words, men associated primarily with men and women with other women. Much of this was
due to traditions of marriage quite different than found in the modern western world.
Men would normally marry when they assumed responsibility for family estates -- normally
in their thirties. Due to a high rate of child mortality, women normally married in
early puberty in order to maximize child-bearing potential. Women generally were
involved in weaving and food preparation, and men in agricultural management, politics
and military pursuits. Most Greek activities, and even religious rituals were segregated
by gender. This led to a society in which love was primarily homosexual. Although men
might have sexual relationships with female prostitutes and with their wives, the deeper
emotional sympathies were most often directed towards other men. In Sappho, we see also
that women, who primarily socialized with othder women, might also develop close
emotional bonds with women.

What is a Gap Junction?Please give a definition and example.

A Gap Junction is a direct connection between two separate
cells. It allows molecules to pass between the two cells. The Gap Junction, also called
a Nexus, is formed from six proteins called Connexins. The Connexins form a bridge with
a sphincter than can open and close. The importance of the Gap Junction is that it
allows transmission of electrical signals and molecules between cells, instead of being
closed off by the cell membranes.

An example of Gap
Junctions in action is the Heart. Instant communication is key; the Gap Junctions in the
Heart's cellular tissue enable each cell to contract at the same time. Without the
signals passing directly through the cell membranes, the cells would contract
individually and likely cause an irregular heartbeat, which can lead to a heart attack.
The speed and accuracy of the Gap Junction transmission is key to a healthy heartbeat.
Cells naturally share a small amount of electricity during their normal function, but
large-scale, coordinated sharing must occur across Gap Junctions to be
effective.

Describe the grievance process and what it does for both the administration and the employee.

The term "grievance" is a term of art in labor and
employment law.  It applies to situations in which there is a labor union and a
collective bargaining agreement that provides for a mechanism with which to dispute a
management practice.  An arbitrator that is agreed upon by labor and management is
selected, and that person settles the dispute.  Because grievances are handled this way,
there is a fairly quick resolution by an unbiased outsider, which is much better for the
workplace than a protracted court battle.  Because there is consensus on whom will make
the decision, there is a perception of fairness in the
result.

Workplaces which do not have this process, those
without unions, might have some other dispute resolution process, but these are likely
to vary considerably from company to company.  However, the same considerations would
likely apply, a perception on the part of labor and management that disputes can be
resolved quickly and fairly.

A student adds 1.347 + 3.68 on a calculator and gets 50.27 as the answer. Without adding the number yourself, is this the right answer? Please...

The student is adding 1.347 and 3.68 which is the same as
3.680

The result cannot be 50.27 because 7 is the third
digit after the decimal point, not the second. Also 8 + 4 = 12 which implies that 2 is
the second digit after the decimal point in the result not the first. Again, 6 + 3 + 1 =
10 making 0 the first digit after the decimal and the number before the decimal is
5.

Apart from this, the student is adding small numbers
like 1.347 and 3.68, the answer is a number around 5 not a large number like
50.

The result the students gets by adding
1.347 and 3.68 using a calculator is wrong.

Can anyone tell me the techniques of memorizing the algebraic formulas?The formula does not really get into my head. Can you tell me a technique...

I think the best technique is to really try to understand
them.

For example, consider the formula `x^a * x^b =
x^(a+b)` . Instead of thinking about just memorizing it, stop to think about
why that's the formula. Try to really understand it. Consider an
example, say `x^4 * x^2` . We know that `x^4 = x*x*x*x` and `x^2 = x*x` , therefore `x^4
* x^2 = (x*x*x*x) * (x*x) = x*x*x*x*x*x` . Now we see there are 4+2 = 6 x's multiplied
by each other, so we have figured out on our own that `x^4*x^2=x^(4+2) = x^6`
.

This is a good technique to use on any problem. Stop and
think about what you know, and use the tools you know to solve harder
problems.

Of course, the best way to learn anything is by
practicing. Do lots of problems. As you do more and more problems, the techniques will
become natural, and will build upon each other.

What is the significance of the African American woman's saying about the bruise,"You just had you a little fall" in relation to the rest of the...

Mrs. Turpin puts her needs above those of others, and her
opinions over those of others.  If it is not happening to her, it is not important. 
When the old woman talks to Mrs. Turpin, even those she is expressing sympathy and good
will, Mrs. Turpin gets annoyed. 

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We were 'in town at the doctor's office for where
the cow kicked Mr. Turpin," Mrs. Turpin said in a flat tone that indicated they could
leave off their
foolishness. 

Mrs. Turpin
looks down on the “Negroes” as a matter of habit.  She has already been told that she is
“an old wart hog from hell” by someone she deemed inferior.  Now the black woman is
talking to her about a fall.  She simply cannot wait to get away from the harsh
truth. 

Unfortunately, Mrs. Turpin cannot get away from the
truth.  She has a vision in the hog parlor that confirms the revelation she had in the
doctor’s office.  She is not better than anyone else.

In an era before the American Civil Rights Movement, what social and economic conditions might have contributed to the sense of weariness expressed...

Langston Hughes’ poem “The Weary Blues,” which is set in
an era before the Civil Rights Movement, implies a number of reasons for the weariness
of the musician.  Those reasons include the
following:

• The musician is black during a period
  of great racial discrimination against African Americans. It is only natural, therefore,
  for him to feel weary of the prejudice he must face every day – prejudice which at that
  time seemed unlikely to change or diminish in any very fundamental way. In other words,
  the musician had grown up facing discrimination; he faced discrimination in his present
  existence; and he was likely to continue to face discrimination in the future.  The same
  was true of most members of his family and most of his friends.  Little wonder, then,
  that he feels weary almost to the point of desiring
  death:

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“I ain’t happy no
more

And I wish that I had died.”
(29-30)

• The
  musician seems to be poor, or at least of modest means, during a time when social worth
  was often determined by the amount of money one possessed.  Moreover, his apparent
  poverty is compounded by his identity as a black person.  African Americans at this time
  were far less likely to move from the ranks of the poor to the ranks of the rich or
  upper middle class than were whites. The speaker may assume that his poverty is
  something he will have to bear all his life.


• The musician
  lives in a segregated neighborhood (Harlem) and is unlikely to be accepted or welcomed
  outside that neighborhood. His freedom to live and work where he wants is highly
  restricted and is likely to continue to be highly restricted – one more reason for him
  to feel weary.


• The musicians practices a kind of music –
  jazz – that was not afforded the kind of social respect or financial support afforded to
  other kinds of music at the time.  Jazz was a kind of music that was initially
  associated with poor black people, and although its popularity soon spread, few black
  performers ever became enormously wealthy by playing jazz. This musician, in any case,
  does not seem to be playing before huge crowds in packed ballrooms; rather, he seems to
  play in a small club that can afford only and old, poor piano and a “rickety stool” (10,
  12, 18).

Was the central conflict resloved at the end of "The Waiting Room" by Elizabeth Bishop?

"The Waiting Room" by Elizabeth Bishop describes a brief
moment of existential crisis that a 6-year-old girl, the narrator, has while in the
waiting room at a dentist's office.  As she reads through The National Geographic, she
is fascinated and horrified by the images it contained, and it upsets her reality.  She
wonders if she is like the people in the magazine, and as she is pained by it, she
wonders if she is like her Aunt, with whom she arrived at the dentist.  She realizes
that there are other people in the world that are not like her, and she also realizes
that she is more like her aunt and her family than she would have liked to
admit.

While pondering, Bishop describes the experience as
a powerful one.  It felt as if she were "sliding beneath a big, black wave, and another,
and another."  She grows uncomfortably hot.  She utters a mantra to ground herself: 
"You will be seven in three days."  None of this works, and for a while, she is awash in
the conflict of expanding her self-identity.

She is
conflicted up until the very last stanza.  Right before that stanza she is still asking
questions--why, what, how is this possible?  The last stanza seems to indicate a
resolution.  The poem opened with her describing the waiting room, the weather outside,
and her condition.  The poem ends the same way; Bishop mentions she is "back in it,"
meaning, the waiting room.  She feels her place in the world again, mentions the date,
the war, and that all was "still" as it was before.  So, she learns, grows, and
assimilates her newness back into the world she knew.  Her conflict, though maybe not
"resolved," is at least processed and worked into her current worldview.  I hope that
those thoughts helped; good luck!

What are the causes and effects of the Anglo-Spain conflict during the reign of Elizabeth I ?

The causes of the conflict were both religious and
diplomatic, and resulted in Spain's failed attempt to invade England with the Spanish
Armada.

Philip II of Spain was a devout Catholic and
devoted to maintaining Catholicism in Europe. He had been married to Elizabeth I's half
sister, Mary I during her brief reign. Since Mary was Catholic, Philip believed that her
reign marked the return of England to the Catholic Church. When Mary died and Elizabeth
ascended the throne, Philip proposed marriage to her also. Elizabeth rather coyly
avoided a flat response, and thus strung Philip along for some time. When it became
apparent that Elizabeth would not marry him, let alone convert to Catholicism, Philip
supported a number of plots to have Elizabeth overthrown and/or assassinated. The most
famous of these plots involved Mary Queen of Scots, Elizabeth's Catholic cousin who had
been forced to flee Scotland. After Mary was implicated in two plots to assassinate
Elizabeth and take the throne for herself, Elizabeth had no choice but to order
Elizabeth's execution. This action enraged Philip.

A second
cause was the actions of Francis Drake, the English privateer who attacked Spanish
shipments and settlements in the New World. When Drake found his way across the Atlantic
blocked by Spanish ships, he sailed west and circumnavigated the globe to return to
England. Philip demanded that Elizabeth surrender Drake to him so that he might stand
trial in Spain for his actions. Rather than surrender him, Elizabeth knighted Drake on
the deck of his ship when he docked. Philip was further outraged, and sent the Spanish
Armada to retrieve troops from the Netherlands and invade England. The plan again was to
remove Elizabeth. At the time the Armada was launched, Elizabeth met with her troops
dressed in full battle armor and told them

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I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble
woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a King; and of a King of England
too.

The failure of the
Armada doomed any chances of England returning to Catholicism.

What type of character is the main character? round, flat, dynamic?

A round character is characterized for experiencing most
of the action of the story and coming to a full circle of learning. The story of a round
character has a beginning, middle, and end and transforms as a result of the events that
occur in the story. Round characters have a certain complexity that comes as a result of
their internal questions.

This being said, we do not find
any type of transformation that is in any way complex with Tessie Hutchinson. However,
if you think about it, Tessie lives in a society in which there is little room for women
to transform in any way. Therefore, Tessie is not a round
character.

She is not flat because she does not remain
passive throughout the story. There is a part of her that wants change. If Tessie were a
flat character she may not even be a main character. All good main characters are known
for their struggles, their transformations, and their actions; not for their lack of
action.

Therefore, Tessie is a dynamic character, because
there is something inside of her that wants for a change from the accepted norm.
She questions the Lottery at the end of the story, and complaints about the unfairness
of the process. She dies in protest. She does not take it laying down. Within her
circumstances, she makes a change from a passive follower to an active protester.
Although her actions are not. Her protestation is her way to make her
mark.

How is Hero presented in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing?

Hero is presented as a very sweet, loving, modest, and
virtuous maiden.

We first learn of Hero's modesty and sweetness when
we witness Claudio's reaction to meeting her. Claudio describes Hero as "the sweetest
lady that [he] ever looked on" (I.i.160). He also likens her beauty to a precious jewel,
as we see in his line, "Can the world buy such a jewel?" (155).

Hero,
herself, also confirms her own modesty when she is asked by the other characters to work
with them in tricking Beatrice and Benedick into falling in love. Her reply is that she
would do anything a modest, virtuous maiden would do to trick her cousin into getting a
husband, as we see in her line, "I will do any modest office, my lord, to help my cousin
to a good husband" (II.i.330). We see her modesty again the night before her wedding day
when she is getting her bridal attire set out with Margaret. After Hero mentions that
she is feeling "heavy" at heart, she chastises Margaret for making an immodest sexual
joke, saying that Hero's heart will soon "be heavier by the weight of a man"
(III.iv.22-24).

We again see Hero's modest gentle nature when she is
wrongfully publicly shamed by Claudio before the altar. When he first begins hurtling
accusations at her, she does nothing more than blush like a maiden. She does not even
reciprocate Claudio's harshness by speaking harshly back at him. All she does is try to
defend herself and ask Claudio if he has lost his sanity, as we see in her line, "Is my
lord well that he doth speak so wide?" (IV.i.59). Also, in accordance with her sweet,
gentle nature, she faints from the shock and horror of the
event.

Finally, we also see Hero's sweet, loving, and virtuous nature
portrayed when we see her forgive Claudio enough to carry through with a second wedding.
Through her forgiveness and her faked death, she proclaims herself to be born anew, as
we see in her lines:

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And when I lived I was your other wife;
...
And when you loved you were my other husband.
...
One
Hero died defiled; but I do live,
And surely as I live, I am a maid.
(V.iv.61-66)

The things Hero
says and does, other characters' responses toward her, and her responses toward other
characters, including her forgiveness, help to show us that Hero has been presented as a
very sweet, loving, virtuous, and modest character.

In "The Open Boat" does Stephen Crane view nature as subjective (an act of chance), wiched, or in fact an entirely different entity in and of itself?

With his story, "An Open Boat," Naturalist Stephen Crane
depicts the men on the boat as symbolic of the heroism of human endurance against an
indifferent universe.  His opening sentence, "None of them knew the colour of the sky,"
indicates the lack of involvement of nature with man.  Crane describes the seat in this
boat as not dissimilar to a bucking broncho, "The craft pranced and reared and plunged
like an animal." As the men continue their struggle to find shore, they try to make
sense of their situation; one wonders why he has been allowed to come so far on the sea
if he is just to be drowned; another, a fatalist,  feels it is the intention of the
seven mad gods to drown him despite the "abominable injustice of it."  This passage
suggests the absurdity of an individual’s sense of self-importance against the mindless
power of nature.

There is no connection, positive or
negative, of nature with these men.  That there is an indifference to nature is evinced
in Crane's use of adjectives.  For instance, the wall of water is "slaty," the water
"grim," and there is a "little grey shadow on the sky" and "the shore grew dusky." 
Further, when the oiler, Billie, dies, rather than someone who does not know the sea, it
is apparent that the universe is truly uninvolved and
unconcerned:

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In the shallows, face downward, lay the oiler. 
His forehead touched sand that was periodically, between each wave, clear of the
sea.

When night falls
after the men arrive on a shore, they feel they can now be "interpreters";
however, their act is betrayed by the language that they must use in this interpretation
because each man is required to give  a purely subjective meaning to the sea that in the
end is unconcerned and "indifferent, flatly indifferent."

Discuss Oscar Wilde's ''The Importance of Being Earnest'' as a comedy of manners.

A comedy of manners must be set within a first-world
society where money, social standing, and manners are required to be taught and executed
at every turn. Within such a setting, satire usually emerges as a literary device of
choice to poke fun at those who exist in such a realistic setting. As for Oscar Wilde's
"The Importance of Being Earnest," the main characters are wealthy English citizens who
feel they must lie in order to have fun, marry men with specific names in order to find
good fortune, and follow the rules of society in order to live an abundant life. The
manners referee for the play is Aunt Augusta who maintains the standards of society by
forcing her daughter and nephew to marry only those who will either increase their
social status, financial status, or both. Aunt Augusta uses the social rules of
courtship in order to manipulate the personal lives of said family and to show forth her
authority and control over them. Ironically, she is later trapped by her own game when
she wants her nephew to marry Jack's ward Cecily who has lots of money and Jack
prohibits it. It is at that moment that the tables of social rules are turned on Augusta
and she is forced to become the object of her own game. Other issues that come up for
the characters in such plays (and that are also mocked, generally) are: marriage,
indebtedness, wealth, secret relationships and lying to manipulate others to get what is
desired.

What should be included in a good introductory paragraph for the Incas during the Age of Exploration?time frame is 1450 to1550

In order to write a good introduction, you must first have
some idea as to what you want to argue in your essay.  For me, the most important thing
about the Incas at this time is that they were about to be conquered by a very few
Spanish conquistadores.  I would want to explain why that was possible.  My essay and my
introduction would focus on that topic.  My introduction would set out what I thought
were the most important facts about the Incas that would explain why they would soon be
conquered.

I would point out that the Incas had a vast
empire that they gained through conquest.  I would point out that this made them have
many enemies within their empire who were waiting for a chance to rebel.  I would point
out that the Incas had no immunity to the diseases the Spaniards were introducing to
South America.  I would further point out that the Incas did not have a set way of
deciding who the next emperor would be when one died.  I would then put that together by
saying that, just before the Spanish came, an epidemic killed many Incas, including the
emperor.  A civil war followed to determine who would be the next emperor.  Then the
Spaniards came.  Using other Indians who hated the Incas as help, they destroyed the
Inca empire.

In this way, my introduction would briefly
present the major factors that led to the fall of the Inca
Empire.

show the inequality (a raised to(c-a))*(b raised to(a-b))*(c raised to (b-c))=or0 a=or

If use logarithms, you should be able to do the first
step. Use of logarithms helps you to reverse the
exponentiation.

log(a^(c-a)*b^(a-b)*c^(b-c))=<log
1

Use property of logarithms and transform the product in a
sum of logarithms.

log(a^(c-a))+ log(b^(a-b))+
log(c^(b-c))=<0 (use log1=0)

Use one of the
four logarithmic properties: the log of the power is equal to the log of the base
multiplied by power.

(c-a)log a + (a-b)log b+ (b-c) log
c=<0

Use a<b<c => log a<
log b< log c( because logarithmic function is monotonically
increasing)

Use c-a>=a-b and add a both sides
=> c>=2a-b.

Use
2a=<b+c

Use  Cebishev's inequality to (c-a)log a +
(a-b)log b=< (c-b)(log a)/2+ (c-b)(log b)/2 = (c-b)(log
ab)/2

Use the logarithmic property: the log of the power is
equal to the log of the base multiplied by power:(c-b)(log ab)/2 = (c-b)(log
sqrt(ab))

(c-a)log a + (a-b)log b+ (b-c) log
c=<(c-b)(log sqrt(ab))+ (b-c) log c=< 0

The
right side hand is (c-b)(log sqrt(ab))+ (b-c) log c=(c-b)(log sqrt(ab))- (c-b) log c=
(c-b)log (sqrt(ab)/c) =< 0

Check each factor of
product (c-b)log (sqrt(ab)/c) is is positive or negative: b<c =>
0<c-b =>c-b
positive

sqrt(ab)<c=>log (sqrt(ab)/c)
=> (c-b)log (sqrt(ab)/c) =< 0

Answer:
Inequality (c-b)log (sqrt(ab)/c) =< 0
proves (a^(c-a)*b^(a-b)*c^(b-c))=<1.

Why would society want to get ride of competition? Discuss with reference to "Harrison Bergeron."

Let us remember that the society we are presented with in
this dystopian world is one in which competition has been deemed to be unhealthy and
unproductive, and so has been eradicated. Notice how George replies to his wife's
suggestion that he remove some of his hindrances:

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

The way in
which George describes a time where competition was allowed as being the "Dark Ages"
clearly indicates that, for some perverse politically correct reason, this story is set
during a time when differences between people and competition is thought to be a
terribly negative thing. On the one hand, we can see the truth of this statement. Ask
any student at high school and they will be able to tell you why competition is a
negative thing, as our society does seem to be built on competition and being the best.
However, this means that those who are not the best are going to feel constantly that
they are a failure. However, on the other hand, competition is real life and is the only
way that we can develop and improve. This story however imagines what society would look
like if it tried to stamp out competition and the tragic consequences of such
actions.

What were the British and American reactions to the French and Indian War?

Basically, the Americans reacted to this war by expecting
more freedom and the British reacted by giving them less
freedom.

After this war, the colonists expected to be able
to do largely as they pleased.  The British had generally let them do so already and now
there was no fear of the French who had been driven out of North America.  The British,
however, wanted to control the colonists more.  They wanted, in particular, to tax them
and to regulate them so that they would provide more money for the British treasury. 
The British government thought the colonists should do this to help pay for the cost of
the war.

These two opposite reactions were the cause of the
problems that eventually led to the Revolutionary War.

How to convert energy in (Nm or Joule) into power in (watt) ?My posted question is related with unit conversion

Newton is a unit of force. The force applied over a
particular distance gives energy. This can be expressed either as Newton meter or in the
SI unit which for energy is joule. Watt is the SI unit for power. Power is energy per
unit time or Joule/second. It is not possible to convert energy to power
directly.

You can calculate power if you know the duration
of time over which the energy was converted. For example, if 10 joule of energy is used
to heat a room in 5 seconds, the power consumption is 2
watt.

You cannot directly convert Nm or J to W as they are
not equivalent units.

Explain the quote, "When he shall die, take him and cut him out into the little stars, . . . and pay no worship to the garnish sun."

Juliet is explaining how physically attractive she finds
Romeo.  She is saying that if his body was the stars in the sky, people would love the
night time as much as she loves Romeo.  In general, day time would have been considered
better than night time.  Juliet is saying this would change if the stars were as
appealing as Romeo.  Of course, Juliet is speaking of Romeo's physical attributes
because she doesn't really know him at this point in the play.  Keep in mind that Juliet
is about 14 years old at this point.  As a teenager, her mind is easily infatuated with
an attractive boy.

Can you please help me create the 3 main reasons for this thesis?Thesis: social networking sites / technology do enhance relationships.

The 3 "main reasons" you seek are actually the
sub-categories for your argument.  You are proving that social networking sites and
technology do enhance relationships.  Brainstorm.  How?  How do
social networking sites and technology enhance relationships?  Make a long list.  Write
answers that are both general and specific.  Include personal examples, observations,
and things which you have heard on the news or read
about.

Once you have a long list of ideas (more than 10
would be best), you can look at your ideas and see what categories they seem to fit
into.  Off the top of my head, I'm guessing one main category is going to have to do
with the fact that social networking and technology have made keeping contact and
building relationships more
convenient.

Your other sub-topics are going to
depend entirely on the list of examples you personally can brainstorm.  If you need more
help in the brainstorming stage, I encourage you to post a question in the discussion
forum and combine answers from several different people.

In the book Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, what is Diamond's thesis?I need help finding his thesis, if possible, please include pg number.

Diamond's main point was simply to look at human trends as
the result of evironment and other factors more than as a result of human civilization's
own decisions about their future.  He looked carefully at a number of different
societies in order to explain his theories.  In order to examine his theory, he tries to
tease out which factors played a major role in why certain civilizations developed in
certain ways compared to others.

In the end, he concludes
that more often than not the most important factor was geography and by extension the
physical environment of a culture rather than religion, or other aspects of culture that
we often think of as determining how a certain society developed or
progressed.

In Henry V, what figures of speech do we have in the Prologue of Act III??

Well, there are plenty to choose from in this speech where
the Chorus calls upon the audience to suspend their disbelief once again and use their
imagination to call up the sights of the ships leaving England full of soldiers and
travelling to France to begin Henry's military
campaign.

Consider the following description of the seige
at Harfleur:

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Work, work your thoughts, and therein see a
siege:

Behold the ordnance on their
carriages,

With fatal mouths gaping on girded
Harfleur.

Consider how the
"ordnance" on the "carriages" are compared to "fatal mouths" that turn towards Harfleur
as the English army starts its siege of this French city. The description of these
mouths that "gape" at Harfleur certainly help to exaggerate the might of Henry's army
and its power.

Also, consider how the Chorus describes
Henry's fleet:

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O, do but think

You
stand upon the ravage and behold

A city on the inconstant
billows dancing;

For so appears this fleet
majestical...

Note how the
vast numbers of this fleet, and therefore the military might of England, is exaggerated
by its comparison to a "city on the inconstant billows dancing." The Chorus is keen to
present the fleet as being powerful, mighty and numerous, and the figurative language
that is used in this speech certainly helps to exaggerate the military might of Henry
and the forces that he has under his control.

I hope that
these two examples help you. Now go back and re-read this speech and see if you can
identify any more examples of figurative langauge. Good luck!

In spite of being being hurt, zaroff congratulates rainsford on his "malay catcher", why?

In “The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell,
Rainsford, a skilled hunter, finds himself hunted as prey by the deranged General
Zaroff.  Rainsford falls from a yacht and miraculously survives a swim to shore. He
initially feels welcomed and relaxed upon finding a mansion in the middle of an island.
However, he quickly learns that the mansion’s inhabitant, General Zaroff, has made a
sport of hunting humans. Rainsford becomes Zaroff’s hunted
prey.

Zaroff promises Rainsford his freedom if he is not
captured or killed by the midnight on the third day of hunting. Rainsford reluctantly
agrees and puts his wits to work in an effort to remain alive and elude capture. He
builds the Malay mancatcher so that Zaroff will be injured if he pursues him. The plan
works and Zaroff is wounded in the shoulder. He congratulates Rainsford because he
realizes that he is a skilled hunter. For Zaroff, the thrill of hunting humans is their
ability to think and to plan. Rainsford is proving to be the most skilled and
calculating hunter that Zaroff has ever sought. He is enjoying the hunt. Rainsford’s
hunting experiences in Malacca and other places around the world, have given him great
knowledge in capturing prey. He uses that knowledge to wound Zaroff, who is thoroughly
impressed with his skill.