What is the theme of "This Is Just to Say" by Williams Carlos Williams?

“This Is Just to Say” by William Carlos Williams
encourages interpretations. When asked about the poem, the poet referred to the meter of
the poem rather than its meaning.  The poet was a part-time writer and a full time
doctor.  He wrote at night when he had time. 

“I forgive
you” is the reaction that the poem wants to elicit from the reader.  Possibly, the poet
is asking for forgiveness for more than just the
plums. 

The setting for the poem is the kitchen.  The
narrator has done something wrong, so he wrote a note to be left on the refrigerator to
apologize.  The two people may use the front of the “fridge” as the message center for
the home.  These little everyday things like eating someone else’s fruit and giving a
rather unusual apology contribute to the fun of life. 

The
poem was written in 1934. One of the words dates the poem: the icebox which was an early
refrigerator. The icebox is exactly like what it sounds. It was a box with ice in it. 
It was like an ice chest today. The reader does not know if this is a more sophisticated
electric refrigerator or an actual ice box.  In this time period, it could have been
either one.
 

Theme

The
theme of the poem is choices.  The narrator had a choice to make. He knew what was right
and wrong.  The fruit did not belong to him.  It was not his to eat.  The choice is
obvious—follow his conscience.  If there were an understanding about the fruit, this
would be a different matter.  Obviously, he feels guilt and the need to tell her why he
ate them.

         Forgive
me

they were
delicious

so sweet

and so
cold.

Remember also for every
action there is a consequence.  The speaker may be expecting some kind of reaction from
his decision that can be better managed with an
apology. 

Summary

The
poet has committed a “plum crime” and leaves a note on the icebox apologizing for eating
the plums belonging to the other person. May be it was late at night, and the doctor was
hungry, and the poet wrote the apology.    

The two people
in the poem may have different schedules. The doctor may have come in late from
something about his medical practice, or he may have been writing late at night which he
often did. He does not expect to see this person until after she comes for her
breakfast. It is a sensitive step on the part of the poet to ask forgiveness.  It shows
a deep regard for the other person’s feelings.  He enjoyed the plums.  Sadly, she will
not have this pleasant experience.

On the other hand, he
then jumps into rubbing it in a bit about how good the plums were.  Possibly, this is a
joke between the two people.  His tone may have a touch of sarcasm, or humor by pointing
out what she is going to miss when she has her breakfast.
 

He may need to justify his crime by telling her that he
could not resist eating them.  It is doubtful that he is trying to give her a vicarious
experience by describing the luscious fruit in which she is going to miss
out.

 It is also possible that he is really not sorry at
all.  He does not beg her forgiveness. His imperative tone does not illicit any strong
feels of guilt; he rather orders her to forgive him.  

This
is the beauty of poetry.  The reader can understand the words of a poem, their meanings,
and possibilities.  It is his responsibility to decide for himself the flavor of the
poem.

 

How is the "Tea Party Movement" like or unlike past American social movements?

In addition to what I said in my answer to your previous
question, there are a few similarities and differences between the Tea Party and
previous social movements.

The main similarity is that the
Tea Party arose based on its members' opinions on one particular issue, the issue of
government spending.  This is very typical of a social movement.  They tend to coalesce
around single issues like civil rights, abortion, or gay rights rather than around a
range of issues like a political party does.

The major
difference, though, is that the Tea Party has not been heavily engaged in any of the
traditional "outsider" actions that social movements have engaged in.  They do not do
sit-ins like the Civil Rights Movement or Operation Rescue.  They do not have a major
focus on lawsuits the way that rights movements like the Civil Rights Movement and the
movement for gay rights have had.  Instead, they are focused mainly on trying to get
candidates that they approve of elected.

There are major
similarities and differences between the Tea Party and previous social movements, which
is why it is hard to know whether to classify the Tea Party as a social
movement.

Water molecule is not linear although it is of the type AB2.Please explain.Chemistry

A water molecule is not linear because of the electron
structure of the oxygen atoms in the water molecules.  Oxygen has 6 valence electrons in
the second energy level. Its configuration is 1s2 2s2 2p4.  Because of this
configuration oxygen has two electron pairs and two single valence electrons.  When
oxygen combines with hydrogen to form water each of the single electron pairs combines
with an electron from hydrogen to form a single bond. However, the electron pairs take
up a relatively large amount of space around the oxygen atom and because of the natural
repulsion between the electron pairs and the electrons in the O-H bonds, these bonds
bend to form an angle of about 107 degrees rather than being linear as
expected.

What were the causes which led to the Battle of Plassey in 1756?yes! i want to have a whole mind map plus a proper and authentic explanation...

By the early 18th century, the British east india
company had a strong presence in India with the three main stations of Fort st.George in
Madras, Fort William in Calcutta and Bombay castle in western India. These stations were
independent presidencies governed by a President and a Council, appointed by the Court
of Directors in England. The British adopted a policy of allying themselves with various
princes and Nawabs, promising security against usurpers and rebels. The Nawabs often
gave them concessions in return for the security. By then, all rivalry had ceased
between the British East India Company and the Dutch or Portugese. The French had also
established an East India Company under Louis XIV and had two important stations in
India –Chandergarh in Bengal and Pondichery on the Carnatic coast, both governed by the
presidency of Pondicherry. The French were a late comer in India trade, but they quickly
established themselves in India and were poised to overtake Britain for
control.

I need a poem with the topic silvera poem with the topic silver

I found some very interesting poems that has the title,
'Silver'.  Some refer to the metal silver. Others act as an description or symbolic
picture of something silver. One of my favorite poems I got from a teen website is as
follows:

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Silver lips

Someone I thought
I left comes back to me.

The one I rejected that held me when no one
else would.

Now I know we are bound for eternity.

I
hold her hand as we close our eyes.

I hold my breath as silver lips
kiss me.

Leaving stains of red.

when we part I stare
into the eyes of my steel maiden and sigh.

meant to be. By
Onecalledfreak, Junior member.

Since this is a reference
question, I'm assuming you want to know what source I used to locate this poem. I typed
in poems with the topic silver. I got a link. I am sharing it with
you.

Below is the search listing I found. One site where I
found the above poem, was called Family Friends Forums, for
Teens.

I hope you find this
useful.

In "Through the Tunnel," what is the role of the older boys in Jerry's rite of passage?

The older boys that Jerry see at the wild beach play an
important role in terms of firstly making Jerry aware that he is still a child and
secondly showing him what he needs to do in order to grow up and become a
man.

If we look at the story, when Jerry first goes to the
wild beach, he greets the boys with "desperate, nervous supplication," wanting to fit
in. Jerry views them as being "men," which furhter underscores the difference between
himself and them. When, however, they dive through the tunnel and Jerry is unable to
follow them, and Jerry responds by being silly and trying to make them laugh, note how
they respond:

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They looked down gravely, frowning. He knew the
frown. At moments of failure, when he clowned to claim his mother's attention, it was
with just this grave, embarrassed inspection that she rewarded
him.

The boys thus highlight
to Jerry how young he still is and reinforce his childlike state. They also, through the
tunnel that they dive through, present him with the way of becoming "men" like they are
and the means of how he can achieve his rite of passage and grow
up.

find the least no which when divided by 17, 16 ,15 leaves the remainder 3, 10, 0 respectively u have to explain the step

Find the least number such that the
remainder when divided by 17 is 3, when divided by 16 is 10, and when divided by 15 is
0.

If I have the question correctly stated,
then the answer from your book is wrong since 3910/15 is not a whole
number.

(1) The number must be a multiple of 15 since the
remainder is 0.

(2) We look for the first multiple of 15
that is 10 more than a multiple of 16. We find that 90=15*6 and 16*5+10=90. The LCM of
15 and 16 is 240, so the answer will be a number of the form
90+240x.

(3) We need a number of the form 90+240x that is 3
more than a multiple of 17. We notice that 90=17*5+5, 330=17*19+7 so we try the other
direction and see that -150=17*(-9)+3. We presumably want the smallest positive number
or the problem is unanswerable, so we add the LCM of 240 and 17 which is 4080 to get
3930.

Note that 3930=15*262, 3930=16*245+10, and
3930=17*231+3 so 3930 is the
solution.

If you are studying
modular arithmetic, note that the number x has the following
properties:

x=0(mod15)
x=3(mod17)
x=10(mod16)

So
we are looking for a w such that

15w=10(mod16) or
w=6(mod16)
15w=3(mod17)   or 5w=1(mod17)
Solving for w yields w=262
and 15(262)=3930, the number we are seeking.

What is the role of the curator in putting together an art exhibition?

A Curator is the person on staff responsible for
maintaining collections of art and artifacts, keeping detailed records of their origins
and histories, and deciding which new objects to purchase (see Collections:
Accessioning). A Curator in a museum will ordinarily act as a general manager, making
sure the collections and individual pieces are properly cleaned, moved, stored, and
archived.

In creating an art exhibition, the Curator's role
is to contact the specific artist about their work, if applicable, or to collect all
pieces of art together from existing collections. The Curator will design the basic
structure of the exhibit, delegate construction and cleanup work to staff, and identify
and resolve issues with lighting, sound, and viewer areas. Because an exhibit requires
many people to make it work, the Curator's role is that of an organizer, overseeing
everything at once and keeping the exhibit on schedule and under budget, as well as
making sure the art itself remains intact and properly displayed. After the exhibition
finishes its run, the Curator disassembles it, either properly storing the art for the
next show or packaging it for transport to its original home.

Explain what Fitzgerald achieves by using Nick's point of view to tell Gatsby's story.

Numerous answers exist to your question about what the
author gains by creating Nick as the narrator of The Great Gatsby. 
He gains a narrator, a narrator who is a part of the action, and a narrator who on the
surface is an outsider who can objectively describe the shortcomings of the eastern
characters.  The author gains a persona who can contrast his midwestern ways with
the eastern ways of the other characters.  The author gains a persona who experiences
for the first time much of what he describes:  parties like Gatsby's, mansions like
Gatsby's, gangsters, etc. 

Perhaps more interestingly,
complexity and ambiguity are gained by the use of Nick as the narrator.  Fitzgerald
creates an unreliable narrator when he creates Nick.  Nick is not objective (he judges
Tom based on their acquaintance when they were in college, judges Jordan before he's
even introduced to her, etc.); thinks he's better than other people (you don't have to
try so hard not to judge others if you don't inherently think you are better than them);
and is not really an outsider (he knows Tom and Daisy before the present of the novel
opens, and is, in fact, Daisy's cousin). 

Nick's
personality and character are also questionable:  he dates the amoral Jordan, even
though he has judged her as such (as well judging her to be a snob), and he doesn't
notify the authorities that Daisy, his cousin, is the person who was driving the car
that kills Mrs. Wilson. 

The fact is that everything we
know about the characters in the novel is filtered through an unreliable narrator's
eyes.  That's complexity and ambiguity.  We don't have a story in the form of a novel,
we have a story as seen by and told by Nick.  He, therefore, is central to the
novel. 

The number two is used many times in "Hills Like White Elephants." What is the significance of this repetition?

Hemingway use the number two for two
purposes (no play on words intended). The first relates to the American man and the
girl, whom he calls Jig, being a couple. This reinforces the man's perspective that he
wants their relationship to stay just as it is: traveling, staying for a night or a few
nights at different places to see different things, and tasting new drinks. The
instances where two represents their relationship in this way are
these:

‘Yes.
Two big ones.’

The woman brought two glasses of beer and two felt
pads.

‘We want two Anis del Toro.’

The girl looked
at the bead curtain, put her hand out and took hold of two of the strings of
beads.

The woman came out through the curtains with two glasses of
beer and put them down on the damp felt
pads.

The second relates to
the division between them--the separateness that Jig's pregnancy is pushing them into.
This also represents a significant irony and paradox in that it is ironic that, while a
couple, they are divided and separated, and it is a paradox that
two can be both separateness and unity. Of course, the answer to
the riddle of the paradox is that two going in the same path is
unity while two in divergent directions is separateness. These
quotes represent two as
separateness:

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the station was between two lines of rails in the
sun.

It stopped at this junction for two minutes

He
picked up the two heavy bags and carried them around the station to the other
tracks.

In an ironic
statement, Hemingway uses the last reference to
two to enlighten us on the man's
perspective and give the reason for their growing separateness. The man carries "the two
heavy bags" round the corner of the station, then looks up the tracks for the train: he
"could not see the train." This is a metaphor for the man's experience: he can't see the
metaphorical train that is about to hit him. The train symbolizes the disagreement about
the abortion that is threatening a collision and will wreck their relationship when it
finally arrives.

When Maggie applies the brakes of her car, the car slows uniformly from 15.6 m/s to 0 m/s in 2.30 s. How far ahead of a stop sign must she apply...

To answer this question one must be familiar with the
equations of one dimensional motion for an object undergoing uniform
acceleration.

Acceleration is defined as the rate of change
in an object's velocity.  That is, acceleration occurs when an object's velocity changes
and the amount of acceleration is proportional to the change in velocity and inversely
proportional to the time it takes to cause the change.  In one dimensional motion, the
acceleration will result in either an increase in speed or a decrease in speed (commonly
called "deceleration").

The equation for acceleration in
one-D motion is

a = (Vf - Vi)/T  where Vf is the final
speed, Vi is the initial speed, and T is the time it takes to cause the
change.

From this we can calculate the acceleration of the
car required to cause it to stop:

a =(0 m/s -
15.6m/s)/2.30s = -6.7826 m/s^2

With the acceleration it is
now possible to calculate the distance it will take the car to stop.  There is more than
one equation that will work:

D = ViT +
(1/2)aT^2

or

Vf^2 = Vi^2 +
2aD

The first equation requires less
algebra.

D = (0m/s)X2.30s +
(1/2)(-6.7826m/s^2)(2.30s)^2

D = -17.94
m

At this point one should round the answer to the proper
number of significant digits.  Rounding should be done as the last step before stating
the final answer.  From the given information, we see that each measured value had only
3 significant digits.  Therefore the answer needs to be rounded to three
digits.

D = -17.9 m  or one could say the driver must apply
her brakes 17.9 meters before the stop sign in order to get the car to stop in
time.

If one chooses to use the second equation to
determine the distance it is first necessary to do algebra an isolate the variable
D.

Vf^2 = Vi^2 + 2aD  recalling that Vf =
0m/s

0 m/s =Vi^2^ +2aD  moving Vi^2 to the other side of
the equality

2aD = -Vi^2    dividing both sides by
2a

D = -Vi^2/2a

D =
-(15.6m/s)^2/(2X-6.7826)

D = 17.94 m = 17.9 m  ahead of the
stop sign (as before).

What land did Christopher Columbus claim for Spain?

Presumably, all of the newly-found lands first discovered
by Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) were claimed for Spain
(or, more accurately, the Crown of Castile, of which Ferdinand and Isabella were king
and queen). Columbus, however, was under the mistaken impression that his first journey
in 1492, which resulted in his landing on the island of San Salvador, only took him as
far as western Asia. Columbus never believed he had discovered a new continent; he
believed he had landed somewhere near India, thus the term West
Indies.

In any case, Columbus first landed on Guanahani,
which Columbus renamed San Salvador; it was an island in what is now The Bahamas, but
there is still uncertainty about which present-day island Columbus actually landed. He
also discovered the islands of Cuba and Hispaniola on his first voyage before returning
home. Columbus' second voyage conisted of 17 ships that included groups of prospective
new colonists. Columbus became the first European to sight and name many of the islands
of the Caribbean, including the
following:

• Montserrat


• Antigua


• Redonda 


• Nevis


• Saint
  Kitts


• Sint
  Eustatius


• Saba


• Saint
  Martin


• Saint Croix.


• The
  Virgin Islands, including Virgin Gorda, Tortola, and Peter
  Island.

Columbus also landed on Puerto
Rico.

DESCRIBE THE TRIP TO THE ALBERT MUSEUM OF BRAITHWAITE WITH HIS STUDENTS IN CHP12

The trip was to the Victoria and Albert Museum for the
purpose of studying Mid-Victorian dress --- design, material, stitchcraft, accessories,
hair culture, wigs and others. The students were thrilled and when Rick (Sir) arrived
that morning, he found the students scrubbed and smartly dressed.  They traveled
by underground train to the museum and had to change trains once.  During the trip two
elderly women entered the train and made some disparaging remarks about "shameless young
girls and these balck men." (pg 91)  They meant for the remarks to be heard, but Pamela
put them in their place when she loudly declared "He is our teacher.  Do you mind?" (pg
91).  When they arrived at the museum, they were divided into groups of six or seven,
each group studying a different aspect of Mid-Victorian dress.  They would meet at 11 AM
for tea, and then at 12PM (noon) to get ready to return to school. Rick and Gillian
roamed among the groups giving advice and assistance.  The students were well-behaved,
keenly interested, and asked intelligent questions.  They took the whole trip very
seriously.  During tea Rick was surprised to hear that their conversations were about
the exhibits. Denham and Potter had self-elected themselves lieutenants and gathered
everyone up when it was time to go home. The students enjoyed the trip so much that the
next day they were all in their seats, greeted Rick in one voice with "Good Morning,
Sir", and brought Rick (Sir) flowers from their gardens. 

In the Old English epic Beowulf, does Beowulf prevail primarily through skills in combat or through strength, and what virtues does he display when...

In the Old English poem Beowulf,
Beowulf displays not merely strength but also wisdom and humility (since he trusts in
God), and it is his wisdom and humility that help distinguish him from the monsters he
fights and defeats. The monsters are strong, but they cannot prevail against a man of
intelligence (such as Beowulf), who uses his God-given gift of reason to defeat
creatures who act merely according to passion and brute
strength.

A good example of this contrast between mere
passion and reasonable intelligence occurs in Beowulf’s fight with Grendel.  As Grendel
approaches the hall where Beowulf waits for him, the monster is described as greedy
(711) and as boiling with rage (723). When Grendel sees the Geats lying in the hall,
ripe for the picking, the poet remarks that “his glee was demonic”
(730).

Beowulf, by contrast is described both as “Mighty”
and as “canny” (emphasis added; 735).  In
other words, he is both strong and intelligent, both physically imposing and mentally
shrewd.  Beowulf is said to be “keenly watching” Grendel’s approach
(737; emphasis added). Once again Beowulf’s intelligence, insight, and perceptiveness
are implied.  Instead of immediately attacking Grendel, Beowulf first assesses the
situation and decides how he will act. Even after the battle has begun, Beowulf has
enough presence of mind to recall his own earlier “bedtime speech” (737), when he had
vowed to defeat Grendel in single, hand-to-hand combat, depending on God to assist him.
Beowulf is never afraid of Grendel because he realizes that he possesses the kind of
mental self-control of which Grendel is incapable.  Ultimately, of course, it is God who
decides the winner of the battle –

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. . . Beowulf was
granted

the glory of winning . . . . (817-18)
–

but in this case as in so
many others, God helps those who intelligently help
themselves.

Later, when fighting Grendel’s mother and
facing momentary set-backs, Beowulf also relies on thought as well as on mere physical
strength (1529-30). In this battle, admittedly, he seems less in control of the
situation as well as of his own passions that during the first fight, since the poet
mentions his “fury” several times (1531, 1584) and comments on his rage (1563), but in
general Beowulf, in his conflict with all the monsters, has the advantage of being able
to think clearly and use skill rather than brute force.

He
proves this again latter when, with the help of Wiglaf, he discovers a way to kill the
dragon when his first effort fails.

What are the characteristics of Walter in "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"?

Walter Mitty is a meek, mild-mannered little man, a
milquetoast character who is completely dominated by his wife. It is a classic role
reversal where Mrs. Mitty figuratively wears the pants in the family, and Walter is her
subserviant minion. Walter is forgetful; he has to be reminded constantly by his wife of
what his next step must be. He is incompetent--a poor driver and incapable of the fairly
routine procedure of removing his snow chains. He talks to himself, bringing laughter
when he blurts out "puppy biscuits" on the busy sidewalk. However, he is a colossal
dreamer, master of all the daydreams in which he stars. It is his way of escaping his
nagging wife and the dreary routine of his unhappy, little life in which he is--unlike
his daydreams--always Walter Mitty, the defeated.

what are the meriets and downfalls of an indictment and an information?

An indictment is an integral part of many judicial
systems.  It allows a person to be formally accused of a crime before they are placed on
trial for it.  An indictment allows a person time to prepare a defense.  It also ensures
that there is some evidence of guilt in the case.  It was designed to prevent people
from sitting in jail without a formal accusation of a crime and to ensure that specious
allegations were not made.

Of course, the downside to an indictment is
that it takes time.  An indictment must be granted before a person can be detained. 
Sometimes this lapse in time allows a guilty person to escape.  Officials must prove
that a person could have plausibly been involved in the crime in order to obtain an
indictment as well.  While this was intended to protect the innocent, sometimes it
allows the guilty to go free.

Does the War Powers Act gives a check against Presidential overreach in military acts?

The War Powers Act does provide a check against
presidential overreach, but it is not an especially strong
one. 

No President has ever acknowledged that the War
Powers Act is actually constitutional.  Therefore, it is not at all clear that the act
could ever be used to force an end to a military action taken by the president.  This
weakens the effectiveness of the act
significantly.

However, the act does provide a check.  It
forces the President to at least justify his (or someday her) actions to the people. 
This allows public opinion to have a great effect on whether the President's actions are
allowed to stand. 

So, the War Powers Act provides a check
because it forces the President to expose his actions to somewhat of a public
referendum.  It does so by making the President at least consult Congress over his
actions.

"Some sexual abuse happens at sleepovers and children can become scared of people." Is this true?I'm doing an essay about abuse that needs to be...

The fact is, sexual abuse can (and does) happen
anywhere and nearly always, when sexual abuse happens, especially
in childhood, one of the traumatic and long-term results is
fear.

For the purpose of your essay, it might be helpful
for you to expand on this idea (sexual abuse happening at "sleepovers") by looking up
the percentage of abuse cases which happen in the home of someone else, while a child is
spending the night.  Looking at the big picture of the essay, and without knowing your
exact topic (whether it is abuse in general, or specifically,
sexual abuse), I encourage you to provide real examples, either
from news stories or other published personal accounts, of each of
your subtopics and main ideas.  Examples will enhance what could otherwise become
list-like facts and figures, and make your entire essay more informational as well as
more interesting.

EXAMPLE: Using this idea that sexual
abuse can happen outside the victim's home and that it often results in fear, perhaps
you can find someone who has experienced this situation and has been written (and
published) about.  A personal quote or even a statement from a reputable source would
turn this generality into something concrete.

Was the institution of he American military ready for the concept of Airborne troops/warfare in World War II?I'm thinking airborne troops weren't...

That's a great question, and my short answer would be
yes.  The Americans, the British, the Japanese, Russians and Germans all employed
airborne troops to different degrees, and I would say the Germans were the most forward
thinking as far as how they should be used, and the Americans near the bottom of the
list.

The American military has always been a very
conservative organization, resistant to change in both doctrine and tactics.  The
Airborne divisions the US created were cutting edge, very well armed and well trained,
but rarely used in an airborne capacity. 

The D-Day
assaults in June of 1944 were a perfect demonstration of their military value, and of
the elite class of troops the US had created.  They were often used as a bludgeon after
that, however, rarely jumping, and in the case of Bastogne during the Battle of the
Bulge (perhaps their most heroic and effective moment) they didn't jump at all, but were
rather trucked to the battlefield before they were
surrounded. 

In my opinion, the military leaders of the
time tended to call on them as elite troops first, and consider where and how airborne
troops might best have been employed last.  This was one reason for the high rate of
casualties and replacements they had (over 130% in the 101st
Airborne).

How will the magnetic field produced in a circular coil carrying a current I if the value of the current is increased.no

A single loop of wire can be used to create a magnetic
field by passing an electric current through the wire.  The direction of the field is
found by using the "right hand rule".  Align the fingers of the right hand along the
wire in such a way that they point in the direction of the current.  The extended thumb
of the right hand will then show the direction of the magnetic field as it passes
through the center of the loop.  The magnetic field is continuous, so as it leaves the
coil it will be bent around and re-enter the coil at the opposite
side.

When a wire is wrapped into a series of tightly
packed, single layer of circular loops it is known as a "solenoid".  When current is
passed through the solenoid a magnetic field is created by each of the loops which add
together as vectors to create a single magnetic field.  The strength of the field that
is created is proportional to the number of loops of wire and the strength of the
current which passes through the wire.

The formula that
describes the relationship between the magnetic field strength, B, and the number of
loops of the the coil and the current strength is:

B =
uNI

In this equation

B is the
magnetic field strength

u is the permeability of free
space

N is the number of circular loops in the
solenoid

I is the strength of the
current.

From this relationship we can see that the size of
the magnetic field will increase as the number of loops
increases.

We can also see that the size of the magnetic
field will increase as the size of the electric current (I)
increases.

What precautions did the British government take for the anticipated German attack in 1939

The British government took many different kinds of
precautions, ranging from large scale defensive works to the issuing of instructions so
that the general populace would know what to do in case of invasion.  Let us look at a
few of these.

• Defensive lines.  The government
  started to prepare defensive positions from which British soldiers would be able to
  fight if the Germans landed.


• Attempts to confuse Germans
  who did land.  The British government had road signs and mileposts removed or defaced. 
  They took down the signs on train stations.  The point was to make it so German soldiers
  would not know where they were.


• Instructions to the
  public.  The government started preparing people, doing things like telling them not to
  leave their homes unless they were told to evacuate.  The point of this particular order
  was so that fleeing civilians would not block roads.  By doing this sort of preparation,
  the government hoped to avoid chaos and
  confusion.

Was J Edgar Hoover considered a success or failure during his time as director of the FBI?

This depends on how you define success as director of the
FBI.  Hoover was notably successful in some ways but could be seen as a failure in
others.

Hoover was quite successful in making the FBI a
powerful and fairly effective crime fighting agency.  He promoted, for example, the use
of science and technology for fighting crime.  He also used publicity very deftly to
improve the image of the FBI and to increase public trust in the
bureau.

However, Hoover can be seen as a failure for his
actions that seem to have violated the rights of various Americans.  Hoover had no
qualms about illegally wiretapping and otherwise surveilling many innocent people
because of their political views.  His keeping of files on such people constituted a
major invasion of privacy.  To the extent that the FBI is supposed to be a protector and
not an invader of personal rights, Hoover can be seen as a
failure.

How does Chapter 5 relate to great expectations?

The concept of great expectations has to do with having a
big hope that someone wants to have fulfilled. In this chapter, the local police are
getting out and after some escaped convicts. Their cause is great. With such a great
expanse of land and such a set of tricksters on the loose, it would be difficult to
locate them. The police also have great hope in the reality of finding these men. They
have an attitude of expectation for which they do not want to accept anything less than
their goal.

If you are asking what the chapter has to do
with the entire storyline, this chapter certainly reveals a particular convict who works
to get Pip out of terrible circumstances to bring him to the highest possible point. Had
the convict not confessed to stealing many items from the Gargery's home, Pip would have
suffered Mrs. Joe's wrath.

Pip too had hope that his
circumstance would work out in his favor. The benefit of this single episode in chapter
5 is that it does work. That doesn't necessarily mean it will continue to work for
him.

How do I make 240m have only one sig fig?

Significant digits are used to limit a number to express
its true level of accuracy. The number 240 has two significant digits, the two and the
four. The zero is not considered significant in this instance because trailing zeros are
ignored unless a decimal point is present.

To get 240 down
to one significant digit, we need to round it off. Since the second digit is a 4, we
truncate, and our answer is 200. (Important note -  If
the second digit was a 5 or greater, we would round up and our
answer would be 300.)

An easy way to remember how to count
sig figs is the Atlantic/Pacific rule. Picture a map of the US, with an ocean on each
side. Then look at your number. If the decimal point is
Present, only ignore zeros on the
Pacific (left, or leading) side of the number. If the
decimal point is Absent, only ignore zeros on the
Atlantic (right, or trailing) side of the
number.

How does act four help to further the plot? Explanation and examples.

Act IV is pivotal to the play's plot because it shows the
consequences of Hamlet's plan to flush out Claudius as his father's murderer.  First of
all, Hamlet has orchestrated a play that so mimics his father's murder that Claudius,
through his actions and overheard confession, has admitted his crime.  Second, Hamlet's
has killed Polonius, his girlfriend's father, while arguing with this
mother.

The consequences of these actions are astounding. 
First, Gertrude must choose between her son and her husband.  She chooses her son when
she confirms to Claudius that Hamlet is crazy.  She
notes,

Mad as
the sea and wind, when both contend

Which is the mightier;
in his lawless fit,

Behind the arras hearing something
stir,

Whips out his rapier, cries, 'A rat, a
rat!'

And in this brainish apprehension,
kills

The unseen good old
man."

While this murder draws
Claudius' attention away temporarily, Ophelia, his girlfriend goes crazy and commits
suicide while her brother Laertes returns looking for blood.  This quest eventually
leads to Hamlet's death as well.

Claudius sends Hamlet away
with the point of having him killed, but Hamlet thwarts this plan only to return to
another, more fatal deception.

Act Four provides the
consequences for Hamlet's actions in Act III and sets up the final act in which all the
principal characters die.

what does the opening dialogue between Lennie and George tell us about the nature of their relationship ?Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The use of dialogue in Of Mice and
Men establishes the power relationships of the characters in Steinbeck's
narrative.  Suggested by his walking ahead of the lumbering Lennie who shuffles like a
bear and paws the pool of water, George plays a more dominant role in the pair's
dynamics.  Much like a parent, he scolds Lennie about not drinking so much so quickly;
later he chides Lennie about wanting ketchup, about his behavior in Weeds that brought
them to the Salinas Valley to work on the ranch, about how much easier his life would be
without Lennie, and about how Lennie is to follow his lead and not say anything when
they arrive at the ranch the next day.

Despite these
scoldings, there is apparent in their converstations that there is love and concern for
Lennie on George's part, for he feels guilty after Lennie's feelings are hurt.  In order
to console him and to reassure Lennie of his love, George reaffirms their
bond,

Guys
like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family.
They don’t belong no place. . . . With us it ain’t like that. We got a future. We got
somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. We don’t have to sit in no bar room
blowin’ in our jack jus’ because we got no place else to go. If them other guys gets in
jail they can rot for all anybody gives a damn. But not
us.

Idealizing the fraternity
of men, Steinbeck suggests that they are the most satisfying way for the disenfranchised
men to overcome the loneliness that pervades their world.  For, in the end, the
differences of George and Lennie are superceded by their
friendship.

Describe the process by which clostridium difficile reproduces?

Clostridium difficile, otherwise known as C. diff., is a
rod-shaped, spore-forming bacteria. Clostridium difficile bacteria reproduce asexually
by a process called binary fission. During binary fission, an organism duplicates its
DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid and the divides into two parts, a process called
cytokinesis. Finally, a cell wall forms across the elongated parent cell. Binary fission
is simple cell division and biologically very efficient. As long as conditions are
favorable, the bacterial cells will continue to divide, grow, and divide again
repeatedly.

Overuse of antibiotics has led to superbugs
such as C. diff (Clostridium difficile) and MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus)
which are a real danger particularly in hospital settings.

what does the title 'the catcher in the rye' relate to the novel? i don't understand the song that Holden hears about it or how it relates to him.

Holden hears a little boy singing a song while walking
along the streets of New York.  The song/poem has a line about "a body meets a body
coming through the rye."  The boy says (or Holden hears) "a body catch a body coming
through the rye."

Later Holden imagines himself as a
"catcher in the rye."  He thinks of a bunch of little kids playing in a field at the
edge of a cliff.  Holden would be at the side of the cliff, and if any child was falling
off, he would catch him.

This is Holden's fantasy about
being able to save a child, save innoncence.  This is shown in many other places in the
novel.  For example, he wants to erase swear words off the walls at Phoebe's school.  He
wants to protect the children of the school from seeing such offensive
language.

At the end of the novel though, Holden realizes
that he can't be "the catcher in the rye."  He can't save everyone.  Sometimes children
have to learn for themselves, learn the hard way.  This is evidenced when he worries but
doesn't act as Phoebe is reaching for the brass ring.  He lets her reach dangerously off
her carousel horse.

Two girders are made of the same material. Girder A is 3.0 times longer than girder B and has a cross-sectional area that is 1.4 times bigger...

Let us first look at what density means; the density of an
object is the mass of the object divided by the volume of the object. The density of an
object does not change merely by a change in its volume, the change in mass, if any,
also has to be considered.

Here, girder A is 3 times longer
and has a cross-sectional area that is 1.4 times that of girder B. I do not know if by
the way the question is framed you mean that they are made of the same mass of material
or they are just made of the same material. In the latter case, as they are made of same
material, the mass of girder B will increase as its volume increases. There would then
be no change in the density and the ratio of the density of girder A and the density of
girder B is equal to one.

On the other hand, if girder A
and B are made of the same mass of material as the volume of girder A is 3*1.4 = 4.2
times that of girder B, the ratio of the density of girder A to that of girder B would
be 1/4.2.

Why is Don John full of bitterness in Much Ado About Nothing?

Let us remember what has just happened prior to the
beginning of this hilarious comedy. Don John has just tried to overthrow his brother and
the soldiers that enter in Act I scene 1 have just fought the rebel force of Don John's
soldiers. Don Pedro, Don John's brother, has forgiven Don John and receieved him "into
his graces," yet clearly Don John is overwhelmed by bitterness because of his failed
attempt to seize power. In addition, let us remember that Don John is the bastard child
of his father, whereas Don Pedro is the legitimate heir. Bastard children had no hope of
ever inheriting, and were always doomed to be regarded as being lower than legimitate
children. Thus we have many reasons for Don John to be overwhelmed by bitterness.
However, let us also remember what Don John himself tells us in Act I scene
3:

I had
rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace. And it better fits my blood to
be disdained of all than to fashion a carriage to rob love from any. In this, though I
cannot be said to be a flattering honest man, it must not be denied but I am a
plain-dealing villain.

So, in
addition to his status as a bastard and his failed revolt, Don John also chooses to be a
character that gives in to negative thoughts and is overwhelmed by
bitterness.

In "The Necklace," I need three quotes from the story to show that Madame Loisel is ungrateful.

There is certainly plenty of evidence to show Madame
Loisel's dissatisfaction with her lot in life! You might want to start out by examining
the beginning of this story and the way that she is presented. Consider, for example,
the way that she is shown to "grieve incessantly":

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She grieved over the shabbiness of her
appartment, the dinginess of the walls, the worn-out appearance of the chairs, the
ugliness of the draperies. All these things, which another woman of her class would not
even have noticed, gnawed at her and made her
furious.

It is clear from the
way that the narrator tells us that "another woman of her class" would not even have
noticed such things that Madame Loisel is profoundly dissatisfied with her position in
life.

In addition, you could use any of the lavish
daydreams that fill her day at the beginning of the story to indicate that she is
ungrateful. She clearly does not value what she has, otherwise she would not invest so
many hours in fabricating fantasies. Consider, too, her response after visiting her
friend who has done much better in life:

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She had a well-to-do friend, a classmate of
convent-school days whom she would no longer go to see, simply because she would feel so
distressed on returnign home. And she would weep for days on end from vexation, regret,
despair and anguish.

Such an
emotive response is rather hyperbolic, again reinforcing the profound ungratefulness of
Madame Loisel's character. She is very comfortable in life, but her desire for greater
wealth and prestige means that she is blind to how lucky she is.

Describe the conflicts between the colonists and the Indians in New England.

There were various causes of conflict between settlers and
Indians over the years.  We will look at two examples here to examine different
causes.

The first example is the Pequot War of the 1630s. 
This conflict happened early on before there were that many colonists in the area.  At
that point, the conflict was over trade.  Various Indian tribes were competing over
trade with the colonists and a fight between them came to involve the colonists.  Here,
then, the basis of conflict was trade.

The second example
is Metacomet's War, also known as King Phillip's War, in 1675.  By this time, there were
many more settlers in the area.  Now, the conflict was over access to land and over the
settlers' attempts to impose their ways on the Indians.  The Indians were feeling hemmed
in by the settlers.  They had less access to land that had been theirs and they were
upset by settlers' attempts to impose English religion and ways on them.  Here, then,
the basis of conflict was both land-related and cultural, both conflicts growing out of
the increased white population of New England.

Discuss the relationship between the title and the themes in Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

In Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness,
the title originally refers to Marlow's trip into the portion of Africa once referred to
as the Congo, which was "owned" by Belgium. The most profitable export was ivory, and
often those involved in collecting it were disreputable men who cares only for the
money, and treated the natives ruthlessly.

However, as the
story develops, Marlow—who serves as the narrator—is hired by the Company to captain a
boat into this "heart of darkness," asked to travel to the Inner Station (the third of
three stations) to bring out Kurtz, an extremely successful representative of the
Company, who has been cut off from civilization for more than a
year.

Hadn't I
been told in all the tones of jealousy and admiration that he had collected, bartered,
swindled, or stolen more ivory than all the other agents
together?

When Marlow finally
arrives at the Inner Station, he finds that Kurtz is living in a building surrounded by
spikes with human heads on them, and is treated much like a god by the natives. And
while Kurtz does not fight leaving the island, the natives are not happy about
it.

It would seem that Kurtz's experiences have irreparably
changed the man, though Marlow sees reasons for which he might once have admired the
other man:

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...in his being a gifted creature, and that of
all his gifts the one that stood out preeminently, that carried with it a sense of real
presence, was his ability to talk, his words—the gift of expression, the bewildering,
the illuminating, the most exalted and the most contemptible, the pulsating stream of
light, or the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable
darkness.

In essence, Kurtz
has lost his way. He has seen the darkness in the souls of others; he has seen (and
given in to) the heart of darkness lurking within his own soul—perhaps in all men—but
instead of resisting it, he embraces it. It destroys the man; it destroys his mind. And
in leaving the jungle, Kurtz ultimately dies.

Kurtz's
willingness to embrace his own "heart of darkness" leads to his alientation and
isolation from his own society, and ultimately draws him from sanity to overwhelming
madness. In the struggle between the "light" and the "darkness," it has been a battle
that Kurtz could not win. In leaving the jungle, for a coherent
moment, Kurtz cries out his final words, which are reflective of what exists with the
darkest part of a man's soul; he says:

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‘‘The horror! The
horror!’’

Why would the Puritan townsperson reference him(Daniel) in this situation? -Chapter 3, page 60

You must be referring to this
quote:

Of a
truth, friend, that matter remaineth a riddle; and the Daniel who shall yet expound it
is yet a-wanting."

Daniel was
a prophet in the bible. Not to be confused with the David of the bible, who would have
had many concubines and women. The Puritan woman who makes this sentence is essentially
saying that because Hester won't talk and the magistrates cannot seem to figure out who
the father is, they need a spiritual person to discern the truth and figure it out.
Today we could use paternity tests. Back then, they would have heavily relied on a dream
interpreter like Daniel to explain what the truth of the riddle might be. They are
hoping a person will step forward to interpret the situation and reveal the truth to
everyone.

Daniel of the bible was able to interpret dreams
and would give even divulge consequences of the future if certain steps were not
taken.

There is a reference shortly after to the guilty
one, but the paragraph is not clear that Daniel and the guilty one are the same "he"
referred to later.

ANOTHER INTERPRETATION could be that
Daniel and the guilty one are the same person. But, this does not seem Puritan-like. To
make a biblical allusion to Daniel would be to look for someone to be the master
revealer. But infidelity does not align with the character of Daniel. Therefore, the
reference might only be to the guilty man, whoever he is, to be a great revealer in
order to tell the people he is Hester's secret lover.

Highlight the nature, scope, uses and limitations of motivation research.

Motivational research is a type of marketing research that
attempts to explain why consumers behave as they do. Motivational research seeks to
discover and comprehend what consumers do not fully understand about themselves.
Motivational research attempts to identify forces and influences that consumers may not
be aware of (e.g., cultural factors, sociological forces). Typically, these unconscious
motives (or beyond-awareness reasons) are intertwined with and complicated by conscious
motives, cultural biases, economic variables, and fashion trends (broadly defined).
Motivational research attempts to sift through all of these influences and factors to
unravel the mystery of consumer behavior as it relates to a specific product or service,
so that the marketer better understands the target audience and how to influence that
audience.Motivational research is most valuable when powerful underlying motives are
suspected of exerting influence upon consumer behavior. Products and services that
relate, or might relate, to attraction of the opposite sex, to personal adornment, to
status or self-esteem, to power, to death, to fears, or to social taboos are all likely
candidates for motivational research.

What is the central idea of "Guests of the Nation?"

The central idea of O'Connor's work is that "in war,
hatred and revenge drive out ethical and moral intelligence.’’  This condition is
brought out in the ending.  After befriending the British soldiers, the Irish soldiers
are forced to adhere to a code of duty that seems to deny personal choice and voice.
Bonaparte and Noble participate in "monstrous acts of evil" under the code and cover of
duty.  

The central idea of the story is this aspect.  War
brings out the worst in humanity.  It is not one in which there an be any clear winners.
 The British soldiers lose because they are to be killed in the name of partisanship.
 The Irish soldiers end up losing, as well, for their moral character cannot be cleaned
of the stench attached to what they did.  It is for this reason that Noble falls to his
knees in prayer at the end, almost begging forgiveness which he knows he will never
receive.  Bonaparte becomes emotionally distant as a result of what he has done.  The
central idea in this ending is that war generates a condition in which there is only
loss and nothing in terms of "victory" is evident.

Outside of a victim, how else can Tessie be described in The Lottery?

Passage 1:
"Clean forgot what day it was," [Tessie] said to Mrs. Delacroix, who stood next to her,
and they both laughed softly. 
Passage 2:  Mrs. Delacroix selected a stone so
large she had to pick it up with both hands and turned to Mrs. Dunbar. "Come on," she
said. "Hurry up."

In the
first passage, Tessie and Mrs. Delacroix appear to be friends; they exchange pleasant
words and laugh together. In the second passage, Mrs. Delacroix picks up a stone to
throw at Tessie to kill her. The change in Mrs. Delacroix's behavior is surprising
because there is no rational reason for it; Tessie hasn't done anything to merit Mrs.
Delacroix's willingness to participate in her death.

It is
likely that Tessie would have behaved the same way were Mrs. Delacroix and
Tessie's positions reversed. Tessie, too, has participated in the lottery every year.
There is no indication that she ever protested about the lottery's unfairness or
brutality before. She only complains because, this year, she is
chosen.

Having that said, though Tessie is a victim, she is
not necessarily better than the rest of the villagers or particularly innocent. The fact
that she has participated before, and would have again, allows Jackson to suggest that
human beings' capacity for violence and brutality is something that is only limited when
their personal well-being is threatened by it.

Discuss the symbolism in the story "The Chrysanthemums" by John Steinbeck.

Elisa Allen’s frustrations about her life dominate “The
Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck. As the protagonist, Elisa wants more from life. She
has a good husband who works hard to provide a good life. As in many marriages, the
communication falls short between husband and
wife,

Symbols

Chrysanthemums
and her children

Throughout the story, Steinbeck
uses the chrysanthemums as a symbol. Elisa and Henry have no children. The beautiful
flowers that she grows with tenderness and love have become her children. She shields
them by placing a fence around them. Part of her care includes protecting them from
insects:

No
aphids, no sow bugs or snails or cutworms…her terrier fingers destroyed such pests
before they could get
started.

These vermin
represent natural harm to the flowers; and, just as any good mother, she removes them
before they can harm her children. 

Elisa longs for more in
her life. She is sexually and emotionally unfulfilled. The chrysanthemums represent her
desire for more. Her link to life has become her garden rather than her
husband.

Her husband tries to communicate his feelings to
Elisa but falls short.

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“At it again,” he said…”I wish that you’d work
out in the orchard and raise some apples that
big.”

Although her husband
tries to compliment her work, Henry does not see the frustration that Eliza feels about
her life and her need for intimacy.

The repairman
and Elisa’s awakening

When the tinker comes in
his wagon, Elisa does not want to talk to him. Cleverly, he sees her interest in the
flowers and builds a rapport with Elisa in that way. As the man talks to Elisa, the
repairman suggests that he take some of her seeds to one of his customers. She is
delighted to provide the seeds in a red pot. Instantly, Elisa begins to feel excited and
eager.

Her explanation to the repairman about growing the
flowers has a sexual connotation.

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"It’s when you’re picking off the buds you don’t
want. Everything goes right down to your fingertips. You can feel it. When you’re like
that you can’t do anything wrong. Do you see that? Can you understand
that?"

As she describes her
planting hands to the repairman, Elisa kneels on the ground looking up at him. Sexual
feelings rise in her breasts. Everything about the man draws Elisa to him. His
lifestyle, his body (she almost touches his torn trousers). This passionate connection
stimulates Elisa to try to relate to her husband on their date that
night.

The red pot and Elisa’s
loss

Elisa delights in providing the seeds in
the red pot for the repairman’s customer. She provides rigid instructions about the care
for the precious cargo in the pot. All of her senses are aroused as she talks to
him.

Readying herself for the night out becomes a slow,
sensual experience. She is rewarded by her husband’s surprise at how pretty she looks.
He uses the word "strong" to describe the change in her, and Elisa agrees with
him.

As they go into town for the date, Elisa notices a
"dark speck" on the road ahead. Immediately, she knows what it is. The repairman dumped
out the seeds and flowers and kept her red pot. Elisa feels defeated. In her anger and
hurt, she suggests that she might like to go to the boxing matches and see the
violence.

The red pot was kept by the repairman, but the
important flowers were dumped. To Elisa, this meant that they (the repairman and Elisa)
had no connection but what was in her own mind. Symbolically, his dishonesty cancels the
strength that she gained from their encounter. As the car goes down the road, Emily
turns her face away from Henry and begins to cry because now she feels “like an old
woman.”

Does the narrator's point of view change momentarily anywhere in the text?

I don't see the narrator's point of view changing.  It is
a third person narration that aligns reality with how Connie sees reality and this is
consistent towards how the story develops.  Arnold is seen through her own perception,
her parents are initially seen through her own perception, and even the ending when
Connie misses her mother is seen through her own eyes.  In this, there is little in way
of divergence from what is originally shown at the start of the narration.  Oates makes
sure that the story is told from Connie's point of view, one that allows her own voice
to be present despite being silenced by Arnold and the forces that seek to invalidate
the experience of young women in modern America. I think that the third person narration
stick to Connie's understanding throughout the story, most poignantly evident at the end
when Connie ends up sacrificing her own life for that of her family.  In this, she does
not recognize landscape in front of her, indicating that there is something new in terms
of her own state of being in the world.  This narration is consistent throughout the
story and really does not change.

What made Shaka Zulu so dangerous?

Shaka Zulu was dangerous to his enemies and to those on
his own side alike.

Shaka was dangerous to those on his
side because of his enormous temper and capacity for brutality.  He was known for this
willingness to execute people for little reason or even for
none.

Shaka is, of course, more famous for being dangerous
to his enemies.  He was dangerous to them mostly because of his ability to innovate. 
Shaka used short swords for killing at close quarters rather than using the thrown
javelins that were traditional.  He used new tactics like his "horns" formation that his
enemies did not understand.  By doing these things, he turned wars into massive
slaughters instead of small skirmishes.

In the tragedy Othello by William Shakespeare, how do the events in the play relate to the main points in the Hero's Journey?I've already completed...

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When many people
think of the term hero as it relates to literature, they think of classic Greek
mythology. The heroes in this type of literature all typically share certain character
traits. They were usually of royal birth, half gods, or otherwise usual. They performed
extraordinary feats and sometimes possessed supernatural powers. They almost always had
an ideal character that would have been perfect but for one fatal flaw. These characters
tended to suffer both physically and mentally as they wound their way through a great
journey. Many times, these characters fought for their own honor or the honor of their
communities only to die in a strange and unusual way.

Many of these
traits fit Othello. He is of a very different birth than his fellow men because he is a
Moor. He performs many extraordinary feats in battle and is honored for his personal
performance. His journey takes him from war, to meet a young woman and back to war
again. We see his internal struggles with jealousy (perhaps his fatal flaw) and his
physical struggles with seizures and epilepsy. Othello's journey is not plauged by the
supernatural gods but rather by a sadistic Iago manipulating his thoughts. Othello
attempts to defend his personal honor but ends up killing innocent victims. Thus, he
takes his own life in penance.

Yes, Othello is considered a
tragedy, but we can see many of the classic character traits of a hero and a hero's
journey woven though out the story. Othello leaves us with many interesting points to
consider about human nature just as the great works of ancient Greece did. Many of those
works also have elements of a tragedy. The heroes of classic literature rarely found
peace and happiness like so many of our modern heroes seem to.

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What is the climax of the novel Speak?

For me, the climax of this great novel comes when the
final confrontation occurs between the narrator and Andy Evans, who again tries to rape
her like he did before the novel began. The significance of this encounter is shown by
the way that Andy Evans is referred to as a "Beast" and then as "IT" as he tries to
violently rape the narrator once more. However, this is also the time when the narrator
finds the energy and the inner strength to oppose him, and to threaten him in turn,
which seems to move her towards resolving some of her massive conflicts. Consider the
following paragraph:

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Shards of glass slip down the wall and into the
sink. IT pulls away from me, puzzled. I reach in and wrap my fingers around a triangle
of glass. I hold it to Andy Evans's neck. He freezes. I push just hard enough to raise
one drop of blood. He raises his arms over his head. My hand quivers. I want to insert
the glass all the way through his throat, I want to hear him scream. I look up. I see
the stubble on his chin, a fleck of white in the corner of his mouth. His lips are
paralysed. He cannot speak. That's good
enough.

There are two things
of vital interest here which indicate that this is the climax. First of all, note the
way that when the narrator has gained advantage over Andy Evans, she ceases to call him
the terrifying "IT" and refers to him using his name. This is significant because it
shows how she is able to look at him as a normal human being and not a terrifying
monster. Secondly, she is finally able to reduce him to silence in the same way that he
reduced her to silence.

Describe the pathway of a nerve impulse, starting with a receptor and ending with the response made by a skeletal muscle.

A nerve is a connected bundle of peripheral axons. Nerves
transmit electrochemical signals between points in the
body.

An external stimulus (sound, touch, taste, smell,
sight) triggers the sensory receptor, which generates a low-voltage signal by
transferring sodium and potassium ions through the neuron membrane. The signal travels
along the bundle of axons until it reaches the spinal cord. From there, the impulse
travels through the white matter (axon bundles) to the gray matter (neurons and
synapses), which transmits very quickly to the brain. Once the stimulus reaches the
brain, the appropriate brain lobe makes a "decision," which can be conscious or
unconscious, and sends information back down the spinal cord, reversing the
electrochemical process. Upon leaving the spinal cord at the proper point, the
low-voltage signal travels back along a peripheral nerve to a neuromuscular junction, a
place where the muscle tissue is highly excitable. The signal leaves the nerve and
spreads around the muscle, causing contraction or
expansion.

The pathway is as
follows:

Stimulus -> Sensory Receptor ->
Sensory Neuron -> Spinal Cord -> Brain -> Spinal Cord ->
Sensory Neuron -> Neuromuscular Junction -> Skeletal
Muscle

What are some words associated with death in the first two paragraphs of "The Scarlet Ibis"?I really don't know, and I have a paper with a question...

These bold-faced words are all directly from the text, the
words behind them are an analysis of how or why they can be associated with
death.

summer was dead - So
summer was over, it had stopped or ceased.

bleeding tree (x2)- Often before death, people bleed. Watch
throughout the story for references to
RED!

rotting brown magnolia
petals - When something is rotting it is in a state of decay. This is
after death has occured.

five o'clocks by the
chimney still marked time - Many references to time will occur in this
story, but to associate time with death, I think you could take this from the
perspective that every living thing will die and has a set TIME that they will endure
life before that moment of death
occurs.

graveyard flowers
- Graveyards are places where dead people are buried, and flowers are
used to celebrate their lives. In these lines, the flowers are still blooming and
celebrating life.

names of our dead
- We remember lives of those who have gone on before
us.

die up in
the leaves - Die is in this
phrase.

grindstone (x2) - This
is another allusion to time.

How does John Locke's idea of the social contract compare to Thomas Hobbes's ideas?

Both Locke and Hobbes believed that people joined together
to create a society that would have a government to protect them.  However, they had
very different reasons for why people did that and those reasons led to very different
prescriptions for what government should be like.

Hobbes
believed that people are inherently selfish and bad.  Therefore, they have to give a
sovereign complete control over them to keep them from killing one another.  His view of
human nature leads to the idea that an absolute monarchy is
necessary.

Locke believed that people are fundamentally
good.  He said that they join together and consent to be governed to protect themselves
from the few bad people who do exist.  His view of human nature leads to the idea that
government should be based on the consent of the people and should be aimed at
protecting the people's rights.  To Locke, the social contract is a deal between the
government and the people in which the people give up only some of their rights so the
government can protect their most important rights.

Thus,
Locke is a much more optimistic thinker on human nature and his ideas give rise to the
idea of popular government, not of absolute monarchy.

How do I write a letter to a Member of Congress about significantly reducing energy consumption?

I've posted some links below that may be helpful to you. 
One of them suggests handwriting the letter and sending it by postage rather than merely
emailing it.  This seems to be good advice.

I would also
suggest some of the following tips:

• Refer to
  specific legislation you either endorse or oppose.


• Be as
  clear and specific as possible about your reasons for endorsing or opposing the
  legislation.


• If you have no specific legislation in mind
  but would like to suggest possibilities for future legislation, try to be practical.
  Make suggestions that are affordable and likely to win broad support.
  


• Show that you are familiar with feasible, practical
  solutions to any problem you want Congress to address.
  


• If you have access to some particular source of
  information that you think may be helpful, provide references and/or web
  links.


• Make sure that someone besides you proofreads your
  letter before sending it. Preferably this person should know what constitutes clear
  writing and should know the rules of grammar and
  punctuation.


• Consider this possible model letter:
  http://www.calvert.com/climate-action-congress.html


• Show
  that you are reasonable and are aware of the real-world problems involved in achieving
  the goals you support.


• Indicate ways in which the goals
  you support can be useful in supporting other goals, such as job creation, reducing the
  budget deficit, reducing the size of government,
  etc.


• Here is another link worth looking at, since it
  contains sample letters:
  http://www.efficiencyfirst.org/policy/


• Indicate any
  special expertise you may possess.


• Consider reinforcing
  your letter with phone calls to the relevant offices, especially local
  offices.


• Consult this web site for highly specific
  information about whom to contact:
  http://www.contactingthecongress.org/


• Remember the words
  of former Representative Lee Hamilton in his book Strengthening
  Congress:

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Members of Congress
typically give high priority to responding to letters from constituents, and you will
almost certainly receive a
response.

What is a theme for "The Wandering, Part 1: I am Laertes' son?"

I believe this question refers to the ninth book of
Homer's Odyssey. In this book, Odysseus finally reveals his
identity to the Phaeacians. As with much of the epic, a major theme for this part of the
Odyssey is embodied in the Greek word nostos,
which can mean "homecoming."

In Odyssey
9, Homer presents the audience with three significant events in the course of
Odysseus' efforts to return to his native land of Ithaca. First, Homer describes
Odysseus' encounter with the Cicones. Second, we hear about Odysseus' adventure in the
land of the Lotus-Eaters. Finally, Homer spends most of this book relating Odysseus'
encounter with the Cyclops Polyphemus.

The first two
encounters show Odysseus' men as being reckless. They defeat the Cicones, but then do
not leave promptly, which results in the Cicones regrouping and making a counter-attack
that costs several of Odysseus' men their lives and thus prevents them from realizing
their homecoming.

Similarly, in the land of the
Lotus-Eaters, Odysseus' men who eat the lotus forget about their
homecoming:

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Those who ate the honey-sweet lotus fruit
no longer wished to bring back word to us, or sail for
home. (A.S. Kline
translation)

Whereas
Odysseus' men show their recklessness in the land of the Cicones and the land of the
Lotus-Eaters, Odysseus himself becomes careless in the land of the Cyclopes. Odysseus'
men want to leave the Cyclopes' island, but Odysseus' curiosity compels him to stay and
eventually costs him not only the lives of six of his crew, but also ends up earning him
the hatred of Poseidon after Odysseus blinds his son
Polyphemus.

When Odysseus reveals his identity to the
Cyclops, this allows the monster to curse him, a curse which aims to prevent Odysseus
from ever reaching home again:

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...let Odysseus...never reach his
home on Ithaca: yet if he is destined to see his friends and his fine
house in his own country, may he come there late and in sore distress...and let him find
great trouble in his
house.

Thus, much of the tale
of Odysseus' wanderings focuses on the theme of nostos
("homecoming").

What does the phrase "image of language" mean? What purpose does the comparison of the railway station with the image of language serve?This...

The phrase "image of language", from the poem "Railway
Station" by Rabindranath Tagore, helps to identify the way which Tagore "sees"
language.

For Tagore, language is like a railway train. The
train, like language, is "full of subtlety of rhythm" (like the train's rhythm on the
tracks). Words, sometimes, flash by like the "untranslatable delicacies of colour" which
one regards when on a train moving at high speeds.

Words,
as elevated as the ones Tagore used, sometimes "appear as much the growth of the common
soil as the grass and the rushes." The image of the language is both common, as the
soil, and complex, as the delicately intertwined language of
Tagore.

The train, like language, moves things (words) from
place to place. Sometimes with thought and contemplation, other times without (in the
same way people cram onto the train cars).

plz explain lewis dot structure and electron dot structure of each elementexplain all things draw figure

A Lewis dot structure is a way to show how many outer, or
valence, electrons an atom has, and also how the valence electrons of two (or more)
atoms can interact to create a chemical bond.

To draw a dot
structure for an atom, you must figure out how many valance electrons the atom has. To
do this, look at a periodic table
of the elements. Find the element, and then count how many spaces it is from
the left hand margin of the table, skipping the d-block (transition metals). The number
of boxes you counted is equal to the number of valence electrons. (There are
instructions for this href="http://misterguch.brinkster.net/subatomic%20particles.html">here.)

Once
you know the number of electrons, write the element's abbreviation, and put that number
of dots around it. You should start by putting one dot directly above the letters at 12
o'clock, then put a dot at 3, at 6, at 9, at 12 (which makes a pair), and so on until
you run out of dots. There should never be more than 8 dots (4 pairs). Here's what href="http://www.hhscougars.org/ourpages/auto/2007/10/16/1192578073868/lewis%20structure%20bromine%20atom.jpg">bromine
would look like according to these rules.

Identify a non-Western culture that still has strong ties to its own traditional culture but integrates with current Western...

I would say that Japan is a culture that fits this
description.  It has thoroughly Westernized in many ways, but it has not done so
completely.

We all know that Japan has become quite
Westernized.  Japan's economy was until just recently the second largest in the world. 
It built that economic power on industrial power, which is a very Western thing
historically.  It has become a democratic country, also a Western
thing.

At the same time, Japan has not abandoned its
traditional culture.  Though it is not as prevalent as before, Japanese are (of course
this is not true of all Japanese) still very much more reserved and formal than most
Westerners are.  Japanese are still very much tied to their traditional foods.  They
still do very quintessentially Japanese things like cherry blossom-viewing and autumn
leaf-viewing.  In these ways, Japan is still quite distinctively Japanese even as it has
become an industrial, capitalist democracy.

In Othello, why does Cassio display ignorance of Othello's marriage when conversing with Iago (1.2.49-53)?

There is a very simple reason why Cassio appears to be
ignorant about the marriage of Othello to Desdemona in these lines. The truth is that he
didn't know about it. Let us remember that we are told in Act I scene 1 that Othello and
Desdemona have married very recently and in secret. This is news to Roderigo, who
clearly wanted to marry Desdemona for himself, and thus we can infer that it would be
news for Cassio too. The sudden and secret nature of this marriage would have meant that
even those closest to Othello, such as Cassio, would have been kept in the dark until
Othello chose to reveal it, or until others did the revealing for him. Therefore, Cassio
is not feigning his ignorance in the section of the play that you have identified. He is
genuinely surprised at an action that shocked many.

Why does the author say that looking at the cells of a flower under the microscope takes away the very beauty of the flowers? I would like to...

In his autobiographical work titled My Life and
Hard Times, James Thurber humorously describes his inability to see the cell
structures of plants while trying to view those structures with a microscope in his
botany class. Thurber's professor cannot believe or accept the claim that Thurber
genuinely cannot see the cell structures. The professor becomes increasingly frustrated
and tries to make numerous adjustments in Thurber's microscope so that Thurber will
finally be able to see the cells.

Thurber willingly
concedes that the structures of flower cells may indeed be "interesting," but he simply
remains unable, because of his poor eyesight, to see those structures. Finally the
following exchange occurs, with Thurber speaking
first:

"It
takes away the beauty of the flowers anyway," I used to tell him. "We are not concerned
with beauty in this class," he would
say.

This is the extent of
the discussion about the beauty of flowers in the "University Days" chapter of
My Life and Hard Times. Thurber implies that to appreciate the
beauty of the flowers depends on seeing them whole, not on seeing merely microscopic
parts of them. He does not, however, insist upon this position. Rather, as in much of
this chapter, he is passive and somewhat stoic. He does not argue with his professor
about the value of beauty; he merely mentions the topic and then lets it drop, which is
typical of his personality throughout this section of his book. The things that matter
to many of his professors simply do not matter to Thurber, not so much because he is
rebellious as because he is humorously untalented and ill-equipped to be the kind of
student his professors often want him to be. Rather than trying in inspire Thurber, they
more often try to force him to behave as they want him to
behave.

Why does slienc play an important role in Of Mice and Men

The characters in the novel don't communicate with each
other. This leads to misunderstandings and ultimate tragedy. Silence, or at least
evasion, is prevalent. This causes the plot twists that occur. Silence about feelings is
what ultimately leads to Curley's death, which is a major event. Candy's silence about
how he much he loves his dog leads to his having to let it be
killed.

Curley's wife's inability to communicate with
Curley about her boredom and her lost dreams leads to her being so lonesome that she
flirts with other men, causing the tragedy of her death and what it meant to George and
Lennie.

The silence of the whole group about what happened
to Curley also had significant, but different, impact on all.

What is a literary terminology question from "The Yellow Wallpaper"?

An easy way to approach answering a question like this is
to identify a literary device that is used and then turn that into a question. For
example, if, when reading this excellent short story, you come across a simile or a
metaphor, you can easily create a question based on literary terminology by asking what
kind of literary term is being used in that quote. For example, this might be a good
sample question you could use:

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You think you have mastered it, but just as you
get well under way in following, it turns a back-somersault and there you are. It slaps
you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples upon you. It is like a bad
dream.

So what literary
technique is used in this quote? The answer is of course a simile that occurs in the
last sentence, when the pattern on the yellow wallpaper is described as being "like a
bad dream." So, my advice to you is to go back and re-read this excellent short story
and identify literary terms that you could use to form the basis of questions. Hope this
helps and good luck!

In The Souls of Black Folk, by W. E. B. Du Bois, what is the significance of the role of the church in the Black Belt?

In his famous work The Souls of Black
Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois writes extensively (especially in Chapter 7) about the
so-called “Black Belt” and about the importance of churches in that region of the
South.

Among other things, Du Bois says the following
concerning churches in the Black Belt:

• The
  church was often both literally and figuratively central to the community, as Du Bois
  suggests when he says of one church,

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it is the centre of a hundred cabin homes; and
sometimes, of a Sunday, five hundred persons from far and near gather here and talk and
eat and sing.

• As
  the preceding quotation implies, the church was important not only religiously but also
  in promoting a sense of communal fellowship, or shared
  belonging.


• In the Black Belt, the church was also often a
  center of education. As Du Bois puts it, “usually the school is held in the
  church.”


• Churches could vary in size from the very small
  to the fairly large, but always they were important parts of the
  community.


• Later in the book, Du Bois suggests that the
  kind of religious services practiced in rural black churches (presumably including those
  in the Black Belt) was often intense and enthusiastic. Music and the preacher (he says)
  played very important parts in such services.


• The
  preacher, Du Bois notes, was often an extremely significant member of the community – a
  highly influential leader:

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The Preacher is the most unique personality
developed by the Negro on American soil: a leader, a politician, an orator, a "boss,” an
intriguer," an idealist, — all these he is, and ever, too, the centre of a group of men,
now twenty, now a thousand in number. The combination of a certain adroitness with
deep-seated earnestness, of tact with consummate ability, gave him his preeminence, and
helps him maintain
it.

• In addition,
  Du Bois contends that the

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Music of Negro religion is that plaintive
rhythmic melody, with its touching minor cadences, which, despite caricature and
defilement, still remains the most original and beautiful expression of human life and
longing yet born on American
soil.

Thus the church in the
Black Belt and in other rural areas of the African-American South helped foster
community, education, leadership, and artistic achievement.