What is the theme of "Lady Lazarus"?

We can relate this poem and its theme to the real life
experience of its poet and her multiple suicide attempts. "Lady Lazarus," with the
allusion that its title contains, automatically makes us think of Lazarus who was
brought back to life by Jesus. This feeling of returning to life from death is something
that pervades this poem, however, this poem relates this feeling from a uniquely female
perspective as it focuses on the desire for revenge that is experienced by a female
victim of male domination. It is the way in which the speaker has been dominated by the
father that leads her to desire her revenge, although the precise nature of this revenge
is never explored. Because of this, perhaps the central theme of this disturbing poem is
the desire to turn the tables on patriarchy and for women to get their revenge for the
way that they have been objectified and dominated throughout
history.

Thus it is that the speaker of this poem has
managed to turn the tables against her oppressor and has exchanged the myth of Lazarus
for the myth of the phoenix, the mythical bird that dies only to be resurrected from its
own ashes. The last stanza in particular seems to foreshadow the successful completion
of the speaker's intention of gaining revenge against her father and men in
general:

Out of the
ash

I rise with my red
hair

And I eat men like
air.

The theme of this poem
is therefore one of the desire for revenge borne out of the age-old conflict between the
two sexes. The way that women have been systematically dominated and abused throughout
history leads the speaker of this poem to desire revenge and to yearn to be able to
dominate and abuse men the way that she herself has been abused.

How is the meaning of the novel, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, enhanced by the sustained literary allusion to another work of literature?

The "sustained literary allusion to another work of
literature" is no doubt, the idea that this novel seems to parallel the story of
"Hamlet."  Consider the similarities: Edgar's mother, Trudy is Hamlet's mother
Gertrude.  His uncle Claude is like Claudius.  Many even compare Almondine, though she
is a dog, to the character of Hamlet's Ophelia.

The death
of Edgar's father and subsequent visit by the ghost is the moment that seals for most
reader the comparison to Shakespeare.  It immediately sets up the
meaning of the novel to be a tale of murder and possible revenge. 
Edgar's father has been poisoned by his own brother, and Edgar is the only one who
knows.  As the story unfolds, the natural questions arise: How will Edgar be able to
reveal the secret in a way that everyone believes him?  Will he avenge his father's
death, and how?  And, will he go mad in the process?  Finally, in light of the fact that
"Hamlet" is a tragedy, the big question is will Edgar die in the
end?

Knowing this literary parallel before reading
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle can act as a bit of a story guide but
has the potential to ruin any sense of surprise.  Though the two stories do not match
identically, even the author himself admits the similarities were
intentional.

After Parris begins to believe his daughter to be afflicted by witchcraft, what is Thomas Putnam's advice to him?

Parris is uncertain of what to do in the opening act.  He
is afraid of making a public issue of witchcraft, believing that he will be implicated
in it.  His lack of resolve reflects his own sense of insecurity that is a permanent
part of his character, something that reflects his own lack of firmness in his own sense
of identity.  Putnam recognizes that there is a certain opportunity in this moment. 
Along with Goody Putnam and Abigail, he is able to convince Parris that he must address
the people gathered downstairs and denounce the devil and witchcraft.  Putnam believes
that Parris must do this for a couple of reasons.  The first would be that it would put
the downstairs group at ease, knowing that the devil is the cause of the girls'
affliction.  At the same time, being able to publicly raise the presence of the devil
would be able to defer any potential blame to both Parris' daughter and Putnam's own,
who is in a trance- like state similar to Betty Parris.  From the most ulterior of
motives, Putnam believes that the more accusations and people accused of witchcraft will
enable him to be consolidate his landowning status in Salem, something that Miller tells
us is important as the land charter had been revoked in Salem.  This insight comes out
of the Act I stage directions.

Please can I have an explanation of these lines from "Frost at Midnight."Methinks its motion in this hush of nature Gives it dim sympathies with me...

This important meditation on nature and the poet's son
comes as the speaker finds himself in his cottage at night, watching the frost outside
and with his son next to him. This quote you have cited comes from the first stanza of
this poem, and is straight after the speaker has reflected on the deep silence that
characterises his surroundings at night in the
darkness.

The beginning of your extract is when the poet
has his attention drawn to the fireplace, when he spots a film of soot fluttering on the
bar of the grate of the fire. This is a "companiable form" because, in the otherwise
silent and motionless night, it is the only other thing that is restless, making the
speaker feel a relationship with it. This is a very important fact to focus on, because
Coleridge explains in a note that such a film was often known as a "stranger," as it was
said to mean the coming of a stranger or someone unexpected, which of course is used by
the poet to develop his thoughts and meditation in this poem.

What is the tone in "The Minister's Black Veil"?

Tone is the way an author looks (implied or stated) at an
audience or a subject in a text.

The tone in Hawthorne's
short story "The Minister's Black Veil" is one of doubt. Mr Hooper dons the veil in
order to test the faith and acceptance of his parishioners. Prior to wearing the veil,
Hooper's parishioners thought him to be self-disciplined and rational. Once he begins
wearing the veil, his parishioners, wrought with dismay, begin to turn against him. The
rumors behind his reasoning begin to run rampant.

By
wearing the veil, Hooper shows that people are easily swayed by things they do not
understand or cannot comprehend. Therefore, the tone of doubt shows Hawthorne's (through
Hooper) inability to trust in society and the way their beliefs
waiver.

Foreshadowing - How do the actions/setting hint about the events which occur in the last text.

In Saki's short story "The Open Window", the character of
Vera is a 15 year old girl who seems to enjoy mischief in the form of telling stories
that cause fear. As the story reads,

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Romance at short notice was her
speciality.

This means that
Vera's mind is always on the go, especially if it means creating fantasies in her
mind.

In the story, Vera tells Frampton (a house guest
coming to rehabilitate his nerves) about the reason behind her aunt's leaving the window
open on a foggy day. She claims that the reason is that her aunt has a fascination with
her husband and her husband's brother, who supposedly disappeared years ago during a
hunting trip.

According to Vera, the window is left open in
hope of their return. However, this is not the truth: The window is simply open for no
reason at all. The men are not missing either, they are actually hunting outside. Vera
is making everything up so that, when the men return, Frampton would think it is the
ghosts of the men coming back.

The moment in the story
where you can almost foreshadow the disclosure at the end is at the beginning, when Vera
tells Framptom on account of her aunt's absence from the home:

MY aunt will
be down presently, Mr. Nuttel," ..... in the meantime you must try and put up with
me.

Since a foreshadowing is
what tells us that something might be happening sometime in the story, the best thing we
can get from this specific foreshadowing is that Vera is already determined to cause
Frampton some sort of grief. Often, foreshadowing is easier to identifywhen you read the
story twice. When you read "The Open Window" twice, the giveaway is that Vera basically
warns Framptom from the get go that he will have to put up with
her.

On the basis of VSEPR theory explain why Berrylium chloride (BeCl2) molecule is linear whereas water (H2O) molecule is angular?

As per the VSEPR Theory, the shape of the molecule is
decided by the number of bonds and the number of lone pairs present in the central
atom.

The maximum repulsion is between lone pairs of
electrons, and the minimum repulsion is between the bond pair of
electrons.

The arrangement of bond pairs and lone pairs
around the central atom is such that there is minimum
repulsion.

Now, in BeCl2, Be is the central atom with 2
single bonds and zero lone pairs present on it. The maximum degrees at which the two Cl
atoms can be placed far from each other around the central metal Be is 180
degrees.

Thus, BeCl2 is
linear 

Cl------Be------Cl

Now,
in H2O, the central atom is O, which has 2 bond pairs and 2 lone
pairs.

Thus, now, to minimize repulsion, the two H atoms
cannot be placed 180 degrees apart from each other because there are 2 lone pairs of
electrons present which have more repulsion between them, and hence the shape of the H2O
molecule is bent or V-shaped.

Discuss "The Pulley." Please identify and explain the central conceit.

Like other poems by George Herbert, this poem is based
around a central conceit that adds so much to the meaning of the poem and what the poet
is trying to convey. The poem basically talks about the way in which God chose to shower
us with all forms of blessing when he created us, but held back from giving us
everything, choosing to not give us the gift of "Rest." He supports this decision by
saying:

He
would adore my gifts in stead of me,

And rest in Nature,
not the God of Nature:

So both should losers
be.

If man was given the gift
of Rest, God believes, he would be perfectly content in what he had and would not need
to look up to God for true rest and blessing. The poem is based on a famous saying from
St. Augustine, who said:

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Thou hast made us for thyself, and our hearts are
restless until they find their rest in
thee.

The conceit of the
pulley comes in in the final stanza, in which the imagery of the pulley comes in to
describe the way in which God showers man with blessing and how, ironically, not having
rest will help man to come closer to God on the other side of the
pulley:

Yet
let him keep the rest,

But keep them with repining
restlessnesse:

Let him be rich and wearie, that at
least,

If goodness leade him not, yet
wearinesse

May tosse him to my
breast.

We are not given
rest, but our restlessness will drag us down on one rope, causing us to rise on the
other rope, towards God, who has wisely withheld rest so we need to go up to Him to
receive it.

What political factors helped to cause the collapse of the Han Dynasty?

One of the major political causes of the collapse of the
Han Dynasty was the series of purges that it carried out in attempts to suppress
challenges to the Han emperors.

As the dynasty's power
declined, there arose a number of attempts, often by the relatives of empresses, to take
power from the emperors.  The emperors tended to meet these efforts with large-scale
repressiosn of those who supported the rebellions.  These purges led to a great deal of
dissatisfaction within the elites of the society.

Another
problem was the fact that the largest of the politically powerful families were simply
too big to be controlled by the central government.  As the emperors lost power, these
powerful families took more power for themselves.  They were eventually able to split
the empire into three separate empires.  This was a major step towards the total
disruption of the Han Dynasty.

please show how to calculate definite integral of y=|sin x-square root 3*cos x|, in interval [0,pi/2]?

The absolute value forces the answers to definite
integrals to be positive on the interval [0,pi/2].  Therefore the integral needs to be
split up.  Looking at the graph of sin x - sqrt 3 (cos x), from [0,pi/3] the y-values
are negative. From [pi/3, pi/2] the y-values are
positive.

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The
definite integral breaks into two.

class="AM">`-int sin(x)-sqrt(3)cos(x)dx` from [0,pi/3]
plus

`int
sin(x)-sqrt(3)cos(x)dx` from [pi/3, pi/2]

The
integral is equal to -cos(x)-sqrt(3)*sin(x)

Putting in the
bounds:

-[-cos(pi/3)-sqrt(3)sin(pi/3)-(-cos(0)-sqrt(3)sin(0))]+

[-cos(pi/2)-sqrt(3)sin(pi/2)-(-cos(pi/3)-sqrt(3)sin(pi/3))]
=

-[-1/2-3/2-(-1-0)] + [-0-sqrt(3)-(-1/2-3/2)]
=

-[-1]+[2-sqrt(3)] =
3-sqrt(3)

The exact answer is 3-sqrt(3) which is
approximately 1.268.

With specific examples, demonstrate how Joseph Conrad treats the issues of race and empire in Heart of Darkness.

Joseph Conrad, author of Heart of
Darkness, traveled in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo in
Africa—the river is the Zaire. In Conrad time, it was called the Belgian Congo—he sailed
the Congo River. Conrad's novel allows us to understand his feelings toward the "empire"
and its treatment of the African natives.

In 1878, Leopold
II of Belgium took over Africa—gaining wealth by stripping Africa's of its natural
resources. In doing so, he and his "representatives" created conditions that were
deplorable—

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The Belgian traders committed many
well-documented acts of atrocity against the African
natives...

Leopold II was
eventually forced from his place of power in
Africa.

Charlie Marlow, the narrator of the story—and
ship's captain—is struck by a world that makes little sense as he travels into the
Congo. He finds many men on a quest for material gain; a casual and unfeeling
exploitation of the natives; and, paranoia and insanity running throughout the
Company—the organization that has sent Marlow into the Congo to bring back Kurtz, the
Company's most successful man in delivering shipments of ivory more valuable than those
of all the other agents put together.

When Marlow reaches
the first stop, the Lower Station, he has stepped into a world where reason does not
exist. The first thing he sees is scattered machinery, abandoned and rusting all over
the ground...

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...an undersized railway truck lying there on its
back with its wheels in the air. One was off. The thing looked as dead as the carcass of
some animal.

When Marlow
looks up at the cliff, he witnesses the purposeless blasting of
dynamite.

A
heavy and dull detonation shook the ground, a puff of smoke came out of the cliff, and
that was all. No change appeared on the face of the rock...the cliff was not in the way
or anything...

Marlow turns
at the sound of clinking behind him—noise from the chains that bind African "slaves."
They are wearing rags "round their loins;" Marlow notes that they are so thin that their
ribs stick out, as well as their joints; and, the iron "collar" each wears is connected
to another's and they all move in tandem.

Marlow does not
consider himself weak, but he is appalled at how the people have been
treated.

They
passed me within six inches...with [a] complete death-like
indifference...

They were dying slowly—it was very
clear.

At the Central
Station, Marlow discovers that the manager and his nephew greatly resent Kurtz's success
and they are paranoid about Kurtz's ability to send such an enormous amount of ivory out
of the Inner Station—and the power it affords Kurtz.

In the
Inner Station, Marlow finally finds Kurtz's "camp," and
notes:

Now I
had suddenly a nearer view, and its first result was to make me throw my head back as if
before a blow... These knobs...were...expressive and puzzling...They would have been
even more impressive, those heads on the stakes, if their faces had not been turned to
the house.

Human sacrifices
have also taken place, and Kurtz (worshipped as a God)—at one time brilliant—has lost
his connection to humanity...he is insane.

All that
motivates so many of the characters that Marlow encounters is an insatiable greed,
fostered by the "empire," with a mindless destruction of the native population. Wealth
matters more than human life. Marlow (and Conrad) abhors what the empire has done and
his descriptions of the tormented Africans expose these human-rights violations to the
world.

What is the main theme regarding power and propaganda in Animal Farm?

I think that one of the most basic themes of Orwell's work
is the idea that power and propaganda go together for governments that wish to
consolidate their power over the populace.  The idea of needing to consistently exist in
the minds of the body politic happens only through means of propaganda.  Orwell's point
is that politicians will stop at nothing to ensure that the propaganda machine
constantly appropriates all reality and makes it a political one.  Squealer's "spin"
infects all aspects of life on the farm.  Whenever there is a shortage in food, Squealer
renames it as "readjustments."  Whenever someone launches a legitimate complaint,
Squealer brings up the ghost of Jones and then Snowball.  Whenever there is suffering,
Squealer invokes the idea of how struggle is felt by all in the acknowledgement of
something better, larger, and more transcendental.  Propaganda is the means by which
power is consolidated for it is the means through which government denies individuals
the ability to think and act globally regarding their own predicaments.  In this, Orwell
makes clear that one gains greater power through propaganda, and if one covets it, the
ability to spread misinformation through propaganda becomes an essential reality to
those in the position of political power.

Discuss how David and Susan analyzed the situation, arriving at the theory that the lead glaze on the pottery was responsible for their symptoms.

You have not provided the complete question here. What are
the symptoms of David and Susan that you are referring to and what was the analysis done
by them.

As you have mentioned lead glaze, it can be
assumed this question is related to lead poisoning. Lead poisoning does not have any
immediate effects unless lead is taken as a very large dose. Poisoning over a prolonged
period of time, in adults, causes symptoms that include high blood pressure, reduction
in mental functioning, memory loss, infertility in men, and miscarriages in
women.

Lead glaze is often used in pottery as it very
attractive to look at. If the pots are baked at high temperatures and the glaze properly
formulated the chances of lead leaching into food stored in them is almost zero. On the
other hand, when glazing is not done properly, it can lead to lead poisoning. How much
lead leaches into the foods depends on the type of food stored, how often the pots the
heated and if there is high acidity.

In "Lamb to the Slaughter," how would you characterise the marriage of the Maloneys before the murder?

The best part of the text to look at in order to answer
this question would be the description of Mary and what she thinks of her husband as he
returns from work. Part of the excellent use of irony in this passage relates to the way
in which Mary is presented as a wife whose existence is built around her husband's
happiness and would do anything for him to make sure that he is happy and well. Consider
how she greets him with a smile and gets him a drink so he can put his feet up. Note how
the following quote describes her feelings towards
him:

She loved
to luxuriate in the presence of this man, and to feel--almost as a sunbather feels the
sun--that warm male glow that came out of him to her when they were alone
together.

The somewhat
hyperbolic comparison of Mary Maloney standing in front of her husband and soaking up
his rays as if she were a sunbather points towards her total and almost pathetic
devotion towards him.

However, having said this, it seems
obvious that her husband is indifferent towards her affections and feelings. Although
she is pregnant, he lets himself be waited upon, and then destroys her world in an
instant by probably telling him of how he plans to leave her for another woman. Whilst
there is tremendous devotion in this marriage, it is therefore all one-sided, as Mary is
married to a selfish man who does not love her in the same way that he is loved by
her.

What key events from "Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket" would you include in a one paragraph summary of this story?

Work-obsessed Tom Benecke chooses to work on a project
rather than go out with his wife to the cinema. However, tragedy strikes when a vital
piece of paper is blown out of the window and is left plastered against the ledge of the
outside wall. Tom Benecke, determined not to lose all of his hard work and his hopes of
promotion, steps out of his apartment window and walks along the ledge to try and regain
it. Finally he succeeds, and manages to re-enter his apartment window with the piece of
paper. Leaving it on his desk, he then decides to go and catch up with his wife after
all, as his near-death experience has changed his priorities somewhat. As he leaves to
go out, a gust of wind from the opening door blows the same bit of paper out of the
window once again. This time, however, Tom Benecke merely laughs and carries on going
out to look for his wife.

What factors influenced the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade?.

There were many forces behind the abolition of the
trans-Atlantic slave trade.  For various reasons, both slave owners and abolitionists
backed this ban.

For abolitionists like William Wilberforce
in Great Britain, there were two major reasons for banning the slave trade.  First, it
would be a humane move that would prevent more Africans from being enslaved.  Second, if
slave owners couldn't simply import new slaves all the time, they would need to treat
their existing slaves in a more humane way.

For many
slaveowners, the ban was a good thing as well.  the main reason for this was that it
would take some of the attention and disapproval away from their slave system.  The
trans-Atlantic trade looked (and was) terrible.  Banning it would be a relatively
low-cost way to improve their image.

what are the differences between mainstream tourism and special interest tourismno

Mainstream tourism is relatively unspecialized. The
tourist who wants to "get away" but doesn't have any specific desires to see a
particular area or be involved in particular kinds of activities while on vacation is
looking for a mainstream kind of experience. There are no critical requirements for the
trip - the goal is to simply go somewhere new or different and engage in activities
other than the routine ones for the traveler.

Special
interest tourism covers the whole range of travel possibilities that focus upon some
particular area or interest. A tourist who wants to spend his/her vacation studying the
lifestyle of a particular type of animal may choose to go on a trip to the area where
that animal lives, using the services of a guide to locate and learn more about the
creature. Tourists who are committed to environmental issues may choose to spend their
vacation working to rebuild eroded trails, clean polluted waters or shores, or collect
samples of soil or water for testing and evaluation by sponsoring scientific groups.
Tourists who want to experience new or extreme activities may vacation with others while
climbing mountains, biking extraordinary distances or locations, scuba diving in remote
areas, or other activities that are not easily arranged.

prove that altitude of a triangle r concurrent no

I can't make sketch here to show the proof clearly but
I'll describe the sketch so that you can follow by making the sketch on your paper while
reading this.

Let's draw a triangle with sides
a, b,
c. Pls. put c on the longest of the three sides. Now name
the vertices as A, B,
C with A opposite side
a; B opposite side
b and C opposite
side c.

Now draw the first
altitude perpendicular to side c.. This will pass through
vertex C. We will call this as
"altC". Put a small square at the intersection of
altC and side c, to indicate
right angle and mark this intersection as point
F.

Next draw the second
altitude perpendicular to side a. This line will pass
through vertex A. We will call this as
"altA". Put a small square at the intersection of
altA and side a, to indicate
right angle and mark this intersection as point
D. (Note: If angle C
is acute, then point D is on side a in the triangle,
else point D is on the extension of side
a outside the
triangle.)

Finally draw the last altitude
through vertex B and perpendicular to side
b and we will call this as
"altB". Mark the intersection of
altB and side b as point
E and put small square on it. (Again if angle
C is acute, then point E is on
side b in the triangle, else point E is on the extension of
side b outside the
triangle.)

Now locate the intersection of
altA and altC and mark this as
point O1, then locate also the intersection of
altB and altC and mark as
point O2. then locate also the intersection
of altA and altB and mark as
point O. (For your guide if
angle C is acute, then point O1,
O2 and O is inside the triangle,
else point O1, O2
and O are
outside the triangle.)

If
your drawing is perfect the you'll see that the altitudes are concurrent. But it's
better if they're not. so that we a triangle of error
O1O2O

O1,
O2 and O are the same point, if they are
concurrent and FO1=FO2. So we can make a proposition
that:

The altitudes of a triangle
are concurrent because distance FO1 and distance FO2 are
equal.

Proof:

From
right triangle AFC

FC = bsinA;     AF =
bcosA

From right triangle BFC

FC = asinB;     BF = acosB

bsinA = asinB

b = asinB/sinA

But
<ABD = 90-A, thus <FO2B = A

Also <BAE
= 90-B, thus <FO1A = B

From right triangle 
AFO1

tanFO1A = AF/FO1

FO1 =
AF/ tanFO1A

FO1 = bcosA/tanB

FO1 = (asinB/sinA)cosA /tanB

FO1
=acotAcosB

From right triangle 
BFO2

tan FO2B = BF/FO2

FO2 =
BF/tan FO2B

FO2 = acosB/tanA

FO2 = acosBcotA

Distance FO1 is equal to distance FO2,
therefore

The altitudes of a
triangle are concurrent

sketch the following funciton and state the domain and range. y= 1/2 Sqr root ( 2x+4 ) -3 Please explain the domain and range with a little...

The domain of a function represents the input values.
 Here the domain stands for the x-values. Since the square root of a negative does not
exist in the real number system, 2x+4 must be greater than or equal to 0. So the domain
is found by solving the inequality:

class="AM">`2x+4>=0`

class="AM">`2x>=-4`

class="AM">`x>=-2`

The allowable
x-values must be greater than or equal to -2.

The range
represents the output of the function.  Here the range stands for the y-values. Since
x=-2 is the smallest value of x, the smallest value for y is found
by:

y=1/2 sqrt (2(-2)+4) -
3

y=1/2 sqrt (0) -
3

y=-3

The range of the
function is  class="AM">`y>=-3`

Here is a graph
that shows the graph exists for x's greater than or equal to -2 and y's greater than or
equal to -3.

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Why would you choose to insulate your loft, and replace your windows with double glazing?

To save the environment and reduce your electricity bills
it is essential to adopt methods that reduce the consumption of
electricity.

Heating homes in winter uses a large amount of
electricity. One of the reasons behind this is that only a small percentage of the heat
generated by the heaters actually raises the temperature of the house. The rest escapes
from the house to the outer atmosphere.

Heat rises upwards
and escapes from the tiles that make up the roof very easily. One way to deal with this
is to insulate the loft. In addition, normal windows allow infra-red radiation to escape
easily. Double glazed windows on the other hand are made up of two glass panes with a
small amount of gas sealed between them. These are very efficient in stopping the
passage of heat through them.

By insulating the loft up to
15-20% of energy usage can be decreased. Using double glazed glass for windows reduces
energy usage by 20-30%.

How do you answer this question - "What is your impression of the narrator"?

You answer the question, "What is your impression of the
narrator?" by thinking about your reaction to what you have just read. The question is
asking for your opinion, which means there is not going to be one right answer to the
question. You need to analyze your feelings and determine your impression, then identify
and give supporting reasons to justify your response.

Ask
yourself, based on the way the narrator talks and what s/he does during the story, do I
like him/her? Why or why not? Do I trust him/her? Would I enjoy going on a trip with
him/her? Why or why not? Would I want to work with him/her? Why or why
not?

Based on your answers to those kinds of questions, you
should be able to explain your impression and why you feel that way about the narrator
of your story.

Into how many acts did Marlowe originally divide his play Doctor Faustus?

This is a complicated question because the publication
history of Doctor Faustus is a complicated one. Our only
information on Renaissance Elizabethan plays comes from written and published records.
Faustus was first published more than a decade after its first
performance and after Marlowe's death, therefore, Marlowe was not on hand to oversee
publication.

Another complicating factor is that plays
could be altered--lines dropped, scenes added etc--for performances without the
playwright's consent. As a result, there is no definitive text of
Faustus. Some think the short 1604 Text A version is the authentic
version, while others think the longer 1616 Text B version is the authentic version,
with all of it composed by Marlowe.

What we do know is that
while modern publications divide Faustus into five Acts, neither
Text A nor Text B--both in a combination of blank verse and prose--have acts but are
divided into scenes only. The href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/779/779-h/779-h.htm">1604 Text A has
thirteen scenes and 1485 lines, while the 1616 Text B has twenty scenes and 2125 lines.
In summary, though we do not the original form of the play as Marlowe wrote it, we do
know that he used no act divisions, only scene divisions.

What inferences can you make about how the Framers intended to distribute power within the federal goverment?

Well, the Framers did not all have the same intentions, in
fact their opinions on the matter of government power differed sharply, so let's look at
the eventual compromise they came up with.

The power of the
King was divided between three separate branches, the Executive, the Legislative and the
Judiciary.  We can draw a few inferences from that fact alone, as it is obvious that the
Framers in general did not trust centralized government, and while they realized they
needed one with the authority to defend the country and pay the bills, they also feared
the power of a King, and wanted to create institutions that would dismantle that
power.

By creating checks and balances, we can infer that
the Framers feared power would be concentrated again at some point unless they included
safeguards against it.

Examine the role of supernatural in the play Macbeth. To what extent does it lead to Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and Scotland's decline ? I want to write...

Analyzing the effects of the supernatural elements in
Macbeth is a good approach to the play.  You might begin by looking
at the witches' prophesies to Macbeth and Banquo at the beginning of the play.  The most
important of these is the prophesy that Macbeth will become king and that Banquo's sons
will be kings.

Predicting the future is a supernatural act,
but mere humans make these prophesies come true.  Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, upon hearing
the witches' prophecies (Lady Macbeth through her husband's letter), decide that it is
Macbeth's fate to become king.  So they take the "near'st way" to this position by
murdering Duncan.  It is Macbeth's and Lady Macbeth's belief in the truth of the
prophesies that propels them to murder.  Instead of letting the prophesies come true on
their own, they make them happen. And, of course, Macbeth makes a very poor king indeed,
creating chaos in all of Scotland.

You then might look at
Macbeth's second encounter with the witches.  They again predict the future.  This time
Macbeth's reaction is quite different.  Instead of acting to fulfill the prophesies, he
acts to prevent them.   Macbeth now believes that he can change his
fate.

So, you might view the witches as having several
roles:  that of instigators, temptors, and prophets.  But clearly the decision to murder
is Macbeth's and Lady Macbeth's.

What can police do to prevent, reduce and minimize bullying in schools?

The bulk of anti-bullying activity consists of things that
cannot be done by the police.  However, there are things that the police can do to
reduce bullying in schools.

For the most part, these are
things that could be done at the high school level.  The placement of what are often
called "resource officers" in the school itself can be a help.  Such officers can, at
the very least, work to ensure that bullying does not take a physical form.  They can
ensure that any assaults will be dealt with and, thereby, they can hope to deter such
violence.

Outside of that, most steps that can be taken
against bullying have to be done through education rather than through law
enforcement.

What is a fibriod?

“Fibroid” is a common lay term used to describe a benign
neoplasm (new growth) that arises from smooth muscle cells.  The medical name of these
benign tumors is “leiomyoma”.  Fibroid is a misnomer in that the tumor consists of
smooth muscle cells rather than fibrous tissue.

Although
leiomyomas can arise in smooth muscle anywhere throughout the body, the term “fibroid”
refers to these lesions when they occur in the uterus
(womb).

The uterus is made up of mostly smooth muscle.  It
has an outer serosa, and an internal cavity lined by endometrium.  At the beginning of
pregnancy the fertilized ovum implants in the uterine endometrial lining.  In a
non-pregnant woman of reproductive age the endometrium sheds cyclically each month as
menstruation.

Uterine leiomyomas (fibroids) are the most
common benign tumor in women.  They occur most often during the reproductive years,
usually sometime after age 20, and are more common in African American women than in
Caucasians. Approximately one in five women will develop fibroid(s) during their
reproductive years.  Fibroids are often multiple, and their size can range from
microscopic to massive.

Within the uterus, fibroids can be
in the uterine wall itself (intramural fibroid), bulging beneath the outer uterine
serosa (pedunculated subserosal fibroid), or immediately beneath the endometrial lining
(submucosal fibroid).

Submucosal fibroids cause abnormal
uterine bleeding between periods.

Intramural fibroids, if
large, can cause a feeling of pelvic pressure, and cramping
periods.

Subserosal fibroids rarely cause symptoms unless
very large.

Diagnosis of fibroids is by pelvic examination,
with confirmation by pelvic ultrasound.

Fibroids do not
become malignant and need not be removed unless they are symptomatic or interfere with
fertility.  The treatment is surgical removal.  Fibroids depend on estrogen for growth,
and symptoms due to fibroids often improve with the use of birth control
pills.

In "Bartleby the Scrivener," explain the significance of the subtitle, "A Story of Wall Street" in relation to one theme of the story.

The subtitle of this excellent story, to my mind, should
draw our attention to the way in which walls are a prevalent symbol in the story.
Consider how the setting of the narrator's offices are described. Not only are they
located on Wall Street, but they also have a view of nothing more than the walls of
other buildings:

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At one end they looked upon the white wall of the
interior of a spacious skylight shaft, penetrating the building from top to bottom... In
[the other] direction my windows commanded an unobstructed view of a lofty brick
wall...

The high number of
walls and their significance makes us think of the theme of freedom and the way in which
the freedom of Bartleby becomes ever more restricted as the story takes its course. Note
the way in which Bartleby spends hours staring at the wall, so much so that the narrator
describes him as being lost in a "dead-wall reverie." Bartleby is a character who seems
to lack freedom in his life, and the high number of walls only serves to reinforce the
way that he is imprisoned by life.

The story thus seems to
be a meditation on the nature of human freedom. Is Bartleby the victim of the capitalist
system that we have today that forces people to exchange their labour for paltry wages?
Or is his lack of freedom more philosophically based as he struggles to grasp the
significance of his life and debates the meaning of his existence? Either view is
possible, but the subtitle of this story, giving us yet another reminder of the symbol
of walls and how they represent imprisonment, asks us profound questions concerning our
state of freedom and/or imprisonment in the world and the extent to which humans can
ever be truly free.

How is tartar formed?

Tartar results from plaque that is formed on teeth by
bacteria which reside in our mouth. The proteins and other byproducts of what we eat are
used by these bacteria to create a sticky substance that creates a layer on the teeth.
Plaque is most likely to form in areas within the mouth that are difficult to
reach.

Tartar is formed when the plaque hardens. It is a
lot tougher to remove tartar than plaque as tartar contains minerals that make is hard
and more adherent to the teeth.

Bacteria find tartar a very
easy place to hide and cause more damage. They release acids from food that is eaten
which lead to cavities. Infections and even loss of teeth can occur if the tartar is not
taken care of, ideally by visiting a dentist.

What was the factual background to the satire of 'A Modest Proposal'?

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There are two basic
reasons that Johnathan Swift wrote "A Modest Proposal." First, the people of Ireland
were being treated poorly by the wealthy upper class. The impoversed people were growing
rapidly in numbers. The weathly didn't know what to do about the situation. Swift's
pamphlet drew attention to the way they were being treated.

His
pamphlet also drew attention to another issue of the time. Many of the solutions
proposed during this time were ridiculous. Swift was drawing attention to the fact that
many proposals sounded intelligent and looked good on paper, but they were actually
almost as silly as Swift's sarcastic pamphlet. People were forced to open their eyes to
these two issues as they read Swift's proposal.

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How do I write an explanatory report on heroes regarding September 11, 2001?Add examples of 9/11 heroes and what they did to be a hero.

I would try to include all of the many types of people and
the various occupations of the heroes who lived and died during the terrorist attacks on
New York City and Washington, D. C. on September 11, 2001. There were the firemen of New
York City who rushed to the scene, disregarding their own safety to try and battle the
fires and rescue those trapped in the Twin Towers. There were the policemen who also
entered the buildings and who tried to keep order. There were the paramedics, who
treated the injured on the streets below. There were other first responders--nurses,
doctors and other volunteers--who risked their health and their lives to aid the
victims. There were the passengers and personnel on the planes--especially those who
subdued the hijackers on United Airlines Flight #93 and who died when it crashed in
Shanksville, Pennsylvania--and the innocent victims who died in the World Trade Center.
And there were those who helped in the cleanup afterward, searching for survivors in a
treacherous environment of death and destruction.

Calculate the following limit: lim -x/tan(3x) as x approches to 0

You can only ask one question at a time. I have edited the
question to comply with the same.

We have to find the value
of lim x--> 0 [ -x/tan(3x)]

If we substitute x = 0,
we get the indeterminate form 0/0. This allows the use of l'Hopital's rule. We
substitute the numerator and denominator by their
limits.

lim x--> 0 [
-x/tan(3x)]

=> lim x--> 0[ -1/3*(sec
3x)^2]

substitute x =
0

=>
-1/3

The required limit is
-1/3

Is it possible to do a post-colonial reading of Pride and Prejudice?

Realistically, Pride and Prejudice is the novel of
Austen's least susceptible to post-colonial analysis. To apply a post-colonial reading
to it is more an exercise in critical ingenuity than a major contribution to our
understanding of the novel. The main entry points into the novel for the post-colonial
critic are the episodes involving the military. It is possible to analyze Lydia's
complicity with her own abduction by Wickham as parallel to the complicity of women in
countries colonized by the British in having relationships with their opressors in the
British military. Another line of analysis would be to look at Austen's metaphorical
descriptions of balls as battles and argue that Britain's external colonialism and
militarization affected its internal gender relations by reframing class and gender
within the ideological structure of strategic and militarized
oppression.

How does Nick Carraway change throughout the book???

On the first pages of the novel, Nick says that his father
advised him not to judge people.  However, his judgements are present throughout as he
falls in with Gatsby and his circle and his cousin Daisy and hers.  Towardst the
beginning of the book Nick seems to judge Gatsby as a fake.  He notices that Gatsby uses
a stilted and purposeful manner of speech that is the hallmark of someone trying too
hard.  When he talks about his heroics in the war, he quickly pulls out a medal awarded
to him by the country of Montenegro.  When he talks about this time at Oxford, he
presents a photograph as proof.  Nick sees through Gatsby's
facade.

Nick does, however, act as a go-between in Gatsby's
campaign to win Daisy back.  But after the revelation of their affair and Myrtle's
untimely death, Nick realizes that it's really Tom and Daisy who are the phonies.  They
are "careless" people who enter and ruin the lives of their innocent victims.  The last
time Nick sees Gatsby before his death he says that Gatsby is better than the "whole
lot" of the others.

Nick's realization and inability to
reserve judgement are evidence of a profound change of
character.

During the card game at the fire station, what questions does Montag ask?This passage is found between pages 25 and 35 in the 50th anniversary...

Influenced and encouraged by his discussions with
Clarisse, Montag asks Beatty what happened to the man “whose library we fixed.” (pg 33)
 Beatty tells him that he was taken off screaming to an insane asylum.  When Montag
remarks that the man wasn’t insane, Beatty tells him that, “Any man’s insane who thinks
he can fool the government and us.” (pg 33)   He also asks if firemen always had the job
of burning books the way that they do now. “Didn’t firemen prevent fires rather than
stoke them up and get them going?” (pg 34).  The other firemen show him a section of
their history book that said the Firemen of America organization was established in 1790
for the purpose of burning English-influenced books in the Colonies.  It gave the name
of the first fireman as Benjamin Franklin.  

The page
numbers may be different in your edition of the book, but you will find the answer in
the general vicinity of the pages listed.

Please comment upon these lines from "Ode to a Nightingale."Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried...

You have quoted the last half of the final stanza of this
famous Romantic poem, which describes how the speaker reurns to his senses after his
out-of-body experience and becomes depressingly aware of the reality surrounding him as
the sound of the nightingale's song fades away. As this music "flees" away, the speaker
is left to question whether what he felt and experienced was a "vision, or a waking
dream" and is left to ponder if he is actually asleep or awake as he comes out of his
reverie.

Key to focus on in these final lines is the way
that the tone in these final lines is reflective and resigned, due to the way in which
the speaker clearly realises that there is no way to permanently escape his "sole self"
and the suffering that forms such an intrinsic and inextricable part of the human
condition. The speaker is left to grapple with the significance of his reverie and how
he is altered as a result, or if he is altered at all. Having experienced the beauty of
the nightingale's song, which seems to capture the eternal nature of beauty and poetry,
he must come to terms with the fact that he does not dwell in this realm, and that he is
transient.

What was the meaning behind the comic? What did he mean when he said he felt like there was a "5000 pound mouse breathing down his neck"? What did...

He felt that he would never again be free of the image of
himself as a "mouse"-- a Jew-- this literary device that he had created to convey his
parents' predicament as Polish Jews caught in the Holocaust. More than this, he felt
that he would never again be free to do work that was not, in some way, connected to
MAUS and his fame as the person who created this hybrid
tale/tail.

He has said he didn't want to be another Elie
Wiesel (writer about the Holocaust, who was actually a Holocaust victim himself). He
realized he had nibbled his way into a Maus hole...

Why are cults and sect called new religious movements?

Sect and cults are sociological terms that describe groups
that have broken away from the main religious group. Sects and cults, therefore, are no
longer within that group. In other words, the main group wishes to distance themselves
from the sect or cult. They see incompatibility. In essence they see something new.
Sects and cults are fully aware of this fact and they, too, seem themselves as
different.

Since, there is this distancing, they are
called new religious movements. Sometimes, cults and sects try to reform the main
religion and they fail to do so. So, they leave. Other times, there is a charismatic
leader who rouses people to follow him or her and a group leaves. In all, the basic
point is that something new is created. So, sociologists call them sects and cults.

explain the dramati irony in act 2 scene 1.

In Act II, scene i, the audience knows that Romeo and
Juliet have met at the Capulets' party where they have exchanged words and shared a
"holy kiss." They've each discovered that the person they've fallen so quickly in love
with is a member of the family their own family despises. Juliet says "my only love
sprung from my only hate."

The audience has witnessed their
rash and romantic actions. But in the beginning of this scene, Romeo's friend Mercutio
and his cousin Benvolio (and some other men) are searching for Romeo and when they don't
locate him, the assume he is with the girl he "loves," Rosaline. As far as they knew,
Romeo was still in love with her. In fact it was only a few short hours ago that he was
wallowing in his misery because he loved a woman so much who did not return the
feelings.

 Dramatic irony occurs when the audience (or
reader) knows something that the characters do not. Think of a horror movie. The
audience knows the killer is in the basement, but the character walks innocently into
the trap in order to investigate some small noise. In this scene, the audience knows
that Romeo and Juliet are in love but characters such as Mercutio believe that Romeo is
still hung up on Rosaline.

What is a common topic or theme in the stories of Anton Chekhov?

Many of Chekhov's stories deal with loneliness, and the
difficulty of communicating with others. In this sense he is a distinctly modern,
existential writer. For example, in "The Lament" (sometimes published as "Misery"), a
cab driver has just lost his son, and on a cold snowy night tries to communicate this
news to his fares, because he desperately needs someone to talk to. But no one listens
and at the end of the night he spills his heart to his horse. In "The Lady with the
Dog," another famous Chekhov story, a man and a woman carrying on an affair have
difficulty putting their feelings into words.

In his study
of the short story, "The Lonely Voice," Frank O'Connor has some good thoughts about
Chekhov. And if you can, read new translations of his work by Richard Pevear and Larissa
Volokhonsky.

How is O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night a modern tragedy?

Let's start with a look at what tragedy is . . .
 Aristotle defined it as “an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a
certain magnitude; in language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament, the
several kinds being found in separate parts of the play; in the form of action, not of
narrative; through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these
emotions.”

O'Neill certainly includes all of these
characteristics in his autobiographical play.  Since the play is based on his own life,
it is very clearly a realistic imitation of an action. There is great magnitude of the
several subplots - the mother's addiction, the men's alcoholism, Edmond's consumption,
etc.  The language is absolutely poetic throughout - consider Edmond's monologue about
the sea as a perfect example of artistic expression.  The play is full of emotion -
emotion that is purged throughout the four acts.  Each character has at least one major
cathartic moment.  Because of the realism and the seriousness of the story-line, an
audience may also experience a catharsis.

What makes it
modern, I suppose, are the modern issues driving the tragedy, along with the more
domestic (less epic than traditional tragedies) setting.

However, O'Neill did not set out to write a tragedy.  He
set out to heal himself by facing the demons of his youth.  The play was written not to
be published or performed, but was given to his wife as an anniversary gift; he credited
her with bringing him into the light from his dark past.  She had the play published
after his death as she recognized its literary merits.

A whole book is dedicated to Lena Leningrad. Yet the book is entitled My Ántonia. Is the book about Antonia? Why? Why not?

Well spotted! This is an interesting fact about this
excellent book concerning migration and the expansion of the border of the West in
America, and is an issue that has troubled critics. The structure of the book and the
way that Antonia herself is apparently forgotten about for an entire section does lead
some to question who the actual protagonist of the novel is supposed to be. Lena
Lingard, in addition, is said by some to be a much more interesting and fascinating
character compared to the somewhat bland Antonia, and so some argue that Lena Lingard
actually threatens to "steal teh show."

In response to this
issue, David Daiches, a famous critic of Cather and her works, actually believes that
this is a fault of Cather in this brilliant novel, and that she loses focus of her
central theme, which he said to be the "development and self-discovery of the heroine."
In addition, others have pointed toards the mode of narration to explain the curioius
lack of focus. Having a male narrator who is infatuated and fascinated with the central
character but who remains profoundly detached from so much of the action results in a
lack of focus and a kind of moral emptiness at the centre of the novel, some
argue.

You might want to think about this issue based on
your own reading of the novel. Who is the true heroine? Which out of the two female
characters it the more appealing and why? Why do you think Cather left Antonia for a
whole section to follow a different character?

Could someone help me out with just finding the tone, mood, relationships, and a discusion of the different elements?POETRY RESPONSE. I only need...

To remember mood and tone you must remember that reading
someone's work is a relationship between your feelings and the author's feelings.  It's
really between two people and how they each feel about the body of work, short story,
novel, etc.

Mood is the way you react or feel about what
you're reading.  If you're reading a short story by Stephen King and the story is
describing a dark bleak world with sudden attacks the mood (how you are expected to
feel) would be uncomfortable, spooked, unsettled, etc.  If you are reading a novel about
the return of the black plague and it's very descriptive the mood would be uneasy,
queasy, paranoid, worried, or however you would react reading about something like
that.

Tone is the attitude, or how the author feels about
his/her subject matter.  The tone can be determined by examining the choice of words the
author uses.  This will help determine tone.  For example, If I were to be a Nazi
enthusiast (purely hypothetical btw), you would expect harsh, negative language when
describing Jewish people.  That would be expected of a neo-Nazi blogger or author. 
Another example would be if I were a writer (which I am) and were to write a short story
about Nazis I would use language such as 'cruel' 'excessive' 'genocide' 'hate' 'murder'
all indicating that I, as the author detest the Nazi, or neo-Nazi ideology.  That is the
tone of my work if I were the author.

I teach a simplified
version to my high schooler students:

mood is how you feel
about the work.

tone is how the autor feels about the
subject he is writing about.

YOU sounds more like MOOD.  So
mood means 'you'

tone therefore is author (a little trick
if you forget which is
which)

you-mood

author-tone.

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, describe how Huck's relationship with his father led to his decision to run away.

Let us remember that Huck's father was hardly an excellent
role model for Huck. He was a drunkard and a liar and a cheat. He is also physically
violent towards Huck. Interestingly, however, Huck doesn't seem to mind too much about
these negatives and does say that he enjoys living with his father in comparison to all
the rules and regulations of living with the Widow Watson. If you want a good reason for
why Huck ran away, consider this example of his father's behaviour from Chapter Six when
his father drinks himself into a frenzy:

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By and by he rolled out and jumped up on his
feet looking wild, and he see me and went for me. He chased me round and round the place
with a clasp-knife, calling me the Angel and Death, and saying he would kill me, and
then I couldn't come for him no more. I begged, and told him I was only Huck; but he
laughed such a screechy laugh, and roared and cussed, and kept on chasing me
up.

With such behaviour and
regular beatings, it is hardly a surprise that Huck decides that he wants to run away
and thus plots to fake his own death so that he can have the freedom to live his life
the way that he wants to.

What is the conflict in the book The Cay?

The primary conflict in Theodore Taylor's novel,
The Cay, concerns the two main characters--Phillip, an American
boy, and Timothy, a West Indian sailor--and their long stay on a deserted island after
surviving the torpedoing of their ship. It becomes a story of man versus nature, and how
Timothy teaches Phillip, who is blinded when their ship goes down, to fend for himself
against the elements. Phillip is initially dependent upon Timothy, but the aging sailor
knows that they may be stranded for a long time, and he teaches Phillip how to fish and
take care of himself in case he is left alone. Timothy eventually dies, and Phillip uses
the lessons learned from his West Indian friend to stay alive until he is rescued. There
are other conflicts between the two characters earlier in the story. Phillip, who has
been brought up by a racially intolerant mother, has little respect for the "ugly" black
man at first, but the boy comes to love the man after he gets to know
him. 

Why did the screams heard from the nursery sound so familiar to George and Lydia in "The Veldt"?

Let us remember that the nursery that the children have
devoted so much time to is telepathically tuned in with the thoughts of the people in
it. Anything they imagine will be depicted on its walls. As we read the story and we see
the hatred that the two children feel towards their parents because of the way in which
they have become completely obsessed by the nursery. The rather disturbing scene of the
veldt with its hungry lions pawing the ground and threatening to kill them in a rather
life-like manner is one manifestation of their anger and hatred. Throughout the story,
George and his wife hear screams that sound rather familiar coming from the nursery.
However, it is only when they themselves are trapped in the nursery and scream that they
realise why they are so familiar:

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Mr. and Mrs. Hadley
screamed.

And suddenly they realised why those other
screams had sounded
familiar.

The disturbing
conclusion that these lines point us towards is that Peter and Wendy have spent hours
fantasising over the deaths of their parents, achieving their revenge by imagining them
being killed and eaten in this veldt by the lions. It is only at the end of this story
when there desires become reality.

In James Baldwin's speech "A Talk to Teachers," what are some examples of parallelism and repetition in the final paragraph and how are these...

In his speech “A Talk to Teachers,” James Baldwin uses
repetition and parallelism in the final paragraph in a number of different ways and with
a number of different effects.  These include the
following:

• At one point, Balwin writes, “And on
  the basis of the evidence – the moral and political evidence . . . .” Here the phrasing
  emphasizes the key word “evidence” while also calling attention to, and emphasizing, the
  two specific kinds of evidence Baldwin has in
  mind.


• Later, Baldwin uses the phrase “backward society” –
  a phrase that echoes, and significantly modifies, his earlier reference to the single
  word “society.” Here again, as in the first example, Baldwin uses not only repetition
  but also modification and clarification.


• The same methods
  are used in the following phrase: “in this school, or any Negro
  school.”


• A bit later, Baldwin mentions “Negro children”
  and then emphasizes the key word “children” once more before the sentence ends.  Baldwin
  never allows us to forget precisely what he is talking about.  He carefully avoids
  ambiguous pronouns, such as “they” or “them.”


• Emphatic
  repetition is used once more in the phrase “I would try to teach them -  I would try to
  make them know.” Baldwin teaches the teachers he is addressing by giving his prose a
  force and rhythm it would lack if he did not rely as much as he does on repetition and
  parallelism. By repeating phrases almost exactly but then changing one word (as he does
  here) Baldwin gives both the original word and the new word extra emphasis, so that we
  really notice them and pay attention.


• At one point,
  Baldwin uses the following list:

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those streets, those houses, those dangers, those
agonies.

Lists are extremely
effective and economical ways of communicating information.  They are often (as here)
highly rhythmic and are often organized in patterns of increasing complexity.  Notice,
for example, how the nouns listed here change from a one single-syllable noun
(“streets”) to two double-syllable nouns, with the accent on each first syllable
(“houses,” “dangers”), to one
three-syllable noun (“agonies”). The list would not be
nearly as rhythmic if the order of these nouns had been
reversed.

In short, Baldwin uses parallelism and repetition
for purposes of emphasis and to demonstrate that he is in complete command of the
language he employs.

What are the themes for Rohinton Mistry's "Squatter"?

I agree with the previous educator that there are many
themes including the aforementioned "self-identity" and "isolation;" however, I would
add that the MAIN theme of the story is (for lack of a better term) immigrant
assimilation difficulty.

"Squatter" is aptly titled in that
the poor immigrant named Sarosh, from Bombay India, is unable to adapt to the way
western culture (and specifically Canadians) use the bathroom.  Growing up in Bombay,
without plumbing, and squatting to defecate his entire life, Sarosh struggles to use an
actual western toilet with its over-use of water and his inability to "squat."  There
are other bathroom customs that Sarosh must overcome as well.  Further, even though the
following quotation is from a different story ("A Fine
Balance"),

You
have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine
balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of
balance.

Sarosh's issues with
western toilets are a sort of metaphor for all immigrant troubles as a whole. Eastern
cultures and Western cultures are very, very different. Mistry's point is that the two
do not blend well and any immigrant from the East to the West (and vice versa) should
expect similar challenges.  What is interesting about this story is that all of Mistry's
other fiction deals directly with India, so this one stands out in its theme of
immigration issues.

Which of the following tests is used to detemine whether a solution containing a salt is saturated? a add a crystal of the same salt to the...

When a solution is saturated it means that the given
volume of solvent cannot dissolve any more quantity of the
solute.

To test if a solution is saturated we add a crystal
of the same salt to the solution. Three things can happen when this is done: the crystal
dissolves in the solution, there is no change in the state of the crystal, the crystal
grows larger. If the crystal dissolves in the solution it shows that the solution was
unsaturated and the solvent could accommodate more of the solute. If the crystal grows
larger in size it shows that the solution was super saturated, that lead to the solute
separating and depositing on the crystal. If the crystal undergoes no change it shows
the solution is saturated and can accommodate no more of the
solute.

The correct answer is option A, add a crystal of
the same salt to the solution.

How is Beowulf an epic poem and how is Beowulf an epic hero? How is the Old English poem "The Seafarer" relevant to these questions?

The term “epic” has been usefully defined as
follows:

It is a poem that is (a) a long
narrative about a serious subject, (b) told in an elevated style of language, (c)
focused on the exploits of a hero or demi-god who represents the cultural values of a
race, nation, or religious group (d) in which the hero's success or failure will
determine the fate of that people or nation. Usually, the epic has (e) a vast setting,
and covers a wide geographic area, (f) it contains superhuman feats of strength or
military prowess, and gods or supernatural beings frequently take part in the action.
The poem begins with (g) the invocation of a muse to inspire the poet and, (h) the
narrative starts in medias res [into the middle of things]. (i) The
epic contains long catalogs of heroes or important characters, focusing on highborn
kings and great warriors rather than peasants and commoners. [see link
below]

The Old English poem Beowulf is
an epic in practically all of these senses, with the possible exception of “e” and the
definite exception of “g.” Beowulf definitely represents the ideal values of his nation
(the Geats) and religious group (early Christians. His battles with the first two
monsters help determine the fate of the Danish people, while his battle with the dragon
helps determine the fate of his own people, the Geats. The poem opens with a long
catalogue of previous Danish kings, and Beowulf’s enormous strength, his lofty values,
and the fact that he fights on behalf of clear and lofty ideals all help make him an
epic hero.

In contrast, the Old English lyric poem “The
Seafarer” lacks almost all of the characteristics cited above. The speaker of this poem
is certainly heroic in the sense that he has survived much physical and emotional pain
and also in the sense that he actually seeks out challenging situations.  However, “The
Seafarer” is mainly a poem about a representative human being whose problems are mainly
personal. He fights with no obvious monsters but instead seeks and displays spiritual
strength. He is certainly more "heroic" than complacent people who live comfortably in
cities, but he fights no battles on behalf of others. He spends much of his poem
lamenting (understandably!) the sorrows he has endured – behavior not typical of the
kind of epic hero epitomized by Beowulf.

"The Seafarer" is
a much shorter poem than Beowulf and thus lacks the wide temporal
scope we often associate with epics.  Homer's Iliad describes
events that take ten years to complete.  His Odyssey describes
events that take place over another ten years. The time scheme of
Beowulf is, if anything, even broader, since the poem begins with
Beowulf as a young man in the prime of life and ends by focusing on his old age, fifty
years later. One senses that "The Seafarer" also covers more than a few years, but it
does not seem to cover anything like the extended time period mentioned in
Beowulf.

What issues did Shays's Rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellion in common with the American Revolution?

Both Shays's Rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellion happened
after the US became independent.  Therefore, I have edited your question to reflect what
I think the correct question must be.

Shays's Rebellion and
especially the Whiskey Rebellion were centered around issues that had come up in the
time before the Revolution.  Shays's Rebellion was about people wanting the government
to be responsive to their needs.  The revolution was partially about that.  The Whiskey
Rebellion, like the American Revolution, had to do with taxes imposed by a central
government on people in a state (or colony).  The American colonists did not want to be
taxed by the central government in England.  The rebels in the Whiskey Rebellion did not
want to be taxed by the central government which was then centered in
Philadelphia.

In these ways, Shays's Rebellion and the
Whiskey Rebellion occurred because some Americans felt that the governments after
independence were doing things similar to what the British had done to make the
colonists angry before the American Revolution.

Use the following words to describe the Northwest Passage: Cathay, Eastern Ocean, river passage, Europe, North America.

The Northwest Passage was a route that Europeans believed
would take them from the Atlantic to the Pacific, passing through the northern part of
North America.  Europeans thought that the Northwest Passage would go through what is
now Canada and connect the Atlantic and the Pacific.

In
those days, China was called Cathay by people in Europe.  They thought that they would
be able to find a river passage to Cathay that would allow them to go from Europe to
North America and then through the northern part of that continent and out to the North
Pacific, which some people called the Eastern Ocean at that
time.

Discuss the implications of Eliezer's father wishing that his son had gone with his mother.

This is a very powerful moment in a work that is filled
with them.  On one hand, I think that Eliezer's father is someone who believes in
community and a sense of solidarity.  It is for this reason that he had been so active
in his own community in Sighet and been so driven to ensure that he gave towards the
cause of solidarity.  It is within this light that he mourns the separation of mother
and child.  He understood clearly that his son being separated from his mother would be
a critical moment.  Eliezer would not see his mother again.  At the same time, Eliezer's
father understands the true nature of the horrific experience that will be in front of
them in the death camps.  To a great extent, being able to die with his mother will
spare his son of facing this brutal experience.  At that moment, death in the hands of
his mother in the furnace is something that the father understands would be preferable
to what is in front of them right now.  The ironic element in this is that Eliezer's
father wants his son to maintain the bonds of familial piety with his mother, something
that will be tested and repudiated between father and son as the narrative
develops.

Are Elesin's final actions before the ritual suicide, procrastination? Is there textual evidence that supports the idea that he didn't want to die?

I actually do think that Elesin wanted to kill himself. 
He also was naturally a little conflicted about it.  Who would really want to die?  He
tries to live life while he can, and so he marries for one
night. 

Elesin shows both resignation and fear when he
realizes the horse and dog have been killed and he is next.  However he seems truly
disturbed when he is unable to kill himself.  He is angry and talks about honor.  He is
honor bound to kill himself.  He is definitely sad when he learns that his son, whom he
thought was both Europeanized and honoring his roots, kills himself.  Then Elesin
manages to strangle himself with the chains and do his duty.

How is the creature a tragic hero?

The answer to your question greatly depends upon whose
definition of a tragic hero you adhere to.

According to
Aristotle, a tragic hero must possess the following ideals/characteristics: noble statue
and possess greatness, occupy a high position and embody virtue, be considered great
(but not perfect), the downfall is the fault of the hero, misfortune is not completely
brought about by their own actions, their fall increases self-discovery, the hero's fall
does not leave the audience (or reader)
depressed.

According to Shakespeare, (in addition to
adherence to Aristotle's characteristics) a tragic hero must possess the following
ideals/characteristics: downfall due to pride, doomed from the start, typically a leader
(or king), suffering must be for a reason, tragic hero is typically
male.

Therefore, based upon these characteristics defined
by both Aristotle and Shakespeare, Frankenstein's monster would not be considered a
tragic hero if all of the characteristics are used to define him as
such.

On the other hand, the monster does possess some of
the characteristics which define a tragic hero: misfortune is not brought on solely by
the monster (Victor is responsible), he is doomed from the start, and is suffering for a
reason.

Knowledge is usually a source of strength, but how does it turn out to be a weakness in the title character of Christopher Marlowe's play Doctor...

You haven't asked a question, but I am assuming you are
looking for reaction to this statement.

Doctor Faustus
achieved supreme wisdom through his deal with the devil. Possession of great knowledge
would normally be perceived as being a strength, and certainly this was the expectation
that Dr. Faustus had in mind when he struck his agreement with Lucifer. Through the
play, Dr. Faustus uses his incredible powers to conjure individuals and events that
amaze those around him, but that also challenge the morality of his
actions.

Unrepentant, Faustus continues to use his
incredible powers to explore history and the world, compounding his misuse of his powers
by adding to the number of incidents in which he ignores opportunities to use his
knowledge for good. In the end, the actions allowed by the super-natural knowledge of
Doctor Faustus condemn him to the weakness of being powerlessness to save himself from
eternal damnation.

What are some repetitive patterns or sequences in Ethan Frome?Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

While others are present, there are two strong patterns in
Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome:  The passage from and to the Frome
homestead and the pattern of illness that Ethan's mother begins, Zeena continues, and,
finally, Mattie assumes.

Interestingly, the narrator, who
is an engineer, hires Ethan Frome to transport him to Corbury Junction where he is sent
to troubleshoot.  One day this narrator leaves one of his biochemistry books on the seat
of the wagon and Frome skims through it.  However, Frome tells the narrator, "There are
things in that book that I didn't know the first word about," indicating his lost
opportunities for his own hope of becoming an engineer when he stopped his own studies
because of his mother's illness, an illness severe enough to keep Ethan in Starkfield as
a caregiver. 

Zeena Pierce, an older cousin, comes to help
care for Mrs. Frome.  When his mother dies, Ethan is so lonely in the winter that he
impulsively asks Zeena to marry him.  Somehow, then, she becomes ill and is the second
invalid for whom Ethan must care. When Mattie Silver, a relative of Zeena's, comes to
care for Zeena, the pattern of caretakers is repeated.  Then, after the failed attempt
at dual suicide, it is, ironically, Zeena who returns to the role of caretaker and
Mattie who then becomes the invalid.

Just as there is a
circular futility to the role of caretaker, so, too, is there an unending circle of
futile trips to Starkfield and other locations that terminate in the despairing return
to the Frome home.  For instance, Ethan ventures out into the world to study
engineering, but must return home as caregiver; he drives the narrator to Corbury
Junction, but returns home; on several occasions he transports Mattie, but when he
considers leaving Zeena, he realizes that he cannot afford to do so, and even when he
and Mattie try to escape through death, they are returned home.  Never does there seem
to be any passage out of Starkfield and the Frome homestead. 

How did the split between the sensibilities affect thoughts about the role or nature of the body in Renaissance literature?

The human body figures as a topic in many literary texts
from the English Renaissance. Although it is difficult to generalize about such a broad
issue, especially as it appears in so many different texts, it may be useful to comment
on a few specific instances.

• The body was often
  contrasted with the soul, and the soul was typically considered superior to the body. At
  the very end of Henry Howard’s tribute to the dead Sir Thomas Wyatt, for example, Howard
  proclaims that while the earth possesses only Wyatt’s “bones, the heavens possess his
  ghost [that is, his spirit]” (38). The body inevitably died, but the soul was capable of
  living forever. As the speaker of sonnet 79 of Edmund
  Spenser’s Amoretti puts
  it,

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. . . onely that is permanent and
free

From frayle corruption, that doth flesh ensew [that
is, outlast]
(7-8)

• The body was
  often considered the source of many impulses and temptations that conflicted with
  Christian ideals of the period. The male speakers in many Renaissance sonnets, for
  instance, are driven by their own bodily desires to want to possess merely the
  attractive, ephemeral bodies of women rather than valuing those women for their truly
  beautiful souls and characters. Thus, in sonnet 52 of Sir Philip
  Sidney’sAstrophil and Stella sonnet sequence, Astrophil is
  foolishly willing to dispense with Stella’s soul in order that he and Cupid may possess
  her “body” (14). Sidney clearly mocks this choice.


• The
  body was mortal and mutable, but the beauty of the body could be preserved in several
  ways, including marriage and reproduction and also including celebration by a talented
  poet. Both of these ways of passing on beauty are extolled in sonnet 18 of Shakespeare’s
  sonnets.


• Although mere lust for another’s body was
  condemned, physical love for (and with) another person was approved, as long as that
  love was true love, rooted in a prior love of God, and as long as that love was
  sanctioned in holy matrimony. This kind of love seems to be praised, for instance, in
  John Donne’s poem “The Good Morrow” (among many other works). Love of another’s body was
  permissible as long as it was the result of prior love of that person’s soul. Thus, in a
  memorable line from John Donne’s poem “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,” the speaker
  says that if he and his beloved can maintain their spiritual connection, they will “Care
  less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss” if they happen to be physically separated (20).
  Notice that the speaker does not say that they will not miss each
  other physically at all; they will simply miss each other “less” in that way than if
  their connection were merely and completely physical. People whose affections are rooted
  merely in fleshly attraction

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. . . cannot
admit

Absence, because it [that is, absence] doth
remove

Those things [the flesh] which elemented it [their
attraction]

• The
  death of another person’s body could produce great grief in the Renaissance, even though
  people of this period strongly believed that the soul survived the body. Thus, in Ben
  Jonson’s poem “On My First Son,” Jonson realizes intellectually and spiritually that his
  little boy’s soul still lives, despite the death of the boy’s body, but the latter kind
  of death nevertheless produces great grief.


• Ideally,
  then, in the Renaissance the body and soul were expected to be in harmony, not in
  conflict, with the soul clearly superior to the body and in control of
  it.

What does Macduff reveal to Macbeth?macbeth's reaction...

Macbeth is feeling confident because he has been given the
prophecy that man born of woman cannot kill him. This prophecy gives Macbeth the courage
to go to battle against Malcolm and macduff. Macbeth even brags or boasts to Macduff
that man born of woman cannot kill him:

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You’re wasting your efforts.
You may as
easily slice the air that cannot be cut
With your keen sword as make me
bleed.
Let your blade fall on weaker heads;
I have a charmed life,
which must not yield
To one given birth to by a
woman.

Upon hearing
this, Macduff becomes a bit boastful himself. Macduff reveals in a triumphant manner
that he himself was not born of woman:

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Lose hope of your charm;
And let the
genius whom you still have served
Tell you, Macduff was from his mother's
womb
Delivered by caesarean
section.

When Macduff reveals
this bit of information to Macbeth, one can imagine all the color flowing out of
Macbeth's face. He is immediately in fear of Macduff. He had not thought about the
possibility of Macduff being born of cesarean birth.

Macbeth loses his confidence. He realizes he is about to
die at the hand of Macduff. Macduff will have his revenge for Macbeth killing or
having Macduff's family killed. Macbeth's courage fled as he faced combat with Macduff.
Macbeth became a coward. He lost all confidence in the prophecies that actually
destroyed him. Macbeth declares he will not
fight Macduff:

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Curse you for telling me that,
Because
it has intimidated my better part of man!
And let these deceitful fiends be
believed no more,
That trick us with double meanings,
That keep the
word of promise to our ears,
And break it to our hopes! I will not fight with
you.

Macduff will not take no
for an answer. He will have his revenge. He separates Macbeth's head from his shoulders
and carries the head triumphantly to show it to Malcolm.

Why is The Song of Roland called the national epic of France?

Just as Beowulf is the oldest
surviving poem written in English, so also The Song of Roland
(Chanson de Roland) is the oldest surviving poem written
in French. Also like Beowulf, The Song of Roland
is the tale of hero who performs great acts of
courage.

The Song of Roland is the
national epic of France not simply because it is written in French, however. Unlike
Beowulf, which although written in English does not have an English hero, Roland is a
thoroughly French hero. He is the nephew of Charlemagne, leader of the Franks and future
Holy Roman Emperor.

The story is set during a battle
between the Franks and the Saracens (Arabs). Roland has the fatal flaw of hubris, or
excessive pride. When the troops he commands are attacked from the rear, he refuses to
blow the horn to call Charlemagne to come to their rescue because it would bring
dishonor to him as a knight. After nearly all his men are killed, Roland is finally
persuaded to blow the alarm, and he blows the horn so hard that blood vessels in his
head burst, causing his death. Charlemagne does come to the rescue and defeats the
Saracens, but too late to save his nephew.