What is the derivative of x^3 - x^2 + x + 1 from first principles?

The derivative of a function f(x) from first principles is
f'(x) = `lim_(h->0)[f(x + h) - f(x)]/h`

Here f(x) =
x^3 - x^2 + x + 1

f'(x) = `lim_(h->0) [(x + h)^3 -
(x + h)^2 + (x + h) + 1 - (x^3 - x^2 + x + 1)]/h`

=>
f'(x) = `lim_(h->0)[x^3 + 3x^2h + 3xh^2 + h^3 - x^2 - h^2 - 2xh + x + h + 1 - x^3
+ x^2 - x - 1]/h`

=> f'(x) =
`lim_(h->0)[3x^2h + 3xh^2 + h^3 - h^2 - 2xh +
h]/h`

=> f'(x) = `lim_(h->0) 3x^2 + 3xh + h^2
- h - 2x + 1`

=> 3x^2 - 2x +
1

The derivative of f(x) = x^3 - x^2 + x + 1
is 3x^2 - 2x + 1

What role does an individual play in the social structure ?

Individuals are largely unable to have much effect on the
social structure of a society.  It is only in extreme cases that any one person's
actions can change such a structure.  However, the combined actions of many individuals
can matter.  Therefore, the role of the individual is somewhat ambiguous.  Individuals
can matter, but only (except in very rare cases) if they are part of larger
groups.

Social structures are much larger than any one
person.  Social structures are made up of the shared norms and values and understandings
that most of us have in a given society.  No one person can typically do much to change
that.  However, large numbers of individuals, working together, can change social
structures.

Let us think about the Civil Rights Movement of
the 1950s and 1960s.  There, one person, Martin Luther King, Jr., can be said to have
had an impact on social structures.  He did a great deal to remove the idea of white
superiority from our shared norms and values.  However, the movement also showed the
importance of large numbers of people working together.  King had an impact, but the
actions of the thousands of individuals who made up the movement (and the millions who
responded to it) were what really changed our social
structure.

So, the role of individuals in a social
structure is complex.  They are generally not able to act to change it on their own, but
they can help to change it as part of a large group.

Based on the knowledege of photosynthesis, What are two factors that could be explained that lead to a negative iodine test in a houseplant?

An iodine test is used to detect starch, which is a
polysaccharide. This is created by plants from the monosaccharide that they produce
during photosynthesis as a means to store it in their bodies. The starch is used both as
a food supply by plants and converted into other organic substances that allow plants to
grow.

If an iodine test conducted on a house plant yields
negative results, it implies that all there is no starch present. The iodine test cannot
detect monosaccharides.

The plant could not have built up a
sufficient amount of starch as it may be small or if it were not able to create enough
carbohydrates through photosynthesis. This could be due the fact that it is not
receiving a sufficient amount of sunlight inside the house or there is a shortage of
water. Inside the house, the amount of carbon dioxide required would be sufficient but
the other factors could be in short supply. As a result the plant starts breaking down
starch to use as food for itself and also does not have enough of the primary organic
units that starch is made with.

In Grendel, what is Grendel's judgment on himself and the ram when he compares himself to the animal?

On the one hand, Grendel points out the ways in which he
is definitely dissimilar from the ram. His first point of difference is the way thet he
says his brains are definitely not, "squeezed shut, like the ram's, by the roots of
horns." Grendel is disgusted by the lack of "dignity" possessed by the ram, in
particular focusing on the ram's sexual drive and his "mindless ache to mount whatever
happens near." However, the next paragraph focuses on the points of similarity between
the two figures. Notice how Grendel describes himself as little better than an
animal:

Not,
of course, that I fool myself with thoughts that I'm more noble. Pointless, ridiculous
monster crouched in the shadows, stinking of dead men, murdered children, martyred
cows.

He clearly depicts
himself in this sense as being little better than the ram which he compares himself so
disfavourably with. On the one hand, therefore, Grendel has the intellilgence and
capacity to reason that separates him from the ram. On the other hand, his appearance
and deeds means that he has to hide away and become a "pointless, ridiculous
monster."

To what extent were the 1920s a period of social and economic progress in the USA, in an essay?

Of course, we cannot write an essay for you, but we can
give you some ideas that you can work with.  I would argue that the 1920s seemed like a
time of social and economic progress but that they were not truly such a
time.

The 1920s seemed like a time of progress.  These were
the "Roaring '20s" where many people were getting rich.  It was a time when women were
coming to be able to have more of public lives, going out and having fun.  It was the
time of the Harlem Renaissance for African Americans.

But
all of this hid a harder reality.  The crash of 1929 showed that the economic progress
wasn't built on a solid foundation.  The anti-immigrant sentiment as shown in the laws
restricting immigration and in the rise of the KKK showed that the country was not
progressing in many ways.

These things show me, at least,
that the 1920s were not truly a time of progress.

How have the Constitution and the Bill of Rights made it possible for Americans to enjoy the rights to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of...

The Constitution and the Bill of Rights have helped allow
Americans to enjoy the rights you mention by setting up a form of government that is
effective but limited.

To keep the rights mentioned, we
need a government.  The government protects our rights by doing things like creating
police departments and military forces to protect our lives.  However, when we create a
government with this much power, it can be a danger to us because it might use its power
to take away our rights.  The Constitution and Bill of Rights help to prevent this in
two major ways.

• Separation of powers and checks
  and balances.  These things make it harder for one person or part of government to be
  strong enough to tyrannize us.


• Limited government.  The
  Constitution and Bill of Rights specifically list things that the government may not do
  to us.

Thus, the Constitution and Bill of
Rights protect the rights promised to us in the Declaration by creating a government
that is powerful, but which has limitations placed on it.

How does Steinbeck use language to present the powerlessness of Curley's wife?

I think that the powerlessness of Curley's wife is
reflected when she speaks to Lennie about her own state of being in the world.  Right
before she dies, she speaks of how she wished for some other form of life than the one
she is living.  She speaks of her desire to be in "pitchers" and she articulates a
condition whereby she wishes to be someone else, and to live a life of something else. 
She also speaks of how she wanted something more than what she had.  Her articulation of
this makes her a sad figure, one who is weak and powerless to control her own being.  It
is through this scene where we understand that her image of being a vamp or someone who
uses sexuality as a weapon is a front.  She is lonely, and broken over how her dreams
have not been materialized and how her condition of her life is so very different from
what lies in front of her right now.  It is a condition whereby she is alone and
desperate for something more than what she lives.  For this, there is pain and there is
a powerlessness inherent within her character.

Why did Wilsonianism fail at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919?

Woodrow Wilson was idealistic from the beginning of World
War I; in fact he had proposed his famous Fourteen Points before the U.S. entered the
war. Among the points was his call for the creation of a League of Nations which
hopefully would solve diplomatic issues and possibly even eliminate the need for a war.
This was one of several reasons that Wilson referred to the war as the "war to end all
wars." Wilson, however failed to consider the practicalities of European diplomacy.
France had previously been invaded (and humiliated) by Germany during the
Franco-Prussian War; in fact the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck had arranged for
the coronation of the first German chancellor at Versailles, thereby adding insult to
injury. Although revenge was certainly a motive as the above answer implies, it was not
the primary consideration. Rather, France hoped to cripple Germany and prevent yet
another invasion. It was this consideration that devolved into the famous War Guilt
Clause and reparations clause. There was no "reward" intended, only costs of the war,
although they were calculated down to the pension of the last French soldier. The French
representative to the Peace Conference, Georges Clemenceau, took a dim view of Wilson's
idealism. He  once commented:

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God gave us the Ten Commandments, and we broke
them. Wilson gave us the Fourteen Points. We shall
see.

 Wilson originally
objected to Clemenceau's demands; but soon learned that unless he acceded, Clemenceau
would not agree to his call for a League of Nations. He was so intent on creating his
beloved League that he agreed to all of Clemenceau's
demands.

As far as Japan, as noted in the above post, Japan
had entered the war anticipating that it would gain German possessions in Asia. Japan
left the conference empty handed, as did Ho Chi Minh, representative of the Vietnamese
People whom Wilson had unceremoniously thrown out. The failure of the conference to deal
with Japanese demands was a factor in Japanese Imperialism which led to World War II.
Similarly, by acceding to Clemenceau's demands that Germany be crippled, Wilson
inadvertantly gave a platform to Adolf Hitler who attacked the treaty as unfair to
Germany. His attacks were a major factor in his accession to power. Similarly, his high
handed treatment of Ho Chi Minh may well have been a factor in the advent of the War in
Vietnam fifty years later.

Given a vector drawn on a two dimensional coordinate axis, how does one calculate the componant of the vector projected along the x-axis?

A vector is a physical quantity which has not only a size,
but also a direction.  For example: to walk 30 meters North-East is a vector quantity
(displacement) because it includes a size (30 m) and a direction (North-East). 
Quantities, such as mass, which do not require a direction are called
scalars.

We can represent a vector by making a scale
drawing on a coordinate plane.  When it is possible to do so, we pick the origin of the
coordinate plane to be where the vector begins.  The vector is then drawn using an arrow
that has a length proportional to the size of the vector and is pointing in the same
direction as the vector. 

For example: if the above vector
is drawn on standard 1/4" graph paper and each quarter of an inch represents 1 meter,
then the length of the arrow on would be 7.5 inches and would be pointing 45 degrees up
from the x-axis.

Any vector can be represented by a pair of
horizontal (x-axis) and vertical (y-axis) components.  The two component represents the
straight line distance in the horizontal and vertical directions one would have to
measure from the beginning of the vector to reach the end of the vector.  When these two
vectors are drawn on the same coordinate axis as the vector they create the two legs of
a right triangle and the vector creates the hypotenuse of the right
triangle.

Using simple right-angle trigonometry we can
calculate the length of each component if we know the original lenght of the vector and
the angle it makes to the x-axis.  From trig we
know

`costheta =
x/(hypotenuse)`   

`sintheta =
y/(hypotenuse)`

Recalling that the hypotenuse is also
the length of the original vector, the x-component and y-components would
be

`x = Vcostheta`  

 `y =
Vsintheta`

 Using the example above the x-axis component
would be

`x = 30m* cos(45) = 21.2
m`

and the y-axis component would
be

`y = 30m*sin(45) = 21.2m`

To what extent should we embrace the perspectives of national identity reflected in the source? Does this relate to nationalism? I'm doing an...

That is a good quote.  It reflects a more contemporary
view of national identity than we have had in years past.  I am a United States citizen,
but I think I have a good enough acquaintanceship with Canada to comment, and I think
there are enough similarities between the countries for me to weigh in on this
topic.

In the United States, the prevailing metaphor for
immigration was the "melting pot" for many years, and I believe this was true in Canada
as well.  Society expected immigrants to assimilate as quickly as possible, and
oftentimes, the immigrants themselves were highly motivated to do so for a number of
reasons, for example, to forget the dread of what they had left behind or because there
was a considerable amount of prejudice against immigrants.  People often seemed to want
to give up their cultures.  I had a neighbor whose parents were Italian immigrants, and
my neighbor once told me that her mother refused to make any Italian dishes.  My
grandmother was Russian, but I never heard her say a word in her native tongue.  She
learned English as quickly as she could and never looked back.  So, the idea was that we
were all supposed to hop into the pot and become
Americans.

Today, the metaphor is more of a "salad bowl." 
The ingredients do not merge into one another, but maintain their individual identity. 
And I believe that in the United States and Canada, this is what immigrants are doing. 
They less frequently lose their native tongues, they are more likely to cook their
native dishes, they celebrate holidays native to their countries of origin, and keep
their links with music and literature.  I know many immigrants, and while they may
represent a statistically insignificant sampling, I do believe that they are
representative of today's climate.

If you examine the
literature of yesteryear and today, you will find that the literary representations
reflect this.  Contrast the writing of Richard Rodriguez with the immigrant experience
in The Kite Runner. I would guess that there is a body of Canadian
literature that will demonstrate this point, too.

The idea
behind the quote seems to me to be that it is fine to maintain one's ethnic identity,
but that we must also maintain a national identity, too, because if we are not all
together in the salad bowl, there will be no nation at all.

In The Way to Rainy Mountain, what are your impressions of Mamaday's grandmother, Aho?

She strikes me above all as a remnant of another age. The
way that the narrator presents his grandmother as the last remaining member of a tribe
and culture that is now sadly all but extinct on this planet seems to associate her with
a sense of timeless history that stretches back into a time before history itself began
to be recorded. The narrator's grandmother herself witnessed the destruction of her
tribe and its practices, and yet we are told that she did so "without bitterness." Even
though she spent the majority of her days in one geographical location, still what the
narrator remembers about her, and what the reader understands about her character, is
how intrinsic the former practices of her tribe are to her person. Consider the
following quote:

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Although my grandmother lived out her long life
in the shadow of Rainy Mountain, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay
like memory in her blood. She could tell of the Crows, whom she had never seen, and of
the Black Hills, where she had never
been.

This, then, is the
overwhelming impression that we gain of Aho. Even though she is the last remaining
remnant of a tribe whose cultural practises and customs were eradicated, she still bears
the identity of that tribe in her blood.

Look at ' Anything else you'd like to explain about your question' to view the entire question.A plane leaves an aircraft carrier and flies south...

A plane leaves an aircraft carrier and flies
south at 800km/hr while the carrier proceeds in the direction 60 degrees west of north
at 40km/hr. If the plane has enough fuel to fly 6 hrs, how far south can it fly before
returning to the carrier? Find also the distance travelled by the plane during this
flight.

Let a represent the distance the plane
flew due south, b the distance the carrier travelled, and c the distance from the
furthest point south back to the carrier.

The angle between
sides a and b of the triangle is the supplement of 60 degrees, or 120
degrees.

We use the Law of Cosines: `c^2=a^2+b^2-2abcosC`
where angle C has measure 120 degrees.

We assume the plane
uses all of the available time, thus the total flight time is 6 hours. Let t be the time
the plane flies due south. Then:

(1) b=(40
km/hr)(6hr)=320km

(2) a=(800 km/hr)(t hr)=800t
km

(3) c=(800 km/hr)((6-t) hr)=(4800-800t)km *time on
return trip is 6hr minus the time flying due south *

Then
`(4800-800t)^2=(800t)^2+320^2-2(800t)(320)(cos120)`

`4800^2-2(4800)(800t)+(800t)^2=(800t)^2+320^2+(800t)(320)`

`4800^2-320^2=(800t)(320)+2(4800)(800t)`

`22937600=7936000t`

`2.89~~t`
. Thus the plane flew due south for about 2.89 hours, and flew for about 3.11 hours
returning to the carrier.

The distances are
`a~~2312km,b~~320km,c~~2488km` . The total distance flown is 4800km, which agrees with a
6hr flight at 800km/hr.

root x + y=11 and x +rooty=7 solve it by elimination method calculate x and y

You may use substitution method better such
that:

`y = 11 - sqrt
x`

Plugging `11 - sqrt x`  instead of y in the second
equation yields:

`x + sqrt(11 - sqrtx) =
7`

Subtracting x both sides
yields:

`sqrt(11 - sqrtx) = 7 -
x`

Raising to square both sides
yields:

`11 - sqrtx = 49 - 14x +
x^2`

Subtracting 11 both sides
yields:

`-sqrt x = -14x + x^2 + 49 -
11`

`` `sqrt x = 14x - x^2 -
38`

`x = (14x - x^2 - 38)^2 =gt x = 196x^2 + x^4 + 1444 -
28x^3 - 1064x + 76x^2`

`` `x^4 - 28x^3 + 272x^2 - 1065x +
1444 = 0`

The zeroes of this equation are among the
divisors of 1444.

The solutions to the system
of equations is `x = D_{1444}`  and `y = 11 - sqrt (D_{1444})`
.

Is there a formula or certain way that one may find the theme in a short story? A step by step route that's easy to understand and guides the...

I am not aware of a single formula or procedure that can
be applied to identify the theme in all short stories, largely because there is so much
variation in short stories. The differences in structure and presentation between
stories makes it extremely difficult to apply the same route to all the various
possibilities.

Because short stories are, by definition,
not lengthy, they don't have the luxury of long explanations or introductions of setting
and characters. Most short stories tend to present important elements fairly succinctly,
which should help with the isolation and identification of those items. When looking for
the theme, the reader needs to be searching for the common factor - the idea or motif or
emotion that recurs throughout the story. If the reader can find that base point to
which all the action keeps returning, the reader has found the theme of the
story.

Explain ominous signs that accumulate, foreshadowing later conflicts in Jackson's "The Lottery.""The Lottery" begins with the suggestion of idyllic...

The first clearly ominous sign that occurs is when the
children gather at the school and start accumulating stones. The chill of foreboding
occurs when, in the middle of discussion of teachers and reprimands, "Bobby Martin had
already stuffed his pockets full of stones, and the other boys soon followed his
example, ...." There is something unnatural and chilling in the way Bobby "already" had
filled his pockets stones in the midst of boy's playful and animated conversation and in
how the other boys seem to silently leave off talking and automaton like follow his
example. These elements produce an image of unnatural silence and dedication amongst
robust boys.

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the other boys soon followed his example,
selecting the smoothest and roundest stones; Bobby and Harry Jones and Dickie Delacroix
...  eventually made a great pile of stones in one corner of the square and guarded it
...

The next ominous sign
that, along with the above, foreshadows later conflict is the movement of men to collect
in the square. They come in silence and, instead of greeting their children, they survey
them. Further, they stand in a group together, apart from the boys and, more pointedly,
apart from the collection of stones.

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Soon the men began to gather, surveying their
own children, ..... They stood together, away from the pile of stones in the
corner,

The upcoming
conflicts foreshadowed with these ominous signs are (1) the role the stones will later
play and (2) the division and alienation that is necessitated within families by the
nature of the lottery in which families members must turn against each other in the most
fateful of ways:

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Bill Hutchinson went over to his wife and forced
the slip of paper out of her hand. It had a black spot on it, .... Bill Hutchinson held
it up, and there was a stir in the crowd. ... The children had stones already. And
someone gave little Davy Hutchinson few
pebbles.

What are the smallest animals in the world?

You have asked a question that is very wide open, because
there are some very tiny animals among the invertebrate species (insects, corals,
roundowrms, etc.). I think you were probably hoping for vertebrate animal answers
however.

Among mammals, the pygmy shrew (Suncus
erruscus) and the Kitti's hog-nosed bat (Craseonycteris thong
longyai) are the smallest, at 1.5 and 1.6 grams respectively. The smallest
bird is the Bee hummingbird (Mellisuga helenea), which weighs in at
1.6 grams and is easily mistaken for a bumblebee when in flight. The Dwarf pygmy goby
(Trimmatam nanus), at 1.5 grams, is the smallest
fish.

What is the main theme of "The Open Window" by Saki?

One important theme of this
satirical short story is revealed in the
symbolism of the characters' names. There is Framton
Nuttel, Mrs. Sappleton and the niece, who is both a "very self-possessed young lady of
fifteen" and a "child." Let's look at these and find the theme alluded
to.

The name Framton indicates
someone who is reclusive and aloof and given to worry and mental tension. This sounds
exactly like the character Saki presents. The surname
Nuttel (Nuttall) is a place name indicating someone who lives in and
tends a nut grove. "Nut" is also slang for a foolish person or a person who is thought
mentally unstable.

Sappleton
appears to be a made-up surname derived from the Old English 'sæp' that has come to be
slang for someone who is foolish and gullible. This perfectly describes Mrs Sappleton in
regards to her manipulative niece.

We learn the niece's
name is Vera, ironically meaning "faith" and "truth." She is the pivotal character, and
we can deduce something about her from her descriptive tags. She has the appearance of
being a mature and trustworthy young lady as she is "very
self-possessed" yet the narrator calls her a
"child" when she begins her
tale:

"Her
great tragedy happened just three years ago," said the child; "that would be since your
sister's time."

The
dominant theme that emerges from the satirically symbolic
character names and this satirical description is that of what foolish, gullible and
mentally strained people do to themselves and allow to be done to others. The mentally
stressed "nut" allows himself to be manipulated and tormented, even by his sister who
insisted he visit this part of the country. The foolish and gullible "sap" allows
herself to be fooled and tricked by her niece and becomes an accomplice to the harm her
remorseless mischief causes to innocent people (one must suppose this is a past-time of
long standing with the self-possessed niece). Thus the
theme is the harm done by foolish and unstable persons to
themselves and to others.

In addition, the niece introduces
the equally strong theme of appearances versus reality. Her
name indicates this theme since she is not very faithful to the truth in what she tells
Framton or her aunt. While she appears to be a self-possessed young lady, she is in
reality a mischievous child, just as while the approaching figures appear to Nuttel to
be ghosts, they are in reality the returning husband and
brothers.

In
the deepening twilight three figures were walking across the lawn towards the window,
they all carried guns under their arms, and one of them was additionally burdened with a
white coat hung over his shoulders. A tired brown spaniel kept close at their
heels.

What is a good thesis for an essay regarding perversity in "Where are you going, Where have you been? and "A good man is hard to find"?

One way to address the issue of perversity regarding these
two stories is to consider scenes that are designed to make readers uncomfortable. In
"Where are You Going, Where Have You Been?" the scene in which Connie sees that Arnold
Friend wears some kind of lifts in his shoes to make himself appear taller shows that he
is dishonest and also very insecure. That she still feels an odd attraction to him shows
how insecure she is as well, and how confused, and is a perverse portrayal of sexual
ambivalence.  In "A Good Man is Hard to Find" we feel deep sympathy for the protagonist
when she is humiliated and betrayed by a man she thought had romantic feelings for her.
His removal and theft of her artificial limb is sadistic and perverse, a sad commentary
on her loneliness and vulnerability.

What is the main theme revolving around Portia and Nerrisa disguising as men and Jessica's disguise as a men as well to elope with Lorenzo?Why did...

In the male dominated world these women lived in, to be
taken seriously it was necessary to be a man.  Had Portia and Neressia appeared as
themselves in the court, they probably would not have been allowed to speak.  Portia
would not have been able to question Shylock but disguised as a man, no one questioned
her skill or knowledge.  As women, they were not free but as men they
were.

As for Jessica, she woud not be noticed in the
company of men if she was dressed as a male.  As a woman, she would have been
noticed.

Of course a more practical reason was that during
the Elizabethan period, women were not allowed to act on stage and thus women's parts
were played by young boys and men.  They would have been much more comfortable dressed
as boys and men.

It is evident from the beginning that
Portia is a captive of her father's will.  The caskets are his defense against greedy
men who only wish to marry Portia for her money, which is
considerable.

It is also clear that Jessica is also a
captive.  Perhaps Shylock is an over protective father considering how Jews were
regarded by Venice's Christian society.

In that world,
women submit to men.

What were the main features of the Roman Empire?

There are a number of factors that make the Empire
significant. First of all, the Romans were remarkably tolerant of cultural and religious
differences, and did not force conquered people to adopt Roman religion or even
language. They only required that they make no alliances with foreign powers and furnish
troops to the Roman Army. They were not even required to pay Roman
taxes.

Among its other accomplishments, the Empire
established a codified system of laws which provided that all persons accused of a crime
were innocent until proven guilty; that the accused had the right to confront his
accuser in open court; and that a judge could set aside a law he considered unfair. This
Roman system became the foundation of Western legal
systems.

Agriculture was generally conducted on large farms
known as latifundia, which were operated by slave labor. Crops
grown on these large estates was used for export and thereby enriched the Empire. Profit
from the trade allowed for immense wealth to flow into Rome itself which had running
water and numerous other amenities.

Entertainment was
provided free of charge at the circus maximus and the Coliseum where gladiatorial
battles were often conducted. This was done in part to keep the idle poor pacified and
prevent revolts. The poor were often fed at public
expense.

Finally, slavery was rampant in the empire;
although a slave could expect to be emancipated by age thirty if he had served his
master well. Slavery was not based on race; in fact German and African slaves were
highly desirable.

These are the major elements of the
Empire; much more time and space would be required for a more elaborate
discussion.

What is the meaning of the euphemism "sign off" as used in the Watergate case?

Although the phrase "sign off" is not generally seen as a
euphemism, it could be seen that way.  In the context of Watergate, the phrase "sign
off" means "to approve of."  We might speak, for example, of whether President Nixon
"signed off" on the burglary and bugging of the Democratic headquarters and/or on the
attempts to cover up that incident.

In such a case, you
could say that "sign off" is a euphemism because it downplays the extent of presidential
involvment.  The phrase "Nixon signed off" may not carry the same emotional weight with
a reader or viewer as the phrase "Nixon approved."  It makes it sound less as if Nixon
was actively involved in the process.

So, this is a
euphemism to the extent that it makes it sound less as if someone like the President was
actively involved and more like things just sort of happened.

Explain how the feud between Darry Curtis and Paul Holden emphasizes an artificial, unnecessary, and pointless animosity in The Outsiders?

Paul Holden is the Soc who accepts Darry's challenge to
square off first during the rumble in S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders.
Paul was the star halfback on the local high school football team
and

... he and
Darry used to buddy it around all the
time.

Now the two were
opponents on another field of battle: Darry siding with the greasers and Paul, now a
junior in college, representing the Socs. They both said their hellos, but hate now
gleamed in Darry's eyes. Pony couldn't quite determine the look that Paul
displayed.

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Contempt? Pity? Hate? All three?
Why?

As Pony explained
earlier, little separated Darry from the Socs. He was intelligent, wore his hair short,
had a job, and didn't hang with the greasers except when a fight was eminent.
Darry supported his brothers, who were proud of being greasers, but Darry
was

...
ashamed to be on our side, ashamed to be seen with the Brumly boys, Shepard's gang,
maybe even us.

Had Paul and
Darry met up with each other after such a long absence under different circumstances,
they may have greeted each other in a way that most old friends would. But now they were
greaser and Soc, separated by territorial and social boundaries that forced them to slug
it out with the other thugs that surrounded them.

What are two Christian influences or references in the Old English epic poem Beowulf?

Christian references and influences pervade the Old
English epic poem Beowulf, perhaps in part because the poem was
probably transcribed by an early English Christian monk.  In any case, the poem is full
of Christian ideas and imagery, as in some of the following examples (taken from the
Seamus Heaney translation):

• In lines 12-17, God
  is credited with assisting the Danish nation by giving them yet another good king. This
  very early reference to God makes the important point that everything good comes from
  God and that all people (and all peoples) depend on God’s favor and
  mercy.


• Hrothgar, the latest in a long line of good Danish
  kings, is praised for dispensing “his God-given gifts to young and old” among his people
  (72).


• After Hrothgar has built and occupied his glorious
  hall, he and his people sit and listen as a poet celebrates God’s creation of the earth;
  they listen to

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. . . the clear song of a skilled
poet

telling with mastery of man’s
beginnings,

how the Almighty had made the
earth

a gleaming plain gilded with waters . . . .
(90-93)

• Grendel,
  the evil and destructive monster who now begins to torment the Danes, is explicitly
  associated with

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Cain’s clan, whom the Creator had
outlawed

and condemned as outcasts. For the killing of
Abel

the Eternal Lord had exacted a price . . . .
(106-08)

• References
  to God recur repeatedly during the opening sections of the poem, as when “the Almighty”
  is said to have made Cain “anathema” (110); and when the poet mentions “giants . . . who
  strove with God” (113); and when Grendel is called “God-cursed” (121); and especially
  when some of the Danes are condemned for religious back-sliding when they worship Satan
  as a way of coping with the threat posed by Grendel (175-86). In response, the poet
  offers an emphatic declaration of Christian
  belief:

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. . . blessed is
he

who after death can approach the
Lord

and find friendship in the Father’s embrace.
(186-88)

It would be easy to
offer an extremely long list of such references to the Christian god as they appear
throughout Beowulf and as they profoundly color the tone and
meaning of the poem.

How are electors of the Electoral College chosen?

The electors who technically select the president are
chosen in a variety of ways.  There is no one set way that must be followed.  Instead,
each state is free to set up its own system for selecting
electors.

Typically, the way this works is that the parties
select the electors who would vote for that party's candidate.  The electors are
generally party activists in that particular state.  They are chosen at party
conventions or in other party meetings.

Electors, then, can
be pretty much anyone who a party wants.  The only real restriction is that they cannot
be officials of the federal government.

Explain the influence of the necessary and proper clause on the nature of American federalism.Thanks...:D

The necessary and proper clause has been one of the most
important influences on the nature of American federalism.  It has been interpreted in
such a way as to allow the federal government to do almost whatever it wants in terms of
making law.

The Constitution, of course, includes
enumerated powers that are supposed to be a list of all the things the federal
government is allowed to do.  It also contains the 10th Amendment, which reserves to the
states any powers that are not explicitly given to the federal government or denied to
the states.  Both of these parts of the Constitution would seem to limit the actions of
the federal government.

However, the necessary and proper
clause has been interpreted in ways that allow it to override the other parts of the
Constitution mentioned above.  Through this clause, the federal government has been
allowed to make law in any area that can be connected to any of its enumerated powers. 
Since one of those powers is to provide for the "general welfare" of the people, almost
anything the federal government does can be linked to its enumerated powers.  For this
reason, the necessary and proper clause has had a huge impact on the nature of American
federalism.

On what page of To Kill a Mockingbird does Atticus teach Scout and Jem the lesson of "don't judge a person until you have been in their shoes?'

This quotation is one of Atticus' finest bits of advice to
his children in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. Scout has had a
terrible first day of school with her new teacher, Miss Caroline, and she wants to quit.
She knows that Atticus never went to school, and Scout assumes that she will be able to
be schooled at home as well. But Atticus lectures her on tolerance, telling her that
Miss Caroline had learned a few new things just as Scout
had.

"You
never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until
you climb into his skin and walk around in
it."

Scout later applies the
advice to her meeting with Boo at the end of the novel, when she stands on Boo's porch
looking out over their neighborhood and seeing the past years through his
eyes.

The quotation can be found near the end of Chapter 3
(page 30 in my old paperback from 1982; your page number is probably
different).

In "Rip van Winkle" what feature of the place seems to be the most memorable?Washington Irving

With a certain tone of romantic nostalgia, Washington
Irving describes the "fairy" Catskill [Kaatskill]
Mountains:

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...every change of weather, indeed every hour of
the day, produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains,....they
are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on the clear evening
sky...they will gather a hood of gray vapors about their summits, which , in the last
rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up like a crown of
glory. 

Perhaps the most
memorable site is the "majestic course" of the "lordly Hudson" River that winds and
finally loses itself in the "blue highlands." For, with this scene, Irving conjures the
image of Henry Hudson and his crew members reappearing in the form of "a company of
odd-looking personages playing at ninepins" in the glen where Van Winkle finds himself.
One wonders if these are the men placed in a small boat in the cold Hudson Bay by the
mutineers of 1611 who were never heard from again.

This
sighting of the little figures who resemble those of an old Flemish painting establishes
the magical mood of the narrative as Rip drinks from the large flagons and becomes
overpowered by them, falling into his deep sleep of twenty
years.

I am looking for an interesting themes in literature for my research!!?? Please help, I am lost.

Given you did not provide a more narrow idea of the
research you are doing, other than in literature, the answer will not be able to be
answered as specifically.

Common themes one can research in
literature highly depend on what genre and period you are examining. Therefore, the
answer will suggest themes most commonly examined in any literature course or
study.

1. Examination of the characteristics common to a
specific genre and how different authors create understanding of the themes throughout
their own work or as compared to other authors of the same
genre.

2. Choose different texts which examine similar
themes. Discuss how the authors contrast in their process of highlighting the
theme.

3. Take the movie and text of a specific work and
examine how the themes are similar or different.

4. Look at
poems and texts which have similar themes. Discuss how each author discusses the theme
given poems are typically more compact and novels are more drawn out. Which seems to
offer the more defined theme.

5. How the examination of
themes has changed over time. What were the popular themes examined in the earliest
writings as compared to the themes today? Have they really changed that much? Of they
have not, why?

As a side note, if you provide a more
focused idea of what you are looking for, please post it as a thread and I will be happy
to re-examine.

The differences between a short story and a chapter.

There are multiple differences between a short story and a
chapter. To first begin, a complete explanation of a short story's components need to be
described.

A short story typically contains five different
parts: introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, and conclusion. All of these
pieces are necessary in a short story.

The introduction
introduces the setting, plot, and main characters of the text. Typically, the
introduction ends with the understanding of the main conflict of the
text.

The rising action builds the main conflict, other
conflicts exist, and other characters may/may not be
introduced.

The climax of the text is when the main
conflict comes to a head and is concluded.

The falling
action begins tying up loose ends and leads to the
conclusion.

The conclusion wraps up the story and provides
closure.

A chapter of a text can simply depicts one aspect
of what is going on in a longer works such as novels or novellas. A chapter can give
simple explanations on actions, introduce a single character, or depict a single
conflict.

Therefore, a chapter only shows one aspect of a
greater whole, while a short story depicts a story in its
entirety.

In "The Story of an Hour," does reality eventually intrude on the character's discoveries and changes?

Most definitely. Let us just briefly remind ourselves of
what happens in this classic story that features an incredible epiphany. Mrs. Mallard,
having been told of the death of her husband, quickly realises, after an initial
outburst of grief and sadness, that actually she is now free to experience liberty and
enjoy life without her marriage and her realtionship to her husband hindering her. Note
what the text tells us about her feelings and what she is
experiencing:

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There would be no one to live for her during
those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending
hers in that blind persistence with which mena nd women believe they have a right to
impose a private will upon a
fellow-creature.

Mrs. Mallard
experiences an epiphany about how she has lived her life up until this point, and in
particular, how her marriage had actually oppressed her and prevented her from being
truly free.

However, reality in the form of her husband
reimposes itself harshly upon her in the final lines of the story, as her husband
reappears, and thanks to a miscommunication had been reported as dead when he was very
much alive. Having tasted, however briefly of the freedom that she thought was hers to
savour for the rest of her life, Mrs. Mallard dies as a response to the shock of having
that freedom snatched away from her once again. In spite of her epiphany and changes and
discoveries, reality returns her to her starting point, which is intolerable for her,
resulting in her death.

What factors contribute to the maintenance of the two party system?

One thing that we must not ignore is the voting system
that we have in the United States.  Our use of the "winner-take-all" system of elections
that we use.

In many other countries, a system called
"proportional representation" is used.  This means that parties are represented in a
parliament in proportion to the percent of votes they receive in an election.  In such a
system, a party that won 25% of the vote, for example, would get about 25% of the seats
in the legislature.

In the US, a party that won 25% of the
votes in an election would likely get 0% of the representation (unless there were very
odd circumstances with a large number of candidates splitting the vote).  In such a
system, third parties will have a tremendously difficult time breaking up the two-party
system.  Small parties cannot win any seats until they are able to win a plurality in a
given district.  This makes it hard for "third parties" to get going and helps to
maintain the two-party system that we have.

What irony, characterzation, and imagery in the story supports the insanity theory that Montresor is psychologically unstable?"The Cask of...

Characterization

Immediately, Montresor's
obsession is presented as  "the thousand insults" of Fortunato that he will avenge in
the only proper manner: 

• punishment must come
  with impunity


• the retribution must not take over the
  redresser


• the avenger must make himself known to his
  victim

His explanation of how he has dissembled
seems rather unbalanced.  For, Montresor states that when Fortunato accosts him in his
motley costume,

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I was so pleased to see him that I thought I
should never have done wringing his
hand.

Montresor banters with
Fortunato, calling his attention to the "white web-work" of the walls while at the same
time encouraging Fortunato, leading him farther into the catacombs, then objecting to
the unlucky man's progression in an affected concern for his health, while at the same
time ridiculing his cough, "Ugh!ugh!ugh!ugh!....." and calling Fortunato "friend." After
this, Montesor makes a pun upon the word mason, ridiculing Fortunato's pride at being in
the society of Freemasons; subsequently, he feigns concern for Fortunato as he says,
"...let me implore you to return."
[irony,also] 

At this point, there are possible sexual
innuendoes, suggestive of the perverseness of Montresor's plan for revenge.  Before
Montresor begins building his wall, the tettered Fortunato "ejaculated" the words " The
Amontillado!" then Montresor hears a low, moaning sound from Fortunato and ceases his
work, sitting down.  When Fortunato begins to scream, Montresor narrates that he began
to "Unsheath my rapier," and "grope with it about the recess."  Certainly, the use of
sexually suggestive language points to the perversity and sadism of Montresor who also
mocks Fortunato in his desperate cry, "For the love of God!" as he
himself cries the same words.

After all this, the horror
that Montesor feels is the horror within him; the evil of which he has been capable, and
he takes fifty years to tell his
tale.

Imagery

There
is much sight and sound imagery suggestive of imbalance. Regarding
sight--

• the harlequin costume of
  Fortunato


• the insufferable dampness of the
  vaults.


• the bones scattered
  "promiscuously"


• the coat of arms with a golden foot
  crushes a serpent who fangs are imbedded into the knight's
  heel


• the chains and
  padlock


• the rapier


• the
  stones of the trap


• the flambeaux that cast only a few
  rays upon Fortunato


• the torch that Montresor thrusts into
  the remaining opening to the tomb that he finally
  closes.


• the rampart of
  bones

regarding
sound--

• the jingling of the fool's cap on
  Fortunato acting as an ironic foreshadowing of what is to
  come.


• the drops of moisture trickling among the
  bones


• the low, moaning cry of
  Fortunato


• the silence after Montesor finally calls out
  "Fortunato!"

Irony

Montresor's
carefully executed betrayal and retribution against Fortunato are meshed and intensified
in meaning with the skillful and pervasive use of
irony.

• The first irony occurs with Montesor's
  intentional telling the servants that he will be gone so that they will run off.  This
  reverse psychology illustrates the skewering of
  relationships.


• He toasts to Fortunato's long
  life


• He expresses concern for Fortunato's
  health


• He waves the trowel, saying he is a mason, giving
  an ironic twist to Fortunato's use of the word.Shortly afterwards, he points to his coat
  of arms that states that "No one provokes me with
  impunity."


• He assures Fortunato that he will not die of
  his cough


• He gives "for the love of God" another
  meaning.

  

What is the role of messenger RNA for the protein synthesis?

Messenger RNA is a copy of the relevant section of DNA for
the production of a specific protein. Messenger RNA, or mRNA, is made in the nucleus and
is transported out through a nuclear pore into the
cytoplasm.

Once the mRNA reaches the cytoplasm, ribosomes
attach to it and begin the process of translation. In translation, the ribosomes "read"
the bases along the mRNA, and each group of three bases is used to identify an amino
acid which will become part of the protein. Transfer RNAs brings the called-for amino
acids in sequence, and the ribosomes join them together into the polypeptide. When it is
completed the polypeptide is released into the cytoplasm, after which other cell
processes finish it into a protein. So to summarize, the role of messenger RNA is
instructions for the sequencing of amino acids.

I have to give a book talk on Anowa with some type of visual aid. Do you have any suggestions on a visual aid for this book?

Perhaps the best visual aids to use in any presentation
speak to the overall themes, imagery, and characters depicted in the text. For the book
Anowa, here are some suggestions for visual
aids.

Theme visual aids: Customs and traditions of the
culture, importance of pride, aspects of actions, choices, and consequences. Portray
these by showing what customs are relevant in the text: marriage, a woman's place in the
home, owning of slaves.

Imagery visual aids: wedding bands,
chains, cleaning supplies and materials.

Character visual
aids: the disobedient daughter, the frustrated mother and father, the
husband.

Overall, you can easily tell a story using images
alone. While this is not the assignment, you can surely use the visual aids to enhance
your presentation on the text. Be sure to use things which highlight the text for you
and depict how you envisioned the characters and themes.

How was Dill's comment on his aunt's alcoholism cynical.Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

In the Deep South there are colloquial meanings for some
words.  For instance,  the word to aggravate someone is used to
mean to irritate or rile that person whereas it does not have that meaning in other
geographical areas.  Since the author, Harper Lee, is herself a resident of southern
Alabama, there is a strong possibility that the use of the word
cynical by Aunt Alexandra in Chapter 22 is given a colloquial
meaning since it clearly does not mean its dictionary denotation of distrusting the
sincerity of the motives of others as it appears.  There, Aunt
Alexandra thinks that Dill tries to deflect his own wrongdoing by criticizing his aunt. 
Thus, to her, to make a person look bad in the face of one's own wrongdoing is
cynical.  What may be cynical, however, is Dill's suspicion of Aunt
Rachel's concern for him. This sentiment is expressed in Dill's remark, "she's just
seein' too many snakes in the closet," for with this observation Dill does express some
doubt about his aunt's motivations.

During the second world war why did the adults in Europe rush to write wills

Adults faced with a situation in which death is a very
real possibility frequently need and/or want to do whatever they can to make it easier
for their survivors to continue living if they should die. Part of that process would be
writing a will to designate how a person's possessions are to be distributed after that
person's passing.

Adults in many parts of Europe (and Asia
and Africa) during World War II were living under conditions in which imminent death was
a real threat. Obviously, those directly involved in the military forces were at risk
with every engagement. However, citizens were also endangered as fighting moved into
populated areas and as aerial bombing became a more important part of the strategy.
Under conditions in which many individuals felt unable to control what happened to their
lives, one of the few things they could control was the preparations they could make for
their survivors. Included in that process was writing their
will.

In Pride and Prejudice, what does Jane Austen say about love with respect to the relationships between Elizabeth and Darcy, and Jane and Bingley?

Jane Austen uses the relationships between Elizabeth/Darcy
and Jane/Bingley to show the reader two different types of emotional
love.

Jane and Bingley's romance, on both sides, was love at first
sight. Bingley believed Jane to be the "most beautiful creature [he] ever beheld" and
Jane found him to be handsome, gentlemanly, friendly, and easy going. After meeting him,
Jane raved to Elizabeth about how he is "just what a young man ought to be." Both were
equally attracted to each other, but sadly, the reason why the match broke up was that
Jane was too reserved to really express her emotion. She never showed Bingley how much
she cared, so Bingley was easily persuaded that she did not care.

Austen uses Elizabeth and Darcy's relationship to show the other kind
of emotional love. Not all emotional love is felt the instant you meet. Sometimes the
strongest love can enter as meekly as a lamb. Also, there is often a very fine line
between love and hate. Elizabeth first felt upon meeting Darcy that he was detestable.
However, it did not take long for him to convince her that the opposite is
true.

The two romances show two opposing sides of emotional romantic
love, the kind that begins with a bang and the kind that begins very
quietly.

How does mattie set the dinner table and what breaks? also what might it symbolize? please help me.

When Zeena leaves for Bettsbridge, Ethan and Mattie
finally have an opportunity to relax. While Zeena is present, both Ethan and Mattie feel
as if they are under a microscope. Zeena is unduly critical and she makes life difficult
for all. On this night, therefore, Mattie prepares a pleasant meal that includes
doughnuts and pickles. She carefully sets the table, using the best dishes in the house
and she hopes that Ethan will enjoy the food and the ambiance. Fortunately, he does.
Unfortunately, the cat crosses the table and breaks Zeena’s pickle dish. Although Ethan
offers to simply clean up the mess, Mattie panics because she knows that Zeena will be
angered by the loss. Apparently, she kept the pickle dish (a wedding present) in a
particular location and only used it for special
occasions. 

Breaking the pickle dish could possibly suggest
two unfortunate circumstances. The first possibility is that the destruction of the
pickle dish signals the ruin of Ethan’s and Zeena’s pleasant evening. The other option
is that the pickle dish, a wedding present to Ethan and Zeena, could signal the
figurative end of their marriage, which was already damaged and
strained.

What characteristics of Lord Randall Get Up and Bar the Door and Edward Edward show that they were intended to appeal to a general audience rather...

These are all border ballads from the Medieval Era in
England.  As such, they were probably originally sung and not written, as they were
meant for the (illiterate) common folk.  In general, ballads will use simple language
and short lines, making them more easily understood by all.  They also use dialect,
rather than formal language, to appeal more to the lower classes.  Ballads (these
included) will use repetition to further stress the importance of certain ideas, events
and characters and to make them easier to remember and repeat.  They are generally about
sensational crimes, the struggles and hardships of working class life, the often-tragic
fate of lovers, or historical disasters; these are all topics to which most people in
the lower classes of Medieval England could relate.

In this
era, the literature that appeal to the elite were high romances about the deeds of
knights and damsels in distress.  They praised lofty ideals and used more formal and
flowery language.  Ballads tend to much simpler.

Is Bacteroides fragilis an example of prokaryote or a eukaryote? Explain the difference?

Bacteroides fragilis is a species classified under the
genome bacteria. Bacteria have prokaryotic cell
types.

Prokaryotic cells are approximately one hundredth
the size of eukaryotic cells. They do not have any cell organelles enclosed by membranes
including the nucleus. Eukaryotic cells have a nucleus enclosed by a membrane and there
are other cell organelles bound by membranes also present in their
cells.

Prokaryotic cells have a cell wall and it is quite
complex in nature; eukaryotic cells usually do not have a cell wall. The flagella of
prokaryotic cells consists of only two protein blocks and is simple as compared to
eukaryotic cells.

Reproduction in prokaryotic cells is by
binary fission whereas eukaryotic cells undergo mitosis.

In Robert Lawson's novel for young readers titled Ben and Me, why did Benjamin Franklin go to England and then to France?

In Robert Lawson’s novel for young readers titled
Ben and Me: An Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin and His Good Mouse
Amos, Ben Franklin’s trips to England and to France are
described.

Near the end of Chapter 8, Franklin explains to
Amos the reasons for his trip to England:

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"As you doubtless know, relations between these
American Colonies and our Mother Country, England, have become very badly strained. So
much so that I have chosen to go to England and lay our case before the King and
Parliament: to attempt to make clear to them the justice of our grievances, to avoid the
dangers of rebellion and possibility of
war."

In this passage,
Franklin makes clear that rebellion from England and war with that country were not
outcomes the colonists desired; they merely wanted to be treated with consideration and
fairness.

Amos, at first, is more than happy to accompany
Ben on his mission, not only because of his personal devotion to liberty but because he
has heard good things about English cheese. When he discovers, however, that Franklin
has installed lightning rods on the ship heading for England, he changes his mind. Only
later does he hear that Franklin’s mission to England was “a complete failure.” War with
England becomes inevitable.

Later, at the beginning of
Chapter 10, when the colonial armies are in need of supplies and a foreign country’s
help must be sought, Amos is instrumental (according to Lawson’s book) in suggesting
France as the source of assistance. Amos reminds Franklin of French pastries, French
wines, and beautiful French women, and so Franklin immediately suggests to George
Washington that France should be America’s ally. General Washington agrees that Franklin
should go to the French court “to plead our cause.” Washington reminds Franklin that
this is a “heavy responsibility.”

What is the significance in Stevens' "Sunday Morning" of the lines "The tomb in Palestine/ is not the porch of spirits lingering"?

The opening of the final stanza of Steven's poems
contrasts Christianity with the preceding image of pagan relion and the images of
natural order which conclude the poem. The contrast of Jesus tomb with "spirits
lingering" evokes the image in Homer's Odyssey of the pathetic shades in Hades gathering
around Odysseus unable to communicate unless given blood. In Christian doctrine, the
body as well as the spirit of Jesus (and of dead Christians) are resurrected, and thus
disembodied shades cannot exist. Thus the contrast on the one had is with the pagan
imagery of the earlier stanza in which soul and body are presumed to separate at death.
The stanza concludes, however, with an insistence on the corporeality of living beings,
suggesting that what we are is in part our physical nature, that what makes us part of
the natural order is our coporeality, and that the finality of death is the price we pay
for that participation in nature.

what is Macbeth's moral degeneration in the drama Macbeth?

Macbeth does not start off the play as a ruthless,
dispassionate murderer.  He begins as a lauded warrior, defeating enemy upon enemy and
earning new titles in the process.  He is loyal to his king and loving to his
wife.

So what happens?  Well, he meets the witches, and
they plant the seed of the king's crown in his mind.  Yet, he still mulls the idea over,
initially deciding against murdering Duncan and even presenting reasons to himself why
he should not even consider such a horrible
idea.

Unfortunately, with his wife's relentless badgering,
he agrees to the murder.  From that point on, he must continue killing, lying and
plotting to keep his position.  He comes to rely so much on the witches next set of
prophecies that he lets his relationship with his wife and his logical and rational
thought processes to slip, resulting in his wife's and his own tragic
deaths.

What are the electronic configurations of non-metals and metals?

Determining electron configuration is easy as long as you
know the basic format.

The basic format
is

1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6 4s2 3d10
4p6

(note: 4p6 is not the highest electron configuration,
but most beginning courses will not ask beyond this
point)

-memorize the
format

-determine number of electrons (same as the atomic
number of the element)

-fill in starting from the BEGINNING
and moving forward until the exponents add up to the atomic number of the
element

-example: Li has atomic number of 3 (1s2,
2s1)

-example: S has atomic number of 16 (1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2,
3p4)

As a rule of thumb, all elements in group 1
(column 1) will have the outer electrons in the s1 orbital.  You can then use the row to
determine the coefficient value.  For example, Hydrogen is in group 1 and row 1 so its
electron configuation is 1s1.  Lithium is in group 1 row 2 so its outer shell will be
2s1

All group 2 elements will have electron configurations
ending in s2

all group 3 through group 12 elements will
have electron configurations ending in d1 through d10
respectively

all group 13 elements will end in p1, group 14
will end in p2, group 15 will end in p3 and so on until group 18 which will end in
p6

SINCE NON-METALS ARE FOUND TO THE FAR RIGHT OF THE
PERIODIC TABLE, THESE WILL HAVE ELECTRON CONFIGURATIONS ENDING IN THE P
ORBITAL

SINCE THE MAJORITY OF THE ELEMENTS ARE METALS,
THEIR ELECTRON CONFIGURATIONS HAVE MANY POSSIBILITIES BUT MAINLY END IN EITHER s1, s2,
or 3d (1-10) orbitals

what might a scientist ask about life science?

Some key questions in Life Science are the origins of
life  (abiogenesis), the origins of species and the nature of the relationships between
species  (evolution and taxonomy), the nature of the chemical basis for life
(biochemistry)and the biological coding of heredity and bioprocesses  (genetics, dna,
rna).  Of course the most basic question is what characteristics define LIFE vs. things
that are not living.

Why should a rebellion in Cuba

In the present day if the Cubans rebell against the
Castros, then why would the US go to war with Cuba?  Wouldn't they rather support the
rebelling citizens.  After all the Castros are dictators and Cubans are poor and live in
a communist state.  A rebellion would free them from this strangle hold they have been
in for decades.

I would not think a rebellion against
Castro(s) would be cause for a war between US and Cuba. Besides in the 1960s didn't
President Kennedy try to overthrow the dictatorship in Cuba and
failed?

Rather this type of rebellion would be more like
the recent rebellion, upraisings, in Egypt, Iraq, Libyia etc. in which the US offered
support.  In most countries.

How does the Precautionary Principle contribute to the area of risk management and risk assessment?

The Precautionary Principle contributes to both risk
management and risk assessment in a fundamental and significant way.  The principle, in
its basic form, is that if an action or policy could reasonably be expected to cause
harm to the public or the environment, or if the chance of harm occurring is higher than
a given threshold, then the burden of proof that the action or policy can be conducted
safely falls on those taking the action.

In other words,
instead of "prove to me that it's risky" before an action or policy could be prevented,
it's "prove to me that it's not risky" before it can be approved.  Another, simpler way
to say it is "First, do no harm", or "Better safe than
sorry".

So application of this principle requires that the
party conduct risk assessment before receiving approval, and functions in the larger
sphere of risk management by requiring proof of safety or a level of acceptable
risk.

This principle was applied at the Earth Summit in Rio
de Janiero in 1992, as Article 15 states:

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In order to protect the environment,
the precautionary approach shall be widely applied by States according to their
capabilities. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full
scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective
measures to prevent environmental
degradation.

What role did Woodrow Wilson want the United States to play in world affairs?

Woodrow Wilson wanted the United States to be a force for
morality and good in international relations.  This can be seen most clearly in his push
for the adoption of his 14 Points at the Paris Peace Conference after
WWI.

Wilson wanted the post-war world to be based on
morals, not on the pursuit of power.  This was his major war aim in WWI.  He was not
interested in taking territory or punishing Germany or anything else.  He wanted to
remake the world on a moral basis that would make war
obsolete.

Wilson believed that the US should be a force for
the realization of his dream of a world order based on morality.

Does the War Powers Act effectively restrict the ability of the US president to wage war?

The War Powers Act on its own has not been a significant
restriction on the ability of the US president to wage war.  It is one tool that
Congress can use to pressure a president, but it has never, on its own, been used to
prevent a president from acting as he wished.

A major
reason for this is that the War Powers Act has never been formally declared
constitutional.  No president has ever acknowledged that the act actually has any
force.  This keeps the act from being a very effective restriction on the president's
ability to wage war.

However, this is not to say that the
act is meaningless.  It can be used as an effective rhetorical tool against the
president.  It can force him (or someday her) to justify his actions to the American
people.  It is public opinion that ultimately ends up being the most effective check on
the president's ability to wage an undeclared war.

What are some possible essay questions about characters in The Crucible?

There are many different potential topics with which you
can compose essays based off of Miller's work.  In looking at particular characters, I
think that a very interesting one can be to discuss Proctor's evolution throughout the
drama.  Proctor's growth is one of the most important elements in the drama.  Another
particular topic could be to focus on how the marriage of Proctor and Elizabeth develops
over the course of the play.  Seeing how both of them interact with one another in Act
II and then seeing how they are at the end of the play is something that can be
explored.  Another discussion point in terms of written exploration would be to discuss
the motivations of Abigail, herself.  I think that talking about Abigail's own
experiences as a child and how she is in need of guidance, something that she believes
can be given through her infatuation of Proctor would be something to explore throughout
the drama.  Naturally, another topic would be to compare Giles Corey as well as Miller's
own testimony at the House UnAmerican Activities Committee.  I think that being able to
bring out both ideas and how both of them are similar could be another
topic.

How do Bryon and Mark react to Mike's forgiveness in That was Then, This is Now?

When Bryon hears the story of the hospitalized
teenager, Mike Chambers, who was beaten badly after trying to befriend a black girl, it
inspires him to make changes in his own life. A gang member himself, Chambers was beaten
by a group of black teens after the girl who he had tried to help turned on him,
directing her friends to kill Mike. Despite her betrayal, Mike decides to turn the other
cheek and not seek revenge, claiming that he holds no grudges agains the girl. Mike's
story inspires Bryon, who decides to refrain from violence and further gang activity.
Mark, however, is not impressed, calling Mike a "damn fool." Mark does not understand
the compassion that Mike felt, and he calls Mike's attitude "sick," chastizing Bryon for
not allowing him to "get even for you" with the Shepard gang, who had beaten Bryon after
Mark had cut off Angela Shepard's hair. Mike's words inspire Bryon to get a job, but
Mark's downward spiral merely continues.

Do you think the insult really happend or did it just exist in Montresor's head?

This is a subjective question. Many readers will see the
answer to this question differently based upon personal interpretation. Therefore, the
answer to the question will be subjective as
well.

Montresor, from Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado", has
spent the past fifty years contemplating the insult enacted upon him by Fortunato. One
could look at this in two very different ways.

First, one
could justify that Montresor is insane. His insanity stems from the fact that he has
been obsessed with the insult placed upon his name by Fortunato. From this obsession
stems insanity.

Second, one could look at Montersor's
desire to seek revenge on Fortunato as a simply act. Fortunato wronged Montersor and,
therefore, deserved death.

Lastly, one could examine
Montresor's reaction to impending concealment in the tombs. Fortunato begins to scream.
Montresor suddenly worries that someone may hear the screams. Montresor stops bricking
up the wall. He becomes fearful of being caught. One could look at this in two different
ways. First, Montersor is conscious of what he is doing is wrong; therefore, he is sane.
Or, secondly, Montersor is insane given he begins to scream along with
Fortunato.

Choose two vivid verbs from the story and in about 3-4 sentences for each explain their effectiveness.

As disturbing to readers, as the sniper himself, the story
provides wonderful vivid verbs. An engaged reader can easily identify the necessity and
need the sniper feels in regards to his objective at
hand.

Two vivid words which are very effective in the story
are hungrily and bitten.

The verbs are found in the
following sentences of the story:

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He was eating a sandwich
hungrily.

He became bitten by
remorse.

The verb phrase
"eating a sandwich hungrily" provides two very different interpretations. First, his
physical hunger is apparent. The sniper has not eaten since morning. Second, the sniper
is hungry for the kill (he wishes to eat). He needs it in the same way his body needs
nourishment. It seems to be a part necessary to his
survival.

The verb "bitten" also provides a dual
interpretation. He was bitten by what he had to do. In the beginning, he was hungry for
the kill. (A link provided to the earlier mentioning of "eating"). Here, the sniper is
bitten by his need to eat by way of his remorse.

What is meant by "He took in rhyme" in the poem "Laugh and Be Merry" by John Masefield?

In John Masefield's poem "Laugh and Be Merry" the line "He
took in rhyme" occurs in the following stanza:

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Laugh and be merry: remember, in olden
time.
God made Heaven and Earth for joy He took in a rhyme,
Made
them, and filled them full with the strong red wine of His mirth
The splendid
joy of the stars: the joy of the
earth.

The poem is written in
four stanzas with the following rhyme
pattern:

a,a,b,b

c,c,d,d

e,e,f,f

g,g,h,h

The
poem is written with end rhyme, meaning the end words rhyme with each other. The stanzas
are written in quatrains, meaning four line stanzas.

As for
the meaning of the line "He took in rhyme", it could simply be looked at as Masefield's
way of creating the rhyme scheme specific to the poem. The word "rhyme" simply rhymes
with the previous line's ending word "time."

Another way
one could interpret the meaning behind the line is that rhymes are historically meant to
be perfect. God, being perfect, desired a perfect place for mankind when creating the
earth.

One last way to examine the meaning of the line is
to look at a very simplistic reason: Once created, God was able to "sit back and relax"
by entertaining himself with a rhyme.

In what ways is the narrator careful about the means he uses, and careless about whether his act is justified in "The Tell-Tale Heat"?

The madness of the narrator in "The Tell-Tale Heart"
prohibits him from thinking rationally, and it is obvious that there is no justification
in killing a man because he has an evil eye--a "vulture eye." Further, he admits that he
loves the man and that he has no intention of stealing his money. The narrator is
careful about taking precautions to keep the old man from uncovering his plot to kill
him, however. He "was never kinder" to the old man in the days before he planned to kill
him, and he slowly and "oh so gently!" opened the door each night, taking an hour to
place his head inside the room. But for seven nights, he could not kill the old man: The
eye was always open. On the eighth night, he took similar precautions, but his chuckling
may have alerted the old man; his slip of the latch awakened him. These noises caused
the man to open the eye, and it gave the narrator the excuse to finally fulfill his
goal.

What time/year was it when the Jewish and/or Hebrews followed Moses out of Egypt to Canaan?

Realize that the dating of the Exodus is based on oral
histories that are thousands of years old, which means there may be inaccuracies in the
details used to establish chronological dates. Also understand that there are different
versions of how years are measured in regards to the events of ancient
history.

Given those reservations, my Chronological Bible
provides two possible years for the Exodus. The older way of marking the time gives the
starting year as 1446 BC; a more recent way of marking the dates gives the year 1280 BC
as the start of the Exodus. Regardless of the starting point you choose to accept,
remember that the time period of the Exodus spanned forty years as the Hebrew people
traveled in the wilderness. This means the crossing of the Jordan River into Canaan
occurred in either 1405 BC or 1239 BC, depending upon the method of marking the years
you follow.

Identify several values you think might be the basis of conflict or misunderstanding between leaders and followers.

Well, I would argue that principally the cause of conflict
between a leader and his or her followers can emerge from a number of separate issues.
Firstly, a leader must be able to articulate a clear vision and a goal in order to
inspire their followers. If the vision or goal changes, this is something that could
cause conflict between them. Secondly, leaders by their very nature must be charismatic
people with a forceful personality. However, if their personal actions conflict with the
image of themselves that they are trying to present and project, this can be a source of
conflict. Finally, another possibility is if the leader and what they require from their
followers overstretches their power and influence. I am thinking of cult leaders who
expect their followers to commit suicide with them. Sometimes, followers find that the
magnetism of the leader is not enough to compel them into obedience, and refuse, running
away and escaping.

Discuss how Carver challenges our ideas of what it means to be handicapped in "Cathedral."

The central way in which this excellent short story
challenges our notions of what it is to be handicapped is through the use of a narrator
who is at best unsympathetic and at worst rude towards his blind guest. For example,
when Robert arrives, the narrator does little to encourage conversation by providing
short answers to Robert's questions about his life, before turning on the TV, which,
considering Robert's inability to see the image and the way that it closes down
conversation is very rude. Consider the following
quote:

From
time to time, he'd turn his blind face toward me, put his hand under his beard, ask me
something. How long had I been in my present position? (Three years.) Did I like my
work? (I didn't.) Was I going to stay with it? (What were the options?) Finally, when I
thought he was beginning to run down, I got up and turned on the
TV.

However, in spite of the
dismissive way in which the narrator thinks about Robert and treats him because he is
blind, the end of the story shows the way in which the narrator himself has changed his
notions about blindness and how he now is able to "see" something of the reality of
being blind. This epiphany comes when he draws a cathedral with his eyes closed with
Robert holding on to his hand so that he can see what it is like. When Robert asks him
to open his eyes, note what the narrator does:

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My eyes were still closed. I was in my house. I
knew that. But I didn't feel like I was inside
anything.

The narrator comes
to experience first hand the way that being blind can actually not be a restriction, but
something that can profoundly liberate you. Showing the narrator's change of heart and
his epiphany is the key way in which the narrator challenges views about being
disabled.

How do Clostridium difficile bacteria reproduce and what toxins do they release?

Clostridium difficile, more commonly known as C. diff, is
a rod-shaped, spore-forming bacteria. C. diff bacteria are anaerobic, meaning they live
without oxygen. C. diff. bacteria reproduce asexually by a process called binary
fission. Basically, binary fission is the division of one cell into two cells after the
cell has copied its DNA. As the C. diff bacteria multiply, two toxins are produced that
damage the intestinal wall of the individual. Toxin A which kills epithelial cells and
Toxin B which promotes ulceration. The rate at which the bacteria reproduce and release
toxins is dependent on many factors most importantly a person's medical condition. C.
diff infections are a primary  concern in hospitals because of their ability to spread
among immunocompromised people. Many healthy individuals carry C. diff in their
intestines but never become ill because their normal gut flora keeps troublesome
bacteria in check.

Who are the important minor characters of the play The Merchant of Venice?

The major characters of The Merchant of
Venice are Bassanio, Antonio, Portia, Shylock, Lorenzo and Jessica. These are
the characters involved in the main love plots of the play. As is typical of
Shakespeare, the two love plots are interconnected. The other characters in the play are
minor, and exist either for comic purposes or as ancillary in furthering the
plot.

The minor characters can be distinguished in several
ways. First, characters without names who often appear in groups and are labelled by
roles (magnificoes, officers, jailer, servants and attendants) are usually minor.
Friends, who support the main characters in certain scenes (Gratiano, Solanio, Salarino,
Salerio and Tubal) are considerd "supporting characters". Servants are crucial for
furthering the plot, and often have important roles and speeches (e.g. the Nurse in
Romeo and Juliet) but because they are not protagonists of the main plot but just serve
to act for the protagonists are normally considered monor (e.g. Nerissa, Lancelot Gobbo,
Leonardo) The suitors to Portia only serve to show her character and popularity and have
no other significant function, and thus are minor, as is the Duke of
Venice.

What is the biggest problem confronting the country today?

I would argue that the biggest problem facing our country
today is a lack of good jobs and/or a lack of people to fill what good jobs there
are.

In the past, there were pretty good jobs for almost
everyone.  A person who never went to college could work in a factory and make good
money.  A person who went to college could be pretty secure for life.  Nowadays, with
globalization and increased competition, this is no longer true.  We do not seem to know
how to make good jobs, particularly for blue collar workers with relatively little
education.  This contributes to a situation in which we have inequality of wealth and in
which our economy stagnates.  We need to in some way encourage more innovation and
entrepreneurship that could create better jobs for a broader variety of
people.

In chapter 7 What did Mr. lombard mean when he said,"There are crimes that cannot be brought home to their perpetrators"?

Mr. Lombard is having a discussion with Dr. Armstrong. 
They are trying to determine if Mr. and Mrs. Rogers were responsible for the death of
the old woman, Miss Brady. Dr. Armstrong found out from Mr. Rogers that Miss Brady
suffered from a heart condition.  When there was an attack of the heart, a glass capsule
of amyl nitrate was broken under her nose so that it could be inhaled.  This would save
her life. However, if she never got the amyl nitrate, she would die.  They determined
that it would be very possible for Mr.and Mrs. Rogers to have killed Miss Brady
by withholding the amyl nitrate, allowing the heart attack to kill her.  They didn't
kill her by doing something to her.  They killed her by NOT doing something for her. 
Nothing legally could ever be proved against them in a court of law, although they did
cause her death. What Mr. Lombard is saying is that there are some crimes, such as the
one just mentioned, that cannot be proved legally, and no one can charge the people
responsible with the crime.

What do the conch, beasty, and fire symbolIze in Lord of the Flies?

These are three important symbols in Lord of the
Flies. The conch represents a sense of order and
the freedom of speech. The possessor of the conch is always allowed to speak his mind
while the other boys listen. It is also the symbol of communication; when the conch is
blown, it serves as a signal for the boys to gather. The
beast represents the fear of the unknown, misidentified as
a scary creature with evil intent rather than the reality of it being the corpse of a
parachutist. Fire symbolizes a source of rescue (the signal
fire) and sustenance (the means of cooking the wild pigs); when controlled, it
represents the best of science, providing warmth and light in the night. But when out of
control, the fire serves as a means of destruction.