In Fahrenheit 451, Montag recites several lines to himself as they walk along. What is he quoting and what is the importance of the message?

Which particular section of the novel are you talking
about? Do you mean towards the beginning when Clarisse and Montag walk together for the
first time? One of the quotes that Montag actually says during this conversation is the
official slogan of the firefighters, that, as you can guess, refers to their job in this
dystopian world:

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Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday
Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official
slogan.

There is a slight
irony in this slogan, as really they obviously don't burn the authors themselves, but
their books, and their is a slight jaunty tone added to the slogan in the way that the
days of the week share the first letter of the author whose works are burnt on that day.
However, what is important to note is the way that the total destruction of these books
is referred to, so that even the ashes themselves are burnt again once the books have
been converted into ashes. We are presented with a society whose desire it is to
completely eradicate the presence of any books at all, and the slogan of the
firefighters only serves to confirm this.

How does the idea of "sustainability" square with the fact that developing countries must usually draw heavily on their natural resource base?In...

There are many possible ways to answer this question.  You
should probably check to be sure that there is not one particular answer that your text
or teacher has given that you are supposed to provide.

One
way to square these ideas is by understanding that an economy that depends on natural
resources does not need to be unsustainable.  It is often possible to use technology to
reduce the amount of natural resources that is needed to produce goods and services. 
For example, more fuel-efficient trucks reduce the need for energy in transporting
goods.

Another way to square these ideas is to understand
that a developing nation's economy does not have to continue to rely on resources.  As
the economy develops it can move on into less resource-intensive activities.  This
allows the country to move away from unsustainable activities.

What are three benefits students may recieve through the study of American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang?This question could apply to any...

The graphic novel looks like an easy read for reluctant
readers and can hook them in with the drawings.

Students
who have trouble analyzing words may be more successful at interpreting the pictures and
be able to enjoy searching for the deeper meanings in the
story.

A group or page of panels can be compared to a
stanza, paragraph, or verse of a song which groups can use for discussion purposes or
writing gists. 

Suppose you have a normal random variable x with mu=50 and s=15. Find the probability that x will fall within the interval 30

Suppose you have a normal random variable x with mu=50
and s=15.  Find the probability that x will fall within the interval
30<x<60.

The mean is given as 50 and the
standard deviation as 15. We convert the raw data to z scores using
`z=(a-mu)/sigma` where a is the data point, `mu` is the mean, and
`sigma` the standard deviation.

Thus 30 converts to
z score of -4/3, and 60 converts to
2/3.

We want to know the area under the standard normal
curve between these two z values, as the area is the probability we
are seeking.

Using a TI-83 I got the area to be .6563.
Using the z-table found in most statistics books and finding the values closest to -4/3
and 2/3 I got the area to the left of -4/3 to be .0918, and the area to the left of 2/3
to be .7486. Taking .7486-.0918 gives .6568.

So the
probability that a given x will fall in the range is approximately .6563 (The calculator
computes more than the standard 4 digits in a table, so I use this
value.)

Two forces pull on ropes attached to a cart: 1 with a force of 200 N South, and the other with a force of 150 N at 25º W of S. What was the net...

To sole the problem we

let F1
= 200N, South

F2 = 150N, 25º West of
South

R the Net Force

R² = Fx²
+ Fy²

where the x-axis along the East-West and the y-axis
along the Meridian line

Assuming that component force
towards the N & E as positive and component force towards S & W as
negative, then

For F1:

Fx1 =
0

and

Fy1 =
-200N

For F2:

Fx2 =
-150sin25º

Fx2 =
-63.39N

and

Fy2 =
-150cos25º

Fy2 = -135.95N

Fx =
Fx1 + Fx2

Fx = -63.39 N

Fy =
Fy1 + Fy2

Fy = -200 +
(-135.95)

Fy = -335.95 N

R² =
(-63.38)² + (-335.95)²

R =
341.87N

The direction (θ) of the net force can be computed
by

tan θ = |Fx/Fy|

tan θ =
|-63.39/-335.95|

Note (-) Fx means the direction is West
and (-) Fy means the direction is South, then

θ =
Arctan|-63.38/-335.95|

θ = 10º30'17.5"
South-West

Therefore the net force is 341.87N
at 10º30'17.5" South-West

What is the style of Alexander Pushkin's writing in his short stories?

In his introduction to The Complete Prose Tales
of Alexandr Sergeyevitch Pushkin, Gillon R. Aitkin makes a number of points
about the nature of Pushkin’s short fiction, including the
following:

• its focus on Russian concerns and
  Russian subject matters


• its debt to Russian
  folklore


• its “simplicity and precision” of
  phrasing


• its “ease and vitality” of
  phrasing


• its ability
  to

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bring at once to life a situation or a character
[through] the range and strength of [Pushkin’s]
imagination.

In introducing
his own translations of Pushkin’s complete fiction, Paul Debreckzeny comments on a
number of features of Pushkin’s short stories, including the following that appear in in
The Tales of
Belkin:

• relatively simple subject
  matter


• relatively simple
  narrators


• uneducated
  narrators


• sentimentalism
  (sometimes)


• romanticism
  (sometimes)


• parody
  (sometimes)


• satire
  (sometimes)


• comedy
  (sometimes)


• the absurd
  (sometimes)


• the macabre
  (sometimes)


• the grotesque
  (sometimes)


• symbolism
  (sometimes)

In commenting on the volume titled
A History of the Village of Goriukhino, Debreckzeny mentions a
number of specific traits of the stories in this collection, including  naïve comedy
that reveals dark truths about Russian village
life.

Debreckzeny’s remarks on “The Queen of Spades,” often
considered Pushkin’s best short story, mention the following traits of that
work:

• “detached
  narration”


• “an intricate system of
  images”


• “complex
  characters”


• “a system of symbols worthy of epic
  poetry”

As these remarks suggest, Pushkin’s
short fiction exhibits a good deal of variety in tone, phrasing, and subject matter. 
Easy generalizations about his short stories should probably be
avoided.

In The Crucible, how did Abigail Williams dress?

The text of this brilliant play gives us no indication as
to how Abigail Williams should be dressed, so we can only infer that she would have been
dressed according to the fashions of her time, which, for women in a Purtain colonial
America, did not leave much opportunity for choice or for self-expression. Women at the
time wore a smple linen smock as an undergarment, several skirts that were referred to
as "petticoats" which were made out of wool or maybe linen, corsets and jacket or a
gown, made out of wool in a drab colour. Interestingly, black was a very expensive dye
at the time and so was not commonly used. Lastly, women would have worn a linen cap and
woolen stockings with leather shoes.

For a good
representation of this, try watching the film The Crucible staring
Winona Ryder as Abigail Williams. Arthur Miller himself helped to direct this
production, and the clothing is accurate of the kind of dress that women would have
worn.

Roald Dahl makes us feel sympathy for Mary Maloney, who has murdered her own husband. How does he accomplish this?

There is no question that the character of Mary Maloney in
Roald Dahl's short story "Lamb to the Slaughter" does make us feel sympathy for Mary,
for a number of reasons.

First, it is easy to recognize
that Mary has reached a very desirable comfort zone. She evidently loves her current
status as a married woman, as a future mother, and as a housewife. Her home evokes a
feeling of warmth and peace when we first read the story. We know that Mary is a happy
woman who takes good care of her home. Now, she is devotedly waiting for her husband, a
police officer, to come back from work so that she can make him
dinner.

Right there in that first description we
immediately can connect with Mary. How many women would not dream of an idyllic marriage
like that? Even if we cannot connect with Mary as a wife, we still sympathize with the
fact that she is an expecting mother. We all wish to see our own mothers in a happy
state of affairs like that. We all would want the same peace and tranquility, not to
mention the comfort and security, that Mary felt in her own
home.

Roald Dahl switches that mood quickly, and we all
witness how Mary's husband returns home from work, drinks more than usual, refuses his
dinner, and then basically tells her that he is leaving. All that shatters the immediate
bond the reader forms with Mary, and perhaps even makes the reader feel as sad as a
"real-life Mary" would have felt. Roald Dahl treats the theme of domestic neglect using
the emotional triggers that create a sense of happiness to sadness, from joy to pain,
and from hope to hopelessness.

It is that hopelessness that
Roald Dahl instills in his writing what makes the reader understand 100% how Mary's
shock led her to snap and kill her husband. To have such a perfect world come down for
no fault of her own seems a huge deal for someone who is expecting a child, and someone
who would not want a stigma of divorce hanging over her. Mary does what any other woman
in a deep state of shock would have done: To snap. It is hard not to sympathize with
her....and even to excuse her behavior, even if it means that her husband is
dead.

How does the mood of the poem change over the course of Browning's Porphyria's Lover?

Porphyria's Lover is typical of Robert Browning's dramatic
monologues in that the poems reveal as much about the dramatic narrators as about the
putative subjects of the poem. Several other poems by Browning, of which the best known
is probably "My Last Duchess", start with what appears to be a narrator describing his
love for a woman. The opening of "Porphyria's Lover" is foreboding, with the weather
mirroring the narrator's mood of despair. When Porphyria first appears, the mood changes
to tender and romantic:

When glided in Porphyria; straight

She shut the cold out and the storm,
And kneeled and made the
cheerless grate
Blaze up, and all the cottage
warm;

but the lover's jealousy eventually prevails, and the
violence foreshadowed by the opening surfaces:

Made my
heart swell, and still it grew
While I debated what to do.
That
moment she was mine, mine, fair,
Perfectly pure and good: I found
A
thing to do, and all her hair
In one long yellow string l wound

Three times her little throat around,
And strangled
her.

The mood of peace at the end, with the narrator
sitting with the corpse of Porphyria and the voice of God (and perhaps weather) quiet,
adds an eerie twist to the poem.

How does one isolate the microorganism that causes botulism from a steak? How is Staphylococcus Aureus isolated from tap water?

A toxin produced by the microorganism Clostridium
botulinum causes botulism.  This organism is present worldwide in soil and water.  Types
of botulism are as follows:

Food borne botulism:  Caused by
ingestion of uncooked, improperly canned foods, especially vegetables, cured pork, ham,
smoked or raw fish, honey and corn syrup.  Spoors of the organism in the food produce a
potent neurotoxin.  Symptoms occur 8-36 hours after ingestion and may include trouble
talking or swallowing, double vision, dry mouth, nausea and vomiting and trouble
breathing.

Wound botulism:  Occurs when organisms
contaminate an open wound, especially if the wound has dead tissue.  The spoors grow and
produce toxin in the wound.

Infant botulism:  Occurs when
the infant ingests the organism that contaminates certain foods, most notably honey and
corn syrup.  Infants under 1 year of age should never be given honey.  The organisms
grow in the infant’s gastrointestinal tract where the toxin is
produced.

To answer your question, the organism Clostridium
botulinum is not normally cultured or grown from the suspected food such as a steak. 
Instead, the laboratory detects the toxin itself.  The botulism organism can be cultured
or grown from an infected wound in wound botulism, and from the stool in the case of
infant botulism.

Botulism toxin is detectable in suspected
food and in the serum and stool of patients affected with food borne botulism.  The
toxin is also detectable (along with the organism) in the stool of patients with infant
botulism.

The second part of your question refers to
Staphylococcus aureus organisms in tap water.  This is not an issue, since staphylococci
are not ordinarily a contaminant of tap water.  Tap water may contain coliform bacteria
that are found in the intestines of man and animals, whose feces may contaminate water
supplies.  Tap water may also contain viruses and yeasts, and occasionally Legionella
bacteria, but not staphylococci.

Staph. Aureus becomes a
health issue when food is contaminated by contact with food preparers who may have a
staph. skin infection.  The organisms multiply in the food as it sits at room
temperature and produce a toxin.  The toxin, when ingested, causes cramps, diarrhea,
nausea and vomiting; so called staphylococcal food poisoning.

How has citizen demand caused the expansion of the federal government?

First, please note that I am answering only part of the
question you originally asked because we are not allowed to answer multiple questions in
one question.  There have been other questions answered that have addressed other parts
of your original question.  You might try searching for such terms as "supremacy clause"
or "federal government" to find some of these.

Although
many people tend to say that they hate the federal government and that it is way too
big, much of the growth has been driven by demand from the people.  As our society has
grown and become more complex, there is more demand for government to protect us from
the problems that can arise.  We have also come to feel that it is the government's duty
to protect us from bad luck.  Let us look at one example of each of
these.

One of the first major government regulatory
agencies was the Food and Drug Administration.  People demanded such an agency in the
early 1900s to protect them from unsafe foods.  This had not been a big problem earlier
because people were raising their own food or getting it from people they knew.  As
society became more complex and food came from factories, problems arose and people
wanted to be protected.

A second agency that shows demand
for government is the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).  FEMA is in the news
right not because many people affected by hurricanes on the East Coast want the
government to help them repair their homes and communities.  The Congress is holding up
money for that because they are arguing over budget cutting.  People are very upset
because they expect the government to fix the problems caused by "acts of God" like the
hurricanes.

In these ways, people tend to demand a larger
federal government and the political leaders tend to give it to them to fill actual
needs or so that they can get the people's votes.

Please provide a paragraph introducing Gustav Klimt (nationality, where and when he lived, inspiration, and historical background)

Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav
Klimt (1862-1918) was born in Baumgarten (near Vienna). The son of an
immigrant gold engraver from Bohemia, Klimt and his family lived in poverty when he was
a youth. Klimt earned a scholarship to the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts in 1876, and
while his early work proved to be mostly "academic," Klimt's talents soon emerged. He
was awarded the Golden Order of Merit from Austrian Emperor Franz Josef I in 1888, and
he became the leader of the Vienna Secession artistic group, developing a highly
personal style that included erotic themes that some called pornographic. Commissioned
to decorate the ceiling of the University of Vienna's Great Hall, Klimt's three
paintings were never displayed on the ceiling (eventually being destroyed by the Nazis
in 1945). Klimt's popularity surged at the turn of the century, and he became known
for his freqent use of gold leaf, and for his erotic, female nudes. Klimt was influenced
by many cultural styles, including Byzantine, Egyptian and Classical Greek. Following
his death, Klimt's work set records for its selling prices: His 1907
portrait, Adele Bloch-Bauer I, broke the previous record by a
Picasso painting when it sold for $135 million in 2006--the highest price ever paid for
a work of art. In all, his five highest-priced paintings sold for $327
million.

In Into the Wild, what was so difficult in Chris's life that he chose to isolate himself?

This is an interesting question to respond to, because it
infers that there was a problem or an issue from which Chris was running, or that made
him seclude himself from society. Whilst we can perhaps see that his innate sense of
right and wrong was partly responsible for such extreme behaviour, the information that
the author gives us concerning his background and the kind of young man that he grew up
to be likewise proves to be instrumental in answering this
question.

In Chapter 11, the author points towards the
extremely complex nature of Chris's character. Note how he describes him as a curious
mixture of paradoxes:

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McCandless's personality was puzzling in its
complexity. He was intensely private but could be convivial and gregarious in teh
extreme. And despite his overdeveloped social conscience, he was no tight-lipped,
perpetually grim do-gooder who frowned on fun. To the contrary, he enjoyed tipping a
glass now and then and was an incorrigible
ham.

Another paradox was the
way that Chris felt about money. On the one hand, Chris believe that money was
"corruping, inherently evil" and yet on the other hand he was a "natural entrepeneur."
It seems that one central element of his character therefore was the desire to embrace
extremes in every sense. His moral beliefs and view of the world caused Chris to reject
the materalism of society and to embrace the transcendentalist notions of self-reliance
and a return to nature. When he read the American Romantics, such as Thoreau and
Emerson, he had found the kind of extreme example that he wished to
follow.

Let us also remember that the discovery of his
father's infidelity and previous marriage also turned Chris against him, as this "sin"
did not fit in with his strict moral code. Thus, I would argue we need to look at
Chris's character overall to find the reason for his isolation from society rather than
a specific thing that he was fleeing from.

Are the following correct? Simplify. 1. 10^-4 = 1/10000 2. a^2 b^-3 = ab^-1 3. (5/3)^-3 = 27/75

To understand negative exponents one must understand the
rules of fractions and operations of exponents.

First: any
number or expression can be represented as a fraction with a denominator of
1.

A negative exponent is telling us to take the fraction
to which it is being applied and rewrite it as its inverse ("flip it over").  The
exponent then becomes positive.  Any other operations signified by the exponent are then
applied.  Keep in mind, if the exponent is outside of a set of parenthesis, it is
applied to what is inside; if it is applied to an expression without parenthesis it
affects only the factor to its immediate left.

For
example:

``

and

`x^-2
= 1/x^2`

We can apply these to the expressions from above
to determine their correctness:

1.  `10^-4 = 1/10^4 =
1/10*10*10*10 = 1/10000`

2.  `a^2 b^-3 = a^2/1 * 1/b^3 =
a^2/b^3`

3.  `(5/3)^-3 = (3/5)^3 = 3^3/5^3 =
(3*3*3)/(5*5*5) = 27/125`

Analzye the following passage from Charles Dickens' Bleak House for syntax and sentence structure. What is the purpose of the passage?London....

With syntax and sentence structure, Charles Dickens is
setting the mood for the introduction of the case of Jarndyce vs Jarndyce in the High
Court of Chancery. Notice that these sentences in the first paragraphs of Chapter 1 of
Bleak House are actually not sentences at all, but fragments. 
Fragments are usually missing either the subject or the verb, or the fragments are
dependent clauses and need a complete sentence to lean
on.

So for sentence structure, we see a long sequence of
fragments. For syntax, or word order in the sentence fragments, we largely see
nouns--possible subjects--and descriptive words and phrases, but no verbs. Remember that
-ing words that seem to be verbs are verbals--or words based on
verbs--that serve as adjectives that modify nouns or pronouns.

Because
of their incomplete nature, a long sequence of fragments can have a confusing effect
because we can sense information is missing. We have a list of descriptions like a
journal entry or notes, an impression of action, but no complete thoughts because the
verbs or action words of the sentences are missing. We have fog and mud and mire and
drizzle everywhere with people “slipping and sliding” in “ill-temper.”  Fog blurs
vision; mud cakes and hides a clean appearance and impedes progress; slipping and
sliding in mud gives the impression of having no solid ground to stand
on.

Fog is everywhere. And this last that I wrote is a complete
sentence, giving a sense of a finished thought. Note that in the passage you provide,
Dickens writes:

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Fog everywhere. Fog up the river,  fog
down the river, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of
collier-brigs; fog lying out on the yards and hovering in the rigging of great ships;
fog drooping on the gunwales of barges and small
boats...

And he writes it all
in fragments!  Again, this leads up to the introduction of Jarndyce vs Jarndyce, a case
that has been in the court so long that principal characters involved have matured,
grown old, or died. No one quite recalls all the details of the case, though many legal
officials hope for a profitable settlement or payment for working on it.  Dickens
expresses his contempt for the inefficient legal system finally in complete sentences in
this passage:

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The raw afternoon is rawest, and the dense fog
is densest, and the muddy streets are muddiest near that leaden-headed old obstruction,
appropriate ornament for the threshold of a leaden-headed old corporation, Temple Bar.
And hard by Temple Bar, in Lincoln's Inn Hall, at the very heart of the fog, sits the
Lord High Chancellor
in his High Court of
Chancery.

Thus
through a long sequence of fragments, Dickens sets a mood of mental fogginess or
obfuscation around a case bogged down for decades in the legal system just like a
dinosaur in primeval mud.

What is the structure of James Joyce's story "The Sisters" from the anthology titled Dubliners?

“The Sisters,” a short story included in James Joyce’s
collection titled Dubliners, is structured in a number of ways,
including the following:

• The story opens by
  plunging in medias res (“into the midst of things”), a common literary device often used
  to provoke curiosity, create interest, and engage the reader’s own interpretive powers. 
  The prior “story” behind this story consists of a series chronological events.  Joyce,
  however, imposes his own “plot” upon that prior story and those events, beginning near
  the end of the prior story rather than starting at the chronological
  beginning.


• “The Sisters” is told from the perspective of
  a first-person narrator, who turns out to be a youth who had been friendly with an old
  priest. Inevitably, then, everything that the youth tells us about others will help
  characterize him as well. The point of the story is not simply to tell us about a series
  of events but also to show us how the narrator’s reactions and responses to those events
  help reveal his own personality, values, and
  motives.


• Much of the story consists of dialogue reported
  by the narrator.  In other words, the youth lets other characters “speak for
  themselves,” but inevitably such a method raises an important question: is the narrator
  reliable in what he reports?  Does he “rig” the story in favor of (or against) other
  characters?  Can we accept his reports as objective evidence?  Does he have anything to
  hide?  How trustworthy is this narrator? (In general, he does seem trustworthy,
  particularly because he tells us explicitly when he does not like another character, so
  that he doesn’t try to hide his own biases.  He also seems basically trustworthy because
  he tells us when he cannot remember information and when he finds information difficult
  to interpret.  Thus, he says at one
  point,

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As I walked along in the sun I remembered old
Cotter's words and tried to remember what had happened afterwards in the dream. I
remembered that I had noticed long velvet curtains and a swinging lamp of antique
fashion. I felt that I had been very far away, in some land where the customs were
strange -- in Persia, I thought.... But I could not remember the end of the
dream.

• The story
  moves from (1) concern about the possibility of the priest’s death, to (2) confirmation
  that he has indeed died, to (3) comments by others on the narrator’s relationship with
  the priest, to (4) the narrator’s own reflections on his relationship with the priest,
  to (5) a description of the priest’s funeral, to (6) reminiscences by others about the
  dead priest. Of these sections of the story, perhaps 3, 4, and 6 are the most
  interesting and intriguing because they raise the most ambiguous questions and thus most
  engage the reader’s own mind. These are literally the most thought-provoking sections of
  the story.

Why is the Battle of Saratoga considered a turning point in the American Revolution?

The Battle of Saratoga
(September-October, 1777) was actually a series of battles that culminated with the
surrender of the British force led by General John Burgoyne. Saratoga did indeed prove
to be the turning point of the American Revolution. In addition to being the
most significant American victory up to that point of the war, eliminating a strong
British force in the northern theatre, Saratoga had a greater effect: Both France and
Spain sided with the Americans as allies, and the French contribution proved to be
an essential element of the colonies' eventual victory over Great
Britain.

After first defeating General Horatio Gates'
American army at the Battle of Freeman's Farm on September 19, 1777, Burgoyne was
defeated at the Battle of Bemis Heights on October 7. Burgoyne was forced to retreat and
his army was surrounded by superior American forces at Saratoga on October 17. Following
the British surrender, France's King Louis XVI formally joined into an alliance with the
Americans, forcing the British to divert troops and resources to other theatres of the
war--particularly Europe and the West Indies.

The battle
would ruin Burgoyne's military career and make a legitimate hero of one American
general--the fearless Daniel Morgan--and temporary heroes of two generals who would
later be disgraced: Gates, who would be given command of the Southern army, only to
lead it to disastrous defeat at the Battle of Camden; and Benedict Arnold, who would
soon become America's most famous turncoat when he later went over to the British
side.

What is reflex action?

A reflex action, also known
as a reflex, is an involuntary and nearly instantaneous
movement in response to a stimulus.

For a reflex, reaction
time or latency is the time from the onset of a stimulus until the
organism responds.

In animals, reaction time to
visual stimuli is typically 150 to 300 milliseconds.

What was the defect of Abigail Williams in The Crucible?

By defect I suppose you are refering to a weakness in her
character that results in the problems that she faces, or a negative quality that she
possesses. It is clear that Abigail Williams is a character with a number of "defects"
in this sense, but certainly her chief defect is her propensity to lie. Let us remember
how she is introduced when she first enters the play at the bedside of Betty Parris in
Act One. She is described as being:

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...a strikingly beautiful girl, and orphan, with
an endless capacity for
dissembling.

This is clearly
her biggest defect. She is above all else an actress, and she shows her dramatic talent
in a number of separate instances, managing to convince nearly everyone that she is
sincerely repenting and revealing the names of those in league with the devil and that
she is suffering demonic attacks as a result of various indivduals and their
relationship with the devil. Abigail's biggest defect is something that she tries to use
to gain what she wants, which is John Proctor.

What actions of President Johnson drove moderate Republicans in Congress into cooperation with radical Republicans?

In general, Andrew Johnson drove the moderate Republicans
in Congress to cooperate with the radicals when he proposed Reconstruction policies that
were too lenient to the South.

For example, Johnson's plan
did not force many of the men who had led the South to step down from their positions
after the war.  He pardoned so many ex-Confederates that even moderate Republicans came
to oppose him.

In addition, Johnson did some things that
made the moderates question his sense.  In one instance, Johnson gave a speech in which
he criticized the Congressional leaders of Reconstruction very harshly and even implied
that they had thrown out the whole concept that the Union was indestructible.  In other
words, he was accusing Congress of throwing out the whole idea behind the Civil War. 
This was a very inflammatory thing to say and it helped to push moderates even farther
away from him.

When Atticus says "shoot all the bluejays you want" but "it's a sin to kill a mockingbird," what does he mean and where do we see examples of it in...

Atticus doesn't fully explain his rationale for the advice
he gives Jem that serves as the title of the Harper Lee novel. Jem and Scout have
received air rifles as Christmas presents from Atticus, and he tells Jem
that

"I'd
rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot
all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a
mockingbird." 

It is Miss
Maudie who explains to Scout that mockingbirds are harmless creatures
who

"... don't
do one thing but make music for us to enjoy... (and) sing their hearts out for us.
That's why it's a sin to kill a
mockingbird."

Atticus'
implication is that shooting cans does not involve the killing of God's creatures; but
if it's kill you must, shoot at blue jays (which are harmful, eating fruits and other
crops). Atticus unexpectedly takes his own advice later in Chapter 10 when he is forced
to fire a gun for the first time in decades: It is not an innocent, harmless mockingbird
he shoots, but a dangerous and possibly deadly mad dog which threatens the lives of his
neighbors.

Please give a critical analysis of Tennyson's poem "Tears, Idle Tears."

This is a poem whose main focus is on the way that past
times and memories impact us in the present, even though these days are "no more." The
poem is a lament for the way in which relentless time has prevented him from being able
to repeat certain experiences that are very dear to him. It is this recognition that he
will not be able to do cetrain things again that have causes the "tears, idle tears" to
flood the eyes of the speaker. Although the specific cause of the speaker's tears is
never disclosed, his feelings are depicted by a comparison with events that evoke a
similar response in others, for example focusing on the memory of the kisses of a loved
one who has now died. Such examples help to establish the depth of the speaker's sadness
and the kind of emotions he is experiencing as he mourns the passing of time, or "the
days that are no more."

It is important to realise, that in
spite of the images of futility that accompany so much of the description in this poem,
there is no sense in which the speaker has missed out on opportunities. Rather, it is
the impossibility of going back to repeat experiences that is being mourned. The poem
thus is a rich meditation on the passing of time and the ironies that accompany such
thoughts.

What could be done to improve the clearance rates of crimes involving burglary?

There are a number of things that could be done to improve
the clearance rates for burglary cases, but they are not easy or cheap.  The simplest
way is to hire more police and detectives, so the manhours are available to investigate
cases, especially the more minor burglaries (low dollar value taken) that are much more
common. 

Another way would be to give police more search
and seizure powers.  If police were able to search any non-residential property--such as
a business or a storage unit--they may be able to discover stolen property and those who
took it more quickly.  This would be constitutionally tricky, of
course.

A final way would be to strengthen the laws and
requirements for pawn shops in the amount of documentation and verification they go
through when buying goods from private citizens.

What do you think about the ending? Would you want to change it?

In the end of Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening
we find the main character, Edna Pontellier, swimming toward the deepest side
of the ocean, nude, and allowing herself to drown. This is symbolic of a baptism, or a
ceremony of submission in which Edna gives herself back to the ocean, to nature, and to
life. Her suicide is not vicious nor was she in a state of desperation. It is actually a
very passive transition that, Edna feels, needs to
occur.

When you think about it, Edna had just realized how
her life is certainly not the life that she would want to continue living. She has
discovered a form of love that she will never experience again. She has reached her
zenith: What else does someone with the amount of passion, and the need for love, that
Edna has can do?

If Edna is alive at the end of the story
then she would have to go back to a life that she does not recognize anymore: A wife? a
mother? A submissive person? She is none of those things in her heart or mind anymore.
She finally finds herself, and realizes that she lives in a world that would never be at
her pace. She will never be the same again. Hence, why not ceremoniously go back to the
womb of the ocean, the world's source of
life?

Conclusively, I would not change the ending at all. I
think Edna's martyrdom is a lesson in life and love altogether.

What does the boat represent in the short story? why?

The boat in Stephen Crane's short story "The Open Boat"
represents man's attempt to overcome nature.

Crane was a
Naturalistic writer. The Naturalists were authors who looked at their texts as
observations made from a scientific perspective. They, the authors, were simply
observers and did not "interfere" with the action of the
story.

That being said, nature was the most powerful entity
on earth. Nature had all of the power, man had none. Whenever man and nature would come
together in an external conflict, nature would always
win.

Therefore, the boat (what "protected" the men from
nature (the ocean)) represented man's attempt at rising over nature. The boat was the
only thing which was protecting the men from being in the water (an element of
nature).

Are the Omelas still human despite what goes on in the story?

Ursula LeGuin's short story "The Ones Who Walk Away from
Omelas" is an allegory that takes William James's theory of pragmatism to great lengths
in order to put it into question. As such, then, the residents of Omelas are,
perhaps, inhumane in their acceptance of the miserable child as necessary for the
greater good.  Certainly, to be truly humane, the residents cannot accept happiness at
the cost of another's torture and misery.

While LeGuin's
story is morally ambiguous at best as the ones who stay
have

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their tears at the bitter injustice dry when they
begin to perceive the terrible justice of reality, and to accept
it

while the ones who do walk
away from Omelas yet leave the miserable scapegoat in its pitiable state, there lies the
writer's truth that a moral choice should be made regarding a person's life regardless
of the consequences or the "greater good."  Unless this choice is made, none of the
residents of Omelas are truly human.  LeGuin's intrusive narrator invites the reader to
participate in this moral responsibility as she sends this message:  Is the welfare of
many worth the unjust misery of the individual.

what role does lightning play in the nitrogen cycle?

All plants require nitrogen in order to grow well.
However, the nitrogen must be in a soluble form so it can be absorbed either through the
leaves or the roots of a plant. The earth's atmosphere is about 79% nitrogen in the form
of N2 but N2 is a very stable molecule held together by three chemical bonds so it takes
a high amount of energy to break those bonds.

When
lightning discharges in  the atmosphere some of that energy breaks the nitrogen-nitrogen
bonds and converts the nitrogen to various nitrogen-oxygen compounds.  These compounds
are water soluble and are carried down to the ground with rain water to nourish the
plants.

In book 22 of the Odyssey, what form does Athena take when she appears?

At the beginning of Book 22, the disguised Odysseus
(Ulysses) has successfully completed Penelope's task to win her hand in marriage. Not
content to take her and leave, he begins killing the other suitors, who had proven
themselves unworthy with their arrogance and cruelty. As the battle wages, Athena
appears in the guise of Mentor. She then changes into a swallow and watches from the
rafters, assessing Odysseus's strength, before joining in and bringing a swift end to
the battle.

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Then Jove's daughter Minerva (Athena) came up to
them, having assumed the voice and form of Mentor. Ulysses was glad when he saw her and
said, "Mentor, lend me your help, and forget not your old comrade, nor the many good
turns he has done you. Besides, you are my
age-mate."

[...]

But she would
not give him full victory as yet, for she wished still further to prove his own prowess
and that of his brave son, so she flew up to one of the rafters in the roof of the
cloister and sat upon it in the form of a
swallow.

Mentor was the son
of Alcimus and a friend to Odysseus. Because of his old age and his status as a teacher
to Odysseus, the word "Mentor" has entered the language to mean a person, often older,
who acts as a trusted friend and teacher to a younger person.

Discuss the rime of the ancient mariner as a story of sin and punishment?plz answer in detail

A Religion reading of the poem can be by seeing the
Mariner’s action of killing the Albatross for no logical reason a sinful act towards
nature for example. The romantics believed that God was in nature and as a romantic poet
who wrote about the super natural and the unexpected daily details of life, Coleridge
emphasized on religion in nature, and by killing the Albatross the Mariner committed a
sinful act towards nature “their God” and so the Albatross was placed upon his shoulders
“crucified” which can be seen as a biblical act, and the Albatross was on the Mariner’s
shoulder like a burden, a guilt or something, and when he appreciated nature, the
Mariner was able to identify with nature and so he changed his color and his language
into an exotic one that the English people who are supposedly his people couldn’t
understand him anymore, and so he found salvation in nature you might say. So this is
the religious reading of the poem. Hope I was helpful

What strategy did Union generals develop to defeat the South?

The Union strategy to defeat the war was developed by
General Winfield Scott. He was the only member of the army high command who did not
anticipate a short war. Others believed that because of the close proximity of
Washington and Richmond (the Confederate Capital) to each other, the war would end with
possibly one battle. Gen. Scott anticipated a long war, and planned accordingly. His
plan was the "Anaconda Strategy:"

• Blockade the
  Atlantic and Gulf Coasts. The South was heavily dependent upon exports of cotton to
  purchase weapons and supplies from Europe. There was only one arms manufacturer in the
  entire South, the Tredeger Iron Works near Richmond. By blockading Southern ports,
  exports and imports would be shut off, and the South
  isolated.


• Capture the Mississippi, Tennessee and
  Cumberland Rivers moving Southward. This would cut the South in two and deny it the use
  of the vital port of New Orleans.


• Capture the Confederate
  capital of Richmond.

Many newspapers in the
North were skeptical of Scott's plan, which they believed to be too slow, and Scott too
old. Lincoln in fact liked the plan and adopted it; particularly after the disastrous
defeat of Union forces at the first battle of Bull Run. The plan was completed when Gen.
Ulysses S. Grant captured Vicksburg, Mississippi on July 4,
1863.

The Emancipation Proclamation was also part of the
Union strategy. General Robert E. Lee had invaded Maryland and hoped thereby to convince
Europe that the South was a viable force and gain recognition from European countries.
It was after the battle of Antietam when this plan became obvious that Lincoln issued
the Proclamation. Contrary to popular belief, no slaves were freed by the Proclamation;
it merely created a moral dilemma for Europe, and kept England and France from
supporting the South.

What is the theme of most of the lies and what does this tell us about what is important to Doodle?

The lies that are told are told by Doodle are fantasies.
Brother describes one of Doodle's favorite lies in these words. These words also develop
the characteristics of Doodle's lies:

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Now, when we roamed off together, resting often,
we never turned back until our destination had been reached, and tohelp pass the time,
we took up lying.

From the beginning Doodle was a terrible
liar and he got me in the habit. Had anyone stopped to listen to us, we would have been
sent off to Dix Hill. My lies were scary, involved, and usually pointless, but Doodle's
were twice as crazy. People in his stories all had wings
and flew wherever they wanted to go. His
favorite lie was about a boy named Peter who had a pet peacock with a ten-foot tail.
Peter wore a golden robe that glittered so brightly that when he walked through the
sunflowers they turned away from the sun to face him. When Peter was ready to go to
sleep, the peacock spread his magnificent tail, enfolding the boy gently like a closing
go-to-sleep flower, burying him in the glorious iridescent, rustling vortex. Yes, I must
admit it. Doodle could beat me
lying.

These lies develop
Doodle's possible dreams for his own life. If you take a look at the abilities Doodle
kept for characters, the bold words above show the limitlessness he might have longed to
possess himself. His story of the boy Peter may reflect the relationship between he and
his brother. His brother gave him such attention and helped him see such beauty in the
world. Peter also had a protector. This might be a manifestation of Doodle's brother.
These lies contain a common theme: his wishes or dreams. To be
whole, or to be perfected would complete Doodle.

This is
difficult to discern because the story is told from the perspective of the brother, not
Doodle. We never read Doodle's inner thoughts so we are left to our interpretation of
what the brother tells us.

The output of a function is 8 more than 3 times the input. What is the equation ?

The output of a function is 8 more than 3 times
the input. What is the equation?

The input is
the independent variable, usually denoted by x. The output is the dependent variable,
typically denoted y.

More than indicates addition, times is
multiplication, and in this context is indicates
equals.

Thus y=8+3x  or y=3x+8.

I'm looking for symbols or symbolic representations connected to death or fear of death in A Streetcar Named Desire.

You might like to consider the way that the past intrudes
on the present in this excellent play, in particular concerning Blanche's former husband
and how he met his end. The device that Williams uses to remind both us and Blanche of
his death is the Varouviana, which was the polka tune to which Blance danced with her
young husband when he was last alive and before he killed himself. Let us remember that
prior to dancing, Blanche had discovered her husband's homosexuality and then, in the
middle of the dance, told him how repellent he was to her. This is the event that
triggered his suicide.

The way in which this music is
played at various points in the play reminds us of the death of Blanche's husband and
also indicates her own kind of "death" but in terms of her mental decline and her death
of innocence. Just tracing the times when she hears this music shows that it occurs
whenever Blanche struggles to hold on to reality, which is therefore richly symbolic of
her husband's death but also her own "death" towards which she is plummeting in terms of
her mental health.

Is Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet a true tragedy?

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is
actually widely thought of as a "Problem Play." While the play ends in tragedy, it
actually begins comically ( href="http://www.shakespeare-navigators.com/romeo/Snyder.html">Snyder, "Review:
"Romeo and Juliet: Comedy into Tragedy.").

A tragedy
generally focuses on one tragic hero who reaches his demise as a result of a fatal
character flaw, as we see in Macbeth or
Hamlet. The play reveals the character's innermost thoughts and
feelings. While the character dies as a result of the fatal flaw, the reader/viewer does
not think that the character's fate is wholly deserved.

Of course,
one way that Romeo and Juliet diverges from Shakespeare's classic
tragedies is that it focuses on a couple rather than one person. We do see more of a
focus on Romeo in that the play begins with Romeo and ends with Romeo in that his death
speech is far longer than Juliet's, but for the most part it focuses on both characters
equally.

Another way that the play diverges from Shakespeare's other
tragedies is that fate has a far larger role in their deaths than in his other
tragedies. We do see character flaws in both Romeo and Juliet, especially rashness,
impetuousness, and the reliance on uncontrolled, violent, passionate emotions rather
than rational thought. However, these character flaws alone do not necessarily lead to
their deaths. Instead, the fact that they are both born into feuding families leads them
to their deaths--families who also act rashly, impetuously, and with violent,
uncontrolled emotions. Hence, unlike other tragedies, fate plays the larger role in
their deaths rather than tragic character flaw.

Shakespeare's
comedies, on the other hand, actually do focus on pairs of lovers, just like the
characters Romeo and Juliet. Also, in comedies, the young tended to try and outwit the
older generation ( href="http://cla.calpoly.edu/~dschwart/engl339/comedy.html">Dr. Schwart,
"Shakespeare's Plays: Comedy"). We do see a little bit of that in the opening
act of Romeo and Juliet, especially when we see Benvolio and
Mercutio decide to crash the Capulet's ball. Shakespeare's comedies had "stock
characters" used expressly for amusement, such as jesters, fools, and "female
confidents" (Dr.
Schwart, "Shakespeare's Plays: Comedy"). Mercutio is one character that has
many comical elements. Also, the Nurse is used expressly for comic effect and serves as
Juliet's "female confident." Finally, comedies end in happy unity, and while it is true
that Romeo and Juliet both die, the two families do unite in the end ( href="http://cla.calpoly.edu/~dschwart/engl339/comedy.html">Dr. Schwart,
"Shakespeare's Plays: Comedy").

Hence, we see that while
Romeo and Juliet ends in tragedy, it begins as a comedy and has an
ending of unity much like comedies. Therefore, Romeo and Juliet is neither entirely a
tragedy, nor entirely a comedy, but rather a "Problem Play."

How does the setting of Murakami's "Another Way to Die" lead to contradictions and confusions in the minds of the men?

This is an interesting and difficult question. The overall
setting is World War II Manchuria shortly after the bombing of Hiroshima. The action is
set at a zoo where the hero is the veterinarian and at the clearing in the wilderness
section of the zoo. There are animals populating the wilderness, especially birds,
cicadas, and giant grasshoppers. Murakami doesn’t provide significant comment on what is
in “the men’s minds,” though he does reveal things like the lieutenant questions his
superiors’ orders and the veterinarian turns numb from shock so that “His hand did not
tremble, but it seemed to have lost all feeling, as if he were wearing thick
gloves.”

One possible contradiction in the veterinarian’s mind created
by the setting is this: the veterinarian saves animals lives, yet, here he is,
commissioned to officiate at the ending of men's lives in a setting that is teeming with
vigorous, energetic life: “An especially large grasshopper flew over them like a bird
and disappeared into a distant clump of grass.” This ties in with the veterinarian's
thematic complaint against fate, since he always believes the decisions and events in
his life are not made by his free will:

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From his youngest days, he had had a weirdly
lucid awareness that "I, as an individual, am living under the control of some outside
force." Most of the time, the power of fate played on like a quiet and monotonous ground
bass, coloring only the edges of his life.
....

One possible confusion
in the soldier’s minds caused by the setting is a bit more complicated. On the surface,
the confusion would be due to the same wilderness elements as above: the collision of
death against wilderness teeming with life. Under the surface, the background setting,
created by the allusion to the childhood game and competitive sport of baseball, adds
confusion as a bat is used for an action diametrically opposed to games and sport. The
mental confusion thus produced is manifest in the batter, who stands with mouth agape
listening to “the windup bird” whose song reveals visions of the futures of the
participants in the gruesome act of war. The audible song producing visionary images is
a metaphor for the mental confusion thus created by the illusionary setting resulting
from the allusion to baseball.

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As he listened to the winding of the spring, the
young soldier saw one fragmentary image after another rise up before him and fade away.
...

What were the purposes of the Salem theocracy in The Crucible?

The fundamental purpose of the theocracy in Salem was to
ensure that individuals are bound to a strict moral code of conduct in both personal and
political terms.  In linking God to the political setting, Salem citizens were content
with not having a public and private distinction.  Everything was subject to spiritual
scrutiny on all levels, confirming that the people of Salem walked with " a candle to
light the world," as Miller suggests.  The theocracy was designed to bolster this,
judging individuals on both political and spiritual levels.  At the same time, the
theocratic rule allowed individuals with religious backgrounds, such as Parris, to
assume unprecedented levels of power.  This is why Parris, and to a lesser extent, Hale,
hold so much power in Salem.  It is for this reason that Salem empowered the clergy so
much.  At the same time, a theocracy enabled the ruling elite of Salem to inflict power
over individuals for breaking moral or spiritual codes of conflict, allowing a greater
consolidation of power at the hands of the few over the many.

discus the characteristics of lucky in waiting for godot?discus broadly the different kind of characteristics found in lucky..it is a broad...

Lucky is the elderly slave of Pozzo, an elderly man
himself.  He is physically whipped and prodded onto the stage and forced to dance and
sing like a trained monkey.  If Vladimir and Estragon are waiting for hope in the form
of a person named Godot, Lucky is the arrival of bitterness and
sadness.

Oddly, Lucky does not lash out at Pozzo, but is
eager to do what is asked of him despite the pain and sadness it causes him.  In this,
Lucky, as a character is a paradox.  Why does he act kindly toward a man who grossly
mistreats him?

Interpreting Lucky's character depends on
which approach you take.  For example, a religious intepretation could have Lucky
represent faithful because he follows Pozzo around when Pozzo mistreats him and when
Pozzo is nicer to him.

Another interpreation is that Lucky
is actually lucky.  He doesn't have to make any decisions because he is ordered to do
everything he does.

What type of symbolism does William Wordsworth use in "Daffodils?"

The symbolism present in Wordsworth's poem lies in the
moment.  This particular moment happens in the sight of these daffodils.  Consider the
recreation of this moment in the mind of Dorothy Wordsworth, the poet's sister who
shared in this instant with her brother:

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I never saw daffodils so beautiful they grew
among the mossy stones about and about them, some rested their heads upon these stones
as on a pillow for weariness and the rest tossed and reeled and danced and seemed as if
they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the lake, they looked so gay
ever dancing ever
changing.

The poet takes this
moment, an instant in time, and uses this as a symbolic representation of how life
should be.  I think that being able to take this moment and explore it becomes a symbol
of Wordsworth's own love of nature.  There was something in this moment that allowed him
to transcend the present and project his own sense of self into the conditional.  This
is something that enables Wordsworth to also link his own sense of being to a larger
element, a notion that both glorifies himself and suppresses it in a wider configuration
at the same time.  For Wordsworth, the moment of seeing the daffodils allows him to feel
better about his own state of being in the world, and enables him to understand more
about who he is in this life and what gives passion and meaning to him.  The symbolism
of the moment is that Wordsworth is able to understand more of what it means to be
blissful, happy, and to find a sphere of permanent content in a world of transition and
mutability.  The symbol of the daffodils in the poem is one of permanence in a world
where there is not much in way of that which lasts.

How would you describe Macbeth's state of mind in Act I, Scenes 1,3,and 4?Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Scene 1 of Macbeth establishes time
rather than place as a major motif.  For, Macbeth, too, acts according to time.  In
Scene 2, for instance, Macbeth is described as an opportunist by the Captain who lauds
Macbeth's bravery at seizing the moment and "disdaining fortune" by slaying the
"merciless" Macdonwald.  In Scene 3, Macbeth is unaware that King Duncan has already
made him Thane of Cawdor, and, after listening to the three witches, he deliberates
whether he should wait and let fate take its course or take the leap from being Thane of
Cawdor to "King hereafter" (1.3.52-53):

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If chance will have me King, why, chance may
crown me,

Without my
stir. (1.3.155-156) 

 
And, yet, Macbeth has misgivings after Banquo warns him that the witches may be telling
half-truths.  Added to this, Macbeth has twinges of conscience and a sense of
foreboding:

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This supernatural soliciting
Cannot
be ill, cannot be good. If ill,
Why hath it given me earnest of success,

Commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor.
If good, why do I
yield to that suggestion
Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair
And
make my seated heart knock at my ribs,
Against the use of nature? Present
fears
Are less than horrible imaginings:
My thought, whose murder
yet is but fantastical,
Shakes so my single state of man that function

Is smother'd in surmise,and nothing is
But what is not.  
(1.3.141-153) 

 For Macbeth
there is a blurring of the lines between good and bad.  The predictions begin with
truth:  Macbeth is Thane of Cawdor, yet the goodness of this truth is mitigated by the
thoughts of murdering Duncan that enter Macbeth's heart.  Still, rather than examining
his own conscience thoroughly, Macbeth wishes to place the blame upon chance as he says
those lines mentioned previously,

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If chance will have me King, why, chance my
crown me,

Without my stir. 
(1.3.155-156)

In actuality,
Macbeth capitalizes upon opportunity, using the predictions of the three sisters
to rationalize his own cupidity as he thinks,

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Come what come may,
Time and the hour
runs through the roughest day.
(1.3.161-162)

Thus, Macbeth,
who ponders the good and bad of things, manipulates time to his own advantage, using the
witches predictions to justify his thoughts of murdering Duncan so that he can be "King
herafter."

What language tecniques are displayed in Chapter 19 of Pride and Prejudice?

You might want to consider the use of irony in this
hilarious chapter, which features the infamous proposal of Mr. Collins to Elizabeth.
Austen is an authoress known for her biting use of irony, and this excerpt is no
exception, especially when Austen has Mr. Collins protesting his love to Lizzie in a way
that is in such contrast to his character, and indeed the complete absence of real love
that he feels towards Lizzie. Note the following
example:

And
now nothing remains for me but to assure you in the most animated language of the
violence of my affection.

The
words "animated" and "violence" are adjectives that we would never normally assoicate
with the sober and ridiculous Mr. Collins, and please note the way that this phrase is
sandwiched by his cold, calculating and analytical reasons for marrying her because of
the way that Longbourne is entailed away from the female line and Elizabeth's poor
economical situation. To express the "violence" of his feelings in between such cruel
and thoughtless reminders of the harsh economic situation that Lizzie finds herself in
both is ironic because it is no way in which to propose marriage and also paints Mr.
Collins to be even more absurd than he was before, as "affection" has nothing to do with
his choice. You might like to examine the rest of this chapter to analyse the role of
irony as a technique.

What happens to the starch levels in a plant when it is kept in the dark over a prolonged period of time. Specially how are the leaves affected?

All forms of life on Earth require food to grow. Animals
cannot produce their own food and obtain it either from plants or from other animals.
Plants on the other hand can produce their own food. The presence of chlorophyll in
plants allows them to undergo photosynthesis which is used to convert carbon dioxide and
water into carbohydrates using energy from the Sun.

The
carbohydrates that plants manufacture is also their source of food. One of the important
reasons many forms of complex organisms can survive is that plants produce a lot more
carbohydrate than they require as food for themselves.

If a
plant were to be kept in the dark, it could obtain energy to be able to carry out
photosynthesis. In spite of this, the consumption of carbohydrate for its own life
processes goes on. For this plants use the carbohydrates stored in the form of starch in
their body. This leads to a reduction in the starch stored in plants. Leaves store a
very small amount of starch in them. This would make them the first part to be affected
by food production through photosynthesis coming to a stop.

Do I have to cite what happened (facts) in history, eg. dates?

The best thing for you to do here is to ask your own
instructor what he or she expects.  Different instructors have different expectations on
this subject.

My own rule is that students must cite
sources whenever they are presenting me with facts that are not common knowledge.  There
is no need to cite, for instance, the fact that the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on
December 7, 1941.

However, you will have to cite dates and
facts that are less known.  If you want to tell me the names of the aircraft carriers
from which the airplanes flew to attack Pearl Harbor, you would need to cite a source. 
The same would apply if you were to tell me the exact numbers of American personnel
killed or wounded in the attack and the names of all the ships that were damaged in the
attack.

So, when you are writing a history paper, the
common rule is that you do not need to cite things that "everyone knows."  When in
doubt, ask your own instructor whether you need to include a citation for a particular
fact.

What other forms of energy are produced from the chemical energy used during cellular respiration? please give an answer that is good for a grade...

Cellular respiration is the process by which animal cells
create the energy they need to conduct life processes.  This energy is created by
breaking down a simple sugar, like glucose (C6H12O6, subscipts) by combining it with
oxygen.  This releases energy which is stored in the form of adenosine triphosphate, or
ATP.  Some of this energy is also released as heat.  The average temperature of a human
being is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit.  It should be noted this temperature is the sum total
of all the cells in a person's body performing the process of cellular respiration.  The
equation for cellular respiration is shown below:

C6H12O6 +
O2 (subscripts) ---> CO2 + H2O (subscripts) + energy (ATP and
heat)

What are the causes of the American Revolution?I ask this because my class is having an essay test tomorrow and i really need the best grade...

There is no simple answer; however in essence American
colonists believed that they had been denied their rights of Englishmen and resented the
fact that British soldiers were garrisoned in their
midst.

Prior to the French and Indian War, American
colonists had violated the Navigation Acts with abandon; political turmoil in England
meant that the Acts were not enforced, and the colonists enjoyed a period known as "wise
and salutary neglect." Following the war, the British minister, George Grenville, was
determined to put the colonies back into their proper perspective. He first did this by
sending customs agents to enforce the Navigation
Acts.

Next, Grenville imposed the Stamp Act on the
colonists, which imposed a tax on newspapers, dice, playing cards and legal documents.
Colonists objected loudly because this was the first attempt by Parliament to collect
revenue from them. Previous Acts had been for purposes or regulation. The colonists
believed that as Englishmen they had the right to be taxed only by those whom they had
elected, namely the Colonial Legislatures. This led to the cry of "taxation without
representation."

Additionally, the colonists resented the
presence of British soldiers. The soldiers tended to be of the low-life sort, prone to
swearing, drunkenness and whore-mongering; yet at the same time looked down on colonists
with disdain.

Finally, Lord North, the new British Prime
Minister instituted legislation which gave a monopoly on the sale of tea in the Colonies
to the British East India Tea Company. The act did NOT increase the price of tea, or put
a tax on it as is commonly believed; in fact it lowered the price, but it gave the
company a monopoly which hurt colonial merchants. This led to the famous Boston Tea
Party, followed by the Coercive (Intolerable) Acts. The undesired presence of British
Soldiers in Boston led to the so called Boston Massacre, and pushed the colonies and
Britain to the brink of war.

what is the conflict in this book?conflict

Conflict is defined as a struggle of opposing forces.  In
literature, the conflict is the problem.  There is usually more than one conflict in a
story.  We divide conflict into two types: internal conflict and external conflict. 
Internal conflict is a character’s struggles within himself.  Any character can have an
internal conflict  External conflict is a struggle with an outside
force.

Jonas is the main character in The
Giver.  The overarching conflict in the story is an external conflict between
Jonas and the structure and rules of his community.  We call this a
character vs. society external conflict.  After Jonas
becomes Receiver of Memory, he begins to question the society’s rules and methods, for
example killing the newborn twin.

Jonas also has many
internal struggles throughout the book.  These character vs.
self internal conflicts include his fears that he is different, and his
struggle to make decisions such as to rescue baby Gabriel and flee the
community.

The most common external conflict is a conflict
between two characters.  The main character vs. character
conflicts are fights, arguments or just disagreements.  Jonas begins to separate himself
physically and emotionally from his friends and parents.  He has a conflict with Asher
when he tells him not to play a war game, for example.

A
struggle with a force of a technological or supernatural nature is known as
character vs. supernatural.  This usually involves monsters
or mythical beings, but Jonas’s special powers definitely fall into this category. 
Jonas struggles to accept his new abilities because they cause him pain and make him
different.

Finally, when Jonas and Gabriel run away they
face many character vs. nature conflicts.  These include
the hills they have to struggle up, and the snow and cold.  Hunger can even fall into
this category, because the land wasn’t proving them with substance and was slowing them
down.

As you can see, there usually is more than one
conflict in a story, and good stories have many!

How does setting contribute to theme?

As the title of the story suggests, the setting is mainly
one of the cars on a commuter train from Manhattan to the suburbs. The very commonplace
nature of the setting makes the incident more nightmarish. The viewpoint character can
hardly believe what is happening to him. It seems like a bad dream. The entire story has
a dreamlike quality about it.

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It was time to go home, time for a drink, time
for love, time for supper, and he could see the lights on the hill--lights by which
children were being bathed, meat cooked, dishes washed--shining in the
rain.

What brings the
nightmare into this familiar suburban setting is the madness of the antagonist, Miss
Dent. She doesn't belong here. She has brought her own confused world into Blake's
orderly world and created chaos. 

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"I've never been here before," she said. "I
thought it would look
different."

She thinks it
looks shabby. Blake is not a wealthy business tycoon, but one of the smaller cogs in the
great wheels of commerce. The fact that it doesn't look as posh as she imagined it may
contribute to her sparing his life. He seems less like a rich aristocrat abusing a poor
working girl. 

What will Blake actually do about this
incident? He cannot tell his wife, and he probably cannot report Miss Dent to the police
without having to explain why she did what she did. Blake is lucky that he will be able
to keep this a secret in a community like Shady Hill, where everybody knows everybody
else's business. Miss Dent has dissolved into the multitudes who inhabit this great
megalopolis, but she could turn up again at any time from out of
nowhere.

In Kim, did Kim and the lama die at the end?

I could be very literary here and say that they do, but
not in the sense that you are talking about. Whilst Kim and the lama do not physically
die, they do undergo a kind of death in terms of their former selves dying and being
left behind and being born into a new identity. Let us just remind ourselves what
happens in the final chapter before we look at this
further.

In the final chapter, Kim battles a dangerous
fever. The old woman of Kulu nurses him and he recovers. Mookerjee takes Kim's documents
from him and gives them to the Colonel. Kim at this stage experiences an existential
crisis as he asks "I am Kim. What is Kim?" In a moment of epiphany, however, he comes to
realise that he is finally able to identify himself as belonging to the human race
rather than being estranged from it. The lama narrates to Kim how he has achieved the
Enlightenment he was looking for, having an out-of-body experience that enabled him to
attain the goal of his Search. The novel ends with his claim that he has gained
deliverance from sin for both himself and for Kim.

What is
key to realise is that, while both of these central characters do not die in a physical
sense, their experiences, in particular as related to us in this final chapter, clearly
indicate the way in which they have changed profoundly and in many ways begin new lives
as the novel ends. For Kim, he is finally able to feel that he belongs. The lama
likewise has finally attained the wisdom and deliverance that he has sought for so
long.

What was the most significant impact of the French Revolution by 1830 or so?

Before that, King Charles X was leading France with the
aristocracy just like before the first revolution . The bourgeoisie wanted more power
and possibilities to make business . The poor masses were starving again . So the
bourgeoisie used the masses to make an insurrection and when it was done bourgeois
allied with the power to slaughter the workers . The goal was reached . Aristocracy was
afraid again, King Charles X had to abdicate and a parliamentary kingdom was set in
France, for the first and last time, where rich bourgeoisie and aristocrats shared the
power under King Louis-Philippe . It looked like England after the English " revolution"
. In 1848 a new revolution happened and gave birth to the second republic, where middle
bourgeoisie gained more possibilitites .

The width of a rectangle is 9 cm less than twice the length. The perimeter is 72 cm. What is the length and width of the rectanlge?Equation: Solution:

The problem as stated is a two variable problem.  That
means there are two quantities in the problem which are unknown: the length and the
width.  To solve problems of this nature there must be two equations which relate the
two unknown variables.  In this case, we use the formulae for the perimeter and the
given relationship between the length and the width.

`P =
2L + 2W`

and

`W =
2L-9`

Substitute the expression for the width into the
equation for the perimeter:

`P = 2L +
2(2L-9)`

Expand the parenthesis by applying the
distributive property and replace P with the given value for the
perimeter:

`72 = 2L + 4L -
18`

Collect similar terms on the right side of the
equation, add 18 to both sides, and apply the symmetric property of
equality:

`72 = 6L -
18`

`6L =
90`

Divide both sides by 6 to determine that the length is
15.

Substitute this back into the width equation to
determine W:

`W = 2x15 - 9 =
21`

Check your answer by computer the
perimeter:

2x15 + 2x21 = 30 +42 =
72

State the answer using proper units of
measure:

L = 15 cm and W = 21 cm or "The
length of the rectangle is 15 cm and the width is 21
cm"

In "The Leap," what literary device does the author use to put the past event concerning the blindfold trapeze act into the narrative?

What is interesting about this excellent story is the way
that the normal chronological narrative is something that is disrupted through the use
of flashbacks, which interrupt the narration of the story in the present and take it
back to an earlier point in the past, before rejoining the present later on. A flashback
is a literary device that is effective because it adds an emotional impact to the tale
and helps us understand a character's past, which thus sheds light on how they are and
why they are the way they are in the present.

In this
story, there are actually two definite flashbacks, which narrate the accident that cost
the mother the life of her first baby and then the second when the mother saved her
daugher, the narrator, when their house was burning. Both serve to help us to understand
the character of both of these important figures.

Describe the theme of marriage in Arms and the Man.

Shaw's play Arms and the Man is a
romantic comedy that satirizes idealized notions of love and war.  At the beginning of
the play, Raina is betrothed to Sergius--a soldier in the Bulgarian army.  He is
handsome, well-to-do, upper class--all that Raina's family expects her husband to
be.

However, it is Bluntschli, the mercenary soldier who
hides in her room, that convinces her that not only are Raina's ideas of war unrealistic
and impractical, but also her ideas of love are false.  Raina falls for the more
practical, experienced Bluntschli.  Raina's love for Bluntschli portrays Shaw's idea of
class distinctions.  In matters of love, social class should not be a factor.  At the
end of the play, Sergia is to marry Louka, Raina's servant.  Again, Shaw emphasizes that
it is important to follow one's heart in matters of love, not social or familial
expectations.

What are the differences between the movie troy and the iliad?consider these things: agamemnon's death meneleus death paris escape helens...

One of the major differences between the movie and Homer's
epic poem is that the Iliad ends with the funeral of Hector,
whereas the movie goes on to portray other events (e.g., the wooden horse) that do not
occur in the Iliad.

Likewise, by the
end of the movie, Menelaus, Achilles, and Priam are all killed, whereas all three are
alive at the conclusion of the
Iliad.

A final major plot difference
that is Paris and Helen escape the fall of Troy in the movie, whereas no such thing
happens in the Iliad or anywhere else in the mythical tradition. In
Homer's Odyssey, Menelaus and Helen are back in Sparta and living
as husband and wife. The mythic tradition also has Paris being killed by Philoctetes
during the tenth year of the war and before the episode of the wooden
horse.

One quick, non-plot point to mention: the role of
the gods in the movie is significantly decreased.

Countless
other differences between the movie and Homer's epic poem exist, but those are probably
numerous enough to fill an epic-sized tome.