How do you solve questions concerning probability?

To solve questions where you need to find the probability
of any event taking place, you first need to determine two
values:

1. The number of ways in which the event can take
place (a)

2. The total number of events that are possible
(b)

Using these values, the probability of the event taking
place is given by the value of a/b.

The value of the
probability of anything happening or not happening always lies in the set [0, 1]. No
event can have a probability less than 0 or more than 1. The probability of an event not
taking place is equal to 1 - the probability of the event taking
place.

Given the probability of two mutually exclusive
events a and b taking place as P(a) and P(b), the probability that both take place is
P(a)*P(b) and the probability that either of them takes place is P(a) +
P(b).

In Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, is Miss Bingley speaking of Elizabeth's independence and spirit when she refers to "that little something,...

Yes, in a way Miss Bingley is speaking of Elizabeth's free
spirit and independent mind. What she means when she speaks of Elizabeth's conceit can
be easily seen in a passage just above this one. Elizabeth responds to Darcy's question
if she wanted to dance a reel by stating:

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Oh!...I heard you before; but I could not
immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say "Yes," that
you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing
those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt. I have
therefore made up my mind to tell you that I do not want to dance a reel at all -- and
now despise me if you dare. (Ch. 10, Vol.
1)

In this passage, we see
that not only does Elizabeth make assumptions, she has a very high opinion of  her
ability to discern a situation, and she even has a high opinion of her wit. She assumed
a motive for Darcy asking her about dancing and responded in a very ironic
manner.

This response is also an example of impertinence. In order for
her to respond to Darcy in such a way, she assumes that she stands in a place in society
that allows her to do so. Miss Bingley sees Darcy as being socially above her, which is
true, considering who his family members are. Therefore, it is socially unacceptable, or
rude, or impertinent for Elizabeth to joke with Darcy.

However, since
the reader sees Elizabeth in a brighter light than Miss Bingley, what Miss Bingley sees
as conceit and impertinence, the reader can see as freedom of spirit and independence of
mind.

Was a bloody civil war the only way to end slavery in America by the middle of the 19th century?

This is, of course, a matter of opinion.  I would argue
that a civil war was the only way to end slavery quickly by
the middle of the 19th century.

It seems entirely possible
that slavery would have eventually been done away with by peaceful means.  We know that
Brazil abolished slavery in the 1880s without having to go through a civil war even
though slavery was a very important part of their economy.  There are a number of
reasons slavery might have ended in the US.

First, there
are economic reasons.  Slavery flourished before mechanization.  As agriculture became
more mechanized, mechanized farms would have outcompeted slave plantations.  This would
have made slavery much less economically viable.

Second,
there are moral/political reasons.  If the US had remained the only country with a slave
system (after Brazil abolished theirs) a great deal of pressure would eventually have
been brought to bear on it.  Other countries might eventually have gone so far as to
refuse to trade with the US if slavery still existed.

For
economic reasons or for political reasons, slavery would have ended at some point. 
However, it would have taken a long time for this to happen.  A war was the only way
that slavery could have been ended in a timely fashion.

Barbie is never mentioned in the poem; what is the meaning of using "Barbie Doll" in the title of this poem of the same name, by Marge Piercy?

In the poem, "Barbie Doll," by Marge Piercy, the title
reflects the seemingly perfect essence of the doll, which some might assume to reflect
the physical characteristics of a perfect woman. In the poem, the contradiction between
natural beauty and "popular" beauty are discussed.

We know
that in truth, a woman with the proportions of a Barbie doll href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7920962.stm">would not be able to
stand up, although some women have tried to copy the Barbie doll
look.

This is one of my long-favorite poems because it
battles some of society's expectations of a young female against the natural and
inner-beauty of girls (who will one day be women). Much like the old adage of children
in general "seen but not heard," this poem addresses (at the time it was written)
America's expectations of little girls:

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...dolls that did
pee-pee

and miniature GE stoves and
irons

and wee lipsticks the color of cherry
candy.

This reflected the
norms of the href="http://j-walk.com/other/goodwife/index.htm">1950s when women stayed
home and cooked, cleaned, reared children, and met their husband at the door, dressed to
perfection with dinner waiting on the table. (A copy of Housekeeping
Monthly's "The Good Wife's Guide"—which may be fictious, though I have seen
copies of the single-page article in school for many years—summarizes these conceptions,
which are not fictious.)

For all of
the little girl's strengths...

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She was healthy, tested
intelligent,

possessed strong arms and
back,

abundant sexual drive and manual
dexterity.

...and one would
think that this would be enough, she...

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....went to and fro
apologizing.

This is because
she was deemed, we infer by comparing her to the perfect Barbie doll, imperfect with her
"great big nose and fat legs." With her physical attributes aside, the girl is then
taught how to "play the game."

She was advised to play
coy,

exhorted to come on
hearty,

exercise, diet, smile and
wheedle.

The negative side of all this advice is seen with
the phrases "play coy" and "smile and wheedle," as if these things would enhance her
existence and make her more socially acceptable, as would "exercise,
diet."

Unable to be all that her peers, and later society,
expects of her, the young girl grows tired of working so hard because she has been told
she is, as noted in Dave Barry's essay, "Beauty and the Beast," " href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1376541/posts">not good
enough." Symbolically, she cuts off nose and legs, but I think this literally
means she takes her own life.

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Her good nature wore
out

like a fan belt.

So she
cut off her nose and her legs

and offered them
up.

Only in death can the
"undertaker" make her look as society would wish with a putty nose and pretty
nightgown.

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...a turned-up putty
nose,

dressed in a pink and white
nightie

Doesn't she look pretty? everyone
said.

Sadly, not much has
changed—the skinny Barbie has lost its impact (though many women would argue the point),
but celebrities, and women in television and magazine ads, have taken the doll's place.
Our daughters are encouraged to be thin and voluptuous, with long lashes, flawless skin,
permanent tans, and pearly white, teeth-straight
smiles.

Though the poem does not use "Barbie doll" in it,
the inference is clear, and if anyone knows anything about a Barbie doll and/or has
owned one, it is easy to see why the author is concerned with the messages sent to so
many girls as to what is needed to be "good enough," when who we
are should be praised, and be "more than good enough."

How was Charlotte Lucas' choices limited in Pride and Prejudice Please provide evidence and quotes

Sir William Lucas, desp[ite having a title, was unable to
give his daughters a sufficient dowry to enable them to marry well. The family, with its
numerous children, really could not afford to support unmarried daughters, and the
daughters themselves could not get jobs without losing their status at gentlewomen.
Charlotte, at 27, was considered nearly beyond marriagable age, when she received the
offer from Mr. Collins. Given the economic situation of her family and her
age, accepting the offer was the only possible way she could avoid being an
economic liability to her family -- she had no other economic oppportunities. She
herself sees the practical necessity of the marriage, and unlike the more romantic
Elizabeth, decides to make the best of Mr. Collins.

In "The Masque of the Red Death", what do the tripods with the flames represent? Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death"

The masquerade, a "voluptuous scene," with ornaments and
tapestries and stained glass windows in the various chambers, but there is no light of
any kind within the suite of chambers.  Instead, in the corridors there are heavy
tripods lighted with burning coals that project rays of light through the tinted glass
and by projections of its light, the rooms are illuminated.  But, the effect of
the projected light is Gothic, creating ghastly appearances, upon the faces and costumes
of the guests.  Especially in the black chamber, the light
produced

so
wild a look upon the countenances of those who entered that there were few of the
company bold enough to set foot with its precincts at
all.

It is as though
the chambers have a bizarre dreamlike quality.  The narrator
describes

much
glare and glitter and piquancy and phantasm....To and fro in the seven chambers there
stalked, in fact a multitude of
dreams.

The rays of light
that stream from the tripods seem to represent the flow of life, the flow of the dreams
of man, who has a multitude of dreams.  But, as the night progresses, the clock peals
and a grotesque and terrifying guest appears.  When Prince Prospero attempts to be rid
of this hideous interloper, he is overcome, falling "prostrate in death." With the
presence of the Red Death comes the death of all
the guests,

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And the life of the ebony clock went out with
that of the last of the gay.  And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and
Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over
all.

With the expiration of
life, the flames that give light and warmth to the seven ages of life also
expire. Truly, they are symbolic of the life-sustaining blood that courses through the
chambers of the human body.

In "Revelation" by Flannery O'Conner, why is it appropriate that the two major settings for the action in this story are a doctor's waiting room...

The doctor’s waiting room and pig parlor are
appropriate places for Mrs. Turpin’s revelations because they are both places where she
puts her needs above those of others.

In the
doctor’s office, Mrs. Turpin assumes she is the most important person there.  Yet
doctor’s offices cater to sick people.  Mrs. Turpin is neither the most important person
nor the sickest person there. 

There was one vacant chair
and a place on the sofa occupied by a blond child in a dirty blue romper who should have
been told to move over and make room for the lady.

Mrs.
Turpin is not sick.  She is there to accompany her husband, who got kicked by a cow. 
She is just selfish, assuming she should have a spot to sit.  She could stand just as
well as anyone else.

The pig parlor is an example of Mrs.
Turpin’s vanity.  She is proud of the fact that her pigs are not raised like
pigs.

Our hogs
are not dirty and they don't stink," she said. "They're cleaner than some children I've
seen. Their feet never touch the ground. We have a pig-parlor- that's where you raise
them on concrete," 

Mrs.
Turpin does not care how pigs are supposed to be raised, or the fact that they like cool
mud.  She always puts her needs above anyone else’s.

When
she returns to the pig parlor at the end of the story, the revelation from the doctor’s
office has not entirely set in yet.  She is still mulling over the idea that she is not
above everyone else.  She sees a light in the pig
parlor.

Then
like a monumental statue coming to life, she bent her head slowly and gazed, as if
through the very heart of mystery, down into the pig parlor at the
hogs. 

It seems as if she has
fallen into a meditative state upon looking at the hogs, creatures that she does not
take care of well enough.

Mrs. Turpin's vision extends to
Heaven, where she sees others ascending.  These are people she has looked down upon, and
people she has placed below herself.  She realizes then, in those two places, that she
is just another woman.  She is no better than anyone else.

What is Abigail's vision?no

In Act III, Abigail claims that she sees Mary Warren's
spirit take the shape of bird on the rafters of the court.  The "vision" occurs right as
the court begins to see through her claims that she and her friends have been afflicted
by witchcraft.  As soon as she sees the vision, she is able to shift attention off of
her and onto Mary Warren and Proctor.  She pleads with the bird (Mary Warren) to not
attack her.  Mary Warren finds herself unable to argue against the claim as Abigail, and
then the rest of the girls, repeat every thing she says.  The call and response
continues until finally Mary Warren gives in.  Unable to fight the girls, she switches
to their side and points her finger at Proctor calling him "the devil's man" and telling
the courts she "loves God" and so will "go his (Proctor's) way no
longer."

Why exactly does Juliet side Romeo over Tybalt after knowing how Tybalt was killed?Please give all the possible reasons, if possible. :) Thank you! :)

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At first, Juliet
doesn't side with Romeo. She asks "why then poor villain didst thou kill my cousin."
After thinking things through on her own, she begins to change her opinion as she says
"what tongue shall smooth thy name when I thy three hours wife hath mangled it." Juliet
begins to side with Romeo because she is in love with him. She has just married Romeo
and thinks he is an angel. She begins to realize that there must be some missing
information. Surely the man she loves would not have killed her cousin without
provocation. Perhaps, the catalyst for this change in Juliet is the Nurse. She begins to
express a poor opinion of Romeo now that he has killed Tybalt. Juliet was in agreement
with many of the Nurse's comments until she heard them spoken by someone else. It is
then she realizes that she cannot think such horrible things about the man she has
married. While Juliet never finds out specifically what happened, she trusts Romeo acted
justly. Of course, we know that Romeo was provoked, but Juliet takes it all on faith.

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Explain the impact slave revolts had on attitudes toward slavery both for and against?

The slave revolts in what would become Haiti created the
second independent republic in the Americas and created panic across the slaveholding
world of the Americas.  It undermined slavery in the Carribean and with slave revolts in
places like Jamaica undermined slavery in the British
Empire.

Slave revolts in the U.S. such as the rebellion of
Nat Turner, tended to harden positions among whites in defense of slavery, and lead to
suppression of abolitionist expression in the South, and in the North it dissuaded some
against abolition, as such revolts played into the hands of slave apologists about the
natural "savagery" of blacks, while those who were militant in the abollition movement
regarded such revolts as the natural instincts of humans yearning to be
free.

However while slaves seeking to runaway invoked
sympathy toward abolition, slave violence while understandable from the perspective of
today, tended to horrify whites and could be manipulated to bring disrepute to
abolitionist efforts in the white population. Essentially the argument was that the end
of slavery would bring about racial violence and race
war.

Militias were much more organized in the South than
the North, for fear of slave revolts. This is particularly the case in states that had a
large black minority or in the case of South Carolina, a black
majority.

Black abolitionists, particularly those who had
spent some time in slavery had a different perspective.

What are some of the details revealed by the author in "The Most Dangerous Game"?"Details" is a literary term, and I need an example.

I have provided a list of pertinent facts and information
provided by the author in "The Most Dangerous
Game."

• The protagonist is Sanger Rainsford, a
  world-renowned big game hunter on his way to hunt jaguars along the Amazon
  River.


• The antagonist is General Zaroff, a Russian
  Cossack who loves to hunt but has become bored with many aspects of
  it.


• The setting is Ship-Trap Island, Zaroff's home
  located somewhere in the Caribbean Sea.


• The two men meet
  when Rainsford accidentally falls off his yacht and swims
  ashore.


• Zaroff's chateau is magnificently furnished, and
  he seems to enjoy all the luxuries of life, despite his isolation and the remote
  location of the island.

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The dining room
to which Ivan conducted him was in many ways remarkable. There was a medieval
magnificence about it; it suggested a baronial hall of feudal times with its oaken
panels, its high ceiling, its vast refectory tables where twoscore men could sit down to
eat. About the hall were mounted heads of many animals--lions, tigers, elephants, moose,
bears; larger or more perfect specimens Rainsford had never seen. At the great table the
general was sitting,
alone.

• Also living
  on the island is Zaroff's servant, Ivan--a giant of a man and a former Cossack who
  served under the general.


• Zaroff cuts an impressive
  figure:

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Rainsford's
first impression was that the man was singularly handsome; his second was that there was
an original, almost bizarre quality about the general's face. He was a tall man past
middle age, for his hair was a vivid white; but his thick eyebrows and pointed military
mustache were as black as the night from which Rainsford had come. His eyes, too, were
black and very bright. He had high cheekbones, a sharpcut nose, a spare, dark face--the
face of a man used to giving orders, the face of an
aristocrat.

Elaborate on a quotation from Leo Tolstoy's "The Penitent Sinner."

"The Penitent Sinner" , by Leo Tolstoy, is a story that
deals with topics such as prejudice, self-deception, mercy, forgiveness, and redemption.
This particular story is meaningful because it analyzes these topics from the point of
view of three extremely important characters in theology, namely Peter, King David, and
John-whom Jesus loved the most.

The story keeps a pattern
in narrative, as the sinner begs to be let in, while receiving a negative reply from
inside the gates of heaven.

There are two important quotes
that denote the central theme of the story:

Didst
thou not in thine old age say this one sentence to the people: ‘Brethren, love one
another’? How then can'st thou now begin to hate me and drive me away? Either deny what
thou thyself hast said, or else let me into the Kingdom of
Heaven.”

This quote is essential because the
sinner reminds John that if he (John) claims to have been loved by Jesus the most, and
calls himself a saint, and yet has enjoyed the love of God- how in the world can he look
upon another man and say that a sinner cannot get entry into
heaven.

This shows an exposure to the hypocrisy of those
'holier than thou' types of persons who idealize religion as a world of pure sainthood,
but forget that they too have sinned. This is a direct blow to the organized religions
and to people who look down upon others. They should remember that, as their finger
point at someone, there are three fingers pointing back straight at
themselves.

Another nice quote comes from the saints
themselves when they say to the sinner each time he asks to get
in:

“Depart hence; such sinners cannot live
together with us in Heaven.”

Imagine how arrogant
it would seem to have Peter- who denied Jesus at his worst hour, David- who took another
man's wife, and John-whose life motto is "love one another"- tell a man who has sinned
just as badly as they have that he cannot go inside the gates of
heaven!

It is interesting how Tolstoy allows the main
character to retort back by stating facts that directly remind the saints that the way
in which they entered heaven themselves was by learning from their sins, acknowledging
them, and transforming themselves for the better.  How could they deny anyone entrance
into heaven? We are all the same.

That is basically the
biggest message that Tolstoy sends out in this story: Saints were once sinners
themselves. This show the natural weakness of men. However, it would be an even weaker
thing to not change, and not learn from them. Everyone gets the same fair chance at
heaven as long as they repent sincerely.

Please mark the stress in the following words: Conduct(verb) Conduct(noun) Produce(verb) Produce(noun)

In the four words you're asking about, the verb forms put
the stress on the second syllable, and the noun forms stress the first syllable. Let me
use boldface/rom type and caps/lc to show you what I mean. The stressed syllables are
capitalized and printed in boldface type:

verbs:
conDUCT and
proDUCE

nouns:
CONduct and
PROduce

Webster's dictionary
labels stressed syllables with a  '. So the phonetic spelling of the noun form is
ˈkän-(ˌ)dəkt. The phonetic spelling of the verb is kən-ˈdəkt. You can listen to the
pronunciation of each word at the web site link in the sources
section. 

Please explain some figures of speech in "Everyday Use"?I have to present about figures of speech in this story, but I do not understand clearly...

Figures of speech allow speakers to say things more
vividly and forcefully than if they were to simply say something directly.  Besides
having the freshness to their ideas that using figures of speech affords them,
speakers can really say more with figurative language than they can with the mere
literal.  That is, figures of speech afford speakers the means of adding extra
dimensions to their words.

In Alice Walker's "Everyday
Use," the mother who acts as narrator embellishes many of her words with such figures of
speech that reveal her astute observations on life.  Here are some examples to get you
started in your search:

• In the introductory
  paragraph, she describes the yard with a simile (a comparison using like
  or as): 


• Further, there
  is a description of her dream, which is a figurative way of expressing her hope that her
  daughter Dee will demonstrate love and appreciation someday for the sacrifices that she
  has made for her.


• In the tenth paragraph, the mother
  describes the fire that has disfigured her daughter Maggie, employing sound imagery and
  metaphor [an unstated comparison]:

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Sometimes I can still hear the
flames and feel Maggie's arm sticking to me, her hair smoking and
her dress falling off her in little black papery
flakes.

• In
  her description of Dee's youth when she read to Maggie and her, the mother states uses a
  couple more metaphors:

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She of makewashed us in a river of
make-believe, burned us with a lot of
knowledge we didn't necessarily need to know.  Pressed us to
her with the serious way she read, to shove us
away at just the moment, like dimwits, we
seemed about to understand. (the bold words are metaphoric, except the last
simile)

In this paragraph,
the mother vividly describes the attitude of young Dee as she reads, as well as
connoting how her act of reading was a show of superiority, not
love.

In addition to these examples of figurative language,
Walker's story contains the vibrant symbol of the quilts, which represent the connection
of family and history.  And, the theme is itself about symbolism as Maggie has been
"burned" by life, her life, as well as her dress falling in "papery flakes."  The
mother's "man-working hands" symbolize her having to play the roles of both father and
mother. 

Then, there is, of course, the irony of Dee's wish
to appreciate her heritage by taking her grandmother's quilts.  But, she looks to the
African heritage of her race rather than her true origin of family and the people who
raised her, an origin Maggie truly understands; thus, her mother gives the quilts to
her.

(Please see the link on style below for more
explanation of symbolism)

who becomes jim's mentor at the university?

While Jim is in college, Latin teacher, Gaston Cleric
becomes Jim's mentor.  The two spend a great deal of time conversing and eventually, Jim
follows Gaston to Harvard to complete his education.  Gaston is a passionate teacher who
is able to breathe life into the classics for his students and for Jim.  At the end of
the novel, the reader learns that Gaston dies of pneumonia.

What is the derivative y' of x + y + ln(xy) = 0

Differentiate x + y + ln(xy) =
0

`dx + dy + 1/(xy) d(xy) = 0` Using the chain
rule

d(xy) = xdy+ydx using the product
rule

`dx+dy+1/(xy)(xdy+ydx)=0`

Distributing
`1/(xy)` we get

`dx + dy + dy/y + dx/x =
0`

Moving the dx terms to the right
side

`dy + 1/y dy = - (dx + 1/x
dx)`

Factoring dx and dy we
get

`dy(1+1/y) =
-(1+1/x)dx`

`dy/dx = -(1+1/x)/(1+1/y) =
-((x+1)/x)/((y+1)/y)=-(y(x+1))/(x(y+1)) `

What is the function of the title of Lee Smith’s novel The Devil’s Dream ?

The title of Lee Smith’s novel The Devil’s
Dream functions in various ways, including the
following:

• It alludes to a famous country music
  song in a novel in which country music is strongly
  emphasized.


• It alludes to the opinions of Moses Bailey, a
  main character, who marries Kate Malone despite the fact that she comes from a
  music-playing family and Moses considers country music the sound of the devil. At one
  point for instance, Moses says to a son who is considering learning how to play the
  fiddle,

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“The fiddle is a instrument of the Devil, and
iffen you ever take it up you will have to leave home. Fer you won’t be my boy no more,
you’ll be the Devil’s
boy.”

• It alludes
  to the attitudes of many people besides Moses who, during the nineteenth century, also
  considered the fiddle to be “the devil’s box.”


• It alludes
  to Kate’s continuing love of country music despite her marriage to
  Moses.


• It alludes to a passage in the novel in which “The
  Devil’s Dream” is listed as one of the specific songs Kate
  knows.


• It alludes to the tension between religion and
  non-religious behavior, a tension that is a major theme of much of the
  novel.


• It is relevant to a novel in which show business,
  associated by some people with the devil, is a major
  focus.


• It alludes to the emphasis on eroticism that
  becomes more explicit in later sections of the book.  Section four, for instance, opens
  with these words from a twentieth-century country
  song:

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I've got a way with
women,

And an ace or two up my
sleeve,

I'm a five-card stud,
baby,

I'm all the man you'll ever
need.

• It alludes
  to the opinion of one of the characters (Katie) that country music need not be
  considered Satanic but might actually serve religious
  purposes.

Explain the purpose of the following software utilities: - Drive Formatting

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In the modern world people mainly rely on computers
which are machines that analyze data and present information. Computers rely on
softwares which are set of instructions that guide their general
operations.

In order for the softwares to work well they rely on
other softwares called "Utility Softwares". Utility softwares are just but normal
softwares but their work is to make a computer effective and convenient in its
operation.

One of the Utility software is a firewall. Firewalls are
softwares that prevents unauthorized entry into a computer system or a group of
computers known as computer network from hackers. Hackers can gain unauthorized use to
your computers to steal, delete or edit information. In a more serious case they may
lender your computer useless by introducing viruses that may damage your computer.

Firewall therefore limit who and what kind of information is shown to
different kind of people or computer accessories.

On the other
hand a computer relies on hard disk to keep information in form of a series of
magnetized and demagnetized areas. Since a computer is a digital devices it encodes
information and stores it in only two forms either 0 or 1. In a hard disk the
information is stored in a series of magnetized and non magnetized area. Magnetized area
represent 1 and non-magnetized area represent 0. When information is being written in a
hard disk it starts from the inside to the outside. Sometimes you may delete information
from a hard disk therefore leaving a series of gaps in the disk. Illustration -Consider
a parking area where cars and long trailers are parked and the parking is full. If 10
car drivers remove their vehicles which were in different locations the parking will
have many gaps but only cars can fit in the gaps not a trailer!. A watchman or a Carpark
Manager is forced to call the owners of the vehicles to rearrange the vehicles again in
order to have the vacant parking lots in one area.This is how the Disk Defragmenter
works it Consolidates the data in one area and the empty space in the other area leaving
a blank space which is more usable.

Finally the Drive formatting
Utility is a set of instructions that makes the layout of how data is stored in a disk.
Example, as seen above, data is stored through a series of magnetized and non-magnetized
area on the disk. The area to be magnetized are laid down by "formating" the disk
therefore dividing it into sectors and tracks which are ready to be fed with data for
storage.

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On taxes, is President Obama’s plan even more of a disappointment?Legislators and economists of all political persuasions agree America needs to...

It seems like the subtext of the question might have
already answered it.  Frankly, I am not sure that one can fully assess the President's
ideas on taxes until its long term effects are seen.  Differing economic philosophies
are always going to have staunch opponents and proponents. I am not sure that the
current economic situation is one whereby one can fully stick to one singular economic
philosophy and hope to find success.  The problem is so very complex and embedded in so
many different realms that a plurality of approaches have to be adopted and modified in
order to find some glimmer of success.  The President's plan seeks to take one such
approach.  I will say that the President might have identified a particular problem that
needs to be addressed in terms of how taxation impacts different economic brackets and
in seeking to bring light to this challenge, he has initiated a dialogue that is long
overdue.  Whether or not the President's plan is a "failure" is something that has to be
seen over time and cannot be assessed right now.

How might one summarize the "Dedication" from Lord Byron's Don Juan?

The “Dedication” to Lord Byron’s Don
Juan might be summarized as
follows:

• Byron opens the dedication by mocking
  Robert Southey, as well as William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, for having
  abandoned their earlier liberal political beliefs (1-16) and for having declined in
  skill as poets (17-64). He suggests that they have been motivated partly by desire to
  win official approval and financial reward.


• He contrasts
  Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge with John Milton, the great revolutionary poet of the
  seventeenth century, who remained committed to his original radical political principles
  even when it was disadvantageous to do so (64-88).


• He
  mocks Viscount Castlereagh, an important political figure of the time, whom Byron
  detested (89-128), depicting him as an enemy to freedom
  everywhere.


• He returns to his mockery of Southey
  (129-36), accusing him of political hypocrisy and self-serving
  flattery.

The dedication thus establishes
Byron’s commitment to liberal, lofty political principles as well as to composition of a
kind of poetry that reflects a commitment to those principles and also commitment to
lofty artistic goals we well.  Byron considers Southey (and, to a lesser degree,
Wordsworth and Coleridge) old men who have lost touch with the political ideals and
poetic aspirations that once made them great.  He depicts Southey, in particular (whom
he disliked personally) as a sell-out and
time-server:

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Meantime, Sir Laureate, I proceed to
dedicate

In honest, simple verse, this song to
you;

And if in flattering strains I do not
predicate,

’Tis that I still retain my “bluff and blue.”
(129-32)

“Bluff and blue”
were colors associated with the Whigs, the more liberal of the two political parties in
England (Tories being the conservatives).