In her essay "I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read," what is Francine Prose's purpose in piling one rhetorical question on top of the...

As she moves toward the end of her essay “I Know Why the
Caged Bird Cannot Read,” Francine Prose asks a number of rhetorical questions.  Here are
several examples of such questions:

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Why not introduce our kids to the clarity and
power of James Baldwin’s great story “Sonny’s
Blues”?

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Why
not celebrate the accuracy and vigor with which he [that is, Mark Twain] translated the
rhythms of American speech into written
language?

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Doesn’t
our epidemic dumbing-down have undeniable advantages for those institutions (the media,
the advertising industry, the government) whose interests are better served by a
population not trained to read too closely or ask too many
questions?

Prose’s own
questions serve a number of rhetorical functions, including the
following:

• they engage the reader’s own
  mind


• they encourage the reader to
  think


• they imply that Prose values the reader’s
  opinions


• they show that despite her earlier criticism of
  Maya Angelou, Prose admires the works of “better” African-American writers such as James
  Baldwin.


• they show that Prose, for all her harsh
  criticism of various trends, is capable of celebrating fine writing and fine
  writers


• they therefore show that Prose has a positive
  agenda, not merely a negative one, and that she is not a uniformly acerbic
  critic


• the final question, in particular, is likely to
  appeal both to political conservatives (distrustful of big government and the media) and
  political liberals (distrustful of the advertising industry and also of aspects of
  government and media)


• the final question, in particular,
  implies that Prose is simply a person who wants other persons to have opportunities to
  think for themselves and thus have better control over their own lives (two noble
  goals).

What is the closest point of the parabola y = 7x^2 + 9x + 3 to the x-axis?

Without using calculus, we know that the vertex is the
maximum or minimum of the parabola.  We can use the formula `x=(-b)/(2a)` for the x
position of the vertex.

In this case a = 7, b =
9

This gives us the x coordinate of the
vertex.

`x =
(-b)/(2a)=(-9)/(2(7))=-9/14`

Now the y coordinate when
`x=-9/14` we evaluate `y=7x^2+9x+3` at `x=-9/14`

We
get

`y = 7(-9/14)^2 + 9(-9/14) + 3 =
7(81/196)+9(-9/14)+3=81/28-81/14+3 `

GCD =
28

`81/28-162/28+84/28=3/28`

So
the closest `7x^2+9x+3` gets to the x axis is

`(-9/14,
3/28) ` Same answer as above but without Calculus.

Are armed rebellions considered to be social movements?

Although we generally are not talking about armed
rebellions or revolts when we talk about social movements, there is nothing in the
definition of a social movement that would prevent a violent rebellion from being called
a social movement.

Social movements are generally defined
as acts that are done outside the established institutions of politics by people who
want to either promote or block social change.  We tend to think of things like the
Civil Rights Movement when we think about social movements because it was a movement
that went outside political institutions (by doing protests) to promote social change
(equal rights for African Americans).  However, we could clearly look at something like
the American Revolution as a social movement.  This was a movement that went outside
normal politics (by things like the Boston Tea Party and eventually by war) to promote a
social change (a change to self-government).

So, it is
possible to categorize armed rebellions as social movements even though we do not
usually think of them in that way.

In "The Open Window," do you think that Framton Nuttel is a suitable victim for Vera's prank?

This is a great question to consider, because really,
there are two ways of answering this. Firstly, we can say that Framton Nuttel is the
perfect victim for Vera's ingenuity and skill in storytelling because of his unspecified
nervous condition. We are told that he is undergoing a "nerve cure" which makes us think
that Framton Nuttel is a rather delicate and sickly individual. This is something that
clearly Vera is able to ascertain very quickly when she is left alone with Framton
Nuttel, and thus she is able to recognise that he would be rather susceptible to her
arts. This of course makes him an excellent
victim.

However, to take another angle on this question for
one moment, we could argue that Framton Nuttel is a very bad choice of victim, because
his nervous condition means that he is going to be profoundly and adversely impacted by
hearing and believing Vera's stories. This makes him very unsuitable, because the
susceptibility that makes him likely to believe her also indicates that he is going to
be profoundly traumatised by the stories, which is shown by the swift way in which he
leaves the household when the "ghosts" return:

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Framton grabbed wildly at his stick and hat; the
hall door, the gravel drive, and the front gate were dimly noted stages in his headlong
retreat. A cyclist coming along the road had ot run into the hedge to avoid imminent
collision.

Such a strong
reaction should make us think that actually Framton Nuttel is a bit too suitable a
victim for Vera's storytelling, and that what she does is actually rather
cruel.

What is the Lancefield grouping system and how does it work?

Rebecca Lencefield (1895-1981) was a renowned American
microbiologist at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York City.  Her
career was spent as professor of microbiology at Columbia
University.

Lancefield is best known for her system for
grouping hemolytic streptococci.  The grouping is done using serology (antibody-antigen
reactions) based on the carbohydrate antigens on the surfaces of the various
streptococcal species.

A partial Lancefield grouping of the
hemolytic streptococci is as follows.  Please see the reference for a complete
list.

Group A:  Streptococcus
pyogenes

Group B:  s.
agalactiae

Group C:  s. equisimilis, s. equi, and s.
dysgalactiae

Group D:  enterococci, s.
bovis

How does knowing whether a historical writing is a primary or a secondary source help the reader interpert it properly?

This is actually a hard question to answer when
paralleling it to a work such as "The
Seafarer."

Historically, Anglo-Saxon texts were passed down
by word of mouth. There was no universal written language that numerous people knew how
to write, let alone read. Writings were left for those educated within the Church or by
those specifically taught to read and write for notary
reasons.

Stories such as "The Seafarer" was typical of the
Anglo-Saxon lyrical elegy. It was passed down by word of
mouth.

That being said, readers should know that the texts
were written long after the original work came to be known. These pieces used to
entertain and eulogize.

As for interpretation of the text,
one must realize that texts such as "The Seafarer" have not only passed by word of
mouth, they have also gone through multiple translations (Old English to Middle English
to Modern English).

One, when regarding such ancient texts,
should not fear the piece's current interpretation given it has always, basically, been
a secondary source.

The interpretation should simply be
upon how the text speaks to the characteristics true to the Anglo-Saxon lyrical poem and
elegiac poetry. The true message fails to ever be distorted in such a way which takes
away from a reader's ability to interpret it "properly."

In The Crucible, how does the scene where John Proctor tries to recite the commandments move the plot forward?

This is of course is a moment of high drama in Act II. As
Hale questions John and Elizabeth, he makes it clear the way that any sign of weakness
or omission of holiness can be regarded as a potential sign of witchcraft. Note what he
says with unerring accuracy:

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Theology, sir, is a fortress; no crack in a
fortress may be accounted
small.

What he is blind to is
the way that John Proctor's omission of the sin of adultery is actually a perfect
example of dramatic irony. We and Elizabeth and John both know that John has had an
adulterous relationship with Abigail, and his inability to recite this commandment
reflects his inability to own up and be honest about his own sin. Of course, this scene
also foreshadows the time when John confesses his adultery openly in one last ditch
attempt to prove that Abigail and the other girls are making up their stories. Thus this
scene plays a very important part in terms of how it advances the plot of the play
through its use of dramatic irony and how it foreshadows what is to come in Act
III.

In what way can "The Great Gatsby" be considered a racist novel?

Although “The Great Gatsby” is intended to offer
commentary on human behavior and materialism, there is an element to the novel that can
be viewed as racist. For instance, when Nick Carraway visits his cousin Daisy’s home,
Daisy’s husband Tom engages him in conversation. Tom is apparently reading a novel
entitled, “The Rise of the Colored Empires” and he energetically supports the author’s
view that “colored” races are trying to take over a world that should rightly be
dominated by “white” men. Although Nick offers no outward agreement with Tom, the
author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, intentionally created a character that espoused racist
views. Likewise, Gatsby’s business connection, Meyer Wolfsheim, is only one of several
Jewish characters mentioned in the text. These characters have a minimal role in the
text. Yet, they represent almost the entirety of criminality. They are depicted as
shady, dishonest and crooked. Fitzgerald makes these Jewish representations responsible
for nearly all of the criminal acts in the text.

What is cosa if sina=2/7? a is an acute angle

Since a is an acute angle, that means that a<`pi/2`
, therefore we'll calculate the value of cosine function for an angle located within the
1st quadrant. In the 1st quadrant, all the values of trigonometric functions are
positive.

We'll use Pythagorean identity to compute cos
a:

`cos^2 a = 1 - sin^2
a`

`cos a = +sqrt(1 - sin^2
a)`

cos a = `+sqrt(1 -
4/49)`

cos a = `+sqrt
(45/49)`

cos a =
`+(3sqrt5)/7`

Therefore, the requested value of cosine of
the acute angle a is:

cos a = `+(3sqrt5)/7`
.

What are the main arguments Socrates makes in Plato's Phaedo concerning fear of death?

Plato's Phaedo protrays the actual death of Socrates. It
is a conversation Socrates has with his followers. At the beginning of the dialogue,
Socrates drinks the poison hemlock. During the course of the dialogue he is dying, and
the dialogue ends with his death.

He argues that death is
not to be feared for several reasons. First, it may simply be nothingness, which, like
sleep, is pleasant, or it may be the return of the soul to the divine, which is positive
(he speaks of perhaps meeting Homer and the heroes in an
afterlife).

More importantly, he argues that all philosophy
aims at death, because death represents a separation of the soul from the body. The
body, for Plato, is a obstacle to knowledge of the Forms and the divine, because it
traps us in the phenomenal world. A philosopher trains the soul to be independent of
corporeality by exercising the power of reason, so that the soul's understanding is not
obscured by the changing material phenomena and it can perceive underlying eternal
essences.

give an example of how the change of one organism in a food chain could affect an entire food web.give an example that is good for a grade 9 stdent

There are two classes of organisms that are critical to
ecosystems in this way. Foundation species are species which are the dominant primary
producers in an ecosystem.

Kelp is a good example of a
foundation species; it is the basis of an extensive food web, and if the kelp is
suddenly removed from an area, the entire ecosystem will collapse in that place for lack
of food.

The second group is the keystone species. Keystone
species are not necessarily the primary producer in an ecosystem, but they do some
ecosystem service that all the other members of the system are dependent on in some way.
A good example of a keystone species would be beaver. Because of their land clearing and
dam building activities, beavers create ponds and marshy meadows where there would
otherwise just be a stream. The entire marsh ecosystem is dependent on the beavers water
management activities, and if the beavers are removed from an area, the dams will decay
and break up and the swamp will drain and turn back into a stream, causing many
creatures to move elsewhere or die off.

Give examples of "good" pride in "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austin

Pride, and the associated emotion of self-love and desire
for honour, were discussed extensively in 18th century ethical texts (Paley,
Shaftesbury) as being motives for good when trained properly and for evil when badly
trained or present in excess. Pride, and the desire to behave in a manner appropriate
for high station, was conceived as a motive for charity, which was considered behaviour
appropriate, and in fact, de rigeur for the upper classes (noblesse oblige). Thus as
Elizabeth discovers when she visits Darcy's estate, Darcy's pride leads him to treat his
servants and poorer neighbors with great fairness and charity. Elizabeth's own pride,
leading her to refuse to marry for mercenary reasons or to toady to the rich is also a
virtue in moderation. More pride would have led Lydia not to elope and Kitty to have
behaved better.

What is the best way to achieve a lucid dream?

This is a very interesting field! Lucid dreams, as you
know is dreaming, but knowing that you are dreaming.  You are able to achieve a lucid
dream midst the dream, when you notice that your dream isn't reality.  You are able to
change what you are able to do in your dream, knowing any 'physical damage' is done to
you in you dream, isn't real.  You then wake up and know that you are in bed.  You can
do this by remembering your previous dreams, thinking about it.  You can also try to
imagine what you would like to do in your next dream, for example flying.  You would
imagine you, flying.  These are just few steps to achieve lucid dreams.  Have fun! :) I
personally can occationally remember dreams, and control some of my dreams.  Try it out
and you will see!

In "A & P," determine the catalyst of Sammy's epiphany.

This is a story that is all about a young man and how he
decides to rage against the system in which he finds himself, and which, to a certain
extent, controls his life. It is therefore well worth trying to trace the onset of this
epiphany and trying to identify what moment provided the catalyst. It appears, if we
examine the story carefully, that what was responsible above all was the way in which
Lengel spoke to the girls and embarrassed them in front of everybody else. Note what
Lengel says and how Sammy comments on it afterwards:

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"Girls, I don't want to argue with you. After
this come in here with your shoulders covered. It's our policy." He turns his back.
That's policy for you. Policy is what the kingpins want. What the otehrs want is
juvenile delinquency.

It is
this moment that triggers off Sammy's decision to quit and the long, hard road ahead
that he will face because of his rejection of what society expects of him. It is
directly after this of course that Sammy finds himself still mulling over what he has
seen and heard and unable to carry on ringing up the purchases of his customer. Straight
after this, Sammy decides to quit.

Why is To Kill a Mockingbird set during the Great Depression?Quotes implying that they're actually in the Great Depression.

Author Harper Lee (born in
1926) based much of her first and only novel, To Kill a
Mockingbird, on her own life experiences. The character of Scout is based on
Miss Lee, who was also a tomboy and was about the same age as Scout during the years
(1933-1935) encompassing the novel. Miss Lee grew up in little Monroeville, Alabama, and
it was the model for Maycomb. Her father was an attorney, like Atticus; and her best
friend was Monroeville summer resident, future writer Truman Capote, who was portrayed
by Dill in the novel. The Great Depression was still ongoing during these years, and
since it was a worldwide crisis, it was an essential part of life for both Miss Lee and
her characters in the novel.  

Does the Mongolian country have a parlamentary government system?

Well, Mongolia is definitely a parliamentary republic. It
has a parliament that is elected by its people and which then elects the government. The
president is apprently elected directly. Mongolia also has a constitution, which is
another sign that it is, ostensibly at least, a democratic republic. The constitution
grants its citizens freedom of expression, religion and other freedoms. Mongolia also
has a number of political parties for which its citizens can choose to vote during
election time. The Mongolian People's Party currently holds the main power, being the
dominant party in two coalitions.

Thus we can classify
Mongolia as a parliamentary republic with its own constitution and democratic
representation of power. Of course, like many developing countries, it can be argued
that there is a gap between what Mongolia overtly is and how power is used and abused as
grassroots level.

What view did Puritans hold of pleasure among their society? To the Puritans, bear baiting was seen as immoral not because animals were tormented...

First, I would suggest that you consult your own text and
teacher because there is a great discrepancy between different authors and different
scholars as to what, exactly, Puritan attitudes were.  Some see the Puritans as having
been joyless and opposed to pleasure, as your question implies, whereas others see them
as much more moderate.

On this issue, I come down in the
middle.  I believe that it is wrong to say that the Puritans disliked pleasure.  They
did like pleasure so long as it was not the wrong sort of pleasure.  For example, they
enjoyed feasting (with alcohol, no less) and talking to one another.  These sorts of
things are surely as pleasurable as bear baiting.

Puritans
did, however, disapprove of some things that others found pleasurable.  In the case of
bear baiting, they disapproved because it often was used as a way to gamble and because
it was idle pleasure.  They also disliked such things
because they led to discord among the members of the community (as people fought over
the results of the contest, for example).

So, it was not
that the Puritans disapproved of pleasure.  It is more accurate to say that things like
bear baiting were seen as useless entertainments and therefore inappropriate for good
Puritans.

Compare the ideals of the American Revolution of 1776 with those found in the Constitution.

The ideals of the American Revolution and those of the
Constitution were broadly similar.  However, the Revolutionary ideals were, not
surprisingly, rather more radical than those which are embodied in the
Constitution.

The ideals of the Revolution had to be
relatively radical so as to attract a larger body of supporters.  Therefore, the
Revolution's ideals were extremely democratic.  They called for a system in which all
men would be equal.  They stressed the idea that the government should be democratic and
should reflect the will of the common people.  This is a logical thing to tell the
common people when you need them to support you.

The ideals
of the Constitution are still fairly democratic.  It does set up a government that is
ultimately responsible to the people.  There is no monarch and the government is limited
in what it is allowed to do to the people.  However, the Constitution sets up a system
that is designed to limit the impact of the common
people.

The Constitution sets up a system in which much of
the government is insulated from popular control.  The president and the Senate were
elected, but not directly by the people.  The Supreme Court was not elected at all and
the only people involved in the selection of justices were the (not directly elected)
president and Senate.  Only the House of Representatives was elected directly by the
people.

In addition, the federal government was made
superior to the state governments in most ways.  Its laws were the supreme law of the
land.  This took power from the level of government closest to the people and gave it to
the level that was farther away.

After the Revolution, the
leaders wanted to back away from the radical ideas of that era.  They returned to a
somewhat more elitist vision when they created the Constitution.  Of course, this did
not last and America ended up being much more democratic than the Framers of the
Constitution would have liked.

compare and contrast the buying behavior of final consumers and organizational buyers

The similarities would be that both are concerned with
quality, price, warranties, and the performance of the
product.

Differences would be more dependent on the
individuals and organizations. For instance, organization buyers might need quantities
in timeframes that present delivery problems for their preferred vendor, so they are
forced to buy from another. They are also concerned with both public and management
perceptions. This would be evidenced in police departments always buying domestic
vehicles or the old saying "no one ever got fired for buying
IBM".

On the other hand, individuals may well buy with an
eye to cache and status that organziations would be unable to justify in the boardroom.
Overall, and this is a broad generalization, the individual often purchases from an
emotional place and the organization buys from a more rational
one.

What are some good examples of "Newtons' Law?"

Okay...so we're talking about Newton's Three Laws of
Motion, I presume?

As previously answered by
element-water, the first law reads like
this:

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I. Every object in a state of uniform
motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to
it.

What does that
mean, exactly?  Things want to keep moving in the direction that they are going, and at
the speed they are going, unless something monkeys with them.  For example, roll a
bowling ball and it wants to keep going straight (unless you've given it a wicked
curve!)  Out in space it would keep going straight, at that speed, for a long time.
 Here on Earth, gravity, friction, imperfections in the wood of the lane, and (of
course!) hitting the pins would all mess with that motion.  So, Newton is saying that
things will keep going in a straight direction, at the same speed, unless some outside
force intervenes.  Remember, the outside force could be something as simple as
wind-resistance!

This also has to do with objects that
aren't moving at all.  They want to stay put.  Think what would happen if you put the
bowling ball at the end of the lane and just set it there.  The ball would want to stay
put, unless the floor was out of balance or something. This force is called
inertia.

Basically, Things that are
moving want to keep doing so, and things that aren't just stay lazy and want to be
still.

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II. The relationship between an
object's mass m, its acceleration a, and the applied force F is F = ma. Acceleration and
force are vectors (as indicated by their symbols being displayed in slant bold font); in
this law the direction of the force vector is the same as the direction of the
acceleration vector.

Numero Two-O is a
little harder to get a handle on.  It has to do with applying force to an object to move
it.  Technically it's acceleration. The gist behind the
second law is that a little force to a big object (meaning mass-wise) won't budge it
much, while a big force to a little object (again, mass-wise) will send it flying.  The
more massive an object is, the more force is required to overcome its inertia. Again
with the stupid bowling ball...there are reasons why they come in so many different
weights depending on how strong you are.  A heavier ball needs a stronger arm to
accelerate it.

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III. For every action there is an equal
and opposite
reaction.

The
third one isn't too hard to get, but the examples are a little harder to wrap the ol'
noodle around.  One way to think of this is sort of like what you see when playing pool
sometimes.  Have you ever noticed that when people "break" in pool the cue-ball often
sort of bounces back after hitting the balls?  Of think of a bird...how does a bird's
wing, pushing down on the air during a flap, make the bird go up?  Why doesn't it just
make the air go down?  Because of Newton's third law.   Pushing down on the air makes
the air push up.

Maybe an easier way to see this law at
work is to watch a rocket.  The engine of the rocket pushes down on the ground, and the
ground pushes back against it (thus sending it up into the air.)  There is an equal
reaction to the force of the rocket engine, and it is in the opposite direction (rocket
pushes down, it is pushed up in return.)

Anyhow, that's
about it for the three laws.

Why does Dill run to Atticus and not to Aunt Rachel when he runs away from home in To Kill a Mockingbird? Thank you very much.

Dill didn't exactly "run" to Atticus--he was actually
ratted out by Jem, who told his father to come into the bedroom where Dill was
hiding--but Dill knew that he was better off dealing with Atticus than with his Aunt
Rachel. He hid under Scout's bed because he wanted to be someplace where he felt loved
and safe, and Jem and Scout were his closest friends. Dill knew that Aunt Rachel would
call his parents, and he would probably be sent back to Meridian
immediately.

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Beneath its sweat-soaked dirt Dill's face went
white... Atticus was in the
doorway.

Scout reassured
Dill, telling him that Atticus wouldn't "bother" him and not to be scared. Atticus made
certain that the hungry Dill ate his fill before talking to Aunt Rachel, but Dill
"shivered like a rabbit" when he heard his aunt's "Do-oo Je-sus" echo in the hall. But
after enduring Rachel's scolding, Dill was allowed to spend the night in the Finch
house, and they shared a hug before Aunt Rachel returned home. 

Explain the connection between the poem, “A Dream Deferred” and A Raisin in the Sun.

What happens
to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up 
like a
raisin in the sun? 
Or fester like a sore-- 
And then
run? 
Does it stink like rotten meat? 
Or crust and sugar
over-- 
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just
sags 
like a heavy load.

Or does it
explode?

Walter Lee Younger
is a dreamer. He dreams of having his own business. When that dream falls apart,
Walter's dream can be compared to Langston Hughes's poem "A Dream Deferred." In Hughes
poem, he compares a broken dream to various concepts.

No
doubt, Walter is carrying a dream deferred. It is as a raisin that dries up in the sun.
Walter loses all of Mama Younger's insurance money and Walter is left with a dried up
dream. His deferred dream is like a sore that festers and runs from the infection.
Walter's dream can be compared to a sore that festers and runs. He erupts from all the
disappointment of his broken dreams. He drinks heavily and comes home verbally abusive.
He is sarcastic and filled with infection from his festering dream. His dream "stink[s]
like rotten meat." Walter's dream is gone, along with the money that Willy Harris took
from Walter.

Truly, Walter can relate to Hughes's poem. His
dream sags and explodes, leaving Walter to pick up the pieces of his broken dream.
Walter screams and yells like a wounded animal. His dream explodes as he explodes. He
shouts out in anger and hurt. Willy Harris has destroyed Walter's dream of having his
own business. What happens to Walter's deferred dream? Does it resemble Hughes poetic
comparisons?

No doubt, Walter's dream is found among the
deferred dream of Hughes's poem. He is a bitter man who has lost all hope. His dream is
an infectious sore which runs and sags until it explodes. Hughes, in his descriptive
imagery, understands what a dream deferred looks like. The visual images he conveys are
metaphorically expressed and show a connection to Walter and his deferred
dream.

What is meant by substrates of enzymatic reactions?

An enzyme is a substance that increases the rate of a
chemical reaction. The substances which take part in the reaction other than the enzyme
are known as enzyme substrates. Catalysis involves the formation of an enzyme-substrate
complex. The enzyme-substrate complex requires a lower amount of energy to undergo the
chemical reaction than the energy required by the substrates to react on their
own.

This results in many reactions able to take place in
biological systems that would not occur at the temperature and pressure found in living
cells.

Once an enzyme has facilitated the reaction between
substrates, it returns to its original state and is ready to aid another bio-chemical
reaction.

What's a direct and indirect characterization of Miss Stephanie using quotes from the text of To Kill a Mockingbird?

Miss Stephanie Crawford is one of the Finch family's
neighbors in To Kill a Mockingbird. She is the "neighborhood scold"
(Chapter 1) and the biggest gossip in the town. Jem and Scout get most of their
information about Boo Radley from Miss Stephanie, who claims that Boo peeks in her
window at night. But Miss Maudie knows that most of what Miss Stephanie says is only
speculation. When Scout tells Maudie the stories about Boo told by Miss Stephanie, 
Maudie tells Scout

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"That is three-fourths colored folks and
one-fourth Stephanie Crawford... (she) even told me once she woke up in the middle of
the night and found him looking in the window at her. I said what did you do, Stephanie,
move over in the bed and make room for him? That shut her up for a while." (Chapter
5)

An indirect
characterization comes from Scout when she identifies Mr. Avery as "old Miss Stephanie
Crawford's sweetheart." (Chapter 7) After her house burns down and Miss Maudie has to
move in with Miss Stephanie temporarily, she suggests that Miss Stephanie has
been

"after my
recipe (for Lane cake) for thirty years, and if she thinks I'll give it to her just
because I'm staying with her she's got another think coming." (Chapter
8)

However, Scout seems to
think Miss Stephanie isn't smart enough--or a competent enough cook--"to follow it
anyway." (Chapter 8)

What does Kino's final act reveal about his values?The Pearl by John Steinbeck

In his essay "The Pearl: Realism and
Allegory," Harry Morris discusses how Kino, an Everyman, represents the Indian who comes
from an intellectual, political, theological, and sociological darkness as he begins to
question the institutions that have kept him primitive: medicine, the church, the pearl
industry, the government. 

When Kino says, "If I give it
[the pearl] up I shall lose my soul," he is still in the darkness of the sins that
motivate the pearl buyers and the doctor.  But, when he throws the pearl away, he
demonstrates that he has learned about good and evil, thus attaining a new spiritual
strength.  Kino becomes free when he casts away the pearl that no longer has
significance because his son, for whom he would buy an education, has died.  With the
end of the pearl, Kino demonstrates his willingness to accept the death of his child;
furthermore, he proves that he cannot be cheated or destroyed.  Thus, the act of
throwing away the pearl is an act of spiritual awakening, a salvation of the soul for
Kino.

What are some meanings of the poem "Railway Station" by Rabindranath Tagore and how do auditory images contribute to the work's effectiveness?

Rabindranath Tagore’s poem “Railway Station” (as
translated by William Radice) is a meditation on the mutability – that is, the constant
changing and changefulness – of life on earth.

The very
title of the poem is paradoxical: a “Railway Station” is a place where trains visit and
depart, come and go: it thus is a static place full of constant movement. The speaker
visits the station not only early but also late in the day, whether as a passenger
himself or as a fascinated mere observer (1). He claims to love watching the movement of
the place (2), including both the movement of the trains and the movement of the
passengers (3-4). Interestingly, these mechanical and human movements are associated
with the natural back and forth movements of tides (5). A scene that might seem, to
other eyes, boring, unremarkable, or even depressing seems, to this speaker, in some
ways beautiful and intriguing.

The speaker finds the
constant flux of the railway station symbolic of the constant flux of many different
aspects of life, including the constant changes and developments of language (12-15).
Paradoxically, this very poem gives some permanence and stability to the constant
movement it describes. Thanks to this poem, the movement it depicts is forever frozen in
time and becomes symbolic of more important movements. Movement, in a sense, thus
becomes stable; what seems merely random is made meaningful by the speaker’s
meditations. The relatively equal line lengths of the poem (at least in the Radice
translation) contribute to this sense of stability and
solidity.

At various points, the speaker mimics the actual
sounds heard at a railway station. Thus, in lines 21-22 he reports
that

Bho – Bho
– blows the whistle,

Ruled by the clock’s division of
time.

By mimicking such
sounds, the speaker adds to the realism of the poem. He makes us feel as if we are
actually present at the station, but he also in some ways makes the poem seem almost
child-like, so that we see and hear the station almost with a child’s sense of fresh
perception. Moreover, the speaker often also creates an appropriately rapid sense of
movement and change in his own phrasing, as in the line “Succeeding, failing, boarding
or remaining” (25), in which the rush of verbs makes us experience, as readers, some of
the energy associated with the station.

Ultimately, the
speaker suggests that earthly life is ephemeral. It is not solid and unchanging but is
always flowing. Yet the present poem itself manages to give some real permanence and
meaning to the very flux it describes. Change, the speaker seems to imply, is not merely
pointless or chaotic. It can in some ways seem beautiful, and in any case it is deeply
woven into the nature of human existence and therefore must be confronted and
accepted.

In the "Battle Royal" section of Ralph Ellison's novel Invisible Man, what are examples of tone, diction, and irony, particularly with respect to...

The “Battle Royal” episode of Ralph Ellison’s novel
Invisible Man can be examined in terms of such literary techniques
as irony, tone, and diction and also with regard to the theme of the influence of the
past on the future.

Ellison’s
diction (or choices of particular words) in this section is
especially worth noting. The “Battle Royal” episode is narrated in first person, by the
very character who experienced the events he describes. Therefore, the narrator’s word
choices inevitably reveal a great deal about his character and personality.  In general
his diction is clear, straightforward, and unpretentious.  The style he chooses
encourages us to trust him as a reporter of events, especially since he is willing to
criticize himself, as when he says,

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I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking
everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long
time and much painful boomeranging of my experiences to achieve a realization everyone
else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself. But first I had to
discover that I am an invisible
man!

The phrasing here is
clear and direct. Nothing in the diction is confusing or difficult to understand. The
narrator appears to be speaking honestly, especially about his past and
the influence of his past on his present and future. He reveals his
mistakes but also reveals that he has learned from them.  Without his realization of his
past mistakes (he implies), his present and future would be merely repetitions of his
past. However, he seems to have profited by realizing his errors. His
tone is humble, modest, and sincere. He doesn’t try to hide
his past errors. Instead, he implies that he has profited from them, and the implication
of this passage is that others can similarly profit from realizing and admitting their
own errors.

The diction of
these sentences consists of the kind of wording that practically any reasonably
intelligent reader can understand.  The narrator is not trying to impress us with big
words or complicated sentence structures.  He is not trying to show off his vocabulary. 
The word “boomeranging” is unusual, but its meaning is immediately clear. 
Irony is an important part of this quotation, since the
narrator thinks that he has had to learn, from painful experience, lessons that seem to
be innate to most people. Looking back on his earlier life, he is surprised by the
ironic fact that it appears to have taken him a long time to learn what other people
seem to know immediately.

Yet part of the further
irony of this passage, of course, is that most people can
instantly relate to the narrator’s feelings; most people, ironically, have gone through
the same kind of painful learning experience that he has endured, even though he
ironically thinks that they have not. Ironically, the very experience that he considers
uncommon is quite common indeed.  His assumption that it is not contributes to the
tone of the quoted sentences -- a tone which is modest and
humble and self-effacing.

What does Hawthorne gain by including the names of actual persons and places?

Authors, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne in "Young Goodman
Brown", tend to use names of actual people and places for one main
reason.

The main reason which authors tend to do this is to
allow readers to apply any prior knowledge to their reading. What this does is allows a
reader to bring prior knowledge to a reading so as to more readily engage in the reading
or bring memories forward so as to help them to connect new information to the current
reading.

Also, this information allows readers to more
readily understand the historical aspects, dialects, ideologies, and culture of the
setting used in the text. For example, if reading a text placed in the South, one would
expect to read dialogues which depict a specific slang typically used in the
area.

This use of actual people and places helps readers to
understand what is happening in the community/society which would lead to development of
theme or ideologies examined.

why do kids who have been sexually abused, cut themselves, cry, beat up pets etc?I'm doing an essay about abuse that needs to be turned in...

Children often lack the vocabulary to express their
feelings in non-harmful ways, so they resort to acting them out instead. This can take
many forms, including inflicting injury on themselves or on
others.

Passing on the pain by hurting younger children or
pets is common as a stress relief for children who feel powerless over what has happened
to him. Untreated victims sometimes grow up to become abusers. Other, less aggressive
children turn inward, and inflict injury on themselves
instead.

Self-injury is a complex phenomenon, and has been
shown to common among sexually abused children. Some psychologists says that it is an
effort to feel something, rather than just feeling numb. Others
theorize that the injury releases endorphins, brain chemicals which provide a level of
relaxation or comfort.

Please describe the hiring process.

There is a great deal to be said about the hiring
process.  I will touch on two major aspects here.

First,
there is the job description.  This is a vital step because a firm must write a good,
accurate job description so as to be sure that it will attract applicants who are
qualified for and who would be interested in the job that is actually
open.

Second, there is the screening process.  Firms must
take care that they screen applicants in ways that will truly help them to find the best
employee.  They must ensure that they focus on qualifications that are truly relevant to
the job at hand.  When they interview, they must ensure that the questions they ask will
actually help to determine whether the applicant would be a good fit for the
job.

The whole point of hiring is to get the best person
for the job.  To do so, it is important to accurately describe the job and then to
screen applicants for the sorts of qualifications and qualities that will actually help
them to do the job well.

Was the Compromise of 1850 a wise effort to balance sectional differences, or a futile attempt to push the slavery out of sight?

The Compromise of 1850 can be viewed as a futile attempt
to push the issue of slavery out of sight.  The Compromise of 1850 deepened the division
between the North and South and helped create the conditions for the Civil war.  When
the Mexican-American War ended, the United States received the Mexican Cession which
included all of California, Nevada and Utah, and parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado,
and Wyoming.  With this huge land acquisition, the issue of slavery in the new
territories was raised.  This led directly to the Compromise of 1850.  This compromise
deepened the division between the North and the South.  First, California would be
admitted to the Union as a free state, which upset the South.  Two new territories would
be established, Utah and New Mexico.  These territories would be open to slavery through
popular sovereignty, that is, the people of the territories would decide the issue of
slavery.  This upset the people in the North because so much territory could now have
slavery. The slave trade was banned in the District of Columbia which upset the South
because they saw this as a first step towards abolishing slavery.  There would be a new,
strict, fugitive slave law which upset the North because now by law they had to assist
in returning slaves to their owners. These tensions created by the Compromise of 1850,
which was passed because of the results of the Mexican-American War, helped create the
conditions for the Civil War.

How is social studies an element in uplifting human values in a given society?

The best way for social studies to "uplift human values"
is by presenting examples from history or from the modern world in which the benefits of
having "good" values are shown.  Outside of that, the task of "uplifting human values"
is better suited to subjects like religion or
philosophy.

In social studies, we study human societies,
how they are put together and how they work.  If we wish to inculcate values such as
democracy and tolerance in our students (and thereby uplift them), we can use social
studies to present evidence that societies with such values are less likely to engage in
wars or to commit atrocities against their citizens.

In
this way, we can "uplift" our students values by giving them examples of how those
values are beneficial.

What are the main issues raised by society's response in the films Edward Scissorhands and Big Fish by Tim Burton?

Each of the films you describe centers around unusual
people who have a supernaturally bizarre trait of some kind.  In each case, the
characters live on the fringes of society until someone comes along who sees them for
their, shall we say, inner beauty, and appreciates them.  My favorite example is in
Big Fish, where there are a series of characters with odd
deformities or proclivities who find solace in each other, and in the one place where it
is ok for them to be abnormal- the circus.  The same thing basically happens to poor
Edward.

There are several things we learn about society
from this.  First of all, just because someone is different does not make him or her
scary.  We should get to know people, rather than fear or discriminate against them
because they are different.  The “freaks” in these films are actually usually gentle and
kind despite their initial scariness.  In each case, the person who discovers them
benefits, and so does the community at large.   Let that be a lesson for all of
us!

Discuss the communication among human beings in Machine Dreams, in relation to their difficulties establishing connections.

I think that Phillips' work makes very clear the idea that
communication between human beings can be directly impacted by their social conditions. 
This helps to make difficult conditions in establishing connections between human
beings.  Jean and Mitch are excellent representatives of this.  The social condition of
challenge that is placed upon Jean socially and Mitch economically is a factor that
helps inhibit their own communication and understanding for one another.  Her emergence
into a more independent woman on financial, emotional, and psychological levels causes
Jean to see things differently.  This flies into direct collision with how Mitch
conceives of women's role, primarily as one of submission to men.  Yet, his own
professional reality belies this monolithic view of consciousness.  He struggles to be
economically viable and to be able to voice his own authority, especially with Jean's
increasing success.  It is here where difficulty in communication results in both of
them, influenced in large part to the condition of social reality that immerses them
both.

What are some good examples of privacy being taken away in George Orwell's novel 1984 and how might these examples be relevant today?.

Privacy – or its absence – is an important theme in George
Orwell’s novel 1984 right from the start, and this theme is one of
the issues that helps make the book especially relevant to life today.  Examples of the
loss of privacy in the novel (and today) include the
following:

• In the very second paragraph of the
  novel, the narrator reports that at every landing of a building, the elevator opens to a
  poster showing a huge face with staring eyes and the slogan “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING
  YOU.” Almost immediately, then, the reader is introduced to a society in which constant
  surveillance and lack of privacy are the norm.  A contemporary example of such
  surveillance would be the observation cameras that are hidden (or even plainly visible)
  in many public places these days.


• In the next paragraph,
  Winston is faced with what we would call a
  television:

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The instrument (the telescreen, it was called)
could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off
completely.

One thinks of the
televisions that are now increasingly present everywhere, especially in
airports.

• Later in the same paragraph, Winston
  is described as wearing the “uniform of the Party.” One thinks of the school uniforms
  that are now increasingly common, even in public schools. Individual expression, even in
  dress, is now often forbidden.


• A bit later, a police
  patrol is described “snooping into people’s windows.” One thinks of the heavy
  surveillance, by members of the Transportation Safety Administration, that now takes
  place at airports (surveillance that often involves “snooping” of a far more intimate
  sort than even Orwell describes).


• Again, a bit later, the
  narrator reports that the telescreen not only transmits sounds and images to Winston but
  also transmits any sounds Winston may make and any image he may present, as long as he
  is within sight of the screen. One thinks of the surveillance cameras used, for
  instance, in casinos, and of the wiretapping (which now doesn’t even need to involve
  wires!) that is presently a main form of crime
  detection.

Just within the first few pages of
the novel, then, Orwell conjures up a world hugely lacking in privacy – a world that
resembles ours today far more than the world that existed in England in 1948, when
Orwell was alive.

solve the system (x^3)(y^3)(z^4)=1 and (x^2)(y^4)(z^4)=2 and (x^2)(y^3)(z^5)=3

`(x^3)(y^3)(z^4)=
1................(1)`

`(x^2)(y^4)(z^4)=
2..................(2)`

`(x^2)(y^3)(z^5)= 3
....................(3)`

First, we will divide (1) by
(2).

==> `x/y = 1/2 ==> y= 2x
..................(4)`

``Now we will divide (1) by
(3).

`==> x/z = 1/3 ==> z =
3x...................(5)`

Now, we will substitute (5) and
(5) into (1).

`==> (x^3)(y^3)(z^4) =
1`

`==> (x^3)(2x)^3 (3x)^4 =
1`

`==> (x^3)(8x^3)(81x^4)=
1`

`==> 648x^10 =
1`

`==> x^10 =
1/648`

`==> x =
(1/648)^(1/10)`

`==> y= 2x =
2/(648)^(1/10)`

`==> z= 3x = 3/
648^(1/10)`

``

What impact did slave rebellions have on attitudes toward slavery?

The major impact that slave rebellions had on attitudes
towards slavery was to harden them and to make Southerners more apt to support slavery
and to oppose efforts to free slaves or to improve the conditions of
slavery.

Slave rebellions filled Southerners with fear. 
The rebellions made Southerners fear that their lives could be taken by discontented
slaves.  The fact that some rebellions included free blacks worried whites as well. 
These things made them think that they only way to preserve their own safety was to make
slaves too afraid and timid to try to rebel and to prevent the number of free blacks
from getting higher.  This led to harsher laws governing slaves in, for example, the
time after Nat Turner's rebellion.

Later rebellions did
also harden the attitudes of Northern abolitionists.  They made abolitionists even more
certain that slavery was a great evil since slaves were willing to kill and be killed to
try to end it.

In these ways, slave rebellions did not
change minds about slavery.  They simply made people more certain of the opinions they
already held.

With reference to "THE RIME OF ANCIENNT MARINER" examine the themes of sin,punishment and explanation?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

Compare and contrast the roman republic with the roman empire. Which was more succesful? How do you define success?Im doing it for a history essay...

Both the Roman Republic and Roman Empire had periods of
instability which ultimately caused their demise. Interestingly, each lasted for almost
the same amount of time, so it would be difficult to ascertain one as more "successful"
than the other. However, if one considers the extent of the Roman Empire and its
continuation from Byzantium after the collapse of the Western Empire, then the Empire
was ultimately more successful than the Republic.

The Roman
Republic controlled most of the Italian Peninsula and soon spread into the
Mediterranean, where it came into conflict with the Phoenicians, primarily over
colonization and control of Sicily. Although the Romans won all three Punic Wars, the
cost had been expensive and those who fought in the wars had been forced to abandon
their homes and farms which were in disrepair. They sold their farms to a number of
wealthy citizens and thereby lost their right to vote. The end result was a civil war
and later a slave revolt led by Spartacus which ended with a number of generals raising
private armies, among them Gaius Julius Caesar. Although the dying republic was ruled
for a short time by the famous triumvirate; it soon collapsed with the death of Crassus
and Julius Caesar became the first Roman Emperor.

The
Empire itself lasted no longer than the Republic, but its territorial gains were
considerably more extensive. Whereas the Republc had limited itself to the Italian
Peninsula and the Mediterranean (which the Romans called mare nostrom:
"our sea) the Empire extended to Britain in the West, and to the banks of the
Rhine and Danube Rivers in the East. It encompassed vast numbers of people and thereby
spread Roman culture throughout Western Europe. On this basis alone, one might argue
that the Empire was more successful than the Republic. One should also consider that the
vast extent of the Empire resulted in its division into Eastern and Western Empires; and
that after the fall of the Western Empire in 476, the Eastern Empire continued and was
quite successful until the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in
1453.

How do humans respond to the marvelous in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?

Among the most marvelous events described in the famous
medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight are the sudden
appearance (as well as the physical appearance) of the Green Knight and also his strange
behavior after his head is chopped off. Reactions of the people present include the
following:

• When the Green Knight first appears,
  he is greeted with “stares” from Arthur’s courtiers (line 232 in the Marie Boroff
  translation).


• They also “marvel” at his appearance and at
  what his appearance (in both senses) may signify
  (233).


• They are full of anticipation, curiosity, and
  wonder (237-38).


• They at first assume that Gawain may be
  a “phantom” or a “faerie” (240).


• Therefore even the
  boldest of them are nervous about answering the Green Knight’s questions
  (241).


• They are also “stunned”; they sit in “swooning
  silence”; they seem almost to be asleep because they are so quiet; and they are in
  “dread” (242-47).


• Arthur initially greets the Green
  Knight with conventional courtesy but soon assumes that the Knight has come to fight (a
  response typical of Arthur’s immaturity; [250-78]).


• When
  Gawain swiftly removes the Green Knight’s head, and when the Knight thereupon retrieves
  the head and begins talking with it, the response of the king and court is not at first
  described, but surely they must be astonished. (The poet, by the way, hints at the
  ultimate meaning of the story by subtly mentioning the traditional Christmas colors of
  green and red [429]).


• After the Green Knight departs,
  Arthur and his courtiers try to make light of what they have just seen, but clearly they
  consider it also “a wonder past compare” (464-66).


• Arthur
  himself is said to be full of “wonder” (467), but he tries to keep his composure (468).
  He considers the event a “marvel” (475).


• Part one of the
  poem ends, however, on a very ominous note.  Clearly Arthur and the courtiers are very
  concerned about what may now happen to their friend.  The poet closes the first part of
  the poem with the following bleak advice:

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Now take care, Sir
Gawain,

That your courage wax not
cold

When you must turn
again

To your enterprise foretold.
(488-91)

Ultimately, then,
the reaction of the courtiers to the marvels they have just witnessed is one of fear,
apprehension, and foreboding.

And who can blame them?  They
are all about to learn a very valuable lesson.

How did the German military and secret police attempt to discourage and defeat partisan and organized resistance in occupied Europe during World...

The Germans were pretty effective and methodical at
dealing with partisan and local resistance, though they never were able to completely
defeat it.  The most partisan activity took place in Yugoslavia, France and the Soviet
Union, where the Gestapo, the SS and the German Wehrmacht used trial and error combined
with brutality to attempt to deal with them.

Reprisals were
the most common method, where 50 civilians would be killed in the nearest village for
every German shot by the partisans.  This of course put a gigantic disincentive in place
and created some localized resistance to the partisans, or sometimes led to civilians
giving the Germans information about the resistance.  This was fairly rare,
however.

In Czechoslovakia, following the assassination of
SS Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich in 1942, the nearby village of Lidice was razed,
the males in the town were executed, and the women and children deported to
concentration camps.  This was more extreme than most German reactions, but also seemed
to be more common on the Eastern Front, including in the Soviet
Union.

The Germans were also very effective at gathering
intelligence, in part because their police organizations and SS had absolute authority
over local populations and could use any method of intelligence gathering or torture
that they wished to.

Could Jessica, Shylock's daughter, be used as a minor character in an essay discussing one minor character?

Although Jessica is more of a major than a minor
character, she still would be a good subject for an essay. She is thematically important
in the way that she elaborates issues of Jewish-Christian relationships. Although she
`becomes`a Christian by marrying Lorenzo, there is some question as to the degree to
which she still retains her ethnic identity and
loyalties.

There are several themes you could explore in an
essay on Jessica. First is looking at the question of oppression of the Jews -- is
Jessica evidence that the dominant Christian culture, by means of pressure towards
assimilation, in essence is `stealing`the children of the Jewish community? Another
approach might be to look at the question of loyalty -- is loyalty owed to parent or
husband?

In Renaissance theology, Judaism was often
identified with the `childhood`of the human race and Christianity with its adulthood.
Could Jessica`s move from Jew to Christian as she moves from daughter to wife be
emblematic of the relationship of Old and New Testament in Renaissance theology? How do
her values change as she undergoes this transitionÉ

How Does Steinbeck develop and present the character of Lennie in Of Mice and Men?I need to write an essay on this. It would be helpful if you...

Steinbeck portrays Lennie through several literary devices
in the beginning.

I would use your introduction to discuss
the significance of Lennie's character throughout the story. In my opinion, Steinbeck
uses Lennie to reveal messages to society even today about kindness, those less
fortunate than us, humanity, and equality. What do you think some of those messages
might be? Then, write a thesis statement that uses the author, title, Lennie's name, and
some of the literary devices he uses as you will see referenced
below.

METAPHOR: In the first few pages, Lennie's stature
is revealed through metaphors to a bear and his paw.  Find the quotes that reveal this
information and explain why they are important.

Lennie is
also described as extremely large.

DIALOGUE: When George
and Lennie talk, you see Lennie repeat George, you see Lennie speak like a child, and
you see slang that is language similar to that which a child might use. You also see
Lennie get excited about things like a child
does.

CONTRAST: The difference in intellect, role, and size
between George and Lennie demonstrates that both have strengths and weaknesses. It is
interesting how the story explores the value each of them are given for what they are
capable of doing. Steinbeck points out these in the first
chapter.

You might conclude by referring back to the
message that you ultimately uncovered through your exploration of these literary
devices.

Witchcraft was hung, in History,But History and IFind all the Witchcraft that we needAround us every Day. What does she mean? her sentiment?

Emily Dickinson's poem "Witchcraft was hung, in History"
reminds many about the history of witchcraft in America and England. The topic of study
for many within the high school English class walls are not unfamiliar with Arthur
Miller's "The Crucible."

The poem speaks to the fact that
witchcraft holds a very distinct place in history. Here, Dickinson is recognizing this
fact by stating that it (witchcraft) is hung (a reference to the hanging of accused
witches during the witch trials) in History (capitalized for
significance).

In the next line, Dickinson befriends
History by referring to "History and I", "we", and
"us."

The last set of lines states that both Witchcraft and
Dickinson are still able to find witchcraft around them even given the fact it was
already "hung" up prior.

What Dickinson means to convey in
the poem is that even though parts of history are hung up (meaning in the past and
presumably over/gone) she can still see aspects of it around her every day. Basically,
Dickinson is feeling sentimental about the past, but joyful that she is able to
recognize it is still around.

In Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter what appears to be the author's attitude towards his Puritan ancestors?

As Hawthorne begins The Scarlet Letter, he tells his
audience that new civilizations require two things from the onset, a cemetary and a
prision.  This suggests to his audience that he believes the Puritan ancestors to be
harsh and unforgiving people.  As the opening chapter continues by describing the
prision's door, it describes it as an ancient relic in the new world.  If everything in
Boston was built at the same time, yet this door appeared old and overused, it must be
because the Puritans are quick to judge and even quicker to punish their neighbors
transgressors.

As the town gossips discuss the young
mother's punishment, the audience sees Hawthorne again describing the judgemental
people. The women suggest that she should have the A branded on her forehead, or that
she should be put to death.  No sympathy rests in their hearts for
Hester.

At the same time, the story investigates that all
the Puritans may not be equally pure of heart.  Governor Bellingham house the most
expenisve decorations in his shiny house.  What about the Minister Dimmesdale and the
sins held close to his heart?  Hawthorne looks at the people who wre willing to judge
and questions if they are as innocent on the inside as the present themselves to
be.

8 is to 64 as 2 is to x

Solve `8/64=2/x` .

(1) One
method is to cross multiply and divide. (The product of the means is equal to the
product of the extremes). Thus 8x=2(64).

Then 8x=128, and
x=16.

(2) Another method is to
simplify the left-hand side-- thus 8/64=1/8.
`1/8=2/x` . Multiply the
left-hand side by 2/2 to get `2/16=2/x` . Since the numerators are equal, the
denomiators will be equal so x=16.

When you write 8 is to
64, you are writing a ratio, the same as 8:64 or 8/64.

Please comment upon the meaning of 1 Timothy 3:4 from The Bible.He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him with proper...

It is important to always read such verses in context
rather than trying to pull out a meaning that could be different from how this verse was
meant to be read. Especially in such Books of the Bible as letters, we must remember
that the letters had a structure and a general argument, and each verse plays a part in
the overall structure.

If we look at the general passage in
which this verse occurs, it is entitled "Overseers and Deacons," and Paul in this
section of the letter is outlining the kind of qualities that people should have in
order to become an overseer or a deacon. Your own character is always your own best
witness, and thus Paul recommends that such people wanting to receive a position of
authority in the early church should not be drunkards, should be able to manage their
money wisely and so on. Your verse comes as part of this list, and thus we can see the
importance of how you manage your family. If you want to be in a position of ledership,
your family should be able to indicate that you can manage people, after all. Note what
the next verse says:

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(If anyone does not know how to manage his own
family, how can he take care of God's
church?)

Thus it is that
managing your own family is a very important characteristic if you want to gain a
position of importance in the church itself.

What was the pitfall of Anthropometry and describe the Will West case?

Anthropotemry was a way police used to catalog criminals.
 They would measure different body parts and record the lengths, width, circumference
etc.  This didn't work well because several people may share the same length of arms or
similar nose shape.  In addition, those doing the measuring did not always measure
accurately which made an even greater overlap in the number of people who would have the
same measurements.

The Will West case was the best example
of how anthropometry was inaccurate.  There were two men, one named Will West and one
named William West who had similar facial features.  One of the men was previously a
criminal and the other was wrongly prosecuted because he had a similar name and similar
"measurements" when police checked him out.  This case is what led to the use of
fingerprinting.

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What are desmosomes?

All cells have an outer plasma membrane which allows the
passage of selected molecules and ions from either inside the cell to the outside or
from outside the cell to inside it.

Cells that are
separated from each by a distance but which need to stay in place can be linked by
structures known as desmosomes. The desmosomes are formed when protein accumulates at
the cytoplasmic surface of separate cells and links together. This allows the adjacent
cells to stay together even if the tissue is being stretched. An example of this is the
skin.

Desmosomes do not form a means for transfer of ions
or molecules from one cell to another. They only hold the cells in place so that tissue
is not ruptured when it is stretched.

List four characters from Leo Tolstoy's "The Penitent Sinner" and briefly describe them.

Well, let us remember that there are only five characters
in this excellent short piece of writing: the sinner who dies, the accuser, Peter, David
and John. The sinner who dies we are told lived a life of sin for his seventy years
until just before his death, when he confessed and turned to God. It is he who goes to
heaven and tries to gain admittance through the pearly
gates.

The accuser is the one who recounts all of the
sinner's many misdeeds and failings throughout his life, which threatens to disqualify
him from entering heaven.

Both Peter and David play the
role of doormen to the gates of heaven. They hear the sins of the man and say that he
cannot enter, but are silenced by the sinner's comments regarding their own sinfulness
and failings during there life.

Finally, the Apostle John
is the man who gives the sinner admittance to heaven for his belief about love and how
"God is love." John was therefore unable to drive the sinner away, as the sinner
realises, and therefore opens the gates to heaven for him.

Give three reasons why Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters may have behaved as they did—specifically, what drives them to go against the men in Susan...

In Susan Glaspell's play, Trifles,
the men belittle the hard work women exert in making their houses clean and comfortable,
and other chores such as putting up preserves or sewing. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters very
much resent the cavalier attitude of the men—they take it as a personal affront to how
much they have personally endured in caring for house, husband and
children. The men are portrayed as callous and clueless.

In
light of Mrs. Wright's arrest, as the women collect materials to take to the jail where
their neighbor is being held for allegedly killing her husband while he slept, they make
certain discoveries that, when coupled with the attitudes of the men, make the women
much more sympathetic to the suffering Mrs. Wright had to endure at the hands of her
husband.

First, Mrs. Hale recalls the kind of man Mr.
Wright was:

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MRS. HALE. ...Did you know John Wright, Mrs.
Peters?

MRS. PETERS. Not to know him; I've seen him in
town. They say he was a good man.

MRS. HALE. Yes--good; he
didn't drink, and kept his word as well as most, I guess, and paid his debts. But he was
a hard man, Mrs. Peters. Just to pass the time of day with him.
(Shivers.) Like a raw wind that gets to the
bone.

Mrs. Hale's shiver as
she considers spending "the time of day with him...like a raw wind" not only foreshadows
the conclusion the women come to, but also infers how difficult it would have been to be
married to such a man.

Second, the women find the bird cage
and note what terrible condition it is in, as if the door has been ripped
off:

MRS.
PETERS. (examining the cage). Why, look at this door. It's broke.
One hinge is pulled apart.

MRS. HALE. (looking,
too.) Looks as if someone must have been rough with
it.

When the women discover
the body of the dead bird, they quickly understand how it died and who killed it. Having
recalled what a sweet woman Mrs. Wright was before she married,
they realize that in a fit of rage her husband destroyed the only thing Minnie Foster
Wright cared about—without children, it was the only thing that brought her
joy.

MRS.
HALE (lifting the silk.) Oh, Mrs. Peters--it's-- (Mrs.
Peters bend closer.)

MRS. PETERS. It's the
bird.

MRS. HALE (jumping up.) But,
Mrs. Peters--look at it. Its neck! Look at its neck! It's all--other side
to.

MRS. PETERS. Somebody--wrung--its neck.

(Their eyes meet. A look of growing comprehension of horror. Steps are heard
outside. Mrs. Hale slips box under quilt pieces, and sinks into her
chair...)

The
knowledge of the act that caused Mrs. Wright to "snap" not only draws Mrs. Peters and
Mrs. Hale together in defense of Minnie's probable crime, but it also creates an
unspoken agreement between the women to keep the men from finding
anything that could convict Mrs. Wright.

What are three main characteristics that make a monster? Explain why.

A monster, as defined by Merriam-Webster, is as
follows:

1
a : an animal or plant of abnormal form or
structure b : one who deviates from
normal or acceptable behavior or character

2:
a threatening force

3 a
: an animal of strange or terrifying shape
b : one unusually large for its kind

4:
something monstrous especially : a
person of unnatural or extreme ugliness, deformity, wickedness, or cruelty.

Based upon these four definitions, one can
define what makes a monster in many different ways.

Since your
question is posed under Frankenstein, it would be pertinent to
address the monster depicted in the novel first.

Victor's monster
can be justified as a monster based upon all four of the definitions given. The monster
deviates from the acceptable form of what one considers human. Throughout the story, the
monster becomes a threatening force. Lastly, the monster is also seen as possessing a
terrifying shape and extreme ugliness.

That being said, there are
also other ways society defines a monster when adhering to the definitions provided.
People who commit crimes so hideous against society are, many times, deemed monstrous.
For example, in  Walter Dean Myers' novel Monster, Steve Harmon is
considered a monster simply based upon the fact he is being tried for murder.


Lastly, is the supernatural monster. The monsters depicted in
epics like Beowulf (Grendel), current nonfiction texts like
Twilight (Edward and Jacob), and the mythological texts like
The Labors of Hercules (Medusa) all are defined by the
characteristics above. 
Therefore, a monster comes in many different
packages. The defining of a monster is simply based upon a personal interpretation of
what they deem monstrous.

"Life in 999: A Grim Struggle" describes daily life in late Anglo-Saxon England.What details in this picture of daily life relate to what you've...

The article "Life in 999: A Grim Struggle" shows life as
it was during the Anglo-Saxon period. The article, from Time
magazine, depicts the setting of the lands as a "collection of untamed forests,
countless mile upon mile of trees and brush and brier, dark and inhospitable." Readers
of Beowulf can see how this picks up on the setting of the epic
tale. The setting of the Anglo-Saxon was vast. The use of the phrase "mile upon
countless mile" deepens this understanding.

On top of the
description of the physical environment, the article looks at the life of the
serf:

Wood
kindled forges and kept alive the hearths of the mud-and-thatch huts of the serfs.
Peasants fattened their hogs on forest acorns (pork was crucial to basic subsistence in
the cold of winter), and wild berries helped supplement the meager diet. In a world
without sugar, honey from forest swarms provided the only sweetness for food or drink.
The pleasures of the serfs were few and simple: earthy lovemaking and occasional dances
and fests.

While serfs are
not specifically mentioned in Beowulf, one can see the importance
of dancing and fests as described by the reasoning behind Hrothgar's building of
Heorot:

It
came to his mind to order his men to build a hall, a master mead-house far mightier than
any seen by the sons of earth, and therein would he bestow to young and old all that the
Lord should give him, save people's land and the lives of
men.

Another aspect of the
Anglo-Saxon life which is seen in the article is the fear of "marauding ships." The
sentinel in Beowulf states why his position of watching the shores
is needed.

I
have been set as a sentinel over this seacoast that no foe of the Danish folk should
harm the land with marauding
ships.

This idea is paired in
the article through the following:

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It was in the lord's castle too that peasants and
their flocks sought refuge from wolf packs and barbarian
invaders.

The people during
this period simply feared loss of their lands.

One part of
the article which does not show the true fear of the people of this period, as depicted
in Beowulf, is:

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Thus there was little panic, not even much
interest, as the millennium approached in the final months of 999. For what terrors
could the apocalypse hold for a continent that was already shrouded in
darkness?

Instead, a very
different aspect is provided in Beowulf. Hrothgar, fearing more
murders at the hands of Grendel, closes the doors of his precious Heorot. Darkness is
viewed as the ultimate "thing" to panic.

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Why does Pearl insist that the scarlet letter be replaced?

This occurs in chapter 19. Literally, Pearl requests that
the letter be returned to Hester's chest because it is a familiar piece of her mother
that makes her mother identifiable to Pearl. It is a part of Hester's
identity.

This incident is so strange because Pearl gives
Hester great affection when the letter is replaced and she even kisses the letter on
Hester's chest.

Figuratively, Pearl is representative of
evil. She has been referred to as a devil-child throughout the text. The evil in her
does not want the shame and guilt of what occurred to Hester to be removed. She wants
Hester to be forced to keep living with it. This greatly pains
Hester.

Who was the leader/leaders of Germany during WW1 & give a brief outline of other politcal parties/groups that existed at this time.

The leadership of Germany during WWI included Kaiser
Wilhelm II and the German Chancellor, Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg.  Wilhelm became
Kaiser in 1888 upon the death of Frederick III.  In 1909 he appointed Bethmann-Hollweg
Chancellor.  Bethmann-Hollweg was a supporter of Wilhelm II, and was the real ruler as
Wilhelm II’s behavior became erratic.  As WWI began, Bethmann-Hollweg’s power and
influence began to wane and the power of the German military grew. In July of 1917
Bethmann-Hollweg was force to resign and Germany became in reality a military
dictatorship under the control of General Paul von Hindenburg and Colonel Erich
Ludendorff.

How does understanding the position of Anglo-Saxon women help you understand “A Wife’s Lament”?

The Anglo-Saxon culture valued honor and kindred, more so
than love. Besides, in a world where nothing was considered permanent, love was too
abstract and fleeting. Also, a woman was part of the Anglo-Saxon man's private life, and
did nothing to add to his honor in that case. All of the elements combine to create a
character who was "thrown away" and has no recourse but the familiar concept of
exile.

Give an analysis of the poem "Piano" by D. H. Lawrence.

Writing of a childhood memory brought to life, D. H.
Lawrence portrays a nostalgic moment for an adult who remembers a special time in his
past in the poem “Piano.” The narration is first person point of view with the narrator,
an adult being pulled back into his
past.

Setting and
tone

The setting is two-fold.  The
atmosphere is dusky and soft. The speaker is sitting somewhere with his lover singing to
him.  This transports him back to his boyhood home. It is a memory poem that draw the
adult back to his mother’s piano.  The tone is intimate and yearning.
 

Summary

Everything
in the poem inspires the feelings of love and wistfulness for the time in the past that
was special to the speaker.  The music that he hears is soft as the woman sings to him.
He is whisked back to a scene in his youth: as a boy, he sits under the piano as his
mother plays and sings.  His memory brings back the thought of his mother’s tiny feet as
he presses them.  She does not scold him but smiles at him as she continues to
sing.

The speaker thinks that this song has deceptively
pulled him back in time despite himself.  He is a man who should not be responding to
this reminiscence because men do not show emotions; however, his heart feels such strong
emotion that he weeps.  The Sunday wintry evenings with the family singing hymns in the
warm living room and the piano providing the tune tug so strongly at his heart strings
that he cannot resist.

Back in the present, the singer
continues on with the piano playing passionately, but the singing is like noise in
comparison to his recollection of the time with his family. Recalling the childhood
family time consumes him, and he takes off the facade of the macho man while he weeps
for his past.

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…my manhood is
cast

Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child
for the
past.

Literary
devices

Imagery
provides the “vista” or visual perception of his memory. The metaphor
that is used compares memory to the view seen across a landscape as
though the scene is a flood of memories. The traditional image of a wonderful family
sitting around a warm, crackling fire singing together and enjoying each other’s company
makes any reader long for his childhood home. Through
onomatopoeia, the sounds of the piano, the tinkling and
tingling support the atmosphere of the cozy time
together.

The vocabulary and diction
in the poem convey the mixture of feelings that the speaker struggles
with between his desire to not lose his masculinity and the tug at his heart to return
to his childhood. The rhyme and structure of the poem add to the thought pattern of the
speaker: three quatrains with rhymed couplets throughout the poem. The word choice
indicates the poet’s strong respect and love for his mother and his
family.

Theme

Memory
has a hold on the speaker of the poem.  He misses the special moments with his family. 
The poem is a conflict between the mature man and the enamored boy sitting under the
piano listening to his mother.

The poem expresses the
important relationships that people have in their lives.  Mothers and sons have special
bonds. The woman who sings to him becomes noise when he thinks of his mother’s love
expressed in her song.  The smile of his mother means more to him than the place that he
finds himself in as an adult.

Music influences the soul. 
The poet is carried back in time by the tune that his lover sings. Rather than making
him feel closer to the woman singing, it lures him back to a happier
time. 

Should we ration health for the elderly?

In truth, we already do ration health care for the elderly
and for everyone else in our society.  We do not call it rationing because we do not
have the government telling us which procedures we can and cannot have
done.

However, we do ration health care.  We only provide
most kinds of health care to those who can afford it.  This tends to mean that we
provide it to those who have health insurance.  We also ration it by providing only such
health care as health insurance companies will cover.  So, we actually do ration health
care and we should be honest about the fact that we
do.

That said, I think your question is asking if we should
deny care to the elderly based on the idea that they will soon die anyway and do not
need the care.  This is, of course, something that we cannot really do.  We cannot tell
the elderly that they do not deserve care because they do not have as long to live. 
However, elderly people, their doctors, and their insurers probably should put some
thought into the costs and benefits of the procedures that they order.  They should not,
for example, order expensive diagnostics to test for cancers that are not likely to kill
someone (or significantly reduce their quality of life) before the person dies of
natural causes.  I think that we have to be somewhat more realistic and not have the
mindset that more procedures are better in all cases.

So, I
do not think that we should "ration" health care.  However, I do think we should be much
more intelligent about what care we provide and consume.

How do the characters in The Killer Angels deal with death, and what does this show you about the war and/or the time period?

Death is something that is constantly on the minds of the
soldiers, although most of them have accepted that it is a part of their duty. The fear
of being killed in battle is not outwardly expressed to a great degree in the novel, and
most of the troops--particularly the professional soldiers--consider it an honorable way
to die. Joshua Chamberlain, for example, worried more about the deaths of the men under
his command--particularly his brother, Tom, and the trusty Kilrain--than for his own
personal safety.

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Truth is too personal... Strange thing. You would
die for it without further question, but you had a hard time talking about
it.

Chamberlain is fighting,
and willing to die, for the freedom of the black man. He considers the war
unique.

"...
this hasn't happened much in the history of the world. We're an army going out to set
other men free."

Kilrain, the
veteran sergeant busted to private, worries about how he will die. He laments to
Chamberlain:

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"For the love of God. He died of his wounds. In
the bloody bleedin' armpit.
Ak."

Knowing he is going to
die, Kilrain sends back his apologies to Chamberlain for letting him
down.

Meanwhile, the Confederates are fighting for the
opposite reason: They fight, and are willing to die, to preserve their way of life
against the invading armies of the North. General Dick Garnett, a brigade commander
under Pickett, saw death as a way to restore his lost honor following a charge of
cowardism made by the late Stonewall Jackson. Garnett led his men in Pickett's charge
from atop his horse, offering an easy target for Northern sharpshooters. Garnett knew
the battle would be his last chance to mend the damage done to his name and reputation,
even if it meant death. Garnett died during the charge, and his body was never
recovered, but his name lives on for his valorous if foolhardy
actions.