Please explain the implications of the last line of N. Scott Momaday's poem, "Simile."

This excellent poem doesn't actually tell us what the
event was that produced such a notable alteration in the behaviour between the speaker
and the person the poem is addressed to. However, from the central simile that governs
the poem, we can infer that some kind of argument has occurred between the two
characters, which has now meant that there is a distance between them and a wary sense
of impending danger. The speaker describes both himself and his audience as being like
"the deer" who know are very careful and tense, ready for any sign of danger and always
ready to flee:

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who walk in single
file

with heads high

with ears
forward

with eyes
watchful

with hooves always placed on firm
ground

in whose limbs there is latent
flight.

The last line of this
poem is particularly powerful, as your question suggests, by the reference to "latent
flight." The speaker deliberately chooses this image to end his poem, expressing the
constant readiness that both he and his audience now have to flee any sign of impending
danger or threat. Presumably we can infer that after some kind of argument, this couple
has now lost all sense of ease and expect some kind of renewal of anger or frustration,
which they are constantly ready for. The simile, reinforced by the last line, presents
them as being very skittish and ready to fly when necessary. All sense of trust has been
lost.

What are some social issues that appear in "Charles"?

The social issues which appear in Shirley Jackson's short
story, "Charles", depend upon what one considers to be an issue personally. Some may
look at Laurie's behavior as disrespectful and that can be considered a social issue.
Others may not see this as a social issue based upon personal
interpretation.

Social issues are, sometimes, hard to
determine if one does not consider them to be an issue in the first place. That being
said, here are the social issues one could determine to be found in the
story.

1. Dis-respectfulness: Laurie is disrespectful to
both his parents and his teacher. In today's society, many people deem
dis-respectfulness as a social issue based upon the fact that children (and teens) fail
to respect their parents and teachers as they have in prior
generations.

2. Sexual gender issues: One could look at the
fact that Laurie has a questionably obscure name as bringing attention to sexual gender
issues. In generations past, names easily detailed if a person were a male or female.
Cross-gender names were not typically given to children so as to define gender very
early in life. The change in society today has allowed for the questioning of gender to
more widely acceptable than during the times when Jackson wrote. Boys were named Charles
or Mike or John. Boys played with army figures. Girls were named Ann or Sarah or Debbie.
Girls played with dolls. Today, gender identity is not pushed as hard as it was in the
past.

3. Parental involvement: In the story, Laurie
repeatedly treas his parents disrespectfully. They fail to punish these behaviors.
Again, social issues regarding this have been raised. Some have declared that parents
simply are not as involved in their children's lives as they have in the past. Laurie's
parents simply do not know him. They do not take the time to put one and one together
regarding their child's behavior. Perhaps the failure of getting punished taught Laurie
that it is okay to act the way that he does.

In Macbeth, why does Macbeth keep fighting in the final scene even once he knows the prophecies have come true and it is time for him to die?

The scene you want to analyse is Act V scene 8. This is
when Macbeth confronts Macduff in his castle and Macduff tells him that he was "untimely
ripped" from his mother's womb, meaning that he is not "of woman born" and thus can kill
Macbeth. The final speech of Macbeth is particularly interesting to examine, and it can
be used to argue that in this final scene, we have to reevaluate the character of
Macbeth and to a certain extent he reclaims some of his nobility and honour in the way
that he meets his death. Note what he says:

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I will not yield

To
kiss the ground before young Malcom's feet,

And to be
baited with the rabble's curse.

Thought Birnam wood be come
to Dunsinane,

And thou oppos'd, being of no woman
born,

Yet I will try the last: before my
body

I throw my warlike shield: lay on,
Macduff;

And damn'd be him that first cries, "Hold,
enough!"

These final words
and the way in which Macbeth chooses to not accept the cruel fate that destiny and the
witches have planned for him meekly bestows a certain amount of dignity upon his ending.
Whatever the forces that are ranged against him, and however impossible his situation
is, Macbeth is a character who refuses to yield without using all of his strength and
might to fight against fate and destiny. Even though he recognises his time is up, his
action of continuing to resist makes him a character that we come to respect. Macbeth
thus keeps on fighting because it is not in his nature to give in without a struggle. He
is a brave and volorous individual, whatever else we may think of
him.

Will you explain the meaning of the Peruvian Child poem by Pat Mora?

The poem "The Peruvian Child", by Pat Mora, is a poem
about the differences of cultures.

The narrator of the poem
is obviously a tourist to the land as denoted by the following line fragment: "our guide
said." The narrator wishes to create a mental picture of the child she comes across in
the street. The child, with "mud-crusted hands or feet or face", does not create the
image the tourist wishes to take home with her. Instead, it creates a very negative and
sorrowful image for her.

There is also fear seen in the
faces of the locals. They seem fearful of the people, different from them, who have
invaded their lives.

In the end, the poem speaks to the
fact that, many times, when "we" are on vacations or in areas very different from ours,
we fail to understand the minds of those who live there. We do not wish to remember our
excursion as one which brings us sorrow. Instead, we wish to fill these moments with
memories which bring us happiness.

The image of the child,
sitting in the middle of the street, does not offer the perfect and picturesque image we
wish to embed in our minds.

How have politics become global?

Iwill just give you an example of
Libya!

This country has been conducting abnormal politics,
where the former president, Gaddafi has been in regime for over 4 decades, announcing
that he wouldnt step down as he is the one who ferried the country to the place where it
is now.There has been internal groups fighting to overthow him out, but the man was so
rigid, and standing by his word!

But that action has
attracted the foreign countries like EUROPE and USA to intervene the situation by
knocking Gaddafi out of regime, and drive him away via heavy air
strikes!

By that simple example you can just know that
politics are global, that is they dont just end within your boarders, but extend down to
neighboring lands!

Who is Niloufar in Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns?

Following Nana's hanging in Chapter 5 of A
Thousand Splendid Suns, Mariam returned with Jalil to his home. It appeared
that Mariam is going to be a part of Jalil's larger family, and he has ordered a room
prepared for her upstairs. Mariam remained in her room, eating alone. On the second day
of her stay, a little girl came into the room. It was Jalil's eight year-old daughter,
Niloufar; her mother is Afsoon, one of Jalil's wives. She showed Mariam her gramophone
and played a song for her. Then Niloufar

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... put her palms and forehead to the ground. She
pushed with her soles and then she was standing upside down, on her head, in a
three-point stance.

Niloufar
offered to teach Mariam how to stand on her head, but Mariam didn't seem interested.
Niloufar then told Mariam that her mother

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"... says that a jinn made
your mother hang
herself."

Mariam's stay in
Jalil's home would not be permanent, however. A few days later, it was decided that
Mariam would be married to a suitor--a shoemaker in Kabul named
Rasheed.

Give an example of how tourism activities impact tourist destinations.

Tourism can impact a destination in many ways.  It can
have physical impacts on the destination.  For example, on the island of O'ahu in
Hawai'i, the Waikiki area was transformed into a massive strip of high rise hotels due
to the demand from tourists.  Hanauma Bay on the same island was impacted so much by
tourists swimming that part of its reef died and visitors had to be severly
restricted.

Tourism can also have social impacts.  It can,
for example, move people out of traditional ways of lives and into work that is related
to the tourist industry.  People stop doing traditional jobs and become tour guides or
makers of handicrafts for tourists to buy as souvenirs.

In
these ways, tourism can have an impact on the physical and the social aspects of tourist
destinations.

I am seeking statistical information, with examples, supporting market differentiation/segmentation as a strategy for companies competing in the...

Market segmentation (also called micromarketing) involves
identification of key groups or segments within a market that have common
characteristics, and appeal to certain target consumer groups.  Identification of market
segments allows a business to develop advertising or marketing strategies for each
segment ...a more efficient application of resources.

An
example of the use of market segmentation would be an auto parts company who, instead of
sending a large catalogue of all parts to all customers, prints small catalogues such as
one for Corvette parts, mailing only to Corvette owners.  The advantage of such a
focused approach is obvious.

Product differentiation is a
means of limiting smaller firms from gaining market share as rapidly as expected within
a concentrated market.  This is explained in the paper in the first
reference.

When planning Market Segmentation, the business
should consider the four bases for segmentation:  demographic, geographic, psychographic
and behavioristic.

The second reference is a clear and
detailed treatise on market segmentation.

The third
reference is an excellent chapter in “Principles of Marketing and Management”.  It
covers marketing segmentation and positioning.  It is centered on a bus company in the
UK, but is applicable to any business.  The chapter refers to and explains the “STP
process” of Marketing Segmentation:  Segmentation, Targeting and Positioning.  This is
lengthy, detailed and well written discussion of segmentation.  It includes charts,
tables and graphs depicting statistical aspects of the subject.

What are some specific details about Michelangelo's Pieta?

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti
Simoni (1475-1564) completed work on his
Pieta--one of the world's most famous
sculptures--when he was just 24 years old. It is considered one of the greatest examples
of Renaissance sculpture, balancing its ideals of classical beauty with elements of
naturalism. The Pieta depicts the Virgin Mary cradling the body of her Son, Jesus
Christ, in her lap shortly after the Crucifixion. The sculpture, which rests in St.
Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, stands 68.5 inches by 76.8 inches and was completed in
less than two years. It is pyramidal in design, with Mary's head serving as the apex. It
widens to the base, the rock of Golgotha, on which she sits. It is proportionally
incorrect, with Mary appearing much larger than Jesus, in part due to the long, flowing
drapery of her dress. It was unique to the period in part because Mary is pictured as a
young and beautiful woman, rather than the 50ish woman that she would have been at the
time of Jesus' death. A reason given for her youth is that it establishes a portrait of
her "incorruptible purity." Michelangelo stated
that

Do you not know that chaste women stay fresh
much more than those who are not chaste? How much more in the case of the Virgin, who
had never experienced the least lascivious desire that might change her
body?

It is also believed to be the first
Italian sculpture depicting Jesus in the lap of Mary.

The
Pieta was commissioned to serve as the funeral monument of the French cardinal Jean de
Billheres, and it was originally housed in the Chapel of Santa Petronilla, near St.
Peter's. It is the only sculpture signed by Michelangelo: Michelangelo overheard a
visitor claiming that the sculpture was created by another sculptor, so Michelangelo
added his name to the piece on the sash that runs across Mary's
chest.

Does Odysseus lie because he needs to or because he likes to?

If we follow the chronology of Odysseus' adventures as he
tells them beginning in Odyssey 9, we and Odysseus learn that
telling the truth is not necessarily the best course of action. This is especially true
with respect to Odysseus' identity. In Odyssey 9, when Odysseus
reveals his true identity to the Cyclops, this leads to Odysseus suffering greatly at
the hands of Poseidon. After that point, I would say that Odysseus was very careful to
conceal his identity and such concealment involved him telling false stories. I would
say he creates these falsehoods primarily because he needs to, not necessarily because
he likes to.

Although some modern readers are upset with
Odysseus because of his frequent fabrications, few of us have to face the frequent
threat of death that Odysseus did. Odysseus had been away from home for 20 years and a
lot could have changed in that time. Odysseus had to be careful about what he said and
to whom he said it.

Finally, we should also note that the
gods themselves seem to endorse Odysseus' deceptions. Consider Athene's words to
Odysseus after he tells he a false story in Odyssey
13:

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We are well-matched in these arts, you being the
most eloquent and practical of men, and I known among the gods for my wisdom and
subtlety. (A.S. Kline
translation)



We
should also note that in Odyssey 13 Athene herself commands
Odysseus not to reveal his identity until the right
moment:

Tell
no one, man or woman, that it is you, back from your
wanderings...

Thus, the gods
themselves seem to both approve of Odysseus' deceptive nature and to insist that he take
evasive verbal measures.

What is the subject of Amy Lowell’s “St. Louis”?

The subject of Amy Lowell's poem "St. Louis" is not only
about the city of St. Louis, but it is also about New England. Her present situation
(St. Louis) is contrasted to her past (New England). The first stanza vividly depicts
the summers of St.Louis, while the second reflects upon New England. In the third
stanza, the two different locations are shown using rapid images of
each.

Readers know that she is located in St. Louis
currently because she uses the words "now" and "here." Both of these words allow the
reader to know that St. Louis is where she is currently
at.

Basically, even though Lowell never specifically
mentions St. Louis in the body of the poem, readers can assume that she is talking about
the location from her descriptions of the landscape. In the same way, Lowell alludes to
New England. She speaks of "lands of hills", "tired farm-houses", and "old meeting
houses."

Lowell is reminiscing about her time in New
England contrasting the differences between her current location and her past location
(the one she dreams of and misses deeply).

Define "income"

"Income" as a basic business vocabulary word, is fairly
broad.  It can be defined, basically, as money received on a regular basis, for work or
through investments.  "Income," for a business, is often considered to be the money
earned by the business that goes over and above what was spent on
production.

Depending on the type of business you are
talking about or who you ask, there are several different categories of income, and many
examples within these categories.  The two most basic categories pertaining to
individuals or households
include:

• Aggregate
  income (also called earned income) is the combined
  total of how much money a person or a household makes, before any taxes, benefits, or
  payments are taken out.  Generally, aggregate income is earned by
  working.


• Discretionary is
  money available to spend after all taxes (or other withholding
  expenses) have been paid.

More specific
sub-categories of income are things
like:

• Residual
  income: this is money earned on a continuous basis for doing something
  one time.  Residual income comes from things things like renting out a piece of
  property, earning quarterly or annual dividends on an investment, or earning royalties
  on a product as it sells (such as publishing a
  book).


• Leveraged income:
  this is money that a person earns as a result of someone else working.  You may have
  heard of the "pyramid scheme" in business (also known as network marketing).  The person
  at the top of a pyramid earns a percentage of everything his team members sell.  Though
  the man at the top doesn't do the footwork, he is rewarded for having others on his
  team.  Leveraged income can work in many other ways within a company, but this example
  is one of the easiest to
  understand.


• Passive income:
  as a sub-category, passive income basically defines income that requires very little (or
  no) work to maintain.  This includes things like investment dividends, internet
  companies which can be set up to almost run themselves, or (like above) income from
  things like rental properties.

What is the double entendre for the short story "The LandLady" by Roald Dahl?

According to the American Heritage Dictionary,a double
entendre is

A word or phrase having a double meaning,
especially when the second meaning is risque (See link)

In
the story "The Landlady" the young man thinks his landlady is a "slightly dotty" (a
little strange), but the room is cheap.  He comments that he is surprised that she isn't
swamped with business.  He thinks the following comments are about her boarding
house.

"But
I'm always ready.  Everything is always ready day and night in this house just on the
off chance that an acceptable young gentleman will come along.  And it is such a
pleasure, my dear, such a very great pleasure when now and again I open the door and I
see someone standing there who is exactly right. "  (pg
3)

Then her blue eyes" travel
slowly all the way down the length of Billy's body, to his feet and then up again." 
This gives it a little bit of a risque feeling. Why is a woman of 45-50 eyeing a young
man of 17 in this fashion?  She could be talking about her business, but she isn't. 
When the reader gets to the end of the story, it is obvious that what she is talking
about is taxidermy, the fine art of stuffing corpses. 

What part of a cell contains inner membranes arranged in stacks of membranous sacs, called Grana?

Cells contain various structures to perform certain
functions. Parts of a basic cell include the Cell Wall, Cytoplasm,
Ribosomes, and Nucleus. Animal cells differ in important
ways from Plant cells, and this question refers to a structure found only in
plants.

The most important function of a plant cell is
Photosynthesis, the mechanism by which sunlight is transformed into
energy and nutrients within the plant. To process sunlight, plant cells have structures
inside called Thylakoids. These allow photons to be absorbed from
sunlight and passed along an Electron Transport Chain to break
water molecules down and and provide to energy needed to create
ATP, the molecule that transfers energy from cell to
cell.

The Thylakoid is membrane-bound, which means it has
an organic membrane surrounding the entire structure, and is typically embedded in the
Chloroplast Stroma. Inside, it contains a
Lumen, which absorbs protons during the Light-Dependent Reaction.
Thylakoids often group together into stacks, or Grana, connected by
Thylakoid Stroma, a thick fluid used for carbohydrate production. Stacks of Thylakoids
are found inside Chloroplasts, and inside Cyanobacteria.

what happened when the indians attempted to market their pearls collectively?

Juan Tomas, Kino's brother, tells him to make sure that
the pearl buyers don't cheat him. The Indians only deal with the pearl buyers in town,
and they  do not know what is being paid in other towns.  He tells Kino that before he
was born the Indians thought of a way to outsmart the pearl buyers and get more money
for their pearls.  They would put all of their pearls together and get an agent to take
them to the capital and sell them there. The agent would keep a share of the profit for
his trouble and give the rest to them.  The first man they hired to do the
job disappeared and was never heard from again.  Those pearls were lost. Then they hired
a second man to be their agent.  He was never heard from again, and those pearls were
lost.  So, they gave up the idea, and now they only deal with the pearl buyers in town. 
Kino says that the priest told him that it was against religion to do that. The loss of
the pearls was a punishment visited on those who tried to leave their station. Juan
Tomas says that he has heard the priest make that sermon every year.
 

In "The Devil and Tom Walker," why didn't Tom's religious efforts aid him when it was time for the devil to come for him?

It is important to realise that Tom's religious conversion
is yet another example of satire. Irving is making a very critical comment about those
who try to mask their sin or to conceal it by a show of insincere piety. Let us note
that Tom only becomes interested in religion as he grows older, and obviously, religious
matters become more of a concern as he has to face the consequences of his tryst with
the devil. In addition, note how the narrator describes his
conversion:

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He became, therefore, all of a sudden, a violent
churchgoer. He prayed loudly and strenuously, as if heaven were to be taken by force of
lungs. Indeed, one might always tell when he had sinned most during the week, by the
clamour of his Sunday
devotion.

So great is his
show of piety that other members of the church find themselves suddenly "outstripped" by
his violent show of repentance. Clearly, the humorous tone of this quote reveals Tom's
insincerity. The thought of heaven being "taken up by force of lungs" is clearly
ludicrous, and just reinforces the desperate fear that lies at the heart of Tom's
conversion and its insincerity. Thus this conversion does not work because it is false
and not based on truth. Tom remains the same kind of sinner that he always was, but his
sin becomes all the more abhorrent by the way he tries to cover it up with fraudulent
piety.

What perspective in psychology, either historical or current, makes the least sense to you? and why?

Given the scope of such a question, I imagine answers
could be across the board, so I will try to narrow mine to a field of psychology with
which I believe I have immediate personal and professional experience, and that is child
psychology.

I first became interested in child psychology
with Glasser's Reality Therapy and Choice
Theory.  His ideas, brought down to their most basic components, are not only
how I've chosen to view students and behavioral change in my classroom, but in many
ways, how I parent my own children.

This, among other
reasons, is why I simply cannot wrap my mind around what is referred to in more modern
parenting-psychology as "attachment parenting."  At its core, attachment theory sounds
completely healthy, full of love, and mostly harmless, as its main goal is to provide
physical and emotional security to children through physical touch, availablity, and
balance, starting before the child is even born, and on through its
life.

Unfortunately, what I see happening is a blur of
lines between parental control and child control.  Those who fully adhere to the
attachment parenting theory are often the mothers who's elementary student cannot sleep
through the night alone.  Many attachment parenting advocates practice co-sleeping with
their children.  They do not let their children "cry it out," (be it a temper tantrum,
boundary issue, or transition into a more independent phase of childhood), but seek to
immediately sooth and provide security for whatever has sparked the child into crying in
the first place.

Physical discipline is completely out of
the question as attachment theory encourages "positive discipline," but often, this
translates with older children into a lack of sense of any boundaries at all, whether
physical or emotional.  In my experience, young children whose parents believe in the
benefits of attachment theory are rarely on a set schedule for eating and sleeping, but
have been taught that they can eat when they are hungry, sleep when tired, and do
neither if they do not feel like it.

I can certainly see
the positive intentions of attachment theory, but it makes the least sense to me because
it trains a child to become so dependent on an adult for every need (emotional and
physical) that the child lacks the development of independence.  He lacks the ability to
"self-sooth" whether at night as a baby, or later in life as a depressed adult.  As a
parent, the practice of attachment parenting too often translates to children who are in
complete control of mom and dad, but helpless without them.  As a teacher, the idea of
attachment parenting making its way into my classroom just plain scares
me.

What is atticus tryng to prove in the court proceedings when he has the sheriff testify about which side of the face Mayella was injured on?

When Atticus called the sheriff, Heck Tate, he establishes
for the jury the injuries that Mayella suffered in the attack.  She has bruises all
around her neck and on the right side of her face.  These injuries show that she was
strangled by two hands and beaten on the right side of her face by a person who leads
with his left.

Atticus gets Bob Ewell to confirm the
testimony of Heck Tate.  He doesn't dispute anything the sheriff says.  Then Atticus
gets Heck Tate to sign his name.  Although Bob thinks Atticus is doing this to prove he
can't write, he's really doing it to show that Bob is
left-handed.

When Tom Robinson testifies later in the trial
(the same night), it is apparent to everyone, including the jury, that Tom could not be
guilty of attacking Mayella in this way.  His left arm is completely useless.  It hangs
weakly by his side because all the muscles were torn from the bone in a cotton gin
accident years ago.

Atticus has successfully proven in the
minds of the jury and spectators that Tom is not guilty.  Although he doesn't win the
case, Atticus has revealed the truth.

What are some meanings of the essay "Of Anger" by Francis Bacon? In particular, what are the three causes and motives of anger that Francis Bacon...

In his essay “Of Anger,” Sir Francis Bacon lists various
causes or motives of anger, including the
following:

• a “natural inclination and habit to
  be angry”: in other words, a tendency toward anger may be part of a particular person’s
  character and is probably also innate in human nature.


• an
  inability or disinclination to be patient, so that we behave like bees (in the words of
  Seneca):

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. . . animasque in vulnere
ponunt

[that
put their lives in the
sting].

• weakness.
  Bacon suggests that weak persons are more likely to be angry than strong persons.
  

Bacon cites three causes of anger
especially:

1. being overly sensitive – in other
   words, having feelings that are too easily hurt.


2. assuming
   that any injuring one receives from others was full of contempt and disrespect – in
   other words, immediately assuming that one has been
   disrespected.


3. assuming that an injury will damage one’s
   reputation.

Bacon suggests a number of ways of
overcoming anger, including the following:

• Don’t
  assume, as did the Stoic philosophers of ancient Rome, that anger can be utterly
  extinguished by an act of mere will.  Anger cannot be dealt with so easily; it must be
  allowed to diminish with the passage of time.


• Consider
  the negative effects that anger causes in the life of the person who is angry. Anger
  injuries the angry person most of all and is thus
  self-defeating.


• Try to be
  patient.


• Try not to be easily hurt or easily worried
  about one’s reputation. An honorable person need not worry about his/her reputation.
  Therefore, truly honorable people are less likely to be
  angry.


• Let time pass, even telling oneself that one can
  take revenge later for an injury suffered today. Meanwhile, the passage of time will
  diminish one’s anger.

All in all, Bacon looks
at anger from a Christian rather than from a Stoic perspective.  At the same time, his
advice is also highly pragmatic. In other words, he shows an awareness of how anger
actually develops and can be dealt with in ordinary life. His comment about waiting to
take revenge is especially intriguing. He knew that taking revenge was frowned about in
Christianity, but instead of suggesting that a person refrain from revenge altogether,
he suggests that any contemplated revenge should be postponed.  He seems to have assumed
that postponing revenge would make it ultimately less likely to occur.  This is a bit of
shrewd psychology on Bacon’s part.

How does our family influence us?I am a college freshman in my first psychology class and I wanted some help writing a reflective paper about...

Our family is one of our most important agents of
socialization.  It is the source from which we learn our first lessons about how society
works and how we are expected to behave as members of that society.  In this way, our
family influences us tremendously.

As we grow up, we learn
from our family what is expected of us.  We learn that it is important for us to share
with others, particularly if we have siblings.  We learn that it is important to obey
authority.  Depending on the family, though, we also learn that it is important to learn
to be independent and to think for ourselves.  We will likely also learn various
attitudes about things like religion, education, justice and
sex.

In these ways, our family has a huge influence on us
as we grow up.  I would encourage you to think about the particular things that you
believe that you may have gotten from your family or as a reaction to the way things
were in your family.

Why did Abigail have the power to name everybody that was supposedly guilty of witchcraft?

Abigail Williams, one of the main antagonists in Miller's
play "The Crucible", is given the power by those wishing to prosecute and find guilty
the witches of Salem.

While it is not that she, alone, has
the power, persons (during this period) simply had to accuse a person of being a witch
to have power in the eyes of the officials.

During the
Salem witch trials, when people were accused of being witches they were carefully
questioned about their knowledge of the "practices." This was important because it only
took the testimony of one person to convict another of
witchcraft.

During this period, anything which challenged
the Church was deemed sinful. Therefore, anyone who took part in practices which the
Church deemed wrong could easily be accused of witchcraft.

Given
that Abigail was out for revenge (and no one knew of her affair with John Proctor), a
popular reason to accuse, she was easily believed. The hysteria which took place also
added to her ability to accuse at whim.

How would you relate the symbolism of "The Lottery" to the practice of scapegoating?Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery"

The Russian physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov proved that
certain objects or sounds and sights condition people.  This classical conditioning, as
the phenomenon is termed, is clearly present in Shirley Jackson's short story, "The
Lottery" as the sight of certain things causes the residents of the village to react. 
For instance, as the men gather, they stand together,

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away from the pile of stones in the corner, and
their jokes were quiet and they smiled rather than
laughed.

Obviously, the men
are ill at ease after they see the pile of stones which represent the death of the
scapegoat that is soon to take place.  Likewise, when Mr. Summers arrives with the black
box which contains the slips of paper, one of which is marked with a black spot for the
scapegoat, "there was a murmur of conversation among the villagers."  They, then, keep
their distance and leave a cautious space between themselves and the stool upon which
this box will rest.

Each of these symbols--the stones, the
black box, and the black spot--have suggestions of death attached to them.  Because of
this representation of the death of the scapegoat, the symbols cause uneasiness among
the villagers whose fears are aroused that they may be marked as the scapegoat during
this drawing.  In this way, the symbolism of the objects, because of the villagers
conditioning, is related to the practice of scapegoating.

Was the Warren Court's decision in Terry v. Ohio a good idea or did it grant the police too many powers and create a precedent dangerous to the...

I would argue that the Warren Court's decision did not
create a precedent that was dangerous to the 4th
Amendment.

Chief Justice Warren's rationale for the
decision was that the police need to investigate suspicious activity.  Activity that
might lead to a crime will not necessarily be obvious enough to give probable cause, but
such activity still needs to be investigated for the sake of the public's right to
safety.  When the police (who have a very dangerous job) investigate such activity, they
need to be able to ascertain that the person they are contacting will not be able to
harm them.  Therefore, in Terry, they are given the right to frisk
the individual for
weapons.

The holding in this case is not
dangerous to the 4th Amendment.  Instead, it is a valid way to ensure the safety of
police officers who are acting in ways that are consistent with the Constitution and
with public safety.

Explain Tom Benecke's character?

Jack Finney wrote his story "Contents of the Dead Man's
Pocket" during the post World War II business boom of the 1950s.  This business culture
of the fifties saw many a man aspiring to success through long hours of work to the
neglect of their families.  Living in an upscale apartment in the city, Tom Benecke
represents these men.  He has been spending his leisure hours gathering facts and
figures having stood on four long Saturday afternoon in supermarkets as he scribbled all
his notations upon a yellow sheet. Through copious trade publications, page by page, he
has compiled his data upon this sheet when he should have spent time with his
wife.

So consumed with this project is Tom that he sends
his neglected wife on to the movies with the promise of meeting her later.  However,
when she opens the door to leave, a draft from the doorway and the open window stirs all
the papers on Tom's desk.  It teasingly draws the yellow sheet to it, catches it against
its pane, then lures it to the window ledge where it slides out of sight. It is with
absolute dismay that Tom watches the flight of the yellow sheet.  Incredulous that he
has lost all the labors of so many hours, Tom debates what to do; ultimately, he risks
his life for a chance at a better business position.

Since
his foremost goal is success, Tom ponders that this and other independent projects are
the means to

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mark him out from the score of other young men in
his company.  They were the way to change from a name on the payroll to a name in the
minds of the company officials....And he knew he was going out there in the darness,
after the yellow sheet fifteen feet beyond his
reach.

Driven to succeed in
business, Tom risks his life for a foolish yellow sheet.  After he nearly kills himself
in the effort to retrieve it, he reaches his apartment.  Donning his coat to reach his
dear wife, whom he has learned to appreciate while on the eleventh floor ledge, he
watches the paper waft back out of the broken window.  This time Tom laughs and closes
the door behind him.  He has learned now what is of value, and it is not the yellow
sheet.

How are the religious men of the party described by Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales—specifically, how is the Pardoner described?—and explain...

In Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales,
Chaucer describes a number of people who are clerics—who serve the church in some
capacity. Of the men he lists, there is only one who he admires: the
Parson. He is a man who lives a holy life in the service of others.
From Chaucer's viewpoint—himself a member of the pilgrimage—he finds the Parson to be a
man who lives by the vows he has taken, and he cares for his "flock." However, Chaucer
does not have such a fine opinion of the other clerics,
specifically the Monk, the Friar and the Pardoner.

Each man
is described separately, however, what they all have in common is that the
do not serve the Church, or God, but serve themselves instead.
Generally, the physical descriptions of each and reading between the lines shows the
reader that they are not the servants of God that they should
be.

The Pardoner is a man who sells "indulgences," which
can be purchased for the forgiveness of sins—so that those will money will be forgiven,
and those without money, will not.

A Pardoner
was...

...a
preacher who raised money for religious works by soliciting offerings to which
indulgences (pardons) were attached. The granting of pardons for offerings was often
abused, however, and fake pardoners were not
infrequent.

We
are not told that the Pardoner is a fake, but he is
selling...

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...pardons piping hot from
Rome.

This means that they
are stolen. His "territory" is betweenBerwick...and
Ware:

...two
towns: one in southeastern Scotland, the other outside of
London.

He covers a broad
area, and no other pardoner can do half as well as he does for he has more than just
indulgences to sell...

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For in his bag he kept a
pillowcase

That was, he said, our Blessed Lady's
veil;

He claimed to own the fragment of the
sail

That Peter had the time he walked the
sea

And Jesu saved
him...

Using these items, he
swindles people out of more money in one day that the [noble] parson can raise in one or
two months. The Pardoner has beautiful long, blond, and curly hair, but does not wear a
hood to cover his head properly. It would be untrue to say that he cannot read scripture
or deliver a good sermon—he did both well. He also had a beautiful singing voice—all the
while knowing that the better a job he did at these things, the more silver he would
collect.

"The Pardoner's Tale" is about three men who are
drinking at the pub early—probably they have been there all night. A funeral goes by,
and in asking, they discover one of their drinking buddies has died. Death is
responsible here ( href="http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/general/glossary.htm#p">personified),
so they go looking for him—all drunk—to punish him. They meet an old man who directs
them to the top of the hill, to find Death. Arriving there, they find a great deal of
money. They must devise a way to remove it so no one sees. They send the youngest to get
wine, and plan then to murder him and keep his share for themselves. The younger one
plans the same, bringing back bottles of poisoned wine. The older two men fall on the
younger and stab him to death. Job accomplished, they sit down to enjoy the bottles of
wine the young man had brought. They are poisoned and die. All three went looking for
Death—they were allsuccessful in this
endeavor.

The Pardoner tries to impress upon the others the
dangers of greed, but ironically, he is as guilty of this sin as
anyone—the story applies to him, perhaps more than anyone
else.

Additional
Source:

Adventures in English
Literature. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc.,
1963

A glass tube 1 m long and 2cm diameter is completely and uniformly wound with 900 turns of copper wire 0.9 mm diameter insulated to 1mm diameter....



A long wire wrapped around in a coil of loops
of wire is called a solenoid.  To calculate the magnetic field in a solenoid one needs
to apply Ampere's Law which provides this equation:

B = UIN  where U
is the permeability, I is the current in the wire and N is the number of coils (or
"turns of wire").

U is a constant equal to 4 Pi X10^-7
Tm/A

N is 900 for this
problem.

I needs to be calculated using Ohm's
Law

I = V/R

R is not given
directly, however we can calculate the length of the wire by multiplying the
circuference of one loop by the number of loops.  In meters, the length will be Pi X D X
N = Pi X 0.02 m X900 = 56.5 meters.

The resistance of the
wire can be determined by multiplying the length of the wire by the linear resistance
which in meters is 0.172 Ohms/meter.

Therefore R = 0.172
Ohms/m X 56.5 m = 9.73 Ohms

I = 4.0 V/9.73 Ohms = 0.411
Amps

This gives us the information to calculate the
magnetic field strength inside the solenoid:

B = 4Pi X
10^-7T m/A X 0.411A X 900 turns/m =  4.65 X 10^-4 T

A girl starts from rest and reaches a walking speed of 1.4 m/s in 3.0 s. She walks at this speed for 6.0 s. The girl then slows down and comes to...

We have three time intervals to consider here. In the
first, the girl starts at 0 m/s and reaches 1.4 m/s in 3 seconds. The acceleration is
given by (v - u)/t, where v is the final velocity, u is the initial velocity and t is
the time taken.

a = (1.4 - 0)/3 = 7/15
m/s^2.

In the second interval of time, the girl travels at
a constant speed of 1.4 m/s for 6 seconds. The acceleration during this interval is
0.

In the third interval, the girl slows down from 1.4 m/s
and comes to a halt in 10 seconds. The acceleration here is -0.14
m/s^2.

Over the entire trip the acceleration is 0 as the
initial velocity and the final velocity are equal.

What economic factors helped to cause the collapse of the Han Dynasty?Economic Han

One of the most imporant economic factors that caused the
fall of the Han Dynasty was taxation.

By the time that the
Han Dynasty was getting weaker, it was unable to tax many of its subjects.  This was
because it was not strong enough to force them to pay their taxes or to give the labor
that they owed the government.  When this happened, the central government had to
increase the levels of taxation that it imposed on the people that it did control.  As
the government did this, those people tended to leave (when possible) the territory that
the central government controlled.  As this happened, the government came to have less
and less money to use for things like maintaining its military
strength.

In this way, the Han Dynasty lost its economic
power, thus hastening its decline.

Why are the Greasers and the Socs in conflict?

It is a matter of social class.  The Socs are rich.  They
have cars, and party for kicks. They beat up Greasers, generally when they are in a
group, like they did Johnny.  But they come from families that expect them to make
something of themselves.  They are a disgrace to the community one day and a social
asset to that same community the next. Cherry says, "You greasers have a different set
of values.  You are more emotional.  We are sophisticated - cool to the point of not
feeling anything.... Nothing is real with us."(pg 38). Ponyboy says that the Soc's even
"fought coldly and practically, and impersonally"  (pg
38)

The Greasers are members of the poor community and the
hoods- juvenile delinquents -of society.  They steal cars because they don't own them,
hold up gas stations, and have gang fights. Cherry tells Pony that she cannot openly be
friendly to him, and Johnny tells him that it could ruin her reputation to be seen with
a greaser.   She warns Pony that if she ignores him, it is nothing
personal. 

Each group views the other as an enemy and that
is just the way things are. They hang out in different places and handle problems
differently.  Ponyboy tells "That's why we're separated.  It's not money, it's
feeling--- you don't feel anything, and we feel too violently."  (pg
38)

What is the significance of the bird’s question in Frost’s “The Oven Bird”?

The question posed in Robert Frost's "The Oven Bird" is
found in the last line of the poem.

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What to make of a diminished
thing.

The body of the poem
speaks to everything a bird has seen and how everyone has heard the song of a bird. The
imagery depicted shows a time where the leaves are falling and the flowers, once full of
color, are close to disappearing as well.

The importance of
the question comes when the bird seems to question why everyone notices the natural
elements dying with the onset of fall, but they fail to recognize the lack of the bird's
song.

The bird is, essentially, questioning why no one
notices the loss of the bird's voice, but only notices the loss of the leaves and
flowers, the drying and dusty roads.

In the end, the bird
seems to be questioning singing at all. The bird wants to be considered in the same why
which other things in nature are: recognized, missed, and reflected
upon.

trying to find the domain and the range of the functionsthe project is about scatter plots years of 1980-2008 deaths from 16-90

The domain of a relation (or a function) is the set of
inputs. It is typically the independent variable, and is graphed along the
x-axis.

If the data is listed as ordered pairs with year
first followed by number of deaths (e.g. (1988,1267)) then the input is the year; the
output is the number of deaths. If the data is the number of deaths by age per year,
then the input is the age. It is unclear from your question how the data are
listed.

So if the data is listed (year, number of deaths)
then the domain is the set of years you are looking at:{1980,1981,...,2008}. If the data
is listed as number of deaths per age (e.g.(16,134) means 134 people age 16 died) then
the domain is the ages you are interested in:
{16,17,...,90}

The range is the set of all outputs -- in
either case above the range is the set of the different number of
deaths.

If your data set is finite, then you can list both
domain and range as sets. For a large data set, you can define the domain and range as
intervals or inequalities: domain 1980<y<2008 with y a whole number year
and the range as (smallest number of deaths)<d<(largest number of deaths)
where d is a whole number of deaths.

Washington once said that during the Revolution the British beat them all the time, but that the Colonial Army won the two battles that counted....

If I had to venture a guess, I would say that Washington
was referring to the Battle of Saratoga in 1778, and the Battle of Yorktown in 1781. 
You're right, there were other battles the Americans won, but these two had very
significant impacts on how the war would and could be waged by the Colonials, and on the
outcome of the war itself.

Saratoga, it could be argued,
was the first time the American Army had fought a traditional, open field battle against
the British and won it on their own terms.  This helped the diplomatic efforts of
Benjamin Franklin to secure the Treaty of Alliance.  This led to offers of training and
financial aid (loans) for the war, as well as threw the French Navy into the
fight.

Yorktown was the decisive battle of the war and the
one which gave America its independence.  General Cornwallis of the British was cornered
against the ocean, and thanks to the French Navy, the British Navy could not come and
rescue his forces.  He was forced to surrender, the first time an entire British Army
had done so.  This virtually guaranteed American independence, and could be called
Washington's greatest moment as commander.

How did Ponyboy's parents die in The Outsiders?

Ponyboy never elaborates about the exact cause of death of
his parents in Susan E. Hinton's classic teen novel, The Outsiders.
We are only told that the three brothers had been orphaned when their parents died in an
automobile accident. In the movie version of The Outsiders,
director Francis Ford Coppola used a dream sequence of the parents dying in their car
when it was hit by a train, but the novel does not include the details about the train.
We do know that Pony's dad was named Darrel (Darry was a Jr.) and that the mother was
very beautiful. 

I need help fast with some questions:How does Dahl use suspense and the krait to create internal conflict in the story "Poison"?

Masonobeans, policy is that you may only ask one question
per posting, so I've narrowed your 3 questions down into one.  I hope this
helps.

In "Poison", Dahl begins hooking his reader with the
presence of the extremely venomous snake - the krait.  We, the readers, turn the pages
and want to know what's going to happen: will Harry Pope get bitten by the snake?  Will
he die?  Will the doctor and Timber save him or will they too be bitten by the krait? 
Readers ask themselves questions such as these all throughout the story.  Harry's real
sense of fear (he's petrified) and his unwillingness to move at all while waiting for
rescue, add to the mood of the story and keep us wanting to know what will
happen.

The krait itself is an external conflict (Harry
Pope v. the venomous snake).  However, the krait is also a symbol for the ideas of
racisim presented when Harry Pope begins hurling racial slurs at the good doctor when
they discover that there is no snake in the bed.  Another type of poison could be fear -
fear paralyzes some people, much like a poison
could.

Internal conflict present is Harry's state of mind,
his fear, and his racist remarks.  He must really believe those racist things if he's
saying them outloud.

In Raymond's Run by Toni Cade Bambara, discuss the aspects of the story's plot.

Toni Cade Bambara plunges the readers into two days of
Hazel Parker’s life in “Raymond’s Run.” The story is an upbeat portrayal of Harlem where
the author herself lived. 

The setting of the story is
Harlem in the 1970s.  The narration is first person with the protagonist “Squeaky” Hazel
Parker the narrator.  The quality of Bambara’s writing that enthralls the writer comes
from  the idiomatic language used by the
characters. 

Exposition

The
story introduces the narrator Squeaky as a young black girl with attitude.  As she walks
down the street in Harlem with her  mentally challenged brother Raymond, the reader
learns that Squeaky’s main responsibility is to take care of the brother.  She guards
him continually from going into the street and jumping into the gutters.  While she
walks, Squeaky prepares for the May Day Race that she has won for several years.    In
the neighborhood, she is known as “the fastest thing on two
feet."

Rising
Action

The narrator and her brother come
upon her rival Gretchen and Squeaky’s former friends. Gretchen, new to the neighborhood,
potentially could beat Squeaky.  One of the ex-friends begins to tease Raymond; 
sharp-witted Hazel quickly retaliates and avoids a confrontation with the
girls. 

Intensifying the
action

The next day is the race.  Mr.
Pearson, one of the teachers, knows Squeaky.  He starts to write down her entry form
with the name Squeaky.  Hazel insists that he write down her full name instead: Hazel 
Elizabeth Deborah Parker.  She does not appreciate his teasing when he implies that she
ought to let someone else win this year.  

Squeaky places
her brother in a swing while she runs the race.  She thinks to herself that next year
Raymond would not fit into the swings. 

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I put Raymond in the little swings, which is a
tight squeeze this year and will be impossible next year. Then I look around for Mr.
Pearson, who pins the numbers on.  I ‘m really  looking for
Gretchen...

Climax

Racing
envelops Squeaky.  The race begins, and the race is over before she knows it.  Her body
took her past the finish line.  Gretchen ran hard as well.  Neither girl is sure who won
the race. 

The announcer comes over the speaker and says
that Hazel Parker won, with Gretchen coming in second.

Falling
action

Raymond gets Squeaky attention by
rattling on the fence like a gorilla in a cage who wants out. She observes him and
wonders how good a runner that Raymond would be since he is able to keep up with her
when she races.  She can always retire from running and coach
Raymond. 

Resolution

Gretchen
and Hazel see each other after the race.  This time they exchange real smiles. 
Typically, Squeaky ends with the idea that maybe instead of practicing being flowers at
the May Pole, they should do something like learn how to be respectful
people.

Literary
devices

Allusion

The
kids in the neighborhood also call Squeaky the name “Mercury.” This is an allusion to
the Roman god of speed. 

Simile

“I’ll
high-prance down 34th Street like a rodeo pony.” In one of Squeaky’s visions, she sees
herself marching down the street as though she is fancy pony that someone would ride in
the parade.

A theme found in the story concerns the
treatment of the mentally challenged.  Children do tease Raymond.  Squeaky’s approach is
to try to threaten them back or attack them. Obviously, parental intervention would help
both Squeaky and the kids who tease Raymond. 

What was the role of the traditional praise poet as seen in Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman?

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PRAISE-SINGER: Far be it for me to belittle the
dwellers of that place but, a man is either born to his are or he isn't. And I don't
know for certain that you'll meet my father, so who is going to sing these deeds in
accents that will pierce the deafness of the ancient ones. I have prepared my going -
just tell me: 'Olohun-iyo, I need you on this journey' and I shall be behind
you.

ELESIN: ... Stay close to me, but only on this side. My fame, my
honour are legacies to the living; stay behind and let the world sip its honey from your
lips.

PRAISE-SINGER: Your name will be like the sweet berry .... The
world will never spit it out.
[...]

PRAISE-SINGER: ... there
is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race.
If that world leaves its course and smashes on the boulders of the great void, whose
world will give us
shelter?

The role of the
traditional praise poet--or, more properly stated, praise-singer--is outlined in the
opening scene of Wole Soyinka's play Death and the King's Horseman.
Both the praise-singer and Elesin describe the role of the praise-singer. As in all
traditions of oral story telling, going back to before Homer's
Iliad, praise-singers memorize the details of feats of courage,
strength, love, or victory performed by the local heroes and champions. These stories,
set to rhythm and rhyme and memorized as poetry, are told as poetic epics to villagers
and to communities of villages. The objective is to preserve a living history of the
events of the passing times and to preserve the biographies of the great local
personages.

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PRAISE-SINGER: Your name will be like the sweet
berry .... The world will never spit it
out.

To perform this task,
they follow and are in attendance with the heroes and champions as they go into
situations that will try and test their worthiness. Soyinka demonstrates this, along
with the role already described, in the quoted passage above, in which we see that the
praise-singer is following and chanting to Elesin as he makes his first entrance to the
market place.

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ELESIN: ... Stay close to me, but only on this
side. My fame, my honour are legacies to the living; stay behind and let the world sip
its honey from your lips.

In
addition, the praise-singer ties the deeds and prowess of the individual in with the
history, greatness and worthiness of the whole village, community and race, as the
Praise-Singer makes clear by inferring that his task is also to provide, through his
poetic song, the knowledge of the shell of their souls and world of the spirit of their
race:

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PRAISE-SINGER: ... there is only one shell to the
soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our
race.

In the story, do you think that the narrator endorses the the actions of Mrs. Mallard?What exactly does the narrator think of Mrs. Mallard?

Kate Chopin wrote during the Realist period. Therefore,
her texts were meant to depict life as it was. Characteristically, these authors wished
to depict life as it was; without justification and interpretation. The Realist focused
upon the character over the plot, events are plausible, tone and diction reveal common
language and understanding, and the author is
objective.

Therefore, based upon these characteristics, one
would be hard pressed to state that the narrator, or Chopin, endorses anything which
Mrs. Mallard does. The story is told as it is happening and the author (narrator) is
simply detailing the action for the reader. Texts of the Realistic movement were written
in a play-by-play manner. The narrator (a detached, third-person limited narrator) does
not interject personal thought and maintains distance from the characters and the story
so as to do so.

On the other hand, one could justify just
about anything based upon personal interpretation and justification. A reader would
simply need to pull pieces from the text which support their feelings about the
speaker's endorsement or feelings about Mrs. Mallard. This would be based solely upon
your own understanding and justifications made regarding the character of Mrs. Mallard
and how you feel about the narrator's feelings about her.

Discuss how A Raisin in the Sun presents conflicts based in religion.

Mama Younger is very spiritual. In her house, there is
still God. Even though Beneatha has the courage to deny God's existence, in Mama's
house, she comes to her senses when Mama slaps her across the
face:

Mama
and Beneatha argue because Mrs. Younger does not like the things Beneatha is saying, and
feels her daughter is taking the name of the Lord in vain. Beneatha states her age, 20
years old, as proof of her right to speak the way she wishes, but her mother feels it
has nothing to do with
age.

Mama is a believer in
God and her children must be believers as well. Mama is very strict about her religious
beliefs. She has depended on God for her very breath. Mama will not allow her children
to deny God. She will not allow them to speak of God in a disrespectful
way.

Beneatha believes God gets too much credit for the
things she has worked hard to achieve herself. When she vocalizes this belief, Mama
slaps her across the face. Mama gives God total honor and glory for all the blessings
she has in life. She gives God the credit for the very breath she breathes. She is
totally dependent on God to give her strength to get out bed in the
morning.

God is at the head of Mama's household. He is
first in her life. Then her children are second. Mama is extremely spiritual. She is
totally convinced that there is a God and his existence gives her a reason to get out of
bed. She is in agreement with God's plan for her life. Her strong, spiritual background
is evident in her strong, determination to survive:

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Mama is clearly the source of the family's
strength as well as its
soul.

No doubt, Mama will
give credit to God for her strength, heart, and soul. As for the conflict that a belief
in God causes in Mama's house, there will be no disrespect of God. Mama will not
tolerate disrespect of God in her house. When Mama slaps Beneatha across the face,
Beneatha learns to keep her mouth closed about the subject of God and
spirituality.

Explain why the speaker in "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" is not disturbed at the thought of bidding farewell to his beloved.

Let us remember the central image that forms such a major
part of this excellent poem. The conceit, or surprising figure of speech that is
renowned in this poem is the comparison of the speaker in this poem and his beloved to
the two feet of a compass. Note the way that this conceit is presented and how it
presents the speaker and his beloved:

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If they be two, they are two
so

As stiff twin compasses are
two,

They soul the fixed foot, makes no
show

To move, but doth, if th'other
do.

And though it in the centre
sit,

Yet when the other far doth
roam,

It leans, and hearkens after
it,

And grows erect, as that comes
home.

Note the way that this
image allows the speaker to present a mystical kind of union that exists between himself
and his beloved, a union that even death itself cannot break. It also presents their
reunion as being an inevitable process, as both remain connected and together, and just
await that moment when they can be together again. The speaker therefore has no fears
about bidding farewell, because he knows that really it is not a farwell: the binds that
tie him to his beloved are so strong that even death cannot sever them, and their
reunion will be just a matter of time.

In "The Doll's House," do the dolls that came with the house hold significance in that they do not fit or belong?

This is an interesting idea. However, I must be honest.
The fact that the dolls are only mentioned once in the entire short story and that they
are given a very cursory description suggests to me that they are not really important,
and that we need to be careful when reading in to them any symbolic meaning. Far more
attention is given to the lamp, for example, which clearly can be argued to be symbolic.
Let us consider the description of the dolls that we are
given:

The
father and mother dolls, who sprawled very stiff as though they had fainted in the
drawing room, and their two little children asleep upstairs, were really too big for the
doll's house. They didn't look as though they
belonged.

Now, the phrase
"They didn't look as if they belonged," could be used to suggest that the dolls could be
symbolic of the Kelvey's, as you suggest, because they definitely do not belong to their
surroundings either. However, this is much more likely to be a rather humorous
description of the doll's house as being rather cheap and not well-made. In spite of all
the detail, let us remember that there were "big lumps of congealed paint hanging along
the edge." Therefore, I think it is more likely that this is not a symbolic comment as
such, and just relates to the shoddy presentation of this doll's house, which
nevertheless holds such importance for the Burnell girls.

To what heavenly body does Romeo compare Juliet? Why?

Romeo says that "it is the east and Juliet is the sun." 
Since the sun rises in the east, we can assume that Romeo is making a comparison between
the rising sun and his rising affection for Juliet.  He is comparing her to  something
bright and burning just like his feelings for her. 

Romeo continues
his comparison when he says that if her eyes were in the heavens with the stars, they
would "shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp."  We know this comparison continues
the comparison because he says that if her eyes were in heaven, birds would begin to
sing thinking it was morning instead of night.  Thus continuing the comparison of Juliet
to a rising sun.

Please provide a sample outline for a Thanksgiving Day party.I need an outline sample about a Thanksgiving party

If I were writing an essay or story modeled after the
“Thanksgiving Day” story, I would focus on detailed descriptions of the characters
rather than focusing on events.  This is because the story focuses more on describing
the characters and family than on plot.  I would outline it around people then.  I am
providing you with some generic sample information so you can plan your own outline, but
feel free to use mine too.  You can fill in the
rest.

1. Hosting Family
   1.  Mother
      greets guests at the door.
      1. Wears an apron but with perfect outfit and
         hair, apron is more for show as others are doing the
         work.
      
      
      2. Makes small talk, tries to make guests feel welcome
         while staying in control of who goes where and does what.
         1. Makes
            suggestions, such as oldest son is playing football and middle daughter has
            games.
         
         
      
      
   
   
   2. Father
      stays in the kitchen with the turkey at first, then moves to the TV to chat with
      guests.
      1. Father shoes out those who venture into the kitchen, but only
         after giving them little treats.
      
      
      2. He is portly and jolly,
         and does not wear an apron but is covered in flour and little stains that don’t seem to
         bother him at
         all.
      
      
   
   
   3. Oldest daughter
      assists mom with cooking.
   
   
   4. Middle daughter watches and
      entertains the visiting children and youngest
      daughter.
   
   
   5. Son stays outside most of the afternoon playing
      football with some of the
      guests
   
   


2. Visiting family
   1
   1. Mother is tense.
   
   
   2. Two teenage sons
      that join the football game
   
   
   3. Father turns the game on TV
      as soon as he
      arrives
   
   


3. Visiting family
   2
   1. Mother is exhausted, carrying a
      baby
   
   
   2. Three young
      children
   
   


4. Visiting family
   3

You can see that I describe the
people carefully, and through these descriptions was basically see the plot unfold. 
It’s actually kind of fun!

Is Mariam right to feel guilt about the suicide death of her mother in A Thousand Splendid Suns? Explain.

It is certainly not surprising that Mariam felt a sense of
guilt after discovering the body of her mother hanging from a tree. Mariam was all that
her Nana had, and when Nana discovered that her daughter had ventured down the hill for
her father's home in Herat, she knew that she might never return to her. Nana also felt
that Mariam was becoming too closely attached to Jalil, who she knew would eventually
let her down. Nana was fearful of being left alone, and she feared that Jalil would
break Mariam's heart, as he had done to her.

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"Everything I endured for you! How dare you! How
dare you abandon me like this, you treacherous little
harami!"

Nana
warned Mariam that

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"I'll die if you go... I'll swallow my tongue and
die. Don't leave me."

But
Mariam's desire to see the cartoon at the picture show, to meet her brothers and
sisters, and to be a bigger part of Jalil's life prevailed, and she went to see him.
Mariam also believed that it was Nana who had misjudged Jalil, and
that

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You're afraid that I might find the
happiness you never had. And you don't want me to be
happy. You don't want a good life for me.
You're the one with the wretched
heart.

Mariam was
not completely wrong about her mother's motives, but she was wrong about Nana's strong
desire to die if she had to live without her daughter. After Nana's
death,

Mariam
could not find comfort in God's words... All she could do was cry and cry and let her
tears fall... 

Give an example where local political considerations somehow influenced the outcome of a criminal trial.

Prosecutors in most parts of the United States are either
in elected positions, or they are interested in someday seeking one, such as a District
Judge or the like.  So in that way, many, many cases are either pursued or prosecuted
with different amounts of zeal because, whatever the legal considerations, the outcome
will affect popular opinion and therefore elections.

Take,
for example, the trial of Byron De La Beckwith in Mississippi, on two occasions in the
1960s for the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evars.  In one of the trials, the
former Governor of the state, Ross Barnett, entered the courtroom, while Evars widow was
on the stand, and shook hands with Beckwith in front of the jury.  The trial resulted in
a hung jury.

What are some purposes of the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?

The famous medieval poem Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight seems to have a number of related purposes, including the
following:

• To remind its readers that earthly
  life is mutable – that nothing earthly will last or can be depended upon (see lines
  16-19 of the Marie Boroff translation).


• To remind its
  readers that the true meaning of Christmas does not involve self-indulgent celebration
  but rather genuine religious thankfulness for the birth of the savior
  (20-84).


• To rebuke the pride and immaturity of King
  Arthur and his courtiers as they are described in the opening section of the
  poem.


• To remind us of the moral and religious virtues to
  which we should all be dedicated (at least according to the author of this poem;
  619-69).


• To contrast the shallow life Gawain was leading
  during the first Christmas described in the poem with the true meaning of Christmas,
  which becomes apparent to him a year later (750-62).


• To
  show us how easy it is to forget spiritual lessons, even when they have been learned
  through recent and difficult experience (875-900).


• To
  show us how tempting earthly, physical pleasures can be
  (875-900).


• To remind us that physical beauty may have
  nothing at all to do with spiritual beauty (941-69; 1236-40; 1472-1475;
  1531-34).


• To show us that even a man as good as Gawain is
  capable of succumbing to temptation (1859-69).


• To show us
  that even a man as good as Gawain is capable of lying
  (1940-41).


• To show us that even a man as good as Gawain
  is capable of hypocrisy (2138-39; 2156-59).


• To show us
  that forgiveness is a great Christian virtue
  (2389-94).


• To show us that self-forgiveness is also a
  worthy thing – that we should not expect perfection from ourselves or others, since we
  are all imperfect (2505-10).


• To show us that Gawain is
  wrong when he proclaims, concerning his own faults,
  that

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“ . . . one may keep a deed dark, but undo it no
whit,

For where a fault is made fast, it is fixed
evermore.”
(2512-13)

• To
  remind us that the whole point of the birth of Christ and of the Christian religion is
  precisely that faults can be forgiven and that sins need not be
  “fixed evermore.”


• To show us how much more mature and
  truly Christian Arthur and his court have become by the end of the poem than they were
  at the beginning. Their decision not simply to forgive Gawain but to embrace him in love
  reveals that they are truly practicing the religion to which they earlier gave mere lip
  service (2513-21).

What is an example of personification in the short story Everyday Use?

Personification is attributing qualities of a human being
to something that is not human.  In this story, personification is very closely tied to
the basic theme of the story which is the contrast between Magge and Dee.  One woman is
seeking bits and pieces of her heritage after she has adopted a new one.  The other is
still living the live of a traditional southern black woman. For Dee, life has presented
her with a degree of education and wealth.  For Maggie, acceptance of her simple lot in
life is evident in her lack of confidence.

Personfication
occurs in the following line: "Like good looks and money, quickness passes her by."  
The use of personification is evident in the way that implies an active intent on the
part of good looks and money to avoid Maggie.  In a way, this seems to imply that
Maggie's life is one dictated to her by fate, something she cannot
change.

What is the theme of Charles, by Shirley Jackson?

The short story "Charles", by Shirley Jackson, has two
prevalent themes: identity and gender.

The theme of
identity is identified by the fact that Laurie's mother has no clue that the child,
Charles, her son is talking about is, in fact, her own son. The theme is compounded by
the way that Laurie's parents fail to see his behavior as inappropriate, but they both
see the problems with the behaviors of Charles. The parents cannot identify the
behaviors of Charles with those of their own son. Therefore, the parents have no clue
who their child really is.

Another way to examine this
theme is through examining Laurie. He does not seem to have a full grasp on his own
identity (not surprising given he is only in
Kindergarten).

The second theme defined in the story is one
of gender. Many people would align the name of Laurie with a girl. The name Laurie is
not typically associated with that of a boy. The name which Laurie uses as his alternate
ego is, by far, much more masculine. Therefore, one could justify that Laurie has issues
with his own assumed feminine identity and needs to create a more masculine one. He does
this by creating Charles, a boy who speaks inappropriately and behaves like the "typical
boy."

What is the basic cause of a sonic boom.

To help understand how a sonic boom is created we must
first understand the nature of a sound wave created in air by a stationary object and
what happens when waves interfere with each other.

Sound is
created when a vibrating object disturbs a medium, causing the molecules in the medium
to alternately compress and rarefact (separate) in rhythm with the object's vibrations.
 In the case of sound we normally hear, the medium is air (although it does not have to
be which is why we can hear sounds underwater).  If the object is allowed to vibrate
freely in open air on a calm day, the compressed and rarefacted molecules of air will
transfer the vibrations to molecules close to them.  Those molecules will transfer the
vibration to molecules next to them, etc...  The result is a "wave" of compressed air
moving away from the source of the vibration in all three directions simultaneously.
 These waves of sound have a speed called the "speed of sound" which is determined by
the atmospheric conditions in the area where the sound is
created.

The intensity, or "loudness", of the sound gets
less the further away the compression moves from the source.  In fact it obeys the
"inverse square law" which means that for each time it doubles the distance from the
source, the sound becomes 1/4 as intense.

When two waves
overlap, they interfere with each other.  For the purposes of a sonic boom we need only
concern ourselves with constructive interference.  In constructive interference the
pressure and rarefaction of the the two waves overlap.  When this happens the pressures
add together making an even stronger wave.  If three waves overlap and constructively
interfere there is an even stronger pressure wave created producing a more intense
(louder) sound.  The more waves that constructively interfere with each other, the more
intense the resulting pressure becomes.

In the case of a
plane creating a sonic boom, the plane moving through the air makes a pressure wave by
pushing air out of its way as it moves forward.  It is not vibrating as in the simple
example above, but it is making pressure in the air which we can hear as sound.  The
sound leave the plane in all directions, but is most intense in front of the plane.  As
the plane approaches the speed of sound, the new wave it creates overlaps the wave it
created earlier causing constructive interference.  When the plane reaches the speed of
sound, all of the sound it is creating and pushing out in front of the plane is
overlapping all of the sound it has just created producing a lot of constructive
interference.  The result is one huge wave of pressure that builds up in front of the
plane.  Even though the plane may be far away, and the sound has to obey the inverse
square law, there is so much pressure created by the plane moving at the speed of sound
that the intensity of the sound is still very high when it reaches the ground. When that
pressure reaches our ears we hear it as a loud explosion of sound.  It is that loud
"boom" of a single, large wave of pressure hitting out ears that we call a sonic
boom.

How were women limited in Jane Austen's time? At least 3 points with evidence.Please use evidence from Pride and Prejudice...

The rights of women in Jane Austen's England were limited
in several ways. Women could not be admited to universities, they could not vote, and
they could not hold elected office. The Church of England being the official state
religion, women could not be priests or bishops. A woman could be Queen of England, but
only if there were no legitimate male heirs. Many positions of power, especially those
requiring university degrees, were not open to women. Only men could pursue military or
legal careers, for example. Inheritance of titles and estates normally went to the
eldest son. Married women could not hold property independently of their husbands until
passage of the Married Woman's Property Act.

What is the movement of a poem?

If you are asking about a specific poem, you need to
submit another question and give the title of the piece you are
analyzing.

In general, many readers of poetry find a sense
of movement in the poems they read is imparted by the combined use of rhythm and rhyme.
Rhythm refers to the pattern of accented and unaccented syllables frequently used in
poetry and most obvious when the poems are read aloud. Different combinations are used
by authors to create the effect they are attempting to convey. The boldface syllables
are the accented ones in this
"poem."

Twin-kle
twin-kle lit-tle
star!

How
I won-der what you
are.

Rhyme contributes to
movement by connecting the lines of a poem. The reader feels anticipation as s/he
recognizes the pattern being created by the repetition of certain combinations of
letters and sounds. In the poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost,
the 1st, 2nd and 4th line of each stanza rhyme. The 3rd line of each stanza rhymes with
the 1st, 2nd, and 4th line of the next stanza.

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Whose woods these are I think I
know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me
stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with
snow.

My little horse must think it
queer
To stop without a farmhouse
near
Between the woods and frozen
lake
The darkest evening of the
year.

He gives his harness bells a
shake
To ask if there is some
mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of
easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely,
dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I
sleep,
And miles to go before I
sleep.

why pygmalion is a Shavian play?George Bernard Shaw

A Shavian play is any play that relates to or has the
charateristics (humor, wit, style) of Gerorge Bernard Shaw.  You can see how his name is
a Latinized form of Shavian.  Since Shaw in fact wrote Pygmalion,
it is a Shavian play.

Pygmalion
is characteristic of Shaw because it follows his typical style.  While he
shunned the "Art for arts sake" mantra of the time, his plays often
do not end in the happy boy wins girl structure that audiences are accustomed to. 
Instead he wishes to challenge his audience and force to them to question and confront
current social issues: traditional gender roles, issues with class and economics, etc.
Since Pygmalion touches on these standards, in the style of Shaw,
it is a Shavian play.

ON A METER SCALE , TWO LONG PARALLEL CONDUCTORS AT RIGHT ANGLE TO IT PLACED AT 2cm & 6cm. THEY CARRY CURRENTS OF 1A & 3A RESPECTIVELON A METER...

The figure is attached
below.

By definition the magnetic field induction `B`  of a
current `I`  that flows to a straight wire, at distance `R` from the wire
is

`B = mu*I/(2*pi*R)`

where
`mu` is the magnetic permeability of the medium.

Because
the currents are parallel and in the same direction the condition of having zero
magnetic field happens is a point between the two wires where the field of one wire
enters the page and the other exits the page.

`B_1 =B_2
rArr mu*I_1/(2*pi*R_1) =mu*I_2/(2*pi*R_2)`

`R_1/R_2
=I_1/I_2 rArr R_2 =3R_1`

with the condition `R_1 +R_2 =
6-2 =4 cm`

`R_1 +3*R_1 =4`

`4R_1 =4 rArr R_1 =1cm`

Thus
the field will be zero at `R_1 =1 cm` distance to the right of first wire. This means
that on the cm scale this point will be at the 3 cm
mark.

The correct answer is C) 3
cm

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