In what ways do the poems "Delight in Disorder" and "Upon Julia's Clothes" state aesthetic ideals?

I would argue that both of these poems state aesthetic
ideas in their focus on the way in which the beauty of the subject of the poem impacts
the speaker. In summary, "Delight in Disorder" is a poem that is about the way in which
the unkempt nature of the subject of the poem is more mesmerising than absolute
perfection. Consider the following example:

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A careless shoe-string, in whose tie
I
see a wild civility :
Do more bewitch me than when art 
Is too
precise in every part.

The
speaker finds more beauty in "wild civility" than he does in "precise... art" where
there are no errors. Clearly this poem focuses on, as the title suggests, the way that
there can be great beauty in "disorder."

We can see the
same emphasis on beauty and appearance in "Upon Julia's Clothes," as the simple sight of
watching Julia walk produces a singular effect on the speaker as he is overwhelmed by
her beauty and grace:

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Next, when I cast mine eyes and
see
That brave vibration each way free ;
O how that glittering
taketh me !

Having extolled
the "liquefaction of her clothes" as Julia walks, now the speaker is literally entranced
by the "glittering" as she moves. Both poems, therefore, focus on beauty and its
presentation in the form of women and how this beauty impacts the
speaker.

Why did European colonization happen?

There is no single answer as to why European colonization
occurred; as each country had it's own motives. Originally, the primary aim of
exploration was to find an alternative route by sea to the riches of the East. Columbus
himself was attempting to do just that. Once the New World was discovered, there was
little interest in colonizing it for some time.

The first
to exploit the New World were the Spanish who were primarily interested in gold and
silver. Their secondary interest was in converting the Indians to Christianity, but they
did not let this stand in the way of their primary goal. The Spanish established a
settlement at St. Augustine, Florida, the earliest permanent settlement in the U.S. as
an outpost to guard their gold shipments to Europe.

English
colonization was at first an effort by Sir Walter Raleigh and his half brother, Sir
Humphrey Gilbert, to establish an outpost to keep an eye on Spanish settlements. They,
of course, failed miserably, notably the "lost colony" of Roanoke. English colonization
was justified by Sir Richard Hakluyt in his Discourse on Western
Planting:

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That this westerne discoverie will be greately
for the inlargement of the gospell of Christe whereunto the Princes of the refourmed
relligion are chefely bounde amongest whome her Majestie is principall. That all other
englishe Trades are growen beggerly or daungerous, especially in all the kinge of Spaine
his Domynions, where our men are dryven to flinge their Bibles and prayer Bokes into the
sea, and to forsweare and renownce their relligion and conscience and consequently theyr
obedience to her Majestie.That this westerne voyadge will yelde unto us all the
commodities of Europe, Affrica, and Asia, as far as wee were wonte to travell, and
supply the wantes of all our decayed trades. That this enterprise will be for the
manifolde imploymente of nombers of idle men, and for bredinge of many sufficient, and
for utterance of the greate quantitie of the commodities of our Realme.That this voyage
will be a great bridle to the Indies of the kinge of Spaine and a means that wee may
arreste at our pleasure for the space of teime weekes or three monethes every yere, one
or twoo hundred saile of his subjectes shippes at the fysshinge in Newfounde Iande. That
the rischesse that the Indian Threasure wrought in time of Charles the late Emperor
father to the Spanishe kinge, is to be had in consideracion of the Q. moste excellent
Majestie, leaste the contynuall commynge of the like threasure from thence to his sonne,
worke the unrecoverable annoye of this Realme, whereof already wee have had very
dangerous
experience.

Notwithstanding
Hakluyt's high sounding principles, the colony at Jamestown was founded by a joint stock
company with the intent of profiting financially. Northern colonies, such as Chesapeake
Bay were intended to be representations of model Christian communities, a "City on a
Hill" to use Winthrop's phrase.

Finally the French came for
economic motives and to convert the Indians; their motivation being the fur trade.
Ultimately, only the English were successful.

Explain how is Madame Forestier a static character....

In Guy de Maupassant's short story "The Necklace", the
character of Madame Forestier is a great example of a static character. A static
character is defined in literature as a minor participant of the plot who, regardless of
what role it takes in the story, does not become affected by any of the situations to
the point of actually changing.

In not so many words, a
static character is just "there" and really does not change nor influence the story at
all. Madame Forestier is clearly a minor character. She simply lends Madame Loisel the
fake diamond necklace that the latter believes to be real and then pays for after she
lost it. Madame Forestier is simply a friend of the main character who facilitated the
her with an object. The object may have changed the main character, but not Madame
Forestier. The loss of the object, even, did not change a Forestier, who simply missed
it casually. However, the loss of the necklace changed Madame. Loisel's life
forever.

Therefore, if you analyze Madame Loisel and how
she changed in the story you can clearly see how Madame. Forestier would be a static
character in comparison.

What are some of the religious practices seen in The Iliad?

Greek religion, as seen in Homer's Iliad, is of a type
known as "do ut des" ("I give that you might give"). Humans interact with the gods to
attract divine benevolence and to ward off or propitiate divine disfavour. Three modes
of human-divine interaction appear in the Iliad. the first is divination, whereby seers
or diviners consult auguries and observe omens in an attempot to discover the will of
the gods. The second is religious ritual or sacrifice by which humans attempt to offer
things to the gods that the gods desire (smoke rising from the burned fat and viscera of
sacrificed animals, e.g.) in order to obtain divine faviur. Finally, humans regulate or
modify their behaviour to avoid divine disfavour. For example, in Iliad Book 6, Diomedes
and Glaucus refuse to fight each other because they have a bond of guest friendship via
familial connections and injuring one another would bring down upon them the wrath of
Zeus in his aspect as the "god of guests/strangers". Use of divination and subsequent
appeasement of the angry diety is the main theme of Book 1, in which Apollo has sent a
plague because the Greeks seizing the daughter of one of his priests, diviners seek the
cause of the plague, and the daughter is restored and sacrifices offered to end the
plague.

Why did the Founding Fathers choose federalism?

The founding fathers realized that by 1789 the Articles of
Confederation (ratified in 1781) was putting the new nation in critical danger. As a
constitutional structure, the Articles served as a loose union between the different
states and a centralized national government. Unfortunately, the states were so
distrustful of a centralized authority, the national government was extremely limited in
its capacity to govern. Although the national government could make war and negotiate
treaties, it lacked the fundamental power to tax. Without the 'power of the purse' the
national government was essentially held captive by the individual state governments. In
addition, the powers the national government did have were impossible to enforce leaving
the national government again at the whim of the states. Furthermore, Shay's Rebellion
caused the founding fathers to take the weaknesses of the Articles seriously. In 1787
the Constitutional Convention assembled for the purpose of revising the Articles.
Instead they constructed a new document; The U.S. Constitution based upon several
principles one of which was Federalism. Federalism redefined their confederation by
creating a fedeal union. A federal union is a compromise between a unitary system's
concentration of power and a decentralized confederation of state
structure.

What are some examples of ethical appeal in the story "Sinners in the hands of an angry God"?

An ethical appeal is plea to get people to do the right
thing. It is a call to the conscience to urge a better, more ethical action than the
current action that is taking place.

By the content of
Edwards' sermon, we can gather that he believed the people were being apathetic or
indifferent in their relationship with God. To correct this behavior he used many
ethical appeals:

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And let every one that is yet without Christ,
and hanging over the pit of hell, whether they be old men and women, or middle aged, or
young people, or little children, now listen to the loud calls of God's word and
providence.

This is near the
end (as are most of his appeals). He uses a direct command to ask people to do the right
thing: turn back to God.

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Therefore, let every one that is without Christ,
now awake and fly from the wrath to
come.

In this one of the very
last statements, he again uses a commanding tone, but also envokes the emotional appeal
of fear in citing God's wrath. He further uses the verbs of awake
and fly figuratively as he hopes the people with
spiritually awake from a moral slumber and literally flee (instead of fly) from the
impending doom they will face if they do not choose to follow
Christ.

Three paragraphs from the end of his sermon, he
uses the persuasive appeals of emotion and ethics together in these
words:

And
now you have an extraordinary opportunity, a day where Christ has thrown the door of
mercy wide open, and stands calling, and crying with a loud voice to poor sinners; a day
where many are flocking to Him, and pressing into the kingdom of God. Many are daily
coming from the east, west, north, and south; many that were very lately in the same
miserable condition that you are in, are now in a happy state, with their hearts filled
with love to Him who has loved them, and washed them from their sins in His own blood,
and rejoicing in hope of the glory of God. How awful it is to be left behind at such a
day! To see so many others feasting, while you are suffering grief and perishing! To see
so many rejoicing and singing for joy of heart, while you have cause to mourn for sorrow
of heart, and cry because of the apprehension of spirit! How can you rest one moment in
such a condition? Aren't your souls as precious as the souls of the people in the nearby
town where they are flocking from day to day to
Christ?

You could also argue
that there is an appeal to be like everyone else. He encourages his
people here to join the bandwagon with all the other happy people. He does this after 30
minutes of tearing the people down about their sin and condemnation. In these words he
uses metaphor, hyperbole, and parallelism as rhetorical devices of
persuasion.

Solving Equations with variables on both sides. three times the sum of a number and 4 is 8 less than 1/2 the number. Write and solve an equation to...

Solve the following: Three times the sum of a
number and 4 is 8 less than 1/2 the number.

Note
the key words: times typically means multiply; sum means addition (Also notice the
multiplication is on the sum);is usually means equals;less than indicates subtraction;
1/2 the number means to multiply by 1/2 or divide by 2.

We
are looking for a number -- lets call it x.

Then we have
3(x+4)=1/2x-8. Read the sentence as you look at the equation and verbalize the algebra
operations.

Now the easy
part:

`3(x+4)=1/2x-8`

`6(x+4)=x-16`
Multiply both sides of the equation by 2 to clear the
fraction.

`6x+24=x-16` Use the distributive property to
eliminate the ()

`5x=-40` Subtract x from both
sides;subtract 24

`x=-8` Divide by
5

Check your answer: 3 times the sum of -8 and 4 is
3(-4)=-12

8 less than 1/2(-8) is
-4-8=-12.

Therefore the number we are seeking is
-8.

What is the irony of the trite dialogue and casual tone of "The Lottery"?

By the time you have finished this terrifying and scary
story, we realise as readers how we have been deceived and manipulated by the author.
From the very beginning of this excellent modern Gothic classic, we are led to believe
that we are being presented with a normal village fete scene and normal villagers,
whilst all the time something much more sinister lurks beneath the innocent demeanour of
the characters. An excellent example of how we are deceived can be found in the way that
Tessie Hutchinson is introduced. As the villagers gather for the lottery, the nature of
which we are unsure of, Tessie Hutchinson arrives late, and her arrival is described in
the following way:

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She tapped Mrs. Delacroix on the arm as a
farewell and began to make her way through the crowd. The people separated
good-humouredly to let her through; two or three people said, in voices just loud enough
to be heard across the crowd, "Here comes your Missis, Hutchinson," and "Bill, she made
it after all." Mrs. Hutchinson reached her husband, and Mr. Summers, who had been
waiting, said cheerfully, "Thought we wre going to have to get on without you, Tessie."
Mrs. Hutchinson said, grinning, "Wouldn't have me leave m'dishes in the sink, now, would
you Joe?," and soft laughter ran through the crowd as the people stirred back into
position after Mrs. Hutchinson's
arrival.

Note the way that
the inclusion of "soft laughter" and the way that the people separate in a "good humour"
to let Tessie through, and the kind of witty joke that Tessie makes to Mr. Summers
clearly makes us believe that this is a perfectly innocent village meeting. It is only
at the end of the story that we realise the sinister purpose of this gathering, and the
tragic role that Tessie herself will play in it. The dialogue and casual tone is one of
the principal ways in which Jackson achieves this masterful act of
deception.

Why did Creon side with Eteocles and reject burial for Polynices?

After Oedipus' blinding and exile from Thebes, Creon
became the king until Oedipus' sons became old enough to rule. Because both Eteocles and
Polynices seem to have been legitimate heirs to the throne, a solution was worked out
whereby they would take turns ruling Thebes. One would rule for a year, while the other
went into exile.

Unfortunately, Eteocles, after a year as
king, did not want to give up the kingship. Polynices wanted his own turn at being king
and so he raised an army from Argos (where he had spent a year in exile) and marched
upon his native land of Thebes to try to regain the kingdom by force. In the ensuing
battle, both Eteocles and Polynices died, killing each other
simultaneously.

The reason Creon wanted Eteocles to have a
proper burial was because he died defending his country. Because Polynices had fought
against the Thebans, Creon declared that Polynices should not be
buried.

What caused Miss Emily to kill Homer, and keep his body in "A Rose for Emily"?

This is a question that is never fully answered by William
Faulkner in his macabre Southern gothic short story, "A Rose for Emily." We can only
assume that she killed Homer because he had decided to leave town and not marry Emily.
Homer was her last, best chance at matrimony, and when she discovered that he had no
intention of marrying her, she decided to keep him around anyway. Emily had a history of
mental illness in her family, and she had already held on to one body in her house--her
father's. She first refused to admit that her father was dead, refusing to give up his
corpse after three days (in Southern heat), until a group of citizens persuaded her to
give her father up, and "they buried her father
quickly."

Homer received a similar fate, and it is possible
that Miss Emily's mental condition would not allow her to recognize that he was dead. By
killing Homer and secretly keeping his body in the upstairs bedroom, she could still
enjoy his company--although in deathly silence--for the rest of her life. In her mind,
Homer had never left her at all. 

How should Elizabethan theology affect our interpretation of the consultation with the Oracle of Delphos in The Winter`s Tale?

As many revenge dramas, Shakespeare`s A Winter`s Tale is
set in a fictitional universe, oddly blending geographically distant Italy with pagan
Graeco-Roman culture. For a king to consult the oracle of Delphi before taking a major
action would have been normal procedure in 5th or 4th century Athens; the oracle itself
and consultation with pagan oracles would not have been done in Renaissance Europe
(though people might pray to saints or make pilgrimages to holy Christian
sites).

In part, the consultation with the oracle shows the
influence of Seneca, a Roman writer, on the genre of revenge tragedy; such consultations
were common in both Seneca`s plays and the Euripidean tragedies that influenced
them.

Christian tradition does include inescapable
prophecies, by primarily Jewish prophets, e.g. the prophecy of the Magi concerning the
birth of the King of the Jews leads to Herod the Great`s Massacre of the Innocents in
the Gospel of Matthew. Prophecies by Jeremiah etc. are an important part of the
Judaeo-Christian tradition, but the Delphic oracle is a literary device for Shakespeare
(like the mention of Persephone in your other question) invoking pagan literary generic
conventions.

In "The Minister's Black Veil," analyse the significance of the the black veil that Mr. Hooper wore to the wedding.

It is interesting that Mr. Hooper wears his veil to
preside over both a wedding and a funeral, and his veil impacts the audience at both
events greatly. Hawthorne is clearly trying to show that the symbolic significance of
the veil and the secret sin that it represents stretches to both times of sadness and
times of joy. The way in which the veil taints this joyful event is made clear through
the following description:

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Such was its immediate effect on the guests,
that a cloud seemed to have rolled duskily from beneath the black crape, and dimmed the
light of the candles. The bridal pair stood up before the minsiter. But the bride's cold
fingers quivered in the tremulous hand of the bridegroom, and her deathlike paleness
caused a whisper, that the maiden who had been buried a few hours before, was come from
her grave to be married.

If
this were not enough to ruin the wedding of this poor couple, Mr. Hooper than proceeds
to catch sight of himself in a mirror, and so terrified by his image swathed in the
black veil, runs out in fear and terror. Let us just focus, however, on the way in which
the black veil acts as a clear and obvious symbol of something that most people like to
ignore and deny. The visible reminder that it is of our secret sin disrupts even the
most joyful of events, such as the wedding. What we like to repress and ignore is thus
flaunted by such a symbol, which impacts everything.

Why is it important for a student at a university to be engaged with his or her studies?

The reason that it is important for students to be engaged
with their studies is that they are much more likely to succeed if they are engaged. 
Since college performance is important to one's future prospects, engagement in one's
studies is extremely important.

When people get to college,
they are typically facing an academic environment that is much more rigorous than any
they have yet faced.  At the same time, they are faced with a social situation with more
freedom and temptations than they have had while living at home.  Since the work is more
difficult and since it is more difficult to concentrate on that work, it is vital that
students be engaged so that they can have a better chance of doing well in their
classes.

How should I search for this article? Dowling, David. " 'other and More Terrible Evils': Anticapitalist Rhetoric in Harriet Wilson's Our Nig and...

A good way to search for any academic article or book
these days is to begin with a Google search.  Google now searches numerous other
databases and thus provides a very quick overview of what is available where.  Google
will also give you a sense of how other people have used or responded to an article or
book.  Citations of books, in particular, can be found by using the "Google Books"
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Google!

When I plugged the name of the author and title of
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According to Positive Child Guidance, what are some reasons parents and teachers dont always give "undivided attention" when responding to a...

Since no one has answered this question since September, I
will try even though I am not familiar with Positive Child Guidance.  I am, however, a
teacher and mother of an autistic son.  There are many reasons why you do or don't give
undivided attention to a child's behavior.  One reason to not give such attention is
that it gives too much importance to that one behavior.  Sometimes behavior will
diminish if not given lots of attention as attention can reinforce behavior.  In a
classroom, if the behavior is not disruptive, ignoring it or giving it quiet attention
is an easier method of trying to stop the unwanted behavior.  If the behavior is
positive, casual attention can reinforce without drawing the classroom's attention to
the child which most children abhor.  I always preferred a quiet positive comment to
reinforce a child's behavior while the class was taking notes or working in groups or
listening to an explanation of an activity.  A simple thumbs up works if set up ahead of
time.  "Undivided" means that all other activity stops while the one child is the center
of attention, and usually for me, that was a negative.  I hope this helps answer your
question even though it is not in the vocabulary terms of Positive Child
Guidance.

What type of lawyer do I need to sue my former landlord for illegal possession of my property and illegal lock out? The state is PA delaware...

Landlord/Tenant law is tricky and varied from state to
state.  Assuming this was an apartment, the value of the total property still inside the
apartment might be less than $5000, and if so, all you need to do is file a case in
small claims court.  This way you could file a court case and only consult a lawyer as
opposed to retaining one for the whole lawsuit.

The
attorney you talk to can tell you which specific laws apply, and you should also
consider whether or not there was any weather damage to your property left outside when
you come up with a damage total.  In small claims court, you won't win any judgement for
mental anguish, but you may be able to recover the charges for the hotel. Your lawyer
can advise you on this too.

As for the type of lawyer, you
might try to find one that specializes in property or landlord/tenant law.  Simply call
and ask an attorney, and if they cannot help you, they can usually refer you to one who
can.

'To confess, and be hanged for his labour! First to be hanged, and then to confess: I tremble at it.' Can somebody explain these lines to me?...

These lines come from Shakespeare's,
Othello, Act 4. Scene 1. They are spoken by Othello who is in a
rage. During his discussion with Iago,the villain of the play, he is unwittingly
covinced that his wife, Desdemona, is having an affair with Cassio, his lieutenant. When
he says, "To confess, and be hanged for his labour! First to be hanged, and then to
confess: I tremble at it," he means he will murder Cassio first and then give him a
chance to confess. In other words, he will kill him and cares not to give him the
slightest benefit of the doubt since his supposed action of adultery is one of grave
betrayal. Othello is so enraged, he is shaking due to adrenalin coursing through his
veins.

What are 3 examples of connotation.I understand what it is, I just need some examples.

So as to help others who may be having the same problem,
first allow me to explain what connotation means.

A
connotation is a feeling or idea that a word raises both a figurative and literal
meaning for a person.

In your tag bar, you mentioned the
words "house=home." This would be a connotation given that when some people hear the
word house they automatically think of the word home as well. A house does not only
illustrate a building structure which people live in. It also illustrates the place
where families live and call their home--the place where they
belong.

Therefore, three other examples of connotations
are:

1. Chicken- The literal is the animal, the figurative
is a cowardly person.

2. Shrimp- The literal is the sea
creature, the figurative is a person who is small.

3. Pig-
The literal is the farm animal, the figurative is someone who would eat a lot or does
not bathe.

A(-2,2) and C(4,-1)are opposite vertices of a parallelogram ABCD whose sides are parallel to the lines x=0 and 3y=x, a)Find the coordinates of B...

Given the points A(-2, 2) and c(4,-1) are opposite
vertices's of a parallelogram.

Then the equations of the
lines for the parallelogram can be obtained .

A(-2,2) is on
both lines, so it satisfies both equations.

==> y-2
= m (x+2)

Now the slope for one side is the same slope for
the line x= 0

==> Then, one side of the
parallelogram is parallel to the y-axis.

==> Then,
the equation of the line is

 x =
-2.............(1)

The other side of the parallelogram is
parallel to 3y=x ==> Then the slope is
(1/3)

==> y-2 =
(1/3)(x+2)

==> y= (1/3)x + 2/3 +
2

==> y= (1/3)x +8/3
............(2)

Then, we have the equation of the lines of
the sides of the parallelogram that intersects at the point
(-2,2)

Now we will find the other
sides.

==> We will use the point
B(4,-1)

==> The first equation of the line that is
parallel to the y-axis.

==> Then the equation is x =
4 ..........(3)

==> The other side has the following
equation.

==> y +1 = (1/3)
(x-4)

==> y= (1/3)x - 4/3
-1

==> y= (1/3)x -7/3
..............(4)

Now the remaining points are the
intersection points between the lines (1) with (4) and the lines (2) with
(3).

Intersection point between equation (1) and
(4):

==> x= -2  and y= (1/3)x -
7/3

==> y= (-2/3 - 7/3 = -9/3 =
-3

==> Then, one of the points is ( -2,
-3)

Intersection between lines (2) and
(3).

==> x= 4  and y= (1/3)x +8/3  ==> y= 4/3
+ 8/3 = 12/3 = 4

Then, the point is
(4,4)

==> Then, the points B and D are
(4,4) and (-2,-3).

How would the effect of presenting historical background on the American high school have changed if Talbot had opened the article with...

This question is a subjective question (any reader can
have a very different view on the answer based upon individual interpretation of the
article and their understanding of it). That being said, the answer to the question will
be subjective as well. What this means it that some may argue that beginning the article
with the historical background would change it dramatically while others would say it
would not change it at all.

This being said, I do not
believe that beginning the article with historical background would engage the typical
reader. Many people, when faced with historical information, may find the article
uninteresting and not be engaged.

One is looking for
engagement when reading. In the same way, one is looking to be drawn in immediately when
reading. Too many times, historical information simply turns too many people off to
it.

Therefore, by beginning her article with "Daniel
Kennedy remembers when he still thought that valedictorians were a good thing", Talbot
has the chance to draw more readers in given they may have remembered the fight, or been
involved in the fight, for the title Valedictorian.

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Can I get a summary for "A Tidewater Morning?"

A Tidewater Morning is a collection
of three short stories by William Styron, author of Sophie's
Choice. They were  originally published in Esquire
magazine and collected in 1993. Each story has the same protagonist, Paul
Whitehurst. The three stories are: Love Day;
Shadrach; and A Tidewater
Morning.

In Love Day,
Marine Lieutenant Paul awaits word to invade Okinawa in 1945, and dreams ofhis mother,
whose sickness caused unrest in his family. He feels himself unready to
die.

In Shadrach, the young Paul meets
an old former slave who has returned to the home of his former owners to die. Paul's
conceptions about slavery and death are challenged as Shadrach exerts his will to see
the place where he spent his own childhood.

In A
Tidewater Morning, young Paul confronts the shadow of death face-to-face. The
lessons he will learn in the future are far away and he has no realistic method of
coping at this young age. His father, meanwhile, copes by renouncing
God.

In The Good Earth, why does Wang Lung wear a braid?

Tradition. When Wang Lung in the first chapter goes into
the town to claim his wife, he goes to the barber to make himself more presentable for
his first meeting with his future wife. Whilst the barber is shaving Wang Lung's upper
forehead, he comments:

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This would not be a bad-looking farmer if he
would cut off his hair. The new fashion is to take off the
braid.

However, Wang Lung,
horrified, draws back, saying that he could not cut his braid off without asking his
father. This is a novel where old ways collide with new habits and fashions, and Wang
Lung, as befits a character whose attachment is to hard work and the earth, refuses to
cut his braid off because he is a representative of tradition. Symbolically, the braid
therefore shows us the kind of character that Wang Lung is and the way that he will not
be swayed by the modern fads and fashions that others feel are so
important. 

Which ancient river valley civilizations do we still use today: Indus, Tigris and Euphrates, Huang He or Nile?

Depending on what you mean by "still use today" we use all
of these civilizations.  The civilizations that arose in these areas have had an impact
that still continues to be felt on the people who live in those areas and/or on people
around the world.

If you are asking which of these
civilizations has had the most impact on the world as a whole, I would argue that it was
the Mesopotamian civilization.  It was in that civilization that writing first arose. 
Because of this, and because this was the first area to have things like extensive trade
and urbanization, this area is called the "cradle of
civilization."

If this is not what you mean by "still use
today," please clarify the question.

What other beliefs does Juana possess in the narrative besides those of Catholicism? John Steinbeck's The Pearl

First of all, Juana is an Indian in Mexico, so she
maintains some of the ancient beliefs of the Indian; on the other hand, her people have
been converted to Catholicism by Spanish missionaries.

In
the exposition of Steinbeck's The Pearl, Juana sings an ancient
song that has only three notes, but it possesses "an endless variety of interest."  When
her baby is bitten by the scorpion, Juana whispers "the old magic" and Kino hears "the
evil music of the enemy," so they are both superstitious and primitive in some of their
beliefs.  For instance, when Kino looks at the Pearl of the World, in the surface of
this great pearl, he can see dream forms.  But, he and Juana both hear the music of evil
later on when the outsiders come to see the pearl.

After
Kino is not able to sell the great pearl and he is attacked, Juana tells her
husband,

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"Kino, this pearl is evil.  Let us destroy it
before it destroys us.  Let us crush it between two stones.  Let us--let us throw it
back in the sea where it belongs.  Kino, it is evil, it is
evil!"

Finally, after Kino is
attacked and has to flee, his brother Juan Thomas tells
Kino,

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"...There is a devil in this pearl.  You should
have sold it and passed on to the
devil."

But Kino cannot part
with it. As he leaves Juan Thomas, Kino tells his brother, "This pearl has become my
soul.  Go thou also with God."  Later, as the trackers come near him, Juana cautiously
looks through a hole.  She

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whispered her combination of prayer and magic,
her Hail Marys and her ancient intercession, against the black unhuman
things.

And, then, when the
evil overtakes them and Coyotito is dead, Kino and Juana throw the great pearl.  It
lands on the floor of the sea, buried is sand. 

How would George Herbert's "The Flower," compare with Henry Vaughn's, "Unprofitableness"?

Both of these excellent poems use the central conceit of
comparing the speaker to a flower to describe their relationship with God and the way
that God tends and nurtures them, as if he were a gardener. In "Unprofitableness," for
example, the poem begins with the speaker thanking God for his visit, which came at just
the right time, because at that stage his "bleak leaves hopeless hung, Sullied with dust
and mud." God's glance and visit have made the speaker "flourish," now, however, and
"Breathe all perfumes and spice." The poem then moves on to dwell on the way that God is
engaged in a profoundly "unprofitable" task, as he "a thankless weed doth dress" when
the speaker can give so little in return. The conceit of a flower therefore helps the
speaker to meditate upon the grace of God and his amazing restorative
energies.

"The Flower," by George Herbert is a similar
meditation on God's resotrative powers, man's frailty and sinful nature and God's grace.
However, one difference is the way that this poem focuses on the way in which God has
the power to both restore and to wither:

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These are thy wonders, Lord of
power,

Killing and quickening, bringing down to
hell

And up to heaven in an
houre.

If God restores, he
also can "kill," and therefore is not a God whose grace we can treat with contempt. It
is the final stanza that concludes this meditation on God's wonders and his amazing
power, both to punish and to bless:

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These are thy wonders, Lord of
love,

To make us see we are but flowers that
glide:

Which when we once can finde and
prove,

Thou hast a garden for us, where to
bide.

If "Unprofitableness"
is therefore based on God's grace and a hymn of praise to the way that he spends so much
time on "unprofitable" humans, then "The Flower" is much wider in its scope, looking at
the way in which viewing ourselves as a flower should help to give us a correct and
humble view of ourselves and not to take for granted God's love and
grace.

what does the "spareness" of the Puritan setting reveal about the lives of the townspeople of salem?"The Crucible"

Life in early New England was harsh for its settlers: food
was scarce, the weather was challenging, and people struggled to make ends meet. The
Puritan austerity was expressed via the spare look of clothing and home furnishings. The
focus in everyday life was on basic survival and religious piety. But struggles for
social hierarchy and dominance still occurred, and led to clashes of ego among community
members. The drabness of everyday life in Salem Village helped to create an atmosphere
of frustration and boredom, and coupled with the struggles for social dominance this
atmosphere helped lead to the volatile situation with the witchcraft
accusations.

In Macbeth, what is the meaning of Duncan's second speech " See, see, our honour'd hostess..."?

Duncan's second speech after the entrance of Lady Macbeth
is literally just a formality, a greeting with his hostess. Duncan acknowledges that
their love for him, as their king, may cause them the trouble and inconvenience of
having to host him, but he is appreciative of their kind
hospitality.

This speech is ironic because the reader knows
she is not an "honour'd hostess" or a hostess who is going to a lot of trouble to help
her guest, the king. At this point, Lady Macbeth has already stepped in to ensure
Macbeth is on board to kill Duncan. When Duncan talks about how much Macbeth and Lady
Macbeth love Duncan, the audience smirks at Duncan's stupidity for they are scheming
behind his back.

It’s easy to stereotype the Puritans because of their religious (and perhaps political) conservatism. Where do these stereotypes get it wrong?

The stereotypical image of the Puritans is of a colorless,
bland people who considered anything remotely similar to "fun" as sinful. This image is
quite wrong. The Puritans engaged in any number of activities which are all but
"puritanical."  They wore colorful clothes, ate, drank alcohol, listened to secular
music, danced, and made merry. The key was moderation; they were encouraged to do all
things in moderation except they should "zealously aspire" to
piety.

Sex within marriage was not only considered a good
thing, one could be expelled from the church for not satisfying the sexual desires of
one's spouse:

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which failure to satisfy denies all reliefe in
Wedlock unto Human necessity, and sends it for supply unto
Bestiality.

Sex outside of
marriage was of course condemned, and repeat offenders were made to wear a large "A" on
their clothing, literally a "Scarlet Letter."  Similarly, those guilty of getting
habitually drunk were made to wear a large "D." Yet consumption of alcohol in moderation
was not a sin, but a quite proper pleasure. Rev. Increase Mather discribed it this
way:

Drink is
in and of itself a good creature of God, and to be received with thankfulness; but the
abuse of drink is from Satan, the wine is from God, but the Drunkard is from the
devil.

They were, however, a
firm believer in the Covenant of Believers, which precluded democracy. Rev. John Cotton
once commented on Democracy:

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Democracy I do not conceive that ever God did
ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be
governors, who shall be governed? As for monarchy, and aristocracy, they are both of
them clearly approved, and directed in scripture, yet so as referred the sovereignty to
himself, and setteth up Theocracy in both, as the best form of government in the
commonwealth, as well as in the
church.

So although their
ideas of government were pretty stereotypical, their true lifestyle was
not.

What are the names of the two optical lenses of the compound microspcope that are comonly use?

The optical lenses used in compound microscopes can be
classified into two eyepiece and objective lenses. The single lens or multiple set of
lenses located the top of the lens is known as the eyepiece. The eye piece can have a
fixed or a variable magnification which is usually in the range of 5 -
30x.

The set of lenses at the bottom of the eyepiece tube
near the specimen being observed are known as the objective lenses. They come in sets
with varying magnifications that can be adjusted based on what is being observed.
Objective lenses have a magnification of 4-100x

The two
sets of lenses give compound microscopes an ability to magnify from 20x -
3000x.

In Beowulf, why does the author make Grendel invulnerable to all human weapons?

If we look at the text very carefully, we can see that the
answer relates to the way in which Grendel is presented as being a demonic force opposed
to the goodness of Christianity. Consider how this characteristic of Grendel is
presented:

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They could hack at
Grendel

From every side, trying to
open

A path for his evil soul, but their
points

Could not hurt him, the sharpest and hardest
iron

Could not scratch at his skin, for that sin-stained
demon

Had bewitched all men's weapons, laid
spells

That blunted every mortal man's
blade.

Grendel's ability to
cast spells and "bewitch" the blades of his opponents, combined with his description of
being "sin-stained" clearly indicates that he is a force of evil and highlights his
status as a villain and a chaotic enemy, which of course helps to present Beowulf as an
agent of good as he battles against the might of evil, in the form of Grendel. Let us
remember that this epic was originally written in a time when Christianity held sway,
and thus the conflict between the pagan witchcraft represented in Grendel and the
Christianity of the writer is presented partly through Grendel's ability to cast spells,
which places him in the leage of the devil and evil.

How can these words be used in sentences and their meaning? Illustrate, Rhetoric, Tradition, Anatomy, Absurd, Epiphany,Literature, Conspicuous,...

Illustrate: to make something clear. The instructions
illustrated how to put the model together.

Rhetoric: art of
persuasive or effective writing/speaking. His precise rhetoric provided crucial to him
obtaining the job.

Tradition: inherited or established
action or behavior. Our tradition is to go to Grandma's for
Easter.

Anatomy: structural make-up of an organism. The
anatomy of the cat will be understood after dissecting its
body.

Absurd: unreasonable or unsound. The idea to hold a
car wash during the thunderstorm was absurd.

Epiphany: a
revealing moment or sudden understanding. I had an epiphany when I saw the murderer on
the television and realized I knew him.

Literature: body of
written works; writings on a specific subject. The literature on Christian theology is
very extensive.

Conspicuous: obvious or attracting
attention. The blood on the knife was
conspicuous.

Eliminate: to end or get rid of. The company,
wishing to eliminate excess waste, started using real plates for
lunches.

Provision: measure taken beforehand to deal with
an upcoming, expected, or assumed need. They had provisions stocked up for the end of
the world in 2012.

I need to write an essay on Lord of the Flies. What do Piggy's glasses represent--is it knowledge?--and what happens to them through the story?

Piggy's glasses absolutely represent knowledge and
intelligence. Piggy is undeniably the most sensible and learned boy on the island in
Lord of the Flies, and his suggestions and reasoning are usually
sound. Unfortunately, Piggy is not taken seriously, primarily because of his size,
asthma and superior intelligence. The glasses also represent the scientific advancements
of the modern world the boys have left behind: In addition to improving Piggy's
eyesight, they also serve as the source of fire, since the lenses can provide a flame
when reflected by the sun. The glasses also represent the boys' best chance of survival,
the source for both the signal fire and a way to cook the wild pigs which the boys hunt.
The glasses are eventually broken and then stolen from Piggy, but they remain a valuable
possession when they end up in Jack's hands.

Is Buddhism a religion, a philosophy, psychology, or a way of life?

It is probably safest to say that Buddhism is both a
religion and a way of life, as are many religions. Buddhism teaches that one should
accept the Four Noble Truths:

1. Life is
   suffering


2. Suffering is caused by
   desire


3. One can end suffering by ending
   desire


4. One can end desire by following the eight-fold
   path.

The end result is a happier life. In
addition, Buddhism teaches that one will re-incarnate after one's death to a higher or
lesser life form; but one's ultimate goal is to reach Nirvana, a state of spiritual
independence and perfection. As has been the case with other missionary religions,
Buddhism has morphed itself into several different forms, one of which worships Buddha
himself as a god.

Since Buddhism attempts to explain what
happens after one dies and also offers an alternative lifestyle as does Islam and
Christianity, the other two missionary religions, it seems axiomatic that Buddhism is
indeed a religion and a way of life. One could also argue that it is a philosophy, as
are many religions; however to refer to it as psychology seems to push the envelope a
bit too far.

Why are graphite rods used as electrodes in electrolysis?

Electrolysis is a process where electricity is passed
through a solution and this results in the molecules of the solvent and the solute
getting separated into ions. Once ions are formed, the same ions combine with each other
to form a gas or different ions with opposite charges combine with each other resulting
in the formation of different compounds.

Electrodes are
essential for electrolysis as the current enters the solution through one of the
electrodes and returns through the other.

When ions are
formed during electrolysis they can combine with the substance that the electrode is
made of and cause its degradation. For example, if the electrodes used in the
electrolysis of water are made of iron, copper, etc they form hydroxides with the OH-
ions that are created. Electrodes have to be able to resist this corrosion if
electrolysis is to continue over a period of time. Metals like platinum can be used as
electrodes but they are quite expensive. A cheaper alternative that is resistant to
corrosion is graphite.

As graphite conducts electricity and
is resistant to corrosion it is used to make electrodes for
electrolysis.

What does blood symbolize in this story?I was asked to do a project on symbolism and the symbol i was given is blood but i really can't think of...

Blood can symbolize a variety of things. As a spiritual
metaphor, blood can mean or be symbolic of Christ. Jesus Christ gave his life for
mankind (Simon is considered the Christ figure in this book), and it took the spilling
of his blood to kill him. Christians remember him by having communion or drinking a
small drink of wine or grape juice as a symbol of Christ's
sacrifice.

Blood can also symbolize vengence or a first
kill. There are many "firsts" in life that occur because of blood being spilled. A
girl's entrance into womanhood or a gangster's first fight or murder are just a couple
examples of the entrance to something new.  For Jack, the first kill of a pig results in
a very vivid image of the spilling of blood.

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Then Jack found the throat and the hot blood
spouted over his hands. (Chapter
8)

This kill symbolized
Jack's entry into the savage world with no room for turning
back.

In Simon's experience with the Lord of the Flies (a
fight with evil), Simon undergoes a seizure. This leaves him hallucinating and broken.
Then this vivid description of his last moments
occurs:

Even
when the vessel broke in Simon’s nose and the blood gushed out they left him alone,
preferring the pig’s high flavor.With the running of the blood Simon’s fit passed into the
weariness of sleep. (Chapter
9)

After awaking from this
slumber, Simon dies trying to tell the boys the truth about the Beast but they won't
hear his message.

The blood symbolizes the shedding of an
old life and entry into a new life for both boys.

Discuss the fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Definitely, in Northern Europe, where Shakespeare is from,
Midsummer was a well-known pagan festival.  In the UK it is know as the time where the
faeries came out of the fairy mound to play. (See further explanation below).   However
this festival is not known
in Greece.

"Midsummer’s
Eve celebrates the longest day
of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, the  href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/573384/summer-solstice">summer
solstice (June 21).  Many people
believed that mid-summer plants, especially  href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendula">Calendula, had miraculous
healing powers and they therefore picked them on this night. Bonfires were lit to
protect against evil spirits which were believed to roam freely when the sun was turning
southwards
again."

"Midsummers
Eve was also the time of the
fairy mound in the UK:

The fairy
mound/sídh  is a round, flat-topped mound, barrow, or hillock of ancient origin
apparently intended to bury or commemorate a mortal king or ruler. From long-standing
oral tradition the fairy mounds/sídhe were thought to mark places where the   fled
underground
....

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tradition the story of the ..... migration underground became ...people of the fairy
mound... invisible to most mortals at most times -  href="http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O70-Samain.html">Samain
and Midsummer's Eve being the chief
exceptions.

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favoured with  href="http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O70-secondsight.html">second
sight could perceive them. On
occasion persons from this hidden world might intrude into the realm of mortals, such as
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who calls out in the night to foretell death. The sídh was not to
be disturbed by grazing cattle, and most farmers would avoid both the (Fairy mound) sídh
and perceived paths to and from it."

It is noted
therefore that the title of the play also marks a magical time in the year when fairies
come out into the human world.

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href="http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O70-sdh.html">http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O70-sdh.html

Other
fairy characters that appear the play, A Midsummer Night's
Dream, are Peasebottom, Cobweb, Moth and Mustardseed.  These
characters are, like Oberon and Titantia NOT of mythological origin.  They are creations
of Shakespeare.   These names are innocent and aptly describe the characters of these
fairy folk.  Small, fragile, delicate and tiny.  They wait on the queen and are her
servants but they do no wrong in the play, A Midsummer Night's
Dream, not even of
the mischievous type.

What is interesting to note is the
use of the name Nick. Nick Bottom, the actor who was magically altered.  This aligns
with the term, Old Nick which was a name for the devil.
 The altered parrallel between Puck, as the devil and his victim, as the devil with a
ass's head.  It is a mingling of characteristics and may be due, either intentionally or
again by not having done his homework, (by Shakespeare).

At
a final glance, the fairies in the play do form a bridge between the night-time dream
world of humans and, in this case, the mythical event of Midsummers Night, which
traditionally involved the fairies coming to the surface and celebrating the time of
year.

Whilst use of Celtic faeries, is not culturally
accurate for Greece, the play does have entertainment value as has been shown over the
centuries and even today this play has appeal to wide audiences and is both understood
by and entertaining for many.

What are the major themes in Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen?I would like themes that are dug deeper than the fact that books are about...

The major theme in this book is not that history books
glorify America.  It is that history is taught (by teachers and by textbooks) in ways
that make history uninteresting to students.  Loewen argues that this is a major reason
why Americans have such a poor understanding of
history.

You are right to point out that one problem is
that the books glorify America.  However, this is not the major problem that Loewen
sees.  He thinks that history books concentrate too much on facts and figures and
obscure the important things about history.  They do not, he says, teach us about the
connections between the past and the present.  They do not focus on causes and effects. 
They tell us too much of what happened, but not enough
about why things
happened.

Loewen's main theme in this book is that the
textbooks used to teach American history are written in such a way as to make history
boring to the average student.

What epiphany does the grandmother have at the end of Flannery O'Connor's story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"?

At the end of Flannery O’Connor’s short story “A Good Man
Is Hard to Find,” the grandmother has an epiphany – a sudden realization – of sorts. I
say “of sorts,” because it isn’t clear that the grandmother is entirely or fully
conscious of this realization, and it is clear that the revelation
lasts for only a split second before she is immediately shot and killed by the
Misfit.

O’Connor, referring in the first sentence here to
the Misfit, describes the crucial moment as follows:

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His voice seemed about to crack and the
grandmother's head cleared for an instant. She saw the man's face twisted close to her
own as if he were going to cry and she murmured, "Why you're one of my babies. You're
one of my own children!" She reached out and touched him on the shoulder. The Misfit
sprang back as if a snake had bitten him and shot her three times through the
chest.

The grandmother has
increasingly been in a state of paralyzed shock as she realizes that the Misfit and his
henchmen are systematically murdering her entire family and that she, too, is about to
die. She has been saying anything she can think to try to save her life. However, as the
Misfit reveals his own spiritual torment and his own deep emotional pain, the
grandmother responds in an entirely unexpected way: she reaches out and tries to comfort
the last person on earth to whom she might have been expected to show compassion. Her
“epiphany” – her realization that the Misfit is “one of [her] own children,” lasts only
an “instant,” but it is enough (O’Connor implies) to transform the grandmother’s
spiritual existence and perhaps to begin the transformation of the Misfit as
well.

It’s important to emphasize that O’Connor does
not present the grandmother’s perception and conduct here as the
products of deliberate, rational choice.  Doing so would have implied an entirely
different kind of “epiphany.”  Rather, O’Connor presents the grandmother as an
instrument of God’s grace. God is using his own power to transform the grandmother and
also to literally reach out, through her, to the Misfit, so that the Misfit, too, is
granted a sort of epiphany. The grandmother is not responsible for the epiphany she
experiences; God is. The grandmother’s life is transformed, in its last split seconds,
not by the grandmother but by God. O’Connor argued (rightly) about this particular story
that the grandmother is both the beneficiary and the instrument of God’s grace. Her
epiphany is God’s gift, both to her and (if he will accept it) to the Misfit as well. 
One may agree or disagree with O’Connor’s theology, but her explanation of what happens
in this tale seems far more convincing than any other.

Some
readers are shocked by the grandmother’s behavior: why, they ask, should she reach out
to such a vicious person? Isn’t she just being manipulative one last time? Why doesn’t
she resist him? Isn’t her death meaningless?

O’Connor would
have said (rightly) that thanks to God, the grandmother is the one who wins this contest
with the Misfit.  Each of us, after all, must die, but it is the grandmother who manages
to live, if only for a moment, in the truest and deepest senses of the
word.

Little wonder, then, that our last vision of the
grandmother shows her, with her legs “crossed” under her like “a child’s” and “her face
smiling up at the cloudless sky.”

What are some examples of the blending of humor and irony in "The General Prologue" to The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer.

Irony and humor, and indeed ironic humor, often appear
side-by-side in “The General Prologue” to The Canterbury Tales, by
Geoffrey Chaucer. Examples include the
following:

• The claim that the prioress never let
  a morsel of meat fall from her lips – which on the one hand suggests her obsessive
  attention to good manners while on the other hand suggesting that she is gluttonous
  (128).


• The reference to the prioress’s “conscience”
  (142), followed ironically by her somewhat comic concern for mice caught in traps
  (rather than for poor, sick, or otherwise needy
  people).


• The delicate (but humorous) observation that the
  prioress was not “undergrowe” (i.e., undergrown) – a polite way of stating that she is
  fat (and thus, symbolically, attached to the world and the
  flesh).


• The comic depiction of the monk, who has so many
  bells attached to his horse that when he rides his bridle can he heard
  jingling

. . . in a whistling wind as
clere

And eek [i.e., also] as loude as dooth the chapel
belle . . . (­171-72).

Such phrasing comically demonstrates
how the monk uses bells to try to call attention to himself, even as it ironically
reminds us that the purposes of church bells are to call attention to worship of
God.

• The comic reference to the monk as “a lord
  full fat and in good point” (200), which ironically makes him sound like an animal and
  which also ironically associates him with the sin of gluttony and with attachment to the
  world and the flesh.


• The description of the cook as
  having a “mormal” (388)on his shin – a kind of pussy ulcer often associated with
  venereal disease. Immediately after noting this fact, Chaucer ironically (and with black
  humor) notes that the cook’s specialty was white sauce
  (!).


• The description of the Wife of Bath becoming
  comically (but also ironically) angry at church (453) if anyone happened to get before
  her in the line to present her offering (not exactly the best Christian
  behavior).


• The description of the Wife wearing fine
  scarlet leggings to church, not to mention head-covers weighing ten pounds (455-59), as
  if church were a fashion show or an occasion for displaying
  wealth.


• The reference to the Wife’s expertise in “the
  olde daunce” (i.e., the tricks of the sexual trade, which one of my students once
  memorably described as “the horizontal mamba”; 478).


• The
  comic description of the miller as someone who could break down doors by ramming them
  with his head (552-53), which is funny in itself but which also implies that he is not
  the brightest pilgrim in the group.


• The description of
  the miller's face, which comically makes him resemble an animal but which also, for that
  reason, ironically suggests that his behavior will not live up to the highest human
  ideals (554-58).


• The description of the summoner's love
  of garlic, onions, and leeks, which humorously suggests that in addtion to his other
  problems he stinks, but which also ironically alludes to the Biblical book of Numbers,
  11:5:

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We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt free
[of]  cost: the cucumbers come into our mind, and the melons, and the leeks, and the
onions, and the garlic.

In
other words, Chaucer subtly and ironically compares the summoner to the Hebrews who
complained to Moses, suggesting the continual bondage of both to the flesh and the
world.

Chaucer's humor is almost always ironic in the sense
that it is meant to show how far some of the pilgrims have strayed from Christian
truth.

What are Miss Brill's circumstances in Mansfield's "Miss Brill"?

Miss Brill's circumstances are simple and modest. And
elderly lady, she lives alone and has few  possessions, but one such is her fur necklet.
These were prized by their owners and signified some small level of elegance and social
attainment. Thus she may have had a pleasant social life at one time, complete with a
gentleman suitor or two--all this may be deduced from the little fox taken out of its
box for a special outing in the park "because the Season had
begun."

We are not told her circumstances in detail. We
rely more on her actions and inner dialogue, though her emotions and thoughts are
expressed throughout: "still soundlessly singing, still with that trembling smile, Miss
Brill prepared to listen."

The scant description of her
living circumstances suggests the presence of a closet, as she "had taken [the fox] out
of its box" for a dusting (from a long retirement as in a closet) and a brushing. The
description also gives us a "red eiderdown," another clue to a pleasant past lifestyle
as an eiderdown (as in eiderdown comforter) is the prize of duck down comforters since
Eider ducks have the most coveted feathers.

She goes to the
park each Sunday to be in association with other people. She has the impression that the
people who anonymously join her there are of a different sort from her and are as
cheered by her welcome presence as she is by theirs while she surreptitiously listens in
on their conversations. In this way she vicariously shares their lives with them. Her
delusion of a constant focal point in her life, a life on pause, as it were, is
shattered when young people speak of her as being reprhesible and unwanted. And this
occurring while in her good mood and in the welcome company of her fox necklet, which
gives off just a hint of confusion and sadness:

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What has been happening to me?" said the sad
little eyes .. . [and] breathed, something light and sad–no, not sad, exactly–something
gentle

Whatever the further
details of her circumstances were when she left home, they are vastly different when she
returned after leaving the park. She doesn't stop at the bakers. She enters her single,
dark, cupboard-like room and sits on the luxurious red eiderdown "for a long time,"
before quickly removing the necklet and returning it to its box. The gentle crying she
thinks she hears as she closes the lid may be a transference of her own crying over her
dream of sociability and continued innocence being cruelly crushed or it may be the
metaphorical tears of the fox who weeps for the loss of a pleasant, simple
life.

Why were the tanks of the USSR so much better designed and so much more effective as opposed to their German counterparts?

Strategic Bombing of German industry, lack of raw
materials, slave labor, no fuel, etc. - these were all factors in the design and
manufacture of weapons of war.

Then there is another
factor... The United States alone produced tanks in a ratio of 10-to-1 to Germany.
American tanks were so bad that after Normandy the Army used to just put recruits out of
basic training in them and send them off to die. Eventually we overwhelmed the Germans
with numerical superiority.

On the Russian Front, the T-34,
however, effectively made all German tanks produced to that date obsolete. In fact, at
its height the T-34 was deemed so successful, and so capable in every role, that
production of all other tanks except the IS-2 was stopped to allow all available
resources to be used exclusively for this tank. The T-34 forced the Germans to adopt
new, heavier designs such as the  href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panther_tank">Panther and  title="Tiger I" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_I">Tiger, which in
turn forced upgrades to the Soviet, United States and British tank fleets. Perhaps more
significantly to the ultimate course of the war, the move to more complex and expensive
German tank designs overwhelmed the already critically strained German tank-production
capability, reducing the numbers of tanks available to German forces and thus helping to
force Germany to surrender the initiative in the war to the
Allies.

Soviet tank production outstripped all other
nations with the exception of the United States. The Soviets accomplished this through
standardization on a few designs, generally forgoing minor qualitative improvements and
changing designs only when upgrades would result in a major
improvement.

Hitler ordered even heavier and stronger tanks
to be produced, which led to the development of the heavy  href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_II">Tiger II, which replaced the
Tiger I late in the war. Its powerful gun and very heavy armor made it superior to every
Allied or Soviet tank in a head-to-head confrontation, but the underpowered engine and
the enormous fuel consumption limited its use in maneuver warfare. Right before the end
of the war there were plans for even more heavier tanks, such as the Panzer VIII
Maus, but only small numbers, or in case of the Maus only prototypes, were
produced.

Can sterile normal saline be used for IM injections into human buttocks just to practice injection technique? person is very healthy how much...

It is safe to inject small quantities of sterile normal
saline into the buttocks using new disposable needles and syringes, and doing so under
supervision of a nurse or physician instructor.  I would recommend using about 0.5 cc
for each injection.  You can practice either subcutaneous injection into fat, or deeper
intramuscular injection.  Both techniques are used medically depending on medication and
circumstances.

Do NOT use sterile water for injection
practice.  Water injections are painful!  And because water is hypotonic compared to the
blood and tissues, the water will cause hemolysis (rupture) of blood cells and lysis
(disintegration) of tissue cells.

Using 0.5 cc sterile
normal saline, you can very safely inject several times with no adverse outcome other
than the minor “prick” from the needle.

Are there examples of flashbacks or foreshadowing used in the story "A & P"?

Although the John Updike short story "A & P" at
first appears to be told in the present, the whole story serves as a kind of flashback.
We know this because Sammy tells us

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Now here comes the sad part of the story, at
least my family says it's sad but I don't think it's sad
myself.

Sammy narrates the
story in retrospect, since it is apparent that his family already knows about him
quitting his job, and they are "sad" about his decision. Updike's foreshadowing is
subtle. One hint comes in the "sad part of the story" quote mentioned above. The reader
can also assume that eventually something will be said about the girls' underdressed
attire, not exactly appropriate for the store that is patronized primarily by old
"cash-register-watchers" and "sheep."

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You know, it's one thing to have a girl in a
bathing suit down on the beach... and another thing in the cool of the A &
P...

A final bit of
foreshadowing comes when Sammy says that "everybody's luck begins to run out." His own
jobless future is predicted in the final sentence,
when

... my
stomach kind of fell as I felt how hard the world was going to be to me
hereafter.

In The Crucible, what was the posture of Abigail Williams?

We are never actually given a detailed description of the
posture of Abigail Williams, however we are given hints as to the kind of character that
she is which can help us deduce what kind of posture she would have at various points in
the play. Let us first begin by examining the description we are given of her when she
first enters in Act One. We are told that she is "a strikingly beautiful girl, and
orphan, with an endless capacity for dissembling." This reference is important because
it points towards the artificial nature of Abigail's character and the extent to which
she is, first and foremost, an actress who is able to deceive everyone with her
performance. Abigail is an opportunist, who sees the power that she can gain by "opening
herself" and exploits it to the full. We can therefore deduce that her posture in the
play would be one that was full of the importance that she has assumed, unyielding and
indignant of any challenge to it.

What does theift represent? Especially in Biff.

In the play Death of a Salesman, by
Arthur Miller, theft seems to be a tendency in Biff's behavior that is triggered when
Biff feels that he is not in control of a situation. We know that not only Biff goes to
jail for theft at one point in his life, but that theft is also the causative factor
that gets Biff fired from every job he ever holds.

Biff's
kleptomania has been evident from a very young age. Willy, however, never corrects Biff.
This automatically turns a miscue into a full-fledged
obsession.

Biff steals a carton of basketballs from Bill
Oliver when he first works for him. He also steals a pen from Bill Oliver's desk when he
is not recognized by the latter. He steals a football from his coach when he is a
teenager (Willy gave him kudos for his "good initiative" in doing this petty crime). He
is also encouraged by Willy to go steal lumber to show his uncle Ben how "fearless" he
is.

In all, theft is a necessity in Biff's life only
because it allows Biff to feel as if he has a hold on his own life. This, however, is
also another bad behavior encouraged by Willy Loman during the years in which he is
supposed to guide Biff towards a good and practical life.

In the "Battle Royal" chapter of Ralph Ellison's novel Invisible Man, what are some examples of tone, diction, theme, and irony that represent how...

The effects of the past on the narrator’s perception of
the present are particularly important in the “Battle Royal” section of Chapter 1 of
Ralph Ellison’s novel The Invisible Man. In fact, in the very
second sentence of this section, the narrator reports
that

All my
life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me
what it was.

This statement
explicitly emphasizes the influence of the past as a major theme of the book. It also
suggests that the present and future can partly escape the influence of the past if one
is willing to listen clearly to oneself.

The past as an
influence on the present occurs elsewhere in this section, such as in the following
instances:

• when the narrator comments on his
  new-found lack of shame about the fact that his grandparents had been
  slaves.


• when the narrator’s grandfather, on his deathbed,
  advises his son (the narrator’s father) to be subversively defiant in his relations with
  whites.  Thus, one generation attempts to pass along an assertive attitude to the next,
  and the narrator himself seems influenced by his grandfather’s dying words. Indeed, the
  narrator meditates during the course of a long paragraph (very early in the “battle
  royal” section) on the meaning and influence of his grandfather’s
  words.


• The narrator feels torn between obeying his
  complacent parents and heeding his secretly defiant grandfather. Thus he feels torn by
  loyalty to the recent past and loyalty to the more distant
  past.


• The narrator feels the influence of the words and
  ideals of Booker T. Washington, an important figure of the past, but he also feels
  skeptical about Washington’s cooperative attitude toward
  whites.


• The narrator is influenced by the long custom of
  having black boys fight each other in a battle royal.
  


• The narrator is influenced by another custom related to
  the battle: the custom “for the two men left in the ring to slug it out for the winner’s
  prize.” This is a custom of which the other young African Americans are aware, but of
  which the narrator is ignorant. Ellison thus shows that ignorance of customs (that is,
  ignorance of the ways of the past) can be dangerous to the person who displays such
  ignorance. Even more danger (and pain) results from the narrator’s ignorance of the
  custom of making the winners of the fight pick up their winnings from an electrified
  rug.


• The degrading behavior forced upon the narrator
  during and after the fight is made all the more degrading when he must quote the words
  of Booker T. Washington, who celebrated cooperation between the races. The realities of
  the narrator’s present contrast bleakly with the ideals extolled by Washington in the
  past.

How is language an important source of humour in ''the importance of being earnest?''

The importance of language as an important source of humor
in Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest is based on
Wilde's ubiquitous use of sarcasm, irony, epigrams, paradoxes, and mockery to identify
the unique characteristics of the upper classes of Victorian
London.

Oscar Wilde is represented in character of
Algernon. Wilde uses Algernon as a mouthpiece to voice his own observations about the
qualities of the aristocracy as individuals. Namely, that the aristocrats love to live
above their means and appear to be wealthy, that they are classicist and bigoted, that
they are hypocrites, holier than thou, and swear by prudishness while leading double
lives.

This being said, the dialogues that are intended to
aristocrats such as Lady Bracknell, Algernon, and Gwendolen are filled with
contradictory statements that show the double standards of the rich. Lady Bracknell is
Wilde's focal point as to who will speak the most nonsense, as she clearly tells Jack
upon learning that he is an orphan:

JACK:I have lost both my
parents.
LADY BRACKNELL:Both?…To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be
regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

This is how
Wilde uses the ignorance of the aristocrats as material for jokes and for basically
laughing at them, while letting them laugh at themselves. That is the basics of Wildean
dialogue in theater.

Why do you suppose Chekhov ended the play (The Seagull) before the audience is able to witness Irina discovering her son's death?What is the...

Chekhov's style hinges on the idea of all of the big
action taking place off stage.  It's called indirect action, when employed as a
playwrighting device.  Chekhov was less interested in the action itself, but more in the
response to the action.

From the e-notes entry on Chekhov:
 "Although the drama of his contemporaries focused on action, often melodramatic action,
Chekhov’s last plays are primarily works of inaction, works in which the needed action
takes place offstage. Chekhov prevents the audience from being distracted by activity,
focusing attention on the inner lives of his
characters."

By having the action occur off stage, the
audience is allowed to really see into the characters on stage and their reaction to the
off stage action.  In a poorly acted production, this can become deadly, with just a
bunch of talking heads on stage.  But, in a well-done production, it can be more
exciting than you might imagine.  Actors have the task of uncovering the subtext and
finding outward expression for it; in a good actor's hands (and with a good director
leading), this is marvelous to watch.   Chekhov wrote plays that very much fit the
approach of Stanislavski (founder of the Moscow Art Theatre, acting teacher, director),
whose techniques allowed the inner lives of Chekhov's characters to be
revealed.

What reasons prompted Jean Valjean to decide to leave the Rue Plumet, as we see in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables?

The first reason why
Jean Valjean makes the decision to move out of their rented
home on the Rue Plumet is that he had seen M.
Thenardier repeatedly and was certain that "Thenardier was prowling in
their neighborhood" (Vol., 4, Bk.9, Ch. 1). The Thenardiers were the innkeepers that
Fantine left Cosette with to be taken care of while she went off to a neighboring
village to find work to provide for Cosette. The Thenardiers proved to be very cruel to
Cosette. M. Thenardier also met Jean Valjean when he came to rescue Cosette. He also
knows of Valjean's identity as a convict and once saw Valjean in Paris and recognized
him. Not only that, Thenardier is quite willing to turn Valjean in to Inspector Javert.
Therefore, seeing Thenardier in the neighborhood is certainly reason for Valjean to be
alarmed.

The second reason Valjean not
only wants to leave the Rue Plumet but Paris as well is that Paris is
becoming more and more politically
dangerous. As a result, the police in the
city were becoming more and more active and more and more suspicious, as we see in the
lines:

Paris
was not tranquil: political troubles presented this inconvenient feature, for any one
who had anything to conceal in his life, that the police had grown very uneasy and very
suspicious. (Vol. 4, Bk. 9, Ch.
1)

Therefore, Valjean makes
the decision to leave Paris with Cosette and move to England.  

Find all points on the curve y=x^3-x+1 where the tangent line is parallel to the line y=2x+5

Given the curve :

`y= x^3 -x
+ 1`

`` We need to find the points on the graph such that
the tangent lines parallel to the line y= 2x+5

First, we
notice that the slope of the line y= 2x+ 5 is 2.

Then, the
tangent lines should have  slope of 2.

To find the slope of
a tangent line, we need to find the derivative at the point of
tendency.

Let us differentitae
f(x).

`f'(x)= 3x^2 -1`

`` Let
a be the point of tendency such that the tangent line at the point x=a, is parallel to
the line 2x+5.

Then the slope is f'(a)=
2

`==> f'(a)= 3a^2 -1 =
2`

`==> 3a^2 =
3`

`==> a^2 = 1`

`a=
+-1 `

Now we will find the values of f(x) at the tangent
points.

`==> f(1)= 1^3 - 1 +1 =
1`

`f(-1)= -1^3 +1 +1 =
1```

 Then, we have two points such that the tangent lines
are parallel to the line y= 2x+5 .

Then, the
points are: (1, 1) and (-1, 1).

How does the dystopian vision in The Children of Men present a warning for modern society?

One of the important themes in the novel is how important
children are to civilized society. Whether a person has children or not, all of humanity
knows that children are the future of the world and the reason to leave a legacy. If
there are no children, there is no point in struggling to invent, innovate, or even
survive, and no reason to continue acting towards a civilized society. The complete lack
of births worldwide might easily result in a dystopian society such as the one in
The Children of Men. Today, world birth rates have dropped on
average since 1950, and are predicted to continue dropping. Since the world population
is over seven billion, some analysts have predicted that the world's resources will no
longer be able to sustain the population if birth rates remained stable. The drop in
birth rates can be attributed to a great number of factors, such as reliable birth
control and social awareness. In The Children of Men, births
stopped entirely, and the result was that civilized society began to break down; this is
not seen directly in modern society, but many people believe that modern society is
reverting to a less-enlightened age and to a more violent common mindset. It is
possible, through statistical analysis, to relate violence and the collapse of society
to lowering birth rates; more and more people believe that there is no future to work
toward, and so their actions have no moral meaning. 

What were the main reasons why the French and Indian War started?

The primary reason the war began was a dispute between the
French and English over the border between their respective territories in the Ohio
River Valley. British settlers had begun moving into the territory claimed by France
primarily for firs. Additionally, a number of British interests, including the Ohio
Company, laid claim to 200,000 acres, hoping to sell it later for a profit. The French
used this to their advantage to woo the Indians and alienate any relationship between
the British and the Indians. One French trader told a group of
Indians

The
English are much less anxious to take away your peltries than to become masters of your
lands.

The French then buried
plates in the soil which stated that the land was French soil. This created a problem
for the British, as if they accepted the French claim, British North America would be
sandwiched between French America and the Atlantic, a mere strip of land on the Atlantic
coast.

The British considered the French action a trespass
and in Spring, 1754 sent George Washington, then a 28 year old colonel into the area to
drive away the French. A brief skirmish followed during which the French commander,
one Joseph Coulon de Villiers de Jumonville, was wounded. Under a flag of truce,
Jumonville indicated a letter in his pocket would clear up the whole matter. The letter
essentially stated that the land was the property of France. When Washington turned to
have his interpreter read the letter, an Indian in his group
named Tanaghrisson, but called the "Half-King" by the British went
up to Jumonville, said in French Tu n'est pas encore mort, mon pere
("Thou art not yet dead, my father) and buried his hatchet in the Frenchman's skull,
after which he washed his hands in brain tissue. This was a signal to the other Indians
with Washington who killed all the Frenchmen but one. Washington was forced to make a
quick withdrawal before a larger French contingent arrived and erected a small fort,
named Necessity, but was soon forced to surrender it. The ensuing battle in which
Washington's commander, General Braddock, was killed, marked the first battle of the
war.