How is the Law Office depicted and what does it reveal about Mr.Jaggers ?Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The rather unscrupulous Mr. Jaggers, based upon a real
lawyer with whomDickens was familiar, keeps an office in Little Britain by Newgate
Prison.  It is on a markedly gloomy street that this prison is located.  Mr. Jaggers's
office is lighted only by a patched skylight and is in shadow; Pip describes it as "a
most dismal place." There are not the pile of papers that Pip has expected, but instead
odd objects such as an old rusty pistol, a sword in its scabbard, several odd-looking
boxes, and two frightful death masks on a shelf.

Mr.
Jaggers's black chair is covered in horsehair with the tacks around it like the nails on
a coffin; It is also not cleanly. The small room has a line from the greasy heads that
seemto fill the room until Pip tells Wemmick that he will stroll around while waiting. 
As he does so, Pip hears rather sordid-looking people speak of Jaggers.  From their
appearance and the appearance of Mr. Jaggers's office, Pip deduces that Mr. Jaggers
himself is but a few steps on the other side of crime himself.  He deals with the lowest
form of criminals and shows no sympathy for them in doing so.  As a reminder of the
cruelty of the environment in which he practices, Jaggers keeps the death masks of two
men for whom he could not win their cases.

What are 3 economic, 3 political, and 3 social causes of the Persian Empire and 3 economic, 3 political, and 3 social results of the...

You are asking quite a lot; there is not enough space to
write all that you request. So, here are some points to get you
started.

One of the main reasons why the Persians were able
to rise to power was because they possessed a certain theory of government. They
assimilated people and made them a part of their Empire. They even offered quite a bit
of freedom. Later the Romans would do the same. Another reason why they were able to
rise to power was because of very good leaders. Darius and his oldest son Xeres, were
great generals, builders, and organizers. A third reason for the rise of Persia was due
to it location. It was able to trade with the other great civilizations in the Ancient
Near East.

In terms of the decline of Persia, I would
attribute this to the Greeks. When Philip became master of Macedon and took over all of
Greece, he made plans to take over Persia in view of the longstanding feud between the
Greeks and the Persians. Philip's son Alexander would penetrate deep into Persia and
topple the Persian Empire. In the end, all empires are destined to fall. The Greek and
Roman in time would follow.

Describe Johnny’s position and his behavior in the Lapham household at the beginning of the novel. What does his behavior reveal about his...

When the story opens, Johnny is an apprentice to Mr.
Lapham, a silversmith with a shop in Boston.   Historically, an
apprentice was a person who was legally bound to a master craftsman for seven years in
order to learn a trade. Although he did not receive wages or money, he did receive food,
clothing, and shelter while under the Lapham’s roof . Besides his training, Johnny’s job
 would include helping  with the chores around the house.  Johnny was apprenticed to
learn the silversmith trade, as were Dove and Dusty.  But from the beginning it is said
that Johnny, who was  two years younger than Dove and had two years less experience, was
the “boss” of the attic and almost the whole house.  He told the boys when to go to bed
and when to get up.  He criticized their workmanship, and they knew he could beat them
up anytime he wanted. He preferred the bully the boys rather then make friends with
them. The first chapter says, "He knew his power and he reveled in it" (pg 12) Johnny
was so talented at his job, he was excused from the chores of the household.  He was
given a key to the workshop because he was so reliable.  He barked out commands to the
other apprentices, wrote down notes concerning the orders, and made sure that the orders
were filled. He was the only one of the three who could read and write well. He was
proud of his work and Mr. Lapham , a very religious man, took him to task for that.
 Overall you could say that Johnny was intelligent, reliable, responsible, proud,
determined, likable, a leader, a bit of a bully, and eager to learn.  He has a strong
character.

A ball is thrown horizontally from the top of a building 49.5 m high. The ball strikes the ground at a point 43.5 m from the base of...

First, we will calculate the time it takes for the ball to
hit the ground:

To do this, we will use the equation `y =
y_0 + v_0t + 1/2at^2` .

In this case, the initial velocity
in the y direction is zero, as is the initial y position, and acceleration here is
`9.81` `m/s^2` :

`49.5s = 1/2 * 9.81 m/s^2 *
t^2`

Therefore ` t = sqrt{(2*49.5m) / (9.81m/s^2)} =
3.176s`

Now that we know t, we once again use the same
equation, but this time `a=0, x_0=0` and `v_0` is the unknown: `x =
v_0*t`

Therefore `v = x/t = (43.5m) / (3.176s) = 13.96
m/s`

What are some quotes from Act II that illustrate major conflicts in The Crucible?

The opening of Act II reveals an external man vs. man
conflict between John and Elizabeth Proctor. Readers see it subtley with the stage
directions:

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It is as though she would speak but
cannot. Instead, now, she takes up his plate and glass and fork and goes with them to
the basin. Her back is turned toward him. He turns to her and watches her. A sense of
their separation
rises.

Their
apparent and obvious reason for conflict is eventually revealed in a discussion about
the fact that John saw Abigail today and it makes Elizabeth judge
John:

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PROCTOR: You will
not judge me more, Elizabeth. I have good reason to think before I charge fraud on
Abigail, and I will think on it. Let you look to your own improvement before you go to
judge your husband anymore. I have forgot Abigail
-

ELIZABETH: and
I.

PROCTOR: Spare me. You
forget nothin' and forgive nothin'. Learn charity,
woman.

Later, another
external man vs. man conflict occurs between Proctor and Mary Warren. Mary went to court
today and Proctor is concerned about the growing accusations that she is participating
in. In an effort to control the situation Proctor gets ready to whip her and Mary Warren
says:

I'll not
stand whipping any
more!

Moments later, Mary
Warren reveals an external conflict that Elizabeth may go through that would be a man
vs. society type of conflict. Elizabeth was accused in court, but Mary Warren tried to
protect her:

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MARY WARREN: I
saved her life
today!

ELIZABETH: I am
accused?

Mary WARREN: Somewhat
mentioned. But I said I never see no sign you ever sent your spirit out to hurt no one,
and seeing I do live so closely with you, they dismissed
it.

The story does not end
with dismissal. Elizabeth goes on to experience an internal conflict of doubt in the
next few pages curious about how Abigail may be making this happen. Elizabeth lets her
mind wander as far as even believing she might be hung.

Analyze the character of Elizabeth Bates in " The Odour of Chrysanthemums" by D. H. Lawrence.

“The Odour of Chrysanthemums” by D. H. Lawrence  presents
a protagonist who has to face the mistakes that she has made in her life.  This happens
at the worst time of her life: the death of her husband.  Elizabeth Bates finds that she
does not know who she is or who her husband was.

The author
describes Elizabeth Bates as a tall, handsome woman with striking black eyebrows and
hair.  Her family includes her husband Walter, and her two children: Annie and John. 
Elizabeth is pregnant with another child. 

Elizabeth finds
herself in an unhappy situation.  Her husband is a miner. They live in an industrialized
coal mining town where everything seems to be dirty and muddy.  They have a house that
Elizabeth works to make nice and clean. 

The first sight of
Elizabeth shows her picking a branch of chrysanthemums and smelling them. She holds the
branch next to her cheek and then sticks the branch into her pocket. Obviously,
Elizabeth loves flowers and pretty things. 

Something is
wrong with Elizabeth.  The author portrays her with these words: disillusioned;
bitterly; determinedly; and irritably. Although she loves her children, Elizabeth
answers them curtly and gives them no affection. 

At every
turn, the children seem to annoy her, and she answers them harshly. Early in the story,
Elizabeth gives bread and tea to her father. Elizabeth knows how to nurture.   She has
had her fill of her dull, dreary routine.

Walter does not
come home from the mines. Many times, he gets drunk, and then comes home.   On this
night Walter is so late that Elizabeth begins to worry.
  

This happens too often. Even the children are frustrated
with their father.  Elizabeth believes that he is at the local pub.  He has kept the
family from having their tea and missed supper as well.  She feels angry and bitter
toward her husband.  After the children are in bed, Elizabeth asks a neighbor to check
on him. 

Finally, Walter’s mother comes to her door to tell
her that Walter has been found dead in a mining accident.  He was asphyxiated.  The
other miners bring him home for the women to clean and prepare the
body. 

As Elizabeth works on Walter’s body, she is forced
to face the failure of her marriage.  When she looks at Walter’s corpse, Elizabeth
realizes that she never really knew Walter.

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She had said he was something that he was not;
she had felt familiar with him.  Whereas he was apart all the while, living as she never
lived, feeling as she never felt.  In fear and shame, she looked at his naked body, that
she had known falsely.

She
never gave herself over to him other than sexually.  Keeping herself distant both
emotionally and intimately added to the shame she feels as she acknowledges to herself
that this was probably the reason that her husband did not want to come home after
work. 

Elizabeth recognizes that Walter was never allowed
to be himself.  She suddenly feels unmitigated pity for him.  He was a human being that
had needs and desires, and she filled none of these for him.  Finally, she concludes
that she was responsible for her own unhappiness.  Now, he is gone, and it is too
late. 

The final view of Elizabeth comes from her tidying
up her kitchen for the company that will be coming.  The only thing left for Elizabeth
was to begin to pick up the pieces of her life.  Elizabeth has faced death now, and it
is her ultimate master.  She must value life and not merely just
exist.  

Who was superior at sea during World War I?

On the surface of the sea, the British Royal Navy was
superior in this war.  The German navy had its greatest successes with
U-boats.

Although Germany had a powerful surface navy, it
did not do much in this war.  For the most part, it was kept bottled up in its ports in
the North Sea.  The Battle of Jutland was a major battle that helped to keep this
situation in place.  There is disagreement as to who won the battle on a tactical level,
but strategically, Britain won because the German navy did not break out of the North
Sea.

Germany had much more success with submarine warfare. 
German submarines inflicted heavy damage on Allied shipping.  England, in particular,
depended greatly on supplies brought by ship and the German blockade had a major effect
these supplies.  However, the convoy method eventually allowed the Allies to limit these
losses.

Overall, then, the Allies won the war at sea. 
British surface ships won superiority and the British and Americans managed to protect
themselves against submarine warfare well enough that German submarines could not win
the war by themselves.

What are the conflicts in Graham Greene's "The Destructors"?

Man vs.
Society

The boys'
destruction of Old Misery's house is their way of making a statement to society and
their neighborhood; it is their way of making a name for themselves and building
notoriety.  The Wormsley Common gang does not approve of what the fine, old house
represents; their act of destruction can be seen as revenge against a society that has
betrayed them. 

Man vs.
Environment

Another main conflict within
"The Destructors" is the way in which the boys methodically battle the inner workings of
the old house.  T employs his technical know how to guide the rest of the gang in their
destructive quest to raze the house from the inside out.  The boys physically battle the
inner workings of the house with sledge hammers, crowbars, and even their hands,
attacking the plumbing, the paneling, the electrical wiring, all in an attempt to bring
Old Misery's house down.

What is the EXTERNAL CONFLICT in O. Henry's After Twenty Years?

The external conflict has to do with the twenty years
 that have passed since the two men have seen one another.  People change a lot in
twenty years, and both men have no idea what to look for in a physical appearance . 
Jimmy, the policeman, says that when Bob lit the cigar he was smoking, he recognized the
man who was wanted in Chicago, not his friend, Bob.  The only reason he knew it was his
friend was from their conversation.  Bob also did not recognize his friend.  He
befriends this man who walks up to him, but he even comments that he doesn’t remember
Jimmy having that height.  Still, he is willing to be persuaded that Jimmy grew a few
inches after he turned twenty! It wasn’t until he saw his nose --- not his full face,
but his nose, that he realizes that it isn’t his friend. Jimmy.  The problem is resolved
with the note. 

At the end of Chapter 3, how does the author foreshadow that bad things are about to happen in The Outsiders?

The quick answer to this question is Ponyboy’s
statement 

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Things gotta get better, I figured. They couldn’t
get worse. I was wrong.

The
words “I was wrong” make the reader think, “oh boy, what’s gonna happen next.” So,
delving further into what Hinton has done in chapter 3 helps the reader to see that she
has set the stage with what Ponyboy considered the worst thing that could happen — he
gets home way past his curfew and argues with Darry. After Darry slaps Ponyboy, he
realizes, for certain, Darry didn’t want him around. Ponyboy goes back to Johnny and
says he wants to run away. Johnny agrees, which leaves the boys virtually homeless.
Things couldn't get any worse than that, or could they? Ponyboy (and Hinton’s readers)
find out in chapter 4, not just how much but, how fast things could go from bad to
worse.

Hinton had set the stage for this worse case
scenario, the fight, when the greasers saw the Socs in the blue Mustang. At that point,
Ponyboy realizes the Socs in the blue Mustang are the ones who had attacked Johnny
previously, a fight is threatened but thwarted by Cherry, one of the girls Ponyboy and
Two-Bit are with. The girls just happen to be the girlfriends of the Socs in the blue
Mustang so their choice to go with the Socs instead of staying with the greasers
postpones the inevitable fight — until 2:30 a.m., in the park. What happens next is far
worse that anything Ponyboy could have imagined. Running away becomes more than running
away from home. It's running away from a murder. 

If I'm allergic to keflex antibiotics am I allergic to penicillin?I was put on Keflex antibiotics and found out that I was severly allergic to it,...

Keflex (or Cephalexin) is a 1st Generation Cephalosporin.
Just as Wannam mentioned, they are Beta-Lactam drugs that inhibit cell wall synthesis,
but they are less susceptible to penicillinases.

There is a
5-30% chance that you can have a cross-sensitivity.

According to Erez Manela what were the consequences of the failure of Wilsonianism at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 for China?

According to Manela, the failure of Wilson's dream helped
eventually to radicalize China and move it away from liberalism and towards
Marxism.

Manela argues that Wilson's ideas were embraced by
nationalists such as Sun Yat-Sen and Chiang Kai-Shek.  These men wanted China to become
stronger, but to do so along more or less liberal lines.  Their credibility was damaged,
however, by the failure of Wilsonianism.  When it failed, many in countries like China
started to lose hope in the ability of liberalism and the West to give them the freedom
they wanted.  Instead, they turned more (as Mao Zedong did) towards Marxism.  This more
radicalized group of activists, of course, ended up on the winning side, which is why
China is now nominally communist.

Was the Reconstruction Period a failure, success, or something in between?

Most historians would argue that Reconstruction was
basically a failure. The intent of reconstruction was to create a
new South that provided basic protection of the rights of black Americans.
The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery; yet no provision was
made to rehabilitate former slaves, other than the ill-fated efforts of the Freedman's
Bureau. The Fourteenth Amendment protected the Civil Rights of Black Americans and the
Fifteenth guaranteed them the right to vote; yet southern states went to great lengths
to circumvent both. The Supreme Court, in Plessy vs.
Ferguson  sanctioned "separate but equal" facilities for the races, thereby
insuring the survival of legalized segregation for close to another one hundred years.
Numerous devices were used to prevent Blacks from voting, including poll taxes,
residency and literacy requirements (which were applied quite unequally.) In addition,
organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan, the Knights of the White Camellia, and in South
Carolina the Red Shirt Campaign terrorized Blacks with abandon. Many law enforcement
officials and public officers were themselves members of these organizations. Finally,
in the election of 1877, Congress abandoned Reconstruction and removed federal troops
from the south to ensure the election of Rutherford B. Hayes to the Presidency. Aside
from their freedom, Blacks gained little from Reconstruction except their freedom. The
ills of Reconstruction were only addressed in the Civil Rights era of the 1950's and
1960's.

Should a country's government regulate its population growth?

Population growth in a country can be controlled in three
main ways. These are controlling the birth rate, death rate and migration rate. Through
years, authorities have been regulating the size of their respective population. It has
been owing to appropriate measures to control numbers of people living in their
countries that, third world countries have been able to progress socially, and
economically, to become developed.

First and foremost,
population growth is controlled to combat social ills. It is very difficult for
authorities from an overpopulated country to have the upper-hand on people. Too many
citizens in a state brings about problems like crimes, delinquency, violence, ethnic
tensions and epidemics

Secondly, population growth is
increased or decreased because of the economic position of the particular country. A too
large populace brings about many economic difficulties like unemployment, a high
consumption rate, a negative balance of payments, big budget deficits and high debts of
countries. Therefore through family planning accompanied by contraceptive measures,
concerned people try to reduce the increase in the expansion rate of the
people

Lastly, encouragement towards limitation of growing
population results in many health and social problems. For example, contraceptive
measures are encouraged by authorities, but this result in more social intercourse which
in turn result in more sexually transmitted diseases. Also, scientifically it has been
proven that some contraceptives when taken in excess affect lives or simply health of
individuals especially women

I have a problem with variables and expressions. the paper says name the rule. y=1, 5 and 7 the answers are 9,5 and 3. how do i figure out what the...

Given the values of y are : 1, 5, and
7

Also, given the values of x are : 9, 5, and
3.

Then, we will rewrite as
pairs.

==> ( 9, 1) (5,5) and ( 3,
7)

We will find the slope for each two
points.

==> (9,1) and
(5,5)

==> m1 = (5-1)/(5-9)= (4/-4 =
-1

==> m1=
-1

==> (9,1) and
(3,7)

==> m2=
(7-1)/(3-9)

==> m2= 6/-6 =
-1

==> (3,7) and
(5,5)

==> m3= (7-5)/(3-5) = 2/-2 =
-1

==> m3= -1

We notice
that m1= m2 = m3 = -1

Then, the three points are on the
same graph or have the same equation.

Then we will find the
equation using one of the points and the slope m= -1

We
will use the point (5, 5)

==> y-y1 =m
(x-x1)

==> y- 5 = -1 (
x-5)

==> y= -x + 5 +
5

==> y= -x +
10

Then, the rule that satisfies all three
points is : y= -x + 10

Why do light water fission reactors need enriched uranium to work?

A nuclear power plant uses uranium as fuel. Natural
uranium primarily consists of U-238 atoms with a small percentage of U-235 atoms. It is
the U-235 atoms that undergo fission. When one atom of U-235 is bombarded with a
neutron, the neutron is absorbed and the uranium atom is broken into an atom of barium,
an atom of krypton with the release of 3 nucleons in the process. As the mass of the
resultant particles is less than that of the uranium atom and the neutron there is a
large amount of energy released.

For a nuclear reactor to
function the number of neutrons being released when the U-235 is split should be
sufficient to sustain a chain reaction; when this condition is achieved it is called
criticality. Light water fission reactors use normal water to transfer heat from the
fission reaction to produce electricity. As the mass of a nucleon is very close to that
of a water molecule, the water absorbs many of the nucleons. This prevents the chain
reaction from continuing unless the percentage of U-235 in the uranium fuel is high
enough.

As natural uranium has only 0.72% of U-235, it has
to be processed or enriched to increase the percentage of U-235. The enrichment process
is necessary for the functioning of light water fission
reactors.

In spite of difficulties, Bob Cratchit’s family is a closely knit family with good moral values. Justify A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

In Stave Three of A Christmas Carol,
Scrooge witnesses with the Spirit of Christmas Present the goings-on in the Cratchit
home as the family prepares for their holiday dinner.  A loving family, the children are
excited when their father arrives; all the other members attend to Tiny Tim; Bob, his
father, carries him to the wash-house where he can hear the pudding "singing."  Upon
their return, Mrs. Cratchit asks solicitously, "And how did little Tim
behave?"

When the table is finally set and the goose placed
upon it, all exclaim in delight at what they have rather than complaining about what
little they possess and how they want for much.  Tiny Tim sits next to his father who
holds his "withered hand" as though he would keep him from leaving.  After they wish
each other a Merry Christmas, Bob Crachit makes a toast to Mr. Scrooge, "the Founder of
the Feast!"  In reaction to this toast, his wife
remarks,

"The
Founder of the Feast indeed!....I wish I had him here. I'd give him a piece of my mind
to feast upon, and I hope he'd have a good appetite for
it."

But, Bob mildly reminds
her, "My dear,...Christmas Day."  So Mrs. Crachit acquiesces, telling her husband, "I'll
drink his health for your sake and the Day's..."

As they
eat, the parents and children all converse together and two of the older children talk
of what they have earned, displaying their sense of familial obligation.  Dickens
describes them:

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They were not a handsome family; they were not
well dress; their shoes were far from being water-proof;.....But, they were happy,
grateful, pleased with one another, and contented with the
time....

Although they are
poor, the Crachits are rich in love.  This Scrooge observes and then realizes why the
Spirit has brought him to their home.

How would you broadly describe views of life of the characters in Ernest Hemingway's story "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"?

The personalities and views of life of the three main
characters in Ernest Hemingway's story "A Clean Well-Lighted Place" might briefly be
described as follows:

THE YOUNGER
WAITER

• Condescending, as in the
  way he slurs his words when speaking to the old
  man.


• Emphatic, as when he refuses to serve the old man
  another drink.


• Cocky, as in his confidence in his own
  instant opinions.


• Shameless, as when he tells the older
  waiter that the old man should have killed
  himself.


• Materialistic, as in his concern to be
  paid.


• Impatient, as in his repeated desire to get
  home.


• Self-confident, as when speaks of his eagerness to
  go home to his wife.


• Touchy, as when he suspects that the
  older waiter may be insulting him.


• Occasionally capable
  of thinking of others, as when the narrator says of
  him,

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He did not wish to be unjust. He was only in a
hurry.

• Cruel, as
  when he tells the old man (who fortunately can't hear) that he should have killed
  himself.


• His view of life
  seems shallow, selfish, materialistic, hedonistic, and immature. He seems to think that
  the world revolves around him and around his needs and
  desires.


• 
  

THE
OLDER WAITER

• Perceptive, as when
  discussing the old man's state of mind.


• Tolerant, as in
  his attitude toward the old man staying
  late.


• Knowledgeable, as when he explains the old man's
  suicide attempt.


• Non-judgmental, as when he doesn't
  condemn the old man for trying to kill himself.


• Capable
  of imagining and appreciating immaterial things, such as the old man's
  soul.


• Capable of humor, as when he jokes with the younger
  waiter.


• Aware of his own growing loneliness and
  age.


• Capable of appreciating order and simple
  pleasures.


• Thoughtful, as when he speculates on the old
  mna's feelings.


• Courteous, as when he thanks the
  barman.


• Troubled, as his apparent "insomnia"
  suggests.


• His view of life
  seems mature and thoughtful and
  humane.


• 
  

THE
OLD MAN

• Capable of despair, as
  his recent suicide attempt suggets


• Financially
  comfortable (his suicide attempt was not due to a lack of
  money)


• Lonely, as in the opening
  scene.


• Clean: the older waiter admires the old man's
  ability to drink without spilling his liquor.


• Dignified,
  as in the way he drinks quietly and expects no
  sympathy.


• Respectful:he fails to pay only when he becomes
  drunk, not because he deliberately wants to cheat anyone else. He also thanks the young
  waiter for pouring him a drink.


• Perceptive, as when he
  senses the transition from daytime to nighttime even though he is blind.
  


• The old man's view of life
  seems rooted in the pain of aging and loneliness -- feelings the young waiter cannot yet
  appreciate but which the older waiter has begun to
  understand.

How does the father's mental state affect the decisions he makes?

In Cormac McCarthy's The Road, the
father must overcome extreme mental and physical duress in order to survive and "carry
the fire" (keep his son alive).  The man knows he will die soon (he's inhaled so much
ash), and he faces the existential dilemma that he and his son are the only "good guys"
left in a godless universe ("There is no God and we are his prophets") filled with
cannibals and marauders.  On top of it all, keep his son's faith and spirits
high.

First and foremost, the father must deal with the
problems of suicide and mercy killing in order to protect
his son from cannibals.  Worse, the father has only two bullets in his gun: one for him,
one for his son.  But, he after he shoots a marauder, the one bullet leaves him with a
mental quandary: teach the son to shoot himself while the father fights the cannibals to
the death.  Needless to say, these options would drive anyone to mental
breakdown:

He
waited. The small nickelplated revolver in his hand. He was going to cough. He put
his whole mind to holding it back. He tried to listen but he could hear nothing. I wont
leave you, he whispered. I wont ever leave you. Do you understand? He lay in the leaves
holding the trembling
child.

In addition, the
mother has already committed suicide, and the father has terrible
flashbacks about their past life before the
Apocalypse:

In
his dream she was sick and he cared for her. The dream bore the look of sacrifice but
he thought differently. He did not take care of her and she died alone somewhere in the
dark and there is no other dream nor other waking world and there is no other tale to
tell.

Ultimately, the man
suffers from extreme paranoia: he believes the road is not
safe for travel.  He cannot tell the present from the past.  Time and again he urges the
son to stay off the road and hide in the woods.  He fears that he will not get the boy
to safety and warmer climes before his death.  Ultimately, it his son's overcoming his
father's fear after he has died and going onto the road that saves the boy.  There, he
meets the man with the shotgun and joins his family.  So, the son's faith (the very
opposite of father's mental problems) is what saves his live and
humanity.

What is the dramatic funtion of the ghost in Act 1 of Shakespeare's Hamlet and how does the ghost's presence contribute to the central themes of...

The ghost who appears in Act 1 of William Shakespeare’s
Hamlet serves a number of functions and contributes in various ways
to the themes and effectiveness of the play. Those ways include the
following:

• Even before his actual appearance,
  the ghost creates mystery, suspense, fear, and an atmosphere of the
  supernatural.


• Horatio is chosen to speak to the ghost
  because he is a “scholar” (1.1.42). Thus an important aspect of Horatio’s personality is
  here disclosed.


• The ghost’s initially brief appearance
  grabs our interest and makes us want to learn more about him and his
  circumstances.


• By the time of his second appearance, the
  ghost has begun to inspire respect, not simply fear – thus foreshadowing the ways in
  which the ghost will be received by Hamlet himself
  (1.1.143-46).


• When Horatio tells Hamlet about the ghost,
  we have evidence that a very rational and sane man takes the spirit seriously. We also
  have evidence of the close bond that already exists between Hamlet and Horatio
  (1.1.189-220). Horatio’s testimony helps Hamlet immediately take the ghost
  seriously.


• Hamlet’s responses to the ghost help
  characterize Hamlet in a wide variety of ways.  When he first sees the ghost, for
  instance, he says,

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Angels and ministers of grace defend
us!

Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damned . .
.

. . . I will speak to thee.
(1.1.39-44)

His initial
response is one of fear, and fear is what the other characters have felt and what the
audience should also feel in the presence of the ghost. Yet Hamlet is also curious, and
curiosity is a major trait of his character.  He wants to know – just as
we want to know – whether the ghost is good or bad, heavenly or
hellish.  The nature and purposes of the ghost are two of the most hotly debated aspects
of the whole play, and how one interprets the ghost usually has a major impact on how
one reacts both to Hamlet and to Hamlet. The ghost, therefore,
raises and epitomizes some of the central spiritual and ethical questions the play
explores. Hamlet the father – at least as a ghost – is in some ways just as mysterious
and intriguing as Hamlet the son. All the questions that Hamlet has about the ghost
(1.1.40-57) are questions the audience
shares.

• Hamlet’s first question to the ghost
  when he is alone with the spirit – “Whither wilt thou lead me?” (1.5.1) – is in many
  ways emblematic. Where, indeed, will the ghost lead Hamlet? Should Hamlet follow the
  ghost (in both senses of “follow”)?


• It is the ghost who
  explicitly raises the issue of “revenge” (1.5.7) – one of the major themes of the play.
  Should Hamlet indeed take revenge, or should he leave revenge to God, as Christianity
  taught? This is a crucial issue throughout the drama, and the way one answers that
  question helps determine how one responds to the entire work and its central
  character.


• The ghost accuses Claudius of having murdered
  him (1.5.41-83), thus raising another crucial issue: is the ghost lying or telling the
  truth? Hamlet will spend a good part of the play trying to discover for sure the answer
  to this question.


• Finally, the ghost instructs Hamlet not
  to punish Gertrude (1.5.84-88), thus raising yet another highly important question: how,
  indeed, will Hamlet deal with his mother?

In
all these ways, the ghost lays the groundwork for the plot of the rest of the
drama.

[see links for articles on the
ghost]

Explain what vexes Holmes about Merryweather’s remarks regarding the hollow-sounding flags in the paragraph beginning “Nor from below…”

On Saturday night Holmes goes to the underground bank
strongroom with Watson, Mr. Merryweather, and a policeman. The banker believes the room
is burglar-proof and taps on the flooring to
demonstrate.

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“Nor from below,” said Mr. Merryweather,
striking his stick upon the flags which lined the floor. “Why, dear me, it sounds quite
hollow!” he remarked, looking up in
surprise.

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“I must really ask you to be a little more
quiet!” said Holmes severely. “You have already imperilled the whole success of our
expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit down upon one of those
boxes, and not to
interfere?”

Holmes knows by
now that there is a tunnel underneath the floor, and he is alarmed and angered by the
noise the banker makes with his cane. The two crooks might not be underneath the
flooring at this point, but the sound of the tapping could travel a long way through the
tunnel. If the burglars heard such a sound it would suggest that there was someone in
the strongroom and also suggest that someone must suspect the existence of a tunnel.
They would undoubtedly decide to wait. But eventually the lure of the gold would draw
them to the strongroom. Only now they would not be caught off guard. John Clay has a
pistol, and the other man may also be armed. 

The author
only inserts this little incident of the tapping to add to the suspense. The reader
wants to see the burglars get caught, but now he has to worry about whether the burglars
will even show up. The long wait in the complete darkness and the stealthy entry of John
Clay through the opening in the floor are the climax of this story. Conan Doyle takes
care to create the maximum amount of suspense and
excitement. 

If Holmes didn't want Mr. Merryweather to
"interfere" with what he and the other two men were doing, then why did he invite
Merryweather along? The answer is obvious. The bank director has to let them into the
room, and he is responsible for the 30,000 gold Napoleon coins stored there. Doyle had
to invent such a character as Mr. Merryweather to explain how Holmes could get inside to
set his trap for John Clay. The banker has to open three
doors.

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...following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather,
we passed down a narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. Within
there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive iron gate. This also was
opened, and led down a flight of winding stone steps, which terminated at another
formidable gate. Mr. Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us down
a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a third door, into a huge vault or
cellar, which was piled all round with crates and massive
boxes.

The presence of Mr.
Jones from Scotland Yard gives official sanction to Holmes's actions. Holmes is on very
good terms with the police because he has helped them solve many cases and usually
allows them to take full credit for the results. 

What are some really good quotes that describe Rainsford and Zaroff? I have to find quotes about them for this essay I'm writing and I can't...

Sometimes using quotes to describe a character is a great
way to examine the indirect characterizations provided by the author. An indirect
characterization is where the author provides clues about a character by using dialogue,
actions, and relationships with other characters. (Example: She could not help but think
everyone was out to get her. Every time the group of girls glanced in her direction, she
thought they were making up lies.- Here one can interpret the character's mentality as
one which is self-conscious and worrying.) Direct characterization is when the author
tells readers exactly what a character is like. (Example: She thought she was better
than every one else. She walked around with her nose in the air, directing mean looks in
anyone's direction who would cross her path. The author is very direct about this type
of character.)

As for quotes from Connell's short story
"The Most Dangerous Game", one can use quotes to define the types of characters both
Zaroff and Rainsford are.

"Who cares how a jaguar feels?"-
This quote shows Rainsford's initial lack of concern for the one being hunted. Later in
the story, his mentality certainly changes.

"The hunter had
his nerve with him to tackle it with a light gun."- Here, readers are given insight into
the character through dialogue provided by Rainsford. The hunter, Zaroff, his nerve.
While readers do not yet know what is going to happen, they can look back on this quote
and use it to justify Zaroff's nerve later in the story.

"I
have but one passion in my life, Mr. Rainsford, and it is the hunt."- Here, Zaroff
allows readers to understand interpret that he is a very driven man. The obsession of
the hunt is the only thing that matters to him.

"I have
invented a new sensation."- Here, one can come to realize Zaroff's inventiveness. When
faced with the problem of becoming bored with traditional hunting, Zaroff invented
something new. This shows his creativeness and his violence (as readers will find out
shortly.)

"It was expected of noblemen's sons."- Here,
readers find out about Zaroff's background. He lived a life of privilege and benefits.
This speaks to his thoughts behind doing anything that he deemed necessary to entertain
himself.

"Thank you, I'm a hunter, not a
murderer."- Here, Rainsford is specifically showing his disdain for Zaroff and stating
his thoughts on murder over hunting. This shows his ability to separate the two, unlike
Zaroff. Therefore, the quote also shows what kind of person Zaroff is by the statement
Rainsford makes. He is, essentially, calling Zaroff a
murderer.

"That is why I use them. It gives me pleasure."-
This quote shows Zaroff's cold-bloodedness. He is willing to murder, or hunt as he says,
men for sport.

"I have played the fox, now I must play the
cat of the fable."- Here Rainsford realizes how quickly the hunter can become the
hunted. His ideas about the jaguar's feelings have certainly changed. Therefore,
Rainsford has changed.

In Chapter 5, is everything going in accordance to Major's dream and the commandments?

A political idealist, Old Major simplified things too much
when he declared in Chapter 1 that the animals were all good and the people evil. 
Obviously, in Chapter 5, there are desires in the animals that exist just as in people.
While Mollie, who accepts treats from the farmers and eschews work and wishes to be
pampered, runs off from the farm, Napoleon teaches dogs to defend him and threaten
others so that he can dictate what he wants. 

When the
animals hold meetings, Snowball and Napoleon argue.  As Snowball wins over the majority
with his inspiring speeches, the envious Napoleon secretly canvasses support for
himself. So, the animals become divided into two political factions.  Finally, on the
issue of a windmill things come to a head as Snowball's eloquent speech is interrupted
by Napoleon's shrill call to his attack dogs who chase Snowball from the farm.  After
this, the other animals are terrified; they creep silently back into the barn.  Taking
advantage of their fear, the dictatorial Napoleon climbs to the raised portion of the
floor with his dogs and announces that there will committees of pigs, there will be no
more debates.  When some of the pigs express disapproval, the dogs growl.  Then,
Squealer emerges as a propagandist and puts a spin upon the truth that favors
Napoleon.

Oddly enough, after Snowball has been gone for
three weeks, Napoleon announces that the windmill will be constructed.  Later, Squealer
"explains" that the plans for the windmill were not Snowball's, but were really
Napoleon's all along. Squealer tells the animals,

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He had seemed to oppose the windmill, simply as a
manoeuvre to get rid of Snowball, who was a dangerous character and a bad
influence.

Sadly, the ideal
of the animal farm is soon shattered by the power-hungry
Napoleon.

What are some of the main conflicts in The Crucible?

This intense play has a number of conflicts, both internal
and external. John Proctor serves as the central figure in all of the play's important
conflicts as he struggles to attain an honorable honesty even while admitting to immoral
acts. 

Narrowing our focus down to the most significant
conflicts of Miller's play, we can identify the following three
conflicts:

• Proctor's troubled history and
  difficult relationships with Elizabeth and Abigail form a single domestic
  conflict...


• Proctor's attempt to persuade the court that
  the accusations of witchcraft are false is an external conflict central to the play's
  themes and action. 


• Proctor's internal struggle to
  determine the right course of action at the end of the play is a representative
  conflict, as he considers whether to falsely confess and live, or to be honest and
  die. 

These three conflicts are expressive of
the major themes of the play. Social pressure, integrity, and the personal relationships
that fuel nearly all dramas are each present in these conflicts concerning John
Proctor. 

Proctor stands in the center of the plays
turmoil, literally and figuratively. He is engaged in a personal struggle to be honest
with himself and his wife about something shameful in his immediate past. This relates
directly to his public challenge, which is to convince the court that it is acting
dishonestly, or at least acting on dishonest
information. 

Proctor can also be seen to embody the play's
resolution as he recognizes that his honor and his integrity are tied to his ability to
be honest, despite the costs of this honesty. 

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Proctor's final recantation of his confession and
his refusal to put his principles aside to save his life, we see the triumph of personal
integrity in a world of moral
uncertainty

In the book the metamorphosis can Gregor's death be considered a sacrifice in any sense?

Yes, and no.  With your question, you raise another - for
whom is his death a sacrifice?  Did he sacrifice himself (as a martyr) or did his family
sacrifice him?

While The Metamorphosis has many themes
running throughout, the idea of liberty is rather prevalent.  Could Gregor escape his
family and duty?  His self-identity seems to deteriorate to the point where he has
become something he doesn't want to be - and in the end, he dies, whether from
self-loathing, self-sacrifice, or because his family no longer want or need him, or
because they have learned to hate his bid for freedom are among the many possible
answers.

What is the significance of Clarisse and Montag meeting in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451?

In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury,
Montag meets Clarisse on the third page. She is unlike anyone he has ever known. While
he and his wife and "friends" are automotons, doing everything as directed by the
government, Clarisse and her family actually do what the men down the river do at the
end of the novel: they try to remain connected to the past, remembering things that
matter, things that uplift the human experience. They are not a part of the unnatural
flow of the community, but keep to themselves and find comfort in each
other.

Clarisse encourages Montag look at the world through
her eyes—she asks him if he thinks about things, and if he is
happy. Montag finds her very odd. She explains that she does not go to school: no one
misses her, saying that she's not social. She disagrees and then the reader realizes
that it's really because she won't "behave." She
says:

But I
don't think it's social to get a bunch of people together and then not let them talk, do
you?

Clarisse is curious
about the world. She watches people to see how they act. She listens to people
everywhere, but says that they don't talk about anything. She notices blades of grass
and flowers, which no one sees because no one drives slow enough to do so. They have
become desensitized. In sharing all of these things, she gets Montag to think about
"thinking." She pushes him to notice the world around him and to ask
questions.

The purpose of Clarisse and Montag's meeting is
to get him to engage more with the world around him, so he begins to notice things and
ask his own questions. He becomes concerned with the apathetic way his wife lives. He
questions the validity of what firemen do.

Once the first
idea is planted, Montag cannot help himself—he secretly collects more and more books. He
questions society's laws. Soon, he is ready to make a break from this oppressive society
of which he is a part.

However, when he faces Beatty at the
end, his boss brings up Clarisse to Montag, sneering at the way Montag fell under her
influence.

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"You weren't fooled by that little idiot's
outine, were you? Flowers, butterlfies, leaes, sunsets, oh, hell! It's all in her
file...A few hrass blades and the quarters of the moon. What trash. What good did she
ever do with all that?"

Montag sat on the cold fender of
the Dragon... "She saw everything. She didn't do anything to anyone. She just let them
alone."

"Alone, hell! She chewed around you, didn't
she?..."

While it would
seem at first that Clarisse gave Montag a desire to ask questions
and engage with the world around him rather than passivley passing the time, as Mildred
did, Beatty's knowledge of Clarisse and her time spent with Montag
would indicate that Montag was being watched for a long time. Beatty even admits that he
knew that Montag was involved with books before they came to burn his
home.

However, the fact that Beatty tells Montag about
Clarisse, along with the sense the reader gets with Montag's lament, "She didn't do
anything to anyone," makes the reader wonder. Can we infer that the car that hit
Clarisse may not have done so accidentally? After Montag kills
Beatty and runs away, he has a moment of clarity, realizing that Beatty wanted
Montag to kill him. Perhaps he mentioned Clarisse as just another way to
drive Montag to end Beatty's life. So that Clarisse and Montag's meeting may well have
served two purposes.

Is the title of "The Most Dangerous Game" ironic at all? Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game"

In a most skillfully contrived plot, Richard Connell
presents antagonists and protagonists who, ironically, switch roles under a title that
is both double entendre and ironic.  In oneinstnace of irony, as
they dine in his chateau, General Zaroff and Sanger Rainsford discuss hunting and big
game.  Rainsford tells the general that he has always felt that the Cape buffalo is "the
most dangerous of big game," but the general counters with the
remark,

"Here
in my preserve on this island,....I hunt more dangerous game....[T]he
biggest."

Thus, there is much
irony in General Zaroff's remark. The "game" of which he speaks is the human being, who,
while by no means is the biggest in size, is certainly the most clever and intelligent,
and, therefore, dangerous.

Zaroff considers man as the most
dangerous of game since man can use his intellectual capabilities and devise clever
schemes for the defeat of his foe.  His term is ironic because he says something and
means more than what he says in his response to Rainsford's comment about the Cape
buffalo.  Furthermore, Zaroff's remark is also an example of dramatic irony as he does
not realize that it is he who is to become, not the hunter, but himself the "most
dangerous game."

Discuss the causes of conflict in a Shakespeare play you have studied. How do they reflect the time in which the play was written.More than 3...

Let's look at Romeo and Juliet as an
example of a Shakespearean play which reflects the time the play was written in.  Juliet
finds herself in a difficult situation when her father orders her to marry Paris.  Now,
it is usually considered rare for a father to arrange a marriage for his daughter.  In
Shakespeare's time, this was a normal occurrence.  Juliet is willing to kill herself
rather than go through with the marriage.  She has no thoughts of running off to join
Romeo in exile even though he is her husband.  During Shakespeare's time, a young girl
like Juliet would have no concept of life outside her father's house.  She was from a
wealthy family and would have been too unskilled to find work or support herself.  In
today's world, Romeo and Juliet probably would have run off the Vegas, gotten married,
and found a quiet place to settle down together.  It is sometimes difficult for us to
understand the choices they made because our lives are so different from the way theirs
were.

Please name two quotes and page numbers that relate to the theme esapism.

Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and
Clay develops the theme of escapism on many levels.  In the third chapter, for instance,
we have the words of Kronblum who came to Josef's rescue when he tried a dangerous
escape stunt that almost resulted in his brother's and his
death:

Forget
about what you are escaping from.  Reserve your anxieties for what you are escaping
to.

This quote appears on
page 57 in my edition, but it is mentioned first in Chapter 2, page 21.  Here Josef
repeats his mentor's words when he is embarking on a journey to escape Nazi-invaded
Prague.  Here he must succeed in his escape "trick" in order to survive.  Indeed, this
maneuver is just as dangerous as his earlier childhood experiment because it involves
taking the place of the Golem in a casket and freeing himself
Houdini-like.

Sammy, who lives in the US,  dreams of
escaping his overbearing mother.   As a polio-strickened child, he longs to travel with
his father--the Mighty Molecule, a circus performer.  Even though his father abandoned
his family, and Sammy sees him only briefly, Sammy still entertains hopes that his
father will take him with him. Sammy's dreams of escape are crushed when he finds out
about his father's death:

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"One night, about a year before Joe Kavalier's
arrival, a telegram had come with word that . . .Alter Klayman had been crushed and with
him Sammy's fondest hope, in the act of escaping from his life, of working with a
partner." (page 108)

This
quote shows two kinds of escape--Sammy's crushed hope to escape to a world of adventure,
and his father's literally crushed body that resulted from his escape from his domestic
responsibilities.

Does the reconciliation between the Capulets and Montagues make a good ending to Romeo and Juliet, or is it an anticlimax in which no-one is...

This is a great question to consider. In a sense, the
ending of the play and the way in which it refers to the feud between the Montagues and
the Capulets ending is a fitting conclusion, because it showed that the death of Romeo
and Juliet was not entirely in vain and that something positive was gained from it.
However, on the other hand, it is possible to take a somewhat different and more
depressing view. Consider how the Prince closes the play, and in particular pay
attention to the dark imagery he uses:

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A glooming peace this morning with it
brings.

The sun for sorrow will not show his
head.

Go hence, to have more talk of these sad
things;

Some shall be pardoned, and some
punished;

For never was a story of more
woe

Than this of Juliet and her
Romeo.

The "glooming peace"
and the way in which the sun is personified as suffering from grief plunges the ending
of this play into an unremitting darkness, questioning the price that was paid for the
peace that has been achieved. The line "Some shall be pardoned, and some punished,"
likewise indicates that the punishment of Romeo and Juliet's death is something that
will continue long after the ending of the play. I wouldn't personally describe the
ending of the play as an anticlimax, but the high price of the peace that has been
achieved definitely overshadows the ending.

Please help me compose an essay on the topic of "What is Poetry?" The essay will use three short poems as examples, Frost's "Stopping by the...

This assignment is designed to make you attempt to define
the poetic genre inductively, by looking at the commonalities among three poems. In some
ways, the selected poems represnt a very limited subset of poetry, appealing to a fairly
traditional, quasi-romantic sensibility. The are all releatively short poems, using
formal meter and rhyme, and generally displaying a melancholic
tone.

To write the essay, you need to examine first style.
How do the three works depart for English prose in terms of their use of sound (meter,
rhyme, alliteration, etc.), diction (do they use unusual words), use of figures of
speech, and syntax (word order, sentence structure).  Next, you need to look at content
and rhetorical stance. Look for commonalities among the subject matters and approaches
of these works which are distinct from what one might find in ordinary prose. Also
examine close the emotional tone.

What are some examples of concurrent power between state and national governments?

Concurrent powers are those powers which are given both to
the national government and to the state governments.  These can be exercised separately
by the two levels of government.  Two important examples of this type of powers are the
power to tax and the power to build roads.

The federal
government and the state governments both have the power to impose taxes on the people. 
This is why we have federal and state income taxes in most states.  Both levels of
government have the right to build roads.  This is why we have interstate highways but
also state highways.

These are the two most important
concurrent powers.

What are some examples of Southern dialect and colloquialisms that Jem Finch would use in To Kill a Mockingbird?

Let's review what a dialect is and what colloquialisms
are. That will help you understand the answer and you can apply it throughout the
book.

A dialect, from the Merriam-Webster dictionary is "a
regional variety of language distinguished by features of vocabulary, grammar, and
pronunciation from other regional varieties." It's the way people speak in an area,
including the way they say it and what they say. People in New York speak English
differently than people in London or people in Atlanta. It's not just pronunciation;
that would be called an accent. It's also the vocabulary and the
grammar.

A colloquialism, again from Merriam Webster, is "a
local or regional dialect expression." It's a word or phrase commonly used in an area.
It's also usually used in everyday speech, not necessarily in formal situations. Sounds
similar to a dialect doesn't it? Remember, a dialect includes pronunciation and grammar
as well as vocabulary. The colloquialism is mostly about
vocabulary.

Let's now look at one quote of Jem's and see
what we can find. This is from Part 1, Chapter 1 and is on page 5 of my version. Jem is
describing Boo Radley to Dill:

"Jem said, “He
goes out, all right, when it’s pitch dark. Miss Stephanie Crawford said she woke up in
the middle of the night one time and saw him looking straight through the window at her…
said his head was like a skull lookin‘ at her. Ain’t you ever waked up at night and
heard him, Dill? He walks like this-” Jem slid his feet through the gravel. “Why do you
think Miss Rachel locks up so tight at night? I’ve seen his tracks in our back yard many
a mornin’, and one night I heard him scratching on the back screen, but he was gone time
Atticus got there.”

Harper Lee writes the dialogue in
Southern American English. I'm a Southerner myself, so I am am well acquainted with the
dialect and colloquialisms.

Let's look at pronunciation
first. Jem uses the words "lookin'" and "mornin'" in the quotation. That is common to
Southern American English; we drop the pronunciation of the final "g" in words. But
notice that the "g" is not dropped on scratching; many times Southerners will pronounce
the "g" for emphasis; sounds a bit like "scratch-ING."

Now
let's look at vocabulary. Jem says "Ain't" (instead of "Haven't"), and "all right" (not
meaning "all is fine," but "indeed"). He adds several adjectives and adverbs for
emphasis. He says "pitch dark" instead of simply "dark" and ""straight through" instead
of simply "through." These additions add color to his language and are common Southern
phrases.

Finally, let's look at grammar. There are three
excellent examples in this passage of dialectical grammar. Jem says "many a mornin'"
adding the article "a" to the phrase. In standard English, it would be grammatically
correct to say "many mornings." He also says "he was gone time Atticus got there,"
shortening the phrase "by the time" to simply "time." Finally, Jem also says "waked up"
instead of the grammatically correct "woken up" or
"awoken."

Anytime you see Jem speak, he will be
using Southern American English as his dialect. You can take any of Jem's quotations and
analyze them in this same way. You might also find it helpful to read those quotes out
loud. If you stumble on a word or phrase, that's probably where the dialect or
colloquialism is unfamiliar to you.

Describe Two examples of how Kingdom Protista is helpful (two examples) and how it is harmful (two examples).

Members of the Kingdom Protista make up a good share of
the phytoplankton that occupy the top few meters of the world's oceans. There they form
the basis of the ocean's food chain, capturing sunlight and converting it into useable
biological molecules.  Another important ecological role of protists is in oxygen
production; the ocean's phytoplankton create about half of all the oxygen in Earth's
atmosphere.

Protists can be harmful becuase some of them
can cause diseases. href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK8584/">Malaria is caused by the
protist Plasmodium falciparum. The sexually transmitted disease
trichomoniasis
is caused by Trichomoniasis vaginalis. href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001333/">Giardiasis, an
uncomfortable intestinal condition, is caused by the protist Giardia
lamblia.

What does Goodman Brown mean when he says, "Faith kept me back a while" in Hawthorne's story, Young Goodman Brown?

In Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown,
Goodman Brown is the member of a Puritan community who is out one evening on "an
errand." As he prepares to leave, his wife, Faith, puts her head near her new husband's
ear and entreats him to stay home. He tells her he must go, but
insists that if she stays home and says her prayers, all will be
well.

Say thy
prayers, dear Faith, and go to bed at dusk, and no harm will come to
thee.

As he leaves he looks
back, and there is foreshadowing in his comment:

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She talks of dreams. Methought, as she spoke,
there was trouble in her face, as if a dream had warned her what work is to be done
tonight. But no, no!

This
implies that Brown, for all of his encouragement regarding how his wife can keep herself
safe, he is planning to partake in something he should
not be doing; we find this in "warned her what work is to
be done." This also foreshadows what happens in the middle of the woods, when
it appears that there is a Black Mass. However, when it is over, Brown is not sure if it
was a dream or not.

As Brown walks along (in the forest,
where Puritans believed the devil resided and therefore avoided the place), the narrator
describes that Brown "passed a crook in the road." This would indicate a bend. The road
to heaven is said to be "straight and narrow," while the road to hell is winding and
wide. In that moment, Brown meets a man in "grave and decent attire, seated at the foot
of an old tree" who takes his place comfortably, it seems, at Brown's side as they walk
on. (This man is allegedly the devil.) The man complains that Brown is late; Brown
responds, "Faith kept me back awhile," and we can assume that he means it
literally—"I was late because my wife wanted to talk with
me."

We might also assume that the premonition Brown
thought he read on his wife's face made her fearful to let him go and so she tried to
delay him.

However, we might also perceive this as a
figurative statement, a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/double%20entendre?fromAsk=true&o=100074">double
entendre. While "Faith" is his wife's name, the word starts the sentence and
so it must be capitalized. Looking at this statement figuratively, it may not refer to
his wife at all, but may refer, rather, to a struggle Brown had
with his soul's faith—in deciding whether to come into the woods for this meeting and
journey, or to stay at home as he wisely counsels his wife to
do.

While Brown believes he can consort with this man in
the forest and come out unscathed, Hawthorne seems to be saying that it is not possible.
As the scripture warns...

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No one can serve two masters. (Matthew 6:24 -
NIV)

Ironically, Brown
believes he is the only faithful person in
town when he returns, but his time spent in the company of evil has changed him. If only
he had listened to "faith" when it/she spoke to him.

What are the reasons that Socrates gives in Plato's Republic for philosophers not wishing to rule?

The background to Plato's treatment of rulership in the
Republic is both philosophical and biographical. On a biographical level, the account of
Plato's sojourn in Syracuse in Epistle VII suggests that Plato's personal experience was
that rulers were not able to devote themselves to philosophy and that the quest for
philosophical truth was incompatible with the compromises necessary for
rulership.

For Plato there is considerable tension between
the need for philosophically trained rulers, who are unselfishly devoted to knowing and
practicing goodness, justice, etc. and the fact that true philosophy finds its
fullfillment in the theoretic life of contemplation of the Form of the Good. The
philosopher who has left the cave will not disire to return to it, but for the sake of
the community as a whole, must do so. The inherent tension is that the philosopher who
knows the good must act in a benevolent manner for the good of the community, but active
practical benevolence is a distraction from contemplation of and return to the
divine.

What is the significance of how the American federal system decentralizes our politics ?

There are a number of significances to this fact.  Among
them are:

• It protects against tyranny.  One
  reason for the creation of a federal system was to prevent any one part of the
  government from having too much power.  By decentralizing power, our federal system
  helps to protect us from having one part of the government become too strong at which
  point it could tyrannize us.


• It offers more points of
  access to government.  Because there are multiple levels of important governmental
  actors (federal, state, etc), there are more points at which citizens can try to affect
  what government does.  If power were centralized, there would be fewer points at which
  citizens and interest groups could hope to talk to governmental leaders and try to
  influence them.


• It offers more opportunities for policy
  innovation.  States have been called the "laboratories of democracy."  With a federal
  system, we have multiple states that can try different approaches to solving problems. 
  In a more unitary system, we would not have this
  advantage.

In Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter, to whom is Mistress Hibbens referring when she offers in Chapter 20 to introduce Reverend...

In Chapter 20 of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The
Scarlet Letter, Reverend Dimmesdale, having just returned from a meeting with
Hester Prynne and Pearl in the forest, is encountered by Mistress Hibbins, who is
described in ways that associate her with Satan and that imply that she is a witch.
Hawthorne describes the encounter as follows:

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"So, reverend sir, you have made a visit into
the forest," observed the witch-lady, nodding her high head-dress at him. "The next time
I pray you to allow me only a fair warning, and I shall be proud to bear you company.
Without taking overmuch upon myself my good word will go far towards gaining any strange
gentleman a fair reception from yonder potentate you wot
of."

The “potentate” to whom
she alludes is undoubtedly the devil, but the passage just quoted deserves some further
analysis.

The fact that Mistress Hibbins addresses
Dimmesdale as a “reverend” person not only reminds us of his official position in the
church but also calls attention to the hypocrisy of his behavior. Although he is revered
and respected, he knows in his heart that he is guilty of illicit sex with Hester.
Hester has suffered because of their sexual encounter, but Dimmesdale has not.  He has
remained a revered person in the community. Moreover, he has allowed Hester to bear the
sole blame and shame for their encounter.

Mistress Hibbins’
statement that she would be “proud” to accompany Dimmesdale during his next visit into
the forest helps remind us that pride is considered by Christians to be the central sin
because it is the root of all other sins. Dimmesdale himself has been guilty of pride
(indeed, all fallen humans by definition are), but Mistress Hibbins’ profession of pride
seems especially appropriate if she is indeed a witch associated with Satan. Ironically,
her next sentence expresses a kind of false modesty that really only emphasizes her true
pride.

By promising Dimmesdale a “fair reception” from the
devil, Mistress Hibbins may be speaking with self-conscious irony, since by definition
(at least from a Christian perspective) no welcome from Satan can be a good
thing.

Notice, by the way, that Mistress Hibbins presumes
that Dimmesdale already knows the devil.  Dimmesdale knows Satan, of course, because he
has studied about Satan while preparing for the ministry and in his subsequent reading
of the Bible. He has also presumably often spoken about Satan from the pulpit. He also
knows Satan in the sense that all humans, according to Christian theology, know Satan:
we are corrupted by sin from birth. Yet Mistress Hibbins seems to be implying that
Dimmesdale has a deeper, more personal knowledge of the devil than he himself is willing
to admit.

What was the plot of Leo Tolstoy's "The Penitent Sinner"?

Leo Tolstoy's story "The Penitent Sinner" begins with a
man who has died and is trying to enter the Kingdom of
Heaven.

The rising action begins when the man, a penitent
sinner, knocks on the doors of heaven and is seen by Peter the Apostle, who asks who he
is and what he wants. As the sinner asks for pity to be allowed into Heaven, St. Peter
tells him that he cannot go in because he is a sinner and the people in heaven are too
good for him to get in.

Therefore, the penitent sinner
explains to Peter all the sins that he, Peter, had committed prior to be deemed as the
Father of the faith.

After a similar encounter with King
David, who would not allow him to come in, and the sinner would remind them how they,
also, once were penitent sinners.

The climax should be when
he encounters the last of the great men in heaven, John the Divine- whom Jesus loved the
most. After John denies him entry the sinner reminds him how, because he was the one
Jesus loved the most, it is he, John, who should let the sinner in- as he has
experienced first hand a huge blessing.

The declining
action would be the speech that the sinner makes to John the Divine regarding Jesus
loving him, and how he should show the same love for another
sinner.

The conclusion is that the gates of Heaven are
lifted and the sinner is admitted in.

What is the twist at the end of the story "Thank You, M'am"?

After Roger's attempt to snatch her pocketbook, Mrs.
Luella Bates Washington Jones has several surprises to spring upon him in the Langston
Hughes short story, "Thank You, Ma'm." The large woman first subdues Roger--putting him
in a half-nelson--and escorts him back to her apartment, where she makes him wash his
face and comb his hair. She then shares her meager supper with him--ham and lima beans,
and half of her ten cent cake. After they have eaten, Mrs. Jones goes to her purse,
which she has left out on the table (almost daring Roger to take it), and she presents
him with the biggest surprise of all: ten dollars for Roger to buy the blue suede shoes
he so desired.

What are liabilities?

Liabilites can be seen as the opposite of assets.  While
an asset is something that has economic value to a firm, a liability is something that
the firm owes to someone else.  Liabilities, then, are the debts or obligations that a
firm incurs in the course of its business operations.

There
can be many kinds of liabilities.  There are current liabilities, which must be paid off
in the short term.  These include such things as wages owed to workers and taxes owed to
the government.  There are long term liabilities that do not need to be paid off within
a year.  These include such things as mortgages.  Finally, there are contingent
liabilities.  These are things that the firm may or may not have to pay at some point. 
This could include something like the damages a firm would have to pay in the event that
it loses a lawsuit.

What all of these have in common is
that they are obligations that are owed by the firm in question.

How do the activities in Rabindranath Tagore's poem "The Railway Station" become a metaphor for life? What does our life lack when juxtaposed...

The entire proceedings of the railway station mirror the
events that we encounter in our daily life, if not
directly.

In the beginning, Tagore expresses the way in
which there are people everywhere, trying to achieve their goal (which happens to be
purchasing a ticket, in this case). In life, too, here's a great jostle when it comes to
grabbing opportunities in impatience - everyone wants to get their way, and
fast.

The parallel failures and succeses that dfferent
groups of people experience is also expresed in the poem. Tagore shows us how the ones
that take a little extra effort manage to catch the train, whereas some others miss
theirs by mere minutes. This is a situation rampant in our daily lives, charecterised by
the anecdote 'Time and Tide Wait for No Man'.

Life is a
canvas indeed, as the poem avidly portrays. Circumstances and situations can change with
the blink of an eye, aquaintances can be made or broken. Our entire life seems to be a
juxtapositin of contradicting events.

What does Madame Loisel's name mean?

This is a very interesting question, and I'll admit it's
an idea I'd never thought about before. I did a google search and couldn't find any
articles that did more than mention the characters' names. So I thought I'd take a stab
at answering your question without backup from the
critics.

There are several ancestry web sites for the Oisel
family, but I don't think the character in this story has anything to do with them.
There is no word "loisel" or "l'oisel" in French, but it is very similar to another
term. The French word "oiselle" translates into English as "little bird" or "female
bird"; it is from the word "oiseau," which means "bird." So the author may want us to
think of Madame Loisel as a little bird who preens with pride and flits from dance
partner to dance partner at the ball. Her first name, Mathilde, means "power, strength,"
and that describes her as well, as she musters all her strength to work to replace Mme
Forester's necklace. And that is another interesting name. A forester is not only the
caretaker of a forest but is also the one who controls what goes on in the forest. In a
sense, Mme Loisel is controlled by Mme Forester in her attempt to replace her friend's
lost jewels.

I hope this helps you.

In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, what is the most marvellous thing about The Green Knight?

Well, I would argue that what makes the figure of the
Green Knight marvellous is the fact that a) he is green and b) he is apparently
invulnerable to weapons and having various limbs and heads
dismembered!

Critics have hotly debated his origins, but
the fact that he is green suggests that he represents a spirit of rebirth and growth
that is easily spotted in nature. For example, trees have the amazing ability to
recuperate and grow back after being chopped down that we can see in the figrue of the
Green Knight and the way that he treats his decapitation with nonchalance. Note how he
simply picks up his head, which continues to operate normally, even though it is
detached from the rest of his body, and carries on with his life. Interestingly, the
next time he appears it is firmly stuck onto his body again where it
belongs.

These two aspects, to my mind, are what makes this
figure truly marvellous and amazing.

How did Pope Alexander VI contribute to the French invasions of Italy?

First, please note that I had to edit your question as we
are not allowed to answer multiple questions all at
once.

Pope Alexander VI was only tangentially involved in
the first French invasion of Italy that happened in 1494.  One reason why the French
invaded Italy was because Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere had a grudge against
Alexander.  He helped to persuade King Charles VII of France to invade.  But this was
not by any means the only reason for this
invasion.

Alexander had more to do with a second invasion
of Italy, this one happening in 1499.  In that episode, Alexander agreed not to resist
the French invasion.  He did so in exchange for the French king's promise to help
Alexander's son Cesare Borgia in Cesare's attempts to conquer Romagna.  In this way, he
made it easier for the French to invade Italy.

One of the key conflicts in "The Pedestrain" involved the contrasting value and perspectives of Mr. Mead and the rest of society. Explain.

Bradbury is a master of creating terrifying dystopian
worlds of the future where his characters often struggle to maintain some kind of
semblance of humanity. In "The Pedestrian," we see Leanoard Mead in conflict with the
society that he is part of. The most insightful description of this future society and
the way that it has changed so dramatically comes at the beginning of Leonard Mead's
interrogation, when he says he is a writer:

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He handn't written for years. Magazines and
books didn't sell anymore. Everything went on in the tomblike houses at night now, he
thought, continuing his fancy. The tombs, ill-lit by television light, where the people
sat like the dead, the grey or multicoloured lights touching their faces, but never
really touching them.

Note
the way that society has regressed: the houses are "tombs" and are "ill-lit" with people
sitting "like the dead" and not being impacted at all by the sights they see. Clearly,
we can see from the story, that nobody leaves their homes at night to get fresh air, and
if they do, as Mr. Mead finds out, they are accused of having "Regressive Tendencies."
Mr. Mead stands in opposition to the values and culture of his society because of his
background as a writer and above all, his refusal to follow the flow of the rest of
humanity. This of course results in the story's rather terrifying
ending.

Simplify the expression: sin(2cos^(-1)6x) Thoughts? =)

Let cos^-1(6x) = arccos
6x

sin(2cos^(-1)(6x)) = sin(2arccos
(6x))

We'll use the following
identity:

sin (2alpha) = 2sin
(alpha)*cos(alpha)

We'll put alpha = arccos
6x

sin(2arccos (6x)) = 2sin (arccos 6x)*cos(arccos
6x)

But sin(arccos alpha) = sqrt(1 - alpha^2) and
cos(arccos alpha) = alpha

sin (arccos 6x) = sqrt(1 -
36x^2)

cos (arccos 6x) =
6x

sin(2arccos (6x)) = 2*6x*sqrt(1 -
36x^2)

sin(2arccos (6x)) = 12xsqrt(1 -
36x^2)

Therefore, the requested value is
sin(2arccos (6x)) = 12xsqrt(1 - 36x^2).

What are possible mental risks that can come out of use of DMT?My friend seems to be interested in trying DMT. I did research and of course,...

There is a common misunderstanding about DMT.  Since it is
classified as a Hallucinogen, people tend to think of it working a lot like Ecstasy.
Although they both work on the neurotransmitter Serotonin, which is know to produce the
'euphoria' feeling, DMT works on different Serotonin receptors in the
brain.

The effects of this hallucinogen, is not one of
euphoria... it's the opposite.  The drug opens the other part of your brain... the
fearful hallucinations.  When taking DMT, one has to be mentally prepared for the level
of fear one can exhibit.   The fear can be so frightful, almost like the worst nightmare
of one's life.  Studies have shown that there is an increase risk of Suicide when taking
DMT because that person cannot distinguish the fearful hallucination from
reality.

In addition, if the person taking DMT has any
family history of mental disorders and they posses the genetic trait, this drug has been
known to trigger that trait.

For example, if my brother's
genetic line has a history of Schizophrenia, yet he never shows or demonstrates any
symptoms, taking DMT can open that door.  My brother did indeed try Ecstasy.  4 weeks
later he started hearing voices.  2 years later, he is a full
Schizophrenic.

Is this saying that your friend will become
a Schizophrenic, not necessarily. But taking DMT to illicit this type of hallucination
can indeed trigger a closed door in one's brain.  Hope that makes
sense.

Read the link... scroll down to the 'conjecture'
section and the side effect section.

How does the narrator function in "Vanity Fair"?

The narrator of Thackeray's Vanity Fair is one of the most
interesting examples of the "intrusive narrator" in Victorian fiction. The narrator,
sometimes referred to by literary critics as "the jester" or "the puppet -master"
actually functions almost as a character in the novel, commenting on the main characters
actions and talking about how the characters are being manipulated by the novelistic
process. Among the illustrations Thackeray drew for Vanity Fair were several pictures of
a jester figure that represent the narrative voice. The narrator not only fills in the
backstory and provides exposition, as is typical of third person narators, but also
provides a distancing or ironic effect, guiding the reader to look at the characters
through a comedic lens rather than identifying with their
follies.

In act three, what does my credit now stands on such slippery ground qouted by Antony ?

 Antony is in great quandary after the cold-blooded
assassination of Julius Caesar. Those who have killed Julius Caesar can also eliminate
him from the scene, a fact well-known to Antony. However, he wishes to avenge Caesar's
death. Therefore, when he is invited by Marcus Brutus for a discussion, he is cautious
and on his guard.

He first wails and laments the death of
Caesar and then asks if he was the next one to bleed to death. He also requests the two
to "fulfill their pleasure" when their hands were reeking with the blood of Caesar. Not
even in thousand years will he get a better time to be killed than by the same daggers,
the same people, the same hour and the same manner as was
Caesar.

Brutus, however, requests Antony to see thair
hearts full of brotherly love and  not their hands full of blood. He further adds that
for Antony, their swords had "leaden points". Cassius also adds that when the new
republic will be formed, Antony's voice will be given same consideration as any man in
deciding the new posts of honour.

Antony senses a chance,
and requests the conspirators to place their hands in his hand as a new found
friendship. It is here that he remarks that his "credit" now stands on such slippery
ground. Credit means reputation.According to Antony, it will be very difficult for him
to explain the reason for his joining hands with the murderers of Julius Caesar and adds
that he will either be called a flatterer or a coward, both will actually ruin and
tarnish his image and reputation. But in reality ,it gives him an outside chance to save
his life and to wait for the most opportune moment to give the conspirators and
murderers of Julius Caesar a taste of their own medicine.

There are three bottles containing white solid powder(no labels). Using qualitative analysis design an experiment to find which elements are...

Qualitative analysis is used to identify elements by
looking at a change in their color, physical state, solubility and other visible
properties when specific reagents are added to the chemicals being analyzed. There are a
large number of reagents that are used in this process and each element forms a unique
product that can be identified visibly.

To find the
elements present in the powders contained in the bottle, they would first have to be
converted into an aqueous solution. In qualitative analysis, cations are divided into 6
different groups and anions into 3 groups.

The number of
elements that lie in each group is quite large and it would not be possible for me to
list all of them here. You can check for the same at the link provided
below.

Cations of the various groups are identified using
reagents like hydrochloric acid, compounds that can provide a sulfide ion, carbonic
acid, Nessler's reagent, etc. Individual elements form different kinds of compounds with
the reagents that behave differently, for example some dissolve in basic solutions while
others dissolve in acidic solutions. The list of reagents and reactions is a large one
as each element behaves differently.

Cations too can be
detected in ways similar to that of anions. Please look at the details of the reactions
in the link provided below.