In "A Raisin in the Sun," Mama says: "He finally come into his manhood today, didn't he? Kind of like a rainbow after the rain." What does she...

Walter had grown up in Mama's house with Mama making the
decisions for the family. Walter has been a bitter black man, trying to make it in a
white man's world. He feels that life has passed him by. He makes excuses for his
bitterness, claiming that others have better advantages in
life.

Walter drinks and practically gives away his father's
insurance money. He then decides to give Mr. Lindner what he wants by selling out. He
decides that the family will sell the house and not move into the new
neighborhood.

When Mama asks Walter to explain to his son
Travis why he is making such a decision to sell the family's new house, Walter thinks
about his decison. When Mr. Lindner comes over, Walter has a change of heart. He
explains to Mr. Lindner that the family will indeed move into the new house. That is
when Mama exclaims that Walter has finally become a man. He finally makes the right
decision for the family. Walter could not sell the house with Travis looking up to him.
Walter comes into his manhood as he looks first at Travis and then Mr. Lindner. He makes
the right decision based on what is best for the family. For once, he is thinking about
others and not himself.

Comment on the theme of interdependence in Great Expectations.

This is a very interesting theme to discuss with regard to
this book. In a sense of course, we can relate it to Pip's process of maturing and
education, as he comes to realise by the end of the novel the way that he is
interdependent as a character, and not dependent. Note the way that after he receives
his wealth, he does his best to forget Joe and Biddy and his roots, choosing to stay
elsewhere rather than in his old house when he returns to his childhood village and
feeling highly embarrassed by Joe when he comes to town to visit
him.

However, it is after his suffering, and in particular
the discovery of who his real benefactor is and when he gets wounded by trying to rescue
Miss Havisham, that he becomes much more aware of how wealth does not make you
independent, but that everyone is interdependent. The image we are left with at the end
of the novel, with Pip living in happiness with good relationships with Herbert and his
wife and Joe and Biddy and his godson, suggests that he has reconciled himself to the
necessary interdependence of humans and matured greatly from the days when he thought
that he should deny his past relationships.

How does the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration protect consumers?

The NHTSA does a number of things that help to protect
consumers.  Some examples of these
include:

• Regulation.  The NHTSA sets standards
  for safety that must be met by all vehicles sold in the US.  These include things like
  seat belts but also things like the amount of impact that a car must be able to
  withstand.  These regulations ensure that consumers will not buy cars that do not meet
  some minimum safety levels.


• Testing.  The NHTSA tests
  vehicles to make sure that they meet the standards mentioned above.  They also test how
  well various cars protect passengers against various kinds of
  collisions.


• Public information campaigns.  The agency
  tries to protect people by making them aware of ways that they could increase their
  safety while driving.

All of these are ways in
which the NHTSA helps to protect consumers.

In The Crucible, how does Elizabeth Proctor suddenly refuse to judge her husband's final decision?

She shows herself unable to judge John's final decision
precisely because she has been locked up for three months, unable to see him, which has
give her lots of time to reflect and think about her life and what had happened to their
marriage. Having been so judgemental and critical in the past, Elizabeth now realises
that she has no right to judge another man, even her husband, for such a massive
decision, and she recognises the complexity of the decision that her husband must make
and the varying factors and different "pulls" that are involved. Note what she says to
John:

It is
not my soul, John, it is yours. Only be sure of this, for I know it now: Whatever you
will do, it is a good man does it. I have read my heart this three month, John. I have
sins of my own to
count.

Elizabeth therefore
has reflected upon her own life and mistakes, which has made her much less ready to
judge others. She has come to the conclusion though that her husband is an essentially
"good" man and therefore will make the right decision.

How the quadratic may be factored by grouping 5x^2 + 17x – 40 = 0?

   

Multiply and find factors of that
number that minus to b

   factors of -200
that minus to 17 are 25, -8    plug these numbers into the
problem

now factor by
grouping

Find
the greatest number the numbers in the parenthesis have in common and factor them
out

-8(x+5)

(5x-8) (x+5)

and
the answers are  (5x-8) (x+5)

I need help completing and balancing equations Mg+O2 --> KOH + NHO3 --> Febr3 + KOH--> CuSO4 + Na--> C6H14+O2 --> smallest...

First reaction is
synthesis:

2Mg + O2 -->
2MgO

Second reaction is double replacement or
neutralization

KOH + HNO3 -->  KNO3  +
HOH

Third reaction would also be double
replacement

FeBr3 + 3 KOH --> Fe(OH)3  + 3
KBr

Fourth reaction is single
replacement:

CuSO4 + 2 Na  -->  Na2SO4  +
Cu

Last reaction is
combustion:

2 C6H14  +   19 O2  -->  12 CO2  + 14
HOH

Is Shirley in Grace Paley's "The Loudest Voice" considered a hero in her multicultural world? If so, explain with examples.

In Grace Paley's short story, "The Loudest Voice,"
Shirley, the daughter of Jewish immigrants, is considered a hero by the play's director
Mr. Hilton, a teacher of the school play. She has a particularly loud voice, and he asks
her if she will participate in the holiday play for she has such a loud voice. It is a
big part, he tells her, and if she wants it, she must agree to work hard. Shirley swears
she will do so.

Ironically, the story starts with Shirley
recounting that her mother and even the grocer complained that Shirley was too loud. And
once her mother finds out that she is taking place in a Christian play, she becomes very
unhappy. She is afraid she will lose sight of her own faith. However, Shirley's father
is very open-minded about the entire situation. He believed that she will learn a good
deal and that there are many people in the world to learn
about.

A Christmas tree is erected in their neighborhood.
Many people walk several blocks out of their way to buy bread, avoiding the Christmas
tree. The butcher puts down the shades so that the light will not shine on his chickens.
However, Shirley blows the lonely tree a kiss, comparing the tree to Jew
in Egypt—"strangers in a strange land." This indicates that there is a great deal of
discomfort in the community with the Christmas celebration. However, of all the Jewish
children who have received parts in the play, only one boy is forbidden to participate.
These people might not see Shirley as a hero, but would appreciate her selection as the
narrator.

As the players continue their practicing, the
director depends more and more on Shirley. If the students do not listen to his stage
direction, he asks Shirley, with her loud voice, to repeat his instructions. When the
night of the play comes, Shirley does a wonderful job, with a heart that is open to a
story different than her own. She takes pride in the job she
does.

The adults discuss it afterwards. Shirley's mother
and a neighbor don't understand why Jewish children were picked for parts in this play,
since it is not their holiday. However, Shirley's father believes
the program was a great success, and a good experience for Shirley. He compares
Christmas and Hanukkah and their historical roots. He
says,

What
belongs to history, belongs to all
men.

Shirley is a hero to the
play's director. She is a hero to her father, not because of being a part of a Christmas
play, but for seizing the opportunity with which life has presented her. With some of
their Jewish neighbors, Shirley is not a hero.

However,
Shirley is a child who is able to embrace a part of American life without losing her own
sense of importance in her Jewish faith and heritage.

Differentiate : g(x) = 5*ln x* (x^2-3x) and find g'(1).

Given the function :

f(x) =
5lnx * (x^2-3x)

We need to find f'(x) and
f'(1).

We will use the product rule to find the
derivative.

==> Let f(x) = u*v such
that:

u= 5lnx ==> u' =
5/x

v= (x^2-3x) ==> v' =
2x-3

==> f'(x) = u'v +
uv'

               = (5/x)(x^2-3x) +
(5lnx*(2x-3))

             = (5x - 15) + 10x*lnx - 15ln
x

              = 10x*lnx - 15lnx + 5x -
15

==> f'(x) = 10x*lnx - 15lnx + 5x
-15

==> f'(1) = 10*1*0 - 15*0 + 5 -15 =
-10

==> f'(1)
=-10

Then f'(x) = 10xlnx - 15lnx + 5x -15 and
f'(1) = -10

Briefly outline what Martin Luther King said in his speech, "I Have a Dream."

I assume that you are asking about King's famous "I Have a
Dream" speech delivered in August of 1963.  The main point that King is making in this
speech is that he believes that America can live up to its ideals by creating a society
in which people of all races are equal.

King starts out by
saying that the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution make promises that are
not being fulfilled.  He says that blacks in America have not had the freedoms that
those documents promise.  He says that their movement is pushing for those freedoms but
that it must do so nonviolently and it must have both whites and blacks working
together.

He then goes on to talk about the aims of the
movement, about what will satisfy the movement.  This is where the most famous parts of
the speech come in.  He says that he will only be satisfied when his dream is fulfilled
and there is equality.  He will only be satisfied, for
example,

when
all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles,
Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old
Negro spiritual:

Free at last! Free at
last!

Thank
God Almighty, we are free at
last!

Prove that (sin A - cos A + 1)/(sin A + cos A - 1) =cos A/1-sin ATHIS QUESTION IS FROM CHAPTER TRIGNOMETRIC IDENTITIES AND IN THIS QUESTION WE HAVE...

We have to prove that (sin A - cos A + 1)/(sin A + cos A -
1) = cos A/(1 - sin A)

Start from the left hand
side

(sin A - cos A + 1)/(sin A + cos A -
1)

=> (sin A - cos A + 1)(sin A - cos A -1)/(sin A +
cos A - 1)(sin A - cos A -1)

=> ((sin A - cos A)^2 -
1)/((sin A - 1)^2 - (cos A)^2)

=> ((sin A - cos A)^2
- 1)/((sin A)^2 - 2*sin A + 1 - (cos A)^2)

=> ((sin
A - cos A)^2 - 1)/((sin A)^2 - 2*sin A + (sin
A)^2)

=> ((sin A)^2 + (cos A)^2 - 2*sin A*cos A -
1)/((sin A)^2 - 2*sin A + (sin A)^2)

=> (1- 2*sin
A*cos A - 1)/((sin A)^2 - 2*sin A + (sin A)^2)

=>
(-2*sin A*cos A)/(2*(sin A)^2 - 2*sin A)

=> (-cos
A)/(sin A - 1)

=> cos A/(1 - sin
A)

which is the right hand
side

This proves:(sin A - cos A + 1)/(sin A +
cos A - 1) = cos A/(1 - sin A)

What does the disguised Rosalind promise to do for Orlando in As You Like It?

The answer to your question can be found in Act III scene
2 of this hilarious play, that examines the nature of love and in particular the
stereotypes of lovers and how we love. Rosalind, having discovered Orlando's poem that
he has written about his love for her hung up in the Forest of Arden, decides to engage
Orlando directly in her disguise as Ganymede. She gains the truth from him that it was
he that wrote the poem, and then goes on to tell Orlando how she managed to "cure"
another man from the "madness" of love by "counsel":

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He was to imagine me his love, his mistress, and
I set him every day to woo me. At which time would I--being but a moonish youth--grieve,
be effeminate, changeable, longing and liking, proud, fantastical, apish, shallow,
inconstant, full of tears, full of smiles; for every passion something and for no
passion truly anything, as boys and women are for the most part cattle of this
colour...

At the end of this
important scene, Rosalind promises to do the same for Orlando if he will do the same:
imagine Ganymede to be Rosalind and come every day to woo him. The irony of this is keen
and biting and also sets us up for how Rosalind is able to "train" her lover, disabusing
him of his romantic and unrealistic notions, before revealing her identity to
him.

What is the significance of Jeane Kirkpatrick?

Jeane Kirkpatrick is significant because she was one of
the "neoconservative" thinkers who pushed the US towards conservatism in the 1970s and
1980s.  She was an important thinker in bringing about the "Reagan Revolution" that
transformed the US political scene.

Kirkpatrick's focus was
mainly on foreign policy.  She believed strongly in opposing communism around the
globe.  Specifically, she believed that the US should side with any regime that was
anticommunist, no matter how repressive it was.  She believed that repressive and
dictatorial regimes could be brought around by the example of the US and become
democratic.

Kirkpatrick ended up as an advisor to Ronald
Reagan, as a member of his National Security Council, and eventually as the first woman
to be the US Ambassador to the UN.

What angle does the light enter the water in this situation?Light hits the boundary from air into water at an angle of 46 degrees? At what angle...

The answer to this question depends on what the
composition of the water is.  Salt water, pure water, and distilled water all have
different refractive indices.  How much salt in the water changes the refractive index,
how much sediment is in the water changes the refractive index, etc.
etc.

The equation to calculate the refractive angle of light passing
from one medium to another is:

Ni*sin(Ai)=Nr*sin(Ar),
where

Ni - refractive index of the medium light is
leaving
Ai - angle the light hits the new medium at
Nr - refractive
index of the medium light is entering
Ar - angle the light enters the new
medium at

In this case we know that Ai = 46 deg., and Ni and Nr need
to be looked up.

For air Ni = 1
For water Nr =
1.33

Subbing what we know into the equation and rearranging we can
calculate the angle that the light enters the water at:

sin(Ar) =
(Ni/Nr)*sin(Ai) = (1/1.33)*sin(46) = 0.541
Ar = sin^-1(0.541) = 32.7
degrees

Therefore, the air enters the water at 32.7
degrees.

In how many ways can 5 students line up for a group photograph if 2 of the 5 are not on speaking terms and will not stand next to each other

To find the number of ways in which the 5 students can
line up without the two who do not want to stand together standing next to each other,
let us start with the opposite case.

The number of ways the
students can line up if the two students always stand together is equal to 4!*2!. This
is arrived at by considering the two students as one unit. There are now 4 units which
need to be arranged. That can be done in 4! ways. Also, the two students themselves can
switch places within the same unit. That gives the 2!.

The
total number of arrangements of the 5 students with no constraints is 5!. As we have
found the number of arrangements possible with the 2 students always standing together,
the number of arrangements in which they never stand together is 5! - 4!*2! =
72.

The number of ways in which the 5
students can line up with two of them never standing next to each other is
72.

what is the meaning of the poem cat by Eleanor Farjeon

Please remember that poetry interpretation is different
for everyone, and what I am offering you is my interpretation of the
poem.

For me, this poem seems to be very flat in meaning.
The poem seems to be simply about a cat and the owner, or observer, or chaser (perhaps a
dog?), is reflecting on what they are seeing in the behavior of the
cat.

This is most obvious when the poem states "Wuff! Wuff!
Treat her rough". It could also be that the dog, or chaser, is trying to get the cat out
of the yard given the poems end: "Wuff!/ Wuff! /Scat cat. That's/
That".

Again, this is only my own interpretation. The
meaning seems relatively simplistic- an observation of a cat being chased. There does
not seem to be any hidden meaning or analogies.

But, I
could be mistaken!

What is Fanny's preferred form of exercise in Mansfield Park?

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Fanny's preferred
form of exercise is horseback riding. It was very common for women to ride as a form of
exercise during this time period. Fanny originally rode an old grey pony, but, as
discussed in Chapter 4, it died. At first, Ms. Norris didn't want to buy Fanny another
horse. She suggested that Fanny could make do with borrowing her cousins' horses when
they weren't wanted. Fanny's health began to suffer until Edmund stepped in and insisted
Fanny have a horse. His mother agreed but his aunt was still reluctant. Edmund
eventually bought Fanny another old, gentle horse. Since it was technically his horse,
Aunt Norris couldn't say anything about it. Fanny's feelings are hurt in a later chapter
when Edmund lends her horse to Ms. Bertram. Fanny definitely gets most of her exercise
from horseback riding.

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Critically analyze "Ode to a Nightingale" as a representative ode of Keats.

I suppose one of the ways we can answer this question is
by looking at the content and the themes of this excellent ode. There are clear thematic
links between this ode and other odes by Keats, such as "Ode on a Grecian Urn," with
their focus on beauty and the way that beauty is linked to human suffering. In both
poems, we have two symbols that are used to represent beauty, in the nightingale and the
Grecian urn. Likewise, both poems focus on artistic talent and the way that creating
beauty can help free us from our earthly sufferings. However, simultaneously, we have
the bitter-sweet recognition that the appreciation of beauty and its eternal nature only
serves to remind us of how transitory we are as humans, and how we must accept our own
mortality and the way that suffering and death will claim us sooner or
later.

What is a good thesis statement for an essay on the loss of identity of Ralph, Jack and Piggy from the novel Lord of the Flies?

Consider that with the erosion of the vestiges of society:
there is the accompanying erosion of identity in the characters.  For instance, in the
exposition of William Golding's allegory, Lord of the Flies, Jack
introduces himself as Jack Merridrew, who is the leader of the choir boys.  But, as the
boys are distanced more and more from civilization and their former lives, they shed
their clothes and their hair grows longer and they regress in their behaviors, Jack
loses his last name and even loses his old identity as he paints his face, camouflaging
it in order to hunt the feral pigs on the island.

As the
hunters become more and more savage, they play at hunting games with one of the boys
imitating the pig as the others surround him, bludgeoning him with their spears.  At
first they hurt the boy who is inside the circle; later they reach such an irrational
frenzy that they no longer recognize Simon who has come from the forest to tell them of
the beast.  In an almost orgy of violence, the hunters circle around him and beat him to
death.

Therefore, in constructing a thesis, perhaps a
statement that it is only a true civilization that provides identity for people would be
a good one.  Without the rules and controls of civilization, there is a regression to
savagery which erodes individual's distinct identities.

Present the situation of Britain at the Romans' arrival.

This is a very big question because there are many aspects
of what Britain was like and there were different conditions in different areas of
Britain.

In general, one can say that Britain had an Iron
Age civilization that was pre-literate but which was also becoming more organized and
more peaceful.  By the time the Romans got to Britain, the famous hill forts of the Iron
Age were no longer used as much for defense and there were towns that were completely
undefended.  This shows that the society was, at least in some places, coming to rely
more on trade and less on warfare.  Because this was occurring, there was also more of a
market for metalwork and other goods that could be
traded.

This is not to say that Britain was completely
peaceful.  However, the Britain to which the Romans came was becoming much more of a
civilization of towns and trade rather than one of hill forts and
war.

How do Matthew Ritchie’s art pieces The Dead: Belphegor and Proposition Player differ from one another?

The most obvious way in which these two pieces differ from
one another is in medium and scale.  Proposition Player is a huge
installation exhibition originally designed for the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary
Art.  The installation contains drawings, paintings, and projected images that fill the
entire space. Parts of the exhibition are present on the floors, on the walls, suspended
above the floor, and on various interactive pieces throughout the space.  It is one of
those really massive pieces of art, and rightly so, because, Matthew Ritchie is trying
to create his own manifestation of the entire
universe.

The Dead: Belphegor, on the
other hand, is only one drawing that measures 54 x 36 inches.  It is not a small piece,
but in terms of scale it is nothing compared to Proposition Player.
It is made with ink and graphite on a type of plastic called Denril.  Some of
the pieces in Proposition Player contain similar imagery: swirls of yellow and brown
ink, and protruding eyeballs that appear to be growths of some sort; but the main
difference between the two is the presence of the
figure.

After he was done creating the massive
Proposition Player, Ritchie felt that the next logical step was to
move to figuration.  There were some figurative elements in Proposition
Player, but the pieces in his next body of work, which includes The
Dead: Belphegor, contain figures that are much more recognizable.  He felt
that to make sense of his ideas about the universe, the next logical step was to give
them a body, so he could portray them doing things that his viewers could
understand.

In Proposition Player
there is an interactive element that The Dead: Belphegor definitely
does not have.  The viewers of Proposition Player were totally
immersed in the space, walking around it, looking in all directions at it, and
participating in games that were part of it.  This was all done with the intention of
simulating the universe and making the viewer think of the role they play in
it.

To see parts of Proposition Player
and other works by Matthew Ritchie go to the PBS Art 21 page below.  He is the first
artist interviewed after the introductory segment.

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What is a literary element to support a thesis for "Big Two-Hearted River"?

This short story by Ernest Hemingway is both subtle and
complex. Numerous literary elements work together to achieve the development of Nick's
character and the theme of the narrative. Of these literary elements, the theme of the
story is most effectively realized and communicated through symbolism. The story's title
points the reader to the two central symbols in the story: the two very different areas
of the river in which Nick can fish--one clean and appealing, the other dangerous and
deep. Nick avoids the deep water, just as he works hard to avoid remembering his recent
experiences in the war. Thus the "two-hearted" river assumes symbolic meaning,
representing Nick's conscious and subconscious
selves.

Subtle clues in the story suggest where Nick has
been and the destruction he has seen. Others indicate that Nick is making a conscious
effort to focus on the immediate present; when his mind strays, he deliberately "chokes"
his memories. He could not control what had happened to him in war, but he can control
how he deals with its aftermath, and at this time in his life he chooses not to deal
with it at all. He will confront his painful memories of the war in his own time, just
as he will fish in the deep and dangerous part of the river when he is
ready.

Thus the symbolism in the story supports several
thesis statements, one being a primary theme in much of Hemingway's work: A man cannot
control the forces that act to destroy him, but he can endure and face life with
discipline, courage, and dignity. The symbolism in "Big Two-Hearted River" develops this
theme.

Explain how Dorian Gray arranges for the disposal of Basil Hallward's corpse in The Picture of Dorian Gray.

We can find the answer to this question in Chapter
Fourteen. Having murdered his friend, Basil Hallward, Dorian contacts one of his former
acquaintances, Alan Campbell, who, like so many of his friends, was formerly always seen
with Dorian Gray, until one day, "the intimacy had come suddenly to an end." We are told
that this intelligent young man's passion was for science, and when he arrives, Dorian
asks him to use his scientific knowledge to dispose of the
body:

"What
you have got to do is to destroy the thing that is upstairs--to destroy it so that not a
vestige of it will be left... You, Alan, you must change him, and everything that
belongs to him, into a handful of ashes that I may scatter in the
air."

Of course, Dorian uses
blackmail to persuade Alan to do this task for him. Though we never know what the nature
of the information Dorian has about Alan is, it perhaps can be inferred that it is
something to do with a sexual deviation or misdemeanour. Wilde himself was used to being
blackmailed for his homosexuality.

Having committed the
violent and shocking murder of Basil Hallward, his friend, in Chapter Thirteen, it is in
Chapter Fourteen that we see how he determines to dispose of the corpse. Dorian summons
another of his former friends, that, like so many others, now will no longer be seen
with him at all, to his house. Once there, he asks Alan Campell to use his knowledge of
science, and in particular chemistry, to make the body disappear completely. Note what
Dorian says to Alan:

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You know about chemistry, and things of that
kind. You have made experiments. What you have got to do is to destroy the thing that is
upstairs--to destroy it so that not a vestige of it will be
left.

Of course Alan,
rightfully so, wants nothing more to do with Dorian, so Dorian is forced to
cold-heartedly blackmail his former friend into doing what he wants him to do by
threatening to reveal certain unspecified information about Alan to the right people. We
thus see more signs of Dorian's continued descent into the maelstrom of evil and moral
corruption.

Gregor and his family are separated by doors throughout "The Metamorphosis." Explain what this shows about their relationship.

Well done for noticing this! Yes, it is clear that the way
that Gregor is "shut away" into his own room and how, at first, only his sister will
enter, and then, not even her, says something very profound about Gregor's standing in
the family. Their natural instinct upon discovering the true nature of Gregor's
transformation is to lock him away and keep him separate and isolated from themselves.
We are told that his parents in particular cannot even bring themselves to enter his
room during the first two weeks:

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During the first two weeks, the parents could not
get themselves to come into his room, and he often heard them expressing their great
appreciation of the sister's
efforts...

Of course, the way
in which Gregor is shut out from their world and the violence with which any
trangressions of this boundary are met, such as when his father bombards him with
apples, symbolises the way that Gregor is treated as an unwanted outcast, a figure that
his family do the best they can to ignore and pretend does not even exist. The real
question we have to ask ourselves though is whether this was the case before Gregor's
metamorphosis.

What are character novels, stories, television, or movies that are similar to Macbeth in Shakespeare's Macbeth?

I have had several students in my classes compare Macbeth
to Creon from Antigone by Sophocles.  In Antigone,
Creon has recently become king, and he wants to gain the respect of the
people.  He assumes that upholding the law will cause his people to love him, so when he
is presented with Antigone's unique situation, he does not care to entertain her side of
the story and orders that she be executed.  Even though the people side with Antigone,
Creon is stubborn and ambitious--just like Macbeth--and will not bend to common logic. 
In the end, Creon loses his closest family members as a result of his stubborn pride. 
So, Creon is much like Macbeth in that he follows his own ambition without listening to
others around him.

What is the significance of the first story Amir writes in The Kite Runner?

Well done for spotting this detail. Of course, the
inclusion of this first story, cited in Chapter Four of this tremendous novel, is no
accident, and it presents an ironic commentary on the plot. Note what the subject of
this first short story is:

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It was a dark little tale about a man who found
a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But
even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he
found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls
piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended iwth the man sitting on a mountain of
pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain
body in his arms.

Note the
parallels between this story and Amir's situation. Both the man of the story and Amir
sacrifice the person that is dear to them for their own motive. For Amir, however, he
has no magic cup. He sacrifices Hassan for his own safety and out of a sense of his own
cowardice. He, however, like the man, is literally grief-stricken and haunted by the
sacrifice that he has made, and it takes the rest of the novel for Amir to deal with
what he did when he was a child. Thus the first story serves as an ironic foreshadowing
of what is to come and of the own sacrifice that Amir makes by letting Hassan be raped
while he watches and does nothing to preserve his own safety.

In Chapter 1 of Animal Farm, what are the different ways in which the animals enter the barn?

If you look at the beginning of Chapter One carefully, you
can see that a lot is suggested about each of the animals by the order in which they
enter and the manner in which they enter. Major, the pig with a "wise and benevolent
appearance" is there first, swiftly followed by the three dogs and other pigs, who
settle themselves beneath the platform indicating their position of leadership and
importance in the farm. The hens perch themselves on the window-sills, indicating that
they are fringe players in what is going to happen, and the sheeps and cows
significantly position themselves "behind the pigs."

Boxer
and Clover show their care and concern for other animals by entering slowly and taking
their time in case they accidentally crush another animal. They are followed by Muriel
and Benjamin, then, after the ducklings enter, Mollie prances in, "mincing daintily,"
indicating her vanity and self-centredness, which is of course reinforced when she goes
right to the front and shakes her white mane, trying to draw attention to the red
ribbons. Lastly, the cat enters seeking a warm place where she can "purr contentedly"
without listening to any of the following speech.

Thus we
can see that the order in which the animals enter, the way they enter and where they
position themselves gives us vital clues about their character and the kind of role they
will play in the revolution that is to follow.

What are two examples (quotations) of Jem's innocence in To Kill a Mockingbird?

One example of Jem's innocence can be found in Chapter 7
following the sealing of the children's secret knothole. Jem naturally believed Nathan
Radley when he told Jem that he was cementing the tree because it was diseased. After
all, Boo's brother was an adult and should be trusted. However, Jem learned from Atticus
that the tree was perfectly healthy, and Jem soon realized that he had been lied to. Jem
saw that Nathan's true reason was simply to prevent Boo from making any further contact
with the children.

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He stood there until nightfall, and I waited for
him. When we went in the house, I saw he had been crying; his face was dirty in the
right places, but I thought it odd that I had not heard him.  (Scout, Chapter
7)

Another example can be
found when Jem discovers Atticus' marksmanship skills. Both children had come to the
conclusion that Atticus was "feeble" with no special skills. Jem's discovery that
"One-Shot" Finch was the best shot in the county opened his eyes to new possibilities of
his father's character.

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"I reckon if he'd wanted us to know it, he'da
told us. If he was proud of it, he'da told us. 
"Naw, Scout, it's something
you wouldn't understand..."  (Jem, Chapter
10)

When the father tells his sons about joining the army, "Obey them, but remember your name and don't take nothing from no man." what does he...

"The Tall Men" is a short story that Faulkner wrote to try
to promote the ideas of patriotism and of the importance of rugged individualism.  It is
in this context that we should understand the quote that you
cite.

What Buddy McCallum is telling his sons is that they
should not lose sight of the fact that they are individuals who matter.  America, as a
democracy, is of course built on the idea that all individuals have value.  McCallum is
telling his sons to remember that and to fight for that idea, even in the face of a
government bureaucracy that is sometimes dehumanizing.

By
telling his sons to remember their names, he is telling them to take pride in who they
are.  By telling them to obey, but also to not "take anything" from anyone, he is
telling them to do what they are supposed to do.  He is telling them to be respectful,
but not to simply obey others blindly.

In these ways,
McCallum is making a statement about what he believes an American man should be.  This
is why he gives his sons the advice you cite.

What is it about our national/worldwide climate that seems to 'encourage' occupational fraud?Right now--and in the near past--the media has really...

I would argue that there is nothing in our national
climate that makes occupational fraud more likely.  Furthermore, I doubt that it is more
common now than in past times.  Instead, I believe that there is something in our
national climate that makes it more fashionable for the media to focus on this sort of
crime.

I think that the main factor involved here is income
inequality and the immense wealth of some people involved in the highest levels of
business (especially in the financial sector).  I think that the fact that there are
some really rich people who do so much better than the rest of us leads to some amount
of class anger aimed at the rich.  I think that we tend to resent them and feel that
they are taking unfair advantage of the rest of us.

Because
of this, when a Bernie Madoff or a Ken Lay comes to light, it plays into our
preconceptions.  The media focuses on it and we pay attention because it supports our
beliefs about the rich.

Overall, then, I think we are more
sensitive to occupational fraud because of the rising income inequality in the
US.

In Chapter 40, how does Magwitch's description of his behavior as "low" reveal about him?Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

“Look'ee
here, Pip,” said he....I forgot myself half a minute ago. What I said was low; that's
what it was; low. Look'ee here, Pip. Look over it. I ain't a going to be
low.”

Abel Magwitch
apologizes to Pip for having boasted that Pip will possess all the things that the
owners in Australia have had, as well as those people who scorned him all his life from
the judges "in their wigs," to the arrogant colonists.  Magwitch wishes for Pip to have
wealth and be able to purchase whatever he likes for two reasons.  One reason is
repayment for the young man's kindness so long ago.  Another reason is that through Pip,
Abel Magwitch can be redeemed from merely being a vagabond.  By living vicariously
through Pip, Abel Magwitch can feel that his pitiable life has not been so unworthy,
after all.

Magwitch displays once again a sense of
propriety that he exhibited so many years ago when he apologized to Joe for having eaten
the family's meat pie.  Ironically, in some ways, Magwitch is himself a gentle man. 
This is another of Dickens's methods of pointing to the frivolity of Pip's desire to be
a gentleman when someone as lowly as Magwitch knows how to behave in a more gentlemanly
fashion than Pip who neglects Joe and Biddy and, when he does see them, scolds
Biddy.

Which equation represents a line parallel to the graph of2x − 4y = 16?(1) y=1/2x - 5 (2) y=-1/2x + 4 (3) y= -2x + 6 (4) y= 2x + 8

 The equation to a line parrallel to any other line will
have the same slope as that line

ie all parallel lines will
have the same slopes

your equation is 2x -4y
=16

rearranging the terms, we have -4y = -2x +
16

dividing the equation by -4 to make the coefficient of y
as 1 we have

y= -2/-4 x +
16/-4

ie y=1/2 x - 4 

 Note
that the  slope of the line y = mx + c is m

so the slope of
the given line  is 1/2

from the given options there is only
one line with slope 1/2 which if option
1

Given that 1/x1+1/x2=2, what is t such as x^2-(t-2)x+t+1=0?

It is given that 1/x1 + 1/x2 =
2.

t has to be determined such that x^2 - (t-2)x + t +1 =
0

1/x1 + 1/x2 = 2

=>
(x1 + x2)/x1*x2 = 2

For a quadratic equation ax^2 + bx + c
= 0 with roots x1 and x2,

c/a = x1*x2 and -b/a = x1 +
x2

Here the equation is x^2 - (t-2)x + t +1 =
0

=> (t - 2)/(t + 1) =
2

=> t - 2 = 2t +
2

=> t =
-4

The required value of t =
-4

features of romanticism in lamb's essays

Lamb is a subjective writer. He writes about his own
personal experiences with the tinge of imagination and fancy. One of the major
characterestics of romanticism is high volted imagination and an affection to nature.
Consider the essay "Oxford in the Vacation" , it was a lement over his unavailability of
university education. He got the job of a clerk in a business establishment ,but he had
a strong dislike for things commercial. His natural bent was towards books, reading and
writing and so his lack of university education was a permanent source of pain for him.
This account of his visit of Oxford during a vacation is pathetic, but the underlying
pathos is blended with humour.

Lamb deals in his essays
memories and allows them to carry him away where ever they want to take him. Another
most striking feature of him is sympathy with human nature. Most of his essays are
filled with "the milk of human kindness". That one can see in the character of the
gag-collector in "Christ Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago".

I need help writing a speech about receiving an academic award which motivates other learners.I have to write on how I received a dux award for my...

It sounds like this speech can be very personal, which is
exactly how you should approach it.  If you have received an award for academic
excellence, very likely your personal story of success will be
naturally motivating to others.

There is no one way to
accomplish this, but my best advice is this: sit down and make a list of things you
think you might want to say.  List everything that you did in order to gain academic
excellence (rather than focusing on the award).  List any people who helped you along
the way.  It is always appropriate to pay tribute to others in such a speech.  Think
about where you started and where you finished, and how you got
there.

Once you've made a long list, figure out a logical
way to organize it.  The first step is pruning anything that isn't necessary, or will
simply make the speech longer but not more interesting.  If you do, in fact, have a
straightforward story, keep in mind that putting facts and events in chronological order
is actually both easy to do and easy for your audience to
follow.

You might conclude the speech with any specific
tips you have for other students who will one day be walking the path you've walked. 
Try not to repeat yourself, but instead, highlight some of the things you did by giving
brief points of personal advice.

The best part of such a
speech is that it is all about you.  This means put your personality into it.  If you
are a funny person, by all means, be funny.  If you are shy or even a little intimidated
by public speaking, go ahead and mention that.  Your audience will be exactly as kind as
you ask them to be, and the more personal you make it, the more forgiving they will be. 
Also, practice reading your speech out loud.  You will know with practice what to keep
and what to throw out.  You might even end up adding some things at the last minute that
should be included.  Have fun, and good luck.

What is the simple subject and simple predicate of the sentence, Mr.Jones is a piano teacher?

The simple subject in this sentence is "Mr. Jones," and
the simple predicate is "is."

Most sentences consist of far
more than a simple subject and a simple predicate, of course, including your example. 
However, no matter what words are included in a sentence, the simple subject can be
identified by asking what or who in the sentence is doing or being. The simple predicate
in a sentence is the verb that shows the action or state of being.  Here is another
example for you:

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Mrs. Smith, who teaches English at the local high
school, donates her old books to the school library, which has increased the library's
collection by hundreds of
books.

Now, in spite of all
the words in that sentence, we can see that "Mrs. Smith" is the person in the sentence
who is doing something.  And we can see that what she is doing is "donating."  So, those
are the simple subject and simple predicate in that example.

Solve the equation (x+1)/(x+2) + (x+2)/(x+3)=7/6.

We notice that the fractions don't have the same
denominator, therefore they cannot be added until they have the same
denominator.

The least common denominator of all fractions
in the given expression is:

LCD =
6(x+2)(x+3)

We'll multiply the first fraction by 6(x+3),
the 2nd fraction by 6(x+2) and the 3rd fraction by
(x+2)(x+3).

6(x+3)(x+1) + 6(x+2)^2 =
7(x+2)(x+3)

We'll remove the
brackets:

6x^2 + 24x + 18 + 6x^2 + 24x + 24 = 7x^2 + 35x +
42

We'll combine like
terms:

12x^2 + 48x + 42 = 7x^2 + 35x +
42

We'll subtract 7x^2 + 35x + 42 both
sides:

12x^2 + 48x + 42 - 7x^2 - 35x - 42 =
0

We'll eliminate like
terms:

5x^2 - 13x = 0

We'll
factorize by x:

x*(5x - 13) =
0

We'll cancel each factor;

x
= 0

5x - 13 = 0

5x = 13
=> x = 13/5

The solutions of the given
equation are valid since they make the fractions posssible, therefore the values of
solutions are: {0 ; 13/5}.

Discuss the reactions of Bindle Bog's creatures to the nightingale's singing in "The Frog and the Nightingale."

In Seth's poem, the creatures really like the
nightingale's song.  Seth describes this as a near universal appreciation from the
creatures in the bog.  "Ducks had swum and herons waded" and while a loon "wept" out of
pure love for the song being sung.  "Toads and teals and tiddlers," were all pleased
with her song, as well.  Even when the nightingale was being put through her arduous
"training," the "Owl of Sandwich" and "Duck of Kent" along with the Cardinal and Mallard
all served as willing audience for all of her songs.  Yet, at some point, the over-
saturation of the music and the songs sung by the nightingale began to take its toll on
both her voice and the public appreciation of her work.  "Birds and beasts" eventually
tired of her song and her efforts.  The poem does a very solid job of displaying how the
public, in this case the animals of the bog, are by and large only concerned with the
consumption of art and show very little interest in terms of appreciating the arist and
showing respect to this end.  In the end, the creatures' responses of both appreciative
consumption followed by eventual disregard both contribute to the rise and fall of the
nightingale.

In the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, what does Buck say when Huck asks him how the feud started?

The answer you are looking for can be found in Chapter
Eighteen of this excellent novel. Be aware that through these two rival families Twain
is satirising the nature of feuds and the concept of honour in the South. Note how Buck
explains what a feud is to the curious Huck:

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"Well," says Buck, "a feud is this way: A man
has a quarrel with another man, and kills him; then that other man's brother kills him;
then the other brothers, on both sides, goes fro one another; then the cousins chip
in--and by and by everybody's killed off, and there ain't no more feud. But it's kind of
slow, and takes a long
time."

It is obvious that
this hilarious response focuses on the ridiculous nature of feuds, as families slowly
are eradicated as one by one members are killed and the remainder feel honour-bound to
kill in response, triggering a never-ending cycle of violence and sadness. When Huck
asks Buck what the original reason for this feud was, Buck admits that he does not know
why such a longstanding feud exists between these two families. Thus Twain satirises
such feuds, which are often maintained long after the original wrong was committed. Even
though nobody can remember this original wrong, the reason for so much bloodshed, the
Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons are shown to be more in love with the feud and
violence than with any possibility of peace.

What are some important quotions and its dramatic purpose from Act III scene 5 of Macbeth?this scene is really short....is there anything important...

This scene accomplishes two things.  In it we meet the
head of the witches, Hecate, and it also reinforces the witchcraft
idea.

Hecate it the boss, so to speak, and she is none too
happy with the three witches who have met with Macbeth.  She calls him a wayward son
and tells them they should not have told him anything.  "Spiteful and wrathful , who, as
others do,/Loves for his own end, not for you."

To get back
into her good graces, she instructs them on just what she wants them to do the next time
they meet with him.  They are to tell him and show him certain things which will lead
him to think that he cannot be beaten in the war he knows is coming.  This, of course,
sets up his over-confidence which leads to his
downfall.

The second half of the scene with the sprites
shows Hecate's power but it also plays into the Elizabethan audience's belief in
witchcraft.  Witches and demons were very real to Elizabethan England.  King James
himself had written about witchcraft.

How to calculate the vertex of the curve y=2x^2-4x+4 using derivatives?

The vertex of the given parabola represents the extreme
point of the function.

To determine the extreme point,
we'll have to calculate the critical value of the
function.

The critical value of the function is the zero of
the 1st derivative.

y' =
4x-4

We'll cancel the 1st
derivative:

4x-4 = 0

4x = 4
=> x = 1

f(1) = 2 - 4 +
4

f(1) = 2

The
vertex of the parabola is the minimum point of the function and it's coordinates are
(1,2).

Using the rules of multiplication of complex numbers, what is the result (5+2i)(2-i)?

We'll explain the multiplication of complex numbers
written in algebraic form, choosing 2 comeplx numbers:

z1 =
5+2i and z2 = 2-i

The real part of z1 = Re(z1) =
5

The imaginary part of z1 = Im(z1) =
2

The real part of z2 = Re(z2) =
2

The imaginary part of z2 = Im(z2) =
-1

We'll multiply the numbers z1*z2 =
(5+2i)(2-i)

We'll apply
FOIL:

z1*z2=10-5i+4i-2i^2

i^2
= -1

The result of (5+2i)(2-i) is z1*z2 = 12
- i

Why did the proposed annexation of Texas cause such an uproar while Orgeon did not cause similar problems?

This is a difficult question without a clear answer in
most history books.   I would argue that the treaty between the US and Great Britain
that set the Oregon boundary did not cause as much of an uproar for two
reasons:

First, the US was at war with Mexico when the
treaty was up for ratification.  The South could hardly kick up too much of a fuss about
Oregon while the country was involved in a war that was going to (potentially) gain a
lot of territory that would be part of the South.

Second,
with Oregon, the US was actually not taking as much land as some people wanted.  The US
settled for the boundary on the 49th parallel instead of really insisting on "Fifty Four
Forty or Fight."  Since the US was not pushing to take still more land, the South was
less inclined to fight the treaty.

What is the difference between blank verse and rhymed verse ? And who uses blank verse / rhymed verse in Hamlet?I was told that aristocracy used...

Blank verse is poetry that does not use rhymed iambic
pentameter (a line of ten syllables with five stresses and no rhyme). This is typical of
Shakespeare's works, although he was less strict with this structure as time
passed.

In fact, Shakespeare does not distinguish between
the classes in this manner. Laertes's speech to Ophelia in Act I, Scene III, is written
in blank verse.

Hamlet, on the other hand, speaks primarily
in prose. Often he appears to be insane, and in these situations, Shakespeare abandoned
verse altogether, likely because it has too much structure to support or display
insanity in his characters.

However, when Hamlet is
speaking seriously, or when romance is involved, Shakespeare reverts to structured
rhymed verse. It is also used to distinguish various things int he script--for instance,
when the actors enter and put on the play within the play, Shakespeare utilized rhymed
verse. This helped make it obvious to the reader that the "Mousetrap" was different from
Hamlet, so that confusion would not overcome. Further, this casts a
horrifying hint of dark humor over the entire situation; rhymed verse often sounds
sing-song, reminiscent of nursery rhymes, and highlights high tension as well as the
conflicting ridiculous nature of the trap.

What happens during meiosis that would allow genes located on the same chromosome to separate independently of one another?

Gregor Mendel, the "father of genetics" discovered genetic
principles for heredity. One is called the Principle of Independent Assortment. In this
principle, genes located on the same chromosome assort independently of one another.
That is because during meiotic division, particularly during metaphase I,  during a
process called synapsis, crossing over occurs. Homologous chromosomes form tetrads and
exchange genes, resulting in new combinations on the chromosomes. Because these
chromosomes were homologous, all that is happening is a rearrangement of similar genes.
Thus, when gametes are made, the order and arrangement of genes becomes shuffled. This
results in great genetic variation even between siblings.

character sketch of jaques in''as you like it'' in around 300 words

William Shakesper's As You Like It falls in the genre of
romantic pastoral comdey setting its major actions in the Forest of Arden. Its is a play
which delas with the theme of love, issues of brotherhood and violation of
primogeniture. In a comedy,the characters are insignificant and laughable. But there is
alo an exposure of flaw in characters and renewal of life and towards the end all
obstructions and conflicts are ressolved. The same happens here, the conflicts raised at
the begining are resolved at the end of the play. But the characters of Jaques seems to
challenge the completeness of the closure achieved at the end of the
comedy.

The forest of Arden which was considered to be
perfect had a lot of ambiguties which the playwright brings out through the character of
Jaques. In the forest, Jaques is presented as a melancholic character who gives cynical
philosophical observations about life and characters in the play. this can be seen in
Act 2 scene 5 ,where we see Jaques for the first time in the play mocking at the
sentimental pastoralism of the courtiers who moralize the discomforts of exile into
blessings. On this the Aimens plesantly says a pastoral ditty which is reduced into a
parody by him.This shows us how Jaques as an observer and critic of life around him
anticipates his role in the play.

Another instance in the
play where Jaques is been shown as a pessimist and a cynic is when he delivers a sermon
on the unhappiness of man and the passing nature of human life. He looks at the world in
an episodic fashion dividing human life into seven stages underlying the hollowness of
each stage. Even though he makes a poignant obseravtion on the dynamic transient
temporal nature of life, he excludes from its scope from all that is beautiful and good
in human life. This makes him a complex character whose behaviour is full of
contradictio and inconsistencies.

There is also an instance
in the play where Jaques vividly shows the flaw in the Forest of Arden. It is when
Jaques laments on the action of killing the deer by the duke Senior in the forest. He
says-"We are mer usurpers, tyrants ..to fright the animal and kill them up in their
assingned native and dwelling place." This shows us how greed and slefisness are as as
an integral part of pastoral society as court life.

Love
which is at the centre of this pastoral idyll had also been at odds with Jaques. When he
finds Orlando writing love sonnets on the bark of the tree he calls Orlando as "Signior
love" and even says to him that-"The worst fault you have is to be in love ". This shows
how honestly he tells Orlando that excess of love is a mere
foolishness.

Moving towards the end of the play where
jacques declines to join the dance "SO as to your pleasure, I am for other than for
dancing measures" seems to challenge the completeness of the closure achived at the end
of the comedy. He wants to perform the life of religious pfilosophical life of
melancholy.

Thus even though the character of Jaques
doesnot contribute to the main plot of the act, yet it enriches the play just by giving
witty comments which helps us to understand both the perfection and imperfection present
in a pastoral comedy. 

What is liability?

There are at least two ways that the term "liability" may
be used.  One is a legal term and one is an accounting
term.

As a legal term, liability refers to the
responsibility that a firm has for the consequences of its actions.  For example, if a
firm's products cause users to be injured, the firm would have liability for that.  In
this way, then, liability refers to legal
responsibility.

As an accounting term, liabilities are
essentially debts.  A firm would incur a liability when it borrowed money to expand its
plant.  It would similarly incur liabilities when it made promises about the pensions
that it would pay to retired workers.  These are payments that a firm is legally bound
to make at some point in the future.

In Fahrenheit 451, what is the purpose of the stars and the jets that are mentioned when Mildred overdoses?

It is important to remember what has just happened to Guy
Montag before he realises that his wife, Mildred, has taken an overdose. Note how his
conversation with Clarisse has made him aware of a real emptiness within himself and the
fact that he is not happy. In addition, the realisation that his wife has taken an
overdose and tried to kill herself produces an intense emotional reaction in Guy Montag,
which is mirrored uniquely by the jets screaming across the sky. Note how these jets are
described:

As
he stood there the sky over the house screamed. There was a tremendous ripping sound as
if two giant hands had torn ten thousand miles of black lines down the seam. Montag was
cut in half. He felt his chest chopped down and split
apart.

These jet bombers "did
all the screaming for him" and the sound of the bombers allows him to express his
emotional desolation through his scream but also the feeling of being chopped in two.
However, note how his belief about the stars likewise indicates this as
well:

He felt
that the stars had been pulverised by the sound of the black jets and that in the
morning the earth would be covered with their dust like a strange
snow.

Again, having just been
outside at night and having just looked at the stars, this belief in their disappearance
is highly indicative of Montag's new state. It is not only caused by his wife's suicide
attempt, but also by the new-found desolation that he is aware of in himself. For a man
who burns books for a living, there is an irony in his fear that the "ashes" of the
stars will cover the earth.

Prove that the string an=n^2-n is strictly monotonic.

To prove that the given string is strictly monotonic,
we'll have to verify if the difference between 2 consecutive terms is strictly positive
or negative.

Since we know the form of the general term, we
can determine the form of the next  term.

a(n+1) = (n+1)^2
- (n+1)

a(n+1) = n^2 + 2n + 1 - n -
1

a(n+1) = n^2 + n

Now, we'll
check if the difference between a(n+1) and an is strictly positive or negative. If so,
then the string is absolutely monotonic.

a(n+1) - an = n^2
+ n - n^2 + n = 2n > 0

Since n is a natural number
and it is bigger than 1 (n indicates the position of any term in the string), then the
result 2n is strictly positive.

Therefore,
the string whose general term is an = n^2 - n, is strictly
monotonic.

In Act 3, scene 2 of Shakespeare's Macbeth, what evidence is there in the text that suggests Macbeth suffers a guilty conscience?

In Shakespeare’s Macbeth there are
many instances of Macbeth’s guilty conscience.  For example, in Act 3, scene 2, he says
to Lady Macbeth, “We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it.” (3, 2, 15)  This of course
is in reference to his killing his King and feeling as though he is too far gone into
his plans of destruction to make things right again.  He is no longer able to sleep
well; he is constantly stressed, and admits that his mind suffers greatly.  Macbeth also
admits to envying the dead king because he is now at rest.  In this same scene, he has
plans to murder his close friend Banquo fearing that his sons will be kings and fulfill
the same prophecies as were given onto Macbeth.  However, this time he does not include
his wife in his murderous plans.  He tells her to “Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest
chuck”. (3, 2, 50)  Because he is already stressed and troubled with guilt, he does not
want to impose the same fate and troubles onto his wife. 

Discuss the problems addressed by reformers in the 1800s.

I assume that you are talking about the problems that were
addressed in the wave of reforms that started in the 1830s and 1840s.  This was a time
when the US economy and society was changing rapidly.  A group made up mostly of middle
class people, many of them female, started to try to reform various aspects of
society.

Some of the most important problems addressed
were:

• Lack of quality education.  Reformers like
  Horace Mann pushed to have more public schools with more qualified
  teachers.


• Slavery.  People like William Lloyd Garrison
  started pushing for the abolition of slavery.


• Lack of
  rights for women.  The Seneca Falls conference started the women's rights movement in
  1848.

There were other reforms during those
times, such as ones addressed at improving prison conditions and the conditions in
insane asylums.  There were anti-alcohol and anti-prostitution crusaders.  In short,
there were many, many problems that reformers were trying to
address.

Where can I get a bibliography for the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte?

Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre which was first
published in 1847 was a real shocker for the genteel novella-reading ladies who were
wealthy enough to buy it to read. It's heroine Jane was not the typical little-girl-lost
waiting for a knight in shining armour to whisk her away to a life of ease. Jane was
,like her author, hard-working ,plain, honest and of modest means - and her candour and
unwillingness to please and cow-tow to hypocritical social pretence was unique and
rather shocking. Even so, the novel brought notice and notoriety to its shy and retiring
author, one of the many daughters of a man of the cloth -a girl from a country town in
Yorkshire. Some of the features of the Gothic novel genre such as melodrama, mystery,
horror, and the classic medieval great house/castle backdrop and more appear in this
girl's first novel.Some of the of the events appear outlandish and scarcely credible,not
unusual for novels of the time. Jane's story is also in many ways a traditional tale
—the rags to riches progress of an orphan girl against all the odds - whose sheer
strength of character and love and determination can rescue a challenged  hero from
himself.

The love between the orphaned and poverty stricken
Jane and the wealthy but miserable Mr Rochester is central to the novel. The hurdles
blocking the rewards of this love give the main dramatic tension and conflict in the
novel. As C.S, Lewis tells, there are four loves and others are presented to the reader
of Jane Eyre.Helen Burns, shows the reader the selfless love of friendship. Readers also
see some of the consequences of a lack of love, as in the  cold sterile relationship
between Jane and Mrs. Reed, in the self-centredness of the Reed children, and in the
hollow wedding of Mr Rochester and Bertha. Later Jane can see with her unique clear
vision that the absence of real love between herself and St. John Rivers would make
their marriage hollow too.

Of all the cases of lack of
love. it is perhaps a lack of maternal love that is most serious and life-changing. Mrs
Reed, who has been unwillingly saddled with this maternal role, is then culpable for
Jane's suffering. She  is in reality, Jane Eyre's aunt, the widow of Jane's uncle. He
was the brother of Jane's mother and he died nine years before the novel begins. The icy
Mrs Reed is also the mother of John (Jack), Eliza, and Georgiana. Readers first 'see'
Mrs Reed at the beginning of the novel, when Jane is living at Gateshead Hall as her
ward. When Mr. Reed was dying, Mrs. Reed promised him that she would take in the orphan
Jane. However, Mrs. Reed always resented her promise about Jane so mistreats her as an
unwanted nuisance rather than as a needy child. She continually humiliates Jane and
punishes her for imagined misdemeanours or for her brave and independent nature, while
turning a blind eye to the shortcomings of her own children. She plans for Jane to be
sent away to a boarding school or orphanahe at Lowood. In chapter 4, Jane stands up to
Mrs. Reed and tells her what she feels. Morally victorious Jane goes back to Gateshead
just before Mrs. Reed dies, but they never make up their
differences

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Find the derivative of fog(x) is f(x)= 2x-3 and g(x) = x^2-2

Given f(x)= 2x-3

g(x) = x^2
-2

We need to find
fog'(x)

First we need to determine the function
fog(x).

==> fog(x)= f(g(x) = 2g(x)
-3

                            = 2(x^2-3)
-3

==> fog(x) = 2x^2 -6 -3 = 2x^2
-9

==> fog(x)= 2x^2
-9

Now we will
differentiate.

==> fog'(x)=
4x

Then the derivative of fog(x) is fog'(x)=
4x

In The Chrysalids, comment on the marriage between Grandfather Storm and his bride.

It is in Chapter Two that we are given some indications as
to the family heritage that David is born into, which in turn helps to explain the
unyielding rigidity of his father and why he is such a strict adherent of the religious
rules and principles that have arisen in this dystopian world. Having gone off on a
journey and returned with his child-bride, who, we are told, is twenty five years
younger than her husband, Elias Storm sets out to straighten the deficiencies in his
wife and to set her straight on a number of issues which show her youthful naivety. The
fear that his bride obviously feels from her husband is clear when David tells us that
she moved "like a lovely colt" when she was not being observed, but "as timorously as a
rabbit when she felt her husband's eye upon her." The narrator then goes on to comment
on the effect of Elias Storm's behaviour towards his
wife:

Elias
was not a man to let shortcomings pass unremarked. In a few seasons he straightened the
coltishness with admonitions, faded the pink and gold with preaching, and produced a
sad, grey wrath of wifehood who died, unprotesting, a year after her second son was
born.

The Storm's particular
legacy then seems to be a life-denying, joy-sapping approach to existence that
completely conquered and dominated David's poor grandmother and, as the story continues,
we see has completely possessed Elias Storm's heir.

Please give a complete summary of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18.

In Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, the speaker asks permission or
suggests that he will compare his beloved to a summer's
day.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's
day?

Thou art more lovely and
more temperate:

Actually, the beloved
is more lovely and more constant than a summer day. Still, the writer captures the
beauty of his beloved in a comparison of her beauty and a warm day in summer. Of course,
he mentions that a summer day is often too short, but he claims that his beloved's youth
shall not fade.

Although summer can be too hot or too
short, in this poem, the beloved is perfect. To compare her to a summer's day gives an
idea of her beauty, but in reality, she is far more beautiful than a summer day. For his
beloved will not fade or lose her beauty, but a summer day will end. Not even death can
claim his beloved. She becomes immortal in the words of this
poem.

Truly, his beloved has become immortal. That is the
difference in a summer day and his beloved. A summer day will end, but his beloved will
forever live on in the sweet verse of this
poem:

But thy eternal summer shall not
fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, Nor shall death brag thou wander'st
in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou
grow'st.

So long as men can breathe or
eyes can see,

So long lives this, and
this gives life to thee.

What is the dramatic significance of the climax being represented in the storm in King Lear?

I have to disagree with one central element of your
question. The storm, which occurs in Act III of this tremendous tragedy, does not mark
the climax of the play. This of course happens in the final act, Act V, with the French
invasion and the deaths of various characters and Lear's final descent into
insanity.

So, the storm then serves to mark the rising
action of the plot, and of course, it is very symbolic in terms of how it mirrors the
action in the play. As Lear roams around the blasted heath in Act III, the storm echoes
his own inner turmoil and his obvious madness that is only worsening through what he is
experiencing. It acts as a kind of pathetic fallacy where the natural elements are made
to express what is going on internally within Lear. However, let us also think slightly
wider than this. If we think of the focus of the play, which is on the humbling of the
arrogant Lear, the storm is a symbol of the tremendous strength of nature which makes
Lear recognise his own frailty and forces him into a state of reluctant humility. Note
what Lear says in Act III scene 2 as he addresses the
storm:

I tax
not you, you elements, with unkindness;

I never gave you
kingdom, called you children.

You owe me no subscription.
Then let fall

Your horrible pleasure. Here I stand your
slave,

A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old
man.

Note how the storm
forces Lear to confront his true state in front of the brutal, elemental strength of
nature. He stands alone, with all pretensions stripped away, and recognises his own
weakness.

Some critics also argue that the storm could be
considered to bear some reflection on the turbulent state of anarchy that has descended
upon Britain now that Lear has unwisely relinquished his power to the wrong
daughters.

Therefore, although we cannot link the storm to
the climax of the play, it is clearly a very important symbol that marks the play's
rising action.

What is the summary of "After Twenty Years" by O.Henry?

O. Henry critic Boris Ejxenbaum wrote that the O. Henry
short story “gravitates toward maximal unexpectedness of a finale concentrating around
itself all that has preceded.”  This method is certainly evident in "After Twenty Years"
as a policeman walks his beat and happens upon a man standing in an empty
doorway.

In order to light his cigar, the man strikes a
match, revealing a square-jawed face with a think scar on the eyebrow.  He assures the
policeman that he means no harm; he is simply waiting for an old friend whom he promised
he would meet at 'Big Joe Brady's' restaurant after twenty years have passed.  He and
Jimmy Wells, his best "chum" agreed to meet no matter what the conditions might be or
from what distance they had to come.  When the policeman queries if the friend has heard
from Jimmy, the man replies that he did for a while, but after he went West they lost
contact with one another.  However, Jimmy is the "truest, staunchest, old chap in the
world.  He'll never forget."

The man waiting looks at a
diamond studded watch.  "Three minutes to ten.....It was exactly ten o'clock when we
parted."  The policeman asks if he will "call time on him sharp."  No, replies the
waiting man. "I'll give him a half an hour at least.  If Jimmy is alive on earth, he'll
be here by that time."  The policeman bids him
goodbye.

After nearly twenty minutes a man with an overcoat
collar turned up walks directly to the waiting man, asking "Is that you Bob?"  And the
waiting man returns, "Is that you Jimmy Wells?" Commiserating upon what a long time
twenty years has been, the waiting man remarks that Jimmy is taller than he remembers. 
As they pass a drugstore on a corner brillant with electric lamps, Bob stops suddenly,
realizing  the man with him is not Jimmy Wells:

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"Twenty years is a long time, but not long
enough to change a man's nose from a roman to a pug."

"It
sometimes changes a good man into a bad one," replies the tall man, who continues,
"You've been under arrest for ten minutes 'Silky
Bob.'"

Before the tall man
escorts Silky Bob to the police station, he hands Bob a note from Patrolman Wells.  In
O. Henry's typical ironic reversal, this note informs Bob that he was there at the
appointed time, but when he struck the match, Wells recognized the man wanted in
Chicago.  But, because he did not have the heart to arrest his old friend, he went to
the police department and asked a plain clothesman to do the
job.

As one of Freud's patients termed his therapy as "the talking cure," discuss its goals.

I think that Freud understood talking as a significant
part of his theories because it represented the only real way that individuals could
feel some level of power about their motivations.  Residing in the realm of the
subconsciousness that lies outside the full control of rational thought, Freud
understood that talking and expressing what lies inside one's sense of being in the
world is the only way to fully understand or grasp it.  In this light, talking in an
open and non- structured manner becomes vitally
important:

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The patient, relaxed on a couch in his office,
was directed to engage in a free association of ideas that could yield useful insights,
and was asked to reveal frankly whatever came to mind. Through both his work with
patients and his own self-analysis, Freud came to believe that mental disorders which
have no apparent physiological cause are symbolic reactions to psychological shocks,
usually of a sexual nature, and that the memories associated with these shocks, although
they have been repressed into the unconscious, indirectly affect the content not only of
dreams but of conscious
activity.

I don't think that
Freud ever conceived of a "cure" in his theories.  I think that he recognized that the
challenge of modern beings is precisely to not see something as "cured" or "afflicted." 
These social labels are precisely the reason for neurosis or being seen as "abnormal." 
Rather, Freud understood that individuals must talk and fully understand the complex
dimensions that govern their state of being in the world.  The ideas of free association
and being able to piece together these figments and fragments of consciousness are both
critical to Freud's therapy.  This is not a "cure," but rather a more effective way to
understand individuals' identities and the role they play in
consciousness.

How is black humour created in Catch-22?

Joseph Heller's classic anti-war absurdist satire,
Catch-22, is filled with unending examples of black humor, and
perhaps the prime reason that it works so well is because of the life-threatening
setting that exists in the novel. Set against the World War II backdrop of Pianosa, a
tiny island off the Italian coast, the American Air Force personnel located there are
faced with both the potentially deadly daily bombing runs as well as the
utter incompetence of the officers who administer the facilities. Nearly every character
in the novel has an eccentric and mentally unstable side except for the main character,
John Yossarian, who everyone believes to be crazy. It is just one of the many examples
of the unwritten rule called Catch-22--a final-say catch-phrase for virtually any
situation that may arise.

Yossarian seems to be the only
character who worries that he may be killed because of the never-ending escalation of
bombing runs each pilot and crew must endure. Whenever Yossarian, a bombardier, nears
the maximum number that will result in his being sent home to safety, his superior
officers raise the number. No one but Yossarian seems concerned, however, and the other
men continue their daily brushes with death with little fanfare. One by one, most of
Yossarian's pals die; others, like the irascible Aarfy and the capitalistic Milo
Minderbinder, are immune to danger. Even when Aarfy rapes an Italian woman and throws
her out a window to her death, the military police arrest Yossarian instead--for being
AWOL. Only Yossarian questions the decision by Milo to bomb his own base--for a tidy
profit, of course. Death is inconsequential, and sanity is mistaken for insanity. Such
is the profane and uproariously funny world of Heller's novel, one where the humor is
black and neverending.

In "Shooting an Elephant," what does Orwell's change of mind say about him?

The way that the presence of "the natives" pressurises
Orwell into shooting the elephant, against his better judgement, precisely emphasises
the central point of Orwell's essay. By playing the role of white master, colonisers
ironically only destroy their own freedom rather than the freedom of others. The
youthful Orwell reflects that he could have done something different to avoid shooting
the elelphant, but interestingly what stops him is the threat of being laughed
at:

The sole
thought in my mind was that if anything went wrong those two thousand Burmans would see
me pursued, caught, trampled on, and reduced to a grinning corpse like that Indian up
the hill. And if that happened it was quite probable that some of them would laugh. That
would never do.

We are thus
presented with a youthful George Orwell who is desperate to save some form of face and
is willing to go against his better judgement in order to do so. He is a perfect example
of how when "the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys." It is
interesting to reflect though that the older Orwell who is of course looking back and
narrating the story does not say that he would have done any different if he could go
back, which perhaps reflects the immense pressure facing the younger
Orwell.

Explore examples of friendship in A Long Way Gone?I need to write a paragraph that relates to my defination of friendship which is " a...

In A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah
describes several friendships that he had as a young boy before he became a child
soldier.  He had friends in his home village before it was raided, and he ran with these
friends to "safety."  After he was on the run, Beah made several other friendships that
were forced and bound by the need for survival.  However, based on your definition, I
would argue that someone like Esther qualifies as a friend to Beah.  Esther was Beah's
nurse at the rehabilitation center.  When the two first met, Beah was still under the
influence of the army, but he slowly learns to trust Esther because he knows that she is
trying to help him.  Eventually, the two develop a bond, and Esther is able to open
doors for Beah, including finding his uncle so that he can reconnect with his family. 
Esther has committed herself to developing Beah' well-being, and Beah appreciates her
help, support, and understanding.

In The Giver why do you think the old man looks sad at the end of the first day of training?

This section of the novel comes in Chapter Eleven, as
Jonas completes his first day of his assignment. Crucial to understanding why the old
man looks said is what has just come before. Note what Jonas says about his experience
of having sunburn and feeling its pain:

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"It hurt a lot," Jonas said, "but I'm glad you
gave it to me. It was interesting. And now I understand better, what it meant, that
there would be pain."

In
response to this, the old man doesn't say anything. Let us remember what happened to
Rosemary, the Receiver of Memories before Jonas, who couldn't take the pain and
suffering of memories much, much worse than sunburn, and volunteered to kill herself.
Presumably we can infer that the old man is looking "drained, and a little sad,"
precisely because he knows what Jonas doesn't: the pain from memories such as war and
dying are infinitely worse than a bit of sunburn, and Jonas has to face all of these
memories, too.

Prove that (b-a)/cos^2a

To prove this inequality, we'll consider a function f(x) =
tan x, whose domain of definition is [0,pi/2). The values a and b are included in this
interval.

Since the function tan x is continuous and
differentiable over the interval [a,b], we could apply Lagrange's
theorem:

f(b) - f(a) = f'(c)(b -
a)

tan b - tan a = (b-a)/(cos
c)^2

The c value is included in the interval [a,b], such
as:

a < c <
b

Since the cosine function is decreasing over [0,pi/2),
we'll get:

cos a > cos c > cos
b

(cos a)^2 > (cos c)^2 > (cos
b)^2

1/(cos a)^2 < 1/(cos c)^2 < 1/(cos
b)^2

But 1/(cos c)^2 = (tan b - tan
a)/(b-a)

The inequality will
become:

1/(cos a)^2 < (tan b - tan a)/(b-a) <
1/(cos b)^2

Since the value of the difference b - a is
positive, if we'll multiply the inequality by (b-a), it won't
change:

(b-a)/(cos a)^2 < (b-a)*(tan b - tan
a)/(b-a) < (b-a)/(cos b)^2

We'll simplify and we'll
get:

(b-a)/(cos a)^2 < (tan b - tan a)/(b-a)
< (b-a)/(cos b)^2

We notice that
applying Lagrange's theorem, the inequality (b-a)/(cos a)^2 < (tan b - tan
a)/(b-a) < (b-a)/(cos b)^2 is
verified.

Helmholtz calls Shakespeare a “marvelous propaganda technician.” How does he explain Shakespeare’s success?Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

In Chapter 12 of Aldous Huxley's Brave New
World, Helmholtz Watson, an emotional engineer who writes political and
social verses to promote the political philosophy of the New World and pacify people,
feels dissatisfied in his writing. So, when John the Savage reads Shakespeare's
Romeo and Juliet, a play written in blank verse replete with
beautiful metaphors, similes, imagery, and other literary devices, Helmholtz is charmed,
especially after listening to the famous balcony scene of Act II. He tells John that the
verbal detail is a "superb piece of emotional
engineering." 

The emotional language of Romeo
and Juliet is what Helmholtz finds fascinating.  He understands that
Shakespeare is such a "marvellous propaganda machine" because he had so many "insane,
excruciating things to get excited about."  People must be hurt and angered and upset;
otherwise, they cannot have such "x-rayish phrases" as those that Shakespeare can
employ.  The New World does not have these.  No one could possibly be that upset about a
girl or a boy.  Helmholtz wonders what he could use to arouse such
emotion, 

"I
don't know," he said at last, "I don't 
know."

How true is the claim that the restored Bouborn monarchs in France had learned nothing and forgotten nothing?

The statement, which is attributed to the Marquis de
Talleyrand, a member of the Directory, Napoleon's government, and the restored Bourbon
government under Louis XVIII, is referring to the fact that Louis XVIII allowed himself
to be influenced by conservative royalists in his government, including the future king
and would-be absolutist Charles X. They had forgotten nothing in that they tried to
restore the traditions of the ancien regime, particularly those pertaining to the power
of the monarchy. They had learned nothing because in so doing, they ignored the
aspirations of the liberals whose unhappiness had helped trigger the revolution that
started the whole business in 1789. Ultimately, it lead to Charles's downfall in the
revolution of 1820, when the "liberal" Louis-Philippe was installed as monarch. Most
historians, I suspect, would agree with Talleyrand's assessment.