Why did John Smith speak in third person?

It was not entirely uncommon for one to speak in third
person. In this instance, it is entirely possible that Smith did so because he had an
uncommonly large ego and wished to make himself look more important that way. He was
known to exaggerate his own importance and gallantry on several occasions. The following
quote, taken from wikipedia, indicates the self-importance he ascribed to himself. He is
speaking of the Powhatan Indians.

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He was friendly toward them, but never let them
forget the might of English weapons… Realizing that the very existence of the colony
depended on peace, he never thought of trying to exterminate the natives. Only after his
departure were there bitter wars and massacres, the natural results of a more hostile
policy.

Incidentally, the
entire Pocahontas fable was of Smith's creation. There is some evidence that she
intervened before an axe fell on his neck, but this was a preplanned performance by the
Indians. Pocahontas at the time was about nine years old. Only when she went to England
with her husband, John Rolfe, and where she was quite popular, did Smith invent the
story of the failed romance.

What are three key incidents in Phineas and Gene's relationship in "A Separate Peace"?I am trying to show that over the novel Gene reveals Finny...

1. The obvious one is when Gene jounces the limb knocking
Finny out of the tree.  This is when Gene realizes the resentment he holds for his best
friend.

2.  Another important one takes place when Finny
coaxes Gene into skipping class to go to the beach overnight.  Though it is a fun
experience, it comes at a great expense to Gene because he can't study for his test and
bombs it.  This is when he starts thinking that Finny isn't looking out for his best
interests like a best friend should.

3.  Finally, when Gene
visits Finny at his house to confess he jounced the limb on purpose, Finny gets angry
and starts yelling at him.  Finny is in denial that his bes friend would purposely hurt
him.  Because of this, the boys don't get closure on the incident and their relationship
remains strained.

What allusions are used in the poem "Laugh and Be Merry" by John Masefield?

The obvious allusions in this poem are allusions made to
the Bible or religion as a whole. It is clear that the message of the poem--how we
should live our lives in spite of our imminent deaths--is based around Masefield's
religious beliefs as a Christian, as the allusions indicate. Note the major allusion
made to the Book of Genesis in the Bible and God's act of creating the
world:

Laugh
and be merry: remember, in olden time.
God made Heaven and Earth for joy He
took in a rhyme,
Made them, and filled them full with the strong red wine
of His mirth
The splendid joy of the stars: the joy of the
earth.

Although Masefield has
adapted this reference somewhat, it is clear that the allusion is to how God created the
heavens and the earth. Likewise we can find similar biblical allusions in how our lives
are presented and viewed, in particular their
brevity:

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...for the time is brief, a thread the length of
a span.

This relates to
various biblical references where the brevity of our lives as humans is established.
Thus the main allusions in this life-affirming poem seem to come from the Bible, which
serves to reinforce Masefield's central message of how we should live our lives based on
the inescapable fact of their brevity.

Calculate area bounded by the curve y=cosx/(sin^2x-4), x axis and the lines x = 0 and x = pi/2 .

To calculate the area located under the given curve and
between the given lines, we'll have to calculate the definite integral of the function y
= f(x), whose limits of integration are x = 0 and x =
pi/2.

Int f(x)dx = Int cos x dx/[(sin x)^2 -
4]

We'll use substitution technique and w'ell replace sin x
by another variable, t.

sin x =
t

We'll differentiate both
sides:

cos x dx = dt

We'll
re-write the integral of the function in t:

Int dt/(t^2 -
4) = F(1) - F(0) (Leibniz Newton)

We've replaced the limits
of integration, too.

For x = 0 => sin 0 = t1 =
0

For x = pi/2 => sin pi/2 = t2 =
1

We'll calculate Int dt/(t^2 -
4)

Int dt/(t^2 - 4) = Int
dt/(t-2)(t+2)

1/(t-2)(t+2) = A/(t-2) +
B/(t+2)

1 = t(A+B) + 2A -
2B

A+B = 0

A-B =
1/2

-2B = 1/2

B = -1/4
=> A = 1/4

1/(t-2)(t+2) = 1/4(t-2) -
1/4(t+2)

Int dt/(t-2)(t+2) = Int dt/4(t-2) - Int
dt/4(t+2)

Int dt/(t-2)(t+2) = (1/4)*[ln|t-2| -
ln|t+2|]

We'll apply quotient rule of
logarithms:

Int dt/(t-2)(t+2) =
(1/4)*[ln|t-2|/|t+2|]

F(1) = (1/4)*[ln|1-2|/|1+2|] =
(1/4)*ln (1/3)

F(0) = (1/4)*[ln|0-2|/|0+2|] = (1/4)*ln 1 =
0

Int dt/(t-2)(t+2) = F(1) -
F(0)

Int dt/(t-2)(t+2) = (1/4)*ln
(1/3)

The area of the region located under
the curve f(x) and between x axis and the line x = 0 and x = pi/2,is A = (1/4)*ln (1/3)
square units.

Describe the depression of 1893.

The Depression of 1893, also known as the Panic of 1893,
was the worst economic downturn to hit the United States before the Great Depression of
the 1930s.  Thousands of American companies went out of business and dozens of railroad
companies failed as well.  Unemployment reached levels as high as 18% (roughly twice
what they are today) and there was a great deal of political unrest.  The most famous
example of this unrest was the march on Washington undertaken by "Coxey's
Army."

The depression is typically blamed on overbuilding,
especially of railroads.  This overbuilding led to a crash when the "bubble" burst.  The
crash caused businesses to fail as demand for their products
declined.

Does Shintoism focus on any gods?

This is a difficult question to answer since it is very
difficult to define exactly what a "god" is.  It is certainly possible to argue that
Shintoism has gods and that some of them are the focus of more veneration than others. 
It is also possible, however, the call the kami that are the object
of Shinto worship "spirits" rather than "gods."

Shinto
belief holds generally that there are huge numbers of kami that can
have an impact on the lives of human beings.  In this sense, the
kami can be seen as gods since they affect our lives and since
devotees of Shintoism believe that their favor can be obtained through proper ritual
practice.

Of these many kami, some are
more important than others.  Perhaps the most important is Amaterasu, the "sun
goddess."  She is seen as the progenitor of the Japanese royal family and has been one
of the most important kami in Shintoism.

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is Jim's snakebite really a result of superstition? Explain.

The theme of supersition is a key element of this novel in
the way that Jim is shown to be subject to the belief in superstition and how it impacts
on his life. In Chapter Ten we have but one example of this, as Huck mocks Jim for the
way that he believes that talking about the dead man they discovered would bring bad
luck. Note what Huck says to him after they discovered some money from the clothes they
took from the dead man:

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No you think it's bad luck. But what did you say
when I fetched in the snake-skin that I found on teh top of the ridge day before
yesterday? You said it was the worst bad luck in the world to touch a snake-skin with my
hands. Well, here's your bad luck! We've raked in all this truck and eight dollars
besides. I wish we could have some bad luck like this every day,
Jim.

However, Jim maintains
that bad luck is "a-comin'," as is shown by the subsequent snakebite that Jim suffers.
Clearly Huck is initially sceptical about Jim's supersition, but as the novel
progresses, Huck gradually is shown to gain in respect for Jim and his deep
understanding of the world and nature that has so much to teach Huck. Thus, who knows if
Jim's bite was the result of superstition? What is important to ask is how supersition
is used in the novel and in particular in the maturity of Huck as he comes to find a
deep-seated respect for somebody that he initially regards as being "under" him because
of the colour of his skin.

When did Shakespeare write the play "Romeo and Juliet"?

It is believed that Romeo and Juliet
was written around 1594, although there remains considerable variance of opinion as to
its specific date. Historians generally believe it was written some time before 1597
because a crude first quarto of the text is available from this date. However, as
Shakespeare has taken an existing story, popularly catalogued by Arthur Brooke in 1562
and by William Painter in 1582, precise dating of the play is
difficult.

There are many earlier inceptions of a similar
plot involving warring families and tragic lovers, with references dating back as early
as the fifteenth century. In 1476 a story was written by  Masuccio Salernitano about the
lovers Mariotto and Gianozza. Salernitano's work is believed to have many parallels to
Shakespeare’s later play.

Join the sentences into one simple sentence: Do or die. Live and let live.

There are many ways combining these sentences can be
accomplished.  In my mind, the most direct way would have to rely on the concept of the
compound sentence.  The compound sentence combines two or more independent clauses into
one with the use of some type of punctuation.  Given how both sentences featured in the
example are imperative sentences, this can be played with in a variety of ways.  For
example:

"Do
or die, or live and let live."

"Do or die, and live and let
live."

This is how I see that
you are able to combine both of the sentences into one direct sentence.  However, as you
can tell, the challenge here is that both of the clauses' meanings are opposite of one
another.  To "do or die" means compliance or death, while the idea of tolerance and
permissiveness is a part of "live and let live."  This makes both of them contradictory
to one another, so if you combine them in one sentence.  It will seem a bit awkward in
terms of meaning. so you might need to add some more words in order to bring out their
divergent meaning in one sentence:

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"Do or die" was one choice, and "live and let
live" was another.

Adding
some words to bridge the opposing meaning of each sentence, I was able to add a comma
and the conjunction "and" to make a compound sentence.

Can you please give me a biography of Pablo Neruda?

Pablo Neruda was born in 1904, baptized as Neftali Ricardo
Reyes Basoalto. Interestingly, he changed his name when he first began writing poetry to
avoid embarrassing his father, who disapproved of his writing. Nature was very important
to Neruda, and as a child, he observed nature very closely. By fifteen, he had had
several poems published and enrolled in the University of Chile in Santiago, desiring to
become a French professor, but he actually went to serve as Chile's consul in Rangoon,
Burma, which was the first of several such postings in Asia. Throughout his displomatic
career around the world he continued to write prize-winning volumed of poetry. He was
also a political activist, and championed the indigenous rights of Chile's poor Indians
and workers. He was elected to Chile's senate, but then had to leave his home country
after he made a speech that was highly critical of the repressive government in power at
the time. He received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1971 and died in 1973. He is
famous, among other things, for his love poetry, and is recognised as being the most
important Latin American poet of the twentieth century.

What was the primary role of Italy in the WWII?

Nearly four million Italians served in the Italian Army
during the Second World War and nearly half a million Italians (including civilians)
died between June 1940 and May 1945.

Italy while
contributing troops to the Eastern Front (200,000) mainly served as Germany's ally in
securing the Mediterranean.  Most of the forces under Rommel in North Africa were in
fact Italian and not German, the Afrika Corps was a small part of the forces fighting
the British in North Africa.

The Italians contributed the
bulk of Axis naval units in the Meditterean, even after the British successful attack on
the Italian navy at Taranto in 1940.  The Italian navy did not attempt to confront
British capital ships with its own, but it did provide trouble for British convoys.
Italy required German help not only in North Africa, but also in Greece.  They did
successfully wrest British Somalialand from the British without German
aid.

After Italy's armistice with the Allies in 1943, some
Italians fought alongside the allies in combat and as support units in the Italian
Co-Belligerent army. Some 50,000 in combat and 200,000 in support.  Others given the
choice by the Germans to be interned (and used as slave labor) or fight with their old
allies chose to fight with Germany.  Over 90,000 chose this option.  Thousands of
Italian troops in the Balkans joined up with resistance fighters in 1943 and their was a
strong Italian resistance to the Germans behind the
lines.

The main problem for the Italians in WW2 as allies
of the Germans is that they were poorly equipped compared to their German allies and
their British opponents.  This no doubt had an effect on morale and fighting spirit as
well.  Italy entered the war in 1940 believing it was almost over and eager to grab some
spoils, but it was woefully unprepared and faltered even as the allies seemed on the
ropes, and as the war dragged on, these deficiencies became even more
pronounced.

What is the role of the United Nations in maintaining peace?

The League of Nations was created after World War I in an
attempt to give countries a way to solve problems without resorting to war, but was not
structured in a way that allowed this goal to be achieved. The United Nations was
founded after World War II as a second attempt to create an organization allowing
countries to gather and discuss differences and problems and work to find solutions
without resorting to fighting. It has the authority to intervene in situations with
mediators to try to resolve conflicts, with aid to support and assist persons being
affected or displaced by conflicts, and with troops if necessary to try to control and
end military actions. The United Nations also sponsors efforts to support economic
development, improvement of health care and other social programs, enforcement of
international law, and recognition of human rights.

The
Preamble, or introduction, to the Charter of the United Nations,
reads:

WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED

• to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war,
  which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind,
  and


• to regain faith in fundamental human rights, in the
  dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of
  nations large and small, and


• to establish conditions
  under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other
  sources of international law can be maintained, and


• to
  promote social progress and better standards of life in larger
  freedom,

AND FOR THESE ENDS

• to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one
  another as good neighbours, and


• to unite our strength to
  maintain international peace and security, and


• to ensure,
  by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall
  not be used, save in the common interest, and


• to employ
  international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all
  peoples,

HAVE RESOLVED TO COMBINE OUR EFFORTS TO
ACCOMPLISH THESE AIMSAccordingly, our respective Governments, through representatives
assembled in the city of San Francisco, who have exhibited their full powers found to be
in good and due form, have agreed to the present Charter of the United Nations and do
hereby establish an international organization to be known as the United
Nations.

What are the similarities between Arnold Friend in "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? " and serial killer Charles Schmid?

Schmid becomes the basis for Arnold Friend in Oates' short
story.  Some of the descriptions of Arnold Friend are extremely close to how Schmid
actually was.  The cowboy boots and the lifts inside them to make it appear that Arnold
is taller than he actually is bears a striking resemblance to Schmid.  Additionally,
Oates talks about the caked up makeup of Arnold Friend, which is another physical
similarity shared with Schmid.  The need to appear young and then to be accepted by
younger people as a means of bolstering his own sense of identity is also another
similarity that both men share.  The "Pied Piper" element of Schmid is something that
Oates conveys through the golden jalopy and the use of younger people's slang.  I think
that a final comparison would be the setting of the murder.  The ending of the Oates
story is one where Connie is entering a realm unknown to her, yet one that is laid out
in front of her.  She sees a world in front of her that is unrecognizable, but one that
she understands will mark her own end.  To enter the mindset of the young woman about to
die is where Oates' story is unbelievably powerful and one that might be applicable to
Schmid's victim, Alleen Rowe, who died in the Arizona desert.

What is an outline of "To Kill A Mockingbird"?

The novel is a first person narrative account by
six-year-old Jean- Louise (Scout) Fich and the events of the Alabama town of Maycomb.
Scout, her brother Jem and their friend  Charles Baker 'Dill' Harris go through a
two-year learning process during the course of the story. The main plot deals with the
trial of Tom Robinson, a black man wrongly accused of raping a white woman, Mayella
Ewell. Tom is defended by Atticus Finch: Scout and Jem's father. The children - and
adults - of Maycomb take a tiny step towards justice for all. Although Tom is found
guilty, his innocence is clearly proven by a white lawyer. The trial forces the
residents of Maycomb, and the readership, to consider the reality of racial injustice
but also the hope of social change.

The sub-plot centres
around the real identity of Arthur 'Boo' Radley and his notoriety within the Maycomb
community. 'Boo' is revealed not to be the monster that his reputation
suggests.

What is the symbolic meaning of "All the world's a stage" by Shakespeare in As You Like It?

The soliloquy of Jacques in As You Like
It is not symbolic but metaphorical. The extended metaphor has two main
parts. In the first part he is saying that everybody in the world is an actor on a
gigantic stage all at the same time. It is one vast stage production. Then in the second
part Jacques focuses on one individual actor and declares that he has to play seven
parts during his lifetime. He describes each of the roles every man must play, if he
lives long enough, beginning as an infant, gradually becoming a boy, and so on
inexorably until he reaches the last stage of all as a very old man ready to
die.

What is intriguing about this soliloquy is that we
recognize the truth in it. We remember various "roles" we played in our past and how we
somehow seemed to be assigned new roles and learned to play them after feeling a little
awkward in them at first. We recognize how we are often "playing a part" when we are at
work or at a social gathering, and we realize that other people must be doing the same
thing.

These "roles" or "parts" are now called "personas"
by psychologists, and the term has become part of the common language. When are we
really ourselves? Probably only when we are alone--if then. The rest of the time, to use
T. S. Eliot's words, we "put on a face to meet the faces that we meet." Shakespeare,
through his character Jacques, is telling an important truth about mankind and human
society. What does "All the world's a stage" mean? It means that all the world's a
stage.

What does Nick metaphorically compare us to in the closing lines of The Great Gatsby?please help asap. (: thanks so much!

Metaphorically, Nick compares us to boats that beat on,
pressing on against the currents that can be rough at times. Nick believes we are often
stuck in the past because the currents hold our boats from going forward into the
future. Nick believes that Gatsby lived in the past and could not be free to move
forward into the future. Daisy kept Gatsby held in the past. He could not get over
loving the Daisy he once knew. Nick realized that Daisy had changed, but Gatsby
continues to love Daisy. Gatsby died living in the past. His boat beat against the
current and was pulled back into the past. He dies loving
Daisy:

So we
beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the
past.

What is the amount of taxable social security benefits?Frank, who is single, received $7,500 of social security benefits. His AGI before the social...

The social security benefits for a person who is single
are taxable if the total amount consisting of half the social security benefits, all
other benefits, any tax exempt income and other deductions exceeds the base amount. The
base amount is dependent on the marital status of the person and whether the tax return
is being filed as a married couple or individually.

For a
person who is single the base amount is $25,000.

Frank is
single and received $7500 as social security benefits. His income is $15000 and he also
received $100 as tax exempt interest.

Adding the required
values we get $3750 + $15,000 + $100 = $18,850. This is less than the base amount of
$25,000.

Frank does not have to pay any taxes on his social
security benefits. The taxable social security benefits is $0, the correct option is
option A.

Why does Steinbeck desribe George and Lennie as polar opposites in terms of their physical appearance in chapter one of "Of Mice and Men"?

In John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men,
George and Lennie are described as polar opposites to show how unusual people can be
drawn together when they share the same struggles or even the same
dreams.

The novel is set in the Great Depression (which
began with the Stock Market Crash in 1929). While the story is set in Salinas,
California, the Depression spread over the entire country, and people moved around, as
go George and Lennie do, to find work (though we learn, too, that George and Lennie also
move because of Lennie's inappropriate social
behavior).

While Lennie is tall and strong physically, he
is like a child mentally. George, on the other hand, is smaller in stature, but he is
smart and clever. One seems to complement the other. We learn that George promised
Lennie's aunt that he would look out for Lennie, and while it is sometimes a
responsibility that wears on him, he does care about Lennie, as we
will see at the story's end.

There is some irony in the
contrast between the two men. When they first are introduced in the story, one man is
following the other. We might think that the taller man would lead and the smaller man
would follow, but this is not the case. In truth, the smaller man may not have the
physical power that the larger man does, but the smaller man is more powerful with
regard to his intellect and survival instincts. Even as they are described, George's
features are dark, sharp and accentuated—with a quick step—while Lennie is presented as
having "pale eyes" and "a shapeless face," and a heavy, dragging
stride.

They
had walked in single file down the path, and even in the open one stayed behind the
other….The first man was small and quick, dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp,
strong features…Behind him walked his opposite, a huge man, shapeless of face, with
large, pale eyes, with wide, sloping shoulders; and he walked heavily, dragging his feet
a little...

George has even
shared his dream of making enough money to one day own his own piece of land, with
Lennie; Lennie dreams of caring for the rabbits they will have. In including Lennie in
his plan, George extends no only a hand of friendship, but treats Lennie like a part of
his own family. While others on the ranch find it odd that the two men travel together,
since many people who do not travel as a family (in this time period are alone—which
supports the theme of isolation in the book), George and Lennie are
connected, which stands out.

The Depression has affected
the entire country and has fragmented families and friendships, neighborhoods and
businesses. However, there are some, like George and Lennie, who fight this
fragmentation by joining together. And where differences might separate some people,
here they seem to link these diametrically opposed men in terms of personality, stature
and intelligence.

Why is the poem "The Frog and the Nightingale" considered a musical poem?

A poem is musical in nature. This is most apparent when a
poem is read out loud so that the literary devices that have been employed by the author
are easier to hear. For example, the rhyming of a poem is much more noticeable when we
hear the poem. For instance, Edgar
Allan Poe's poetry, including "Annabel Lee" and "The Raven" both make excellent use of
the rhyme (as well as repetition). In "The Frog and the Nightingale" by Vikram Seth, the
end rhyme is heard with "frog" and "bog," "dawn" and "awn,"
etc.

Sometimes a poem will sound musical because of the
rhythm the writer creates within it. Most of the poem's lines have either three or four
accented syllables. This gives the poem a rocking feeling when it is read—aloud. The
stress of the first two lines, as noted below, provides a sense of motion back and
forth—the words/syllables that are bolded carry the stress and create
movement:

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Once-u-pon-a-time-a-frog

Croaked-a-way-in-Bin-gle-Bog

It
is these elements that make the poem musical, as well as the fact that it is all about
music. However, other types of devices will also add to the musical quality of a poem:
especially when the ear picks up patterns, such as repetition, alliteration, consonance,
assonance, and onomatopoeia. A few of these are used in the poem. For example,
alliteration, which the repetition of a [consonant] sound repeated
in a group of words—at the beginning of each word—is heard
with:

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"crass
cacophony," "foot the
frog" and "Toads and
teals and
tiddlers"

Onomatopoeia,
a word that represents or mimics the sound it stands for, is heard with "clapped" and
"croak."

We hear assonance in the following phrases: the
"i" provides repetition of the same vowel sound, which is
assonance:

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"night a
nightingale" and "splendid
baritone"

Consonance,
the repetition of a consonant sound in, or at the end of, words in a group, is found in
the following line:

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"had
ended,
clapped" and "Greatly
flattered"

All
of these examples provide sounds that the ear catches, that make the poem
musical.

Discuss the character of Aziz in A Passage to India.

The main character in Forster's novel, Dr. Aziz is
pleasant man, typically eager to please others. Unfortunately, he often acts hastily,
without thinking through his actions carefully, and the consequences are not what he
expected. For instance, in an attempt to impress Mr. Fielding and to welcome Mrs. Moore
and Miss Quested to India, Aziz invites them to his house before realizing to his horror
that his house is not presentable. Quickly, he changes the plan to a visit to the
Marabar Caves, a place he has never ever seen.

Two
qualities that makes Aziz stand out in the novel are his fondness for ancient poetry and
his interest in the history of India. At times he seems to wish he could have lived in
the past. His quoting poetry demonstrates a sensitive side while it also reveals a
characteristic of Indian life not seen among the 
British.

A Muslim, Aziz is contemptuous of most Hindus,
calling them "slack," because he disapproves of their careless view of time. Though he
yearns to be friends with certain members of the British community, he, like most of the
other Indian characters, resents the British colonial rule. The question that begins the
novel, "Can an Indian be friends with an Englishman?" is one that puzzles Aziz for much
of the novel.

He is kind to Mrs. Moore, whom he sees as "an
Oriental," because she is spiritual, and Mr. Fielding because Fielding is a
compassionate friend of the Indians, but as the novel unfolds, Aziz has experiences that
change his view of Fielding. Mrs. Moore achieves an almost god-like status, on the other
hand.

Likeable, knowledgeable as a physician, friendly, 
Aziz is nevertheless to some extent as prejudiced as the British in the novel. His hasty
actions and sometimes flighty behavior cause problems he doesn't anticipate when he goes
overboard to impress his guests on the trip to the caves.

In ‘As You Like It’ do you agree that Celia is completely overshadowed by Rosalind?

As I recall, Celia's own father intended to banish
Rosalind because he felt she overshadowed his daughter. When Rosalind went in to exile,
Celia went with her because she was so deeply attached to Rosalind. Throughout the play
Rosalind has a much stronger role. She is the most memorable character in As You Like
It, while Celia seems like only a minor character. Rosalind has to protect Celia and
tell her what to do from the time they both go into exile and end up in the Forest of
Arden. There is no doubt that the two young women love each other, as the first answer
above states.

Explain the difference between "social responsibility and social equality" in "Battle Royal" by Ralph Ellison.

“Battle Royal” is the first chapter of the acclaimed novel
The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. The narrator, now a 40 year old
man, looks back at his high school graduation speech that was given to acclaim. This
incident has haunted him for all of his adult life.  

The
narrator is asked to repeat his speech at a meeting of the town’s well-to-do white men.
By the time, the narrator arrives at the meeting, most of the white men have already had
too much to drink.   Extremely nervous, the main character has to go through a night of
“hell” before he actually performs his speech.

Several boys
have been asked to compete in the Battle
Royal. The young men are blindfolded and taken into a large
area in front of the white men.  The narrator and the others  are to eliminate the other
contestants anyway they can.  The last two standing will fight until the other one has
been defeated.  The narrator is one of the last two, but is soundly beaten by a much
larger boy.

The white men have been thoroughly entertained
by making these young black men look like fools.  The narrator’s mouth is bleeding, but
he is still unhappy that he was unable to deliver his speech.  The School Superintendent
remembers the boy and the speech. Despite his bleeding mouth, his name is announced and
he begins to recite his speech.

As the narrator speaks,
many of the men continue to talk.  He is asked to speak up.  They continue to ignore him
as he quotes verbatim large sections of Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Exposition
Address. During the speech, the narrator repeats the phrase “social responsibility”
several times.  However, he
accidentally says “social equality’. 
Then there is silence.  The white men demand that the young man explain
himself. 

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‘Say that slowly,
son!’

‘What, sir?’

‘What you
just said’

‘Social responsibility, sir,’ I
said.

‘You weren’t being smart, were you
boy?’

‘No, sir!’

‘You sure
that about equality was a
mistake?’

‘Oh, yes, sir. I was swallowing
blood.’

Why would the white
men react so strongly to social equality versus social responsibility? What is the
difference?

Social
responsibility implies that men feel obligated to help those in need. 
How would these men assume social
responsibility?

• They would attend church and
  contribute.


• They would contribute to
  charities.


• Their wives would volunteer to help
  others.


• They would give money in isolated
  instances.

That would be their social
obligations. The idea is that if someone has plenty, then he should share what he has
with those who have little.

Social
equality is entirely different. During the 1940s, white society still had
not changed attitudes to accept the black man as an equal. Despite his explanation of
the words being a mistake, somewhere in his subconscious, the narrator meant for these
men to think about social equality.

These white men did not
feel that the black men were equal to them.  A young black man telling this group of
upper class white men that they were socially equal with him or even questioning
equality to imply that there was sameness or likeness between the two races was not
acceptable.

Because of the degradation from
Battle Royal, the white
townspeople see the narrator as an absolute inferior. This sudden hostility reveals the
limitations of Booker T. Washington’s philosophy: the narrator’s blind obedience to the
good slave role does not free him from racism.

What is derivative of f(x)=(2x+1)^2+(2x-2)^2+2(4x^2-2x-2)

We notice that the 3rd term is the result of the product
(2x+1)(2x-2) = (4x^2 - 2x - 2).

If we'll note (2x+1) by a
and (2x-2) by b, and we'll re-write the equation, we'll get a perfect
square:

y=a^2 + 2ab + b^2

y =
(a+b)^2

f(x) = y =
(2x+1+2x-2)^2

We'll combine like
terms:

y = (4x-1)^2

Now, we'll
differentiate both sides, with respect to x:

dy/dx =
2*(4x-1)*(4x-1)'

dy/dx =
2*(4x-1)*4

dy/dx =
8*(4x-1)

We'll remove the
brackets:

dy/dx = 32x -
8

The first derivative of the given function
is f'(x) = 32x - 8.

How do I write a thesis statement dealing with 3 jobs that I am interested in the future?This is for an essay about careers. I need some help,...

A good thesis comes from productive brainstorming and
pre-writing.  It is always easiest to start an essay by turning the prompt into an
open-ended question and listing as many answers and details as possible.  An example to
help you get started might be:

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What three jobs are you most interested in
persuing in the future, and
why?

Now, make a list.  Make
a list of more than three jobs if you want, because you might find that in the end, your
ideas flow more freely with one than another.

Once you've
listed your jobs, list reasons why they interest you.  Note: it is very likely that
three careers you might be interested in are all similar to each other, or even in one
related field.  This is not only natural, but probably common.  This means for your
essay you need to think about how to distinguish them.  This can be done by making
direct comparative statements from one career to another.  For example, if you are
interested in the medical field, perhaps you've thought, "I could be a doctor
or a nurse."  Think about reasons you'd choose one over another. 
Be as honest as you like.  In this example it would be perfectly logical to say that you
might choose nursing over becoming a medical doctor because the schooling is much
shorter and therefore cheaper.

Once you've brainstormed
your list, choose the best three careers for your essay (the three with the most
detailed examples of why you like them).  These will become your three body paragraphs. 
In order write your thesis, you simply need to answer the prompt question (from above)
in a complete sentence or two and include your three category choices.  An example might
be something like:

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I am interested in the medical field because I
wish to help people who are sick or hurt.  As a result, my top three career choices are
[choice 1], [choice 2], [choice
3].

It is okay if your career
choices have absolute no relation to one another.  It simply means your essay will have
three very distinct body paragraphs.  If this is the case, when writing your rough
draft, I encourage you to transition between each paragraph with a logical segue into
each new idea.

What does the quote "I hate the Roman named Status Quo" mean in Fahrenheit 451?

This quote comes at the end of the story, when Montag has
escaped the clutches of the mechanical hound and is with Granger and his group of book
people. Granger tells Montag about his grandfather, and how he used to tell Granger
about his worries that civilisation had forgotten about nature and how wonderful and
dangerous it could be. Let us examine what his grandfather said in
context:

"'I
hate a Roman named Status Quo!' he said to me. 'Stuff your eyes with wonder,' he said,
'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any
dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never
was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which
hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life
away.'"

Status Quo is a Latin
phrase meaning "the current state of affairs." To keep the status quo is to keep things
as they are and not to change them. Granger's grandfather is making a joke, treating
status quo as if it were a Roman name, but also making a serious point about how we as
humans should always be open to change and new experiences, and truly
living.

How is the motif of darkness woven into A Tale of Two Cities?

The darkness motif with its images of shadows in
A Tale of Two Cities points to the inscrutable quality of human nature along
with a sense of foreboding and mystery and often gloom.  In Chapter 3 of Book the First,
for instance, Dickens digresses from his narrative to reflect upon the fact that "every
human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other." 
Certainly, many of Dickens's characters are, indeed, do have a darker side to
them:

• Jerry Cruncher is a "resurrection man" at
  night


• Mr. Lorry is lost in the dark confines of Tellson's
  bank where he is figuratively buried from others.  Once he becomes involved with the
  Manette family he is happier for a time; however, the worries of Mr. Lorry for his
  friends in France increase, especially when Dr. Manette's letter implicates Charles
  Darnay.  In Chapter 18 of Book the Second, Mr. Lorry's concern for Manette increases,
  his "hope darknened and his heart grew
  heavier."

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With a hope ever darkening, and with a heart
always growing heavier and heavier, Mr. Lorry passed through this anxious
time.

• Dr. Manette
  has a dark part of his life that "casts a shadow beyond" himself that falls upon his
  son-in-law.  In Chapter 10 of Book the Third, "The Substance of a Shadow" is revealed
  and implicates Charles Darnay as the son of one of the dastardly Evremonde twins who
  have Manette imprisoned.  After his letter is read to the revolutionaries, "a shadow"
  falls over Manette and he seems lost again as in his dark days of
  imprisonment.


• Charles Darnay has a dark past inherited
  from his father that he seeks to escape by coming to England after changing his
  name.


• Madame Defarge certainly has a dark secret in her
  heart with which she harbors her plan of vengeance.  In Chapter 5 of Book the Third, as
  Lucie stands in the fresh white snow, Madame Defarge passes by "like a shadow over the
  white road" and she includes Lucie and her child in the deadly plan.  In Chapter 3
  entitled "The Shadow," in Book the Third, Madame Defarge knits Lucie and her child into
  the register of death:

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The shadow attendant on Madame Defarge and her
party seemed to fall so threatening and dark on the
child.... 

• Later
  in the Chapter entitled "Darkness," Chapter 12 of Book the Third, Madame Defarge's dark
  plan to have Darnay executed is revealed. 


• Solomon
  Pross, beloved brother of Miss Pross, lives a dark life of espionage and
  treachery.


• Sydney Carton, ironically, presents his darker
  side to the world, and it is his more noble side that finally emerges in his
  self-sacrifice for the love of Lucie
  Manette.

Shadows continually fall throughout
A Tale of Two Cities, creating a sense of mystery, foreboding,
obscurity, and gloom.

Verify if the equations sinx+cosx=0 and sinx-cosx=0 have the same solutions in the set [0,2pi)

Both equations are homogenous equations and they may be
solved using tangent function.

We'll start with the 1st
equation:

sinx+cosx=0

We'll
divide by cos x:

sin x*/cos x + 1 =
0

tan x + 1 = 0

tan x =
-1

x = arctan (-1)

The value
of the tangent function is negative in the 2nd and the 4th
quadrants.

x = - arctan 1

x =
pi - pi/4

x = 3pi/4 (2nd
quadrant)

x = 2pi - pi/4

x =
7pi/4 (4th quadrant)

Now, we'll solve the equation
sinx-cosx=0.

tan x - 1 = 0

tan
x = 1

The value of the tangent function is positive in the
1st and the 3rd quadrants.

x = pi/4 (1st
quadrant)

x = pi + pi/4

x =
5pi/4 (3rd quadrant)

As we can notice, the x
values, that represents the solutions of the given equations, are not the same for both:
the 1st equation allows the set {3pi/4 ; 7pi/4} and the 2nd equation allows the set
{pi/4 ; 5pi/4}.

Give a brief character sketch of the old man in "The Umbrella Man" by Roald Dahl and how he managed to make the mother believe his story.

I assume your question refers to "The Umbrella Man" by
Roald Dahl and so I have edited the question accordingly. This excellent short story
focuses on one old man and how he manages to keep himself in alcoholic beverages without
spending any of his own money by taking other people's umbrellas and then selling them
to people to gain more money for his drinking habits. The old man in question is
presented as being a "gentleman" who is obviously able to act the part of an old, tired
man who is in need of help. The way that he takes the mother of the story in through
this deception reveals the convincing way that he is able to present himself and the
pleasant kindness that he is able to exude. In fact, he is almost a victim of his own
success, as the little girl worries that they might be taking advantage of him. However,
above all, he is insistent and the way in which he is presented as a kind man who is
giving them a good deal so that he can return to his home because of his tiredness
presents him as a character that we feel sympathy for and pity. It is this obviously,
combined with the financial element of the deal, that makes the mother agree to the old
man's suggestion, and thus unwittingly fall victim to his trick.

What types of consumer protections should have been in place to prevent the massive collapse of these institutions in the future?Our financial...

I do not think that there should have been any further
consumer protection laws in place.  The only way to prevent this sort of thing is to
have better consumer
education.

One of the reasons
why there was so much subprime lending is that people wanted that.  They wanted to be
able to buy houses even if they were not really creditworthy and the government
supported that because it felt that people owning homes rather than renting is a good
thing.  Most of the people who ended up in bad loans were complicit rather than innocent
victims who got fooled.

The other problem is that people
did not really understand that housing prices were in a bubble.  They voluntarily took
things like mortgages with balloon payments because they were sure their house values
would increase and they could refinance.  This is something that cannot be cured by
consumer protection laws.

Much of what happened to cause
the collapse was caused by people willingly taking loans they should not have taken.  If
the banks had not loaned to them, they would have been angry and put pressure on the
politicians to loosen the rules.  It is very hard to protect people from their own
desires.  Therefore, I do not think any further consumer protection laws should have
been in place.

How does Edgar Allan Poe's vivid imagery influence his writing?

Poe's imagery clearly has a great impact on his writing,
as so much of his work is dominated by the bizarre, other-worldly contexts he sets his
characters and stories in. An excellent example to focus on would be "The Fall of the
House of Usher," which begins with an excellent example of Poe's imagery that creates a
fantastical Gothic landscape, which of course foreshadows the terror and mystery of the
story itself. Note how Poe uses his vivid imagery to create an unmistakeable atmosphere
of oppression and gloom in the following example:

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During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless
day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I
had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and
at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the
melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was--but, with the first glimpse of the
building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my
spirit.

Note how the imagery,
combined with the alliteration of "dull" and "dark," creates a real mood of depression
and gloom. The clouds hang "oppressively" and the narrator is passing through a
"singularly dreary tract of country." The House of Usher is described as "melancholy"
and is seen at dusk. Upon seeing it, the traveller is filled with a sense of
"insufferable gloom."

Really, so many of Poe's descriptions
could be used as textbook illustrations of how to create Gothic imagery, and the example
above is almost flawless in the way that Poe's vivid imagery is used to present us with
terrifying landscapes of the imagination .

Determine the gradient vector of the function f(x,y)=x^3*y^2-2x at the point (2,4)?

Since the function is of 2
variables, the gradient of the function is the vector
function:

Grad f(x,y) = [df(x,y)/dx]*i +
[df(x,y)/dy]*j

[df(x,y)/dx] and [df(x,y)/dy] are the
partial derivatives of the function.

To determine
df(x,y)/dx, we'll differentiate the function with respect to x, assuming that y is a
constant.

df(x,y)/dx =3x^2*y^2 -
2

To determine df(x,y)/dy, we'll differentiate the function
with respect to y, assuming that x is a
constant.

df(x,y)/dy =
2y*x^3

Grad f(x,y) = (3x^2*y^2 - 2)*i +
(2y*x^3)*j

Grad f(2,4) =(3*2^2*4^2 - 2)*i +
(2*4*2^3)*j

Grad f(2,4) = 190*i +
64*j

The gradient vector of the given
function, at the point (2,4), is:Grad f(2,4) = 190*i +
64*j.

what is the role of communication in public relationsno

Public Relations is completely about communication. The
job of a public relations professional is to communicate information about a product or
service to the public. There are several tools used by public relations professionals.
Writing press releases and engaging in proactive media relations are some of the most
imortant things you can do as a PR professional. Public Relations encompasses all forms
of publicity, from new product publicity to product placement, crisis management and
even the internet.

Publicity is instrumental in introducing
new products or repositioning existing products. How an organization handles crisis
management is also very important. Product placement is another tool that involves
public relations because where and how you place a product in the market will establish
brand awareness and create favorable or unfavorable attitudes about the product or
service. Consumer education and sponsorships are two other forms of communicating a
message about your product or service. Many public relations professionals use these
forms of comunication to create a loyal customer that is not only well informed but also
has a positive image of the organization. The internet is becoming more and more
important as well as more popular. A company website can be used to inroduce new
products, get customer feedback, and communicate any number of things to the
public.

If Goodman Brown’s visions come out of his own dreams, what do they tell us about him? Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown"

The main conflict of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman
Brown" lies in Brown's Calviinistic/Puritanical guilt which challenged by his
rebellion.  In the exposition of the story, he tells his
wife,

"of all
nights in the year, this one night must I tarry away from thee. My journey, as thou
callest it, forth and back again, must needs be done 'twixt now and
sunrise."

With "this
excellent resolve for the future," Brown feels justified in his rebellious venture. 
However, his faith is shaken as he traverses the way to the black mass.  For, he espies
his catechism teacher, Goody Cloyse, flying on a broom like a witch; Deacon Gookin, too,
passes, making a comment on how excited he is to attend the witch-meeting. And, finally,
Faith herself is there as one of the proselytes.  He cries to her to look to the heavens
and "resist the wicked one."  However, he staggers and loses all memory of what
happens.  It is then on the next day that Goodman Brown encounters Goody Cloyse who is
at her window, and Faith passes him, but he gives her no
greeting.

Interpreting the story allegorically, when
Goodman shouts at his wife Faith, he loses his own faith.  He has failed in his
rebellion and is left only with the Calvinistic sense of the depravity of man.  At the
witch-meeting, the minister, the figure of "deep and solemn tone," has declared this
Calvinistic belief, "Evil is the nature of mankind."  In his guilt, Goodman becomes
a

stern, a
sad, a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not a desperate man...from the night of that
fearful dream.

Having lost
his faith in his night of rebellion, Goodman Brown is left only with despair and his
overriding guilt that causes him to see only the Calvinistic idea of man's depravity in
others. This is why he becomes a "hoary corpse" when he dies, who is followed, not
led, by an aged Faith.

What point of view does the poet use in "Piano" (and how does this show the general purpose)?

The writer of the poem "Piano" uses a first person point
of view. He is reminiscing about the past when he used to sit under the piano on a cold
wintry day. He is moved to tears as he thinks about the past. The speaker longs for the
past.

Someone singing and playing the piano has caused the
speaker to travel back down the road of his childhood. He is quite emotional in doing
so. He can remember days as a child when he sat under the piano as his mother sat at the
piano. He is reminiscent of days gone by in which he sat under the piano near his
mother's "poised feet." He is filled with such emotion until he breaks down crying,
weeping because of the fond memories of childhood. In fact, the speaker admits that he
has put aside his manhood to weep like a child over the beautiful memories when he sat
under the piano as his mother sat at the piano playing and
singing:

The
glamour Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast Down in the flood of
remembrance, I weep like a child for the
past.

Who are the three main characters in Old Yeller and what are their traits?

The three main characters of Fred Gipson's enduring novel,
Old Yeller, are members of the Coates family:
Travis, the young boy who comes to love Old Yeller; his
little brother, Arliss; and the title character,
Old Yeller.

Travis is fourteen
years old, and he serves as the "man of the house" while is father is on a cattle drive.
Travis is proud and confident of his new responsibility of tending to the farm while his
father is gone. He must also look after the five-year-old, Arliss. Old Yeller, an ugly
yellow dog, arrives on the farm the same day as the father leaves. Travis immediately
hates the dog, in part because he is still grieving from the loss of his old dog, Bell.
But Arliss loves the new dog, and they become immediate playmates. Old Yeller eventually
proves his worth, saving Arliss from a bear and Travis from wild
hogs.

Discuss genetic influences on behavior.

Asking for information about genetic influences on
behavior is asking what appears to be a simple question about a huge topic that is far
from completely understood. As a result, there is no one simple answer that summarizes
how genes influence behavior.

We do know that some medical
conditions have a genetic component. There is a "genetic predisposition" to alcoholism,
for example, and there are types of behaviors that are frequently associated with people
who suffer with alcoholism. So the genetics that make one person more likely to be
sensitive to the effects of alcohol will influence that person's actions in some way -
possibly causing that person to make a conscious decision to abstain from alcohol,
possibly causing that person to become an alcoholic. Other genetically based conditions
influence other kinds of behaviors in varied ways.

In A Separate Peace what does this quote mean? "Wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart."

In this quote, Gene is pondering the events that occurred
during those crucial years at Devon school, and pairing it with his more mature
knowledge of war and people that he has gained throughout his lifetime.  Gene realizes
that he, in a symbolic sort of way, had declared war on Finny.  He ignorantly
concluded--because of his own insecurities and jealousy of Finny--that Finny was trying
to bring him down and distract him so that he wouldn't do well in his studies.  He
assumed that Finny always had people playing games simply so that Gene wouldn't do well
in school.  Finny struggled in school himself, so Gene concluded that Finny was
jealous.  It was that erroneous projection of his own jealousy that led to his reckless
actions at the tree.  He let his jealousy and ignorance guide his actions, and Finny
ended up with a broken leg. That event eventually leads to Finny's death.  So, Gene's
ignorance of Finny's pure intentions and true friendship was what, in the end, led to
Finny's death.

Compare that description to the quote you
related.  "War is made by something ignorant in the human heart."  Gene's heart was
ignorant--his own jealously led him to conclude that Finny was vindictive, when he was
not.  And that jealously led him to "declare war" on Finny in the tree.  Finny was a
casualty of that ignorance.  Gene takes that very personal experience and applies it to
war on a very large scale.  He concludes that wars are started out of that sort of
ignorance, not the larger, more sweeping evils that many people have often attributed it
to.

I hope that those thoughts help a bit; good
luck!

Please give an analysis of the poem "Wild Nights--Wild Nights!" by Emily Dickinson.

One of the reasons I like this poem so much is that it
absolutely makes it impossible to argue that Emily Dickinson was just an isolated old
maid without any idea of what it means to love. Isolated she may well have been, but
poetry such as this indicates the way that she experienced love in its fullest sense,
and the overt sexual imagery in this poem clearly indicates that she was not a
prude.

This poem is above all the yearning of a lover for
the return of her beloved and the idea of the passionate embraces that await her. The
"wild nights" of the title seem to refer to some kind of storm or tempest that relates
to the intensity of the speaker's feelings and how their reunion will lead to storms of
their own making in the "luxury" of their embrace. The introduction of the "wild nights"
also presents us with the extended metaphor that dominates the poem, as voyaging on a
boat in the sea is compared with the reunion of the
lovers.

The second stanza develops this metaphor by arguing
that the speaker is safe and protected being in port with her lover. There is now no
need to guide or direct herself as she has reached her goal. Even the strongest winds of
the storm cannot impact her now:

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Futile the winds 
To a heart in
port, 
Done with the compass, 
Done with the
chart.

There is a sense in
which this stanza yet again represents a tempestuous relationship. If we see the
"compass" and the "chart" as perhaps maps to guide us in our lives, the willing
abandonment of these could be argued to represent an abandonment of self to the force of
the love the speaker has.

Lastly, the final stanza
represents the most overt sexual image, as the speaker imagines herself to be in "Eden,"
obviously a symbol of paradise, and wishes that she were able to "moor / To-night in
thee!" Some critics argue that this final image represents the sexual culmination of the
relationship and the desire of the speaker. Either way, this poem is one where the
passion and desire jumps out at you.

what is the cause of decline of the harappan civilization? what are seals?

Harappan society entered a period of decline about 1900
B.C.E. There is evidence of deforestation as woodlands were cleared to create more
arable land to feed a growing population. This deforestation in turn led to reduced
rainfall and erosion of the topsoil, as a result of which the area soon became a desert.
To this day, it requires considerable irrigation to be farmed. There is further evidence
of some natural catastrophes, possibly earthquakes, which further weakened the society.
It is important to note that there is no evidence of military conflict, so the decline
of the society was not the result of conquest. Also, the decline did not happen
overnight, or even in a single lifetime. It most likely occurred over a period of five
hundred years. By 1500 B.C.E., the society had collapsed. Still, its influence remained
with the people who survived them, including their deities and their cultivation
practices.

What is the significance of the play within Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream, especially with respect to parallel subplots?

One of Shakespeare's central
points in A Midsummer Night's Dream is to show the
distinction between illusion and reality. He even shows
that the happiness and success of life hinges upon
illusion. The mechanicals' play within a
play is central to Shakespeare's
illusion theme because all of the mechanicals prove to have
their own illusions about their abilities to perform a
grand play. In addition, their performance of the play in society serves to link
illusions with everyday life, to link illusions with reality. However, it's important to
note that the plot of the play within the play is actually
the exact antithesis of the plot within A
Midsummer Night's Dream. Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's
Dream ends happily with all of the couples in the play either uniting or
reuniting, but the play within the play is actually a
tragedy. Pyramus and Thisbe both die by suicide. The
antithetical plot of the play within the play shows us that
while illusions may be antithetical to reality, the
two can still be
united.

During their performance of the
play, the mechanicals are certainly subjected to a great deal of criticism
and jesting, which they most likely can hear. For example, Hippolyta
calls the moon, which Starveling represents with a lantern, a bush, and his dog, tedious
and complains, "I am weary of this moon. Would he would change!" (V.i.250-51). However,
when the play is done, Theseus ultimately praises their
performance, saying, "And so it is, truly [a fine tragedy]; and very
notably discharged" (355). And this line is the last we hear of the play within the
play. Most likely, the players accepted their praise at face value and never became
disillusioned about their abilities as performers. They remain clinging to
their illusions, showing us that, even though antithetical,
illusions and reality can unite.

Does work=potential energy? Please explain the formula work= negative potential energy. Does this mean negative work=positive potential energy?

Work and energy are both expressed in terms of the SI
unit: Joule, (J).

When work is done on a body, a force is
applied on it. This either makes the body accelerate at a rate that is inversely
proportional to its mass and directly proportional to the force applied. Else the work
leads to an increase in the potential energy.

For example,
if a force were applied to a body in the horizontal direction, it would accelerate. On
the other hand if the force were applied vertically in the upward direction and the
resulting acceleration were greater than that due to gravity, the body would rise up.
The work done is partially stored in the form of gravitational potential
energy.

The work done leads to an increase in the potential
energy. Negative potential energy means a decrease in the potential energy. This
decrease results in work which ultimately accelerates the body over a certain distance.
A body that is falling downwards loses potential energy, and accelerates
downwards.

Negative work is the work done against an
opposing force. This may result in an increase in potential energy. Consider again the
example provided earlier, when we apply a force on the body against the gravitational
force of attraction it is negative in terms of the gravitational force. This also
results in an increase in the gravitational potential energy.

How to calculate the definite integral of the function x*cos3x if 0=

The definite integral of the function will be evaluated
with the help of Leibniz Newton formula.

Int x*cos 3x dx =
F(pi/2) - F(0) (x = 0 and x = pi/2 are the limits of
integration)

We'll solve the integral by
parts:

Int udv = u*v - Int vdu
(*)

Let u = x => du =
dx

Let dv = cos 3x dx => v = (sin
3x)/3

We'll apply the formula
(*):

Int x*cos 3x dx = x*(sin 3x)/3 - Int (sin
3x)dx/3

Int x*cos 3x dx = x*(sin 3x)/3 + (cos
3x)/9

But Int x*cos 3x dx = F(pi/2) -
F(0)

F(pi/2) = (pi/2)*(sin 3pi/2)/3 + (cos
3pi/2)/9

F(pi/2) = - pi/6 +
0

F(pi/2) = - pi/6

F(0) = 0 +
(cos 0)/9

F(0) = 1/9

But Int
x*cos 3x dx = - pi/6 - 1/9

The definite
integral of the function y=x*cos 3x is: Int x*cos 3x dx = - pi/6 -
1/9.

How would Sir Thomas Wyatt's poem, "The Long Love..." compare to the Earl of Surrey's poem of "Love, that doth reign and live"?How would these...

Both Wyatt’s poem and Howard’s are translations into
English of a poem originally written by the Italian poet Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch).
The poem is number 140 of Petrarch’s collection of poems called the Rime
sparse (Scattered Rhymes). In all three poems, Cupid,
the god of selfish desire, is mocked for his cowardice when he is faced with determined
opposition by a virtuous woman.

Wyatt’s style is usually
considered rougher and less smoothly flowing (less “mellifluous”) than Howard’s. Wyatt’s
poems often seem a bit less easy to understand, initially, than Howard’s do. Yet Wyatt’s
more complicated phrasing, like that of later “Metaphysical” poets such as John Donne,
often rewards re-reading. Wyatt’s use of meter or rhythm is usually less predictable and
regular than Howard’s. Howard usually employs a clear, straightforward, iambic
pentameter meter. In this meter, each even syllable is emphasized (as in
reBEL, rather than REBel). Wyatt’s poetry, in general, is more
likely to pose problems for a first-time reader, but it is this very unpredictability
that lends so many of Wyatt’s poems so much of their energy and
vitality.

In the opening line of Wyatt’s poem, for
instance, it is not immediately clear that the “long love” mentioned is actually Cupid. 
This fact does not become absolutely clear until line 4, with the reference to “his.” In
Howard’s poem, on the other hand, the use of personification is clear right from the
start. This is just one example, among many others that could be cited, of the ways
Wyatt’s poems can initially seem a bit more difficult than
Howard’s.

Can I get a quote about Piggy explaining how he is a tragic hero in The Lord of the Flies?

I would want to argue that a great quote you could use
would be the final quote refering to Piggy in the novel, which comes when Ralph sees
that delieverance has at last arrived and that the boys are rescued. Note how Ralph
reacts to the sight of the naval officers who have come to take the boys
away:

And in
the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the
end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true,
wise friend called
Piggy.

Note the way that
Piggy is described in this important quote. He is a "true, wise friend," whose death
exemplified what Ralph has learnt about the "end of innocence" and "the darkness of
man's heart." It is clear therefore that he has heroic qualities, in the way that he
remained loyal and true to Ralph up until his death, and that his death was heroic in
the way that he tried to challenge the mob and reason with them, bringing them to their
senses. The way in which he failed of course symbolises the triumph of savagery over
reason.

What is the meaning of this quote below from "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor?"She would have been a good woman ... if there had...

At the end of the story, the Misfit and his criminal
associates have dispatched the rest of the family, and The Misfit has taken the bright
yellow shirt with blue parrots that Bailey had been wearing. The only two that are left
are Grandmother and The Misfit. Grandmother is talking with The Misfit the whole while
trying to flatter her way into his good graces so that he spares her
life.

Grandmother is a complaining, nagging sort of person who
apparently unceasingly causes trouble for others in her family through her selfishness
and carelessness, trouble such as insisting they detour to visit an old plantation in
Georgia that is in reality in ... Tennessee. At the moment that she realizes that The
Misfit is going to take her life also, she stops being self-centered; she stops her
incessant barrage of words; she reaches out to someone else in some show of
compassion:

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She opened and closed her mouth several times
before anything came out ... she found herself saying, "Jesus. Jesus," meaning Jesus
will help you,

When
Grandmother reaches out to touch The Misfit saying, "You're one of my own children!" she
confirms the hint that comes earlier, "his face was as familiar to her as if she had
known him all her life but she could not recall who he was," and we realize Grandmother
is in fact the Misfit's mother.

It is because she is his mother that
he can indirectly assert that she wasn't much of a good woman and that the shock of
facing a violent end to her life has forced her out of her harmful selfishness and,
therefore: "she would of been a good woman ... if it had been somebody there to shoot
her every minute of her life." In other words, if she had had a similar shock every
moment of her life, she would have been sincere, caring and thoughtful--as she was for a
moment just before her end--instead of complaining, nagging, spiteful and unceasingly
troublesome.

What was the experience of the typical white miner during the California Gold Rush?

There were essentially two kinds of miners during the Gold
Rush of 1849 - 1851: individual prospectors and company miners.  Tens of thousands of
miners came west in search of riches, "staked a claim" on what they hoped would be a
promising stream or mountain, and started their own operation.  In general, this didn't
turn out too well, as they often produced little or no gold, or just enough in some
circumstances (1 - 2 ozs. of gold dust per day) to pay basic expenses.  Most of them
went bankrupt and turned to other work, or signed on as company
miners.

Company miners worked for a flat daily rate for
large, well funded corporations with hydraulic mining operations and sluice boxes.  No
matter how much ore they produced, they were paid the same, and generally profited
little from their efforts.

Chinese miners were heavily
segregated from whites, as were the few African-Americans who came west, and anti-Asian
racism was openly practiced and encouraged.

Why are burglary clearance rates so low?

There are at least two related reasons why the clearance
rate for burglaries is relatively low.

First, the police
tend not to have the resources needed to thoroughly investigate burglaries.  These are
crimes that do not result in physical harm to human victims.  Therefore, the scarce
resources available to police departments do not tend to get used on
burglaries.

Relatedly, there is often very little evidence
that can be found at a burglary scene.  This is, in part, because police do not tend to
devote a lot of resources to trying to find evidence.  It is also the case, however,
that there are usually no witnesses and very little in the way of physical
evidence.

These two factors are important in making it very
unlikely that any given burglary will be cleared.

Is x*x + y*y = 0 the equation of the origin (0,0) if x and y =0? If not, why?I need the reason why my equation cannot be the equation of the...

Assuming that you are, in fact, talking about the equation
for a circle, there's another reason why the equation x^2 + y^2 = 0 can't give you the
center of the circle at the origin.

If we subtract x^2 from
both sides of the equation, we see that y^2 = -(x^2).  But no real number except zero
for both x and y will make that equation true.  And those values will give you the
origin (0,0) as a solution, but you only have a point--as the earlier answer states, no
circle.

What if the values of x and y are
not zero?  y^2 still has to have the same value as the opposite of
x^2.  We know that squaring a number will never result in a negative number, so the only
non-zero values of x and y will be ones in which one of the variables is real and the
other is imaginary.  And although we may use our imagination to conjure up a circle, a
circle is not composed of imaginary values.

What is the significance of the incident at Judge Taylor's house?

Not long after the end of Tom Robinson's trial, with the
predictable guilty verdict, it becomes apparent that the perpetual drunk Bob Ewell has
not forgotten that Atticus made him look like a fool on the witness stand (admiittedly,
not a difficult task).  He is overheard by some townspeople making a not-so-veiled
threat toward Atticus, and when he encounters Atticus, Ewell actually spits on him.  One
evening when Judge Taylor is reading in his study late at night, sounds are heard that
suggest that someone is prowling around his home, and the reader easily infers that it
is probably Bob Ewell, still up to no good.  These events lead up to the climax of the
novel on Halloween night when Ewell tries to kill Scout and
Jem. 

Describe a scenario leading to a man-made catastrophe that could result in the kind of destruction found in Gathering Blue.

It is important I think that we are never specifically
told what happened to trigger off the Ruin that destroyed our version of humanity and
plunged humans into a kind of dark age where they lost all their technological
sophistication and knowledge. We are given a few tantalising clues, such as in the
beginning of Chapter Three, where we are told about the Ruin
Song:

Most
especially it was frightening when it recalled the Ruin, the end of the civilisation of
the ancestors. Verses told of smoky, poisonous fumes, of great fractures in the earth
itself, of the way huge buildings toppled and were swept away by the
seas.

Later, reference is
made to skyscrapers exploding in flames. I think it is significant that we see humanity
long after the Ruin, and this is enforced by the way that no-one can remember what
precisely happened. However, if we think of what we are told in the above quote, the
reference to huge buildings being knocked down by the sea indicates that an
environmental disaster could have been responsible. The poisonous fumes could easily be
from a nuclear disaster, such as a nuclear reactor being destroyed by the weather, just
as what has recently happened in Japan. However, equally we could argue that the Ruin
was the result of a World War or something like that.

How is 2 Peter 3:10 related to "The Masque of the Red Death"?

Let us remember that Poe based this fictional account of
the Red Death--a disease that never existed--on the Black Death, a plague that
notoriously swept through fourteenth-century Europe and decimating the population of
vast swathes of the known world at this stage. The verse you have cited from the book of
2 Peter talks about the end of the world:

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But the day of the Lord will come like a thief.
The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the
earth and everything in it will be laid
bare.

We can only imagine
that, looking at verses like this from the Bible, that the original medieval people must
have believed that the Black Death heralded the coming of the day of the Lord and the
accompanying destruction that such an event involved. If we have a look at the ending of
this tale by Poe, it appears there are obvious links to this verse that you have
cited:

And now
was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night...
And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over
all.

Both quotes contain the
reference to disaster arriving like a "thief," in a way that surprises us all, and also
contain reference to destruction and decay of all things. Thus it seems that Poe is
deliberately alluding to such verses in the Bible that point towards the way in which
plagues such as the Black Death were so radical and momentous events in
history.

In Shakespeare's Hamlet, provide quotations from Act 2 that you enjoyed, and comment on them.

In Shakespeare's Hamlet, there are
several parts I enjoy. Gertrude's response to Polonius' rambling in Act Two, scene two,
is the kind of thing that loses nothing to time: she says stop trying to impress me with
words and tell me what you really mean. This is important to her because she wants to
know what is wrong with her son (Hamlet).

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More matter, with less art. (line
102)

I also enjoy following
Polonius' nonsensical speech. Trying to follow his thoughts is like trying to find one's
way in a maze: his ideas run in circles. The first segment of Polonius' speech to try to
explain why Hamlet is acting strangely is as follows, where he questions what it is like
to be a king and why day and night are the way they are. He then makes a astute
observation ("Brevity is the soul of wit"), which he then proceeds to ignore—it's about
being brief (something lost on Polonius). Finally, he bluntly states that Hamlet is
crazy, but then philosophically (and foolishly) explains that madness is being mad,
which once again, makes no sense.

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Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit

And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief.
Your noble son is mad.
Mad call I it; for, to define true madness,

What is't but to be nothing else but mad? (lines
93-100)

When Gertrude scolds
Polonius for using words to impress, he denies it by saying he is using no "art" at all.
This is true: he is not even skillful in his use of words: they are empty of meaning.
Further bumbling follows: Polonius repeats that Hamlet is mad. He says that it's true
that it's a pity that he's mad, and a pity that it's true. This, again shows the
"advisor" making little sense. At this point, I would expect both King and Queen to be
discouraged with his failure in helping them understand Hamlet's strange behavior. He
says again that Hamlet is crazy, then starts playing games with the words "effect,"
"cause," and "defect."

A reader or member of an audience
can see through Polonius rather clearly. There is little chance that he will be mistaken
for a genius. It is entertaining to try to follow his speech, which he takes so very
seriously himself, but leaves the listener wondering what he is
thinking.

Given the matrix A=[x-squareroot2009 , -1] [1 , x+squareroot2009] and I2, what is x if det(A)=0? [x-squareroot2009 , -1]-first row of matrix

To calculate the determinant of the matrix A, we'll have
to recall that the determinant of the square matrix (2x2) is the
following:

det(A) = a11*a22 -
a12*a21

a11*a22 - the elements that belong to the main
diagonal of the matrix

a12*a21 - the elemnents of the
secondary diagonal of the matrix

Therefore, det(A) =
(x-sqrt2009)(x+sqrt2009) - (-1)*1

We notice that the first
product returns the difference of two squares:

det(A) = x^2
- 2009 + 1

det(A) = x^2 -
2008

We'll cancel det
(A):

det(A) = 0 <=> x^2 - 2008 = 0 =>
x^2 = 2008

x1 = +sqrt2008

x2 =
-sqrt2008

The solutions of the equation
det(A)=0 are x1 = +sqrt2008 and x2 = -sqrt2008.

Scene 2 act 2 takes place in the Capulet orchard late at night. In what 2 ways does darkness influence what happens in the scene?

The first way that darkness influences in the scene is
that Romeo could not even be there if it were not dark.  Since the two families hate
each other, for Romeo to be seen in Capulet's garden would surely cause him to be put to
death, as it would be assumed that he was there to cause some sort of trouble.  Juliet
says, "If they do see thee, they will murder thee" in line
70.

The second way that darkness influences in the scene is
that it prevent Juliet from knowing that Romeo is there when she starts speaking. 
Because she is unaware of his presence, she openly states her feelings toward Romeo,
something she would never do if she knew he could hear her.  She later tells him (lines
85-87), "Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face;/ Else would a maiden blush
bepaint my cheek/For that which thou has heard me speak tonight."  Since she has
expressed her love, their relationship progresses much more quickly than would be normal
(she doesn't have to play "hard to get"), leading to their extraordinarly hasty
marriage.

In Leviathan, the condition that men are in during the time they live "without a common power to keep them all in awe" is called...

So are you just asking what this time is called?  This
time is called the state of nature.  In the state of nature, there is what is often
called the war of each against all, though Hobbes' own words said that this war "is of
every man, against every man."

According to Hobbes, this is
why there is a need for a strong government.  If there is no strong government to keep
everyone in awe, the people will simply fight against one another all the time.  They
will constantly be trying to take each other's lands or possessions.  In this case, as
Hobbes' famous line goes, people's lives will be "solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and
short."

So, Hobbes is saying that people will have terrible
lives if they do not have a strong government to keep them all in line.  They will be in
a perpetual state of war of every man against every man.

What was the reform like in the United States between the 1820s and 1860s?

This is something of a vague question so I do not know if
this answer is what you are looking for.  However...

One
way to characterize the reforms of this period is to say that they were driven by people
from the growing middle class.  Many of these people were inspired by the religious
fervor of the Second Great Awakening.  During this time period, the middle class was
growing.  This gave more people some amount of leisure time.  Many of them (especially
women) were inspired by the religious revivals to try to perfect their
society.

This meant that the reforms were typically driven
by individuals.  People like Dorothea Dix and Horace Mann went on largely personal
crusades to fix problems that they saw in their society.  The reforms were generally not
driven by the government or by major organizations but were instead the work of
individuals.

So, one way to answer this question is to say
that the reforms were the work of individuals from the middle class who were (often
inspired by religion) determined to make changes in their
society.

A stop loss order is given when the market is:a. Highly volatile b. Experiencing a downtrend c. Experiencing...

A stop-loss order is placed
when the trader wants to limit the losses made. These are usually used when there is a
lot of leverage involved in the transaction made. As (1) the funds that have been
borrowed to execute the trade have to be returned on time and as (2) it is not possible
to hold onto the security while waiting for a reversal in price to recover, a stop-loss
is used so a limit is placed on the losses that the trader can
afford.

The correct option for the question would be option
e, none of the above.

A very high level of volatility can
make the price fluctuate upwards and downwards. Placing a stop loss would not serve any
purpose as the position could become profitable after a very brief interval of
time.

A downtrend or a Bull Run could make a trading
position unprofitable or profitable based on whether the trader has gone long or
short.

Inactivity would not allow any trades to take place,
whether a stop-loss order has been placed or not.

The
primary reason a stop-loss is used is to accommodate for
the use of leverage (borrowing, margin) if it is not
possible to hold onto the position and wait for a reversal
in price to make the position profitable again. Stop-loss orders can be essential in
many situations but in others may lead to losses that could easily have been avoided if
the stop-loss order had not been placed. It requires a lot of experience and skill to
determine what should be done and when it should be done.

If the Law is an inadequate source of guidance, to what source of guidance does Paul point in Romans 8?

In the Letter of Paul to the Romans, Paul is making his
strongest argument for the case that the old ways no longer apply. The following of the
Jewish rabbinical laws and traditions has been superseded by the example and teachings
of Jesus, and what Jesus taught was that the way to God was through faith in God and the
acceptance of the guidance provided through the Holy
Spirit.

For
the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and
death. (Romans 8:2, RSV)

Paul
goes on to explain that believers have a new set of standards by which they should
structure their lives - the expectations set by the Spirit. Those who live according to
the law, which Paul equates with living "according to the flesh" (Romans 8:5), are
living into patterns based on sin and separation from the will of God. Those who "submit
to God's law" (Romans 8:7) will be united with God and Jesus, through the power of the
Holy Spirit.