Which among the following is unique to a security? a. Risk free rate b. Risk premium c. Rates of expected inflation...

The correct option is option b, risk
premium.

The risk free rate is a rate of return that can be
obtained without taking on any risk. This is usually the rate of return of interest
bearing securities like bonds issued by the government. The interest earned on these is
assured as the government can, if required, print extra money to honor its debt. It is
common for all securities.

Rates of expected inflation are
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Inflation deflates the returns earned from all securities to the same
extent.

The nominal interest rate is usually taken as the
rate of interest which an investor can get by buying government risk-free bonds without
adjusting the returns for inflation. This is also common for all
securities.

The risk premium is the extra returns that are
sought by investors for buying securities which do not have a certain rate of return.
This could include interest bearing instruments issued by companies where there is a
possibility of defaul or stock which can change in price based on numerous factors, some
of which are profits made by the company, future growth prospects, liquidity,
etc.

What is ironic about Poe's choice of the name "Fortunato" for the antagonist of the story "The Cask of Amontillado"?

Edgar Allan Poe no doubt chose to use the name "Fortunato"
in a deliberately ironic manner. The name is derived from the word "fortunate," and
means "fortunate one." Fortunato was anything but fortunate in his dealings with
Montressor. He was misled into thinking a rare and valuable bottle of Amontillado
awaited him in the catacombs, but instead he became the victim of Montressor's murderous
madness. In the end, the only fortunate person was Montressor, who succeeded in his
perfect crime, hiding Fortunato's body where it would never be
found.

Discuss narrative technique in Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

Gulliver's Travels is a satire
presented in the first person point of view, as a journal kept during Lemuel Gulliver's
various adventures throughout the known and unknown world. Travelogues were quite
popular during Swift's time, and so his audience would be familiar with such a style.
Because so much of the world remained unexplored by Europeans, Gulliver's reports of the
lands (especially their locations) would not seem as obviously fictional as they seem
today.

The most significant aspect of Swift's narrative
technique is the use of Gulliver as an unreliable narrator. At first, his attention to
detail and revelation of embarrassing events leads the reader to trust Gulliver. He is
an educated man- a surgeon, in fact- and he approaches each new situation with almost
clinical precision. Yet slowly, he begins to reveal himself as humanly fallible. He
admits to lying about English history, in order to present his country as more favorable
to the Brobdingnagian king. He also appears incredibly naive and a bit dense, as he
cannot grasp any society different from that of England (until his last voyage).
Essentially, we cannot trust Gulliver's opinions on these lands, which is Swift's
intention. Through that questioning of Gulliver as the narrator, the satire of the text
is evident.

Composing a poem from the text of "The Yellow Wallpaper."At least 10 lines that reflects the actual events of the story, focuses on a character, or...

I am not entirely sure that your question is completely
clear, but I will give you some ideas anyway and then hopefully you will be able to use
those ideas to do what your teacher is expecting of you.

If
I had to do something like this, I would probably want to write a poem based on the
"character" if you can call it that of the woman that the narrator sees trapped in the
wallpaper. Clearly, as readers we can understand that this woman is actually a
representation of the way the narrator herself feels trapped and constrained by the
restrictions of her husband and the doctors who advise him, and is emotionally and
intellectually stifled. It would be really interesting however to give this alter ego a
"voice" and allow her to express what the narrator perhaps isn't aware of, giving her
the opportunity to share her pent up frustration and anger. A poem written from this
perspective would be able to "see" what we as readers can see but what the narrator
can't, making it a fascinating experience. Hope this helps and good
luck!

In Silas Marner, what statement does Silas make that clearly shows the change he has undergone in chapter 21?

Well, there are a number of highly revealing statements
that Silas makes in this short chapter, which is, in a sense, designed to show how far
his character has grown and developed. Let us remember that in this chapter Silas
revisits for the first time his old home in Lantern Yard, which was of course the site
of so much sadness, pain and betrayal for him. When he goes and finds no evidence
whatsoever of his former chapel, which has now been turned into a factory, he is forced
to accept that he will never know the truth of precisely what happened. However, he says
that this is not important to him any more. Note the reasoning he has for
this:

Since
the time the child was sent to me and I've come to love her as myself, I've had light
enough to trusten by; and, now she says she'll never leave me, I think I shall trusten
till I die.

We see the full
movement of Silas Marner from being a rejected and alienated individual, without
attachments in his community, to depending on another person so completely and fully
that he is able to have faith in humanity once more. Eppie's decision to never leave her
father has cemented this transformation, giving him "light enough" to trust in others
and to have faith once more.

Why did President Eisenhower take three weeks to send federal troops to ensure the Little Rock Nine could enter school?A) Governor Orville Faubus...

The best answer to this (of the options that you have
given us) is B.

When the crisis over the desegregation of
Little Rock Central High began, Pres. Eisenhower met with Gov. Orval Faubus.  Pres.
Eisenhower believed Faubus when Faubus promised that he would comply with the court
order.  As the link below says,

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Faubus gave assurances that he would not resist
further attempts at desegregation but later betrayed the
president.

Eisenhower had
trusted Faubus and had hoped that the situation could be resolved without resorting to
force, but he eventually found out that he was wrong.

One
reason why Eisenhower acted in this way was the fact that he did not think the federal
government should be telling the states what to do.  As the link below also
says,

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Eisenhower believed that southern states should
voluntarily promote racial equality, and that federal intervention should only be used
as a last resort.

As these
quotes show, Eisenhower wanted to avoid federal involvement and so he was inclined to
believe Faubus's promises.

Therefore, the best answer is
B.

In "Everyday Use," why is the first person point of view especially apprpriate to show the conflicts in the family?

Let us remind ourselves of the characteristics of first
person perspective. It is a mode of narration that makes us identify with the narrator,
as we see everything through his or her eyes and are given access to their thoughts and
feelings. I suppose that Alice Walker could have picked a different point of view to
tell this story, and that using an omniscient narrator would have provided a more
balanced view, but by telling the story from Mama's point of view, it is clear that we
as readers sympathise with her position, as a member of a discriminated race but also as
a woman, as she tries to cope with her two daughters and the different stages they have
reached in their lives.

In a sense, given the way in which
the narrative forces Mama to chooses between her two daughters, it is therefore
appropriate that we are able to follow this conflict from Mama's perspective. The
conflict between Dee and her ideas of Maggie regarding the quilts is contrasted with
Dee's desire to acquire another cultural artefact that shows the way she does not
understand her family's past:

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"Maggie can't appreciate these quilts!" she said.
"She'd probably be backward enough to put them to everyday
use."

Thus it is that, as
Mama looks at her pushy daughter, Dee, and Maggie, who looks like "somebody used to
never winning anything," the point of view of this story allows us to understand and to
trace the important decision that Mama makes to give Maggie the quilts and to stand up
to Dee.

How do the judges intend to disprove Mary Warren's deposition in The Crucible?

The judges understand that Mary Warren's testimony seeks
to undermine the already determined conclusions of the court.  They fully understand
that her testimony will discredit the court's findings.  In addition to this, both
Hathorne and Danforth clearly see that she is unstable.  In Act Three, Scene 1, Danforth
remarks that Mary Warren "is not hearty, I see."  The fact that Proctor has to
physically prop her up and reminder her of the Angel Raphael's words to Tobias to
emotionally prop her up helps the judges understand that she is the weak link and if
they can break her down in front of the court, it will neutralize the threat that she
and Proctor pose to their findings and the court's standing in the eyes of the
community.  They start out to weaken her by asking her questions about her knowledge of
the penalty for lying and whether or not Proctor has put her up to this, as Parris had
already indicated that Proctor possesses another motive in trying to bring down the
court's standing.  After these rounds of questions, the judges bring in the other
girls.  It is unclear whether they recognize Abigail's power to coldly lie, but the
judges understand the power of bringing the other girls in front of Mary.  Already
weakened and already semi- discombobulaed in front of the court, the judges figured that
the catalyst for her ultimate discrediting would come if the other girls confronted her.
Indeed, it works as Mary begins to wither, Proctor becomes more animated, causing
Hathorne to question his veracity, and Abigail begins to "feel" the "cold wind" and in
the process, begins the process of marginalizing Mary, causing her to fall apart in
front of the court.  In this, Abigail accomplishes her end purpose of punishing those
who cross her and the judges are able to disprove Mary's
testimony.

What does the term "surd" mean?

The terms "surds" is used when a number is irrational.
Usually, we use this term when we prefer not calculate the square root or the cube root
of a number because the number of decimals is large or
iterative.

For instance, sqrt 2 is a surd but sqrt 9 = 3 is
not.

To add two surds, the radicand must be the
same:

sqrt 2 + sqrt 6

To
multiply two surds is easy if the n-th root of both is the
same.

When the surd is found at denominator of a fraction,
w'e'll have to multiply it by it's conjugate, to change the surd denominator into a
rational number.

In "pity this busy monster, manunkind," how does this phrase relate to Cummings' criticism of perceived scientific "progress"? "progress is a...

In the poem, Cummings draws a clear distinction between
the natural world and what he sees as the artificial world of science and technology
created by mankind. As he writes, "A world of made / is not a world of born." Science
and technology are interpreted as the means through which man has perverted nature,
creating a world no longer worth inhabiting: "listen: there's a hell / of a good
universe next door; let's go." The idea of "progress" then assumes ironic significance.
It does not represent the improvement or enhancement of human life through applied
science; scientific progress is instead a "disease" that corrupts the body of mankind.
It is a "comfortable" disease in that mankind is unaware of its destructive properties
and feels blind intellectual pride while busily subverting
nature.

According to Faber, why are books hated and feared in Fahrenheit 451?

Montag turns to Faber for answers to his questions about
his society, brought up by his relationship with Clarisse. He remembers his afternoon in
the park with Faber, and knows that he holds the key to understanding why life is the
way it is. He asks Faber why books are banned, and what about them makes people so
uncomfortable. Faber replies:

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They show the pores in the face of life. The
comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless. We are
living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good
rain and black loam. Even fireworks, for all their prettiness, come from the chemistry
of the earth. Yet somehow we think we can grow, feeding on flowers and fireworks,
without completing the cycle back to
reality.

Thus, people fear
books because they show the truth of life. They show ugliness and and hurt, death and
tragedy. The people in Montag's society have no use for such reminders of the dark side
of life. They want happiness and only happiness. Faber understands that this is no way
to live, and it goes a long way to explaining why Mildred tries to kill
herself.

Write the balanced equation for the complete combustion of hexene (C6H12)

The easiest way to balance any combustion equation is to
first write the general form.  In a combustion reaction the products are always carbon
dioxide (CO2) and water (HOH) and the reactants are the organic material plus oxygen
(O2).

General Form:

C6H6 +  O2
-->   CO2  +  HOH

Now start by balancing the carbon
atoms:

six carbons on the left so you need 6 on the
right.

C6H6   +   O2   --->    6 CO2  + 
HOH

Next balance the hydrogen
atoms:

6 on the left, so you need 6 on the
right.

C6H6  +   O2 -->   6 CO2    +   3 
HOH

Now count the number of oxygen on the right = 12 + 3 =
15

divide the number on the right by 2 to get the number
needed on the left.   15/2 = 7.5

C6H6  +  7.5  O2
-->  6 CO2  +  3 HOH

But the rule is that
coefficients have to be whole numbers.  So multiple both sides by 2 to get the final
balanced equation.

2 C6H6 + 15  O2  -->  12 CO2   +
6 HOH

To be sure, count the number of each element on each
side:

On the left you have 12 C, 12 H, 30
O

On the right you have 12 C, 12 H, 30 O so it is
balanced.

In the movie, Whale Rider, in what ways do you see "lack of hope"?

If there is a "lack of hope" present in the film, it would
have to be the number of narratives that have passed or are still being formed that do
not result in the redemptive ending of Paikea.  Pai goes to great lengths to prove that
she is a worthy leader of the village.  While her grandfather resents her for most of
the film, in the end the girl proves to be a worthy leader of the village.  The element
of despair that is present is that Pai is the minority.  While the film celebrates how
one voice can triumph in this social order, the reality is that the social order
possesses a great deal of resistance to women being nothing more than second class
citizens.  Simultaneously, the source of the film's redemption is also the location of
its despair in that this is a condition that modern women around the world must confront
and endure.  This becomes a critical element of despair that is evoked by the 
film.

In "Dusk," how is dusk said to be the hour of the defeated?

It is important to remember that the significance of dusk
is given to the story by Norman Gortsby, who sees in this time of day a symbolism that
he finds morosely pleasing to his own state of mind and what he is thinking and feeling.
Note how the scene of "wide emptiness" and "unconsidered figures" appeals to
Gortsby:

The
scene pleased Gortsby and harmonised with his present mood. Dusk, to his mind, was the
hour of the defeated. Men and women, who had fought and lost, who hid their fallen
fortunes and dead hopes as far as possible from the scrutiny of the curious, came forth
in this hour of gloaming, when their shabby clothes and bowed shoulders and unhappy eyes
might pass unnoticed, or, at any rate,
unrecognised.

Thus the
significance of dusk is entirely created by Gortsby, who is naturally drawn to such a
time of day, which he associates with being the "hour of the defeated." He looks at this
time through his own eyes and out of his own situation, which, as the story tells us,
finds an echo with his own failure as Gortsby as well counts himself among the
"defeated." Dusk then, to Gortsby's mind, is a time when those who have failed in life
in whatever way can be free to come out without being noticed and talked about by
others. Dusk provides such people with an anonymity that it is suggested they
crave.

What is Haymitch's mindset in The Hunger Games?

Haymitch is a prior winner of the Hunger Games; he was
forced to kill friends and innocents to survive, and he doesn't want to participate in
the charade put on by the Capitol. To keep himself from thinking too hard about the
children who are forced to kill each other, he drinks heavily. It is only after he
becomes aware of the will of both Katniss and Peeta to survive that he starts to take
the possibility of their survival seriously. Haymitch hates the Capitol and their
oppression, but knows that rebellion is a useless gesture. He also shows "survivor's
guilt," feeling deeply depressed about his survival over others. As the books progress,
he begins to feel hopeful about the possibility of overturning the Capitol, and feels a
fatherly concern for Katniss.

Please help with the following problem. 3m-6n=12 4m-8n=16Is this problem dependent or inconsistent?

We have to solve for m and n given the system of
equations:

3m - 6n = 12
...(1)

4m - 8n = 16 ...(2)

If
both the sides of (1) are divided by 3, we get m - 2n =
4

Again, if both the sides of (2) are divided by 4, we get
m - 2n = 4

The two equations are not independent. This does
not allow us to obtain unique values of m and n. We can only say that for any value of m
or n they are related as m = 4 + 2n

The
equations are dependent and cannot be solved for unique solutions of m and
n.

Bring out the role of fate in shaping the events of "An Astrologer's Day."

Fate may be defined as an event or happenstance that
unavoidably befalls, or occurs to, a person. The major instances of the presence of fate
in "An Astrologer's Day" are the lighting the astrologer uses; the cheroot the customer
lights; the recognizability of their faces. Narayan spends a great deal of time in the
pages of his story describing the setting and the astrologer. Part of the reason for
this is so that the reader recognizes the role of fate regarding the lighting, cheroot,
and the astrologer's face.

His face is described as being resplendent
with "sacred ash and vermilion" and topped by a "saffron-coloured turban" wound around
his head. In between these were his sparkling, powerful eyes and his long heavy dark
whiskers:

The
power of his eyes was considerably enhanced by their position--placed as they were
between the painted forehead and the dark whiskers which streamed down his cheeks : even
a half-wit's eyes would sparkle in such a
setting.

It is this way of
presenting himself--and the change to the quality of his eyes, with their "sharp
abnormal gleam"--that made his face unrecognizable. In this way fate intervenes to shape
events and to allow the astrologer to remain a stranger in the presence of the man whom
he had wronged so many years ago. 

In contrast, it is the lighting of
the customer's cheroot (i.e., open-ended cigar) "by the matchlight" that illuminates the
customer's face allowing the astrologer to recognize him. Narayan describes the lights
of the market with specific detail and makes it clear that the astrologer is bathed in
shadow touched only by ambient light. By these features, fate intervenes to shape events
through the physical lighting and the lighting of the cheroot to allow the customer to
be recognized by the hidden astrologer.

What problems did Arabs and Israelis face with the independence of Palestine?

This question is a little hard to understand.  You say
"did" but Palestine is not independent (if you're talking about the Palestinian state
that is supposed to get made out of the West Bank and Gaza).  Israel did become
independent, but it was not called Palestine after
independence...

I'm going to assume that you're talking
about the time when Israel became a country in 1948.  At that point, the Israelis faced
the problem of being ringed with countries that hated them.  Various Arab countries
attacked Israel as soon as it became independent.  Because it was ringed by enemies,
Israel was ina precarious situation.

The Palestinians faced
the problem of having been driven off their land.  Most of them had chosen not to become
Israelis.  They had to figure out how and where they would live now that their land had
become part of Israel.

Since then, of course, the two
groups of people have continued to face these problems which still exist to this
day.

Do the trees and the animals encourage the slave or do they cheer for his victory in the poem "The Slave's Dream" by Henry Wordsworth Longfellow?

In "The Slave's Dream" by Henry Wordsworth Longfellow, the
trees and animals both encourage the slave and cheer for his
victory.

The poem describes an African-American slave who
has fallen asleep "beside the ungathered rice."  In his sleep, the slave dreams of "his
Native Land" of Africa.

Many different aspects of the
African geography and wildlife remind the slave that he had once been a free man.  These
aspects include: "the palm-trees on the plain"; "the mountain-road"; the bank of the
Niger River; the "bright flamingoes"; the "plains where the tamarind grew"; the view of
the ocean; the lion's roar; and  the "scream" of the hyena.  All of these memories
encourage the slave.

Near the end of the poem, Longfellow
writes:

The
forests, with their myriad tongues, 
Shouted of liberty; 
And the
Blast of the Desert cried aloud, 
With a voice so wild and
free...

This can be thought
of as a cheer for the slave's victory.

According to Sophie's World, what is the origin of philosophy?answer from the novel

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The most correct
answer is to say that philosophy has its origins in human language. Once language
emerged, so did the meta-cognition skills needed to reflect on issues such as meaning
and ethics etc.

But if you are looking for a more "academic" answer
that refers to specific philosophies, then you may need to begin by looking east to the
philosophies of Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism. After that you can look to the
Ancient Greeks.

In your case, you are looking to answer this
question with respect to a character in a novel. You could answer literally and say that
philosophy begins for her when she gets the correspondence course in the mail. But is
not the entire book about teen-aged issues and her relationship with an adult who tries
to expand her world? I think the origins rest in herself and her willingness to apply
the work of past philosophers to her own world.

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Which of the two types of mutations, nonsense or missense, would be more harmful to an organism?

It isn't possible to say which of the two types of
mutations would be more harmful to an organism as both forms affect the functioning of
proteins in organisms in adverse ways and result in serious
ailments.

Both missense as well as nonsense mutations
result in an altered protein product which is unlikely to function as it should. The two
differ only in the cause behind why this happens.

In a
missense mutation, an entirely new amino acid is produced as the codon responsible for
the protein is altered. Several diseases including Epidermolysis bullosa, sickle-cell
disease, and SOD1 mediated ALS are the result of missense
mutation.

On the other hand, in nonsense mutation one of
the codons that specifies an amino acid is converted to a stop codon; this does not
allow the protein to develop completely. The activity of the protein is dependent on
where the stop codon is located and can be affected slightly or totally disabled.
Several genetic illnesses result from this including DMD and
thalassemia.

How did the Shakers both embrace and reject growing industrialism in the United States?

The Shakers were one of many utopian groups that either
sprang up or strengthened as a response to the market revolution of the early 1800s. 
The Shakers embraced the growing industrialism, you could say, by the fact that they
created things to be sold in the market.  They tended to produce furniture, for example,
in large quantities.  By doing this, they were embracing the new, more industrialized
economy.

At the same time, the Shakers were emphatically
rejecting the new ways.  They did not own private property.  Instead, everything was
owned in common.  This was a rejection of the materialistic and individualistic mores of
the new society.

The Shakers, then, embraced industrial
society by participating to some extent in the market, but they rejected it in their own
lives by rejecting the values of materialism and individualism.

Comment critically on Confucius' saying: 'If you wish to know whether a country's government is well-regulated and its customs are pure, listen to...

Confucius believed that music and dance were important
indicators of virtue.  He believed that good music and good dance were, in a sense,
indicators that their composers understood the order of the universe and were in harmony
with that order.  To Confucius, a society that could produce good music was one whose
culture (and therefore government) must be morally good.  A culture that could produce
good music must be based on the same principles as
heaven.

To modern ways of thinking, this seems like a
strange idea.  Most in the West, at least, do not see the arts in this way.  There are,
however, certainly people who believe that music and morality are connected.  They feel
that some kinds of music tend to lead listeners toward immorality.  One could argue,
then, that a country where immoral music is allowed is one with a bad government and bad
values.  However, this is a very conservative point of view and would not be widely
embraced in the West.

"Sumer is the first known civilization. What do we know about sumer that might make us wonder if it really was the first civilization.Its for...

Various archeological discoveries suggest that Sumer may
not be the first civilization and there are more civilizations to be discovered.  We do
know that between 8500 and 7000 B.C. systematic agriculture developed in the Fertile
Crescent.  Sumer developed somewhere between 4000 and 3000 B.C. E.  Sumer is one of the
first major civilizations as it contains the elements of a civilization – complex
society, settlement in cities, and creation of a governmental structure.  Other
civilizations formed quickly thereafter along the Nile River in Egypt (4000 B.C.E.)
along the Indus River in India (2500 B.C.E.), and the Huang He River in China (2000
B.C.E.).

Two earlier developments were unearthed by
archeologists and both date back to 8000 to 7000 B.C.E. – Jericho on the west bank of
the Jordan River and Catal Huyuk, in Turkey.  These cities did not become major centers
of developing
civilizations.

Why is it significant in Chapter XIII of The Red Badge of Courage that Henry asks Wilson where he's going to sleep and what he's going to sleep in?

Henry would probably normally not be worrying too much
about the sleeping habits or whereabouts of his friend, Wilson. Henry had just returned
from his day in the woods after skedaddling at the first shots of the second Confederate
attack. He had been clubbed in the head by a fellow Union soldier and had just made his
way back to camp. He had been greeted by Wilson, who was the sentry on duty. As the
corporal led Henry back to the campfire to tend to his wound, Wilson called after him
to

"Put 'im t'
sleep in my blanket, Simpson. An'—hol' on a minnit—here's my
canteen..."

Wilson gave up
his own blanket and canteen for Henry to use, since he thought Henry had been wounded.
That's why Henry was asking his friend where he would be sleeping on this
night.

How are fairy and prostitute juxtaposed in the Queen Mab speech of Romeo and Juliet?

The masked Romeo, Benvolio, and Mercutio are on their way
to the Capulet ball. As they proceed, Mercutio mocks Romeo's romantic sighings with a
series of ribbald puns. Romeo refuses to join in this erotic horseplay, explaining that
in a dream he has been warned not to attend the feast. At this point, Mercutio delivers
a long, progressively darker monologue about Mab, who visits people in their dreams.
Shakespeare's audience would have been aware of the contradictory allusions in the
monologue, recognizing, on the one hand, the quasi-mythological queen of the fairies,
and on the other, the reference in the words "quaen" and "mab" - synonyms for
prostitute. This double entendre is well illustrated in the
development of the monologue. As Mercutio begins, Mab is a figure even children would
thrill to: She drives into the world of dreamers in a walnut carriage drawn by insect
horses. But by its conclusion, which Romeo himself effects, saying "Thou talks't of
nothing," Mab is a "hag" - not only a whore, but a whoremonger who teaches "maids
[to] lie on their backs, ...making them women of good carriage." Along the way, we are
treated to the dreams that come true for the depraved and violent aspirations of the
dreamers: lovers dream of lust; lawyers dream of exorbitant profits; and soldiers dream
of “cutting foreign throats” (1.4.83)

The play is also full
of dreams - Romeo and Juliet dream of romantic love uniting two implacably hostile
houses; Tybalt dreams of aristocratic rectitude; and Friar Lawrence dreams of a Verona
at peace. Mercutio's speech, taking place as it does just prior to Romeo's first
encounter with Juliet, and his tragic destiny, offers a kind of 'deconstruction' of the
phantasmagorical drama that is Romeo and Juliet. Although
Mercutio's Queen Mab speech does not demolish these dreams - after all, Montague and
Capulet pledge to honour the tragic deaths of the lovers - still it serves as a kind of
counterpoint to them.  

Explain if a person get by in life without developing an active relationship with God through prayer and receiving the Sacraments frequently.

This is a very difficult question to answer specifically
because with any question like this that has to do with people's religious practices the
answer is incredibly personal. I am sure that there are people who would argue that it
is vitally important to develop an active relationship with God through prayer and to
receive the sacraments, but the truth is that there are lots and lots of people who
don't do this and manage to survive and even thrive.

So, I
think we have to understand that people's religious beliefs and practises is a very
subjective, private and personal matter to them alone and that we cannot make universal
statements about everybody. For example, Muslims would definitely agree that prayer is
important, but obviously they would disagree with the Christian sacraments. Other
people, who don't necessarily ascribe to a particular religion, would completely
disagree with this statement. Therefore you are only going to receive a personal
response to this question.

How can you distinguish between dementia, delirium, and amnesiatic disorders?

Dementia involves symptoms of loss of brain function,
including memory, as well as distortions in personality that are out of character.
Patients may also lose the ability to perform basic motor functions like tying shows or
getting dressed. It is different than delirium in that it is, for the most part, in most
ways, permanent.  While dementia is usually associated with the elderly, it is no longer
considered a normal part of the aging process.

Delirium, on
the other hand, develops quickly in most patients, and can involve hallucinations, and
the patient may well be disoriented.  It hits recent surgical patients, those using hard
drugs and the elderly more often whereas dementia can develop in any setting.  Delirium
is often temporary, where dementia is not.  Motor skills are usually maintained, while
the patient's connection to reality is not in the near
term.

Amnesia is a condition which can arise at any age,
for any number of reasons, typically though as the result of a stroke, or traumatic
injury to the brain, or concussions.  Motor skills are retained, but a classic symptom
is being able to remember everything except new information.  Another kind (retrograde
amnesia) causes the person to lose all long term memory and can only operate in the
present.  They can still, however, understand all language, which is not true in
dementia patients.

Comment briefly on the dramatic irony in Othello and its significance.

Irony notes something that is
strangely coincidental. An example of irony might be a man afraid of flying who in his
first ride in a plane dies in a crash. Ironic detail occurs throughout literature on
purpose to make readers think.

Dramatic
irony is often cited as a literary device used in plays or drama.
Dramatic irony occurs when the audience knows something that a character does not know.
It could be that all characters do not know the strange coincidence.

In Othello, throughout the play,
readers are privvy to information that one or more characters fail(s) to know. The most
significant and on-going piece of dramatic irony occurs as Iago continually plots to
execute revenge on Othello for not promoting Iago over Cassio. As Iago makes his
different moves to enact this revenge, some characters know of his work while others do
not. He plants ideas in Roderigo's head and Cassio's head that ultimately conflict. He
employs his wife with the duty of placing the handkerchief Othello had given Desdemona
in Cassio's sleeping quarters. Readers know how all of these details happen and we know
the innocence of all the characters. However, characters do not figure out the truth
until the last act when for many of them, the information comes too
late.

Given 4f(x+5)+2g(x-3)=3x+10 and 3f(x+5)-g(x-3)=x, what are the functions f and g?

We'll note 4f(x+5) + 2g(x-3) = 3x+10
(1)

3f(x+5) - g(x-3) = x
(2)

We'll multiply 3f(x+5) - g(x-3) = x by
2:

6f(x+5) - 2g(x-3) = 2x
(3)

We'll add (3) +
(1):

6f(x+5) - 2g(x-3) + 4f(x+5) + 2g(x-3) = 2x + 3x +
10

We'll eliminate like
terms:

10f(x+5) = 5x +
10

We'll divide by 5:

2f(x+5)
= x + 2

f(x+5) = x/2 + 1

But
f(x) = ax + b

f(x+5) = a(x+5) +
b

a(x+5) + b = x/2 + 1

We'l
remove the brackets:

ax + 5a + b =  x/2 +
1

Comparing, we'll get:

a =
1/2

5a + b = 1 => 5/2 + b = 1 => b = 1 - 5/2
=> b = -3/2

f(x) = x/2 -
3/2

We'll replace f(x+5) in
(2):

3f(x+5) - g(x-3) = x

3x/2
+ 3 - g(x-3) = x

g(x-3) = 3x/2 + 3 -
x

g(x-3) =  x/2 + 3

But g(x) =
cx + d

g(x-3) = cx - 3c + d

cx
- 3c + d =  x/2 + 3

Comparing, we'll
get:

c = 1/2

-3c+d = 3
=> -3/2 + d = 3 => d = 3 + 3/2 => d =
9/2

g(x) = x/2 +
9/2

The requested functions f and g, that
respect the given conditions, are: f(x) = x/2 - 3/2 and g(x) = x/2 +
9/2.

From the graph of f(x)= x^4 + x^3 – 13x^2 – x + 12 find the x and y intercepts.

The equation of the graph to be plotted and the x and y
intercepts identified is f(x)= x^4 + x^3 – 13x^2 – x +
12

The x-intercept can be found by solving f(x) = 0, for
values of x

x^4 + x^3 – 13x^2 – x + 12 =
0

=> x^4 + 4x^3 - 3x^3 - 12x^2 - x^2 - 4x + 3x + 12
= 0

=> x^3(x + 4) - 3x^2(x + 4) - x(x + 4) + 3(x +
4) = 0

=> (x + 4)(x^3 - 3x^2 - x + 3) =
0

=> (x + 4)(x^2(x - 3) - 1(x - 3)) =
0

=> (x + 4)(x - 3)(x^2 - 1) =
0

=> (x + 4)(x - 3)(x - 1)(x + 1) =
0

=> x = -4, x = 3, x = 1 and x =
-1

The x-intercepts are (-4, 0), (-1, 0), (1, 0) and (3,
0)

The y-intercept can be found by finding f(x) for x =
0

f(0) = 0^4 + 0^3 – 13*0^2 – 0 +
12

=> 12

The
y-intercept is (0, 12)

The required
x-intercepts are (-4, 0), (-1, 0), (1, 0) and (3, 0) and the y-intercept is (0,
12)

What did Joseph Priestley do to benefit society and the scientific population?

Englishman Joseph Priestley
(1733-1804) is best known for his discovery and work with oxygen in its gaseous state.
He discovered several gases, which he called "airs," including nitrous oxide, nitric
oxide, ammonia, and anhydrous hydrochloric acid. He is also credited with inventing soda
water, which he falsely believed would be a cure for scurvy. A devout Christian, he
was a founder of Unitarianism and attempted to combine his scientific and religious
idealism into one unified philosophy. He was also an educator and writer, producing
influential work on English grammar, history, philosophy, and religion. His history of
electricity was considered the finest of its kind for more than a century. He also wrote
about his pivotal experiments with optics, pneumatics and
chemistry.

After Chuck Close had a stroke and bound to a wheelchair and paralyzed, how did his work change after this event?

I would say that one of the major ways his work changed
was that it provided further expansion to Close's understanding of photorrealism.  Close
had to reconfigure the way in which his art was created in the wake of "The Event."  In
attempting to conceive of a new manner in which work was to be displayed, the grid- like
approach actually provided a new manner in which his photorrealist style could be
conceived.  I think that this becomes one of the most interesting elements regarding his
work after "The Event."  The process by which he had to reconstruct his work was more
"digital," in a way.  He was able to use the grid setting to pixel-ate his work,
something that was not as pronounced before his illness.  In this manner, Close was able
to replicate or recreate the same photorrealist effect, although in a different way. 
From an artistic point of view, this is unique because it reflects Close's fundamental
desire to change the way in which art is both constructed and viewed.  Close's work had
always challenged conventions, and this was one more way to challenge his own challenges
of artistic conventions.  I think that another way in which Close's work changed was
that it forced him to recognize that while he could not devote a certain level of focus
in one manner, he was able to channel it into another, proving again the fluid nature of
both art and the process that gives birth to it.

Explain the poem "Nighttime Fires" by Regina Barreca, emphazing the father and his fascination with fires.

What an interesting but heartbreaking poem for the
narrator!  “Nighttime Fires” by Regina Barrera uses the first person unnamed narrator to
recall a part of her life that as an adult she tries to
understand. 

This narrative poem is written in free verse. 
It is divided into two stanzas.  The first stanza describes the family following the
sound of the sirens and the smoke to find a fire.  The second stanza details the
narrator’s memory of the fires and her father’s reaction to
them. 

Several literary devices add to the imagery of the
scene:

Metaphor—“the wolf whine of the siren”—a comparison
between the howl of the wolf and the fire
siren

Simile—the fire engines
are described as moving “snaked like dragons.” In the Chinese parades, when the people
dress up like a dragon and the body moves from side to side…this is the impression that
the child received as she watched the confusion of the
scene.

Imagery… The scene to
the family was a festive.  The description is too happy for such a devastating event
when some family loses their home.

The description of the
father reminds the reader of the Grinch, whose heart was two sizes too small.  When the
narrator’s father sees all of the destruction of some rich person’s house, he smiles
from a “secret, brittle heart.”’

Stanza
1-

The father would find a fire that he
wanted to observe.  He would have the mother get all seven of the children up in their
pajamas even if they were sick, put them in the car and drive fast toward the
fire. 

Here is the key to the father’s
reaction:

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 “It was after my father lost his
job…

No information
is given about the circumstances.

The father likes to do
crossword puzzles with a pencil.  His anger would raise its ugly head when he snaps the
pencil in two.   

The children enjoy the smell of the fire
and watching the flames.  Yet, they are children and do not realize the
consequences.

2nd
Stanza

If there were a fancy car in the
driveway, the father especially enjoyed the show. The child saw that her father looked
as though something was being set right.  Again, the father shows his bitterness toward
the rich.

The narrator remembers bending her head back to
watch the sparks. 

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“My father who never held
us

Would take my hand to point to falling
cinders…"

Showing
his children, these fiery, destructive scenes make the otherwise, unemotional father
take the hands of his children and show them excitedly the cinders covering the ground
like snow.  How does this impact the children in their
future?

The mother knows that this is not a good thing. 
She watches the father, not the fire.  When the time, comes for the family to get back
in the car and return home… she is happy. 

The mother
sleeps on the way home.  The speaker remembers seeing her father’s face in the mirror.
She was awe-struck that his father’s eyes reminded her of the hallways in the houses
that were filled with smoke.

The poem describes a man who
is lost in his anger and does not think about the impressions that these scenes would
make on his children. In addition, it is hard to understand why the mother would
tolerate the children being taken out in the night with runny noses.  She must be afraid
of him.  She watches him and not the scene.  His anger makes the entire family suffer
for his adult problem that only he can fix.

In what ways did the common man fight against what he saw as the wealthy elite in the country?

To get a good answer to this question, you would need to
specify which period in history you are asking about.  After all, there have been many
periods in US history where common people have seen themselves as fighting against
elites.  Some examples include:

• The Jacksonian
  Era.  During this time, the US became more democratic and the "common people" fought
  against such things as the Bank of the United States.


• The
  Populist Movement of the late 1800s.  This movement saw itself as championing farmers
  against the big businesses like the railroads and
  banks.


• The Progressive Movement.  This pitted middle
  class interests against big business elites.


• The "Tea
  Party" movement that exists today.  This movement sees itself as a movement of regular
  people who are trying to take back the government from a group of overly powerful elite
  types.

So there have been many instances in US
history that are seen as cases of the common person fighting the wealthy
elites.

What are the quotes and page numbers that locate important places in Maycomb County in To Kill a Mockingbird?I'm reading the 50th anniversary...

THE MAYCOMB TOWN SQUARE. 
Walking north from the Finch house, you would pass Rachel Haverford's house and
then Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose's house. According to Scout, "there were eight more
houses to the post office corner" on the south side of the square (Cecil Jacobs' house
was the last house nearest the post office). "A large square of stores surrounded the
courtyard square," and there was a public toilet near the post office. Rounding the
corner, you would see the Maycomb Bank building, where Atticus had his office. Further
up the street was Tyndal's Hardware Store; next to it was the Maycomb jail; and on the
northwest corner sat the The Maycomb Tribune office. The Maycomb
County Courthouse sits in the middle of the town
square.

Other businesses were the O. K. Cafe, on the north
side of the square; V. J. Elmore's, where Jem bought Scout the baton which he used to
destroy Mrs. Dubose's camellias; the Jitney Jungle, which Miss Stephanie
Crawford frequented; and the Mayco Drug Store, which sold fountain
drinks.

Other Finch neighbors included Miss Maudie
Atkinson, who lived across the street; Miss Stephanie, who lived next door to Miss
Maudie; Scout's teacher, Miss Caroline, who boarded with Miss Maudie; and Mr.
Dick Avery, who boarded across the street from Mrs. Dubose's
house.

MAYCOMB COUNTY'S PLACES OF
INTEREST. 

• Finch's
  Landing, 20 miles west of
  Maycomb.


• Maycomb Junction,
  the train station 14 miles outside
  Maycomb.


• Old Sarum, a rural
  area in the northern part of the county, mostly inhabited by Cunninghams and
  Coninghams.


• The
  Dew-Drop Inn &
  Fishing Camp, the area's
  "riverside gambling hell" where you could buy "stumphole
  whiskey."


• The River
  (presumably the Alabama River) near the county
  line. 


• Barker's Eddy, a
  favorite swimming hole  "at the end of a dirt road off the Meridian highway about a mile
  from town."


• The Radley
  Place, three doors to the south of the Finch
  house.


• Maycomb County
  High School, around the corner from the Radley house, and "just past the
  grammar school building."


• The
  Quarters, where the Negroes lived not far from the dump "outside the
  southern town limits."


• First Purchase AME
  Church, in the Quarters.


• The
  Ewell house, behind the town garbage
  dump.

Using a vernier caliper and graduated cylinder, how would one go about determining the aggregate volume, the diameter and radius of a group of M &...

The photographs you provided depict what appear to be M
& M candies.  My assumption is that you are tasked with determining the combined
volume of the candies in cubic centimeters, plus the diameter and radius of an
individual candy.

First, use the calipers to measure the
diameter of several candies.  They should all be about the same…but take an average of
10 or 12.

Then, determine the radius by dividing the
diameter by 2.

Finally, to determine the combined volume,
partially fill the graduated cylinder with water and record the volume in cubic
centimeters.  Add the candies and record the new volume.  The volume of the candies is
the difference.

Find the vertex of parabola f(x)=6x^2+12x+78?

The coordinates of the vertex of the parabola
are:

V(-b/2a ;
-delta/4a)

a,b,c are the coefficients of the
quadratic:

y = ax^2 + bx +
c

Comparing, we'll get the values of the
coefficients:

a = 6, b = 12 , c =
78

We'll determine the x coordinate of the
vertex:

xV = -b/2a

xV =
-12/12

xV = -1

We'll determine
the y coordinate of the vertex:

yV =
-delta/4a

delta = b^2 -
4ac

delta = 144 - 4*6*78

delta
= 144 - 1872

yV =
-(-1728)/24

yV =
72

The coordinates of the vertex of the
parabola are: V(-1, 72).

In Act I Scene 2 of The Taming of the Shrew, find an example of sarcasm spoken by Grumio that indicates that Gremio is too old to be wooing Bianca.

Let us remember that sarcasm is a special form of verbal
irony said with the intention to wound or to hurt. Verbal irony is of course saying the
opposite of what is true to emphasise the gap between appearance and reality that irony
always concerns. When we examine this hilarious scene, we see that when Gremio enters
and Hortensio tells Grumio that Gremio is the "rival of his love," Grumio, in an aside,
makes a very sarcastic comment about Gremio's appearance and his suitability to be
wooing Bianca:

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A proper strapling and an
amorous!

This is sarcastic
because Grumio is calling Gremio a handsome young fellow, when clearly he is anything
but handsome and young. Grumio is making fun of Gremio because of his
age.

What is the exposition in The Sound and The Fury?

I think that the basic concept of an exposition is one
that applies to a traditional construction of literature.  The “exposition” provides
background before the “rising action” is to take place, a conventional approach to
specific plot development and conflict.  This is not something that is as present in
Faulkner’s work because the work, itself, is not traditional.  Written in a stream of
consciousness style that does not construct itself in a traditional manner,  it is for
this reason why there is not a straight forward exposition.  There can be no specific
point of “rising action” because of the convergence of narratives and ideas in a manner
that is not conventional or traditional.  I agree with you that there is not one. 
Benjy’s section cannot be considered an exposition because it does not outline the
singular plot structure and development that is integral to the traditional exposition
element.  I think that in presenting the narratives in the manner he does, Faulkner does
not need an exposition, as each narrative blends past and present together, making a
statement about how time is fluid in the mind of the modern individual.  Within this,
there cannot be a direct opening or starting point because Faulkner feels that modern
consciousness is not structured in such a manner.  For this, I think that there is no
exposition to his work.

DO GHOSTS EXIST ?

I believe that is a question that each indivdiual has to
answer for him or herself.

Many religious scholars believe
that scripture teaches against souls that are trapped between the living and the dead in
the following passage:

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And just as it is appointed for men to die once,
and after that comes judgment (Hebrews
9:27)

Some theologians
believe that judgment comes just after death and once judged, people are sent to hell,
heaven (or if you are Catholic) purgatory. The apologist I've linked below does believe
that perhaps souls in purgatory are allowed to revisit places from their living days in
order to pray for those still living, but it is forbidden for Christians to interact
with ghosts.

Others are passionate about the existance of
ghosts. The second link below shows an author that believes they do exist because so
many people over so many generations have seen them and report similar things happening
with encounters.

You will just have to research yourself
and decide after reading articles and pondering what it is that you believe about
ghosts.

Why should parents and school officials should use superior force as they discipline?im writing an essay on discipline of superior force and I need...

One definition of superior force in terms of discipline is
that superior force is discipline in which consequences are imposed upon a child when he
or she would not understand the consequences of his or her
actions.

If this is the definition you are using, then
parents should use superior force because children often do not understand that their
actions will have grave consequences.  For example, a teen who goes out and gets drunk
may not realize that the consequences of this action could include getting badly hurt or
killed in a car crash or getting pregnant or contracting an STD from having sex while
drunk.  In such a case, a parent would absolutely need to impose consequences on the
teen so that they would refrain from getting drunk.  When parents or school officials
understand the consequences of actions better than students do, they will need to use
superior force in their disciplinary actions.

According to Alexander Hamilton, what was the proper role of the new government?

The most important role for the new central government
was, in  Alexander Hamilton's view, to create an environment in which business could
prosper.  Hamilton envisioned a country in which merchants, traders, and industrialists
would lead the economy.  It was the role of the national government to make an
environment in which that sort of economic activity could
thrive.

It was for this reason that Hamilton set in motion
his "American System."  Hamilton wanted a central bank, tariffs, and internal
improvements.  All of these things were meant to make it easier for industry and such to
get established and grow in the new country.  For Hamilton, the government was not
supposed to be a small thing that got out of the way of small farmers.  It was, instead,
supposed to be an active part of creating a mixed, modern economy in the
US.

In To Kill a Mockingbird, what do you believe to be the answer to this question?"How can you hate Hitler an' then turn around an' be ugly about...

At the time in which To Kill a Mockingbird
took place (the early 1930s), Hitler had not yet taken his Final Solution to
its terrible conclusion. European Jews were being persecuted to be sure, but Hitler's
murderous attempt at extinction had not yet begun. It must have seemed very far away to
the isolated people in Maycomb, who could sympathize with the Mrunas in Africa and the
Jews in Germany, but not with the African-American population of their own town. The
bottom line was that many Southern whites still saw Negroes as inferior, and most of
Maycomb wanted to keep them in their lowly social position. Even Jem, who grew up
adhering to Atticus' belief in treating all people the same, saw the reality in
this.

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"There's four kinds of folks in the world.
There's the ordinary kind like us and the neighbors, there's the kind like the
Cunninghams out in the woods, the kind like the Ewells down at the dump, and the
Negroes."

Though the people
of Maycomb weren't ready for a change in their own town yet, it was easy enough to judge
others who lived an ocean away.

How does society's expectations and stereotyping of male and female roles affect the trial of Tom Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird?Discuss how...

I'm not so sure that male/female stereotyping had much to
do with the final verdict in the Tom Robinson trial since it appears that the all-white
jury had already made up its mind to convict the black man before the trial had begun.
However, if the jury had been truly unbiased, they would have probably had a far more
interesting verdict at which to arrive. They would have had to decide if Mayella Ewell
was guilty of making sexual advances toward Tom, as he testified. Such a case would be
rare even today, since virtually all sexual charges involve a man attacking a woman.
Most juries would probably have a hard time believing the story Tom told--that he was
kissed and restrained by Mayella before running from the scene. A jury dominated by
women would also find this scenario hard to believe, and few men would probably be
vindicated of such charges.

I need a brief history of the Salvation Army.

Modeled after the military complete with uniforms, flag,
music and rank, the Salvation Army was founded in 1865 by
former minister William Booth and his wife, Catherine, in London. Leading "God's Army,"
Booth made himself the general of his organization, and his other ministers were the
officers. Other participating members became the Salvation Army's soldiers. While
William aimed his sermons to the poor populace, his wife--the "Mother of the Salvation
Army"--ministered to the wealthy, seeking financial support for their group. The "Three
S's" became part of their credo in dealing with the poor: they offered soup, soap and
salvation.

The Salvation Army spread from England to
Australia, Ireland and the United States beginning in 1980. Their main goals were to
help the poor and convert "undesirables" such as alcoholics, prostitutes and drug
addicts. The Salvation Army discouraged other vices, such as smoking and gambling, and
they did not practice the Christian sacraments of communion or
baptism.

Discuss the implications of Hale's role in The Crucible.

Reverend Hale is an expert on demonic activity and
witchcraft. He has been summoned to help the minister and leaders of the church
determine what to do about the strange behavior of the
girls.

In the beginning, Reverend Hale supported the witch
trials, but later he changed his mind:

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He was one of the most prominent and influential
clergymen associated with the witch trials, and is most noted as having initially
supported the trials, and then changing his mind, publishing a critique of
them.

Reverend Hale begins
looking in every home for witches. He seems to be level headed, but when innocent people
are comdemned as witches, he begans to realize the error of the leaders
ways. 

Reverend Hale believes John Proctor is innocent. He
pleads with Elizabeth to convince John to claim he is a involved in witchcraft and to
deny the devil. Then he will be saved. Of course, Elizabeth determines she will not
because John finally has his goodness. She will not take that from John. John Proctor
hangs.

What are the character traits of Joy-Hulga in "Good Country People"?Trying to write a compare contrast on this character and the lead from the...

Joy-Hulga, in "Good Country People", is a woman who is
basically on the edge of a complete break with society.  Given her education in
philosophy, she can be found to be overly critical and abrasive against others. These
characteristics, unfortunately, are solidified even more when she is left abandoned and
legless by Manley Pointer.

Joy-Hulga is brash. She makes as
much noise with her prosthetic leg as possible simply to irritate her mother. She does
not care what others think about her; instead, she simply chooses to exist within her
own terms.

Joy-Hulga is an introvert. She does not believe
anyone to be good enough to place in her inner circle. She puts others down and harshly
stereotypes all others around her. Joy-Hulga seems to be happy when she is simply left
alone.

After her meeting with Pointer, her ideals about
mankind are solidified even more. The one time in which she lowers the wall she has
built around herself is the one time where she is hurt the most. She comes out of this
(assumed given the story does not actually tell the reader) even more hardened against
the world.

What is limit x tends to infinity (x^2 - e^x) / (1 + e^x)

We are required to find the value of : lim x-->
inf. [(x^2 - e^x) / (1 + e^x)]

Substituting x = inf., gives
the indeterminate form 0/inf. But l'Hopital's rule can be used only for the forms 0/0
and inf./inf. So we make some conversions.

lim x-->
inf. [(x^2 - e^x) / (1 + e^x)]

=>lim x-->
inf. [(x^2/(1 + e^x)] - lim x--> inf. [(e^x)/(1 +
e^x)]

substituting x = inf. here gives inf./inf. in both
the cases, so we can replace the numerators and denominators by their
derivatives.

lim x--> inf. [(2x/(e^x)] - lim
x--> inf. [(e^x)/(e^x)]

lim x--> inf.
[(2x/(e^x)] - lim x--> inf. [1]

Again substituting x
= inf. the first limit is inf./inf., and the second is 1. Use l'Hopital's rule for the
first.

lim x--> inf. [(2/(e^x)] -
1

Substituting x = inf. gives us 0 for the first limit as
1/inf. = 0 and the second is 1.

The final result is
-1.

The value of : lim x--> inf. [(x^2
- e^x) / (1 + e^x)] = -1.

What is the tyranny Howard Zinn discusses in his chapter "Tyranny is Tyranny."

To understand what tyranny Zinn is talking about, look at
the end of the chapter, where Zinn actually uses the phrase "tyranny is tyranny" in a
quote.  That quote shows that the tyranny he is talking about is the tyranny of the rich
and powerful over everyone else.

Zinn argues that the rich
and powerful elites in the colonies exploited the poor common people and used them in
the rebellion against England.  He argues that the rich played on true grievances that
the poor without having any intention of improving conditions for the poor.  He says
that the rich in the colonies had always tyrannized the poor and that, therefore, they
were being hypocritical when they complained about British
tyranny.

At the end of the chapter, Zinn shows this by
pointing out that the rich in Boston were allowed to pay for substitutes instead of
having to go into the militia themselves.  That caused the common people to say that
"tyranny is tyranny" no matter if it was American elites or British elites who were the
source of the tyranny.

What attitude about death is reflected in the poem "To an Athlete Dying Young"?

The attitude to death that is expressed in this poem is
that it is better to bow out of life when you have reached the pinnacle of your
achievement as a human in your chosen field. Living beyond this only allows your glory
to fade and your exploits to be forgotten. Note how the speaker in this poem, addressing
the dead athlete, tries to comfort him with these
ideas:

Now
you will not swell the rout

Of lads that wore their honours
out,

Runners whom renown
outran

And the name died before the
man.

The argument of the
speaker therefore is that it is much better to die after having gained success and
recognition, rather than having to cope with aging and seeing your name forgotten, or
outrunning renown. After all, glory "withers quicker than a rose." Dying soon after
gaining it is one way of ensuring that the "garland briefer than a girl's" remains with
you forever. Such a view obviously discounts the value that there is in aging and
grappling with different challenges.

How does the poem "If" relate to the concept of integrity?

Clearly there are a number of parts of this poem that
refer to the concept of integrity. Kipling has created in this blueprint his vision of a
perfect man, and thus part of this necessarily involves the discussion of integrity at
various stages. We can see how this comes up in the first stanza with repeated
references made to how you interact with others and how this influences
you:

IF you
can keep your head when all about you 
Are losing theirs and blaming it on
you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make
allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by
waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated,
don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too
wise:

This stanza urges the
audience to stay true to their inner integrity and not turn away from that. The listener
is not to fall into the same mistakes as those that accuse them. If they are being lied
about for example, they are not to "deal in lies" either. Likewise, even if everybody
else doubts you, the listener has to hold true to their own integrity and self-belief,
even if everybody else is questioning that.

A lot of the
poem really talks about the concept of integrity and being true to ourselves. There are
obviously many challenges that "men" face during life that threaten this sense of inner
integrity, and throughout the poem, Kipling argues that to be a man is always to
maintain that sense of integrity and not to yield on it for one moment. Note how the
second stanza talks about not letting dreams or our thoughts or Triumph and Disaster
change us for the worse:

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If you can dream - and not make dreams your
master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you
can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the
same;

The overwhelming
message of this poem then seems to be that whatever we do, whatever is done to us, and
whatever we meet in the course of life, we must stay true to who we know ourselves to be
and not be influenced or dominated by any of the many possible things that could cause
us to compromise on that.

What is the Time Traveller's original assumption about the relationship between the Eloi and the Morlocks in The Time Machine?

When the Time Traveller discovers the existence of the
Morlocks, he believes that humanity has evolved into two distinct life forms after aeons
of having two castes of humans: the haves and the have nots. The Morlocks, as the
laboures in this scenario, have been distanced and kept separate from the Eloi, who he
thinks are the aristocracy. The "widening gulf" that exists between the haves and the
have nots, which the Time Traveller can find a disturbing parallel with in his own
world, would have widened ever further as culture and customs keep them separate, until
eventually you have two different species evolving:

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So, in the end, above ground you must have the
Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots, the
workers getting continually adapted to the conditions of their
labour.

The Time Traveller
concludes that the Have-nots would then have to pay some sort of rent to the Haves as
they would be in bondage to the Haves. It is of course in this that he is disturbingly
mistaken, as the rest of the novel goes on to show and as he learns more about the
Morlocks.

Three unbiased dice are thrown. Find the probability that, i) they all show different numbers, ii) at least two show the same number.

An unbiased dice has 6 faces with a different number each
of which has an equal probability of showing when the die is tossed. In the problem we
have 3 unbiased dice.

1) First we need to find the
probability that all show different numbers. This can be done by considering that when
the 1st die is tossed it can show any of the six numbers. For the next die there are
only 5 options and for the 3rd there are only 4 options. This gives the total number of
viable options as 6*5*4 = 120. The total number of possible options when 3 dice are
thrown is 6*6*6 = 216. This gives the probability of the given condition taking place as
120/216 = 5/9

2) At least two dice have to show the same
number. The probability of this happening can be written as 1 - probability that no dice
have the same number = 1 - 5/9 = 4/9

The
probability that all 3 dice show a different number is 5/9 and the probability that at
least 2 of them show the same number is 4/9.

Can you give me a character analysis of Langston Hughes "Love Song for Lucinda"?

In Langston Hughes's poem "Love Song for Lucinda," Hughes
is basically saying that love can be dangerous in all of its enraptured emotion. Hughes
gives the wonderful side of love parallel to the dangerous side of
love.

Hughes uses metaphors of love to capture the reader's
attention. First, he states that love is a plum. While a plum is delicious and even
nutrious, Hughes claims that that plum can put you under a spell that will never let you
go. To be so enchanted with love can make one miserable, especially if the one who is
loved does not return the sentiment.

Love is a bright star
that can be beautiful on the eyes, but its flame can also burn your
eyes.

Love is a high mountain where the wind blows starkly
or harshly. To be this in love could cause you to lose your breath as Hughes states. A
breathless love can be exhileratin. However, a breathless love can take away your
breathing.

Anyone who has ever been in love understands
what Hughes is saying. Love can heal or kill. Lucinda mush have been an awesome
person.

Compare and contrast an in-group and an out-group.

These terms can only be truly defined with respect to any
given person.  Sociologists use these terms to refer to groups that any given individual
identifies with or does not identify with.  In other words, these are subjective terms
because what is an in-group to one person may well be an out-group to
another.

For a given high school student, then, the "jock"
clique might be an in-group.  The student might identify them by the fact that they all
wear their letter jackets, or other clothing that has to do with the sport they play, to
school.  The student and other members of that clique will see themselves as superior to
some other group.  An out-group to that student might, for example, be the members of
the theater club.  The jock might think of those students as a bunch of geeks who are
beneath their notice.

So, we can only define in-groups and
out-groups in terms of our own attitudes.  I think that you should try to identify a
group that you identify with and compare and contrast it to one that you think of as
very different from your group.  This can be anything from a high school clique to a
religion to your nationality or ethnic group.

I need help analyzing Harold Arnett's epitaph in Spoon River Anthology?

"The eternal destiny of life" is death - no one can escape
this inevitable end to life. Arnett sees his life as filled with failures, perhaps
climaxed by the burning potatoes on the stove near the mantel on which he was leaning.
Their smell and appearance are the final straw, and he "pulled the trigger." After the
shot, Arnett experiences momentary regret and tries "fumbling for the world again" but
it is too late. He is now in a place where he is no longer able to breathe even though
his lungs are still capable of respiration. He discovers, too late, that escaping from
the world in which he has been a failure does not allow for escape from
death.

How to determine the limit of the function y=(1-cos^2x)/x^2, if x goes to 0? (don't use l'Hospital)

We'll substitute the difference of the squares from
numerator by the product: (1 - cos x)(1 + cos x)

lim (1 -
cos x)(1 + cos x)/x^2 = lim [(1 - cos x)/x^2]*lim (1 + cos
x)

We'll use the half angle
identity:

1 - cos x = 2(sin
x/2)^2

lim 2(sin x/2)^2/x^2*lim (1 + cos x)=2*lim
[sin(x/2)/x]*lim [sin(x/2)/x]*lim (1 + cos x)

We'll create
the elementary limit:

lim sin x/x =
1

lim [sin(x/2)/x] = lim [sin(x/2)/2*x/2] =
(1/2)*lim[sin(x/2)/(x/2)]

lim [sin(x/2)/x] =
1/2

The limit will become:

lim
(1 - cos x)(1 + cos x)/x^2 = 2*(1/2)*(1/2)*(1+cos 0)

lim (1
- cos x)(1 + cos x)/x^2 = (1/2)*(1+1)

lim (1 - cos x)(1 +
cos x)/x^2 = 1

The requested limit of the
function is: lim (1 - cos x)(1 + cos x)/x^2 = 1.