Why did sectional hostilities abate as quickly as they did after the Civil War?

The previous post by pohnpei was pretty accurate
concerning the North's attitude of just ignoring the South after the conclusion of the
Civil War hostilities. Southern hatred of the North certainly DID NOT abate quickly;
more accurately, it gradually diminished following the deaths of generations of
Southerners, leaving only a New South populated by men and women who, like Northerners
after the war, just didn't care anymore.

The South was
beaten long before Lee's surrender at Appomattox: Its towns and crops were destroyed,
its slaves were freed, its men were dead and maimed. They were not likely to rise again,
but Southerners would not forget quickly. In response to the influx of carpetbaggers and
scalawags, dishonest Republican politics, and former slaves with rights now equal to
their former masters, the South fought back with the rise of the KKK, Democratic
politics and, eventually, Jim Crow laws. Civil War veterans groups, though found in the
North, flourished in the South, their influence only fading as the last veterans died
away. Today, Civil War reenactments are annually held on most of the famed battlefields
of the South, as well as on many of the minor sites of obscure battles--another
sign that remembrances of the war are not yet dead in the
South. 

"Roman Fever" paints a marriage based not on love, respect or commitment, but on status and wealth.Discuss this idea with reference to one of the...

Edith Wharton's short story "Roman Fever" concerns the
reunion of two old friends, using this term broadly, in Rome.  Both women are now
widowed, and as a result the marriages of the two are viewed in
retrospect.

Through the thoughts of Mrs. Alida Slade we
obtain a glimpse of her marriage to Delphin.  It is this marriage that seems to be the
most appropriate to discuss with your given topic.  One of the first pieces of
information that we gain about Delphin is that he was a "famous corporation lawyer" and
as such Alida enjoyed the social life that such a profession entailed.  What Alida seems
to miss most after her husband's death is this social life.  There is no mention of
grief for the loss of her husband, just the sadness as to how dull her life has now
become.

When we learn later that Grace Ansley and Delphin
had previously had a tryst of their own, resulting in the conception of Grace's daughter
Babs, we can assume that Delphin most likely loved Grace. It seems clear that Grace
truly loved Delphin and that her love was reciprocated.  But because he was engaged to
Alida, Delphin refused to participate in any sort of scandal that a broken engagement
would cause and honored his commitment to marry Alida Slade.  Throughout her marriage,
Alida remained jealous of Grace, perhaps subconsciously realizing that Grace was a rival
for her husband's affection.  She prided herself on making Grace the butt of her
jokes.

So even though Alida Slade is quite a wealthy woman
able to vacation in Rome, her marriage was quite an empty one and her friendships only
shallow.

What are the charateristics of the graph of the line: y = 1/3 x – 9

The form of the equation of the line you,ve provided is
the slope intercept form.

y = mx + b, where m is the slope
of the line and b is y intercept, we'll get:

Comparing both
forms:

m = 1/3 and y = -9

Now,
we'll determine the intrcepting point of the line with x and y
axis.

When the line is intercepting x axis, y coordinate is
0.

x/3 - 9 = 0

x/3 =
9

x = 27

The intrercepting
point with x axis is: (27,0).

The intercepting point with y
axis is (0,-9).

Therefore, the
characteristics of the given line are the intercepting points with x and y axis and the
angle made by the line to x axis, which may be found when we know the value of the
slope: x axis intercept (27,0) ; y axis intercept (0,-9) and the slope
m=1/3.

Other than a Jewish girl loving a Nazi what are three other examples of irony in Summer of My German Soldier?

I think that there are some ironies in the book outside of
the most evident one of a Jewish girl in love with a Nazi.  The fact that Patty's
parents, especially her father, displays nothing but hostility towards his daughter's
feelings is akin to the repression and social disdain that Germans felt towards people
of the Jewish persuasion in Germany.  Now, the roles are reversed, but the feelings of
intolerance are still present.  The town's reaction to the prisoner escaping is also
reminiscent of Nazi Germany, where people are told to get guns and essentially, "hunt
down" Anton.  In the bastion of free thought and free expression, traits of Nazi Germany
are still quite evident and present in daily life.  Finally, the reaction to Patty's
love of the German soldier is interesting to note.  Being greeting with racial epithets
and insults is the response that Patty receives.  This is ironic because America entered
World War II, for the most noble of readings, to stop racism, discrimination, and the
persecution of people for their individual beliefs and preferences.  Yet, this is the
state of affairs for Patty when others find out about her own loves and preferences. 
The "other" that was targeted and marginalized in Nazi Germany is now experiencing the
same in the South.

In The Taming of the Shrew, how does Shakespeare introduce the theme of the confusion between appearance and reality in the Induction?

Appearance vs. reality is of course a central theme of
this excellent Shakesperian comedy, and the Induction in many ways introduces this theme
that will come to dominate the play. It principally does this through the trick that the
Lord wishes to play on Sly by making him believe that he is actually a Lord who has
suffered from a bout of insanity that has made him believe that he has been a peniless,
itinerant beggar for the past seven years:

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What think you, if he were conveyed to
bed,

Wrapped in sweet clothes, rings put upon his
fingers

A most delicious banquet by his
bed,

And brave attendants near him when he
wakes,

Would not the beggar then forget
himself?

It is this process
of trying to make "the beggar then forget himself" that is the framing device of the
entire play, as reality gives way to appearance, and even poor Bartholomew has to play
Sly's wife, who is so relieved that he has recovered from his bout of
madness.

What are roots?how would you find the roots of an eaquations graphically and algebraically? give an example for each

Roots of a function f(x) are the values of x for which
f(x) = 0.

To find the roots graphically we plot the graph
f(x) versus x and find the points where the graph intersects the x-axis. The value of x
at these points if substituted in f(x) gives
0.

Algebraically, roots can be found by solving the
equation f(x) = 0.

For some forms like quadratic and cubic
equations you have standard formulae for the roots. For higher order equations
factorization has to be used. And they have to be reduced in
order.

Example: For the function f(x) = x^2 - 2x - 3, the
roots can be found by solving x^2 - 2x - 3 = 0

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

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

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

The roots we get are x = -1 and
+3

If the graph y = x^2 - 2x - 3 were to be plotted we
would find the graph intersecting the x-axis at x = -1 and x =
3.

I was wondering if you could give me examples of allusions in the book Lord of the Flies and could you include the page number for the...

William Golding's Lord of the Flies
is not a novel which makes a lot of allusions to mythology or other literary works;
however, it is a novel full of biblical allusions.

From the
beginning, the island is a lush, idyllic place, untouched--so far--by sin or evil. It is
Eden. The boys eat fruit and live a relatively carefree life without recognizing the
evil which lurk, the beast that is them (Satan). Simon is the Christ figure, feeding the
children and going off alone to face the devil (the Lord of the Flies) and try to save
his fellow men--only to be senselessly killed by the very people he was trying to
save.

It is hard to miss the constant references to good
and evil as well as biblical figures, stories, and concepts in Lord of the
Flies.

What is camera and computer arts?Photography, video and film works

The term computer arts
applies to virtually any kind of graphic production that is originated by a computer.
Computer art can include images, sound or animation; images that appear on video games
or web sites would also be considered a form. Artistic representations created on a
computer or through computer software (such as Adobe Illustrator) would also be
considered a form of computer art.

The origins of computer
art can be traced as early as 1960, when Desmond Henry developed his Henry Drawing
Machine. An early exhibition of computer art was previewed in 1963
when

Joan
Shogren of San Jose State University wrote a computer program based on artistic
principles, resulting in an early public showing of computer art in San Jose,
California.

Discuss the term “States’ Rights” in the context of the antebellum South.

Intellectually, the idea of states' rights was based on
the idea that the Constitution and the Union was an agreement between sovereign states,
not between all the individuals of the country.  People who believed this also believed
that states had the right to dictate the terms of their involvement in the Union. 
Because of this, they had the right, for example, to nullify federal laws as South
Carolina tried to do in the early 1830s and they had the right to secede, just as the US
would have the right to pull out of the UN
today.

Practically speaking, the idea of states' rights was
all about slavery.  The South's demand for states' rights was really based only in their
desire to preserve the system of slavery.

In Treasure Island, what is the meaning of the saying "dead men don't bite" ?In Latin: mortui non mordent. What is the message conveyed by the...

In Chapter 11 of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic
Treasure Island, Israel Hands, Dick and Long John Silver are
discussing the mutiny they are planning against Captain Smollett and those aboard the
Hispaniola likely to remain loyal to the captain. They have to be cautious, lest the
captain learn of their plans and hang them. During this discussion, they contemplate the
fate of those they plan to subdue, with murder a viable option. It is in this context
that Israel, responding to the cook's and Dick's queries as to how they will deal with
the captain and his followers that the following quote is uttered:"‘Billy was the man
for that,’ said Israel. ‘Dead men don’t bite,’ says he." What Israel Hands is saying is
that, if the captain and others are killed rather than released, even if left abandoned
on an island, they will never again pose a threat to the conspirators. Killing their
victims will eliminate any chances that the captain and other sailors will be a problem
in the future.

The phrase "mortui non
mordent" translates as "dead men tale no tales," as "dead men don't bite." It
is an old Latin phrase that is used to reaffirm the wisdom of killing one's enemies or
victims. Once dead, those victims will not be around to testify about the perpetrator's
conduct or deeds, and they won't be alive to exact revenge.

How does magical realism work in conjunction with expressing controversial ideology?

In his Nobel Prize for Literature acceptance speech,
Gabriel Garcia Marquez listed a series of ludicrous, preposterous events that occurred
in Latin American history.  He maintained that these nonfictional events were no
stranger than his magic realism.  Magic realism, in fact, is easier to believe than
history.

In One Hundred Years of
Solitude, we see how magic realism is a precursor to the more tragic and more
realistic events in the novel.  For instance, in the early days of Macondo, the citizens
suffer from the Insomnia Plague.  One of the major side effects of this plague is that
no one can remember anything.  They can't even remember the names of the most common
animals or objects.  This comic magical incident has a much more tragic parallel in the
Banana Company's massacre of the striking workers.  In this part of the novel, based on
a true event, thousands of strikers are killed while others disappear in the middle of
the night.  No one, though, seems to remember the incident or have any knowledge of it.
 It is as if it never happened. In this way, Garcia Marquez is criticizing Colombian
politics, the censorship of its history, and the exploitation of Latin American
workers.

What year did Little Women take place?

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
takes place during and after the Civil War.  I know this because, in the first chapter,
Mr. March is a chaplain in the army.  Meg, awaiting the letter Mrs. March is about to
read says she is proud of him for going as a chaplain as he was too old to be drafted. 
I know this takes place during the Civil War because Joe states she will try to be a
"little woman" for him after hearing the letter, and then the text says that Jo felt
that would be a lot harder than facing a rebel or two down South.  This also clearly
shows that Mr. March is in the Union army because of Jo's
statement.

When Aeneas and Achates arrive in Carthage, no one harms them as strangers. Why not?

This question refers to Book 1 of Vergil's
Aeneid. Aeneas, after the fall of Troy at the hands of the Greeks,
has made his way across the sea and finds himself and his companions shipwrecked in
northern Africa at the town of Carthage.

One basic reason
Aeneas was not seen was because his mother, the goddess Venus, had cloaked him in a mist
(see lines 372-417).

Another reason that he and Achates are
not harmed is alluded to in the question itself: they are strangers. Harming a stranger
was regarded as a serious violation of social protocol. So, even though the
Carthaginians and the Romans, the latter of whom could claim to descend from Aeneas,
would eventually become enemies, social custom dictates that it is a crime the gods to
injure a guest/stranger, especially one claiming to come in
peace.

A third reason why no one harms Aeneas and Achates
may have to do with Aeneas' destiny, to which we have alluded above. For Aeneas to be
hampered in his journey at this point may have gone against the way that Aeneas' destiny
was intended to unravel.

Historically speaking, Vergil's
Roman audience would have recognized parallels between proto-Roman Aeneas and Dido
(livin in northern Africa) and Julius Caesar and Cleopatra (Queen of Egypt). Cleopatra
received Julius Caesar (who claimed to be descended from Venus) in a friendly fashion
and Vergil's Roman audience might have expected Dido to receive Venus' son Aeneas in a
similar manner.

explain the "THEORY OF RELATIVITY" in simple words

There are 2 parts to the Theory of Relativity: Special and
General. Special relativityonly deals with objects in uniform motion, while general
relativity deals with accelerated objects, and is a much harder subject for that reason.
According to special relativity, even for objects in uniform motion, strange and
unintuitive things can happen. If there was a passenger train inside which, through the
windows, you could see the passengers and their watches, and it whizzed by you, a
stationary observer, the following things will happen 1) the train will have shrunk
length-wise, and 2) the watches of the passengers will appear to be going more slowly,
and 3) the watches of the passengers in the back of the train will be AHEAD of the
watches of the passengers in the front of the train. When you get to general relativity,
more wierd things can happen. Time and space can be warped, and for this reason we have
gravity. That is the reason why Einstein's general theory of relativity is often
referred to as his theory of gravitation. General relativity explains why the universe
is expanding, and why there are bizarre objects like black holes, which are examples of
extremely warped spacetime.

It almost doesn't need to be said that
relativity says nothing can travel faster than light, and that E = mc², which is the
reason why we have atomic bombs.

What parts of Bella's pregnancy in Breaking Dawn could really happen? For instance, can babies crack ribs, or cause contustions and stretch the...

The most realistic aspect of Bella's pregnancy would have
to be the cravings and nausea she experiences. At one point during the honeymoon, she
wakes in the middle of the night and makes homemade fried chicken. Shortly thereafter
she experiences nausea, consistent with morning sickness. Cravings continue throughout
and while much of her pregnancy is certainly fictionalized due to circumstances, it
could be said that it is as realistic as possible considering she is carrying a vampire
baby.

For instance, the child would be strong, which could
account for the breaking of bones. Additionally, the amount of strain her body would
suffer due to a gestation that occurred twice as quickly would certainly weaken a human
body, as we are not built to adjust as quickly as her pregnancy
developed.

There are some cases in existence where pregnant
women have endured broken ribs, but usually this is due to mitigating circumstances,
such as a cold or weak bones. As far as I know, there are no studies, nor are there
enough cases to have cause of any, on this particular topic.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 passed in Congress by large majorities in part because // A) representatives hope many African Americans would...

The answer to this question is somewhat subjective.  It is
difficult to know for sure why members of Congress vote the way they do.  You should
probably look in your book or your notes to find out what answer you are expected to
give.

I would argue that B is the best answer, but an
argument can be made that C is actually right.

The Voting
Rights Act was certainly made possible by white reaction to the violence in Selma.  The
fact that Southern whites would react so violently to people who simply wanted to be
allowed to vote looked very bad to whites in the rest of the country.  As the link below
says,

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A 1965 march to Selma, Alabama, by
Dr. MARTIN
LUTHER KING JR. and other civil rights supporters to demand voting rights led
to police violence and the murder of several marchers. The Selma violence galvanized
voting rights supporters in
Congress.

However, it is also
generally argued that many people supported civil rights and other legislation because
they saw it as something that JFK would have wanted.  However, I would argue that, by
1965, the Selma violence was much more fresh in people's minds and more of a factor in
creating support for this law.

Describe Harold in V.S. Pritchett's "The Fly in the Ointment," and use specific pieces of text to support each point."The Fly in the Ointment" by...

In "The Fly in the Ointment" by V.S. Pritchett, Harold is
a good son, but his father's criticisms have taken their toll. It speaks to Harold's
character that even though his father has been an unkind parent, Harold still cares for
his dad. Money is an issue. Harold, who is a married man in his thirties,
worries about showing up at his father's factory in a cab—we sense
that he has been intimidated in the past:

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Better not arrive in a taxi, he was thinking. The
old man will wonder where I got the money
from.

The reader discovers
that family fights over money have also been a major concern for Harold and perhaps
caused him to distance himself from such turmoil—till
now.

Suddenly
all the money quarrels of the family, which nagged in the young man's mind, had been
dissolved. His dread of being involved in them vanished. He was overcome by the sadness
of his father's situation...I must see him. I must help
him.

When Harold arrives,
uncharacteristically, his father is very amiable. The reader learns of yet another way
the father has made Harold feel inferior, unappreciated and
unloved.

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"Come in, Professor," said the father. This was
an old family joke. He despised his son, who was, in fact, not a professor but a poorly
paid lecturer at a provincial
university.

Yet even though
his father despises him, still Harold comes to help the older man
as he transitions from success to bankruptcy. Harold watches the older man and realizes
something about his father's faces:
there are two! He has a bigger face—which shows a hard heart. The small face is gentler
towards Harold. Harold is probably used to seeing the bigger, bullying
face.

Some essence of this hardness is apparent as the
father criticizes Harold's hair loss. The father mentions it twice—in a heavy-handed
way:

Do you
know, you're actually more bald at the back than I thought. There's a patch there as big
as my hand. I saw it just then. It gave me quite a shock. You really must do something
about it. How are your teeth? That may have something to do with it. Hasn't Alice told
you how bald you are?

Again,
Harold is put down. Then we learn that Harold has come to the aid of a father who has
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in business. In spite of this painful knowledge, Harold supports his
dad.

Surprisingly, his father
announces:

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I've done with money. Absolutely done and
finished with it. I never want to see another penny as long as I
live.

Then Harold musters the
courage to tell his dad why he came:

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I'm not rich. None of us is...we can't do
anything. I wish I could, but I can't...But the idea of your being—you know, well short
of some immediate necessity, I mean—well, if it is ever a question of—well, to be frank,
cash, I'd raise it somehow."

He
coloured. He hated to admit his own
poverty...

One truth, shared
on the first page of the story, is that Harold knew his father.
Perhaps he is not terribly surprised by his father's response—soon
we learn that nothing has
changed:

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"Raise it?" said the old man sharply. "Why didn't
you tell me before you could raise money? How can you raise it? Where? By
when?"

Harold comes to the
aid of a father who despises him—and to a dishonorable man. He
wants to help. His father, however, only values the money Harold
might raise—money still means everything to Harold's
father.

Harold is a good, caring son, and a fine man who is
disturbed by his dad's dishonesty. He is obviously forgiving—he puts aside his own pain
to help his father.

In Book Three (Chapter 6) from A Tale of Two Cities, describe the atmosphere at Charles Darnay's trial.

With melodramatic coincidence, the description of the
court and its proceedings is not unlike that of Charles Darnay's trial in
England, suggesting parallels and that La Force has merely replaced one corrupt
government with another, albeit cruder, one. For, Dickens
writes,

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Looking at the Jury and the trubulent audience,
he [Darnay] might have thought that the usual order of things was reversed, and that the
felons were trying the honest men.  The lowest, cruelest, and worst populace of a city,
never without its quantity of low, cruel, and bad, were the directing spirits of the
scene: noisily commenting, applauding, disapproving, anticipating, and precipitating the
result, without a
check.

Clearly, Darnay finds
himself in the presence of the ignorant, so-long oppressed, vengeful peasants of the
Third Estate of France, who now  hold the power of life in their hands. "Take off his
head!" this rabble shouts.  But, Darnay insists that he is not an emigrant as defined
since he has freely relinquished a title that was most distasteful to him;  he names
Gabelle and Dr. Manette as witnesses to this fact. 

When
Darnay mentions the name Alexandre Manette, cheers rise from this capricious crowd, for
Manette has been known as the "Bastille Captive" and is now helralded as a hero.  Then,
when he explains that he is married to Lucie Manette, the physician's
daughter,

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Cries in exaltation of the well-known good
physician rent the hall. So capriciously were the people moved, that tears immediately
rolled down several ferocious countenances which had been glaring at the prisoner a
moment before, as if with impatience to pluck him out into the streets and kill
him.

Darnay explains that he
has returned to France only in response to the written entreaty of a French citizen.
When Darnay queries if this is a crime, a resounding "No!" echoes throughout La Force.
With the testimony of the respected Dr. Manette, the Jurymen declare that they have
heard enough and declare Darnay declare him free.

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Then, began one of those extraordinary scenes
with which the populace sometimes gratified their fickleness, or their better impulses
towards generosity and mercy, or which they regarded as some set-off against their
swollen account of cruel rage. No man can decide now to which of these motives such
extraordinary scenes were referable; it is probable, to a blending of all the three,
with the second predominating. No sooner was the acquittal pronounced, than tears were
shed as freely as blood at another
time....

In their exuberance,
the peasants embrace Darnay and nearly suffocate him; this same exuberance could just as
easily have "rend him to pieces and strew him over the streets." As other accused person
come before the "dread Tribunal," they are quickly dispensed with and sentenced to die
before the next twenty-four hours.  Meanwhile, Darnay is placed in a great chair and
carried in glory throughout the streets.  A woman is raised into a vacant chair and
declared the "Goddess of Liberty" as the crowd swells and overflows into the adjacent
streets.  As Darnay kisses Lucie in their joy, the crowd "reverently bowed their heads
and hearts."

Chapter VI of Book the Third of A
Tale of Two Cities repeats some of the dichotomies presented in the first
chapter:  It is for Darnay the worst of times, the best of times; it is the time of
wisdom from Dr. Manette, and the time of foolishness from the fickle crowd in the fickle
atmosphere of the trial.

What was the tilt axis angle of the Earth pre-ice age?

There have been many ice ages during the course of the
Earth's history, and research suggests that they wax and wane contingent upon the
orientation of the Earth to the Sun.  One of the factors regarding the strength and
amount of solar radiation reaching the Earth is due to it's axial tilt -- currently 23.5
degrees.  However, this tilt is not constant, varying from a maximum of 24 degrees to
a minimum of 22.5 degrees. At the times of minimal tilt, about every
40,000 years, ice ages appear.

The cycle of
ice ages is a bit more complicated by the fact that tilt is not the only criteria --
there's an approximate 23,000 year cycle of the wobble of the Earth, known as
"precession," and the eccentricity of the orbit, which means at times the Earth on
average is closer or further from the Sun, a cycle of about 100,000 years.  These 3
factors seem to determine how severe or mild an ice age can be, if these factors
reenforce or mitigate each other.

What does the ESEA say about teacher training?

The law itself does not outline a specific condition or
set of requirements in accordance to teacher training.  The law does speak though to
government funding of higher institutions that are to dedicate themselves to education,
in terms of research on education.  It is here where teacher training would be
established and honed in as a craft.  At the same time, the law specifically states that
there will be funding to state education departments, which are also intended to see to
the issue of teacher training.  The law understood that government's role is to increase
access to and the quality of education.  It is not meant to have government control
these element.  This is why the law allows government funding of school libraries, but
is explicit in stating that the federal government will not control or determine what
resources are housed in these libraries.  In this definition of federalism, the law
treats the issue of teacher training, as something that local realms will define and
articulate.

How does Arnold compare the modern world to a shingled beach in "Dover Beach"?

The comparison you mention is introduced in the third
stanza of this incredible poem, as the speaker takes the sound of the tide going out and
retreating from the land as a symbol of the way in which faith is declining in his land
during his time, similarly leaving the modern world naked and exposed, just like the
shingles on a beach. Note what this stanza says:

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The Sea of
Faith

Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's
shore

Lay like the folds of a bright girdle
furled.

But now I only
hear

Its melancholy, long, withdrawing
roar,

Retreating, to the
breath

Of the night wind, down the vast edges
drear

And naked shingles of the
world.

In this stanza
therefore the speaker reflects on how the "Sea of Faith" was once full and protected his
land. Now, however, he hears the same "melancholy, long, withdrawing roar" as it
receeds, leaving the modern world exposed and vulnerable, with its "naked shingles"
showing. This comparison helps present Arnold's message that the decline in faith
actually leaves the modern world in a very dangerous and weak position, tranforming it
to a "darkling plain" where "ignorant armies crash by night."

Please identify the falling action of Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson.

The falling action of a plot is defined as the moment
after the climax, the highest point of emotional intensity in a story, and the
resolution, where the conflicts are resolved and concluded and there is an ending. If we
take the climax of this great tale to be Leslie's death, then the falling action comes
in Chapter Twelve, when Jesse confronts his own feelings about Leslie's death and begins
to move towards acceptance of the loss of his friend. Note the way in which this
involves his father reassuring him about the pain of grief and also Jesse's secret fear
that Leslie might go to hell. The way in which Jesse is able to emotionally connect with
his father, who has been up until this point in the novel a remote and distant figure,
signifies both Jesse's maturing and the onset of the resolution, as Jesse is able to
incorporate what he has learnt through his friendship with Leslie and move on in
life.

Any one can help me please give me example of a poem in which multiple meanings, or polysemy, is used?

Perhaps the easiest way to answer your poem would be to
lead you in the direction of Metaphoric poetry.  Metaphor poems are poems which use
either simple metaphors to compare two typically unlike things or are compounded
metaphors where the entire poem exists as a metaphor for something
else.

One example of a metaphor poem is "The Garden Hose"
by Beatrice Janosco:

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In the grey
evening

I see a long green
serpent

With its tail in the
dahlias

It lies in loops across the
grass

And drinks softly at the
faucet.

I can hear it
swallow.

Here, Janosco is
comparing a garden hose to a snake. Therefore, the poem contains a multiple meaning when
looking at the poem with and without the title.

As for
poetry which contains polysemy (characterized when a word alone has multiple meanings),
this is a little more difficult. Given that poetry interpretation is typically left to
the reader, many readers may not agree on the meaning of an entire poem or of the use of
a word within the text of a poem.

To give you one example
of this, examine the poem "The Waste Land" by
T.S.Elliot:

I
have heard the key
Turn in the door once and turn once only
We think
of the key, each in his prison
Thinking of the key, each confirms a
prison

The key spoken of in
the excerpt of the poem can hold two very distinctive
meanings.

First, the key can represent an actual key which
releases one from an actual prison.

Second, the key can
represent a metaphorical key which all must find in order to release them from a mental
or emotional prison which they exist within.

I hope that
this answers your question. Again, it is very hard to pinpoint polysemy in a specific
poem because of personal interpretation.

What is x if the identity is true |2-3x|-|2x-3|=0 ?

We'll solve the equation considering 4 cases of
study.

The expressions 2x-3 and 2-3x can be either positive
or negative.

Case 1:

2x-3 =
2-3x

Case 2:

-(2x-3) =
2-3x

Case 3:

2x-3 =
-(2-3x)

Case 4:

-(2x-3) =
-(2-3x)

The Case 2 and Case 3 will have the same solution.
Also Case 1 and Case 4 will have the same solution. So, we'll solve just Case 1 and Case
2:

Case 1:

2x-3 =
2-3x

We'll isolate x to the left
side:

2x + 3x = 3+2

5x =
5

We'll divide by
5:

x =
1

Case
2:

-(2x-3) = 2-3x

We'll remove
the brackets:

-2x +3 =
2-3x

We'll isolate x to the left
side:

-2x + 3x =
2-3

x =
-1

The solutions of the
equation are: {-1 ; 1}.

In "A Good Man is Hard to Find," what is the significance in the ending of the story?

In "A Good Man is Hard to Find," the ending of the story
establishes that the grandmother undergoes an epiphany, and that The Misfit considers
that epiphany to be genuine.  The story is about the grandmother much more than it is
about The Misfit. 

O'Connor believed that people are in
such a bad way, spiritually speaking, that only an encounter with the depraved and
grotesque canshock them into an awakening and rebirth.  The Misfit is the depraved and
grotesque, and the grandmother undergoes a spiritual rebirth due to his influence.  The
grandmother, accepting of almost no one and nothing throughout the story, accepts even
The Misfit as a child of God when she experiences a real fear of
death. 

The grandmother is such a despicable person that
the deaths of her family members do not lead to this epiphany.  Only her own impending
death triggers her new understanding.  Nevertheless, God's grace does act on her as a
result of her encounter with The Misfit.  The ending demonstrates that even a person
such as the grandmother can be changed by God's grace, according to O'Connor's
beliefs. 

Comment on the poetic technique used in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."

This famous poem is presented as a dramatic monologue,
which is a poem in which a character speaks directly to one or more listeners. It is
important to be aware of the role that rhyme plays in constructing this poem. Although
the poem is written in free verse with irregular line lengths, there is an overall
coherence of rhyme which aids the structure.

Many of the
lines rhyme, although not all, and certain patterns of rhyme that are present in the
poem help to create a central structure. The first stanza for example has a rhyme scheme
of A, A, B, D, D, D, D, E, E, F, G, G. The music and rhythm of the poem is thus greatly
aided by the loose use of rhyme to create structure. In addition, it is important to
note how rhyme is used not just to repeat sounds but also to repeat ideas. The most
obvious example of this comes in the third stanza, when "time" is repeated to suggest
the way that various ideas and themes appear and re-appear throughout the
poem:

There
will be time, there will be time

To prepare a face to meet
the faces that you meet;

There will be time to murder and
create,

And time for all the works and days of
hands

That life and drop a question on your
plate;

Time for you and time for
me,

And time yet for a hundred
indecisions,

And for a hundred visions and
revisions,

Before the taking of toast and
tea.

Here the repetition of
the word time is used to establish how indecisive J. Alfred Prufrock is, and how he
"murders and creates" different selves and ideas in his endless ruminations on how he is
regarded and viewed by others and how he can create a good impression. Thus it is that
there is always time for a "hundred indecisions" and "visions and revisions" for a man
who lives a life defered that is "measured out... with coffee
spoons."

What message does the surprise ending convey about Louise Mallard and other women like her in "Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin?

Kate Chopin, author of "Story of an Hour," lost her
husband in 1882 and was left to care for her six children on her own. One way she did
this was to write, and her writing was not always "comfortable" for audiences of the
1800s as she questioned the submissive role of women (along with their passionate
nature).

Something that was coming to light within society
at this time was:

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...the "Woman Question," [and what] roles were
acceptable for women to assume in
society.

In "Story of an
Hour," the message that Chopin is sharing with the audience defies the stereotypical
role a woman had to play then—being "attached" to a man who believed it was his right by
society and God to control his woman. We understand through Louise that Brently (her
"dead" husband) was never unkind to her on purpose, but the fact that he never allowed
her to know or be herself is a terrible sin in her eyes. It is only when she believes
that he is dead that her sense of self rises to the surface, showing Louise a side of
life that she had never imagined.

And although Louise feels
wicked in celebrating her "freedom" at the cost of Brently's life, she knows that now
her life will now have meaning—something she never knew she was missing. The concept of
personal freedom is so great that she is almost drunk with it. When her sister-in-law
Josephine convinces Louise to come out of her locked room, Louise carries herself like a
queen down the stairs. She has been reborn. Whereas she had worried that the days of her
life would drag on forever, now she prays that there will be an endless number of days
ahead of her that she might enjoy the rebirth she has
experienced.

As they descend the stairs, a key sounds in
the lock; Brently Mallard appears with no knowledge of the railway disaster that
ostensibly took his life. However, in that instant, Louise realizes that she will not
have the freedom she has so briefly tasted. The audience knows that Louise dies because
the idea of returning to her former life is intolerable to
her.

The doctors who arrive and announce it was heart
trouble, that "she had died of heart disease—of the joy that kills," support the
male-dominated idea that a woman could only exist with a man to provide for her; she
was, after all, the weaker sex, and intellect was not something of which most men
believed their wives capable.

The doctors who arrive after
Louise collapses are symbolic of a society that could never free its women to exist on
their own merits, married or not. A woman simply did not have it within her to exercise
her own will or develop original thoughts or opinions: her happiness—her very
existence—came from the meaningful role of wife and
mother.

Louise and most of the women of her time were
oppressed— "shackled" by the norms of the society in which Kate Chopin
lived.

How has American society changed in the last 100 years in terms of gender equality?

America has clearly changed for the better in terms of
gender equality but has not reached a state in which men and women are truly
equal.

100 years ago, women were still not allowed to vote
in the US.  This shows very clearly how far women have come as there are many female
governors today and as Hillary Clinton came very close to being the Democratic nominee
for president in 2008.

However, there are still some major
issues for women.  The biggest of these has to do with equity in work and wages.  Women
still make something along the lines of 77% of the wages of similarly educated men
today.  There are many professions where women are very rare, even though those jobs do
not require any sort of physical strength. The attempt to pass an Equal Rights Amendment
failed in 1982.  These sorts of things show us that gender equality has still not been
achieved.

How is To Kill a Mockingbird an "education" novel?I am going to write about Jem's journey; Harper Lee's decision to not make Jem a copy of...

Harper Lee's leads the reader on a two-year journey of
discovery as seen through the eyes of the young Scout. Allowing Scout to tell her tales
from both a child's present day perspective and from that of an adult in the
future gives the reader different and varying aspects to consider. When Scout the
child describes events that she does not totally understand, the reader sometimes has to
read between the lines in order to establish the truth for himself. In this manner, it
becomes an education for the reader as well.

Jem's journey
is even more emotional than Scout's. In addition to dealing with the onset of puberty,
Jem (unlike Scout) still has to deal with the memories and loss of his mother. The
author chooses to allow Atticus to give Jem a streak of independence, rather than making
Jem a clone of the young Atticus. The two are probably not that different, but Atticus
does not attempt to mold Jem in his image; rather, he tries to set him on a straight
path that will eventually lead to success. The children's exposure to--and the
understanding of--the racism around them and the deficiencies of public education are
just two examples of social problems that still affect people in the 21st century.
Reading To Kill a Mockingbird becomes a historical lesson on life
in the Deep South in the 1930s--a prime reason that the novel is a requirement for many
public schools around the United States.

How does the author give Kino and Juana animal characteristics?i.e. In The Pearl by John Steinbeck, what are some examples of their acting as...

Interestingly, in John Steinbeck's allegorical
parable, The Pearl, when Kino discovers the Pearl of the World
inside the oyster shells that he brings up from the sea,
he

put back
his head and howled.  His eyes rolled up and he screamed and his body was
rigid.

With the discovery of
the pearl, Kino becomes fearful because he hears the "melody of evil" among the people
who look at this pearl.  His eyes "probed for danger" as he looks around furtively, like
a prey animal.  In Chapter III, Kino buries the pearl in the dirt floor and covers it up
with dirt, much as an animal buries its treasure.  When a thief enters his dwelling,
Kino hears "the inaudible purr of controlled breathing."  Holding his breath, Kino hears
the scratching of fingers in dirt. 

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And now a wild fear surged in Kino's breast, and
on the fear came rage, as it alwas did.  Kino's hand crept into his breast where his
knife hung on a string, and then he sprang like an angry
cat, leaped striking and spitting for the dark
thing....

After Kino tries to
sell the pearl and the dealer tells him it is a mere curiosity, Kino leaves and later
decides to go to the capital.  Beforehand, he sits on his mat and smells the "sharp odor
of exposed kelp from the receding tide." When he does not ask for his supper, Juana
"wills to stops him," but Kino steps outside.

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Juana heard the little rush, the grunting
struggle, the blow.  She froze with terror for a moment, and then her lips
drew back from her teeth like a cat's
lips.

Back
inside she asks Kino who has attacked him; Kino does not know.  She tells him that the
pearl is evil, and they should destroy it. Ironically, Kino replies, "I am a man," and
he tells his wife he will fight to keep the pearl.  The next day, Kino moves sluggishly,
"arms and legs stirred like those of a crushed bug," rather than any man.  After he
kills a man, Kino's boat, the boat of his grandfather, is destroyed.  He is enraged at
this destruction,

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He was an animal now, for hiding, for attacking,
and he lived only to preserve himself and his
family.

Kino's brother Juan
Tomas comes and Kino and Juana are "crouched in a corner." his brother tells Kino to
flee.  Despite their efforts Kino and Juana are followed by three trackers.  So, while
two sleep Kino sneaks to where they are as Juana "peered like an owl" from the hole in
the mountain where she hides with the baby.  Kino "edged like a slow lizard" down the
rock to where the men are as the "Song of the Family" becomes "as fierce and sharp and
feline as the snarl of femal puma."  Kinot springs onto the man with the rifle, but the
gun fires while he attacks. It is a tragic shot, for it kills
Coyotito.

In his essay "The Pearl: Realism and Allegory,"
Harry Morris writes that Kino is associated with the low animals who must root in the
earth for sustenance.  Furthermore, in the allegorical aspect of the novella, the
predatory animal comparisons suggest the "snares that beset the journeying soul" in this
tale dominance of the rich and powerful and the driving force of
greed. 

What would be the future value of $ 300 after five years at 5 % compound interest.

From enunciation, we know what the present value is,
namely $300.

The future value could be determined when the
present value, the interest rate and the number of years are
known.

Future value = Present
value*(1+r)^t

r is the interest rate and t is the number of
years considered.

We'll identify the interest rate r as
being 5% and the number of years t as being of 5.

To
determine what is the future value after 5 years, at 5% compound interest, we'll use the
following formula:

Future value = 300*(1 +
5/100)^5

Future value =
300*(1+0.05)^5

Future value =
300*1.2762

Future value =
$382.884

The future value, after 5 years,
starting from the present value of $300, at the rate of interes of 5%, is of
$383.

Is there a specific subtext in The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy?

Although it is usually represented as a simple comedic
science-fiction story, Douglas Adams used The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy as a satire on modern life, much like Swift's Gulliver's
Travels. Many aspects of the story echo current-day issues in England, like
the impossible bureaucracy of the Vogons or the position of Zaphod as figurehead instead
of having real power (the Royal Family).

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"I think the ship's brand new," said
Ford.

"How can you tell?" asked Arthur. "Have you got some
exotic device for measuring the age of metal?"

"No, I just
found this sales brochure lying on the floor."
(Adams, The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Google
Books)

Just like in reality,
sales is important, and so a possible science-fiction explanation for the newness of the
ship is replaced by a sales brochure with glossy photos and ad copy. Sometimes, a new
spaceship is just a new spaceship. If there is a specific subtext, it
could be boiled down to read: "Life is often absurd; we have little
ability to cause great change; instead, worry about yourself, your own happiness, and
the effect you have on friends and family, because they are more important to you than
any world events." (subjective interpretation: Belarafon)

Find how many L of hydrogen gas are formed at STP if 30 g of Zn reacts with hydrogen.

The information you have provided is incorrect. When zinc
reacts with hydrogen, hydrogen is not produced. Hydrogen is already
there, it cannot be produced during the reaction.

Instead
the reaction may lead to the formation of zinc hydride or
ZnH2.

Though this is not the usual way in which ZnH2 is
produced. Reactions such as

2LiH + ZnBr2 → ZnH2 +
2LiBr

2NaH + ZnI2 → ZnH2 +
2NaI

among many others are more widely used to produce zinc
hydride.

If this is not what you require, you would have to
present the question in a more accurate way for a proper answer.

Does Callie illustrate all the emotional problems that a person in real life would have in Middlesex?The author did not interview or meet with...

My first thought is that rather than trying to define her
experience as "accurate," you should focus on whether it is "authentic."  Keep in mind
that no two individual's stories would be identical, and when it comes to portraying
mood and emotion, there is no such thing as technically
correct.

As far as the authenticity of Callie's experience
goes, I would argue that yes, Eugenides does present an authentic characterization of
his main character.

To look at the authenticity of Callie's
experience in three overall points, I might encourage you to think chronologically. 
First, look at her childhood.

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I was brought up as a girl and had no doubts
about this.  My mother bathed me and taught me how to clean myself...instructions in
feminine hygiene were rudimentary at best...All was shrouded in a zone of privacy and
fragility. (226)

As a child,
with no visible differences between herself and other children, Callie accepts what she
is because that is what she is taught.  This is very normal behavior for any
child.

But look at Callie as an adolescent and the feelings
of fear and wonder she experiences when she doesn't hit puberty at the same time as her
peers.  Think too, how this confusion is heightened when she is not experiencing the
normal effects of female puberty.  Then, when she begins to have
her first crush on someone, and it is a girl (the "Object of Desire"), she hides it. 
While engaged in her first sexual encounter with a boy she
admits:

He was
rubbing my overalls, but I was no longer in them exactly.  My focus on the Object was
too intense. (374)

She
imagines herself inside the body of the boy who is with the Object of Desire, rather
than inside her own body.  This emotional detachment from herself is typical response of
someone who is having a sexual encounter at a very young age, and is not ready to admit
her true feelings to anyone, almost not even
herself.

Finally, look at Cal as a grown man.  His
relationships with women are difficult.  He admits to taking things very slowly.  He
admits to ending relationships just before things become sexual.  He is still nervous
and unsure of himself as a sexual being, and this naturally affects his
relationships.

If you look at the entire book as a whole,
understand that it is Cal's (Callie's) record of self discovery, which must go back to
two generations before her.  The simple fact that s/he feels it is necessary to even
tell her story shows that her emotions and acceptance of such an
unnatural and difficult life are authentic.

How does Susie feel about her father going through grief in The Lovely Bones?

It is clear that, as the novel progresses and Susie's
father becomes ever-more frustrated by his increasing certainty that George Harvey
committed the murder but without any evidence to prove it, he becomes more and more
isolated and slightly deranged. It is clear that his inability to let his daughter go
and move on results in the estrangement that his marriage suffers. Susie is shown to be
incredibly protective of her father as he goes through this period of his life. Note how
she describes a scene in her father's study:

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In his low green easy chair he now felt the most
comfortable. It was where I often saw him sleep. The room like a vault, the chair like a
womb, and me standing guard over
him.

Susie explictly reverses
the normal father-daughter dynamic, as she becomes the protector over her father and
longs to see him move past this stage. The reference of the room and the chair being
like a "vault" and a "womb" respectively shows how Jack seeks protection and safety from
his study. The way in which Susie is shown to be her father's protector demonstrates her
own sadness and pity at how her father is showing his inability to cope with her
death.

Verify if f(g(x))>=0 for f(x)=x^2+2x+1; g(x)=x-2011

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

g(x) = x-
2011

We need to verify if fog(x) is zero or
positive.

Let us determine the function fog(x) =
f(g(x))

==> f(g(x))= f(x-2011) = (x-2011)^2 +
2(x-2011)+1

==> f(g(x)) = x^2 - 4022x + 2011^2 + 2x
- 4022 + 1

==> f(g(x))= x^2 - 4020x +
4040100

==> f(g(x))=
(x-2010)^2

We notice that (x-2010)^2 is always positive or
zero when x=2010

Now we proved that f(g(x) > 0 for
all R-{ 2010}

Also f(g(x))= = 0 for x =
2010.

Then f(g(x)) >= 0

Is Blanche crazy? Or what is her sickness?

Blanche is a romanticist. This is due to a number of
influences. She was raised like a Southern belle in a typical Southern mansion called
Belle Reve (which means beautiful dream). Girls of that era and social class spent much
of their time reading, and characteristically they liked romantic poetry and romantic
novels. If they went to school it would be to a young ladies finishing school where they
were taught nothing but impractical subjects such as music, art, literature, and
etiquette. Refinement without money is hard to sustain. She tells how her father and
other male relatives wasted money and had to sell off all the land around the mansion,
so that it was inevitable that the building itself would deteriorate and go into
foreclosure. Forced to do something to earn her own living, Blanche became a teacher,
and she naturally taught the romantic subjects she knew, such as the works of authors
like Lord Byron and Sir Walter Scott. Her interest in young boys is consistent with her
romantic character. She is not attracted to the carnal aspects of sex but to the
romantic aspects. She likes boys who look beautiful and sensitive. She was married to
such a youth, but he committed suicide. He may have been too romantic and sensitive to
succeed at anything in the harsh world of reality, especially in a region where the
economy was ruined by war.

Blanche herself is struggling to
survive in that cold, cruel world. She, of course, symbolizes the Old South which was
dealt a death blow by the Civil War and is being overwhelmed by strong, brutal,
aggressive, selfish, immoral realists like Stanley Kowalski. William Faulkner dwells on
a similar theme in many of his great novels, notably in the "Snopes Trilogy," consisting
of The Hamlet, The Town, and The Mansion. Blanche only moves in with her sister and
brother-in-law out of desperation. She has run out of alternatives. She is broke and
probably can't pursue a career as a teacher because she has destroyed her reputation by
immoral conduct. This immoral conduct is indicative of the decadence of the Old South
and was exhibited by the male relatives who were responsible for the loss of Belle
Reve.

Stanley understands her immediately. He would
classify her as a phoney. He knows she despises him, and therefore he enjoys tearing her
illusions apart. Without her illusions she loses her mind and has to be
institutionalized. Tennessee Williams has done such a marvelous job of dramatizing the
changing social conditions of the Old South that his play hardly needs any explication.
We sympathize with Blanche. She is in some ways a better person than Stanley, but hers
is the kind of superiority that depends on income, and the wealth of the Old South
depended on the exploitation of slaves.

Prove the following statement: Tranio in The Taming of the Shrew is an unusual servant and possesses many of the qualities of a nobleman.

Great question! I actually think that the character of
Tranio is one of the more interesting characters in the play for precisely the reason
you have given. When we think of the common Shakespearian theme of appearance vs.
reality, he is an excellent example of how this theme is developed. Note that it is he
that comes up with the strategy to woo Bianca, rather than his love-struck lord. Also,
if we look at Act I scene 2 carefully, which is when Tranio first enters playing the
role of Lucentio, we see that he is able to speak convincingly as a Lord and is able to
pun effectively to show that he has the graces, airs, and wit of a young
Lord:

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PETRUCHIO: Not her that chides, sir, at any
hand, I pray.

TRANIO: I love no chiders, sir. Biondello,
let's away.

Lucentio himself
congratulates his servant in an aside for his convincing performance. He is able to fend
away the requests of the other suitors well, making a speech with classical allusions to
Leda and the swan. Gremio himself feels threatened by Tranio's gift of speech, as he
says "this gentleman will outtalk us all." So, Tranio's act is seen as convincing not
just by his master, but by other lords as well, especially when we think of his speech
and his mannerisms.

In "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain," what aspects of a funeral constitute this extended metaphor?

This excellent poem by Emily Dickinson uses the extended
metaphor of a funeral to describe the experience of the speaker which we can perhaps
compare to a complete mental breakdown. At each stage, the separate sections of a
funeral are related to the mental state of the speaker until the shocking finish of the
poem. Thus in the first stanza the "Mourners" treading to and fro and the "Service, like
a Drum" is related to a repeated beating sound going on in the speaker's brain that
makes the speaker's mind "go numb." The box that is lifted "creaks" across the soul of
the speaker. As she imagines the coffin to be placed on top of a plank, that plank
suddenly breaks, and the coffin is left to plummet downwards towards an unspecified
state:

And
then a Plank in Reason, broke,

And I dropped down, and
down--

And hit a World, at every
plunge,

And Finished
knowing--then--

The dash
seems to contradict the words that come before it, because, instead of "finishing
knowing," the poem is left unfinished, the dash suggesting that there is something yet
to come, which might reflect the ambiguous ending of the poem. However, at every stage
we can see that the funeral process is related to the descent of the speaker into some
sort of mental oblivion.

In Measure for Measure, how does Isabella's power develop?

I am slightly confused by this question. I don't actually
think that Isabella is given much power in the play, and I don't think she develops in
this regard during the play either. She appears to be manipulated and used at every
turn, even by her brother, who tries to get his sister to sleep with Angelo to save his
life. The only time she is given the opportunity to have power over another is in Act V,
when she publicly denounces Angelo for his actions and calls him a "virgin-violator,"
yet it is important to remember that this is an opportunity that is given to her by the
Duke and is not something that she does of her own volition. At every stage, Isabella is
shown to be living in a world where her powerlessness and vulnerability as a woman is
exposed. The much-debated ending, where the Duke takes her as his wife, can be used to
support this. For Isabella, who has done everything she could to defend her chastity and
her desire to be a nun throughout the entire play, to suddenly and quietly acquiesce to
marriage to a man that has manipulated her just as he has manipulated others indicates
her lack of power and social standing. This play presents us with a man's world in which
women must do what they can to survive, whatever the cost.

How does Keith change throughout Don DeLillo's novel Falling Man?

Don DeLillo's novel Falling Man is
the story of one man's journey after he survived the terrorist attacks in New York City
on September 11, 2001. Keith was in one of the towers when it was hit by an airplane but
managed to get out before it collapsed. This is obviously a traumatic event which is
likely to impact him for the rest of his life. Your question asks how he changes after
the incident, and here are a few specific examples of change in
Keith:

• He was living in his own apartment,
  separated from his wife, before the attack; afterward, he goes straight to his former
  home and from then on lives with Lianne and his son
  Justin.


• He was not a particularly good husband before the
  attacks, often angry and combative; after the attack he knows he must work on not being
  so angry and goes to the gym to do that.


• He was an
  "office guy" when the towers were hit; after the attacks, he tries to do that again but
  finally settles into a career on the road playing poker for a
  living.

How is the Hohenzollen dynasty related to the German monarchy?

Prior to the unification of Germany, the House of
Hohenzollern had held the Prussian throne for some time and had also been electors of
the Holy Roman Emperor. William of Hohenzollern was also William (spelled Wilhelm) first
of Prussia. His chief minister was Otto von Bismarck. Bismarck through a series of
machinations, managed to have Germany united under Prussian leadership. He did so by a
series of wars which appealed to German nationalism. Wilhelm I of Prussia became Kaiser
Wilhelm I of the German Empire when he was crowned at Versailles. Kaiser, of course, was
the German equivalent of "Caesar." He was succeeded later by his son Wilhelm II who was
the last Kaiser. He abdicated at the end of World War I and lived the rest of his days
in Switzerland.

There actually was no true German monarchy;
but there were two German Emperors, both of them Hohenzollern.

Are the verbs in the following sentence grammatically correct?I finished my homework before I practiced the piano.

The above correct sentence may also
be rewritten to include the past perfect tense:

"I had
finished my homework before I practiced the piano."

Using
the past perfect tense allows the writer to communicate that an action occurred before
another action that also happened in the past.  The perfect tenses allow events to be
placed in sequential order so that the listener/reader understands the proper sequence
of events.  Leaving the sentence in the simple past makes the sentence more
ambiguous--the listener/reader relies on the word "before" to put the events in
sequential order.  Using the perfect tense allows for more precise meaning if you are
not speaking about the immediate past.

I have attached a
link to an online writing lab that gives further information about the use of the
perfect tenses.

what is the polynomial f(x)=x^3-x^2+ax+b if f(0)=4 and x=2 is the root of f?

We'll recall the reminder theorem that states the
followings;

f(a) = 0 <=> a is the root of the
polynomial

f(a) = r, where r is the reminder of
polynomial.

According to all the above, we'll
have:

f(2) = 0 => 2^3 - 2^2 + 2a + b =
0

8 - 4 + 2a + b = 0

2a + b =
-4 (1)

f(0) = 4 => b = 4
(2)

We'll replace (2) in
(1):

2a + 4 = -4

2a = -8
=> a = -4

The requested polynomial is:
f(x) = x^3 - x^2 - 4x + 4.

When Mrs. Mallard reflects that,"It was only yesterday that she had thought with a shudder that life might be long," she becomes aware of what...

Louise Mallard sits alone in her bedroom looking far out
the open window at the blue sky and the trees brugeoning in Spring; she listens to the
songs of the carefree birds and experiences the epiphany of realizing that she is
"Free!  Body and soul free!"  She then imagines a future of Spring and Summer days. She
whispers a prayer that she will live a long life; then, she realizes that it was but a
moment ago in her repressed state as the wife of Bentley Mallard that she hoped that
life would not last long.

Here lies the irony:  As Mrs.
Mallard, Louise Mallard has been restricted by the Victorian law of femme covert: that
is, she has not been permitted to have any independence of her own.  Instead, she has
been repressed, subjected to the dictates of her husband, who has virtually controlled
her life.  But now that she has been informed of his death, Louise Mallard contemplates
a veritable freedom.  Now, she thinks, she will be able to enjoy the seasons of the
year, now she will finally be able to relish life.

Why did Bob go to Chicago in "After Twenty Years?" Give 2 reasons.

In this story, we are never told why Bob went to Chicago
in particular.  We are told that he went to "the West" in order to find his fortune and
to have adventures.  These can be seen as two different
reasons.

Bob wanted to leave New York partly to make his
fortune.  This is clearly stated in the story when he talks about the night he and Jimmy
last saw one another.  He says

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The next morning I was to start for the West to
make my fortune.

This tells
us that one reason he had for going west (and perhaps to Chicago) was that he thought he
could make more money there than he could in New York.

But
money is not all that he was after.  He seems to have felt that New York would not be
interesting and exciting enough.  He felt that life in New York would not be enough of a
challenge to him.  He shows us this when he says

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A man gets in a groove in New York. It takes the
West to put a razor-edge on
him.”

These lines show us
that Bob went west, and ultimately ended up in Chicago, to make money and to find
adventure.

Themes of as you like itI have to make project on the themes of as you like it.

  “All the
world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely
players.”

The famous
soliloquy is part of this play. Perhaps one of the theme of the play. Another prevalent
themes of the play are:

BATTLE OF
RIGHTS:

  This play is one of the romantic comedies of
Skakespeare focusing on eternal battle between good and evil.The good wins in the end in
form of Orlando and Duke Senior. The rightful Orlando gets the property from Oliver, his
elder brother and Duke Senior was returned his crown from Duke Frederick, his
brother.

PLAYFUL ROMANCE:

 
The play is based upon romantic playful acts of lovers. Orlando is in love with Rosalind
and Rosalind teases him while masquerading all the time as a young man. The lovers are
happily united ending the play with the happy note.

In The Great Gatsby, does Fitzgerald use any sterotype to describe Nick?

The short answer is that Fitzgerald does use a stereotype
to describe Nick: The reasonably well-to-do young man come east to "make his fortune."
He is genteel, conservative, rather aimless, and financially independent. He is,
however, much more than a mere stereotype; as the main character in the novel, he
possesses more depth. This part of your question is worthy of a major essay by
itself.

Nick is really the only dynamic character in the
novel. Gatsby remains true to his dream; Daisy, Tom and Jordan continue in their
careless lifestyles; even George Wilson remains unchanged -- he is weak and easily
deceived. Nick, however, begins by admiring the glittering, wealthy people of East Egg,
but becomes more and more disillusioned with them as the book progresses. By the end of
the book he sees Daisy and Tom as little more than children, who carelessly break things
and make messes, but move on, leaving others to clean up after them. He came to the East
in order to make his fortune and become one of the wealthy elite; he ends up leaving the
East for the West, which is presented as pure and honest throughout the
novel.

What is the equation of the line that passes through (2,-7) and parallel to 3x+6y -8 = 0

We need to find the equation of the line that passes
through the point (2, -7)

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

==> y+ 7 =
m(x-2)

Now we will find the
slope.

We know that the line if parallel to 3x+6y -8 =
0

Then, we know that the slopes are the
same.

==> We will rewrite into the slope
form.

==> y= (-1/2)x +
4/3

Then the slope is m=
-1/2

==> y+7 = -(1/2)(x
-2)

==> y= (-1/2)x + 1 -
7

==> y= -1/2 x -
6

==> 2y = -x -
12

The equation of the line is
x + 2y + 12 = 0

What is the standard form of the complex number ( 6 - 2i )/( 4 +14i )?

The standard form of the complex number is represented by
the rectangular form, that  is:

z = x +
i*y

The standard form does not allow for a complex numbers
to be found at the denominator.

For the beginning, we'll
factorize both, numerator and denominator, by 2:

( 6 - 2i
)/( 4 +14i ) = 2(3 - i)/2(2 + 7i)

We'll simplify and we'll
get: (3 - i)/(2 + 7i)

We'll have to get the complex
number out of the denominator. For this reason, we'll have
to multiply the numerator and denominator by the conjugate of the denominator: (2 -
7i).

(3-i)/(2+7i) = (3-i)*(2 - 7i)/(2+7i)*(2 -
7i)

(3-i)*(2 - 7i)/(2+7i)*(2 - 7i) = (6 - 21i - 2i +
7i^2)/(4 + 49), i^2 = -1

(6 - 21i - 2i - 7)/(4 + 49) = (-1
- 23i)/(53)

The standard form of the given
complex number is:

z = -1/53 -
(23/53)*i

In Oliver Twist, how does Mr. Brownlow help Oliver?Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist

Described as having "a heart large enough for any six
ordinary old gentlemen of humane disposition," Mr. Brownlow is a kind gentleman who
inadvertently rescues Oliver Twist from the clutches of the heinous Fagin. In Chapter X,
for instance, when the Artful Dodger picks the pocket of Mr Brownlow and darts away, the
gentlemen reaches for his handerchief and realizing that it is gone, he tries to
stop Oliver who has accompanied the other boys without realizing that they were going to
steal.   After "a great lubbery fellow" punches Oliver in the mouth, the boy falls,
bleeding.  A trip to the court helps neither Mr. Brownlow nor Oliver who is thrown into
the street.  However, the book-staller, who has accompanied Brownlow to court assists
the old gentleman as he takes Oliver to his dwelling where his servant, Mrs. Bedwin,
tends to him in his illness.  Later, Mr. Brownlow buys Oliver some new clothes.  But,
when he sends Oliver to return some books for him after the boy is well, Oliver is
recaptured by Nancy, and Mr. Grimwig, Browlow's friend, believes Oliver
dishonest.

Having been recaptured for Fagin, Oliver is used
in a robbery that goes badly; he is again injured, but the people in the house take
kindly to him and call a doctor.  The ladies, Mrs. Maylie and her adopted niece, Rose,
tend Oliver and become endeared to him.  After Oliver's broken arm heals, they take a
trip to London where Oliver sees Mr. Brownlow and is reunited with him.  Mr. Brownlow is
elated to see Oliver again, his faith in the boy restored.  Then, Mr. Brownlow sets out
to find Oliver's parentage and inheritance. 

When Nancy
returns to the bridge where she had spoken with Rose, Brownlow speaks with her; he tells
her that he wants to learn the secret of Oliver's identity and he wants her to turn over
Fagin.  Refusing to betray either one, Nancy instructs Mr. Brownlow to travel to the
Three Cripples, he will find Monks, whose description given by Nancy sounds familiar to
him.  

Brownlow arranges the kidnapping of Monks and talks
with him, telling him that he knows that he is the son of a good friend of his.  He
informs Monks that he knows of the will that the man has made. To settle things, Mrs.
Maylie, Rose, Mr. Losberne, and Mrs. Bedwin travel toward Oliver's birthplace; behind
them, Mr. Brownlow and Monks follow. In a meeting, Mr. Brownlow tells
Monks,

"This
child is your half-brother; the illegitimate son of your father, my dear friend Edwin
Leeford, by poor young Agnes Fleming, who died in giving him
birth."

After Monks says that
his mother burned the will, and he swore to her that he would find the child, if it
lived, and make its life a misery,the brave Brownlow reveals all he knows about Monks,
convincing him to cooperate in giving Oliver his inheritance, or he will turn Monks over
to the authorities, providing them with his information.  Mr. Brownlow tells Monks to
remain while he has a document drawn up.

After Oliver's
inheritance is restored to him, Mr. Brownlow adopts Oliver has his son and they continue
to live with Mrs. Bedwin, close to Rose, who turns out to be Oliver's aunt.  Mr.
Brownlow has given Oliver Twist legitimacy, his inheritance, and, above all, his love
and friendship.

What are the trends in social psychology?

Social psychology is a branch of psychology dealing with
the relationship between people. Originally, social psychologists studied mostly
relationships between groups. In the mid 1700's and early 1800's, the idea of
romanticism heavily influenced European academic life. Romanticism expressed a longing
for a primitive past, before industrialism and colonialism. One effect of this nostalgia
was to elevate the indigenous cultures of places like Africa and the Americas. In the
European imagination, these cultures came to represent a past golden age to which Europe
could never return. 

When social psychologists studied
different cultures they often used ideas and images from Romanticism to understand
non-European cultures. However, post-colonial academic life in former colonies soon
challenged that notion. Scholars such as Franz Fanon of Algeria and writers like Chinua
Achebe of Nigeria, presented complex, multifaceted images of former colonies, images
that debunked the simplistic Romantic notions of these cultures. This trend toward
paying greater attention to the complexity of human cultures
continues.

Social psychologists have turned their attention
to a number of questions that in the past would have been beyond their scope of inquiry.
The questions they pose may be scientific, sociological, or philosophical in nature.
They study the social nature of emotions, social influences on personality development,
and socially constructed notions of ethics and values. These questions assume that
emotions, personality development and ethics are not the same for everyone, but rather
vary from person to person depending on social and cultural context.

Give Paul's central understanding of Jesus in 1 Corinthians.Substantiate what you say with reference to what Paul says in that letter.

Essentially, Paul's first letter to the Corinthians
largely addressed problems and divisions in the church.  A few years after establishing
the church and then leaving, Paul hears that those left in charge had basically
developed some spiritual "arrogance" and as a result, were confusing the basic teachings
of Christ.

What is central to Paul's message then is this:
Christ came as the one who died, was buried, and raised to new life as the atonement for
human sins.  As Adam was the first man to fall, Christ came as the "last Adam," meaning
his death and resurrection allowed for humanity to be separated from God no more.  As a
result, Jesus' message was one of love and unity.  Jesus came to bring equal forgiveness
for all believers and would have his church
unified.

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Is Christ divided?  Was Paul crucified for you? 
Were you baptized into the name of Paul?  (1 Cor 1:
13)

Additionally, speaking to
the arrogance displayed in the church leadership, Paul adds that the church should be
relying on the teaching and wisdom of Christ for answers, rather than on each other. 
Christ is the representation of God's wisdom:

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but to those whom God has called, both Jews and
Greeks, Chrst the power of God and the wisdom of God. (1 Cor. 1:
24)

My message and my preaching were not with wise and
persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that your faith
might now rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power. (1 Cor 2:
4-5)

With this key principle
established (that it is by God's authority through Jesus and not man), Paul goes on in
the rest of the letter to address specific problems the Corinthian church was
having.

What were the Nuremberg Laws passed in Nazi Germany in the 1930s?

The Nuremberg Laws classified anyone
with one or more Jewish grandparents as Jewish, and deprived all Jews of citizenship.
Scores of Jews left the country, sacrificing everything in order to leave Germany. They
were the fortunate ones. After the assassination of a German diplomat in Paris by a
young Jewish boy who was trying to strike out at persecution, a well organized night of
violence and vandalism erupted, known as Krystallnacht, ("Crystal
Night," or "the night of broken glass.") Windows were smashed, shops looted, homes and
synagogues destroyed. German Jews were arrested and made to pay for the damage. Although
many Germans were opposed to Nazi outrages against Jews, most either went along or
looked the other way.

Under the Nuremberg laws, persons
determined to be Jewish were not allowed to teach or practice any profession. Sexual
relations between Jews and non Jews was unlawful. Jews were prohibited from displaying
the national flag, but were required to wear a Judenstern, or
Jewish star, indicating their status. This was a major step in the National Socialist
plan to eliminate Jewish influence from Germany.

What relationship between human interaction and truth is described in "I Stand Here Ironing"?

In this short story, "I Stand Here Ironing," a young
mother does the best she can, but it is not enough. She struggles to work and take care
of Emily. At times, Emily has to stay with other relatives. Through the years, Emily
feels dejected, abandoned and forsaken by her mother.

The
young mother did not deliberately abandon her daughter Emily. She was a single parent
because Emily's dad walked out, leaving his family behind to get by as best they
could.

Emily had trouble understanding how the children
that followed her seemed to be so well adjusted. They seemed joyous in comparison to
Emily's isolation.

Whose fault is it that Emily bears the
blunt of the early years, the years her mother struggled to find work, the years when
working hours conflicted with Emily's schedule as a baby
girl?

Emily is now growing up, nearly grown. She has
somewhat adjusted. Still, there are years that she and her mother can never recover. And
Mother stands ironing. Emily questions whether she will ever finish ironing. Again,
Emily feels abandoned by her mother, but the ironing must be
done.

This story is of a mother who is torn between making
a living and caring for her child, Emily. There is no way to balance her schedule;
therefore, Emily grows up in an unbalanced world. Hopefully, she is not scarred for
life.

Describe two traits of the narrator of "The Tell-Tale Heart" that ultimately lead to his downfall.

Because of the way in which the murderer is presented as
an unreliable narrator, lots of uncertainty exists about his character and the astute
reader must infer lots of the information we can glean about him. However, if we look at
the ending, we can suggest the two following traits that are responsible for the
narrator's downfall.

Firstly, it is clear that the narrator
takes pride in the way he has committed what appears to him to be the "perfect" murder.
He says that there was no blood at all, because he "had been to wary for that. A tub had
caught all--ha! ha!" His arrogance and the way he gloats at his intelligence leads him
to talk to the men and position himself right above the
body:

I
brought chairs into the room, and desired them here to rest from
their fatigues, while I myself, in the wild audacity of my perfect triumph, placed my
own seat upon the very spot beneath which reposed the corpse of the
victim.

It is clear that this
belief in his own "perfect triumph" and the narrator's arrogance is thus one key trait
that leads to his discovery and capture.

Secondly, although
this is not made clear, I believe that the sound of the beating of the old man's heart
actually symbolises the internal guilt of the narrator in committing the crime that he
is apparently so unaffected by. It is obvious that the sound of this beating is heard by
the narrator alone, and what is interesting to spot is the way that this sound has the
effect of driving the narrator into a kind of lunacy:

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I foamed--I raved--I swore! I swung the chair
upon which I had been sitting, and grated it upon the boards, but the noise arose over
all and continually increased. It grew
louder--louder--louder!

Perhaps
we can read this as being the conscience of the narrator demanding to be heard. Thus we
could say that it is the guilt of the narrator that secondly is responsible for his
downfall.

Discuss the relative importance of the trinity of motives--"God, Gold, and Glory"--commonly assigned to the conquistadors.Keen, Benjamin. A...

The proper motives would probably be Gold, Glory and God
in that order. At the time of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, Spain was the
poorest country in Europe. It was in desperate need of Gold to keep its economy from
collapsing. Pizzaro reportedly remarked to Atahualpa, the Inca Emperor, "We Spaniards
have a disease of the heart that only gold can cure." Columbus' primary motivation was
gold, not spices. When one reads his dairies, they mention the gold jewelry he saw the
Indians wearing. Later, he forced them to furnish a quota in gold, and cut off one of
their fingers if they did not meet the quota.

Glory was
also important. Hernan Cortez, Columbus, and others disobeyed direct orders in their
treatment of the Indians. Columbus had been admonished by Isabella to "treat kindly"
with the natives on his successive voyages. His idea of kindness was to release
greyhounds on them to tear flesh from their limbs. He also insisted on the title of
Admiral of the Ocean Sea and wished to be named Viceroy of all lands he discovered.
Likewise, Pizzaro and Cortez wished to be named governors of all lands they
conquered.

Religion was an excuse more than anything else
for the Conquistadores to abuse and plunder the Indians. Pizarro promised Atahualpa that
he would not have him executed by burning if he would become a Christian. Atahualpa
agreed, and was baptized, after which Pizarro had him strangled. Many artifacts of
Mesoamerica have been lost because overzealous Catholic priests destroyed them. Hardly
in keeping with Jesus' teaching to love one another.

Please give an acount of all the figures of speech in the poem "The Slave's Dream."

To identify the figures of speech you need to look at the
dream that the slave has as he lies on his plantation, near death. Consider the way
that, as he rides his horse, a metaphor is used to describe the reins as being like
"golden chains" that serve to emphasise the wealth and nobility of his life before he
was transported to work as a slave. The "blood-red flamingoes" are described using a
simile as being "like a blood-red flag," just as the sounds of the "water-horse" passing
are described as being "like a glorious roll of drums." The setting of this free Africa
is personified in the following stanza:

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The forests, with their myriad
tongues,

Shouted of
liberty;

And the Blast of the Desert cried
aloud,

With a voice so wild and
free...

Note how the forests
are compared to people shouting of "liberty" and the Desert likewise is able to cry out
with "a voice so wild and free." Lastly, a metaphor is used to describe the body of the
slave in the final stanza, as it is said to be "a worn-out fetter" that the soul had
left.