What are the outcomes of the main characters in Of Mice and Men?

The fundamental outcome of the main characters in
Steinbeck's work is directly tied to their notion of dreams and realities.  Characters
who live for dreams, or are animated by a notion of consciousness that is different from
what is presented find a pain- ridden end, while those who do not seek to envision
anything beyond what is the Status Quo are left alone and do not experience much in way
of pain.  In this Steinbeck is making a statement about how dreams might involve pain,
but they are still superior to the alternative, which is an existence that is not
redemptive and filled with despair, either knowing or unknowing.  Lennie and George
suffer greatly and are individuals who see themselves as agents of their own dreams. 
Lennie ends up dying, and George is the one who takes his life.  Curley's wife dies, as
well, with the last words on her lips about how she wished for something more in her
life, while Candy recognizes that he should have advocated for his dead dog more as his
dream slips past his reach with the death of Curley's wife.  For each of these people,
the outcome of their existence tied to dreams was one of frustration and pain.  Their
foils would be characters like Crooks, Curley, and Carlson, individuals who live their
lives either without want of something more or recognizing the pain in wishing for it. 
Their outcomes are not ones of pain or extended suffering, but rather a banal that numbs
them to their reality.  It is this outcome that leaves Crooks knowing that he must
embrace this life, for there will not be any other redemption for him and leave Carlson
wondering at the end, "What got into those guys," lacking any sort of moral
imagination.  While the outcome for those who dream is painful and pain ridden,
Steinbeck might be suggesting that it is a better end for those who refuse to see what
should be out of a reality of what is.

Where is dramatic irony used in Riders to the Sea?

Let us remember that dramatic irony is when one or more
characters and the audience know something that a principal character does not. Perhaps
the most famous literary example of this is of course in Romeo and
Juliet, when we know that Juliet is not dead but are forced to watch Romeo
kill himself just before his true love awakes. Thus when we think of this definition of
dramatic irony and apply it to this play, we can see the biggest dramatic irony comes as
the two sisters, Cathleen and Nora, look through the bundle of clothes that was
recovered from a drowned corpse whilst their mother is away and find that they belong to
their brother, who has obviously drowned like his other brothers. However, because of
Maurya's fear about her last remaining son going on the sea, they decide to keep this
knowledge from her until Bartley's safe return:

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Put these things away before she'll come in.
Maybe it's easier she'll be after giving her blessing to Bartley, and we won't let on
we've heard anything the time he's on the
sea.

Of course, the irony
heightens the tragedy, as Maurya is still plagued with the premonition that her last
remaining son will die by the sea too, and we as the audience know that her other son
has definitely been drowned the same way that she fears Bartey will
die.

In "Sonny's Blues," what did Sonny and his brother suffer?

In "Sonny's Blues," Sonny and his brother, the narrator,
both suffer from the disconnect in their relationship.  While growing up, Sonny and the
narrator have limited options, and both end up taking very different paths to realize
their dreams.  Sonny has always loved music, but many barriers have stood in the way of
his becoming a musician.  Sonny ends up in jail and addicted to drugs.  The narrator, on
the other hand, eventually becomes a teacher.  But the two brothers are not connected
and the narrator cannot understand why Sonny has chosen to live his life the way he
has.  The two suffer because of this disconnect until the end of the story when the
narrator finally starts to understand Sonny's love of music.

What is your opinion about the admissibility of such evidence in this case?Assume that the prosecution in the murder trial of a mother offered as...

Assuming the pictures have some bearing on the manner and
cause of death of the child, they would be admissible. If they were offered for no other
reason than to show that the child was dead, an objection might possibly be sustained as
other evidence (testimony, death certificate, etc.) could be offered to that effect, and
the photographs would be irrelevant and unfairly prejudicial to the defendant. So it is
important to know if the pictures showed injuries, malnutrition, or otherwise provided
visual evidence of the cause of death as neglect.

The
sadomasochistic acts of the mother are another issue. If evidence shows she did so while
she neglected the child, the evidence might very well be admitted. If however it is
simply used to show that she is kinky with no direct relation to the child's death, the
video would not be admissible. The fact that a person engages in unusual sexual acts, or
even commits adultery, does not per se mean the person is an unfit parent or neglects
his/her child. So the admission of this evidence would be quite
problematic.

Please i need help in this question thank you.A cube of cooper 2.00cm on a side is suspended by a string. The cube is heated with a burner from...

The volume of the cube is

= d^3 =0.02^3 =8*10^-6 m^3

The coefficient of volumetric
expansion for copper is

The
increase in temperature is

The law of volume variation with temperature
is

=2.856*10^-9 m^3

b)

The mechanical work done
by the cube to increase its volume against the  atmospheric pressure
is

c)

The mass of the cube
is

The heat necessary to increase the temperature of the cube
is

d) If is the internal energy of the cube then the
first principle of thermodynamics says:

Using l'Hopital' Rule, find the limit of x^x^2 as x approaches 0 from the right.

We have to find the value of lim x-->0+
[(x^x)^2)]

lim x-->0+
[(x^x)^2)]

=> lim x-->0+ [e^(ln
((x^x)^2))]

=> lim x-->0+ [e^(ln
((x^2x))]

=> lim x-->0+ [e^(2x*ln
x)]

As the exponential function is continuous we can write
this as

=> e^[lim x-->0+ (2x*ln
x)]

As 2x*ln is of the indeterminate form we can use
l'Hopital's rule

lim x-->0+ (2x*ln
x)

=> lim x-->0+ (2*ln
x/(1/x))

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

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

=> lim x-->0+
(-2*x)

substitute x =
0

=> 0

Now we have e^0
= 1

This gives the value of lim x-->0+
[(x^x)^2)] = 1

What are the names of the tragicomiedies or problem plays written by William Shakespeare?

All's Well and Measure for
Measure are considered tragicomedies, or problem plays, but also included
would be The Merchant of Venice. Plus the four late plays,
Cymbeline, Pericles, The Winter's Tale, and The
Tempest are often included under the term problem
plays.

Actually the four late plays all fall under the
Romantic tradition and thematically share the loss of a daughter.  The first three deal
with the loss of and gain of a daughter at the end.  In The
Tempest, Propero is willing to "lose" his daughter because in the end, he
will gain.

The problem plays are called problem plays
because they deal with problem issues.  They are usually classified as comedies because
they follow the rule of comedy.  They begin with a "bad" situation which gets better at
the end.  In other words, the situation goes from bad to
good.

Since Shakespeare tried various things in his writing
and didn't conform to the "rules", it is often difficult to classify his plays. For
example, Troilus and Cressida can classified as one of the
Greek/Roman plays or plays influenced by Plutarch's
Lives.

In Act I scene 1 of As You Like It, how and why is Duke Senior compared to Robin Hood?

You need to turn towards the end of this first scene to
discover this reference and explore why it is used. Having been shamed and beaten by his
brother, Orlando, Oliver then talks to Charles about what has happened in court. Charles
tells him (and us as the audience) how Duke Senior was banished from his rightful
position of leader by his younger brother, Duke Ferdinand, and how he has set up court
in the Forest of Arden with some of his loyal friends that have deserted their positions
of influence in the court to be with Duke Senior. Note how Charles describes
them:

They say
he is already in the Forst of Arden and a many merry men with him, and there they live
like the old Robin Hood of England. They say many young gentleman flock to him every day
and fleet the time carelessly as they did in the golden
world.

Duke Senior is
compared to Robin Hood in the way that he lives in the forest in opposition to the
authority that is based in the court. In addition, he is said to be enjoying life and
passing time "carelessly" as they did in the "golden world," harking back to a time of
innocence and diversion when people were able to live lives free from the toil and
strain of work and effort.

I need to know how to find a theme for a seminar paper about Lord of the Flies by William Golding.

The predominant theme for Lord of the
Fllies is that without civilization humans revert to their more base, or
savage natures. Author William Golding showed us through the boys who crash landed on
the deserted island that people are naturally evil. Left alone without structure or
rules, humans will take care of themselves first, bully others, and eventually
kill.

Jack, at the beginning of the novel, couldn't even
bring himself to kill a helpless pig. He had been taught by adults in his civilized
society that killing was wrong. However, after the structured society the boys had built
broke down, Jack (after hiding behind his painted face) not only killed a pig, but
eventually killed people.

A good way to find a theme in a
piece of literature is to ask yourself, "If someone asked me what life lesson I learned
from reading this piece, what would it be?" Avoid summing up your answer in a
predictable cliche, but use your own words to say what the work was
about.

I am having trouble coming up with a thesis statement for A Child Called "IT".I am reading on how to come up with a thesis that need three main...

A thesis statement is the main idea of what a paper is
about. Typically, this statement allows a reader of the paper to know exactly what the
paper is going to say without having to reader the paper at
all.

Before writing your paper, you need to know exactly
what type of paper you are going to be writing. The three main types of essays are
analytical (used to break down ideas and evaluate them), an expository (where one
explains something to an audience), and a argumentative (where you present your argument
on a given topic).

Examples of each, in regards to "A Child
Called It" would be:

Analytical: David's life held many
challenges. One would describe the challenges that David faced as a result of living in
an abusive home.

Expository: David Pelzer was an abused
child whose abuse was horrific. One would be explaining David's life as one as an abused
child.

Argumentative: David Pelzer did not deserve the life
he lived as a child. One would take a stand on a point they believed to be true about a
work. (Unfortunately, this would not be a good essay given many people would already
agree with your stand. A more aggressive paper would state that David deserved the abuse
that he suffered from at the hand of his mother. This being said, a thesis like this
could be offensive to readers and the writer would never be able to persuade the
audience.)

To create a thesis statement for the novel, one
could consider the things that David had to do to survive. David had to steal food so as
not to starve. Also, David had to hide the truth about his abuse so as not to be abused
more. Lastly, David had to be strong (physically and mentally) so as to be able to
survive the abuse.

These supporting ideas would lead the
essay to be one of an expository nature. You, as the writer, would be explaining what it
took for David to survive his childhood of abuse.

The Odyssey is not just a story. It's a story about telling stories. What does this comment about the Odyssey mean?In what sense is this comment...

The Odyssey is not just a story. It is a story about
several stories as told by Odysseus. Odysseus is sharing his adventures through a
flashback. He begins his story in what is known as medias res which means in the middle
of things.

To the King and Queen of Phaeacia, Odysseus
begins telling of the Lotus Eaters and the Cyclops and Circe and Calypso. Each adventure
told is a flashback on what has happened to Odysseus on his way home form the Trojan
War. The Trojan War lasted ten years. Then it has taken another ten years for Odysseus
to finally make it home.

He shares this story of traveling
home with the the Phaeacians. They long to hear every detail of Odysseus' ten-year
adventure.

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Odysseus arrives at the palace and begs the
assistance of King Alcinous and Queen Arete. He gives an edited version of his
"adventures" to date...

After
telling each individual story, the Phaeacians help Odysseus travel home. Although he
reaches Ithaca, his story is far from over. Now, he must fight the suitors who are after
Penelope's hand in marriage. Of course, Odysseus wins the battle and the story ends in a
happily-ever-after fashion.

Comment on theme appearance vs. reality as it applies to the relationship between Petruchio and Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, Act III scene 2.

The theme of appearance vs. reality seems to be an
omnipresent theme in many of Shakespeare's comedies, and this excellent play is no
exception. Of course, in this scene, Act III scene 2, the discrepancy between these two
states is in the role that Petruchio plays as a new husband, and how he commands (and
shames) his wife, inventing an excuse to deliberately "tame" her from her shrewish ways
and giving him ample opportunity to state his authority over her as her husband. Note
how Petruchio is quick to inconvenience Kate and deliberately provoke a response from
her:

I must
away today, before night come.

Make it no wonder. If you
knew my business,

You would entreat me rather go than
stay.

It is impossible to
imagine a bridegroom insisting on leaving with his bride before their wedding feast, and
even before she is able to bid farewell to friends and family, but Petruchio does this,
and in addition, leaving in such a mad state as to embarrass Katharina and humiliate
her:

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Grumio,

Draw forth
thy weapon; we are beset with thieves.

Rescue thy mistress,
if thou be a man--

Fear not, sweet wench, they shall not
touch thee, Kate!

I'll buckler thee against a
million.

It is hard to escape
the conclusion that Petruchio is playing a deliberately artificial role as part of his
campaign to tame his wife. Appearance is not what it seems, and the reality of Petruchio
is carefully hidden until his campaign has been successful.

What is a summary of the poem "Matilda" by Hilaire Bellock?

A summary of "Matilda" is more quickly done than the fire
that burned Matilda’s Aunt's house down. Matilda lived with her Aunt, who was a firm
believer in truth and, in fact, (unsuccessfully) instructed Matilda in truth from her
youth.

Her
Aunt, who, from her Earliest Youth,
Had kept a Strict Regard for
Truth,

Matilda, on the other
hand, had a fondness for telling lies, particularly--it would seem--the sort that
involve practical jokes. One day Matilda, left alone (and unguarded!) phoned "London's
Noble Fir-Brigade," or fire fighters, and told them that her Aunt's house was burning
down.

The Brigade came to the rescue with water hoses blaring out
water. They entered the ballroom and drenched it then turned to drenching the paintings
to preserve them from burning. Matilda's Aunt had a very difficult time convincing the
fire fighters that there was no fire to fight, for, you see, Matilda had said there was
.... The Aunt was finally successful and convinced them there was no fire and then paid
them--yes, paid them--to go.

Here comes the part with the moral.
Matilda's Aunt went

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off to the Theatre
To see that
Interesting Play
The Second Mrs.
Tanqueray.

But Matilda was
obliged to stay at home as punishment for calling out the Fire-Brigade and causing the
ballroom to be drenched and the family heirloom painting to be soaked. It chanced that
while the Aunt was enjoying The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, a fire did
break out at home with Matilda there alone (I wonder who started it?). As she felt the
flames grow hotter, no one would believe her impassioned cries of "Fire! Fire!" as she
hollered out the window. They responded by saying "Little Liar!" This is why the ending
of the is that

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therefore when her Aunt
returned,
Matilda, and the House, were
Burned.

To apply the moral of
the story--and summary--do be sure to tell the truth; avoid lies and pranks, especially
those involving the Fire-Brigade; never cry "Fire!” unless you mean it; and do not
acquire a reputation as a "Little Liar!”

What were the prospects for world peace at the end of World War II?

If, by world peace, you mean a situation in which there
would be no war or conflict anywhere, I would say there was no realistic prospect
whatsoever.

At the end of WWII, it was not very likely at
all that there would be another big war any time soon.  The end of WWII saw most of the
major countries of the world in very bad shape from the fighting.  Only the US could
really have had the wherewithal to have any chance of fighting another big war
soon.

However, there were many things that made it almost
inevitable that there would be conflicts.  First, there was the issue of communism and
the Soviet Union's desire to create a strategic buffer for itself.  These issues led to
civil wars in places like Greece and Korea (since the Korean War was more or less a
civil war).  Second, there were issues of colonialism and the desire of various
colonized countries to be free.  This led to conflicts around Southeast
Asia.

So, if world peace is a situation with no huge wars,
the prospects were good.  If world peace is a situation with no conflicts at all, the
chances were extremely remote.

How this crisis can be turned into an opportunity for the organization?In the fall of 1986 a Consumer Products company, was confronted with a...

In a case like this, the only real way that a firm can
turn a crisis into an opportunity is by positioning itself as a responsible corporate
citizen and a pioneer in the prevention of similar crises.  This is one of the
strategies that the Johnson & Johnson company
pursued.

The company did not waste any time trying to
assign blame or trying to ignore the problem.  It recalled all of its Tylenol around the
whole country, even at great expense.  This made it look like the company was concerned
only about its customers.

After that, the company came out
as a leader in prevention of similar crises.  It became the first company to adopt the
FDA's standards for tamper-resistant packaging.  By doing these things, it was able to
position itself as a leader in product safety.

This was
still not a good thing for the company, but it managed to rebound in part because of the
good corporate image it projected in dealing with the crisis.

How did Rome's contact with the Hellenistic world affect Roman civilization in the second and first centuries B.C.E.?

This is a very complicated issue, but in some ways we can
say that the Roman aristocracy had a kind of love-hate relationship with the Greeks.  On
the one hand, many elites were fascinated by Greek art, literature and philosophy. 
Having a Greek slave to tutor one's children was a sign of great status.  Even Cato the
Elder, who feared Greek influence as corrupting the old-fashioned Roman mores, saw the
value of having a Greek tutor for his son. Greek cultural influences led the Romans to
write their own history (Rome's first work of history by the senator Fabius Pictor was
actually written in Greek, in order to explain the Romans to a Greek audience),
literature and poetry in conscious imitation of Greek models, but eventually these
attempts became distinctly "Roman" in character.  A nice example of this would be
Aeneas, a hero from the Greek Trojan War myth, who became the founder of the Italian
people in Vergil's epic the Aeneid. His quality of
pietas (devotion to duty) was a trait the
Romans imagined themselves to possess in abundance.  The extensive trade networks of the
Hellenistic states brought goods from India, Persia and as far as China into Roman
markets.  We hear of Chinese silk for sale at Rome in 55 B.C.E.  The Roman poet Horace,
who based his own Latin poetry on earlier Greek models, perhaps said it best when he
said, "Captured Greece captured the Roman conquerors." 

On
the other hand, wealth derived from the conquest of Greek lands, especially the
fabulously rich kingdoms of Pergamum, Pontus and finally Egypt, upset the delicate
balance of Rome's political system.  Massive numbers of captive slaves from conquered
kingdoms and cities in the Hellenistic world undermined independent Italian peasant
farmers, who could not compete with the huge slave-worked estates of the Roman
aristocracy.  These farmers often left their land for Rome, where they contributed to a
rapidly growing and overcrowded city.  Meanwhile, the highly competetive Roman elite
could use these dispossessed people as clients, bodyguards and, ultimately, soldiers in
their own armies.  The clearest illustration of the relationship between the desire for
wealth generated from conquest, and the increasingly chaotic political system, is in the
actions of L. Cornelius Sulla.  Sulla, deprived of a lucrative military command to put
down the Hellenistic monarch Mithridates, fought his way into Rome in order to retrieve
his command.  Later, in the first of several civil wars in the first century B.C.E., he
fought his way in a second time in order to punish his political enemies who had
deprived him of the command in the first place.  The intense competition among Rome's
elite, and the senators' willingness to use wealth derived from the conquest of the
Hellenistic world, for their own political ends, contributed to the ultimate collapse of
the Republic.

What is a “decentered subject”?

The philosophy of the decentered subject can be traced
back to Descartes in the 17th century. However, it is also a part of the
post-structuralism school and it has intertwined itself with modern psychology. Here is
the gist of it: According to Descartes, every individual possesses some form of
self-awareness, self-esteem, and self-consciousness. Descartes named this “self”, or
essence of individual uniqueness, the Cartesian self. To the modern mind, with so many
developments in psychology and behavior, this idea may seem obvious. But back then it
was (and continues in a way to be) a debate of paradigms. Do we really have a "center"?
Is it a soul? Is it our brains at work? Is it our emotions?

Now, to answer your question, the decentered self is the
idea that one can produce any form of communication (in art, science, literature,
language, and research) with the same effectiveness if we were detached from the work
itself and more focused on the process of producing the piece. The point of this
philosophy is primarily to question whether we have a “self” or whether we are a product
of circumstances.

An example of the decentered self would
be a doctor telling a patient their prognosis. If the doctor is too involved in the
process, he wouldn’t be able to give the patient the information without becoming
emotional. Therefore, the doctor decenters from the situation by detaching any emotion
from the situation, bringing out the information as neutrally as can possibly be.
However, could this behavior be just that: A learned behavior? Or do we have something
else within us that attaches us to situations that are unique to us? That is the big
question.

Therefore, what the philosophers state is that
it is possible to be emotionally detached from intellectual matters. However, as with
every philosophical statement, we cannot just take that as a theory, but as food for
thought.

What are various points for the topic of water resources in India?

I think that one aspect upon which you can focus is the
basic idea of how government can invest in wide ranging civic engineering projects to
ensure that water allocation is experienced in all parts of India.  Any nation that is
surrounded by three large bodies of water and is filled with significantly powerful and
flowing rivers has water.  The challenge is being able to invest in technologies to
ensure that this water gets to the people who sorely need it.  In a larger sense, the
Ministry of Water Resources must take a more active role in spearheading basic water
projects that can simply divert water from these abundant sources to areas that truly
need them.  This can be seen in cities as well.  Municipal planning has to include the
consistent and safe delivery of water to all parts of a city.  In addition to this, the
Indian monsoons deliver more water to the nation than it can handle.  Investing in
engineering initiatives that will be able to parlay this water into a usable and
consumable form will be a boon to any government that can deliver this and also harness
natural resources in a meaningful and well warranted manner.

How can I view the will written by my grandfather?I want to view the will written by my grandfather written long before. As my mother died, my...

IF your grandfather left a valid will, it should have been
admitted to probate, either in a probate court, surrogate court, or whichever other
judicial authority is responsible for probating wills and estates. My suggestion to you
would be to visit the local Courthouse or judicial center and ask someone there to
direct you to where wills are probated. There you should be able to view your
Grandfather's original Will and read it. Once you have found it, however, there is no
guarantee that his Will will provide you with the answers you are seeking. Although
there have been instances of guardians hiding information from the lawful heir; they are
not common. If for whatever reason it does appear that the guardian or your father has
mishandled your Grandfather's estate, you would need to retain an attorney immediately
and have the attorney sue for an accounting. All persons responsible for distributing
the assets of a deceased person in accordance with a Will are acting in a position of
trust, and must strictly account for their actions. Good luck.

In "To the Lighthouse" Mrs Ramsay is generally considered a positive character, but what are some of her negative traits?I'm more interested in how...

Mrs. Ramsay is generally considered a positive character
and the final judgement of her in the novel is one that is positive however, she too, as
anyone, has her faults. Mrs. Ramsay is a old fashioned Victorian mother whose relies on
the neediness of others. When she is not "needed", as in the case of Mr. Carmichael, she
is unsure of how to act or connect with him, as she does with everyone else. Being a
Victorian mother living in the Edwardian age, she is socially confined in her ideas of
women and their place in the world. She believes a women's role is as a wife and mother
and that professions, economics, government and the arts are not necessarily a place for
a woman. This is not her fault, she was raised to assume those duties and question
little else, but the new generation of women see her confined conventions of womenhood
as restricting and dated.

In Act 1 of The Miracle Worker, according to Annie, what advantages does she have as she begins her employment with the Keller family?

When Anne Sullivan is met at the train station by Helen
Keller's mother, Kate is immediately a bit concerned about Anne's youth; she doesn't
know if Anne could possibly have the experience and knowledge, at such a young age, to
make a difference in Helen's situation.  However, Annie reassures her that along with
youth comes energy, which will be a very helpful asset in her work with Helen; Annie
also reminds Kate that she (Annie) was once blind, and can thus sympathize more closely
with Helen's disability on this front.  The two women seem to be on a positive
footing as they leave the train station, but a bit of dramatic irony is noticeable to
someone familiar with Helen's story; she has been allowed to run roughshod over everyone
for so long, that Annie's work is going to require a bit more than youthful energy and
an appreciation of what it is like to be blind.

What three factors led up to the deaths of Hal, Charles, Mercedes and the dog sled team in Chapter 5 of Call of the Wild?

These three "chechaquos" learned about the terrible
hardships of the Yukon the hard way. Although they were anxious to find the riches of
gold, they were not willing to learn the rules of survival that faced them on their
journey. Everything Buck saw about them was in "disorder," from the dirty dishes to the
"slipshod" manner that they set their tent. The group was totally out-of-place in the
harsh environment, and they made many mistakes along the way. Perhaps their biggest
mistakes were:

• Overloading their sled with
  unnecessary items, such as canned goods, excessive clothing, and personal items. The
  woman, Mercedes, refused to walk, so she further weighed down the sled by riding on
  it.


• Using fourteen dogs, an excessive number, in part
  because enough food could not be carried.


• Spending too
  much time in camp and not leaving early enough each
  morning.


• Overfeeding the dogs, which caused them to run
  out of food even sooner.


• Not heeding the good advice that
  they would arrive at the White River too late, and that they would not be able to travel
  over the thin ice.

How to find equations of both lines that are tangent to the curve y = 1 + x^2 and are parallel to the line 12x - y=1?

Parallel lines have an equal slope. As the equation of the
required tangents to the curve are parallel to the line 12x - y = 1, the slope of the
tangents is equal to the slope of 12x - y = 1.

12x - y =
1

=> y = 12x - 1

This
is the equation of the line in the slope-intercept form with the slope given by
12.

The value of the first derivative at any point on the
curve is equal to the slope of the tangent at that
point.

For the curve y = 1 + x^2, y' =
2x

2x = 12

=> x =
6

For x = 6, y = 1 + 6^2 =
37

The required tangent passes through (6, 37) and has a
slope 12.

(y - 37)/(x - 6) =
12

= y - 37 = 12x -
72

=> 12x - y - 35 =
0

There is only one tangent to the curve that is parallel
to the line 12x - y = 1.

The equation of the
tangent is : 12x - y - 35 = 0

What were differences in treatment of the Native Americans by the Spanish in the Southwest and the French in Canada 1500-1700? Differences...

There were both differences and similarities in the way
that these two European countries treated Native Americans in their respective
colonies.   The Spanish and the French were both interested in getting rich from the
resources of the land and in converting the natives.  The major difference is that the
French did much less to try to control the Indians in
Canada.

Both the French and the Spanish wanted to use the
natives to extract resources and enrich the "mother countries."  The Spanish were mainly
after mineral wealth while the French ended up centering their economy on furs.  The
Spanish created many settlements and tried to control the natives on a daily basis. 
They needed the natives to work in their mines and on their plantations.  The French, by
contrast, created fewer settlements and did not try to really change the ways in which
the natives lived.  They relied on the natives to go and trap animals for furs, but
beyond that they did not really try to control them.

In Hamlet, what qualities of Hamlet's character are brought out by his first few words of the play in Scene 2?

In Hamlet's conversation with Claudius and Gertrude in the
beginning of Act I, Scene ii, Hamlet's introduction into the play, his first exchanges
with them reveal much of his character, establishing traits that will be developed
throughout the drama. Most significantly, Hamlet is shown to be a young man who feels
grief profoundly. When his mother asks why he "seems" to be taking his father's death so
hard since death is part of the natural order, Hamlet replies, "I have that within which
passes show." He does not simply "seem" or appear to be grieving; his real grief is
deeper than any outward trappings of mourning can
express.

Furthermore, when Claudius observes to Hamlet that
"the clouds still hang on you," Hamlet replies, "Not so, my lord. I am too much in the
sun." His words can be interpreted as a pun, as "sun" becomes "son." At this moment, the
role of son weighs heavily on Hamlet: He is a natural son who grieves for his dead
father, and he has become the unnatural "son" of his uncle. Hamlet is a young man who is
introspective and acutely sensitive to his
circumstances.

Other remarks by Hamlet suggest his
character more subtly. Hamlet's aside that he stands in relationship to Claudius as "A
little more than kin and less than kind," indicates his independent thinking and inner
conflict. He does not blindly accept his mother's marriage to Claudius; his resentment
is clear. When Gertrude makes requests of him, Hamlet will promise only to do "all my
best" to obey her; he will not vow complete obedience to her
wishes.

Hamlet's expressing his feelings in an aside shows
that he is one who can keep the truth of his feelings to himself, if he wishes. In this
first scene, therefore, Hamlet shows that he is capable of deceit; throughout the play
he and Claudius will deal with each other through deceit, each working to achieve hidden
agendas.

In his first appearance in the play and in very
few words, Hamlet is revealed to be a complex and deeply conflicted
character.

What are specific connections between Seedfolks and Transcendentalism?

I think that one specific connection between Fleischman's
work and the theory of Transcendentalism is the location of the subjective.  Both in
form and message, Fleischman's work places a great deal of emphasis on the subjective
experience.  The reader understands the novel's development through the individual
voices of different characters.  Each character appropriates the world in accordance to
their own subjectivity.  This process happens through emotional understanding and
connection.  It is in these two realms- subjectivity and emotion- where
Transcendentalism could connect to the novel.  At the same time, the fact that the
natural process of growth and nature, itself, becomes an important backdrop to the novel
is vitally important.  The idea of the gardens represent different realities to
different characters.  Transcendentalists would love the idea that nature, itself, is a
part of human emotional growth and development, similar to plants,
themselves.

What is aphasia?

Aphasia is defined as impaired language ability.  It
ranges from forgetting names (nominal aphasia) to complete inability to speak, read or
write (global aphasia).

A neurologist and/or speech
pathologist should evaluate a patient with aphasia.  The commonest cause of aphasia is
brain damage from a stroke (cerebrovascular accident or CVA).  Strokes occur from
thrombosis (clotting) of vessels supplying blood to the brain, hemorrhage (bleeding)
from vessels within the brain, or clots originating elsewhere in the circulatory system
which then lodge in the vessels of the brain.

Aphasia
patients are given a thorough neurologic examination.  An MRI (Magnetic Resonance
Imaging) scan is used to detect areas of brain
injury.

Early neurologists Paul Broca and Carl Wernicke
described aphasia and identified areas of brain injury responsible for the condition. 
Some of their work has been superseded by modern imaging studies, and it is currently
felt that assigning specific brain injury sites to aphasia type is
difficult.

One useful classification of aphasia is as
follows:

1.  Receptive
Aphasia

a.  Word deafness (patient hears but does not
understand words)

b.  Alexia (patient reads but does not
understand words)

c.  Visual asymbolia (words are
disorganized and can not be recognized)

2.  Intermediate
Aphasia:  Nominal amnestic aphasia (patient can not remember
names)

3.  Expressive Aphasia, also called Broca’s aphasia
(patient has difficulty putting thoughts into words)

Write about the role of Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House describing some social, historical, and cultural features inherent in the play.

Nora Helmer does change throughout the story. In the
beginning, she is the perfect wife. She is submissive to her husband, and she dotes on
her children. She makes sure her family has everything they need. She buys fine wine to
keep her husband believing they are doing well. Of course, she is economical because she
saves every penny to repay the loan she borrowed behind her husband's back. She does not
spend extra money on her clothes. She is constantly thinking of her family. On occasion,
she secretly buys macaroons for herself. However, Torvald does not permit her to eat
macaroons, claiming they are bad for her teeth.

When
Torvald calls her by pet names that are actually quite offensive, she smiles and plays
his game. She does not do anything to interrupt the family life. Although Nora has no
idea who she is as a person, she never complains. She keeps up a facade pretending she
is happy.

While Torvald is enjoying his little doll, Nora
plays along to keep him happy. Then, when Torvald learns the truth, the fact that she
has borrowed money without his consent, he becomes furious. Torvald sends her to her
room after yelling at her. This is when Nora realizes that she is not happy. Torvald
doesn't appreciate her act of love. He ridicules and says no man should give up his
reputation, not even for the woman he loves. Nora retaliates, saying millions of women
have done it.

Nora cannot go on pretending. She realizes
that Trovald does not love her as his wife. she is his prized possession. He idolizes
her beauty, but that does not make her feel loved as his wife, as the mother of his
children. Nora does not know who she is. She must leave Torvald and find her own
identity.

Oh what will the neighbors think? They will be
appalled at Nora, but she is desperate for unconditional love; something Torvald is
incapable of giving her. So she leaves, probably to never
return.

Write a note on EPABX

An electronic private automatic branch exchange or EPABX
is used by most businesses. These are systems which provide connectivity between members
of the same organization as well as to entities outside the
organization.

In the absence of an EPABX, each member of an
organization required a separate telephone number given by a telephone services
provider. This made internal communication expensive as the telephone service provider's
network had to be used. With an EPABX, internal numbers are routed through the system
and do not need the telephone service provider's infrastructure. Numbers are also
shorter, making them easier to remember and dial.

The EPABX
also has several external connections that allow communication outside the organization.
The EPABX can automatically link the external caller to the appropriate internal number.
Modern EPABX provide many additional services like call waiting, conference calls, call
metering, welcome calls, etc.

It has proved to be a very
valuable tool in providing inexpensive communication options within organizations as
well as improved communication options outside the organization.

How can I write this sentence in an ornate style: the boy walked through the woods

The boy walked through the
woods. 

Ornate style asks that you elevate the diction
(vocabulary) and syntax(structure) of the sentence to a higher level.  Think of a
regular, undecorated wall, and then, compare it to the same wall with paint, pictures
and other decorations.

So, what can we do to elevate this
sentence?  Let's start with the nouns - boy and
woods.

• First, think of some synonyms for boy: 
  adolescent, juvenile, youth, college senior, high school freshman, middle school
  shortstop...the list is endless.


• Second, add some
  description:  the snarling adolescent with the metal adornments on his face.  We added
  snarling and the fact that he had facial
  piercings.


• Repeat this process for the noun
  'woods'


• Third, look at your verb - walked.  Repeat the
  process we began above with this word.

No
matter what the original sentence, you can always create an ornate style.   If you would
like to learn more about ornate style, check out the links attached which will take you
to some modern authors who write in an ornate style. 

Where folic acid is primarily absorbed?

We know that folic acid is a vitamin that belongs to B
complex vitamins. We also know that a the deficit of folic acid leads to megaloblastic
anemias.

First, the folic acid is absorbed in
gastrointestinal tract. To be more specific, folate is rapidly absorbed from
duodenum.

The absorption process is less rapid in the lower
small intestine region.

It is known that folate is not
absorbed in the large intestine.

After folic acid
absorption it occurs a hepatical conversion to tetrahydrofolic
acid.

What is the area of the region below the graph of f and the lines x=1, x=2?f(x)=1/(x^2 + 5x + 6)

To compute the area of the given region, we'll have to
determine the definite integral of f(x).

We'll re-write the
denominator of f(x) as a product of linear factors.

We know
that: ax^2 + bx + c = a(x-x1)(x-x2), where x1 and x2 are the roots of the
quadratic.

We notice that x1 = 2 and x2 =
3.

f(x) =
1/(x+2)(x+3)

Int f(x)dx = Int
dx/(x+2)(x+3)

We'll apply Leibniz-Newton to calculate the
definite integral.

First, we'll calculate the indefinite
integral of f(x). To determine the indefinite integral, we'll write the function as a
sum or difference of partial fractions.

1/(x+2)(x+3) =
A/(x+2) + B/(x+3)

1 = A(x+3) +
B(x+2)

We'll remove the
brackets:

1 = Ax + 3A + Bx +
2B

We'll combine like terms:

1
= x(A+B) + 3A + 2B

A + B = 0

A
= -B

-3B + 2B = 1

-B =
1

B = -1

A =
1

1/(x+2)(x+3) = 1/(x+2) -
1/(x+3)

Int dx/(x+2)(x+3) = Int dx/(x+2)  - Int
dx/(x+3)

Int dx/(x+2)(x+3) = ln |x+2| - ln|x+3| +
C

Int dx/(x+2)(x+3) = ln
|(x+2)/(x+3)|

But, Int dx/(x+2)(x+3) = F(2) -
F(1)

F(2) = ln
|(2+2)/(2+3)|

F(2) = ln
4/5

F(1) = ln
|(1+2)/(1+3)|

F(1) = ln
3/4

F(2) - F(1) = ln 4/5 - ln
3/4

F(2) - F(1) = ln
(4/5)*(4/3)

F(2) - F(1) = ln
16/15

The area of the region located under
the graph of f(x), the lines x  =1 and x = 2 and x axis is:
A = ln 16/15 square units.

Are both good stress and Excessive Self-Involvement a risk factor for heart disease?

Stress can be both good and bad.  Good stress occurs when
something good is happening such as a visit from friends, but stress occurs just having
their presence in the house because you want them to love being there. If not taken too
seriously or for too long, good stress should be ok.  Excessive Self-Involvement creates
bad stress which is a risk factor for heart disease.   Being self-involved means that
you care about yourself and not others.  People who are only self-involved soon have no
friends, no groups to join, or places to go where they are welcome and recognized
because others drop away having realized that they don't count for anything in the lives
of the self-involved. Almost anything to excess, even good stress,  is not a good thing
for your heart; excessive self-involvement and never looking beyond yourself creates
high levels of bad stress which raises the risk of heart
disease.

In Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, what is Kate saying about a wife's relationship with her husband in the following quote?"I see a woman...

In Shakespeare's The Taming of the
Shrew, in Act Three, scene two, Kate still believes that if she has a strong
enough will, she will get what she wants. She thinks that only a woman who lack "spirit"
will be a "fool"—in letting her husband get the best of
her.

I see a
woman may be made a fool,
If she had not a spirit to resist. (lines
220-221)

Kate has made her
wishes clear that she does not wish to leave the wedding feast. She gives orders that
all should proceed to the celebration; she comments that by being tough with Petruchio,
she will get her way. However, Petruchio is
not buying it. He agrees that any who serves Kate should go ahead and totally enjoy the
wedding celebration of Kate's marriage, but he insists that Kate
will not be joining them because he wants to
leave. If he wants to leave, he intimates, then he and his wife
shall do so, which dashes Kate's perceptions into
pieces.

We can see that the war has not yet begun between
these two, but they are now married, and as Petruchio puts it, she "belongs" to him just
as do his house, field and barn, etc.

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I will be master of what is mine own:

She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house,
My household stuff,
my field, my barn,
My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing...
 (229-232)

This disagreement
foreshadows what lies ahead of the newlywed couple. Kate has too long had her own way in
most things; she is now married to a man who also seems to feel the same way, but the
law and the social norms are on his side.

A woman with free lobes marries a man who has attached ear lobes. What type of ear lobes would the children inherit?asap :)

Free ear lobes is the dominant allele with attached ear
lobes being the recessive allele.  If the woman is homozygous dominant, meaning both of
her alleles are for free lobes all children will have free lobes because the dominant
allele always wins out.

If the woman is heterozygous for
free lobes meaning she has one allele for free ear lobes and one allele for recessive
ear lobes, half of the children could have free lobes, while half could have attached
ear lobes.

In the second example I used the word could
because each child would have a 50% chance of getting each allele.  It could be that all
children would have free or all children could have attached, it just depends on which
allele each child receives.

How does "Howl" rank in personal feelings versus "Daddy," "Lady Lazarus," "The Fish," "The Moose," "Skunk Hour," and "The Union Dead"?

If I correctly understand that you are asking about the
authors' expression of their own personal emotions through their work as opposed to
evoking the readers' personal emotion or as opposed to reporting on others' personal
emotion, then “Howl” by Ginsberg is one of the least
personally emotional--expressing the least personal authorial emotion--of the list of
poems presented by Plath, Bishop, and Lowell. In "Howl," Ginsberg is subjectively
reporting about the lives of "the best minds of [his]
generation destroyed by madness."

"Howl" is very emotional, but it is
not Ginsberg personal emotion. In this highly emotive
writing, he is untangling the fierce feeling of, as he says, "the best minds" who were
"starving hysterical." His stance, though highly empathetic and sympathetic, is
distanced and, one might say, omniscient. He tells what he perceived of them and their
experience and, in order to tell of them rightly, keeps his personal emotions
subordinate to cognitive perceptions and expressions. In other words, if we were to feel
sad for the poet’s emotional suffering or empathetic with his personal emotional
journey, we would be that much less involved and empathetic with "the best minds" who
were "destroyed by madness" ...:

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who passed through universities with radiant
cool eyes hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy among the scholars of
war,
who were expelled from the academies for crazy & publishing
obscene odes on the windows of the skull,
who cowered in unshaven rooms in
underwear, burning their money in wastebaskets and listening to the Terror through the
wall,

Of the other titles,
perhaps the one with the greatest authorial personal
emotion is Lowell's "Skunk Hour" (written for Elizabeth Bishop). The
following passage lays the poet's emotional feeling bare: he feels his "mind is not
right"; he feels deep sorrow down to his very cells; he feels himself utterly isolated
as the personification of "hell":

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… love-cars. Lights turned down,
they
lay together, hull to hull,
where the graveyard shelves on the town. . .
.
My mind's not right.

A car radio bleats,
"Love,
O careless Love. . . ." I hear
my ill-spirit sob in each blood
cell,
as if my hand were at its throat. . . .
I myself am
hell;
nobody's
here--

One that perhaps best
illuminates the emotional experience of the subject of the
poem, which is not the poet herself, is "The Fish" by Bishop. In it she uses detail that
grows to a transcendental experience with Nature when she describes how her examination
of a warrior fish, with its “medals with their ribbons,” leads to
transformation:

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I stared and stared
and victory filled
up
the little rented boat,
from the pool of bilge
where
oil had spread a rainbow
around the rusted engine
to the bailer
rusted orange,
the sun-cracked thwarts,
the oarlocks on their
strings,
the gunnels--until everything
was rainbow, rainbow,
rainbow!

Please give an example of a subset & a proper subset, explain the difference between a subset & proper subset.As we know, a set is just a...

Let us consider sets A and B. If every element of set A is
an element of set B, we say that A is a subset of B.

For
example if A is {1, 2, 3, 4, 5} and B is {1, 2, 3, 4, 5} then we can say A is a subset
of B as all the elements of set A are also elements of set B. Two sets which have the
same elements are subsets of each other. But A is not a proper subset of B in this
case.

For a set A to be a proper subset of another set B,
all the elements of A should be elements of B but A and B should not be equal. Or in
other words, A should be a subset of B but B should not be a subset of
A.

For example if A is {1, 2, 3, 4} and B is {1, 2, 3, 4,
5} then A is a proper subset of B. Here we see that all the elements of A are elements
of B but all elements of B are not elements of A. A is a subset of B but it is not equal
to B.

Considering Old Major's dream for the future and his warning to the animals,how is the ending of Animal Farm ironic?

In chapter one, Old Major (the Karl Marx figure) tells the
animals that he has a dream for the future of Manor Farm. His dream is that one day the
animals would be free from the oppression of man. He saw a future where animals would no
longer be whipped or led around by the nose by a dictatorial figure who didn't have
their best in mind (like Farmer Jones (the Czar Nicholas figure)). He hoped one day the
animals would rule themselves and that "All animals would be equal." (Communism in it's
ideal state).

Considering the fact that this was what
inspired the animals to revolt and take over their own farm, it is extremely ironic that
they allowed the pigs (more specifically Napoleon) to become exactly what they rebelled
against. In the end, Napoleon became drunk with power (one of the themes of the novel is
that power corrupts) and put himself and the other pigs above the other animals. He
saved the best for himself, and allowed the lower animals to work harder and have
less.

In fact, in the end, the humans praised Napoleon for
treating his animals worse than they treated theirs. So the irony is...the animals
created a society that was the same as the one they were trying to get away
from.

In The Grapes of Wrath, what does John Steinbeck show about mankind's connection to others?

Steinbeck's overall message to humanity is about the
ability to transform reality.  Steinbeck uses Tom Joad to show how someone who is self-
exiled, seeking to not look after anything other than their own interests can rise to
being a collective being and be an agent of change.  The loudest point that Steinbeck
makes is that individuals do not have to be chained to their existence, modeling what it
is.  They have the power and can make conscious choices on any level in order to
transform their world into what it should be as opposed to what is might exist as.  In
the time period of the Great Depression, this is a poignantly powerful message.  Tom
Joad recognizes that he is a part of something larger than herself. Ma Joad recognizes
that she is a part of something larger than herself.  Even Rose of Sharon with the last
action of the novel finally acquiesces to the idea that she is part of something larger
than herself.  The message that Steinbeck wishes to deliver to the reader is that there
is a larger and more transcendent image of ourselves that has to be appropriated and
adopted in order to find and discover real and lasting social
change.

In "A Visit from St. Nicholas," is it snow or moon that is the subject of personification on line 13?Previously, ACCESSTEACHER, argued it is the...

Personification is a literacy device in which an inanimate
object is given human characteristics. The lines you're asking about from this poem are
these:

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen
snow

Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects
below,

Clearly, the inanimate object that the author is assigning
human characteristics is the snow. The moon is shining on the "breast" of the new-fallen
snow. It is true, as you state in your question, that only the moon can shine light on
objects below. However, shining light is not a human quality; we don't glow. We have to
use another object to shine light on something. Humans do, though, have breasts--but
snow does not. Therefore, the thing being personified here is the
snow.

I hope that helps.

Enumerate the main features of Celtic art.

Celtic art is a very distinctive type of metalwork which
emerged in the 5th century B.C.E.  The Celts They decorated weapons, armor, and drinking
vessels, and jewelry, working in bronze and gold and using sophisticated inlay
techniques.  They used geometric designs such as maze and repeated patterns, spiral and
leaf shaped designs, animals, and the most commonly identified the knot.  The knot looks
like strands of woven or braided strips that bend and weave amongst themselves. One of
the most common designs is called the Trinity Knot, which has 3 outer points or petals,
and weavings occurring within the center.  For a view of the different types of Celtic
metal work see href="http://www.aon-celtic.com/trade_history_meanings.html">http://www.aon-celtic.com/trade_history_meanings.html.

What are similarities and differences in reading section I of Ginsberg's Howl and reading Whitman's Song of Myself?Section I of Howl may suggest...

The main difference between Ginsberg and Whitman (whom
Ginsberg respected and admitted to being influenced by) lie in the fact that Ginsberg is
much more "raw" in his expression.

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I saw the best minds of my generation
destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,

dragging themselves
through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry
fix

Ginsberg sees a world
that is fractured and torn apart, but fighting to maintain individual identity within
that world. Whitman is more hopeful for the world and his place in
it:

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The atmosphere is not a perfume, it
has no taste of the
distillation, it is odorless,
It is for my
mouth forever, I am in love with it,
I will go to the bank by the wood and
become undisguised and naked,
I am mad for it to be in contact with
me.

Both Ginsberg and Whitman
cavort with the angels and become one with them. Ginsberg, through
sex:

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who let themselves be fucked in the
ass by saintly motorcyclists, and screamed with joy,

who blew and were
blown by those human seraphim, the sailors, caresses of Atlantic and Caribbean
love,

Whitman celebrates the
connection between God and love, but less openly as a sexual
act:

And I
know that the hand of God is the promise of my own,
And I know that the
spirit of God is the brother of my own,
And that all the men ever born are
also my brothers, and the women

my sisters and lovers,

And that a kelson of the creation is
love,

Both poets, however,
celebrate identity and openly celebrate and embrace both heterosexual and homosexual
love in their poems and in themselves. While Whitman's work is more hopeful, more filled
with the adoration of the beauty of nature, Ginsberg is more raw and less given to paint
the world around him in bright hues.

What was the role of Hitler AFTER World War 1?You dont need to go in depth, i would just like to know 2 or 3 points and i'll research it :)

I think that one of the areas upon which you want to place
specific focus would to analyze the state of Germany after World War I.  The decimation
and sense of ruin that gripped German was fairly horrific for the German people.  Into
this mix, the Allied nations, largely led by France and England, pushed for the Treaty
of Versailles, which punished Germany and sought to humiliate the nation.  Hitler was
able to construct an argument that was appealing to many Germans.  He essentially argued
that Germany didn't really lose World War I.  He asserted that the nation was subverted
and betrayed by forces that want to see it downtrodden.  Hitler appealed to the
"fatherland" as strong enough to triumph over anything, but these "outsiders" sought
German desecration.  In the void of substantive leadership following World War I, Hitler
was able to paint a picture that tapped into the disenchantment and resentment that many
Germans were feeling due to economic chaos, a lack of political and material control
over their own affairs, and the need to pay reparations back to other nations.  Hitler's
most pressing role was to trigger this resentment and parlay it into acceptance of his
own plan, which was not really outlined in detail, other than to surrender all power
unto him and allow him to represent "the fatherland" into a brighter vision of the
future.

The legs of a right triangle have length x + 4 and x + 7. If the hypotenuse is 3x, what is the integral value of the perimeter?

The length of the legs of the right triangle is x + 4 and
x + 7. The hypotenuse is 3x. We also know that all the lengths are in integers, else the
perimeter cannot be an integer.

Use the Pythagorean
Theorem:

(x + 4)^2 + (x + 7)^2 =
(3x)^2

=> x^2 + 16 + 8x + x^2 + 49 + 14x =
9x^2

=> 2x^2 + 22x + 65 =
9x^2

=> 7x^2 - 22x - 65 =
0

=> 7x^2 - 35x + 13x - 65 =
0

=> 7x(x - 5) + 13(x - 5) =
0

=> (7x + 13)(x - 5) =
0

=> x = 5

the other
root is a non-integer and can be ignored

With x = 5, the
sides of the triangle are 9 , 12 , 15.

The perimeter is 9 +
12 + 15 = 36

The required perimeter of the
triangle is 36.

What are the main existential themes in Pleasantville?

One of the most existential elements that come out of the
film is the struggle to define reality in complex terms. Life in Pleasantville is a
black and white existence.  This is both literal and figurative.  The simplicity that is
presented in Pleasantville is challenged with the presence of colors, and divergent ways
of thought.  This causes an existential crisis in the citizens of the town as it impacts
their state of being in the world and how they interact with this world.  It is also
existential because there is little in way of answer.  The ending of the film reflects
this, where the husband, wife, and her lover are sitting on the bench and wondering what
will happen to them next.  This is highly existential.  No character has "the answer." 
No character has a transcendental figure to which they can turn for guidance.  Each
character is left to "choose" what is to happen to them, as there is no script, no
director, and with the presence of color, only freedom and choice as their companions. 
This is highly existential in nature as it allows individuals to get away from "bad
faith" and force the issue of choice upon their own in determining their destiny and
their identities in the modern setting.

What major conflicts are etablished in the first scene of Romeo and Juliet?

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In "The Cask of Amontillado," what were the 3 or 4 rules Montressor believed were important in order for his act to be considered revenge?I believe...

I don't know that there are any concrete regulations for
committing the perfect crime, but Montressor had a pretty good idea. First, there could
be no witnesses; therefore, he made certain that none of his servants would be at his
home during his meeting with Fortunato. Secondly, no sounds could be heard, so
Montressor made sure that Fortunato's screams would not be heard in the depths of the
catacombs. Third, the body must never be found, and Montressor's location--plus, his
decision to wall up the niche--would assure this. Fourth, Fortunato must not have any
inkling of the true intent that Montressor has in store for him. Two other
considerations were also important to Montressor: He must never be caught, since his
incarceration would ruin his degree of revenge.

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A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes
its redresser.

And of utmost
importance, Fortunato must understand--must be told--why the act is being
undertaken.

It
is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who
has done the wrong.

Explain the events that led to the reconciliation of the Montagues and the Capulets in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

The deaths of their two children, Romeo and Juliet, are
the primary cause of the reconciliation in Act 5 of the play.  The two families have
feuded for so long that no one can even remember why they are feuding in the first
place. As the families see the final devastation of the the feud in their dead children,
they realize the foolishness that caused this outcome.  The families have already seen
Tybalt and Mercutio die due to the feud, but those deaths seems to be a natural
consequence of the longstanding animosity and don't touch them as closely.  The deaths
of the children by their own hands hits much harder.  That the children saw no other way
to live and preferred death to life without the other is such a sad realization for both
sets of parents.  The regrets on the Capulet side are probably even more profound in the
fact that Paris is also found dead in the crypt.  If they hadn't pushed Juliet to marry
someone whom she expressly stated she didn't want, then the urgency of Romeo and
Juliet's actions would haven't have driven them to such extreme measures.  The ending
the play provides what is traditionally considered a catharsis for the audience.  We are
unhappy with the deaths, but relieved with the idea that the tragedy brings about an
improvement in the overall situation. 

In Frankenstein, why does Victor show a tense/ nervous state of mind "with an anxiety that almost amounted to agony"?tHANKK YOU VERRY VERY MUCH :)

In chapter 5 of the novel Frankenstein,
by Mary Shelley, we find Victor reacting to the "birth" of his creature. 
Contrary to what he thought it would be, the process would be painful and horrible for
Victor.

He describes the moment when the creature opened
its eye. Victor foolishly thought that it would be a moment not too different than that
of the creation of man, basically, with all things going perfectly
well.

However, he saw a horrid creature that appealed to
Victor's emotions. Victor was disgusted by this and his first reaction was to run away
from the creature. In the process of conceptualizing what he did, he thought about the
fact that he had let a monster lose; What would it do? How bad will it all
get?

Victor suffered what amounted to a nervous breakdown
and Clerval, his dearest friend, took care of him. The birth of the monster is what
creates the anxiety amounting to agony. That, and the fact that Victor is now solely
responsible for the fates of those who come across the creature.

How does Orwell explore the problem of rhetoric in Animal Farm?

It is through Squealer that Orwell is at his strongest in
constructing how language can reflect power.  Squealer's function in controlling the
printed word and the spoken word is powerfully important.  Napoleon is not able to wield
the power he is unless Squealer is able to construct the truth that validates his
authority.  It is through language and political rhetoric that credibility is conferred
upon the government.  When Squealer rewrites history, he does so to ensure that it
reflects the Pigs' rule as a benevolent one in favor of the animals on the farm.  In a
very metaphysical manner, Squealer's vision of truth is the only vision of truth that is
able to be articulated on the farm.  This means that if Squealer writes it, there has to
be an acceptance, forced or not, of truth.  This enhances the idea that language is
power, especially in a state controlled setting where what is said has no other
competition.  When Squealer rewrites the past so that Snowball never receives the award
of "Animal Hero, First Class," there is no other conception of truth because there is no
other alternate history to be articulated or other rhetorical conception of truth
allowed.  In this light, Orwell suggests that if authority possesses control of rhetoric
and is not questioned at each turn because of it, there is a greater chance it will use
the power is gains to consolidate and buttress its own credibility, and not work for the
larger conception of the good.

In this poem "Lycidas'" by John Milton. I need to analyze quote,show the key image, symbol and theme.the Quote is "Fame is no plant that grows on...

This is an excellent question, focusing in real detail on
the actual phrasing of the poem.

1. A key image in
   this line involves the reference to a “plant.” The plant image is appropriate to the
   poem in several ways. The poem opens with plant imagery, and the entire poem is set in a
   rural landscape full of plants and imagery of growth. Various other plants, especially
   flowers, are mentioned in the poem.  Since plants are associated with life, and since
   this is a poem that meditates on the sudden loss of life, the plant imagery is highly
   appropriate.


2. The plant, as a symbol of life, is
   appropriate to Milton’s concern with achieving a kind of life, and a kind of fame, that
   will not die. Plants usually die off once a year, but Milton is seeking a kind of legacy
   that will not fade and will not die.  Such a legacy can only be achieved (he later
   suggests) with the help of God and through commitment to God. Plants periodically die,
   but the kind of life and legacy Milton seeks is
   eternal.


3. The plant imagery is appropriate to the poem’s
   larger themes, one of which involves trying to make sense of death.  Just as plants seem
   to die but later revive, so the speaker of this poem manages to convince himself by the
   end of the work that his friend Lycidas is not truly dead but has “mounted high” (172),
   into heaven with God. Just as plants are reborn, so Lycidas has also been revived and
   resurrected.

Given f(x)=(e^x)(x-1)/x^2 and g(x)=(x^2)f(x) +1, what is g'(x)?

First, we'll determine the function
g(x):

g(x) = (x^2)*(e^x)*(x-1)/x^2 +
1

We'll simplify and we'll
get:

g(x) = (e^x)*(x-1) +
1

We'll differentiate the function g(x), with respect to
x:

g'(x) = [(e^x)*(x-1) +
1]'

We'll apply the product
rule:

g'(x) = (e^x)'*(x-1) +
(e^x)*(x-1)'

g'(x) = (e^x)*(x-1) +
(e^x)

We'll factorize by
e^x:

g'(x) =
(e^x)*(x-1+1)

We'll eliminate like terms inside
brackets:

g'(x) =
x*(e^x)

The first derivative of the function
g(x) is g'(x) = x*(e^x).

What does Emily Dickinson convey in the poem "Because I could not Stop For Death"?

Through this excellent personifiation of Death as a kindly
old man driving a carriage, Dickinson seems to present a rather ironic and different
impression of death than we usually associate with this figure. Through this
personification, Dickinson seems to challenge our own views about death and make us
think very carefully about our own lives and expectations of death. Ironically, the
speaker of this poem is so busy that they haven't thought about death or prepared
themselves for it in any way:

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Because I could not stop for
Death--

He kindly stopped for
me--

Note the irony in the
word "kindly." The speaker is so busy that Death has had to stop life for her. This is
an impression that is continued throughout the poem, especially in the final
stanza:

Since
then--'tis Centuries--and yet

Feels shorter than the
Day

I first surmised the Horses'
heads

Were towards
Eternity--

The speaker shows
that she is surprised to learn that life is actually a journey towards death and that
she seems unprepared for it. The way that our lives are described as being a long ride
"towards Eternity" to my mind communicates the challenge of this poem. Dickinson cuts
through the business of our lives and the way that we often try to ignore our final fate
by telling us that no matter how busy we are, we can't outlive death. We need to accept
that our lives are one long journey towards "Eternity," and live our lives accordingly
in response.

Identify elements that make "To an Athlete Dying Young" an elegy.

An elegy is defined as a somber poem or song that praises
or laments the dead.  In the poem To An Athlete Dying Young, Houseman "praises" the
young athlete for dying at a time in his life when he is still the town's hero.  Dying
at a the prime of his life holds  less disappointment as he will always be viewed as a
hero.   

Smart lad, to slip betimes
away
 
From fields where glory does not
stay,
  10
And early though
the laurel grows
 
It withers quicker than the
rose.

The "laurel" is the wreath placed upon the head of
athletes in ancient Greece and is seen in this poem as the his glory. This "withers
quicker than the rose" - the rose is his life.  Glory fades in the living. In life
records and accomplishments fade with time as new heroes emerge and new records are
broken.

In the last stanza Houseman writes people will
"flock to gaze" upon him.  They will always remember him a hero; his glory will never
fade even though his records may be broken by another.

Thoughtfully explain the title of the novel (A Separate Peace)A Separate Peace by John Knowles

In Chapter 10 of A Separate Peace by
John Knowles, Leper describes to Gene his negative experiences in the army.  He tells
Gene that he may be "psycho" because "they turned everything inside out."  As he
continues, Gene selfishly shouts for him to stop talking because he does not
care:

"This
has nothing to do with me!  Nothing at all!  I
don't care!"

And, Gene runs
from Leper, whose name symbolically reinforces Gene's desire to run.  But, Leper's
description of what has transpired with him causes fear and disturbance in Gene because,
as he has remarked in Chapter 9, he has created a peace within himself that finds no
reflection with the world confusion, just as Finny, who dismisses the World War as a
"conspiracy" creates a winter carnival as a "liberation...torn from the gray
encroachments of 1943." The winter carnival, Gene narrates, is Finny's "choreography of
peace."

However, as the war progresses and Gene nears
graduation, he realizes that he can no longer take refuge in what Gene terms "a scornful
superiority" such as he exhibits to Leper, for "it is based on nothing."  His
"momentary, illusory, special and separate peace" that the winter carnival has provided
is destroyed by the savage nature of man, the "something ignorant in the human heart"
that has both driven him to jounce the limb on which Finny stands and that drives men to
create wars.  In truth, there is no separate peace.

I would like some more information about Morgan le Fay and Queen Guinevere.

Since you're not specific about what kind of information
you want to know about Morgan le Fay and Queen Guinevere, I can give you only
general--but, I hope, interesting--details about
them.

Morgan le Fay: She's
also known as Morgane, Morgana, and Morgaine. She is the older half-sister of King
Arthur. Morgan practices magic; the addition of "le Fay" literally means "of the
fairies," but it probably signifies that she is a sorceress. Depending on the version of
the Arthurian legend you're reading, she is either a benevolent ally to Arthur or a
wicked and merciless enemy. In some modern versions of the story, such as The
Mists of Avalon,  it is she who seduces Arthur and conceives Mordred. In the
traditional tales, however, it is the other sister, Morgause, who is the seductress. In
some stories, Morgan is the mother of Sir Gawain and Sir Gareth; in other stories,
Morgause is their mother.

Queen Guenevere (or
Guinevere): The daughter of King Leodegrance of Carmelide, she is
betrothed to Arthur but falls instantly in love with Sir Lancelot when he comes to
escort her to Camelot. Most of the tales include her adultery with Lancelot, which leads
to the downfall of Camelot. In many of the tales, she and Lancelot of victims of fate;
what might have happened if someone else had been sent to bring her to Camelot? She and
Arthur have no children, and depending on the tale, she either becomes a nun or is
executed for treason. In any case, she is a sad, tragic
character.

I hope that is the kind of information you
wanted. Be more specific, and we'll give you more.

In Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, can Friday ever be Crusoe's equal?

In Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson
Crusoe, Crusoe begins his adventures traveling to several places before he is
shipwrecked. On his way with business partners to take slaves in Africa (you might think
his own experience as a slave might have affected this decision),
his ship is destroyed by a violent storm and he becomes a castaway on an island alone:
all of his companions are lost. Over time, Crusoe has a religious awakening when he
becomes extremely ill. However, this does not include any transformation regarding his
station in life and the station of the black native, Friday, who Crusoe eventually saves
from cannibals. Crusoe is never able to realize the value of Friday as a man because of
his skin color. Friday comes to represent the prevailing attitudes of English
colonization.

On an island, where society does not exist,
Crusoe and Friday eventually help each other.  The social standing (one would think), as
well as the money Crusoe finds on the shipwreck, should have no
meaning. I think if the men were to continue on the island for the rest of their days,
they might be more equal. However, Crusoe never quite succeeds in
seeing the man in Friday, even while Friday ends Crusoe's isolation after so many years
alone. Crusoe finds new purpose as he teaches Friday (like a pet), and Cruose begins a
society on the island that is still based upon the dictates of
Crusoe's English society. Crusoe first teaches Friday the words, "Master," "yes," and
"no." It would seem you can take the man from "civilization," but not take the
"civilization" out of the man.

Even when Friday tries to
teach Crusoe a better way to make a boat, Crusoe refuses to consider it—he is
still the white man, and acts, therefore, "naturally" superior.
Crusoe will not treat Friday as an equal as seen in his refusal to consider Friday's
ideas or knowledge.

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[This] symbolizes general European attitudes
toward "the
savage."

Returning to a
"civilized" nation, little has changed; ultimately, Crusoe's life is once again guided
by "money" and societal norms. Where one might expect him to look at the "business" of
slavery differently, Crusoe only perceives that he has successfully managed to
"civilize" Friday, the "savage."

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Friday becomes Europeanized, accepting English
customs and religious
concepts.

Crusoe and his
contemporaries can only see Friday as a "convert." The two men will never be
equal.

What values did Martin Luther King Jr. reveal in his first speech as president of the Montgomery Improvement Association?

The major values that King revealed in this speech were a
commitment to non-violence, a belief in democracy, and a belief that Christianity had a
role to play in bringing about social justice in American
society.

Of course, King and his audience were very upset
with specific aspects of American society and democracy.  However, he specifically
glorified American democracy in this speech.  This shows a commitment to the idea that
America and its democracy were special. As King says:

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And certainly, certainly, this is the glory of
America, with all of its faults. (Yeah) This is the glory of our democracy. If we were
incarcerated behind the iron curtains of a Communistic nation, we couldn't do this. If
we were dropped in the dungeon of a totalitarian regime, we couldn't do this. (All
right) But the great glory of American democracy is the right to protest for
right.

King also revaled the
idea of nonviolence.  He rejected the idea that the protestors would use weapons or that
they would act like the KKK by committing acts of violence against their opponents. 
King told the crowd that

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The only weapon that we have in our hands this
evening is the weapon of
protest.

He also said
that

There
will be no white persons pulled out of their homes and taken out on some distant road
and lynched for not
cooperating.

Finally, King
reaffirmed the place of religion and Christian values in the movement that he and his
audience were starting.  He specifically said that it was a Christian movement.  For
example,

...we
must keep God in the forefront. (Yeah) Let us be Christian in all of our
actions.

Discuss the significance of the red dressed little girl in Schindler's List.

The girl with the red petticoat in the film is extremely
significant.  The first time that Schindler spots her from afar is when the ghetto is
being liquidated.  It is the first time that Schindler recognizes the horrors of the
Holocaust.  While he does not do anything in terms of massive action, Schindler's
conscience has been awoken and something in him has been sparked.  He spots this girl as
the only dash of color in a black and white world.  It is this moment of recognition
that serves to animate the actions that Schindler takes in favor of helping the Jewish
workers in his factory and bringing more into the factory.  The second, and final, time
in which Schindler sees the girls is when the mass extermination of people of the Judaic
faith is becoming policy.  Schindler recognizes the girl, only this time she is a
corpse.  The red petticoat still grabs him and this moment is what causes him to compose
the list and save his factor workers from the fate that awaits them.  The sight of the
dead girl now serves as a call to action, recognizing that the situation has become
impossible to deny what has to be done in the name of fellow human
beings.

Was Louis Riel guilty or not?

Louis Riel was clearly guilty of treason because he
unquestionably led an armed uprising against the government of his country.  There is no
way to argue that he did not do this.  Therefore, he was
factually guilty of
treason.

However, there are reasons to believe that his
trial was in some ways unfair or that it did not end up with the most just result. 
Three things to consider are:

• Riel's possible
  insanity.  There was strong evidence that Riel was no completely sane.  If the court had
  agreed, he could have been found not guilty by reason of insanity.  However, it is
  partly his own fault that the court did not rule this way.  After all, Riel rejected the
  idea that he was insane quite passionately.


• The
  composition of the jury.  All of the members of the jury were white Anglo-Saxon
  Protestants while Riel was a Metis and a Catholic.  The prosecution seems to have
  deliberately worked to have such a jury, which would be seen today as an unjust thing to
  do.


• Finally, there is the fact that the jury asked for
  mercy for Riel because the government's dealings with Indians and Metis were less than
  fair.

Taken altogether, these factors do not
indicate that Riel wasn't guilty.  However, they do indicate that his trial and the
punishment handed down was less than just.

What can service providers do to prevent having dissatisfied customers? what do you do

This will depend to some extent on the nature of the
service that your firm is providing.  However, the most obvious way to prevent your
firm's customers from being dissatisfied is to provide them with a high-quality service
at a good price.  Customer dissatisfaction is often related to the quality of the
service and to its price.

Another thing that can be done in
all types of service industries is to provide a pleasant atmosphere and to make the
customers feel good about the people with whom they are dealing.  Customers who feel
like they were treated well and who felt that their overall experience was pleasant are
less likely to be dissatisfied, even if the service provided is not 100%
perfect.

So, the best ways to ensure customer satisfaction
are to provide a good service, at a good price, in a friendly
environment.

Why did Texas secede from the US in 1861?Texans spent 15 years trying to gain admission to the Union, yet despite Sam Houston’s objections and...

If you follow the utk.edu link below, you can read the
"Declaration of the Causes which Impel the State of Texas to Secede from the Federal
Union."  This will tell you, in the words of the Texan secessionists themselves, why
Texas chose to secede from the Union.  From the words of the declaration, it is quite
clear that slavery and the desire to maintain the slave system was the major cause of
Texas's secession from the Union.

As you read the
declaration, you should be struck by how many times the text refers to slavery.  Slavery
is the first thing mentioned in the substance of the declaration and it is the last. 
The text mentions at the start that Texas came into the Union as a slave state and it
says that the federal government has been unfair to the slave states.  At the end of the
declaration, they state that they hold as an "undeniable truth"
that

...the
servitude of the African race, as existing in these States, is mutually beneficial to
both bond and free, and is abundantly authorized and justified by the experience of
mankind, and the revealed will of the Almighty Creator, as recognized by all Christian
nations; while the destruction of the existing relations between the two races, as
advocated by our sectional enemies, would bring inevitable calamities upon both and
desolation upon the fifteen slave-holding
states.

From this, it is
quite clear that the desire to maintain the slave system was Texas's main reason for
seceding.