What is Mr. Oakhurst's profession?

Mr. Oakhurst is a professional gambler.  As such he is
intelligent, shrewd, and honest.  As a gambler, Oakhurst knows well how to assess the
odds of any given situation.  When the party to which he belongs is cast out from the
town, they make their way to the nearest settlement, one that is over a mountain. 
Halfway to Sandy Bar, the other members of the group become exhausted and desire to camp
for the night.  Oakhurst urges them to continue because they do not have sufficient
provisions; however, the others, who have been drinking, ignore his reasoning.  What
seems fortunate for the outcasts is the arrival of Tom Simpson with his fiancee who
offers to share his provisions. 

But, unfortunately, there
is a real scoundrel among them, Uncle Billy, who runs off with their mules. And, they
are snowed in for a week.  At this point Oakhurst weighs the odds again, realizing that
their chances for survival are extremely slim.  So, like a gambler, he knows when to
fold his cards.  He provides the women with firewood, then goes out into the woods. 
When his body is found with the wild card deuce "discarded" because it has brought him
no luck, author Bret Harte writes that he is "the strongest and the weakest" of the
group.  Interestingly, his name reveals both strength--oak--and weakness, or
death--hurst (hearse).

Trisomy is a mutation that results in a cell having an extraA) nitrogen base. B) codon. C) chromosome. D) gene.

If you break down the word trisomy, tri refers to three
and somy refers to chromosomes. Since chromsomes occur in pairs, trisomy indicates an
additional chromosome at a certain position on a karyotype. Therefore, the answer is
chromosome. A trisomy can result during gamete formation. If non-disjunction occurs
during meiotic division, then, a gamete may have one more or one less chromosome in it.
If the gamete with an extra chromosome goes on to form a zygote, the zygote will contain
an additional chromosome at that location. This is a form of aneuploidy which is an
abnormal set of chromosomes.

Is "character double" a term of the literary criticism, and what is the definition of "character double"?

"Character double" is a term in literary criticism and
relates to the literature genre of literary doubles. The best illustration of this genre
is Robert Louis Stevenson's novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde, in which Jekyll and Hyde are character doubles. Another term for
character double is dopplegänger, which comes from the old German
words doppel- meaning double plus
-gänger meaning goer. In addition, Nabokov
wrote a very famous (and difficult) novel called Lolita in which
Humbert and Quinty are character doubles, or dopplegängers.

The
definition of a character double is more complex than simply two characters who are
reflections of each other. A true association of character doubles presents a dilemma
deriving from a conflict that cannot be resolved because of a blurring of the boundaries
between the two individuals.

This is seen perfectly in the case of
Jekyll and Hyde where they are, in fact, the same person appearing in two
manifestations, thus having intensely blurred boundaries between the two. Their dilemma
is unresolvable: to be rid of the problematic character, one must also be rid of the
other character.

Not all character double dilemmas have
such dramatically blurred boundaries between characters but all are more intricately
related than through a simple pairing or reflection. This simpler character relationship
is called pairing, or mirroring and lacks the
blurred character boundaries and unresolvable dilemmas that define character doubles.
Jekyll expresses his dilemma with his character double, Hyde, like
this:

Hyde
will tear it in pieces; ... the doom that is closing on us both has already changed and
crushed him. Half an hour from now, ... I shall again and forever re-indue that hated
personality, ... Will Hyde die upon the scaffold? ... I am careless; this is my true
hour of death, ....

What is meant by translation compromise?

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It is usually
thought that translating a work could comprise it's integrity. When you translate
something into another language, it is difficult to keep the subtle nuances of its
original language. Often, there are words which do not have an equal in the second
language. Or, there might be a cultural understanding about certain words that does not
cross over with the translation. For instance, in a modern work, someone might say that
something is "cool"; obviously this doesn't mean it's literally cold, but it might be
difficult to find a similar alternative in the translated language. The translator must
compromise and select the best option. This might work just fine but it might cause that
part of the work to have a different sound or feel. In every work, there will be
something that doesn't translate well and that can lead to translation compromise.

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What impact did the Great Depression make on the people of that time?

The Great Depression began in 1929 to continue for about
ten years, devastating not only the American economy, but economies across the
world.

After World War I, there was a period of prosperity
in America, but the realities of a weak economy brought this to an
end.

At least
in part, the Great Depression was caused by underlying weaknesses and imbalances within
the U.S. economy that had been obscured by the boom psychology and speculative euphoria
of the 1920s.

Because of
failures in the banking sector and the stock exchange, the devastation was terrible and
thousands lost everything.

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There were multiple causes for the first downturn
in 1929. These include the structural weaknesses and specific events that turned it into
a major depression... In relation to the 1929 downturn, historians emphasize structural
factors like massive bank failures and the stock market
crash.

Though there had been
some other moderate crashes before "Black Tuesday," things had improved, but not after
the Stock Market Crash of 1929. People lost savings, jobs, homes, etc. The
disenfranchised moved to find work. Many committed suicide. Bread lines were common,
where people stood hours to get food. When housing was lost, people would build
lean-to's if they were lucky enough to find materials to do so. Automobile manufacturers
had hundreds of cars on the lot, money already invested in their assembly with no way to
recoup their investment because no one could afford to buy a car. Farms that had done
well selling food in the U.S. and Europe after the war that had invested large sums of
money to buy new machines to plant and harvest crops by taking out loans, were
decimated.

By 1933, it was clear that the depression was
not a temporary situation. Unemployment sky-rocketed, farms were lost, the gross
national product had plummeted, and those hit the hardest were people who were already
poor.

By
spring of 1933...unemployment had risen from 8 to 15 million (roughly 1/3 of the
non-farmer workforce) and the gross national product had decreased from $103.8 billion
to $55.7 billion. Forty percent of the farms in Mississippi were on the auction block on
FDR's inauguration day. Although the depression was world wide, no other country except
Germany reached so high a percentage of unemployed. The poor were hit the
hardest.

Franklin D.
Roosevelt tried very hard to turn things around in America with programs to assist its
citizens, including "public works," "farm subsidies," and other projects to "restart the
economy. He also continue to attempt to balance the budget, but it is believed not
enough money was invested into the economy—at least until World War II. There is some
disagreement as to how much the war was responsible in improving the economy, but it did
help with unemployment.

The U.S. had suffered heavily after
the Civil War and was, in some ways, still recuperating. When the 1930s rolled around,
the entire country was financially connected, so what affected one part of the country
affected the entire country.

Even with intervention by the
government, unemployment continued—though it improved with only 15 percent of the work
force still unemployed in 1939. After the onset of World War II, unemployment dropped
quickly as factories in the U.S. were pressed to fill orders overseas for guns and
ammunition. Once the U.S. became involved in World War II, the Depression was
over.

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Source:

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Why is change in the participation rate important in assessing the impact of changes in the unemployment rate?

When you say "participation rate," I assume that you are
asking about participation in the labor force.  If so, changes in the participation rate
are important because they can cause the official unemployment rates to be
misleading.

At times, unemployment rates can fall even
though fewer people are working.  As people stop looking for work, they drop out of the
labor force.  They are typically called "discouraged workers" and are not counted as
unemployed even though they do not have jobs.  If this happens, the unemployment rate
will misstate the actual amount of change that is going on in the economy.  The
unemployment rate might, for example, decrease even though no more people are working. 
This would make it look like the economy is improving when it is
not.

In this way, changes in participation in the labor
force can mislead us about the actual impact of changes in the unemployment
rate.

Verify if the identity holds if x is in [0,pi/2]. (1+sinx)/(1+cosx)=(tan(x/2))'+tan(x/2)

We'll manage the right side of the expression and we'll
differentiate tan(x/2).

[tan(x/2)]' =
1/2*[cos(x/2)]^2

We'll re-write the
expression:

(1+sinx)/(1+cosx)=1/2*[cos(x/2)]^2 +
tan(x/2)

We'll replace the term tan (x/2) by the fraction
sin (x/2)/cos (x/2).

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

We'll multiply the term sin (x/2)/cos
(x/2) by 2*cos (x/2):

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

We'll recognize the formula
of double angle:

2*cos (x/2)*sin(x/2) = sin 2*(x/2) = sin
x

(1+sinx)/(1+cosx)=(1+sinx)/2*[cos(x/2)]^2

We'll
replace the denominator from the right side by the formula of half
angle:

(1+sinx)/(1+cosx)=(1+sinx)/(1+cosx)

We
notice that managing RHS, we'll get LHS, therefore the identity is verified, if x
belongs to the range [0 , pi/2].

Write an essay plan for a 5 paragraph essay that asks to discuss the theme loss of innocence in the story "Her First Ball.""Her First Ball" by...

Your essay plan needs to consider what about the
theme of loss of innocence you want to write about.  That will become your
thesis statement.  Next you will need to decide what details and quotes from the story
support your thesis.  Those will become the basis of the body paragraphs of the
essay.

One possible thesis could be to argue that a loss of
innocence isn't necessarily a bad thing, and it doesn't have to completely overtake the
nature of a person.

Your body paragraphs could analyze
examples of Leila's innocent response to the experience of the whole dance experience. 
You could break these down chronologically:  the preparations for and travel to the
dance, and then the early part of the dance.  You should comment on her reactions to the
people, the place, the atmosphere, her Sheridan cousin's, other dance guests, etc. How
do her reactions suggest her youth innocence and
naivete? 

You need to have one paragraph analyzing the
affect of the older heavy-set man who dances with her and makes the fateful comments
about the fact that she will be old one day and will be chaperoning instead of dancing. 
This represents the loss of innocence.  The dance, for those minutes, has lost its
magical quality.

You must include a paragraph analyzing the
difference between the aforementioned dance with the fat man to the next dance with the
young handsome man where she seems to regain the youthful joy of the dance, thus proving
that the loss of innocence isn't a permanent mark of misery -- it is merely a fact of
life.  Perhaps a fact that will make her enjoy and appreciate her life as it is right
now because times will bring change to her.

EARRTH ROTATING ITSELF IN ITS OWN IMAGINARY AXIS.HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE BY ROTATING IN AN "IMAGINARY AXIS"?

Earth is rotating ON an imaginary axis, not IN
one.

Imagine a ball with a long pole stuck through the
middle of it with the ends of the stick coming out of opposite sides of the ball. If you
held the ends of the stick in your hands and made it go around with your fingers, the
ball would turn at the same speed as the stick.

The stick
is the "axis" - the line around which the ball is rotating, moving in a circle around
that central line. The ball represents the Earth, rotating on its axis. There are no
real sticks coming out of the Earth to show where the axis is located because the axis
is imaginary, but the approximate locations where the "sticks" would be if they existed
are the North and South Poles.

What are some similarities/differences regarding heroism in Beowulf and Morte d'Arthur?

The epic poem entitled Beowulf, and
Morte d'Arthur, by Sir Thomas Malory, are stories that are strongly
guided by the sense of heroics in men who are not only brave, but have a keen sense of
honor as well.

The story of Beowulf
exemplifies the characteristics and values of the time-honored warrior of the
Anglo-Saxon period. This is a very old story, and while the earliest copy is dated
around 1000 A.D., it is believed to be much older. The version that exists today also
shows a strong religious influence that would have been present only after religious
clerics from Rome had traveled to Britain and the British Isles. Beowulf is a man who is
self-sacrificing, who will not ask others to do what he is not
willing to do himself, who shows unwavering loyalty to his "feudal lord," and conducts
himself with bravery and morality in all he does.

Marlory's
stories are based mostly on French tales that he translated to English, while providing
the characters and setting with the aspects of English
life.

Malory's
sources, dating from 1225-1230, are largely a selection of courtly romances about
Launcelot.

Malory chose to
write in the form of "medieval romances" that emphasized love, magic and chivalry.
Chivalry was at the center of medieval tales and
is...

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...usually associated with ideals of knightly
virtues, honor and courtly
love.

Morte
d'Arthur ("death of Arthur)," is filled with Malory's tales surrounding
Arthur and several of his knights. The parts that deal with Arthur include Arthur's
conception, being fostered with Sir Ector, and Arthur's ability to pull the famous sword
from the stone which presents Arthur as the next rightful king. The wizard Merlin is
central to the Arthurian tales, and he is primarily responsible that Arthur comes to the
throne. Arthur tries, as does Beowulf, to be a man of honor and wisdom. He also expects
his own moral stance to be adopted by his knights as well. The code of the Round
Table...

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...demands that the knights be merciful,
righteous in their battles, and honorable toward
women.

The last two sections
deal with Arthur's public acknowledgement of Lancelot's adulterous affair with Arthur's
wife, Guinevere, ensuing battles, and Arthur's eventual
death.

It is easy to see the similarities between Beowulf
and King Arthur. Both men are honorable and wise heroes—strong and brave leaders of
their armies. Beowulf fights the monsters Grendel, Grendel's dam (or mother), and the
dragon. He does not turn away in fear, but puts himself in harm's way to protect others.
King Arthur is also a valiant warrior. He is involved in many battles to advance to his
throne, etc. However, there are differences between these stories as
well.

Beowulf is honorable throughout the tale. He does not
waver, and is eventually mortally wounded by the dragon. He lives and dies as an
honorable man.

However, Arthur is plagued by some poor
choices. Arthur sleeps with King Lot's wife, who is actually Arthur's sister—though he
is not aware of this. She bears him a child, Mordred. Another deed that lacks honor is
Arthur's order to kill "all highborn children born on May Day," in an attempt to kill
Mordred, but he fails. The killing of innocent children is a horrific act for any man,
but especially a king and hero like Arthur. It is clear that Beowulf would never have
done the same. Beowulf is an honorable man; Arthur is brave, but not always honorable—an
important aspect of being a hero.

What kind of person is Mrs.Stevenson in the drama "Sorry, Wrong Number" by Lucille Fletcher?

Mrs. Stevenson is an "invalid" who is bed-ridden due to an
unspecified illness or condition.  For the duration of the radio play, Mrs. Stevenson
repeatedly (and unsuccessfully) tries to reach her husband on the phone because she is
worried about her safety.  Mrs. Stevenson is typically attended by a nurse, but we
learn, through the protagonist's conversations with the telephone operator, that she has
given her nurse the night off.

Throughout the course of the
radio play, Mrs. Stevenson grows more and more agitated, demanding, and panicked. She is
afraid to be home alone, since the patrol officer on her block has left, and her calls
to the police (they don't seem to be worried for her safety) and then to a hospital (she
wants to hire a nurse for the night) are unsuccessful.

We
learn, at the end of the play, that Mrs. Stevenson's fears were justified.  However,
many audiences don't feel much sympathy for her because of her behavior.  (Many
readers/audiences describe her as rude and/or annoying.) Ultimately, much of the way
audiences feel about Mrs. Stevenson depends on the actress who plays
her.

In "The Landlady," how does Roald Dahl manage to hold the reader's interest throughout the story?

After a certain point in the story Roald Dahl holds the
reader's interest with foreshadowing. But in the early part he holds the reader's
interest just by describing a scene of perfect simplicity and and tranquility. What
could be more safe and innocent than a homey  bed-and-breakfast establishment in a
stodgy town like Bath? The landlady is a typical sweet little old lady who keeps
everything neat and tidy and likes to chat with her
guests.

The reader, of course, senses that there must be
something sinister about such a place and such a landlady. We are suspicious just
because she seems so completely innocent. And this isn't only because we know what to
expect from Roald Dahl; it would be the same if any other author had written the story.
It is not unusual for a horror story to start off with a sentence such as: "It was a
beautiful, sunny summer day and the birds were singing in the trees." Here, for example,
is the opening of Shirley Jackson's shocking horror story "The
Lottery":

The
morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day;
the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly
green.

Here, by comparison,
is the opening sentence of "The Landlady":

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Billy Weaver had traveled down from London on
the slow afternoon train, with a change at Reading on the way, and by the time he got to
Bath, it was about nine o'clock in the evening, and the moon was coming up out of a
clear stary sky over the houses opposite the station
entrance.

This absence of
foreshadowing is a kind of foreshadowing. We know something has got to
happen.

After Billy signs the guest-book, the
real foreshadowing begins. He notices the names of the two former guests and thinks he
has heard them but can't remember in what connection. At first the reader is not
suspicious of the tea the landlady is serving--but then it becomes obvious that she is
already involved in poisoning him.

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The tea tasted faintly of bitter almonds, and he
didn't much care for it.

But
he has already consumed one whole cup, and his fate is sealed. It gradually dawns on the
reader--though not on Billy--that this crazy woman has become an accomplished
taxidermist. Billy realizes that the caged parrot is a stuffed parrot and then realizes
that the little dachshund he thought was sleeping so peacefully in his basket is a
stuffed dachshund. Still, it doesn't occur to him that this woman might have stuffed
Christopher Mulholland and Gregory W. Temple, even when she tells
him:

"Mr.
Temple, of course, was a little older. . . . He was actually twenty-eight. And yet I
never would have guessed it if he hadn't told me, never in my whole life. There wasn't a
blemish on his body."

"A what?" Billy
said.

"His skin was just like a
baby's."

How on
earth would she know that? Dahl doesn't describe Billy's reaction. The author
has specified, however, that his hero is very young, only seventeen years old. An older
man might decide to leave this place abruptly, because the most innocent thing this
landlady could have in mind is climbing into her guest's bed in the middle of the
night.

All the talk about Mulholland and Temple make the
reader strongly suspect that these men both received a lot of media attention because
they had mysteriously disappeared. We know what is going to happen to Billy when he asks
if there haven't been any other guests except those two men in the last two or three
years and the story ends abruptly with:

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"No, my dear," she said. "Only
you."

Thesis statement for HamletDiscuss the idea(s) developed by Shakespeare about circumstances that compel us to respond for the sake of...

This is an excellent topic for a paper on Shakespeare's
Hamlet.

Hamlet is often seen as a
tragic hero, whose tragic flaw is "indecision," or his inability to make up his mind
about when to kill his uncle to avenge his father's murder—which took place at his
uncle's hands. Personally, I struggle with this perception for exactly the topic you
have listed: Hamlet's desire for self-preservation.

Hamlet
does not kill his uncle (the new King) Claudius right away because he has received word
of his father's murder from a ghost. Elizabethans believed in ghosts, witches, fairies,
demons, etc. And while they believed that ghosts could not do things for themselves or
make humans DO things, they could encourage humans to do things for
them.

With this in mind, Hamlet is not sure if the ghost
who presents himself as Old Hamlet (Hamlet's dad) is a true ghost or a ghost that serves
a darker purpose: to win Hamlet's immortal soul to eternal damnation if he unrighteously
kills a king. This shows Hamlet's need to "preserve" his
soul.

Hamlet is not the only one who is compelled to act in
the name of self-preservation. Claudius believes that Hamlet must die so that no one
discovers how Claudius became King. As time goes on and Hamlet seems more and more
crazy, Claudius' plans to do away with Hamlet become more aggressive: sending him to
England to be executed there, and having Laertes poison a sword for the "sword play"
between Laertes and Hamlet.

Gertrude, the widow of the old
king, is also motivated by self-preservation. She does not remarry for a love Claudius,
as far as we know. There is no suggestion that anything existed between them before she
wed Claudius. However, without a man to protect her, Gertrude may well have married
quickly not only to guarantee that she would have a home and food, but to also guarantee
a good life for her son Hamlet.

There are a number of other
character who act out of a need for self-preservation. Polonius, and Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern, are all interested in remaining in favor with the King, to guarantee
themselves comfortable lives. Ironically, with all these many characters in the story
with a desire to protect themselves, the actions they take do not, in fact, protect them
at all.

If I were to write a thesis statement based on your
topic, it might be similar to the following:

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In Shakespeare's tragedy of
Hamlet, several characters are motivated by the need for
self-preservation; ironically, however, their actions do anything
but guarantee their
survival.

in a csf cytology ananlysis it is shown that occassional RBC are seen. What is the consequence? Any abnormality?it is a sample from a child of 7.5...

Spinal fluid or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) bathes the
central nervous system (brain and spinal cord).  It is normally water clear with scant
cellular content.  Normal cells found in the CSF include small numbers of white blood
cells (WBC) and occasional macrophages and ependymal lining
cells.

Since spinal fluid is obtained by a spinal tap
(insertion of a hypodermic needle through the skin into the spinal canal), there will
always be a few red blood cells (RBC) introduced into the fluid due to the trauma of the
needle stick.  So the presence of small numbers of RBC in spinal fluid is normal and of
no significance.

The purpose of spinal fluid analysis is to
detect inflammatory conditions such as spinal meningitis or encephalitis of the brain,
hemorrhage in the brain or spinal cord, autoimmune conditions such as the ascending
paralysis of the Guillain-Barre Syndrome, and tumors (especially
cancers).

CSF cytology is performed by spinning down the
spinal fluid specimen, recovering the cells and spreading them onto a slide.  The slide
is stained and examined microscopically for cells.

In
inflammatory conditions  there are increased numbers of WBC and RBC.  In brain or spinal
cord hemorrhage large numbers of RBC will be present, with far fewer WBC.  In cancers
that involve the brain or spinal cord (either primary and arising from these structures,
or metastatic from cancer arising elsewhere) there will be cancer cells that have been
shed into the CSF.  These abnormal cells can be picked up on the microscopic cytology
examination.

In summary, small numbers of red blood cells
are to be expected in CSF analysis, and are considered normal and of no medical
significance.

Please analyze the poem "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe.

Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" is a poem about a man who
has lost his love, Lenore.

The mood is set with the time
("a midnight dreary") and the author's physical condition ("weak and weary"). It is
December, the fire is full of dying embers—and even those bring to
mind the supernatural:

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And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost
upon the floor.

The speaker
sits alone reading old books ("forgotten lore"), nodding off; the sound of the rustling
curtains fills him with terror, which adds to the mood of the story. When there is a
knock at the door, the speaker tries to convince himself that even though he is
frightened, the knocking is nothing more than "some late
visitor."

Mustering his courage, the speaker rises and
opens the door; he sees nothing, but hears his whisper "Lenore" that is echoed back at
him. He comes in, closes the door, but again there is a knocking. The speaker tries to
calm himself, thinking something may be tapping on the window—surely only the wind. He
opens the shutter and a raven enters, walking like a "lord," where
it…

Perched
upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber
door.

The man addresses the
bird, "Ghastly grim and ancient raven," and asks him why he has come. The man makes no
special note that he speaks to the bird, but he does express
surprised that the bird can talk—only one word: the famous and daunting, "Nevermore."
The man personifies the bird's speech...

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...as if his soul in that one word he did
outpour.

When the bird will
not say more, the man reflects that the bird will leave soon enough as all of his
friends have. The bird repeats "Nevermore." The man thinks then that maybe the bird was
only ever taught one word by "some unhappy master." Finally, smiling, the man turns his
chair to face the bird, wondering what "Nevermore" means. For a moment, the man looks at
a velvet cushion, knowing she will never sit there again, and
suddenly he feels a presence in the room. He cries to heaven that he might forget
Lenore, but "Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore.'" The man becomes frenzied. He asks the bird,
"is there balm in Gilead," which is a quote from the book of Jeremiah: he asks is there
no healing for his broken heart? The bird's answer does not
change.

The man then asks the bird, who he addresses as
"Prophet," if he shall ever again see Lenore:

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Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the
distant Aidenn,

It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the
angels name Lenore ...

Again,
the bird offers no hope, repeating the same answer. Angry the man demands that the bird
leave him to his sorrow. The bird's response remains unchanged, and in the last stanza
the man reports that the bird is still sitting in the same spot. He
acknowledges:

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And my soul from out that shadow that lies
floating on the floor

Shall be lifted -
nevermore!

Poe's gift with
poetry is often overshadowed by his tales of horror. As we read the poem, we are struck
with Poe's surprising ability to write excellent poetry, using a variety of literary
devices, while presenting a dark tale (his calling card) with hints at "other worldly
powers." Here are some of the literary devices Poe
uses:

• internal rhyme: While I nodded, nearly
  napping, suddenly there came a
  tapping,

• onomatopoeia:
  rapping, tapping


• rhyme
  scheme: ABCBBB


• consonance: what
  it utters is
  its only stock and
  store


• assonance: yet
  was
  blest


• alliteration: grim,
  ungainly, ghastly,
  gaunt


• repetition:
  Nevermore.


• personification: the raven, sitting
  lonely

How did the New Deal expand the federal government's authority and responsibilities?

The New Deal expanded the authority and responsibility of
the federal government in a number of ways.  In general, it gave the federal government
the power to intervene in the economy in practically any way it wanted and it gave the
government the responsibility for ensuring the basic welfare of the
people.

Through the New Deal, the federal government got
the authority to intervene in the economy in many ways.  For example, the government
could tell farmers how much of their crops to produce or not to produce.  It could force
banks to pay into a deposit insurance fund.  There are many other examples of what it
could to to intervene in the economy.

At the same time, the
government took responsibility for the welfare of the people.  It did this most clearly
through the creation of Social Security.  This and other programs established the idea
(which has only grown since then) that the government is responsible for ensuring that
people have a certain basic standard of living.

What are the historical elements that identify the settings within Jonson's The Alchemist and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar?

The historical elements that identify the settings within
Ben Jonson's The Alchemist and William Shakespeare's
Julius Caesar are numerous. The setting is important in each play
for various reasons. In Shakespeare’s tragedy, the Roman setting is of course highly
appropriate to a play about some of the major figures, and one of the most important
events, in ancient Roman history. In Jonson’s play, a specific setting would seem to be
less dictated by the plot than in Shakespeare’s text, but Jonson definitely wanted to
imply that chicanery and foolishness were alive in contemporary London. For these
reasons, both playwrights are careful to provide details that call constant attention to
specific locales (Rome and London, respectively).

Consider,
for example, the first several hundred words of each play (which can be searched
electronically). Thus, in the opening portion of Julius Caesar,
characters mention such details as the
following:

• Rome (multiple
  references)


• chariot-wheels


• Pompey


• the
  Tiber river


• the Roman
  gods


• the Capitol


• the feast
  of Lupercal


• Caesar’s
  trophies


• Caesar
  himself

All these references occur within the
first 76 lines of the play, and often the references are multiple references.
Shakespeare obviously wanted to emphasize a point that would already have been clear
from the play’s title: that this is a play about Rome (although, of course, with
implications for other places and other periods in
history).

In Jonson’s The Alchemist,
the London setting is not emphasized immediately, but it isn’t long before passages such
as the following begin to appear:

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FACE. Not of this, I think it.
But I
shall put you in mind, sir; -- at Pie-corner,
Taking your meal of steam in,
from cooks' stalls,
Where, like the father of hunger, you did
walk
Piteously costive, with your pinch'd-horn-nose,
And your
complexion of the Roman wash,
Stuck full of black and melancholic
worms,
Like powder corns shot at the
artillery-yard.

The
references here to “Pie-corner” and to “the artillery-yard” would have indicated quite
clearly to contemporary audiences that the play was set in London. So would later
references to “Paul’s” (that is, St. Paul Cathedral, the biggest church in London) and
to “a Puritan in Blackfriars” (that is, an extreme Protestant in a well-known London
neighborhood). Very soon into the play, London audiences would have realized that London
itself was the setting of the play and that London’s citizens and mores would be chief
objects of its satire.

Is a pick axe a lever? If so, where is its fulcrum located? What class of lever is it (1st, 2nd, or 3rd)?

The pickaxe is a lever of the third kind. When a pickaxe
has to be used it is held with the hands, one hand is placed at the center of the handle
to hold it there and the other is used to hold one end of the handle. The load or
resistance lies at the end opposite to where the handle has been held. The hand
supporting the handle at the end acts as the fulcrum and the hand holding the handle at
the center is used to apply the force. This moves the opposite end towards the load
which has to be cut or split.

At the end that strikes the
load a wedge made of metal is fixed. The wedge allows the load to be pierced or split
depending on its shape.

Why did Tom think the storm was intended for him in Chapter 22 of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?

In Chapter 22, Tom thinks the storm is intended for him
because he has a guilty conscience.

It is summer, and Tom
is at a bit of a loss as to what to do with himself. In addition, he is still troubled
over having secretly witnessed the murder of Dr. Robinson. Because he is attracted to
the "showy character" of the uniforms of the Cadets of Temperance, he decides to join
their ranks, promising to give up smoking, chewing tobacco, and profanity. Sadly, Tom
soon finds himself sorely tempted to do all these things, and is forced to give up his
membership before a mere forty-eight hours have
passed.

Tom's malaise deepens, and to make things worse, he
catches the measles. During the two weeks during which he is laid up, a "revival" comes
to town, and everyone - even his rapscallion friends - "[gets] religion." Even the
incorrigible Huck Finn quotes to him from Scripture, and Tom, still laboring under the
"dreadful secret" of the murder, and his recent dismal failure to live up to
expectations in the Cadets, feels as if "he alone of all the town [is] lost, forever and
forever."

Such is Tom's state of mind when the terrible
storm strikes. Consumed by guilt, he firmly believes that "he [has] taxed the
forbearance of the powers above to the extremity of endurance and that this [is] the
result." Tom sees the storm has been wrought to bring about his destruction, a just
punishment for his sins and perceived depravity (Chapter 22).

In Chapter 7 of Book the Third, when Charles Darnay is released from La Force, why do they not all return immediately to England?A Tale of Two...

In Charles Dickens's novel of doubles and parallels,
images of crime and the justice system of both England and France pervade the
narrative.  The fickle nature of juries is alluded to in this chapter as it was in the
Chapter III of Book the Second during Darnay's trial in London. Now, in Chapter VII of
Book the Third, although Darnay has been released from prison, the atmosphere in the
streets is turbulent and unstable. Just as the fickle crowd can at one moment demand
blood, then, in the next moment help Dr. Manette tend to the sick or hurt, so, too, the
crowd releases Darnay, but he and his family worry that he can easily be arrested
again.  For, the name of the residents are posted one the
door.

"In the universal fear and distrust that darkened the
time, all the usual harmless ways of life were changed."  The family makes every effort
to attract as little attention as they can for fear that Darnay will be rearrested.  For
instance, Miss Pross and Jerry Cruncher shop each day for only a few things.  With the
fickleness of the crowds of revolution, it is "dangerous for Charles yet " to try to
leave the country; he would probably be detained.  So, while Charles hopes that the
attention given to him will subside, there is again a knocking at his door.  Rour rough
men come for Citizen Evremonde, telling him he is again the prisoner of the Republic. 
As fate would have it, Charles Darnay is rearrested because he has been denounced
by Citizenness and Citizen Defarge.

What's wrong with the marriage of Nora and Torvald in A Doll's House?

Nora and Torvald have a shallow marriage.  It is based on
possessive love.  Torvald believes Nora is his prize possession. He does not deem her
his equal.  She is his play toy.  He believes he is intellectually superior to Nora.  He
does not have a clue about what she really knows.  He is programmed by society which
keeps the humble little woman at a man's feet, not by his
side.

Nora plays along with Torvald and pretends to be just
as shallow as he is.  She takes on the part he has given her.  She is his little
squirrel or little songbird.  Nora is an intellectual who has to keep her knowledge
undercover.  She truly loves Torvald enough to sacrfice her reputation by secretly
borrowing money for his health issues.  In return, he shouts at her and sends her to her
room. She is his child, not his equal.  Torvald worries about appearances.  He is all
about keeping up with the Jones.  He worries about his reputation and will not
sacrifice, not even for the woman he loves.

Nora on the
other hand is willing to do whatever she must do for the man she loves.  If only Torvald
had appreciated her true love, perhaps they would still be together.  Nora has no
choice. She must leave Torvald to find out more about
herself.

Torvald had it all.  He had a woman who truly
loved him enough to sacrifice her own feelings in order to make him happy. That is why
she played his silly games.  It is too bad that Torvald was blinded by his own ambition.
 Will Nora return to him is the question with which he is left wondering? I would guess
that he has lost her forever.

Solve the inequality 2x^2+4x-7

We have to solve the inequality: 2x^2 + 4x - 7 <
0

2x^2 + 4x - 7 can be written as factors of roots
as

(x - x1)(x - x2), where

x1
= -4/4 + sqrt (16 + 56)/4

=> x1 = -1 + 6(sqrt
2)/4

=> x1 = -1 + (3*sqrt
2)/2

x2 = -1 - (3*sqrt 2)/2

As
a product of factors we have: (x - (-1 + (3*sqrt 2)/2))(x - (-1 - (3*sqrt
2)/2)

This is negative when either of (x - (-1 + (3*sqrt
2)/2)) or (x - (-1 - (3*sqrt 2)/2) is
negative.

• (x - (-1 + (3*sqrt 2)/2)) < 0
  and (x - (-1 - (3*sqrt 2)/2) >
  0

=> x < (-1 + (3*sqrt 2)/2) and
x > (-1 - (3*sqrt 2)/2). This gives the values of x in the interval ( (-1 -
(3*sqrt 2)/2), (-1 + (3*sqrt 2)/2).

• (x - (-1 +
  (3*sqrt 2)/2)) > 0 and (x - (-1 - (3*sqrt 2)/2) < 0
  

=> x > (-1 + (3*sqrt 2)/2) and x
< (-1 - (3*sqrt 2)/2) which is not
possible.

The solution for the inequality is
x in the range ((-1 - (3*sqrt 2)/2), (-1 + (3*sqrt
2)/2).

List the chronological order of the storyline in Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist.

In Paulo Coelho's story, The
Alchemist, the story begins when Santiago chooses to be a shepherd in order
to travel, and then decides to pursue a recurring dream he has had to find treasures. He
leaves Spain with his sheep.

First he visits a gypsy woman
so she can read his fortune. She wants a tenth of his treasure when he finds it, so he
agrees, and she tells him to go to the Pyramids in Egypt. This he already knows from his
dreams. Then he meets an old man who wants a tenth of his sheep in order to help him.
Santiago agrees and the man (who is really the King of Salem) tells him about his
Personal Legend (what will really make him happy in his life), about following the omens
along the way, and encourages Santiago not to give up on his
dream.

Santiago sells the rest of his sheep in an attempt
to travel to Egypt. He is not a person familiar with the ways of the world, and his is
robbed. Left with nothing, the boy takes a job with a crystal merchant. He is there
longer than he had hoped, trying to make money for more sheep. He is a good salesman and
makes money for the merchant, greatly increasing his business. The merchant teaches
Santiago more than he knows: the merchant never pursued his
Personal Legend, and now feels stuck. This is an important lesson for Santiago, who also
learns to speak Arabic. Eventually the boy makes his money and knows it is time to
leave.

However, instead of buying more sheep, he pays to
travel with a caravan across the desert. On the way he meets the Englishman who has
learned all he can from books about alchemy, but has never succeeded in changing lead to
gold. The boy tries to tell the older man about his Personal Legend and watching for
omens, but the Englishman's heart is closed to different methods of learning. Both men
travel to the oasis to meet "the alchemist."

Arriving at
the oasis, Santiago is much better at listening to the Language of the World, that which
connects people, animals, and the world to God. Santiago meets Fatima and falls in love.
He says he will return when his search is done. The boy sees an omen in two fighting
falcons and takes his vision to the leaders of the oasis, telling them they will be
attacked. They decide to believe him. Meanwhile, the boy is threatened by a man on a
horse, demanding who has seen an omen. Santiago faces him, ready to be killed if it is
his fate, but the alchemist is just testing him.

The two
travel together, while the boy listens to the alchemist. They are arrested, and the
alchemist tells their captors that the boy can change himself into the wind. The men
want to see this, but the boy is petrified: he has no idea how to do so, but he has no
choice—failure means death. Speaking the Language of the World, Santiago talks to the
sun; then he talks to the wind, and artfully enlists their help. He is successful, and
the boy and the alchemist separate, as Santiago continues on his quest. At the pyramids,
the boy is attacked by robbers. One of the robbers tells Santiago that he, too, had a
dream, about a treasure at the root of a tree in Spain. Because the robber does not
follow his Personal Legend, he will never find his treasure.
Santiago knows now that he must return home to Spain. His treasure is in the churchyard
where the boy and his sheep rested. He goes back, claims his treasure, and then whispers
to Fatima, on the wind, that he is returning home to her. All he has achieved has come
from following his Personal Legend.

In Shakespeare's Macbeth, what are "these hangman's hands"? Is this Macbeth's reaction when he first returns from Duncan's chamber—what does he...

In Shakespeare's Macbeth, in Act Two,
scene two, after Macbeth has murdered Duncan (which he really did not
want to do), the audience can tell that his actions have not come
naturally to him. He is distracted, and has brought the bloody daggers back from
Duncan's room.

Macbeth is extremely upset that when the
grooms/guards were praying, that he could not say, "Amen." He says
he really needed a blessing, but could not say "Amen." Of course,
based upon Elizabethan standards, murdering a king—who was on the throne because God had
ordained it—was a mortal sin. Macbeth has separated himself from God so it should be no
surprise to him that he feels distanced from the
Almighty.

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MACBETH:

One
cried, “God bless us!” and “Amen” the other,

As they had
seen me with these hangman's hands.

Listening their fear, I
could not say “Amen,”

When they did say “God bless us!”
 (36-39)

Macbeth then turns
his attention to the question of sleep—that a voice said that Macbeth had murdered
sleep—the kind that refreshes one when he (or she) has worked a long day. The sleep that
calms the mind; then the voice says that because Macbeth has murdered sleep,
he will sleep no more.

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MACBETH:

Me
thought I heard a voice cry “Sleep no more!

Macbeth doth
Murder sleep”—the innocent sleep,

Sleep that knits up the
ravell'd sleave of care,

The death of each day's life, sore
labor's bath,

Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second
course, (50)

Chief nourisher in life's
feast—

LADY
MACBETH:

What do you
mean?

MACBETH:

Still
it cried, “Sleep no more!” to all the house;

“Glamis hath
murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor

Shall sleep no more.
Macbeth shall sleep no more.”
(55)

Macbeth is feeling
extremely guilty for what he has done. Though he was one a noble man, he has—with one
action—separated himself from the noble company of his peers and murdered his King and
friend, separating himself also from heaven.

Lady Macbeth
tells him to wash up and then he will feel better, but when she sees the bloody daggers
he has brought back, she scolds him and demands that he return them back to where the
dead king lies so it looks like his guards/servants are guilty of Duncan's murder.
Macbeth firmly refuses, saying he will not go back. Again Lady
Macbeth criticizes his lack of bravery, and his manhood, and returns the weapons
herself.

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LADY
MACBETH:

Who was it that thus cried? Why,
worthy

Thane,

You do unbend
your noble strength, to think

So brainsickly of things. Go,
get some water

And wash this filthy witness from your hand.
(60)

Why did you bring these daggers from the
place?

They must lie there. Go carry them, and
smear

The sleepy grooms with
blood.

MACBETH:

I'll
go no more:

I am afraid to think what I have done;
(65)

Look on't again I dare
not.

LADY
MACBETH:

Infirm of
purpose!

Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the
dead

Are but as pictures; ’tis the eye of
childhood

That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed,
(70)

I'll gild the faces of the grooms
withal,

For it must seem their
guilt.

When a knocking is
heard, Macbeth is struggling with his guilt. Lady Macbeth has returned the daggers and
makes fun of his fears. She is very calm about what they have done, saying that "a
little water clears us of this deed..." (line 85)

Macbeth
is not comforted: he knows the horror of his actions. His regret is evident when he
wishes Duncan could be wakened with the knocking:

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MACBETH:

…
[Knock.]

Wake Duncan with thy
knocking! I would thou couldst!

Why is the Metamorphosis considered universal?Please elaborate.

I would imagine that while no one has ever actually turned
into a bug and a rare few might have imagined they did, everyone has felt like Gregor at
some point in his or her life.  Gregor is a bug now, but he was acting like a bug and
was being treated like a bug long before his metamorphosis on page 1 of the novella. 
Gregor is an insignificant worker bug for his family.  He is unappreciated and
disregarded even though he is solely supporting the family financially.  Once be becomes
an actual bug, he is treated with all of the horror and disdain humans have for most
bugs.  The family is disgusted by him and does as little as possible to help him.  They
eventually just want him gone, just as most people will eventually call an exterminator
to get rid of pests, so this family feels.  It is the maid who ultimately gets rid of
his dead body -- the family is removed from the reality of Gregor in the end of the
story. Most people can relate, if only on a small level, to feeling unimportant,
insignificant, and a nuisance to those around them.  Gregor's wanting to please and
sense of self-sacrifice are also aspects of his personality that are universal.  It is
human nature for most everyone to want to live his best life and do the right things for
the right reasons.  People can see those admirable qualities in Gregor. The story is
universal on many thematic levels.

What are three expectations that Pip has when he first learns about his anonymous benefactor?Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

In Chapter XVIII of Great
Expectations, one evening while Pip is apprenticed to Joe, a strange
gentleman that Pip recognizes as the supercilious Mr. Jaggers arrives at the Jolly
Bargeman, saying that he is looking for Pip.  Later, in the Gargery parlor, Mr. Jaggers
announces to Pip that he has "great expectations," and he communicates to Pip the
conditions under which these expectations come.  After the burly lawyer who is to be
Pip's guardian departs, Pip has certain expectations
himself:

1.  He expects to be educated.  Mr. Jaggers has
mentioned Mr. Matthew Pocket as his prospective tutor.  Pip will meet his son first and
then be introduced to Mr. Pocket.

2.  Pip expects to become
a gentleman and not have to wear working clothes.  Mr. Jaggers provides Pip with twenty
guineas so that he can have some proper clothes made.

3. 
As Pip expects to say goodbye to Estella, he also expects that she will be favorably
impressed that he is to become a gentleman in London.  Happily, Pip expects that once he
is no longer coarse and common, Estella will approve of him and grow to love
him.

Find the solution set of sin x = csc x in the interval (0°, 360°). [Answer(s) should be correct to the nearest degree.]

We must find just the solutions that belong to the range
(0 , 2pi).

We'll recall the identity csc x = 1/sin x and
we'll substitute csc x by the equivalent ratio, into the given
identity.

sin x = 1/sin
x

We'll multiply by sin x both
sides:

(sin x)^2 - 1 = 0

We'll
recognize the difference of squares:

(sin x - 1)(sin x + 1)
= 0

We'll cancel each
factor:

sin x = 1 => x = pi/2 radians or 90
degrees.

sin x = -1 => x = 3pi/2 radians or 270
degrees.

The solutions of the equation in
degrees, over the range (0 , 360) are: {90, 270}.

What are some current fads and trends among senior citizens?

There is an increasing number of senior citizens today
because the life expectancy is much higher.  As a result of better health care, arguably
improved governmental aid (Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid), and the generally higher
level of education of today's senior citizens, many believe that there will only
continue to be a higher demand on the quality of life past a certain
age.

From a business, consumer, or economic perspective,
the following fads or trends might be important to note: senior citizens make up a
significant part of America's current population and are likely to be demanding health
care consumers.  Many senior citizens are still living with their spouses, but those who
have lost significant others due to death mostly wish to continue to live independent
lives.  There continues to be an increase in the learning of and use of advanced
technology, especially the Internet, among senior citizens.  All of these things
combined have raised awareness of healthy living and we are now seeing an increase in
the availability of fitness facilities, classes, and community health programs geared
toward those over the age of 62.  Local churches, YMCA's, private gyms, and community
centers are creating more and more opportunities to bring senior citizens together in
the name of health and fitness.

In "Young Goodman Brown," why does Brown assume the meeting was real and not a wild dream?

Actually, I don't think there is sufficient evidence from
the text to argue that Goodman Brown actually believes the dream to be true. I think it
is clear that if we read the text, we are not actually told if what Goodman Brown saw
was real or not. What is clear though, is that seeing what he saw impacts Goodman Brown
for the worse, and changes him from that point forward. Let us note the way that the
vision ends:

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Whether Faith obeyed he knew not. Hardly had he
spoken when he found himself amid calm night and solitude, listening to a roar of the
wind which died havily away through the forest. He staggered against the rock and felt
it chill and damp, while a hanging twig, which had been all on fire, besprinkled his
cheek with the coldest
dew.

It is thus left
deliberately vague whether Goodman Brown experienced a dream from which he suddenly
awoke, or whether he experienced reality and then was transported away from it. The text
deliberately tantalises us with both possibilities. Note the way that the narrator
rather cheekily asks us the following question:

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Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest,
and only dreamed a wild dream of a
witch-meeting?

This question
is never answered, but the way in which Goodman Brown's life is changed by what he
witnessed and the way that it obviously showed him that evil is present in all of us is
explored in great detail. What he saw, fact or fiction, was enough to profoundly
challenge his belief in the goodness of humanity, leaving him a joyless
man.

A die is thrown twice. What is the probability that the sum of the number of dots is 4 or 10?

We will create the following table to sort out the
problem

FIRST DICE
-------->

1|   2|   3|   4|   5|  
6

--------------------------------------------

1
|              2|  3|   4|   5|   6|    7

2 |            
 3|  4|   5|   6|   7|    8

3 |              4|  5|   6|  
7|   8|    9

4 |              5|  6|   7|   8|   9|  
10

5 |              6|  7|   8|   9| 10|  
11

6 |              7|  8|   9| 10| 11|  
12

From this table we can get the sum
of the two dots in both cases.

thus, all possible outcome =
 36

favourable outcome =  3 + 3
=6

probability = 6/36 =
1/6(Ans.)

Did Toni Cade Bambara have children, family?

In reading Toni Cade Bambara's story, "Raymond's Run," one
might believe that she may have written from personal experience. She writes as the
narrator of the story who finds satisfaction in helping her brother rather than pursuing
her own ambitions. It is quite possible that she learned this growing up. Bambara was
raised with her brother by a single mother. In the neighborhoods in which she was
raised, she found supportive women who encouraged her with liberal advice. As an
author...

One
of Bambara’s major themes is that a strong ethic of caring for and helping one another
sustains African
Americans.

She was a
civic-minded activist. I can find no mention that she was married. She was born with the
last name of "Cade," but took…

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...the name of a West African ethnic
group Bambara.

This
name, she felt, sounded good with her own name, and also her child's name: Bambara
did have one daughter named Karma Bene
Bambara.

Perhaps, then, Bambara's ability to speak so
clearly through the eyes of a youngster comes from memories of growing up, and/or
watching her own daughter grow.

What is the importance of the color pinkThe ribbons on faith's hat were pink. They are mentioned a few times and they are usually moving

Pink is often associated with innocence.  Everyone in
Brown's pre-forest adventure is viewed as innocent ... perhaps, to follow the color
hint, through "rose colored glasses" --- at least in Brown's estimation.  (Of course,
when he comes out of the forest they haven't changed ... he/his view of them, have.)
 The ribbon is the physical symbol of innocence, and it appears later in the forest as
it drifts down from above, suggesting that the woman that is going to be inducted in the
forest ceremony is Brown's wife --- the loss of the pink ribbon would be the loss of her
innocence.  Of course, we don't know if any of this ever happens since it is suggested
that this whole experience is a dream.

If it's real, then
the pink/innocent ribbon would represent the loss of Brown's wife's innocence in fact
... but with Hawthorne's ambiguity we don't know if it happened.  And it's not
important.  Brown is forever changed by what he thinks happened, and that's what's
really important.

A set of 8 scores 2 4 4 9 9 12 12 60 What will change if the score 60 is removed from the set? Explain why

It appears you are being asked to compare the mean,
median, and mode of the two sets of numbers. In the set of eight scores you give, the
mean, found by adding all the scores and dividing by eight, is 14. The median, or middle
value when the numbers are put in increasing order, is nine. You have a tie for three
modes, or numbers repeated most often - four, nine, and twelve. If you remove 60 from
your set, the mean will change to approximately 7.43 (52 divided by 7).  The median
would still be nine and the modes would also be unchanged.

How many moles of Na3C6H5O7 can be produced if one tablet containing 0.0267 mol of NaHCO3 is dissolved? When an antacid tablet dissolves in water,...

To solve this problem look at the equation of the chemical
reaction that takes place between the antacid which is sodium bicarbonate and citric
acid:

3 NaHCO3 + H3C6H5O7 --> 3 CO2 + 3 H2O +
Na3C6H5O7

We see that 3 molecules of NaHCO3 react with one
molecule of citric acid to give one molecule of sodium citrate or Na3C6H5O7 in the final
products.

When one tablet of NaHCO3  containing 0.0267 mole
of the compound reacts with citric acid the number of moles of Na3C6H5O7 produced is one
third the number of moles of NaHCO3 that reacted
originally.

This is equal to 0.0267/3 = 0.0089
moles

When 0.0267 moles of NaHCO3 are
dissolved we get 0.0089 moles of Na3C6H5O7.

Most Cubans who came to the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s were seeking what?A) business opportunities // B) escape from Fidel Castro's Communist...

The best answer of the ones that you offer us is B.  In
general, Cubans escapeing from Cuba and coming to the United States in these decades
came because they wanted to get away from the communist regime led by Fidel
Castro.

The Castro regime had come to power in the late
1950s in Cuba.  Castro soon imposed a very strict set of rules on Cuba, basing them on
ideas of communism.  These stifled human rights such as free speech.  The rules also
destroyed private enterprise in Cuba.  Because many Cubans thought that they would be
better off both economically and in terms of rights in the US, they tried to leave Cuba
and come to the US.

Therefore, B is the best of these
answers.

In Lord of the Flies, how does Ralph summon the others?

In chapter one of "The Lord of the Flies", Ralph and Piggy
find a conch in the sand (a big sea shell).  In order to summon the others, hoping that
they would follow the sound, he blows into the shell.  At that moment a deep loud noise
was made and was heard throughout the forest.  After some time, this is how all of the
children find one another.  Consequently, the conch becomes a symbol for order.  During
one of their early meetings, the children determine that the person holding the conch
will have the opportunity to speak freely, and that everyone else would listen. 
Therefore, when the conch is destroyed later on in the novel, so is the order and
civility within the group.

What is the relevance of the man in the pink pyjamas in Heart of Darkness?

The pilgrim in the pink pyjamas serves a single purpose,
to show the difference between Marlow, who is a man of action, and the detached
philosophies of other Whites in the Congo, who consider themselves above crude affairs.
He appears first to worry about the native attack, and takes no action when other
passengers take steps to defend themselves against possible attack. Later, he appears to
admonish Marlow for the steering, and is shocked to discover the steering native killed
by a spear.

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...I was anxious to take the wheel, the man in
pink pyjamas showing himself a hopeless duffer at the business. This I did directly the
simple funeral was over.
(Conrad, Heart of Darkness,
gutenberg.org)

Marlow takes
time to compose himself, including the symbolic gesture of changing his shoes (which had
filled with the dead native's blood) and then Marlow replaces the pilgrim at steering.
The comparison shows how Whites were usually not mentally prepared for the various
horrors of the jungle, and how the superiority complex of many Whites gave them little
advantage when confronted with the need to take quick and decisive
action.

How is the 17th Amendment a reflection of Progressive ideals?

I would suggest that the 17th Amendment (well explained in
the first post), was/is a victim of the "Law of Unintended Consequences" as demonstrated
in the 2008 elections, particularly the election of Harry Reid.  Senate elections, once
the province of individual states, have now gone "national," not because citizens of
states vote for Senators but because money is poured into states to elect senators who
are backed not so as to best represent the interests of the states but because the
candidate maintains the dominance of one party or the other in the Senate.  Again, the
election of Harry Reid in 2008 is a good example of this.  At least when the
legislatures/business selected the Senators, there was a good chance that they would
look after the interests of the state or a portion of
it.

Ironically, in seeking to empower the voters of a state
by this amendment, they may have taken power away from these
citizens.

What is the significance of the first scene in Macbeth?

The first scene of Macbeth
establishes the following:

• establishes the theme
  of "time": "when shall we three meet
  again?"


• establishes the importance of the "heath": a
  place of carnage, full of "foul and filthy air," foreshadowing the bloody events to
  come


• establishes the witches as agents of chaos,
  seemingly controlling the actions and events of play much like a
  chorus


• creates an atmosphere of the supernatural,
  mystery, and the occult


• pathetic fallacy: the outside
  weather (stormy) mirrors the interior weather of the Macbeths
  (murderous)


• the motif of "three": three witches,
  "thunder, lightning, rain"


• the language of confusion in
  the witches' equivocations (language of confusion; ambiguity; double meanings;
  half-truths; paradoxes; riddles: “Foul is fair and fair is
  foul”)


• subverts the natural order (God, King, and nature
  as all good) with equivocal morality: how do we know what’s good, or who’s good, if
  there’s overlap between good and evil?

Prove: tan^2x - sin^2x = tan^2x sin^2x

We'll recognize to the left side a difference of 2 squares
and we'll re-write it as it follows:

(tan x - sin x)(tan x
+ sin x) = [(tan x)(sin x)]^2

But tan x = sin x/cos
x

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

sin x/cos x + sin x = sin x(1/cos x + 1) = sin
x(1 + cos x)/cos x (2)

We'll multiply (1) by
(2):

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

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

But from
Pythagorean identity, we'll get:

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

LHS = (sin x)^2*(1 - cos x)(1 + cos x)/(cos x)^2 =
(tan x)^2*(sin x)^2 = RHS

Since we've get LHS
= RHS, we can state that the given expression represents an
identity.

What does Macbeth's 'Is this a dagger which I see before me' soliloquy show about his character?and what is the significance of this moment in the...

When Macbeth sees the bloody dagger, he is moments away
from killing King Duncan. Obviously, Macbeth is feeling the guilt of murderous actions
he has not yet committed. Macbeth is preparing to kill King Duncan. He is preparing to
murder him as he sleeps. The dagger he sees is some type of omen that the witches desire
him to follow. The dagger leads to where Duncan is sleeping. Macbeth speaks to the
dagger:

You
guide me on the way that I was going,
And show me the instrument I was to
use.

In a few moments,
Macbeth will actually hold a bloody dagger as he murders King
Duncan.

Macbeth is already feeling the effects of the
murder. He is having hallucinations about the terrible act he is about to do. His guilt
is overtaking his reasoning. The dagger represents the bloody course on which Macbeth is
about to undertake.

Solve using the quadratic formula:3x^2 - 4x + 3 = 0

Given the quadratic
equation:

3x^2 - 4x + 3 = 0

We
will use the quadratic formula to solve for x.

==> x
= [ -b + sqrt(b^2-4ac)]/2a

==> a = 3     b= -4    
c= 3

==> x1= [
4+sqrt(16-4*3*3)]/2*3

             = [ 4+ sqrt(-20) /
6

              = 4+ 2sqrt5*i)/
6

              = ( 2+
sqrt5*i)/3

==> x2=
(2-sqrt5*i)/3

Then we have two complex
roots.

==> x = { (2+sqrt5*i)/3  ,   
(2-sqrt5*i)/3  }

Which are the literary devices used by John Steinbeck in Of Mice and Men?

The first would be oxymoron. The two character Lennie
Smalls is considered an oxymoron becuase the character himself is a big, oaf like man,
and yet his name would imply otherwise.

Next, you find
numerous examples of foreshadowing in this novella. For example, at the beginning of the
story you see George tell Lennie that if something should go wrong then they should meet
right back at the bank. Low and behold after the death of Curly's wife that is where the
two men are forced to meet. This is why the novella has a cyclical structure, it starts
and ends in the same location. Another example of foreshadowing would be the killing of
Candy's dog. Candy tells George that he should of killed his own dog instead of letting
someone else do it. This then leads into George being the one to kill Lennie before
someone else can.

The farm itself is considered a
microcosim in the fact that every sect of society is reprepresented in that one ranch.
You have the mentally challenged, the napolian complex, the black guy, the old guy, the
crippled guy, the woman... all in this one location.

There
is also symbolism in that the dream farm of George and Lennie could represent the
American Dream and at the time this dream was disillusioned with the idea of the Great
Depression and how many could not in fact achieve said dream. The reader knew that
something would prevent the two men from obtaining their dream.

Write a short note on increasng heart problems and mention the factors responsible and preventive measures.Word limit 150-200

   The increasing heart problems are the result of today's
fast mode of life. The increased pace of work, the competition and our lifestyles have
joined together and attacked our hearts.The number of heart related diseases have
considerably increased in past years. The examples are hypertension, myocardiopathy,
angina, vascular disorders and the list goes
on.

CAUSES:

1. Stress
   and tension related to occupation has increased because of fast pace of work and
   competition.


2. Economic pressure and depression has
   effected many people world-wide resulting in increase of heart
   diseases.


3. The fast-food and our eating habits have
   resulted in increases of heart related diseases. Beverages , burgers, fried food, soft
   drinks etc. all not only result in unhealthy mind and body as well as in unhealthy
   heart.


4. The eating habits combine with sedentary life
   style , aggrevates the heart problem. In this computer age, the physical activity has
   become limited resulting in heart
   diseases.

PREVENTIVE
MEASURES:

    The first preventive measure that ought to be
taken is increase in physical activity. Moreover, what we can
do

• do regular
  exercise


• change our eating
  habits


• give up fast food and eat healthy food like fruits
  and vegetables


• go for medical check-up
  regularly


• make small changes in our life style like
  walking instead of using accelrator, use stairs instead of an
  elevator


• Avoid sitting in front of TV or computer for a
  long time.    

    These precautions if not
completely, to a great extent can reduce the chance of be victim of these heart
diseases.

In The Pearl, now that Kino is wealthy, what must he sacrifice in order to protect that wealth?

What is fascinating about this story is the way that the
novel charts the transformation in Kino himself after finding the pearl, which should
ideally make him happy and an easier person to be around. However, in this dog-eat-dog
world that Steinbeck presents us with, the finding of great wealth becomes a source of
deep sadness and mourning, which is something that Juana becomes aware of as she calls
the pearl "evil." Note how it turns Kino paranoid after the initial reaction that he
receives from both the villagers and others, such as the doctor. When Juana asks him who
he fears, Kino's response is particularly telling:

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Kino searched for a true answer, and at last he
said, "Everyone." And he could feel a shell of hardness drawing over
him.

This "shell of hardness"
is something we increasingly see in the character of Kino as he even turns against Juana
in his attempt to get the correct amount of money for the pearl that he has found and
comes to curse his life so profoundly.

Who says "she was just being polite" in Act II scene 1 of Othello?

The quote you have given is of course a paraphrase of the
original Shakesperian English. In Act II scene 1, Iago observes that Cassio takes
Desdemona's hand to lead her away and talk to her about his situation. He plans to use
this as evidence against him in his plot to gain his revenge against Othello. As the
other characters exit, and Iago is left with Roderigo, Iago tells Roderigo that
Desdemona will soon tire of Othello, but the man she will most likely go to will be
Cassio, and cites what he saw as proof of this:

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Didst thou not see her paddle with the palm of
his hand? Didst not mark
that?

In response to this
manipulation and temptation from Iago, Roderigo argues that this was just politeness, or
"courtesy," on the part of Desdemona and not indicative of any other
feelings.

Why did it take Moses and the Israelites 40 years to reach the land of Milk and Honey?

The Biblical strict interpretation answer to that question
would be that the Hebrews refused to follow God's lead. Relatively soon after the nation
escaped from Egypt, spies were sent into the land of Canaan to evaluate the land. Caleb
and Joshua were among the spies and, upon their return, encouraged Moses and the tribes
to take action to enter the land immediately. The other spies, however, reported seeing
well-armed giants and strongly defended cities in Canaan. The people refused to attack
at that time; God decreed that all those who had refused to obey his direction and enter
at that time would die in the desert and that a new generation would be the one to cross
into the new land.

Those who interpret the history less
literally would say that the tribes spent the 40 years fighting with other tribes
throughout the region as they traveled, searched for food for their flocks and built the
discipline and organization needed to be able to conquer the
Canaanites.

How did Jacob Riis change America's morals?

It is hard to make the argument that Riis, by himself,
changed America's moral values.  However, the "muckraker movement," of which Riis was a
part, certainly changed American attitudes towards social
problems.

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, Riis and
other muckrakers did a lot of work to expose social ills to the general public.  Riis,
for example, used his journalism and photography to show the plight of immigrants in big
US cities.  By exposing these conditions, Riis and other muckrakers made people more
aware of the problems and helped make them care about such
things.

The muckraking that these people did helped to
change American values enough that the Progressive Era was made possible.  People
stopped thinking that these social ills were inevitable and instead thought that they
were wrong and that the government should do something about
them.

What does "i" represent? If the graph of an equation does not intersect the x-axis does it mean it has no roots?

Complex numbers are an extension to real numbers and
extensively used in many aspects of mathematics relating to fields like engineering,
electromagnetism, quantum physics, applied mathematics, and chaos
theory.

A complex number is made up of two parts, a real
part and an imaginary part. A general complex number would be a + ib where a is the real
part and ib is the complex part with the coefficient b and i representing the square
root of -1.

As you know any number when multiplied by
itself gives a positive result. Then what would be the square root of a negative number?
To accommodate this, the symbol i was
introduced.

i = square root of -1 or i^2 =
-1.

A complex number is drawn graphically on
a system where the x-axis represents the real part and the y-axis represents the complex
part.

Every equation has a root. If it does not intersect
the x-axis where the x-y axes are real coordinates, it does not have a real root,
instead it has complex roots.

There is no
equation which does not have roots, they are either real or complex in
nature.

Related to the Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman, what sort of things should be kept secret?

This is a subject of debate, as each person has a personal
definition of what the "whole truth" is.

However, there are
certain truths in the play Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller,
that definitely do need to be confronted by the Loman family because that is the only
way to break with their vicious cycle of make-believe and
denial.

As far as what truths should be exposed, the first
is the fact that Willy is no longer a successful salesman and that, perhaps, he was
never one. Sadly for Willy, it is not that he does not know this, but that he does not
accept it. So, in general, whether he is confronted with this truth or not, it may not
make a difference.

Another truth that does come out,
thankfully, is Biff's actual connection to Mr. Oliver. When he realizes that he has been
following his father's steps in idealizing relationships with people, Biff takes the
initiative to confront Willy with it. Again, Willy withdraws to his fantasy world, but
Biff finally awakes to reality.

However, some truths may
remain in the dark. Biff obviously never tells Linda about Willy's mistress, nor about
the stockings. Perhaps this is for the best. What would Linda do differently without
Willy in her life? It is obvious that Willy and Linda are each other's enablers and they
feed off each other. Linda idealizes Willy and allows him to do as he pleases as the
head of the household. This being said, it would have made Linda's life more miserable
to know about Willy's infidelity, but it would change her life- only make it
worse.

In that case, what she does not know will not hurt
her. However, that is entirely a matter of opinion. Some people swear by telling the
truth no matter how badly it hurts. Others feel that telling the entire truth about
something will redeem them from "sin". Yet, in the opinion of others who look out for
the interest of the innocent, sometimes truths will not change anything but attitudes.
It is a matter of what is the truth, and who is telling it.

How does Chief define the therapy in the institution in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?

Chief believes that the institution’s therapy consists of
control.  Chief believes that the institution wants to control all aspects of the
patients.  His conspiracy extends to government and industrial interests that want to
reduce all of the patients, and all of humanity, to mechanized automaton form.  Chief
feels that there is no rehabilitation or care of patients, but rather control and
dominance.  This is evident in his belief of the “fog.”  Chief believes that all those
in the position of power and authority over the patients engage in this so that they can
end up controlling the lives of the patients, preventing and precluding them from
exercising their own voice in the construction of their destiny.  It is in this where
Chief acts at the end in that he has gained the courage from his friendship with
McMurphy to take action.  His actions at the end demonstrate his belief that he will
never be in control of who he is and what he shall do while he is in the institution as
they will never allow it.  When he leaves, it is the absolute statement that life is a
force that cannot be repressed or controlled, something that happens frequently in
Chief’s mind in the institution.

Compare/contrast Walker's "Everday Use" and Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" in terms of what Baldwin calls the "ambiguity and irony" of Negro life.

In Alice Walker's "Everyday Use," and James Baldwin's
"Sonny's Blues," the ambiguity in the Negro way of life is in the distorted concept of
"freedom" that was allegedly guaranteed to all men with the Declaration of Independence,
and specifically guaranteed to blacks in the Emancipation Proclamation. The promises
made in these documents have not been realized by the black race. The blacks are seen as
"separate but equal," which really translated at the time to "separate and not
equal." This is ambiguous (confusing). Things that are equal are not separated. Dee in
Alice Walker's story decides to adopt an identity straight from Africa (though she has
never been  there), while rejecting the life she was born into,
"controlled by her oppressors." The truth  is that her identity depends upon
her choices, not the choices of others for
her. The ambiguity in "Sonny's Blues" is that Sonny seems to be the man who has nothing:
no job to speak of, a criminal background, and an inability to connect to his
heritage—he feels victimized by society, even with all the promises made to the blacks
in the past. How is a man supposed to rise above his situation when there is no trust or
concern directed toward him? …when any attempts to rise above his circumstances are
dashed?

The irony of "Everyday Use" is that Dee believes
she will find herself by adopting traditional African styles of clothing, as well as a
new African name. However, her sister who does not reject her
heritage seems much more suited to her life than Dee who thinks the clothes and name
will change who she is and where she has come
from.

I
couldn’t bear it any longer being named after the people who oppress
me.

However, her sister
Maggie has less going for her, but seems happier and more grounded. This is ironic in
face of what Dee believes about living in America (which she has never seen) and being
ruled by a white society that has little regard for blacks. No one else in this
situation can help Dee—she must see the truth for herself. In "Sonny's Blues," the
speaker (Sonny's brother) sees little value in his brother: he's just gotten out of jail
and he has little to recommend him with his drug use, etc. Sonny's brother finally
realizes (and it's ironic) that though Sonny does not have the things
he has, and although he has not been able to achieve anything that
society might applaud, Sonny's brother comes to see that Sonny does, after all, have a
valuable gift. It is his music. And for all that Sonny suffers and has lost in life, he
is able (ironically) to see music in a way that very few can. He can charm it like a
charmer, taking something formless and transforming it into a "triumph" not only for
himself, but for others.