In "Fahrenheit 451," what final question does Clarisse ask Montag on the night of their first encounter?Why is the question important to the plot?

The last question Clarisse asks Montag the first time they
meet in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is "Are you happy?". This
question is extremely important to the plot because the idea that Montag is not doing
what brings him personal satisfaction and happiness is what makes him look closer at his
life: at his job, his wife, and the norms of the society in which he
lives.

At first Montag laughs at the idea that he is not
happy, but then he looks at the way his wife has separated herself from her life, and
how distanced they have become. He cannot even remember where they
met.

On the job, Montag is horrified when the firemen burn
the house of a woman who not only refuses to leave her books, but
starts the fire that will end her life. He becomes confused. When
Beatty becomes aggressive and accusatory, Montag has a wake-up call. We learn that he
has kept a couple of books hidden himself; he reads one of his books to Mildred and her
friends; and, Mildred turns him in and Beatty arrives outside his door, to burn Montag's
house.

As Montag looks closely at the world around him,
as Clarisse taught him to do, he realizes that he cannot live
within the bounds of society and he chooses to run. Across the river, he becomes a part
of the book-readers who will rebuild society with books they have read and/or
memorized—in a place where the realization of true happiness is
possible.

In Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, how does finding corn and rice growing near his fortress make Crusoe think of God? Does the religious feeling last?

When Crusoe in Defoe's Robinson
Crusoe sees the corn growing and finds rice as well, his thoughts at first
turn to God. He is not really a brave man. He is fearful as to how he will survive. He
has not given much thought to God in the past. However, he believes that these plants
are a sign of a miracle of sorts, in that Crusoe is stranded and in dire need of the
means with which to feed himself.

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I had hitherto acted upon no religious foundation
at all; indeed, I had very few notions of religion in my head, nor had entertained any
sense of anything that had befallen me otherwise than as
chance...

Seeing plants grow
so out of place in this climate which was so alien to the grains, Crusoe sees this as a
miraculous gift: he feels blessed that God has reached out to assist him in his time of
need.

But
after I saw barley grow there, in a climate which I knew was not proper for corn, and
especially that I knew not how it came there, it startled me strangely, and I began to
suggest that God had miraculously caused His grain to grow without any help of seed
sown, and that it was so directed purely for my sustenance on that wild, miserable
place.

In this frame of mind,
Crusoe sets out looking for other plants. He has forgotten that he shook out what was
left of some rotted corn in that place. In other areas, he finds rice stalks growing as
he had seen them grow in Africa. All at once, his sense of "God's providence" begins to
fade because he sees that the growth of these plants is "common," where nothing
miraculous has really occurred. Even that these things might not have grown if he had
thrown them elsewhere no longer moves his heart—he considers that God's hand is
not at play in this; it is pure
chance.

I not
only thought these the pure productions of Providence for my support, but not doubting
that there was more in the place, I went all over that part of the island, where I had
been before, peering in every corner, and under every rock, to see for more of it, but I
could not find any.  At last it occurred to my thoughts that I shook a bag of chickens’
meat out in that place; and then the wonder began to cease; and I must confess my
religious thankfulness to God’s providence began to abate, too, upon the discovering
that all this was nothing but what was common; though I ought to have been as thankful
for so strange and unforeseen a providence as if it had been miraculous; for it was
really the work of Providence to
me...

In reflection, Crusoe
believes he still should have seen God's hand in these things for
they were no less precious or appreciated by him at that time. However, he lets the
sense of the miraculous fade, with no thought that God might be working in his life to
help him to survive.

Could you please give me "The Frog and the Nightingale" in dialogue form?

Initial dialogues have been provided for you. You can
continue writing further dialogues based on the
pattern:

(Scene)-On a cool night, the frog sang with his
croaking and cacophonous voice in Bingle bog. A nightingale came and sat upon a sumac
tree. With her melodious and sweet voice, she started singing. Suddenly, the frog
croaked.

Nightingale: "Sorry- was that you who
spoke?"

Frog: "Yes, you see I'm frog who owns this tree. In
this bog I've long been known for my splendid baritone. And, of course, I wield my pen
for Bog Trumpet now and then."

Nightingale: "Did you....did
you like my song?"

Frog: "Not too bad- but far too long.
The technique was fine of course, but it lacked certain
force."

Nightingale:
"Oh!"........

  Now i think it is easier for you 2 complete
conversation...........

What state proved to be of key importance in the 2000 presidential election?A) Minnesota // B) New York // C) New Mexico // D) Florida

This one is fairly direct.  Florida is the state that was
in doubt in the 2000 Presidential Election.  Both candidates had fought hard for all of
the states that were "toss- ups" but no greater intensity emerged than the one in
Florida.  Many in the Democratic circles believed that if Al Gore had won Florida, the
2000 election would have been his.  At the same time, a Bush strategy to the White House
could not avoid Florida.  Both candidates campaigned intensely and with zeal in
Florida.  Election night results first declared Florida for Al Gore, the Democrat, and
then when exit polls proved to be misleading, news networks moved the state to the
"undecided" column, while others declared it for Bush.  In the end, the other 49 states
had been decided and counted with neither candidate having reached the 270 electoral
vote "magic number."  Both candidates needed Florida and only one could have it.  Thus
began the winter of recounts, hanging chads, dimpled chads, and the Supreme Court
decision in Gore v. Bush where a 5-4 vote halted the recount and awarded Bush the state
of Florida.

Should prisoners be able to sue if their rights are violated?

Prisoners must be allowed to sue if their rights are
violated.  If they could not sue, there would be no incentive for the state or federal
prison systems to respect prisoners' rights.

An example of
this can be seen in the recent Supreme Court decision about prison overcrowding in
California.  If prisoners truly are being held in conditions that are inhumane, they
need to have some way to rectify the situation.  If they could not sue, they would need
to rely on elected officials to push prisons to alleviate the problems.  This would
surely never happen because prisoners are not a sympathetic group.  Therefore, prisoners
who could not sue would have no way to force authorities to respect their
rights.

What can we learn about the treatment of children from Chapter 33 of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility?

One way in which the treatment of
children is referred to in Chapter 33 is
with respect to inheritance. In this chapter, Elinor and
Marianne run into their brother John Dashwood in Mr. Gray's, a jewelry store in London.
Mr. Dashwood talks a great deal about how lucky the girls have been to find a friend
like Mrs. Jennings. He feels that Mrs. Jennings has taken them under her wing as if they
were her own daughters and might very likely leave them an inheritance should she pass
away, as we see in his lines:

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Her inviting you to town is certainly a vast
thing in your favour; and indeed, it speaks altogether so great a regard for you, that
in all probability when she dies you will not be forgotten. (Ch.
33)

However, Elinor argues
that Mrs. Jennings really has no fortune of her own except for her jointure, meaning
what her husband left her upon his death. Also, if Mrs. Jennings has anything saved up
from her jointure, most likely she will give it to her own two daughters. But, still
persistent, Mr. Dashwood points out that since both daughters are already well married,
she wouldn't have any reason to think of them any further.

The irony is that Mr. Dashwood is
speaking of inheritances when, due to the nature of his uncle's will, his father's
estate and fortune were left solely to Mr. Dashwood, without anything more than a
thousand pounds each given to the girls. Therefore, upon his death, his father made Mr.
Dashwood promise to help his mother and sisters, meaning provide for their well being.
At first Mr. Dashwood made the decision to give them each one thousand pounds, but upon
discussing it with his selfish wife decides not to give them anything at all. Hence, by
bringing up the prospect that Mrs. Jennings, of no relation to the girls at all, may
leave them an inheritance when he should have shared some of his own with them, shows us
just how poorly some children, especially daughters, were treated with
respect to inheritance.

In William Congreve's "The Way of the World”, why is Lady Wishfort so repulsive?

It would be somewhat unfair to deem Lady Wishfort
"repulsive" because she does change towards the end of the play. She shows some positive
qualities and she also proves to have her maternal instincts in check by protecting her
daughter from being duped.

Yet, to agree with your
argument, Lady Wishfort does reunite a number of qualities that might seem shocking to
her peers, and maybe repulsive to men.

First, she literally
blobs herself with face paint (make-up) to hide her signs of aging. Second, she acts as
if she were a love-crazed teenager when, in fact, she is a woman in her 50's (quite old
for the time this play was produced -1700's) and openly displays the behaviors of a
man-eater.

Hence, the image of a big, older lady, ladden
with makeup, and making advances at younger men, could indeed prove repulsive to those
who are the victims of the advances. Lady Wishfort's inability to recognize herself as
an aging, hefty lady and her wild, sexual desire for men definitely play a part in
finding her character somewhat repulsive.

Explain and elaborate on the importance of masks and masquerading in A Doll's house.

In A Doll's House, the masquerade
party is symbolic in that Nora wears a mask daily. She keeps up a facade on a regular
basis. She pretends she is happy when she is not. She cannot even eat a macaroon without
Torvald scolding her for it.

Ultimately, Nora has had
enough of Torvald's games. She is tired of playing house. She cannot pretend to be his
doll any longer. She must find her own identity. In so doing, she must leave Torvald
first. When she slams the door, she is opening herself up to a new life, one in which
she can find her own identity.

The foreshadowing of Nora's
change at the end of the play happens when she is talking with Dr. Rank earlier in the
play in Act I. She insists that she is going to tell Torvald what she is really
thinking. About this time, Torvald comes out of his office, and Dr. Rank says, "Say it.
Here he is." Nora says nothing.

This is an indication that
Nora is not happy. For this reason, the author indicates that Nora's leaving is a
necessity and is the right thing to do. The author causes the reader to sympathize with
Nora. Torvald is obnoxious. It is easy for the reader to dislike Torvald. When Nora
slams the door to leave, the reader is relieved for Nora's sake.

At the beginning of Act II of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, what reasons does Brutus give in his soliloquy for killing Caesar?

Brutus says he has to kill Caesar because the people are
going to crown him King and with that role he would become too powerful and do damage to
Rome.  He says he knows of many powerful men before who were fair and just until they
were given too much power.  Once they obtain arbitrary rule, they turn their back on
their friends an countrymen.

Brutus professes that he has
no personal grudge against Caesar and in fact thinks of him as a good friend, but he
sees Caesar's potential danger to Rome as reason enough to kill him which is evidenced
in his famous simile in lines 32-34:  "And therefore think him as a serpent's egg -
Which, hatched, would as his kind grow mischieveous - and kill him in the
shell.

Therefore, he must kill him, not because of any
personal animostiy, but for the good of Rome.

In "The Sniper," justify how the sniper turns into a sensitive human being from being a fanatic.

I actually think this is one of the more realistic aspects
of this excellent short story, as we see the true human psychological cost of war in the
face of the sniper. The story presents us with the student, whose "eyes had the cold
gleam of the fanatic." His experience of war and the effect that this has had on him is
self-evident, as we follow how he manages to outwit his unknown and anonymous enemy on
the opposite roof and kill him, descending from his perch victorious. However, I think
it is perfectly realistic that having assumed this cold and calculating character which
was necessary to ensure his survival, that when he is victorious, he is able to relax
and suddenly can comprehend the enormity of what he has done in the following
passage:

The
sniper looked at his enemy falling and he shuddered. The lust of battle died in him. He
became bitten by remorse. The sweat stood out in beads on his forehead. Weakened by hsi
wound and the long summer day of fasting and watching on teh roof, he revolted from the
sight of the shattered mass of his dead enemy. His teeth chattered, he began to gibber
to himself, cursing the war, cursing himself, cursing
everybody.

He is only now
able to show and demonstrate the human, sensitive side of his character after having to
rigidly maintain his cold, calculating character to ensure his survival. This story
shows that fighters do have a human, sensitive side, but they must keep it very strictly
under lock and key. Even then, it is able to break out.

Discuss President Andrew Jackson's Indian policy.

For a better answer, please ask a more focused question so
we can be sure that our answer is really what you
need.

President Jackson's Indian policy is typically seen
as a rather immoral policy that was based solely on the needs of white people and not at
all on the rights of the Native Americans.  President Jackson supported the white people
of the Southeast who wanted to remove the Indians from land that they (the white people)
wanted.  The Indian Removal took no notice of the fact that the tribes in this area were
"civilized" and sedentary.  This lifestyle (unlike a nomadic, hunting lifestyle) would
have made it possible for whites and Native Americans to coexist.  However, the whites
were not interested in coexistence.  Jackson's policy (not surprisingly) took the side
of the whites without regard for the rights of the Indians.

What happens to Winston after the physical beatings in Book 3 Chapter 2 of 1984?

This chapter relates how, after a series of incredibly
disturbing beatings, Winston is completely broken and has confessed to everything that
he has been told he needs to confess to. But at the same time, his process of
rehabilitation, if that is what you want to call it, is not over yet. It is obvious that
he still has some way to go, and as he hears the voice of O'Brien, it is clear that
O'Brien recognises this too:

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Don't worry, Winston; you are in my keeping. For
seven years I have watched over you. Now the turning-point has come. I shall save you. I
shall make you
perfect.

O'Brien then goes on
to torture him with a machine that causes pain. Through this special torture session,
O'Brien challenges Winston's notion of the truth, and argues that the only truth that
exists is what the Party says is true, even if that were 2+2=5. O'Brien thus tries to
show Winston the truth of one of the Party's
statements:

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Who controls the past controls the future: who
controls the present controls the
past.

Thus it is that the
Party can change history to suit its own needs and can manipulate the truth so that it
can control the present, future and past. Finally, after Winston's desperate attempts to
cling on to what he thinks is the truth, he is taken to Room 101 and the chapter
ends.

How would Spenser's treatment of human sexuality in Amoretti compare to that in Epithalamion?

There are many significant differences between Spenser's
Amoretti sonnets and his celebratory wedding
Epithalamion. Aside from the style and structure of the two, the
Amoretti chronicled the passage of real events in real time, i.e.,
Spenser's courtship of Elizabeth, while the Epithalamion celebrates
the real event of their wedding day and night.

Since the two tell of
two vastly different [then] experiences, that of courtship and marriage, the topic of
sexuality is foreign to one and natural to the other. As a consequence, the treatment of
sexuality in Amoretti is veiled and subtle while in
Epithalamion it is gently overt.

An example from
the Amoretti sonnets is in Sonnet 5 in which, in veiled terms,
Spenser speaks of looking at Elizabeth with lust as indicated by Threatening
rash eyes:

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Threatening rash eyes which gaze on her so
wide,
That loosely they ne dare to look upon
her.

An example from
Epithalamion is in the 18th stanza (also called 18th poem). The
wedding is ended, and Spenser and his bride have the night ahead of them. Though there
could be no occasion to speak of marital intimacy in his courtship sonnets, Spenser is
now free to speak of it and does so in a metaphor of what awaits them under the cover of
night sable mantle:

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[Night] Spread thy broad wing ouer my loue and
me,
that no man may vs see,
And in thy sable mantle vs enwrap,
....

MODERN SPELLING
[Night] Spread thy broad
wing over my love and me,
that no man may us see,
And in thy sable
mantle us enwrap, ....

What's a good tie up sentence for a essay on "Who is responsible for Duncan's death?"

The responsibility for a death belongs, first, to the one
who directly caused the death, and in the case of King Duncan in "Macbeth", then Macbeth
is the responsible party.  Macbeth stabbed Duncan to death.  Macbeth did not act alone,
however.  His wife, Lady Macbeth, aided and abetted him in this action by getting the
guards drunk enough that they fell asleep (or passed out) and were no longer effectively
guarding their king.  She also served as the one to alert Macbeth to the timing of the
murder.  She did this when she rang the bell that Macbeth heard at the end of his
soliloquy in Act 2, sc. 1.   She shares responsibility for the murder and she would, in
a legal proceeding, be charged with a crime.  The witches would not be held accountable,
legally, because all they did was suggest to Macbeth that he might become king.  What he
did with that suggestion was his own doing.

Who does Iago tell that Othello badmouthed him to Brabantio?

I think you're referring to the opening of Act 1 scene 2,
where Iago tells Othello:

'I lack
iniquity
Sometimes to do me service: nine or ten
times
I had thought to have yerk'd
him here under the ribs.' (my
italics)

Iago is feigning
indignation at someone talking insultingly of Othello, and claiming that he could hardly
prevent himself from attacking that person, to defend Othello's
name.

The identity of the 'him' is a little ambiguous. It
could be Brabantio, as Iago is making a show of warning Othello about Brabantio's anger
at Othello and Desdemona's elopement and marriage.

The
other possibility is Roderigo. As a known suitor of Desdemona, he has reason to be
resentful of Othello, and spoke openly with Brabantio in revealing Desdemona's flight in
the previous scene. Roderigo openly insults Othello to Brabantio ('gross clasps of a
lascivious Moor'), whereas Brabantio's anger, at least at that point, was directed more
against his daughter ('O she deceives me/ Past
thought!').

It makes little difference who is actually
meant. The significance of the exchange lies in what it reveals about Iago and Othello.
 The fact that it was Iago who incited Roderigo and led the coarse allegations against
Othello and Desdemona, though hidden from view so he could not be recognised, makes
Iago's show of indignation and loyalty here one of the earliest signs of his
double-dealing and villainy. It is also the first time the audience sees Othello.
His calm response to Iago's speech ('Tis better as it is'), forces the audience to
re-assess the unflattering impressions they have been given by what has been said about
him so far in the play.

What are two examples of sacrifice in the play Macbeth?

Macbeth's sacrifices in the play are not numerous.  In all
actuality, Macbeth's sacrifices are forced by his actions.  First, after Macbeth murders
Duncan, Macbeth finds that he can no longer sleep.  Therefore, Macbeth has sacrificed
sleep to insure his claiming of the crown. Second, Macbeth sacrifices his sanity.  As he
becomes more and more murderous, Macbeth loses his sanity.  Therefore, to gain the
crown, and keep the crown, Macbeth sacrifices his
sanity.

While sacrifice is typically looked at as something
done for the better, here, Macbeth's sacrifices have very negative outcomes.  Yes,
Macbeth looks at gaining the crown as positive.  The problem lies with the sacrifices he
must make to gain and keep the crown.

What is the exposition of Moonstruck?

The basic exposition of Jewison's film concerns the life
of Loretta, the protagonist.  In the tradition bound world of Brooklyn Heights, Loretta
is seen to be an outsider.  She is 37 years old, unmarried and does not have children. 
She works as an accountant in the neighborhood, and the exposition centers around her
world.  She receives an engagement offer from her undertaker boyfriend, Johnny, and for
a brief moment, it looks as if Loretta is going to follow the norm and embrace
tradition.  The exposition of the film centers on the development of Loretta, in terms
of how she carries herself, how she is perceived by the inward world of her Brooklyn
Heights community, and how she perceives herself.  Jewison's primary focus is to ensure
that the audience is able to appreciate and embrace Loretta as she is going to be the
vehicle for the film.  The exposition's focus on Loretta is to make her someone with
whom the audience will not find difficult embracing because the drama that unfolds is
going to be contingent on her and the audience's connection with
her.

What are a few major examples of symbolism in The Great Gatsby?

As a review, symbolism is objects, characters, and colors
that are used in literature to represent abstract ideas or
concepts.

F. Scott Fitzgerald loved using symbolism to
convey his feelings on human nature and the era in which he
lived.

Some of the major symbols and the meanings (that I
teach to  my students through my research) are
below:

Daisy's green light that Gatsby could see from his
house represents Gatsby's hopes and dreams specifically, and since Gatsby represents all
Americans, it also represents "The American Dream" of love, wealth and happiness for all
of us.

The Valley of Ashes (the desolate ash-dumping piece
of land) represents the moral decay of 20's and the plight of the
poor.

The billboard with the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleberg
represents the eyes of God looking down on the moral morass which was America in the
Jazz Age...and judging it badly.

The unopened, unread books
represent the shallowness of the rich who look good from the outside, but have no
content within themselves.

The owl-eyed man could be a
prophetic reference. Someone who is wise (the owl) and sees more clearly (glasses)  than
those around him what is happening to the society.

The
colors yellow and gold are used frequently, probably to represent wealth and money of
this society. White is used for Daisy often..presumably to represent her femininity and
innocence.

Attempt a critical appreciation of Robert Browning's 'Prophyria's Lover'.

Browning's 'Porphyria's Lover' is a dramatic monologue
which means it is written in the first person allowing us to see into the mind of the
speaker. Clearly as the speaker is a murderer this is interesting to us as it allows us
to see his motivation.

It appears that Porphria is attached
to another; 'vainer ties dissever' and the speaker is jealous of this and wants to keep
her to himself; the only way he can do this is to kill her so she cannot leave. The
killing does not appear to be planned; in fact it is chillingly casual 'I found/A thing
to do' and the speaker does not seem to feel any remorse or guilt. He feels that he has
got away with it; 'And yet God has not said a word!' He has attemped to 'freeze' a
perfect moment and has done so.      

Is Utterson a hypodiegetic narrator in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?

Let us be very careful with how we use the word
"hypodiegetic" in this instance. Diegesis is a term used to refer to narratology, and in
particular indicates the way in which the plot is set at a different level from the
narration itself. Hypodiegesis is used to refer to an embedded tale-within-a-tale that
is said to constitute a lower level of narration.

Of
course, the tale itself does not strictly offer us with a framing narrative as the point
of view is far more complex than this. We start of with Utterson's attempts to discover
the truth that lies at the heart of the mystery concerning the relationship between Mr.
Hyde and Dr. Jekyll, and then we move to Richard Enfield's account of his own attempts
before finally we hear the truth of the matter from Dr. Jekyll himself. Both write about
the case reporting what they have discovered. There is a sense in which, therefore, we
can talk of the narration being diegetic, as Utterson talks about what he did,
recounting his earlier actions, but I am not convinced that we can use the word
hypodiegetic to refer to the narrative of this compelling story.

What is the area of a border of width 2 cm around a circular shape of area 36*pi cm^2.

Area of the circle = pr^2m where r is the radius of the
circle.

The area of the border of the two concentric
circles with radii r1 and r2 is pi(r2^2-r1^2), where r2 and r1 are  the external and
internal circles.

If the 2cm border is external, then the
radii are r2 = 8cm and r1 = 6cm.

If the 2cm border  is
internal, then r2 = 6cm and r1 = 4cm.

The area of the
border = p(8^2-6^2)= 87.96 sq units or pi(6^2-4^2) =
62.83 sq cm.

What effect did Western Imperialism have on Japan?

When Europeans were expanding their colonies around the
world, Japan made the decision to isolate itself and limit exports as a way of
protecting Japanese culture from dilution or western takeover.  Ultimately, Japan opened
its borders when American Admiral Perry sailed into Edo Bay (modern-day Tokyo) and
shocked Japan with America's superior naval technology and weapons.  Perry demanded that
Japan open its ports to American trade; other countries were not as lucky, and were
colonized by European powers.  Japan however was not colonized, but saw no choice but to
open its borders to trade with other
nations.

Westernization ended up benefitting Japan.  While
some cultural elements were made unnecessary, like the samurai warriors, other aspects
of Japanese culture thrived with goods and ideas from the West.
 

The Meiji Restoration followed Japan's ended isolation.
 Under the Meiji government, the government was recentralized and the feudal period
ended.  Samurais became bureaucrats who studied under Western economic and political
schools of thought.  The Japanese military, which was no match for Admiral Perry's
fleet, enforced conscription, where every male had to serve in the military for at least
5 years.  This effectively abolished the samurai class, as specialized warriors were no
longer necessary.  Rapid industrialization was funded; Japan wanted to catch up to the
West in terms of technology and industry.  Also like Western Europeans, Japan engaged in
imperialism, taking over Korea and later the Manchuria region of China.  With better
technology and nutrition from expansion, colonization, and industrialization, the
Japanese population boomed.  Unlike other nations, Japan managed to industrialize
without a major social revolution, making westernization in Japan
unique.

In The Great Gatsby, how does alcohol influence the characters?

Alcohol is mentioned frequently in the novel, sometimes
generally and sometimes in direct reference to the various characters. Gatsby, we learn,
did not drink; as a young man sailing with Dan Cody, he had observed the detrimental
effects of alcohol and had chosen to avoid them. In another way, however, Gatsby was
influenced by alcohol. As a bootlegger during Prohibition during the 1920s, much of
Gatsby's fortune came from its illegal sale.

At one
significent time in Daisy's life, she became very drunk. The evening before her wedding
to Tom Buchanan, Daisy was overcome with despair, still in love with her lieutenant, Jay
Gatsby. Jordan Baker found her with "a bottle of sauterne in one hand" and a letter from
Gatsby in another. This was, in fact, the first time Daisy had ever tasted alcohol, and
she had become "as drunk as a monkey." Under the influence of alcohol, her true feelings
poured out; she wanted to cancel her wedding, and she "cried and cried" for Gatsby. When
she sobered up, Daisy attended that evening's bridal party and married Tom the following
day.

Nick becomes drunk for the second time in his life
when he attends the party at Tom and Myrtle's apartment in New York, the day of his
thirtieth birthday. Usually a very responsible, conservative young man, Nick wakes up in
Pennsylvania Station waiting for the train at 4:00 am, with some of the previous evening
a blur in his memory. Recalling the events of the party, Nick comments that "everything
that happened has a dim hazy cast over it."

Finally, the
negative aspects of Tom Buchanan's personality are accentuated when he is drinking. At
the party Nick attended, Tom has been drinking all afternoon and into the evening. He
becomes aggressive and belligerent with Myrtle, ultimately breaking her nose during a
violent quarrel. Also, Tom has been drinking when he confronts Gatsby in the hotel room
in New York; his arrogance, contempt, and hatred for Gatsby are released in a torrent of
insults and accusations. He would have attacked him physically had others not
intervened.

What's difference between put on and wear?when we use put on or wear ?

"Put on" means to clothe oneself or to literally put
clothing or jewelry on one's body. Example: "I am going to put on a raincoat before I go
outside."

"Wear" is the act having clothes or jewelry on
the body.    Example: "I want to wear my new dress to the
party."

In other words, you "put on" clothes, so you can
"wear" them all day.

In the film The Conspirator, what is John Surratt's, Mary Surratt's and Mr. Atkin's moral compass or social conscience?

Mr. Atkin was faced with a difficult situation. He had to
choose between his cuntry, joining with every other American in seeking quick justice
for the murder of the president, and seeing that justice was received in the right
fashion. In the beginning of the film, he was on the side of quick justice. He was
scared; he did not want to jump into the muck that the trial would bring. Eventually
though, he saw that how so-called justice was being sought was not the "American" way.
The trial was not by any means unprejudiced.

Mrs. Surratt
and the others were facing criminal charges. The Constitution states that, " title="Article 3 Section 2 Clause 3 - Trial by Jury">The Trial of all
Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury...." They faced a Military court.
They were civilians not soldiers. They did not have an impartial jury. The list of
injustice of the trial goes on and on. Mrs. Surratt was seen as guilty from the time her
home was searched. We will never know for certain of her involvement in the conspiracy
because she was not given a proper trial. I believe Mr. Atkin was doing his job as a
lawyer, living up to the oath he took. If this trial was given special privileges what
was to stop trials of the future of not taking the same
path.

As for Mrs. Surratt's moral compassion, she was
trying to protect her son. Many other parents would do the same thing for their
children. She was strong in her faith.

As I see it, John
Surratt believed that by staying away he was protecting his family. Obviously he was
wrong. But who could foresee the events that would take place. America had never seen a
trial or hysteria like that taking place after the war and Lincoln's death. It was an
unstable time and everyone was terrified.

How do the Guardians maintain control over the people in the village in Gathering Blue?

We are first introduced to the Council of Guardians in
Chapter Three of this excellent dystopian novel. It is clear from the respect and
deference that is shown to the Guardians by both Vandara and by Kira that the Guardians
are given an incredibly important place in the society in which this story is set. As it
becomes clear as Kira's trial begins, they have the authority to grant life and death.
Note what the chief guardian says to Kira:

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"One of us will defend you using our greater
wisdom and experience. Take a moment to think about this, because your life may depend
upon it, Kira."

It becomes
clear that the Council of Guardians are able to control the people because of the power
and importance that the people give them. It is the Guardians themselves who are charged
with making wise decisions on behalf of all the people, which can often result in having
to decree the death of people like Kira who perhaps cannot contribute meaningfully to
the society of which she is a part.

In Hamlet Act 1 Scene 2, what are the relationships that characters have to one another?

In order to understand the rest of the play, you must
understand the relationships the characters have with one another, and you must
understand the dynamics within those relationships.  In Scene 2 we first meet King
Claudius who has taken over the throne of his recently deceased brother.  He has also
just recently married his brother's wife/widow, Gertrude.  Prince Hamlet is the son of
Gertrude and the former king, so that makes Claudius his uncle and how his step father. 
Hamlet is not happy about this turn of events and his first line reflects this
attitude.  Claudius call Hamlet his son, and Hamlet, in an aside, says, "a little more
than kin and less than kind."  He feels a little too closely
related to Claudius now. Hamlet loves his mother but is diappointed in her
decision to marry Claudius.  He agrees to stay at Elisinore for her sake.  This shows
that Hamlet is still a dutiful son at heart. Claudius, in an attempt to show fatherly
concern, gives a very long speech to Hamlet about how he needs to more quickly accept
his father's death as an event that is natural and expected and therefore should be
grieved and moved past.  He comes across as rather cold and practical, rather than
loving and understanding.

In this scene we also briefly
meet characters who become more important later in the play.  Laertes is the son of
Polonius, and Polonius is a chief courtier and adviser to Claudius.  Laertes goes
through the public obligation of asking the King's permission to return to college now
the the funeral and wedding are over.  Claudius, wanting to maintain the support of a
courtier like Polonius, is very flattering in his behavior towards  Laertes , and grants
the request.

This scene also shows us the friendship
between Hamlet and Horatio.  In scene 1, Horatio is portrayed as the learned man
who verifies the appearance of the ghost.  In this scene, we see the friendship between
the two men and how supportive Horatio is light of all of the change in Hamlet's life. 
Horatio, as kindly as possible, and with a lot of patience of Hamlet's questions,
reveals all of the details he can about the appearance of the ghost of King Hamlet.  He
is rightly concerned about Hamlet's wanting to see it for himself, but he is supportive
nonetheless. 

In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, what ends the knothole gifts?

In To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper
Lee, the children have been finding mysterious gifts left in the hole in the tree near
the Radley's property. It puzzles and perhaps frightens them a little at first. (Jem
gets worried when Scout eats a piece of gum left there, thinking it might be poisoned.)
Then they think it might be someone's hiding place. Leaving a ball of grey string in the
hole for a couple of days find it umoved: so Jem doesn't think it's a hiding place. From
then on, the kids believe that whatever is left there is their
property.

They find some more gum (an entire pack), two
well-carved (or so says Jem) figures of them—made from soap—and even a broken watch and
chain. The tree is something they look forward to checking each day coming home from
school.

The kids decide to leave a note for the mysterious
"gift giver," but when they approach the tree, they see the whole has been filled with
cement. Jem soothes Scout, telling her not to cry. When they see Mr. Radley and ask
about the tree, he says that the tree was dying. The children ask Atticus about the
tree's health and he says it looks fine, but hearing Mr. Radley explanation, he decides
that Mr. Radley knows best about the health of his trees, and the discussion is
dropped.

How to write a newspaper article about the Gettysburg Address ???I need to write two columns about the Gettysburg address as if the event happened...

If you follow the oca-encyclopedia link below, you will
find the dates, places, etc.  I would say that the trickiest thing to do is to write
about this as if you were living back in those days.  As the link tells us, Lincoln's
speech was seen as pretty unimportant at the time.  It was so short that it seemed
relatively pointless.  I think that you should talk about that in your article even
though we now see the speech as a major expression of our
values.

So, if I were you, I would talk about the Battle of
Gettysburg.  I would talk about how 23,000 Union and 28,000 Confederate soldiers became
casualties of war in the battle.  I would talk about how such a huge and important
battle (it stopped the Southern invasion of the North) deserved better than a three
paragraph speech.

By saying things like that, you will
sound like someone from that time period rather than someone from
today.

What are 25 simple machines found in a school and what type of simple machine is each one?

1. doorknob = wheel and
axle

2. classroom door = 2nd class
lever

3. stapler= 3rd class
lever

4. doorstop = Wedge

5.
Scissors = two first class levers connected at middle

6.
Wheelchair ramp = inlined plane

7. Spiral staircase =
Screw

8. Faucet = wheel and
axle

9. flush lever on toilet = 1st class
lever

10. wheels on bottom of teacher's chair = wheel and
axle

11. pulley at top of flagpole =
pulley

12. swing on playground = 3rd class
lever

13. baseball bat = 2nd class
lever

14. delivery ramp = inlined
plane

15. pole vault pole = 3rd class
lever

16. baseball glove = 2nd class
lever

17. pull down viewing screen =
pulley

18. window blinds =
pulley

19. light switch = 1st class
lever

20. hole punch = 2nd class
lever

21. toiletpaper roll = wheel and
axle

22. desk drawer = 2nd class
lever

23. staple remover = 2nd class
lever

24. pencil sharpener= wheel and
axle

25. teeter totter on playground=1st class
lever

The perimeter of the rectangle is 224 cm. Find the area if you know that the length is 3 times the width.

Given the perimeter of a rectangle is 224, we need to find
the area.

First we will find the length of the
sides.

==> Let the length be L and the width be
W.

Then the perimeter is P = 2L + 2w =
224

We will divide by
2.

==> L + w =
112............(1)

Now we are given that L=
3w

==> 3w + w =
112

==> 4w =
112

==> w
=28

==> L=  84

Now we
will calculate the area.

==> A= L*w = 84*28 =
2352

Then the area of the rectangle is 2,352
cm^2

I would like to have a short analysis of "One day I wrote her name" by Edmund Spenser. What does this poem show us?

This famous sonnet concerns a theme which is explored
through many different sonnets by various authors, such as Shakespeare himself. The
subject of this sonnet concerns the speaker's attempts to immortalise the object of his
affections, his beloved. The sonnet starts with his early abortive attempts, that nature
seems to be set against, as he writes the name of his beloved on the sand of the shore,
but on the two occasions he does this, the waves and the tide wash it away. The beloved
herself is shown to remonstrate with the speaker, trying to make him sea that it is
foolishness and impossible to immortalise a mortal being, as she herself will die and
decay and be remembered no more. The speaker's response is to comment on how she will
live "by fame":

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"My verse your vertues rare shall
eternize,
And in the heavens wryte your glorious name.
Where whenas
death shall all the world subdew,
Our love shall live, and later life
renew."

Through this poem and
the art of the speaker, the beloved can defy her fate and never be forgotten, as through
poetry the speaker can write her name, just as he did on the sand, but this time in "the
heavens." This will immortalise their love and give it the power to outlive death. This
poem thus shows us that immortality can be achieved through
poetry.

Why does Jabez Stone make a deal with the Devil in "The Devil and Daniel Webster"?

We are told in the introduction to this story the reason
why Jabez Stone was driven to making a deal with the Devil. Jabez Stone was so
exasperated by his repeated bad luck that one day, after a particularly trying incident
with a plowshare which he managed to break on a rock, with a whole host of other
unfortunate incidents that had occurred at the same time, it all got too much and he
shouted out:

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"I vow it's enough to make a man want to sell his
soul to the devil! And I would, too, for two
cents!"

Thus it is that Jabez
Stone, who is described as being not a bad man to start with, is driven by his bad luck
to make his compact with the devil that Daniel Webster needs to rescue him
from.

Discuss the differences betwen the use of PRESENT PERFECT and PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS structures in English.Illustrate your answer with examples.

The present perfect tense is used to discuss actions that
have started in the past but continue in the present.  For example, the sentence "I have
taken guitar lessons since the sixth grade" suggests that the speaker started guitar
lessons in the sixth grade and still continues to take these lessons in the present
time. 

The present perfect continuous tense is also used
for actions that started in the past and continue in the present, but the continuous
tense is used for actions that are in fact continuous and taking place over the span of
some time.  Writers and speakers use the continuous tense to emphasize the continuity of
the action.  For example, the sentence "I have been running to work every morning since
September" uses the continuous tense to emphasize the action of
running.

In "Dusk" by Saki discuss the events that lead Gortsby's thinking that he shouldn't be too clever in judging by circumstances. "Dusk" by Saki

Norman Gortsby is a rather cynical character who sits in
the "gloaming" hour on a bench in London's Hyde Park where others of fallen fortune and
hopes walk by.  As Gortsby, who has failed in some "subtle ambition" sits on alongside
an elderly gentleman; after the gentleman departs, out of the continuing dusk, a fairly
well dressed young man emerges, utters an angry word, and flings himself down onto the
bench. In reply to Gortsby's inquiry about his mood, the young man declares himself in a
"fix" because he has hurriedly left his hotel room in order to buy some soap, but cannot
recall neither which hotel it is or on which street it is located because the hotel at
which he had planned on staying has been torn down and replaced by a movie theatre. He
adds,

"Of
course I can wire to my people for the address, but they won't have my letter till
to-morrow; meantime I'm without any money...wandering about with twpence in my pocket
and nowhere to go for the
night."

Then, in response to
the young man who asks if Gortsby thinks he has simply fabricated his story, Gortsby
replies that the circumstances are not impossible since he has had a similar experience
in a foreign country. The young man responds to Gortsby's reminiscence about his similar
circumstances, hoping that Gotsby might yet have "the requisite decency" and give him
money for a hotel. But, says Gortby, the evidence that would have convinced him of the
veracity of the young man's tale is missing; namely, the bar of soap which the young man
supposedly set out to purchase.

With this remark, the young
man abruptly leaps to his feet exclaiming angrily, "I must have lost it," and he
departs, head held high.  Gortsby muses about the conversation, considering that the
detail of the story, the "convincing touch" was the soap.  When the young man could not
produce this soap, then his credibility was destroyed.  Ironically, however, Gortsby
happens to glance down as he starts to leave and discovers a bar of soap on the ground
where the young man had been sitting.  Guiltily, he hurries after the young man and
returns it to him, apologizing for his disbelief because appearances were against him. 
And, he gives the young man his card and a sovereign.  Blurting a word of thanks, the
young man "fled headlong in the direction of
Knightsbridge."

Returning to the bench, Gortsby chides
himself for being too quick to judge, believing himself clever.  Here, of course, is the
most telling irony of Saki's story since Gortsby was actually correct in his first
assessment of the young man's story because the soap belongs to the elderly gentleman
who returns to retrieve it.  Again, in the dusk Gortsby has "failed in a more subtle
ambition."

Which organization was formed as a result of the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott? A) SNCC // B) CORE // C) NAACP // D) SCLC //

The correct answer to this question is D.  The SCLC (which
stands for Southern Christian Leadership Conference) was formed in the aftermath of the
succesful bus boycott that happened in Montgomery in 1955 and 1956.  The SCLC was not
formed immediately after the boycott, but there were only a few months separating the
end of the boycott and the official creation of the
SCLC.

There were at least two major reasons for the
founding of the SCLC.  First, most of the organizations that were in existence at the
time were based in the North.  The SCLC leaders wanted to create a Southern
organization.  Second, the existing organizations were secular.  By contrast, the SCLC
was explicitly a church-based organization.

After the bus
boycott, various leaders, including Dr. King created the SCLC to push for civil rights
in a Southern and Christian way.  Therefore, the right answer is
D.

How old is Julia in George Orwell's 1984?

As pointed out in the previous answer, Julia is in her
mid-twenties, and therefore there is a not inconsiderable age-gap between her and
Winston, who, we are told, is thirty-nine.

Julia's
youthfulness is often emphasized in the novel. She is dark, pretty and attractive and
Winston can hardly understand why she bothers with someone middle-aged and as
unappealing as he feels himself to be. Also, he is an intellectual and she is not; she
prefers to focus on her physical needs and desires. Certainly on the face of it they
appear hardly compatible. Yet they are drawn together in their rebellion against the
Party.

The unlikely pairing of Winston and Julia serves to
highlight how even the most disparate of individuals can be united in a common cause
against the most diabolical type of oppression. The Party seeks to strictly regiment all
of its members, but underneath a façade of outward conformity, Julia and Winston are
highly individualized characters. 

What is the solution of : log(3x+5) (9x*x + 8*x +2) > 2?

We have to solve: log(3x + 5) (9x*x + 8*x +2) >
2

log(3x + 5) (9x*x + 8*x +2) >
2

=> 9x*x + 8*x +2 > (3x +
5)^2

=> 9x^2 + 8x + 2 > 9x^2 + 30x +
25

=> 8x - 30x > 25 -
2

=> -22x >
23

=> x <
-23/22

But the base of the logarithm has to be greater than
0

=> 3x + 5 >
0

=> x >
-5/3

The solution of the inequality is -5/3
< x < -23/22

Why were Nixon’s policies towards China considered more successful than those of his predecessors?

I think that you are asking why Nixon's policies towards
China were considered more successful than those of his predecessors.  I have changed
your question to reflect this.

Pres. Richard Nixon's
relations with China are considered more successful than those of previous presidents
because it was Nixon who opened diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China
(aka Communist China) for the first time.  Before Nixon, presidents had lacked the
ability and/or the desire to open relations with
China.

Nixon believed that relations with China would help
the US.  He believed that opening relations would put pressure on the USSR to be less
hostile to the US.  He also believed that opening relations would help the US get out of
the Vietnam War more easily.

Because of this, Nixon worked
for some years to get China to be receptive to the idea of relations with the US.  Nixon
was clearly the driving force behind the establishment of relations between the two
countries.  For this reason, his policies are seen as more successful than those of
previous presidents.

Who are some minor characters in Romeo and Juliet, and what's their role/function?i

A good place to start would be with the servants Sampson
and Gregory (from the Capulets) and Balthazar and Abraham from the Montagues.  These
characters are both significant and interesting because Shakespeare uses them to set the
tone in Verona in Act I, Scene I.  The fact that these four are mere servants to the
families, yet they take it upon themselves to carry on the pointless grudge shows how
deep rooted the feud is.  Without these periferal characters continuing to spark the
rivlary, it may have ended long ago; however, their hot-headedness and dogged loyalty to
the families rile up the entire town and rekindle the ancient rivalry.  It could be
argued that without these minor characters scuffling in the street,  the Prince would
never have had to enact his new policy of death to the next person to commit violence. 
Without this law in place, Romeo and Juliet wouldn't have been faced with the dilemma
that fell in their lap after Romeo killed Tybalt.

Who is permanently changed by the magical midsummer night in A Midsummer Night's Dream?

Well, the most obvious answer to your question is of
course Demetrius. It is he out of the four Athenian lovers who is changed permanently in
terms of where his affections lie. All the others, after having been changed back,
retain their original affections, because Lysander and Hermia still love each other and
Helena still loves Demetrius. It is only Demetrius that has his affections permanently
changed from loving Hermia to loving Helena. Note what Demetrius says to Theseus as an
explanation to his baffling change of affections in Act IV scene
1:

...my love
to Hermia,

Melted as the snow, seems to me
now

As the remembrance of an idle
gaud

Which in my childhood I did dote
upon;

And all the faith, the virtue of my
heart,

The object and the pleasure of mine
eye,

Is only
Helena.

Demetrius thus
dismisses his former love for Hermia as "the remembrance of an idle gaud." It is he who
has been changed permanently by Oberon's magic. However, equally, we could argue that
Titania has been changed as well, as she awakens from her "dream" to being in love with
Oberon, whereas before there was only discord in their
relationship.

How did our presidents in the 1970s attempt to deal with challenges?

Of course, we had three presidents during the 1970s and
each president faced very different challenges.  Because of this, it is very difficult
to generalize about how all the presidents attempted to deal with our
problems.

Jimmy Carter tried to deal with US domestic
problems in the 1970s by being (in his mind) realistic.   For example, he tried to
persuade people to use less energy as a way to combat the oil crisis of his term in
office.  His idea was that Americans should sacrifice for the common good.  This did not
go over well with the public.

In foreign affairs, Carter
tried to be more idealistic.  A major example of this was when he pushed to return the
Panama Canal to Panama.  In this and other ways, Carter tried to have the US act in less
selfish and aggressive ways than it had previously.

For Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act Five, scene one, summarize the action of this scene.

In Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act Five,
scene one, Hamlet has returned from England where Claudius attempted to have him
executed. Hamlet and Horatio speak to the grave diggers ("clowns") in the cemetery who
are hardened to death, Hamlet believes, because they are exposed to it all the time.
(This echoes a line in Shakespeare's Macbeth, where Macbeth
also believes that exposure to death and murder make it easier for
one to become hardened to it.)

One gravedigger goes to get
the workers a drink, and Hamlet and Horatio make it a game, assigning lives to the
various skulls that lie about. The gravedigger (not aware of who he speaks to) notes
that Hamlet has been sent to England because he is mad, though one would hardly be able
to tell the difference since everyone in England is crazy. (This
would have incited a rousing laugh from the Elizabethan audience watching the play. This
scene is also the only comic relief in the
play.)

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FIRST
CLOWN:

Why, because a was mad. A' shall
recover his wits

there; or, if a do not, 'tis no great
matter there…

'Twill not he seen in him there. There the
men are

as mad as he.
(150)

The worker goes on to
say that he has been working for Hamlet's family since Old Hamlet defeated Old
Fortinbras, even from the day that Hamlet was born. He then gives Hamlet the skull of
Yorick, who was the court jester when Hamlet was a child. Hamlet recalls wonderful
childhood moments when he would spend time with Yorick, even riding on his back. Here is
a glimpse of happier times in Hamlet's life.

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HAMLET:

[Takes
the skull.]

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew
him,

Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent
fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times.
(176-178)

As Hamlet and
Horatio watch, a procession moves into the graveyard for a burial: included are the
King, the Queen, Laertes and a priest, and other lords. The priest is telling Laertes
that since there is some question of how "she died," Ophelia will not be buried in holy
ground ("maimed rites"). Laertes is furious. The Queen laments that she had hoped to see
Hamlet marry Ophelia, throwing flowers on her bridal bed, not at her
funeral.

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QUEEN:

Sweets
to the sweet! Farewell.

I hoped thou shouldst have been my
Hamlet's wife; (240)

I thought thy bride-bed to have
deck'd, sweet maid,

And not have strew'd thy
grave.

Laertes jumps into the
grave to hug Ophelia one last time, but Hamlet appears and he, too,
jumps in the grave. Hamlet declares that he loved her so much more
than Laertes ever could.

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HAMLET:

I
loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers (270)

Could not,
with all their quantity of love,

Make up my sum. What wilt
thou do for her?

The men
begin to fight, Laertes believing Hamlet is responsible not only for his father's death,
but also for the insanity and subsequent death of
Ophelia.

The men are separated, and Hamlet is led away by
Horatio. The King and Queen explain to Laertes that this is a sign of Hamlet's madness.
To the side, Claudius reminds Laertes to be patient: he will have his revenge if he will
only stick to the details of the plot that are hatching against
Hamlet.

This is the first instance since Old Hamlet's death
that Hamlet is dealt a heavy blow in losing Ophelia. We can see that though he doubted
her because of her seeming alliance with her father and the King to get information from
Hamlet, that despite his harsh words and behavior towards her, he still loved
her.

How did England’s victory over France in the Great War for Empire contribute to the American Revolution.

The Great War for Empire is more commonly known in US
History books as the French and Indian War.  The British victory in this war helped lead
to the American Revolution in at least two major
ways.

First, the British victory made it so that the
Americans no longer needed to fear the French presence in what is now Canada.  This made
it more likely that they would feel that independence was a viable option.  Previously,
an independent America might likely have been snapped up by the French coming down from
Canada.

Second, the British victory led to more taxes and
more regulation of the American colonies by the British.  The British government felt
that they should be getting more out of the colonies, economically speaking, to help pay
for the war.  By imposing new taxes and regulating the colonies more closely than it had
before, Britain drove the colonists to resent the mother country and, eventually, to
fight for their independence.

What was the Combine and what did it mean to Chief Bromden in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?

There is a lot that we have to piece together from the
rather startling account that Chief Bromden gives us of the asylum where he is based. So
much of what he sees and accepts as reality is not actually reality, but rather
symbolises his understanding of what is going on. However, before we dismiss what he
says, as we read the novel more closely we see that everything the Chief reports does
have a correspondence to reality, even if it does not have the same form as Chief
Bromden gives it in his account.

He imagines the asylum
where he lives to be some kind of highly controlled environment ran by the Combine,
which is a name that Bromden gives to symbolise the oppressive forces of authority and
society that have placed him, and all his fellow inmates, inside the asylum. Note the
way that Bromden talks about patients who are taken away for "treatment" and are
returned as a "success story":

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A success, they say, but I say he's just another
robot for the Combine and might be better off as a failure, like Ruckly sitting there
fumbling and drooling over his
picture.

The Combine, then,
seems to represent the forces of society that want patients such as Bromden controlled
and kept under lock and key. Of course, the chief representative of the Combine in the
novel is Nurse Ratched, whom Bromden imagines installing machinery inside of patients to
keep them under control. Although this is clearly false, Nurse Ratched is shown to
maintain her control through a terrifying mix of cruelty, manipulation and suggestion
that operates just as efficiently as the imagined machinery Bromden perceives. Bromden
does his best to try and avoid the attentions of the Combine, and his mist that he
dreams up is a defence mechanism to protect him from the attentions of the Combine. He
is terrified by the idea of losing control to the Combine like others have before
him.

How does Dickens symbolically show the effect of Madame Defarge on Lucie in A Tale of Two Cities, Book III Chapter Three?

One of the many recurring symbols in this excellent and
poignant Dickensian classics is that of the shadow, which is in fact the title given to
this chapter which charts the first meeting between Madame Defarge and Lucie Manette.
Interestingly, when Lucie is first introduced to Madame Defarge, she greets her in a way
that shows her simplicity, innocence and love, yet Madame Defarge remains unmoved by
such a display of emotion:

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[Lucie] turned from Defarge to his wife, and
kissed one of the hands that knitted. It was a passionate, loving, thankful, womanly
action, but the hand made no response--dropped cold and heavy, and took to its knitting
again.

So unresponsive is
Madame Defarge to this gesture that Lucie "looks terrified" at Madame Defarge, who only
gives her a "cold, impassive stare." However, it is when Madame Defarge realises that
the baby is Evremonde's child that we see the true symbolic effect of the shadow and how
it operates through the character of Madame Defarge to reach out and intimidate others.
Note the description Dickens gives us after Madame Defarge has established the identity
of the baby:

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The shadow attendant on Madame Defarge and her
party seemed to fall so threatening and dark on teh child, that her mother instinctively
kneeled on the ground beside her, and held her to her breast. The shadow attendant on
Madame Defarge and her party seemed then to fall, threatening and dark, on both the
mother and the child.

Notice
how the symbolism of the shadow seems to function in a way that foreshadows the harm
that Madame Defarge will do to the family of Charles Darnay, and her attempt to take
both the life of Lucie and their daughter.

A mole of nitrogen is heated under isobaric conditions from 20 degree Celsius to 50 degree Celsius. How much heat is required to do this?

For this problem, nitrogen can be taken to be a
calorically perfect gas. When the temperature of the gas is increased under isobaric
conditions, work has to be done on the gas which contributes to an increase in its
internal energy and an increase in its volume.

The total
work done is given by the relation W = n*Cp*dT where n is the number of moles of the
gas, Cp is specific heat at a constant pressure and dT is the change in temperature. For
diatomic gases Cp = (7/2)*R where R is the universal gas constant 8.314
J/(K*mol).

Heating the gas from 20 degree Celsius to 50
degree Celsius is equivalent to an increase in temperature of 30 degree Celsius or 30
Kelvin. This requires an addition of heat equal to

W =
(7/2)*8.314*30 = 872.97 J

The heating of
nitrogen from 20 degree Celsius to 50 degree Celsius under isobaric conditions requires
an addition of heat equal to 872.97 J.

Who are the charecters in the story written by Hemingway called "Hills Like White Elephants"?

Characters, as you probably know, are the agents in a work
of fiction that cause action and create conflict and drive plot. They are the
personalities about whom we care, with whom our imaginations interact, who develop
images and themes of life and living. In some instances, characters can be non-human
creatures or, in rare instances, inanimate objects. The Wind in the
Willows is an illustration of the first for it is peopled with moles, rats,
badgers, toads. The House of the Seven Gables is an illustration of
the second in which the house where Hepzibah lives is an integral part of all that
occurs.

In "Hills Like White Elephants" there are two central
characters, and one central character who is inferred though never introduced. There is
one minor character who interacts with the first two and facilitates their interaction.
There are characters who are mentioned and provide insight into the character of the
American man but who have no discernible role in the
action.

Coming
back, he walked through the bar-room, where people waiting for the train were drinking.
He drank an Anis at the bar and looked at the people. They were all waiting reasonably
for the train.

The two
central characters are the American man and his girlfriend who is the only one who has a
name--she is called Jig.

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The American and the girl with him sat at a table
in the shade, outside the building. It was very hot and the express from Barcelona would
come in forty minutes.

The
character who is inferred is the unborn baby of Jig's pregnancy. The minor character is
the woman who brings them their drinks through the symbolic beads that represent
separation or dividedness. The other characters are the people in the "bar-room" who are
"all waiting reasonably for the train."

How are grandchildren instrumental in reuniting the family in "Marriage Is a Private Affair"?

It is clear that the grandchildren whom Okeke discovers
that he has through the letter that Nene sends to him are key to reuniting the family.
When he hears that his grandchildren want to meet him and get to know him, this softens
Okeke's heart toward his daughter-in-law and son and how his son picked a wife from
outside of the tribe. Note how he responds to this news of his
grandchildren:

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Okeke was trying hard not to think of his two
grandsons. But he knew he was now fighting a losing battle. He tried to hum a favourite
hymn but the pattering of large raindrops on the roof broke up the tune. His mind
immediately returend to the children. How could he shut his door against
them?

It is the fact of his
grandchildren that makes Okeke radically reassess his belief that marriage is a private
affair and that it should not occur outside of tribal relations. His desire to see his
grandchildren and make up for his absence to them overpowers other concerns, and the
story ends with Okeke falling asleep, consumed with remorse and a fear that it might be
too late.

Since no one seems to doubt that Mrs. Wright killed her husband, how does this story create suspense?

The suspense in the story is largely centred around
whether the men are capable of proving that Mrs Wright killed her husband using the
evidence they are presented with, and whether the women will support or betray poor
Minne Wright.

Mrs Wright would clearly be seen as guilty,
though possibly by reason of insanity with the scant evidence that the men manage to
uncover-

"No,
Peters," said the county attorney incisively; "it's all perfectly clear, except the
reason for doing it. But you know juries when it comes to women. If there was some
definite thing--something to show. Something to make a story about. A thing that would
connect up with this clumsy way of doing
it."

The suspense is in
whether Mrs Hale and Mrs Peters will abide by the laws of the state or the laws of
femininity: whether they are 'married to the Law' or have a sense of justice beyond the
law. The choices they make hold Minnie Wright's life in their
hands.

Then
Martha Hale's eyes pointed the way to the basket in which was hidden the thing that
would make certain the conviction of the other woman--that woman who was not there and
yet who had been there with them all through that
hour.

The audience is
surprised when the women unite to remove the key piece of evidence and revels in their
ability to piece together the motives of Mrs Wright's actions which the men remain
ignorant of.

How does the new Sly address the servants in the Induction of The Taming of the Shrew?

The answer to this question can be found in Induction 2,
when Sly wakes up after the Lord has planned his deception. Although the servants are
completely ready with their "act," and when Sly wakes up are quick to treat him as their
Lord, it is clear that Sly is completely bewildered by what is happening to him and is
baffled by the way in which they address him as "your honour" and "your lordship." His
initial response to such treatment is therefore to protest his true identity, arguing
that he is not a lord and suspecting that he is being made fun
of:

I am
Christopher Sly, call not me "honour" nor "lordship." I ne'er drank sack in my life; and
if you give me any conserves, give me conserves of beef. Ne'er ask me what rainment I'll
wear, for i have no more doublets than backs, no more stockings than legs, nor no more
shoes than feet--nay, sometimes more feet than shoes, or such shoes as my toes look
through the
overleather.

Thus, initially,
Sly greets his new status as being a "Lord" with started disbelief, trying to maintain
his own sense of self and testifying that he is Sly, not the befuddled Lord that the
servants treat him as being.

In Robert Frost's "Birches," describe the scenario the speaker imagines when he sees the bent brich trees.

As with so many of Frost's poems, "Birches" takes a scene
from nature and the speaker elaborates on this scene. In this poem, it is the sight of
birch trees that appear permanently bent, their "trunks arching in the woods" that leads
the speaker to think about how this happened. The truthful explanation would be the way
in which storms and in particular ice storms bend the birches, forcing them down and in
some cases keeping them that way permanently. However, the speaker would prefer to
imagine that they are bent permanently under the weight of a boy who repeatedly climbs
up the trunks and swings on them:

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One by one he subdued his father's
trees

By riding them down over and over
again

Until he took the stiffness out of
them

And not one but hung limp, not one was
left

For him to
conquer.

Thus it is that we
can see the speaker's admiration for the boy, who sees the trees as needing to be
"conquered" and "subdued." He sees the unbent trees as a challenge which fills him with
excitement. The speaker goes on to talk about this process of bending trees at a literal
and a symbolic level.

What strategy was used to control the animals in spite of their hard labor in chapter seven of Animal Farm?

There are several strategies that Napoleon and the pigs
use to control the animals on the farm.  I think that the most dominant method in this
chapter would have to be fear and intimidation.  The demonstration of political cruelty
in this chapter is what galvanizes support.  The forced confessions and public
executions are the strongest example of this.  Clover is confused at what she is seeing,
and is representative of the desired effect by those in the position of power.  Seeing
animals' throats ripped out by the intense dogs could not be what was originally
envisioned.  However, she continues to support the Pigs' government out of confusion,
fear, and intimidation.  Another example would be Napoleon's edict that no one offer
support to the pullets who start the mutiny over the eggs.  Napoleon cuts them off,
demanding that anyone helping them will suffer and ensuring that they are seen as the
enemy.  In this intimidation move of deeming an "outsider" as "undesirable," Napoleon
continues to consolidate his own power.  It is in this light that Napoleon's rule in
this chapter is one through fear and intimidation with the brutality to support such
strategies.

What addition to her outfit was mattie wearing when she came down for supper in Ethan Frome?

With a sickliness  that has "made her notable, Zeena Frome
announces to Ethan that in the morning she will stay at her aunt's and then consult her
doctor.  Relieved that she would trust him so much, Ethan relaxes slowly as her
departure for Bettsbridge eases him of the burden of her worries.  His thoughts
especially turn to the evening he will have alone with Mattie.  The next day, after
having gone out to obtain an advance on a payment from Andrew Hale, Ethan returns to his
home in the evening, and glance upstairs where a light
twinkles.

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"She's up in her room," he said to himself,
"fixing herself up for supper"; and he remembered Zeena's sarcastic stare when Mattie,
on the evening of her arrival, had come down to supper with smoothed hair and a ribbon
at her neck.

Now, this time,
as he entered the house, Ethan sees the light around the frame of the
door.

She
stood just as Zeena had stood,....She held the light at the same level, and it drew out
twith the same distinctness her slim young throat and the brown wrist no bigger than a
child's.

As she descends the
stairs, Ethan notes that Mattie wears her customary dark dress, and, while there is no
bow at her neck, Mattie has run through her hair

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a streak of crimson ribbon. This tribute to the
unusual transformed and glorified
her. 

Entranced and filled
with well-being, Ethan's conscious quickly changes to ire as he jealousy asks if she has
had any visitors because he wants this evening all to him.  But, his jealousy dissipates
as Mattie tells him it was Jotham Powell, and they enjoy a comfortable supper until the
cat breaks the pickle dish belonging to Zeena. Then, Mattie breaks into tears as she
worries what Zeena's reaction will be.  However, Ethan does not fret and calms her;
Mattie's confidence in him causes Ethan's heart begins to swell with pride and he feels
powerful as when he steers a big log down the mountain to his
mill.

Why, according to Atticus, does Bob Ewell bear a grudge and who does Ewell see as his enemies?

Bob Ewell hates Atticus for making him look like a fool on
the witness stand during the trial of Tom Robinson. Atticus told
Jem,

"I
destroyed his last shred of credibility at the trial, if he had any to begin with. The
man had to have some kind of comeback... He had to take it out on somebody, and I'd
rather it be me..."

Although
Robinson was found guilty, Ewell did nothing to win friends or improve his own image or
community standing. Addtionally, Ewell later blamed Atticus for getting him fired from
his government job with the WPA.

Ewell views as his
enemies

• Atticus, as seen by his spitting tobacco
  in his face and vowing to "get him if it took the rest of
  life."


• Judge Taylor, who after Ewell's racial slur on the
  stand, spent the rest of the time "daring him to make a false move. After the trial, the
  judge nearly caught Bob prowling on his porch.


• Helen
  Robinson, who Bob stalked her, "crooning foul words" as she passed his
  house.


• Link Deas, who defended Helen (and Tom in court)
  and threatened to have Ewell arrested for assault (for harassing
  Helen).

Solve for x : log 3 9 - log 3 2 = log 3 x .

We'll impose one constraints for the logarithm log 3 x to
exist.

x > 0

We'll use
the power property of logarithms:

log 3 9 = 2* log 3 3 =
2

We'll use the power property of logarithms and the
symmetric property:

log 3 (x) = log 3 (3)^2 - log 3
(2)

Because the bases are matching, we'll transform the
difference of logarithms from the right side, into a quotient. We'll apply the
formula:

lg a - lg b = lg
(a/b)

We'll substitute a by 9 and b by 2. The logarithms
from formula are decimal logarithms. We notice that the base of logarithm is
3.

log 3 (x) = log 3
(9/2)

Since the bases are matching, we'll apply the one to
one property:

x = 9/2

x =
4.5

Since the value of x >0, we'll
validate x = 4.5 as the solution of the equation.

How does Shakespeare create tension in Act two, Scene two of Macbeth?Any ideas would be gratefully appreciated!

Shakespeare creates tension in Act two, Scene two of
Macbeth. Macbeth has murdered King Duncan and now he is hearing things. He questions
Lady Macbeth to see if she has has heard the noise:

I have done the deed. Didn’t you hear a noise?
Macbeth is
already regretting his decision. Is there really a noise or is he hearing things? He
admits that he heard someone say that he would never sleep
again:

I heard a voice cry, 'Sleep no more! Macbeth murders
sleep,' the innocent sleep...

Lady
Macbeth insults his fears. She claims that an owl did screech and crickets cried, but
she insists that Macbeth has lost his courage.

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You weaken your noble strength to
think
About things in such a crazy
way.

The reader senses the
tension between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Is someone awake? Did someone hear Macbeth
kill King Duncan? The tension grows as Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth to wash his bloody
hands:

Go get
some water, And wash this filthy witness from your hands. Why did you bring these
daggers from the room? They must lie there. Go carry them, and smear The sleepy guards
with blood.

The reader can
visualize the bloody hands and dagger. Through the words of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth,
the reader can see King Duncan lying dead in his innocent blood. Macbeth exclaims that
he will not go back and look on his murderous deed. Shakespeare's use of imagery with
the bloody details create tension for the reader, and no doubt for the
characters.

What was the Dawes Severalty Act?

The Dawes Severalty Act was a law passed in 1887.  Its
purpose was to try to assimilate Native Americans and to encourage them to live more
like white people.  It can also be argued that a purpose of the law was to make it
easier to take reservation lands away from the Native
Americans.

The Dawes Act took the land that had been given
to Indian tribes and split it up between the individual members of the tribes.  The
tribes were no longer allowed to own the land communally.  This was meant to push
individual Indians to own their own land and become farmers.  However, all the land that
was not parcelled out to individual Indians (160 acres per head of household) was sold
to white settlers and to railroad companies.  This meant that much more of what had been
Indian land was available for white use.

In this way, the
Dawes Act had two goals.  It was meant to "civilize" the Indians, but it was also meant
to make it easier for white Americans to get the Indians' land.

In The Great Gatsby, what made George feel that his wife might have been having an affair?Chapter 8

Clearly we might infer that Myrtle's repeated absences
from their home in the Valley of Ashes might have aroused George's curiosity, however,
in Chapter Eight, after Myrtle has been killed in the hit and run, we see that what
really made George suspect something was when he discovered the dog-leash that Tom has
obviously bought for Myrtle for her dog in their appartment. Note how it is
described:

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There was nothing in it but  asmall, expensive
dog-leash, made of leather and braided silver. It was apparently
new.

Clearly George knows
that, firstly they could not afford such an item, and secondly there would be no need to
buy something like this because they do not own a dog. It is this, of course combined
with the way that Myrtle reacts when she sees Tom in Gatbsy's car, that makes George
suspect that she is having an affair.

What are the benefits and drawbacks of imposing biographical criticism on The Great Gatsby? F. Scott Fitzgerald

Imposing biographical criticism upon The Great
Gatsby certainly underlines the authenticity of the novel's
setting, characters, and motifs; however, at the same time it often limits the scope
of examination of certain elements of the novel.

One of the
attributes of Fitzgerald's novel is that it is a veritable tableau of the Jazz Age--a
term coined by the author himself--in which Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda lived along
with the others of Gertrude Stein's "Lost Generation."  There is an
almost tangible quality to the portrayal to the carelessness and excessiveness of the
corrosive effects of wealth and a decadent lifestyle. Likewise, a character such as
Daisy comes alive because she has been molded after a real person, the wife of
Fitzgerald. This realism lends the novel its literary truth. In fact, it is so realistic
that at Fitzgerald's own funeral, his friend Dorothy Parker, uttered for Fitzgerald a
line form Jay Gatsby's funeral:  "the poor son of a
bitch." 

On the other hand, by focusing too intently upon
the parallels of Fitzgerald's narrative and his life, readers may have the propensity to
ignore what Richard Yates, a worthy writer of the 1960s, lauds in The Great
Gatsby as "a miracle of talent" and "a triumph of technique."  For,
Fitzgerald's great novel extends well beyond being a mere examination of the amoral and
illusionary time. Indeed, his magnificent development of character and motif, use
creative imagery and symbolism are innovative and beyond compare.  Truly, The
Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald's greatest work. 

Please give the analysis of "The Umbrella Man" by Roald Dahl.

The story revolves around irony and deception. As in so
many of Roald Dahl's stories, there is a real twist in the tale that makes it delightful
to read and we can appreciate the irony, the gap between appearance and reality, all the
more keenly. The central irony concerns the way in which the old man insists that they
take the umbrella for the money that they give him, and the way in which the girl is
concerned that they are taking advantage of the old
man.

The irony of the story is that of course they are not
taking advantage of the old man--in fact, he is taking advantage of them to get more
money for another drink. The irony is heightened by the mother's lecture to the daughter
on being able to judge people correctly as the old man walks away, a lot faster and
spryer than before. The mother is so pleased to have "judged" the old man, she thinks,
whereas she has been taken in like so many others before. He is an elaborate con man who
has successfully fooled them and manages to fund his drinking by stealing umbrellas and
then selling them to unsuspecting individuals.

Why is the voter turnout in elections for the European Parliament so low?

The most likely explanation for this is that voters in the
countries of the European Union do not care enough about their government to feel that
there is any benefit to getting out and voting.  This is likely due to the fact that the
EU government does not have very clearly understood roles in people's
lives.

People tend to turn out to vote when they feel that
their vote can have an impact on their lives.  This is not generally the case in EU
elections.  The EU government is a relatively opaque entity that is far away from the
people and whose impact on the people is not completely clear.  People do not understand
very well the ways in which the EU government can affect their lives.  Because of this,
they do not think that EU elections are very important and they do not, therefore, turn
out to vote.