What were the motives of the Spanish conquistadors?

The conquistadors had many motives, and of course
different people surely had different motives.  Overall, though, the typical
conquistador was most likely driven by a desire to get wealth and
power.

Many of the Spanish conquistadors were men who did
not have a great deal of status back at home.  They came to the New World in hopes of
making their fortunes.  They hoped, for example, that they might be given encomiendas,
which were estates that they could run using the natives as essentially their slave
labor.  By coming to the New World, men like Hernan Cortes hoped to become wealthy and
important in the new colonies that they hoped to take.

Discuss the supernatural element as portrayed by Edgar Allan Poe in "The Black Cat."

"The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe has elements of the
supernatural common in many of Poe's short stories and
poetry.

The black cat that lives with the main character
appears supernatural. The idea is introduced with his wife's concern about the cat's
color and witchcraft.

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...my wife, who at heart was not a
little tinctured with superstition, made frequent allusion to the ancient popular
notion, which regarded all black cats as witches in
disguise.

The cat's name is
"Pluto," which could refer to the Greek's mythology and religion as the god of the
underworld...

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the god was also known as Hades, a name for the
underworld itself

"Plutos" is
at times used in Latin literature as the ruler of the dead. We can surmise that Poe
intentionally used this name to symbolize death and promote the motif of death in the
story. The reader sees the growing intensity of the speaker's madness and drunkenness
with his violent attack of Pluto, cutting out his eye. Time passes and the speaker's
madness intensifies until he takes the cat out and hangs it from a tree next to his
house. That same night, the house catches fire. The link here between "disaster and
atrocity" seems supernatural as well.

The "other-wordly"
does not stop. The next day there is a "three-dimensional image" on one of the house's
walls. It is the figure of a giant cat with a rope around its neck. The speaker is at
first petrified by what he sees, but soon rationalizes the image and forgets about it.
The narrator calls himself "perverse," and he shows this trait when he decides to get
another black cat. There are two strange things about
this cat: it has sight out of only one eye
(like Pluto), and a white patch on its chest that grows in size after the speaker takes
it home—into the shape of a gallows.

The narrator's
insanity intensifies and he begins to hate the cat. The more he avoids it, the more
attached the cat becomes. This could be an eerie sort of supernatural punishment for
killing Pluto. One day while walking into the cellar with his wife (with an axe in his
hand), the speaker takes a swing, trying to kill the cat. His wife stops him; he pulls
the axe back again and instead, kills his wife, but the cat
disappears.

It is imperative for the speaker to hide his
wife's body and he wants to avoid taking it outside, so he puts the corpse in an
enclosure behind a reconstructed wall.

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I determined to wall it up in the cellar—as the
monks of the middle ages are recorded to have walled up their
victims.

Four days later, the
police arrive and want to search the house. The speaker must accompany them. He is calm
and unworried, but then as the police prepare to leave, he tells them to look at the
wall.

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"...these walls are solidly put together”; and
here, through the mere phrenzy of bravado, I rapped heavily, with [my] cane...upon that
very portion of the brick-work behind which stood the corpse of [my]
wife.

As he taps on it, a
"hair-raising" sound is heard:

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I was answered by a voice from within the
tomb!—by a cry, at first muffled and broken, like the sobbing of a child, and then
quickly swelling into one long, loud, and continuous scream, utterly anomalous and
inhuman—a howl—a wailing shriek, half of horror and half of
triumph, such as might have arisen
only out of hell...

He had
walled the cat up with the body. A superstitious perception might
be that Pluto has returned in the form of the second cat, and—in
triumph—has his revenge on the man who
killed him.

Explain fully what can be learned about Phoenix from her trip in "A Worn Path."

I think as we examine this excellent story that what
stands out in terms of Phoenix Jackson and her actions is the way that she sacrifices
and endures so much for love. In a sense, the name Phoenix symbolises renewal and
rebirth, and the journey for Phoenix Jackson is so important to her because every time
she makes it her love for her grandson is renewed. The "worn path" of the title thus
could be said to refer to a path of self-sacrifice that is inspired by love that Granny
Weatherall takes, combatting and enduring, and finally overcoming, all obstacles thanks
to her radical determination and stubborness. In spite of the many hardships she has
faced during her life, she shows that she is able to overcome racism, lack of education
and poverty to reach her goal--all for love:

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Then Phoenix was like an old woman begging a
dignified forgiveness for waking up frightened in the night. "I never did go to school,
I was too old at the Surrrender," she said in a soft
voice.

We see how Phoenix
Jackson has had to struggle against so many things thanks to her background and the
colour of her skin, and yet the momentous, one could almost say epic, journey that she
completes every year shows how she is able to transcend her own personal difficulties
and background to achieve her goals.

Would you regard Shelley as a poet of hope and aspiration? Answer with reference to "Ode to the West Wind" and "To a Skylark."

Both of these poems, like many of Shelley's poems, start
off by describing a natural event and then use this event as a way to discuss the way
that nature can powerfully impact and transform the lives of men. Throughout both poems,
Shelley hopes and dreams of what his poetry could do, if he were able to harness the
power of the West Wind and then the beauty of the skylark's song. Note the following
examples, that directly relate to hope and
aspiration:

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Teach me half the
gladness

That thy brain must
know,

Such harmonious
madness

From my lips would
flow

The world should listen then--as I am listening
now.

Here, Shelley expresses
his desire to learn from the skylark and its beauty, so that his poetry can somehow be
able to capture and share the beauty of the skylark's song and make man stop and listen
to the beauty and transforming power of nature.

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Drive my dead thoughts over the
universe

Like withered leaves to quicken a new
birth!

And, by the incantation of this
verse,

Scatter, as from an unextinguished
hearth

Ashes and sparks, my words among
mankind!

Here again we see
Shelley aspiring to capture or harness the power of nature to spread his words and his
poetry throughout all of mankind. In a powerful image, he imagines his words like dead
leaves being scattered throughout the planet so that they might "quicken a new
birth."

In these two poems therefore we can clearly see the
way in which Shelley aspires to use the example of nature in his work, and the hope that
by so doing, he can improve both mankind and the world.

What role does history play in the story of "A Rose for Emily"?

The Civil War and the decline of Southern life and culture
during the years that followed are two main historical facets in "A Rose for Emily."
Jefferson is an old town, slow to change, and there are some people (like Miss Emily)
who cling to the old ways in nearly all regards. The town is changing, however, whether
everyone likes it or not, and Homer Barron is representative of that change. Like a
modern day carpetbagger, Homer has arrived from the North to oversee the building of new
sidewalks. He represents both modern change and a foreign presence to both the town and
Miss Emily. The story, at least part of which takes place during the Great Depression,
also describes how poverty can strike even the most illustrious families in Southern
towns.

Do you think that well-off people, on average, are more intelligent than people of low social position?

No.  I absolutely do not believe this.  There are a number
of reasons for this, of which I will discuss
two:

• People who are well-off tend to do better
  in school because they are born into situations where they are exposed to more books,
  more intellectually stimulating activities, etc.  This means that they are more
  educated not that they are more
  intelligent.


• Relatedly, they
  often start higher up the socioeconomic scale.  If you take two people of similar
  intelligence, it stands to reason that the one who starts out richer will end up richer
  simply because they got to start from higher
  up.

The first of these means that well-off
people seem more intelligent because they are better educated.  The second means that
they can get richer without being more intelligent.  This indicates to me that the rich
are no more intelligent, on average, than the rest of us.

A company with a net income of $2,800,000 has 400,000 weighted average common shares. The price-earnings ratio is 20.What is the market value per...

The company's net income is $2,800,000. There are 400,000
weighted average common shares. The price to earnings ratio is
20.

First, let's find the income per share or EPS. That is
the total net income earned by the company divided by the total number of shares. Using
the information given it can be calculated as 2,800,000/400,000 =
$7.

The P/E or price to earnings ratio is 20. This gives
the market value of a share of the company as 20 times the net income per
share.

For a net income per share of $7, the market value
is equal to 20*7 = $140.

The correct option for the market
value of the stock of the company is option B.

Verify if the difference (1-9/y^2)/(1-3/y)-3/y=1

We'll multiply the second fraction by the term
(1-3/y):

[(1-9/y^2) -
(3/y)*(1-3/y)]/(1-3/y)

The difference of squares returns
the product:

1-9/y^2 =
(1-3/y)(1+3/y)

[(1-9/y^2) - (3/y)*(1-3/y)]/(1-3/y) =
[(1-3/y)(1+3/y) -
(3/y)

(1-3/y)]/(1-3/y)

We'll
factorize the numerator by (1-3/y):

(1-3/y) [(1+3/y) -
(3/y)]/(1-3/y)

We'll simplify by
(1-3/y):

(1-3/y) [(1+3/y) - (3/y)]/(1-3/y) =  [(1+3/y) -
(3/y)]

We'll eliminate like terms inside
brackets:

(1-9/y^2)/(1-3/y)-3/y=1

We
notice that the given difference yields 1.

how to solve graphs in geometry?

To graph equations, you'll have to follow the next
steps:

- you'll have to draw the Cartesian coordinate
system, namely the x horizontal axis and the y vertical axis, which is perpendicular to
x axis at the point (0,0), called the origin of the system of
coordinates.

- write the equation such as y to be isolated
to the left side:

y = ax^n + bx^n-1 +
....

- plug in x values, from the domain of definition of
the function whose equation is y = ax^n + bx^n-1 + .... For each x value will correspond
a y value, such as you'll get specific pair of coordinates
(x,y).

- graph the coordinates counting x units on  the x
axis and y units on y axis and mark these points.

- draw
the graph of the function that passes through all these marked
points.

Note that the curve depends on the type of
expression of the function: if the function is linear, the graph will be a straight line
and if the function is quadratic, the graph will be a parabola.

What literary elements are found in chapters 29-31 of "To Kill a Mockingbird"?I only need one or two elements.

Chapter 29 of To Kill a Mockingbird
finds Atticus Finch talking with the sheriff, Heck Tate and only after a while does
Scout notice Boo Radley in the corner, literally apart from society as he has been
figuratively for so long.

As Sheriff Tate talks with
Atticus much of the colorful colloquialisms of his region are evident.  For instance,
when Aunt Alexandra says that she has had a premonition about the occurrences of this
evening, Heck Tate tells her not to "fret about anything," using the
simile,

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"...if we followed our feelings all the time we'd
be like cats chasin' their tails."  [comparison of people with cats using the word
like]

Another
simile occurs in Chapter 30 when Scout narrates,

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....Atticus's stubbornness was quiet and rarely
evident, but in some ways he was as set as the Cunninghams,....[comparison using
as]

There
also are several metaphors among the stylistic devices that
Harper Lee employs. 

For instance, Scout says that she
"buried my head in his lap," comparing her movement of placing her head on Atticus's lap
as an act of burying.  A couple of sentences later, she narrates that she "crawled into
his lap."

Another metaphor comes from Chapter 29 as Scout
describes Cecil Jacobs, whom she mistook Bob Ewell for, as "a big, fat
hen."

Scout's description of Boo Radley is hyperbolic
(obviously exaggerated):

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They were white hands, sickly white hands that
had never seen the sun, so white they stood out garishly against the dull cream wall in
the dim light of Jem's
room. 

Harper Lee also uses
imagery with her description of the view of the
neighborhood from Boo Radley's porch.  Scout describes the "brown door," "daylight," the
"fuzzy" street lights, "the fine misty beads" of the night
air.

personification   "the same shy smile crept
across his face."  30

"He was out of his mind."  Atticus
uses an idiom. 

How does Welty's description of Phoenix's appearance, speech, and behavior identify her with nature and with time itself in "The Worn Path"?

Phoenix is shown as being identified with nature in the
way that she is so familiar with the natural environment that she crosses and is not
phased by any of the sights that she sees. She is described as being yet another of
God's creatures on his planet, and is unperturbed by any fear of animals that could be
watching her. Note the following quote:

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Now and then there was a quivering in the
thicket. Old Phoenix said, "Out of my way, all you foxes, owls, beetles, jack rabbits,
coons, and wild animals!... Keep out from under these feet, little bobwhites... Keep the
big wild hogs out of my path. Don't let none of those come running in my direction. I
got a long way."

Her kinship
with nature is shown through her knowledge of plants and animals and of the terrain,
which she has obviously travelled many times before. As to how Phoenix Jackson is
identified with time, there is a sense in which her perseverance in overcoming any
barrier, man-made or natural, to reach her goal, shows a certain timelessness in her
character which is reflected in her physical
appearance:

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Her eyes were blue with age. Her skin had a
pattern all its own of numberless branching wrinkles and as though a whole little tree
stood in the middle of her forehead, but a golden colour ran underneath, and the two
knobs of her cheeks were illumined by a yellow burning under the
dark.

She is a character who
is at one and the same time described as being very old yet ageless, as the "golden
colour" that runs underneath her skin hints at a certain timeless
quality.

In John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, describe the relationship between George and Candy.

To a great extent, I think that the relationship between
Candy and George is predicated upon the idea that both recognize the dream of owning
their own farm and possessing the autonomy to control their own destinies.  Candy
recognizes that he is no longer of use on the farm where he is.  He sees this in the
shooting of his own dog, a moment in which no one spoke for him and his need to keep the
dog.  He saw in that moment the "silence" to which Steinbeck alludes so much is the
absence of voice for Candy.  When George's idea of the farm, combined with Lennie's
zeal, appears itself to Candy, he recognizes an opportunity to receive the validation
that he no longer receives.  For Candy, the relationship he shares with George is that
both understand the need to control their own destiny, to no longer be a worker, but
actually be one's own "boss."  This carries powerful connotations for both of them. 
Candy can relate to George more on this level because this experience is not something
that is as present for Lennie, who is more concerned with the immediate satisfaction of
tending the rabbits.  Yet, for Candy and George the dream of being able to make enough
money to set up a farm where they are in more direct control of their own destinies is
of vital importance to both men.  It is a vision of what can be as opposed to what is,
and this is something that animates both men to believe.  Their relationship is thus one
that is believer in the power of hope and a transformative vision of what can be as
opposed to what is.

Analyse the use and significance of rhetorical devices in Hamlet.

Language plays a major role in the definition of a
character's trait in conditioning our response to him.We must appreciate that great
popularity that Shakespeare and his characters have enjoyed over the last four centuries
owes itself in a manner way to the language of his plays. what the characters say is
important, because they linger in our minds for what they say as much as for what they
do or feel or suffer. But the way they say what they say is of paramount importance. The
manner and method of a speaker affects the response of the audience to what they hear.
Theatre-goers  respond not merely to the meaning of words, but also how the words are
conveyed to them. Shakespeare's choice of metre, rhythm, imagery and of course ,
diction, determines how we respond to what the characters say, and to the characters
themselves. Ultimately this affects- enriches-- the total experience of interacting with
a play on stage or on page. The meaning of the word is important but attention should be
paid to what goes into making the meaning of words effective communication and
manipulation of audience response.

An
interesting aspect of Shakespeare's use of language is thefact that certain linguistic
features are meant to be appreciated as rhetorical devices
for their own sake and not merely as starting points for generalisations
for the larger context of the text. Rhetorical devices and figures of speech such
as

"Love's
fire heats water cools not love"
---Shakespeare

or

"This
royal throne of kings,this sceptred isle,

this earth of
majesty, this seat of Mars,

This other Eden..."
--Shakespeare

are
considered of little importance on a closer examination of the taxt today. Thompson and
Taylor have drawn attention to George T. Wright's analysis of Shakespeare's use of
hendiadys, a rhetorical figure which Shakespeare uses over 300 times and there are 66
examples of it in Hamlet alone.

In what ways did Communist ideas differ from those of Confucian China?

For a long time in Communist China, Confucius and his
ideas were scorned and rejected.  There are a number of reasons for
this.

First of all, Confucianism is a very traditional way
of thinking.  It strongly emphasized the idea of filial piety in which people revered
those set above them.  The Communists saw this as an ideology that encouraged feudalism
and archaic ways.  For this reason, they rejected
Confucianism.

Second, a major aspect of Confucianism was
the idea that the government owed a duty to the people.  Confucianism stressed that the
people had to obey their rulers, but only when the rulers did right by the people.  As
the "salem-history" link says,

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Confucius’s approach to government stressed that
the ruler should be benevolent and sincerely concerned about the well-being of his
subjects. In Confucius’s hierarchical conception of the social order, the ruler’s
concern for his subjects would be repaid by obedience and
support.

This did not fit
with the Communists' demands for unconditional obedience from their
subjects.

For these reasons, the Communists tried to play
down the traditional Chinese reverence for Confucius and his
ideas.

What does the golden carp symbolize in Bless Me, Ultima?

It is clear that the golden carp in this excellent novel
stands for a pagan religion, offering another possibility to make sense of our existence
and another explanation for the world. When Samuel first tells Antonio about the golden
carp in Chapter Nine, the way that the golden carp stands for an alternative belief to
Christianity is obvious. Note how Samuel explains the existence of the golden
carp:

"When
the gods had turned the people into carp, the one kind god who loved the people grew
very sad. The river was full of dangers to the new fish. So he went to the other gods
and told them he chose to be turned into a carp and swim in teh river where he could
take care of his people. The gods agreed. But because he was a god they made him very
big and coloured him the colour of gold. And they made him the lord of all the waters of
the valley."

Antonio is
bemused by the idea of a "new god," which disturbs the beliefs of Antonio and makes him
wonder about who Jesus was and if his mother was praying to "the wrong God." An
important theme of this great novel is the way in which the clash of cultures is
represented through the presentation of different belief systems and religions. Antonio
is able to piece together his own identity by incorporating bits from both the pagan
religion that the golden carp stands for, and Christianity.

What is the purpose/role of Banquo's ghost in Macbeth?

Banquo's ghost serves as an indicator of Macbeth's
conscience returning to plague him for his murderous deeds. Banquo is the only one who
knew of the witches' prophecies. In Act 3, Scene 1, he admits that he suspects foul play
on Macbeth's part in King Duncan's death:

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Thou hast it now: King, Cawdor, Glamis, all,

As the weird women promised, and I fear
Thou play'dst most foully
for't:

For this reason,
Macbeth had Banquo killed. Now, Banquo's ghost is a message to Macbeth. He is reminded
of his horrible deeds in killing King Duncan and having his friend Banquo murdered as
well.

Now, Banquo's ghost will not allow Macbeth to rest.
He appears to stir up Macbeth's guilty conscience. He is a foil to Macbeth's character
both alive and dead. He resisted the evilness of the witches' prophecies while Macbeth
succumbed to it. Now, Macbeth sees Banquo's ghost. He is reminded of his murderous
deeds. Banquo will not go away and allow Macbeth to enjoy his new position as king of
Scotland.

How to describe the Quetzalcoatl powers ?

Quetzalcoatl was an ancient god of Central American
primarily the Aztec.  The name Quetzalcoatl means “Feathered Serpent” and as a god he
ruled over the wind, was the “giver of breath” and was a creator who identified with the
sun and yet could descend into the land of death.  It is said that he sprinkled his
blood over ancient bones giving life to those men who inhabited the earth.  He was also
the god of learning and books and inventor of the
calendar. 

Quetzalcoatl was also a historical ruler who
helped cultivate maize (corn) and taught men to study the heavens. He is said to have
set himself ablaze upon a funeral pyre that drifted away along the river.  He claimed
that he would return one day.  Spanish explorer Hernan Cortes was able to trick the
Aztec into believing he was the returning Quetzalcoatl which ultimately helped him
defeat the Aztec nation.

What is morphology? What are morphs, allomorphs and morphemes? What's the difference between them?

Morphology is a study of words. It basically deals with
word formation, examines the relationship between words, and analyzes their constituent
elements.

Morpheme is the smallest unit of a word, which
has a meaning, lexical or grammatical, and cannot be divided into smaller units. For
instance, the word "unpresentable" consists of 3 morphemes -- un
+ present +
able. Un is a prefix, which means "not" and
is used in this example to negate the adjective "presentable." The suffix
able is used to form adjectives and is usually placed at
the end of a verb (useable, loveable, deniable,
etc.).

Morphs form morphemes,
and they are "an element of speech or writing that represents and expresses one or more
morphemes" (Microsoft Encarta
Dictionary). Morphs are the real forms utilized to form a morpheme ( href="http://faculty.mu.edu.sa/public/uploads/1378843468.6083The%20Study%20Of%20Language%20%284th%20Edition%28.pdf">Yule
71 ). For instance, "students" consists of 2 morphemes, student + suffix
s. Students is
comprised of "one or more morphs" that constitute the "environment" ( href="http://www-01.sil.org/linguistics/glossaryoflinguisticterms/ComparisonOfMorphemeMorphAllom.htm">SIL)
of the word students. Students has 2
morphemes, each with 1 or more morphs. The morpheme
-s has 1 morph and can have
1 of 2 allomorphs of
pronounceable realization: s or
z, as in cats
(s) and shoes
(z).

Allomorphs
are different realizations of one morpheme (Yule 72). For example, the words
cats,
dogs and
buses all contain a plural morpheme,
and we can deduce that the pluralizing morphemes
(-s and
-es) have 3 different potential
pronunciations - /s/, /z/ and /iz/. We call these
allomorphs because they represent different pronunciation
potentials of the same morphemes, the plural morphemes (and one plural morpheme has one
morph -s, while the other has two
morphs
-es).

Yule,
George. href="http://faculty.mu.edu.sa/public/uploads/1378843468.6083The%20Study%20Of%20Language%20%284th%20Edition%28.pdf">The
Study of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
Web.

find the derivative of the following function f(x)=log(x^2_1/2x)

You need to change the base of logarithm such
that:

(x^2)

You need to differentiate the function with respect
to x, using the quotient rule:

=gt f'(x) = {[ln (1/2x)]'*ln (x^2) - ln (1/2x)*[ ln (x^2)]'}/(ln
(x^2))^2

(2x/x^2)*(ln (1/2x)))/((ln (x^2)^2)

(x^2))/(x) - (ln (1/2x)^2)/(x)) / (ln (x^2)^2)

(ln(1/x^2) - ln (1/2x)^2)/(x*(ln (x^2))^2)

(ln((1/x^2)/(1/4x^2)))/(x*(ln (x^2))^2)

4/(x*(ln (x^2))^2)

Hence, the derivative of
the function is

In the movie Psycho "the shower scene" what style of editing, shots and visual transitions are used?

One of the most famous scenes in cinematic history, the
shower scene is a work of cinematic art, which in some ways symbolizes the previous
thoughts and activities of Janet Leigh's character in Psycho, Marion Crane.   For
instance, prior to getting into the shower, Marion has decided that like Norman Bates,
she, too, is trapped by her criminal act of embezzlement.  So, she makes notes on how
she can repay what she has already spent and resolves to return the money the next day. 
With this resolve, she flushes her notes in the toilet and goes to the bathroom to
shower and cleanse herself.  The shower scene, of course, is pivotal to the horror of
the film.  The scene was shot from 77 different angles, and the staccato close-ups are
unnerving and considered more "subjective" than if they had been images presented
separately or with a wider angled shot.

At the beginning of
the scene and at the end, the shower head is shot from a long lens camera.  With the
first shot, the water rushing from the shower head seems to connote Marion's fresh
resolve to return the money and cleanse her life of crime.  After she is slain, the shot
of the pouring shower head suggests the literal pouring of her blood down the drain and
the washing away of her plans. The close up shot of her eye suggests her realization of
this end.

Regarding the film editing, framed shots are used
and are assembled in a staccato pattern to make the death scene.  Sound and shadows act
as transitions between the montage of visual scenes. 

What type of quadrilateral is the one that has the vertices A(-5,4), B(3,5), C(7,-2) ,D(-1,-3)?

If the opposite sides of the given quadrilateral are
parallel, then the quadrilateral is parallelogram.

We'll
compute the slopes of the opposite sides AB and CD:

mAB =
(yB - yA)/(xB - xA)

mAB =
(5-4)/(3+5)

mAB =1/8

mCD = (yD
- yC)/(xD - xC)

mCD =
(-3+2)/(-1-7)

mCD = -1/-8

mCD
= 1/8

Since the values of the slopes are equal, then the
opposite sides AB and CD are parallel.

We'll verify if the
slopes of AD and BC are parallel, too.

mBC =
(-2-5)/(7-3)

mBC = -7/4

mAD =
(-3-4)/(-1+5)

mAD = -7/4

Since
the values of the slopes are equal, then the opposite sides AD and BC are
parallel.

Now, we'll verify if the parallelogram is
rectangle.

We'll calculate the product of the supposed
perpendicular lines:

mAB*mBC =
-7/32

We notice that the value of the product is not -1,
then the parallelogram is not a rectangle.

We'll verify if
the parallelogram is a rhombus.

We'll calculate the lengths
of two consecutive sides.

[AB] = sqrt[(3+5)^2 +
(5-4)^2]

[AB] = sqrt(64 +
1)

[AB] = sqrt 65

[BC] =
sqrt[(7-3)^2 + (-2-5)^2]

[BC] =
sqrt(16+49)

[BC] = sqrt
65

Since the lengths of two consecutive sides
are equal, then the quadrilateral ABCD is a
rhombus.

In "A Visit From St. Nicholas," by Clement Clarke Moore, is "down" a simile for chimney in "Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound"?

In "A Visit From St. Nicholas," by Clement Clarke Moore,
for the line you mention, I do not believe there is a simile at
all.

A href="http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/simile.html">simile is
different from a href="http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/metaphor.html">metaphor: both
compare two things that are dissimilar, though they share similar
characteristics. For example, "The children swooped down on the Easter eggs
like a flock of wild vultures." This is a simile, where the
behavior of children and vultures is similar, though children and
vultures are very different.

In the line you mention,
"down" is showing the direction in which St. Nick is moving. He is traveling through the
chimney, in a downward direction. There is no simile in this line at all because no two
things are being compared.

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As I drew in my head, and was turning
around,

Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a
bound.

In this section of the
poem, I do not see a simile or any other literary device: there is only end rhyme with
the words "around" and "bound." One word
cannot be a simile. Remember, it must
be two things compared that are very
different, that simply share similar characteristics. The line you
reference simply means that St. Nick slid down the chimney with a lot of energy: no
comparison is made here.

Describe Scout's experiences with school. What might Harper Lee be indicating about education in that time and place?I'm trying to right an essay,...

Scout's anticipation of her first day at school is nearly
overwhelming, and

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I never looked forward more to anything in my
life.

But her first day is a
monumental letdown. Her teacher, Miss Caroline, is fresh from college and a newcomer to
Maycomb, and she quickly discovers that things are different in South Alabama than in
her previous home in the northern part of the state. When Scout tries to explain why
Walter Cunningham has no lunch money, Miss Caroline spanks Scout with a ruler, bringing
a "storm of laughter" from her classmates. Miss Caroline later breaks down in tears
after witnessing her first lice, crawling in the dirty hair of Burris Ewell, and being
called a "slut of a schoolteacher" by Bob's son. Scout and her classmates rush to
console their teacher, who recovered long enough to
mystify

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... the first grade with a long narrative about a
toadfrog who lived in a
hall.

Although Scout can read
and write cursive and is probably the brightest student in the class, Miss Caroline
believes she needs to be "untaught" of these habits, which the teacher thinks should not
be known by a first grader yet. Miss Caroline's insulting remark that "your father does
not know how to teach," stings Scout; but more importantly, it shows the ignorance and
lack of teaching skills that Miss Caroline possesses. Her modern approach to education,
learned from her recent college experience, is not a fit with Maycomb or Scout, who
wants to quit school after the first day. However, Atticus talks her out of it,
stressing that Miss Caroline has learned a few things on her first day, and that she
will learn more. He then gives Scout a lesson on tolerance, telling her
that

"You
never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until
you climb into his skin and walk around in
it."

Why did the Reserve Bank of Australia raise interest rates before the global financial crisis hit?

Over the early months of 2008, the Reserve Bank of
Australia increased interest rates twice.  They raised the cash rate from 6.75 to an
eventual 7.25%.  The RBA then left the cash rate at 7.25% until it started to cut the
rate in September.  Whenever a central bank raises interest rates, it is worried about
inflation.  This is why the RBA raised rates.

Early in
2008, the RBA was worried about inflation.  Inflation had been relatively high in 2007
and the RBA wanted to reduce that.  The RBA did predict that the world economy would
slow down (though it did not foresee the crash).  However, it felt that aggregate demand
in Australia would remain high.  This was, in part, because the RBA believed that demand
for Australian commodities, in particular, would continue to increase.  It was also felt
that the Australian labor market was tight.  Pressures like these, it was felt, would
lead to inflation.

The RBA's purpose, then, was to combat
inflationary pressures that were, it felt, likely to affect the Australian
economy.

What factors led to the decline of the Tokugawa government?

Both internal and external factors led to the decline of
the Tokugawa dynasty. By the nineteenth century, crop failure, high taxes, and
exorbitant taxation created immense hardship. Many people starved as a result. Many
farmers were forced to sell their land and become tenant farmers. In the cities, the
price of rice and other commodities was so high that the poor had to go hungry. The
Samurai and daimyo class suffered also, as they fell into debt. Rather than relieve the
plight of the poor, the Tokugawa government, the bafuku, cancelled
debts owed by the Samurai and daimyo, abolished a number of trade guilds, and compelled
the peasants in the cities to return to the countryside and become
farmers.

Additionally, Japan had attempted to isolate
itself from the rest of the world, with only a few Dutch ships allowed to dock and trade
there. Others were crucified as a warning to stay way. However, in 1853, Commodore
Matthew Perry arrived with an American fleet, trained his guns on Tokyo, and demanded a
"treaty of friendship" and trading rights. Since the buildings in Tokyo were made of
paper and the American forces superior, the Shogun had no choice but to agree. The
British, Russians and Dutch soon won similar treaties, all of which were quite unequal
and disadvantageous to the Japanese government. The Emperor and conservative daimyo
questioned the right of the Shogun to rule as the "subduer of the barbarian," and the
cry to "preserve the Emperor, expel the barbarians" was soon heard in the streets. A
brief civil war broke out, but the Tokugawa dynasty was doomed. In 1868 the Shogun
resigned and the boy Emperor, Mitsuhito, known by his reign name of Meiji ("enlightened
rule") became ruler of the country. This was the Meiji
restoration.

Why did Romeo write a suicide note to his father in Romeo and Juliet?

Romeo was going through so much that no one but a few
people knew about, and only Juliet could really understand.  His friends and family
(save Friar Laurence) knew about his unrequitted love for Rosaline, but hadn't a clue
that he was in love with another woman.

Leaving a suicide
note would do a couple of things.  First, it would explain the reasoning behind his
decision.  If they just found him dead by his own hand with no explanation, they
might think it was over Rosaline.  He most likely wanted them to know the full
truth.

A second reason for leaving the note would be to
show his parents what the family feud has done; not only the lives taken by the enemies'
swords, but the lives torn apart by being forced to keep secrets that would otherwise
have led to them being disowned by their own families.

A
suicide note to his parents was important for Romeo.  He killed himself because of his
deep grief over Juliet's supposed death, but he didn't want the reasons behind his death
to go unnoticed.

Solve for x the equation 5sin^2x+5sinxcosx=3 .

We'll re-write the right side such as 3 = 3*1 = 3*[(sin
x)^2 + (cos x)^2]

We'll re-write the
equation:

5(sin x)^2 + 5sin x*cos x - 3(sin x)^2 - 3(cos
x)^2 = 0

We'll combine like
terms:

2(sin x)^2 + 5sin x*cos x- 3(cos x)^2 =
0

We'll divide the entire equation by (cos
x)^2;

2(sin x)^2/(cos x)^2 + 5sin x*cos x/(cos x)^2 - 3 =
0

We'll replace (sin x)^2/(cos x)^2 by (tan
x)^2

2(tan x)^2 + 5tan x - 3 =
0

We'll replace tan x by
t:

2t^2 + 5t - 3 = 0

We'll
apply quadratic formula:

t1 = [-5+sqrt(25 -
24)]/4

t1 = (-5+1)/4

t1 =
-1

t2 = -3/2

tan x = t1
=> tan x = -1 => x1 = pi - arctan 1 + k*pi

x1
= pi - pi/4 + k*pi

x1 = 3pi/4 +
k*pi

x2 = pi - arctan (3/2) +
k*pi

The solutions of the equation are:
{3pi/4 + k*pi}U{pi - arctan (3/2) + k*pi}.

In Act 4 scene 1, of Julius Caesar, what is Shakespeare dramatizing?

In Act Four, scene one, in Shakespeare's play,
Julius Caesar, the author is dramatizing the chaos that follows
Caesar's assassination, as well as the dispersement of power in light of the emperor's
death.

It is during this scene that the three most powerful
men in Rome at this time, Antony, Octavius, and Lepidus, are drawing up a list of those
who shall be put to death in order to guarantee their own success in seizing political
power, something they do strategically to remove their enemies, without feeling. For
example, Lepidus agrees to have his own brother
executed.

They plan to change Caesar's will, showing their
greed; the depth of their corruption easily equals that which Brutus feared in Caesar,
as they manipulate circumstances to their best
advantage.

Brutus and Cassius have left Rome to raise an
army in Greece. Antony privately tells Octavius that Lepidus is too weak and he plans to
remove him from a position of power. Antony and Octavius are also planning to raise
their own army.

In essence, with the death Caesar, Rome is
close to erupting in civil war. The dispersement of authority will show how power can
corrupt men.

Why does Shakespeare have Viola dress as a page in Twelfth Night?What freedom does this allow her to have?

There are a couple of reasons Shakespeare has Viola dress
as a page, one is practical and the other plot
driven.

Since the parts of young females were played by
young boys, it was more comfortable for them to dress and act like young men.  This, of
course is the practical reason.

For several of his
comedies, Shakespeare used twins.  In this case, it was better to be identical male and
female twins.  (Genetically not possible but this is a
play.)

Her reason for dressing as a male is a little weak
but it works to get her in Orsino's court where she can fall in love with him and where
she can be sent to Olivia's where she falls in love with the disguised
Viola.

Mistaken identity and misunderstanding are the keys
to "new" comedy.  Shakepeare understood this and used these elements
masterfully.

In the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, what does Portia demand in the dialogue with Brutus in Act 2, Scene 1?

In Scene I of Act II, Portia knows Brutus is involved in
something big and believes he is hiding a secret from her.  She confronts Brutus and
asks him what has been troubling him.  Brutus dismisses Portia and says he just hasn't
been feeling well lately.  Portia knows that is not the truth and continues to prod him
deeper.  When he continues to deny her access to his thoughts, she accuses Brutus of
treating her more like a whore than a beloved and respected wife.  Their conversation is
then broken up by a knock on the door.  Brutus goes to the door, but assures Portia her
demand for confidence will be met and he will soon confide in her about everything that
is going on.

In "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," why does Huck dislike civilization so much? What are some of the clues he gives us during the story?

Huck's background, prior to the start of the novel, does
not include many of the refinements that he associates with civilization and he doesn't
have any particular desire to acquire those niceties after encountering
them.

Huck loves being close to nature and is very capable
and comfortable when living off the land, hunting and fishing for his food, sheltering
where he finds protection from the elements, and not worrying about cleanliness of body
or surroundings. His reaction to living with Widow Douglas is "it was rough living in
the house all the time...and so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit
out."

Huck enjoys being active. He seeks out new adventures
and action, and finds civilization deadly dull and
boring.

Then
she told me all about the bad place, and I said I wished I was there. She got made,
then, but I didn't mean no harm. All I wanted was to go somewheres; all I wanted was a
change, I warn't particular.

What hints are given that Creon is starting to lose the trust of those around him in Antigone?

In my mind, the earliest example of how Creon's actions
begin to alienate those around him and in the community appears in scene IV.  When
Haemon tries to convince his father not to kill Antigone, he is unsuccessful.  He then
vows to leave his father and never see him again.  This becomes the first moment where
the audience and members of the Chorus are introduced to the idea that Creon is on a
collision course with tragic consequences and that he has begun the process of
alienation that will become more evident in the later scenes.  The chorus of elders in
scene V mourn for Antigone, also.  This is another example of how Creon is losing the
trust of those around him, as their mourning for Antigone is a direct affront to Creon
and done so in direct violation of Creon's wishes and his desire to punish Antigone. 
The elders have distanced themselves from Creon, and this is something he recognizes in
the next scene.

What kind of states does Niccolo Machiavelli describe in "The Prince"?

He opens The Prince by declaring that
"all the states, all the dominions under whose authority men have lived in the past and
live now have been and are either republics or principalities." Basically, republics are
governed by a body of elected leaders and are founded on the principle of "a perfect
equality," as he says in his Discourses on Government, and a
population animated by civic virtue. Principalities, on the other hand, are usually
governed by single leaders who rule through the combination of force, compromise,
negotiation, and back-stabbing that he describes in The Prince,
which is only about principalities. It should be noted that in The
Prince, he discusses several different types of principality, which may be
more relevant to the question. They are hereditary principalities, new principalities
(ie those taken by conquest or treaty), constitutional principalities, and
ecclesiastical principalities.

Why doesn't young Cathy's father visit her late mother's grave on her seventeenth birthday in Wuthering Heights?

We are given the answer to this question in Chapter Twenty
Five of this excellent Romantic novel. Edgar Linton has suffered from a protracted
illness which has kept him in bed for a long time. This has been used by his daughter as
an opportunity to directly defy his order and to go and visit her cousin in Wuthering
Heights, the other home that lies in the middle of the moors, as opposed to Thrushcross
Grange, which is more protected from the elements. However, with the arrival of spring,
although Edgar Linton appears to get better and at least begins to go on walks in the
grounds of Thrushcross Grange, Nelly Dean observes that he really gains little strength.
Note what we are told about the visit to his wife's
grave:

On her
seventeenth birthday, he did not visit the churchyard: it was raining, and I observed,
"You'll surely not go out tonight,
sir?"

Thus, because of Edgar
Linton's health and the illness that he took so long to get better from, he was unable
to visit his wife's grave.

how does embryogenesis take place in plants and what is the difference between plants and animal embryogenesis.

In animals, a fertilized egg cell becomes a diploid
zygote. This will then undergo cleavage resulting in an embryo with three germ layers.
These layers are endoderm, mesoderm and ectoderm. From these layers, differentiation of
these cells become recognizable body parts of the new embryo. In plants, a double
fertilization occurs inside the ovule. One fertilization results in a diploid zygote,
the other fertilization results in the union of two polar cells and a sperm forming a
triploid tissue called endosperm. Both the zygote and endosperm become the seed.
Plants, like animals have cleavage stages and at the eight cell stage, the embryo shows
a clear pattern of tissues forming along a linear plane. Differentiation and growth
occurs as the embryo develops.

Compare and contrast Don Quixote with Sundiata in Don Quixote de la Mancha.

One of the fundamental differences between Quixote and any
king lies in the fact that Quixote never had to be in the position of political
leadership.  Quixote was able to remain as an outsider, fighting for the life of the
knight, upholding the virtues of chivalry.  This is in stark opposition to political
leaders like Sundiata, who were responsible for kingdoms and their protection.  In this
light, there is a difference between seeking power from the outside, on a quest, and the
realization of this with the ascent into political power.  In this realm, I think that
Sundiata was fundamentally different than Quixote because of having to govern and rule
over territories, something that Quixote never had to do.  In his rule, Sunidata and
Quixote were similar in that they both sought to bring people together.  Sunidata sought
to bring people together in his empire in a type of federation where voices were heard
and validated.  In his quest through the code of the knight, Quixote operates in much of
the same way, negating voices that only seek to bring disgrace to fair Dulcinea or the
code of the knight.  Both embody the ideal of social justice.  Yet, again the manner in
which Sunidata had to wrestle with it in the form of political power is vastly different
to Quixote, who was never in such a position.

How do you start a body paragraph if you're talking about character change within Amir in The Kite Runner?I need to write an essay on The Kite...

I think that there are a couple of ways to start off with
a good topic sentence in your paragraph that talks about Amir's changes in The
Kite Runner. One way of opening it would be to simply open with "Amir changes
in many different ways in The Kite Runner." You would then discuss
one particular change that he undergoes, with another paragraph probably devoted to
another change and so forth.  From this, the language can be expanded a bit and more
wrinkles can be added to the basic formula.  For example, "Amir's changes are an
essential part of The Kite Runner. One such integral development
would be..."  You could build it from there.  If you wanted to be bold, you might even
try, "Amir's changes are critical to the thematic development of The Kite
Runner." The only challenge here is to make sure that once you describe the
change identified in Amir, you link it to one of the themes in the novel, thereby
proving its essential nature to the thematic development.  These are just guidelines
that could be followed.  If your instructor or teacher has a specific manner, you might
need to make sure you follow that method in the course of your
writing.

How has multiculturalism influenced today's American literature?

Multiculturalism -- the idea that any broad culture, such
as America's, is made up of many different contributing (and sometimes conflicting)
cultures -- has had an enormous impact on recent American literature. At one time,
canonical American literature was mainly written by white males. Eventually white women
writers became accepted into the canon (that is, the accepted list of "major" writers
and writings). African Americans were the next major group whose writings began to be
considered canonical. In recent decades, however, the number of different groups whose
writers and writings are seriously studied has expanded enormously. Such groups now
include homosexual and lesbian writers; Native American writers; Asian American Writers;
Hispanic writers; and many more.

A quick glance at the
table of contents of a major collection of recent American writing -- the
Heath Anthology of American Literature (volume 2) -- reveals the
following list of names:

• Hisaye
  Yamamoto


• Pedro
  Pietri


• Rudolfo A.
  Anaya


• Amiri Baraka


• Sonia
  Sanchez


• Lucille
  Clifton


• Ernest J.
  Gaines


• Etheridge
  Knight


• Alice Walker


• Toni
  Cade Bambara


• Victor Hernandes
  Cruz


• Garrett Kaoru
  Hongo


• David Henry
  Hwang


• Rolando
  Hinojosa-Smith


• Maxine Hong
  Kingston


• Amy Tan


• Gish
  Jen


• Janice
  Mirikitani

This list could
very easily be extended, but by now the point is clear: people of a
wide range of cultural backgrounds are now having a major influence on American
literature.

Often multiculturalism is an explicit topic of
recent writings. For example, the Heath Anthology includes a poem
by Lorna Dee Cervantes with the following title:

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"Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me How I,
an Intelligent, Well-Read Person Could Believe in the War Between Races"
[sic]

Similarly, a poem by
Aurora Levins Morales, included in the same anthology, is titled "Child of the Americas"
(not America but "the Americas," referring to islands in the
Carribean). Another work by the same author is titled "Puertoricaness." In both theme
and often in style, then, much recent American literature reflects the influence of a
multiplicity of cultures.

What is the evidence that only the women notice in Trifles?

The evidence that only the women notice in this excellent
play is the dead bird that was obviously killed by John Wright and then carefully
wrapped in silk and stored in Minnie Wright's sewing basket. This of course is crucial
evidence, because from Mrs. Hale's knowledge of both John and Minnie Wright and what a
bleak man that John Wright was, we can assume that John Wright killed the bird. The way
that the bird's neck is described as being "wrung" likewise ties in with the way that
John Wright himself was killed, which suggested that Minnie Wright, in an explosion of
anger, much like the anger that Mrs. Peters felt when a boy took up a hatchet and killed
her kitten in front of her. Note what Mrs. Hale concludes from seeing the
bird:

No,
Wright wouldn't like the bird--a thing that sang. She used to sing. He killed that,
too.

Thus it is that
ironically the women, through discovering the bird, also solve the crime that the men
are not able to find any evidence concerning.

What is the genre of Porphyria's lover?

Robert Browning’s poem, “Porphyria’s Lover,” is considered
a classic example of the dramatic monologue. It has a well defined speaker who cannot be
identified with the poet. It is a pure monologue, rather than a soliloquy, which is a
speech within a play spoken by a single person.

The poem follows a
typical pattern found in Browning’s monologues in which the narrator is gradually proven
unreliable over the course of the poems. A reader normally begins by trusting the
narrator, and only at the point when it becomes overwhelmingly obvious that the narrator
is untrustworthy (when he strangles Porphyria with her hair) do we look back and reframe
earlier statements as evidence of his madness.

In The Pearl, Kino makes a decision which he believes to be morally correct, but which will result in suffering for himself and those around...

I think the biggest decision that Kino makes is to not
sell out and give the pearl away for a lot less money than it is actually worth. In
spite of the increasing number of threats that surround him and the way in which he
himself is changing because of the pearl, he determines to reject Juana's attempt to
return the pearl to the ocean and to take the pearl and his family to the city so that
he can try to gain a fair price for it. Note what he says to his wife after her attempt
to try and dispose of the pearl in secret:

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"No," he said. "I will fight this thing. I will
win over it. We will have our chance." His fist pounded the sleeping mat. "No one shall
take our good fortune from us," he said. His eyes softened then and he raised a gentle
hand to Juana's shoulder. "Believe me," he said. "I am a man." And his face grew
crafty.

What is interesting
about this quote is that Kino is morally within his rights to try and get a fair price
for the pearl, but clearly what he is unaware of is how the malign influence of the
pearl is changing him and making him "crafty" and evil, just as it is changing those
around them too, making them willing to attack and steal to gain the pearl. Of course,
Kino's decision will also lead to ultimate tragedy for the family, as the story
shows.

How do you feel that Native Americans were portrayed in the works of Benjamin Franklin?Does the author treat them in a favorable or negative light?

Benjamin Franklin was one of America's leading thinkers
and writers during its early days of independence. He wrote about many things,  and one
of his essays seems to be an accurate encapsulation of his views regarding Native
Americans. In “Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America” (1784), Franklin argues
that the white man tends to think of anyone who does not act as he does is a savage,
when in fact it is simply a difference in customs.

Franklin
cites several incidents to prove his point. In the Native American culture, the best
orator makes the best leader, and obedience is the result of effective persuasion. In
the white culture, obedience is ensured through prisons and punishment, something which
seems crude and base to the Native Americans.

A college in
Virginia tells some Native Americans that they are willing to take several of their
young men and educate them. The Native Americans do not answer right away, as a sign of
respect for the request, giving it proper consideration. Of course the white men see
this delay as being rude. When they finally do answer, the tribe respectfully declines
the offer. They once had some young men who received a proper white man's education and
came home worthless to their tribe:

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"they were bad runners, ignorant of every means
of living in the woods, unable to bear either cold or hunger, knew neither how to build
a cabin, take a deer, or kill an enemy, spoke our language imperfectly, were therefore
neither fit for hunters, warriors, nor counselors; they were totally good for
nothing."

In gratitude for
the offer, the tribe made their own offer: send us a dozen of your young white men
and

"we will
take great care of their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of
them."

His point of view is
clear: Native Americans are not savages; they are just not the same as white men, and
different does not mean worse. He shows them as thoughtful, civil, and even refined
people; it is the white man who is often crude and unrefined.

Analyze the comic appeal of Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest with close reference to the text.

"The Importance of Being Earnest" is a comedy which
criticises its society's practices and customs.  Some of the comedic elements is Lady
Bracknell's monologue on being an invalid.  The play also incorporates situational
irony, when both Jack and Algernon want to be named Ernest and end up being brothers at
the end of the play.  The witty repartee between Jack and Algernon about love in Act 1
also add to the comedy.  The play uses many play on words and puns (or double meanings)
in order to achieve a comedic affect.

why we regard the study of language as science?disscuss1-the story of language. 2-the involvement of the human body and the brain in language. 3-...

Because any language it's itself a science, incorporating
a lot of rules from grammar to pronunciation.

1. The first
stage of the formation of the language were the "hieroglyphs stage". Egyptians used
schematic drawings, representing words. Later in Summer the language developed even
more, into the cuneiform language. The cuneiform language it's a simplified way of
drawing. It is similar as shape, with nails put
together.

2. You can see here a lot of body languages
books, and all the gestures meaning. As we talk we gesticulate a lot, betraying
sometimes our thoughts.

The brain has a special
compartiment, that takes care about the language capability. You can search a brain map
on google.

3. There are analytical tools, which formated by
the time the "linguistic domain".

In studying language,
sometimes you can involve: psychology, medicine, logic.

What best summarizes Lincoln's position on slavery in 1858?

The term that best summarizes Lincoln's position on
slavery is the term "free soil."  Lincoln was a firm believer in this idea, which held
that slavery must not be extended to places where it did not already
exist.

Lincoln personally believed that slavery was wrong. 
He did not believe in racial equality, but he believed that it was wrong to enslave
blacks nonetheless.  However, he did not believe that the federal government had the
Constitutional right to abolish slavery where it already
existed.

For this reason, Lincoln held to the free soil
position.  People who believed this said that slavery should be contained where it
already existed so that the new territories could remain free for settlement for small
white farmers.

do you agree with the "employment at will"?

Employment at will puts the employee in a state of
uncertainty about his or her future in the job. Again, when dismissal happens impromptu,
it takes time for the employee to settle with another job. What is more, employment at
will undermines the intellectual and professional competence of the employee. To this
effect, I do not agree with the doctrine.

It is however good to note
that even under employment at will, one cannot be given a sack based on illegal issues
(Repa, 2011). This means that employees can be assured of some level of security at
post. All they need to do is to adhere to basic rules and regulations that their
employers give them and they can be assured of keeping their positions for
long.

What is the function with roots 2, 4 + i and 4 - i

I am not sure if you want a function with the roots being
only 2, 4 + i and 4 - i or a function
which has the roots 2, 4 + i and 4 - i.

As there can be an
infinite number of functions that meet the latter condition, I am providing a function
that has only 2, 4 + i and 4 - i as the roots.

f(x) = (x -
2)(x - (4 + i))(x - (4 - i))

=> f(x) = (x - 2)(x - 4
- i)(x - 4 + i)

=> f(x) = (x - 2)((x - 4)^2 -
i^2)

use i^2 = -1

=>
f(x) = (x - 2)((x - 4)^2 + 1)

open the
brackets

=> f(x) = (x - 2)(x^2 + 16 - 8x +
1)

=> f(x) = (x - 2)(x^2 - 8x +
17)

=> f(x) = x^3 - 8x^2 + 17x - 2x^2 + 16x -
34

=> f(x) = x^3 - 10x^2 + 33x -
34

The function with the roots 2, 4 + i and 4
- i is f(x) = x^3 - 10x^2 + 33x - 34

Discuss how the title of the story reflects conflict within it in "There Will Come Soft Rains."

This is a rather unique story for a number of reasons, the
first one being the complete absence of any form of human characters. The only "life" we
are presented with is in the form of the robots that humans made before their extinction
and then the few straggling examples of nature that remain, such as the dying dog.
However, the title is explictly linked to the central conflict of the story, which is
indicated through the allusion to the poem by Teasdale. We see nature and mankind set in
conflict with each other, but the overwhelming message of the story is the way in which
that nature is so much stronger and powerful than mankind, which it has already
outlasted. Note the following quote from the poem:

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And not one will know of the war, not
one

Will care at last when it is
done.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor
tree,

If mankind perished
utterly:

And Spring herself, when she woke at
dawn

Would scarecely know that we were
gone.

Ironically, the robot
has chosen to read a poem that sums up precisely the scenario that we are presented
with. Mankind has "perished utterly," but nature carries on regardless. In spite of our
feelings of lofty grandeur, we are incredibly forgetable, and when we perish, nature
will continue without even noticing our absence. We will have failed to leave a mark on
the cosmos in the large scheme of things. In spite of the massive technological advances
that man has been shown to make in this story, we still have not gained for ourselves
immortality.

What is the mood in Cat's Eye?

I would argue that it is rather difficult to identify one
dominant mood in a work of literature. The majority of texts have a number of different
moods as the story is told, which can range from despair to humour. However, if we think
about this text, perhaps we can argue that the dominant mood is one of nostalgic
remembrance as Elaine seeks to go back into the past and come to terms with events in
her life surrounding her friendship with Cordelia and how it affected her and still
affects her now in her adult life. Note the way that the story begins with a focus on
time:

But i
began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of
liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another. You don't look back along time but
down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that,
sometimes nothing. Nothing goes
away.

This is of course a
summary of how the rest of the story develops, as Elaine tells her story from what
emerges from the lake of time in a series of flashbacks. Elaine if you like resurrects
these memories, dragging them out from the lake of her past so that she can live through
them once more and by doing so, somehow make peace with Cordelia after all of these
years. Elaine at no point downplays the trauma of her "friendship" with Cordelia, but
there is at the same time a desire to try and heal the damage that has been
done.

What makes a "mixed child...real sad" in To Kill a Mockingbird? What does this tell you about society?

According to Jem, a "mixed child" - one who is "half
white, half colored" - is "real sad" because they do not belong anywhere. Jem astutely
explains,

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"colored folks won't have 'em because they're
half white; white folks won't have 'em 'cause they're colored, so they're just
in-betweens, don't belong
anywhere."

This observation
expresses the virulent racism that permeates southern society at that time. A person is
classified and judged by the color of his or her skin, and it works both ways, with a
black child unable to be accepted in white society, and a white child unable to be
accepted in black society. The lines delineating the racial divide are unyielding; they
are a fact of life, and are difficult, if not impossible, to
breach.

The racism that Jem describes actually goes beyond
skin color. Scout notes that one of the mixed-race Raymond children looks no different
than a child who is all-black, and Jem tells her that "you just hafta know who they
are." Jem says,

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"...around here once you have a drop of Negro
blood, that makes you all
black."

If it is known that a
person has even one person of Negro ancestry in his or her lineage, that person is
condemned to live in the netherland of the "mixed child;" belonging
nowhere.

Jem hints that the racism and strict divisions
along color lines are lessening in other areas beyond the Deep South. Mr. Raymond has
sent two of his children up north, where "they don't mind [mixed children]" as much
(Chapter 16).

In Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, what is Shakespeare saying about the theme "action vs inaction?"

In Shakespeare's Hamlet, not only is
Shakespeare passing judgment on the value of taking action and the folly of not doing
so, but literary critics have long held the same opinion. In fact, Hamlet—as a tragic
hero—demonstrates his tragic flaw in his "indecision."

The
basis for the concept of "action vs inaction" is Hamlet's failure to avenge his father's
death quickly. The idea has been presented multiple times that had
Hamlet done so, he and Gertrude, and his household, would not have
died.

I struggle with this for several reasons. Hamlet is
written when the audience deeply believed in the supernatural. Elizabethans were sure
that the powers of darkness did all they could to win souls to their eternal damnation.
Killing a king was considered a mortal sin: it was believed that
God chose the monarch, and that man had no right to defy God's
choice. If Claudius has killed Old Hamlet, then Hamlet is justified
in killing him, but he needs proof that the Ghost is
"honest."

Hamlet spends time figuring this out. After the
"play-within-the-play," which acts out Old Hamlet's murder, Claudius' response is all
the proof Hamlet needs. Passing through the castle, Hamlet walks by the room where
Claudius is praying. With his proof of the King's guilt, Hamlet is ready to kill him
there. However, Hamlet recalls that his father's ghost was
suffering because he had been sent to his death without the opportunity to cleanse
himself of his sins. Old Hamlet's spirit must now wander in purgatory. Hamlet refuses to
kill Claudius at that moment, for with sins forgiven, Claudius
would go straight to heaven. (Ironically, Claudius is unable to form his prayers at that
moment, but Hamlet doesn't know this.)

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...am I then revenged,
To take him in
the purging of his soul,
When he is fit and seasoned for his passage?

No.
Up, sword, and know thou a more horrid hent. (90)

When he is drunk asleep; or in his rage;
Or in the incestuous
pleasure of his bed;
At game, a-swearing, or about some act
That
has no relish of salvation in't
Then trip him, that his heels may kick at
heaven,(95)
And that his soul may be as damn'd and black
As hell,
whereto it goes.
(III.iii.86-97)

Hamlet soon
at his mother's room. When he frightens Gertrude, she cries out. Polonius, behind a
curtain in the room, yells. Finally, Hamlet—thinking that Claudius has been with
Gertrude in the midst of an incestuous act—stabs the person behind the curtain.
(Elizabethans believed that to marry a spouse's sibling was committing incest.) The man
is not Claudius, but Polonius, and Hamlet has tried and failed to
kill his father's murderer.

Once Hamlet kills Polonius, and
does not kill Claudius, his fate—and that of the others—is sealed.
It is true that since Hamlet does not kill Claudius when he has the chance that the King
is able to turn Laertes against Hamlet. Once their plot is set in motion, those who are
still alive are doomed.

In light of these events,
Shakespeare believes that one must take action in a timely way or miss important
opportunities. With Hamlet, I cannot help but believe he is a loyal son who wishes it
was not his fate to avenge his father's death, but knows he must. Shakespeare writes his
play putting Hamlet in an impossible position, when the circumstances surrounding his
father's death and the limitations placed upon him, make it impossible for him to
respond any differently. It is because of these things that Hamlet is a tragic hero, and
the play is a tragedy.

Im chemistry, what does it mean if the products or the reactants are favored? favored to what?

In most chemical reactions the reactants combine to form
one or more products and the reaction goes to completion. that means the reactants are
all used up and you only have product(s).

However, in some
chemical reactions, an equilibrium occurs where there are both reactants and products
present.  An example of this is the reaction of N2 + H2 to form NH3.  This reaction
takes place under high temperature and pressure and there is always a combination of all
three substances present.

In an equilibrium reaction if
there are more products present than reactants the reaction favors the
products.

If there are more reactants than products then
the reaction favors the reactants.

In Chapter 17 of To Kill a Mockingbird, what is Atticus trying to show?It's toward the end of the chapter.

The trial of Tom Robinson begins in Chapter 17, and
Atticus gets right to work trying to show that it could not have been Tom who beat and
raped Mayella. First, Atticus determines from Sheriff Tate that no medical evidence
existed and that Mayella never saw a doctor. This brought into question whether a rape
even occurred. Next, Atticus determines that Mayella was beaten on the right side of her
face and that her neck had marks "all around her
throat."

Bob Ewell took the stand next. Atticus requested
that Ewell sign his name, and he did so with his left hand. Scout recognized what her
father was up to: Mayella must have been beaten not only by a left-handed man, but by
someone with two good, strong hands in order to make the marks around her neck. Bob
Ewell could have been that mind, Scout decided. 

What is the theme in Li-Young Lee's poem, "Persimmons," and what elements support that theme?

From the verbal confusion that is mentioned in the first
stanza as the youthful poet confuses precision and persimmon, the theme of communication
and how we communicate is established. Clearly, for a poet, words are vitally important
in this process of communicatino, but the poet himself learned through this childhood
experience that words can be very ambiguous and imprecise, particularly when they are
not accompanied by love. Mrs. Walker, with her lack of patience and her quick judgement,
shows how words can actually be used to communicate more confusion than clarity, which
is highlighted when Mrs. Walker refers to a "Chinese apple" rather than a persimmon, yet
remains unaware that it is not ripe.

Yet with love, words
can be used to communicate effectively, as is conveyed through the experience when the
speaker makes love to his wife in the yard. Even though he has forgotten some Chinese
words, this is unimportant, because he remebers to tell her "she is as beautiful as the
moon." In an environment of love and respect (that stands out in contrast to Mrs. Walker
and her relationship with the child that the poet once was), such imprecision of
language becomes unimportant. Communication is shown to be made perfect through love,
and miscommunication the obvious product of love's absence. As the poem ends with the
experience of the poet's blind father, who can still paint persimmons, even if he can't
see them, persimmons seem to stand for communicated experiences that never leave
us:

Some
things never leave a person:

scent of the har of one you
love,

the texture of
persimmons,

in your palm, the ripe
weight.

What is the importance of the time period in Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart"?

The time period in which "The Tell Tale Heart" is set is
known as the  American Renaissance. This literary movement branched out into two
movements:  American Romanticism and its darker, alter ego known as Southern Gothic
literature.

This latter literary movement is characteristic
for its realism and naturalism. Gothic literature is also the first known movement to
treat the themes of inner human emotion, the reality of human weakness, and humans'
capacity for evil.

Therefore, "The Tell Tale Heart" is a
product of the genre  in American literature that first explored the darker side of
humanity, and exposed the preoccupations of a very shaky society (the early 1800's)
exploring subjects never used before such as human horror, delusion, and human
despair.

How do I cite an e-book (kindle) in MLA format?

Citations in the format specified by the Modern Language
Association or MLA are quite simple to use and are widely found in academic
literature.

According to the rules laid down by the MLA, to
cite an e-book the following pieces of information have to be included in the
citation:

• Author's Last Name, First Name Middle
  Initial.


• Title of Book: Subtitle of
  Book.


• 
  edition.


• Place of Publication: Publisher,
  Year.


• Name of Database.


• 
  Place of access.


• Date of
  access.

It does not matter which device the
e-book has been accessed. The final format has to be in the
form:

Author's
Last Name, First Name Middle Initial. Title of Book: Subtitle of
Book. edition. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year. Name of Database. Place
of access. Date of
access.

The following
(fictitious) example will make this clearer.

Silly, String.
Citing a Book. New York: SSP, 2011. www.sillystring.com. Web. 4 April
2011.

What are the effects of malnutrition in children under 7 years and their solutions?

Malnutrition is defined as a condition arising from a
consistent diet that fails to provide adequate nutrients or energy in the correct
proportions. Meaning it can occur through the lack of some nutrients and the excess of
others. However, the most common form of malnutrition is undernutrition. Undernutrition
is the lack of adequate nutrients and calories. Undernutrition is also the most common
form of malnutrition among children, whom are more severely affected by the condition.
Specifically, undernutrition in children can cause such symptoms as stunting (lack of
adequate height for one's age) and wasting ( lack of adequate weight for one's age),
increased risk of infection, increased morality, vitamin deficiencies such as, scurvy
(vitamin c), rickets (vitamin d) and anemia (iron) as well as a compromised immune
system and increased risk for parasites.

There a number of
possible solutions to curb child malnutrition, including financial aid, agricultural
assistance, increased access to food, and helping to reduce food
costs.

a triangular prism has a base that is right a triangle. the volume of the prism is 100cm cubic how do find the height and base

Since you have not provided all the elements to determine
the height and the base of the prism, I'll give some indications on how to draw a
prism.

The first step is to draw the base, that is a
triangle. Draw the vertex of the triangle pointing on
you.

The next step is draw a perpendicular on each vertex
of triangle. The perpendicular lines must have the same
length.

Now, you'll have to join the upper endpoints of
these 3 perpendiculars and the triangular prism is
ready.

Now, for finding the lengths of height and base, all
we know is that the volume is of 100 cm^3.

The volume of
the triangular prism is:

V =
A*h

A is the area of the triangular base. If the base is a
right angle triangle, the area is the product of the legs divided by
2.

h represents the height of the
prism.

You can notice that there are more
unknowns than given data, therefore the lengths of the height and base cannot be
evaluated under these circumstances.

How is Ponyboy the baby of the gang in The Outsiders?I don't mean how he is the youngest. I mean how does he act like the baby and does the gang...

In addition to being the youngest member of his gang,
Ponyboy is also the most sensitive and least like the rest of the greasers. He doesn't
particularly like to rumble, although his brothers compliment him on his fighting
abilities. He is the most intelligent and best educated of the bunch, and he seems to be
the most innocent of the group. He hasn't faced the problems with the law that Dally has
experienced; he has only fond memories of his parents, unlike Johnny; he hasn't fallen
in love like Soda or Steve Randle; and he hasn't resorted to carrying a knife like
Johnny or Two-Bit, or a heater like Dally. Perhaps more importantly, until the deaths of
Johnny and Dally, Pony has not really faced any of life's great challenges or tragedies
(aside from the death of his own parents), always being protected by his older brothers
and the rest of the gang.

Work habits are more about response to the work enviornment than personality traits. Do you agree? Support answer.Organisation structure and behaviour

This is an interesting question, and I tend to agree with
the statement.  After some discussion of what is meant by "work habits,"  we can look at
why this is likely to be a true statement, as well as a few arguments to the
contrary.

The term "work habits" is a somewhat vague, so
let's try to fill it in a little.  When I see that term, it evokes the soft skills that
people engage in the workplace, for example, promptness, an ability to prioritize,
efficiency, self-starting behavior, functionality in a team, and focus.  If those are
the kinds of work habits meant in your inquiry, then the statement is
supportable.

Work habits may or may not be a function of
personality traits, but they are exhibited in behaviors.  When John Doe enters a
workplace, if these behaviors are modeled and rewarded and there are consequences for
not engaging in these behaviors, he is likely to engage in them as a response to the
environment, no matter what personality traits he might have. For example, if promptness
is valued and most of the people around him are prompt, Doe is going to be prompt (or
gone.)  If all around him, people are focused and not chatting around the water cooler,
Doe is probably going to respond to the culture of the work environment. Does it matter
what his personality is? It is his behavior that is at
issue.

If you think about all the people you know, with as
many different personalities as a kaleidoscope has patterns, you can probably find
examples of situations in which people find it easy or difficult to adapt to a
particular kind of work culture, but if you focus on their behaviors in the workplace,
as opposed to their thoughts and feelings--their attitudes--you are likely to find that
what they do is responsive to the environments in which they find
themselves.

Now, having said all of that, I suppose there
are some situations in which a person with a particular personality might sway those
around him into different kinds of behaviors.  Picture Tom Sawyer getting all those
onlookers to whitewash the fence for him.  However, I think this is the exception rather
than the rule in today's top-down corporate world.

Another
factor that should be considered is the degree to which certain personalities are drawn
to certain kinds of workplaces.  For example, there are workplaces in which creative
efforts and results are valued more than promptness.  In those instances, the work
habits exhibited could be said to be personality-driven, but this seems to me to be like
the question, "Which came first, the chicken or the
egg?"

It also occurs to me that there is another aspect to
this inquiry, that being the personality of the person in command.  From that
perspective, certainly there is an argument that personality can create a work
environment in which certain kinds of work behaviors might be reinforced or eliminated,
but if we are inquiring into the behavior and personality of the worker, that is a
different question entirely.

I have provided a link to an
article that discusses this issue as it relates to doctors, but you will note that
attitudes and work habits are discussed.  I do think it is important to distinguish
between the two when trying to analyze.  Who we are and what we do might not be as
connected as people believe.

As a father, what advice would you give to Laertes in Shakespeare's Hamlet, before you let him go to university? (Act 1, scene 3)

Ironically, in Shakespeare's Hamlet,
Polonius, who is the King's advisor, is a foolish old man who never takes his own
advice. However, his advice is actually quite sound.

In Act
One, scene three, (lines 59-85), Laertes prepares to go away to school. He has some
hypocritical advice to give Ophelia about Hamlet, which she reminds him
he had better be prepared to follow as well, and Polonius provides
these "pearls of wisdom:"

• keep your thoughts to
  yourself; think before you act; don't be overly friendly
  ("vulgar");


• keep your old friends who you know you can
  trust, close to you;


• spend your money
  wisely;


• don't get into fights easily, but once in, prove
  you are to be taken seriously;


• listen to the advice of
  others, but 'reserve your judgment;'


• buy clothes that are
  well made, but avoid buying showing garments to impress others—the 'clothes make the
  man.'


• don't borrow money or lend
  it;


• be true (honest) with yourself, for then you cannot
  lie to any other man.

I find that all of these
pieces of advice to Laertes from Polonius are valuable. The father encourages his son as
I would my own child to be wise, to be honest and to be honorable. Don't fight with
others easily; listen carefully, but be slow to speak. If this were today, I would add
that one should not put anything in writing; be careful to enter into contracts; be
mindful of what you say and to whom; and, be kind to others. I don't think that
Polonius's advice is out-of-date at all, which is why Shakespeare is so wonderful: his
writing is timeless.