Describe Satan in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost.

Paradise Lost's Satan is perhaps one
of the most interesting and complex character to ever be written. He is presented as a
vain, yet extremely charismatic leader. Before he led the revolt in heaven, and was
thrown down into hell, he was known as Lucifer. Lucifer was an archangel, one of God's
most trusted and highest ranking angels. It was perhaps the ultimate betrayal to have
Lucifer lead a rebellion.

The name "Satan" literally means
"enemy" in Hebrew. Satan is described as being physically immense, and in the beginning
of the poem he still possesses his famed good looks, however, throughout the story we
see Satan degenerate into a hideous shell of his former self. Readers can see this
particularly after the fall of Man. Milton has frequently been critiqued for his
sympathetic description of Satan. It is sometimes speculated that Milton built himself
into Satan's character. Throughout the entirety of the piece Satan refuses to surrender
his beliefs regarding his right to independence. He vows revenge against God, and
refuses to acknowledge that God was the creator of all, and this, most people believe,
is his greatest downfall. 

Satan is regularly thought to be
an excellent example of an epic hero. The language that Milton uses for Satan's speeches
and lines are particularly moving, making it incredibly obvious how 1/3 of the angels in
heaven would follow him to hell. It's important to note how attractive Satan makes being
evil seem, he demonstrates that there's an intense freedom that comes with being evil.
One can almost understand Satan's point of view, which makes him all the more dangerous
as a character.

How is "To His Coy Mistress" a three-part argument?

To answer this question you need to think about the
structure of the poem that Marvell creates and consider how the poem is actually divided
into three discrete sections, and how each of those sections are used to advance the
speaker's argument.

The first section runs from lines 1-20,
and consists of lots of examples of hyperbole as the speaker tries to describe the
extreme lengths to which he would go to express his love for his beloved if he had but
time to do so:

My vegetable love should
grow

Vaster than empires and more
slow...

However, in lines 21-32, the brevity of life is
stressed as the speaker reminds his beloved that they do not have eternity to court. In
reality, time is described as a "winged chariot hurrying near." The only future they
have to look forward to are "deserts of vast eternity." Based on this, lines 33-46 move
to the conclusion of the poem, as, with a tone of challenge and defiance, the speaker
urges his mistress to "devour" time and "tear" the pleasures from life, because time
cannot be made to stop. By so doing, the speaker argues, they can make the sun
"run":

Let us
roll all our strength and all

Our sweetness up into one
ball,

And tear our pleasures with rough
strife

Through the iron gates of
life;

Thus, though we cannot make our
sun

Stand still, yet we will make him
run.

Thus each of the three
sections of this poem is clearly built on upon the other and helps to advance the
central argument of why it is important to love today and not wait for a tomorrow that
may never come. "Coyness" is thus a "crime" based on the brevity of time and our
inescapable death.

What happened to Hadley after being divorced by Hemingway ?

Elizabeth Hadley Richardson
(1891-1979) married Ernest Hemingway in 1921 and divorced him five years later after
discovering her husband's affair with Pauline Pfeiffer. They had a son, John ("Jack"),
whose daughters were actresses Mariel and Margaux
Hemingway.

After divorcing Hemingway, Hadley met Pulitzer
Prize-winning journalist Paul Mowrer in Paris; they were married in London in 1933. They
eventually moved to Chicago, and Mowrer later became the Poet Laureate of New Hampshire
(1968). Mowrer died in 1971. Hadley only saw Hemingway once following their divorce, but
she is featured prominently in A Moveable Feast, which was not
published until after Ernest's death. Hadley also received the royalties from both the
novel and film adaptation of The Sun Also Rises. Hadley died in
Lakeland, Florida in 1979. A biography about Hadley (Alice Sokoloff's Hadley –
The First Mrs. Hemingway) was published in 1973.

In 1984, can the thought police actually hear what you are thinking?I am only on chapter 2.

Let me try to answer your question in a way that does not
spoil what happens in the rest of this excellent novel that should be read by everyone.
Well, the first two chapters make it clear, as I am sure you have picked up, that
Winston Smith is living in a society where it is very hard to escape the constant
surveillance of the authorities. Telescreens abound and helicopters look into people's
appartments. The most feared of course are the Thought Police, and although they cannot
actualy hear what you are thinking, they have an almost mythic status that is used to
instil fear into the population and suggest that they actually can hear what you are
thinking. Note what Winston says about them after writing "Down with Big Brother" in his
Diary:

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Whether he went on with teh diary, or whether he
did not go on with it, made no difference. The Thought Police would get him just the
same. He had committed--would still have committed, even if he had never set pen to
paper--the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they
called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed for ever. You might
dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but soner or later they were bound to
get you.

Thus there is
obviously something that you do, when you commit Thoughtcrime--some change in your
appearance or how you do what you do--that makes the Thought Police suspicious about you
and lead to your vapourisation. It is not that they have the ability to read thoughts,
but that they are constantly watching your every move, and so any suspicious activity
can lead to your arrest.

How does Jem solve Scout's problem with Walter Cunningham in Chapter 3 of To Kill a Mockingbird?

Scout was busy rubbing Walter Cunningham Jr.'s nose in the
playground dirt as payback for the trouble he had caused her with Miss Caroline when Jem
came by. Jem got his sister to stop fighting with Walter, coming up with a friendlier
plan: They would invite him home for lunch instead. Scout finally cooled off, and
Atticus welcomed Walter, talking "together like two men." Walter obviously got very
little to eat at his own home, because he "piled food on his plate" once Calpurnia had
served it. Scout also got a lesson on hospitality from Cal after making fun of Walter's
habit of drencing all of his food in molasses, and Scout was soon able to call Walter
her friend.

When Jane went shopping, IT OCCURRED TO HER THAT THERE ARE REALLY NO NEW STYLES. Is this sentence an Independent clause or phrase or dependent...

As your question is somewhat ambiguous since the
"sentence" is really everything that has been written, let's first address the part that
you have written in capital letters:  "It occurred to her that there are really no new
styles."  This part of the entire sentence written above is both
an independent clause and a relative (dependent) clause.

Now, an independent
clause is one that can stand as a complete thought or sentence by itself;
that is, an independent clause contains a subject and a predicate that on their own make
logical sense.  "It [subject] occurred [predicate] to her" makes sense on its own,
(although the reader does need a little more information since the he/she does not know
what "it" is).  Therefore, this is an independent
clause. 

A relative clause is one that begins with a
relative pronoun such as that, which, who, whom, or
whose.  A relative clause is also called an adjective clause since
it modifies a noun or a pronoun.  In this case "that there are no new styles" modifies
the subject pronoun It.  This clause is a dependent
clause because it cannot stand on its own and have meaning. Also, the
first part of the sentence, "When Jane went shopping" is a dependent
clause, an adverbial clause that modifies the verb
occurred.

In the epic tale, Beowulf, how is the conflict of man vs. the environment evident?

I hope that I am correct in assuming that man vs
nature and man vs the environment are the same
thing.

In Beowulf, it is hard to know
whether Grendel and his dam (mother) are considered people or deviations of nature, as
they are usually referred to as monsters. However, there are at least two clear examples
of this kind of conflict after Grendel's mother takes Hrothgar's most-loved "councillor
and friend," Æschere, from the mead hall and kills him. In Chapter Twenty-one, Beowulf
assures the Danish king that he will go after Hrothgar's lost man; as Hrothgar
accompanies Beowulf, they find Æschere's head along the way, and the waters of the swamp
are bloody.

In Chapter Twenty-two, Beowulf pursues
Grendel's dam to an underground cavern, out of the water—a place like an open cave. Note
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used to describe Grendel's mother; she is called...

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That grim and
greedy
goblin...

When
she realizes that a human has ventured into the "realm" that she has ruled for "a
hundred winters," she tries to stab him and fails; then she tries to reach with her
claws into his flesh, but his armor stops the creature both times. At this point, the
monster decides to pull Beowulf underwater to her lair.

We
see two examples of man vs the environment here: first, Beowulf must battle the water as
first enters the "eddying floods." The translation notes that it is a long way to the
cavern:

It
took most of the day before he could reach the land at the
bottom.

Once Grendel's dam
realizes she cannot kill Beowulf in the cavern, she pulls him into the body of water
again, where he is attacked by violent monsters and dangerous "sea-beasts"—forms of
nature:

Though
his valor held, he struggled in vain to wield weapons against the terrifying monsters
that set upon him while he swam. Many sea-beasts tried to tear his mail with fierce
tusks when they swarmed upon this
stranger.

These are two
examples of man vs the environment in the epic poem,
Beowulf.

Help writing an essay ( the body)!!!I'm writing an essay about being an Orthodontist ( specialist dentist for fixing the way our teeth is...

The structure of a good essay no matter on what subject
should be the following:

- introduction: here you should
state your thesis, say why you have decided to write the essay and shortly present the
ideas you are going to develop in the body to support
it.

-the body: you should have about three paragraphs, each
one centered on a main idea; as far as your topic is concerned, in the first paragraph
you should describe the job and say what responsibilities it involves, the pay and the
development possibilities; in the second you should write what it takes to be in that
position, what education and skills one must have to get it; in the third you should
write the reason why people should choose this job, what its advantages
are.

-next you should write a paragrah predicting the
arguments your audience could have against your thesis and contradict them one by
one.

-conclusion: in this last paragraph you should restate
your thesis and briefly remind your audience the arguments you brought to support
it.

if you want your essay to be attention grabbing you
should be concise and only write relevant information on the topic. Write in the third
person to make it more official and even quote from books or research articles, if
possible. Keep your style clear and do not use long sentences. Check spelling
and grammar carefully. 

Write the simplified fraction [(x+2)^2*(x+1)/(x+1)^2]*[(x^2+2x+1)/(x^2+3x+2)]

First, we'll write the numerators and denominators as
distinct factors. For this reason, we'll determine the roots of the 2nd
numerator:

x^2 + 2x + 1 =
0

We'll recognize the perfect
square:

(x+1)^2 = 0

Now, we'll
determine the roots of the denominator of the 2nd
fraction:

x^2 + 3x + 2 =
0

We'll apply quadratic
formula:

x1 = [-3+sqrt(9 -
8)]/2

x1 = (-3+1)/2

x1 =
-1

x2 = (-3-1)/2

x2 =
-2

The equation will be written
as:

x^2 + 3x + 2 = (x + 1)(x +
2)

We'll re-write the factorised
expression:

[(x+2)^2*(x+1)/(x+1)^2]*[(x+1)^2/(x + 1)(x +
2)]

We'll cancel common
factors:

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

The  requested simplified result of the
given expression is: (x+2)

Which of the following is a theory?A) an educated guess. B) a very specific prediction. C) observations made during the voyage of the Beagle. D)...

The correct answer is D - a theory is a broad explanation
that has been scientifically tested and supported. Possible answer A could be a
definition for a hypothesis. Possible answer B does not allow the wide scope of
information that can be included in a theory, and possible answer C does not address the
explanatory function served by a theory. A theory may serve as the starting point for
observations as well as providing a foundation for experimentation and drawing
conclusions. The nature of much of scientific research, however, is such that absolutely
final and irrefutable conclusions are often not possible. Rather than being able to
state that "this is an irrefutable fact for all time," scientists more often conclude
"the evidence available to this point supports this theory" - pending revision if
necessary based on new evidence.

How does Atticus change throughout the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird?

Atticus is optimistic about human nature almost to the
point of naivete, and honest to his very core.  He believes deeply that a man is only as
good as his word, and he takes his role as a father very seriously.  When he makes it
clear he plans to do his best to defend Tom Robinson, one of the reasons he gives is
that he couldn't look his children in the eye if he felt he hadn't done the right
thing.  However, at the end of the novel, when it becomes apparent that disclosing who
killed Bob Ewell would mean placing Arthur (Boo) Radley in the path of more
psychological harm, he acquiesces to Heck Tate.  Heck says that Bob Ewell fell on the
knife that killed him; at first Atticus is adamant that the truth will be told, because
he thinks that Jem killed Bob, and he will not be part of a coverup, even if it involves
his own son.  However, when Tate makes him understand that it was actually Boo who
killed Ewell and saved the children's lives, Atticus gives in, thanking Boo for his
children's lives. He asks Scout if she can possibly understand, and she says she can,
that it would be kind of like shooting a
mockingbird. 

These last pages of "Mockingbird" always make
me cry.  That has nothing to do with the question you answered, but I believe this is
quite possibly the loveliest story I have ever read.

What situation is the main character confronted with at the beginning of the novel The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy?

As The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy opens, main
character Arthur Dent is faced with a rather significant challenge - bulldozers
preparing to tear down his house in order to construct a highway bypass. He does his
best to fight this demolition, refusing to vacate the premises and arguing that adequate
notice was not given. Unfortunately for Dent, there is no turning back with the plans
for demolishing his house, as this is not just any highway construction project. Aliens
are preparing to move to the next stage of their invasion of Earth. Some, including
Arthur's friend Ford Prefect, have been on Earth for years becoming familiar with the
planet and its possibilities, and now they are proceeding with the next step in their
plan.

How is the theme of guilt used in Macbeth?

There are a few ways that the theme of guilt is conveyed
in Macbeth. Perhaps one example that is overlooked when it comes to
illustrating guilt is Lady Macbeth's quote:

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Come, you
spirits

That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me
here,

And fill me, from the crown to the toe, (I.v.
40-42)

Lady Macbeth feels
guilty that she is not a man.  During the play, gender plays an important role.  Lady
Macbeth thinks that Macbeth does not have the backbone to do what needs to be done to
gain the crown.  So, she asks the spirits to "unsex" her so that she can
become male so as to gain the crown; something she does not think
her husband is really man enough to do.

Therefore, Lady
Macbeth feels guilt in the fact that she was not born male given she has the male
mindset needed to gain what she believes Macbeth cannot.

what is the maria's advice to bruno after their talk?

Bruno is very upset about moving, and he confides in
Maria.  He feels that Maria is part of the family, even though his father only considers
her a maid.  Maria explains that they have moved bacause of his father's job.  Bruno
complains and says that his father should think twice about his job.  Just at that
moment a young soldier comes out of his father's room, and comes and stares at Bruno. 
Bruno does not like the young man because he was too serious.  Maria explains that they
all have serious jobs. Her advice to Bruno is that

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"But if I was you, I'd steer clear of the
soldiers."  (pg 19)

Bruno
agreed stating that he didn't see what else there was to do.

A convex mirror has a focal length of −27 cm. What is the object distance if the image distance is −16 cm?

The following formula relates object distance, image
distance, and focal length for convex mirrors:

1/(focal
length) = 1/(object distance) + 1/(image
distance)

or

1/fo = 1/do +
1/di

The image distance being negative means that it is a
virtual upright image  located behind the mirror.

1/(-27
cm) = 1/do + 1/(-16)

-.037 cm^-1 = 1/do + (-.0625
cm)

.0255 cm^-1 = 1/do

39.22
cm = do

What this means is that an object placed 39.22 cm
in front of the convex mirror with a focal length of -27 cm will possess a virtual
image, 16 cm behind the mirror.

How did Lincoln's childhood influence his stance on slavery?

There are at least two ways in which Lincoln's childhood
experiences are said to have impacted his views on
slavery.

First, Lincoln's family belonged to a church known
as the Separate Baptist church.  This church was opposed to slavery.  Lincoln may have
absorbed some of his attitude towards slavery from
this.

Second, Lincoln's family was forced to leave Kentucky
and go to Indiana when Lincoln was about 7 years old.  This move was caused mostly by
conflicts over the title to the land that Lincoln's father had believed he owned. 
However, Lincoln himself said that part of the reason for the move was opposition to
slavery.

Beyond that, we know little about how Lincoln's
childhood might have affected his attitudes on the issue of
slavery.

Why does Mary Warren change her testimony and turn on John Proctor in The Crucible?

Mary changes her story because she is afraid that she will
be accused of witchcraft. She realizes that the judge is putting pressure on her to
stick to her story. The judge has realized that he may have been mistaken on the idea
that witchcraft is so prevalent in Salem. He realizes that the girls may be lying. If he
agrees to hear Mary's story, he realizes he himself will look like a fool. He is more
worried about his personal reputation than he is at finding the truth of the matter at
hand.

Mary is torn between doing the right thing and saving
her own life. She determines that her own life is more valuable than the truth. She does
not want to hang. She changes her story in order to survive. She is afraid of Abigail.
She fears what she can do to sway the judge against
her.

Mary gives in to the pressure of those around her who
are trying to prove that witches are among them.

How can the image of "glass" (I.E. Cinderella and the "glass" coffin in Snow White) relate to the image of the glass in The Glass Menagerie?

The image of glass in the Glass
Menagerie is an allegory to characteristics that are specific to Laura:
Fragility and purity. Fragility means that she is very easy to shatter, break, and
fall apart, like glass. Moreover, glass is clear just as she is innocent,and pure. These
two latter descriptors make Laura both as rare and breakable as the broken unicorn in
her glass menagerie.

Similarly in
Cinderella, the glass slipper is as unique as Cinderella's
situation: She is an innocent, pure woman whose evil stepmother and stepsisters try to
"break" consistently. Her freedom is easily fragile, as it depends entirely of the
success of one night. It is interesting, however, that the fact that the shoe represents
her fragility and purity was the precise memento that she left behind for the Prince-
and the one he cherished the most. It is almost as if the shoe represents the qualities
a man as good as the Prince should look for in his future
bride.

In Snow White, her innocence,
fragility, and purity are also shown, but this time they can be clearly
appreciated behind the glass coffin, where she lies as a victim of an unfair queen. Her
salvation is having her first kiss from the Prince. Once again we find the idea of the
Prince saving the damsel in distress, just like in Cinderella and
in The Glass Menagerie.

Clearly,
Laura was at a loss because her Prince Charming came to her at the wrong time. Hence,
her innocence and purity will go on forever untouched. Allegorically, when the unicorn
broke its horn was indicative of her potential being lost
forever.

What is the real title of Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer's Night Dream or Midsummer Night's Dream ?

The title is indeed A Midsummer Night's
Dream. The clue is in the meaning of the possessive word. A dream is
something that typically belongs to the night rather than to the time of year,
midsummer. If the title of the play was A Midsummer's Night Dream,
grammatically it would mean that the night belonged to, or was a part of, midsummer,
rather than the dream being a part of the night that happens to fall on
midsummer.

While it would make sense to say "a midsummer's day,"
meaning that the day is one that belongs to the midsummer season, it only makes sense to
say "a midsummer night's dream," which shows us that the dream belongs to the night,
which happens to fall on midsummer.

To confirm this, the title refers
to the midsummer festival. Hence, the grammar shows us that the dream belongs to the
night of the festival. We could also say "the festival night's dream," or "May Day eve's
dream."

In addition, some editors, such as href="http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/midsummer/mdshistory.html">Katharine
Lee Bates, have also hyphenated the title, A Midsummer-Night's
Dream. This makes sense because midsummer night is
really a compound noun preceding the noun dream, and therefore, may
be hyphenated. If we hyphenate the title, we see that the dream belongs to, or is a part
of, the midsummer night, rather than just night.

What is the significance of the title "Dusk"?

The title of course refers to the particular time in which
this ironic story takes place, as it occurs at "thirty minutes past six on an early
March evening" with dusk having fallen "heavily" over the scene. Of course, the
importance of the title is not just physical, as it also corresponds to the mood of its
protagonist, who attaches a special significance to this particular
time:

The
scene pleased Gortsby and harmonised with his present mood. Dusk, to his mind, was the
hour of the defeated. Men and women, who had fought and lost, who hid their fallen
fortunes and dead hopes as far as possible from the scrutiny of the curioius, came forth
in this hour of gloaming, when their shabby clothes and bowed shoulders and unhappy eyes
might pass unnoticed, or, at any rate,
unrecognised.

Note the way
that dusk is attached to human failure and discontent. Dusk then seems to be, in the
narrator's mind, a time when humans can walk around in the encroching darkness and not
have to hide their failures. There is an intense irony in this, as Gortsby feels he is
able to judge by circumstances as he looks at others and imagines their situations, yet
clearly he makes a massive mistake when he finds the bar of soap and mistakenly believes
the young man, giving him money, when the young man had been trying to deceive him all
along. Dusk seems to have only masked Gortsby's own abilities to discern the
truth.

What is a Ponzi scheme?

A Ponzi scheme is a type of fraud or swindle that is also
known as a pyramid scheme.  In this sort of a fraud, the swindler entices people to
invest in some sort of investment that is supposedly going to make them a lot of money. 
As more people sign up, the swindler uses their money to pay off the earliest
"investors."  Those people then believe that scheme is legitimate.  In that way, the
swindler gains credibility and is able to attract more
investors.

Of course, the swindler can only keep paying
investors as long as new money is coming in.  There has to be enough new money to pay
the old investors and to make money for the swindler him- (or her-) self.  Eventually,
pyramid schemes like this collapse when there is not enough new investment.  At that
point, the people who have not yet been paid end up without any return for their
investment.

The most recent well-known example of a Ponzi
scheme is the Wall Street and banking swindle perpetrated by Bernie Madoff, who received
a prison sentence of 150 years in 2009 for his Ponzi swindle.

Why was the ground war in Vietnam so difficult to fight?A) Civilians often joined the Vietcong and U.S. soldiers often could not identify the enemy...

Of these answers the only one that is really plausible is
A.  C is completely untrue.  D is untrue for most soldiers most of the time.  You could
argue that B is true, but it is a stretch.

Of course, you
could argue that there were not enough ground forces.  If the US had sent 5 million
soldiers, it might have been enough to simply blanket Vietnam and end the war.  However,
this is not a feasible thing to do.  As it was, the US put as many as 600,000 troops
into Vietnam at a time.  It is hard to argue that this is too
few.

What really made the war hard was the difficulty of
identifying the enemy.  It was hard to know who the enemy was and therefore it was hard
to destroy them.  This is a major reason that is often given for the difficulty of
winning the ground war in Vietnam.

An elevator is accelerating upward at 3.0 m/s^2. A 60kg student is standing stop a spring in the elevator. How much is the spring compressed?The...

A spring with a spring constant k is compressed by a
length L = F/k when a force F is applied on it.

In your
question the student is standing on a spring with a spring constant of 2.5 X 10^3 N/m.
The elevator is moving upwards with an acceleration of 3 m/s^2 and the acceleration due
to gravity is 9.8 m/s^2 acting downwards. The net acceleration of the student with
respect to the spring is (3 + 9.8) = 12.8 m/s^2.

The force
applied on the spring is 60*12.8 N

The length it is
compressed by can be determined by solving 60*12.8 = 2.5*10^3*L for
L

L = 60*12.8/2.5*10^3 =
0.3072

The spring is compressed by 0.3072
m

Should the U.S. foreign policy pursue realpolitik?In other words, is it acceptable for the U.S to do anything even something illegal or immoral as...

Individuals tend to be more moral than societies and
governments, as philosopher Reinhold Niebuhr has argued.  That is to say, one can't
expect that the government of the United States, or the leadership of any empire or
nation for that matter, would act in a way that is consistent with what most people
would call moral.

Nations act in their own self-interests. 
While sometimes using realpolitik, acting in the national interest above morality, is
also a moral action, this is usually more coincidence than anything else.  To act in a
way that put morality above economic and security is called altruism, and nations that
have come close to practicing it have often not survived
long.

It is an interesting question/topic, and I do believe
it would be easier for the US to act in a more or less moral manner with regards to the
peoples of the world if we were no longer an empire, or no longer dependent on energy
from foreign sources.

What is the first guitar-like instrument?

While many theories have been advanced regarding the first
stringed instrument that was the predecessor of the guitar, it is generally agreed that
the lute is the ancestor of the modern guitar.  However, another theory advances the
Greek kithara as the predecessor of the guitar.  But, research shows these theories to
be unreliable as the lute evolved from a type of
guitar.

The oldest preserved guitar is from the Egyptian
age; it belonged to singer Har-Mose.  Buried with his tanbur near his employer Sen-Mut,
who was the architect for Queen Hatshepsut, Har-Mose lived around 3500 years ago. (The
queen was crowned in 1503 B.C.)  This instrument of three strings can be viewed in the
Archaeological Museum  of Cairo, Egypt, today.

Defining a
guitar,Dr. Michael Kashas, who did research in the 1960s, said, it has "a long, fretted
neck, flat wooden soundboard, ribs, and a flat back, most often with incurved
sides." With this definition as the standard, the oldest representation of this
instrument that displays all the basic features of a guitar can be found is in a stone
carving in Turkey of a 3300 year old Hittite "guitar" with "a long fretted neck, flat
top, flat back, and with strikingly incurved sides".

Analyze Catherine's character in the play " The Arms and The Man" by George Bernard Shaw?

Wife of Major Petkoff and mother of Raina, Catherine is a
butt of comic ridicule in Shaw's play, Arms and the Man. She is a
typical woman of the "new rich" class, proud and vain, somewhat foolish and unthinking.
She admires Sergius and his victorious cavalry charge no less than her daughter, sounds
pampering and overly protective, very much conscious of her social position and riches.
Catherine does not like Raina's fondness towards the professional soldier until she
comes to realize that her daughter's "chocolate cream soldier" is fabulously rich and
more solvent than Sergius. She loves to poke her nose in everything, even in matters
relating to war, and feels disheartened that the war has given place to a peace treaty.
The play ends with sufficient demolition of her image and comic
discomfiture.

What happens in chapters 1-6 in The Devil's Arithmetic?

The story begins in the present on the first day of
Passover in America. Hannah, a twelve year old girl, is complaining to her mother about
having to attend the Seder dinner at the home of her grandparents. Hannah is embarrassed
and annoyed by the way that her grandparents insist on remembering the past. Even though
Hannah's mother reminds Hannah that both of her grandparents lost family during the
Holocaust, Hannah is unmoved.

When they arrive at her
grandparents, Hannah talks with her favourite aunt, Aunt Eva. Eva lives with her brother
who is Hannah's grandfather, and she also helped raise Hannah's father. We are told that
Hannah was named after a dead friend of Eva's.

Later on,
Hannah is told to open the front door to the prophet Elijah and symbolically welcome him
in as part of the ritual of celebrating Passover. However, when Hannah does this, she
finds herself in a different time and place. She is in an old-fashioned kitchen and she
is addressed by a woman in old-fashioned clothes as "Chaya" in Yiddish, which Hannah is
surprised to discover that she understands
perfectly.

Hannah is understandably confused and scared but
thinks this must be a dream or game, and so plays along with it. A man enters saying he
is Hannah's uncle Shmuel, and we learn that the woman in the kitchen is Gitl, his
sister. Shmuel is going to marry a woman from another village called Fayge the next day.
The three eat and Hannah goes to sleep.

Hannah wakes up and
finds herself still in the same place. She tries to tell her truth, but Gitl and Shmuel
treat it as a joke. Gitl tells Hannah that she arrived two days before from Dublin to
recover from the same disease that killed her parents. The three soon leave for
Shemuel's wedding and Hannah befriends some of the girls from the
village.

To what extent does violence play a part in Jasmine's revival?Is it the presence of violence surrounding Jasmine that contributed to her revival?

I think that Mukherjee is making a definite statement
about violence in her work.  It is a complex one as it seeks to challenge some
preconceived notions about the concept and how it relates to what it means to be a woman
or to not be in position of power when confronted with it.  In the end, I think that
violence plays a large part in the emergence of Jasmine's identity and her sense of
self.

In some respects, violence is shown as a part of
Jasmine's assertion of self.  When Jasmine has to kill the mad dog, it is a reflection
of how violence can play a role in identity formation.  When confronted with the mad
dog, presumably out to do harm to Jasmine when it sets its sights on her, Jasmine has to
resort to violence in order to protect herself.  This is the same reality that faces her
when she has to confront the captain who rapes her on her first night in America. 
Violence in both settings is seen as a part of her identity.  It is a part of her sense
of self and something that she must face and confront in order to emerge into new
conceptions of her self.  For Jasmine, violence and freedom go together.  In order for
the latter to be evident, some aspect of the former has to be evident.  It is
interesting to note that the use of violence is an expression of freedom.  While Jasmine
is forecast by the astrologer to be alone and isolated, Jasmine is not inclined to
discard her freedom.  Rather, she uses violence as a way to define herself, a reflection
of her will to live and her need to define herself in a manner that she wishes.  While
normally discarded and seen as something that should not be undertaken, especially by
women, Jasmine embraces freedom as a part of her reality and as something that ends up
defining her being.  As she is surrounded by it emerging out of the shadows of Partition
and seeing her husband die through violence and his assailant turn up in New York,
violence is seen as a discriminating form of self- defining
reality.

What does Atticus say about the jury's viewing this case without any prejudice?To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Throughout the entire trial of poor, innocent,
"mockingbird" Tom Robinson, Atticus Finch essays to cure Maycomb of its "usual
disease."  For, after his daughter Scout has won a small victory against the mob at the
jail when she touches the conscience of Mr. Cunningham, Atticus feels that there exists
the chance, the small chance, of awakening in the jury a social
conscientiousness.

Atticus affirms at the end of Chapter 20
that he is not idealist who believes in the integrity of the courts in America,
because

"a
court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury.  A court is only
as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.  I am
confident that you gentlemen will review without passion the evidence you have heard,
come to a decision, and restore this defendant to his family.  In the name of God, do
your duty."

Knowing that Mr.
Cunningham, an uneducated man from the country has been capable of reasoning without
allowing his prejudices to interfere, Atticus builds upon this confidence in Mr.
Cunningham.  Thus, he appeals to the conscience and the reason of the members of the
jury, hoping that others will feel the prick of their
consciences,too.

What is George's first complaint to Lennie in Of Mice and Men?

I would say that one of the first complaints that George
has towards Lennie reflects George's need to look out for Lennie.  Lennie and George
approach a small puddle or collection of water.  Lennie pours into it and starts
drinking it without hesitating.  George notes that the water does not look healthy. 
George complains that Lennie needs to be more careful and discerning when approaching
water.  It is from this opening exchange that the reader understands much about the
relationship and characterization of George and Lennie.  It is apparent that George
looks out for Lennie and that Lennie is almost child- like in how he approaches his time
with George.  George is shown as the caretaker, the guide, and the authority figure
between the two.  When Lennie tells George how good the water tastes, it is also evident
how much he trusts George.  It is this fundamental premise that guides the novella and
can be seen from George's opening complaint.

What are the major actions in act 2 and act 3 of Arsenic and Old Lace?

In Act II of Arsenic and Old
Lace, Dr. Einstein discovers twelve dead bodies in the cellar.  The aunts
refuse to let Jonathan bury a stranger with their friends. Angered that his relatives
have managed to kill as many as he without even leaving their home, an enraged and
insane Jonathan vows to kill a thirteenth. In the meantime, the doctor has followed the
descriptions of Mortimer who ridicules the murder dramas he criticizes and ties and gags
the equally unsuspecting Mortimer. The doctor and Jonathan are ready to drink a toast to
each other with the elderberry wine when Officer Hardy knocks on the door in response to
complaints of Uncle Teddy's loud blowing of his bugle.  When the policman notices the
gagged Mortimer, the doctor explains that Mortimer has merely been dramatizing one of
the plays he has criticized. O'Hara begins to describe a play he himself is
writing; fortunately, however, Officer Brophy enters and becomes aware that Mortimer is
choking.  When he loosens the restrains upon Mortimer, Jonathan tells the policeman not
to listen to Mortimer because he is dangerous:

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JONATHAN That's why we had to tie him up. He's
the lowest kind of person in the whole world.

O"HARA  
A dramatic
critic?

When
Jonathan tries to tell the police that the aunts are murderers, O'Hara recognizes
Jonathan as the murderer who looks like Boris Karloff; Jonathan then tries to choke him
to death.  But, Brophy clubs him over the head, and they start to drag him to the patrol
car, but O'Hara asks, "What about the bodies?"  Brophy replies that this statement of
Jonathan just shows how crazy he is.  Mortimer reminds the policemen of Dr. Einstein who
is probably fleeing.

In the meantime, Dr. Witherspoon from
the mental asylum, Happy Dale,  arrives to pick up Uncle Teddy.  Mortimer has arranged
for his aunts to accompany Teddy so they can "be close to him." At this news, the aunts
are elated, offering Mortimer the house since he is going to marry Elaine. Remembering
Elaine is outside, he runs to tell her that insanity runs in his family and he cannot
marry her. Just then, Witherspoon notices the elderberry wine; the aunts offer him some
and the curtain falls. 

What type of courage does Mrs. Dubose teach the children in Chapter 11 of To Kill a Mockingbird?

In Harper Lee's To Kill a
Mockingbird, Mrs. Dubose makes a terrible and hateful comment about Atticus
in front of Scout and Jem. Jem, usually so controlled in his behavior—especially with
adults—just snaps.

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...for a few minutes he simply went
mad.

On their way home from
town, Jem takes Scout's new baton (just bought in town) and, like a
club, whips off the top of Mrs. Dubose's prized flowers, her camellias.  (Then he breaks
the baton.) He is furious.

The children return home and
wait for Atticus. He has spoken to Mrs. Dubose by the time he comes home, and Atticus
asks why he acted as he did. Jem reports that she insulted
Atticus.

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...she said you lawed for n***ers and
trash.

Atticus expects that
Jem has heard worse; regardless of his past behaviors, Atticus sends Jem down to speak
to Mrs. Dubose and assume the responsibility of his actions. Atticus punishes Jem by
making him spend time with Mrs. Dubose everyday after school. Scout chooses to accompany
him. By the time they are released for Jem's "debt," a great deal has happened that the
children are not really aware of. In the days to come, Mrs. Dubose dies. Atticus reports
to his children that Mrs. Dubose was fighting a horrific battle against a drug
addiction, trying to break it so that she could face the end of her life on
her terms.

Jem and Scout learn a
lesson about bravery. Here is an elderly woman, already very sick, who is addicted to
pain medication. As they sit with her each day, Mrs. Dubose is able to go a little while
longer without taking more medication, until she is finally free of the drug. She still
faces the pain of her disease, but does so with a clear mind, and a will of iron. The
children learn that one can overcome seemingly overwhelming obstacles by being committed
to a purpose and being very brave. Atticus says of Mrs.
Dubose:

You
rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her.
According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest
person I ever knew.

What is the function of the chorus in "Oedipus Rex" ?its role in Greek Drama

The chorus functions as a calming effect upon the
characters. Also, the chorus acts a reiteration of important
events.

The chorus acts as a revelation to what the
audience is thinking. The chorus is the epitomy of common sense by breaking down the
actions of the characters.

The chorus acts as a
foreshadowing device. Also, the chorus reveals things about the characters that the
characters themselves are trying to hide.

The audience
depends upon the chorus to reveal truths that may not be exposed by the characters
thoughts and actions.

The chorus helps the audience know
what the characters may be thinking.

Without the chorus,
the audience would not have all the facts.

Overall, the
chorus asks important questions that cause the audience and the characters to think more
deeply.

What was Charles Perkins' role in the 'Freedom Rides' event? Why? What was the significance of Freedom Rides for Australia in post war...

Charles Perkins was the first indigenous Australian,
Aboriginal to graduate from University in Australia.  He was a noted soccer player and
was activist.  He spent his life working for rights for Aboriginal peoples.  There is an
extensive biography along with video on the website href="http://www.australianbiography.gov.au/subjects/perkins/">http://www.australianbiography.gov.au/subjects/perkins/. 
He has said so many important things it is hard to choose a specific quote that does
justice to the events of his life.

Inspired by the Freedom
Rides that were occurring in the United States in an attempt to force the integration of
interstate buses and bus terminals, Charles Perkins  and a group called the Student
Action for Aboriginals (SAFA) led a group of students from Sydney University for a bus
tour through rural New South Wales.  The objective was to expose racism against the
Aboriginals and draw attention to their poor living conditions.  They experienced
similar violence as did the protesters in the United States.  Their actions ultimately
led to a change in the laws regarding the treatment of the Aboriginals two years later
in 1967.

Trace the narrator’s comments about what constitutes a true war story in "How to Tell a True War Story."

It is interesting how the obvious theme of this story,
what constitutes a "true" war story, is deliberately played with throughout the tale, as
we are offered a series of pieces of advice which contradict each other. The author
seems to be intentionally confusing us, saying one thing, and then saying another, yet
all of his advice only serves to point towards the difficulties of capturing the essence
of a war story that is true to facts. Note the following advice that is
given:

A true
war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models
of proper human behaviour, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done.
If a story seems moral, do not believe
it.

However, having said this
and having pointed towards the way that there is never any lesson to be learnt from a
war story, a couple of pages later, the author
states:

In a
true war story, if there's a moral at all, it's like the thread that makes the cloth.
You can't tease it
out.

Simultaneously
therefore, the author seems to suggest that there isn't a moral, but if there is, it is
impossible to extract. Such comments point towards the innate challenges of writing a
story about the confusing experience of war. Perhaps the most important comment,
however, is the final paragraph, which seems to identify that telling a "true war story"
is actually a self-defeating object, because there seems to be no such thing, as a war
story is part of many different separate experiences that each are "true" in their own
sense:

And in
the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about
the special way that dawn spreads out on a river when you know you must cross the river
and march into the mountains and do things you are afraid to do. It's about love and
memory. It's about sorrow. It's about sisters who never write back and people who never
listen.

A true war story, the
author seems to suggest, is thus not actually about war at all.

Why do you think Shakespeare decided to murder Duncan and his guards offstage in Macbeth?

This is a very thoughtful question, and I think there are
two main answers that can be given to answer it. Firstly, it is always the case that the
best horror movies are ones that do not show everything, but rather leave the work of
depicting the gruesome events that they show to the imagination, which is so much more
effective than any special effects. By not observing the murder of Duncan, we imagine
it, and often the imagination makes such events far more gruesome than they would be in
real life.

Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, by
focusing the action on Lady Macbeth and Macbeth outside during Act II scene 2, we see
their responses and reactions to this crime which help us develop our analysis of them
as characters. We see the nerves of Lady Macbeth and her moment of surprising humanity
when she tells us she couldn't kill Duncan because he resembled her father, but we also
see Macbeth's guilty response after killing Duncan, and how his wife treats
him:

Will all
great Neptune's ocean wash this blood

Clean from my hand?
No, this my hand with rather

The multitudinous seas
incarnadine,

Making the green one
red.

Here we see Macbeth's
incredible guilt and how he is haunted by his act. Basically, the focus of the play is
not on Duncan, who is at best a minor character. The focus is on the psychological
development of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, and this is a vital scene to help us towards
analysing them both as characters.

Please discuss the importance of Friar Lawrence's quote in II.VI of Romeo and Juliet. And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as...

I think we need to see this important speech from Friar
Lawrence as a caution to Romeo. Note how Friar Lawrence has seen Romeo overwhelmed by
his sudden love for Juliet. He has cast aside his romance with Rosaline and now speaks
using intense language to describe his affections for Juliet. Note what Romeo says
immediately before this speech:

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Do thou but close our hands with holy
words,

Then love-devouring death do what he
dare--

It is enough I may but call her
mine.

Of course, there is
irony in this speech, as "love-devouring death" does do what he "dares," and Romeo finds
it is not enough to just be able to call Juliet his. Thus it is that the Friar begins by
cautioning that "violent delights have violent ends." There is a sense in which Friar
Lawrence foreshadows the ending of Romeo's relationship with Juliet. He tries to counsel
Romeo to not be in so much of a hurry and to "love moderately" because love that lasts a
long time does this; it does not consume itself as fire or
power.

In "The Slave's Dream" by Longfellow, what are the elements which show that the slave belonged to Africa?

I am not sure that "belonged" is the right word. Perhaps
"came from" would be better, but either way, you need to look at the central dream
sequence that the slave experiences during his death-slumber. The one detail that
definitely links it to Africa is reference to the river Niger, which is mentioned twice,
first as he overlooks the scene which includes "the lordly Niger" and secondly as he
rides his horse along the banks of the Niger. In addition, reference to the "bright
flamingoes," the "tamarind," and other such animals as the lion and the hyena all
clearly link the slave's dream to his home country back in Africa. Examining such
details clearly indicates that this is a very strong and powerful dream of the liberty
that the slave formerly enjoyed, which of course only serves to highlight the horror of
his present state, being taken so far away from his home and forced to work under
terrible conditions.

What are the traits of the common man? Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

The common man of ancient Rome during the time of Julius
Caesar was referred to as a plebians.  He differed from the patricians who were able to
hold public office; the plebian was also not allowed to marry any of the patrician
class.  Many plebians worked as artisans.  Also among the common man of the time of
Caesar were freedmen, who had a form of Latin Right; in addition, their children were
free citizens who had the right to vote, unlike their parents.  But, the freedmen were
among the lower classes of the plebians.  While most of the freedman were farmers or
tradesmen, some did engage in commerce, and many were civil servants who became very
wealthy.  There were also many foreigners in Rome, who had a form of Roman citizenship,
but they were not allowed to vote. 

What is t such as the definite integral of 4x^3+16 is 31 if the limits of integration are t and t+1 ?

Let f(x)= 4x^3 + 16

Let F(x)
= Int f(x)

Then we are given that F(t+1) - F(t) =
31

Let us integrate
f(x).

==> F(x)= Int 4x^3 +16 
dx

==> F(x)= x^4 +
16x

==> F(t+1)= (t+1)^4 +
14(t+1)

==> F(t) = t^4 +
16t

==> F(t+1) - F(t) =
31

==> (t+1)^4 + 16(t+1) - t^4 -16t =
31

==> (t+1)^4 + 16t + 16 - t^4 - 16t =
31

Reduce similar.

==>
t^4 + 4t^3+ 6t^2 +4t + 1 + 16t +16- t^4 - 16t =
31

==> 4t^3 + 6t^2 + 4t +1 + 16 =
31

==> 4t^3 + 6t^2 + 4t - 14 =
0

==> (t-1) ( 4t^2+10t+14) =
0

==> 2(t-1)(2t^2 +5t +7)=
0

==> t1= 1

==>
t2= ( -5 + sqrt(25-4*2*7) /2*2

            = (-5 + sqrt-31
) / 4

             = (-5/4) + sqrt31)/4 *
i

==> t2= (-5/4) - sqrt31/4
*i

Then we have 3 values for
t.

==> t= { 1, (-5/4)+sqrt31/4 *i )  
, (-5/4 - sqrt31/4 *i) }

How does ballroom dancing function as a metaphor for the larger meaning of "MASTER HAROLD" . . . and the Boys?

In Master Harold ... And the Boys,
the larger meaning speaks of abandoning the set ways of society's dictates along with
abandoning the psychologically governing and entrenched ways of family behavior. Sam
tries to teach Hally (Master Harold) to do this while living under the restrictions and
prejudices of apartheid. Sam's teachings are exemplified when Sam extends his hand
toward Hally to reconcile their breach as Hally sits alone on the "Whites Only"
bench.

Ballroom dancing is a metaphor for this larger meaning because
dancing too requires partnerships in learning and invitations to rise from a spectator's
bench and accept the hand of another to join the dance. As a dance must be learned
together by both partners, so must new ways of living, which reject the banner of
apartheid, be learned together by both partners. Sam's invitation to Hally to dance
outside of the bondage of apartheid was made with an extended hand as he
said:

"You
know what that [whites only] bench means now and you can leave it any time you choose.
All you've got to do is stand up and walk away from
it."

O'Connor uses images of the grotesque throughout the story "A Good Man Is Hard To Find." Give three of these.

You are right in identifying O'Connor's emphasis and focus
on the grotesque in this excellent story. There are certainly plenty of moments you
could focus on, but you also might like to think about the way in which grotesque images
are actually made to be rather humorous in some places as well. One excellent example
comes in the second paragraph, when we meet Bailey's wife. Note how she is
described:

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...a young woman in slacks, whose face was as
broad and innocent as a cabbage and was tied around with a green headkerchief that had
two points on the top like rabbit's
ears.

There is something
immensely amusing about this description of Bailey's wife's face as a "cabbage" and the
way that she resembles a rabbit.

There is something
grotesque in the way that the children's excitment about being in an accident is
juxtaposed with the damage done:

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She was sitting against the side of the red
gutted ditch, holding the screaming baby, but she only had a cut down her face and a
broken shoulder. "We've had an ACCIDENT!" the children screamed in a frenzy of
delight.

And then lastly, you
might like to think about the final image we have of the grandmother, dead on the floor,
after she has been shot:

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Hiram and Bobby Lee returned from the woods and
stood over the ditch, looking down at the grandmother who half sat and half lay in a
puddle of blood with her legs crossed under her like a child's and her face smiling up
at the cloudless sky.

There
is something in the way that the smile of the grandmother and her the way that she is
lying in a "puddle of blood" makes this image perhaps the most grotesque in the
story.

How does Emerson support his claim that “to be great is to be misunderstood?”

Part of where Emerson's claim is substantiated is in his
basic idea that individuals cannot appreciate what is great and valid if they blindly
follow prevailing social trends.  Simply put, Emerson believes that the truly
exceptional artist or thinker is one who is able to demonstrate something new and so
intensely brilliant that the conformist social order would fail to appreciate it because
of its radical nature.  For example, this can be seen in art.  Emerson believed that the
truly talented artist will have to accept, to an extent, that they will not be fully
embraced by the social order in which they write.  That is because Emerson believed that
great art is composed by individuals who are willing to take risks and challenge
prevailing attitudes.  Emerson believed this in his own setting and in understanding his
contemporaries.  One of the basic ideas of Transcendentalism involves being true to
one's voice and one's own identity as an artist. Should this fly in the face of social
acceptance, Emerson is fine with such a trade- off.  To this end, Emerson's philosophy
asserts his own consolidaion of intellectual merit. Simply put, Emerson was able to to
dismiss criticism of his ideas as proof that "to be great is to be misunderstood." 
Certainly, this was not his intent, but it turned out to be quite a convenient shield
from his detractors.

Discuss the sufferings of women during Partition.

I think that it will be difficult to find exact statistics
that help to bring the sufferings of women during Partition into full light.  The
displacement of millions of people, as well as the border fights that emerged, and the
violence all seem to remove gender as a critical issue.  The historical data breaks
people down into Hindus or Muslims or other large scale classification based on region
or nationality.  Yet, the struggles of women, the gender element, is not entirely
focused upon.  It might be here where there can be some thought given.  In general, it
is understood that many of the riots during the Partition period took a decidedly
gender- based turn.  There was symbolic significance in attacking a group of women of a
particular side.  At this, one can see how some attacks were motivated by a convergence
of nationality and gender.  Modern writers have been able to seize upon this in their
artistic depiction of Partition.  For example, works like Ice- Candy
Man by Bapsi Sidhwa and Pinjar by Amrita Pritam are
narratives that raise the issue of how Partition can be seen as both a political act
that might not have had the nations' interest at heart and serve as a cover for violence
against women.  One need only read the end of Sidhwa's novel as proof of this.  Ayah's
kidnap and rape by men who once loved and revered her is a statement of how Partition
was used as a guise for intense violence against women.

What are the names of the top 5 wine regions of Italy based on production statistics, and focus on the top wine-producing area of each.

Italy is the world's second largest wine producer after
France. The top 5 wine regions in Italy by production
are:

href="http://italianmade.com/region-italy-wine/italianmade-emilia-romagna-8.html">Emilia
Romagna

href="http://italianmade.com/region-italy-wine/italianmade-apulia-16.html">Puglia

href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wines_of_Veneto">Veneto

href="http://italianmade.com/region-italy-wine/italianmade-sicily-19.html">Sicily

href="http://italianmade.com/region-italy-wine/italianmade-piedmont-2.html">Piedmont

If
you click on each link, you will find information on each region's wine producing areas.
The first reference link below will provide you with production statistics for each
region from 2005-2008. More recent statistics may be found in the third reference
link.

Is it trespassing to be in a ditch?My children love to play in the ditch by my neighbour's house because there is a small, very shallow creek that...

This may take some research on your part. Look at your
deed. It may be the same or similar to your neighbor's deed. Does your roadside boundary
go to the center of the street, to the edge of the street or some other point. Are you
in a subdivision? Is there a subdivision map in your home paperwork? Are the streets and
berm government property, i.e., municipal, state etc. or is it an association? Who or
what entity mows the grass around the ditch?

You could go
to the courthouse and look up your neighbor's deed. Depending where you live it is
increasingly easy to find such information given our digital age. Your county may even
have such information on line.

I would not rely on the
fence as an indicator of ownership. Rights of way just render the property servient to
the holder of the right of way. It doesn't mean that it is public property. Your
neighbor may still bear liability for injury on the property if he is the owner. Zoning,
covenants and restrictions may have limited the extent to which the neighbor could fence
his property. On the other hand maybe a chocolate cake or some other generosity will
soften up the neighbor.

Write the follwing into partial fraction. (2x-5)/(x^2-7x-8)

We need to rewrite into partial
fractions.

First we will factor the
denominator.

==> x^2 - 7x -8 =
(x-8)(x+1)

==> (2x-5)/x^2 -7x -8 = A/(x-8) +
B(x+1)

Now we will multiply by
(x-8)(x+1)

==> 2x -5 = A(x+1) +
B(x-8)

==> 2x -5 = Ax + A + Bx -
8B

==> 2x-5 = (A+B)x +
(A-8B)

==> A+B = 2 ==> A =
2-B

A-8B = -5

==> (2-B)
- 8B = -5

==> -9B =
-7

==> B =
7/9

==> A = 2- 7/9 =
11/9

==> (2x-5)/x^2-7x-8 = 11/9(x-8) +
7/9(x+1)

In Fargo how do the brothers Joel and Ethan Coen present Jerry? Fargo, the movie

Jerry Lundegaard, who works in his father-in-law's car
dealership, is an inept character who has gotten himself into debt.  To pay his debts,
he has done some creative accounting in the hope of raising money, but GMAC has
threatened to no longer deal with Lundegaard and the car dealership because of his
questionable accounting.  Desperate for money, the inept Lundegaard talks with two
criminals whom the dealership's mechanic, Shep Proudfoot, knows.  They agree to kidnap
Lundegaard's wife and demand a ransom from Wade Guftason, her father.  However, things
do not work out as Jerry has planned.

When Marge Gunderson,
the local police chief, follows the trail of murder to Lundegaard's office, Jerry is
nervous and evasive.  He stutters when he talks, faltering in his answers about a
missing car on the dealer's lot. After Gunderson demands to talk to Wade Guftason,
Jerry, angrily storms out of the office, contending that he will locate the car. 
Instead, he jumps into his car and flees in fear and desperation.  Marge immediately
phones the state police and follows a lead on the
kidnappers. 

When the state police locate Jerry in a motel
room, he tries to escape out of the window.  But, the police grab him, and he breaks
down, crying and whimpering like a child.

Who were the Little Rock Nine?

The Little Rock Nine were nine African American teenagers
who were the first blacks to be admitted to Central High School in Little Rock,
Arkansas, after the Supreme Court's desegregation ruling.  The Little Rock Nine faced
tremendous opposition from whites in Little Rock.  The opposition was bad enough that
President Dwight D. Eisenhower was forced to nationalize the Arkansas National Guard and
order them to protect the Nine and to ensure that they would be allowed to integrate the
school.

This incident happened in 1957.  It is generally
considered to be one of the most important incidents of the Civil Rights
Movement.

The nine students
were:

...
sixteen-year-old Minnie Jean Brown, Ernest Green, and Selma Mothershead;
fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Eckford, Jane Hill, and Terrence Roberts; and
fourteen-year-old Gloria Ray, Jefferson Thomas, and Carlotta
Walls.

Solve the equation for all values of x between 0 and 180 degrees. 2sin^2 x + 3cos x = 0 .

We have to solve 2*(sin x)^2 + 3*cos x = 0 for values of x
in the interval {0, 180}

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

=> 2*(1 - (cos x)^2) + 3*cos x =
0

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

=> 2*(cos x)^2 - 3*cos x - 2 =
0

=> 2*(cos x)^2 - 4*cos x + cos x - 2 =
0

=> 2*(cos x)[ cos x - 2] + 1[cos x - 2] =
0

=> [2*(cos x) + 1][ cos x - 2] =
0

[2*(cos x) + 1] =
0

=> 2*cos x =
-1

=> cos x =
-1/2

=> x = arc
cos(-1/2)

=> x = 120
degrees

cos x - 2 =
0

=> cos x = 2 which is not
possible

The required solution of the
equation is x = 120 degrees

Please determine and rank by percentile the square footage (in millions) of the 8 largest malls in Pennsylvania.

Information on retail mall sizes in the U.S. is generally
proprietary information.  There are merchant and real estate associations that have web
sites offering such information…but only for a fee.  After an exhaustive search I was
able to locate the site shown in the first reference.  It provides for free the
information you asked for, and much, much
more.

“Percentile” is a value for a variable below which a
certain percent of observations fall.  In ranking the 8 largest malls in Pennsylvania
there would be 7 malls smaller than the largest.  Since there are 8 values in the list,
each value’s position in the ranking is 12.5% higher or lower than its immediate
neighbor.  So for the largest mall, one could say that it occupies the 87.5 the
percentile, meaning that 87.5 % of the values (7 of the malls) fall below its
value.

Here are the malls, ranked in descending order, with
the square footages (in millions) and percentiles for each
mall:

Mall

Square
Feet
(millions)

Percentile

1. 
King of
Prussia

Philadelphia

2.79

87.5

2. 
Mill
Creek

Erie

2.6

75

3. 
Franklin
Mills

Philadelphia

1.75

62.5

4. 
Monroeville

Monroeville

1.4

50

5. 
Park City
Center

Lancaster

1.37

37.5

6. 
South Hills
Village

Pittsburgh

1.28

25

7. 
Oxford
Valley

Langhorne

1.27

12.5

8. 
Century III

West
Mifflin

1.25

0

Why do you think the play ends with the last line from Anne's diary? "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart."

Few, if any, can answer this.  I think that the ending to
the diary is what helps make it such a powerful piece of literature, in general.
Bringing it out as the ending to the play helps to create the sense of drama that is
such a part of the Holocaust. While the ending speaks volumes about the Holocaust, it
carries a sense of the profound, in general.  I think that the ending reflects Anne's
own maturation and her own growth throughout the diary.  At a point where there is total
madness in the world, one can see how the protagonist seeks to believe in redemption and
in human goodness.  This reflects an aspect of adolescent growth where the abstract is
embraced and the complexity in the world is dissected through individual perception. 
The ending to the diary reflects the level of thoughtfulness and intricacy in thought
that Anne has absorbed throughout the narrative.  It is difficult to ascertain why the
ending is the way it is, other than to indicate that Anne's mind would have continued to
generate profound thoughts had the Nazis not captured her.  In this ending, I think that
the true sadness of the Holocaust is revealed, in that some of the most profound of
thinkers were extinguished with little regard.  The play's ending in this light helps to
reinforce this.

What is operant conditoning and classical conditioning?

Classical conditioning is the type of conditioning
associated with Pavlov’s work with dogs.   It describes when a stimulus triggers an
involuntary response.  This stimulus, to which subjects reply without training is
referred to as the unconditioned stimulus (UCS).  The involuntary response is referred
to as the unconditioned response (UCR).  Stimuli that to which subjects respond only
after training are referred to as conditional stimuli (CS).  Subjects begin to associate
CS with the UCS.  Eventually the presentation of a CS becomes equivalent with the
presentation of an UCR, and produces a conditioned response (CR) that matches the
original UCR.

Operant conditioning forms an association
between a behavior and the consequence that follows.  Something that increases a
behavior is referred to as a reinforcer.   Reinforcement can be positive or negative,
although negative reinforcement is often misunderstood or referred to inappropriately. 
When something desirable is presented after a behavior is demonstrated and it leads to
an increase in that behavior it is referred to as positive reinforcement.  When
something unpleasant or undesirable is removed when a behavior is demonstrated and it
leads to an increase in that behavior it is referred to as negative reinforcement.  
Negative reinforcement is often confused with punishment, which refers to consequences
that decrease behaviors or lead to them being demonstrated less frequently.  Punishments
can also be positive (something undesirable being presented after a behavior is
demonstrated leading to a decrease in the behavior) or negative (something desirable
being removed after a behavior is demonstrated leading to a decrease in that
behavior).

In Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, what are some examples (besides the moon) of a time motif?

In Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's
Dream, there are references to the motif of time. There
is a reference to the moon in Act One,
scene one, and also a reference to days: there are four days (a
passage of time) until the new moon. It refers to the slow pace of time until Theseus
and Hippolyta will be married—he is anxious to wed
Hippolyta.

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THESEUS:

Now,
fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour

Draws on apace; four happy
days bring in

Another moon; but, O, methinks, how
slow

This old moon wanes! She lingers my desires...
(I.i.1-4)

Hippolyta says that
the time will pass quickly enough. (Theseus has "won" Hippolyta by defeating her in war;
here he is trying to woo her, and she is slow to
respond.)

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HIPPOLYTA:

Four
days will quickly steep themselves in night;

Four nights
will quickly dream away the time... (lines
7-8)

Next, Egeus brings his
daughter Hermia before the Duke to force her to marry Demetrius (who Hermia does not
love). Theseus reminds her that if she does not consent to her
father's wishes, she will either be put to death (as is the law of Athens, the setting
of the play) or enter a convent forever. The Duke tells Hermia to take some time to
think about it and gives her until his own wedding
day.

THESEUS:

Take
time to pause...

In
discussion, Lysander speaks to Hermia about how quickly hope ("bright things") fades
(referring, again, to the passage of time),
saying...

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...Making it momentary as a
sound,

Swift as a shadow, short as any
dream...

...So quick bright things come to confusion.
(I.i.145-151)

When Helena
arrives, discouraged that Demetrius does not love her, Lysander and Hermia decide to
share their plans to elope, in order to comfort her. Then Hermia will no longer be in
the picture to distract Demetrius from Helena (and remember, he loved
her once). The plan they share also involves time: that the time
they have chosen to flee—under a cover of darkness—is
perfect:

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Tomorrow night, when Phoebe doth
behold

Her silver visage in the watery
glass,

Decking with liquid pearl the bladed
grass,

A time that lovers' flights doth still
conceal,

Through Athens' gates have we devised to steal.
(214-218)

Titania and Oberon
meet in Act Two, scene one; they are fighting over a changeling whose mother—a friend of
Titania's—died while giving birth to him. Oberon wants the boy as a page, but his wife
refuses. Oberon asks his wife how long she intends to stay in the
woods where they have accidentally met.

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OBERON:

How
long within this wood intend you stay?
(II.i.140)

Annoyed, Titania
leaves Oberon draws Puck, his "mischievous henchman," aside to recall a time when they
heard a mermaid's singing while she rode on a dolphin's back, and another time when
Oberon saw Cupid fire an arrow that missed its mark and fell to the earth. In
remembering, Oberon is referring to segments of time, seated deep in the king of the
fairies' memory.

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OBERON:

Thou
rememberest

Since once I sat upon a
promontory,

And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's
back

Uttering such dulcet and harmonious
breath…

…………………………

That very
time I saw...

Flying between the cold moon and the
earth

Cupid all arm'd; a certain aim he
took

At a fair vestal throned by the
west,

And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow
(II.i.150-162)

Time can refer
to what time it is, a segment of time (in the past or the future), the passage of time,
etc. There are many references, but finding them can be a
challenge.

Aaron's stereo produces sound at 80 dB. If the apartment building has a noise limit of 40 dB, how many times as intense is that from Aaron's stereo?

The decibel is a scale which is used in acoustics to
measure sound levels. The zero of the scale is the threshold of hearing which is
approximately the intensity of sound created by a mosquito flying 3 m away. This is
taken as the lowest sound level that an average person can hear and given a value of 0
dB.

The decibel scale is a logarithmic one where an
increase of 10 decibels increases sound intensity ten times. For example, a sound level
of 20 dB has an intensity 10 times that of a sound level of 10 dB
.

In the given problem Aaron plays music at 80 dB while the
apartment building has an upper limit of 40 dB. The intensity of the sound from Aaron's
stereo is 10^[(80 - 40)/10] = 10^4 = 10,000 times the acceptable
limit.

In Lord of the Flies, to what does the term "idol" refer?

The term "idol" only occurs once in the entire book, in
Chapter 9. While the boar head on a stick serves as the physical representation of a
primal superstition, it is never called an "idol," instead called a "beast" or The Lord
of the Flies, as it attracts flies through decomposition. href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idol">An idol is a physical
representation of a supernatural being, such as a deity, and so the boar head should
have been the obvious reference. However, that is not the case; instead, the word is
used in a different context.

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Before the party had started a great log had
been dragged into the center of the lawn and Jack, painted and garlanded,
sat there like an idol. There were piles of meat on green leaves near
him, and fruit, and coconut shells full of drink.
(Golding, Lord of
the Flies,
staff.bcc.edu)

Jack and Ralph
have spent much of the book trying to outdo each other as leader of the boys; at this
point, they have split into two rough groups, and despite Ralph's greater rationality,
Jack's blustering "bravery" attracts the other boys who are seeking childish adventure.
In this scene, Jack is set up as a classic tribal chief, representing the power and
strength of the tribe. He has tributes, or sacrifices, of meat and fruits around him,
and he sits alone in a position of power. In this sense, Jack is the idol to which the
other boys defer, since he has established his power through brazen strength. Since the
boar head only appears to the delirious Simon, Jack is the person to which the term
"idol" refers.

you are the incharge of the cultural activities of your department.write a report to the chairperson on the cultural activities that took place...

In order to create a report covering the cultural
activities that took place in your fictitious department during the past year, you
simply need to decide what you feel would be "cultural activities" that might have been
made available or supported by the employer and/or employees of the
department.

Cultural activities could include music, art,
food, sports, religious observances, travel opportunities, and many other possibilities.
You will need to decide if your report is going to include activities that were
sponsored by your department (many companies underwrite community cultural presentations
for public relations purposes), activities in which members of your department
participated (highlighting department employees who were involved in community theater
production, for example), or other possibilities. Some of your "report" may depend on
how large the budget for those activities is! Sounds like it could be a fun assignment -
dream!

How does Harper Lee use the mockingbird as a symbol for her theme of compassion in To Kill a Mockingbird?THANKS FOR YOUR HELP !!!

The theme of the mockingbird is first introduced in
Chapter 10 when Atticus reminds Jem, who is practicing with his new air rifle,
that

"I'd
rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot
all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a
mockingbird."

Miss Maudie
confirms the natural sweetness of the mockingbird in a later conversation with Scout,
explaining that they don't harm crops and only "sing their hearts out for
us."

Most of the children in the novel serve as human
mockingbirds, as do some adults, such as Boo and Tom. The author adds further symbolism
in Jem's and Scout's names: They are Finches, a bird with similar characteristics to the
mockingbird. They symbolize innocence in an often cruel world that does not always treat
such people justly. Jem's and Scout's lost innocence is one of the major themes that
connects them with the mockingbird, while Boo and Tom are charged with acts--and
punished for them (in Tom's case, with death)--that they did not
commit.

Scout comes to recognize the symbolism between the
bird and the man when she tells Atticus in Chapter 30 that charging Boo in the death of
Bob Ewell would

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"... be sort of like shootin' a mockingbird,
wouldn't it?"

Explain the events that happened after the Little Rock Nine tried to integrate into a previously all-white high school.

Some political details to add to the timeline above could
include the fact that Governor Orval Faubus was considered a moderate, but he had a
tough re-election challenge from a segregationist that year, so his policy preventing
the Little Rock Nine from attending Central High School was mostly a ploy to get
re-elected.  After the first year during which federal troops escorted the students to
class, Faubus shut down all of Little Rock's schools, and was overwhelmingly
re-elected.

President Eisenhower, who was the Supreme
Allied Commander in World War II of a still segregated army, was no fan of integrating
the South.  However, he enforced the court ruling he disagreed with, putting the
Constitution and his job as President above any personal feelings he may have
had.

How was Wilfred Owen's "Dulce Et Decorum Est" influential in the Modernist movement?

I think the answer to this question lies in the focus of
this awesome poem and the realistic way in which it is written. Let us remember that a
key and central event that fed into what we know as Modernism was the Great War, or
World War I, which, through the way in which old values of national honour and glory had
resulted in a war that resulted in massive loss of life, created a sense of
disillusionment and pessimism and a new realism. Thus we can see this poem as capturing
some of the key elements of this movement through the way it acts as a reaction to
romantic notions of war and honour and patriotism through its presentation of the grim
realism of what soldiers actually endured.

If you look at
the very first line of the poem, Owen does much to strip away any idea or impression of
war's grandeur. We have a picture in our mind of soldiers as being all dressed in
uniform and being strong, young men, proud to fight for their country. The first line
presents the soldiers as being "like old beggars under sacks" and "coughing like hags."
They are so exhausted that they are "Drunk with fatigue." When death comes, it is not at
the hands of an opponent that the soldier has met in battle, it is impersonal, distant,
and indiscriminate. In addition, the manner of death is horrific as the gas is shown to
torture him. Note the description of the body that we are
given:

And
watch the white eyes writing in his face,

His hanging face,
like a devil's sick of sin;

If you could hear, at every
jolt, the blood

Come gargling from the froth-corrupted
lungs...

Nothing is spared in
the hideous description that we are given to communicate the way in which such notions
of heroism and patriotism are actually lies. Thus the poem remains an important example
of Modernist poetry through its realistic and pessimistic presentation of the realities
of war.

What are some arguments or points in Romeo and Juliet thats show that their impatience was the cause of their death? Please help me.I have two...

Your marriage argument is definitely a strong point
looking at both Juliet's argument to her mother about Paris regarding not wanting to be
married yet, and Romeo's devotion to Rosaline just minutes before falling madly in love
with Juliet.

As for a third point, I would consider killing
Tybalt your last topic. He does so in revenge of Mercutio's death not thinking about how
this could affect his relationship with his new bride, Juliet. Romeo's murder leads to
the Prince banning Romeo from the city. Romeo turns to Friar Laurence for help just as
Juliet will when she gets a vial of sleeping potion to trick her family into thinking
she is dead. However, the murder of Tybalt is what sparks this series of events. I would
argue this is truly the climax of the play.

Explain recent social movements using conflict theory.

Whether or not one would like to agree with the movement,
I think that the Tea Party movement is one social/ political movement that has utilized
the social theory.  In this vision, Mills' argument of the "elite" or the "power
brokers" have been cast as members of the government and the financial elite.  These
particular forces have been seen as operating outside of the needs of the people,
violating the general principles of democracy and popular sovereignty in the process. 
The Tea Party has been able to use the conflict theory in a new manner to develop the
platform that entrenched interests in national government are operating outside of the
realm of what traditional American values are.  I think that in this light the Tea Party
has been able to argue that the "haves" (individuals of economic and political power)
are not paying attention to the needs of the "have nots" (predominantly working class
Americans who have been impacted adversely by the recent economic crisis.)  The 2010
midterm elections have been a representation of the idea that "structural change" runs
counter to the Status Quo, necessitating a recasting of these "outsiders" as actually
serving as "agents of change."  The Tea Party Movement has been able to ensure that the
voices for whom it speaks will have an active role in determining the course of both the
Republican Party and the political process, in general.  This suggests that conflict
theory can be appropriated by anyone or any group that feels they are being silenced by
the Status Quo and wish to have their voice validated and heard.

P(n) = 5^n - 5 is divisible by 4. is

We can use mathematical induction for
this.

P(n) = 5^n - 5

When
n=1;

p(1) = 5^1-5 = 0=0/4 ; this is divisible by
4.

Let us assume a positive integer p
where

p(p) = 5^p-5

We assume
this is divisible by 4.

So we can
write;

p(p)=(5^p-5) =
4k------(1)

where k is a positive
integer.

so p(p) = 4k

Then
consider n=p+1

p(p+1) =
5^(p+1)-5------(2)

We must show equation (2) is
divisible by 4.

Then p(p+1)=4q where q is a positive
integer.

(1)*5

5p(p) =
5(5^p-5)

         =
5^(p+1)-25

         =
[5^(p+1)-5]-20

5p(p) =
[5^(p+1)-5]-20

5*4k  =
p(p+1)-20

p(p+1) = 5*4k-20=4(5k-5) =
4q

So when n=p+1 p(n) is divisible by
4.

So for all positive n p(n) is divisible by
4.