According to John O'Sullivan, what feature is usually a strong indicator of a nation's greatness, longevity and quality of life of its people?Why...

In an 1839 essay entitled "The Great Nation of Futurity",
John O'Sullivan argued that equality among all citizens is the most important indicator
of a nation's future prosperity.  O'Sullivan is probably best known for coining the term
"manifest destiny", first in an article arguing in favor of the annexation of Texas, and
later in another article arguing in favor of the United States position in the dispute
with Great Britain over the Oregon territory.  O'Sullivan's arguments were based on his
idea that the United States had a unique mission assigned by none other than God himself
to extend republican democracy from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.  Of course, many
in favor of the territorial expansion of the United States couldn't wait to jump on the
"manifest destiny" bandwagon once the Almighty was invoked as an integral part of the
reason for expansion.

Verify if the lines y= 2x-3 , y= 3x+5 , y= x-11 meet at one point

Given the three lines:

y=
2x-3 .........(1)

y=
3x+5.........(2)

y=
x-11..........(3)

First we will determine the point of
intersection between the lines (1) and (2).

==> 2x-3
= 3x + 5

==> x = -8 => y=
-19

Then the point of intersection for (1) and (2) is (-8,
-19).

Now we will determine the intersection point between
(1) and (3).

==> 2x-3 =
x-11

==> x = -8 ==> x =
-19

Then the intersection point is
(-8,-19).

Then all three lines meet at the
same point which is (-8, -19).

Describe how Reconstruction was brought to an end by white terror and the Compromise of 1877.

The "White terror" of which you speak were organizations
such as the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the White Camellia, and in South Carolina the
Red Shirt Campaign. These organizations were comprised of white Democrats who used
various methods of terror to frighten both Blacks and Republican whites from
participating in politics, particularly in voting. To the discredit of the
Reconstruction Congress, the Federal Government virtually abandoned attempts to
rehabilitate former slaves.

The Compromise of 1877 was the
result of the disputed election of that year. Rival governments in the South sent rival
electoral votes to Congress such that no one had a majority in the Electoral college. A
committee of fifteen comprised of five members each of the House, Senate, and Supreme
Court was formed to resolve the issue. By terms of the Compromise, Rutherford B. Hayes
was declared the winner of the election, in exchange for which federal troops were
removed from the South, and reconstruction came to an end, even though its work was not
finished. Former slaves were free, but the Fourteenth Amendment notwithstanding, had few
freedoms and civil rights. They were hardly better off because they had been abandoned
by the North in the face of white terrorism.

What are the real solutions of irrational equation square root(3x+5) + square root(6x-5) = 3*square root x

Since the strategy of solving this type of equations
implies the action of raising the expressions to powers, this could lead to additional
solutions. For this reason, either we can start by imposing constraints of existence of
the square roots, or we can check if the found values are the proper solutions, in the
end.

We'll choose the 1st method and we'll impose
constraints for radicands:

3x + 5 >=0 =>
x>=-5/3 => [-5/3 , +infinite)

6x-5 >=0
=> x >= 5/6 => [5/6 ; +infinte)

x
>= 0 => [0 ; +infinite)

The common interval
of values that make all the square roots to exist is [5/6 ;
+infinte).

Now, we'll raise to square both sides, to remove
the radicals:

[sqrt(3x+5)+sqrt(6x-5)]^2 =
(3sqrtx)^2

3x + 5 + 6x - 5 + 2sqrt(3x+5)(6x-5) =
9x

We'll eliminate like
terms:

9x + 2sqrt(3x+5)(6x-5) =
9x

We'll subtract 9x both sides, to isolate the
radical:

2sqrt(3x+5)(6x-5) =
0

We'll divide by 2 and we'll raise to square again, to
remove the radical:

(3x+5)(6x-5) =
0

We'll cancel each factor of the
product:

3x + 5 = 0 => x =
-5/3

6x - 5 = 0

x =
5/6

Since the negative value doesn't belong to the interval
[5/6 ; +infinte), we'll reject it.

The only
real admissisble solution of the equation is x =
5/6.

In Treasure Island, why does the doctor come to the block house and what does this tell you about his character?

In Chapter XXX of Treasure Island,
Dr. Livesey showed that he lived up to his doctor's code in the highest fashion. Livesey
voluntarily entered the blockhouse in order to tend to the wounded pirates, uncertain
whether he would be allowed to leave freely
afterward.

He
seemed to me under no apprehension, though he must have known that his life, among these
treacherous demons, depended on a hair... His manner, I suppose, reacted on the men, for
they behaved to him as if nothing had occurred—as if he were still ship's doctor, and
they still faithful hands before the
mast.

He treated their wounds
and spoke with them in kind words, making sure that certain sailors had taken their
prescribed medicine. Afterward, he managed to convince Long John Silver to speak with
Jim, who the doctor feared had gone over to the pirates' side. But Jim told the doctor
that he had recaptured the ship, and that it was hidden in the North
Inlet.

What is the situational irony in "The Demon Lover"?

This is an interesting question, as arguably there is no
situational irony in this story. Situational irony is a term used to describe a sudden
twist in terms of the ending that we were not expecting and thus is used to refer to a
surprise ending. However, arguably, there are enough details in the story that
effectively forshadow the grim ending of this excellent ghost story to make the ending
entirely expected. We have the mystery letter, the way in which her lover in the
flashback seems almost supernaturally possessive of her and finally the draft of air
from the basement that suggests that someone is either with Mrs. Drover or has just
vacated the house. Either way, it is strongly suggested that the ending is not going to
be a happy one, and that Mrs. Drover will face her "demon lover" once more. If you don't
agree with this, then the situational irony comes write at the end just when we are led
to believe that Mrs. Drover has successfully managed to escape and has reached the taxi
and entered it:

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The driver braked to what was almost a stop,
turned around, and slid the glass panel back: The jolt of this flung Mrs. Drover forward
till her face was almost into the glass. Through the aperture driver and passenger, not
six inches between them, remained for an eternity eye to eye. Mrs. Drover's mouth hung
open for some seconds before she could issue her first
scream.

We realise with a
chill that Mrs. Drover, far from running away from her demon lover, has actually ran
straight into his clutches.

President Nixon ordered his staff to investigate the Watergate scandal because of which of the following?A) in response to growing interest in the...

The correct answer is A. Nixon was increasingly concerned
about Congress' and the public's interest in the Watergate matter. Because it was an
election year, and those involved were increasingly connected to the Presidency, there
was growing suspicion that Nixon knew more about the break-in than he was willing to
share. B cannot be the correct answer as McGovern had everything to gain by Nixon being
embarrassed. Since it was Democratic headquarters burgled by Republican operatives,
McGovern, the Democrat, was not about to be embarrassed by it; quite the contrary. The
special prosecutor subpoenaed some of Nixon's records, but rather than cooperate, he did
all in his power to thwart the investigation, even ordering the firing of the
prosecutor, Archibald Cox. This was the famous "Saturday Night Massacre." There was no
way to silence the Pentagon Papers, they were already out. They dealt with secret
details of the Vietnam War. Nixon's operatives did break into the office of the leaker
of the Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg, but this was unrelated to the Watergate
break-in.

What did Ronald Reagan want to do to communism?A) hide it B) destroy it C) contain it D) promote it

To be sure to get the right answer to this, you should
look in your book or your notes.  There are two answers that are both
plausible.

The right answer is probably C.  Containment was
the major US policy towards communism for the whole of the Cold War.  This was the idea
that communism should not be allowed to spread.

However,
some might say that Reagan's real goal was to destroy communism.  Reagan hated communism
and he famously referred to the Soviet Union as the "Evil Empire."  However, it is not
at all clear that he was willing to take any sort of very aggressive actions to
militarily destroy communism.

Therefore, the answer to this
question is at least somewhat a matter of opinion.

The Moon has a surface area of approximately 14650000 miles squared. Estimate its radius to the nearest mile. What is the radius?

We know that the formula for the surface area of the
sphere is given by :

SA = 4r^2 * pi such that r is the
radius.

Given that SA = 14,650,000
miles^2

We need to find the
radius.

==> We will substitute into the
equation.

==> 14,650,000 = 4r^2 *
pi

Now we will divide by
4pi.

==> r^2 = 14,650,000/ 4pi =
1165809.9581

Now we will take the square
root.

==> r= 1079.72 = 1080 miles (
approx.)

Then the radius of the moon to the
nearest mile is 1080 miles.

What is the absolute value of the number (1+i)(1+2i)(1+3i)?

We'll multiply the first two
factors:

(1+i)*(1+2i) = 1 + i + 2i +
2i^2

Since i^2 = -1, we'll
have:

(1+i)*(1+2i) = 1 + 3i -
2

(1+i)*(1+2i) = -1 + 3i

Now,
we'll multiply both sides by (-1+3i):

(1+i)*(1+2i)*(1+3i) =
(-1 + 3i)*(1 + 3i)

(1+i)*(1+2i)*(1+3i) = (3i)^2 -
1^2

(1+i)*(1+2i)*(1+3i) = -9 - 1 =
-10

The absolute value of the number
(1+i)*(1+2i)*(1+3i) = |-10| = 10.

Explain the religious effects in "Araby" by James Joyce.

In James Joyce's short story "Araby," there is the strange
mixture of the exotic with the bazaar along with implications of religious fervor mixed
with innuendoes of sexual desire in the mind of the boy who is infatuated with his
friend Mangan's sister.  In fact, the blind allegiance to religion that the Irish boy
has and his blind allegiance to the girl mirror and foster each other.  All of
these--the myth of the exotic and his blind allegiance to religion and to the girl--end
in disillusionment.

From the beginning, religious imagery
is interwoven into the story:  The Catholic school is mentioned and the neighborhood is
reflective of an old church as the uninhabited house rises above the others like the
belfry and the other houses "gaze at one another with brown imperturbable faces."  This
use of brown by Joyce connotes rows of pews, and it also connotes the drab and
stultifying lives of the Irish who follow the precept of the Churdh blindly.  (In
Joyce's Stephen Hero, he refers to "one of those brown brick houses
which seem the very incarnation of Irish paralysis.")  Behind the house is a wild garden
with straggling bushes and a central apple tree, a garden suggestive of a
thwarted Garden of Eden.  Likewise, the vision of Mangan's sister as having a halo of
light behind her, like a saint or the Virgin Mary, is thrawted while the boy lies on the
floor so that he can see Mangan's sister under the
blind.

Yet, this illusive pure image of Mangan's sister
accompanies the boy to where it is "the most hostile to romance."  When he goes to
market with his aunt, for instance, the boy imagines himself on a quest for the holy
grail,

I
imagine that I bore my chalice safely through a throng of
foes

as he carries the aunt's
groceries. His body becomes like a harp, the heavenly instrument that is also symbolic
of Ireland.  When Mangan's sister does speak to him, the boy again envisions her in the
light as a virginal creature held captive "behind the railing" for him to worship.  As
he looks over at the girl's house from the two-story empty house, the boy sees "nothing
but the brown-clad figure cast by my imagination."

In his
essay, Araby: A Quest for Meaning, John Freimarck
writes,

The
myth element enriches the story, but we are never really on the quest for the grail—we
are in Dublin all the time with the psychologically accurate story of the growth of a
romantic boy awakening to his sexuality, idealizing Mangan's sister and encountering
frustration in the
process.

The boy's
idealization is religious, his disappointment and disillusionment are human; these
are real.  He stands outside the bazaar, realizing his illusions, and his eyes "burned
with anguish and anger."  The religious imagery mirrors the illusions of the
relationship of the boy and girl that is no more exotic and romantic than the mundane
bazaar.

Verify if the logarithmic equation has real solutions ? ln(x^2-1)-ln(x-1)=ln(4)

We'll start by imposing constraints for the existence of
the logarithmic functions:

x^2 - 1 >
0

x - 1 > 0

x >
1

The common interval of values of x that make the
logarithmic functions to exist is (1 , +infinite).

We'll
solve the equation applying the quotient property to the left
side:

ln (x^2 - 1)/(x-1) = ln
4

We'll re-write the difference of 2 squares from
numerator:

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

ln (x-1)(x+1)/(x-1) = ln
4

We'll simplify and we'll
get:

ln (x + 1) = ln 4

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

x + 1
= 4

x = 4 - 1

x =
3

Since the value of x belongs to the range
of admissible values, we'll accept x = 3 as a solution of the
equation.

What are some words that describe Johnny Cade from The Outsiders?

The Outsiders traces the difficult
life of Ponyboy Curtis who is a "Greaser," which is the name of one of the gangs in his
neighborhood. The Greasers are from the "East side" of town, unlike the "Socs," the gang
from the "West side" and the privileged few who "jump Greasers and wreck houses."
Greasers are a close-knit group of "hoods" who "hold up gas stations and have a gang
fight once in a while" but would never hurt anyone just "for
kicks." 

Life for Ponyboy's best friend Johnny Cade, who is
affectionately called "Johnnycake," is very hard. His father is abusive and his mother
neglectful to the point that "Johnny had it awful rough at home." Johnny is accepting
and tolerant of his situation and never feels sorry for
himself. He has also been beaten very badly by the Socs for no reason other than that he
is a Greaser. As a result, Johnny is very wary, always
uneasy and "scared of his own
shadow." The gang is more like family to Johnny and he is protected by some of its
fiercest members, such as Dally Winston. 

Johnny is often
mistakenly perceived as being younger than he is because of his "slight build." He is
also shy but fiercely loyal to
his gang, and it is this that gets him into trouble when he saves Ponyboy but murders
one of the Socs who was trying to drown Ponyboy in the
fountain. 

Johnny knows that Ponyboy loves Gone
with the Wind and is considerate enough to bring
him a copy while they are hiding out. He appreciates his friend's intellect and wants to
learn. He is also impressed by Ponyboy's poetry readings and interprets a Robert Frost
poem, revealing that he has a deeper understanding than his
education gives him credit for. Ponyboy is surprised at Johnny's ability to find a
personal message in the poem. Ponyboy is moved by Johnny's
plea to "stay gold" because Johnny understands how easy it would be for Ponyboy to
change because of their harsh environment. This also shows that Johnny is
intuitive and thoughtful,
wanting only the best for his friend.   

Based on Kate Chopin's short stories, "The Storm" and "The Story of an Hour," what are her views on marriage?

I think that in the two stories specified, Chopin views
marriage as an institution that inhibits individual desires, specifically those of
women.  Calixta and Louise Mallard are both repressed, to a certain extent, by
marriage.  Calixta has had to subdue obvious sexual feelings while Louise has been
limited in being able to express her own voice.  Marriage is seen as a configuration
that limits, binds.  It is also shown as one where there is not really a sense of
justice or moral order for the women.  This means that right and moral redemption are
not necessarily evident in marriage.  Louise's belief in the righteousness of her own
voice is not validated at the end of the story.  When confronted with the crushing
reality that the fact her husband survives and marriage will continue, Louise dies,
indicating that marriage will not validate her voice and provide the moral structure she
expects.  Calixta engages in a sexual affair outside her marriage on the night of the
storm and there is no punishment for this.   In a way, her marriage actually benefits
from the straying outside the marriage in that the morning reveals "everyone is happy." 
In this, there is little in way of moral structure or order in marriage for both Louise
and Calixta.

Please explain the literary devices (figures of speech) used in the poem "The Frog and the Nightingale" by Vikram Seth.

One literary device in "The Frog and the Nightingale" by
Vikram Seth, is the author's use of rhyme, shown in the poem's
rhyming couplets. The poem is made up of pairs of lines that rhyme
with each other—a rhyming couplet. An example is shown below. Note that the last word of
the first line rhymes with the last word of the second line ("frog" and
"Bog").

Once
upon a time a frog

Croaked away in Bingle
Bog

Seth uses
onomatopoeia as well, which describes the
sound it stands for, like the "hiss" of a snake or the "buzz" of a
bee. It is seen with the word "croak" ("She was startled by a croak") and
"clapped"...

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And the whole admiring
bog

Stared towards the sumac,
rapt...

And, when she had ended,
clapped…

Alliteration
(the repetition of the same consonant sound found at the beginning of words in a group)
is included. Note the bolded letter "t" at the beginning of each word. This device is
based on the identical
sound:

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Toads and
teals and
tiddlers...

Consonance
is based on the same concept as alliteration, but the repeated sound is a
consonant found within or at the end of a word—that is part of a
group of words. In the following example, we can find consonance with the "t's" or the
"r's," but I have highlighted the "s's" at the end of three
words:

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...stones nor
prayers nor
sticks

Assonance
is almost the same as consonance, but refers to the use of
vowels—with the same sound. For
example:

...you
who

The
poem is an example of personification, giving animals human
capabilities: to talk, criticize, and even write. The frog
states:

And,
of course, I wield my pen

For Bog Trumpet now and
then.

There
is repetition with "awn and awn and awn," and with "Did you… did
you…" Generally repetition is used to stress an important piece of information, but it
also may be used if a poet requires a certain number of beats in a line, which relates
to the poem's meter.

Vikram Seth also cleverly provides a
parody on names with the following lines, which are similar to the
"Earl of Sandwich" and the "Duke of Kent" (both historical figures), and the "Count of
Monte Cristo," a fictional character.

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Owl of Sandwich, Duck of
Kent,

Mallard and Milady
Trent,

Martin Cardinal
Mephisto,

And the Coot of Monte
Cristo...

We can see that the
poem is an allegory, which is defined as...

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A symbolic narrative in which the surface details
imply a secondary
meaning.

The poem relates the
story of a frog who sings poorly in his bog. When competition arrives in the form of the
nightingale, the frog pretends that he his more important than he
is, takes advantage of the bird's inexperience, exploits her,
criticizes her, and eventually drives all the joy for singing out of her—because he
takes advantage and she does not have enough self-confidence to
resist. Ultimately, she tries so hard to be what he wants her to be
that she dies. The deeper meaning parallels people who take advantage of others who are
less experienced in life, and how some people become targets for these unscrupulous
sorts because they lack self-confidence. For the above reasons, the poem is also a
satire, exposing "social predators" of this nature.

Finally
there is also irony. After the bird dies, the frog criticizes her,
saying she should have known:

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That your song must be your
own

The irony is found in the
frog giving such good advice when all along he pushed, prodded and
forced the bird to sing his song—her music,
his way, so her song could not be her own any
more.

I need help writing a review article on "Things Fall Apart."

In Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo is determined to not be like
his father. He tries so hard to be everything his lazy fatheris not. Sadly enough,
Okonkwo goes to the opposite extreme. He becomes a workaholic. He has ideals and works
hard to make those ideals a part of life. He has never understood how his father could
be so lazy.

Okonkwo and his father represent two extremes.
There is no balance in either man's life. Okonkwo is so determined to be unlike his
father until he abuses his family, his wives and children, in order to keep them from
being like his lazy father.

Okonkwo cannot relax. On the
other hand, Okonkwo's father does nothing but relax. Okonkwo works hard to make a name
for himself. Okonkwo's father already has a name for himself, but it is nothing for
which to be proud. He owes everyone in the tribe and then
some.

When the white man comes in and tries to change the
tribal views, Okonkwo cannot handle it. As things fall apart, Okonkwo gives up and hangs
himself. Sadly enough, he will be buried without the honor he worked so hard to achieve.
In the end, he will be buried exactly as his father was, without honor, and that is what
he tried so hard to prevent from happening.

Neither of the
men win. The story in itself teaches a valuable lesson about compromise. There should be
a happy medium. Finding the balance between work and play is essential to having a happy
life.

Write a detailed essay plan for a question about "Her First Ball" that asks you to discuss the theme of loss of innocence.

Now this is actually a very interesting question, because
you might think you have enough proof in the text to question whether Leila does
actually suffer a loss of innocence. Note the way in which, although the words of the
old man severely impact her, just a few minutes later she is dancing away again as if
nothing had happened and does not even remember the old man when she bumps into the old
man. Although his words are definitely important, they seem to leave no lasting impact.
Note the way that Leila feels she will have to leave the ball, but then quickly is swept
away once more by the magic of it:

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She would have to dance, out of politness, until
she could find Meg. Very stiffly she walked into the middle; very haughtily she put her
hand on his sleeve. But in one minute, in one turn, her feet glided, glided. The lights,
the azaleas, the dresses, the pink paces, the velvet chairs, all became one beautiful
flying wheel.

Normally, when
we talk about the theme of loss of innocence, it is associated with some kind of
permanent change that the protagonist suffers, a change that makes them older, wiser and
maturer. Here we see that although Leila is initially effected by the splash of reality
she is given, and wants to stop dancing, this is just temporary. The way she forgets the
old man and gets enraptured once more by the ball suggests that this story is not about
the loss of innocence whatsoever.

How would an actor know how to play Lady Macduff in a production of Macbeth by simply reading the script?

This is a very interesting question as one of the major
issues that anybody studying Shakespeare has to contend with is the fact that
Shakespeare's plays were never meant to be read, but were meant to be seen in
performance. At the end of the day, the presentation of plays and the characters within
them is a careful choice of the director of the production, and, as anybody who has seen
two different productions of a Shakespeare play can testify, you can often get two
radically different presentations of a play or a character based on the same script. So,
my first answer is that an actor cannot ultimately know how to play a character based on
the script alone. The director of the production must give his impression of Lady
Macbeth to the actor.

Secondly, however, it is important to
realise that the script itself does yield a number of important clues that would help an
actor in trying to play a character. The words and the stage directions are clearly
guides for us to use, and inferences can be made based on these clues as to how to act
out a particular character. For example, in Act I scene 5, where Lady Macbeth famously
invokes the spirits to "unsex her" and make her relentlessly savage in the pursuit of
her husband's gaining the crown, it is quite clear from the language that she uses that
this is not a comic scene, and must be presented in a very grave, serious and earnest
fashion. Thus, although the ultimate choice of how a character is presented is the
director's, at the same time, the text can offer us clues based on the language used and
the mood and atmosphere such language creates.

Why did Grete want to get rid of Gregor in The Metamorphosis?Towards the end of The Metamorphosis, Grete, Gregor's sister, was his caretaker, but...

Grete's quote and the feelings behind it seem especially
harsh in light of what you already observed -- she was his primary caretaker for the
majority of the story, but she sees how Gregor's existence is taking its toll on the
whole family, and she selfishly wants the hardship to end.  By this point in the story
she no longer sees the big bug as Gregor -- it is just a bug.  That is why she calls it
a monster and refers to the bug as a "monster" and uses the impersonal pronoun "it"
rather than "he" or "Gregor."  By distancing herself from the thing emotionally, she can
have a more detached attitude about the bug and can speak in a more callous way about
the bug.  By the time she says these lines the whole family has had to go back to work;
they have taken in and subsequently lost a group of boarders; and the family is tied to
this apartment because of Gregor.  She is young and she wants her life back.  She
doesn't want to be tied down to a bug that in no way reminds her of her brother.  At
first she recognized that the bug was Gregor and tried to bring him his old favorite
foods for example, but as time passed and the true Gregor never showed himself to her in
any way that she could recognize, she gave up on him ever returning to his old self and
she has just had enough of it all by this point in the story.  Sadly, Gregor hears these
remarks and gives up his will to live.  He was failing already -- living to the end of
his natural "bug" lifespan -- but these comments bring on Gregor's final sacrifice for
his family.  He lets himself go because he knows there is no more hope for
him.

What details suggest that the Misfit has changed his mind about what the true meaning of life is "A Good Man is Hard to Find"?"A Good Man is Hard...

In Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find," the
main characters, ironically perhaps, are bound together as they have secrets that have
kept them from salvation; also they are bound in themes of guilt and sin.  While the
grandmother is redeemed by the words of the Misfit, the grotesque who provides her grace
at the moment of violence when she says "You are one of my children," he himself is not
redeemed.

For, he has changed his mind completely about the
meaning of life. Wearing glasses that make him appear intelligent although he is clearly
uneducated, the Misfit steps from a large, black "hearse-like" automobile.  After she
recognizes him and continues to talk to him, the Misfit tells the grandmother that his
father said,

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"it's some that can live their whole life out
without asking about it [life] and it's others who has to know why it is, and this boy
is one of the latters.  He's going to be into
everything!"

He tells the
grandmother that he was a gospel singer for a while, along with many other occupations. 
Saying that he was never really a bad boy, the Misfit observes that
somewhere

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"along the line I done something wrong and got
sent to the penitentiary.  I was buried
alive."

At this point he
stares steadily at the grandmother.  She tells him to pray, but he says that he could
never recall what it was that he had done, even though "they had the papers on me."  He
states that a psychiatrist at the penitentiary said that he had killed his father, but
he contends that his father died of the epidemic flu, so the doctor lied and he was
punished unjustly.  At the grandmother's insistence that Jesus would help him if he
prayed, the Misfit declares, "I don't want no hep
[help]."

The Misfit has lost faith because the authorities
have lied.  He states that it does not matter whether you take a tire or kill a man, you
will "just be punished" all the same.  For, "Jesus thrown everything off balance" by
having been punished for no crime Himself.  Now he keeps papers, recording what he does
and signing it so that the justice system will not be able to convict him for what he
has not done.  He calls himself "The Misfit" because he cannot fit his crimes with his
punishment.  Continuing, the Misfit says,

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"He shouldn't have done it. [allowed Himself to
be crucified. ] He thrown everything off balance.  If He did what He said,then it's
nothing for you to do but throw away everything and follow him, and if He didn't, then
it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you
can--by killing somebody or burning down his house or doing some other meannes to him. 
No pleasure but
meanness."

The Misfit has
lost faith and only believes in the depravity of man--"meanness."  He is the doubting
Thomas, saying that if he had lived when Jesus did, he would have known and would not be
as he is now.  In fact it is these words of his that bring the grandmother to an
epiphany as she recognizes her own depravity.

In "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," what do Huck's criticisms of Grangerford's paintings reveal about himself?Does he lack of a taste of arts?...

In the novel Huckleberry Finn by Mark
Twain, chapter 17, we find Huck in the Grangerford's house. This house is very
interesting because it is similar to a house of mirrors: Nothing is what it appears to
be. First, the family is overly tacky, uber sentimental, and just stuffy. However, Huck
does not know the difference between good and bad taste, so he deeply admires every
single aspect about the Grangerfords, from the decorations of the house, to Mr.
Grangerford himself. He even likes the art done by their deceased daughter, Emmeline. It
is odd to imagine how Huck admires Emmeline's tacky and creepy art when, to top it off,
there is a flower arrangement indicating her death hanging from one of the paintings. It
is very creepy, indeed!

This being said, we can conclude
the following (to answer your question
directly):

Huckleberry's comments are just comments he
makes to himself, so they are neither unwanted nor unwarranted- he is making an opinion.
Answer 1 is not correct.

Although his taste does show
immaturity, it would be more immature to criticize a GOOD painting as if it weren't
good. However, we know that Emmeline's paintings ARE hideous. He was merely pointing
exactly how it looks in his eyes. Therefore, answers 3 and 4 are not correct because,
first, Huckleberry is more honest than anything else in his observations. Secondly,
since the picture is already tasteless, it would not be fair to say that Huck's opinion
show a lack of taste. He does not even say anything mean about
them.

What seems to be the correct answer is option 2:
Huckleberry was intrigued and infatuated with the Grangerford's lifestyle. This being
said, he would find something positive in everything he sees. He even says that it felt
like

                             nothing couldn’t be
better

at the Grangerford home. Hence, what Huck actually
does is to soften his opinion by offering concessions. He concedes everything a chance
to be beautiful because he feels attached to the Grangerford. He makes concessions out
of his appreciation for them.

How does Helena react to Demetrius's verbal abuse in A Midsummer Night's Dream?

You can't help feeling sorry for Helena and the way she is
treated by Demetrius whilst he is not in love with her and after Hermia, but at the same
time she doesn't really help herself that much. I assume you are refering to Act II
scene 1 of this play, when we first see Demetrius pursuing Hermia and Lysander into the
forest, and himself being pursued by Helena. We see Demetrius is quite exasperated by
the fact that whatever he says or does, even threatening to rape Helena, only seems to
make her love for him more constant. Note how Helena responds to the words of Demetrius
when he tells her that he "cannot love" her:

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And even for that do I love you the
more.

I am your spaniel; and,
Demetrius,

The more you beat me, I will fawn on
you.

Use me but as your spaniel, spurn me, strike
me.

Neglect me, lose me; only give me
leave,

Unworthy as I am, to follow
you.

So, whatever abuse
Demetrius throws at Helena, it is only met by fawning love and acceptance. There is
something rather pathetic and oddly touching about Helena, who, in her words expressing
her desire to follow Demetrius for love, reverses normal classical stories of chases, so
that Apollo becomes the one who is chased by Daphne rather than the other way round. She
displays the madness of love and is a perfect example of how love causes us to do
ridiculous things in its name.

What would cause a strong pulse on the right side of your head between your ear and temple?

The pulse felt in the temples is from the superficial
temporal artery, a branch of the external carotid artery that arises from the main
carotid artery on either side of the neck.  The pulse is best felt (palpated) about one
inch in front of the ear just above the zygomatic arch which is the horizontal bony
prominence going along the upper portion of the cheek.  Another way to describe the area
where this pulse is found is that it falls underneath the area traversed by the
earpieces of a pair of sunglasses, just in front of the
ear.

Pulses are often asymmetrical due to normal
variations in anatomy.  Pulses can be abnormally strong when the patient has an elevated
pulse pressure.  The pulse pressure is the difference between the systolic and diastolic
blood pressure.  Blood pressure is expressed as systolic over diastolic, for example
120/70 mmHg (millimeters of mercury).  In this example, the pulse pressure would be 50
mmHg (120 minus 70).  A person with markedly elevated systolic pressure and normal
diastolic, such as 210/70, would have a markedly elevated pulse pressure of  140.  This
would result in a strong, bounding pulse that could also be asymmetric due to anatomic
variation.

Asymmetric pulses may also indicate
underlying vascular disease, some examples of which
follow.

1.  Arteriosclerosis:  A patient might
have arteriosclerosis in his main carotid arteries with greater involvement (occlusion)
on one side.  In this case, the temporal pulse would be reduced on the more severely
diseased side.

2.  Vasculitis:  The patient
might be suffering from various forms of artery inflammation which can involve the
superficial temporal artery on one side (causing a reduced pulse on that side), or
another vessel supplying the superficial temporal artery (such as the external carotid
artery).  Examples of vasculitis types include temporal arteritis, giant cell arteritis,
polyarteritis nodosa and Takayasu’s arteritis.  A discussion of these diseases is beyond
the scope of this answer, but can be found if desired by ”googling” the
terms.

In the case of asymmetric pulse due to
disease affecting the vessel being palpated, one might also detect a bruit  (pronounced
brew-ee) by listening to the pulsating vessel with a
stethoscope.  A bruit is a murmur-like sound due to turbulence created when blood passes
through a partially obstructed
artery.

References given below are as
follows:

1.  Anatomy of the superficial temporal
artery.

2.  PowerPoint presentation on
vasculitis, including an excellent chart on many forms of vasculitis and the vessel
types involved.

In The Bronze Bow, why does Daniel leave the crowd watching the dancers?

It is important to place this scene, that occurs in
Chapter Twenty-Two of the novel, in context with what has happened just before it. Let
us remember that in Chapter Twenty-One, Daniel has met with Jesus and received his love
and has been asked to "love until the end." It is therefore highly ironic that in the
very next chapter, Daniel leaves the dancing before he sees Malthace, as he is unable to
receive the love that she has for him. Note why the text tells us that he
leaves:

She
was looking for someone, and suddenly Daniel could not bear to see her face when she
found him. He was shaken with terror. In a moment she would pass by where he stood, and
those seeking eyes would find him out, standing there in his homespun garment with his
soot-grimed hands and his bare feet. Would she go one, her eyes still seeking as they
were now? Would she dare even to show that she knew him before these others? Or would
she be ashamed?

Note how
Daniel is shown to be plagued with self-doubt. He recognises that he is just a poor
peasant compared to Malthace, and he begins to doubt that she could love him, fearing
that she might only be "embarrassed" by him and his poverty. Thus it is that Daniel
leaves the dancing before Malthace sees him, showing that he is a victim of his own
inner insecurities and self-doubt, and also showing that he still has a long way to go
until he can do what Jesus asked of him and love until the end.

Who do you envision to be the voice/persona of Hart Crane’s “My Grandmother’s Love Letters”?

In Hart Crane's poem, "My Grandmother's Love Letters," it
occurs to me that though a man was writing the poem and describing
his hesitation over reading "Elizabeth's" love letters, that the person
really making a decision about the letters was the grandson—the
"child-person" who was most profoundly touched by his
grandmother.

The part of the speaker probably affected most
by their time together would be the child within. Children are more impressionable than
adults, and I think that the child fears confronting the woman "Elizabeth" who would not
be familiar to him like his grandmother is: she would seem a stranger. Perhaps there is
a certain awkwardness. Kids don't ever want to think that their parents have sex: they
would as soon imagine that the kids were dropped off by a stork, or hatched. The reality
of adult relationships is very hard for those of certain ages to deal with. This same
discomfort might be something that causes the child within the speaker to hesitate. Will
he want to read letters that speak of undying devotion or
passion for Elizabeth?—feelings that
were directed not to a grandmother, but to a young woman? It is in
this form of "denial," too, that children are unable to imagine their parents as
anything other than adults: that like Athena with Zeus, we were "born" out of a parent's
skull, full grown. His grandmother has always been a grandmother to
him.

Images that allow me to hear the child's persona are
in words or phrases such as: stars, soft rain, my mother's mother, brown and soft, snow,
gentle, trembles, birch limbs, fingers, back to you, lead my grandmother, stumble, rain,
and laughter.

We must also consider the adult who stands
facing the shadowy corner of the attic. Though I still lean toward the dominance of the
child's persona, the adult is also trying to understand this poignant moment, perhaps in
a totally different light. Word or phrases for the adult are: memory, much room for
memory, Elizabeth, pressed so long, into a corner of the roof, greatness of such space,
invisible white hair, fingers long enough, silence strong enough, carry back music to
its source, as though to her, much of what she would not understand, gently pitying
laughter.

In comparing the two "lists," to
me one seems to come from a younger persona, while the second deals
with things that would occupy a more adult persona. The name "Elizabeth" is a word with
serious impact, as is the phrase, "a sound of gently pitying laughter." I don't believe
the child would respond to these lines in the same
way.

With this said, I'm thinking more to the many sides a
person may have: the ability to be childlike but adult when necessary: the man who is a
CEO during the week but a clown at a children's hospital on the weekend—different sides
of the same person. This is "who" I see in the poem. The adult is there, perhaps to
clean out the corner of the attic. The grandmother's letters need to be "handled"…throw
them out? save them? Read them—that could be
embarrassing! However the child is drawn to them, thinks of reading
them, but fears he will find a stranger in the pages. Perhaps he is fearful that he will
lose some portion of her if he reads them. And thus, there is the conflict presented in
the rhyming couplet, the hesitation that asks, for different reasons, what should I do?
Or what if I
do...

Two voices speak to
me: two sides of the same person responding differently to the
memory of his grandmother.

In "To Kill a Mockingbird," what is the symbolic significance that nobody at the Radley house heeded Calpurnia's warning? This question is...

When Jem reported to Cal that ol' Tim Johnson was wobbling
suspiciously down the street, Calpurnia came out to see for herself. She recognized
immediately that the dog had rabies and quickly alerted the neighborhood. First she
called Atticus and then she told the town operator, Eula May, to notify "Miss Rachel and
Miss Stephanie Crawford and whoever's got a phone on this street" that "a mad dog's
comin'." She then ran to the Radley's house to give them the news since they had no
phone. She "banged on the door" and yelled for the Radleys, but she received no
response. The significance of this was simple: Nathan Radley was probably not at home,
and Boo never came outside. The madness outside displayed by Tim Johnson was dealt with
in a different manner by the Radleys, whose madness was contained within the four walls
of the home.

How can I conclude my essay in talking about Jake and Nick in The Great Gatsby?

Assuming that you are writing about the Jake
Reinvented Project and drawing parallels between it and F. Scott Fitzgerald's
The Great Gatsby, your thesis should have points of comparisons and
contrasts between the two main characters which you have illustrated in the body of your
essay.  So, now to write a conclusion should pose no great challenge as a concluding
paragraph is essentially a restatement of the thesis with a summation of these main
points followed by a "clincher," or thought that springs from what has been
written.

For example, if you have written that Jake and Jay
Gatsby are similar in their ________and __________, but unlike in ___________, you can
summarize these points by beginning your conclusion something like
this:

With the desire to recapture the past and alter it,
both Jay Gatsby and Jake _______________________________; however, they
_________________.  Because of these parallels between the two characters, ______(here
restate your thesis).  Clearly, they are two men with dreams that have dissolved into
illusion.

What is important about Lodovico in Othello?

Lodovico is a minor character in this excellent tragedy,
and his main role is in Act IV scene 1. However, it is important not to simply dismiss
the role of minor characters such as Lodovico, and part of an attentive student's job is
to consider how they are used and what function they perform in the play as a
whole.

Lodovico then is a kinsman of Desdemona, and he
brings news to Othello in Act IV scene 1 that he is to return to Venice, by the order of
the Duke, and leave Cassio in command. Lodovico innocently asks after Cassio, which,
having heard Iago's suspicions about him, annoys Othello. That it is his wife that
responds to Lodovico's question annoys him even further. When Othello strikes his wife
because of her happiness at leaving Cyprus, Lodovico is horrified, and this shock is
only increased when he accuses her of being a poisonous, unfaithful woman. Lodovico thus
acts as a kind of commentary on how Iago has succeeded in changing Othello from the
beginning of the play. Note what he says about what he has
seen:

Is this
the noble Moor whom our full senate

Call all in all
sufficient? This is the nature

Whom passion could not
shake? whose solid virtue

The shot of accident nor dart of
chance

Could neither graze nor
pierce?

Such a speech draws
our attention to how Othello has become subject to passions that now dominate him,
whereas before he was famed for his self-control and his dominance of his passions.
Lodovico thus acts as a reminder of how much Othello has changed, and also this event
foreshadows the tragic end of the play. It is only one step up from hitting to murder,
after all, and Lodovico, like the audience, has observed Othello's anger and murderous
passion in this scene.

Find the extreme point(s) of the function f(x)=.25x^4 +3x^3-18x^2 +10 and classify them

To locate the extreme points of a function you need to
take the first derivative and set it equal to zero.  The first deravtive tells you where
the function changes from increasing to decreasing or vice versa.  To determine whether
the point is a maximum or a minimum you take the second dervative and sub in your
points.  If the second derivative is negative the extreme is a maximum, if the second
derivative is positive the exterme is a minimum.

First
derivative:
f'(x)=0 = x^3+9x^2-36x =
x(x^2+9x-36)=x(x+12)(x-3)

Through factoring the first
derivative we see that the extremes are located at x=0, x=-12, and
x=3

Second derivative:
f''(x) =
3x^2+18x-36

f''(0) = -36 ... therefore
maximum
f''(-12) = 180 ... therefore minimum
f(3) = 45 ... therefore
minimum

Why does the Duke so readily dismisses Brabantio's suit against Othello in Othello?

This is a very important scene in Act I scene 3, but let
us remember the context, which will help us to understand the answer to the question.
The scene begins with the Duke discussing the military manoeuvres of the Turks and how
they are threatening Venice. Even before Othello and Brabantio enter and they know about
Brabantio's suit, they have already decided that this is a matter of some urgency and
that they must use Othello to counter it. Note the way the Duke, focused on the task at
hand, immediately greets Othello as he enters:

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Valiant Othello, we must straight employ
you

Against the general enemy
Ottoman.

It is clear
therefore that the Duke is keen to dismiss any issues that might prevent Othello from
starting to do his job. However, what really shows that Branatio's charge against
Othello is false is when his own daughter, who is now Othello's wife, comes to speak and
testify on Othello's behalf. Desdemona's words are enough to convince even Brabantio
that Othello did not use foul means to steal away his daughter. Note how he responds to
Desdemona's speech:

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God be with you, I have
done.

Please it your grace, on to the state
affairs;

I had rather to adopt a child than get
it.

So, as much as the Duke
is keen to focus on the affairs at hand and wants to sort out this matter as quickly as
possible, at the same time, Brabantio is so convinced by his daughter's words that he
himself relinquishes his suit against Othello and tells the Duke that he may return to
state affairs.

What are four similes used in "The Lady of Shallot"?

Let us remind ourselves that similes are comparisons
established between one thing and another indicated by the word "like" or "as." They are
very different from metaphors, which likewise compare one thing with another but they
assert the comparison directly without the need for "like" or "as." If we view the poem
with this in mind, we see that the poem does not use any similes at all until Part III
and the arrival of Sir Launcelot on the scene. Note the way that similes are used to
describe his appearance and imbue him with a vitality and life that heightens the
contrast to the dull existence of the Lady of
Shallot:

The
gemmy bridle glittered free,

Like to some branch of stars
we see

Hung in the golden
Galaxy.

Likewise we are told
in the next stanza that:

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The helmet and the helmet
feather

Burned like one burning flame
together

The focus on
comparing him to a flame and then to stars glittening at night combine to make him
attractive and distinct, full of life and vibrant. His appearance is then compared to a
meteor in another simile:

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As often through the purple
night,

Below the starry clusters
bright,

Some bearded meteor, trailing
light,

Moves over still
Shallot.

Lastly, a simile is
used to describe the Lady of Shallot herself in Part IV of the poem and her appearance
as she looks down to Camelot in her boat:

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And down the river's dim
expanse

Like some bold seer in a
trance,

Seeing all his own
mischance--

With a glassy
countenance

Did she look to
Camelot.

This simile
indicates the way in which the Lady of Shallot is contemplating her own doom, now that
she has made the curse come upon herself through her actions and embraced
life.

In To Kill a Mockingbird, who is Calpurnia and what is she like? Include two quotations about her.

Calpurnia is the Finch family's valued African-American
housekeeper in To Kill a Mockingbird. Calpurnia serves as surrogate
mother to Jem and Scout, whose own mother died of a heart attack when Scout was just a
baby. She is strong-willed and strict, but occasionally shows her soft side, which
usually surprises Scout. Calpurnia is well-educated and taught Scout how to write
cursive. She is an excellent cook (though maybe not as good as Aunt Alexandra or Miss
Maudie) who has a grown child (Zeebo) herself. She lives in the Quarters, and Atticus
usually drives her home every evening, though she sometimes stays overnight on a foldout
cot in the kitchen. Calpurnia

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... was all angles and bones; she was
nearsighted; she squinted; her hand was as wide as a bed slat and twice as
hard.

Calpurnia had Atticus'
complete confidence, and when Aunt Alexandra tries to convince Atticus to dismiss her,
he calls her a member of the family.

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Our battles were epic and one-sided. Calpurnia
always won, mainly because Atticus always took her
side.

How does Pertruchio show that he is even more shrewish than Katherina in Act IV scene 1 of The Taming of the Shrew?

In this hilarious scene, we actually see that Petruchio
has so successfully out-shrewed his wife that she takes the role of being reasonable and
trying to calm his anger and rage against the servants. Note how, when they arrive,
Petruchio is quick to berate his servants for not attending him and his new wife
properly. He insults them, calling them "knaves" and "loggerheaded and unpolished
grooms" and berates them for their lack of duty. As Petruchio strikes a servant for
spilling some water, it is Katharina that tries to calm him, saying "Patience, I pray
you, 'twas a fault unwilling." In addition, when he complains that the meat was burned,
Katharina again says "I pray you, husband, be not so disquiet." Petruchio shows that he
is deliberately and successfully out-shrewing his wife, forcing her to assume the role
of a reasonable person and perhaps reflecting her own excesses back to her, so that she
can experience what her former attitude was like to put up with.

In Act III scene 3 of Romeo and Juliet, how does Shakespeare bring out Friar Lawrence's anger towards and concern for Romeo?

This is of course the scene where Romeo famously tries to
stab himself out of anguish because of what he has done in killing Tybalt and his
subsequent banishment. In response to his attempt to stab himself, the Friar gives a
long speech which both conveys his anger towards Romeo and his concern. Note how his
anger is communicated at the beginning of his speech:

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Hold thy desperate
hand.

Art thou a man? Thy form cried out thou
art;

Thy tears are womanish, thy wild acts
denote

The unreasonable fury of a
beast.

The Friar thus begins
by attacking Romeo's manhood, suggesting he is not actually a man, as he is behaving
like a woman with his tears but also like a "beast" in his wild actions. The Friar then
goes on to point out all of the things that Romeo can be thankful for, refering to how
they form "A pack of blessings light upon thy back." His care and concern for Romeo is
shown in the way that he paints a picture of how this horrendous situation can be
resolved. Talking of Mantua, where Romeo must stay in exile, the Friar
says:

Where
thou shalt live till we can find a time

To blaze your
marriage reconcile your friends,

Beg pardon of the prince,
and call thee back

With twenty hundred thousand times more
joy

Than thou went'st forth in
lamentation.

Thus in this
speech Friar Lawrence shows both his anger at Romeo's attempt to kill himself and also
his deep abiding love and concern in the way that he makes Romeo see that there is hope
even in the most hopeless of situations.

In The Scarlet Letter, is there a significance to Hester's viewing the crowd from the scaffold?

I believe that there is significance in the way in which
Hester Prynne is said to be at "about the height of a man's shoulders above the street."
There is a sense in which Hester Prynne, being made to stand on the scaffold so high
above the crowd, is shown to be morally superior and "above" the kind of narrow-minded
thinking that has only been able to punish her because of her pregnancy. If we bear in
mind the kind of criticism that this  novel contains regarding Puritanism and their
strict adherence to a creed of laws that make them seem more Pharisaical than Christian,
the way in which Hester stands with such dignity on the scaffold only serves to
reinforce the central idea of her godness and purity. Note how Hawthorne describes
her:

Had
there been a Papist among the crowd of Puritans, he might have seen in this beautiful
woman, so picturesque in her attire and mien, and with the infant at her bosom, an
object to remind him of the image of Divine maternity, which so many illustrious
painteres have vied with one another to
represent...

This quote of
course is highly ironic, and it is an irony that is not lost on the author, because
obviously the image of purity and sinless motherhood that Hester could be said to
resemble is the opposite for her reasons for being there. Nonetheless, I think it is
clear that the way that Hester is raised up from the crowd shows her different way of
thinking about her "terrible sin" and how she is able to look upon it in a maturer and
more understanding frame of mind, in spite of the hostility and punishment that she
faces.

Why does Alice in Alice in Wonderland seem so lonely? Does society make her lonely?I am doing the theme of isolation in ALice in Wonderland so...

The main idea of the story Alice in Wonderland
is the search for self-identity and for one's purpose in the world. We know,
from the beginning of the story, that there is a gap between Alice and her sister in
terms of age and interests. We can infer from the story that Alice has no peers, and
that she is in a pre-adolescent stage with a special intuition that separates her from
the others. Concisely, Alice in Wonderland is the symbolic journey
of a young woman through a world that she is beginning to analyze and see differently.
It is an allegory to what we experience when the world becomes bigger, or smaller, than
what we expected.

Alice's own isolation also comes from her
belief that she has become another person, and that this is the reason why she landed
in Wonderland. In other words, she is saying that she has changed, and that her change
makes her feel as if she is in "another world" because she no longer feels
like herself. This is another allegory to the isolation one feels during adolescence and
development.

To make matters more complicated, the rabbit
continuously mistakens Alice for his maid, Mary Ann, and other characters seem to have a
similar tendency of confusing Alice with someone else. This is another stage of
adolescence in which the individual feels that nobody understands who they are. Hence,
allegorically, Alice does not feel like she is "fitting in" anywhere she goes. She does
not fit in with her family and she does not fit in in Wonderland. She feels as if there
is no specific role for her anywhere she goes. This causes isolation and
loneliness.

Concisely, we can say that Alice is, indeed, a
special young woman who, like every adolescent, is trying to find her identity. She is
the typical curious, adventurous, and emotional girl who wishes to know what her role in
the world will be. This is what sets Alice aside from the rest: She is in a
developmental process of self analysis and contemplation which is best done in some form
of meditative isolation.

What do you think Momaday means when he calls the Kiowa migration “a journey toward the dawn” in The Way to Rainy Mountain?[Taken from a...

I think to answer your question you need to realise that
the quote you gave is actually a metaphor. The key to working out what the author is
talking about relates to the images that the word "dawn" creates in our mind. Consider
the fate of Aho's tribe before their migration and note how they were
described:

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They were a mountain people, a mysterious tribe
of hunters whose language has never been positively classified in any major
group.

They were an
indistinct tribal group without their own separate ethnic identity. However, their
migration changed that as it triggered "a golden age" for this tribe. The migration,
through the people they met and the change in location, gave the Kiowa people a new
culture, which included a new religion and a sense of pride in their own tribal
identity. So much so, that when they entered the southern Plains the texts tells us they
had been transformed:

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No longer were they slaves to the simple
necessity of survival; they were a lordly and dangerous society of fighters and thieves,
hunters and priests of the
sun.

Thus we can understand
why the metaphor is appropriate. It was a new, glorious start for the tribe, just as
dawn signifies a new beginning for the world.

Please provide a summary of "Macbeth"

There are many wonderful summaries on this site. Make the
most of them.

But, to answer your question, here you
go:

Macbeth is a play written by William Shakespeare.  The
play focuses on many different themes (including, but not limited to, ambition, fate,
power, reality).

As for the action of the play, Macbeth,
driven by a powerful prophecy that he will become king, takes fate into his own hands to
insure the crown.  Macbeth transforms from a loyal and noble man to a murderous
madman.

Macbeth, led by his wife, decides to take control
over the prophecy and murder so that he can gain the crown.  After the murder, Macbeth
struggles internally with the what he is done.  Unfortunately, he fails to accept his
downfall and becomes mad.

In the end, Macbeth is murdered
(this fulfills the other aspect of the prophecy- Banquo's childen will inherit the
crown).

Given dy/dx=squareroot(e^x -1), what is the function y?

To determine the primitive function y, we'll have to use
the indefinite integral:

dy = sqrt(e^x -
1)dx

We'll integrate both
sides:

Int dy = Int sqrt(e^x -
1)dx

We'll use substitution technique and we'll replace
sqrt(e^x - 1) by t:

sqrt(e^x - 1) = t => e^x = t^2 +
1

We'll differentiate both sides, with respect to
x:

e^x dx/2sqrt(e^x - 1) =
dt

e^x dx = 2sqrt(e^x -
1)dt

dx = 2sqrt(e^x -
1)dt/e^x

dx = 2tdt/(t^2 +
1)

We'll re-write the
integral:

Int sqrt(e^x - 1)dx = Int 2t^2 dt /(t^2 +
1)

Int 2t^2 dt /(t^2 + 1) = 2Int (t^2 + 1 - 1) dt /(t^2 +
1)

Int 2t^2 dt /(t^2 + 1) = 2Int dt - 2Int dt /(t^2 +
1)

Int 2t^2 dt /(t^2 + 1) = 2t - 2arctan t +
C

Int sqrt(e^x - 1)dx = 2sqrt(e^x - 1) - 2arctansqrt(e^x -
1) + C

The requested primitive function y
is:  y=Int sqrt(e^x - 1)dx = 2sqrt(e^x - 1) - 2arctansqrt(e^x - 1) +
C.

To what extent was Japan transformed by the influx of ideas and information from China between 500 and 1000 CE ?

It would be hard to overstate the degree to which Japan
was affected by China during the time period you mention.  Japan's society was
transformed in some very important ways.  Here are two
examples:

First, it was during this time that Buddhism
entered Japan.  At first, it was limited to the upper classes but, during the 8th and
9th centuries, it spread to all segments of society.  It is credited for changing
Japanese society in many ways.  One example of this is that Japanese started to be
cremated more during this time instead of buried.  Another is that the eating of animals
(though not fish) became much less common.

A second example
of the impact of China is the introduction of its writing system.  Japan adopted the use
of Chinese ideographic and pictographic characters (now known in Japan as kanji) even
though they were not really suited for the Japanese language.  Writing, of course,
transformed Japanese society as it allowed for things like literature and
recordkeeping.

These are two of the many ways in which
Japanese society was transformed by Chinese ideas in the period you
mention.

What are the length of the side of a cube and the volume if the mass of the cube is 50g?the density of the material of cube is 7.8g/cm^3

Since to determine the length of each side of the cube, we
need to know the volume, we'll begin by calculating the
volume.

First, we'll recall the volume
formula:

V = mass/density

From
enunciation, we know the mass and the density of material, therefore we can calculate
the volume of the cube:

V = 50 g/7.8
g/cm^3

V = 6.410 cm^3

We'll
recall the formula that gives the volume of a cube:

V =
l^3, where l is the length of the side of the cube.

6.410 =
l^3

l = cube root (6.410)

l =
1.857 cm

The requested length of the side of
the cube and the volume of the cube are: l = 1.857 cm and V = 6.410
cm^3.

If f is a linear function such that f(-1) = 5 and f(2) = -1,then f(x + 1) = ?

You should notice that the function is linear, hence,
substituting x+1 for x in equation of a linear function
yields:

n

Substituting -1 for , or , in equation
above yields:

n

Substituting 2 for , or , in equation
above yields:

-1

Subtracting the equation   from  
yields:

2m+n+m-n=-1-5 => 3m = -6 => m =
-2

Substituting -2 for m in equation -m+n=5 yields
=gt n=5-2 =gt n=3

1

Hence, evaluating the equation of linear
function yields

Shakespeare's play, Macbeth, ranges over many human emotions; how is the story able to convey/portray fear, pity, horror, ruthlessness, etc.?

In Macbeth, Shakespeare's ability to
convey such a wide variety of emotions comes from his ability to shape such convincing
characters. It is said that Geoffrey Chaucer was a "student of human nature," and I
believe this was also the case with
Shakespeare.

Some of Shakespeare's plays are based on
stories that have been told by other authors, such as Romeo and
Juliet. Others are based on English history, such as Richard
III. The genius of Shakespeare is not found primarily in
the story he tells, but in his brilliant writing which enables the play's characters to
touch the audience with humor, tragedy, rage, horror,
etc.

In Shakespeare's Hamlet, Hamlet's
delivery of his famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy is impressive because the author
clearly conveys the human response of a man in great emotional pain who wonders if it
might not be easier to die than to live.

In Romeo
and Juliet, the young lovers are beset by troubles that really should not
concern them, however those troubles make a life of love and peace impossible for
them.

In Julius Caesar, Brutus kills
Caesar, a man he loves, for the greater good of the state of Rome. He makes serious
mistakes for the safety of Rome—which he loved more than himself. He struggles with
guilt over what he has done, and ultimately loses his life for what he has
done.

The author's gift for brilliant characterization
allowed Shakespeare to create the character of Macbeth, who is no different from the
characters in his other plays—he is a man with human failings. Macbeth is first
presented as an admirable person. He struggles with ambition—freely admits to it—and a
need for power, becoming a person nothing like the heroic and dedicated servant to the
King that he once was. He basically sells his soul for
power.

Macbeth fights like a "lion" for Duncan, and Duncan
is proud of him. The King rewards Macbeth and promises more to come in the future. He
loves Macbeth, and Macbeth loves him. Macbeth is smart, but his
ambition leads him to believe witches who he knows work for the
powers of darkness. He is brave, yet he folds to the nagging and evil whisperings of his
wife, Lady Macbeth. He arranges for the death of his best friend, Banquo. At first, this
man shrank from killing the King because of the horror of it. When Lady Macbeth tells
Macbeth to take the bloody daggers back and smear blood on the servants that they intend
to blame for Duncan's death, Macbeth cannot do it:

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MACBETH:

I'll
go no more:

I am afraid to think what I have
done;

Look on't again I dare not.
(II.ii.64-66)

He admits that
he is "young" at murder, and "practice" will make it easier." He is right—he turns into
a treacherous villain who orders the murder of Macduff's wife and
children.

Macbeth, this once-great
man, becomes an insane, raging monster who loses his soul by killing a king. (This is
what the Elizabethans believed.) His "fall" and ensuing death are guaranteed by the
machinations of Hecate, queen of the witches and her "minions." The story of
Macbeth, in terms of ambition and losing one's sense of self to a
thirst for power (or fame or fortune), displays timeless themes, and Macbeth's internal
and external struggles still speak to today's audiences. However, the ability of
Macbeth's character to convey such a wide variety of emotions comes from Shakespeare's
literary genius, and the interaction Macbeth has with the diverse range of characters
with which Shakespeare surrounds this tragic hero.

What are some quotes and examples from "Thanatopsis" that help to establish the organic cycle in the poem?

The organic cycle of nature is something that is one of
the central themes of this poem, as thoughts of death are measured by the way that death
returns us to Nature that gave us birth in the first place. Note the role of Earth in
this process:

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Earth, that nourished thee, shall
claim

Thy growth, to be resolved to earth
again,

And, lost each human trace, surrendering
up

Thine individual being, shalt thou
go

To mix forever with the
elements,

To be a brother to the insensible
rock...

The image of what
happens to us when we die becomes clear. In death, the earth, which "nourished" us and
gave us life, claims us and we become "earth again," mixing with the elements and
becoming brother to nature, symbolised in the "insensible rock." Our individual being is
surrendered, but we are not alone, as "all that breathe" share this destiny. Death and
life is described therefore as a strictly organic process, as we are born and sustained
by nature and earth, and then return to it, becoming one with nature once again when we
die.

What is Atticus's views on the economy of Maycomb County in To Kill a Mockingbird? Please one or two page numbers.

Atticus really doesn't discuss the economy with his
children much in the story (as was the case with most parents of the time). But Maycomb
was hit particularly hard by the Great Depression because, according to
Atticus,

...
professional people were poor because the farmers were poor. As Maycomb county was farm
country, nickels and dimes were hard to come by for doctors and dentists and
lawyers.

Atticus often
accepted trade for his services, as in the case of Walter Cunningham. Cunningham had no
money since his farm land "was mortgaged to the hilt." Dr. Reynolds often accepted "a
bushel of potatoes for the delivery of a baby."

Atticus
seemed to supply his children with the necessities of life, but there is little evidence
that they were spoiled with excessive gifts like the ones Dill received from his
parents. However, they never complained about the things they didn't have, either. The
family never ate at restaurants (assuming Maycomb had any) and there was no movie
theatre or other entertainment distractions on which to spend money in the sleepy little
town. Most of the Finch's neighbors seem to live fairly comfortably, but few of them
work, so we can only assume that their homes are paid for. The children received gifts
at Christmas and on birthdays, but little else is said about Atticus' own expenditures;
he is able to afford Calpurnia, who probably receives a fair wage. When Tom Robinson's
supporters shower Atticus with gifts of food following the trial, he tearfully told
Calpurnia that they must desist.

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... tell them they must never do this again.
Times are too hard...

Can you explain to me what is a paradox in this quote from "Araby" by James Joyce'?I watched my master’s face pass from amiability to sternness;...

A paradox is a literary term that is used to describe
something that is literally a contradiction in terms. A great example is describing
somebody as a "wise fool," which obviously, at face value, appears to be meaningless as
the two words appear to contradict each other. However, paradoxes always hide a deeper
reality that ask us to look again at what is being described and to see the truth that
is contained therein.

In the quote you have cited from this
excellent short story, the paradox is the way in which for the narrator, the "serious
work of life" now appears to be nothing more than "child's play," which of course is a
contradiction in terms. However, this paradox helps us to understand the way in which
the romantic quest that he has been given by Mangan's sister has dominated his
imagination and every moment of his thinking, resulting in his focus on that alone and
his forgetting of his studies. This paradox is therefore used to help build up our
picture of the character of the narrator and how he is consumed by his romantic
quest.

In chap. 8, why does Jack say that the beast is a hunter?Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Ralph and Jack become embroiled in competition for
leadership in Chapter Seven of Lord of the Flies as they hunt and
climb up the mountain.  Behind Ralph the sinister presence of Roger looms at all times
as they search for the "beast." Having encountered "the ruin of a face," Ralph fled in
fear. In Chapter Eight, then, this vying for the leadership continues, but Ralph's
"panic flight down the mountainside" makes his speak in
defeat:

"So we
can't have a signal fire....We're
beaten."

Then, when Jack asks
"What about my hunters?" Ralph disparagingly retorts, "Boys armed with sticks."  And,
Piggy chides Ralph, "Now you done it.  You been rude about his
hunters."

So, Jack blows the conch and calls a meeting at
which he angrily attempts to turn everyone against Ralph by establishing that something
to be feared and respected as the beast hunts. Then, he tells the hunters that Ralph has
said that they are cowards and "no good." This, too, is an attempt to turn the boys
against Ralph. Then, he tells the boys that Ralph is not a hunter, implying that it will
take a hunter like himself to lead.

What are the differences and similarities between Lennie and Curley's wife in "Of Mice and Men"?

I had to cut down the original question text, as there
were multiple questions present.  They are all real interesting and I encourage you to
repost them separately.  In my mind, I think that Lennie and Curley's wife being along
at the start of Chapter 5 is significant because it brings together two fairly sad
creatures in one instant.  Lennie's hopes of a life where he can "tend the rabbits" and
be surrounding with creature that allow him to enjoy a state of being in the world are
set against Curley's wife's dream of being in "pitchers" and being someone of importance
and significance.  In this particular instant, the striking similarity of their dreams
and their own potential for loneliness because of their dreams' denial is brought out in
full force.  At the same time, the differences between them is also present in that
Lennie does not possess bitterness about the deferral of his dreams.  Perhaps, this is
because he lacks the capacity for it.  Yet, Curley's wife is bitter and she is
distraught that her own dreams were not recognized.  I think that another significant
difference that is evoked in chapter 5 is how Curley's wife lives her life with the
consciousness of her dreams being negated, while Lennie possesses the childhood
innocence that at some point, in some way, his dreams can be fulfilled.  The moment
where both of them interact through touch is one where neither one understands the
vulnerability of the other, and where Steinbeck might be asserting that the cost of the
denial of our dreams could be our ability to understand another person's own pain when
they experience what we have.

Help me with two or three quotations from The Great Gatsby that reflect Fitzgerald's thoughts about his own lifestyle or life experiences.

Fitzgerald's own life and personal experiences are
reflected frequently in the novel. Here are some passages to
illustrate:

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"He [Gatsby] talked a lot about the past and I
gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had
gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he
could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find
out what that thing was . .
."

This passage from Chapter
VI relates to Fitzgerald's own life in that, like Gatsby, he thought a great deal about
the past, especially his past with the woman who had consumed his life. In Fitzgerald's
case, this was his wife, Zelda. At the time he wrote The Great
Gatsby, Fitzgerald's life was certainly "confused and disordered." He and
Zelda were caught up in celebrity, drinking too much, quarreling often, and spending
more money than Fitzgerald could earn as a novelist. (Fitzgerald had often been forced
to abandon his serious writing to produce short stories to pay the
bills.)

He said on at least one occasion that if he and
Zelda could only go back and start over, they could do things right the second time.
This feeling is reflected in Gatsby's dream of repeating the
past:

". . .
after she [Daisy] was free, they were to go back to Louisville and be married from her
house--just as if it were five years
ago."

Also, this passage from
Chapter V reflects an essential element in Fitzgerald's personality that shaped his life
and life experiences to come. Like Jimmy Gatz and the young Jay Gatsby before he had
acquired great wealth, Fitzgerald in his own youth had been dominated by romantic
dreams:

"But
his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. The most grotesque and fantastic conceits
haunted him in his bed at night. A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in
his brain while the clock ticked on the wash-stand and the moon soaked with wet light
his tangled clothes upon the
floor."

As a boy growing up
in St. Paul, Fitzgerald's heart, too, had been filled with "a constant, turbulent riot."
He dreamed of living a life filled with wealth, beauty, glamor, and excitement; he was
restless and determined to seek and find it. In this passage, one can imagine Fitzgerald
back home in St. Paul after World War I, working feverishly to revise his manuscript
that would become This Side of Paradise, imagining the romantic
life it might finally unlock for him.

In Chapter 19 of To Kill a Mockingbird, what does Scout realize about Tom Robinson's testimony?

One piece of advice Scout remembered from her talks with
Atticus was that sometimes it was

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... better to listen rather than watch: I applied
this test.

Scout determined
that Tom was not lying about setting foot on the Ewell property without an invitation.
She also decided that no "respectable Negro" would walk onto a white man's property
without permission. She also realized that Tom's good manners were part of his
predicament. Even though he had not touched Mayella (she had hugged and kissed him), he
knew that the accusation against him--that he had struck Mayella--would mean that he
would not live long,

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... so he took the first opportunity to run--a
sure sign of guilt.

Does decreasing the interest rate cause a decrease in inflation?

In general, decreasing the interest rates charged by a
central bank leads not to less inflation but to more.  A central bank tends to decrease
interest rates when it needs to stimulate the economy and it tends to increase interest
rates when it is trying to decrease inflation.

When a
central bank lowers interest rates, it becomes easier for people and businesses to
borrow money from banks.  This increases the money supply and it increases the amount of
economic activity that is going on in the economy.  When these things happen, the price
level will (all other things being equal) go up.

So,
decreasing interest rates does not tend to decrease inflation.  An increase in interest
rates is usually used to try to control inflation.

Explain the difference between the European and American labeling of wine.Italian wine has long been a subject of much mystery and trepidation for...

Indeed, Italian wine labels are quite different from
American.  Remember that wines in the United States are named according to the type of
grape they're made from, but in Europe (most famously France), the region in which the
wine was produced gives the wine its name.  Italian wines are just less known in the US,
therefore Americans are less familiar with the grape growing regions of Italy and
therefore with the types of wine Italy produces.

Maps would
be quite important to include in your primer, as would information about the types of
grapes grown in those regions.  If familiar places in France or the US produce wines
that are similar to wines produced in Italy, consumers would value that information.  It
might guide consumers to choose Italian wines that are similar to ones they know they
like.

Maps giving information about the soils in the
wine-producing regions of Italy would be helpful as well; since soils are important to
wine taste, that information could help consumers to understand what types of wines the
would be purchasing.

Who is Biddy and what role does she play in Pip's life?Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

As part of his motif of the hardships of orphans, along
with Pip, Biddy has also lost her parents and kept by Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt, who is
her grandmother.  But, like Mrs. Joe, Biddy's great aunt brings her "up by hand" and
uses her granddaughter to arrange the transactions in the little general shop that she
owns.  A bright, energetic girl, Biddy teaches Pip his letters and to read and to figure
while he attends the great-aunt's school. 

A sweet child
and unselfish child, Biddy, who displays a great concern for whatever Pip does, becomes
his confidante.  Not realizing that Biddy loves him, Pip tells her of his amorous
feelings for Estella, his hopes for the future.  When he leaves to go to London and
follow his "great expectations," Biddy asks Pip if she and Joe might walk a little
farther with him.  Pip kisses her, promising to tell her everything as they part. 
However, once Pip arrives in London and begins to put on the airs of a gentleman, he
forsakes the loving friend, Biddy.  

Soon, though, Biddy
becomes the housekeeper for Joe and Mrs. Joe, who has been attacked and is in poor
condition.  On behalf of Joe, Biddy writes to Pip, saying that Joe will visit him in
London. But, by this time Pip has become snobbish and he is anxious about Joe's
appearance and behavior before his gentlemen friends.  Of course, Joe senses this and
tells Pip he will visit him no more; he tells Pip that he must come to the forge where
he will always be welcome. 

After his sister's death, Pip
finally returns to the forge with much uneasiness and guilt.  He displaces his guilt by
being harsh with Biddy, telling her "I think you might have written to me about these
sad matters."  To this, Biddy perceptively and ironically replies, "Do you, Mr.
Pip?....I should have written if I had thought that."  As they converse, Biddy tells Pip
about his sister's demise and asks pointedly if he will come to see Joe, really.  Pip is
offended and scolds Biddy.  As he leaves, he has the boldness to tell Biddy that he is
not angry with her, but "I am hurt."  But, Biddy is right; Pip does not return to the
forge for a long time.

Clearly, Biddy, in her simple and
honest and humble manner, is a foil to Pip.  She is without guile.  Even when Pip
returns and is accusatory, Biddy speaks calmly to him.  As Pip finally returns home, the
prodigal son who begs forgiveness, he asks her to receive him as well.  The Pip is so
bold as to propose marriage to her, but Biddy does not offer any reprisals.  She simply
lets Pip days later discover that she and Joe have married.  Yet she remains ever the
friend to Pip, encouraging him to marry.  And, when she and Joe have a child, they name
the boy Pip.