What is y if dy/dx=sin(lnx)/x?

To determine the primitive y, we'll have to calculate the
indefinite integral of dy.

We'll solve by replacing ln x by
t:

ln x = t

We'll
differentiate both sides:

dx/x =
dt

We'll re-write the integral in the new variable
t:

Int dy = Int sin(lnx)
dx/x

Int sin(lnx) dx/x = Int sin t
dt

Int sin t dt = - cos t +
C

We'll replace t by ln x:

Int
sin(lnx) dx/x = - cos (ln x) + C

The
primitive function is: y = - cos (ln x) + C.

From Bret Harte's "The Outcasts of Poker Flats", with supporting details, show which of the two answers is correct.- When times are rough, people...

Based upon the fate of the "outcasts," I would say that
Bret Harte's story of "The Outcasts of Poker Flats" is presenting the reader with an
example of how people come together and change when times are
rough.

This is not to say that the first theme is not a
common one, but it does not apply to this
story.

To support this, Mother Shipton, "once the strongest
of the party," becomes weak and dies; her strength gives way to self-sacrifice as she
hoards her rations for Piney, showing a change in her priorities and a glimmer of the
potential for goodness beneath the surface.

Oakhurst, the
gambler, has some decency under his self-serving exterior. He once returned money to
Simson when he the younger man lost it to Oakhurst in a poker game. When the snows
arrive, Oakhurst shows what he is worth by electing to stay with the women while Simson
goes for help. He also covers up the death of Mother Shipton to encourage Simson to
travel to save her, saying that her only chance rests with Simson. (In essence, he also
saves Simson's life by sending him away.)

The Duchess is a
prostitute, but her heart is won over by Piney's innocent respect for her, and Piney's
love for Simson. The Duchess has become warmed by the love of Piney. The Duchess and
Piney stay close as the snow continues to fall, hugging each other for warmth and from a
mutual concern for the other. When a rescue party finally arrives, they find the two
frozen together in death.

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And when pitying fingers brushed the snow from
their wan faces, you could scarcely have told from the equal peace that dwelt upon them
which was she that had
sinned.

Oakhurst's concern
for the others is seen earlier when he stays behind. He finally kills himself; at first
I wasn't sure if he did this because he didn't want to take rations from the others, but
I don't see this "new" man leaving the women to fend for themselves. There is also no
mention that the women hear the sound of a gun going off. I expect that rather than face
a lonely death in the snow, Oakhurst gathers his courage around him and takes his life
when the others have already died.

Most certainly, the
story shows a metamorphosis among these "outcasts," these "undesirables." Ironically,
when their chances of survival seem to become poor, the outcasts do all they can to
protect Simson and Piney so they are not only unaware of how the change in their
circumstances, but are able to abide in their love for each other rather than being
frightened.

The second answer is the correct one: when
things get rough, people can come together and change, doing things out of character
from their previous lives.

Verify if the function y=x^3+3x^2-3x+6 has local extrema?

To determine the local extrema of a function, we must
calculate the first derivative zeroes.

We'll diiferentiate
with respect to x:

dy/dx =
(x^3+3x^2-3x+6)'

dy/dx = 3x^2 + 6x -
3

We'll cancel dy/dx = 0:

3x^2
+ 6x - 3 = 0

We'll divide by
3:

x^2 + 2x - 1 = 0

We'll
determine the zeroes of the quadratic:

x1 = [-2+sqrt(4 +
4)]/2

x1 = (-2+2sqrt2)/2

x1 =
-1 + sqrt2

x2 = -1 -
sqrt2

Since the function has critical points x1 and x2 and
the local extrema f(x1) and f(x2).

Since the
function is decreasing between x1 and x2 and it is increasing over the ranges
(-infinite, -1-sqrt2) and (-1+sqrt2 , +infinite), then f(-1-sqrt2) is a maximum point
and f(-1+sqrt2) is a minimum point.

Is John Donne a Metaphysical poet?

This is a very intersting question to consider, as really
to answer it we need to move towards some kind of definition of what is meant by the
expression "metaphysical." In a sense, this word is a label that has come to be applied
to the work of certain poets, Donne of whom is one, who write poems that are short, draw
their subject matter from the big issues facing their age, and are characterised by a
rejection of traditional forms of expression and the adoption of startling conventions,
particularly in the area of imagery. The conceit, in particular, which makes improbably
comparisons, seems to be above all else the label that signifies whether a poet's work
can be considered to be "metaphysical" or not.

To give one
example of one of John Donne's conceits, let us consider "A Valediction: Forbidding
Mourning," where a dying husband compares the link that exists between himself and his
wife to a pair of compass points that are always linked even when they are
separate:

Our
two souls therefore, which are one,

Though I must go,
endure not yet

A breach, but an
expansion,

Like gold to airy thinness
beat.

Such original and
striking imagery which elaborates its point beautifully explores and builds upon the
central theme of the poem and also gives ample proof of why Donne is considered to be a
metaphysical poet.

How can the ones who walk away represent an evil just as bad as those who stay in Omelas?in "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"

What makes this story so interesting is that Le Guin
really searches into the psyche of people who, for all practical purposes, live in a
perfect society.  Perhaps Le Guin was unwittingly influenced by philosopher and
psychologist William James, who wrote:

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” some people could not accept even universal
prosperity and happiness if it depended on the deliberate subjugation of an idiot child
to abuse it could barely
understand”

This theory
postulates that individual thoughts should guide their actions, and that truth is the
consequences of belief.  It is this ultimate factor that influences "those who walk away
from Omelas"

Le Guin focuses on religion, too, which plays
a part in the decision of those few who actually walk away.  When you think about the
good vs. evil and moral compass, how can a person live with their 'happiness' if it
comes on the heels of a child's suffering?   And, since the narrator is unreliable (not
omniscient), how do we as readers know with absolute certainity that the child feels or
understands nothing of its circumstances?

So, the part
you're referring to is when an adolescent sees the 'it' for the first time, or an
older adults who might think about the child--without acting for years--turn away from
the town and leave:

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"ahead into the darkness, and they do not come
back. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the
city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible that it does not
exist."

As Le Guin points out
most people from Omelas are happy and guilt-free, and, as the unreliable
narrator explains, the people may have been "shocked and sickened" by what they first
saw in the child, but eventually realized that to release 'it' their happiness would be
effected:   

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"that would be a good thing, indeed; but if it
were done, in that day and hour all the prosperity and beauty and delight of Omelas
would wither and be destroyed. Those are the terms. To exchange all the goodness and
grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the
happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one: that would be to let
guilt within the walls
indeed

In the end, those that
achieve true enlightenment are the ones that walk away after realizing their happiness
comes at a considerable cost--that of an innocent' child's
existence.

What are the important conflicts in The Unvanquished?

 There are many forms of conflict in William Faulkner’s,
“The Unvanquished.” In the opening scene, two young children, Bayard and Ringo, play
contentedly in the sand. Their play is interrupted by Loosh, a discontented slave. This
is the first of several conflicts in the novel. Loosh is aware that the Union Army is
approaching and he looks forward to their arrival because he longs for freedom. This
scene illustrates the clear delineation between the wishes of slave owners and those
whom they enslave. In addition, the Civil War looms as an even greater form of
conflict.

Bayard’s cousin, Drusilla is a woman of southern
upbringing. Still, she wants to fight for her heritage in a time when women were
expected to be delicate, lovely and helpless. She resists her family’s expectations and
runs away to join Colonel Sartoris and his troops in their battle against their common
enemy.

Ab Snopes and Grumby, both acknowledged thieves, are
in conflict with all society as they defraud and rob unfortunate victims of war-torn
communities. These unscrupulous bandits are merciless in their victimization of those on
either side of the larger conflict. They are selfish in their endeavors and they
demonstrate loyalty to no one.

Though there are many other
instances of conflict in the novel, including Granny’s deceitful horse trading, the
social influences that force Drusilla to wed and the ever-growing disparity between
Bayard’s and Ringo’s abilities. However, one of the most challenging conflicts is
Bayard’s internal struggle to end the violence that has colored his life. In the final
chapters of the novel, his father, Colonel Sartoris is killed by his former partner, Ben
Redmond. Many feel that Bayard would be justified in revenging his father’s death by
murdering Redmond. Instead, Bayard decides to spare Redmond’s life, although he risks
his own in the process.

In Kate Chopin's story, The Awakening, where does the quote, "first passion of her life" come from? In the summary/overview posted on this site,...

I, too, have searched through Kate Chopin's The
Awakening. The best I can guess is that in summarizing Edna's time listening
to the music and the influence of the Gulf, that she comes "alive" in  some way that is
new to her. The fact that "first passion of her life" is in quotation marks may not
necessarily mean that it is a direct quotation, but that the author of the summary hoped
the quotatio marks would emphasize the birth of new feelings within Edna. The story is
called The Awakening for just these reasons, and these examples of
music and the ocean give the reader a sense of a striking change in Edna, important
elements the author is trying to impart to the reader.

For
instance, Chopin writes (in Chapter Nine) about an "abiding truth" that comes to Edna
for the first time as Mademoiselle Reisz plays:

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It was not the first time she had heard an artist
at the piano. Perhaps it was the first time she was ready, perhaps the first time her
being was tempered to take an impress of the abiding
truth.

The mention of
"abiding truth" leads me to believe that this is a step on Edna's part in learning about
herself, which I believe is fundamental to the development of her character and the
plot, as well as its contribution to the story's
resolution.

The other reason that makes me believe that
this is simply the summary and a general statement about the things occurring within
Edna's mind is the way the summary is worded: i.e., I can find no place where Edna
listens to the the music while gazing out at the Gulf. I believe these are two separate
incidents that affect her profoundly. The music touches Edna's soul in a new way. And
her relationship with the water changes when she learns that she can swim. The water
draws her, and it is the water, too, in which she finally finds "release." (Quotations
used for my emphasis.)

I hope this
helps.

What is the best way to combine the following sentences?Sterioid users often experience depressions. They are mot using the drugs. This pattern...

I think your present version is quite good, though I have
corrected several misspellings and added a word in the example below. (The boldface
words indicate corrections.)

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"When they are not using drugs,
steroid users often experience
depression, which typically leads to increased use of
the
drug."

If you can identify
different types (or forms) of depression, then you might want to alter it to
say

"...
experience different forms of
depression,..."

Another
example might be the following:

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"Steroid users often experience depression when
they are not using drugs, which typically leads to increased use of the
drug."

or,

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"Steroid users often experience different forms
of depression when they are not using drugs, which typically leads to increased use of
the drug."

What is Crooks's initial evaluation of Lennie in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men?

When Lennie initially enters the barn, Crooks's
conditioned defenses are raised.  He resents the invasion of his privacy and the
intrusion of a white man into his area when he is not allowed to enter the bunkhouse
because he is black.  He thinks that Lennie wants to antagonize him or berate him, but
when Lennie tells him that he has come into the barn to pet his puppy because George and
the others have gone into town, Crooks is somewhat disarmed by both Lennie's smile and
and words.  Crooks realizes that Lennie is simple and ingenuous.  As he talks with
Lennie, Crooks starts by teasing Lennie cruelly, saying that George may not return, but
Lennie becomes angry, so he stops.

With time, Crooks opens
up to Lennie, saying that he is not from the South and, therefore, not used to being
treated so badly.  He confides some of his feelings with Lennie, especially how lonely
he is without someone "to measure" himself by; he, like Lennie and the others, is
dispossessed and alienated.

Look at Act 5 Scenes 3 and 5 in Julius Caesar and the dying words of Cassius and Brutus. How does each man view Caesar’s murder?Do you think each...

In scene 3, Cassius, who has asked his bondsman, Pindarus,
to stab him, says the following before he expires:

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Caesar, thou art revenged,
Even with
the sword that kill'd
thee.

It is clear from his
final words that Cassius felt that Caesar's murder had to be avenged and he, being one
of the assassins, had to be punished for his heinous act. For Cassius, there is honour
in his own death. He has atoned for his crime and recognises the irony of dying by the
same sword which he used to slay his emperor.

In scene 5,
Brutus asks Strato to hold his sword so that he may run into it, killing himself.
Brutus' final words are:

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Caesar, now be still:
I kill'd not thee
with half so good a
will.

Earlier in Act 5,
Brutus had been visited by Caesar's ghost and in his dying moments he refers to Caesar's
restless spirit which can now be at peace since his assassin has now also lost his life.
In the second part of his statement, Brutus alludes to the torment he had experienced in
murdering Caesar. He had been Caesar's confidant, trusted by him and loyal to him.
Brutus had felt that he had acted for the common good, persuaded by Cassius and his
co-conspirators that Caesar's death was in Rome's best interest. Brutus' words reflect
regret as he states that there had been a greater desire (will) in him to kill himself
than there had been to kill Caesar. His conviction then had been half of that which he
has now had.

Yes, both men had a choice. They could have
battled on and would have either been captured or killed. However, there would have been
greater dishonour in both options. Suicide in the face of defeat was, for a Roman
soldier, a greater honour. In this sense, then, both Brutus and Cassius felt that they
had no choice but to kill themselves.

What does Chillingworth mean when he mutters "A strange sympathy betwixt soul and body! Were it only for the art's sake, I must search this matter...

Chillingworth, in saying these words, is basically stating
that he is shocked at his own obsession with Dimmesdale. He, a man who was once in
control of himself, his wife, his career, and his life, is now falling under his own
weaknesses and demons. Namely, these weaknesses and demons include jealousy, rancor, the
sadistic need to hurt others, a hunger for revenge, and
hatred.

It is apparent to the reader, and to Chillingworth
himself, that he has never felt these emotions before. Now, they are taking the best of
him. This is a huge event for him because, perhaps for the first time in his life, he is
allowing emotion to take over common sense. This is what he means when he says: "A
strange sympathy betwixt soul and body".

The second part of
the exclamation, "were it only for the art's sake..." is a slight allusion to his
natural curiosity, as well as his tendency for scientific inquiry: The two most
predominant factors in a physician's mind. Hence, this latter phrase is sort of an
excuse that Chillingworth tells himself to satisfy his morbid and desperate want of
information as to what is "eating" Dimmesdale inside. It is a way of saying: "I am
naturally curious so, even if it is for that matter, I must know what is going
on."

In Chillingworth, Hester, and Dimmesdale we find
nothing but broken people. Each of these characters allowed nature to take over their
senses and, for this same reason, they all failed in life. Chillingworth is nothing but
a sad example of a good man gone bad.

What is this poem about ? I cannot find any info on this poem by this author.

When Death to Either shall
come
  
WHEN Death to either shall
come,—
 
  I pray it be first to
me,—
 
Be happy as ever at
home,
 
  If so, as I wish, it
be.
 
 
Possess thy heart, my
own;
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  And sing
to the child on thy knee,
 
Or read to thyself
alone
 
  The songs that I made for
thee.
 
 

The poem
by Robert Bridges is a very sensitive poem. Its main theme us death and it is emphasised
not only in the title but also in the first line of the poem. The poet is willing to die
and he is referring to someone.. He wishes that if someone from either one of them does
die, he should be the first one for he belives it wil bring him peace. "Be happy as ever
at home" means that the  poet perhaps is not at home or where he is he does not seem to
be feeling the warmth and the love that one feels when at home. Hence, he wants to
embrace death with open arms and get closer to the warmth and peace that he may receive
when he dies. The first stanza consists of hyphens, whcih causes a break to occur. It
shows that this thought may be sudden. Moreover, the ryhme scheme is a-b-a-b, which
makes the poem more lyrical.

The second stanza talks about
what the person he is talking to should do when he will die. The first two lines of the
second stanza indicate the presence of a child and this brings the theme of innocence
and how the poet wants to keep that alive and wants the peron he is talking to keep good
care of the child. Moreover, he talks about the fact that the person should read his
songs. That is, the songs that the poet wrote for his wife, or child or whoever he is
talking to, can read them when he dies, for those songs will be a memory of the
poet.

The poet may be thinking of death as an escape but he
wants the people who are alive and who knew him to remember him even after his death.
There is an element of sadness and the theme of death emphasises this element of sadness
even more.

Im sorry, i dont know which grade you
are in, but i hope this somewhat brief analysis has helped yuo. Do let me
know.

What is the meaning of the quote "Dawning comprehension, of growing horror."

When these lines appear, it is at the point where Mrs Hale
and Mrs Peters really begin to understand the events which led to the killing of Mr
Wright – and that Minnie was most likely guilty of the
crime.

They had previously noted that she had been
disturbed from sifting her sugar, and that the last stitches of her quilt work were
ragged and uneven. They had deduced that she lived a miserable life, with little money
or care from her husband. When they find the canary with its neck broken, they see the
similarity with the death of Mr Wright, and piece together that she most likely
strangled him in bed after years of neglect, and as a result of him killing her
canary.

The women know that the canary and the quilt are
evidence against Minnie, and they choose to conceal them from the sheriff and his
man-

 Has the
bird flown?"

"We think the cat got it," said Mrs. Hale in a
voice curiously even.

How does Brutus’s situation worsen after his betrayal of Caesar? How have the conditions in Rome changed?"Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare

A civil war breaks out after Caesar is assassinated.
Brutus is now fleeing for his life. Because of Antony's speech, the people are rallied
against Brutus and the conspirators.

Brutus has lost his
freedom afterall. He also loses his beloved wife Portia. Life for Brutus has become
unbearable. The irony is that Caesar still haunts Brutus. He is not rid of him despite
the bloodshed.

Caesar lives on in the form of a ghost.
Brutus sees him and hears him.

Now Brutus, the honorable
Brutus, is considered a cold blooded murderer. The people have turned against him. He
has lost his authority and the people no longer respect the honorable
Brutus.

Now Brutus is living his life running from the
people who once loved and respected him.

While Brutus may
even question his own part in the assassination, as to whether or not it was the right
thing to do, he can be reassured in the last words of Caesar. "Et tu, Brute? Then fall
Caesar." Even Caesar is convinced that he should die because Brutus took part in the
assassination. Caesar's last words indicated that he respected Brutus in his decision.
When Caesar realizes that Brutus is a part of the conspiracy, he determines that he
should fall.

A freezer with coefficient of performance 2.4 is used to convert 1.8 kg of water at 25 C to ice at -5 C. How much electrical energy is required?For...

The freezer has to convert 1.8 kg of water at 25 C to ice
at -5 C. This involves three processes; first the temperature of water has to be reduced
from 25 C to 0 C. Additional heat has to be removed to allow the change of phase from
liquid to solid. Finally the ice has to be cooled from 0 C to -5
C.

The heat of fusion of water is Lf = 3.34*10^5 J/kg, the
specific heat of water is Cw = 4190 J/kg*K and the specific heat of ice Cice = 2010
J/kg*K.

Using the information provided, the heat that has
to be removed from the 1.8 kg of water initially at 25 C
is:

1.8*Cw*25 + 1.8*Lf +
1.8*Cice*5

=> 1.8*4190*25 + 1.8*3.34*10^5 +
1.8*2010*5

=> 188550+ 601200+
18090

=> 807840 J

The
freezer has a coefficient of performance of 2.4. This implies that the amount of heat
removed from the cold junction is 2.4 times the input work. As the amount of heat to be
removed is 807840 J, the electrical energy consumed is 336,600
J.

Research the life of Harper Lee and how it influenced and inspired To Kill a Mockingbird.

Although most of To Kill a
Mockingbird is purely fictional, Harper Lee did base several of the
characters on people she knew in real life. Atticus is created as a model of her own
lawyer father, Amasa Coleman Lee; like Atticus, he also served in the Alabama state
legislature (1926-1938). The character of Dill is famously adapted from her own
childhood friend, Truman Persons, who visited Monroeville, Alabama each summer; like
Dill, he lived next door to Scout. He eventually changed his name to Truman Capote and
became a renowned author in his own right. Capote relates that he recognized Lee's
character of Boo Radley as a Monroeville man who

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... used to leave things in the trees... He was a
real man, and he lived just down the road from us. We used to go and get those things
out of the trees. Everything she wrote about it is absolutely
true. 

Scout is based on
Harper Lee herself--the daughter of an attorney and a notorious tomboy. Like her father,
Lee considered becoming an attorney, and eventually left law school just short of a
degree. Like Atticus, Harper attended the University of Alabama. Lee no doubt decided
upon the names Finch and Cunningham after her own mother's name: Frances Cunningham
Finch Lee. The town of Maycomb is based on her home town of
Monroeville.

Lee has always declared that her novel was not
autobiographical, but she has had little else to say on the subject over the years,
always remaining tight-lipped about the novel and refusing interviews for
decades. 

In Hard Times, what hope does Dickens give concerning Gradgrind?

It is clear that by the end of the novel we see that
Gradgrind has undergone a 180 degree turn in terms of his beliefs and philosophy. Having
discovered that emotions are important and that facts are not the most important thing
in the world, Dickens gives us hope for the future of this character as he is left to
consider his mistakes in the way he brought up Tom and Louisa and the difficulties and
challenges that they face as a result. Note the mention that is made of Gradgrind in the
last chapter, which discusses the endings that the various characters
face:

Did he
see himself, a white-haired decrepit man, bending his hitherto inflexible theories to
appointed circumstances; making his facts and figures subservient to Faith, Hope and
Charity; and no longer trying to grind that Heavenly trio in his dusty little
mills?

The change is clear.
His "hiterto inflexible theories" are now bending to circumstances and his "facts and
figures," that once held such sway in his life, are now "subservient" to higher and more
noble emotions. He has obviously learnt the limitations of trusting in facts alone, and
although we are told that this change in character has resulted in his facing scorn from
his former political friends, we are assured that he is a happier man as a
result.

How do other people in the town feel about how Atticus is raising his children in To Kill a Mockingbird?

UNCLE JACK.  Jack obviously
feels that his brother is much better prepared for parenting, since he comes to Atticus
to discuss his spanking of Scout in Chapter 9.
AUNT
ALEXANDRA.  Alexandra thinks Atticus has done a poor job raising the
children, especially the unladylike Scout. Her decision to move to Maycomb to live with
the family is based on this opinion.
COUSIN
FRANCIS.  Francis agrees with everything his grandmother, Alexandra,
says.
MISS STEPHANIE CRAWFORD.  The town gossip
thinks that Scout will never become a lady with Atticus serving as a single
father.
MRS.
DUBOSE.  She believes Atticus lets his children "run
wild."
MR. AVERY. 
He calls Jem and Scout "bad children."
MISS
CAROLINE.  She thinks Atticus "does not know how to
teach."
MISS MAUDIE.  Maudie generally supports
Atticus in every way, and she seems to approve of his parenting
skills.

A newly discovered planet 581c, has a mass 5 times that of the Earth's mass and a diameter one and a half that of the Earth.If the Earth's...

For a mass m on Earth, the acceleration due to the
gravitational force of attraction is m*g = G*Me*m/r^2, where G is the gravitational
constant, Me is the mass of the Earth, and r is the radius of the
Earth.

For planet 581c, the mass is 5 times that of the
Earth and the diameter is 1.5 times that of the Earth.

A
mass m, on the surface of the planet would experience an acceleration due to the gravity
of the planet given by:

m*gx =
G*5*Me*m/(1.5*r)^2

=> gx =
G*5*Me/(1.5*r)^2

we have g =
G*Me/r^2

=> gx =
[5/(1.5)^2]*G*Me/r^2

=> gx =
5/(1.5)^2*9.81

=> gx = 21.8
m/s^2

The planet's gravitational field
strength is 21.8 N/kg

What was the German monarchy, and how was it related to Prussia and Nazism?

Prussia was one of the three hundred principalities that
comprised what is now Germany. It and Austria were the two leading principalities. Otto
von Bismarck, later Chancellor of the united Germany, was largely responsible for
uniting Germany under Prussian leadership. He did this by a series of wars against
Austria and France, the end result of which was not only the cession of territory to
Germany but also a sharp increase in German nationalism. Part of Bismarck's plan was to
exclude Austria from the united Germany, as Austria would have been a rival to Prussia
for domination of the Empire. Following the Franco-Prussian War in which France was
humiliated, Bismarck arranged for King Wilhelm 1 of Prussia to be crowned
Kaiser (the German equivalent of Caesar) of Germany.There were only
two Kaisers of the German Empire, Wilhelm I and II. The family name ("House") was
Hohenzollern.

The success of the Franco-Prussian war left
Germans somewhat drunk with success and prone to a Social Darwinist way of thinking.
They considered themselves the fittest and best of the European species. They also
embraced a new authoritarian conservatism based on
nationalism.

Any connection with Hitler is indirect at
best. Hitler did appeal to German nationalism and socialism and promoted the idea of the
Germans as superior to all others. The German Empire under Wilhelm I and II had been, in
Hitler's vision, the Second Reich. (The First Reich had been the Holy Roman Empire which
comprised most of present day Germany.) Hitler built on this by calling his regime the
Third Reich.

What is a glogster? I need some ideas how to create one....and I have no idea

Glogster.com is a website, whose motto is "Poster
Yourself". Basically, it is a 2.0 and 21st century teaching tool on beta version where
students can go to create an online collage, or poster, using pictures that they upload
themselves. It is pre-loaded with a number of templates. The users only need to follow
the different shapes and easy-to-follow directions so that they can organize the
pictures by size, shape, and theme. Also, it is free to use and no harder than other
sites that you can find for free use online.

Glogster can
be used as a graphic organizing tool, as a tool for focal learning, or as a way to
infuse art and technology in the classroom instruction. You can post your Glogster to
the glogster gallery,  upload it and save it as a graphic, or just print
it.

In my personal experience with Glogster the important
part is to know what is the topic that will be explored and to have relevant pictures to
go with it. It is best to save all your pictures first to a file that you know where to
find, and then just follow the Glogster directions.

Also,
whatever vocabulary you will include in your Glogster please ensure it is spelled
correctly because once you finish your Glogster, you cannot change it. So, however
creative you may be, the main idea of a Glogster is the integration of art, technology,
but also language arts- and fun!

Given dy/dx=1/square root(36-x^2). What is y ?

To determine the primitive function y, we'll have to
compute the indefinite integral of the function.

If dy/dx =
1/sqrt(36-x^2) => dy = dx/sqrt[(6)^2 - x^2]

We'll
integrate both sides:

Int dy = Int dx/sqrt[(6)^2 -
x^2]

We'll recognize the
formula:

Int dx/sqrt(a^2 - x^2) = arcsin (x/a) +
C

Let a = 6 => Int dx/sqrt[(6)^2 - x^2] = arcsin
(x/6) + C

The required function y, when dy/dx
= 1/sqrt(36-x^2), is: y = arcsin (x/6) + C.

Prove the trigonometric identity cot 2x=csc 2x-tanx.

We'll manage the left side of the given
expression:

We know that cot (2x) = cos (2x)/sin
(2x)

We'll apply the double angle
identities:

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

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

cot (2x) = [1 - 2(sin x)^2]/sin
(2x)

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

But 1/sin (2x) = csc
(2x)

[1 - 2(sin x)^2]/sin (2x) = csc (2x) - sin x/cos
x

[1 - 2(sin x)^2]/sin (2x) = csc (2x) - tan
x

Since LHS = RHS, the given identity cot
(2x) = csc (2x) - tan x is verified.

Can you please show how to do a close analysis of the themes, language, and theatrical techniques of Shakspeare's Macbeth?

Whenever doing a close analysis or "close reading," it's
good to choose a brief excerpt from the text rather than trying to range widely over
many words.  Here is a passage from Macbeth, chosen pretty much at
random, which we can look at closely. It comes from Act I, Scene 3. In this passage,
Macbeth is responding to the successful fulfillment of part of the witches’ prophecy
concerning him:

• Macbeth.
  [Aside]. Two truths are told, 240
  As happy
  prologues to the swelling act
  Of the imperial theme.—I thank you, gentlemen.
  
  [Aside] This supernatural soliciting]
  Cannot
  be ill, cannot be good: if ill,
  Why hath it given me earnest of success,
  245
  Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor:
  If good, why do I
  yield to that suggestion
  Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair
  And
  make my seated heart knock at my ribs,
  Against the use of nature? Present
  fears 250
  Are less than horrible imaginings:
  My thought, whose
  murder yet is but fantastical,
  Shakes so my single state of man that function
  
  Is smother'd in surmise, and nothing is
  But what is not.
  255

Note how in this passage, Macbeth is
already speaking in an aside, suggesting much about his character: that he has something
to hide, that he is privately ambitious, and that he is a man full of thoughts but is
not always willing to share his thoughts with others. Obviously, these asides already
foreshadow much of his later secretive, devious
behavior.

Meanwhile, his reference to the “imperial theme”
emphasizes a major motif of the play: his later desire to be king and to monopolize
power. The reference to “supernatural soliciting” also highlights a major theme of the
play, and it is interesting that Macbeth uses the noun “soliciting,” implying that he is
not yet won over to a full commitment to evil and implying, too, that he does not (and
will not) accept full personal responsibility for his own
ambitions.

The phrase “Cannot be ill, cannot be good”
typifies Macbeth’s tendency to vacillate, to see both sides to a degree that sometimes
paralyzes him. His is a deeply divided mind (at least at first), and Shakespeare implies
as much by using phrasing such as this.  The fact that Macbeth then develops the
implications of this phrase for the next several lines shows that he is capable of real
thought, and it also raises some of the major ethical issues of the
play.

When Macbeth refers to the unfixing of his hair and
to his

. . .
seated heart knock[ing] at [his] ribs,

Against the use of
nature . . .

Shakespeare
shows his gift for concocting vivid imagery while also anticipating, perhaps, the later
knocking at the gates of the castle.  Finally, this phrase also implies the theme of
unnatural behavior that is pervasive in the play. Characteristically, the passage ends
with more paradoxical language suggesting once more a divided
mind:

. . .
nothing is
But what is not. . .
.

Describe mirkwood?

Most of readers' information concerning Mirkwood comes
fromThe Hobbit.   In this novel, the dwarves and Bilbo cross through Mirkwood on their
way to the Lonely Mountain. 

Before the Third Age, Mirkwood
was known as 'Greenwood the Great,' but Sauron secretly built a fortress in Dol Guldur
(a rocky hill near Mirkwood), and the evil shadow slowly crept into the forest, imbuing
it with dark creatures like orcs and humongous
spiders. 

There is an old road that runs through Mirkwood
and an Enchanted River, whose dark waters will make any trespasser fall into an uneasy
sleep.  InThe Hobbit,Bilbo finds entering the forest a foreboding
prospect:

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"The entrance to the [forest-]path was like a
sort of arch leading in to a gloomy tunnel made by two great trees that leant together,
too old and strangled with ivy to bear more than a few blackened leaves. The path itself
was narrow and wound in and out among the trunks. Soon the light at the gate was like a
little bright hole far behind, and the quiet was so deep that their feet seemed to thump
along while all the trees leaned over them and listened."  (from The Hobbit
)

What is partial fraction decomposition of 2x/(x^2-9)?

We'll write the fraction 2x/(x^2 - 9) as an algebraic sum
of partial fractions: [A/(x-3)] + [B/(x+3)]

Since the LCD
of the fractions from the right side is (x-3)(x+3) = x^2 - 9, we'll multiply by x^2 - 9
both fractions:

2x/(x^2 -9)= [A(x+3) + B(x-3)]/ (x^2
-9)

Having the common denominator (x^2 -9), we'll simplify
it.

2x = Ax+3A+Bx-3B

We'll
factorize by x to the right side:

2x = x*(A+B) +
(3A-3B)

Comparing, we'll
have:

A + B=2
(1)

3A-3B=0

We'll divide by
3:

A - B = 0 (2)

We'll add the
second relation to the first one:

A + B + A -
B=2+0

2A=2

A =
1

But, from (2) => A=B =
1

The partial fraction decomposition is:
2x/(x^2-9) = 1/(x-3) + 1/(x+3).

Identify and explain how the central conflict is foreshadowed in Chapter 1 of To Kill a Mockingbird?

Although neither Tom Robinson nor Bob Ewell (the other
central figures of the primary plot of Part Two) were mentioned in the opening chapter,
the author quickly established the importance of Boo Radley in the lives of Jem and
Scout. Most of the chapter discusses the history of Boo and the Radley family, and when
Dill is introduced, his own curiosity of Boo further instill's the Finch children's
interest. Miss Stephanie's insistence that Boo did come out--only at night--only peaked
the children's curiosity further. When Dill's
proposal,

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"Let's try to make him come
out..."

is made, it becomes
the children's main goal for the next year. The fact that Boo is capable of murder is
also established, though it is merely speculation from the imaginations of
children.

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     Jem said if Dill wanted to get himself
killed, all he had to do was go up and knock on the front door.
     "... I
hope you got it through your head that he'll kill us, each and every one, Dill Harris,"
said Jem. 

Jem later
prophetically remarked to Scout,

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"If I got killed, what'd become of
you?"

The fact that Boo is
never seen is important, since the reader must assume that a character of such impact
must eventually make an appearance in the story. And Boo almost does at the end of the
chapter.

...
we thought we saw an inside flutter move. Flick. A tiny, almost invisible
movement...

Can Nature be one of the themes in "The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop?

According to critic Lloyd Schwarty Bishop is frimly in the
ut pictura poesis tradition.  That is, the use of Nature is like
art, as in a painting or in a poem; nature, like art speaks to the viewer or
reader. Elizabeth Bishop wants the readers of her poem "The Fish" to read the world
around them.

Thus, in Bishop's poem, the speaker, who at
first is merely fishing and catches the "battered and venerable" large fish, examines
this creature of nature, noticing the various patterns and colors he possesses, much
like a work of art:

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Here and there

his
brown skin hung in strips

like ancient wallpaper....He was
speckled with barnacles,

fine rosettes of
lime,

and infested

with tiny
white sea-lice,

and underneath two or
three

rags of green weed hung
down.

And, as the speaker
examines the "tremendous fish," she is filled with sympathy and awe at the majesty and
bravado of the creature who has overcome several attempts at capturing him as she looks
at the five pieces of wire and line "Like medals with their ribbons." Furthermore, as
she "stared and stared," everything becomes "rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!" and
she releases the fish to the lake.  This rainbow represents the victory of not only the
fish, but of the speaker, as well.  For, she has read the world of nature and learned to
appreciate its beauty and sympathize with it.  Clearly, Elizabeth Bishop's poem is verse
that is truly beautiful, deeply sympathetic to nature.

What was the Emancipation Proclamation?What did it do, what did it not do, and why? Explain Lincoln’s motivation behind the Proclamation and the...

The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in those states
in rebellion as of January 1, 1863.  That would mean only
those slaves in the Confederacy. It did not free slaves in the "border states" which had
slaves and remained in the Union, and it specifically exempted certain areas which were
under Union control. In essence, it freed no slaves whatsoever. There is some debate as
to Lincoln's motivation; however a telling element is that it was issued shortly after
the Battle of Antietam. Lee had invaded Maryland hoping that a victory in the North
would induce England and possibly other European countries to recognize the Confederacy.
By issuing the Proclamation, Lincoln precluded English recognition of the Confederacy,
as the English were opposed to slavery. Obviously, it also gave the North the moral high
ground, and raised the possibility of slave revolts which would further weaken the
South; but my personal opinion is that he wished to preclude the possibility of European
recognition or even entry into the war on behalf of the South.

What is the punishment in North Carolina for conviction of telephone harassment -- GS 14-196(a)(3)?

14-196. Using profane, indecent or
threatening language to any person over telephone; annoying or harassing by repeated
telephoning or making false statements over telephone.
(2000)

(a)  It shall be unlawful for any
person:

(1)  To use in telephonic communications any words
or language of a profane, vulgar, lewd, lascivious or indecent character, nature or
connotation;

(2)  To use in telephonic communications any
words or language threatening to inflict bodily harm to any person or to that person's
child, sibling, spouse, or dependent or physical injury to the property of any person,
or for the purpose of extorting money or other things of value from any
person;

(3)  To telephone another repeatedly, whether or
not conversation ensues, for the purpose of abusing, annoying, threatening, terrifying,
harassing or embarrassing any person at the called
number;

(4)  To make a telephone call and fail to hang up
or disengage the connection with the intent to disrupt the service of
another;

(5)  To telephone another and to knowingly make
any false statement concerning death, injury, illness, disfigurement, indecent conduct
or criminal conduct of the person telephoned or of any member of his family or household
with the intent to abuse, annoy, threaten, terrify, harass, or
embarrass;

(6)  To knowingly permit any telephone under his
control to be used for any purpose prohibited by this
section.

(b)  Any of the above offenses may be deemed to
have been committed at either the place at which the telephone call or calls were made
or at the place where the telephone call or calls were received. For purposes of this
section, the term "telephonic communications" shall include communications made or
received by way of a telephone answering machine or recorder, telefacsimile machine, or
computer modem.

(c)  Anyone violating the provisions of
this section shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.

The
maximum punishment on a class 2 misdemeanor is 60 days in jail.

sinz=z , z=x+iy

sin w=z
sin
w=((e^{iw}-e^{iw})/(2i))
e^{iw}-e^{-iw}=2iz   multiply everything by
e^{iw}
e^{2iw}-1=2ize^{iw}
e^{2iw}-2ize^{iw}-1=0
y=e^{iw}
y²-2izy-1=0
y=((2iz±√((-2iz)²-4(-1)))/2)=((-iz±√(-4z²+4))/2)
e^{iw}=-iz±√(1-z²)  
so our answer
is
iw=ln(-iz±√(1-z²))
w=(1/i)ln(-iz±√(1-z²))+2πn

I
do not see an easy way to solve this equation for z.

z=0 is
an obvious solution.

Using newton's method on the original
function

f(z) = sin(z)-z

f
'(z) = cos(z) - 1

Pick a x_0 and iterate the following
formula

x_(n+1) = x_n - f(x_n)/f
'(x_n)

I get z = 7.4976763 - 2.7686783 i as one posible
answer from about 10 iterations starting with (5+5i)

z =
13.899960 - 3.3522099 i  is another answer.

I do not see a
pattern, but perhaps you can...

Discuss how Pride and Prejudice deals with love under the scope of marriage.

Pride and Prejudice treats the topic
of love, under the scope of marriage, by illustrating two sides of the spectrum of
courtship: Love for the sake of emotion, and love for the sake of
convenience.

Within these parameters, love is represented
almost as an emotional by-product that may hinder the networking and enriching
opportunities that a "good" (financially beneficial and arranged) marriage brings with
it. 

The novel presents marriage and courtship during a
time when women are limited to being another object within a household. Under these
circumstances, marriage serves as the only mean of social and financial freedom for
women.

When love and emotion come in between, these
feelings are often disregarded in favor of a common-sense marriage where both parties
are financially satisfied.

In Pride and
Prejudice we find that the couples who searched for true love, and sincerely
cared for each other, ended up "happily ever after". Elizabeth states from the beginning
that she will marry for love, and love alone. She encourages Jane to do the same. They
both are victorious in the end. Contrastingly, those who married for convenience or for
financial interest, such as Charlotte Lucas and Mrs. Hurst, were essentially unhappy
wives with boring lives and only the title of "Mrs." to show
for.

This being said, Pride and
Prejudice clearly sends out the message that marriage should be a choice made
out of love with the aim of solidifying the relationship of two people over time.
Contrastingly, marriage alone will only lead to a disastrous life of loneliness,
boredom, and dissatisfaction.

How can you explain Jung's archetypal criticism under the light of The Glass Menagerie?

Jung's archetypal criticism attempts to discover the basic
existentialist, metaphysical, and psychological philosophies proposed by Karl Jung, as
they appear in literature.

To illustrate an example, there
are certain cliches that tend to occur in literature, for example, the femme fatale, the
martyr, the Cinderella-type, etc. In Jung's opinion, these archetypes tend to repeat
themselves in literature as part of our deep, human connection which is sometimes even
metaphysical. This is what Jung deems as the "collective
unconscious."

In The Glass Menagerie
we see Tom as the martyr, somewhat, since he had to overcome his mother, his
sister, his situation, and himself, in order to escape the pressure of everyday life
with Amanda.

Laura represents the hidden ego, too scared to
come out, and terrified of the world. She is suppression itself, combined with
immaturity and lack of support. She is the incomplete
self.

Jim is the destitute hero whose former glory was
replaced with the sad reality of a society that is nearly bankrupt. He accepts his life
and moves on the best way he knows how- by accepting reality and continuing his journey
in peace. Contrastingly, Tom is the one whose pathos is too overbearing to handle.
Hence, Tom is a stronger Jungian archetype than Jim.

Amanda
is more of a femme fatale (or used to be back in her day) and still uses her charms,
perhaps in cathartic allusion to what she wishes for her daughter to
do.

In all, each character is representative of a different
unfinished business, and a different type of incomplete journey. This is true to most
individuals, and it is a repetitive theme across literature. This connection between
human emotion and the collective unconscious is what gives the theme to the Jungian
criticism.

What is an example of Atticus being misunderstood in To Kill a Mockingbird?For homework reflection. Thanks.

The straight-shooting and down-to-earth Atticus Finch is
rarely misunderstood, nor does he ever deliberately mislead anyone in To Kill
a Mockingbird. The children do eventually discover their father's true
disdain for guns; when Atticus refused to teach them how to shoot their air rifles
(instead allowing brother Jack to instruct them), Jem and Scout assume that it is
because Atticus does not know how to shoot. They discover the real truth, of course,
when they learn of their father's old nickname after his killing of the mad
dog.

Atticus may or may not have deliberately misled the
children when he told them that the "Ku Klux's gone," referring to the KKK. The Ku Klux
Klan surely had not disappeared, though there may have been little to no activity around
Maycomb. Although the lynch mob that showed up at the jail to take Tom is never
identified directly as KKK members, it does raise the question of whether Atticus was
naive concerning the organization, or whether he was simply trying to soothe his
family's worries about the situation.

In what ways did Mao Zedong and the Communists seek to change the basic values and beliefs of the Chinese people?

There were many ways in which the Chinese communists under
Mao Zedong tried to change the basic beliefs and values of the Chinese people.  Many of
these revolved around an effort to break down the traditional family extended family and
to promote more of a focus on the "modern" nuclear
family.

Among these policies was the policy which gave
women full equality with men in terms of marriage, divorce, and property rights.  This
was meant to break down the traditional, patriarchal focus of the extended family.  The
extended family was attacked more specifically as a relic of feudal
times.

One could argue that the indoctrination of Party
members that included the famous "self-criticism" sessions was a policy that was meant
to eradicate old ways of thought.  During these sessions, members were made to criticize
themselves for various "sins" against Party doctrine.  They were encouraged to
completely accept the new ways that the Party brought
in.

In ways like these, the Communist Party under Mao
Zedong tried to remake Chinese values and ideals to be more in line with communist
tenets.

What was Atticus trying to say in his closing speech at the end of the Tom Robinson trial in To Kill a Mockingbird?

During the trial of Tom Robinson, the townspeople have
turned against Atticus because he has taken the case. Atticus has done his job, and
proved that Tom is innocent, but because he is a black man, Atticus knows that he will
never be treated fairly. 

When the closing arguments come
about, Atticus tells the people on the jury that they have to look past Tom being a
black man and see him as just a man. He tells them it is their God given duty to do the
right thing. He is trying to get them to do what is right and not what the town says.
Atticus knows it is not going to end well for Tom, so he tries to appeal to the jury's
moral compass. By telling the jury that it is their God given right to do the right
thing, he is telling them that they have a responsibility to God to do what is
right.

"She
was white, and tempted a Negro. She did something that in our society is unspeakable:
she kissed a black man. Not an old Uncle, but a strong young Negro man. No code mandated
to her before she broke it, but it came crashing down on her after
words."

With this statement,
Atticus is showing that Tom was tempted but wasn't the one who broke the code. He is
saying that he knows Tom is a black man, but the jury has to do what's
right.

i just want to get summary or theme of the poem More about people by ogden nash

Ogden Nash was a modern American poet who was born in the
year 1902. In this poem More About People he vents out his anger on
some people in the society who are quite annoying and irritating. The poem is written in
a simple way and is quite comprehensible. The poet begins by saying that there are some
people who are either asking questions or are busy giving suggestions. And if these
annoying people are not engaged in asking questions or providing suggestions, they will
try either to spy into your activities or try to upset you by saying or doing something
unpleasant. And if they see that they haven’t done enough to annoy you, they will make
you do some work. The poet also points out people who are not happy to see people
enjoying their leisure. Again there are people who, always engaged in some work, get
irritated in see other people not working. So they try to convince you to work by saying
that work is a wonderful medicine. In order to establish their point they give example
of companies like Firestone and Ford and of famous people like Edison. They will
continue their tiring lecture till they are out of breath and if they see that you have
yet not succumbed, they will attempt to starve you to death or try doing something
equally ghastly. And all of this results in the nasty quirk or odd truth of life and
that is if you don’t have the wish to work, you will still have to work to earn
sufficient money so that you needed have to work later in life. 

Do rape shield laws provide a good way to address the problem of underreporting sex crimes?

I would argue that rape shield laws provide an important,
but incomplete, way to address the problem of underreporting of sex crimes.  There would
surely be more unreported crimes without such laws, but the laws do not completely
prevent underreporting.

Rape shield laws do help encourage
women to come forward and report crimes because they protect women from having their
sexual history become an issue during a trial.  This spares
women from being grilled in court about their past.  However, these laws cannot prevent
the media, for example, from discussing a woman's sexual history.  This would be an
embarassing thing and is likely to deter women from reporting crimes.  Rape shield laws
also do not protect women from the possibility of retaliation if they report that they
have been raped by an acquaintance.

For these reasons, rape
shield laws are important, but they do not completely solve the problem of
underreporting of sex crimes.

In Othello, what are some examples about true and false ?

There are lots of possibilities here. Let's look at the
mysogynist Iago who is true to his word shared with the audience that he will destroy
his master Othello and Othello's innocent wife
Desdemona-

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I'll pour this pestilence into his
ear—
That she repeals him for her body's lust;
And by how much she
strives to do him good,
She shall undo her credit with the Moor.
So
will I turn her virtue into
pitch.

Iago has convinced
himself that his actions are a just revenge for an indiscretion rumoured between his
wife Emilia and Othello -

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I do suspect the lusty Moor
Hath leap'd
into my seat; the thought whereof
Doth (like a poisonous mineral) gnaw my
inwards;
And nothing can or shall content my soul
Till I am evened
with him, wife for wife.

Iago
is true to his word and destroys everyone in this scenario: Othello, Desdemona and
Emilia. In every other respect, Iago is a complete false 'Janus' deceptive to whomever
he meets: his social contacts (Roderigo his friend); family ties (Emilia his wife); 
direct employer (Othello); colleague (Cassio) and the one innocent of his methods and
undeserving of his hate--Desdemona.

what is shakespeare messages in macbeth and romeo and juliet play?

Are you looking for a common message in the two plays?  If
so, I would start by examining the source of the tragedy in both stories.  Both plays
end in a number of deaths including those of the main characters (Romeo and Juliet,
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth).  So which flaw or flaws of the characters caused their deaths
and the deaths of so many around them?

In the case of
Macbeth, both Macbeth and his wife are done in by their ambition.  In order to get (and
keep) what they want, they'll stop at nothing including people to whom they should be
loyal (Duncan), former friends (Banquo), and even small
children.

In the case of Romeo and Juliet, the characters
are doomed by both their haste and their selfishness.  In order to get what THEY want,
they act without forethought of the consequences of their
actions.

So if you're looking for a message common to both
plays, you might say that the characters are doomed by pursuing what they want at the
cost of others' lives and happiness.

What are contributing factors of some locations relevant to the plot of "This is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona"?Locations: the reservation,...

Let's start by narrowing in on plot a bit better. Plot is
the progress of events that develop conflict and lead to conflict climax and conflict
resolution. So what you are essentially asking is: How do the setting locations
contribute to the development of the plot conflict, conflict climax, and conflict
resolution? The first setting is fairly clear after a bit of
thought.

At the reservation, several conflict related
things happened. (1) Thomas told the story (i.e., prophesy) that Victor's father would
leave and never return. (2) Victor beat Thomas up and Thomas's stories stopped. (3)
Victor's father did indeed leave, never to return. The conflicts are self against self
and self against environment. These events at the reservation began the conflict as
Victor reacts to Thomas's story and to his father's
departure.

Another example of how the setting's locations
contribute to the development of the plot relates to Nevada. In an ironic twist, Thomas,
the teller of life changing (or not) stories is the one who hits and kills "the only
living thing in Nevada." When Victor sees no living thing all through Nevada, he
demonstrates the conflict of self against environment. Symbolically, in his experience,
the environment is devoid of life, empty, barren. Thomas connects with the environment
and brings forth life, the jackrabbit. Symbolically, Thomas crushes the rabbit
demonstrating that where life exists, the opportunity for a painful end also
exists.

This incident is the beginning of the resolution to
the conflicts: Victor accepts that pain and disappointment abide with life; he makes
peace with his own distress; he forgives his father and Thomas. Thomas tells a second,
redeeming story about Victor's father and gets his living stories
back:

Thomas
went into his house, closed the door behind him, and heard a new story come to him in
the silence afterwards.

What was Ronald Reagan's economic plan?

Ronald Reagan's basic economic plan was to cut taxes and,
he hoped, to cut government spending as well.  If government spending could not actually
be cut, Reagan at least wanted to redirct spending, taking it away from welfare and
other domestic programs and putting it towards defense.

The
main aspect of Reagan's plan, though, was tax cuts.  Reagan believed in an idea called
"supply-side economics."  This idea holds that tax cuts , especially for the rich and
for businesses, will make the economy expand because people will have more of an
incentive to work if they have to pay less in the way of taxes.  Reagan also believed in
the "Laffer Curve," which argues that cutting tax rates will increase tax revenues
because people will work more and will therefore pay taxes on a much higher
income.

Reagan managed to get Congress to pass major tax
cuts.  He also got Congress to shift money from domestic spending to defense.  These two
things constituted the bulk of his economic plan.

How does Baz Luhrmann modernise Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?

I have always really appreciated this production of this
excellent tragedy for the extremely effective updating that it gives. This has the
benefit of making this play tremendously accessible to a wide range of students, whereas
other versions that are still locked into a Shakesperian medieval setting, are not as
immediately accessible.

Firstly, let us focus on setting.
This film version of the play is set in a modern gang setting in Los Angeles. The
Capulets and Montagues seem to be Hispanic settlers in the United States who are
immensely wealthy. The opening scene is set in a gas station and invovles a shoot out
between the two different houses. Police come in a helicopter and the Prince speaks
through a megaphone to stop the violence.

Secondly, mention
must be made of the wonderful modern soundtrack, including tracks from bands such as
Garbage. Music is an important part of the film, with Mercutio appearing at the
Capulet's ball in drag and singing a number for them. The ball is a fancy dress ball,
with Juliet being dressed as an Angel and Paris as an astronaut. Romeo takes drugs
before entering the ball.

Thirdly and finally, I forgot to
mention the role that the Chorus has. In this version, the Chorus actually takes the
role of a news reporter, appearing on television to give us an update on the latest
problems in Verona. The Prince is actually the Chief of Police who is exasperated and
frustrated with both families for their continued
violence.

All in all this is an excellent production and it
would be great to use this version to spark the imagination of learners who are studying
the play and see what is possible with Shakespeare.

tan(cos^-1(4/5)+sin^-1(1)) I need to solve without using a calculator a step by step process I need to use tan(a+B)= Sin (a+B) / cos (a+B)...

You need to use the fact that the tangent function is a
rational function such that:

Using
the following formulas and
x*cos y - sin x* sin y

(cos^-1(4/5)+sin^-1(1)) = (sin (cos^-1(4/5)+sin^-1(1)))/(cos
(cos^-1(4/5)+sin^-1(1)))

(sin (cos^-1(4/5))*cos(sin^-1(1)) +
sin(sin^-1(1))*cos(cos^-1(4/5)))/(cos(cos^-1(4/5))*cos(sin^-1(1)) -
sin(sin^-1(1))*sin(cos^-1(4/5)))

Use  
and

and cos(sin ^-1 a) = sqrt(1 - a^2).

(cos^-1(4/5)+sin^-1(1)) = (sqrt((1 - 16/25)(1 - 1)) + 1*(4/5))/((4/5)*sqrt(1-1) -
1*sqrt(1 - 16/25))

4/5)/(0 - sqrt(9/25))

(4/5)/(-3/5)

-4/3

Hence, evaluating the tangent of the
sum of inverse trigonometric functions yields

What examples in "The Necklace" point to an omniscient author viewpoint?

 In a way the limited third-person point of view resembles
the omniscient point of view.  But, while the narrator relates the inner thoughts and
feelings of a character, this vantage point, however, is limited to one character. 
Therefore, this point of view is termed limited third-person point of view. 
And, it is truly this vantage point that Maupassant employs in his subtlely
ironic story, "The Necklace.'  In this way, the story is perceived from the perspective
of the petty and selfish Madame Loisel, who bemoans her fate as the wife of a minor
clerk of the Ministries who has been meant for a much higher social
status.

She
would dream of silent chambers, draped with Oriental tapestries and lighted by tall
bronze floor lamps, and of two handsome butlers in knee breeches, who, drowsy from the
heaving warmth cast by the central stove, dozed in large overstuffed
armchairs.

Interestingly,
this limited third-person narrator arouses some sympathy for Madame Loisel on the part
of readers.  For instance, when Mme. Loisel finally returns to Mme. Forestier with the
sustitute necklace, the reader fears with her what Mme. Forestier may think if she opens
the case as Maupassant writes,

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...what would she have thought?  What would she
have said?   Would she have thought her a
thief?

Then, in the
next paragraph, too, there is pathos in the limited third person point of
view:

Mme.
Loisel experienced the horrible life the needy live.  She played her part, however, with
sudden heroism.  That frightful debt had to be paid.  She would pay it.  She dismissed
her maid; they rented a garret under the eaves.

She learned
to do the heavy housework, to perform the hateful duties of cooking. She washed
dishes....

This pathos,
however, makes all the more for the irony of the surprise ending as the readers realize
their sympathies have unreasonably been given to such a petty
woman.

In the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, how do Antony and Octavius react to Brutus’s death?

It is interesting that in this tragedy that bears the name
of Julius Caesar, the true tragic hero could be said to be Brutus. This theory is
certainly supported by the way in which both Antony and Octavius respond to being told
that Brutus killed himself. Note what Antony says about Brutus and in particular how he
differed from the other conspirators that plotted to assassinate
Caesar:

This
was the noblest Roman of them all.

All the conspirators
save only he

Did that they did in envy of great
Caesar;

He, only in a general honest
thought

And common good to all, made one of
them.

His life was gentle, and the
elements

So mixed in him that Nature might stand
up

And say to all the world, "This was a
man!"

Note the praise that
Antony bestows upon Brutus as he says that he was "the noblest Roman of them all." In
addition, Antony argues that he was the only conspirator who did what he did out of pure
motives, and that he was a true man. Octavius likewise seems to recognise the innate
nobility of Brutus as he orders that the body of Brutus should lie in his tent and that
his body will be buried properly.

What symbolism is there in "Ripe Figs" by Kate Chopin?

This is an excellent short short story by one of the best
short story writers ever, in my opinion, and if we want to consider symbolism, one way
to do it would be to consider the ripe figs of the title themselves and how they operate
symbolically in this tale of youthful impatience versus a more mature approach to time.
It is the ripening of the figs that Maman-Nainaine choses as a natural time marker of
when Babette can go and visit her cousins and, amusingly, at the end, we see that the
ripening of figs is not the only natural time marker that Maman-Nainaine uses to plan
her life:

"And
tell your tante Frosine I shall look for her at Toussaint--when the chrysanthemums are
in bloom."

Thus we are
presented with a woman who is so in touch with nature that she uses the variosu seasons
and the way that nature responds to rule her own life. The "ripe figs" become then a
symbol of a life lived in harmony with nature and ruled by it.

How old do you think the narrator is when she tells us the story of To Kill a Mockingbird?List phrases from the chapter that helped you to arrive...

We know from the very first page of To Kill a
Mockingbird that the narrator tells her story from a retrospective view many
years in the future, since she mentions that she and her brother, Jem, were now "far too
old to settle an argument with a fist-fight." After several pages describing the town of
Maycomb and the history of the Finch family, the narrator reverts to a present day
perspective. She picks up the story when she is "almost six and Jem was nearly ten"
years old and Dill comes to visit them for the first time. We only find out late in the
first chapter that the narrator's nickname is Scout.

In Beowulf what does quotation mean:"In the home of the Geats Hygelac's thane gathered the stories of Grendel's tormatment a good man and strong...

This quotation addresses a couple of standard beliefs of
the Anglo-Saxon era, first, the idea that fate determined one's destiny in all things
and second the idea of the oral tradition and its impact on
culture.

The quotation itself can be paraphrased loosely as
in the land of the Geats, King Hygelac had a nobleman who seemed to be born to be the
one to end Grendel's torment.

The idea that a man can be
born to do something is taken relatively literally here.  Beowulf, being strong, brave
and intelligent, is the one chosen by the gods or God, to defeat
Grendel. 

Yet, how did Beowulf even hear of the 12 year
reign of terror handed down by Grendel?  After all, Grendel terrorized Denmark, and the
land of the Geats is across the sea.  The answer is the oral tradition.  Nothing was
written down at this time; no records were kept.  The only way news could travel would
be word of mouth.  This stories of Grendel made their way across the sea in this
fashion, being told and retold until it finally reached Hygelac and
Beowulf. 

Beowulf is certainly willing to intercede because
he, too, wants to be remembered.  If he defeats Grendel, his name will live in the oral
tradition as well, allowing him to live on after his own death.

What kind of text is The Feminine Mystique? Is it is narrative, argumentative/persuasive, or descriptive?

I think that much of Friedan's work spans all three styles
of writing.  It might make sense that this is the case.  As Friedan is arguing that the
socialization process that robs the complexity and uniqueness of women contributes to
their unhappiness, the same process can be made from a thinking point of view.  When
writing is forced to enter one of three text styles, it might help to remove the sense
of uniqueness and distinction that great writing possesses.  Friedan's work contains
analysis from a personalized point of view, through reflection and anecdotal thought. 
This would help make it fulfill requirements of a descriptive writing piece.  The
statistical breakdown and logical analysis helps establish the tone of an expository
piece.  While the persuasive element of a manifesto  underscores the entire writing. 
This is something that argues the state of women is something that necessitates and
requires change, is something out of the persuasive line of thought. In this, Friedan's
work occupies central importance in all of these domains, representing the idea that
good work can transcend arbitrary distinctions and hold elements of many as it becomes
classified as simply "good writing."

Darwin's observations of finches indicated descent withA) no change in species. B) inheritance of large bills. C) modification in bills. D)...

The answer is C. The ancestral finches from South America
migrated to the various islands of the Galapagos. Each island had its own unique habitat
and available food supply. In nature, competition usually ends with one species being
outcompeted and possibly becoming extinct, as in Gause's principle. However, in the
Galapagos, although many finches occupied the same niche, there was niche
diversification that occurred. In one tree, you can have finches that feed high up, in
the middle or at the ground level. Some can eat seeds, and those can be further
categorized by small, medium or large seeds, some eat insects, some use a cactus needle
as a tool, and some feed on the ground. Therefore, although they all descended from a
common finch ancestor, over two million years of evolution, these little differences in
their beak sizes and shape resulted in the many finch species seen today in the
Galapagos Islands.

Explain the "Angry Young Man Movement" in "Look Back in Anger."

Sure!  After World War II, there was a new phrase that
appeared that was originally coined by Leslie Allen Paul:  "angry young men." 
Basically, these were English men (usually of the working classes) who wrote for a
living; however, their writing had quite a few common traits:  anger, protest, and
rebellion of some sort.

Usually disillusioned with British
society, Jimmy of Look Back in Anger by John Osborne fits the
description of an "angry young man" perfectly.  In fact, anger is the main theme, of
course.  Jimmy is continually described as being both "helpless" and "angry."  Jimmy
always blames his friends and his society for his own failures.  He feels that, due to
his college education, he should have more going for him, but Jimmy doesn't and blames
it on everyone but himself.

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You see I learnt at an early age what it was to
be angry - angry and helpless. And I can never forget it. I knew more about - love...
betrayal... and death, when I was ten years old than you will probably ever know in your
life.

As a result of his own
failures, Jimmy is angry as he sells inexpensive candy at the market.  Another way that
Jimmy fits into the "angry young man" category is his hatred of Alison's relatives. 
Alison, of course, has upper-class roots.  Anyone in the "angry young man" movement, due
to their low social class, would be "required" to dislike anyone of upper-class
heritage.

In conclusion, it's important to note that it is
class conflict that defines the "Angry Young Man" movement.  Jimmy helps exemplify that
movement, therefore, the story Look Back in Anger by John Osborne
fits the bill perfectly.

Summarize the pertinent thematic elements of To Sir, with Love.

Braithwaite's work is about his first year teaching
experience.  It focuses on the successful and talented Braithwaite, who is forced to
enter teaching after being turned down from so many positions.  In moving into the
teaching realm, he is assigned to the worst students.  It is here where the narrative
develops in terms of Braithwaite's evolution as teacher and advocate for his students. 
The exploration of this process helps to form the major theme of the narrative in terms
of validating the teaching profession.  Braithwaite's work does not romanticize
teaching, but it does bring to light the potential for intangible rewards in it.  The
narrative does not glorify children, but rather brings to light the power in being there
for a child and a child knowing that a teacher is there for them when others might not
be.  There is a power at the end of the story that comes from both Braithwaite's
commitment to teaching and willingness to see it through regardless of the difficulty. 
When experiencing this, one of the major themes present is the perseverance of human
beings in the face of overwhelming odds.  In this, the final element of the narrative
emerges.

Describe the route Simon Fraser took during his voyage.

Simon Thompson Fraser
(1776-1862) was an early explorer of what is now British Columbia and the first man to
explore the entirety of the Fraser River, which is named for him. His father, General
Simon Fraser (1729-1777), was mortally wounded at the Battle of Bemis Heights during the
American Revolutionary War. The younger Fraser was in charge of the North West Company's
operations west of the Rocky Mountains in 1805 when he began a quest to further expand
Alexander Mackenzie's exploration of the area. 

During an
earlier exploration in 1803, Fraser ascended the Peace River and founded a trading post
at what is now Hudson's Hope. Fraser and his men ascended the Parsnip and Pack Rivers,
founding a fort at what is now McLeod Lake--the first permanent Canadian settlement west
of the Rockies.

Fraser next hoped to explore the length of
what he thought was the Columbia River. But delays prevented him from beginning his
exploration for two years. Before doing so, he founded a fort at what is now Prince
George before beginning his most famous exploration in 1808. Warned by locals that the
river that would later be named the Fraser River would be unnavigable, Fraser's party
abandoned their canoes near what is now Lillooet, and went on by foot. They were often
chased by hostile Indians, including one encounter near what is now Vancouver. Fraser
viewed the Strait of Georgia, but could not navigate it. The men continued with
difficulty to the site of what is now Hope, where they discovered that the river was not
the Columbia. The men then began their return trip, and Fraser had to circumvent a
mutiny by his men. They continued upstream from what is now Yale, and arrived back at
Fort George in early August. The entire exploration of the Fraser River took the men
more than two months. Afterward, he established a settlement at New
Caledonia.

Why did Brutus betray his best friend Julius Caesar?

Brutus knew Caesar was changing. Power corrupts. Antony
had offered Caesar the crown. This indicates that Antony desired to see him as king.
Even though Caesar refused it, Brutus began sensing that Caesar was entertaining the
idea. If he had not been, he would not have allowed Antony to offer him the crown three
times.

Brutus sensed that the freedom of Rome was at stake.
Truly, the two were close friends. That is evident in Caesar's dying words. As the
conspirators began stabbing Caesar, Brutus too pulls out his dagger. To this action,
Caesar cries, "Et tu Brute? Then fall Caesar." This means "You too
Brutus? Then fall Caesar."

These last words indicate that
Caesar may not have known just how ambitious he was becoming until he saw Brutus with
his dagger in hand. According to Caesar's last words, he had so much confidence in
Brutus until he knew he must die for his ambition. In other words, if Brutus was in on
the conspiracy, Caesar realized there must be a dangerous flaw in his character, and he
agreed to fall.

Caesar's last words reveal the good that
had been in Caesar. He had total faith in Brutus. Brutus would never have been in on the
conspiracy had he not realized Antony was intent on crowning Caesar. The mistake Brutus
made is in allowing Antony to live. Brutus is not the type man to make rash decisions,
and Caesar knew that. Because of Antony, Brutus dies on his own
sword.

What are the similes and metaphors found in Sylvia Plath's poem "You're"?

"You're" is rife with similes and metaphors as its purpose
is to compare the titular character to all of the things which remind Plath of him/her.
This poem is about an unborn child--a baby still in the womb--which helps to identify
the various comparisons Plath makes.

The first metaphor
appears in the first line--"Clownlike"--which she then supports with imagery by
suggesting that the character, like a clown, is most comfortable on his hands with feet
in the air. Plath is referencing the baby's position, head down and facing the birth
canal. She suggests the baby is "Gilled like a fish" because he/she is swathed in
amniotic fluid. Plath then compares the baby to a turnip, "Mute as a turnip from the
Fourth/Of July to All Fools' Day," which might imply the timing of the baby's birth or
might simply be a comparison to the fact that the baby won't speak or make itself much
known during that time.

She makes many comparisons in the
second verse to the baby as a compact, contained entity--"bent-backed Atlas," "traveled
prawn," "snug as a bug," and so forth. There is also, in this verse, the suggestion that
the child seems far off--in the distance in terms of time, or perhaps even slightly
emotionally, as something "vague" and "foggy" to her yet, but at the same time something
for which she is searching.

The reference to her "little
loaf" is taken straight from the colloquialism "bun in the oven" and there are multiple
food-based comparisons in the poem. Generally, in American slang, terms of endearment
are based on food, so this helps to indicate her affection for the
baby.

Compare and contrast the Spanish-American War and WWI.

In order to get a better answer, it might be helpful to
ask a more focused question.  There are many aspects of these wars that could be
compared and contrasted.  Here are a few points that you could
make:

• The Spanish-American War was a tiny war
  that lasted a short time.  WWI was a huge war that lasted a long time.
  


• The Spanish-American War was caused largely by a desire
  in the US for empire and a desire to prove the "masculinity" of the US in war.  People
  like Theodore Roosevelt thought that the US needed to fight a war to toughen its people
  and to prove that they were strong.  WWI was caused in part by somewhat different
  factors.  It was caused by militarism, nationalism, and competition for power between
  various European countries.  One aspect of this competition for power did involve
  imperialism, so that aspect of the causes of WWI is similar to a cause of the
  Spanish-American War.

Outside of the causes,
these two wars are rather different because of the huge differences in how big they
were.

What is the message of Scene One of The Glass Menagerie?I am having difficulty figuring out a message and my teacher expects me to know one from...

Yes, it can sometimes be difficult to work out a message
from just a small part of a play! However, if I were you, I would want to approach this
question by thinking about how the first scene of this excellent drama introduces the
characters and also indicates some of the central conflicts that are going on. One of
the major characters you can talk about is Amanda, who, with her much-repeated story of
having "seventeen gentleman callers" and the futures of the men that she could have
married clearly indicates that she is a character who is living in the past and can't
really move on. Note what she says:

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That Fitzhugh boy went North and made a
fortune--came to be known as the Wolf of Wall Street! He had the Midas touch, whatever
he touched turned to gold! And I could have been Mrs. Duncan J. Fitzhugh, mind you!
But--I picked your father!

If
there is one message to be taken from Amanda's character, it is that of regret and
missed opportunities. She is unable to accept her present reality, and still acts as the
young girl that had so many gentleman callers. Tom is planning to make opportunities for
himself, whereas Laura is never going to even have the opportunity to experience such
attention because of her crippling shyness.

Are there any examples of motifs in Chapter 5 of The Lord of the Flies? If none exist in Chapter 5, please provide another example. thanks

First let's define a motif so we are sure we are on the
same page. According to the Free Dictionary Online, a motif is a theme in a piece of
literature that recurs throughout the written work. For example, if an author wanted to
explore the theme of power corrupting, he would place several incidents in the piece
that illustrates that concept.

In chapter 5 of
Lord of the Flies, we see the recurring theme of the beast as it
relates not only to the boys fear, but also to the nature of evil and how that evil
rests in all of us as humans.

In previous chapters there
has been mention of a beast on the island by the littleuns. In this chapter, a littleun
says he actually saw a beast and the boys toy with the idea that it rises out of the
ocean each night. Jack uses the boys fear of the beast to take control...promising that
he and his hunters will protect them all from the
beast.

The image of the beast is also used to symbolize
evil in the form of Beezlebub (satan) and the evil in us all.