Compare and contrast a character in Fences and A Raisin in the Sun.

I think that there can be many characterizations which are
comparable in both dramas.  For me, I think it would be interesting to assess the women
in both dramas.  There are some similarities between Ruth and Rose.  Both are very
supportive of their husbands during trying times.  Ruth supports Walter in all of his
futility.  She sees herself as needing to stand up for her husband and does not hesitate
to offer support as opportunities arise when questioning Walter seems to be an
appropriate path to take.  Rose is equally zealous in defense and support of her
husband.  While Troy displays a level of difficulty in embracing with his anger and
frustration, as well as his fundamental inability to show emotion in a healthy context,
Rose does not hesitate in supporting him.  There are some significant differences, due
in part to the husbands, themselves.  While there might be hints or intimations that
Walter is on a path that strays from the sanctity of marriage, there is nothing to
clearly indicate that he has gone wayward. This is not the same for Troy, who confesses
to Rose that he is involved with Alberta. This disclosure causes her to emotionally
separate from her husband, something that we do not see Ruth do.  Additionally, Rose
must navigate between another woman, a child from that relationship, as well as navigate
through another child, Lyons, from a previous relationship.  In addition to her
responsibility to Cory, Rose must endure all of these harrowing emotional challenges. 
This is a cross that Ruth, herself, does not have to endure.  Ruth's challenges are
economic and looking out for her family in such a context.  This makes her character and
Rose's character a bit different in the level of emotional crucibles that have to be
endured.

Discuss how conflicts are resolved in the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell.

I think that Orwell displays a rather brutal manner in
which conflicts are resolved.  Violence and power become the key elements to resolving
all conflicts.  The farm's conflicts are ones that ultimately reflect on political
authority.  Orwell displays that Napoleon and the pigs' leadership is the absolute
political end and cannot be questioned.  Any conflicts on the farm is a reflection of
this leadership.  This means that all conflicts that are presented are ones that become
ultimatums on political leadership, something that cannot be resolved in any way other
than to further consolidate the rule of the Pigs.  In this light, Orwell demonstrates
that political authority that is centrally driven, without any other form of
institutional limitation will have a tendency to resolve all conflicts through power. 
Napoleon certainly does this.  Examine what happens in Chapter 7 with the forced
confessions.  Part of Napoleon's ability to resolve all conflicts through force lies in
his taking the pups in chapter 2. He recognizes early on that if he can secure the power
and enforcement ability to substantiate his own rule, then all conflicts can be resolved
through political rule and in this, there can be no conflicting force to his own control
and rule.

What is variable x if |3x-5|

We'll apply the absolute value property, such
as:

-8 < 3x - 5 <
8

We'll solve the left side
inequality:

-8 < 3x -
5

We'll isolate 3x to the right
side:

-8 + 5 < 3x

-3
< 3x

We'll divide by
3:

x > -1

We'll solve
the right side inequality:

3x - 5 <
8

We'll isolate 3x to the left
side:

3x < 8 + 5

3x
< 13

x < 13/3

-1
< x < 13/3

The values of x that
make the inequality to hold are located in the range (-1 ,
13/3).

What are examples of helpful bacteria

Bacteria that are extremely helpful are bacteria of decay.
Without these microorganisms, dead organic matter would never re-enter the ecosystem and
enrich the soil as humus. This in turn would affect all of the operating food webs on
Earth. Also, the planet would be covered in garbage and the cycles of carbon and
nitrogen would be interrupted as well. Decomposers are in integral part of the
biosphere. Some of the "good bacteria" in our intestines help to keep the numbers of
fungi like yeast in check. Without them, an overgrowth of yeast could result in an
infection. Some bacteria enable us to make foods like yogurt and cheese, via the process
of fermentation. Nitrogen fixing bacteria are important because they change atmospheric
nitrogen into nitrates which is a form of nitrogen plants can absorb and use to
manufacture plant proteins. These can be consumed in food webs by animals which in turn
can be used  to make animal proteins. Bacteria get a bad reputation sometimes, but
Kingdom Eubacteria  have members that we just can't live without. Bacterial DNA can be
genetically engineered to produce endless supplies of human growth hormone, insulin and
other drugs relatively quickly to improve the human condition.

Explain how the beginning of this chapter foreshadows the end in A Tale of Two Cities.It was a heavy mass of building, that chateau of Monsieur the...

You are right to identify the element of foreshadowing in
this excellent chapter, which is appropriately entitled "The Gorgon's Head" and is
Chapter Nine from Book II of this Dickensian classic. Of course, the allusion is to the
Gorgon from Greek Mythology, that could turn anything it looked at to stone. However, in
this chapter, the stoniness of the chateau likewise symbolises the stoniness in the
heart of Monsieur the Marquis and his emotional inability to see the poverty or connect
with the plight of the peasants that he abuses and exploits so readily, as indicated by
his complete lack of feeling for the peasant boy that he had killed in his carriage. His
death, at the end of the chapter, is described as an inevitable process, as the Gorgon
has returned and looked at the chateau again, adding a "stone face for which it had
waited through about two hundred years." Yet, at the same time, although the death of
Monsieur the Marquis is foreshadowed by the reference to stone at the beginning of the
chapter, this event also foreshadows the revolution and the rise of the working class to
overthrow the ruling aristocracy for their greed and abuse.

What are differences between Arthrochalasia Type A and B of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome?

Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) is a rare group of genetic
disorders of connective tissues that bind muscles, ligaments, organs and
skin.

Arthrochalasia is defined as excessive looseness of
joints in which the patient may be described as
“double-jointed”.

In the Arthrochalasia type of EDS there
is a mutation of either gene COL1A1 or COL1A2, resulting in arthrochalasia type A or
type B, respectively.  The gene is dominant such that it can be inherited from one
parent, resulting in disease.  More often, however, EDS occurs sporadically due to
genetic mutation.

Patients with the Arthrochalasia type of
EDS have skin hyperelasticity (redundant, easily stretched skin), Joint hyper-mobility,
fragile tissues, easy bruising, poor muscle tone, kyphoscoliosis (abnormal curvature of
the spine) and mild loss of bone density (osteopoenia) on X-ray examination of the
skeleton.  The arthrochalasia usually causes congenital (at birth) presence of
dislocated hip(s), and a tendency for recurrent hip subluxations/dislocations later on.
 Subluxation means partial dislocation.

As a practical
matter, there is little difference between Arthrochalasia Types A and B.  Instead, the
distinction is made on a genetic basis, depending on which of the collagen genes has
mutated, or which abnormal collagen gene has been inherited.

How does the reader's understanding of Maxim de Winter in Rebecca change as the story progresses?

It is vitally important to remember that this story is
actually told using the first person point of view, where the entire action is narrated
to us through one of the characters in the story. However, and vital to the success of
this incredible novel, such narratives are by their very nature partial, because one
character is not able to see the thoughts and motives of other characters, and can only
present us with their actions and what they observe. This leads to the narrator of this
novel being unreliable as she is not aware of so much to do with Max de Winter and the
relationship he had with Rebecca. Note the way in which the first bit of information we
are given about Max de Winter comes from Mrs Van Hopper, who, at the end of Chapter Two,
says:

"It's
Max de Winter," she said, "the man who owns Mandeley. You've heard of it, of course. He
looks ill, doesn't he? They say he can't get over his wife's
death..."

Of course, it is
these words that suggests to the narrator, and to the reader, that Max de Winter is a
character who is desperately trying to forget his perfect first wife that he loved so
much. We judge all of his actions under this assumption, just as the narrator does. It
is only much later on in the novel, when Maxim confesses his crime to his second wife,
that she and we discover the truth and are forced to reassess all of our
assumptions:

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The jig-saw pieces came tumbling thick and fast
upon me. Disjointed pictures flashed one by one through my bewildered mind... Maxim's
silence, Maxim's moods. The way he never talked about Rebecca. The way he never
mentioned her name.

The
discovery of what really happened makes us change our opinion of Max de Winter
radically, from a grief-stricken husband unable to move on with his life because of his
love for his first wife to a man who was tortured by the existence of his terrible first
wife and in the end was driven to murder her because of her excesses. Our sympathy for
Maxim is gained through his narration of what his life was like being married to
Rebecca.

For whom did William Shakespeare write his sonnets? Was it for any male or female?I want to know whom Shakespeare wanted to give eternity in his poem.

The sonnets of William Shakespeare were his final
non-dramatic works to receive publication (in 1609, although several had received prior
publication). Most historians agree that the sonnets were originally intended for
private readership, and they have been categorized in two series: One group appears to
have been written about "the dark lady," a lustful series about the love of a woman of
dark complexion. The other group is about the love of a young man, the "fair
youth."

The sonnets were dedicated to the unknown and much
speculated "Mr. W. H." At the end of the dedication appear the initials "T. T.",
probably the publisher Thomas Thorpe; it is believed that Thorpe signed his intitials
himself and that the publication was probably not authorized
by Shakespeare.

Scholars have long wondered about the
identity of "fair youth" of Shakespeare's sonnets. Among the candidates were
William Herbert, the Earl of Pembroke; Henry
Wriothesley, the Earl of Southampton; dramatist William
Haughton; William Hart, Shakespeare's
nephew; William Hatcliffe; and Willie
Hughes. Other theories suggest Shakespeare wrote them to himself or to a
fictional "W. H."

The identity of the "Dark Lady" is
totally unknown with few guesses to her identity even by Shakespearean
scholars.

A third character, the "Rival Poet," is believed
to have been either Christopher Marlowe or
George Chapman. 

What is the interpretation of "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost?

This, as other Frost poems, is delightful in its
ambiguity, and there are certainly several interpretations to its meaning. I will offer
mine.

The poem is concerned with the obvious divide between
two neighbours. Their farms - both arable - are separated by a wall which is annually
attacked by both nature and man, and each year the two neighbors embark on rebuilding
this divide.

The purpose of mending the wall seems to have
different meanings for the two men. For the narrator, it is an opportunity to socialise
with his neigbor, to embark on a task together. For the neighbor, it is a necessary act
to maintain the gulf between them. The neighbour retains his 'savage' view that
-

“Good fences
make good neighbors.”

Whereas
the narrator sees the wall itself as unnecessary-

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My apple trees will never get
across

And eat the cones under his
pines.

However, for the time
that the two men are 'mending wall' they are unified despite their
differences.

What is the message of Toni Marrison's poem "Recitatif"?

The title of Toni Morrison's short story, title="recitatif"
href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Recitatif">Recitatif," means,
among other things, "a recital" of some sort, and the protagonist, Twyla, provides us
with a "recital" of her connect with Roberta, also placed in the shelter where Twyla
once lived.

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Morrison’s parents taught her much about
understanding racism and growing up in predominantly white
America.

Her father was
pessimistic about whites and blacks learning to tolerate each other, but Toni's mother
was much more optimistic. It is no surprise, then, that Morrison's themes would address
these issues.

The theme of prejudice runs through the
story, which Twyla introduces early on when she tells "Old Bozo" that her mother won't
like her being placed in a room with a white girl, but Twyla doesn't seem to completely
understand this. Roberta's ability to listen and seemingly understand her quickly,
pleases Twyla, and they become unlikely friends.

Thy recall
the abuse of mute Maggie—one of the workers at the shelter—suffering at the hands of the
older girls who torment her as she tries to ignore them; but the abuse of Maggie
foreshadows Twyla's dormant sense of "fair play" between whites and
blacks.

The first clear indication of bigotry comes at the
hands of Roberta's mother when the mothers of girls visit. When Robert tries to
introduce Twyla and her mother to Roberta's mother, the other mother's slight is
obvious—even though Twyla's mother is a little slow to pick up on the racial
slight:

….[I]
turned, and saw Roberta smiling. I smiled back... Then Roberta said, "Mother, I want you
to meet my roommate, Twyla. And that's Twyla's
mother."

...She was big…and [she wore] the biggest cross
I'd ever seen...And in the crook of her arm was the biggest Bible ever
made.

Mary...tried...to shake hands, I guess. Roberta's
mother looked down at me and then looked down at Mary too. She didn't say anything, just
grabbed Roberta with her Bible-free hand and stepped tout of line, walking quickly to
the rear of it. Mary was...not too swift when it comes to what's really going on. Then
this light bulb goes off...and she says "That bitch!" really
loud...

(We cannot miss the
irony of this seemingly Christian woman—Roberta's mother—slighting Twyla and her mother:
not exactly a "Christ-like" response.)

When the children
leave the home, they meet a few more times. The first time, Roberta is going through a
hippie-phase, on her way to see Jimi Hendrix—Twyla waitressing tables when Roberta
arrives. This shows the first divide between them: a social
one.

Next they meet as adults and they seem to enjoy
reconnecting. The third time they meet again, it is across picket lines where white
women fight bussing that will integrate schools, and both are on opposite sides. There
is still a connection, but paradoxically, they are "enemies." The divide here is a
racial one.

The last time they meet, Roberta is a little
drunk and speaks honestly with her old friend. Robert's preoccupation is about whatever
happened to Maggie?

This may symbolize Roberta sense of
personal failure for not standing up for the woman—and that she really wanted to
hurt he—this may parallel her struggle with Twyla. The story may
thematically parallel the struggles between whites a blacks of the time. However,
perhaps it also demonstrates that some connections can be made
regardless of color, and that once in place, those threads cannot easily be severed. In
this we may see Morrison's mother's optimistic view of peace between the
races.

In "Thank You, M'am," by Langston Hughes, are the surprising developments of the plot consistent with the character of Mrs. Jones?A good writer...

You are completely right about your comment regarding
character and plausible behaviour. The surprising plot twist in this excellent short
story definitely is the way in which Mrs. Jones drags Roger home then treats him to some
food, gives him advice and then gives him some money to buy the shoes that he is willing
to commit a crime to gain. However, let us consider how these surprising actions are
actually foreshadowed in a way through Mrs. Jones and her response to Roger's attempt to
try and steal from her. Note her reaction:

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The large woman simply turned around and kicked
him right square in his blue-jeaned sitter. Then she reached down, picked the boy up by
his shirt front, and shook him until his teeth
rattled.

Arguably, the way
that Mrs. Jones shows through these actions that she is a strong, independent woman who
will not be crossed foreshadows her behaviour and the way that she treats Roger. She
shows that she is more than capable of handling Roger and his attempt to steal from her.
She is not presented as a weak, timid or fearful character who might be intimidated by
Roger and call the police. It is she who is in control and Roger who assumes the weaker
role in this relationship. Therefore the way that she decides how to deal with Roger and
the manner in which she does this is shown through her strong and dominant response at
the beginning of the story to Roger.

How to solve the equation 13^(3x-1)=15?the result is expected to have up to 4 decimals

To solve for x, we'll have to take natural logarithms both
sides:

ln 13^(3x-1) = ln
15

We'll use the power rule of
logarithms:

(3x-1)*ln 13 = ln
15

We'll divide by ln 13 both sides of the
equation:

(3x-1) = ln 15 /ln
13

We'll add 1  both sides:

3x
= ln 15 /ln 13 + 1

We'll divide by
3:

x = (ln 15 /ln 13 + 1)/3

x
= (ln 15 + ln 13)/3*ln 13

x = ln (15*13)/ln
13^3

We'll evaluate the numerator of the
fraction:

ln (15*13) =
5.2729

We'll evaluate the denominator of the
fraction:

ln 13^3 = 7.6948

x =
5.2729/7.6948

x =
0.6852

The requested soution of the equation,
rounded up to 4 decimals, is x = 0.6852.

Who believed in education so a person could read the Bible in The Witch of Blackbird Pond?

This is quite an indirect question. Having re-read the
text, I think the one reference that could answer this would be the conversation that
Kit has with John Holbrook in Chapter Two when John expresses his surprise about her
ability to read. The surprise of John Holbrook is compounded and turned into shock when
Kit tells him that she used to read history, poetry and plays. In response to this
outrage, John Holbrook responds with his idea of what reading is
for:

"There
are no such books in Saybrook. In Boston, perhaps. But the proper use of reading is to
improve our sinful nature, and to fill our minds with God's holy
word."

The value of
education, therefore, to the mind of John Holbrook and others like him, is only so that
we can read and study the word of God and by so doing, "improve our sinful
nature."

In Gathering Blue, why does Kira decide to remain in the village rather than leave to live with her father?

This is definitely an interesting question, because with
the arrival of her father Kira has all the proof she needs that the Guardians whom she
serves have probably killed her mother and definitely desposed of her father to try and
control her talent and gain her, just as they have done the same for Jo and Thomas.
However, above all, Kira feels her magical ability to weave desiring to express itself
in the Singer's cloak, and even though she knows how the Guardians are manipulating and
controlling everyone, she feels she needs to remain true to her talent and calling. Note
what the text tells us in the final chapter:

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Kira could feel it in her fingertips: her ability
to twist and weave the colours into the scenes of amazing beauty that she had made all
alone, before they assigned her the task of the
robe.

It is Kira's ability,
then, that makes her want to live, and in an excellent move, the author returns to this
magical, breathing talent as the novel ends, leaving Kira in a very uncertain
position:

The
blue was gathered in her hand, and she could feel it quiver, as if it had been given
breath and was beginning to
live.

Her talent demands the
ability to express itself, and this is above all why Kira chooses to say and face both
her knowledge and her talent.

Regarding language we use in business, comment on this quote: "It is not about what you say; it is all about how you say it."

This refers to the important issue of what the components
of communication are. The answer is that Communication has been segmented into 3
distinctive components- the Verbal or the language based part, the Nonverbal which deals
with body language etc and that is not conveyed through language or words and thirdly,
paralanguage which is to do with how we use elements like tone of voice, pitch, accent,
diction, speed and volume to convey the message.

The quote
in your question is correct to a large extent. As Albert Mehrabian has said, verbal
language constitutes only 7 percent of your communication whereas the nonverbal (55
percent) and paralanguage (38 percent) form the 93 percent. He however qualified his
theory by saying that this holds true mostly in communication that has a lot to do with
emotions and feelings.

However, experts agree that the
"how" of communication makes a huge difference to what you want to convey and what is
understood by the receiver of your communication. For example, if you were to say "Sit
down" to someone in a normal voice, the paralanguage indicates a normal state of
affairs. But if you were to shout and say"Sit down" to the same person, the meaning of
your communication has changed completely. So it is not just the words you use that
sends the message but also how you say it for the right message to be
conveyed.

What new plan do the boys devise to get Boo to come out in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird?

In Harper Lee's To Kill a
Mockingbird, Jem and Dill, who have been spending a great deal of time
together without Scout, come up with a new idea to get Boo to come
outside.

In Chapter Five, the two boys decide to leave a
note on Boo's porch, inviting him to come out. (They try to deliver it with a fishing
pole.) Dill is on the lookout in the front (with a bell to sound the alarm if anyone
comes) and Scout is to watch the back—if she wants to be a part of
the "project." Atticus does show up, catching them trying to pass the note. When he asks
them why they are doing so, they explain that perhaps Boo would want to spend some time
with them. (They have no way of knowing how true this
is.)

Atticus is displeased that they are "harassing" Boo,
and instructs the three children in no uncertain terms that they are to leave Boo alone,
and stop any "games" related to the Radley family. Boo, he says, is entitled to his
privacy.

In The Crucible, how does John Proctor respond to the question about why he has not been to church?

It is clear that Salem is a place full of deeply divided
groups of people, and John Proctor makes this clear when he responds to Hale's question
regarding his lack of attendance in church. After trying to avoid answering the
question, finally he admits that one of the principal reasons he has for not going to
church is the way in which Parris seems to focus more on money and his own personal
comforts rather than on the austere simplicity of religion. Note what he says to
Hale:

Since
we built the church there were pewter candlesticks upon the altar; Francis Nurse made
them y'know, and a sweeter hand never touched the metal. But Parris came, and for twenty
week he preach nothin' but golden candlesticks until he had them. I labour the earth
from dawn of day to blink of night, and I tell you true, when I look to heaven and see
my money glaring at his elbows--it hurt my prayer, sir, it hurt my prayer. I think,
sometimes, the man dreams cathedrals, not clapboard meetin'
houses.

Thus John Proctor in
his honesty clearly reveals some of the divisions that are present in Salem, and will
come to influence the witch trials that are occurring. Clearly, Parris is a man who is
more concerned with worldly affairs than heavenly affairs as he is a man that "dreams
Cathedrals," and it is this that annoys John Proctor so much and makes it difficult for
him to go to church.

What is the theme of Langston Hughes poem "Life is Fine"?

All right, so we need to determine theme. An easy way to
think about theme is to answer this question: What statement about the world is the
speaker of the poem sending to the reader. If you can answer that, you've got your
theme.

Let's analyze the poem a bit. Although the speaker
doesn't directly say it, through a little bit of inferencing we can tell that the first
two stanzas suggest two different suicide attempts, one by drowning, one by leaping off
a building. However, the italicized verses below each of these stanzas indicate some
fears and/or excuses why the speaker didn't follow through on his plan: "It was cold!"
(9), "It was high!" (18). We sense that the speaker may not actually kill himself after
all. The third stanze tells us why:

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I could've died for love--
But for
livin' I was born

Though you may hear me holler,
And you may
see me cry--
I'll be dogged, sweet baby,
If you gonna see me
die.

Life is fine! Fine as wine! Life is fine!

Here, the final
impact and message (and, hence, theme) is revealed. The speaker tells us that, while he
could've killed himself "for love" (I'm assuming a failed relationship or the death of a
lover), he says that he knows he was born "for livin'" and we'll be "dogged" if we're
going to see him actually kill himself. Why? Because "life is fine." If we simplify that
into one statement, we'll have a theme.

I'd go with
something like this: While pain does exist and may lead to desperate thoughts, our
purpose on earth is to live the fine, beautiful life we've been given. The speaker
states this most clearly in the verses "I could've died for love/but for livin' I was
born" (21-22).

If sin(x) = -1/3 and Pi ≤ x ≤ 3Pi/2, then tan(2x) = ?

You need to remember that the tangent function is
rational, hence
2x).

The problem provides the information
that the angle x is in quadrant 3, hence
0 .

You need to remember the formula of half
of angle such that:

sqrt((1-cos 2x)/2)

Substituting class="AM">  for sin x
yields:

2x)/2)

You need to raise to square to remove
the square root such that:

(1-cos 2x)/2 =gt 2/9 = 1 - cos 2x

class="AM">
7/9

You need to use the basic formula of
trigonometry to find sin 2x such that:

class="AM">
2x)

49/81) =gt sin 2x = sqrt(32/81)

class="AM">

You need to
substitute   for class="AM">  and   for
  in
2x)/(cos 2x) such that:

class="AM">
(sqrt32/9)*(9/7)

2x = sqrt32/7

Hence, evaluating
the tangent of double of angle x yields
sqrt32/7.

What was the major impetus for reform between the 1820s and 1860s?

The major impetus for the reforms of this era was the
change that was happening in the US economy and, therefore, in its
society.

During this time, the US economy was becoming more
of a market economy.  This is one in which people create products to be sold and then
use the money to buy things they need.  This is as opposed to the older system of
subsistence in which people generally produced most of what they needed for themselves
and then did minor trading with others near them.

As
America's economy moved to a market economy society moved from being then neighborly
thing where people knew and took care of one another.  It moved towards the more
impersonal society we have now.  This change led many people to try to "fix" things. 
They felt that their world was changing and not for the better.  Because of this, they
were motivated to push for reforms.

Can you please give me two aspects of Romanticism that can be found in the poetry of John Keats?

Well, certainly John Keats is defined as the epitome of a
Romantic poet. One aspect that is hard to ignore in his poetry is the predominance of
the imagination. An excellent poem to use to talk about this aspect of Romanticism is
"On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," which talks about when Keats first read a
translation of Homer's Illiad  and how it came alive to him so vividly that he compares
that moment to when new explorers look upon undiscovered
plains:

Then
felt I like some watcher of the skies

When a new planet
swims into his ken;

Or like stout Cortez when with eagle
eyes

He stared at the Pacific--and all his
men

Looked at each otehr with a wild
surmise--

Silent, upon a peak in
Darien.

Note the way that the
imagination is celebrated in this flight of fancy. This is a key aspect of Romanticism,
as the imagination and feeling is always much more important than
reason.

Secondly, you might want to focus on the topic of
beauty as discussed in "Ode on a Grecian Urn." This excellent Romantic ode focuses on
the pictures painted on a Grecian urn and how they cause the speaker to meditate on
beauty and its eternal nature. Note how the poem
closes:

When
old age shall this generation waste,

Thou shalt remain, in
midst of other woe

Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou
say'st,

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"--that is
all

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to
know.

There is a strange
ambiguity in these lines, especially the quote of "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," which
focuses our minds on the way inwhich the quest for beauty is positive in that the
contemplation of ideal beauty gives us an experience of the timeless and eternal, but at
the same time it is negative as such eternal beauty acts as a powerful reminder of our
own ephemeral nature. Such discussions on beauty and its importance to our lives are
another aspect of Romanticism.

What is the meaning of the following quote by Margaret Mead about social change?Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens...

Margaret Mead makes the argument that real change comes
from the ground up, not the top down.  The public--people--outnumber the government
representatives we send to Washington to do our bidding.  If and when something is
considered important enough to fight for, we stand up, make ourselves heard, and effect
change.  We do this with petitions, lobbyists, marches, strikes, and organizations like
the Tea Party. 

The way to make these changes, and to make
them stick, is to be thoughtful, intelligent, calm, and committed.  Violence never makes
permanent change.  People only listen to those who are armed with intelligent,
well-thought-out, and professional argurments backed with convincing evidence.  Mead's
third point targets being committed.  The people can not make a stand only once and
expect change to miraculously occur.  They must be committed, sometimes over months and
even years to get the change they seek.

Discuss the irony of the Spiegelman's Dilemma in chapter six "Mouse Trap"

War effects everyone. Spiegelman's wonderful recounting of
the Holocaust via his Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel are certainly a testament to
that idea. As you encounter Vladek--who has his fair share of foibles--his personality
quirks are all for a reason: The Holocaust.

The chapter
entitled "Mouse Trap" is all about being 'imprisoned' again, despite surviving the
Holocaust. And, to understand this chapter you need some background on Vladek, who is
figuratively holding Mala and Artie hostage in their present
world.

Vladek is amazing in that he's a survivor--both
literally and figuratively--his knowledge of languages and skills as a craftsman gained
him privileges and extra food while in the concentration camps. Equally, he’s capable,
quick, ingenious and courageous (some would argue, even heroic), sharp-witted and
pragmatic. In the previous chapters I would also argue that he's a schemer (trickster)
but never at other’s expense; he never resorts to exploitation. Though Vladek had
opportunities, he never deprived others of their chance to survive. Vladek lived by a
strong moral code despite almost insurmountable odds. But, this behavior comes at a
considerable price.

Given what Vladek, Mala and others
experienced (pre and post Holocaust), Vladek's quirks should be a
mere annoyance. Spiegelman's focus is on the chaotic, traumatic encounter with parental
and social authority and he plays with this in all chapters because
everyone was profoundly affected by the
Holocaust.

 As you see in Vladek, Mala and even Anja's
short stay on the page, typical survivors were incapable of connecting with their
children because of an unresolved grief over lost ones, survivor's guilt or flatness of
affect (or emotion). Hence, Vladek does not see his son’s pain--or Mala's--only his. By
the same token, he doesn't see that his behavior is 'different' and he certainly doesn't
understand who/what he hurts by the choices he makes.

 So
really, they're all still 'trapped'. The memories of their struggle during the Holocaust
have bled over into their new lives and those memories won't fade because they're too
strong. Think, too, on the places Vladek and Anja hid to survive. Surrounded by rats, in
a putrid garbage, a hole in the ground and fed pig slop. All of this combined to be a
physical trap so the title is fitting here because it's the description of Vladek's
attempt to escape a real mousetrap (the concentration
camps).

The real irony, though, is the purposeful burning
of Anja's diary. Art has to reconstruct the narrative, although it's a Jewish tradition
to tell familial and communal history from parent to child. The transmission of stories
is a means of recalling the past and forging connections with younger generations, which
are the essence to community survival. So, burning Anja’s diary was Vladek's attempt to
burn the memories (her words went up in smoke, like the lives to which those words would
have been a testament). Spiegelman's struggle is using oral history as a
testimony.

What is the social character of our society in "Our Way of Life Makes Us Miserable" by Erich Fromm?

The main "social character" of our society, according to
Fromm, is the "alienated man."

In this essay, Fromm argues
that each type of society produces the "social character" that is needed in order for
that society to function.  Our modern society is (or at least the society of Fromm's day
was) an industrial society.  It is also, quite importantly, a bureaucratized society. 
Because of this, it needs a social character who feels free and independent, but who is
actually completely willing to conform to the needs of the organization where he or she
works.  Those people also need to consume material goods constantly as a way to fit in
with their society outside of the work setting.

Fromm
argues that such people are alienated from themselves.  They are no longer able to act
on their own.  Instead, they are completely controlled by the forces of the society in
which they live.

Objects A and B of equal mass are lowered into a beaker of alcohol. It is found that object A sinks while object B floats. Explain which object has...

Archimedes' Principle states
that

Any
object, wholly or partially immersed in a fluid, is buoyed up by a force equal to the
weight of the fluid displaced by the
object.

For an object to
float in a liquid it has to be buoyed up by a force exerted by the liquid that is
equivalent to the weight of the object.

Here object A and
object B have the same mass, but they differ in their volume. As object A sinks, it can
be inferred that the weight of the volume of alcohol displaced by object A less than the
weight of the object. On the other hand, object B floats in the alcohol implying that
the weight of alcohol displaced by object B is equal to the weight of the
object.

We can conclude that object B has a larger volume
compared to object A.

In Great Expectations, what was Miss Havisham's childhood like?

The answer to this question is found in Chapter 22 of this
amazing novel. We are not given much information about the childhood of Miss Havisham,
but what we do know can be found here, as Herbet dines with Pip and at the same time
subtley offers him instruction on how to eat now that he is a man with expectations and
has left his working class roots behind him. Note what he tells
Pip:

Miss
Havisham, you must know, was a spoilt child. Her mother died when she was a baby, and
her father denied her nothing. Her father was a country gentleman down in your part of
the world, and was a
brewer.

Thus we can see that
Miss Havisham was doted upon by her father, and having lost her mother at an early age,
was left to be brought up as a willful child, indulged in everything. The wealth that
her father made ensured that she grew up as a spoilt child. We can see this in the way
that she acts as an adult and in the way she imperiously commands others and does what
she wants. Of course, it is only towards the end of the novel that she experiences some
kind of realisation of her own faults through her recognition of the suffering that she
caused Pip.

How does the setting of the story contribute to the action in "Desiree's Baby"?

The setting of "Desiree's Baby" contributes to the action
of the story by showing the home of Armand and Desiree as falling into
despair.

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Madame Valmonde had not seen Desiree and the
baby for four weeks. When she reached L'Abri she shuddered at the first sight of it, as
she always did. It was a sad looking place, which for many years had not known the
gentle presence of a mistress, old Monsieur Aubigny having married and buried his wife
in France, and she having loved her own land too well ever to leave it. The roof came
down steep and black like a cowl, reaching out beyond the wide galleries that encircled
the yellow stuccoed house. Big, solemn oaks grew close to it, and their thick-leaved,
far-reaching branches shadowed it like a pall. Young Aubigny's rule was a strict one,
too, and under it his negroes had forgotten how to be gay, as they had been during the
old master's easy-going and indulgent
lifetime.

This allows an
active reader to pick up on the foreshadowing of what is to come.  The home, "was a sad
looking place" with "big solemn oaks".  One could come to understand that the setting
echos the action of the story by enhancing the themes of sadness and
solitude.

Therefore, knowing that each time Desiree's
mother comes upon L'Abri she shudders, one can assume that the home and movement of the
story will not be one filled with happiness and companionship.

What contributions did the Europeans make to the North American colonies?

Aside from governmental systems and traditions, which
tended to mimic those of England, the contributions made by Europeans were immense-they
created the cash crop agricultural system, imposed European mores concerning property
ownership and diplomatic relations on natives, and fought large scale wars against each
other on American soil, to name a few massive
contributions.

We shouldn't downplay the impact of African
slaves, however, whose traditions, music, cuisine, and most importantly, labor helped
shaped the cultural landscape of the colonies, especially the South. Many slaves, after
all, were brought over precisely for their expertise in cultivating rice and other
crops. And of course, constant interaction with Native Americans helped shape the
governments and the societies of all of the colonies-how to deal with Indians, for
example, was at the heart of political disputes in Pennsylvania in the 1750s all the way
to the Revolution.

How does power change over the course of narrative in Animal Farm?

I think that the most evident answer to this is that the
animals wrestle power away from the humans.  Mr. Jones' own inept leadership enables the
animals to rise and overwhelm him to gain control of the farm.  Power changes in this
respect, from human to animal.  However, once the pigs, in particular Napoleon, gain
control, Orwell's genius is to show that their demonstration and exercise of power is no
different than the humans.  Using the tenets and philosophies of Old Major to gain
power, the animals end up violating these ideals when the gain it.  The control of the
farm and the maintenance of their political power resides in acting as humans in animal
form.  It is in this vein that the pigs are able to broker deals and negotiations with
humans, force loyalty from the animals through violence and force, engage in alcohol
consumption, and present a vision of control that as just as strong hierarchy as when
the humans were in control.  In the end, when the animals look through the window and
see no difference between the pigs and the humans, they are right in their vision. 
Power has changed in terms of human replaced by animal, but in the end, there is little
difference in terms of the control and the structure of rule in which the animals, as a
whole, lack any substantive notion of power.

Who played Mason in the movie Tex?

James Metzler plays the character of Mason McCormick in
the 1982 movie Tex. Before turning to acting, Metzler held a
variety of jobs, including playing on a minor league baseball team, working as a sports
reporter, and even filing in cracks on airport runways! The other notable movie he has
appeared in is the 1997 hit film L.A. Confidential.

Tex is set in a small town
in Oklahoma. Eighteen-year-old Mason McCormick acts as both father and mother to his
nearly fifteen-year-old brother, Tex. Their mother is dead and their father is rarely
around; he is an alcoholic and a trouble-maker who rarely bothers with the boys and
frequently "forgets" to give them money to live on. Mason has to make a number of
difficult decisions for a young man, including having to sell Tex's beloved horse to
make ends meet. He also must think about what it will mean to go away to college and
leave Tex behind.

The film is based on, and closely
follows, the novel of the same name by S.E. Hinton. Hinton also penned the classic and
beloved young adult novel The Outsiders.

What could represent Beneatha in A Raisin in the Sun?

This is a play that conerns the identity of blacks and how
they often have to struggle to assert that identity, even in the face of other blacks
who try to act like "whites" in order to fit in and get ahead in society. When we think
of Beneatha therefore, one of the most powerful symbols in the play that could be used
to sum her up is her hair, and what happens to it during the course of the
play.

Note the way in which at the start of the play,
Beneatha has artificially straightened hair. However, after Asagai asks her some hard
questions about why she has her hair in that style, Beneatha choses to cut off her hair,
which symbolises her acceptance of her African heritage. Note the reason she gives for
this radical act:

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Because I hate assimilationist
Negroes!

It is clear that her
new hairstyle is a very powerful statement, as it represents an acceptance and
affirmation of what is natural. Before she forced her hair to conform to the style of a
white-dominated society. Now, as part of her own increased understanding of her
identity, she deliberately chooses a style that represents a reconciliation between her
culture and her identity. It shows the way she believes that blacks should not try to
"fit in" in addition to indicating that she wants to shape her identity by discovering
her African roots.

In The Picture of Dorian Gray, explain the reason Dorian rejects Sibyl Vane.

Dorian makes it clear when he explains his infatuation
with Sibyl Vane that what attracts him to her is her changeability and her artistic
skill. In a book that discusses so much the relationship between art and reality, it is
made clear that it is Sibyl's art as an actress that makes her attractive to Dorian.
Bearing in mind this theme in the novel concerning art and reality, it is highly
significant what Sibyl says to Dorian in Chapter Seven to explain her terrible
performance:

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"The painted scenes were my world. I knew
nothing but shadows, and I thought them real. You came--oh, my beautiful love!--and you
freed my soul from prison. You taught me what reality really is. Tonight, for the first
time in my life, I saw through the hollowness, the sham, the silliness of the empty
pageant in which I had always played... You had brought me something higher, something
of which all art is but a reflection. You had made me understand what love really
is."

Thus we can see that
Sibyl, through her relationship with Dorian, has realised the limitations of art and has
committed herself to reality. However, tragically, Dorian, thanks to his portrait, is a
work of art, with his reality being reflected on the portrait. Thus it is impossible for
art and reality to be wed together, and he cruelly and harshly ends the relationship. Of
course Sibyl, now that she has experienced reality, can never return back to art, and
thus kills herself.

GenesWhy does a child look more like its father than its mother, or vice-versa? (Please help me find as many websites as possible to help answer...

Basically, after fertilization of a sperm and an egg
nuclei, the genetic component of the child has been determined, equally by each parent.
However, someone may resemble one parent over the other due to the fact that some traits
are dominant and are expressed in the phenotype of the offspring and some are hidden
because they are recessive. This principle of dominance was determined by Gregor Mendel,
whose work with pea plants started the field of genetics. Also, besides dominant and
recessive genes determining traits, there are also polygenic traits. These are produced
by the combined effects of many genes and also the environment plays a role in how these
genes are expressed. An example in people is height and skin color. The child might not
necessarily reflect the skin or height of either parent as several genes are
contributing to the phenotypic effect. Therefore, how we look is a combination of many
factors including genetics and environment.

How would you describe late adulthood? negative and positive of late adulthood.

Late adulthood is characterized as the period of life from
age 60 until death.  There is a great deal of diversity among individuals with respect
to the changes that occur during this period of life.  Some people will become more
active and interested in contributing whereas others become less active and more
withdrawn.  Changes in this period of life are frequently a reaction to the process of
aging itself.  There is frequently a fear of losing one's
autonomy.

Physical changes that occur include a thinning and whitening
of the hair, loss of skin elasticity, and a thinning of cartilage in the spine.  The
brain also shrinks.  Positively, motor reaction time increases; however, basic tasks
take longer than they once used to (ex. getting dressed).  Sensory functions become less
sensitive, and vision and hearing abilities decrease.  Cognitively there is a decline in
overall memory ability.

For more information, there is a very detailed
document linked to in the references.

What was the Final Solution?

The Final Solution was the culminating step in Hitler's
plans towards Jewish people.  Simply put, the "final solution" was the extermination of
the Jewish race.  As Hitler had made more laws that were meant to target those of the
Jewish faith, relegating them to greater peripheral status, Hitler had issued a
"warning" that if Jewish individuals "led" to another World War involving Germany that
Hitler would "deal" with it in a finalizing and totalizing manner.  In the early 1940s,
this became translated as "the final solution," authorizing the complete extermination
of all Jewish people.  Consider how others in the Nazi party viewed the dimensions of
the Final Solution:

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As for the Jews, well, I can tell you quite
frankly that one way or another we have to put an end to them. The
Führer once put it this way: if the combined forces of Judaism
should again succeed in unleashing a world war, that would mean the end of the Jews in
Europe... I would therefore be guided by the basic expectation that they are going to
disappear. They have to be gotten rid
of.

When we speak of the
Holocaust, the idea of ensuring that the Jewish people would "disappear" is one of the
fundamental precepts involved in the Final Solution.   In this declaration of the "Final
Solution," Nazi Germany becomes synonymous with some of the worst crimes in human
history.

Would a parachute attached to a mass fall faster than a parachute attached to a lighter mass? Why?Assuming they are both dropped from the same...

The reason a parachute works is that their is an upward
force exerted by the air that works against the downward force of the weight of the
object attached to the parachute.  How fast the object falls depends on the relationship
between the two forces.

To take an extreme example, imagine
one large parachute has an egg under it, while the other large parachute has a large
metal anchor attached to it. The anchor/parachute will fall faster than the
egg/parachute.  That is why when a plane is dropping a large load - like a truck or
artillery piece - there are usually several parachutes attached to counter the weight of
the truck.

Analyze the quote below from Death of A Salesman.What is the significance/importance of this quote? What does it mean? "I don't say he's a great...

This quote attempts to elicit some tribute to the man, and
not the salesman, Willy Loman.

The play Death of
a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, bases is theme in the eternal quest for the
so-called "American Dream", and the plethora of interpretations this dreams seems to
have. However, Miller is clear in illustrating Willy's understanding of the "American
Dream" as a combination of being financially successful, well-liked, and
well-known.

Unfortunately, Willy cannot enjoy any of those
attributes. In a wider-perspective we could also argue that there are many other
individuals that cannot enjoy those attributes either. That being said, we can safely
argue that the purpose of the quote is to allow for those who never achieved their
dreams to at least be honored for the fact that they lived their lives the best way they
could.

Just because many individuals do not "make it" in
life does not mean that they do not deserve to be paid the attention and the respect
that they deserve. The American Dream may still be hard to get, but those who do not
achieve it- like Willy- should not just be forgotten and
ignored.

Consider the first part of the quote that
reads:

Willie Loman never made a lot of money. His
name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever
lived.

This clearly lists the three things that
Willy aimed for: Money, recognition, and a reputation. Later on the quote we see the
words:

...he's a human being, and a terrible thing
is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall in his
grave like an old dog.

Here we see how the
narrator makes us remember that Willy (and those who are like willy) are still and only
human, and people should overlook their social weaknesses and appreciate the fact that
they do not have it easy. Hence, by ignoring the struggling man, and the failing man, we
are ignoring a huge part of a population that sometimes tries to hard to achieve
things.

Therefore, the last part of the quote reaffirms
this idea with the words:

Attention, attention
must finally be paid to such a person."

We simply
cannot offer all our respect and admiration to the successful and the glorious. Within
each of us, there is a latent wish or dream we would like to pursue but will not get.
That does not make us lesser than those who could achieve their dreams. It simply makes
us part of a big majority that, at least, still dreams.

It has been argued that Great Expectations is a fairy tale that has gone wrong. What are the fairy tale elements and how are they disturbed?

This is an excellent topic to think about in relation to
this wonderful novel. You are, of course, completely right. There is every sense in
which Dickens intentionally modelled the beginning of his story at least on some kind of
fairy tale. Note the way in which Pip has a rags-to-riches moment. His mysterious
benefactor, which he and we assume is Miss Havisham, seems to play the part of the fairy
godmother, intending Pip to marry his princess, Estella, and giving him tremendous
wealth and education to enable him to do this. He is transported from his poor and
humble house in the marshes to London to begin his great
expectations.

However, crucially, throughout the text, at
every stage there is always a hint that everything is not quite right about this fairy
tale that Pip is experiencing. What kind of fairy godmother is Miss Havisham, who
encourages her ward to "break" Pip's heart and treat him so savagely? Estella herself
hardly plays the role of beautiful princess. She is beautiful, yes, but condescending,
proud, heartless and cold. In addition, the way in which Pip is haunted at every turn by
crime and criminals and the description of London is bleak, dark and depressing seems to
indicate the way in which Pip's great expectations are associated with his own
corruption. What is more, there are hints in the text that indicate that Pip's move up
in the world is only a move downwards in terms of his own character and happiness.
Consider what the text tells us at the end of Chapter Eighteen after Pip has received
news of his prospects:

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I put my light out, and crept to bed; and it was
an uneasy bed now, and I never slept the old sound sleep in it any
more.

The arrival of wealth
has not made Pip's life any easier. In fact, it is the opposite, as his carefree days of
sound sleep and comfort have been lost.

This distortion of
the fairy tale continues when we realise who the fairy godmother of the piece is, and
we, and Pip, are horrified by the revelation. This story is based on a fairy tale, yes,
but at the same time it is almost a perversion of one.

Compare and contrast slavery with free labor, discussing which system was more productive.

The issue of how productive the slave system was in the
South is the subject of much controversy among historians.  This has been the case ever
since the publication of Fogel and Engerman's Time on the Cross in
1974.

The basic argument made against slavery's
productivity is that slaves had no incentive to work hard, unlike free workers who would
work hard to keep their jobs and to get paid.  In addition, the argument goes, slaves
would purposely do things like breaking tools as a way to fight back against the system
and the people that oppressed them.  Because of these things, the argument goes, the
slave system was much less productive than the system of free
labor.

However, Fogel and Engerman argued that the slave
system was run quite rationally by plantation owners.  They argue that the system was in
fact more economically efficient because slave owners could
get more work out of their slaves for every dollar that had to be invested in them. 
They argue that slavery allowed for the creation of large plantations that could be
worked much more efficiently than "free" farms could have been run during that
time.

However, this issue still generates a great deal of
controversy and is by no means settled.

Describe the changes in the direction and speed of light during refraction?

Refraction occurs when light moves from one medium to
another and there is a difference in densities of the two
mediums.

An example is light going from air into water when
you shine a light into the water.

To understand what
happens, picture a bowl filled with water and a post is standing straight up in the bowl
of water. The post is perpendicular to the surface of the water.  This post is called a
"normal" line, meaning a line perpendicular to the
surface.

Now take a laser and shine it at the surface of
the water at any angle.  As the laser strikes the surface of the water the speed slows
down and the beam of light bends downward toward the bottom of the bowl instead of
continuing straight ahead. You can observe this if you put a pencil at an angle in a
beaker of water. Look at the pencil from various angles and you can see it looks like
the pencil has bent.

In general, if light goes from a less
dense medium (such as air) to a more dense medium (such as water or a diamond) it slows
down and bends toward the normal.  If light goes from a more dense medium to a less
dense medium, it speeds up and bends away from the normal line.

What are some negative externalities associated with constructing roads?

A negative externality is a cost that is caused by some
economic activity but which is not paid by the entities that are directly involved in
the activity.  In the case of road building, this would be costs that are incurred by
people who are not building or using the road.

A major
externality associated with road construction is the pollution that is caused by the use
of automobiles.  As more roads are built, more cars use them.  As more cars use them,
more pollution occurs and impacts even people who do not use the roads.  A similar
impact would be excessive noise.  If, for example, a large road is built near your
house, you will bear the cost of having to deal with all the extra noise even if you do
not use the road yourself.

Air pollution and noise
pollution, then, are two major negative externalities that are associated with the
building of roads.

How does Macduff betray his family in Macbeth?

This is a really interesting question, because I don't
actually believe that Macduff does betray his family in this play, or at least not
intentionally. Certainly the event you are refering to is when Macduff leaves Scotland
to join the forces of Malcolm in England, effectively betraying his monarch, Macbeth,
and committing treason. This means that he leaves his wife and children free to be
slaughtered by Macbeth unprotected in Act IV scene 2. Note what his wife says about her
husband:

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Wisdom! to leave his wife, to leave his
babes,

His mansion, and his titles, in a
place

From whence himself doth
fly?

However, I believe that
Macduff's failing isn't betrayal of his family. His contrition and anger when he finds
out about their slaughter indicates that he did not consciously betray them. His failing
is that he severely underestimated the evil of Macbeth and the lengths that he would go
to to revenge Macduff's betrayal of him. Macduff at the end of the day is too good, and
it is his goodness that leads to his decision to leave his family behind to be
slaughtered.

Modest means two things, reasonable and humble. What are the evidences that Swift makes in order to make his proposal humble and reasonable?in "A...

This is one of the all-time greatest satires of all time. 
Swift is attempting to show the inefficiency and injustice of the British officials'
treatment of Ireland, which was flailing in poverty.  His proposal is ludicrous, eating
childrend, but it is presented in a reasonable and humble
manner.

First, Swift creates a reasonable, logical solution
to the poverty and starvation problems by creating a scenario supported by numerical
statistics.  Throughout the work, we see his validation of the idea by presenting profit
details and logistical support through numbers.  His tone is one of a mathematician
presenting an economics report.

Second, Swift is humble. 
He claims that he is not presenting the solution in order to profit himself because he
has no children and his wife is beyond childbearing age.

Examine the appropriateness of the title of the poem "Digging" by Heaney.

The title of this excellent poem by the Nobel Prize
winning poet is actually an extended metaphor, as throughout the poem a comparison is
made between the father's work and the way that the poet is carrying on in his father's
footsteps. This comparison is most clearly established in the last three lines of the
poem:

Between
my finger and my thumb

The squat pen
rests.

I'll dig with
it.

What is important to
Heaney and to so many of the poems is his family past, and in this poem he shows how he
can dig into or explore his memory of the collective memory of his family and culture.
He can likewise dig into the minds and hearts of people, creating poems that illuminate
human experience. Cutting turf may not be thought to be the most beneficial of topics
for poetry, yet Heaney shows how even this can be fertile ground for poets such as
himself, as he expresses the way that he feels united with his predecessors through
blood, memory and the soil.

Discuss the relation between Hobbes view of human nature and his account of the origin, character and functions of the State.

Hobbes's belief that human nature is inherently selfish
and prone to brutality informs his vision of what the state should be like.  Because we
are naturally "bad," Hobbes believes that we need to totally subjugate ourselves to the
state so that it may protect us from our evil natures (and those of our fellow human
beings).

Hobbes argues that life in the state of nature is
chaotic.  It is the war of each against all.  If we are to avoid this fate, we have to
voluntarily submit to an absolutist state.  We have to allow the state to have complete
control over us so that it can ensure that we will not revert to the state of nature. 
As the link below tells us,

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In Hobbes’s view, stability could be achieved
only where sovereignty was undivided and absolute. Otherwise civil authority would come
undone, and the brutishness of the state of nature would reassert
itself.

What are the elements of Petrarchanism in Romeo and Juliet?

Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374), an early Renaissance poet,
wrote more than 300 sonnets addressed to Laura, a lady forever unobtainable. Thus,
he established the model of love poetry that prevailed for the next two centuries,
imitated by many writers, Shakespeare included. Along with its prescribed form, the
Petrarchan sonnet had the following conventions:

The lady
to whom the poem is addressed is forever beyond reach - she is on a pedestal; the poet's
love for her is unrequited; the poet is sick to death with love; the lady is described
with encomiums almost insincere; and the poet's love is expressed in religious
terms. 

However, Shakespeare was not a slave to the
traditions of the Petrachan form. He breaks with that tradition by burying one Petrachan
sonnet and the first four lines of a second within the dramatic action of Romeo's first
spoken encounter with Juliet in Act 1, Scene 5, lines 93 to
110.   

Romeo begins his Juliet wooing with four lines of
conventional Petrarchan language; and there is religious terminology throughout their
exchange. But in the second quatrain (lines 97-100), spoken by the poet's lady, it is
very clear that Juliet is not aloof - no pedestal for her. In their verbal foreplay
before the first kiss, Juliet matches her wooer word for word, line for line. She and
Romeo are very well aware of the conventions and operate within them with dexterity, but
perhaps galvanized by the headiness of forbidden love, they strive to break them - just
as Shakespeare both conformed to and transcended the Petrachan form. As they complete
their trysting first sonnet and begin another (at line 107), it is clear that Juliet is
a new kind of sonnet-heroine, audacious and eager for love, not distant and
unattainable, like a malicious diva. Cast not as a romantic set-piece, but as an
integral part of the dramatic action, this sonnet of Act 1, Scene 5 leads directly into
the first quatrain of the second (lines 107-110), broken, ironically, by the arrival of
the Nurse. Both sonnets, therefore, unmistakably foreshadow the beginning of true
love and its all-too-soon ending by tragic death.  

Given u = (1-m)*i + 1+m)*j and v=(1+2m)*i+4j determine the vectors u and v whether u is perpendicular to v.

By definition, two vectors are perpendicular if the value
of their dot product is zero.

u*v = 0
(1)

[(1-m)*i+(1+m)*j]*[(1+2m)*i+4*j] = (1-m)*(1+2m) +
4*(1+m) (2)

We'll equate (1) and
(2):

(1-m)*(1+2m) + 4*(1+m) =
0

We'll remove the brackets:

1
+ 2m - m - 2m^2 + 4 + 4m = 0

We'll combine like
terms:

-2m^2 + 5m + 5 =
0

We'll multiply by -1:

2m^2 -
5m - 5 = 0

We'll apply quadratic
formula:

m1 =
[5+sqrt(25+40)]/4

m1 =
(5+sqrt65)/4

m2 =
(5-sqrt65)/4

The values of the parameter "m",
for the vector u to be perpendicular to the vector v, are: {(5-sqrt65)/4 ;
(5+sqrt65)/4}.

In Guns, Germs, and Steel, why does the author talk of "east-west axis" and "north-south axis?"

Diamond talks about north-south and east-west axes because
they have a great impact on how much diffusion of plants there can be in any given area
of the world.

If an area of the world is like the Americas,
its long axis runs north to south.  That means that it is longer north to south than it
is east to west.  Eurasia is the opposite because it is longer east to west than it is
north to south.  It is easier for plants to diffuse along an east-west axis.  This is
because climate does not change east to west (outside of factors like elevation and
distance from an ocean) the way it does from north to
south.

This is important because a society that developed
agriculture could diffuse its domesticated plants along an east-west axis to other
cultures.  That means that civilizations could grow and could exchange new plants with
one another.  In a place with a long north-south axis, this could not
occur.

This is one major reason why Eurasia was so much
better suited to creating major civilizations than places like Africa and the Americas
were.

Find these two regionalist elements in the story "The Outcasts of Poker Flat."Find and explain one example of each of these two regionalist...

Much like some of Mark Twain's narratives, Bret Harte's
"The Outcasts of Poker Flat" is a Western story which employs regionalisms, expressions
that are distinctly Western.  In addition, he wrily makes use of euphemisms to suggest
the hypocrisy of the residents of Poker Flat.  One such
euphemism occurs in the sixth paragraph of Harte's
narrative in which the narrator refers to the "certain objectionable characters" whom
the residents blame for their misfortunes.  These characters are the gambler, Mr.
Oakhurst; a woman suspected of being a witch, Mother Shipton; Uncle Billy, a drunkard
and a "sluice robber," a thief who takes gold from long troughs used for sifting gold;
and a prostitute called Duchess. This group is euphemistically termed,
"the deported wickedness of Poker
Flat."

An example of comic
irony occurs in the eighth paragraph in which the narrator describes the
place to which the outcasts must migrate:

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The road to Sandy Bar--a camp that, not having as
yet experienced the regenerative influences of Poker
Flat....

This phrase means
that Sandy Bar has not yet lost enough money to gamblers and such that it
has "regenerated" its moral code as has Poker Flat. This allusion to the "regenerative
influences" refers to the "emigrants" who are expelled from Poker Flat.  Here Bret Harte
makes fun of the "spasm of virtuous reaction" [par.3] (also
comic irony) which is brought about by the financial losses dealt the residents who
have engaged in activites with the witch, prostitute, or gambler. The loss of money,
etc. has caused the townspeople to angrily seek revenge against these immoral persons by
expulsion from town; that is, the hypocritically sanctimonious expulsion of the people
who have simply taken the money  they have of free choice spent on their own greed or
prurient desires. 

What's a factor of x^3 - x - 6 =0

We will substitute with x=
2.

==> x^3 - x - 6 =
0

==> 8 - 2 -6 = 0

Then
x= 2 is a root for the equation.

==> (x-2) is a
factor.

Now we will divide by (x-2) to find other
factors.

==> (x^3 - x - 6) = (x-2) (x^2 + 2x+
3)

Now sine delta = (4-4*3) = 4-12 = -8 <
0

Then there are no Real roots foe the quadratic
equation.

Then the factors of the equation
are : (x-2) and (x^2 + 2x+3)

If tanx=1/2 what is tan(x+pi/3)

We'll recall the following identity concerning the tangent
of the sum of two angles:

tan(a+b) = (tan a + tan
b)/[1-(tan a)*(tan b)]

Comparing, we'll
get:

tan (x + pi/3) = (tan x + tan pi/3)/[1-(tan x)*(tan
pi/3)]

But tan pi/3 = sqrt3 and tan x = 1/2, therefore,
we'll have;

tan (x + pi/3) = (1/2 +
sqrt3)/[1-(1/2)*(sqrt3)]

tan (x + pi/3) = [(1 +
2sqrt3)/2]/[(2-sqrt3)/2]

tan (x + pi/3) = (1 +
2sqrt3)/(2-sqrt3)

We'll multiply by the conjugate of
denominator:

tan (x + pi/3) = (1 +
2sqrt3)(2+sqrt3)/(2-sqrt3)(2+sqrt3)

The product from
denominator returns the difference of two
squares:

(2-sqrt3)(2+sqrt3) = 4 -
3

tan (x + pi/3) = (1 +
2sqrt3)(2+sqrt3)/(4-3)

tan (x + pi/3) = 2 + sqrt3 + 4sqrt3
+ 6

tan (x + pi/3) = 8 +
5sqrt3

The tangent of the sum x + pi/3 is tan
(x + pi/3) = 8 + 5sqrt3.

What are the relationships between business commerce, business occupations, and the business organization .

Business is defined as value-creating activity by an
individual or organization for profit.  An example of a business would be General Motors
(GM), a company that engages in production and worldwide sale of
automobiles.

Commerce refers to the whole system of an
economy that provides the environment in which business activities occur.  The commerce
in which GM conducts business would be the collective populations and economies of
countries comprising the free world.

Occupation is a
person’s means of making a living.  Associated and closely related terms are as
follows:

Employment = being under service of another for
hire

Job = regular activity performed for
payment

Vocation = occupation to which an individual is
especially drawn

Profession = a vocation requiring
specialized training

Career = a life course of employment
activity

To answer your question, business organizations
perform value-creating activity within an environment of business commerce. Individuals
of various occupations work for hire as employees of the business organization
(employer).  They perform the work that creates the value produced by the organization. 
Workers having the various occupations within the business perform the services or make
the products that constitute the output of the business
organization.

In Julius Caesar, Act IV, according to Brutus, what were the reasons for Portia's death and how does he respond to her death?

This event occurs in Act IV scene 3 of this great tragedy.
Brutus gives a typical stoical response, in contrast to Cassius, when he tells him that
he has received news of his wife's death. According to him, Portia killed herself
because she was missing Brutus so much and also she had heard news that the opposition
against him was now so strong, she became distraught and "swallowed fire" when her
servants were not at home. According to Plutarch, she killed herself by putting hot
coals in her mouth.

However, what is interesting is the way
that Brutus chooses to supress all emotion and carry on with the job at hand. Note what
he says:

Speak
no more of her. Give me a bowl of wine.

In this I bury all
unkindness, Cassius.

In a
short sentence he dismisses her as if she never existed and goes on to make peace
between himself and Cassius. This of course is questionable, but a lot depends on the
individual director as to how they would stage this scene. Some would have Brutus
showing some form of emotion, at least in private, or perhaps barely being able to
master himself. It depends a lot on how sympathetic you want the audience to feel for
Brutus at this stage of the play.

I have to write a essay on four examples of greed in "The Rocking-Horse Winner" by D. H. Lawrence and need help structuring the essay.

I would spend the first paragraph introducing the story
just a little, mentioning that it focuses quite a bit on greed, and then at the end of
the first paragraph, writing what I call a "theme statement" about greed.  For example,
"In this story, Lawrence shows how greed is a dangerous force in people's lives."  That
will be the thesis statement that guides the rest of your
paper.

Then, in the next four paragraphs, structure it as
follows.  1.  A topic sentence where you state something like, "One instance of greed
being destructive in the story is..." and then, 2. List the example and explain it. 
Then, 3., discuss how that example is showing greed's dangers.  Follow that formula for
all of the paragraphs.  I'll include a sample below, to show how that will
look:

One instance of greed being destructive in the story
is when Lawrence describes how the mother of the family cares more about materialistic
matters than for her own children.  In the beginning of the story, it states that "she
could not love" her children, and yet was obsessed with luck and earning more money. 
Her lack of love drives her son to gain money, which leads to his death.  This obsession
with greed is one way that it is dangerous in the
story.

That paragraph above is a sample of how you might
write the 4 body paragraphs.  Then, in your conclusion paragraph, just summarize your
main points, restate your thesis sentence (the theme statement from the first
paragraph), and wrap it up.  I hope that those thoughts help you to get started!  Good
luck!

What are some quotes that are examples of honor/dignity?From To Kill a Mockingbird

With respect to the concept of honor, the character of
Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird is very closely associated. 
Serving as a sterling example of integrity to his children, Atticus Finch acts always
with the idea of doing what is right. As a paradigm for all that he does, and for what
he desires his children to do, Atticus says something to Jem in Chapter
11,

"The one
thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's
conscience."

Before the trial
of Tom Robinson, Atticus talks to his brother Jack who inquires why Atticus did not try
to avoid taking the case. Because he feels that this case is"something that goes to the
essence of a man's conscience," (11)  Atticus replies
honorably,

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"...do you think I could face my children
otherwise?  You know what's going to happen as well as I do, jack, and I hope and pray I
can get Jem and Scout through it without bietterness, and most of all, without catching
Maycomb's usual disease."
(9)

Always Atticus behaves
honorably towards all his neighbors.  When Mrs. Dubose hurls insults about him to his
children and Jem retaliates by cutting the blooms from her ---, Atticus, nevertheless,
speaks politely to her whenever he sees her.  Furthermore, he requires Jem to make
retribution for his vindictive act by reading to Mrs. Dubose.  He tells Jem that while
Mirs. Dubose has been entitled to her opinion, he would rather that she just insult him
directly instead of through his children.  However, he explains, she is an old, ailing
woman.  Atticus adds,

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"but before I can live with other folks I've got
to live with myself."
(11)

After Mrs. Dubose takes
herself off the morphine that she has used to reduce her pain, Atticus tells Jem and
Scout,

"I
wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is
not a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before
you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win,
but sometimes you
do."

Even
after Bob Ewell spits in his face, Atticus does not become petty, but tells Jem, with
his usual integrity,

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"...see if you can stand in Bob Ewell's shoes a
minute....The man had to have some kind of comeback...You
understand?"

Atticus has as
his motto, "Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open."
(30)

Miss Maudie, who is the voice of common sense
throughout the novel, recognizes the integrity and honor of Atticus Finch as she says to
his children,

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"If your father's anything, he's civilized in his
heart," (10)

Provide detailed examples of the conflict and resolution. 100 wordsTape by Jose Rivera

Without a conflict, there is no need for a resolution.
Conflict is the basis for any story. It propels the story forward. There is an inner or
external conflict or both in the life of every person. Because some writers choose to
share that conflict, others can relate. Conflict causes a story to be interesting. Why
does conflict and struggle immediately grab the reader's attention? The reader usually
can relate in some way.

At the very introduction of the
conflict or struggle, the reader is interested in a solution to the problem at hand.
Often the reader has a solution that perhaps even the author has not imagined. Life is
all about a conflict, a struggle, inner strength that comes from the struggle, and then
the wisdom that comes from the resolution.

We, the readers,
thrive on conflict and yearn for resolutions. We anticipate the happy ending. We endure
the pain of the conflict and struggle in order to be relieved by the happy ending.
Readers hate stories that end without a resolution. Immediately, the reader is imagining
the "what if" for an ending. We, as readers, as emotional human beings, long for the
murderer to be revealed and receive his or her just
punishment.

No conflict, no story. No resolution, unhappy
reader.

Explore the differences between Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson.

Much of this is going to come from your own perceptions
and your own analysis.  I think that there is a similarity to locate human truth and
understanding through the worship of the subjective.  Yet, within this, I think, lies a
fundamental difference.  Whitman explores the subjective in the hope of demonstrating an
outward and explicit worship of the community.  Whitman is unabashed in how he believes
that what it means to be "American" lies in a shared consciousness.  While the
subjective is a realm to be harvested, it is one to be shared with others.  In this,
Whitman does not believe that the individual is meant to remain isolated.  In my mind,
Dickinson does not seek to "go there."  She explores her own sense of identity and her
own place in the world.  If the reader connects with it, the bounds of the community
might be established.  I don't see Dickinson seeking an active embrace of the community
and its representation in the political dimension as Whitman stresses.  While Whitman
could not fully embrace the reality of isolation in the American dynamic, I think that
Dickinson is quite content with this reality.  In Whitman, the exploration of a positive
view of liberty, the political and social expression that allows individuals to "do
great things" is matched with Dickinson's conception of "negative liberty," the
reclusive journey into the "inner citadel," to quote Sir Isaiah Berlin, in which one
seeks to be left alone.

What are some examples of caricature in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice?

I would actually strongly hesitate to call any of Jane
Austen's characters caricatures. A caricature is an exaggeration that makes something
ludicrous. While some of Austen's characters certainly are ludicrous for the sake of
humor, they are actually not false exaggerations, or imitations. All of her characters,
even the ludicrous ones, have a depth of "moral and mental qualities." Even Sir Walter
Scott stated, after having read Pride and Prejudice for the third
time, that Austen "had a talent for describing the involvement, and feelings, and
characters of ordinary life" (Jane Austen's
Art and her Literary Reputation, Pemberley.com). It is even recorded that he
declared that Austen's characters are people everyone will meet in their parlor at least
once.

There is a great deal of truth to what Scott said,
and it can be seen in Austen's subtle characterizations. For instance, though Mr.
Collins may be ridiculous because he has no mind of his own and worships Lady Catherine,
he also has a great deal of pride in his job as a clergyman. He also has moral standing
that we especially see when he writes the letter giving his condolences and advice on
Lydia's fallen state. Since Mr. Collins actually does have a more complex mental and
moral state other than just being ridiculous, he cannot be seen as a
caricature.

Even Mrs. Bennet cannot be seen as a caricature
because, even though she prattles on about marrying her daughters and worries about the
estate's entailment and prattles on about her nerves, she is actually quite devastated
when she learns of Lydia's betrayal to her family. She refuses to leave her room because
of the state she is in. Scott is correct, women like Mrs. Bennet truly do
exist.

Wickham's character is also not an exaggeration. There truly
are men who appear to be very kind and noble, but are actually very conniving, caring
only about their own personal gain and ready to exploit anyone for that purpose.
Furthermore, the very polarity of his character alone proves that his character is far
deeper than a caricature.

Even the Bingley sisters are not
exaggerations. There truly are materialistic, malicious, gossipy women in the world.
Caroline Bingley is especially a portrayal of reality in the way that the she is
depicted as trying to attract Darcy and teasing him about his attraction to
Elizabeth.

Hence, because Austen's characters are not exaggerations
but portrayals of real life, they cannot be called caricatures and one has to look at
her more subtle characterization techniques in order to analyze this
clearly.