Discuss Douglass' political importance in American History.

Douglass' political impact on American History can be seen
in a couple of ways.  The most evident is his abolitionist stance.  Douglass was fervent
in his belief that slavery had to be abolished and worked tirelessly on political and
social levels to make this a reality.  Douglass' political stance on the issue was
vitally important in helping to mold the hearts and minds of many Americans towards a
nation that abolished slavery.  In speeches such as "What to the slave is the 4th of
July?" and the evolution of his own abolitionist newspaper and writings, Douglass was
able to cast a political rationale behind why slavery had to be eliminated in American
Society.  Another way in which Douglass' political power is evident would be in his
support of women's suffrage.  Douglass was radical for his time period in arguing that
there had to be solidarity amongst those whose voices were silenced in order to fully
embrace the promises and possibilities in America.  Finally, Douglass' political support
of Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation was vitally important for Union success in
the Civil War.

What techniques does the author use to establish the reader's sympathy for Paul? "Paul's Case" by Willa Cather

Willa Cather's most powerful technique for developing
Paul as a character is direct exposition as an authorial voice that presents information
about Paul to the reader in thorough detail. With this authoritative narrator, every
aspect of Paul's exterior and inner reality is portrayed and analyzed. for the reader.
Through this voice of Cather, the reader perceives the poignant yearning after the arts
and their beauty that is innate to the motherless Paul.  In addition, the reader also
realizes Paul's disengagement from reality, a detachment that effects his destruction
since he cannot conceive of having any choice but that of living in the
arts.

In the exposition of the story, Cather describes Paul
as having large pupils "as though he were addicted to belladonna."  When he is called to
the principal's office, he is accused of disorder and disobedience, but after the
meeting, the reader's sympathy is aroused for Paul when the teachers are ashamed of
their accusations, especially when the drawing master

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voiced the feeling of them all when he declared
there was something about the boy which none of them understood.  He added:  'I don't
really believe that smile of his comes altogether from insolence; there's something sort
of haunted about it.  The boy is not strong for one thing.  There is something wrong
about the fellow.'

After he
says this, his teachers feel somewhat like bullies, 

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dissatisfied and unhappy; humiliated to have
felt so vindictive toward a mere boy, to have uttered this feeling in cutting terms, and
to have se each other one, as it were, in the gruesome game of intermperate reproach. 
One of them remembered having seen a miserable street cat set at bay by a ring of
tormentors.

That Paul is so
elated when surrounded by beauty and art and so terribly unhappy and "irritable" in the
grey environment of the material world, touches the sympathies of the reader, as well.  
As he stands outside the concert hall, Paul's thoughts are
these:

There
it was, what he wanted--tanglibly before him, like the fairy world of a Christmas
pantomime; as the rain beat in his face, Paul wondered whether he were destined always
to shiver in the black night outside, looking up at
it.

Cather's repeated mention
of Paul's aversion to the mundane and his touching yearning for the aesthetic that
provides him an "indescribable thrill that made his imagination master of his
senses" makes Paul's death all the more poignant.  In fact, the ambiguous
ending--whether Paul's death is an accident or a suicide--also gives the reader a sense
of Paul's victimization as part of "the immense design of
things."

Find the volume if the area bounded by the curve y=|1-square roo(1-x)|, x axis and the limits of x=-1 and x=1 is rotated around x axis?

We'll recall the formula of solid of
revolution:

V = pi*Integral [f(x)]^2 dx, where the limits
of integration are x = -1 and x = 1.

Let y = f(x) = |1 -
sqrt(1-x)|

We'll recall the property of absolute
value:

|a|^2 = a^2 => |f(x)|^2 = [f(x)]^2 = [1 -
sqrt(1-x)]^2

V = pi*Int [1 - sqrt(1-x)]^2
dx

We'll expand the square:

[1
- sqrt(1-x)]^2 = 1 - 2sqrt(1-x) + 1 - x

Int [1 -
sqrt(1-x)]^2 dx = Int [1 - 2sqrt(1-x) + 1 - x]dx

Int [1 -
sqrt(1-x)]^2 dx = 2Int dx - 2Int sqrt(1-x)dx - Int
xdx

We'll calculate Int sqrt(1-x)dx using
substitution:

1 - x = t => -dx =
dt

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

-Int t^(1/2) dt = -
t^(3/2)/(3/2)

2Int sqrt(1-x)dx =
-4(1-x)^(3/2)/3

Int [1 - sqrt(1-x)]^2 dx = 2x - x^2/2 +
4(1-x)^(3/2)/3

Now, we'll apply Leibniz Newton
formula:

Int [1 - sqrt(1-x)]^2 dx =  F(1) -
F(-1)

F(1) = 2 - 1/2

F(-1) =
-2 - 1/2 + 8sqrt2/3

F(1) - F(-1) = 2 - 1/2 + 2 + 1/2 -
8sqrt2/3

F(1) - F(-1) = 4 - 
8sqrt2/3

The requested volume of the solid of
revolution is V = pi*(4 -  8sqrt2/3).

If you were traveling into space, what would be pack?

This is a fascinating topic in that it reveals much about
a person.  For me as an educator, Christa McAuliffe is a hauntingly powerful image.  The
idea of a teacher in space whose desire was to teach a lesson from space to millions of
students on Earth is compellingly inspirational.  It is here where I would pack my
things appropriately.  I would bring a dry/ erase board and markers for visual aids, as
well as some books as reference points.  I think that there is something really
impressive in teaching a lesson that could be taught on Earth, yet teaching it in
space.  I would bring a short story unit that I teach about dissension amongst human
beings.  Then, in teaching this lesson from space, I think that there might be a
thematically inspirational element that can hope to bridge the differences amongst
people when teaching it from a position where all people can develop affinity for it.  I
think that bringing materials, such as the packet of stories that students already have,
that would enable this lesson to be taught from above back below would be something that
I would bring to make my experience and my lesson more meaningful.  It is a personalized
response, but I thought that given the question, it required a personalized
analysis.

a and b are roots of equation x^2-2x-2=0. what are a^2+b^2?

There are two methods to determine the sum of the square
of the roots of the given quadratic equation.

One of them
is to use Viete's relations.

We know that the sum of the
roots of the quadratic is the following:

a + b =
-(-2)/1

a + b = 2

The product
of the roots is:

a*b =
-2/1

a*b = -2

The sum of the
squares of the roots could be found using the formula:

(a +
b)^2 = a^2 + 2ab + b^2

We'll subtract 2ab both
sides:

(a + b)^2 - 2ab = a^2 +
b^2

We'll replace a + b and a*b by its
values:

(2)^2 - 2*(-2) = a^2 +
b^2

4 + 4 = a^2 + b^2

a^2 +
b^2 = 8

The sum of the squares of the roots
of the quadratic equation is a^2 + b^2 = 8.

Provide a list of reasons the Salvation Army is important?

The Salvation Army's stated purpose
is

to perform
evangelical, social and charitable work and bring the Christian message to the poor,
destitute and hungry by meeting both their physical and spiritual
needs. 

The organization
provides charitable relief to millions of people around the world each year. One poll
showed that it was the 4th most popular of all charitable organizations, and it
currently operates in 122 different countries. In addition to its paid employees and
army members, the Salvation Army utilizes at least 4.5 million volunteers worldwide. The
organization provided more than $2.5 billion of social aid in 2004, and it is the
largest non-governmental social services provider in the U. K.; it is the second largest
charity in the U. S.

The Salvation Army is always at hand
during natural disasters. They had workers arrive immediately after the Indian Ocean
tsunami of 2004 and the 9/11 attack on New York City; they allocated $365 million for
aid to Hurricane Katrina victims. They operate thrift shops with proceeds going to
charity and provide a Family Tracing Service for missing
persons.

What techniques are used in the movie Blade Runner the Director's Cut?

The biggest difference between this version of Scott
Ridley's classic vision of the future and his original production is the inclusion of
Dekkard's daydream. Whilst he is asleep in his appartment, Dekkard has a curious dream
of a unicorn, that appears to be unrelated to anything else to do with the film. It is
only at the end, when he finds that the policeman who has been following him around has
made a foil origami unicorn that we understand the significance of this day dream. Just
as Dekkard was able to tell Rachel what she had dreamed about because she is a
replicant, so Dekkard's dreams are not his own private property. This version of the
film strongly suggests that Dekkard himself is a replicant, therefore plunging us as
viewers into an existential state of angst as we do have to ask ourselves the question
what separates us from created machine. This film concerns deep and penetrating issues
of identity which are not easily resolved.

In what ways did Jekyll conceal his identity as Hyde and how in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?

Well, one of the principal methods which is used to help
separate the two figures and keep the fact of their actual unity a secret is the living
arrangements of both of them. Note how Dr. Jekyll lives in a wealthy and opulent home.
The laboratory, however, is described as "a certain sinister block of building." The
laboratory is neglected and dilapidated, and it is therefore symbolically fitting that
it is Mr. Hyde that is seen entering and exiting from this establishment, and that Dr.
Jekyll enters and exists from his home. Yet, as the novel makes clear, these two rooms
are actually connected, even though both buildings appear to be on two different
streets. The labyrinthine layout of the roads in this area makes it impossible to
discern that these two separate structures are actually part of one building. This makes
the concealing of the identity of Mr. Hyde a lot easier, as he can leave through the
laboratory, which is taken by all to be for all intents and purposes as a separate
building.

Of course, the connection between these two
buildings is symbolic of the connection between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the evil
side that all of us possess, no matter how detached we look as if we are from such
sordid connections.

What does the title "East of Eden" signify?

Steinbeck's novel East of Eden is a
symbolic retelling of the Cain and Abel story set in the fertile Salinas Valley of
California, and as such the title alludes to the Biblical passage in which
Cain

went out
from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the land of Nod, east of
Eden.

In the
novel, like God who accepts Abel's gift and rejects that of Cain,  Cyrus Hamilton
rejects a gift from his son Charles, but accepts a lesser one from his son Adam. 
Maddened by this rejection, Charles beats his brother Adam, and then Adam joins the army
in World War I. 

Ironically, the story of Eden is
reiterated in another fashion with Adam and his wife Cathy as a sin-ridden Eve; With
their children, Caleb and Aron, the story of Cain and Abel is retold, as well,
as, ironically, Adam rejects a present from his son Caleb while he accepts the gift from
Aron.  Having been rejected, Caleb, too, rebels and takes Aron to see his prostitute
mother; this event causes disastrous results.

What are the intercepts of y= x^2 -4x + 5 ?

The intercepts of y= x^2 -4x + 5 have to be
determined.

At the point where the curve meets the x-axis,
the value of the y-coordinate is 0.

The equation x^2 - 4x +
5 = 0 has to be solved to determine the x-intercepts.

But
the equation x^2 - 4x + 5 = 0 does not have any real roots as (-4)^2 - 4*1*5 = -4 which
is negative.

The curve does not intersect the
x-axis.

At the point where it meets the y-axis, the x
coordinate is 0. This gives y = 0 - 0 + 5 = 0

The y
intercept of the curve is 5.

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What is meant by non-academic writing?

Non-academic writing may be considered that writing which
is personal, emotional, impressionistic, or subjective in nature.  Such writing is often
found in personal journal entries, reader response writing, memoirs, any kind of
autobiographical writing, and letters, e-mails, and text messages.  And, since this
writing is of a personal nature, the level of language used is often informal and more
conversational.  Such constructions as contractions and idiomatic expressions,
colloquialisms, even slang may be evident in non-academic writing. Usually, the first or
second person is employed, a point of view that is inappropriate to academic
writing. 

The sentence structure and organization of
ideas is also informal in non-academic writing.  Fewer transitions are probably used and
simpler, less formalized sentences are written.  Dialogue may even find its way into
non-academic writing.  Certainly, creative fiction falls into the category of
non-academic writing.

Why do laws exist?

Laws exist to protect the rights of the members of a
society and to ensure that they do not have to protect those rights through their own
actions.

Philosophers like John Locke argued that without
laws, human societies would be brutal places.  They argued that a society without laws
would be one in which individual people only had as many rights as they could protect. 
In other words, you only had the right to life if you could keep others from killing you
and you only had the right to your property if you could keep others from stealing
it.

Locke says that societies devised laws and governments
as a way to get themselves out of this state of nature.  The people would give up some
of their rights to the government.  In return, the government would protect their major
rights like life, liberty and property.

In this view, laws
exist in order to protect our most fundamental human rights.  Because we have laws and
ways to enforce them, we all have rights even if we would be too weak to protect those
rights in a state of nature.

How does Brutus's death compare to Cassius' death as far as being honourable in Julius Caesar? I have a presentation on Act 5 and this is a key...

Both Brutus and Cassius commit suicide. Cassius
incorrectly hears that Brutus is defeated. that is why he commits suicide. He was
dependent on Brutus for his leardership. Cassius is giving honor to Brutus in his death.
He believes in Brutus. Knowing he is dead causes Cassius to feel hopeless. Cassius is a
coward who depended totally on Brutus.

Brutus fights to the
end. He rallies Cassius's forces and fights until both armies retreat. It is declared a
draw between Brutus' army and Antony's army.

Three weeks
later, Brutus finds his army defeated. He would rather die than live under the
leadership of men who supported Caesar in his sense of being ovely
ambitious.

Brutus has nothing to fear in death. He has lost
everything. His wife is dead. Cassius is dead. Brutus would rather die on his own sword
than to become a slave under Rome's new condition.

He dies
believing in an idealic republic. In honor and glory, Brutus dies. Even Antony admits
that no one was more honorable of the conspirators.

Classifying Chemical Reactions LABObservations listed below for 7 reactions and QUESTIONSOBSERVATIONSReaction 1:The zinc metal is dull to start...

Balanced Equations:

you did
not state what was added to the Zn so lets assume HCl.

Zn
(s) +2 HCl (aq) -->  ZnCl2 (aq) + H2 (g)  Single
replacement

In the second reaction the MnO2 acts as a
catalyst in the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide.

2 H2O2
(aq) --> 2 H2O (aq) + O2 (g)

Reaction 3
is a synthesis reaction:

2 Cu (s) + O2 (g) --> 2 CuO
(s)

Reaction 4 is a double replacement
reaction.  The general form is:

AB (aq) + CD (aq)
--> AC (aq)  + BD (s)

reaction 5 is a
decomposition or dehydration type reaction:

CuSO4*5HOH (s)
--> CuSO4 (s) + 5 HOH (l)

Reaction 6 is a
synthesis or hydration reaction:

CuSO4 (s) + 5 HOH (l)
-->  CuSO4*5HOH (s)

Reaction 7 is a single
replacement reaction and is also an oxidation-reduction reaction>  The iron is
oxidized and the copper is reduced.

Fe (s) + CuSO4
(aq)--> FeSO4 (aq)+ Cu (s)

Question 2:  the copper
is combining with the oxygen in the
air.

Question 3: the copper ion is being reduced
to the element so the blue color gradually
disappears.

Question 4:  common signs of a chemical
reaction are:  release of heat or a gas; formation of a precipitate; change in
color.

What major geographical processes created and shaped the Polar regions?

Geography is a descriptive study.  Geographical
distinctions are applied to land masses or bodies of water, and the boundaries between
them are not able to be clearly defined.  For example, we speak of mountains, rivers,
plains, lakes, seas, oceans etc. So, the question remains "where does the mountain begin
and the flat land end?" The polar regions, usually considred cold and barren, are the
result of the combination of the rotation of the earth  and the amount of sunlight that
reaches the area.  If the earth was stationary there would be no axis of rotation and
therefore no "polar" region.

How to find the measure of the intercepted arc?I have to find the measure of an intercepted arc in a circle of radius 10 cm with the given radian...

The circumference of a circle is given by 2*pi*r where r
is the radius of the circle. Here the radius is 10 which gives the circumference as
20*pi.

Angles can be expressed in many units, one of which
is radians. One radian is the measure of an angle such that the length of the
intercepted arc is equal to the radius of the circle. This makes the length of the arc
intercepted by an angle of 2*pi radians equal to the circumference of the
circle.

To find the measure of the intercepted arc; when
the angle is A radians, the measure of the intercepted arc is
A*r.

What is the difference in the upbringing of children between Atticus and Aunt Alexandra in To Kill a Mockingbird?

The parental skills of Alexandra and Atticus contrast
wildly in To Kill a Mockingbird. Alexandra's children are already
grown and married; young Francis, who inhabits Finch Landing during the Christmas
holidays, is actually Alexandra's grandson. Francis' father, Henry, and his wife
are similar to Dill's parents: They show little attention (or teach discipline) to their
children, preferring to leave them with relatives for long periods of time. They don't
even spend Christmas with their family, like Atticus and Uncle Jack; instead, they
"pursued their own pleasures."

Scout describes Alexandra as
"cold," and her Uncle Jimmy never said a word to Scout except once when he told her to
"Get off the fence." Jimmy is distant to everyone, including his wife; he prefers a life
of leisure (apparently with no job), and fishing seems to be his main vocation. He
refuses to accompany Alexandra when she comes to Maycomb to take care of Jem and Scout.
He is probably much happier at Finch Landing. Alexandra's high-brow behavior is the
antithesis of Atticus' own way of treating everyone the same. Where Atticus employs
Calpurnia to take care of his children, and treats her as a member of the family,
Alexandra employs a black chauffeur to drive her around. Alexandra's motherly instincts
are poor, or perhaps only rusty; she attempts to be strict with Jem and Scout, deciding
that they need a woman's touch, but she shows none of this attitude when dealing with
the obnoxious Francis.

It is obvious that Atticus' children
are developing conscientious, intelligent skills and habits, and will grow into
responsible adults--without the benefit of a mother. The same can't be said of
Alexandra's own children, though she does show great improvement by the end of the
novel. Her sympathetic and understanding pampering of Scout and Jem in the final
chapters show that her rust may be wearing off after all.

How did the U.S. deal with the international economic tangle of loans, war debt, and reparations after WWI?

After WWI, the Allies owed a huge amount of money to the
US.  In the early 1920s, the US negotiated the debt down to a total of about $11.5
billion.  The US expected that the Allies would repay this
money.

The Allies, in contrast, did not think they should
have to repay.  They felt that they had paid the loans in blood since they had fought
for years before the US entered the war.  They also argued that they could not possibly
repay the loans unless they could keep getting war reparations from
Germany.

Once the Great Depression started, there was no
way that the loans were going to be repaid.  In 1931, President Hoover announced a
moratorium on German reparations and Allied payments to the US.  After that moratorium
expired, the Allies simply defaulted on their debt and the US did not really try to do
anything about it.

So, the US dealt with this tangle by
repeatedly lowering the amount that they demanded and finally giving up on collecting
the debt altogether.

How does Act One of "Death of a Salesman" end on a positive note?How does Act One end on a positive note?

I would suggest that it does not.  Toward the end of the
Act, we learn that Willy has tried to kill himself, Linda rips the sons for their lack
of concern for the father (justified or not), Biff makes up some story (for himself or
for his mom/dad?) about going to get a loan from Bill Oliver, and Linda is urging Willy
to get a job at work where he will not have to travel ... all the while not knowing that
he is no longer traveling, nor is he any longer making any "real" money since he's on
commission and about to lose even that job.

Maybe I am not
seeing something, but there's nothing but more delusion at the end of the act, and
nothing that strikes me as positive.

According to Shakespeare, how are love and art similar in power to transform people's perceptions, as we see in A Midsummer Night's Dream ?

In A Midsummer Night's Dream,
Shakespeare points out that both love and art suspend reality, making illusion the
current reality. Both can suspend reality because both are based on emotions, which tend
to be irrational, rather than concrete, objective, thought. Shakespeare uses the
Athenian lovers to show how love can suspend reality and Theseus's rational opinions
about art to show that art can do likewise.

We especially see how
feelings of love can suspend reality when we learn that Demetrius actually does not have
any rational reason for having rejected Helena. Helena points out that all over Athens,
she is recognized to be just as beautiful as Hermia, as we see in her line, "Through
Athens I am thought as fair as she" (I.i.232). Helena further points out that love is
not based on any objective reality, such as beauty, it is rather a figment of the
imagination, as we see in her lines, "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; /
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind" (239-240). Therefore, since love is an
irrational emotion, feelings of love are based on illusion rather than reality.
Furthermore, love suspends reality making reality be perceived as something that it is
not.

Shakespeare uses Theseus to point out that the same is true for
all art. Theseus is portrayed as one of the play's only rationally-minded characters. He
is so rationally minded that, against Egeus's wishes, he grants Demetrius permission to
marry Helena, and Hermia permission to marry Lysander. Hence, using Theseus to point out
the irrationality of art is very significant to Shakespeare's overall argument in the
play. Theseus declares that both "lovers and madmen have such seething brains" (V.i.5).
He further states that "[t]he lunatic, the lover, and the poet, / Are of imagination all
compact," meaning that all three turn reality into something that it is not (8-9). The
lunatic imagines he or she sees "more devils than vast hell can hold"; the lover sees
"Helen [of Troy]'s beauty" in very unlikely faces; and, the poet creates shapes out of
nothing (10-18). Hence, Theseus is pointing out that the artist, such as the poet, uses
imagination to see things that are not really there, thereby suspending reality. The
artist, such as the poet, can do this just like the lover because art stems from
emotions, which are irrational.

How fair is this presentation? Does it use techniques such as exaggeration, emotion, distortion, or selective evidence?Based on this article:...

I am hardly an expert about nutrition, and so I have no
idea whether this article's conclusions are true or false.  However, I
can offer a few comments about the article's rhetoric (in other
words, how it tries to be persuasive).

Things seem to get
off to a bad start when we look at the headline of the
piece:

Human
nutrition research and practice is plagued by pseudoscience
and unsupported opinions

The
word "plagued" is obviously an appeal to the emotions. A word such as "hindered" would
have been far less emotional.  However, the headline may not have been written by the
author of the article. Even if he did write the headline, the author subsequently seems
to have guarded himself well against charges of exaggeration, emotion, distortion, and
selective evidence. Here are some representative quotations that show how he tries to
protect himself against the potential charges you have listed (with key phrases
highlighted in bold
print).

EXAGGERATION:

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My purpose here is to definitively
(wherever possible) or
tentatively (where the data are incomplete or
nonexistent) answer a series of key questions about adult human nutrition
using relevant rigorous scientific principles and methods. The data clearly show that
much current advice . . . is
frequently unproven, erroneous, or even harmful and is
often based on pseudoscience or derivative incorrect professorial
opinion.

EMOTION:

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As I described earlier, unless
proper studies are done (randomized, single variable, hypothesis-driven, with validated
instruments and proper statistical analyses), the literature is doomed to
potential, often-unknown bias and
confounding.

DISTORTION:

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With a rigorous scientific approach, we can then
distinguish “true” nutritional claims with some
certainty—separate facts and reasonable inferences from false claims and
unproven hypotheses where there is inadequate, incorrect, or
misinterpreted
data.

SELECTIVE
EVIDENCE:

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In general the
clinical trials in Table 3 are examples of controlled, randomized studies done with very
large numbers of people often versus placebo. (It is true, however, that
in certain populations the RDA of a few vitamins might be slightly higher
than in normal adults . . .

I
leave it to scientists to jude whether this article is persuasive. I can say, however,
that it effectively tries to be persuasive, and that I have seen
many other articles much guiltier of the charges you list than this article seems to
be.

What are the real solutions of square root(x^2+9)=x-2 ?

Since the radicand (x^2 + 9) is positive for any real
value of x, we don't have to impose the constraint of existence of the square
root.

We'll raise to square both sides, to eliminate the
square root:

x^2 + 9 =
(x-2)^2

We'll expand the square from the right, using the
formula:

(a-b)^2 = a^2 - 2ab +
b^2

(x-2)^2 = x^2 - 4x + 4

The
equation will become:

x^2 + 9 = x^2 - 4x +
4

We'll subtract both sides x^2 - 4x +
4:

x^2 + 9 - x^2 + 4x - 4 =
0

We'll eliminate like
terms:

4x + 5 = 0

We'll shift
5 to the right:

4x = -5

x =
-5/4

The equation has only a real solution
and this is x = -5/4.

In what ways is Gregor's metamorphosis symbolic in Kafka's The Metamorphosis?

There is a great deal of symbolism in Kafka's
The Metamorphosis. One example is the question of whether Gregor's
transformation is symbolic of his sense of alienation? Is he a bug or is he simply
feeling alienated from all those around him in that he is not
appreciated?

The first line of the story begs the question
of whether the story is a dream:

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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy
dreams he found himself transformed in hi bed into a gigantic
insect.

There is supposed to
be a great deal of symbolism in dreams, so Kafka may be suggesting, by introducing the
possible presence of a dream, that this might simply be a…nightmare. Gregor works very
hard and it is no surprise that he might worry in his sleep about the job that is so
important to his family. The vision of turning into an insect could actually symbolize
his desire not to have to return to a job he hates.

One of
the themes of the story is alienation and self-sacrifice. With this is mind, it has been
argued that Gregor is a Christ-like figure. We see symbolic references in several
events.

Grete, Gregor's sister, was once very close to him,
but by the story's end, she is demanding that they get rid of him because he has
changed. This is similar to Judas'
displeasure, politically, with what Jesus was doing.

When
Mr. Samsa throws the apples at Gregor, this might be symbolic of the abuse and heckling
Christ receives on his way to Golgotha—because although Christ was welcomed on "Psalm
Sunday," many people were disappointed with the man he was as opposed to the warrior
king they expected. (Gregor is perceived as valuable when working, but not when he
changes and cannot work.) With the apple that lands itself in his
back, Kafka writes:

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One weakly thrown apple grazed Gregor's back but
slid off harmlessly. One direct hit that flew immediately afterward penetrated Gregor's
back; Gregor wanted to drag himself a little further, as if the unexpected and
unbelievable pain would go away with a change of position, and yet he felt like he was
nailed down and stretched
out...

This gives a
description similar to the nailing of Christ to the cross: feeling "nailed down and
stretched out."

(This symbolic allusion continues: even
after the way his family treats him, Gregor's reaction is also
Christ-like:

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He thought of his family with tenderness and
love.

Ironically, the family
(except for his mother) may never have really loved him as much as the money he
made—which he cannot do as a bug. There is also Gregor's death, where the time, three
o'clock is significant, as it is in the crucifixion
story:

In this
state of vacant and peaceful meditation he remained until the tower clock struck three
in the morning…Then his head sank to the floor of its own accord and from his nostrils
came the last faint flicked of his
breath.

It is said that
Christ died at three o'clock in the afternoon. The three lodgers
might be symbolic of the Jewish high priests and elders of the Sanhedrin; the lodgers
were "serious men, all three with full beards." (Three is also a number highly symbolic
in the story of Christ: rose on the third day, died in the third hour, the trinity,
Peter's denial three times, etc.)

Finally, the charwoman
enters Gregor's room that morning. With a broom handle in her hand, she pokes Gregor in
the side to waken him, and finally realizes that he is dead. This might be said to be
symbolic of the centurion's spear, used to pierce Christ's side to see if he was
dead.)

What does Helen do with Belle in The Miracle Worker?

Belle is an Irish Setter, a beloved member of the Keller
family.  Although she is not a character usually focused upon in The Miracle
Worker, I applaud you for asking this question in order to highlight such a
special minor character here!

Let's take a look at one of
the first instances when we see Belle with Helen (apart from when Belle is simply
sleeping by the pump).  In the stage directions on page 31 it
states:

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In the house the setter Belle flees to
the family room, pursued by Helen with groping hands; the dog doubles back out the same
door, ...

From
this, we can infer that Helen gives affection (probably very rough affection) to Belle
whenever Belle is willing to take it. In fact, this is confirmed when we see Helen
interact with Belle near the end of the two-week hiatus from the
family:

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When [Helen] encounter's Belle, she
throws her arms around the dog's neck in
delight.

Kate:  Doesn't she need affection too,
Miss Annie?

Now, these two
instances are fine and good, but the instance that I think you are referring to is a bit
later in that very scene around page 99.  Annie is desperately trying to explain to the
Kellers why she needs more time with Helen and exactly why their affection for her could
be to her detrement.  In the middle of the conversation, Helen gets their
attention:

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Helen is playing with Belle's claws;
she makes letters with her fingers, shows them to Belle, waits with her palm, then
manipulates the dog's claws. ...

Keller: 
Teaching a dog to spell

(A
pause.)

The dog doesn't know what she means, any
more than she knows what you mean, Miss sullivan.  I think you ask too much, of her and
yourself.  God may not have meant Helen to have the--eyes you speak
of.

Perhaps more important is
how Annie manipulates the situation, gently chiding
Helen:

Annie
[Gently]: No.

(She shakes her head, with Helen's hand to
her face, then spells.)

Dog. D,o,g.
Dog.

(She touches Helen's hand to Belle.  Helen dutifully
pats the dog's head, and resumes spelling to its paw.)

Not
water.

At this point Annie
gets some water for Helen, trying to make her understand.  However, Helen continues to
try to spell water to the dog and even tries to "thrust Belle's paw into
it."

It is safe to assume, then, that although
Belle become's part of Helen's instruction, Belle is not the instrument of enlightenment
as the water from the pump is.  Just as the family (too in love with Helen herself to
properly help) can never be Annie (the true teacher).  Belle (the beloved family pet)
can never live up to the sensory experience of water (the item burned into her memory
from an early age through sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell):  the only word Helen
had ever spoken, ... and the first word she will speak again.

Which presidents were responsible for the New Deal and the Great Society?

The New Deal and the Great Society were two sets of
programs, enacted roughly 30 years apart, that were both meant to make the government
more responsible for helping people avoid poverty.  The New Deal was created by Pres.
Franklin D. Roosevelt in the early 1930s.  It was a response to the Great Depression
that started in 1929.  The Great Society was a set of programs that were pushed by Pres.
Lyndon B. Johnson in the mid-1960s.  They were meant to end poverty that had persisted
even as the overall US economy had boomed in the years after
WWII.

In Riders to the Sea, do you agree with the view that Synge's Maurya is a 'tragic character' who refuses to 'accept defeat'?

I think there is a definite sense in which this is true.
What is most impressive about Maurya's character is the way she is able to accept,
almost triumphantly, what fate has to throw at her and can greet it with dignity and
calm self-control. In spite of having lost all of her sons to the sea and the harsh
future that awaits her without any of her sons to be able to help look after her, she is
still able to say that "there isn't anything more the sea can do to me." The play ends
with her assertion that "They're all together this time, and the end has come." Thus she
believes that her sons are altogether in happiness and to her, all she can do is ask for
mercy to be on everyone's soul. In spite of her fate, she remains unbowed by the
vicissitudes of life and her defiance in the face of the sea, that has brought her so
much suffering, is laudable to say the least.

How did inventions from the 1950s impact the American people?1950s science and technology

Different inventions, of course, affected the American
people in different ways.

For example, the hydrogen bomb
was invented in the 1950s.  You could argue that this invention (along with the
development of rockets later in the decade) made American life much scarier.  These
inventions made people fear that a nuclear war could kill them at any
moment.

On the good side, a vaccine for polio was invented
during this time.  This clearly improved the lives of Americans.  This discovery made it
so that they did not have to worry about themselves or their loved ones contracting this
terrible disease.  In this way, life became less scary.

So,
inventions of this time had a mixed impact on American life.  They could make life seem
more secure or less secure.  They could also (with the development of such things as
TVs) make life more convenient.  Different inventions had very different
impacts.

What is the main conflict in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck?

There are many small conflicts in Of Mice and
Men, but the main conflict involves the struggle for survival, a struggle
which is shared by most living things. Lennie could not survive by himself. George looks
after him. So George's struggle for survival is twice as hard as it is for most men.
They nearly got killed in Weed. They ate their late three cans of beans the night before
they show up for work at the ranch. They nearly don't get the jobs they came all this
way for because they make a bad impression on the boss. He could easily tell them he
didn't want them. They make a bad impression because they arrive late, and the boss
becomes suspicious of George because he does all the talking for Lennie. But they manage
to get jobs that will provide the bare minimum for survival. They get bunks to sleep in,
a roof over their heads, and food. There is no security and they have to work long hours
in the hot sun lifting 100-pound sacks of barley onto wagons. When the barley is all
harvested, chances are that they will get laid off. Why should the owner keep providing
bed and board if there is nothing for them to do? They will have to hit the road again.
And they will be competing with thousands of other homeless, desperate men who need food
and shelter.

A couple of the other characters are worse off
than George. Candy has only one hand, and he is getting old. Crooks has a broken body
and the added handicap of being black. What kind of job could he find if they laid him
off at this place? Both Candy and Crooks are living in dread of losing their jobs. There
was very little assistance available for the destitute in those days. Steinbeck made
this more dramatic when he wrote his masterpiece, The Grapes of
Wrath. Hordes of men, women, and children came to California hoping to find
work picking fruit. The children were going hungry, and there was nothing their parents
could do for them. If they could get temporary jobs picking fruit, they had to work hard
for very little pay. And they usually had to buy food from a company store which charged
exorbitant prices.

Some of the men in Of Mice and
Men were young and strong, but they could see their futures in men like
Crooks and Candy. When they could no longer lift hundred-pound sacks and keep at it all
day, they would be summarily discharged. There were always younger men to replace them.
So the conflict might be described as one of man against
man. 

A
struggle for existence naturally follows from the high rate at which all organic beings
tend to increase. There is no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally
increases at so high a rate, that if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by
the progeny of a single pair.
Charles Darwin, The Origin of
Species 

The condition of man . . . is a
condition of war of everyone against everyone.
Thomas
Hobbes

How do I combine following sentences using contrast connectors?1. Eleven schools rejected her application. 2. Geneva Medical College finally...

The use of such connectors as punctuation or
conjunctions is usually most desirable in writing. Of course, subordinating conjunctions
are useful in situations in which the writer wishes to subordinate another idea.  For
instance, the first two sentences can be joined together into one with the use of a
subordinating conjunction:

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Eleven schools rejected her applications
until Geneva  Medical College finally accepted
her.

But, if one wishes to
write this sentence by establishing a contrast, then the choice of a conjunctive adverb
may work well.  These adverbs signal relationships such as cause, condition, and
contrast. For instance, the sentence made of sentence#3 and sentence#4 may look like
this:

Eleven schools rejected her applications;
however, Geneva Medical College finally accepted
her.

She graduated from there in 1849;
nevertheless, her graduation caused much debate among the
faculty.

Explain the importance of the French Revolution in the novel.The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

In the initial chapters of The Count of Monte
Cristo, Edmund Dantes explains to Monsieur Morrel that the captain of the
merchant ship, Pharaon, has died and in his stead Dantes has delivered a letter to the
island of Elba.  It is this letter that lands Edmund Dantes in prison.  For when he
arrested as having conspired to bring Napoleon the exiled emperor who ruled shortly
after the French Revolution from Elba, the Deputy Procureur of the King asks him what
has transpired.  Dantes replies that he has merely followed his dying captain's orders.
Upon further questioning, Dantes tells Gerard de Villefort that the Marechal gave him a
letter to deliver in Paris, addressed to Monsieur Noirtier.  When de Villefort hears
this name, he rescinds his orders to dismiss Dantes and says that he must retain
Dantes.  Then he burns the letter to M. Noirtier in the
fireplace. 

After this meeting, de Villefort who is a
Royalist, serving under the restored king, Louis XVIII, cannot permit Edmund Dantes to
mention anything about M. Noirtier to anyone.  For, he has great political aspirations. 
Therefore, he has Dantes charged as a Bonapartist and thrown into prison where poor
Dantes spends fourteen years during which time he meets the Abbe Faria, also a political
prisoner.  Ironically, the abbe was imprisoned for being against
Napoleon.

So, while the French Revolution does not have a
direct effect upon the narrative, some of the resulting occurrences in the years
subsequent to it such as the rise of Napoleon to Emperor and his exile with the One
Hundred Days of rule by the Bourbon King definitely affect what happens to certain
characters of Dumas's book.

How can businesses improve their understanding of consumer behavior?

The best way for businesses to improve their understanding
of consumer behavior is to gather as much data as they can regarding the purchasing
behavior of their customers.

One way that this can be done
is through loyalty cards of the sort that American grocery stores use.  By tracking what
customers buy, the stores can better understand what combinations of things various
customers buy, for example.

Another way to do this is by
observing customer behavior directly.  Firms might look at the ways in which customer
move through their stores.  They might use this data to determine where to put their
displays.  I recently read an article that said that customers buy more things at places
like Wal-Mart when the aisles are relatively cluttered.  This is the sort of data on
customer behavior that can be very important for a firm to have.

How can the government assure honest results in regards to euthanasia.

Euthanasia is the deliberate ending
of a life for sympathetic or quality-of-life reasons. In the last two decades,
right-to-death has become a hot-button issue for government, raising questions about its
ethical morality.

Current debates focus on Euthanasia's
status as assisted suicide by the dying or involuntary murder by the assisting
physician. Dr. Jack Kevorkian is the most famous enthusiast; his public trial made
euthanasia a household word. The most famous recent case was that of Terri Schiavo, a
whose husband permitted the removal of her feeding tube after fifteen years in a
non-responsive coma.

Elsewhere in the world, assisted
suicide is more common; recently, author Terry Pratchett, who is suffering from a rare
form of early-onset Alzheimer's, declared his intent not to die in suffering and
dementia but of his own free will.

The problem with
assisted suicide is determining if the patient is truly in a sound state of mind to
request it. Coma patients, like Terri Schiavo, cannot make their choice known directly,
and it falls to family and whatever legal documents exist to help make the
determination. In Schiavo's case, there was no living will, and her parents wanted to
take her under care to keep her alive, insisting that she showed responses to their
presence. In rebuttal, Schiavo's husband pointed out her fifteen-year coma and brain
scans which showed no activity. Her autopsy later confirmed that her brain was severely
damaged from lack of oxygen, and likely could never have resumed normal, self-aware
function.

At the moment, there is no structure in place for
government involvement in private matters of health, but this is rapidly changing. When
determining quality-of-life, there is no objective standard; a completely paralyzed
person may be happy with his lot while a person missing one foot may be suicidal. In the
absence of deliberate legislation, courts can only intervene in cases like Schiavo's,
where immediate family have a reasonable interest in welfare. Otherwise, it falls to
individual states to make legal decisions regarding right-to-death; Oregon, for example,
allows physician-assisted suicide in short-term terminal cases.

How does The Seder's four questions, Reb Boruch, Commandant Breur and bearing witness relate to the story Devils Arithmetic?

The novel begins poignantly on the first night of
Passover. The Passover meal is called a Seder. Passover is the Jewish holiday when Jews
remember having been enslaved for 400 years and thank God for liberating them and making
them a free people. During the Seder, the youngest child at the table asks four
questions regarding Passover, primarily why this night is different from other nights,
why there is no leaven bread, etc. The oldest person at the table then responds to each
question.

The Four questions and the concept of bearing
witness are almost two sides of the same coin. Hannah states that all Jewish holidays
are about remembering and she is tired of it.

Bearing
witness is the act of remembering for those who can not remember for themselves because
they are no longer alive."Hannah tells the man who tattoos her that she cannot remember
anything; he tells her that she must try, for life cannot exist without
memory".

Reb Boruch is the son of teh previous
Rabbi and among Hassidic communities the title of Reb or Rebbi is a term of endearment
meaning more or less, dear Rabbi. The Rabbi (Reb Boruch) is the communities most beloved
religious leader and the Jews of the town trust him completely. His person in the novel
not only serves to ground the story in historical truths (he was an actual person), but
also to ground the story from Hannah's reality in modern times to her bizarre existence
in the Holocaust.It allows her to better understand her own religious beliefs and
feelings, not just her cultural connections to Judaism.

And
finally Commandant Breur, much like the Rabbi who was in charge of the Hasidic
communities spiritual lives, he is in charge of their physical lives while in the
concentration camp. Once his character comes into play, the leaders of the Jewish
community have either physically dies or spiritually died.Therefore, implying what so
many Jews felt at the time, that God was dead or nor present and that men like Breur who
used the Devil's logic (arithmetic) were devils
themselves.

All four categories are important to the story
because they assist the reader in understanding the story's theme that The
Devil’s Arithmetic is about the importance and power of
memory.

What themes and issues are raised in Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains"? Outline his style of writing in the story.

Ray Bradbury has created a rare storyline that includes no
human beings or human interaction. Earth's humans have created a weapon that destroys
all human life, leaving only a building which is unable to be demolished. Inside, the
house continues to function efficiently despite the lack of people to enjoy its
mechanical marvels. One of the themes explored is that of Man
vs. Machine. By creating a technological
device that can destroy all humanity, man is seen as a creature who believes himself
both superior and clueless to the possible repercussions. Yes, machines can replace
humans, functioning in their place (as seen by the house); however, there is no life or
love or interaction. Without humanity, the function of machines is
meaningless.

Another theme explored by Bradbury is that of
Science vs. Nature. Although
it appears that science has destroyed humanity, the earth still survives. The house,
impregnable to destruction and able to maintain itself, is nevertheless accidentally
destroyed by fire--an act of nature.

How many soliloquies are in Macbeth?Mention in which act and scene they occur.

There are seven (7) soliloquies in Macbeth, but one is a
short speech by Macbeth in Act II, Scene 3 in which Macbeth, who, although he enters
with Malcolm and Donalbain, seems to be talking to himself shortly after the murder of
Duncan:

Had I
but died an hour before this chance,
I had lived a blessed time; for from
this instant
There's nothing serious in mortality:
All is but
toys; renown and grace is dead;
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere
lees
Is left this vault to brag of.
(2.3.99-104)

While the other
speeches are clearly soliloquies as they are speeches delivered by one character alone
on the stage, a soliloquy, according to Dr. Wheeler, can be a speech in which a
character just believes that he is alone; so, in that case the above few lines qualify. 
Soliloquies are important because they provide otherwise inaccessible information to the
audience.  Often they offer sharp insights to the character who speaks, and they are
considered to be true reflections of what the speaker believes or feels.  Indeed, it is
through the soliloquies of Macbeth that the reader/audience learns that he is not all
evil.

Here, then, are the other six
soliloquies:

1. "Glamis thou art..."
   (1.5)


2. "The raven himself is hoarse..."  (1.5)   [These 2
   are Lady Macbeth's]


3. "If it were done...."
   (1.7)


4. "Is this a dagger...."
   (2.1)


5. "To be thus is
   nothing....(3.1)


6. She should have died hereafter
   (5.7)

What was the influence of the media with the Lindbergh baby kidnapping?

When the infant son of Charles Lindbergh, the famous
aviator, and Anne Morrow, writer, was kidnapped in 1932, the media's sensational
coverage surrounding the trial caused major problems that would challenge the
involvement of the press in the court system. This "media event" became known as the
"Crime of the Century."

The two major components that
allowed for this "media circus" involved the celebrity of the parents as well as the
horrific crime—the kidnapping and murder of a baby—became something similar to what was
seen in this country during the O.J. Simpson trial in
1995.

The Lindbergh family was so popular—symbolic of a new
era in American life—drew inordinate attention from the press and public. Reporters hid
on the grounds, pretending to be medical personnel so they could collect pictures.
"Sightseers" drawn by the avalanche of media coverage flooded the grounds of the
Lindbergh estate and may well have destroyed evidence that could have been relevant in
the investigation.

(The body of the Lindbergh child was
discovered  in the woods near the house, and an arrest was made; the suspect never
admitted to the crime, even after being beaten by the
police.)

Because of so much media coverage, influence on
trial jury is difficult to assess, and questions arose that challenged the right to the
media's freedom of speech. Trying to preserve a sense of objectivity for the jury was
hard—attempts were made to limit the level of exposure of the jury to the media, but it
was nearly impossible. They exposed to newsboys on the streets hawking papers and
"merchants" selling "souvenirs."

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Thomas Trenchard, the trial judge, instructed
the jurors not to read the newspapers, listen to the radio, or talk to anyone about the
trial. But each day the jurors had to walk back and forth between the courthouse and the
Union Hotel where they were sequestered (isolated from the public). Jurors waded through
the crowds where newsboys shouted the latest headlines, hawkers sold miniature
"Lindbergh ladders," and people encouraged the jury to "Send Hauptmann to the
chair!"

At the close of the
trial—after the jury retired—people outside waited for a verdict. Crowds could be heard
chanting for the death penalty. One reporter mistakenly conveyed news of a life sentence
to his paper, when the verdict was actually a death sentence. The Lindbergh family
waited to hear the verdict on the radio. Charles turned it off while listening to the
crowd howl in satisfaction; he felt the mob had the mentality of a "lynching
crowd."

Because of the negative impact the press had on the
trial, laws were changed with regard to the press's presence in courtrooms. Even though
there was no way to know how the media's behavior influenced the jury, camera equipment
was no longer allowed in courtrooms.

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As a result of the 1935 Lindbergh baby kidnapping
trial, photographers and cameras were banned in all federal and most state
courts.

While Charles A.
Lindbergh's accomplishments in aviation heralded a new era, the death of his infant son
and the accompanying media madness also ushered in an period that shocked the world and
changed courtroom procedures, challenging the limits of free speech in
America.

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...the penetrating focus of modern communications
on "the trial of the century" altered our notions of privacy, free speech, and a fair
trial as surely as Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic changed the face
of global transportation.

In Act 3 Scene 3 of Othello, what observation does Othello make when he listens to how Iago speaks?

It is very interesting to see how Iago chooses to sow
doubt in the mind of Othello, his superior, concerning the exact nature of the
relationship between Cassio and Othello's wife, Desdemona. Iago shows his understanding
of human psychology and how best to prey on a mind as suggestive to jealousy as
Othello's. Note the way in which he drops his seed of doubt and then, in response to
Othello's immediate questioning, only repeats what Othello says back to his Lord. In
response to Othello's question regarding Cassio's honesty, Iago asks a question in
return, "Honest, my lord?" He does the same when Othello asks him openly what he thinks,
saying "Think, my lord?" This strategy of not openly denouncing Cassio and his
suspicions, makes the process that much more effective, as Othello himself
recognises:

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Think, my lord! By heaven, thou echo'st
me

As if there were some monster in thy
thought

Too hideous to be
shown.

Repeating the words of
Othello only serves to make Othello think that there is definitely some terrible
suspicion that Iago has that he is afraid to give voice to, some "monster" in Iago's
"thought" that is "Too hideous to be shown." Iago thus shows his understanding of his
master and of his master's weakness.

How are Jem's and Scout's lives different from that lived by their aunt in To Kill a Mockingbird?

Aunt Alexandra lives in the family homestead of Finch's
Landing in a rural area 20 miles west of Maycomb. She doesn't get along with her
husband, Jimmy, a lazy man who she leaves behind at the Landing when she comes to
Maycomb. Her life was probably somewhat lonely there, and her decision to come and live
with Atticus probably has something to do with improving her social life. Alexandra
quickly became involved with several social groups, and she fit right in with neighbors
such as Miss Maudie, Miss Stephanie and Miss Rachel.

Other
than having to deal with Alexandra's attempts to refine Scout's feminine ways, and her
constant reminders about the honored heredity of the Finch family, "life resumed its
daily pace." The children continued to spend most of their time outdoors, and Dill would
soon come back to Maycomb to keep them company. Although one of Alexandra's duties was
to keep watch on the children once the Tom Robinson trial began, she would find that the
children had minds of their own concerning this matter.

Discuss how the Hippie culture could connect to the Civil Rights Movement.

This might be a challenge because the fundamental desire
of the Hippie movement was to disengage with traditional society, while the goal of the
Civil Rights Movement was to engage people of color with it.  Herein lies the
fundamental challenge of the latter with the former.  Those who struggled for the right
to vote, or to possess equal economic and social opportunity, and access to better
education could not understand how the Hippie movement so easily dismissed society and
social reality.  It had to have stood as a reflection in the mind of many that the
Hippie movement could not speak for the Civil Rights Movement because it did not
primarily speak to the people who saw the movement as so necessary.  Another level of
distance that caused divergence is that the Hippie movement centered on the growing
conflict in Vietnam, something that was to coopt the Civil Rights Movement later on in
the decade.  In this light, the Hippies understood that the war in Vietnam is going to
become the fundamental issue in the latter part of the decade and the Civil Rights
Movement was going to be seen through this lens and not in its own right.  However, I do
think that some level of connection could be forged between both.  Dr. King's preaching
of non- violent resistance and the transformational quality of love is a concept that
the Hippies, as a group, did understand and embrace.  The Hippies used many of the same
tactics of active resistance predicated upon non- violence.  When King speaks of a
larger vision that encompasses all human beings, he articulates a condition that the
Hippies embraced.  Finally, the idea of a "Dream," a world that is different from what
is and propelled by the desire of what should be, is something that the Hippies actively
endorsed and supported.  It is here where there can be some common ground between the
hippie movement and the Civil Rights Movement.

Chromatids areA) dense patches within the nucleus. B) bacterial chromosomes. C) joined strands of duplicated genetic material. D) prokaryotic...

The answer is C. When a cell is undergoing mitosis or
meiosis, after interphase, the single --stranded chromsomes have been duplicated forming
pairs of chromatids. They are held together by a centromere. By duplicating the
chromosome material, this will insure that the proper amount of chromosomes will end up
in the daughter cells after mitosis, or in the gametes, after
meiosis.

What are the three points of rising action in The Scarlet Ibis?

When we think of plot diagrams and charting the plot of
stories, the rising action are events that heighten the tension and exacerbate the
central conflict of the text and lead to the climax, which is the moment of greatest
emotional intensity in the story. If we take the climax of this excellent story to be
when Doodle and his brother, in the storm, have to admit their failure to "train" Doodle
and the brother abandons Doodle to his death, then the three points of rising action
leading to this would be the following.

Firstly, I would
argue the point when the narrator shows Doodle his coffin demonstrates the "knot of
cruelty borne by the stream of love" that is present in their relationship, and also
foreshadows the narrator's abandonment of Doodle at the
end.

Secondly, when the narrator teaches his brother to
walk and Doodle is able to give a demonstration of this to their parents, the narrator
makes a very interesting and revealing confession when he admits that he taught Doodle
to walk only because he was "ashamed" of having a crippled brother and that he was a
slave of pride.

Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, the
third incident of rising action occurs when the scarlet ibis descends on their tree and
dies. The condition of the scarlet ibis, and how it dies, is explicitly linked to
Doodle's death in the narrator's mind, as he recognises how Doodle, like the scarlet
ibis, was a precious creature that needed protection and was not made for this
planet.

Explain how women are objectified in “Annabelle Lee” or “Ligeia” in light of Poe’s statement, which follows.In “The Philosophy of...

I am not sure if Poe's statement in "The Philosophy of
Composition" is an example of the sexual objectification of women.  Is Poe's statement
that the death of a beautiful woman is "the most poetical topic in the world" equivalent
to saying that a woman is merely an object to be used for a man's sexual gratification?
 Or is he saying that a beautiful woman's death is catastrophic because of the totality
of her beauty, both physical and spiritual?

In "Annabel
Lee" the descriptions of the beauty of the narrator's lover are brief and rather
unremarkable.  She is twice referred to as "beautiful," and there is a mention of her
"bright eyes."  This hardly sounds like objectification to
me.

What we do find is a strong spiritual love between
Annabel Lee and the narrator.  They loved each other "with a love that was more than
love."  Their love was so strong that the "winged seraphs of Heaven / Coveted" them.
 The love of these two youths for each other was "stronger by far than the love / Of
those who were older."

For further information, take a look
at the second link below.  You will find there a list of factors that can be used to
determine if a person is being objectified.

What is the role of operant conditioning in abnormal behaviour?full explanation

I dont think a consequence cuts it correctly, it is more
incentive or didsincentive.  A consequence could be benign, if I do well in work I get
praise, or more money is incentive, if I do well in work and a flowerpot falls off the
window ledge --how does that affect me?

Also the question
is not clear, behavioural theapy is useful for some disorders, but OC can also be seen
to facilitate and develop abnormal behaviour, which I see as the premis of the question.
If some one behaves in a certain way and gets a reward they may continue to do it.  Such
as secondary gains for sick people. If your sick people care for you, cook, get things,
spend time with you etc stay sick get looked
after.

Chemical imbalances, could be chicken and egg, there
are different patterns for chemicals in the brain when certain disorders are evident but
the evidence is correlational and for some conditions,
weak.

Silvertsrummer

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What do companies gain by resorting to manipulative accounting techniques?

Businesses have a large amount of financial data to be
processed. Some of the basic categories under which it falls include purchases, sales,
wages, interest payments, dividends, depreciation, etc. These have to be carefully
recorded over the entire financial year and at the end of the year the information is
analyzed to estimate the revenues and expenses of the company and later used to
determine the profits made. Businesses have to pay corporate income taxes based on the
profits made by them. To avoid paying or to reduce the tax liability, manipulative
accounting techniques are used quite often.

Publically
listed companies are obliged to send the annual balance sheet to all their shareholders
who use the information provided to determine the financial health of the company, how
much it is actually worth and what is the return on equity that they can expect.
Manipulations are done here to show increased profits or assets and make investors feel
that the management of the company is doing a fine
job.

Showing better financial results allows the management
to increase their salary and take extra perks and bonuses. Wrongly reported data can
also influence the stock price of the company which can be used to their advantage by
the management of the company.

Some famous examples of
fraud where financial information was manipulated include scandals involving large
corporations like Enron, Qwest, WorldCom, Sunbeam, etc.

The story takes place entirely in the Samsa family apartment. How does the story’s home setting shape its themes?Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis

In Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis,
the fact that the entire story takes place in the Samsas' apartment has a strong
influence on the themes of the story.

There are several
themes in the story—among them are: father-son antagonism, betrayal, isolation and
self-sacrifice, escaping, and seizing power.

Just as Gregor
becomes a prisoner in his room, the rest of the Samsa family has also become imprisoned
in their apartment. While Gregor is able to provide for them, they have all they need
and are satisfied, rarely going out. They live quietly, entertain each other and need
not worry about anything. When Gregor goes through his transformation, we can be sure
the apartment (and what goes on there) has certainly contributed to this sad change of
events in Gregor's life. Whether he actually turns into a bug, or simply feels like an
outcast whose life is valuable only in terms of the money he earns, is not important.
The change in the characters due to Gregor's transformation drive the major themes in
the story.

For instance, once Gregor changes, there is no
way to escape the apartment. Whereas
we learn early on that Gregor would have greatly appreciated some leisure time for his
physical and mental health, being confined to his room destroys him. Where going out
everyday had taken its toll, his only escape now will come with his
death.

Father-son
antagonism and seizing
power are themes that are blatantly seen in the story: because
Gregor cannot work, his father becomes antagonistic. Though Gregor's "malady" forces Mr.
Samsa to get a job and provides him with a feeling of increased self-worth, Gregor's
situation is an excuse for Mr. Samsa to torment Gregor in any way he chooses. Mr.
Samsa's newfound independence does not lead him to show any appreciation for all of
Gregor's work over the years, but provides the father with a sense of superiority by
which he need not worry about Gregor any longer because Gregor no longer brings them
money. This apartment is now Mr. Samsa's "kingdom," and Gregor's part in providing for
his family all these years does not now guarantee him a safe refuge from the world.
Gregor's father sees himself now as the dominating force within the apartment. He even
drives out the lodgers.

Gregor's situation also allows Mr.
Samsa and Grete to seize power in the
family. Mr. Samsa is violent and abusive toward Gregor. Grete, who starts out being
Gregor's only visible and active supporter in the house, changes her attitude. She does
not want to have to care for Gregor, but enjoys the power she has
over him, and even over her mother. This sense of self will allow Grete to convince her
father that they must get rid of Gregor. The power struggle erupts because Gregor cannot
leave the apartment (connecting this theme to
"escaping").

The theme of isolation
and self-sacrifice pertains primarily to Gregor. In all the
years he has been working, he has be isolated from people at work because he travels,
and self-sacrificing and isolated at home because he works long hours and days, unable
to connect in a meaningful way with his family. The apartment contributes to joining the
other members of the family into a separate unit that Gregor cannot belong
to.

Use the criteria for "good poetry" set forth by E. B. Browning in Aurora Leigh to analyze "My Last Duchess."

Robert Browning wrote “My Last Duchess” in the early part
of the Victorian Era in history. His topics placed him in a category by himself since
his wrote about sexuality, murder, psychological abnormalities, and psychopaths.  Much
of poetry had as a side interest love and beauty.

His wife
Elizabeth Barrett wrote in early poetry the poem “Aurora Leigh.” Part of this poem was
devoted to what makes a poem good.  Two of her main tenets were that the poet writes the
poem for himself, and the poem should be read and interacted with an
audience.

Since Browning wrote in a time period that had at
its heart austere and chaste principles, he must have written his poetry for his own
pleasure. Deciding that it was important to him to write about the topics that he chose
gives the reader pause when it is known that his topics were controversial. In this
poem, the speaker of the poem is a psychopathic murderer who killed his wife because she
was too happy, smiled too much, and was not selective enough in her means of thanking
her husband for his gifts.

This poem would be a considered
a classic today.  Since it was written almost 180 years ago and is still being read
today, obviously it has been read by many lovers of poetry. Browning’s poems were
especially popular in the twentieth century and even now in the twenty-first century
because of their topics, psychological insight, and harsh language.  The raw power of
Browning’s poetry are valued versus the “flowery” Romantic
poems.

“My Last Duchess” was based on an actual historical
event.  A duke, Alfonso II of Ferrara, was married to one of the Medici women, a young
girl Lucrezia.  The Medici family was one of the most powerful and wealthy in Italy and
probably Europe.  She married the duke at the age of fourteen and by seventeen she was
dead.  She died of suspicious circumstances in 1561.  After her death, the duke Alfonso
eventually married another young woman of nobility.  Nothing was done to question or
punish the duke for Lucrezia’s death.  

The poem is a
dramatic monologue with the duke himself as the speaker. It is written in rhyming
couplets. 

The duke has a private gallery.  He brings a
servant to show him the picture of his last duchess.  He spends most of the poem
pointing out how she failed as a wife and duchess.  Deploring the fact that she did not
appreciate his giving her a title from his important family, this apparently was the
last straw and doomed her existence; however, he never actually admits his guilt of
murder.

 if
she ranked
My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name
With anybody’s
gift. Who’d stoop to blame
This sort of
trifling?

The reader learns
that the man  the duke brought up to see the portrait is an emissary of a rich man who
has another beautiful daughter that he wants to marry.  As the duke leaves the gallery,
he points out another beautiful statue that he says was made especially for him.  It is
obvious that the duke is a megalomaniac who is satisfied only by complete
adoration.

What is Hersey's style in Hiroshima, and what is his purpose?Any help would be greatly appreciated. I think it is journalistic but I just want to...

You are correct in your assessment that Hersey's tone and
style are primarily journalistic in this novel.  This is evidenced by his weaving of the
six accounts of six different but equally important characters who seem to have nothing
to do with one another outside of the experience of a common tragedy.  Each character's
story is presented in short segments, and not necessarily in chronological nor any
uniform order.  It is as if the author has interviewed each character and presents their
separate and distant experiences in a simultaneous time line.  Additionally, Hersey
employs the use of flashback in order to provide background information without taking
away from the action of the story.

There are a few theories
as to the purpose for this particular style.  First, this story is certainly fiction,
but it is based on a very real historic event.  Some suggest that Hersey wished to
portray as realistic of a story as possible so that his audience would emotionally
connect to the common human experience of suffering, survival, and
hope that was a reality for many who actually lived through the Hiroshima bombing.  It
has also been suggested that the objective journalistic tone allows the author to remain
as "truthful" as possible and the story to be presented with very little bias.  This of
course must take into account, again, the fact that the story itself is fiction.  Though
the characters are not real, one purpose behind this style could be to make them seem as
realistic as possible.  Additionally, this allows the reader to react emotionally with
very little author influence or contrived emotion.  Finally, the presentation of the six
stories in short segments makes the story suspenseful and dramatic, but heightens the
characters over the events of the bombing.  Rather than write a story about a tragic
event which focuses mostly on the event itself, it is clear Hersey wishes to heighten
the humanity of those affected.

Can we share 5 apples with 6 childrens, so the apples to be cut at most in 3 equal parts ?

Let's start with a number of apples that can easily be
divide for six children:  3.  Cut each of those 3 apples in half and give one piece to
each of the 6 kids.  With the two apples that are left, cut each of them into three
pieces, and give each child one of those six pieces.  Voila!

In Death of a Salesman, what effect does Miller achieve with the scene in Charley's office?Act 2, when Willy meets Bernard and then Charley in his...

Let us focus on what happens in this scene. It is clear
from the way that Jenny catches Willy talking and arguing with himself that Willy is
retreating more into his make-believe world of fantasy as a defence mechanism against
being fired. What he cannot stand, and what he partially admits in the scene with
Bernard, is that Bernard has made a success of himself and that Biff, Bernard's
childhood friend, has not. Even though Bernard was so weedy and weak as a child, it is
he who has done well in life, and has a very god job, prospects, a wife and two kids.
Initially he clings on to the illusion that Biff is "working on a very big deal," but
then he abandons this lie to ask what happened and "what's the secret" of Bernard's
success. Bernard explains that Biff's downfall began after he went to visit Willy in New
England, which tells Willy that Biff found out about his
affair.

As if to really rub Biff's failure in life in, as
Bernard goes and his proud father looks on, Charley reveals that Bernard is going to
argue a case in the Supreme Court. Willy is stunned, as he can't believe that Bernard
never mentioned such an achievement. Charley's response cements the difference between
the two families and how they live their lives:

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He don't have to--he's gonna do
it.

This of course is highly
significant. Willy and his boys are always talking about their new plans and dreams to
achieve success. In contrast, Bernard and Charley do not talk about achieving
success--they go out there and achieve it.

Thus this scene
seems to present us with an increasingly unravelling Willy and also to reinforce the
failure of his own and his childrens' lives.

In the parable of the prodigal son, what do the setting details of the story mean to us readers?Any explanation why the setting is in a rich family?

In The Prodigal Son parable, the setting represents the
kingdom of God. Naturally, God's kingdom would be a rich setting. In Psalm 50: 10-11,
the Bible states that God owns it all:

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10For every beast of the forest is mine, and the
cattle upon a thousand hills.

11I know all the fowls of the
mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are
mine.

The Prodigal Son
represents wayward children, those who have strayed away from God and his
kingdom.

In Luke Chapter 15, Jesus was sharing parables
about those who had strayed from God's kingdom. Then Jesus shares another parable along
the same lines. The parable is about the Prodigal Son who left his father's
home.

No doubt, the setting of the father's rich homeland
is a representation of the kingdom of God.

Remember, the
Prodigal Son is still his father's son. Although he had it all, he wanted another
setting--the world. He wanted freedom to see the world and all that it had to
offer.

After wasting all that his father had given him, the
Prodigal Son realizes that the world has nothing to offer but heartache and
disappoinment. The Prodigal Son returns home to a setting which has everything he
needs.

The two settings are compared--the father's house
and the world.

No doubt, he will wander no more. He will
most likely be grateful for all that he has in his father's
setting.

Truly, the setting in The Prodigal Son parable is
a representation of God who is our father and his kingdom which is our eternal
home.

Who is Link Deas in "To Kill a Mockingbird"?What (unsolicited) comment does he add to the proceedings?

Link Deas is Tom Robinson's boss in Harper Lee's
To Kill A Mockingbird.  Deas, recognizing how unfairly Tom is being
treated, yells out during the trial that Tom has worked for him for eight years and
proclaims that he hasn't had a "speck o' trouble" out of
him. 

Deas's outburst further reinforces the idea that Tom
is a good, hard-working man and that he isn't the type of person the Ewells are
attempting to make him out to be.  Despite all the evidence that should have exonerated
Tom, and despite the fact that the Bob Ewell is an alcoholic who has proven to
be incapable of taking care of his family, Tom is still convicted of
rape. 

How does Scout solve her problem with Walter Cunningham Jr. in Chapter 3 of To Kill a Mockingbird?

Scout has had a rough morning on her very first day of
school. She has been reprimanded by Miss Caroline for writing cursive instead of
printing; she has been told that Atticus is improperly teaching her; and she has gotten
in trouble for trying to defend Walter Cunningham Jr. because he had no lunch money. To
her amusement, she was then "whipped" by Miss Caroline, who lightly tapped her hands
with a ruler before ordering Scout to stand in the corner. Scout blamed Walter for her
predicament, and she decided to solve the problem the best way she knew how--with her
fists. During the children's break for lunch, she proceeded to rub "his nose in the
dirt" in the schoolyard.

What are three examples of irony in Chapter 12 of To Kill a Mockingbird?

EXAMPLES OF IRONY: Chapter
12, To Kill a
Mockingbird

The
Tapeworm.  Scout questions Atticus if Jem may have a tapeworm, an
organism known for growing quickly and to incredible size. Atticus responds that it is
Jem who "was growing."
First Purchase Church. 
The church, possibly the only in Maycomb specifically for African-Americans,
was purchased by the first group of freed black men in Maycomb, probably soon after the
end of the Civil War. It is nevertheless used by white men to gamble in on weekdays.
Additionally, Reverend Sykes warns his congregation about gambling during the
service.
Reverse Discrimination.  The only
example in the entire novel takes place outside the church, when Lula objects to Cal
bringing her "white chillun" to the black church.
Happy
Cemetery.  Scout describes the adjoining graveyard as a "happy cemetery,"
because of all the colorful broken glass and Coke bottles that are strewn about the
place. What Scout doesn't realize is that the glass is probably deliberately broken by
the white gamblers who use the church on weekdays.
Calpurnia's
Double Life.  Cal, one of the only members of the First Purchase
congregation who can read, speaks proper English in the Finch household but resorts
to (in her words) "colored talk" among her black friends.

In Hamlet, what are Halmet's major flaws and what are his qualities?

Hamlet's major flaw is also his major strength: it is his
intellect. Hamlet is a modern man trapped in a situation that is decidedly Old World.
Remember, at the beginning of the play, Hamlet is not present. He is away, attending
university in Wittenberg, Germany. This is significant and not chosen randomly by
Shakespeare. Wittenberg was the seat of the Protestant Reformation, a time of vast
change. Denmark was still Catholic, and the old ways, including superstitions, were
still rife across the land. Hamlet has been indoctrinated into more humanistic and
scientific ways of thinking. Therefore, when he returns for his father's funeral, and
Horatio reports seeing a ghost that resembles his deceased father, Hamlet is skeptical.
It will take seeing the Ghost with his own eyes before he will take
action.

The "action problem" is one that has been debated
and discussed by scholars for centuries. Hamlet must always think things through. So
thorough is he in his intellectual contemplation that he misses the key opportunity to
avenge his father's death (as the Ghost has ordered him to do) by killing Claudius when
the rogue king is at prayer. But in, 3.3.1, Hamlet stops
himself:

Now
might I do it pat, now he is praying;
And now I'll do't. And so he goes to
heaven;
And so am I revenged. That would be scann'd:
A villain kills
my father; and for that,
I, his sole son, do this same villain
send
To
heaven.

Hamlet has hesitated.
He stays his sword as he believes that Claudius has confessed his sins, and should he
kill the man confessed, he would go to Heaven, not to Hell, as both Hamlet and his dead
father desire. The irony is that Claudius has not confessed. Had
Hamlet come upon the man unawares just a few seconds sooner, he would have heard
Claudius admit that he is not prepared to ask for forgiveness, because he is not ready
to give up the spoils of the kingdom: his riches, his throne, his wife. Although he is
on his knees, he cannot bring himself to get right with
God.

Had Hamlet not hesitated, the tragedy to come would
not have unfolded. Polonious would have lived, Ophelia would not have gone mad and
killed herself, Laertes would not have been manipulated by Claudius, causing the deaths
of Gertrude, himself and Hamlet.

Although the examples I
have given you here pertain to the downside of Hamlet's intellect, it should definitely
be noted that his intellect is also the cause of ferreting out Claudius's deceit and his
mother's complicity. Consider the intricate way Hamlet "catches" the corrupt couple in
his play "The Mousetrap." Also, consider the crafty way Hamlet is able to save his own
skin by outwitting the admittedly dimwitted Rosencratz and Guildenstern. Additionally,
Hamlet's intellect is sparkling in the scene where he plays with the clueless Polonious,
running intellectual circles around the "fishmonger." It is also delightful to watch
Hamlet's intellect at work when he taunts Claudius to find Polonious' body in Act 4,
Scene 2:

Not
where he eats, but where he is eaten: a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at
him. Your worm is your only emperor for
diet:

Here, Hamlet engages in
puzzles and wordplay, clever taunts and threats. His intellect is always on, he does not
know how to turn it off and simply be a man of action, like his father. Again, it is
both his blessing and his curse.