A 2 m piece of wire is cut into 2 pieces. One piece is bent to form a square and the other piece is bent to form an equilateral triangle.Where...

The length of the wire is 2 m. It is cut into two pieces
one of which is used to create a square and the other to create an equilateral
triangle.

Let the length of the wire used to create the
square be L. The length of the wire used to  create the equilateral triangle is 2 -
L.

The area of the square formed is (L/4)^2. The area of
the equilateral triangle formed is (sqrt 3)(2 - L)^2/4.

The
total area enclosed is (L/4)^2 + (sqrt 3)(2 - L)^2/4.

We
have to maximize A = (L/4)^2 + (sqrt 3)(2 - L)^2/4

dA/dL =
2L/16 + (sqrt 3)/4 * 2*(2 - L)

2L/16 + (sqrt 3)/4 * 2*(2 -
L) = 0

=> L/8 + (sqrt 3)/2 * (2 - L) =
0

=> L/4 + sqrt 3 * (2 - L) =
0

=> L/4 - sqrt 3*L + 2*sqrt 3 =
0

=> L(sqrt 3 - 1/4) = 2*sqrt
3

=> L = 8*sqrt 3/(4*sqrt 3 -
1)

The wire should be cut to create two
pieces,one with a length of 8*sqrt 3/(4*sqrt 3 - 1) to make the square and the other
with a length 2 - 8*sqrt 3/(4*sqrt 3 - 1) to make the
triangle.

What are the basic steps one should follow for the Value chain analysis?

The idea of value chain analysis was developed by Michael
Porter in the 1980s in his book Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining
Superior Performance (Porter, 1985). The concept of value added, in the form
of the value chain, can be used to develop an organisation’s competitive advantage in
business.

Value chain analysis activities include the
following:

Inbound logistics
which include the activities concerned with receiving the materials from
suppliers

Operations which
mean the activities related to the production of products and
services.

Outbound logistics
are all the activities concerned with distributing the final product and/or service to
the customers.

Marketing and sales
operations are needed, which includes analyses the needs and wants of
customers.

Service is usually
included and this is offered to customers like pre-installation, after-sales service, or
before and after the sale of the product or
service.

There are also Support activities
such as:
Procurement
Human Resource Management

Technology Development
Firm Infrastructure

Check the links provided below for a more indepth
information

What does the Robert Browning's "Parting at Morning" want to say? What's it's meaning? And who is the speaker in this poem?

'Parting at Morning' is the companion poem to 'Meeting at
Night' which details a lovers' tryst. 'Parting at Morning' is about the two lovers going
their separate ways the next day. There has been debate about who the narrator of the
poem is but Browning suggested that it is the male lover
speaking.

The poem suggests the fleeting nature of love
which makes the parting of the lovers inevitable as he has to return to 'the world of
men.' Love is like the night itself; over quickly to be replaced by the perhaps harsher
reality of the day.

What is the theme and tone of Shelley's "Feelings of a Republican on the Fall of Bonaparte"?

With regard to Shelley's "Feelings of a Republican on the
Fall of Bonaparte," I believe that the sentiment the author expresses is anything but
cordial.

Shelley's first line quite simply states, "I hated
thee, fallen tyrant." In my opinion, I do not believe there is sarcasm used in this poem
based upon the thread of disgust the author seems to have for the "fallen" Bonaparte.
The tone is extremely title="malevolent"
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author carefully uses vivid and extremely negative words and phrases
like:

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legal Crime, bloody Faith, and foulest birth of
Time.

The theme of the poem
seems to point to man's disregard for justice and "virtue" in the world by putting
himself and his interests, misplaced, before all others. The theme
is expressed early in the poem, when the poet accused Bonaparte of joyfully ("dancing")
destroying "Liberty." The use of "unambitious" seems to indicate that Shelley believed
that Napoleon did not have an inspired plan to change the world—to make it a better
place. Labeling him a "slave" would indicate how low the author feels about the man and
his standing within civilized society.

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I did groan

To think
that a most unambitious slave,

Like thou, should dance and
revel on the grave

Of
Liberty.

Shelley tells the
dead tyrant that he could have made a difference and established a
new kind of world for the French, that would live on:

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Thou mightst have built thy
throne

Where it had stood even
now...

However, Shelley goes
on to accuse Napoleon of taking a road which followed no sense of moral integrity,
choosing to raise himself at the cost of lives, the spilling of blood, which "Time" has
destroyed, indicating that all the French revolutionary did was for his own vanity
("pomp"), and is worthless—amounting to nothing of value:
gone.

...thou
didst prefer

A frail and bloody pomp, which Time has
swept

In fragments towards
oblivion.

Shelley admits that
he prayed that "massacre" would overtake Napoleon and all that he
stood for: treason and slavery, rapine (seizing goods from others), fear and lust, and
destroyed he who was the "minister" or leader of all these hated
elements.

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Massacre,

For this,
I prayed, would on thy sleep have crept,

Treason and
Slavery, Rapine, Fear, and Lust,

And stifled thee their
minister.

Shelley admits that
the knowledge comes to him late, in that Napoleon and France are destroyed, that
"Virtue" (which he personifies here as having a "foe") has an enemy that is more eternal
than the mortal Napoleon, or the military force or deceit that he visited upon the
world. Virtue's foe lies in sticking to the old ways instead of changing for the better,
committing crimes that are passed off as "legal," and "faith" that comes at the price of
bloodshed. The line "foulest birth of Time" makes me think that
Shelley is saying that Time will forever produce people like Napoleon as long as the
world lasts.

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I know

Too late,
since thou and France are in the dust,

That Virtue owns a
more eternal foe

Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal
Crime,

And bloody Faith, and foulest birth of
Time.

Shelley seems clear in
his hatred of Napoleon—how he lived and treated those who could not defy him. His theme
seems to concentrate on what Napoleon could have done for the good
of all, compared to what he chose to do, which served no one but
himself.

Please note that poetry
speaks to different people in diverse ways. These are my
impressions.

How old are Jurgis and Ona at the beginning of The Jungle?

At the beginning of The Jungle, Ona
is not yet sixteen years old.  Jurgis, by contrast, is quite a bit older.  It appears
that he is about 26 years old.

We can see Ona's age in the
very first pages of the book.  At the beginning of the book, she is getting married.  We
are told that she is only 15 at that point.  We can see this in the following
quote:

She was
so young—not quite sixteen—and small for her age, a mere
child...

We know that Jurgis
is quite a bit older than Ona is.  In Chapter 7, when Jurgis' father dies, we are
told

For
twenty-five years old Antanas Rudkus and his son had dwelt in the forest together, and
it was hard to part in this
way...

Since the book starts
with the family already in Chicago, that means that Jurgis was about 26 by the time the
book starts.

What are three ways Scout and Jem grow up in To Kill a Mockingbird?Examples of how Jem and Scout matured and where are they found in the book?

We can divide growth of a person in a majority of ways.  I
think for the purposes of your question we can consider moral growth, social growth, and
pyschological growth.

Moral growth refers to how a person
develops a set of behaviors that are in line with his own spiritual beliefs and
understanding of right and wrong.  The children learn that racism is destructive while
witnessing Tom Robinson's trial and that people who are different are not necessarily
bad people through their interactions with Boo
Radley.

Social growth refers to how a person relates and
interacts within his social environment.  Clearly, the family lives in the south during
a time when black people were several discriminated against.  Children during this era
where raised to believe that nothing was wrong with this behavior.  However as the
children mature throughout the novel, they realize that society can be wrong.  They come
to understand the their father has to work within a society that does not agree with
him, but that he can do it in a way that does not anger most people.  I would refer you
to the evening he sits outside Tom Robinson's jail cell for an example of
this.

Finally, I would point out that as the children
physically mature, they psychologically mature as well.  They come to accept the
imperfections of their father, of themselves and of people in general.  When Jem is
injured by Mr. Ewell, the whole family must accept that anger and rage exist.  They are
able to transcend their own childish selves and see the more far-reaching affects that
actions have on others. 

Please explain Adrienne Rich's Poem "Amnesia" in terms of its connection to the American dream.

As Adrienne Rich alludes to the movie Citizen
Kane, it's important to concentrate on that for clues to the meaning of her
poem, "Amnesia."

Citizen Kane revolves
around the hidden meaning of the word "Rosebud," spoken by Kane when the movie opens,
which is actually showing the audience the end. The rest of the
movie is a search (in flashback) to uncover the man Kane really
was, what "Rosebud" was, and what it meant to Kane. The "newsreel
reporter" never finds the answer, but the audience does. It is printed on Kane's
childhood sled, which he had when his mother sent him away to live with Thatcher (her
banker) to live. It would seem, after seeing the snow globe in Kane's hand as he dies—
whispering "Rosebud"—that the true person of Kane is the lost boy
sent away by his mother, living with a stranger, and—as the movie shows—ultimately
losing his idealism as he serves the masters of power and
money.

So loss of innocence is a
central theme in the movie, both in terms of how the child is forced to deal with the
devastating separation from his mother, as well as the loss of his
dreams of helping those who cannot help themselves: his loss of
idealism.

In Adrienne Rich's poem, the "earliest American
dream" seems attached to the mother (in "Kane") sending her son away to realize a better
life than she has had. This dream doesn't seem as much a concern as
the separation does. The "black-and-white" indicates something old,
such as the movie—and many others like it, produced especially in the 1930s and 1940s.
Rich may referring to the way things seemed in those days—based on
her age, things she may well have seen growing up (she was born in 1929). Rich may be
describing how "in the old days," things seemed better somehow: the snowflakes in the
movie are "incandescent:" glowing or bright…symbolic of
youth?

However, there is also a contradiction: perhaps
based on the promise of those days—the American dream— and the
reality, maybe something Rich
experienced herself: "adding up to the cold blur of the past." If it were only a blur,
we might think the past flew by. However, "cold" gives the reader to believe that
whether they flew or not, the memories are not pleasant or
warm.

Rich presents a transition with "But first…" For here
we stop recalling the movie's allusions and come face-to-face with "the putting-away of
a childish thing." This alludes to the Bible's I Corinthians 13:11, that
says:

When I
was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.
When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.
(NIV)

The author's concern is
not in the "putting away," but in the
leaving:

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Becoming a man means
leaving

someone, or
something—

The poem's closing
reveals a perspective that may allude again to the snow globe in Citizen
Kane. The camera offers the audience a perspective of Kane's last
glance—through the snow—of his childhood home, represented by the
house in the globe.

Rich refers to being that
which is left behind, looking from the other direction
through the snow, and the feeling of isolation and loneliness that she (or the speaker)
has suffered in watching "him" leave.

The poem's title is
"Amnesia"—forgetting. Rich starts out the poem by
stating:

I
almost trust myself to
know...

She
hasn't quite forgotten.

The American dream was extremely
important, but perhaps Rich is drawing the reader's attention to not what one moves
toward to obtain a dream, but what the dreamer leaves
behind.

What motivated the US to try to get its own empire during the 19th century?

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What are the metaphorical implications of the titles: Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca and The Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig?

The metaphorical implications for the reader of both these
titles would be heavily grounded in the notions of death or danger. In order to
understand the metaphor of each title, th ereader must be able to comprehend the
metaphors throughout each piece as well as the cultural implications of each story
line.

Blood Wedding or Bodas de Sangre by Lorca is a play
about a love triangle that ends in tragic death. But it is also about the political
struggle that was developing in Spain at the time of its production (1932). At the time,
Spanish Fascism was headed by Franco. Franco was attempting to unify the country
culturally and in so doing squash all individual autonomies from the surrounding Spanish
provinces, particularly those of Catalonia, Basque, and Andalusia. Therefore the bride
of the play can be seen as these autonomous cultures and the groom can be seen as
Franco's Spain. Leonardo is thus true Spain with its unconditional love and
freedom.

The Kiss of the Spider Woman or Beso de la Mujer
Arana by Puig, is an Argentine novel written 1976.  This is a story about Molina (a gay
disigner, and Valentin, a revolutionary. Both are encarcerated together, sharing a cell.
This story too is not really about love or death, or even truly about victimization, 
but rather the political strife that motivated its author. In 1976, Argentina was at the
height of its military regime; her own fascist government. Like Franco, this government
tortured and killed thousands of poeple and imprisoned its culture in an attempt to
radically alter the cultural changes that had been taking
place.

Therefore, the metaphorical implication of these
titles is one of treachery, danger and death, but their literary works are really about
love of self and country.

Why do you think Mr. Nathan Radley filled in a knothole in a healthy tree in Chapter 7 of To Kill a Mockingbird?

In Harper Lee's To Kill a
Mockingbird, the author has established a strong connection between the Finch
children and Boo Radley. More accurately, Boo has become an obsession to the children as
they never see him, and much of what they know is based on outrageous lies and unkind
gossip. For instance, the idea that Boo captures and eats squirrels is the product of
someone's malicious imagination or grotesque sense of
humor.

When the gum first attracts Scout's attention as she
passes the tree, she doesn't think too much about it, and child-like, she eats it—no
questions asked. Jem is frightened that it might be poisoned and makes Scout spit it out
(it had lost most of the flavor anyhow, Scout admits) and gargle. However, as time goes
on, more and more items find their way into that tree. There are very old Indian head
pennies, a ball of grey twine, a medal for something like a spelling competition, carved
soap figurines that look a lot like Scout and Jem, and even a broken watch on a chain,
among other things.

The tree becomes a source of wonder for
the children. They decide to leave a note inside the knothole to the person that is
leaving the gifts. When they go to the tree on their way to school to do so, the tree's
knothole has been filled in. Scout is tempted to cry, but Jem comforts her—though by his
pale face, we know he is shocked as well. The next day, Jem asks
Mr. Radley why it has been cemented closed.

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Tree's dying. You plug 'em with cement when
they're sick. You ought to know that,
Jem.

Jem and Scout take this
information to Atticus, who though he feels the tree looks healthy enough,
diplomatically asserts that Mr. Radley knows his trees better than anyone else. However,
maybe Mr. Radley is lying.

As the
reader, we may only have a suspicion of who has been leaving the gifts. That Mr. Radley
fills the hole makes us further suspicious that it could be Boo—this along with the fact
that the gifts are like those of someone reaching out in friendship, and the soap
statues indicate it's someone who know what they look like: there are not too many other
people to choose from. (By Chapter Eight, we know that Boo goes out
at night.)

The question remains as to why the hole is
filled with cement. Mr. Radley says the tree is sick, but Atticus (who never lies to Jem
and Scout) tell the kids it looks healthy to him. I do not believe the hole is filled as
a slight to Jem and Scout. However, from what we know of Boo's past at the hands of his
father when he was younger, it is not hard to believe that Mr. Radley does this to
punish Boo. When Arthur Radley, a typical teen, gets in trouble with the law on minor
charges, his father takes it very seriously. We know that Boo is
left at the jail until Mr. Radley is told he must take him home.
Though rumors abound, the only thing that his certain is that Boo goes home and is never
seen again: he does not come out of the house, and it has been
many years since this
happened.

By filling the hole, Mr. Radley continues
treating Boo as he was treated when he first got in trouble. He is separated from the
company of other people—from the outside world. His gifts—if we believe they are his—are
a way for Boo to connect to the children. Closing the hole isolates Boo yet again for
the minor infraction—an error in judgment—of his youth. This is why, I assume, Mr.
Radley fills in the hole.

In what ways does Lady Macduff contrast with Lady Macbeth in Macbeth?

I don't think you could find two characters that are
actually more different. I think, however, the biggest difference that Shakespeare
creates between these two characters is the way that Lady Macduff is explicity presented
as a mother figure in the one scene in which she appears in Act IV scene 2. She is shown
to engage in some pleasing banter with her eldest son, which is obviously designed to
make the audience feel sympathy for her and her situation. In addition, when she is
given news of the approaching murderers, note how she
responds:

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Whither should I
fly?

I have done no harm. But I remember
now

I am in this earthly world, where, to do
harm

Is often laudable; to do good,
sometime

Accounted dangerous folly: why then,
alas!

Do I put up that womanly
defence,

To say, I have done no
harm?

Note the innocence
expressed in her character through her response. She is deliberately presented as a
good, perhaps somewhat naive, mother figure, who loves her
children.

Contrast this impression with Lady Macbeth, who
talks happily about smashing the head of her babe and can not be described as naive at
all. The power of Lady Macbeth lies in the way that she is able to manipulate both her
husband and others through a mixture of mockery and pleas. Whereas Lady Macduff is an
honest and good character, Lady Macbeth fears that her husband is "too full o'th'milk of
human kindness" and famously, in Act I scene 5, asks the spirits to make her into even
more of an evil character than she already is:

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Come, you
Spirits

That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me
here,

And fill me, from the crown to the toe,
top-full

Of direst
cruelty!

It is interesting
that Lady Macduff is a character that we associate with feminine motherhood, whereas
Lady Macbeth, having no children and being asked to be "unsexed" here, stands in
complete contrast to Lady Macduff.

Who is the main antagonist of Fahrenheit 451?

If you consider the way that Faber and Beatty seem to
engage in a furious battle for Montag's soul in the middle section of the book, it
becomes clear that the central protagonist is Beatty himself. Of course, he does stand
for the entire system of repression and censorship that dominates Montag's world, but he
is the main opponent that Montag faces. Note how he presents his views to Montag, in
opposition to what Faber says:

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"Well," said Beatty, "the crisis is past and all
is well, the sheep returns to the fold. We're all sheep who have strayed at times. Truth
is truth, to the end of reckoning, we've cried. They are never alone that are
accompaneid with noble thoughts, we've shouted to
ourselves."

Of course,
ironically, Beatty used quotations from literature to support his argument and also to
refute the possible arguments of Montag in response. It is Beatty that stands for the
system of repression that Montag rages against, and it is Beatty that Montag burns in
response, indicating his position as the antagonist of the
novel.

How did Africans resist colonial rule?

Africa is a complex and diverse continent, with hundreds
of languages and dialects, almost every ecosystem on Earth, and the world's largest
desert separating major populations.  So there is no easy way to summarize how Africans
resisted the colonial powers that carved her up for the better part of four centuries. 
If I had to categorize them, I would say African resisted colonial rule in some cases
violently, in some cases non-violently, and in still other instances used passive
resistance.

Violent Resistance
- There are numerous examples of this, but the Algerian revolt against France in the
1960s, the revolts of the Zulu in South Africa (see Battle of Islandlwana) and Mau Mau
in kenya against British rule, among many
others.

Non-violent Resistance -
In the Year of African Independence, 1961, 17 countries declared
themselves independent of colonial powers, most of them non-violently, through protest
and/or negotiation.

Passive
Resistance - This method was very common over the centuries that European
powers ran most of Africa, and involved working more slowly, sabatoging services such as
rail lines, or keeping tribal languages alive in villages and
schools.

Compare some of the themes of "The Open Window" by Munro (Saki) and A Room With A View by E. M. Forster.

I think one of the links that can usefully be made between
these two Modernist texts is the way that both authors explore customs and behaviour of
the Edwardian society. Clearly this is more evident in A Room With a
View, but we can draw some interesting parallels with "The Open
Window."

If we examine the character of Lucy Honeychurch,
it is clear that she is a character who is not yet fully "formed" in the Edwardian sense
of the word. She is desperate to "fit in," practising statements and bows, and wants to
be accepted by society, becoming a social mover and shaker by marrying Cecil Vyse. This
is of course why she is in Italy at the beginning of the novel, so that this finishing
process can be completed, with Miss Bartlett playing the role of her teacher. Of course,
we are already given evidence of the cost of "fitting in" as Lucy tells Cecil that she
was prevented from bathing in the Sacred Lake along with her brother. Of course, it is
the Emersons, a family who do not "fit in" and are very happy to not fit in, who show
Lucy that to be a slave to such social customs is actually to betray your deepest self
and to risk becoming little more than a programmed robot. Lucy is thus able to reject
the conforming force of society and be true to her own emotions and desires by marrying
George Emerson.

Of course, social customs are evident in
"The Open Window," as Framton Nuttel has been given letters of introduction to all the
best families of the society he is visiting and is met politely by Vera whilst he awaits
her aunt. Note how Framton Nuttel is depicted as he faces the "self-possessed youn glady
of fifteen":

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Framton Nuttel endeavoured to say the correct
something that should duly flatter the niece of the moment without unduly discounting
the aunt that was to
come.

Behaviour is dictated
by the customs of Edwardian society, as Framton Nuttel tries to "fit in" during this
"formal visit" where he is expected to act in a certain way and say set platitudes that
are demanded by society.

Which three parts of A Passage to India serve to create an aesthetic unity?

The tripartite structure of A Passage to India
accomplishes a number of objectives that unify the novel. Each of the three sections
functions in at least four ways:

The first division,
"Mosque," is set in the spring (cool weather) and focuses primarily on the Muslim
characters. The atmosphere is calm with an emphasis on reason. Consider the conversation
among Aziz and his friends at the dinner party.

Part II,
"Caves," takes place in the heat of summer, and emotions are high. Behavior is
irrational as the British make bizarre accusations against
Aziz.

In the third section, "Temple," the focus is on
rebirth and rejuvenation in the rainy fall season as the Hindus celebrate love and the
birth of Krishna. Conflict is mostly resolved.

Forster
covers three seasons with different kinds of weather, the three main groups in India at
the time, and three kinds of behavior with the structure of his novel. This approach
provides a unified balance to his treatment of setting, characters, and
ideas.

What were the two fearful sites that Gene wanted to see?A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Much like the residents who return to the war-torn homes
as they try to salvage what they can, Gene Forrester of A Separate
Peace returns as a man to Devon School, a man from the "forest" to "capacious
Greek Revival temples" that impressively line the streets. He comes to unlock the myth
of Phineas in the Greek way by finding the beauty and hope in life, to rejoice in life. 
Gene does this by facing the two fearful sites of his past, one of which is the tree,
"weary from age, enfeebled, dry."  And, Gene realizes that "Nothing endures, not a tree,
not love, not even a death by violence."  Gene is "changed" after seeing this tree from
which his rival, Phineas fell.

The other site which Gene
has feared is the marble stairway on which Finny has fallen in the First Academy
building outside the Assembly Hall.This is where the trial held by Brinker takes place
and Gene is accused of jouncing the limb.  Disturbed that Gene could have deliberately
done so, Finny angrily leaves the Assembly Room and takes a terrible fall "clumsily down
the whie marble stairs."

It is only after seeing again
these two terrible sites that Gene can resolve his old internal conflicts and settle
things in his mind.  Ultimately, Gene reconciles with his conscience his envy of Phineas
and the "something ignorant in his heart" that has caused him to hurt Finny.  His only
peace is his willingness to be aware of his deliberate evil, the same "something
ignorant" that starts wars.

What achievements did George H.W. Bush as being president?

The most notable accomplishments of George H.W. Bush's
term in office all had to do with foreign policy.  Bush's accomplishments were, as you
know, not sufficient to get him a second term in
office.

The most important thing that happened during
Bush's time in office was the fall of the Berlin Wall.  However, this is usually not
credited to Bush.  It is usually seen as an accomplishment of Ronald Reagan or Mikhail
Gorbachev.

The thing that is most closely connected with
Bush is the first Gulf War, also known as Operation Desert Storm.  In this incident,
Pres. Bush managed to put together (and keep together) a coalition of nations to fight
against Iraq when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait.  This war was a great military success
in that Iraq was pushed out of Kuwait quite quickly.  This is the accomplishment that is
most clearly connected to the first Pres. Bush.

Does Newton‘s second law hold true for an observer in a car as it speeds up, slows down or rounds a corner?

Newton's second law applies to any body in motion, and as
such, yes it applies to a passenger in a vehicle.  A person in a vehicle is travelling
at the same velocity that the vehicle they are travelling in is.  When the vehicle
speeds up or slows down the effective velocity of the passenger does as well.  When the
car turns the passenger is subject to the same centripetal force that the car is subject
to.

External forces applied to the car are transferred to
the passenger only if some part of the vehicle exerts that force on the passenger (like
a seat belt).  This explains why when a car comes to an abrupt stop, the passenger is
still moving forward unless some part of the vehicle no longer in motion exerts a force
on the passenger.

In To Kill a Mockingbird, what fact about Atticus's defense of Tom Robinson does Scout learn from the Idlers' Club?

In Harper Lee's To Kill a
Mockingbird, in Chapter 16, Jem, Dill and Scout make their way into the
courthouse as the trial of Tom Robinson is about to
begin.

Scout becomes separated from the boys and finds
herself in the midst of the Idlers' Club, a group of men who know the court system very
well, according to Atticus, because they spend so much time at the
courthouse.

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This was a group of white-shirted,
khaki-trousered, suspendered old men who hd spent their lives doing nothing and passed
their twilight days doing same on pine benches under the live oaks on the
square…Normally, they were the court's only spectators, and today them seemed resentful
of the interruption of their comfortable
routine.

The courthouse is
packed and the Idlers' Club does not have the place to themselves as is usually the
case. While Scout tries to stand unnoticed, she listens to the men speaking, realizing
that Atticus is the topic of their conversation—Scout learns here that Atticus was
appointed to defend Tom Robinson, which puts a new light on
things.

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"Lemme tell you something' now, Billy," a third
said, "you know the court appointed [Atticus] to defend this
n***er."

"Yeah, but Atticus aims to defend him. That's what
I don't like about it."

Scout
figures that this news may change the way everyone acts regarding Atticus' defense of
Tom Robinson—the alleged (black) rapist of a white
woman.

This
was news, news that put a different light on things: Atticus had to, whether he wanted
to or not. I thought it odd that he hadn't said anything to us about it—we could have
used it many times in defending him and ourselves. He had to, that's why he was doing
it…But did it explain the town's attitude? The court appointed Atticus to defend him.
Atticus aimed to defend him. That's what they didn't like about it. It was
confusing.

Scout realizes
that her father was assigned the case. He is a lawyer and plans to do his best by Tom
Robinson. She notes that the situation is a confusing one to her: this is because the
prejudiced members of Maycomb's population would understand the
court case being assigned to him, but would
NOT understand his decision to do his duty as a servant of the
court and the people he defends—if that defendant is black. The man is inferring that he
wishes Atticus chose to do nothing for Tom. However, we know
Atticus too well: he judges people for their character (and even then, quietly), rather
than by their skin color. He is a man of principle who would never turn someone down if
he or she asked for his help.

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Atticus represents the moral backbone of the town
of Maycomb, deep in the South.

What would be a good approach to gain a lyrical interpretation of 'So In Love' by Cole Porter?I'll be performing this song soon in an Eisteddford...

I would listen to some of the versions of the song that
have been sung by other artists.  This will give you an idea of what notes need to be
punched more than others and will also give you some idea of the different
interpretations of Porter's work.  Hearing singers like Julie Andrews, Placido Domingo,
Dinah Shore, Ella Fitzgerald, or Patti LuPone will really give you a very nice feel of
the song.  Yet, for my bet, I have a personal love for the version that country song and
icon k.d. lang sang in 1990 on the album, "red+hot+blue."  I cannot help but feel that
if you really want a feel on how this song should be sung, listen to her version.  It's
great because it captures the precarious combination of strength and vulnerability that
exists in the work of Cole Porter.  She starts off slow and brooding, and as the song
progresses, she reaches a zenith of intense crescendo where she almost holds up her
strong vulnerability for all to see.  I think that it's important to really feel the
power of the words and there is a melancholy that she brings to it that I think Porter
would have appreciated.  While he was a showman, Cole Porter was an artist and
understood the value of melancholy on stage, and this version nails it.  When she starts
with the, "In love with the night mysterious/ the night when you first were there," it
really gets to you and takes you to a new understanding of the song.  I would examine as
many versions as you can and note what it is you like about them.  Yet, I would give
small diligence to the version by lang and see what you think.  In sampling these
versions, you will get a feel for what you can do with the song and what should be done
with it.

What was decided by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?Que se determino el tratado de Guadalupe Hidalgo?

If I understand this question correctly, you are asking
what was decided by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.  The answer is that this treaty
determined the new boundaries between the United States and Mexico after the
Mexican-American War of 1846-48.

In the Treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo, Mexico was forced to give up almost half of the entire territory that it had
held before the war.  In return, the US paid Mexico a sum of $15 million.  The treaty
also guaranteed that the people who lived in the territory taken by the US would have
their property rights respected and would have political rights in the US.  This
condition of the treaty was not widely obeyed.

The short
answer, then, is that the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo redrew the borders between Mexico
and the US, giving the US a huge amount of land in what is now the Southwest of the
country.

I'm writing an essay on Joyce's views on growing up. I need help identifying themes to provide structure for a thesis.The story I am mostly...

In his letters to Nora Barnacle, whom he was to share his
life of social and intellectual rebellion, James Joyce
wrote,

My mind
rejects the whole present social order and
Christianity....

Joyce
perceived in Dublin a city of lower middle-class people subjugated politically by the
British and spiritually by the Catholic Church.  It is a city, to Joyce, that is the
"centre of paralysis." With its brown houses and dead-end streets, Joyce symbolizes the
social and spiritual malaise of the Irish people in a work that is written much like a
stages of man.  In Dubliners, the stories of adolescents, with
their dreams and illusions, are always ones of failures; "Araby" is such a
story.

In the opening paragraphs of this story, the house
in which the boy lives is described as musty; there is a "wild garden" behind the house
that contains an apple-tree and "a few straggling bushes" near "dark muddy lanes."  The
boy discovers books read by the former tenant, a priest, one of which is a prurient
secular work that has been read much as the pages are yellowed.  This is the book that
the youth likes the most.  So, with the symbolic apple tree and the book of temptations,
The Memoirs of Vidocq, along with the youth's lying on the parlor
floor in order to watch Mangan's sister through the blind, the religious imagery of the
boy's love as he imagines that he bears his "chalice through a throng of foes" seems,
like the priest, rather tainted.  His romantic illusions, too, suggest the confusion of
the spiritual with the prurient:

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Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange
prayers and praises which I myself did not understand.  My eyes were often full of
tears...and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out into my
bosom. 

There is, likewise, a
confusion within the youth's mind of the exotic with the mundane. For, while he youth
imagines the bazaar as a place where he and Mangan's sister will meet and spend an
enchanted evening, he finds himself going alone on a disappointing journey to find
darkened stalls and a "silence like that which pervades a church after a service" where
men count money. As the youth listens to "the fall of the coins," he has an epiphanal
realization that the pursuit of his ideal that he has elevated as religious in nature is
unattainable and foolish. 

What is the theme of "love" about "The Son's Veto" by Thomas Hardy?

The theme of love is rather a bitter one in "The Son's
Veto." Sophy and Sam Hobson love each other when they are young (we know she is
nineteen). Yet Sophy's sense of good breeding and propriety prevents Sam from
successfully professing his love for her on his ill-chosen night on which Mrs. Twycott
died. Later, after Sam does successfully win an engagement from Sophy, they quarrel,
which leads to her staying on with Vicar Twycott, permanently injuring her ankle, and
marrying Twycott.

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A day or two after she said: 'I don't want to
leave just yet, sir, if you don't wish it. Sam and I have
quarrelled.'

He looked up at her. ... he had been frequently conscious
of her soft presence in the room. What a kitten-like, flexuous, tender creature she was!
... What should he do if Sophy were
gone?

It is Twycott's love
and care for Sophy that ironically lead to her humiliation and to her long years of
suffering under the conditions of her son's veto of  (i.e., rejection of) her marriage
to Sam after Twycott's death left her a widow. It seems Twycott's love for Sophy had a
weak spot that prevented him from teaching his gentleman-to-be son Randolph to love and
respect his mother, regardless of her inelegant country upbringing. It is this weakness
in his love that caused Sophy her humiliation that resulted in being seen as inadequate
and inferior in the eyes of her son.

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"_Has_, dear mother--not _have_!" exclaimed the
public-school boy, with an impatient fastidiousness that was almost harsh. "Surely you
know that by this time!"

The
only bright spot in Hardy's theme of love is Sam's devoted and long-suffering love for
Sophy. Yet this too has a painful end. Sophy dies wondering "Why mayn't I say to Sam
that I'll marry him? Why mayn't I?" Sam is left with only tears and his hat in his hands
as the cold-hearted and hypocritical young clergyman, Randolph, drives with his mother's
funeral carriage to her burial place.

what controls should be in place to monitor the hosting arrangement ?

Since you have listed this question in the Reference
section, I am assuming you are not referring to the control in a scientific experiment.
I think you are trying to determine the kinds of standard controls that may be used to
evaluate a variety of situations for hosting
travelers.

Standards that would be comparable among a
variety of motels, bed and breakfast facilities, campgrounds, etc. could include
cleanliness of common areas, availability of varied types of accommodations (size and
number of beds, attached kitchenettes, suite arrangements), availability of additional
services (pool, laundry facilities, pets allowed in room, child care services available,
transportation to area entertainment features provided), ease of access (from major
highways, airports, train stations), proximity to restaurants or shopping areas, and, of
course, cost.

What was the world's response to Steve Biko and Nelson Mandela?

I think that a bit more detail or clarification is going
to be needed to the idea of "world's response."  On one hand, leaders like Mandela and
Biko helped to bring about much by way of political condemnation of South African
apartheid.  For a large period of time, South Africa was seen as a pariah in the world
community for its practice of apartheid.  With that being said, I also think that the
world truly lacked the full understanding of how bad things were and what specifically
leaders like Biko and Mandela had to endure.  There were so many other conditions in the
world which received attention from the world community that it seemed like the forces
of oppression that Biko and Mandela were struggling against appeared not to really merit
that much in terms of authentic and meaningful world response and public reaction. 
Consider that if the world community heard today that students were protesting and were
mowed down by government troops, such as what happened in Soweto as inspired by Biko,
the world reaction might be more significant today than back then.  We don't know
because it's hypothetical, but I think we can assess a meaningful and lasting world
response as something that was not entirely present in the past.  In the end, more
specific detail has to be given relating to the idea of "world's
response."

In Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, what oath do Tranio (diguised as Lucentio), and Hortensio take together in Act IV, scene ii?

In Shakespeare's The Taming of the
Shrew, Tranio is masquerading as Lucentio, a suitor for the hand of Bianca.
Tranio is actually Lucentio's servant, but Lucentio is pretending to be Cambio, a
teacher for the women in Baptista's housea "job" he has taken to secretly woo Bianca. It
appears that "Cambio" is making headway with Bianca, where no one else has been
successful.

Hortensio, pretending to be a music teacher,
has has enough of this charade. He first admits that he is not a
teacher but a gentleman, and is seems obvious to him that Bianca
prefers Cambio over him, which is disgusting to him as he is a
gentleman and Cambio is a man of lower social standing than Hortensio: a
commoner.

Tranio (in league with Cambio/Lucentio)
commiserates with Hortensio, agreeing the he, too, is disgusted by this turn of events.
He promises that if Hortensio foreswears any further attempt to pursue Bianca, that
Tranio (pretending to be Lucentio) will take the same oath, swearing off anything more
to do with Bianca, who has (at least to Hortensio) been a major disappointment.
Hortensio says:

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See, how they kiss and court! Signior
Lucentio,

Here is my hand, and here I firmly
vow

Never to woo her no more, but do forswear
her,

As one unworthy all the former favours
(30)

That I have fondly flatter'd her
withal.

Lorcentio promises to
marry a wealthy woman he has only know for a short while, and insisting that he will no
longer give his love to a woman based upon her beauty, but based
upon the kindness within her. Hortensio further
explains:

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Would all the world but he had quite forsworn!
(35)

For me, that I may surely keep mine
oath,

I will be married to a wealthy
widow,

Ere three days pass, which hath as long loved
me

As I have loved this proud disdainful
haggard.

And so farewell, Signior Lucentio.
(40)

Kindness in women, not their beauteous
looks,

Shall win my
love.

The oath the men take
means nothing to Tarino: he is working with Lucentio, however Hortensio's oath further
clears the way for Lucentio (pretending to be (Cambio) to pursue and win the favor of
Bianca.

What is the slope of the linear function if f(2)=-6 and f(-2)=4 ?

From enunciation, we conclude that we have two points
(2,-6) and (-2,4) that are located on the graph of the linear function
f(x).

We'll put the linear function in the point slope
form:

f(x) = mx + n, where m is the slope and n is the y
intercept.

If f(2) = -6, we'll substitute x by 2 in the
expression of the linear function:

f(2) = 2m +
n

2m + n = -6

n = -6 - 2m
(1)

If f(-2) = 4, we'll substitute x by -2 in the
expression of the linear function:

f(-2) = -2m +
n

-2m + n = 4

n = 4 + 2m
(2)

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

-6
- 2m  = 4 + 2m

We'll move 2m to the
left:

-2m - 2m - 6 = 4

We'll
add -6 both sides:

-4m =
10

m =
10/-4

m =
-5/2

The slope of the linear
function is m = -5/2.

What is the theme of "Crossing the Bar?"

The theme of Tennyson's poem centers on the idea of
maturation and growth.  The journey that Tennyson articulates in the pom is one where
courage and maturation are needed in order to effectively cope with the reality that
lies outside the harbor, into the sea.  The "bar" that has to be crossed lies in this
voyage, and being able to understand that one might not be able to fully control it, but
rather be able to accept it as a part of being in the world is where the poem's strength
lies.  The unknown, and what lies outside the realm of the harbor, cannot be tamed nor
can it be avoided as all journeys enter "the boundless deep."  This cannot be averted
and is a part of the ship's purpose, and the journey of consciousness.  Tennyson
suggests that this is a phase that must be passed, with faith placed in the "Divine and
Unseen Who is always guiding us.”  In this, the poem's thematic application to death and
dying becomes something that resonates throughout, making the poem so
significant.

What are Jem Finch's personality traits in To Kill a MockingBird, and how does he show these traits?

The personalities of Jem and Scout are actually very
similar in To Kill a Mockingbird. Jem shows a hot
temper on more than one occasion in the novel (though he is
not as quick-tempered as Scout). He destroys Mrs. Dubose's camellias after she insults
Atticus, and he becomes very angry after the guilty verdict is revealed in the Tom
Robinson trial. Jem is very sensitive--much more so than
Scout. He shows this side when he finds out that Nathan Radley has lied to him about
cementing the knothole, and he shows them again after Mrs. Dubose's death. He also shows
his heroism when he stands by Atticus at the jail in the
face of the lynch mob, and he tries to fight off Bob Ewell to save his sister after the
Halloween pageant. He is also a bit of an introvert, since
he has few (if any) close friends, and he loves to read. He also loves
sports (there are many sports references in the novel) and
he goes out for the football year his first year of high school.

In Macbeth, (II.iv), is there a purpose to murdering Macduff's son dramatically on stage & not showing the murder of Lady Macduff?

I would expect that this question is based upon opinion.
My opinion is as follows.

In Shakespeare's
Macbeth, I would assume that the murdering of Macduff's son (who is
called "Son"—"Egg" is a nickname by the murderer) is not something that would upset an
Elizabethan audience as much as the murder of a woman. (By comparison, today's audience
would be upset at the death of both.) A young boy would have—not too long before
this—been a squire to a knight at a young age. Squires did not fight, but served their
lord in battle, which did not guarantee their safety. The idea of women fighting was an
Anglo-Saxon concept, not an Elizabethan one. (However, Joan of Arc would have been the
most recent example of a woman fighting, around 1431—not that long before the play was
written.)

In my opinion, the fact that the boy tries to
stop the murderers shows that he is valiant at a young age, Macduff's son completely.
This, and Young Siward's death on the battlefield, would have vividly shown the depth to
which Macbeth has fallen since killing Duncan—he now casually takes the lives of women
and children. The boy's death would have upset the audience but they would have been
gratified by his willingness to defend his mother and family. The murder of Lady Macduff
off-stage would have less offended the audience than watching it acted out before
them.

Verify if the curve y^2-x^2+9=0 and the line y-x+1=0 have common points?

To verify if the curve and the line are intercepting each
other, w'ell have to solve the system of equations of the curve and the
line.

We'll start with the equation of the curve and we'll
add 9 both sides:

x^2 - y^2 =
9

We'll recognize the difference of
squares:

x^2 - y^2 = 9 (1)

(x
- y)(x + y) = 9

We'll re-write the second
equation:

x - y = 1 (2)

We'll
replace the value of the second equation into the
first:

1*(x+y)=9

x + y = 9
(3)

We'll compute (2)+(3) to eliminate
y:

x - y + x + y = 1 + 9

2x =
10

x = 5

We'll substitute x =
5 into (2):

x - y = 1 <=> 5 - y = 1 =>
y = 5 - 1 => y = 4

The curve and the
line are intercepting each other at the point of coordinates (5 ,
4).

In cylinder or tunnel option, the correct option is a. If the spot rate is lower than the lower strike rate then buyer has to pay lower spot...

A cylinder is an option strategy which is also called a
vertical spread. It allows traders to reduce the loss they make if the price of the
underlying moves in the opposite direction to what was expected at a lower cost. If the
price of the underlying moves as the trader expects it to a profit can also be
made.

The type of cylinder that is adopted can be bullish
or bearish depending on which way the trader is expecting the price of the underlying to
move. A bullish cylinder would involve buying a call with a lower strike price while
selling a put with a higher strike price. The premium received when the put is sold
reduces the cost of buying the call. Here, the profit is capped at the difference at
expiry between the price of the underlying and the strike price of the call that has
been bought. If the price of the underlying decreases instead of increasing the maximum
loss is the difference between the price of the underlying and the strike price of the
put that has been sold. The reverse holds for a bearish
cylinder.

Depending on the type of cylinder that has been
created options B and D are correct. If the spot rate is lower than the lower strike
rate the buyer has to only pay the lower strike rate and if the spot rate is higher than
the higher strike rate then the buyer has to only pay the higher strike
rate.

Do you believe that we can learn something from Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited and Island?

Since Aldous Huxley's Brave New World Revisited is
essentially a justification of the original novel, Brave New World,
the value of reading it extend from the value of reading the original text. Indeed,
there are valuable lessions that extend from Huxley's
novels:

Technology and science can
desensitize and dehumanize people.

In
Huxley's dystopia, the use of such things as hypnopaedic conditioning programs the
people to have certain attitudes towards other castes, death, nature, etc.  Soma
desensitizes people to anything that might disturb their contentment with their
society.  Entertainment machines generate innocuous leisure and prevent people from
delving into truths or issues that may be disturbing to them.  They do not talk to one
another individually, interacting in a normal social manner; nor do they enjoy and
appreciate nature.

The effort to maintain the
people's happiness prevents them from exposure to the
truth

The government makes life decisions
for the people of the New World; the State censors books and religion because the truths
found in these realms may upset the State's control.  For, it is only when people are
not content, or when they learn the truth about governmental control that people revolt
or disagree with the status quo.  The all-powerful government of the New World with its
World Controllers keeps people in a state of self-delusion.  If anyone demurs, he or she
is banished from society lest he/she disturb the peace.

In
the last chapters of Brave New World, John the Savage says he want disease, he wants
sin, he wants unhappiness.  For, he knows that without these miseries, one is not truly
human.  In order to attain truth and real happiness, one must know
sorrow.

How is Allie's baseball glove important to The Catcher in the Rye?

The baseball glove of Allie is mentioned at the end of
Chapter Five, and is the topic that Holden chooses to write the descriptive composition
on for Stradlater. Note the description that Holden gives us of the baseball glove of
his dead brother:

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My brother Allie had this left-handed fielder's
mitt. He was left-handed. The thing that was descriptive about it, though, was that he
had poems written all over the fingers and the pocket and everywhere. In green ink. He
wrote them on it so that he'd have something to read when he was in the field and nobody
was up at bat.

However, far
more important is the way that the baseball glove acts as a powerful memory of Holden's
dead brother and the love that he has for him and the way that it demonstrates Holden's
attachment, but also his problems at trying to accept his brother's death. Note the way
in which he tells us--almost as an afterthought--that the night his brother died, he
broke all the windows of the garage with his fist, "just for the hell of
it":

It was a
very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it, and
you didn't know Allie.

The
fact that he was going to be psychoanalysed for this behaviour shows how violent and
destructive it was, and also points out that Holden still has some deep unresolved
issues regarding his brother's death and his acceptance of it. The value of the glove
therefore lies in what it tells us about Holden and his psychological state: he is
clearly a very angry young man, and we can see this in the act of self-harm he committed
after his brother's death just as we can see it in the way he rails against all the
"phonies" he comes across.

In what way does Holden Caulfield seem confident and independent in "The Catcher in the Rye"?

Holden Caufield, in The Catcher in the Rye, seems very
independent. There are multiple examples from the text which support
this.

First, Holden decides that it would be best for the
letter of expellment to reach home before he returns to his parents'.  He knows that it
will be better for all parties if he returns after.  This interpretation could be argued
given that he could be seen as taking the easy way out, but for me, I have come to
believe that this is leans more towards his ability to be
independent.

Second, Holden decides to go to New York to
kill time before returning home. He is young- 15. For a fifteen year old to travel to
New York and stay for a few days supports his ability to prove his independence and
confidence.

Third, Holden seems to know what he wants. For
a man of such a young age, Holden makes decisions about people and ideas that are far
beyond the typical teenager of his age.

Lastly, Holden
truly worries about Phoebe. His confidence in his decisions to run away are hastened by
his concern for his sister. Again, this shows his confidence in his
decisions.

Again, some may argue that Holden is not
confidant or independent. Some may see him as irresponsible and self-conscious. This
depends on individual interpretations of his character.

How does The Glass Castle discuss parent escapism?

Rex and Rose Mary Walls spend their lives and their
children's childhoods attempting to escape from reality physically and mentally. In
addition to making up stories and filling his children with false dreams to escape his
creditors and other nagging problems, Rex also physically moves his family whenever he
and Rose Mary decide to do so. Even though each parent must have known that the constant
moving hindered their children's emotional and educational welfare, they mentally escape
from any guilt that they might feel by telling their children that they will be stronger
for it and that they do not need stability.

Additionally,
Rex escapes mentally from his parenting responsibilities by drinking and by promising
himself and his children that he will be a better father one day (by building them a
glass castle). Rose Mary, Jeanette's mom, is a little more complex than Rex is. She
behaves as if she has no responsibility to her children because they need to learn on
their own and escapes into the distraction of tangible items that require no emotional
reaction from her.

Solving Polynomial Inequalities of x3

The inequality to be solved is : x^3 <
x

x^3 < x

move all the
terms to the left

=> x^3 - x <
0

factor the left hand
side

=> x(x^2 - 1)<
0

=> x(x - 1)(x + 1) <
0

Now the left hand side is less than 0
if

• all the factors are
  negative

=> x < 0 , x - 1
< 0 and x + 1 < 0

=> x < 0 , x
< 1 and x < -1

x < -1 satisfies all
the conditions

• only one of the factors is less
  than 0

1. x < 0, x - 1 > 0 and x
+ 1> 0

=> x < 0 , x > 1 and x
> -1

no value of x can satisfy
this

2. x > 0 , x + 1 < 0 and x - 1 >
0

=> x > 0 , x < -1 and x >
1

no value of x can satisfy
this

3. x > 0, x + 1 > 0 and x - 1 <
0

=> x > 0, x > -1 and x <
1

this is satisfied by x > 0 and x <
1

So the values of x that satisfy x^3
< x lie in (-inf., -1)U(0 , 1)

What is the theme of 'The Convergence of the Twain'?

To answer this question you need to understand Hardy's own
philosophy of life and how he viewed events and tragedies such as the sinking of the
Titanic, which is the concern of this poem. What is notable about this poem is that
Hardy does not dwell on the loss of life. What concerns him is the way in which the
sinking of the Titanic, the ship that was supposedly unsinkable and was the triumph of
human achievement, is a demonstration of how the gods or fate chooses to attack humans
that are arrogant in their own capabilities and powers. Note the reference to "human
vanity" in the first stanza:

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In a solitude of the
sea

Deep from human
vanity,

And the Pride of Life that planned here, stilly
couches she.

There is an
intense irony in the scene of the Titanic "couching" quietly, fathoms from the pride and
hubris that led, Hardy argued, to its sinking.

This poem
therefore establishes the futility of man's attempts and efforts to gain control over an
indifferent universe that demonstrates how powerless mankind really is. The Titanic was
the height of technological sophistication at its time, and thus its sinking confirms
Hardy's philosophy of an "Immanent Will" that "stirs and urges everything" against
mankind. Humans are shown to be ultimately powerless and defenceless against the might
of nature and the divine, and this is powerfully expressed, according to Hardy, in the
sinking of the unsinkable ship.

Discuss how "When Lilacs Last in the Doorway Bloomed"' by Walt Whitman is a poem that affirms life yet also is a poem of death.

I think that the statement is accurate in describing
Whitman's poem.  To a great extent, all elegies are works that strive to mourn the loss
of an individual through death but also affirm the life that they led.  The elegy's
birth only comes out of an affirmational rationale to honor the dead.  This poem is no
exception.  Whitman writes it to mourn the loss of Lincoln, but honor him at the same
time.  "The great star" is a line that directly refers to Lincoln.  The fact that it
shone becomes the reason that the poem is written, but also because that source of light
and beacon "early droop'd" is another reason why the poet feels the need to compose the
poem. Even the mere title plays with this juxtaposition.  On one hand, the idea of
blooming lilacs affirms life itself.  Recalling when they last did so brings the notion
that such beauty and purity are no longer present.  To honor such a condition is to pay
homage that it has now passed, and the poem appropriates this same demeanor towards
Lincoln.

If the equation of a parabola has a root of x = 2 + 5i, what is the other root and the equation of the parabola.

The equation of the parabola has a complex root x = 2 +
5i. Complex roots always come in pairs of the form a + b*i and a -
b*i.

As the parabola here has a root 2 + 5i, the other root
is the complex conjugate which is 2 - 5i.

To find the
equation of the parabola, we have to expand (x - (2 + 5i))((x - (2 - 5i)) =
y

(x - (2 + 5i))((x - (2 - 5i)) =
y

=> (x - 2 - 5i)(x - 2 + 5i) =
y

=> (x - 2)^2 - (5i)^2 =
y

=> x^2 + 4 - 4x - 5*i^2 =
y

=> x^2 + 4 - 4x + 5 =
y

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

The required root of the parabola is 2 - 5i
and the equation of the parabola is y = x^2 - 4x +
9

Predict how the increased government spending might affect price stability.

There are many variables that play into the impact that
increased government spending will have on price stability.  However, one impact that
might result from excessive government spending is
inflation.

If the government spends too much money
(especially when it finances this spending by borrowing), inflation can occur.  This
could happen for two reasons.  First of all, aggregate demand could go up with increased
government spending.  People will have more money to spend, which will tend to drive
price levels up.  Second, if government borrowing "crowds out" private borrowing, less
investment will happen in the private sector.  This can suppress aggregate supply.  A
decrease in aggregate supply can also cause prices to
increase.

Overall, then,
excessive government spending is likely to lead to
inflation.

Any idea why and for what grade it is appropriate to teach The Giver, written by Lois Lowry?

Hi there,

The Giver is one of
my all time favorite novels to teach at the middle school level.  I have personally
taught it with both advanced 6th graders and with regular 7th graders.  I would not
recommend teaching it any lower than this because the students are unable to comprehend
the complexities of the community, the act of giving and receiving memories, and the
incredible sense of betrayal that Jonas feels.

When
teaching it with both grades, I incorporated a photo journalism project that started
with black and white pictures, and then evolved into color.  I even played with the
digital images promoting red and subduing the other colors.  This had a profound impact
on the students since they were able to see the world through Jonas's
eyes.

This is a incredible novel and provokes some
wonderful discussions.

Hope this
helps,

Vanessa

In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, identify three examples of supernatural occurrences and how the characters involved react to each?

William Shakespeare loved to include elements of the
supernatural in his plays. First of all, the audience sincerely believed in witches,
ghosts, demons, etc. Interestingly, it was Shakespeare that introduced fairies as
playful mischievous creatures; before, they had been presented as malevolent beings,
much like witches and demons. Elizabethan audiences believed that demons and witches
worked for the devil in order to trick souls to their everlasting damnation. They also
believed that ghosts could not make a human being do something, but
since ghosts could not do anything themselves, they would try to
get a human to do their work. This might even mean uncovering hidden
treasure.

When Elizabeth I died, Shakespeare continued to
include the supernatural, this time because Elizabeth I's heir to the throne, her
cousin's son James, was fanatical about the supernatural, even writing a book called
Demonology. (James I also persecuted alleged
witches.)

It is, therefore, not a surprise that
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar has elements of the supernatural, as
did Hamlet and Macbeth, to name a
few.

Brutus, one of the conspirators who murders Caesar,
sees a ghost. (It is from here that the old saying, "Great Caesar's ghost" probably
comes.) Brutus sees the ghost twice, once at his tent and once on the battlefield. The
appearance of the ghost is very disturbing to Brutus.

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Late that night, Brutus is visited by Caesar's
ghost, who states that he will see Brutus at
Philippi.

A soothsayer
(fortune teller, prophet, oracle) warns Caesar twice to beware of
"the ides of March" (March 15, probably the day of the full moon, another omen). Caesar
doesn't listen to the soothsayer, ignores the advice, and is ultimately
assassinated.

A third example comes in the form of
Calpurnia's dream in which a statue of Caesar is spouting gouts of blood (foreshadowing
of Caesar's assassination).

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When Decius Brutus, one of the conspirators,
comes to escort Caesar to the senate house, Caesar says he will not go, confiding that
Calphurnia dreamed she saw Caesar's statue spouting
blood.

Decius Brutus allays
Caesar's concerns, insisting the dream is a sign of good luck. At first Caesar is
concerned about the dream, but then he is ashamed that he almost gave in to Calphurnia's
fears, and he decides to go out, against his wife's
advice.

The presence of the supernatural in Shakespeare's
plays is not at all unusual. An article I once read stated that it may be because of
Shakespeare that Tinkerbell is such a sweet fairy; before Shakespeare's time, only dark
things came from the world of the
supernatural.

Additional
Sources:

http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/897221-Supernatural-Shakespeare

http://www.doctormacro.com/Movie%20Summaries/J/

Julius%20Caesar%20(1953).htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ides_of_March

What is the simplified form of: (sinx + cosx)^2/(1+ 2*sin*x*cos x)

We'll recognize to denominator the double angle
identity:

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

We'll expand the binomial from
numerator:

(sin x)^2 + 2sin x*cos x + (cos
x)^2

We'll use the Pythagorean identity and we'll
get:

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

The numerator will become:

1
+ sin (2x)

Now, we'll re-write the
fraction:

(sinx + cosx)^2/(1+ 2*sin*x*cos x) = [1 + sin
(2x)]/[1 + sin (2x)]

(sinx + cosx)^2/(1+ 2*sin*x*cos x) =
1

The simplified fraction gives:(sinx +
cosx)^2/(1+ 2*sin*x*cos x) = 1

In Maniac Magee, when does the legend of Jeffrey Magee start?

The answer to your question can be found in Chapter One,
which is a short biography of Maniac Magee from birth until the time he became a
legend.

His life started out normal, but when Jeffrey
Lionel Magee (Maniac's real name) was three years old, his parents died and left him an
orphan. He went to live with his aunt and uncle, who hated each other. Although they
lived in the same house, his aunt and uncle didn't speak to each other and wouldn't be
in the same room together, so Jeffrey had to "visit" each of them separately, eating
dinner with one or the other each night.

After eight years
of living like this, Jeffrey Magee lost it! He was performing in the spring concert at
school, his aunt on one side of the auditorium and his uncle on the other, when he
pointed at them and started screaming during a song. When the song ended, he kept on
screaming at them to talk. "No one knew it then," says the narrator on page 7, "but it
was the birth scream of a legend."

What is the second derivative of y=tan x-sinx?

We'll have to differentiate twice the function, with
respect to x.

dy/dx = d(tanx )/dx - d(sin
x)/dx

dy/dx = 1/(cos x)^2 - cos
x

dy/dx = [1 - (cos x)^3]/(cos
x)^2

We'll differentiate again dy/dx, with respect to x.
We'll apply the quotient rule:

y" = d^2y/dx^2 = [1 - (cos
x)^3]'*(cos x)^2 - [1 - (cos x)^3]*[(cos x)^2]'/(cos
x)^4

y" = {3sin x*(cos x)^4 + 2sin x*cos x* [1 - (cos
x)^3]}/(cos x)^4

y" = sin x*cos x*[3(cos x)^3 + 2 - 2(cos
x)^3]/(cos x)^4

y" = sin x*[(cos x)^3+2]/(cos
x)^3

y" = sin x + 2*tan x/(cos
x)^2

The second derivative of the given
function is: y" = sin x + 2*tan x/(cos x)^2.

In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, in Chapter Six, what does Jem do the night after going to Boo Radley's?

In Harper Lee's To Kill a
Mockingbird, in Chapter Six, Jem, Dill and Scout go to the Radley's house and
are spotted by Mr. Radley, who thinks he sees a burglar and opens fire with a shot
gun.

As the children run away, Scout and Dill are able to
sneak under a fence because Jem holds it up, but his pants get
caught on the fence and he has to leave the pants behind. When the kids casually show up
where the neighbors have gathered, drawn by the gunshot, Jem is in his shorts. When
questioned, Dill and Jem spontaneously come up with a tall tale about playing strip
poker using matches (as cards are strictly forbidden) as the cause for Jem's missing
pants. Atticus tells his son to go get the pants back, and so Jem must sneak back to the
fence, even knowing that Mr. Radley could still be waiting with the shotgun. Jem knows
that if he does not, Mr. Radley will find the pants where he left them, on the fence, in
the morning, and everyone will know the kids were at the Radley's
house. Not only would this be embarrassing, but the three kids have been firmly directed
to stay away from the Radleys by Atticus. Jem expects that this incident would give
Atticus cause to "spank" him.

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'Atticus ain't ever whipped me since I can
remember. I wanna keep it that
way.'

Jem shares this with
Scout when he goes out that night to get his pants—mostly because she threatens to tell
Atticus that he is going. Jem leaves and Scout is on pins and needles until Jem quietly
returns with his pants, silently climbs into bed and finally goes to
sleep.

How would you describe the mood of Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird?

Scout is a tomboy, so to speak. In the novel To
Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Scout is a young girl who grows up without
a mother. She is raised by her father, Atticus Finch, and lives with her older brother,
Jem, and the housemaid, Cal.

Perhaps because of the absence
of a maternal figure, Scout develops a series of defense mechanisms against the usual
sensitivities that little girls feel: She is outgoing, outspoken, defensive, and
fearless. She is also very intelligent and ahead of her peers when it comes to
psychological development.

However, the common flaw one
sees in Scout is her tendency to generalize and idealize things. She believes that
Macomb is a pleasant and happy place where everyone is fair to each other. She also
generalizes poor people, reclusive people, and adults in
general.

Yet, when the trial of Tom Robinson begins and she
realizes the cruelty and unfairness of society, a new door opens in front of Scout.
Added to this, she sees how her own brother changes and matures, how Dill grows, and how
Calpurnia becomes her protector much like a mother would. This means that Scout
experiences a lot of life-changing events throughout the story, which mold her and force
her to mature.

Explain the aspects of hamartia, peripeteia, and anagnorisis in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

In Shakespeare's Hamlet,
harmatia, peripeteia, and
anagnorisis are present in the
play.

Hamartia was seen first in the Greek tragedies. It
recognizes the protagonist's tragic flaw; it also states that the character is "missing
the mark." Harmartia is described as causing problems where they were not intended or
expected. Harmatia is harm...

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...committed in ignorance (when the person
affected or the results are not what the agent
supposed...)

An example of
this in Hamlet is found when Hamlet discovers the death of Ophelia. Whereas Hamlet was
angry that she seemed to have forgotten him as she worked with Claudius and Polonius to
weed out his secrets, he never intended that she would die. When Hamlet sees Ophelia
being buried, we understand how much he still cares for
Ophelia.

Peripeteia is also from the Greek, describing a
"reversal of circumstances" or a turning point in a story. "Peripety" is defined
as:

...a
sudden turn of events or an unexpected reversal, especially in a literary work,
or...

[a] sudden and violent change in circumstances,
especially in drama

In
Hamlet, I believe this occurs when Hamlet finally gets an
incriminating response from Claudius during the "play within a play," when the players
put on Hamlet's rewritten drama entitled, Mousetrap. At this point,
Claudius is almost certain that Hamlet knows what Claudius has done to become King.
Unfortunately, with this knowledge, the villainous Claudius will now try to do away with
Hamlet. For example, he sends him to England with the hope that the English will execute
him. When that does not work, the King twists the mind of the grieving Laertes and
creates a plot that Laertes will act out to kill Hamlet while participating in a
sports-based activity of "sword play;" Laertes will use a poisoned
sword.

Last, anagnorisis (also from the Greek) refers to a
moment when a character discovers an important piece of
information.

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...is a moment in a play or other work when a
character makes a critical discovery...
or,

Anagnorisis is the
recognition by the tragic hero of some truth about his or her identity or actions that
accompanies the reversal of the situation in the plot, the peripeteia. [For example,]
Oedipus's realization that he is, in fact, his father's murderer and his mother's lover
is an example of
anagnorisis.

It can refer to
someone's discovery of his own character or insight into the character of another
character. It is powerful in that it can bring about a "peripety" that brings about a
sudden turn of events.

In Hamlet, we
see this in the combined plot development surrounding the Ghost and Claudius, and
Hamlet's discovery of what his uncle has done.

At the
beginning of Hamlet, the old King's son is approached by the ghost of his dead father
who explains that he was murdered by Claudius, his brother. This provides horrifying
information not only about the true personality of Claudius, but also the terrible news
that Claudius is the murderer of Old Hamlet. This information dramatically shifts the
plot (whereas Hamlet starts on a journey to avenge his father's murder), which
"galvanizes" the entire plot to its conclusion with the death of all of the remaining
principal characters.

Additional
Sources:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Peripety

http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/

data/d0009849.html

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~zuern/demo/aristotle/terms/

anagnorisis.html

What is the essential difference between a monologue and a dramatic monologue?

An examination of the etymology of the word
monologue reveals that it is a speech by one person [Greek:
monologos speaking
alone]. 

Shakespeare makes use of the monologue to
entertain in a departure from the seriousness of action and often as a pivotal point of
development of character, motifs, and plot. For example, Mercutio's rambling monologue
in Romeo and Juliet explicates some of the plot of this tragedy as
it provides a view that moves toward deflating the grand action of Romeo and Juliet's
romantic promises to one another by reminding the audience of a more somber view of
humanity since dreams are the "children of an idle mind." It also illustrates the motif
of inconstancy as Mercutio rambles from one idea to another and Romeo accuses him of
"speak[ing] of nothing."
As another example, in As You Like
It, the famous monologue of Jacques on the stages of man reveals, of course,
his cynicism. But, it also has such imaginative power that it transcends the action of
the play. 

• dramatic
  monologue

In contrast to the monologue, a
dramatic monologue is a poem in which an imaginary character speaks to a silent
listener. This poem is in the form of a speech or narrative in which the speaker
unconsciously reveals certain aspects of his or her character during the description of
a situation or certain events. By drawing conclusions based upon the speaker's words,
the reader can piece together the poem's setting, the circumstances that prompt the
character to speak, and the motives of the speaker, as well as his
actions.
One famous example of a dramatic monologue is "My Last Duchess" by
Robert Browning. In this poem, the reader can detect several traits of the Duke of
Ferrara, among them the superciliousness of the Duke, his displeasure with his "last
duchess" and retributive jealousy against her, as well as his excessive pride in
displaying his portrait by Fra Pandolf, and the painting and the sea horse cast in
bronze by Claus of Innsbruck.

Is there another character who serves as the hero other than Miss Emily, or does "A Rose for Emily" lack a hero altogether?

In William Faulkner's story, "A Rose for Emily," I would
imagine that labels placed on characters in terms of protagonist, antagonist and hero
are somewhat subjective.

In terms of the protagonist, this
is usually the main character. We would also prefer to label such a person as the "good
guy" as well, but in this case, we certainly cannot. (This is similar to Shakespeare's
Macbeth. Macbeth is the protagonist—starts out as a hero—but he
becomes a cold-blooded murderer as well.)

We can find
plenty of antagonists in the story: Emily's father, Homer Baron, the town of Jefferson,
and Miss Emily herself—in an odd way because she is the protagonist
and the "bad" guy. (How to categorize her...???) However, Faulkner
provides us with a complex character in Emily who cannot be easily explained
away.

Setting aside the concept of antagonist and
protagonist, there are certain aspects of Emily's character that make her seem "heroic"
under her circumstances. She defies her father in a community of the South where women
had no rights and were treated like possessions. When her father dies, she defies
society first by sending her female relatives who come to stay, now that Miss Emily is
unmarried and living alone, away. Then she continues to cause "tongues to wag" by going
out with Homer Baron. However, even he can be seen in a negative
light, much like Emily's father. In Homer's case, he is a "man's man," and seemingly not
ready to give that up for Emily, though he also seems to be courting her at one
point.

Emily goes through a time where she gives china
painting lessons, perhaps bringing in some extra money. She defies the local
representatives of the government who try to make her pay taxes: Colonel Sartoris did
away with her need to pay taxes when her father died. Though the Colonel is long dead,
Emily stands up to the gentlemen who come to collect the money, and dismisses them out
of hand. Even when the smell appears at her home, the community takes care of it quietly
and privately, until it goes away.

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"Dammit, sir," Judge Stevens said, "will you
accuse a lady to her face of smelling
bad?"

In later years, Miss
Emily becomes very private with only Tobe, her servant, as company. She is alone but
defies any attempts by the community to alter her self-imposed isolation. With all of
these conventions that she defies as "merely a genteel southern belle," Emily cannot be
seen completely as a victim. She stands up to the two overbearing men in her life—her
father, and then Homer (she really stands up to
him), and ultimately becomes an independent woman when such a thing
was socially unacceptable and unheard of.

In these ways, we
can see Miss Emily as heroic. She defies society, takes care of herself, stands up for
her rights, and does not allow anyone to tell her how to live. It is something heroic
when a member of the "weaker sex" can stand up to a male-dominated
society.

There is no other hero in the
story. Heroes are often defined as those who are courageous and triumphant in the face
of adversity, which Miss Emily is, but they are also
self-sacrificing for the good of others: Miss Emily is
not.

Perhaps we can agree that she is
the story's protagonist, and that she has strong heroic traits for a woman of the
time—and she has suffered at the hands of the men in her life. Perhaps we should agree
she is deranged. She is a "dark hero" who manages to survive on her
terms, who also murders a man and sleeps with his corpse. She defies a
label.