How can I get the summary of Kamala Das' "The Old Playhouse"?

                       Kamala Das : The Old
Playhouse- A critical appreciation

Kamala
Das is once again occupied with herself. Her quest for a fulfilling relationship brings
a loi of pain and disenchantment. She complains against her men's incapability to offer
anything but lust. These volumes reflect the poet's growing interest in the spiritual
and the mythical longings.
Kamala Das in her poem 'The Old Play House' looks
into the nature of lust and disillusionment. In this context, she explores the male
personality as well as her own anguished self. It is the psychology of her inner self,
which gets its focus in her poems. Love is the slice of life for Kamala Das. She seems
to be obsessed with the idea that feminine self is a mere toy in the unfeeling hands of
the male. Her ego-self has declared man nothing more than a beast.
She wants
integrity between her physical as well as her inner self. She did not come to her
husband's house to lye only beneath his 'boneless-self to feed his 'monstrous ego'. She
says :
"...It was not together knowledge of yet another man that 1 came to you
but to learn what I was and by learning to learn to grow, but every lesson your gave was
about yourself .........."].
This is the despair of her lovely-married self.
She yearns for receiving love. But her husband does not lend her fondling hands, instead
he exploits her tender physical self and destroys her mind. She says :
"...
You embalmed/My poor lust with your bittersweet juices,/you called me
wife"
Kamla Das' protest is not merely against the superficiality of
married-self but against the essential nature of Hindu domestic life, which tames, the
'swallow' and permits free exhibition of the male ego in all its manifestations. A sad
mood of protest against man's inhumanity is a common feature of her poems in which
frustration keeps running on. As Parthasarthy opines :"The despair is infectious. Few of
her poems have, in fact, escaped it".
The old play house and several other
poems are addressed to 'you', to the husband. He wants to encompass her action, movement
and activity of which her young self is desirous. The poetic self does not like this
just as her young self does not like him or his ways. His 'monstrous ego' comes under
fire, since it has totally reduced her and disappointed her. As a result, her mind
becomes an old-play*house with all its lights put-out. She says :"You called me wife,/It
was taught to break saccharine into your tea and/To offer at the right moment the
vitamins cowering./Beneath your monstrous ego, I ate the magic loaf/And became a
dwarf'.As a young wife Kamala Das does all the house hold Chores. The dominated husband
tries to take her like a bird and makes her an object of his sexual torture. The
expressions like '1 ate the magic loaf and 'became a dwarf show that her young self is
being crushed. In case of Kamla Das, the journey of married life becomes too
difficult.

How is Elizabeth I portrayed in the poem "Elizabeth" by Michael Ondaatje and in the poem "When I was Fair and Young" by Elizabeth I?

In "Elizabeth I," by Michael Ondaatje, Elizabeth
socializes in the prestigious circles. Finding herself in such a regal state is not
always favorable. Witnessing the execution of close friends is often part of the royal
life.

Life is precious, but small details are even more to
be cherished when you live a life of royalty. Privacy is never taken for granted. A
saltless fishy kiss is a moving experience.

Details are the
meaning of life. Playing catch with Dad is the highlight of one's day, especially since
the ball is really an apple, an apple the color of Mrs. Kelly's burn. This ordinary game
of catch is extraordinary when private moments are often
nonexistant.

In "When I Was Fair and Young" by Elizabeth I,
again, the simple things in life are often what make the best memories. The simple favor
upon Elizabeth's life makes her a popular favorite among the pining men who would beg to
have an opportunity to be with her.

Ekizabeth has the
advantage of picking and choosing and then choosing none, until she confronts Venus'
son, a sheer human god. He is the absolute fantasy of all
fantasies.

No doubt, being royal has its perks. Then again,
it has its extreme disadvantages. Nonetheless, the simple things in life are cherished.
Nothing is taken for granted.                            

Comment on the literal path and symbolic path in "Young Goodman Brown."

In Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown," the
literal path Brown takes is that which carries him away from his home and his new wife,
into and through the forest on some unidentified errand. Along the way he meets an old
man who walks with him, and others from the town pass by as
well.

However, the literal path is not the one that carries
the story's true message. The figurative the path is symbolic of the path one chooses to
take in life. Hawthorne is presenting a picture of following an
upright, moral path, or a path of sin. It is a part of the human condition that each
person makes such a choice, maybe without even realizing it—which road to
follow?

In this story, the path is not
littered with temptations as one might expect, but by the presence of people Brown
knows. His own outlook on life seems too weak to withstand the imperfections of others.
When he realizes that others are sinful, it does not motivate him to lead a more
virtuous life, but turns his heart into a cold, hard thing inside that feels no charity,
no forgiveness for other sinners (as it seems he forgets to include
himself as a sinner), and he becomes anything
but the loving person the Bible teaches he should be. The author alludes to the Puritans
with his tale—they showed no sympathy, no support, and no concern for one another. They
were inflexible and judgmental, and were responsible for the Salem Witch
Trials.

Literally, Brown is taking a walk. Figuratively, he
is walking a path where his destination does not depend on where he
places his feet, but where others place
theirs, following not God, but imperfect people, and losing faith
because he does so.

Why couldn't Scarlett O' Hara just asked Frank Kennedy for money instead of marrying him in Gone with the Wind?

In the end, Scarlett has to ask Frank Kennedy to marry him
for two reasons.   Scarlett could not simply ask Kennedy for money as a matter of social
tradition.  At the time when she accepts Frank Kennedy's offer of marriage, Scarlett
still believed, to an extent, the Southern conditions of honor and tradition for a
woman.  She recognizes that Frank is fundamentally weak and would not recognize her
advances without a marriage, and so Scarlett steals him from Suellen in order to get
what she wants.  Accordingly, Scarlett could not very well have asked him for money
outright.  Rather, she was bound to accept his proposition of marriage and then do with
him as she needed to as his wife.  There is a part of this that is reflective of
Scarlett's sibling rivalry and her desire to be superior to her sisters.  This is why
she covets Frank's money and his position as Suellen's fiancee, resulting in her
stealing of him.  The combination of desire for something that is not hers, money that
will help Tara, and the need to continually be in a position of power are all reasons
why Scarlett could not simply ask for money, but rather obtain it in a manner that shows
strength.

In The Book Thief, what does the act of book thievery teach Liesel about life and death?

I think one of the more interesting aspects about Liesel's
book thievery is the way that it leads to her unlikely friendship with the Mayor's wife,
and how this friendship leads her to discover the intense sadness of grief of the life
of the Mayor's wife and how she in many ways is living as a dead person, though still
alive. Throughout the novel we are given images of death from the people that literally
die to the death of culture as cetain books are burnt. However, the psychological deaths
of people are symbolised in the figure of the Mayor's wife. Note the following
exchange:

The
mayor's wife tightened. "I used to read in here, with my son. But
then..."

Liesel's hand touched the air behind her. She saw
a mother reading on the floor with a young boy pointing at the pictures and the words.
Then she saw a war at the window. "I
know."

The psychological
death that the Mayor's wife has suffered is symbolised in the way that she does not read
any more and she is invariably seen in a bathrobe and slippers. Liesel learns that her
life has stopped, but through their relationship, the Mayor's wife shows that life can
continue as she comes to care for Liesel and takes her in after the bombing that brings
to a close this exciting and novel story.

In Julius Caesar, Act V, what are the results of the first round of the battle at Philippi, and, in the end, who triumphs over whom?

Cassius stands on a hill and watches. It seems that the
battle is slipping from Brutus, but nothing is certain. As for Cassius' army, it is not
doing well. In fact, Pindarus comes to Cassius and says that he should flee, as Antony's
men have taken Cassius's camp. 

Cassius sends Titinius to
find out what is happening. As Pindarus is watching, it seems that Titinius is captured.
This grieves Cassius and he asks Pindarus to kill him. Cassius, therefore, dies. Cassius
miscalculates everything. Titinius is not dead, and Brutus's army does not fair as badly
as he thought. Brutus's army actually defeated Octavius's
army. 

Titinius sees what has happened and he takes his own
life. When Brutus finds out what has happened, he cries
out: 

O Julius
Caesar, thou art mighty yet: even in death, Caesar is reaping revenge; he seems to turn
events against his murderers from beyond the
grave.

Brutus is now left
alone to fight again, which he does.

How would testing a hypothesis be useful in business?

The process of testing a hypothesis can be useful in
business because it can give you information about what actions you should take to
improve your firm.

In a business, people are always trying
to figure out ways to make the firm stronger.  They might try to come up with better
policies or better products.  Whenever they do this, they are producing hypotheses that
could be tested.  For example, let's imagine that you believe that your firm could be
more productive if you allowed people to work from home via computer.  You could test
this hypothesis by running a pilot program where a group of workers telecommuted.  You
would see what impact, if any, telecommuting had on productivity.  This would confirm or
refute your hypothesis.

In this way, coming up with and
testing a hypothesis can be useful in improving the health of a
business.

How does tactical listening compare to strategic listening?

Tactical Listening is a type
of active listening, in which all conversational topics are taken into account before
crafting a response. This can be a long or slow process. The main point behind tactical
listening is to avoid skipping ahead and ignoring the points made by the other
person.

Strategic Listening is
a type of comprehensive listening, in which the message of conversation is analyzed at
all possible levels. The main point behind strategic listening is to make sure no
implied message is lost.

Both of these listening techniques
are helpful in day-to-day life and in business communications. Between private citizens,
tactical listening is more useful, as people have a tendency to assume or predict the
flow of conversation and so respond more to their own ideas and biases than to their
conversational partner's thoughts. Tactical listening allows a person to consider what
is actually being said vs. what they think will be said, and so avoid making incorrect
assumptions or speaking thoughtlessly.

In business,
strategic listening is useful for the vast numbers of memos, letters, proposals, and
press releases generated by daily business activity. By taking each message as it is
written and analyzing it along four general lines -- fact, meaning, feeling, intention
-- the totality of a message can be understood and acted upon. This also allows a
certain leeway when there is room for interpretation; by analyzing the message before
action, more avenues of action can be determined.

How does the weather in the graveyard scene in ch. 29 contribute to the mood? The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

As tensions mount in Chapter 29 The Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn, the king and the duke find themselves falsely defending
their claim to being brothers of the deceased Peter Wilkes now that his real brothers
Harvey and William have arrived.  After a time, a "husky" speaks up, contending that he
has observed the king at a place in the morning. After listening some, a doctor in the
crowd enters the interrogation because he believes that the king and duke are frauds. 
He suggests that if they are not frauds, they should not object to someone sending for
the inheritance and letting it be kept until they are proven to be the rightful
heirs.

Quickly fabricating, the king explains that the gold
has been stolen by the slaves. But, when Huck is asked if he saw the slaves stealing, he
replies that he thought they were hurrying out of the room because they did not wish to
awaken his master.  At this point, a lawyer demands that the king and the duke and Mr.
Harvey Wilkes write on a piece of paper in order to compare the handwriting to
letters of Peter Wilkes from his brothers; however, none match.  Mr. Wilkes says that
his brother William writes for him, but now his arm is broken.  Remembering a tattoo
on Peter, Mr. Wilkes asks the king to identify what was tattooed on his brother's
chest.  However, no one can verify or deny the king's answer since no one observed
anything.  So, the decision is made to exhume the body.

At
this point, with great tension in the air, a storm brews.  As everyone "swarmed along
down the river road, just carrying on like wildcats," the sky darkens and lightning
begins to flash, creating a truly gothic atmosphere to the scene.  The wind begins "to
shiver amongst the leaves" just as Huck shakes nervously since his emotions are as
tumultous as the weather. He narrates, 

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everything was going so different from what I had
allowed for...there was nothing in the world betweixt me and sudden death but just them
tatoo-marks.  If they didn't find
them--

Without lanterns the
gravediggers can only work in the flashes of lightning which certainly lend an even more
eerie atmosphere to their activity.  To add to their uneasiness, the thunder booms, in
the strobe-light of the sky the shovelfuls of dirt come "sailing up out of the grave"
only to be obliterated by the darkness in which nothing is visible.  Just as the men
pull the coffin out of the grave and unscrew the lid, and men crowd and shove one
another to see,

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the lightning let go a perfect sluice of white
glare, and somebody sings out:

"By the living jingo, here's
the bag of gold on his
breast!"

At this point, Huck
frantically flees down the dark road that fortuitously hides him.  And, because of the
storm, people in the town are not outside.  Just as Huck "sails" by,
"flash comes the light" in Mary Jane's house, But, in an instant,
it is dark, and Huck loses hope.  Having run out of town, Huck searches for a boat "to
borrow" and the lightning again reveals what he needs.  When he reaches Jim with the
skiff, the lightning shines on the man and Huck is frightened as he looks like "old King
Lear and a drowned Arab all in one."  But, Jim rescues Huck who has fallen overboard in
his fright, trying to hug and kiss Huck because he is so happy to see the
boy.

Clearly, the disturbing thunder, the ghostly glare of
the lightning, and the frightening darkness of the storm demonstrate the sympathy of
nature with Huck's feelings.

What is the meaning of this phrase in "The Last Leaf" by "Behrman took his seat as the hermit miner on an upturned kettle for a rock." "The Last...

In O.l Henry's "The Last Leaf," Old Behrman lives
downstairs from the two aspiring artists, Johnsy and Sue, in the little Greenwich
Village apartments.  He is over sixty years old, and has always thought of painting a
masterpiece, but he has yet to begin it.  A failure at painting, Behrman earns a meagre
living by posing as a model for the young artists who cannot afford professional
models.

Sue has Behrman come to her apartment to pose, but
she points out to him the ivy vine upon which leaves has fallen.  They both look at each
other; then, Behrman takes his seat to pose.  In Sue's painting, he is supposed to be a
miner who stays to himself and is seated on a kettle set upside down; this kettle will
be painted as a rock.

Why does Beneatha want to pursue being a doctor?In her character she alwayz talked about being a doctor despite the fact that she didn't have much...

The young female character Beneatha in the Raisin In the
Sun play wants to become a doctor as the doctoral profession is seen as the highest
intellectual and social attainment in the United States of
America.

The play, Raisin in the Sun, was one of the first
serious and critically acclaimed plays for Blacks in America.  The verbiage, dreams,
ideals and aspirations of blacks were disclosed in this new arena.  Prior to this play
and Beneatha's character desiring to be a professional and a doctor brought credence and
reality to the fact that blacks are more than just maids and cooks or
nanny's.

Today we have Dr. Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey,
Dr. Condeleeza Rice and myself; Dr. Markla Phillips.  I too, read about Beneatha and
wanted to elevate myself via an outstanding education to be a scholar.  Not a person of
color than is stereotyped as ignorant and inept because she did not receive an education
nor properly plan for her future.

In the play, Raisin in
the Sun, the major concepts are about upward mobility, education and for Walter Lee, the
question he must answer is whether or not he can finally be a man.  In this time period
as now, the idea of black manhood or even a man with some money to make financial and
social decisions was a huge idea to discuss. 

The fact that
Beneatha wants to move ahead and use the family's scarce resources for the benefits her
own upward academic mobility does not sit well with her brother Walter Lee who has his
own designs for the money his mother left to him.

Please explain why it is appropriate to teach Samir and Yonatan by Daniella Carmi.

From the most fundamental of point of views,
Samir and Yonatan is important to teach because it humanizes the
Palestinian- Israeli conflict.  In any political struggle that has deep roots, it is
easy for students to lose sight of the human stories that are present.  The terms like
"settlements, "West Bank," "political self- rule" are very clinical and sterile concepts
for the young adolescent.  Samir and Yonatan make these ideas as personal as possible in
setting them amongst the lives of children in the disputed territories.  The very idea
that Samir and Yonatan can escape from their current political and social difficulties
when they learn to emotionally transcend them is a powerful message.  Kids can begin to
partake in a dialogue of pain, forgiveness, anger, and transcendence through works like
Carmi's.  It is relevant and appropriate to teach kids the power of constructive
dialogue.  In a world where polarizing monologues and silencing of voices is so much a
part of the historical discourse, reading literature that emphasizes solidarity and
presents a case of what can be as opposed to what is can be transformative and highly
meaningful to students seeking to understand a battle that is not theirs, but one they
have inherited.

How can you paraphrase "They walked in the warm-cool blowing night on the silvered pavement..." in the novel Fahrenheit 451?

The full text of this quote
is:

They
walked in the warm-cool blowing night on the silvered pavement and there was the
faintest breath of fresh apricots and strawberries in the air, and he looked around and
realized that was quite impossible so late in the
year.

This can be
paraphrased, or put into your own language a myriad of
ways.

Montag and Clarisse walked in the cool evening as the
warm breeze blew down the street. In the wind, Montag could make out a faint scent of
fresh apricots and strawberries, but knew it couldn't be true as they were out of
season.

The importance of significance of this quote is
that Montag's strict sense of reality is altered by Clarisse's presence. The imagery is
more vibrant and profound with Clarisse walking next to him. He does not just walk down
the street but rather on the "silvered pavement." He begins to question what he has
known so far and begins to see the beauty in nature just as Clarisse
does.

Clarisse and Montag's relationship is an important
catalyst for Montag's internal conflict. Check out the following links to further read
about their relationship.

What is a summary of Emma by Jane Austen?

The character of Emma is introduced in such a way that she
might be considered a reluctant heroine. The narrator, who possesses Austen's ironic
voice, says:

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Emma Woodhouse, ... seemed to unite some of the
best blessings of existence; .... and had, ... been mistress of his house from a very
early period. ... Emma doing just what she liked ... . The real evils ... were the power
of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of
herself;

Therefore, the
conflicts Emma gets into come from "having too much her own way" and thinking "a little
too well of herself."

Emma is devoted to her father and their caring
but straight-talking neighbor Mr. Knightley. Her dearest friend is Miss Taylor who has
just become Mrs. Weston and thus retreated from center stage to the wings of Emma's
life. To replace her, Emma befriends Harriet, a young woman of modest intellect and
position in the world whom Emma determines to raise in
importance.

Emma does this by discouraging her from accepting a
marriage proposal from the man of hopes, farmer Mr. Martin, and by encouraging her to
focus on the imagined affections of a man who deems Harriet too far beneath him for
notice, the clergyman Mr. Elton. When that scheme backfires, Emma is surprised to find
that Harriet fancies herself in love with and loved by Mr. Knightley himself. This
possibility sets Emma's heart aflame as she realizes it will break her heart if Mr.
Knightley attaches himself to anyone.

Meanwhile, Frank Churchill and
Jane Fairfax provide Emma with other projects as Emma seeks to avoid Jane's
company--helped out by Jane's efforts to avoid Emma's company!--and seeks to ascertain
just how deeply Frank loves her, as she must certainly refuse him, thus breaking his
heart, as she is devoted to her father and refuses to even contemplate leaving him for a
marriage and home elsewhere.

Things go from bad to worse for Emma
after Mr. Elton's surprise proposal of marriage, which she earnestly rejected, sends him
to Bath to bring back a bride in the person of Mrs. Elton who proceeds to brag and
arrange outings to Mr. Knightley's strawberry patch and Box Hill. The strawberry patch
and Box Hill are disasters for different reasons, one of which is that Emma and Frank
offend both Jane and Miss Bates, so much so that Mr. Knightley chastises Emma on their
behalf.

In the end, as things go spiraling from bad to worse, all
discover that Jane and Frank are secretly engaged,

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But it is even so. There has been a solemn
engagement between them ever since October—formed at Weymouth, and kept a secret from
every body.

and Harriet
accepts Mr. Martin with Mr. Knightley's blessing and Emma accepts Mr. Knightley's
bashful proposal of marriage and Mr. and Mrs. Elton ... well … remain the
same.

List some examples of where Leila's innocence is illustrated in "Her First Ball" with specific reference to text and events in detail."Her First...

Not only is it Leila's first ball, but as the exposition
of "Her First Ball" illustrates, there is a novelty to everything surrounding this event
because of her inexperience of urbane life.  For instance, the story opens with "Perhaps
her first real partner was the cab."  Leila's thoughts, also, indicate her lack of
experience:

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Oh, dear, how hard it was to be indifferent like
the others!  She tried not to smile too much; she tried not to care.  But every single
thing was so new and exciting...Meg's tuberoses, Jose's long loop of amber, Laura's
little dark head, pushing above her white fur like a flower through snow.  She would
remember for ever.  It even gave her a pang to see her cousin Laurie throw away the
wisps of tissue paper he pulled from the fastening of his new gloves.  She would like to
have kept those wisps as a keepsake, as a
remembrance.

This passage
also illustrates how her mind dances with wonder as she imagines "waltzing lampposts and
houses and fences." Even insignificant details such as the tissue paper of Laurie's
gloves seem marvelous to her.  Indeed, it is a romantic vision of the evening that
resides in Leila's mind as she marvels at having a brother who reminds his sister of
their scheduled dances together.

Another indication of the
naivete and romantic vision of Leila is the imagery used to describe this vision.  For
example, the road is described as "bright on either side with moving fan-like lights,"
and it seems "to float through the air";further, the satin shoes of the dancers "chased
each other like birds" in Leila's imagination.

As she is
"pushed" into the Ladies' room, and "pressed ...through the crush in the passage towards
the big double door of the drill hall," it is as though Leila is swept away rather than
consciously walking.  In her heightened excitement, Leila envisions the hanging colored
flags as "talking."  She thinks to herself, "How heavenly; how simply
heavenly!" 

For the ingenue Leila, there is an
ethereal atmosphere to the circumstances preceding the ball.  Emotionally, she is swept
away in this conception of the ball being "heavenly" as she is taken by such mundane
things as the tissue paper of Laurie's gloves and the "darling little pink-and-silver
programs" and the color flags strung above her.  This perception of Leila's clearly
indicates her innocence. 

Please can you summarise "To a Skylark" by William Wordsworth.

This excellent poem by William Wordsworth is not to be
confused with the poem by Shelley with exactly the same title. However, interestingly,
both poems are rather similar with their focus on the skylark as a creature who, through
its song, is able to transcend the troubles of life.

In
Wordsworth's poem, the speaker is walking through "wilderness dreary" and feeling
weighed down by the worries of the world. He is attracted to the joy of the skylark's
song, and desires to fly up into the sky to be with the skylark in its realm,
recognising that there is both a "madness" to the skylark and a "joy divine" in its
song. The speaker finds inspiration in the skylark's song, which is "As full of gladness
and as free of heaven," to "plod on" in his journey as he has hope for "higher raptures"
when he reaches the end of his life.

In Romeo and Juliet, what is being personified and how in Act 3 scene 5, lines 59-64?

Key to questions such as this is understanding the context
of specific lines. Romeo and Juliet have just met after Romeo's killing of Tybalt and
his subsequent banishment. They have had one night together, and now Romeo must leave
before the terms of the banishment come in to play and he can be killed for being in
Verona. As they take their leave from each other, they recognise the uncertainty of the
future that is facing them. After Romeo has left, Juliet personifies "Fortune," and
addresses him, saying:

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O Fortune, Fortune! All men call thee
fickle.

If thou art fickle, what dost thou with
him

That is renowned for faith? Be fickle,
Fortune,

For then I hope thou wilt not keep him
long

But send him
back.

Of course, one of the
key themes in this excellent tragedy is the way in which fate or fortune interferes with
our plans. Romeo and Juliet are described at the very beginning of the play as "star
cross'd lovers," and fortune is refered to throughout the play. Fortune here is
personified as being almost like a fickle, capricious child that acts in an
unpredictable way. Juliet here almost prays to Fortune, asking him to return Romeo to
her as quickly as possible.

Please give me a summary of Act III of Othello.

In Act III scene 1, Cassio enters with musicians with the
intention of serenading Othello and Desdemona. A clown tells them that Othello will not
want to hear more music. When the musicians exit, Cassio tells the clown to go and tell
Emilia that he wants to see Desdemona. Iago enters and helps Cassio by getting Emilia
and keeping Othello away. Emilia then enters and tells Cassio that Desdemona and Othello
are discussing what happened between Cassio and
Montano.

Act III scene 2 is a very brief scene where we see
Othello carrying out his role and responsibilities. He gives Iago a letter to deliver to
the senate and Othello, accompanied by gentlemen, walks along the castle
battlements.

Act III scene 3 features the meeting between
Cassio and Desdemona, who tells Cassio she will do what she can to help him. Cassio
leaves as Iago and Othello enter and Iago suggests there was something underhand in
Cassio's body language. Desdemona brings Cassio's case before Othello, who agrees to do
what she wants. Left alone, Iago works more on Othello's jealousy, asking what he knows
about Desdemona and Cassio. Emilia manages to take Desdemona's handkerchief which Iago
then seizes and gives as proof of Desdemona's infidelity, saying that Cassio used it.
Together they plot the death of Cassio.

In Act III scene 4,
Desdemona realises the handkerchief is gone, but Emilia protests she does not know where
it is. When Othello enters and asks for it, she believes Othello is ill. Cassio enters,
pleading yet again for his suit to be resolved, but Desdemona tells him her husband is
not well. She and Emilia go off to find him. Bianca enters complaining that she has not
seen Cassio, and is suspicious about the handkerchief, which Cassio gives
her.

Discuss the occurrence of circles in our daily life.

This is a very interesting element to examine.  I think
that you can find much in way of the presence of circles in our daily life.  I am going
to presume that this is a type of application assignment, where you are to take the
concept of circles and apply it to one's own world.  If this is the case, consider the
idea that our planet moves in a circle.  The very state of being in the world in terms
of rotation of the Earth is done in a circular manner, in that our planet revolves
around the sun.  The arrangement of planets in the solar system is in a circular or
orbital pattern.  If we were to continue to apply this, our worlds are defined, to a
large extent, by the presence of the sun and the moon, two orbs that are circular in
nature.  If we wanted to examine the symbolic implication of the circle, the communities
in which we live are circular, by nature.  If a circle is seen as a "simple closed curve
that divides the plane into two regions" of "internal and external," then our
communities are circles.  The communities in which we live, in which we are an active
member, and the realms that we choose to define our identities with other people are
circles, as they represent a clear delineation between "inside" and "outside."  If we
examine the concept of circles in a more literal point of view, our steering wheels in
cars, the tires and wheels to move our cars, as well as the lenses on camera phones are
all circles.

Please respond to Ariel Dorfman’s poem, “Hope,” from his collection In Case of Fire in a Foreign Land.

In Ariel Dorfman's poem, "Hope," the idea of hope at the
beginning of the poem seems impossible, and one must ask the question as to how hope
could possibly survive under the circumstances described. A family's son is taken away
for questioning. It that country, the car does not come with painting on the side and
uniformed officers, but without license plates—as if occupied by ghosts that arrive in
the night and are never seen again—who cannot be
questioned:

They took
him

just for a few hours

they
said

just for some
routine

questioning...

we
couldn't

find out

anything
else

about
him.

The tragic irony of the
story, of course, is the news the parents receive five months later, from a friend who
was also detained, who recognized their son's voice...and his screams. For the
"authorities" were torturing him. Their hope was that they would continue to do so—how
is this possible? Next year, if he was still being tortured in eight months, at least he
would still be alive. And that was their
hope.

In Act II of Pygmalion, why does Doolittle want only five pounds instead of the ten he is offered?

You are right. If you have a look at this section of Act
II, Doolittle deliberately asks for the money for the purpose of spending it all and
having a grand time over the weekend. He is quite open about this, saying to Higgins
"Don't you be afraid that I'll save it and spare it and live idle on it." He seems
almost proud of the way that he promises that there "will not be a penny of it left by
Monday." He wants the money for "one good spree." Thus it is, when Higgins offers him
ten pounds instead of five, Doolittle says he couldn't possible accept it because of the
way this is too big a sum and cannot be spent easily. Note what he says to justify his
refusal of the greater sum of money:

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Ten pounds is a lot of money: it makes a man feel
prudent like; and then goodbye to happiness. You give me what I ask you, Governor: not a
penny more, and not a penny
less.

Above all, if there is
one thing that Doolittle wants to avoid, it is feeling "prudent," which he sees as being
akin to waving goodbye to happiness. Having too much money would make him think he would
have to save it and that he was unable to spend it on enjoying himself. Five pounds
appears to be the optimum amount to be easily wasted on a weekend of
pleasure.

Analyze any poem in: Poetry in Six Dimensions

In the poem, "Odysseus" by W.S. Merwin, the hero is
forever sailing home to his beloved Penelope...In spite of all the dangers he
encounters, he cannot stop trying to get home. In this poem, there is a twist which
indicates that Penelope is losing her patience and has wished upon Odysseus every danger
or peril he has encountered. Perhaps she has known in her heart of hearts his betrayal.
 Perhaps she has seen him with the other women in which he has encountered. Perhaps she
knows that he has been unfaithful. So Penelope is the reason for his stuggles. She has
wished every dangerous encounter upon her beloved Odysseus. Odysseus cannot get home
because his wife Penelope has cursed him with her heart for leaving her in the
beginning.

When was the American "golden age"?

This is, of course, a matter of opinion.  To many people,
the 1950s were a golden age for the United States although many (mostly minorities and
women) would not look at this time as such a golden age.

To
many Americans, the 1950s were a golden age because the United States dominated the
world economy.  This meant that standards of living were rising in the US.  Just as
importantly, it meant that standards of living in the US were higher than in all other
countries.

In addition, this was a time when there was a
dominant culture in the US whose dominance was not really challenged.  People in this
dominant (white, patriarchal) culture felt that the country ran the way they wanted it
to.  This was a very good feeling.

In short, this was a
time when Americans were on top of the world and when white Americans (particularly men)
did not feel threatened by any other groups.  For this reason, it is seen by many as a
golden age.

In how many points do the graphs of the equations x^2 + y^2 = 25 and y^2 = 4x intersect?

You need to remember that the coordinates of points that
lie on both curves need to be solutions of both
given equations.

You need to express   in terms of
  in the equation such that:

25 - x^2

You need to set the equations  
and equal such that:

4x

+ 4x - 25 = 0

You should complete the square such
that:

0

= 29 =gt x+2 = +-sqrt29

sqrt29

sqrt29

You need to find the coordinates   and  
such that:

+-sqrt(4(sqrt29-2))

+-sqrt(4(-sqrt29-2))

Hence, evaluating the
coordinates of points of intersection of curves yields
+-sqrt(4(sqrt29-2))x_2 = -2 - sqrt29 ; y_(3,4) = +-sqrt(4(-sqrt29-2)).

What role does Meyer Wolfsheim play in The Great Gatsby?

In The Great Gatsby, Meyer Wolfsheim
is Jay Gatsby's mentor, father-figure, accomplice, business partner, a friend, and one
who eulogizes Gatsby after his death.  Really, "Meyer" is an alias that Fitzgerald uses
for Arnold Rothstein, the famous gangster who fixed the 1919 World
Series.

Meyer, in chapter 4, helps to legitimize Gatsby to
Nick during lunch.  He says:

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‘There’s the kind of man you’d like to take home
and introduce to your mother and sister.’.” He paused. “I see you’re looking at my cuff
buttons.”

So, Meyer, like Dan
Cody (in the middle of the book) and Henry Gatz (at the end) is a father-figure to
Gatsby--possibly the most important of all since he helped Gatsby with his "gonnections"
to the underworld.  In other words, he helped Gatsby become great (he helps him amass
his fortune through gambling).

Meyer also serves as an
overt criminal, someone who brags about his human molar
cuff-buttons:

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“Finest specimens of human
molars...”

In The
Great Gatsby, you are what you wear: clothing reveals character and wealth.
 Here, Meyer's cuff-buttons show his power, authority, ruthlessness, and his extravagant
tastes.  In a novel where Daisy cries over Gatsby's silk shirts and Tom shows off his
superiority in his polo outfit, Meyer's cuff-links are a grotesque reminder of his
corruption.  They should signal warning to Nick; however, Nick is strangely attracted to
his power.

In the end, Meyer sends Nick a note about
Gatsby's death.  Tom, Daisy, and Jordan send nothing.  Meyer's notes shows, at the very
least, his compassion:

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DEAR MR. CARRAWAY. This has been one of the most
terrible shocks of my life to me[.]  I hardly can believe it that it is true at all.
 Such a mad act as that man did should make us all think.  I cannot come down now as I
am tied up in some very important business and cannot get mixed up in this thing now.
 If there is anything I can do a little later let me know in a letter by Edgar.  I
hardly know where I am when I hear about a thing like this and am completely knocked
down and out.

Yours truly MEYER
WOLFSHIEM

Remember, it is
Meyer's chauffeur who finds Gatsby's body, and it is Meyer's note here that lays his
mythological story to rest.

What is the significance of Ostend Manifesto?

The Ostend Manifesto was a
document intended to remain secret from the U.S. ministers, or ambassadors, to Great
Britain, Spain and France, James Buchanan, Pierre Soule, and J.Y. Mason, respectively,
to President Franklin Pierce laying out the rationale for a U.S. seizure of Cuba from
Spain in the event the latter refuses to sell its territory to the United States.  Named
for the Belgian town where the three diplomats, one a future president himself, met to
discuss the status of Cuba in the context of the ongoing debate about the future of
slavery in the United States, the manifesto was intended to secure that nearby island
nation as a potential bastion for the continued practice of slavery.  In its opening
paragraphs, it states the three authors’ intentions
clearly:

“We
have arrived at the conclusion, and are thoroughly convinced, that an immediate and
earnest effort ought to be made by the government of the United States to purchase Cuba
from Spain at any price for which it can be obtained, not exceeding the sum of $ (this
item was left blank).”

The
document is a carefully thought-out argument for the purchase of Cuba, presented in
geopolitical language emphasizing the island’s proximity to the main waterway servicing
the American South:

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“From its locality it commands the mouth of the
Mississippi and the immense and annually increasing trade which must seek this avenue to
the ocean.”

Additionally, the
manifesto presents the advantages to Spain of participating in such an exchange, before
seguing into a more threatening scenario involving an early-American example of covert
operations intended to foment an insurrection in Cuba against Spanish rule – an
insurrection into which the United States would then be thrust by the
circumstances:

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“It is certain that, should the Cubans
themselves organize an insurrection against the Spanish government, and should other
independent nations come to the aid of Spain in the contest, no human power could, in
our opinion, prevent the people and the government of the United States from taking part
in such a civil war, in support of their neighbors and
friends.”

The importance of
Cuba to the flow of commerce, including slaves, to the American South made the island’s
acquisition or seizure of paramount importance to these pro-slavery figures in American
history.  The significance of the Ostend Manifesto was in
its intricate articulation of the justification for imperialist expansion and of its
declaration of the South’s intention of continuing the practice of trafficking in slaves
for the economic benefit of that region.

how is caiphas relevant to jesus in jesus christ superstran analysis is needed for the movie jesus christ supersta

Caiaphas was the high priest in Jerusalem at the time
Jesus was brought to trial. Appointed by the Roman occupiers, Caiaphas was a leading
member of the group of priests who led the Jewish faith at that time. In order to
continue in their positions, maintain the order and system they felt was demanded by
their faith, and keep the occupying Romans from clamping down and becoming more
restrictive, Caiaphas and the other priests were interested in maintaining peace and
calm among the population.

Jesus represented a threat to
these goals. He challenged the authority of the priests, argued against their practices
and interpretations of the scripture, encouraged different forms of interaction that
upset established social expectations, and aroused parts of the public in ways that
might upset the Romans. In response to these threats, Caiaphas led the other chief
priests in developing a plan to have Jesus arrested.

What important feature on the same map does Elrond point out to Gandalf and Thorin?

Elrond reveals that Thorin's map has a secret message,
written in moon letters, a type of rune-letters that only can be seen with "a moon of
the same shape and season as the day when they were written" (50).  Moon letters were
invented by the dwarves who wrote them with special silver pens. Elrond interprets the
message for Gandalf and Thorin, who are completely surprised, and a little "vexed," that
Elrond discovered this secret to the map.  The mysterious moon letters tell of how to
access a secret door to the Lonely Mountain; the keyhole will only reveal itself on
Durin's Day.  Elrond's important discovery will play a major role in aiding the dwarves
and Bilbo's entry into the Lonely Mountain.

In the play, "Tape" by Jose Rivera, what part of the play marks the beginning of the work's climax?

In Jose Rivera's two-man play, "Tape," the beginning of
the work's climax is found when the Person and the Attendant begin to speak about the
tape recorder.

The premise of this short play is that a
man, the "Person," has died, though this is not immediately
evident. The "Attendant" is someone who is there to act
as...

…a
little bit of everything. Confidant, confessor, friend, stern taskmaster.
Guide.

It is not clear if the
place where the Person and the Attendant have met in hell or purgatory; it
might be hell, as some sources cite biblical text as referring to
more or less "tolerable" damnation. So when the Attendant tells the
Person...

We
don't want to cause you undue
suffering.

…this indicates
that there might be suffering, and while not "undue" or
unwarranted, it is left to the audience to decide where the Person and the Attendant
actually are—what is obvious is that some kind of suffering
will take place.

As the play
continues, the Person and Attendant speak: the Attendant is ready to answer questions,
though at first the Person says he has none. He is frustrated at being dead: he makes
mention of this:

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There's not much I really have to know is there?
Really?

And later, when the
Person gets really angry:

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Does it matter? Does it really f***ing
matter?

Eventually the
conversation leads to the tape recorder. When the Attendant asks the Person if he knows
how to use one, the Person admits that:

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...these things were pretty obsolete by the time
I was old enough to afford stereo
equipment...

So the Attendant
goes about explaining the basics of the reel-to-reel tape recorder. (It would be
important to note that these kind of tapes operated very similarly to cassette tapes,
but were much larger, perhaps eight to ten inches (or more) across
each reel, meaning they ran much
longer than a cassette tape that might only last two hours.)
The Attendant explains that the Person might want to use the
"rewind" button in order to listen to something that might not have recorded so clearly.
When the Person asks about a "fast forward" button, this is when the climax of the play
begins. (There is also foreshadowing) as well. When we want to skip over a song or
programming on a VCR tape or DVD, we use the fast forward feature to speed things along.
However, the Person soon learns that he will be listening to ten-thousand
boxes of reel-to-reel tapes, containing all the lies he
has ever told, and it sounds like that will take a very long time.
When the Attendant reveals the ugliness of the task that lies before the Person, the
climax of the play takes place: the tapes are a form of punishment; the idea that one
cannot fast forward through any of these tapes indicates that there are no shortcuts.
The sense of fast-forwarding is not in itself important, but in the context of listening
to ten-thousand boxes of tapes, this detail becomes overwhelming, and so this is where
the climax begins.

Additional
Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Rivera_(playwright)

A dripping water faucet steadily releases drops 1.0 s apart. As these drops fall, will the distance between them increase, decrease, or remain...

As the time increases the distance between the two drops
will also increase.  This is because both drops are subject to the acceleration of
gravity (9.8 m/s/s) and the first drop starts accelerating sooner so has reached a
higher velocity at each one second increment of
time.

Mathematically, the distance the drop has fallen is
determined by the equation:  delta y = v(i)t + 1/2 gt^2.  Where delta y is the distance,
v(i) is the initial velocity, g is acceleration of gravity, and t is the time.  Since
v(i) is zero, this reduces to:  delta y = 1/2gt^2.

Now
consider two drops able to fall a long distance.

at time
zero the first drop leaves the faucet and begins
accelerating.

at t = 1s, delta y = 4.9 m and the second
drop leaves the faucet.

at t = 2s, delta y = 19.6 m for
drop 1, 4.9 m for drop 2, a difference of 14.7 m.

at t = 3
s, delta y = 44.1 for drop 1, 19.6 m for drop 2, a difference of 24.5
m.

at t = 4 s, delta y = 78.4 m for drop 1, 44 m for drop
2, a difference of 34.4 m

at t = 5s, delta y = 122.5 m for
drop 1, 78.4 m for drop 2, a difference of 44.1 m.

So over
time the distance increases each second.

what is the conclusion in after twenty years?

The two men, Silky Bob and Jimmy Wells, grew up together
and were very close.  When they each decided to go different ways, Bob to find his
fortune in the West and Jimmy to settle in New York, they made a promise to each other
that they would meet 20 years later at the same restaurant. Silky Bob was there waiting
for Jimmy.  The restaurant had changed and was now a cigar store.  A police officer
stops and Silky Bob tells him the story.  Later, another man approaches, and Bob assumes
it is Jimmy.  Finally he realizes that the man couldn't be Jimmy because Jimmy's nose
was a Roman nose and this man had a pug nose.  The ironic thing is that the police
officer was Jimmy Wells.  He couldn't arrest his good friend, but he did recognize him
as a wanted man.  So, he arranged for a plainclothes officer to meet him and arrest
him.

Why did President Johnson seek the Tonkin Gulf Resoultion?A) to begin Operation Rolling Thunder B) to react to an unprovoked attack on the USS...

The best answer of the ones that are given here is D. 
Pres. Johnson wanted to expand the US military presence in Vietnam.  Because of this
desire, he pushed Congress to pass the Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution.

Congress was willing to pass the resolution
because of what it believed was the unprovoked attack on the USS Maddox (and one on the
USS Turner Joy).  However, these attacks (if they happened) are not
why Johnson asked for the resolution.  Instead, Johnson had
been waiting for something to happen that would allow him to push for a resolution
giving him the power to send more troops.  The attacks were a justification for the
resolution, not the thing that caused Johnson to seek it.

Find the center and the radius of the circle x^2+y^2 -8x+14y= 12

We have the equation of the circle
:

x^2 + y^2 - 8x +14y = 12

We
will rewrite into the standard form: ( x-a)^2 + (y-b)^2 = r^2 such that (a,b) is the
center and r is the radius.

==> We will rewrite by
completing the square.

==> x^2 - 8x + 16 -16 + y^2 +
14y + 49 - 49 = 12

==> (x-4)^2 + (y+7)^2 = 12 + 49 +
16.

==> (x-4)^2 + (y+7)^2 =
77

Then the center of the circle is (4,-7)
and the radius is sqrt77.

What are 4 examples of dramatic foils in Romeo and Juliet in Acts 3-5

Character who are foils are effective in literature for
highlighting other characters' assets and shortcomings. These foils are usually set
against the main personages in a literary work in order to make more pronounced the
characteristics of the protagonists and antagonists. However, in Romeo and
Juliet, the foil character of Mercutio is such a well-developed and strong
character that it seems Shakespeare must kill him off in the third act to keep the focus
more on Romeo. 

Here, then, are the foil characters in Acts
III-V:

• Benvolio/Mercutio

Benvolio,
whose name is in part Latin for good [bene], has been the one to
calm Romeo in an earlier act; however, at the beginning of Act III, it is, ironically,
the volatile Mercutio who attempts to diffuse the
heat:

Come,
come, thou art as hot a Jack in thy mood as any in Italy, and as soon moved to be moody,
and as soon moody to be
moved.  (3.1.9-10)

• Mercutio/Romeo;
  Romeo/Tybalt

After Romeo comes upon the scene
as Mercutio becomes heated in his words with the fiery Tybalt, Romeo steps between them
and then tries to diffuse the tension by placing himself before Mercutio and by telling
Tybalt that he has no argument against him:

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I do protest I never injured thee,
But
love thee better than thou canst
devise...(3.1.56)

And,
although Romeo urges Benvolio to break up the fight with his sword, Tybalt
surreptitiously stabs Mercutio, fatally injuring him. Mercutio berates Romeo jokingly at
first and then seriously for having caused his fatal
injury.

• Benvolio/Romeo

After
Mercutio dies and the enraged Romeo kills Tybalt, Romeo bemoans his misfortune, but
Benvolio urges him to flee lest the Prince condemn him to death for his action against
the recent law against feuding: "Romeo, away, be gone!"
(3.1.94)

• Juliet/Nurse

Juliet
remains loyal to her husband while the Nurse cries out "Shame come to Romeo!"
(3.2.91)

• Friar
  Laurence/Romeo

Friar Laurence is the voice of
maturity against the weeping of Romeo. He tells Romeo when Romeo pulls out his dagger in
despair,

Hold
thy desperate hand
Art thou a man? Thy form cries out thou art.
(3.3.108-109)

• Friar
  Laurence/ Juliet

Again, Friar Laurence is the
voice of maturity as Juliet comes to him is desperation and he devises a plan to give
him a few days in order to fix some of the family
problems. 

Friar Laurence.
 And if thou darest, I'll give thee
remedy
Juliet.               Oh, bid me leap,
rather than marry Paris. 
                        From off the battlements of
yonder tower....
(4.2.76-78)

• Romeo/Paris

Paris
comes to pay respectful homage to Juliet; Romeo to visit his dead love and to join her
in death as he has poison. When Paris starts to enter and then challenges Romeo as a
felon, the fiery Romeo slays
him.

Paris.   I do defy thy
conjurations
            And apprehend thee for a felon
here.
Romeo  Wilt thou provoke me? Then have at
thee, boy!
(5.3.69-70)

What role does Owl Eyes play in "The Great Gatsby"?

Owl Eyes, or, the man with the owl-eyed glasses whom Nick
only refers to by the nickname Nick gives him, plays two roles in the story. When Nick
first encounters him in chapter 3 at the first of Gatsby's parties that Nick attends, it
is in Gatsby's library.  The man is drunk and he expresses to Nick and Jordan his
amazement that Gatsby's books are real.  He goes on to say that he's surprised the books
aren't just props.  This seems to indicate that the man detects some aspect of falseness
about Jay Gatsby.  Since the reader doesn't know this yet - that Jay Gatsby is not who
he appears to be - it is foreshadowing.  The implication is that Gatsby gives off a
mysterious and somewhat false impression.

The second time
we see Owl Eyes is after that same party.  He has just been in a wreck as he and another
man were leaving Gatsby's party.  He is still quite drunk and he is standing in the road
and telling people that he knows nothing about cars and driving and has no idea how they
wrecked.  Here he serves the purpose of pointing out the immorality, bordering on
depravity, of the people.  Much of the story deals with the immorality of the people and
how that destroyed the American Dream.

The last time we see
the man with the owl-eyed glasses is in chapter 9.  It is Gatsby's funeral and he is one
of the few mourners to show up.  Dozens and dozens of people showed up at Gatsby's
parties and accepted his free food, drink, and hospitality, but he is the only one of
the party-goers, besides Nick, to come to the funeral.  Perhaps Fitzgerald is telling us
that Owl Eyes saw more of the real Jay Gatsby from the start than others did and thus
mourned the man more.

Verify if the solution of the equation is real 4^x-2^x=12.

We notice that 4^x =
2^2x

We'll re-write the
equation:

2^2x - 2^x - 12 =
0

We'll replace 2^x by t:

t^2
- t - 12 = 0

We'll apply quadratic
formula:

t1 = [1+sqrt(1 +
48)]/2

t1 = (1 + 7)/2

t1 =
4

t2 = -3

But 2^x = t1
=> 2^x = 4 <=> 2^x = 2^2

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

x =
2.

2^x = t2 => 2^x = -3
impossible!

The equation has only one real
solution, namely x = 2.

How would I go about ranking the main characters of the story from the highest to lowest social class according to personality/behavior? From To...

This is an interesting twist on ranking characters because
history (and the book) provides a class system which was based on education, land
ownership, profession, and of course, race.  Historically, you could look at the
different classes this way:

• White Professionals:
  Finches, Radley's, Miss Maudie, etc.


• Poor White Farmers:
  Cunningham's


• White "Trash":
  Ewell's


• Black (Anything): Calpurnia, Tom
  Robinson

Your assignment dictates that you
place characters into classes based on attitude, personality, or behavior.  If I were
tackling this assignment, I'd order the characters in the book from most respectful to
least respectful.  Atticus would be at the top and Bob Ewell at the bottom.  This
provides a uniform characteristic to measure each character
against.

In this way, you will see which characters you
deem "equal" according to their level of respect for others.  Atticus, Aunt Alexandria,
and the Radleys might no longer be in the same category.  Additionally, the Black
community would not fall below characters like the
Ewell's.

Remember as you work that the list is completely
up to you which means it is based on your opinions.  However, be prepared to explain
your opinions using examples from the text.

Discuss reasons for the resurgence of heirloom grape varietals, using references to support your logic.The French AOC system was created in part to...

People desire heirloom vegetables and fruits due to their
superior flavor.  Heirloom varieties have generally been developed due to their taste
and performance.  Seeds have been grown and harvested for generations in a particular
region and microclimate becomes adapted to that area. Due to a particular type of soil,
climate and seed a region can have unique flavors known only to plants grown in that
area.  While we have become a consumer-driven economy many of the unique heirloom
varieties has fallen to the more uniform, more productive varieties.  Other than for the
unique taste and marketability of an heirloom variety there is a more important reason
to save these plants.  Many varieties of plants have already disappeared. It is
imperative to keep plants that are resistant to environmental issues such as drought and
disease. 

What is important to Armand?Kate Chopin's "Desiree's Baby"

In Kate Chopin's short story, "Desiree's Baby," Armand
Aubigny of French Creole landed gentry descent, tells his wife after she asks him to
look at their son that the boy is not white, nor is she white.  When Desiree asks him if
he wants her to go, he coldly replies "yes."  For,

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He thought Almighty God had dealt cruelly and
unjustly with him; and felt, somehow, that he was paying Him back in kind when he
stabbed thus into his wife's soul.  Moreover, he no longer loved her, because of the
unconscious injury she had brought upon his home and his
name.

Clearly, then, Armand
Aubigny is excessively proud.  Feeling himself an aristocrat, he values whatever he
possesses that reflects well upon him: name, reputation, child, property,  When his son
is discovered to resemble the little mulatto children among his workers, Armaud
is horrified that such a child exist in his world to reflect badly upon him.  So, he
tells his wife to leave.

To underscore the false value that
Armand places upon his possessions, in the exposition of Chopin's story, the narrator
notes that Armand has only fallen in love with Desiree when she is eighteen years
old:

The
wonder was that he had not loved her fefore; for he had known her since his father
brought him home from Paris, a boy of eight, after his mother died
there.  

It is only when he
realizes that Desiree is so beautiful that she will be an asset to him, that Armand
considers being in love with her.  Of course, he really only loves what she can do for
him as a possession.  The great irony of the story, too, is suggested in this passage: 
Armand returns to Louisiana only when his Negro,  mother dies in Paris, thus revealing
how truly false his pride has been.

Could you please give me the summary of "After Twenty Years" ?

O. Henry's story "After Twenty Years" begins with a
policeman on his beat around 10 o'clock at night.  As he checks doors, he swings his
bully club and watches around him.  As he is midway in his walk, he notices a man
leaning in the doorway of a darkened hardware store.  The man assures the officer that
he is waiting for an old friend with whom he had dined twenty years ago when a
restaurant was located in the place of the store.  He and his friend agreed to meet each
other when they have their "destiny worked out."

Then,
the officer asks the stranger if he has heard from his friend since their dinner, and
the starnger replies that he and his friend corresponded for a while, but when he went
out West, they grew apart. However, he trusts that Jimmy will meet him because he has
always been trustworthy.  As he talks, the man in the doorway pulls out a handsome watch
set with diamonds and looks at the time.  "Three minutes to ten...It was exactly ten
o'clock when we parted here at the restaurant door."

"Hope
your friend comes....Goint to call time on him sharp?"

The
waiting man says he will him at least half an hour.  About twenty minutes later, a tall
man in an overcoat walks directly to the waiting man, asking, "Is that you Bob?"  But
Bob notices that Jimmy is taller.  The man does not make much comment, but urges Bob to
go to a place where they can talk about old times together.  As they walk, they come to
the corner where a streetlamp shines upon their faces.  "You're not Jimmy Wells," the
man from the West exclaims.  But, the other man tells Silky Bob that he has been under
arrest for twenty minutes. He then hands Bob a note from Parolman Wells. The man reads
the note that shakes as his hand trembles.  In this letter the policeman writes that he
recognized Bob as the man wanted in Chicago.  Somehow he could not arrest him, though, 
so he sent his fellow patrolman in his place.

In "The Postmaster," the postmaster would call Ratan who waited outside the house ;but she never came at once. Explain why.

This is a small detail that Tagore uses in order to bring
out the character of Ratan.  It is really minor, but like so much in Tagore's writing,
the minor and small elements occupy great importance as they reveal much about the
character.  Ratan hears the postmaster's call.  She deliberately does not answer.  One
reason she does not immediately answer is because she is so very happy to be needed. 
Ratan is an orphan in the village, and has not been in a situation where she is needed
or even included.  In not immediately responding to the postmaster, she allows herself
the need to feel wanted, something that has been lacking in her own life for quite some
time as she has been an orphan.  At the same time, there is an existential reason why
she wishes to hear her Dadababu's voice again.  Ratan has been used to silence all her
life.  The lack of any human connection has created a setting where silence is her only
companion.  In hearing someone call her repeatedly, Ratan experiences noise and sound
where there had been silence or emptiness.  This is the reason why she yearns to hear
his voice more than simply one time, for it removes the vacuum of emptiness that her
life had been before meeting the postmaster.

In John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, why does Adam choose to fall with Eve?

Adam’s decision to fall, along with Eve, in John Milton’s
epic poem Paradise Lost is perhaps the crucial turning point in
human history – at least until the sacrifice of Christ on the cross. Adam’s decision to
sin as Eve has sinned prevents any kind of solution to her sin, or at least any kind of
solution short of Christ’s later intervention into human history. If Adam had not
sinned, paradise might never have been lost.

Milton keeps
us in suspense regarding Adam’s response to Eve’s sin. Initially Adam praises Eve when
he learns what she has done, calling her

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fairest of creation, last and best
Of
all God’s works, creature in whom excelled  Whatever can to sight or thought be formed,
Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet
(9.896-99)

Such lines suggest
that Adam is thoroughly smitten with Eve and will never abandon her. However, he then
immediately criticizes her, and even seems to distance himself from her, when he asks
her,

How art
thou lost, how on a sudden lost,
Defaced, deflow’red, and now to death devote?
(900-01)

Yet no sooner does
Adam seem to thereby distance himself from her than he next proclaims, “for with thee /
Certain my resolution is to die” (906-07).

This willingness
to die along with Eve might at first seem brave, selfless, and noble, and indeed many
readers have difficulty imagining what other course of action might be open to Adam.
Should he simply abandon Eve to her fate? That would seem heartless. Should he ask God
to make him a new wife? That would seem selfish. What other course of worthy, noble
action is open to Adam except to die with the woman he loves? Eve herself, after all,
thinks that by expressing his willingness to die with her, Adam “his love / Had . . .
ennobled” (991-92). How, then, could Adam possibly behave more nobly than he seems to
behave here?

Adam might have responded far more nobly to
their predicament if he had simply gone to God and asked God to let Adam take all the
blame for Eve’s sin on himself. In other words, rather than being willing to die
with Eve, he might have expressed a willingness to die
for Eve. This would have been a far more noble gesture than the
gesture he finally chooses. In fact, if Adam had volunteered to take another person’s
punishment on himself, he would have been behaving as the Son chooses to behave in Book
3 (236-41) and as Eve herself later offers to behave in Book 10
(930-36).

Adam’s willingness to die
with Eve is only superficially noble; true Christian nobility would
have involved a decision to offer to sacrifice himself on Eve’s behalf, offering to
suffer for her sin, as Christ does later in human history. Unfortunately, however, Adam
chooses a course that is only superficially noble and that leads both him and Eve to
further suffering.

For an excellent brief overview of the
poem, please see C. S. Lewis, A Preface to Paradise Lost (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1961).

What is the value of variable x (x+3)^2-2(9x-13)=0 ?

To determine the values of x, we'll have to solve the
quadratic equation.

For this reason, we'll expand the
square and we'll remove the brackets.

We'll expand the
square using the formula:

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

Now, we'll expand
(x+3)^2:

(x+3)^2 = x^2 + 6x +
9

The equation will
become:

x^2 + 6x + 9 - 18x + 26 =
0

We'll combine like
terms:

x^2 - 12x + 35 =
0

We'll apply quadratic
formula;

x1 = [12+sqrt(144 -
140)]/2

x1 = (12+2)/2

x1 =
7

x2 = (12-2)/2

x2 =
5

The solutions of the equation are {5 ;
7}.

Friedman quotes Indian IT entrepreneur Rajesh Rao as stating "We can't relax. I think in the case of the US this is what has happened a bit."If the...

Assuming that Rao is correct and the US has "relaxed,"
this helps to "flatten" the world because it gives people in many other countries the
chance to gain market share by trying harder than Americans who have become
complacent.

Rao makes the point that his software company
got ahead through hard work and constantly reinventing itself.  In the pages before the
quote you give, he lists a Dhruva 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0.  All of these came about as the
company worked hard to become whatever was needed.  He argues that people in India and
other countries that are not as rich as the US or Japan or places like that are simply
"hungrier" and will therefore work harder.

If this is true,
it "flattens" the world by giving more startups in more countries an opportunity to
compete.  This globalizes the economy and flattens the world.

What are some major themes and motifs in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen?

Aside from the dominant themes of pride and
prejudice depicted in the title, there are a few other interesting and
important themes to take note of. Two of these are:
marriage and women's economic
freedom. Charlotte provides a good
illustration of both.

Charlotte is an active character and
has much to say about the theme of marriage: marriage is
more significant than romantic union; happiness in marriage is associated with something
other than love; marriage is a practical way to establish a sound future. Charlotte's
opinions and reasoning ties into women's economic
freedom.

"I
am not romantic, you know. I never was. I ask only a comfortable home; and considering
Mr. Collins's character, connections, and situation in life, I am convinced that my
chance of happiness with him is as fair as most people can boast on entering the
marriage state."

While some
women could win economic freedom through having money
"settled" on them, protecting it from a husband's ownership; through an inheritance
(until marriage); or through widowhood, most women had no economic independence and were
expected to continue to reside in their father's homes until marriage (which Charlotte
despaired of). Thus, most women's economic freedom--at least from their fathers and
mothers--came only with marriage. This was a compelling reason for Charlotte to marry.
She was older than Elizabeth and less lovely. While some women earned economic freedom
through novel writing, like Ann Radcliff and Fanny Burney, most women had to use their
wits and attractions to gain economic freedom (such as it was) through
marriage.

Some motifs
are:

• balls


• estates


• income


• women's
  income


• militia


• walking


• trees


• books

Estates
form an important motif that is related directly to Elizabeth through the entail. The
two largest are Rosings and Pemberley and these relate directly to the power status
women might hold. Lady de Bourgh, though irritating and pompous, is a woman of great
power. Not only does she independently own great wealth, she has the management of the
entire estate and the village in her personal control (undoubtedly she, like her male
counterparts employs a Steward of the estate, as Darcy does). Everything from
agriculture to medical concerns to domestic problems is in her care: in short, the
happiness and employment of a large community of people is all under her control.

Walking is another motif. The
Bingley ladies disparage Elizabeth for her energetic walk across the fields when Jane is
ill as being beneath a person of breeding and class--upper class, that is. Darcy, on the
other hand, sees that a walk invigorates the health and brings out luster in the
eyes--Elizabeth's eyes, that is. Walks to Meryton are also disparaged with scorn for
flirtations with the Militia. Yet, it is on a walk that Colonel Fitzwilliam tells
Elizabeth that though he would be tempted, he cannot, as a penniless second son, offer
her marriage. It is during walks that Darcy finds Elizabeth to give her his beloved
letter of explanation. It is on a walk that Darcy and Elizabeth reveal their hopes to
each other and come to a loving accord.

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They walked on, without knowing in what
direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any
other objects.

In triangle ABC, A = 30°, C = 105°, a = 8. Find side b.

To determine the length of the side b, we'll apply the law
of sines:
a/sin A = b/sin B
We notice that we do not know the
measure of the angle B.
Since we know two of the three angles of the triangle,
we can determine the 3rd angle, knowing that the sum of the angles is of 180
degrees.
A+B+C = 180
30+B+105 = 180 => B = 180 -
135
B = 45
Now, we can apply the law of sines:
8/sin 30 =
b/sin 45
We'll cross multiply:
b*sin 30 = 8*sin 45
b/2 =
8*sqrt2/2
b = 8sqrt2

The
requested length of the side b is: b = 8sqrt2
units.

Which are the diseases which spreads if 1)the blood clots? 2)the blood doesn't clot?

In  basis  of these  diseases is a the same  chart  and 
they are named  illnesses of haemocoagulation . Foremost, you must understand  in
detail  the chart  of haemocoagulation,  after that you will able   to understand 
essence  of diseases.A haemocoagulation  flows by the  stages: selection  of
thromboplastin from the certain cellules of blood, which are able to stick
together--------converting of protrombin( blood's albumen) into an enzyme thrombin
under  the influence  of thromboplastin----------------converting of soluble albumen
Fibrinogenum into  an insoluble  fibrin under  influence of thrombin. A blood clot  is 
created from filaments and clots of fibrin  which helps us to stop up a blood vessel and
will stop bleeding .This  thrombin is a dangerous thing!)In  blood , as you understand,
it is absent.And  a healthy  man "answer"s  to appearance  of it in  blood   defending 
oneself anticoagulant matters (for example, by a heparin) The diseases, what are
indicated  by you,  can  arise up, as they say, on  the bowl  of the scale-failing or
even  one preponderance of  these  matters on any  of  the stages  of
haemocoagulation.All-known is  that the diseases  of the second type  arise up mainly 
as a result of  incest.There are:

-haemophilia  A,
haemophilia B(illness of Kristmas-defect of matter, depressing coagulation), boys  are
ill in generally(probably, you  know about this royal 
illness)

- defect of predecessor of thromboplastin(extended
time  of coagulation and abnormal  absorption of protrombin) . More frequently this 
illness meets in New York, than in London).The variety of this disease is a defect of
factor of Khageman. Transmitters are healthy  people -clinically, but their blood during
coagulation  takes away the working hours of laboratory
assistant))

-vascular haemophilia of Villebrand- womanish 
illness,  is caused by the lack  of antigemofil globulin with the defect of
capillaries.

There are a few  cases of rare diseases, for
example, for 3 persons it was found out illness of lack of protrombin, ten  of cases of
abnormal  transformation of albumens in a chart, found out illness  of Styuart for  6 
children from  a husband  and  wife (related by blood) which were so  wise  as  to do 12
children ( maybe, specially for  experiments)))

How can I write a persuasive essay about "both parents should assume equal responsibility in raising a child?"

In order to write a persuasive essay, you need to come up
with a few arguments in favor of your point.  Here are some potential arguments for this
idea:

• It makes the children feel equally loved
  by both parents.  It is not that fun for a kid to grow up thinking, for example, that
  mom cares enough to spend time with them but dad does not.  If both parents have equal
  responsibility, it makes the child feel that both parents
  care.


• It allows the child to benefit from both parents'
  strengths.  Parents are often strong in different ways.  If only one raises the child,
  the child will miss out on learning from the other
  parent.


• It makes both parents more involved and
  strengthens the family overall.  If both parents are involved, everyone in the family
  feels closer to one another.  This is good for the children and for the
  parents.

To write your essay, expand on these
ideas and/or inject ideas of your own.

What is the significance of setting the coffin down at a threshold in "To An Athlete Dying Young"?

The second stanza is full of clues that point towards the
death of the athlete, even if we did not have the title to point it out to us. Note what
the speaker says to the athlete who has died in the second
stanza:

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Today, the road all runners
come,

Shoulder-high we bring you
home,

And set you at your threshold
down,

Townsman of a stiller
town.

Note that this road is
one that "all runners come," pointing towards the eventual death of everyone, no matter
how great and famous. Likewise, being set down at your threshold points towards being
placed in your grave, while the town we are told is still as it unites in mourning the
loss of one who received such adulation and praise.

Note
the way in which both first and second stanzas repeat that the athlete is carried
"shoulder high" by the crowd, which serves to reinforce the ironic parallel between the
two processions as the first remembers his moment of glory, and the second recalls his
moment of death.

What is indefinite integral of function f(x) given by f(x)=3x^2+12x+18?

To determine the indefinite integral pf the quadratic
function, we'll apply the additive property of
integrals:

Int (ax^2 + bx + c)dx = Int ax^2dx + Int bx dx +
Int cdx

Comparing, we'll
get:

Int (3x^2+12x+18)dx = Int 3x^2dx + Int 12x dx + Int
18dx

Int (3x^2+12x+18)dx = 3*x^3/3 + 12*x^2/2 + 18*x +
C

We'll simplify and we'll
get:

Int (3x^2+12x+18)dx = x^3 + 6x^2 + 18x +
C

The indefinite integral is Int
(3x^2+12x+18)dx = x^3 + 6x^2 + 18x + C

To what extent is The Human Factor a novel about apartheid?

Greene's work is set in the espionage circles of Cold War
Europe.  The primary struggles of Castle and his life are ones in which the Cold War is
always in the background.  One of the major themes in the novel is how "the good guy" is
difficult to identify in the midst of political and economic ideologies.  Such pragmatic
decisions don't involve a "good guy," and rather invoke different shades of "bad."  It
is here where the discussion of apartheid exists.  The fact that the Uncle Remus papers
in the novel is a plan for collusion amongst the American, British, and South African
governments in the event of a race war in which Apartheid is challenged represents
this.  The novel is one where the Western hypocrisy involving Apartheid is present.
While claiming to stand against oppression and suppression of individuals around the
world, Western businesses and government still operated with freedom, and without
relative conscience, with the apartheid government of South Africa.  Greene writes as
much in an introduction to a reprinting of the novel, saying that the West was as much a
complicit partner in Apartheid as the South African
Government:

They [economic and political powers
representing the West] simply could not let South Africa succumb to black power and
Communism.

It is here where Cold War themes and
progressive concerns about Apartheid converge in the work.

How would you describe Conrad Jarett?

I think that the description of Conrad is going to seem
cliched by today's standards.  Yet, at the time of Guest's writing, Conrad was seen as a
very unique character.  Conrad is a high achieving adolescent in a high achieving
family.  Failure is not something that Conrad's family has had to accept and, thus, is
incapable of understanding how to adapt to a life that has been hit with the death of
Conrad's brother.  Conrad undergoes an intense period of institutionalization in his
inability to cope with or to fully understand his life after his brother's death.  The
entire family lacks the psychological vocabulary or pattern of recognition to make sense
of it, and Conrad, given his age, is hit the worst by it.  His character is one that
must emerge with having made peace with his own psychological disfiguring and not see it
as a source of shame, but rather as a statement of his place in the world.  Conrad's
psychological and emotional journey is one where he has to understand his own
limitations and recognize that the forces of nature such as death and the pain caused by
it are elements that he can not avoid nor control, but rather seek to understand these
forces' imprints on his own presence in the world.  In this light, Conrad is a force
that ends up emerging stronger through his ordeals, a testament to the level of strength
that lies within the human psyche.

In Act 1, Scene 3 of "Julius Caesar," by are Brutus and Cassius's reactions different when they learn of Portia's death?How do you feel about these...

I admire Brutus because he sacrificed it all for the good
of Rome. He lost his wife during the tragedy.

His reaction
is somber but calm. He reacts stoically. Brutus does not allow Portia's death to hinder
him. He gets ready for battle. He is impassive about her death. He calmly prepares to
meet his enemies.

On the other hand, Cassius' reaction to
Portia's death is that it makes Brutus too willing to confront his enemies. Cassius
suggests they wait for the enemies to come to them.

Brutus
is ready to go to meet his enemies.

Cassius suggests they
wait for the enemies and be rested up for war.

Brutus is
eager to confront his enemies. "I have the patience to endure it now" is a quote Brutus
makes upon hearing of Portia's death. Perhaps he is saying that he has nothing to live
for now. War and death would be a welcome relief after losing his beloved
Portia.

In Macbeth, what irony is there in Lady Macbeth's comment, "You lack the season of all natures, sleep"?Act III, Scene iv, line 141

When Lady Macbeth counsels her husband in this way,
suggesting that he is distraught because he has gone without sleep, her comment assumes
a great deal of irony later. In Act IV, it is Lady Macbeth who cannot sleep without
light around her (she fears the dark) and when she does fall asleep, she cannot rest.
She walks in her sleep, reliving the monstrous deeds for which she and Macbeth are
responsible and suffering the horror of them. How ironic that she, the woman who had
seemed to be so untouched by the blood they had shed, soon finds that she, too, would
"lack the season of all natures." There is a bit of dramatic irony in her comment, also,
because the audience knows what she has not recognized, that Macbeth will never sleep
well again after killing the king.

An additional bit of
irony in her words could be related to King Duncan. Duncan was living an innocent life,
sleeping peacefully, when Macbeth murdered him. Since Macbeth and Lady Macbeth had
violated Duncan's sleep to take his life, it is fitting that they forfeited their own
peaceful sleep in doing so. Ironically, they had believed that killing Duncan in his
sleep would be a safe way to give them the throne and great
happiness.