What accomplishments did Bill Clinton have as president?

Of course, Bill Clinton's presidency will be most clearly
remembered for the fact that he was only the second president ever to be impeached. 
However, you can argue that Clinton did have some accomplishments as
president.

Perhaps the biggest accomplishment of the
Clinton years was the reform of the welfare system.  Clinton (with Congressional
Republicans) changed the welfare system to encourage more people to work rather than
stay on welfare.  Clinton also presided over a boom in the economy that led to the
federal government actually running a surplus.

In foreign
policy, Clinton's biggest accomplishments had to do with peacemaking.  Clinton helped
broker an agreement between the various parties in the wars in the former
Yugoslavia.

What are some main features of the literature of the English Renaissance?

The so-called “Renaissance” in English literature is often
dated from the beginnings of the sixteenth century and is often considered to have ended
around 1660, when the English monarchy was restored (an event known as “the
Restoration). The word “renaissance” means “rebirth,” and in this case it mainly refers
to a rebirth of interest in the writings of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Of course,
interest in their works and ideas had never died during the Middle Ages, but a new
interest in them became particularly intense in Italy during the fourteenth century and
then eventually spread throughout Europe. Among various common characteristics of
English Renaissance literature are the
following:

1. An attempt to see (or make)
   connections between the writings and ideas of the pagan Greeks and Romans and
   contemporary Christian ideas. In fact, the chief project of the Renaissance might be
   seen as an effort to find (or assert) the relevance to Christians of ancient thinkers
   and their texts. Christians believed that their religion gave them access, through
   scripture and through study of the so-called “book of nature” (God’s creation) to the
   Truth (with a capital T). However, they also recognized that the ancient Greeks and
   Romans had already discovered a great deal of truth, even though they were not
   Christians. Yet any truth was, by very definition, compatible with Christianity, since
   Christianity was the very essence of Truth. Therefore, any truth discovered by the
   Greeks and Romans could (and must) be reconciled with Christian truth. The fact that the
   pagans, merely by using their God-given gift of reason, had discovered so much truth,
   and the fact that that truth was compatible with Christianity, made Christianity seem
   (in the eyes of Renaissance Christians) all the more
   credible.


2. An intense interest in finding the real value
   (which often meant the spiritual value) of life as it was lived on this earth rather
   than the life lived in the other-worldly realm of heaven. In other words, rather than
   focusing on the afterlife as especially important and feeling absolute contempt for the
   natural world (contemptus mundi), people in the Renaissance often
   found much to appreciate and interest them in their time on earth, even though they
   fully recognized that time on earth was very brief and was ultimately not of crucial
   importance.


3. A growing interest in nationalism, including
   the development of particular national languages. Whereas earlier Christians had tried
   to think of all Christians as part of an all-encompassing “Christendom,” Christians in
   the Renaissance were more likely to take pride in the achievements of their own nations,
   including their own national languages. Whereas Latin had once been (and still was, to
   some degree) the common, shared language of educated people in Europe, increasingly the
   people of different nations (such as Italy, Spain, France, and England) began to write
   literary works in their national languages.
   

For a superb and accessible overview of these
issues and many others, see Isabel Rivers, Classical and Christian Ideas in
English Renaissance Poetry: A Students’s Guide, 2nd ed. (London: Routledge,
1994).

Describe what leads Biff to realize the truth about himself in "Death of a Salesman."please answer by tuesday 5/10 2011 thank u

There are several events which lead to Biff's ultimate
discovery of the farce that is his life. They stem from the fantasies propelled by his
father, Willy Loman. Since Willy thinks of himself as a successful salesperson living,
or almost nearing, the American Dream, he naturally bestows upon his children the idea
that they are just as successful, and that success is easily attained by simply being
well-liked.

That alone is one of the worst paradigms of
Biff's life. During his younger years, he would continuously use his talent in sports to
belittle others and do self-serving behaviors, however wrong they might have been. As an
adult, Biff still carries on with the same self-serving behaviors that were never
corrected in him as a child: Lying, stealing compulsively, and creating fantasies in his
head.

Growing up, Biff followed his
father's strongest fantasy: That, one day, he would easily be a college football
champion, that he would enter college, and that he would never have any troubles in
life. Unfortunately for Biff he flunks Math in his Senior year of high school, loses his
chance to go to college, and there is nothing anyone can do about it. When he goes to
seek moral support from his father, by visiting him in Boston, he finds out that Willy
has been leading a double life:He has a mistress whom he treats better than he does his
own wife, Biff's mother.

This is a major event. Biff's
image of his seemingly-almighty, protective, and loyal father goes straight to the
ground. Along with it also went his own dreams, as they are an extension of
Willy's fantasies. Slowly but surely, Biff reduces his potential to the minimum while
still perpetuating the absurd hope (perhaps inherited from Willy) that he is close to
"making it big" in business someday.

Yet, the final blow
comes when even this idea comes crashing down. In hopes of solidifying his affirmation
that he will create a partnership with his brother, Biff actually has the nerve to go
ask a former boss, Bill Oliver, to loan him ten thousand dollars. All his life Biff has
led himself to believe that he and Oliver were partners. In fact, Biff was insistent in
that Oliver would welcome his request. But when Oliver did not even recognize Biff, he
gets the final blow to his ego: He realizes that he has never been Oliver's partner, but
just a shipping clerk in the company.

This is the event
that directly prompts Biff to declare that all his life had been an illusion. He decides
to tell his father, and Happy prevents it. Yet, Biff carries on and, during the
restaurant scene, he openly declared that all that they believed in was a fake. As we
know, Willy would not accept this. Yet Biff realizes finally that he needs to move away
from the self-deception and open up to new horizons.

Discuss the various roles played by nature in The Last of the Mohicans.

Nature plays a significant role in James Fenimore
Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans. In fact, the setting of the
entire novel is the natural landscape of the New World. Cooper depicts nature as wild,
mysterious, untamed, dynamic, violent, destructive, and inescapable. He also tries to
present a contrast between nature and civilization, and, as we shall see, his preference
is definitely the “Nature”. The characters like Hawkeye, Uncas, Chingachgook and Magua
have a deep understanding of the nature and the landscape of the New World as compared
to the Englishmen. The Englishmen are not used to the kind of troubles that the hostile,
unfriendly land brings to them back to back. We also know that the French men are
privileged in the war as compared to Englishmen because they have the support of
American Indians (who have a native knowledge about the natural landscape). Characters
like Heyward, Alice and Cora seem to be helpless and troubled because of their limited
knowledge about nature. Magua easily cheats and misguides them in the forest. Colonel
Munroe’s sophisticated methods of fighting are of no use in the forest. He must take the
help of Hawkeye, Uncas and Chingachgook to free Alice and Cora. Hence, "Nature" plays a
very powerful and destructive role in The Last of the Mohicans. On
a metaphoric level, this novel talks about the invasion of natural landscape of the New
World by the civilized Europeans as unfavorable. Nature, in this way, is represented as
pure and uncorrupted.

In The Great Gatsby, describe the condition of George Wilson the night he learns about Myrtle's accident.Chapter 8

George Wilson is described as being rather disturbed in
Chapter Eight after the sudden and violent death of his wife. He is described as rocking
himself back and forth on a couch, and then we are told that he engages in "incoherent
muttering." As Michaelis tries to distract him, ironically by talking about his wife, it
is clear that George is piecing togther the bits of the jigsaw that lead him to the
conclusion that Myrtle's death was deliberate and done by the man she was having an
affair with. Note the following description:

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Then the same half-knowing, half-bewildered look
came back into his faded
eyes.

George is therefore
clearly disturbed, not just by his wife's death, but also by his suspicions that she was
having an affair and that he probably could find out who killed her. Michaelis himself
says that George is "morbid" and overburdened with his
suspicions.

Please explain what is the primary theme of The Woman Warrior written by Maxine Hong Kingston.

In Maxine Hong Kingston's story, The Woman
Warrior, the primary theme of the story deals with a woman's place—her search
for identity and self—in Chinese culture, and later in the American culture (two
very different worlds).

In Part One, a
tragedy surrounds an aunt in China who was not just "dead" to the
family, but ignored as if she had never lived, recounting the circumstances of a woman
in "the old country." Whereas America provides more flexibility in terms of how one
leads his or her life, there is no such thing in China during Kingston's mother's life.
The social order was to be respected, and if one breached the conduct of that order,
especially a woman, society would do what it believed was necessary to correct
it.

In this case, the villagers go into the aunt's house
and destroy it. When the aunt is ready to give birth, she must do it in a pigsty. The
aunt's shame and sense of isolation are so overwhelming, that she drowns herself and her
baby in a well. The family further "punishes" the aunt, even though being dead means she
is beyond caring, by not mourning her death, but by pretending she never
lived.

Part Two also deals with a woman's place. The author
recalls the story of Mu Lan, a woman who becomes a great warrior. Kingston imagines what
that kind of life would have been like in China. Her academic endeavors in America pale
by comparison, especially in the face of the pain she
experiences...

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...when she hears her parents say that girls are
worthless.

In this section,
Kingston is searching for her identity and a sense of
self-worth.

Part Three is the tale of Kingston's mother,
Brave Orchid, who was a strong woman—a healer. However, in America she can no longer
practice healing, and we see that her power as a woman in a Chinese world has been taken
from her, another theme dealing with the plight of women and their sense of
identity.

Part Four is about Moon Orchid, Brave Orchid's
sister. Her power as a woman comes from her husband. She has been
left in China while he went to America. Brave Orchid brings her sister to America, but
she cannot work so they confront the husband—who has married a younger woman. While the
husband promises money, the truth of his infidelity drives Moon Orchid insane, and she
is placed in an asylum. The strength of a woman, this section suggests, must come from
within and not be dependent upon a man.

The final section
addresses the voice of a woman in her culture, especially in the Chinese culture, as
opposed to the American culture. This section speaks of Ts'ai Yen, a Chinese poetess,
who was captured by the Barbarians, but was able to assimilate into their culture
through music. When she returns to China...

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...she brought the song for the Barbarian reed
pipe back with her, and it translated
well.

The message here speaks
to a woman's ability to survive if she is willing to work with what life gives her and
find her own truth rather than one thrust upon her. In this, the
sense of the indomitable woman is again seen, supporting the idea that the primary theme
of this book is about women surviving on their own terms, how difficult it is to do in
China as opposed to America, and what opportunities America offers to women who would be
"free" if they can only honor who they are and be proud of the woman
within.

What are the two most important themes John Steinbeck presents in Of Mice and Men?

It is difficult to be certain of the two most important
themes in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men because there are
several that are extremely meaningful. This question is subjective, so this is what
I think.

The first theme I find
central to the story is Idealism vs Reality. The second that
strikes a chord with me is Friendship. (Others that are central to
the story as well are: loyalty, mental disability, class conflict, alienation and
loneliness, and race and racism.)

"Idealism and Reality"
can be seen in the plans that Lenny and George make about having their own place. This,
during the Great Depression, when so many people were disenfranchised, becomes their
American Dream: to have a place of one's own without the need for be forever moving from
one place to another without the ability to put down
roots.

For Lenny, the idea of having a place to raise
rabbits is his one goal in life: for George has promised that he can care for the
rabbits. For George, it is a dream of staying in one place and not having to be fearful
of trouble Lennie might get into which would force them to move on. It also allows him
to dream of a life where he works for himself rather than someone
else.

Having such a spread is idealism on the men's part.
Crooks, the black stable hand, is quick to point out the foolishness of their
dream:

Nobody
never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It's just in their head. They're all the
time talkie' about it, but it's jus' in their
head.

However, the reality is
that being able to afford such a home requires money which comes from work. Work during
the Depression is hard to find, and it seems that the dream may never come true,
especially after Lennie accidentally kills Curley's
wife.

The second theme is "friendship." George promised
Lennie's aunt, as she was dying, that he would take care of Lennie who has a mental
disability. A tall man, Lennie is unaware of his own strength, and sometimes acts
inappropriately. George is forever correcting him, yelling at him, warning him, and
watching out for Lennie. Lennie depends a great deal on George and tries his best to
listen to what George tells him to do, when he can remember. George
is Lennie's only friend, and George gets impatient with Lennie, but also seems to
sincerely care about him. It is difficult in many ways to separate "friendship" from
"loyalty," as both men are extremely loyal to each other. When Lennie kills Curley's
wife, it is George who knows he must kill Lennie. Lennie has the heart and soul of a
child, and George wants to spare him the horror of being caught, beaten, and most likely
lynched or shot. This is very difficult for George, but his friendship with Lennie
requires him to do what he can for the man he has traveled with for so long. So he tells
Lennie to imagine the home they will one day have together: it is then that he kills
Lennie. George provides the most compassionate death he can rather than have Lennie face
the brutality of the men pursuing Lennie who could never understand
his mental deficiency.

Hope is something the two men share,
and allows them...

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to...dream, but the reality of their brutal life
destroys the dream and the
friendship.

In Macbeth why are the scenes (and even Act 5 itself) so short?

You are correct in your observation, and this is
particularly true when we think about other Shakespeare plays, which actually only
contain one extended scene in Act Five in which all of the resolution occurs. However,
let us consider the impact of these short, choppy scenes on us as an audience. There is
a real sense in which the number and the length of these scenes help increase tension as
we quickly switch from one scene to another, eagerly awaiting to see what will happen to
Macbeth and how the prophecies will be fulfilled. Also, it is important for the plot of
the story to give us the perspectives of a number of different groups of people: Macbeth
himself and his confidence, his Lords and soldiers who desert him, and then the forces
of Malcolm who are attacking. It was necessary to do this through chopping and changing
to different locations. The nine scenes then in the final act serve to create tension
and also chart the feelings and actions of different groups as the inevitable end closes
in upon Macbeth.

What are some quotes about the physical decription of Dr. Jekyll in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?

In the chapter of Robert Louis Stevenson’s
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde titled “Dr.
Jekyll Was Quite at Ease,” the story’s anonymous narrator offers a brief physical
description of Jekyll that stands in stark contrast to the earlier descriptions provided
of Mr. Hyde.  It is in this chapter that Dr. Jekyll is introduced to the reader rather
than serving as a narrative device in those earlier discussions of Hyde.  The lawyer
Utterson is remaining late following a small dinner party hosted by Dr. Jekyll.  Jekyll,
the narrator points out, has asked Utterson to remain behind after the other guests have
departed for the night, and the doctor’s request, it is suggested, is a common
occurrence, as the “dry lawyer’s” advice is frequently sought.  It is during this scene
at the opening of this chapter where Stevenson’s narrator provides a brief description
of Dr. Jekyll, describing “a large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty, with something
of a slyish cast perhaps, but every mark of capacity and kindness — you could see by his
looks that he cherished for Mr. Utterson a sincere and warm
affection.”

This is the description of Dr. Jekyll provided
by Stevenson.  The description of Dr. Jekyll’s alter-ego, Mr. Hyde, is considerably
different.  Early in the novella, Enfield is discussing with Utterson a peculiar event
involving an unpleasant encounter with a stranger who had “calmly trampled” over a young
girl and “left her screaming on the ground.”  Enfield’s description of this stranger
will provide the prelude to the mystery to follow:

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“It sounds nothing to hear, but it was hellish
to see. It wasn’t like a man; it was like some damned Juggernaut. . . He was perfectly
cool and made no resistance, but gave me one look, so ugly that it brought out the sweat
on me like running.”

And,
referring to a doctor brought into the fracas involving the stranger’s cavalier
treatment of this child, Enfield continues,

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“Well, sir, he [the doctor] was like the rest of
us; every time he looked at my prisoner, I saw that Sawbones turn sick and white with
the desire to kill
him.”

Finally, describing the
scene in which the stranger, Mr. Hyde, was surrounded by angry women, Enfield states, “I
never saw a circle of such hateful faces; and there was the man in the middle, with a
kind of black, sneering coolness — frightened too, I could see that — but carrying it
off, sir, really like Satan.”

Stevenson provides, in Dr.
Jekyll, the pillar of the community, a rather bland personage that is contrasted with
the personification of evil embodied by the malicious Mr. Hyde.  In answering a question
as to the description Stevenson provides of Dr. Jekyll, therefore, it is perhaps not
unreasonable to include the full measure of that individual by including a description
of Hyde.

THE ELECTRONIC CONFIGURATION OF CHLORIDE ION IS SAME AS THAT OF AN ARGON ATOM. WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWO ??

Argon is a neutral atom with atomic number of 18.  It has
an electron configuration of 2 electrons in the first energy level, 8 in the second, and
8 in the third, for a total of 18 electrons. Because there are equal numbers of protons
in the nucleus and electrons it has no net charge.

Chlorine
is a neutral atom with atomic number of 17. It has an electron configuration of 2
electrons in the first energy level, 8 in the second, and 7 in the third, for a total of
17 electrons.

But the third energy level can hold up to 8
electrons. So when chlorine gets one more electron to fill that third level, it becomes
a chloride ion with a net charge of -1.  This means it still has 17 protons in the
nucleus (atomic number = number of protons) but now has a total of 18 electrons around
the nucleus - just like argon its neighbor.

I need some evidence to prove whether Holden is insane or not in The Catcher in the Rye.

I agree with the post above that mentions
PTSD.

(Symptoms of PTSD: depression, sleeplessness,
hypervigilance, weeping, negativity, self-isolation, attention deficit and trouble
concentrating, exaggerated startle response, untrollable anger, recurrent invasive
recollections of stressor events)

The book is full of
examples.

First, there are two
stressor events: Allie's death and the death of a classmate, Jame Castle, who leaped out
a dorm window wearing the sweater Holden loaned
him.

Allie's death:

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I was only thirteen, and they were going to have
me psychoanalyzed and all, because I broke all the windows in the garage. I don't blame
them. I really don't. I slept in the garage the night he died, and I broke all the
goddam windows with my fist, just for the hell of it. I even tried to break all the
windows on the station wagon we had that summer, but my hand was already broken and
everything by that
time...

Jame's Castle's
death:

So
Stabile, with about six other dirty bastards, went down to James Castle's room and went
in and locked the goddam door and tried to make him take back what he said but he
wouldn't do it. So they started in on him. I won't even tell you what they did to
him--it's too repulsive--but he still wuldn't tke it back, old James Castle. ...a skinny
little weak-looking guy, with wrists about as big as pencils. ...Finally, what he did,
instead of taking back what he said, he jumped out the window. I was in the shower and
all, and even I could hear hm land outside. ...I ran downstairs too, and there was old
James Castle, laying right on the stone steps and all. He was dead, and his teeth, and
blood, were all over the place, and nobody would even go near
him."

On page three there's
an example of attention deficit, when Holden leaves the equipment for the fencing team
on the subway, resuliting in forfeiture of the match.

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I was the goddam manager for the fencing team.
Very big deal. We'd gone in to New York that morning for this fencing meet with McBurney
School. Only, we didn't have the meet. I left all the foils and equipemnt and stuff on
the goddam subway. It wasn't all my falult. I had to keep getting up to look at this
map, so we'd know where to get otff. ...The whole team ostracized me the whole way back
on the train.

In Chapter 6
there's an example of weeping: 

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"I just lay theere on the floor for a while, and
kept calling him a moron sonuvabitch. I was so mad, I was practicaly
bawling."

Also Chapter 6,
Holden becomes enraged over the prospect of Stradlater "giving the time" to
Jane:

Give
her the time in Ed Banky's goddam car?" My voice was shaking something
awful.

"What a thing to say. Want me to wash your mouth out
with soap?"

"Did you?"

"That's
a professional secret, buddy."

This next part I don't
remember so hot. All I know is I got up from the bed, like I was going down to the can
or something, and then I tried to sock him, with all my might, right smack in the
toothbrush, so it would split his goddam throat open. Only, I missed. ...Anyway, the
next thing I knew I was on the godam floor and he was sitting on my
chest,...

As a post above,
says, Holden is a poster boy for PTSD.

Could Mayella from To Kill a Mockingbird be a symbolic mockingbird?

While some critics suggest that Mayella could be a
symbolic mockingbird because of her father's abuse of her, she possesses some striking
differences from Tom Robinson, one of the novel's figurative mockingbirds. Tom is
completely innocent of manipulation or any wrongdoing. In fact, his very goodness is
what leads him to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Mayella, while
admittedly innocent in the situation with her father, intentionally lures Tom into the
Ewell home (she even saves up money so that her siblings will be out of the house during
her attempted flirtation). Even though Mayella did not premeditate the framing of Tom
for rape--that seems to be an act of self-preservation on her part--she does continue
with her false story even when treated respectfully by Atticus and even when she knows
that a man's life is at stake.

For critics who view Boo
Radley as another mockingbird, Mayella does share some similarities with him. Both made
poor choices (Boo's pulling a teenage prank, and Mayella's attempted seduction of Tom)
which led to life-changing consequences. Both are awkward socially and elicit a fair
amount of sympathy from the reader, and both have been mistreated by their fathers.
However, Boo is a better fit as a mockingbird because he harms no one yet endures the
ridicule of many. In contrast, Mayella is partly responsible for a man's
death.

Provide a character sketch of Della in "The Gift of the Magi."

Della is a loving wife. She is beautiful and her hair is a
prized possession. She is frugal and saves every penny she can when buying groceries.
She desires to please her husband...

She lets down her
long, beautiful hair for one last look before she sells it to buy Jim a platinum chain
for his valuable gold watch, the watch given to him by his father and
grandfather.

Every day when Jim comes home, Della lovingly
greets him with a a great big hug:

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But whenever Mr. James Dillingham Young came home
and reached his flat above he was called "Jim" and greatly hugged by Mrs. James
Dillingham Young, already introduced to you as Della. Which is all very
good.

Clearly, Della is a
loving wife. She cooks delicious meals for him. She does everything she can to make him
happy.

Now, it is Christmas and she has very little money
to buy Jim a present. She loves him so much until she sells her long, beautiful hair for
20 dollars...and she buys him the platinum chain for his
watch...

Della is ecstatic and nervous at the same time.
What will Jim think of her hair being gone? She desires to please Jim, and she knows how
he loves her long, beautiful hair...

Della is sitting
anxiously by the door when Jim comes in. On the stove, the frying-pan is hot, ready to
cook the chops. The coffee is made a 7 o'clock...Della is quite organized and efficient
as a homemaker.

Truly, Della is a giving wife...she
sacrifices the ultimate sacrifice to please her husband...she dotes on him and puts his
happiness ahead of her own...she is an ideal wife...

The operation intersection on sets has an identity? True or False?Justify the answer by giving proofs or example

The intersection of two sets is also a set that comprises
all common elements to both sets.

We can state this
assumption using logical connectors, as it follows:

x
belongs to the set A∩B,if and only if x belongs to A  ^ x belongs to B. The logical
connector "^" represents a conjunction and it could be replaced by the word
"and".

We'll analyze the intersection between the sets A =
{1,3,5} and B = {3,5,7}.

A∩B =
{1,3,5}∩{3,5,7}

The common elements to A and B are those
elements that are in A and they are in B, too: {3,5}

A∩B =
{3,5}

When two or more sets have no common elements, they
are disjoint and the result of intersection is the empty set.

how does current flow through liquids?

For a current to flow through a liquid, there has to be
some substance dissolved in the liquid that can ionize in solution. The ions formed can
then carry the current from one electrode to another. An example if this is dissolving
salt in water. Water by itself is not a conductor but because the salt ionizes when
dissolves the salt water will carry a current.

The tragic hero is greater than ordinary men, a remarkable and talented individual. How does Caesar fulfill this? (specific examples?)i know how...

Caesar was undeniably the most powerful man in Rome.  That
alone qualifies him for the status of tragic hero.  Since Caesar was only around for two
acts and since much of those acts followed Brutus and Cassius more than Caesar, the
reader doesn't get to see many great actions on the part of Caesar.  However, you can
tell he is a powerful and influential man just by the way the other characters talk
about him.  He is a polarizing character, who everyone either loves or hates.  This is
shown in the beginning of the play when the townspeople are wildly cheering for Caesar
in his parade to celebrate Pompey's death.  But then there are also Flavius and
Murellus, who are clearly opposed to Caesar's ambitious
ways.

Even after Caesar dies, he is still arguably the most
powerful and influential person in Rome.  A Civil War is being fought because of his
death.  Brutus continues to live in fear of him as shown when Caesar's ghost visits him
during Act IV.  Both Brutus and Cassius also mention Caesar's name as they end their
lives.  He was so powerful in life that it even carried over to his death.  Now, I'd say
that's remarkable!

What were Nixon's accomplishments as president?

Were the two issues related?  Thre was a coup attempt in
China to prevent the rapprochement.  What about the US?  Could there b a similar
plot?

After 40 years, we are beginning to question the
inconsistencies of the Watergate story.

Read my book - Watergate - The
Political Assasination which has to be a docu-fiction for legal reasons for an aternate
interpretation.

Why was the arrest at the THIRD attempt at break-in
not reported more widely?
Why did the dollar notes on the arrested raiders
have consecutive serial numbers?
Why was Howard Hunt's name in the address
books of TWO of the four arrested Cubans?

My ebook (ISBN -
9780956911940) will be avaialble at href="http://smashwords.com/">smashwords.com in a few days, in time for the
40th anniversary of nixon's historical trip to China. It has hyperlinks to all the
historical evets covered in the book.

Rene
Chang

Read more here:
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Hamlet sends letters to the Danish court. What do the letters say?William Shakespeare's Hamlet

The subject of Hamlet's letters underscores the motifs of
illusion versus reality, seeming versus being, and pretense versus genuiness:  Having
witnessed the fortitude of Fortinbras, "the delicate and tender prince" who is
willing to go into battle and risk his life "even for an eggshell," Hamlet decides that
he, too, will act as a prince.  So, in Act IV, scene 6, Hamlet sends Horatio a letter
from England telling him that his ship was overtaken by pirates; he says that his ship
put up a good fight, but after he boarded the pirates ship to fight, they pulled away
from Hamlet's ship and he was taken as the only prisoner. Because the supposed pirates
have not killed him, Hamlet says that he must repay them with "a good turn."  So, Hamlet
asks Horatio to take the letters he sends to the king.  Then, when Hamlet writes that
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are still going to England and that he has news that will
make Horatio speechless, some guise on Hamlet's part is evident.  Apparently, Hamlet has
arranged for the demise of his two treacherous
friends.

When a messenger brings letters for the king and
queen from Hamlet, Claudius is perplexed; he reads that Hamlet is returning to Denmark
"naked," meaning with no possessions. And, Hamlet pointedly adds "alone," implying that
he has eluded Rosencrantz and Guildenstern who have been told to kill Hamlet. Then,
Hamlet asks the king for an audience at which time he will recount the "reason" for his
sudden return.  This recounting may take the form of physical
action.

At this news Claudius is alarmed and solicits
Laertes to duel with Hamlet and kill him.  Since he seeks revenge for the death of his
father, Polonius, Laertes fails to realize the pretense of Claudius, who is worried
about Laertes challenging him for the crown, as well as the threat that Hamlet now
presents. For,  at this point Hamlet has decided to act upon his resolve of Act IV scene
4 in which he vows,

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 O, from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody,
or be nothing worth! (4.4. 65-66).

What does irony mean?

Irony is the word used to indicate the gap between
appearance and reality. When we think of irony, there are three main types that we can
enounter. The first is verbal irony, which is when we say the opposite of what we mean.
Take, for example, the following scenario. You have just done a presentation for me as
your teacher in class, and it was terrible. I, as a cruel teacher, say to you, "Well
that was wonderful." That is the opposite of what was true, and thus it is an example of
verbal irony.

Situational irony is a twist of fate that
results in an ending that is completely the opposite of what we expect. An excellent
example of this occurs in "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry, when both Della and Jim
sell their most precious possession in order to buy a gift that can now no longer be
used by their partner.

Lastly, dramatic irony is when we as
the audience or one or more characters knows something that other characters do not or
are blind to. Perhaps one of the most famous examples is in Romeo and
Juliet, when we as the audience know at the end of the play that Juliet is
not dead and that she is just about to revive. However, Romeo does not, and he kills
himself just before she wakes up.

What style is Albert Camus' The Stranger written in?

Albert Camus' story, The Stranger,
was originally written in French, in the narrative style, in the first person. It is
considered a "psychological self-examination," however Camus' work had a twist: the
protagonist in the story does not provide a detailed description for the reader, leading
him or her to the conclusions that writer has in mind, but rather presents the main
character's "action and behavior" and lets the reader make his or her own
judgments.

The primary reason for this is that Camus
believed:

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...psychology is action, not thinking about
oneself.

The speaker leaves
too many things up in the air because he has not explained everything in the narrative.
Rather than "spoon-feeding" the reader with "commentary," Camus describes what the
character is "thinking and perceiving," but the only influence the author provides to
the reader is writing that reflects the attitude of
Meursault—frustrating (to the reader)
indifference, almost to the point that one wants to shake either
Merusault or Camus or both. These gaps in the story by way of Merusault's behavior (or
lack thereof), along with the half-informed opinions of those who testify at the trial,
seal Meursault's fate.

What is expository writing?

Expository writing is informational writing. It follows
the formal essay pattern. Descriptive writing is a type of expository writing. Cause
and/ or effect is a type of expository writing. "How to" essays are forms of expository
writing.

Tenth graders across the nation use expository
writing for their tenth grade state mandated writing test. These students may write to
inform by using descriptive writing, comparison writing, cause and effect writing,
sequence writing, and problem and solution
writing.

Expository writing is a type of explanation
writing. It is used to explain a topic. It is used to describe a topic. It is used to
compare a topic. It is used to explain how to perform a process. Expository writing does
not assume that the reader has prior knowledge of the topic at hand. Details are used to
explain the topic thoroughly.

In his anger, what does Biff attempt to force Willy to recognize in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman?

In Arthur Miller's Death of a
Salesman, I believe that Biff is trying to make his father see Biff—and life
in general, perhaps—more clearly and more accurately. Willy does not live in the
present, but in the past. And a great deal of that time is spent in discussion with
Willy's dead brother, Ben, while Willy has imaginary discussions with his successful and
much-admired sibling.

Willy always acts like Biff is just
getting out of high school when his options were endless…until he failed his math final,
failed to graduate, and lost his football scholarship. Willy ignores this and talks all
the time about how great Biff is and how he is really going places in the world. Biff's
anger stems from the fact that Biff is forever trying to address the issue, and Willy is
always brushing it aside. Biff finally confronts his father with hard
words:

You
were never anything but a hard-working drummer who landed in the ash can like all the
rest of them! ... I'm nothing, Pop. Can't you understand that? There's no spite in it
any more. I'm just what I am, that's
all.

Willy's refusal to see
Biff as he really is makes Biff feel worse than he already does about his inability to
be a success in life, and if Willy would accept Biff for who his son really is, then
Biff might be able to move on and make something of himself.

What would be some alternatives to excluding evidence that has been illegally seized?

The most likely alternative to the exclusionary rule would
be to make police officers who violate the 4th Amendment liable to be sued by the
defendants whose rights they violated.  In this scenario, the evidence seized in an
illegal search would still be admitted during the trial.  Afterwards, however, the
defendant would be allowed to sue the police officer.

A
second alternative would be to expose offending officers to internal discipline.  In
such a scenario, officers who broke the rules regarding searches and seizures would be
disciplined by being suspended or reprimanded.

Neither of
these seems likely to be effective, however.  The likelihood of a jury awarding
significant damages to a convicted criminal in a case of illegal search and seizure
seems extremely low.  So does the likelihood of police departments severely disciplining
officers for getting evidence that leads to a conviction.

In Julius Caesar, when Brutus says "now be still/ I kill'd not thee with half so good a will," is he asking Caesar to forgive him?

As with so many of Shakespeare's speeches and lines that
he gives to characters, I think it depends a lot on how a director of this excellent
play wants to show these lines using subtext: what isn't in the play, but needs to be
created to give it meaning. When we think of subtext, we think of non-verbal
communication, emphasis, inflection and pauses, and by using all of these any actor can
give their lines a variety of different meanings. It is one of the problems that we
have, studying a play just from the page, rather than analysing it on the
stage.

However, having said that, the first line, "Caesar,
now be still," seems to reflect the acknowledgement of Brutus that Caesar is not lying
still. Having been wrongfully killed, he hopes that his death will enable Caesar to lie
still. The second line, "I killed not thee with half so good a will," could be
paraprased as "I didn't kill you with the good intentions that I kill myself now."
Again, this is a recognition that his killing of Caesar was not good, but that his own
intentions for killing himself are better. I don't know if we can use these lines to
state that Brutus is asking Caesar to forgive him. He does however clearly recognise
that it was a bad thing to assassinate Caesar, and hopes that his own death will make
amends somehow.

In "The Yellow Wallpaper," discuss the social and physical "traps" the narrator has to endure, with supporting quotes.by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

One of the physical "traps" Charlotte Perkins Gilman
exposes—within her short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper"—is society's belief that men
could control the lives of women, with the assumption that women were too
fragile to deal with the real world because it caused them to be
overly nervous.

The speaker sometimes has her doubts about
her husband's prognosis regarding her state of mind, while at other times she believes
that all he does is out of love for her. Yes, he is a
doctor...

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...and
perhaps…perhaps that is one reason I do not
get well faster. You see, he does not believe I am
sick.

The unnamed narrator
states:

If a
physician of high standing, and one's own husband, assures friends and relatives that
there is really nothing the matter wiht one but temporary nervous depression—a slight
hysterical tendency—what is one to
do?

Unfortunately for our
protagonist, her brother—also a doctor— agrees with her husband. She is surrounded by
men who believe nothing is truly wrong with her, so she goes "untreated" other than to
be cut off from anything that might distract her and help her to feel better. She cannot
read or write, and is not allowed to even see her new
baby.

It is
fortunate that Mary is so good with the baby. Such a dear
baby!

And yet I cannot be with him, it
makes me so nervous.

So the
social trap that catches the speaker is in a male-dominated society that asserts that
she cannot control of her own body, let alone her destiny. She is caught in a world
where men own their wives, make their decisions for them, and women
are fed the idea that this is normal and healthy. As an example, the Supreme Court
contended that...

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...states could withhold the right to vote from
women as they did from criminals and the mentally
insane.

Women—here—are placed
in the same category as criminals and the mentally insane. The narrator buys it: she
mentions several times how much her husband does for her, and how she hates to be a
burden to him. What is most daunting is that this woman is completely under her
husband's control; he exerts this power throughout the story. Economically and socially
she depends upon him, and he treats her like a
child. The only thing he cannot control, it seems, is her
sanity.

The physical trap is seen in the actual control
exerted over the speaker's body. Her husband does not "treat" her because he does not
believe she is ill. She is "kept" in a large room on the third floor of their rented
"summer retreat," that was once a nursery. With children in the room, bars were placed
at the windows for their safety. For our narrator, they seem more like prison bars. This
woman is expected to do nothing: she cannot read
or write. In terms of the physical, she has also asked her husband
to move her into a nicer room or take down the wallpaper. At first he agrees, but then
he decides to leave her in the room, with the wallpaper. We
read:

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…afterward he said I was letting it get the
better of me, and that nothing was worse for a nervous patient than to give way to such
fancies.

The wallpaper
becomes a focal point of this story. Leaving the paper represents her husband's
determination to control his wife. For her, its presence haunts
her:

…when you
follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance, they suddenly commit
suicide...the color his
repellent...

Then she sees
faces and eyes in the it. As she pulls it down, she becomes a part of it, creeping along
the walls, descending into madness.

What was the reaction of Doctor Livesey to the "snatch" of sound in the final chapter of Treasure Island?In the last chapter, Jim says that as he...

As usual, Dr. Livesey was ready to administer medical aid
once again, if necessary, even to the remaining, desperate mutineers. In this particular
scene, when "it was only a snatch that reached our ears," the word "snatch" is probably
used in the sense that only a portion or a fragment of the shrieking/singing sound was
heard. The doctor, and Long John Silver, believed the mutineers to be "drunk or raving,"
which, in this case, meant "raving mad."

The doctor claimed
that if he were certain they were mad or in medical need, then he would go to treat
them. Silver warned the doctor that he would be killed by the three mutineers if he
went, but the doctor retorted that Silver's opinion could not be trusted. Anyway, the
doctor did not return to help them, but he did leave them a good supply of tobacco
before the ship set sail.

What does Jane Austen's Emma have to offer to modern audiences thematically? Please support with examples from text.

Jane Austen's Emma has a great deal
to offer to the modern audience because Emma is a modern
character.

This is most certainly the case with other of
Austen's protagonists as well because Austen was something of a paradox in her time. She
was a proper young woman, the daughter of a clergyman, who wrote with skills no one
around her knew she possessed—her novels were written in secret, and printed
anonymously. However, Jane's protagonists were believable and appealing to her
audiences. They were strong, determined women: however their mistakes and/or failures
kept these figures grounded in reality. Austen's characters were smart and witty, and
somewhat ahead of their time, but this is also the case with Austen herself: for female
authors were considered an href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/anathema">anathema in the
culture in which she lived.

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...many of Austen’s works went to print with no
name on the title page to avoid linking her to the negative stigma of female
authorship.

In the novel,
Emma has been carried away by a sense of accomplishment that she seems
not to possess: she takes credit for making a match between her
former governess, Miss Taylor, and the man she marries, Mr. Weston. With this
seemingly inaccurate perception of her own abilities, Emma goes
about trying to arrange a match for her new friend, Harriet Smith, but after repeated
attempts, the men she has in mind for Harriet do not ask for her hand, but actually end
up engaged to someone else.

An example of her attempt at
such a match is seen with Mr. Elton, the first man Emma decides Harriet will marry. As
they are all gathered together reading small pieces of literature, Emma prompts Mr.
Elton to offer:

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…enigmas, charades or conundrums, that he might
recollect…

Emma prompts Elton
to write something of his own, but he declares he is unable to do so. However, the next
day he returns with something "a friend" wrote, and offers it as a piece to add to the
collection of writings that Harriet is gathering. He
notes:

Being
my friend's I have no right to expose it in any degree to the public eye, but perhaps
you may not dislike looking at
it.

Emma is certain that
Elton has written it himself, and upon his departure, she prompts Harriet to take it,
although Harriet is too shy to do so:

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"Take it," said Emma, smiling, and pushing the
paper towards Harriet, "it is for you. Take your own."

But
Harriet was in a tremor and could not touch
it…

Emma takes it upon
herself to do so, and in general goes about promoting the
relationship until Mr. Elton, alone with Emma in a carriage, takes hold of her and tries
to "make violent love to her." This is the first relationship that Emma tries to arrange
for Harriet that falls flat. Later, news arrives that while traveling, Mr. Elton has
become engaged to another young lady.

This process is
repeated more than once. However, it is Emma's timeless "human condition" that makes
this novel appealing to a modern audience: the idea of one friend trying to "fix up"
another with someone the first knows, the sense of the best intentions going awry, and,
ultimately, a person's ability to learn and prosper from his/her own mistakes, offer
Emma as a timeless piece of literature that is perhaps even more
appealing today than when first written in that it also captures the charm of an age,
long past.

Which quotations in 'Macbeth' are a good example of 'the gothic'?

There are multiple examples of the Gothic in
Macbeth.  Any reference to superstition is a Gothic reference.  So,
you can quote the witches at any point in the text to reference Macbeth as containing
Gothic elements. Another example seen in Gothic literature is the setting of medieval
times (castles, dungeons, etc.).

Also, the use of darkness
and blood are also seen dominantly gothic literature.  There are, again, many quotes
that you can use to reference these as well.

That being
said, perhaps one quote that stands out as exhibiting typical Gothic features
(references to the supernatural and the typical Gothic setting of the castle) is one
from the Porter:

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Here's a knocking indeed! If a
man
were porter of hell-gate, he should have
old turning the key.

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Knock,
knock,
knock! Who's there, i' the name of
Beelzebub? Here's a farmer, that hanged

himself on the expectation of plenty: come in
time; have napkins
enow about you; here 755
you'll sweat for't.
[Knocking
within]
Knock,
knock! Who's there, in the other devil's

name? Faith, here's an equivocator, that could 760
swear in both
the scales against either scale;
who committed treason enough for God's sake,

yet could not equivocate to heaven: O, come
in, equivocator.

[Knocking within]
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Here the Porter
references the castle by acknowledging that he must come to answer the gate to callers. 
Also, the Porter references the Devil (a supernatural element).

What are the poetic elements in "To an Athlete Dying Young" by A. E. Housman?

One of the tragic fates in life is the death of young
person in the prime of his life.  Most people want to live a long life and would not
wish a premature death on anyone.  Yet, this is the impetus of the poem “To an Athlete
Dying Young” by A. E. Housman.  The poet puts a different slant on dying too
young.

Literary
Elements

The
setting of the poem is the funeral of a young runner who
won a championship which pleased the entire town.

The
narration is first person with one of the dead young man’s
friends as the speaker.

The theme
of the poem is the death of the speaker’s reflection on the young
athlete’s death serving a positive purpose. 

The
tone initially seems sad and mourning but as the poem
progresses, it becomes celebratory for the early death of the
boy.

Figurative
language-

Metaphor-

• “the
  road all runners come…” This is the road to the
  cemetery.


• “Townsman of a stiller town.” The young athlete
  is now a member of the graveyard or
  cemetery.

Simile-

“It
withers quicker than a rose.” This compares the life of the laurel plant to the life of
the rose.

Poetic
Devices

Alliteration-
the repetition of consonants

• “Today, the
  road all runners
  come…”


• ‘Townsman of a
  stiller
  town…”


• “Smart
  lad, to slip betimes
  away…”

The purpose of alliteration is to create
a consistent pattern that catches the mind's eye and focuses
attention.

Allusion-a reference to other
piece of literature or mythological
reference

And round that
early-laurelled head

From
Greek history, when the champion of a race or sporting event was crowned, the laurel
wreath was the crown that was
used.

Personification-giving
an inanimate object or abstract idea human qualities

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“Eyes the shady night has shut”-The night does
not have the ability to shut anything

“After earth has
stopped the ears”-The earth cannot stop the
ears.

Apostrophe-the
direct address of an inanimate object, absent person, or
concept

The
time you won your town the race

We chaired you through the
market-place;

Man and boy stood cheering
by,

And home we brought you
shoulder-high.

Form

This
is a narrative poem.  It has seven quatrains which follow a set rhyme scheme.  The
pattern is AABB. The quatrain divides into two couplets that provide a present and
future or past meaning. In addition, each quatrain is one lone sentence.   Each line has
eight syllables which when read aloud makes it feel like the pace of a
runner. 

Summary

The
narrator addresses the boy in these lines and throughout the poem as though he is still
alive. He reminisces about the boy’s life, reassuring him that it is better to die
young. The narrator speaks to the young man who has died.  He reminds him of the race
that he won and how the entire town celebrated his victory.  Today, he is going down the
path that all runners run.  The men are putting him to rest in the
graveyard. 

The glory of an athlete does not last forever. 
Most of the time, this success fades faster than it comes.  Now that he has died, he
cannot lose that fame.  That is how he will always be remembered because the glory
achieved can be more short-lived than the youth’s life. He feels the young athlete
deserves compliments because by dying early he has escaped the possible unhappiness of
witnessing his athletic records being broken by some other athlete in the
future.

What impact will an increase in the capital stock have on GDP and the price level?

The most likely impact of an increase in capital stock
will be an increase in GDP and a decrease in the price level.  This is because an
increase in the capital stock will result in an increase in aggregate
supply.

When an economy gains more in the way of capital,
its aggregate supply curve shifts to the right.  This is because the economy can now
produce more than it could before because it has things like more machines and more in
the way of human resources.  When the supply curve shifts to the right, all other things
being equal, we get an increase in GDP accompanied by a decrease in the price
level.

How does Tagore show the true essence of the postmaster?

The postmaster is an intellectual, but is one that is
difficult to really appreciate.  He has been relocated to this remote village from
Calcutta.  He is not entirely happy being in the village, putting in for a transfer.  He
reluctantly does his job, but is more driven by his own self- satisfaction, which is not
evident in this village.  He is also shown to be quite callous in his relationship with
Ratan.  Whereas the orphaned girl shows complete devotion and love towards him, the
postmaster regards her as nothing more than a distraction, a type of toy that can be
played and discarded at will.  The postmaster does teach Ratan how to read, but only
does so because of the need for distraction.  His true callousness is revealed when
Ratan asks to come back to Calcutta with him and he laughs as he rejects her request. 
Tagore is specific in bringing out this laughter again, the type of derisive laughter
that mocks and is one that Ratan plays over in her own mind.  The ending also reveals
that while the postmaster might feel bad about leaving her behind, he rationalizes it
with a sort of "life goes on" philosophy, something that Ratan lacks to use as comfort
for her pain. This picture rendered makes him something less than
desirable.

How does Scout show her immediate acceptance of Boo Radley between Chapters 29-31 of To Kill a Mockingbird?

Within the confines of her ham costume, Scout was still
able to identify a fourth person struggling in the dark with Jem and their attacker. She
certainly had no clue who it could have been, at first thinking it was Jem battling the
man; and then assuming it was Atticus who had come to help. But when Sheriff Tate asked
Scout who it was, she suddenly pointed to a man standing in the corner with his back
against the wall. After surveying him from top to bottom, with his white hands, sickly
complexion, and hollow cheeks, she immediately knew it could only have been her
never-before-seen neighbor, Boo.

Scout and Jem had long
since gotten over their fear of Boo. They knew he had given them the gifts in the
knothole, and the children knew they were acts of kindness; likewise, Jem's mended pants
and the blanket with which Boo covered Scout's shoulders on the night of Miss Maudie's
fire had shown that he meant no harm. Now, Scout realized that it was Boo who had come
to their rescue, and her dream of seeing him in person had come true in a most
miraculous way.

Scout politely led "Mr. Arthur" to a
rocking chair in the shadows of the porch, and, "feeling slightly unreal," she sat down
beside him. After Sheriff Tate left, she invited him to say goodbye to Jem, taking his
hand and leading him to the bed. She suggested that Boo "pet him," and Mr. Arthur
touched the boy's head. Then, like the lady that Scout was slowly becoming, she "slipped
my hand into the crook of his arm," and escorted Arthur back to his
home.

In Ender's Game, describe the computer game now that Ender has beaten the giant.

By beating the giant, Ender has gained access into
fairyland, which he begins to explore in Chapter Seven of this great novel. He goes
around the back fo the giant's corpse and follows the brook upstream to where it comes
out of the forest. There, he finds a playground  with children playing. Ender finds that
he has become a child in the game, although normally he the computer game gives him an
adult figure. As he begins to play on the playground, he finds that nothing can hold
him. When he tries to go down the slide, for example, he falls through it and hits the
floor. When these things happen to Ender, the other children laugh at him cruelly. He
leaves the playground and walks along a path into the forest, where he finds a clearing
with a well in the middle, and a sign saying "Drink, Traveller." As Ender looks into the
well, wolves come who are the transformed children of the playground and eat Ender
alive:

Out of
the woods emerged a dozen slavering wolves with human faces. Ender recognised them--they
were the children from teh playground. Only now their teeth could tear; Ender,
weaponless, was quickly
devoured.

Ender finds that he
needs to trick the children, taking them with him on the playground so that they fall.
When they fall, they die, and he puts their bodies in the brook so they can't revive.
This is how Ender gains access to "The End of the World."

In order to prove that triangle ABE is congruent to triangle CBD by ASA we would need to show that

Two congruent triangles have the same shape as well as the
same size.

There are many ways to determine the congruence
of two triangles. Three fundamental conditions of congruence are SSS, SAS and
ASA.

Using ASA, two triangles are congruent if two of their
angles have the same measure and the included side has the same length in both the
triangles.

For the triangles you have provided: ABE and
CBD, let the measures of the angles be A, B, E, C and D and let the lengths of the sides
be ab, be, ea, cb, bd, and dc.

The triangles can be shown
to be congruent in many ways two of which are:

• A
  = C and ab = cb

• E = D and be = bd
  

Did the revolutions of 1989 have anything to do with the collapse of communism in Europe?trying to find out the reasoning of the collapse of...

The revolutions of 1989 certainly did have something to do
with the collapse of communism in Europe.  It was these revolutions that led ot the end
of communism in countries like Poland where the revolutions happened.  However, it is
not really possible to say that those revolutions themselves caused communism to
collapse.  Instead, the revolutions and the collapse of communism were one and the same
thing.

This is why, for example, we see the following line
about the Polish revolution in the link below:

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In early 1989, as part of perestroika, Polish
leader General Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923–) invited Solidarity, the popular workers'
union, to become part of a coalition, or combination, government still to be led by the
Communist Party.

The
important phrase here is "as part of perestroika."  This shows that the beginning of
Poland's revolution were caused by Gorbachev's perestroika movement.  Later on, the link
tells us that

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Rather than sending in Soviet forces to restore
the Communist Party to power as past Soviet leaders would have done, Gorbachev
encouraged the Polish Communist Party to support the new government. Gorbachev realized
that the use of force would likely trigger riots and jeopardize the Soviet Union's
chances of getting much-needed economic aid from the
West.

Once again, we see the
centrality of Gorbachev.  It was his decision to allow the revolution to continue that
really sealed the collapse of communism.

Therefore, we have
to say that it was Gorbachev's policies that led to the collapse of communism.  The
revolutions were just the mechanism by which communism collapsed, not the cause of its
collapse.

How can you relate the ongoing protest in Yemen with its geographic location?

This is in some ways a difficult question because the
issues that have caused the uprising in Yemen are not explicitly related to geography. 
Instead, the uprising has mostly been about the poor economic conditions in the country
and the corrupt and autocratic nature of the government.  The question, then, is how to
connect these issues with the geographic location of
Yemen.

One can argue that Yemenis are upset with the
economic conditions in their country partly because of their proximity to Saudi Arabia. 
Saudi Arabia, of course, is oil rich while Yemen is the poorest country in the Middle
East.  This juxtaposition might help to drive discontent among
Yemenis.

One can also argue that Yemen's geographic
location makes it more likely to have developed an autocratic government.  Essentially
all of the governments in the region are relatively autocratic.  Because of this, it is
not surprising that Yemen would have a similar government that would breed resentment
among the people.

In these ways, you can argue that
geography helps cause the conditions that have created the uprising.  Of course, what
geography really does is to make the uprising significant to the outside world.  Any
instability so near to the oil fields and the Persian Gulf and the Suez Canal is
relevant to the world as a whole.

Why do governments restrict imports ?

When governments practice protectionism (restricting or
banning imports), they are typically trying to improve their own domestic
economies.

Many governments feel that imports compete
unfairly with domestic products.  In developed countries like the US, governments often
feel that imports have an unfair advantage because of the low costs of labor in
developing countries.  Governments in countries that aren't so rich feel that their
domestic industries can't compete because industries in more developed countries have
had a head start in the race.  In both cases, this leads to a desire to protect domestic
industries from competition.  Governments feel that their own industries will then be
able to produce more goods and make more money.  This would, they feel, help their
domestic economies.

There are other reasons for
protectionism, but this is the most important reason for it.

Discuss the poem "To his Love" by Ivor Gurney.

Among the World War I poets, Ivor Gurney’s life was
especially sad.  He enlisted in the military in 1915, sustained wounds, was gassed, and
then was discharged from the service. However, the war never left him. He was tormented
with the thought that it was still going on until his death. After the war, Gurney spent
the rest of his life in asylums. 

Gurney’s poem “To His
Love” starts as a traditional elegy lamenting the death of a fallen comrade and apparent
friend. It takes the form of a monologue. 

The poet speaks
to the fiancé or girlfriend of a dead soldier.  He mourns his loss and regrets that
neither he nor the girl will ever have the pleasure of the dead soldier’s company
again. 

The poem takes the form of four stanzas with five
lines each. Each stanza ends with rhyming couplet.  His language is modern and
colloquial.

1st Stanza

The
poet begins with a blunt, sad statement of loss.  He explains that a man has died who
was loved.  The plans that they [the dead, the lover, and the speaker] made are now
worthless.  They will no longer meander through the hills of England where the sheep
graze quietly and pay no attention to anything. Nature and the countryside provide
consoling memories and inspiration, when contrasted to the horrors of
war.

He’s
gone, and all our plans
Are useless indeed.
We’ll walk no more on
Cotswolds

2nd
Stanza

His body was once so agile, fast, and full of life.
 Now he is not the same as he was  when they were sailing in the boat on an English
river,  The poet makes a contrast between the peaceful beautiful scene and the horror of
what has happened to the soldier.

3rd
Stanza

The lover would not know him now.  He died a hero’s
death with nobility. Cover him with  purple violets to show the pride that his love ones
will feel for him. The speaker seems not to want to continue the description of the body
when he is talking to the lover.   

4th
Stanza

The readers are lulled into thinking that “Cover
him, cover him soon” indicates the honorable burial of a fallen soldier.  Instead, the
body is hardly recognizable.  In fact, the poet describes it as “red, wet thing.”   The
narrator hopes that he will someday be able to forget the vision of the shredded, bloody
body. Repression of the memory is the hope of the narrator when he states “…I must
somehow forget.”

Lady Macbeth's fainting spell, like everything else she has done so far, has a purpose. What message does she want her fainting spell to convey?

Lady Macbeth's fainting spell intended to make the men
think that she was so upset by the news of Duncan's death, that it caused her to faint. 
She wants to be seen as typical woman would have been viewed - delicate and unable to
tolerate harsh, shocking news.  She also wants to be seen as ignorant of any information
regarding the death of King Duncan.  She has to present the appearance of announcement
of his death as such a severe shock to her that she could not maintain consciousness. 
She does not want anyone to suspect her or her husband of the murder.  Ironically, Lady
Macbeth was more delicate than she thought she was.  She invokes the powers of
darknessin Act 1 and asks that they remove from her any feminine weaknesses that might
prevent her from doing what needed to be done - kill Duncan - to get the crown for her
husband.  But by the beginning of Act 5, Lady Macbeth has gone mad with guilt.  She
walks around trying to wash imaginary blood from her hands, mumbling about the evil
deeds done by her and her husband, and demanding always that a lighted candle be nearby
to dispel the darkness.

In Julius Caesar, by Shakespeare, Marcus Brutus agrees to join in the plan to kill Caesar under what condition?A) That they kill Mark Antony B)...

In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar,
Cassius approaches Brutus to see how Brutus feels about Caesar. Brutus loves Rome, but
he fears Julius Caesar, especially when he learns that Antony has tried several times to
crown Caesar as one would a king, though Caesar has
refused.

Cassius does not love Rome,
but he does hate Caesar. He wants him dead because Caesar has power
that Cassius feels Caesar lords over him. Cassius recalls the time, to Brutus, when
Caesar and Cassius were swimming across rough water and Caesar started to sink, and he
called for Cassius' help. Cassius saved Caesar, but Cassius says Caesar has forgotten
what Cassius did for him, and Cassius must bow like every other lowly person Caesar
passes. So Cassius wants Caesar dead, and he recruits other men as
well.

Brutus is wrong to kill Caesar, but his motivation is
honorable: all for the good of Rome. So when one of Cassius' co-conspirators suggests
that they kill Antony as well, Brutus disagrees. He feels Caesar is a threat, but not
Antony. He urges everyone to be as "civilized" in this murder as possible (something of
an awkward sentiment in the face of murder).

So "C" is the
answer you want.

What is the significance of the Force Bill?

The significance of the Force Bill is that it overrode
South Carolina's effort to nullify federal laws during the Nullification Crisis.  It was
the first law to explicitly deny that states had the right to secede as
well.

During the Nullification Crisis, South Carolina
claimed it had the right to ignore any federal laws that it thought were
unconstitutional.  By doing this, it was saying that the states had the right to
determine what federal laws they would or would not obey.  Pres. Andrew Jackson then
pushed for the Force Bill.  He believed that the Constitution would be worthless if
states had the right to nullify laws and/or to secede.

This
crisis was one of the first major incidents that worked to push the North and South
apart.

Prove that cos x+sinx /cosx-sinx equal to 1+sin2x/cos2x

The expression you have provided is true because sin 2x =
2*sin x*cos x and cos 2x = (cos x)^2 - (sin x)^2

Let start
with (cos x + sin x)/(cos x - sin x)

multiply the numerator
and denominator by (cos x + sin x)

=> (cos x + sin
x)(cos x + sin x)/(cos x - sin x)(cos x + sin x)

=>
(cos x + sin x)^2/(cos x)^2 - (sin x)^2

=> [(cos
x)^2 + 2*sin x*cos x + (sin x)^2]/cos 2x

=> (1 + sin
2x)/cos 2x

This proves that (cos x + sin
x)/(cos x - sin x) = (1 + sin 2x)/cos 2x

What are some possible symbols and the meaning for the title in "A Rose for Emily"?

The unseen rose is one of the dominant symbols of "A Rose
for Emily"--hence the use of the word in the title. It is a symbol of love, beauty and
romance, and represents Emily herself: a fading flower of days gone by. The color of
rose also appears in the final chapter upon the discovery of the valance curtains'
"faded rose colour;" the rose also represents death--the color of blood--as in the
"blood-kin" relatives that appear just before Homer's
disappearance.

Other examples of symbols found in the
story:

• Miss Emily's house serves as a symbol of
  the town's past glories as well as its present state of decay.
  


• Miss Emily's hair serves as a symbol of the passage of
  time, from its girlish shortness, cut following the death of her father, to the
  iron-gray strand that becomes so important in the final
  chapter. 

What is cultural geography? is it the same thing as culture?I have to write a paper on the physical and cultural geography of Belize and I'm not...

Cultural geography is, of course, about culture, but it is
specifically about how culture is distributed across
space.

For example, cultural geography can be concerned
with the issue of how various aspects of culture have diffused across space.  An example
of this might be the study of how European influences have diffused from cities into the
countryside in a place like Belize that was
colonized.

Cultural geography is also concerned with things
like the distribution of ethnic groups and ethnic identity.  Cultural geographers of a
place like Belize might look at the distribution of the various ethnic groups in the
country.  They might also want to look at how the presence of people like Indians,
Chinese and Mennonites has impacted the culture of the regions where these various
groups live.

In short, cultural geography does study
culture, but it has a geographical component.  It is most interested in the way that
various cultural traits are distributed over the space of the
country.

Where can the idea of "The Lost Generation" be seen in The Great Gatsby?

I think that part of this is going to lie in your
description or definition of "the Lost Generation."  A part of this is going back to
Stein's definition and clearly establish that Stein uses the term to describe those who
have lost the ability to believe in anything, and have succumbed to a cynical hedonism
as a result.

It is here where some connection to the
flappers in Fitzgerald's work can be present.  Jordan Baker is a great example of
someone who has forgone morality and embraced the pursuit of the self- interested life
as the most important element for her.  Tom Buchanan does not believe in any set of
ideals unless they directly benefit he and his social standing.  Daisy might be able to
believe in some notion of idealism, but she surrenders it so easily for her own
convenience and comfort that one wonders whether it was worthy for her to believe in it
at all.  In this light, one can see that the characters in Fitzgerald's work might be
representatives of a "lost generation" on the basis that they represent much of what the
term means in describing a shift of belief in moral structure to the pursuit of the life
of self- interest.

What is the significance of the title of the story "Sweat" by Zora Neale Hurston?

“Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston tells the story of Delia
Jones and her struggles to survive in a hostile environment.  Hurston writes the story
using the black dialect common to the place and time of the
story.

The narration is third person with the narrator
telling the story through the eyes of this sensitive black woman who finds the courage
to finally stand up to her abusive husband Sykes.  Delia represents the women who live
in fear of their mates;  but something finally happens to push them to a breaking point,
and they fight back.

Symbolic
title

The title of the story comes from the
hard work that Delia does every week washing clothes for the white people in the nearby
city of Winter Park.  The sweat of her brow has made enough money to buy her home and
fund her lazy husband because he does not work.  Delia’s sweat could be viewed as
symbolic of all of the tedious, back breaking toil that  she has done and all of the
years of struggling she has been through. Her sweat is a
reminder.

Delia lives across the tracks in Eatonville, an
all-black town.  Attending church, fixing her garden, and working has become the routine
of Delia’s life.

When Sykes is around, much of his time is
spent harassing Delia about her work. In his ignorance, he taunts her about the job that
funds his foolishness and his adulterous affair with Bertha.  Sykes wants to move Bertha
into the house, and he wants Delia to get out. 

One day
while Delia was working, Sykes wraps a bullwhip around her neck. This scares Delia
because it looks like a snake, which Delia greatly
fears.

Sykes,
what you throw dat whip on me like dat? You know it would skeer me—looks just like a
snake, an’ you knows how skeered Ah is of
snakes.

 Sykes next brings in
a rattle snake in a wire cage, telling Delia that this is his pet.  She tells him to get
rid of it, but he leaves it there.

By the end of the week,
Delia tells Sykes that when she comes back from church she expects the snake to be gone.
As Delia walks into the house, she notices the snake is not in  the cage and thinks that
Sykes has gotten rid of it.  On Sunday evenings, she always starts her laundry work. 
She goes into her baskets, pulls back the lid, and discovers the snake in her
basket. 

It is then that Sykes has pushed Delia too far. 
She closes the door and runs into her garden and hides.  Later, Sykes shows up, peeks in
the window, and goes inside.  The snake attacks him biting him over and over.  Delia
hears the commotion and knows the results.  She opens the door, and the snake slinks
away.  Sykes is not dead, but he will be. 

Find if the distance between the point (2, y) and the line 3x-4y+5 = 0 is 12 units. Find y

The distance between a point (x1, y1) and a line ax + by +
c = 0 is given by: |a*x1 + b*y1 + c|/sqrt (a^2 +
b^2)

Substituting the values we have
here

D = |a*x1 + b*y1 + c|/sqrt (a^2 +
b^2)

=> |3*2 - 4*y + 5|/sqrt (3^2 +
4^2)

=> |6 - 4y + 5|/ sqrt
25

Now D = 12

=> 60 =
|11 - 4y|

=> 11 -4y = 60 and 11 - 4y =
-60

=> 4y = -49 and -4y =
-71

=> y = -49/4 and y = 71/
4

The values of y are y = -49/4 and y = 71/
4

What do the plebeians do in Act III, scene 3 of Julius Caesar?

Having shown how Antony unleashed the power of the mob in
Act III, scene 2, Shakespeare in this scene shows us the true nature of the power of the
plebeians in Rome, and how, with the vacuum that the conspirators have created through
killing Caesar, chaos and anarchy have descended upon Rome. The plebeians meet a poet
who bears the same name as one of the conspirators. Even though he protests his
innocence and is clearly not a conspirator, the plebeians nevertheless take him away to
be beaten to death. Note the picture of chilling violence with which this scene
ends:

Tear
him, tear him! Come, brands, ho! Firebrands! To Brutus', to Cassius'! Burn all! Some to
Decius' house and some to Casa's; some to Ligarius'! Away,
go!

Violence and murder rule
the streets of Rome, and we see that Antony has taken a gamble in unleashing such
irrational violence and cruelty that runs amuk.

In a sense,
of course, we find this scene parallelling the assassination of Caesar. Just as Cinna
here is the wrong man that the mob are looking for, so, in a sense, Brutus and Cassius
were mistaken in their assumption that killing Caesar would end his power and rule.
Although they have killed the physical Caesar, they underestimated the power of the
symbol that he had become, which Antony is able to use so well to make the mob rise
against them. They, too, killed the wrong man in a symbolic
sense.

In Animal Farm, how does George Orwell use diction in the the sentence below?" They explained that by their studies of the past three months the...

In defining "diction" as the choice of words employed,
Orwell might be making some distinct and deliberate choices in this sentence.  The first
deliberate word choice would have to be the linking of "studies" and pigs together. 
Indeed, Orwell depicts the pigs to be keen and studious about the prerequisites to
achieve power and how to keep it.  For example, when Old Major speaks, the Pigs are
gathered round him, paying close attention to what he says.  Clover might have been
concerned with the lost ducklings and have been in the back, but the pigs were in the
forefront, studying and analyzing what Old Major says and how he says it.  Another
deliberate example of diction would be in "succeeded in reducing."  I think that this is
powerfully effective because it helps to reflect how the pigs were skilled in "reducing"
opposition towards them.  Examine Napoleon's effective means in this realm in Chapter 7,
when he eliminates threats to his forced confessions and purges.  I think that Orwell's
employment of diction allows him to accomplish through word choice what he desire to
evoke from a thematic point of view.

What is the domestic policy of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson?

The domestic policy of Adams and Jefferson was many times
driven by their backgrounds. Thomas Jefferson, the founder of the Republican Party, a
Virginian planter, developed a domestic policy that promoted agricultural expansionism
and a self-sufficient society. His policy is perhaps best summarized by stating that he
advocated that America live within a "bubble." His intent was to do anything within his
power to promote farming in the young nation and thereby promote trade amongst the
states. He envisioned that the United States would not have to leave its own shores to
acquire anything it needed. To secure and maintain this vision or policy, only a militia
would be needed.

Jefferson's predecessor and close friend,
John Adams, was of a completely different mind set and was considered to be a member of
the opposite political party, which was known as the Federalist Party. It is of course
important to note that he never considered himself to be a "party man" and had personal
as well as professional issues with the Federalist leader, Alexander Hamilton. Never the
less, Adams, a Bostonian, believed that the nation should be world capitalists. He
envisioned the young nation developing into one that would promote manufacturing,
shipping and world trade. To secure this vision a powerful military, especially a navy,
would be needed. Therefore under his presidential guidance, he began to build our US
Navy.

In summary, the domestic policy of each are
drastically  contrast with one another. Jefferson's is an agricultural, self-sufficient,
militia-based policy whereas Adams' is a world capitalistic, navy-based policy.
Ultimately, when all was said and done, the United States would develop into a quality
mix of both their domestic policies for future generations that were yet to
come.

What is Shakespeare telling us about love in A Midsummer Night's Dream?

Shakespeare tells us many things about love in A
Midsummer Night's Dream. Among those many things is the idea that love is
actually a foolish emotion. However, regardless of the foolishness of love, since he
gives the play a happy ending, he also depicts love as beneficial rather than
harmful.

The foolishness of love is portrayed in several places. It is
especially portrayed in the very first scene in which we learn that Demetrius really
does not have a known, rational reason for suddenly preferring Hermia over Helena when
he was engaged to Helena before he saw Hermia. As Helena points out herself, she is
recognized all over Athens as being just as fair is Hermia. Helena further points out
that love is really a figment of the imagination, rather than any concrete, rational
reality, as we see in her lines:

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Things base and vile, holding no
quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity.
Love looks not
with the eyes, but with the mind;
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
(I.i.237-240)

In saying that
"[l]ove looks not with the eyes, but with the mind," she is saying that love is not
based on any objective reality, such as beauty; rather, love is guided by the "mind," or
the imagination.

A second place in which the foolishness of love is
portrayed is in Act 3, Scene 2, after both men have been enchanted to be in love with
Helena rather than Hermia. Puck's mix-up has caused a great deal of strife among all
four lovers, leading to accusations and insults. Helena especially accuses both men and
her best friend of joining forces to mock her. Puck rightly sees the four lovers'
behavior as foolish, especially Helena's. Helena should be rejoicing because she is now
loved by two when before she was loved by none. Likewise, both men should have enough
sense to know that it is useless to fight over one woman. Puck rightly characterizes the
foolishness of the Athenians' behavior and the foolishness of love in his lines, "Shall
we their fond pageant see? / Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
(III.ii.115-116).

However, while Shakespeare depicts mortals as
foolish and love as a foolish emotion, he pairs all the lovers in happy unity, creating
an emotionally satisfying ending. Therefore, while Shakespeare seems to be saying that
love is foolish, he also says that it can be as equally satisfying as it can be
foolish.