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.