Which challenges does the health care industry face in the future?A) the graying of America and falling insurance costs // B) falling medical...

In my mind, I think that the last option,
D, represents the most dire of situations facing the health care
industry, which is why I think that it is the right answer.  The reality is that the
rising cost of health care is something that the industry and its consumers must
accept:

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According to Health Affairs, $7,498 be spent on
every woman, man and child in the United States in 2007, 20 percent of all spending.
Costs are projected to increase to $12,782 by
2016

In this light, the
projected increase in cost is going to impact health care providers, insurance carriers,
and patients.  At the same time, the population is growing in age, making it more in
need of health care as they get older.  This is the reality that faced the health care
industry right now.  In my mind, I think that it is a situation where people are living
longer, and in need of more detailed and intricate health care.  This becomes
problematic when these costs rise for everyone and there is not a cap to this rise on
the horizon.  Catastrophic health care initiatives are currently at a point and
continuing to progress to a point where more people are recognizing that they "cannot
afford to get sick."  It is this condition that is best seen in letter D of the four
options.

What is the cause of using many monologues instead of dialogues in the novel of Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse?i need causes related to the novel...

As a writer, Virginia Woolf claimed that the task of a
novelist is "to convey the varying, unknown and uncircumscribed spirit with as little
mixture of the alien and external as possible" and this is exactly what she tried to do
with To The Lighthouse. The technique she uses is generally refered to as "stream of
consciousness" in which she was not only a pioneer, with the likes of authors such as
James Joyce, but also one of the best at articulating the inner thoughts of a multitude
of characters. The aim was not to describe what the characters were wearing or what they
were seeing but how they felt inside. By doing this, Virginia Woolf was exhibiting the
change in times brought on by the new twentieth century writers by which the techniques
of their predecessors, who tended to focus on the exterior or environmental reality,
were being discarded for a more in depth, psychological view inside the mind. Virginia
Woolf wrote her novels during both world wars and suffered from extreme depression in
which her writing may have offered therapeutic release for her. As far as feminism goes
in To The Lighthouse, the book relies on the idea that men use women as an emotional
crutch. This idea seems to hinge more on the view of society and the confines that both
men and women find themselves subjected to rather than feminism.

How does Harper Lee use Dill in the novel?Quotes to back up points etc would be appreciated, thanks.

Dill, who is widely believed to be based on Harper Lee's
childhood friend, Truman Capote, provides some comic relief in a novel that is
intricately woven with some serious themes.  For example, the scene where the children
are trying to make Boo Radley come out; among other things, Dill suggests that they
offer to buy Boo an ice cream if he will appear.  Another ill-fated attempt involves
trying to get a note to him by means of a fishing pole.  Scout and Jem come to look
forward to Dill's arrival as part of the arrival of summer, and his departure is always
bittersweet, coming as it does as the end of summertime and the start of the school
year.  One year after he declares his undying love for Scout, she pronounces herself
devastated at his departure, and observes that she "stayed miserable for two
days." 

Please explain the World Systems Theory of development.

The basic point that is made by world systems theory
(associated with Immanuel Wallerstein) is that we need to look at the whole world,
rather than at individual countries, if we want to understand why some countries develop
and others do not.  This theory holds that there is an international division of labor
that tends to allow some countries to develop while preventing
others.

Wallerstein argues that the world can be divided up
into a "core" and a "periphery."  The core is made up of the countries of the rich
world.  These countries are technologically advanced and remain rich by producing goods
and services that are expensive and require technology and/or high levels of skill to
make.  The periphery is made up of the less-developed countries.  These countries remain
relatively poor because their place in the division of labor is to do the unskilled,
low-value work.

In modern times, the core has been Europe
and its offshoot countries like the US and Australia.  It has also included some Asian
countries.  The periphery has been the less-developed countries in Latin America and
Africa in particular.

How to balance the chemical equation of copper nitrate with sodium?

First we start off by making the first part of the
equation: Copper Nitrate plus Sodium: Cu(SO3)2 + Na

This
reaction is a single replacement one. Na (Sodium) is a metal so it has a positive charge
which means it is going to react with the part of Copper Nitrate that has a Negative
charge. It's going to react with the nitrate ion because copper is positive and it can't
react with it. 

Since nitrate is reacting with sodium
:

Nitrates charge is
+1 

Sodiums charge is +1

You
get NaSo3 +Cu

Now you have both the reactants and the
product. all you have to do is balance them:

Cu(SO3)2 +
Na--> NaSO3 + Cu

First you would see if copper is
balanced (it is) 

Then you see Nitrate is balance (its
not) 

On the reactant side you have 2
nitrate

and on the product side you have 1 so you have to
put a coefficient 2 in front of NaSO3

Cu(SO3)2 + Na
--> 2NaSO3 + Cu

Now sodium isnt balanced because
there is 2 on the product so you would put a 2 as a coefficient on the reactant
side:

Cu(SO3)2 + 2Na --> 2NaSO3 + Cu
 

AND NOW ITS BALANCED

In The Awakening, how does Kate Chopin sympathize with Edna but she doesn't pity her?

In the novel The Awakeningby Kate
Chopin, the character of Edna Pontellier is a middle-aged married woman and mother who
discovers her hunger for passion and romance for the first time in her entire
life.

Kate Chopin obviously sysympathizes with her main
character. This is evident in that she lets Edna get away with mostly everything she can
think of in the story. For example, when Edna falls in love with Robert, she is
permitted to be out and about with him without much argument from Edna's husband. Chopin
also gives Edna the chance to speak up her mind and to even move away from her house and
into the "pigeon hole", where she was truly happy- all this while Edna is still
married.

However, Chopin does not pity Edna because she
allows for Edna's fate to take care of her. Edna is obviously a very frustrated woman
whose empty heart makes her do things with the only aim of catching up with an otherwise
sterile love life. However, she is too late. She is a married woman, she is middle aged,
and she has children. She has an established marriage within a society that expects her
to be a certain way. If Edna tries to start a new life, she is more than likely to fail.
And she does fail. Robert cannot be hers, and she loses her interest in all. When Edna
finally commits suicide, it is not as if she tried to put an end to her life. Instead,
it seems as if she wanted to give herself the chance to be reborn in another
life.

Therefore, while Chopin gives Edna the chance of
experiencing her awakening, she also allows for Edna to come to the sad conclusion that
her awakening happened at a bad time, and she will have to pay for
it.

Why does Act 5, Scene 1 of "Hamlet" begin with two clowns?

There are a couple of reasons for Act 5 to open with a
conversation between two minor characters who have not appeared in the play before this
scene. It is important to realize that when Shakespeare names them "clowns," he makes it
clear that part of his intent is comedic, but there is another function as well. First
of all, their conversation serves to inform the audience about the nature of Ophelia's
death. The two gravediggers are preparing Ophelia's grave, and one asks the other why
Ophelia is being given a Christian burial. The other responds that the "crowner" (king)
has determined what kind of burial she shall have. They go on to discuss the difference
between an accidental death and a suicide, clearly suggesting that while it might seem
that Ophelia committed suicide, she will be given a proper burial in sanctified ground.
This conversation clears up the reader's or viewer's questions about what happened to
Ophelia.

The second purpose of the scene is create a bit of
comic relief after the heaviness of the end of Act 4. Act 4 is dominated by Laertes's
anger and Claudius's plotting against Hamlet. They have divised a deadly plan to kill
Hamlet in a fencing match. This scene provides a break before the plan and its deadly
outcome comes to fruition. The two clowns tell jokes, use puns, sing inappropriate
drinking songs, and engage in word play with Hamlet.  Even Hamlet seems to enjoy the
verbal sparing. But even the joking becomes serious as Hamlet, once again, turns the
conversation to the realities of death--an ongoing theme of the
play.