Monday, January 31, 2011

What does Juliet look like in Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare?Where can I find descriptions in the play?

In Shakespeare's play, Romeo and
Juliet
, the reader does know that Juliet is nearly fourteen, so she still has
an air of innocence and ingenuousness about her.  After all, her father, Lord Capulet
tells Paris to wait until she is fourteen to ask for her hand in
marriage:



Let
two more summers wither in their pride/Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.
(I,ii,10-11)



Being from
Verona, Italy, she is probably of Norman descent and, therefore, is fair with light hair
(blonde, perhaps) and blue or green eyes.  (To this day, many northern Italians are of
this coloring.)


As the previous post mentions, the balcony
scene contains descriptions of Juliet that enable the reader to envision her.  Her eyes
must sparkle, for instance, for Romeo says that two stars twinkle in her eyes.  Her
cheeks are rosy and her skin glowing: "the brightness of her cheek would shame those
stars" (II,ii,20).  Even in death, Romeo finds Juliet "yet so fair" and "crimson in thy
lips and in thy cheeks" (V,iii,95).


Of course, Juliet is
reflected in the eyes of the amorous Romeo.  Yet, she must be beautiful in a tender way,
or else why would Romeo be so enraptured of her so soon after his heartache from
Rosalind?

In The Glass Menagerie, how do Tom and Jim differ in their goals and dreams?

In terms of goals and dreams, the two differ in
significant ways. Tom Wingfield is a dreamer, longing for a life of freedom and
adventure. He longs for a life that stands in direct opposition to the miserable life he
leads in St. Louis, supporting his mother and sister, working each day at a warehouse
job he detests. Tom has dreams, but they are vague; he formulates no specific goals to
achieve them. He simply wants out. When he finally breaks from his family, Tom just runs
away with no particular place to go.


Jim O'Connor also has
dreams, but his are expressed in terms of specific goals. Jim wants to succeed in a
career; he wants economic success. He believes in the future of broadcasting, the rise
of television. Jim prepares for his future, or tries to, by taking night classes in
public speaking. By working to achieve his dreams of material success, Jim pursues what
is generally considered to be the American Dream. 

Saturday, January 29, 2011

What is the significance of Clarissa's party in Mrs. Dalloway?

It is the assembly of the party where much of Clarissa's
energies are focused.  On many levels this holds significance.  The focus of Clarissa's
drive on the party helps to dislodge other, more substantive questions about the nature
of her being.  Her choices in life, the selection of Richard over Peter, as well as the
basis of her identity and how mortality plays a role in this can all be put to the side
if there is a party that needs to be assembled.  In this light, one can see Clarissa's
desire to put together the party as an attempt to stave off these more fundamental and
painful questions of consciousness in place of something more trivial and more light in
nature.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Who is the narrator of the novel?

The narrator is the author. He is a close friend of Nasar
and in this he retells the events that led to Nasar's death. In the end it is not told
if Nasar was the killer, but he provides detail of every little thing and while he
believes Nasar is not the one at fault, the details that slowly unravel the tale lead to
a very interesting book and story. In the end, we understand how no one did anything to
save his life, yet others feel the guilt of Nasar all around the town and it cannot be
washed away no matter how hard anyone scrubs. 

Write at least one original kenning for each of the following nouns: poet, dagger, ship, stars, singer, and river.

A kenning is a descriptive phrase that is used in place of
a standard noun.  Many kennings are compound phrases: wound-tool in
place of sword.  Others use possesive phrases: wave's horse in
place of ship.


Kennings are commonly found in Old Icelandic
and Old English poetry.  Beowulf, the famous Old English poem contains the following
kennings:


a) segl-rad (sail-road) for
sea;


b) heofon-candel (heaven-candle)
for sun;



Here are some possible kennings for the
words that you have presented:


a) poet: verse-writer,
feelings-singer


b) dagger:
back-stabber


c) ship: wave-rider,
cargo-carrier


d) stars: heaven's
twinklers


e) singer:
song-belter


f) river: banks' flow

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

How does Jefferson's use of punctuation and phrasing in this sentence help the reader see what he was trying to emphasize?"When in the Course of...

From a grammarian's point of view, there is something
significant in the fact that the sentence is one entire sentence and not broken into
different parts.  From a thematic point of view, it might be stressing how the need for
Colonial independence is something that has to be emphasized with the entire
relationship between the British and the Colonists.  Individual actions have to be seen
in this larger and more continuous scope, brought to light by the enormity of the first
sentence.  The fact that the clause that exists in between the commas is highly
significant.  It brings to light that nothing in the relationship between the Colonists
and the British can be put aside.  It all must be included in order to fully grasp the
need for independence and the call to action.  The clause in between the commas
discusses dissolution of "political bands" and argues that connection cannot exist in
such conditions.  This is an important point that cannot be discarded, and its inclusion
in the middle of the sentence brings

Why did Romeo kill Tybalt in Act 3? Is it because of Romeo's character?How does Tybalt's death change the action of the play.

Concerning Shakespeare's Romeo and
Juliet, in short, Romeo kills Tybalt because Tybalt kills Mercutio.  Of
course, it isn't really that simple.


Romeo, newly in love
with Juliet--a member of the hated enemy, the family that Romeo's family constantly
feuds with--wants now to make peace.  While doing so, he gets in the way of Mercutio and
Tybalt while they are fighting.  The two are partly serious and partly playing around,
but the game is dangerous, since the game is sword
fighting. 


In getting between the two fighters, Romeo
inadvertantly causes Mercutio not to be able to react to a thrust by Tybalt, and the
thrust mortally wounds Mercutio. 


Romeo becomes angry and
loses control and kills Tybalt out of revenge.  At the same time, Romeo is probably
lashing out at Tybalt due to his own guilt for having contributed to Mercutio's
death. 

Does banning the import of genetically modified goods in countries violate the spirit of free trade and should the US be labeling it?

I think whether the banning of genetically modified goods
violates the spirit of free trade truly depends on the motives behind the
ban.


We would never, for example, say that banning the
importation of marijuana from some country where it was legal violated the spirit of
free trade.  So if the people of a country truly feel that genetically modified foods
are dangerous, they should be able to ban their import.  (They probably should ban them
domestically as well, I'd say.)


However, countries often
use issues like this as a "fig leaf" for protectionism.  This can be seen when countries
ban our beef, for example, because of alleged fears of BSE.  You also hear accusations
that our talk of limiting imports from countries with poor working conditions, for
example, is a fig leaf like that.


So I think it really
depends on why the ban is being imposed.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

In the movie Romeo and Juliet in 1996, how well do you think the characters were portrayed?Be specific please.

The director of the 1996 film version of Romeo and Juliet
worked hard to reproduce an old play and set it to a modern setting with modern
characters. Thus, setting and costuming were certainly portrayed inaccurately, but that
was his purpose.


In terms of character, Romeo matched the
impulsive behavior we see in his character in the play. Many of his lines were omitted.
For example, we do not see the entire scene with he and Paris fighting to the death in
the Capulets' tomb. Mercutio was portrayed as one who likes to hear himself talk and who
teases his friends. His character was portrayed with great color as he has during the
play. The Nurse was used as a comic relief in the whole play, but we do miss some of her
scene talking about Juliet as a baby during which she brings up funny experiences in the
real play like when Juliet stopped breast-feeding. Capulet is portrayed as an angry
fellow by the end in both the play and movie.


I think the
only characters that are ill-portrayed in the movie are Lady Capulet, Tybalt, and Paris.
At the Capulets' feast, Paris is portrayed as desperate and dorky, whereas in the play
he is a County, this should be an upper-class citizen with the ability to recognize
social appropriateness. Lady Capulet and Tybalt appear to have a sick relationship at
the feast which may be the director's way of demonstrated Lady Capulet's sadness about
Tybalt later.

Monday, January 24, 2011

At what time of year does Gene return to Devon to visit?What atmosphere, or mood, is created by setting the story during this season? What do...

You are of course referring to the beginning of this book.
Soon after deciding to return to Devon to see two sites in particular, both which the
narrator describes as "fearful", we are given the answer to this
question:



It
was a raw, non-descript time of year, toward the end of November, the kind of wet,
self-pitying November day when every speck of dirt stands out clearly. Devon luckily had
very little of such weather - the icy clamp of winter, or the radiant New Hampshire
summers, were more characteristic of it - but this day it blew wet, moody gusts all
around me.



Note too how later
on the narrator describes the houses he walks past on Gilman Street, "the best street in
town":



Today
with their failing ivy and stripped, moaning trees the houses looked both more elegant
and more lifeless than
ever.



You have asked a very
good question, and it is worth considering the significance of the seasons in the main
novel itself, but for now, consider the following points. The setting in November with
the weather that is detailed provides the perfect environment for Gene to indulge in
nostalgic and upsetting thoughts of his actions during his time in Devon. We can tell
they are not going to be all pleasant - the "wet, moody gusts" and the "self-pitying"
day suggest that the narrator will be re-living upsetting memories and experiences. The
reference to every speck of dirt standing out clearly suggests a very introspective and
reflective mood, where past memories are hauled into the present and examined and
scrutinised. What is interesting in the description of the trees is that they are
"stripped" and "moaning" - I wonder, could they be a symbol of life for Gene after Devon
- appearing more "elegant" but really more "lifeless" than ever before? Whatever the
case, this setting stages the flashback that is to follow and takes up the majority of
the rest of the story. It is a kind of pathetic fallacy that reveals the narrator's
emotions and feelings, which are eerily mirrored by the weather.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

What is the relation that is verified by the real solution of equation y= 4x^3-6x^2-24x+a? -26

First, we'll calculate the roots of the derivative of the
function. These roots are the critical values of the given
function.


y = f(x)


f'(x) =
12x^2 - 12x - 24


We'll put f'(x) =
0


12x^2 - 12x - 24 = 0


We'll
divide by 12:


x^2 - x - 2 =
0


The roots of the first derivative of the function are: x1
= -1 and x2 = 2.


Now, we'll calculate the local extremes of
the function:


f(-1) = 4*(-1) - 6 + 24 +
a


f(-1) = 14 + a


a + 14 =
0


a = -14


f(2) = 32 - 24 - 48
+ a


f(2) = -40 + a


a - 40 =
0


a = 40


We notice that for
values of a in the interval (-14 ; 40), 14 + a > 0 and  a - 40 <
0.


According to Rolle's
theorem:


x1 is in the interval (-infinite ;
-1)


x2 is in the interval (-1
; 2)


x3 is in the interval (2
; +infinite)

Friday, January 21, 2011

Where does the curve defined by f(x) = x^2 + 2x-1 and the line y= 2x+3 intersect?

Given the function f(x) = x^2 + 2x
-1


and the line y= 2x+3


We
need to find the intersection points for the curve and the
line.


Then, we need to find the point that verifies f(x)
and y.


==> f(x) =
y


==> x^2 + 2x -1 = 2x
+3


We will subtract 2x from both
sides:


==> x^2 -1 =
3


Now we will add 1 to both
sides.


==> x^2 =
4


==> x = +-2


Then,
there are two points of intersection between the curve f(x) and the line
y.


==> f(2) = 4+4-1 =
7


==> f(-2) = 4-4-1 =
-1


Then, the points of intersection
are:


(-2, -1) and (2,7)

How would one integrate a geography and a history curriculum in the reading of The Devil's Highway?

I am not a Geography teacher, but I would think that this
excellent and deeply moving book would lend itself well to a discussion of elements of
Geography and History. Certainly investigating the Devil's Highway, and looking at it
from a perspective that analyses desert and the harshness of the conditions there could
easily cover a number of aspects of physical Geography. Yet, in terms of human
Geography, you might want to think about the wider themes of migration and movement of
peoples and the social impact of such trends. This could easily be linked to studying
History by looking at the relationship between the USA and Mexico and other Latin
American countries and thinking about how the inequalities and power differences have
been created, and indeed, how they are sustained today. In short, a bit of creative
thinking could easily turn the study of this excellent text into a multi-disciplinary
project encompassing Sociology, History and Georgraphy as well as
Literature.

What are the characteristics of society?

Though it is a bit difficult to answer the question in its
rather vague form, the nature of the society present in "Pen, Sword and Camisole" is one
of the more celebrated aspects of the story.


The society is
filled with intrigue and trickery and politicking, as part of the point of the book
appears to be poking fun at those aspects of Brazilian society at the time.  The
characters appear to be rather absorbed in the politics surrounding the appointment to
the academy's "seat," at the expense of any other part of their
lives.


The book also suggests a few things about the nature
of those involved as the opposition's first candidate, Moreira, becomes insufferable
even before the first round of machinations is completed.  The supporters quickly find a
new person to support and set about opposing the man they've just set up in the same
unscrupulous matter as before.


The society is also
generally characterized as optimistic, full of live and verve, and wonderfully
unscrupulous.

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Discuss how Paradise Lost is an epic.plz answer in detail

When you look at Milton's Paradise
Lost
as an epic, according to the traditional interpretation of what
constitutes an epic, you will find several parallels to classic epics like The
Odyssey
or Gilgamesh, despite the difference in subject
matter.


First: an epic is generally in the form of a long
poem; it can rhyme or not, but it does generally have consistent meter.
Paradise Lost does conform to the traditional
format.


Second: an epic is generally historical and broad
in scope, having to do with the building of a nation or the formation of a society,
involving the deeds of heroes. Again, Paradise Lost fits the
paradigm, but with a twist. The hero is Lucifer, the fallen angel, and the nation
building is actually the story of Lucifer attempting to destroy heaven and replace it
with his own idea of the world.


Third: the epic is
generally a moral tale, and, though unconventional, Paradise Lost is a moral tale as
well, demonstrating Milton's own moral code and his ideas of what happens when one tries
to go against God. Even though Lucifer is portrayed as a sympathetic character, God wins
in the end.


Check out the summary and study guide in the
link below.

Why did the Soviet War in Afghanistan happen, Who was all involved, What was the outcome?

Afghanistan was ruled by king Nadir till 1931 when he
adopted a new constitution and began a program of reforms. But he was assassinated in
1933, and his son Muhammad Zahir became king.


In 1953,
Muhammad Daoud Khan, became prime minister of Afghanistan.  Under him, Afghanistan
remained neutral in the cold war. Due to internal politics he was forced to resign in
1963. in 1964, Afghanistan adopted a constitution with a democratic government.  But
King Zahir and the legislature could not agree on a reform programme.  and, a democratic
system failed to develop.


In 1973, Daoud led a military
revolt overthrowing King Zahir.  and established the Republic of Afghanistan with
himself as president and prime minister.  In 1978, rival left-wing military leaders and
civilians staged a revolt in which Daoud was killed. This group, aided by the Soviet
Union, took control of the government and introduced communistic policies.  Many people
of Afghanistan opposed the new government, believing that government policies conflicted
with teachings of Islam. Large numbers of people joined in a rebellion against the
government and a widespread fighting broke out between the rebels and government
forces.


In this internal conflict Soviet Union supported
the government with communist leanings and in late 1979 and early 1980, sent thousands
of troops.  to Afghanistan to support the government against the fight with rebels. 
This  resulted in a lengthy conflict between Soviet troops and Afghan rebels. However,
the government failed to achieve a decisive victory  In 1988, the Soviet Union began
withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan. completing it in February
1989.


But the fighting between the mujaheddin and the
government forces continued until April 1992, when the rebels overthrew the government. 
Following the overthrow, several factions of the rebels agreed to set up a transitional
government.  However, fighting continued in the country as the different factions
competed for power.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

What is the Coercive Acts and its significance?

The Coercive Acts were known as the Intolerable Acts in
America and were passed by England after the Boston Tea Party. The acts included the
Boston Port Act, Quarting Act, Administration of Justice Act, and the Massachusetts
Government Act.


Because of these acts Massachusetts began
to receive sympathy and respect from the other colonies. Also moderates in America began
to slide toward more radical views and actions. Probably the most important significance
though is that these acts would lead to the summoning of the First Continental Congress
in Philadelphia in September of 1774.

Monday, January 17, 2011

in a circle of radius 5 cm, AB and AC arre 2 chords such that AB=AC=6cm. find the length of the chord BC.

Consider the triangles OAB and OAC are congruent as AB=AC
given to be 6cm and OA  icommon  OB = OC = 5cm being radius. So angle OAB =
OAC......(1)


Drop a perpedicular OD to AB. Then AD = DB = 3
cm as the perpendicular meets the cord at the middle. OD = sqrt (OA^2-OC^2) =
sqrt(5^2-3^2) = 4cm.


So Area of OAB = (1/2) AB * OD =
(1/2)6*4 = 12 sq cm....(2)


Now AO extended should meet the
chord at E and it is middle of the BC as ABC is an isoseles with AB= AC and triangles
AEB and and AEC are congruent as AB =AC and AE common, Angle OAB = angle OAC. Therefore
triangles being congruent ,angle AEB and angle AEC are perpendicular. Therefore  BE is
the altitude of the triangle OAB with AO as base.Also  this implies BE =EC or AC
=2BE


Therefore the area of the triangle OAB = (1/2)AO*BE =
(1/2)5*BE = 12 sq cm as arrived in eq (2). Therefore solving for BE, we
get:


BE = 12*2/5 =
4.8cm


Therefore BC = 2BE = 2*4.8 cm = 9.6
cm.

Sunday, January 16, 2011

What is the significance of 1984 plot structure broken up into 3 sections?

Three is a Magic
Number:


  • 3 act structure: beginning (problems),
    middle (climax), end (resolution)

  • 3 geographical
    settings (Oceania, Eastasia, Eurasia)

  • 3 types of people
    according to Goldstein's book:

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Throughout recorded time, and probably since the
end of the Neolithic Age, there have been three kinds of people in the
world, the High, the Middle, and the Low.
They have been subdivided in
many ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative numbers, as
well as their attitude towards one another, have varied from age to age: but the
essential structure of society has never
altered.



  • The three
    slogans of the Party:

  1. WAR IS
    PEACE

  2. FREEDOM IS
    SLAVERY

  3. IGNORANCE IS
    STRENGTH

  • 3 main characters (Winston,
    Julia, O'Brien)

  • 3 is often used as a literary device to
    provoke a feeling of unnaturalness, as twos are much more common in nature (limbs,
    hemispheres, eyes, etc).  We realize that O'Brien is third wheel, unnatural.

  • 3 verb tenses: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE.  Winston has a
    hard time distinguishing one from the others.

  • The Party
    has rolled out nine "3 Year Plans"

  • 3 political prisoners
    (Rutherford, Jones, Aaronson)

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Why does the voice from the police car respond “No profession”? in the story "The Pedestrian."

The voice from the police car says this because Leonard
Mead has said that he is a writer.  The car says this as if it is talking to
itself.


In my opinion, this is a commentary by Bradbury on
what this society is like.  The society is totally rigid and structured.  People are not
allowed to do anything that is not like what everyone else does.  That is why Leonard
Mead has been stopped by the police -- he is out walking when no one else would
be.


In such a society, a writer would not do well -- no one
has any imagination.  So the police car does not even recognize the idea that someone
might write as a profession.

Are there any quotes that relate to ego defense mechanisms for The Lord of the Flies?

I can think of one scene that may be an example of the ego
defense mechanism that you are looking for.  There is a type of second election for
chief in a meeting called by Jack.  This meeting is found in the chapter entitled "Gift
for the Darkness."  Jack says, "Hands up, whoever wants Ralph not to be chief?"  His
question is met with silence.  Jack's reaction comes in the form of "humiliating
tears."  He covers his pain by disappearing into the woods and saying, "I'm not going to
play any longer. Not with you."  When some of the boys find their way to Jack, he is
"brilliantly happy." 


Many of Jack's responses are a result
of his trying to cover his embarrassment.  When Ralph accuses him of letting the fire go
out in Chapter 4, Jack responds that he killed a pig.  When Ralph insists that Jack had
let the fire go out, Jack in his anger, hits Piggy. 


Jack
uses escape, blame diversion, misplaced anger and violence as mechanism of coping with
threats to his ego. 

How far is Eric Birling to blame for Eva/Daisy's death in An Inspector Calls?

Eric Birling has many faults. He steals money from his
father, is a drunkard and a philanderer. However, of all of the party guests that night,
he is probably the least responsible for the death of Eva Smith/ Daisy Renton. It is
when he finds out that the young lady he has been seeing is pregnant he at least tries
to make a gesture to help – however feeble and inadequate. Mr and Mrs Birling hold the
father of the girl’s child responsible until they learn he is their son. Eva/Daisy had
refused his help as she suspected that he was stealing the money he was giving to her to
support her.


Eric is different from the others in that he
did attempt to make Eva/Daisy’s plight a little better. He is repentant of what happened
to the girl and clearly learns a lesson from the incident



‘It’s what
happened to the girl and what we all did to her that
matters.’


Friday, January 14, 2011

In "The Most Dangerous Game," how does General Zaroff show the character trait "deceptive?"

In this story, General Zaroff is not really deceptive in
his dealings with Sanger Rainsford.  He comes straight out and tells him that he hunts
people on this island.  However, his whole character is meant to be somewhat deceptive
in that he tries to use cultured ways to cover up the reality of who he truly
is.


In truth, General Zaroff is nothing more than a
murderer.  Worse, he is a murderer who kills not out of hate or passion but simply for
his own fun.  This is his true character.  Even so, he tries to cover up who he is.  He
acts like a refined aristocrat.  He has fine wines, he hums parts from operas, and
generally acts like a gentleman.  This is deceptive, because he is anything but a true
gentleman.

Thursday, January 13, 2011

In "The Raven," how does the significance of the word "nevermore" change each time it is spoken?

Great question! The word "Nevermore" and its use in this
poem is particularly crucial to the overall feeling and dread and suspense that Poe
creates. Consider how the different meanings of this word are actually dictated by the
narrator in the poem, rather than the bird itself. All the raven says is "Nevermore," it
is the narrator of the poem who gives that word a meaning and leads himself on into a
terrible cycle of depression and darkness.


"Nevermore"
first means that the raven will not forsake the speaker; then that there is no relief,
and finally that the raven will give him no peace. Consider how this last meaning is
dictated by what is said to the raven by the
narrator:


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"Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy
form from off my door!"


Quote the Raven
"Nevermore."



Of course, the
fact that "Lenore" and "Nevemore" rhyme, means that with every answer the narrator is
haunted with the echo of her name, and he is kept being reminded of
her.

What does the wild bay represent for the boy?

In Lessing's "Through the Tunnel," the bay is and
represents something the boy isn't supposed to do or can't do; it is something the older
boys can do, and the boy wants to do.  The bay is basically a rite of passage.  Or, more
specifically, swimming through the tunnel in the bay is all of the
above. 


Notice that once he's done it, once he's
accomplished his goal, he is in no hurry to go back.  He's done it, he's made it, he's
proved himself, he's matured.  He's proven he belongs. 


He
begins the story as a little boy who seeks attention in any way possible, and
desperately needs the approval of others.  He matures and in the close of the story he
is content in what he's done and in who he is.

What was the impact of the Korean War on international relations and the Cold War?

The war, though long, bloody and costly, also seemed to
prove and justify that a policy of containment - stopping the spread of communism to
other countries - worked and was justified.  This would be part of the reason why we
would get involved in Vietnam a short time later.  The war was mostly between the US and
China, so there were tense relations between our two countries for more than 20 years
following the Korean conflict.


It accelerated the Cold War
between us and the Soviet Union, as the North relied on Soviet weapons to fight the war,
and some Soviet pilots even flew missions against American jets during that time, and we
knew it.  We accelerated the arms race, and the public became overwhelmingly convinced
that the Soviets were bent on world domination, and social hatred of them and communists
grew rapidly in the early 1950s.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

If f(x)=square root (6x+12) then f^-1=1/square root(6x+12)?

f(x) = (6x+12)^(1/2).


To find
the inverse function of f(x).


Let f^(-1) (x) = y be the
inverse function of f(x).


 The x =
f(y).


By definition, f(y) =  put y in  place of x iin
(6x+12)^1/2).


=> f(y) =
(6y+12)^(1/2).


=> x =
(6y+12)^(1/2).


We square both
sides:


x^2 = 6y+12.


x^2-12 =
6y.


Therefore y =
1/6(x^2-12).


Therefore f^(-1) (x) =  y = (1/6)x^2 - 2 is
the inverse of f(x).  f^(1) (x) = y i= not 1/sqrt(6x+12).

What are different types of psychological diseases that you know?

Psychological diseases or disorders affect the way people
feel, think, speak, and behave. The field of psychology that deals with study and
treatment of such disorders is called abnormal
psychology.


What is considered normal and abnormal
behaviour differ from society to society and change as social conditions and customs
change.  For example, beating children to discipline them was considered normal and even
desirable behaviour in the past, but many people today consider such behaviour abnormal
and undesirable.


Psychological disorders may be classifies
in four groups according to theories that explain their likely causes and methods of
treatment. These are biophysical, intrapsychic, existential, and  behavioural.
Biophysical theories focus on underlying physical causes of psychological disturbances.
Such disorders are primarily treated with tranquillizers, antidepressants, sleeping
pills, and other drugs.  In a few cases electric shocks and surgery may also be used.
Most common disorders of this type are delirium and
dementia.


Intrapsychic theories focus on the emotional
basis of abnormal behaviour.  Such disorders may result from conflicts in early
childhood which may result in abnormal behavior can usually cope with everyday problems
are described as neurotics. Others with more severe problems causing individuals to lose
track of reality are called psychotic. Psychotic people may believe in very unrealistic
ideas called delusions, or may have hallucinations such as   "hearing voices" or "seeing
visions". This kind of disorders are often treated by psychoanalysis to help to help
them understand and resolve their conflicts and anxieties. Schizophrenia is the
commonest psychotic disorder in which a person suffers unpredictable disturbances in
thinking, mood, awareness, and behaviour. Depression (sadness) and mania (extreme joy
and over activity) also come under this category of disorders. People with bipolar
disorder suffer from alternating periods of depression and
mania.


Existential theories of abnormal behaviour stress
the importance of current experiences and the person's view of himself or herself. 
Treatment of such disorders involves helping patients gain insight into their feelings,
accept responsibility for their lives, and fulfil their
potential.


Behavioural theories emphasize the effects of
learning on behaviour.  Treatment based on behavioral theories attempt to change
abnormal behavior using a learning process called conditioning.  Thus people with such
disorders are treated by teaching them acceptable behaviour patterns and reinforcing
desired behaviour by rewards.

Monday, January 10, 2011

What are some good quotes explained from Romeo and Juliet act 3?

Since Act III of Shakespeare's romantic tragedy of Romeo
and Juliet is the climax of the play, many of the actions and words of the characters
effect the turning point of the drama.  For, the impetuous actions of Mercutio, Tybalt,
Romeo, and Juliet, set the fate of these characters. As foreshadowing of the tragic
events to follow, the weather is hot and causes Mercutio's temper to rise just as the
mercury, for which he is named, rises in torrid temperatures.  While he and Benvolio
enter the first scene, Mercutio argues with Benvolio who cautions
him potentously against anger:


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An I were so apt to quarrel as thou art, any man
should buy the fee simple of my life for an hour and a quarter.
(3.1.31-32)



Nonetheless,
Mercutio continues, and when he sees Tybalt, they exchange insults.  Mercutio calls him
"Prince of Cats," a pejorative term and a point of mockery in the play which initiates
Tybalt's aggressive action toward Mercutio.  Tybalt tells
Mercutio,



You
shall find me apt enough to that, sir, an you will give me occasion
(3.1.41)



  To make matters
worse, a well-meaning but ineffective Romeo intervenes, declaring that he has no quarrel
with Tybalt, but loves him instead:


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Tybalt, the reason that I have to love
you


Does excuse very much the rage that is
appropriate


For such a greeting.  I am not a
villain


Therefore, farewell.  I see that you don't know me.
(3.1.61-64)



Of course, this
backfires and Tybalt ends up stabbing Mercutio.  In his mercurial personality, Mercutio
changes to his typical witticisms, even as he dies when Romeo asks him about his
wound:



No
'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide


as a church door;
but 'tis enough, 'twill serve.  Ask


for me tomorrow, and
you shall find me a grave man.
(3.1)



After Mercutio dies,
Romeo berates himself,


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O sweet Juliet,


Thy
beauty haath made me effeminate


And in my temper soft'ned
valour's steel.
(3.1.115)



Then, after Romeo
avenges Mercutio's death by slaying Tybalt, says,


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This day's black fate on more days doth
depend;


This but begins the woes others must
end....


O, I am fortune's fool!
(3.1.120-138)



In the next
scene, Juliet, believing that Romeo has been slain,
says,



...I'll
take to my wedding bed;


And death, not Romeo, take my
maidenhead.
(3.2.141-142)



When Romeo
appears, wailing and threatening to kill himself, the Nurse berides
him,



Stand
up.  Stand up!  Stand, and you be a man.


For Juliet's sake,
for her sake, rise and stand!


Why should you fall into so
deep an O?" (3.3.90-94)



As
Romeo parts from Juliet on his banishment, he says,


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But that a joy past
joy


Calls out on me,


It were a
grief to part with thee.
(3.3.179-181)


How does Mrs. Drover control her fear?

After finding a mysterious letter on her hall table, Mrs.
Drover retreats to the bedroom of her abandoned house to read its contents.  In the
narration that follows, we learn that Mrs. Drover's normal expression is "one of
controlled worry," which suggests that she is already an anxious woman by nature.  As
she processes the contents of the letter, she moves from her position with her back to
the empty room to a chair against the wall--an obvious sign of paranoia.  Further, Mrs.
Drover tries to convince herself that she is "in a mood" and has imagined the letter,
but after shutting her eyes and opening them again, she finds the letter is still
there.  After locking the bedroom door, she hastily packs her belongings and prepares
to--and eventually does--flee the house.  Once out of the house and back in the presence
of passersby on the street, Mrs. Drover is convinced that she has successfully escaped a
dangerous situation.  Obviously, though, this is not the case, as she presumably comes
face to face with her Demon Lover in the taxi. 

In "After Twenty Years" by O. Henry, what is the character named Bob?

O. Henry's touching short story with the mildly surprising
ending is about two old friends, twenty years, and life's vagaries and changes. Bob and
Jimmy Wells at the ages of eighteen and twenty were set to go off on their separate ways
to make their fortunes and find their destinies. They agree to meet back together in
twenty years from the date and time of their parting to see each other again. A survey
of the movement of the story will help sort out what Bob
is.


Both are New York boys, Bob has an ambition to meet his
destiny and make his fortune in the West while Jimmy desires to remain firmly rooted in
New York City. As Bob tells the city policeman patrolling the street where Bob and Jimmy
are to meet, Bob moved around the West quite a bit and the two friends eventually quit
corresponding over the years:


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the West is a pretty big proposition, and I kept
hustling around over it pretty
lively.



Bob also says he
knows that if Jimmy is still alive, he will show up at the appointed place and confirms
that he will wait if Jimmy is late in coming. When a tall man huddled in an overcoat
approaches, he and Bob are reunited and start to walk "around to a place" for a
meal.


In the light of a drug store window, Bob sees that
the man isn't really Jimmy. Here is where we discover--if we weren't suspicious of it
already because of all the mentions of the West and all the diamonds sparkling on Bob
and his possessions--that Bob is a criminal from Chicago who is wanted by the Chicago
police. Jimmy turns out to be an impostor come to arrest
him.


The association of great wealth, criminal activity,
historical time period (c. 1904), and the city of Chicago lead the reader (especially in
O. Henry's day because it was a contemporaneous time period) to understand that Bob is
part of the Chicago gangster scene, reminiscent of the slightly later Al Capone. Jimmy
Wells, of course, was the patrol officer with whom Bob spoke, as his note
explains:


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"Bob: I was at the appointed place on time. When
you struck the match to light your cigar I saw it was the face of the man wanted in
Chicago. Somehow I couldn't do it [arrest you] myself, so I went around and got a plain
clothes [police] man to do the job.
JIMMY.”


Sunday, January 9, 2011

Why is the ambiguity of Holden's age stressed in chapters 1-4 of The Catcher in the Rye?

The Catcher in the Rye is told in
flashback as Holden, age 17,  narrates from a rest home in California.  The action of
the story proper takes place the previous year, when he is 16.  He says on page
9:



I was
sixteen then, and I'm seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I'm about
thirteen.



The irony, of
course, is that Holden looks much older than his chronological age.  Since he has
undergone a massive growth spurt and has gray hair, Holden looks like hes is in his 20s,
old enough to get into bars and clubs in the city without being
carded.


Emotionally, however, Holden acts like a pre-teen.
 Since the death of his brother Allie, Holden has turned conservative, wishing to never
enter the teenage or adult worlds.  He would rather stay a child, as they are the only
non-phonies in the book, except for the nuns.  According to Holden, children are more
honest and innocent because they have not been corrupted by the materialism and sexual
deviancy of the adult world.


So, Holden looks much older
than he really is and he acts much younger than he really is in order both to relish in
and escape from the adult world.  In this way, Salinger achieves a kind of double
movement as he juxtaposes the emotional and physical problems of his
protagonist.

How does this story connect to the the youth culture?

Your question isn't very clear unfortunately, so I am
guessing that what you are referring to is how do we connect this masterful short story
with today's youth and their issues and challenges. I guess the key theme of the story
is how going "through the tunnel" for Jerry becomes a symbol of his passage from child
to man - just look at how the relationship changes with his mother, for example, if you
want to back this up. One of the principal issues with today's culture and society is
that there are very few rites of passage or initiation ceremonies for boys that truly
mark the cross over from childhood to manhood. This perhaps can indicate why we have the
"messy" teenage years with a vague non-descript and very challenging period where you
are neither a child yet nor are you recognised as an adult. This is one central
connection you can make between this story and the challenges facing youth today. Hope
it helps!

When desdemona asks iago's help, what does he say to her about othello's jealousy? Act 4

He says that it must be some business about the war or
something else that is really bothering him:


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I pray you, be content; 'tis but his
humour:

The business of the state does him
offence,


And he does chide with
you.




There is no
way that Othello, who loved Desdemona so dearly, could really have any problem with
Desdemona.  Of course Iago must also be sure that she doesn't get a real hint as to what
is happening because she might explain it and then Othello might see the
truth!

Saturday, January 8, 2011

A pilot in an airplane with an airspeed of 100 km/h wishes to fly to a city 2000 km due east. There is a wind blowing from 25 degrees at 100...

The pilot is travelling at an airspeed of 100 km/h towards
the East. The pilot has to steer the airplane to tackle the wind which is
blowing.


The wind is blowing at 100 km/h at an angle of 25
degrees to the west- east axis.


The velocity of the wind
can be divided into its components towards the east and the north. The component to the
north is 100* sin 25 and the component towards the east is 100*cos
25.


The pilot has to steer the plane so that the component
of the wind towards the north of 100*sin 25 is cancelled. He steers his plane at an
angle of -25 degrees at 100 km/h with respect to the west- east
axis.


The velocity of the airplane now has two components,
one towards the south equal to 100*sin 25 and one towards the East equal to 100*cos
25


The component of the velocity of the wind towards the
north is cancelled by the component of the plane's velocity towards the south. The
plane's net velocity is equal to 2*100*cos 25 = 200*cos
25.


The pilot has to steer in a direction
making an angle of -25 degrees with the axis from the west to the east. The ground speed
of the airplane is 200*cos 25.

When did the Civil Rights Movement end?

There is no "official" ending date for the Civil Rights
Movement the way there is for WWII (for example).  Many people would argue that the
movement continues today because non-whites are still disproportionately poor and suffer
from other inequalities.


There are three dates that might
be given as the end of the movement, but again, none of these is
official.


You could argue that it ended with the passage of
the 1964 Civil Rights Act.  That law outlawed most forms of segregation and was one of
the major goals of the movement.


You could argue that it
ended the next year with the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.  This was the
last major law having to do with rights.  (As opposed to later efforts that have
centered around economic issues and things like de facto
segregation.)


You could argue that it ended in 1968 when
its main leader, Martin Luther King, Jr. was
assassinated.


Most people would say that the Movement ended
sometime in the 1960s, but you could also argue that it continues to this
day.

Who are two people who influences Obama in Dreams from My Father?Describe Obama's relationship with his mother, grandmother, and grandfather. What...

Can't answer all of those in a 90 word space, but let's
get you started.  Barack Obama writes of being heavily influenced by two people, his
mother and his grandfather.  Having only seen his father on two occasions, his
grandfather became his substitute father.  His mother raised him, with their help, and
took a direct role in his education.


The only negatives I
can think of from his mother is that she remarried and then moved the family to
Indonesia for a few years when he was pretty young.  While it was part of his formative
ears, along with the loss of his father, that had to be pretty traumatic.  Guess he
turned out OK though, huh? Good question.

Friday, January 7, 2011

Determine the maximum point of the curve y = x^2 - 8x + 16.

The maximum point of these quadratic function is
represented by the vertex of the function.


The graph of the
quadratic function is a parabola and the coordinates of the parabola vertex
are:


V(-b/2a;-delta/4a), where a,b,c are the coefficients
of the  function and delta=b^2 -4*a*c.


y=f(x)=x^2 - 8x +
16


We'll identify the
coefficients:


a=1, 2a=2,
4a=4


b=-8, c=16


delta=(-8)^2
-4*1*16


delta =64 - 64


delta =
0


V(-b/2a;-delta/4a)=V(-(-8)/2;-(0)/4)


V(-b/2a;-delta/4a)=V(4;0)


We notice that the x
coordinate is positive and y coordinate is 0, so the vertex of parabola is located on
the right side of x axis: V(4;0).

Compare and contrast bacteria and viruses. Provide at least two similarities and two differences.

Both do not have a
nucleus.


Bacteria is larger than a
virus.


There are beneficial bacteria, like the ones in
yoghurt, but there is no beneficial virus.


Bacteria are
unicellular organisms while viruses are technically considered non-living, or even
parasitical as they do have cells- Cells are generally a part in deciding whether an
organism is living or not.

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Describe the events that lead to the liberation in Buchenwald according to Elie Wiesel?

Elie spends most of four months at Buchenwald. During that
time his father dies from dysentery. Elie tells us that he felt and cared for nothing
until April. It was in April that the front was approaching. The Nazi's began the
process of liquidating the camp. On April 10  the inmates rose up to overthrow their
captors. The guards had herded the remaining children together with the intent of
murdering them. The prisoners prevented this from occurring. By 6:00 PM the camp
resistance had taken control of the camp. The Germans had put up very little resistance.
The American tanks were at the front gates and liberation was at
hand.

What food group is flour from?

Flour is a carbohydrate, it is mainly made up of carbon
and hydrogen hence its name.


Sugars are also in this group,
but they are more simple and contain only one or a few subunits so they ar
monosaccharides or disaccharides or even oligosaccharides, whereas starches, which is
what flour is, contains many subunits, or saccharides that is why it is also called
a polysaccharide.


This is a more detailed answer in case
you were not referring to the food pyramid, but to
macromolecules.

Analyze Caravaggio's painting The Supper at Emmaus (1601)

The Supper of Emmaus (1601) was
painted by the Italian Baroque artist Caravaggio. The Catholic Church was reacting
against the Lutheran Reformation and wanted religious art inspired by realist principles
so that the people could understand the scenes and identify with the
characters.


Yet, several times Caravaggio went too far and
his paintings were controversial for their excessive realism which was, at times,
considered blasphemous. The Supper of Emmaus is a typical example
of Caravaggio's realism which takes out of its subject any idealization and beauty. The
painting depicts the moment when Jesus reveals his identity to his disciples after his
Resurrection. Caravaggio catches the surprise, rather than the sublime element of the
scene, foregrounding, with his typical use of light, the surprised faces and the
outstretched arms. As part of his realism, Caravaggio chose to represent the disciples
with torn clothes and around a humble meal, stressing a domesticity which viewers could
relate to.


Jesus's blessing of the meal evokes debate on
the meaning of the Eucharist between those in the Reformation and those of the Counter
Reformation. With its Eucharist references (Jesus's blessing, the bread in the
foreground), the painting illustrates the Counter Reformation conception of the
Eucharist as characterized by the presence of Christ's body. The commotion around the
table causes the fruit basket to seem to be close to falling off the table, almost
inviting the viewers to reach out for it and thus inviting them to be part of Christ's
revelation.

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

What does the Dark and Darkness represent in Emily Dickinson's "We Grow Accustomed To the Dark?"

In the first two stanzas, one could say that Dickinson is
talking about literal darkness, for which she uses the word "Dark." The Neighbor holds
up the lamp to say goodbye and then leaves, taking the light. It takes a few moments for
your eyes to adjust to the darkness. At a certain point, your eyes do adjust and you are
able to move forward, although you may be apprehensive and your steps might be
uncertain. 


In the remaining stanzas, Dickinson shifts from
the word "Dark" to "Darkness" and this is more figurative, metaphorical. This
metaphorical darkness, she describes as "Those Evenings of the Brain - / When not a Moon
disclose a sign." This is when we are mentally in the dark: a result of being
spiritually lost, depressed, unable to find an answer or solution to a problem,
uncertain, etc. Just as our eyes can eventually adjust to the "Dark," our brains can
adjust to the problems of mental darkness. It takes "Bravery" and one might get hurt in
braving his/her own mental darkness "And sometimes hit a tree" (here, Dickinson shifts
back to walking in actual darkness, once again as a metaphor for mental
darkness/depression.) 


In the end, "the Darkness alters"
(things get better), or we become better at dealing with
things: 


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Something in the
Sight 


Adjusts itself to Midnight


Monday, January 3, 2011

Please give the summary of "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

This excellent short story explores in the short story
form a woman's experience of post-natal depression and highlights many of the practices
that were actually adopted by doctors to "help" such patients, but only served to make
their depression worse. This story was based on the author's own experience of
depression, and as such it has a vitality and truth to it that gives it real
significance.


The story is based around a first person
narrative of a woman suffering depression after her child's birth. Supposedly for her
own good, her husband, who is presented as a loving and caring man, says she must stay
in bed in a room which is notable for its bizarre yellow wallpaper that the narrator,
having nothing else to do, spends a lot of time looking at, trying to trace and work out
the pattern. As the story progresses and the narrator descends ever further into
madness, she begins to think she can see a woman trapped behind the first layer of the
wallpaper and trying to get out. She is described as shaking the lines of the pattern as
if they were bars on a cage. Finally, the story reaches its climax when the narrator
tries to free this woman by ripping down the wallpaper, and begins to walk around the
edge of the room herself, as if she has so completely identified with the woman that she
is now trapped there too. Note how this represents her descent into lunacy, but also how
she identifies herself with her alter-ego that she has created: both women are
frustrated and trapped: intellectually, emotionally, psychologically and
physically.

operant conditioning, shaping, roommate make bed . label antecedent stimulus, response, reinforcement, self-regulation for the...

I am unsure as to what you are asking in the above
statement.  If you are asking about the different types of behavior modification I can
help you.


Operant conditioning is the use of consequences
to mold behavior.  With operant conditioning reinforcement, punishment, and extinction
are used.


Shaping is "The differential reinforcement of
successive approximations."


Antecedents are what happens
before a subject displays a behavior.  An example would be:  someone knocks at the door
and the dog barks.  The antecedent would be the knock at the
door.


Reinforcement is a response to an event to either
increase or decrease its occurrence.  A positive reinforcement would be to add a
stimulus to increase a behavior.  A negative reinforcement would be to remove a stimulus
to increase a behavior.


Self-regulation is the ability to
exert self control and manage one's emotions and behaviors.

Discuss the narrative art of Chaucer with reference to "The Nonne Preestes Tale."

Chaucer's narrative style is marked by a certain art of
aesthetic that is evident in "The Nonne Preestes Tale." One characteristic of Chaucer's
art is the use of a light-hearted tone that employs subtle humor. This characteristic is
evidenced in various parts of this tale, for example, when the fox
says:



"Nay,"
quod the fox, "but God yeve hym meschaunce,
That is so undiscreet of
governaunce,
That jangleth, whan he sholde holde his
pees."



A defining
characteristic is Chaucer's brilliance with description. He employs various theories of
description in various instances. For example, when he describes the "povre wydwe" (poor
widow), he begins with her habits and ways of living. Aside from saying she is "somdel
stape in age" (a little old), there is virtually no physical description of her at all
(a great difference from his description of the wife of
Bathe).


A contrasting example is his description of
Chauntecleer. He approaches Chauntecleer through the theory that asserts descriptions
should be physical and start at the top and work down the person (the same theory he
applies to the wife of Bathe). As a result we learn first about his chief quality, his
voice ("His voys was murier than the murie orgon"), then move to the coxcomb atop his
head and end with his "nayles" and his overall coloration of "burned
gold."


In typical Chaucerian fashion, a long digression
into discourse is used to introduce the thematic import of the tale. Pertelote debates
(citing references!) with Chauntecleer in all honesty ("I kan nat love a coward, by my
feith") about the validity and meaning of dreams. After this long
digressio, the villain is introduced and the conflict unfolds. We
see the conflict rests on the fox's art of flattery ("many a fals flatour"), which is
the opposite of Pertelote's straight talking pronouncements. A final point on Chaucer's
art is that he mixes Christian allusion with Classical, which he may use, as in this
tale, to build suspense:


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O newe Scariot! newe Genyloun!
  461
False dissymulour, O Greek synoun
That broghtest Troye al
outrely to sorwe!


Sunday, January 2, 2011

Ode to a Nightingale VS. Ode to a Grecian UrnI was asked to write an essay to discuss Keats’ lines “Heard melodies are sweet, but those...

Just a little correction, it is Ode
On a Greacian Urn which many people mistake for Ode To A
Grecian Urn.


In my opinion the "unheard melodies" from the
grecian urn and the heard melody of nightingale serve the same purpose,ie, to take him
away from this world of chaos and misery. The only difference being that Keats hears the
unheard melody of pipers as an audience whereas he becomes one with the nightingale as
he listens to its song, so much so that he chants


"I can
not see what flowers are at my feet


Nor what soft incense
hangs upon the boughs"


and at the end comes out of the
trance saying;


"Was that a vision or a waking
dream?


Fled is that music--Do i wake or
sleep?"


whereas Ode on a Grecian Urn concludes
with


Beauty is truth--truth beauty, that is
all


Ye know on earth and all ye need to
know.



On the other hand the unheard melodies
takes the poet to the past where he contemplates on breed of marble men, mad persuit,
struggle to escape, pipes and timbrels and wild ecstasy---to the things which are
already dead; eternalised on the Urn whereas the voice of nightingale makes the narrator
say


"Thou wast not born for death. Immortal
bird"


The gist-both the songs are the viewless wings which
take the poet to the artistic world of nature.

What is the theme of Death of a Salesman?

There are several themes to Miller's drama.  I think that
the most compelling of them is the critique of the American Dream.  The idea that
emerges throughout American History, and especially true in the 1950s, is that the
"American Dream" is defined by monetary success and the trappings of wealth.  The
natural connection was that emotional and domestic happiness will follow material
wealth.  Somehow, if individuals worked hard and made a great deal of money, they would
be happy.  In seeing the trials and difficulties of Willy, the reader understands that
this is not the case.  In this light, there is a strong grasp of how there are other
dimensions and components to achieving happiness in consciousness.  No matter how much
Willy works, there is a hollowness present, an emptiness that cannot be avoided.  What
Miller himself would term, "the matrix of his life," is one where the pursuit of
material wealth is unable to fully remedy the emotional pain that exists in his life. 
In this light, Miller's drama explores the fully complexity and richness in his
depiction of the American Dream.

Saturday, January 1, 2011

what is the limit of the function (1-sin x)/cos^2 x, x -> 90 degrees?

First, we'll verify if we'll get an indetermination by
substituting x by the value of the accumulation
point.


lim (1-sin x)/(cos x)^2 = (1 - sin 90)/(cos 90)^2 =
(1-1)/0 = 0/0


Since we've get an indetermination, we'll
apply l'Hospital rule:


lim (1-sin x)/(cos x)^2 = lim (1-sin
x)'/[(cos x)^2]'


lim (1-sin x)'/[(cos x)^2]' = lim - cos
x/2cos x*(-sin x)


We'll simplify by -cos x and we'll
get:


lim (1-sin x)/(cos x)^2 = lim 1/2sin
x


lim 1/2sin x = 1/2sin 90 =
1/2


lim (1-sin x)/(cos x)^2 =
1/2

What are the literary devices used in "The Man He Killed" by Thomas Hardy, other than irony?

One of the things that stands out clearly about this poem
is the way in which Hardy has deliberately crafted a poem that is bare of literary
devices and presents us with a very straightforward description of a wartime scene and a
soldier's musings. You are right in identifying the irony in this poem. However, apart
from this, there are no other instances of literary devices. It is as if Hardy has
deliberately tried to strip bare his poetry of such techniques to present his message as
directly and bluntly as possible. Thus the poem focuses in on the immense irony of the
last stanza:


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Yes; quaint and curious war is!
You
shoot a fellow down
You'd treat, if met where any bar is,
Or help to
half a crown.



War is indeed
"quaint and curious." It brings about a completely unnatural situation where men are
ranged against each other and trying to kill each other, when otherwise they would be
happy to buy each other a drink in an inn. Using a very simple style, stripped bare of
literary devices, Hardy thus emphasises this message through this
poem.

There is a difference of only one amino acid in one chain of the hemoglobin of humans and gorillas. What might have caused this difference?

Humans and gorillas are descended from a common ancestor.
Because there is only one difference in amino acids in the hemoglobin of present day
humans and gorillas, it is likely that the ancestor had identical hemoglobin to one or
the other. Evolution happens by natural selection of one genotype over another. The
differences between individuals of a species occur by mutations of the genes. The short
answer to your question is that the difference was caused by a random mutation of the
DNA of the common ancestor, which was then carried down to present day humans and
gorillas.

Calculate tan(x-y), if sin x=1/2 and sin y=1/3. 0

We'll write the formula of the tangent of difference of 2 angles. tan (x-y) = (tan x - tan y)/(1 + tan x*tan y) ...