I need a criticism of the style used in "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" by Joyce Carol Oates.

I think that you can find different examples out there
about the style used in the Oates short story.  One such analysis focuses on the idea of
psychological realism as the mode through which the story is told.  Connie's
consciousness is how we, as the reader, understand the events that unfold.  From the
opening where there is security and confidence to its slow and steady erosion into the
unknown, the style of psychological realism ends up unsettling both Connie and the
reader.  Through this style, the thematic applications can reveal itself.  The idea of
the novel being an loss of innocence archetype or a feminist text can be divulged
through the style that Oates employs, one that maintains the third person narrative, but
skilfully does so through the consciousness of one of the characters.  It is through
this prism that the reader fully grasps what is happening to Connie and how she has
freedom, but, very much like a Rousseauian character, "lives in
chains."

How did the Progressive Era's views on immigrants reshape America's cities and workplaces?

The Progressive Era's focus on immigrants helped to bring
about another level of change that helped to define the movement.  The Progresssivist
thinkers of the time period were driven by the need to include more voices in the
political decision making process of the time period.  While this traditionally
accounted for articulating the needs of women and people of color, Progressivists
quickly recognized that this is to include immigrants.  Progressive thinkers recognized
that this group of people were being targeted by Nativists who did not want them here
and others who manipulated the immigrants' poor grasp of English into conditions that
were unfair and dis-empowering.  Progressivist reforms that changed practices in
workplaces that were intended to target the immigrant as well as elimination political
barriers, such as the literacy test, helped to increase the number of voices in the
political discourse.  This becomes one of the lasting goals of the Progressivist
movement.

Why did the Ottoman Empire decline?

Weak and incompetent
sultans

Among all of the internal
reasons mentioned, incompetent sultans were the main reason of the empire’s decline. The
first weak sultan was Selim II (1566-74). He was the successor to the Suleiman, the
Grand Turk. This was the first weak sultan of the next 24 ones, which would lead the
empire to its slow decline. Selim was the first sultan to drink wine. Selim had a poor
figure to be a sultan as his father Suleiman didn’t give him the training he needed to
become a strong sultan. As to become a sultan the prince should serve in military or
government campaigns. Indolent and dissolute, he won little respect from his ministers
and subjects. At his time, the ottomans had their first defeat in battle at Lepanto.
This was the first time the western world believed that the Turks could be
defeated.

Corrupt executive and
judicial officers

Weak of the sultans meant
weak and corrupt executive officers. Selim II’s son Murad can be an example for this. He
was weak as his father. He loved both gold and women. He never really cared about the
empire’s affairs. He surrounded himself with numerous courtiers, which none of them were
faithful. Of course there were some of who were sincere with their work, but the other
viziers and grand viziers didn’t like them, because mainly those were the ones which the
sultans gave his most attention and listening to. This made other people jealous. So
they started to make plans of how to get rid of them, and sometimes this meant
assassination.

We can take as an example of this the grand
vizier Sokullo. When sultan Selim II was on the throne, he gave Sokullo a big authority,
which mainly stabled the empire during selim’s reign. After Selim died, his son Murad
was on the throne. Sokullo was still a grand vizier, sokullo didn’t enjoy the full
authority and power that Selim has given him. Many hated him and were plotting against
him. Finally, Sokullo was assassinated in his council chamber by and apparent suppliant
dervish who stabbed a dagger in to his heart killing him. Corrupt officers meant that
they would do anything to keep their high positions. So they used to bribe
officials.

Inheritance

Also
inheriting of positions was also introduced for the first time. Before officers were
chosen by their quality.

Soon officials of the judicial
systems (judges) also followed in to the corruption system. Judges were as corrupt as
other officials too. Instead of listeninig to the complaints of the villagers, they were
all too welcome to take bribes from those charged with
offenses.

Corruption and
weakness in the officers of the military
forces

Corruption and weakness in the officers
of the military forces also had a significant effect on the empire. This was mainly in
the janissary officers and soldiers. Sultan Murad I of the Ottoman Empire founded the
units around 1365. They were mainly formed from Christian youths and war prisoners from
the Balkans. They were distinguished from other soldiers by their marching music and
their regular salary. By time through their attachment to the sultan they started to
gain too much power, and by power corruption appeared too. Also since Suleiman’s reign
janissaries were allowed to marry which led to the growth of heredity among
them.

Revolt of the Janissaries

What ultimately is Marquez saying about love in Chronicles of a Death Foretold? The theme of this novel is love. How is it true that “Love is...

Falconry is a sport in which birds are trained to hunt. 
These lines are quoted from a poem by Gil Vicente: “the pursuit of love/ is like
falconry.”  The idea is that love kind of sneaks up on you.  At first, you find and
train the falcon with the objective of hunting, but then you become attached to it and
cannot get along without it.

The idea that love can be
learned applies to people who have suffered such difficult events in their lives that
they have not learned how to love in childhood, when most people do.  Angela’s misery,
for example, is based on her early experiences with love and losing her honor.  She can
recover, and learn to love.

Honor is love is an interesting
theme, because Angela’s loss of honor is what spins the story into motion.  By trying
desperately to regain her honor for her, her brothers demonstrate their love for
her.

Determine the domain of definition of the function y=ln(x^2-3x+2) .

In the domain of definition of the given function has to
be all the values of x for the logarithmic function to
exist.

We'll impose the constraint for the logarithmic
function to exist: the argument of logarithmic function has to be
positive.

x^2 - 3x + 2 >
0

We'll compute the roots of the
expression:

x^2 - 3x + 2 =
0

We'll apply the quadratic
formula:

x1 = [3 +sqrt(9 -
8)]/2

x1 = (3+1)/2

x1 =
2

x2 = (3-1)/2

x2 =
1

The expression is positive over the
intervals:

(-infinite , 1) U (2 ,
+infinite)

So, the logarithmic function is
defined for values of x that belong to the intervals (-infinite , 1) U (2 ,
+infinite).

The domain of
definition of the given function y=ln(x^2-3x+2) is the reunion of intervals (-infinite ,
1) U (2 , +infinite).

In Frankenstein, why was Victor's observation of a lightning destroying an oak tree important?

In the novel Frankenstein by Mary
Shelley, there is a moment when Victor Frankenstein, a student of the sciences and a
curious researcher, witnessed the effect of lightning during a storm. In this case it
was an oak tree: A huge, strong, and majestic tree. It was amazing to Victor
Frankenstein to picture something so powerful be destroyed by a force of nature that is
otherwise invisible until it touches something-
electricity.

Ever since then he began his obsession with
electricity and intended to experiment with different things under the premise that
electricity may be what brings something to life: That it is a very strong and powerful
force not to be reckoned with, but that can be controlled and used. Hence, this was the
accelerator to his posterior obsession with creating life.

In regards to Hamlet, do you think guilty people always reveal themselves by their actions?

No, of course people do not always reveal themselves by
their actions.  There would be no unsolved crimes if that were the
case. 

Hamlet knows that, too, apparently, because he feels
he has to create a scenario in order to catch the king revealing his guilt.  He creates
a scene on stage that mimics the manner in which Claudius killed King Hamlet (according
to the Ghost).  By doing so he catches the king's guilty behavior as the king reacts to
the scene.

Claudius's reaction convinces both Hamlet and
Horatio that the king is guilty. 

Claudius, however, does
nothing that reveals his guilt before the play-within-the-play.  He fools everyone.  If
not for the Ghost giving Hamlet the knowledge of the murder and the details of the
murder, there's no reason to think that Hamlet would ever have suspected
Claudius.

How does Lee use language to convey the children’s opinion of the Radleys from pages 9-14?Discuss Harper Lee’s description of the Radley family...

In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
describes the Radley house as a place to be feared and a source of
punishment, and, together with the Dubose place, it is much like a hell
where naughty children go:

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The Radley Place was inhabited by an
unknown entity the mere description of whom was enough to
make us behave for days on end; Mrs. Dubose was plain
hell.

The
place is characterized as a haunted house, where a ghost is thought to enact cruel deeds
at night:

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Inside the house lived a
malevolent phantom. People said he existed, but Jem and I
had never seen him. People said he went out at night when the moon was down, and peeped
in windows. When people's azaleas froze in a cold snap, it was because he had breathed
on them. Any stealthy small crimes committed in Maycomb
were his work. Once the town was terrorized by a series of morbid
nocturnal events: people's chickens and household pets were found
mutilated;

The
house is also anti-family and anti-community.  The Radleys
keep to themselves and do not go to church.  They sound like some kind of cult.  Mr.
Radley carries strange, secretive things, all of which ironically
foreshadows what will happen later in the
novel:

The
misery of that house began many years before Jem and I were
born. The Radleys, welcome anywhere in town, kept to
themselves, a predilection unforgivable in Maycomb. They did not go to
church, Maycomb's principal recreation, but worshiped at
home; Mrs. Radley seldom if ever crossed the street for a mid-morning
coffee break with her neighbors, and certainly never joined a missionary circle. Mr.
Radley walked to town at eleven- thirty every morning and came back promptly at twelve,
is sometimes carrying a brown paper bag that the neighborhood assumed contained the
family groceries. I never knew how old Mr. Radley made his living-Jem said he "bought
cotton," a polite term for doing nothing-but Mr. Radley and his wife had lived there
with their two sons as long as anybody could
remember.

Why do the characters in Pride and Prejudice do not reflect passion ?

The reason why the characters in Pride and
Prejudice do not openly display passion may have everything to do with the
author's purpose in writing the novella, and the formula that she chose to bring out
specific themes.

Pride and Prejudice
is not necessarily a love story, but a comedy of manners in the subtle formula of the
Horatian satire. This means that the purpose of writing it is to expose the weaknesses
in people that are often thought of way too highly,for example, the aristocrats and the
upper classes.

This genre also aims to expose the qualities
that may make the audience question themselves as to why they think so highly of the
upper classes in the first place.

Therefore, Austen's focus
was to satirize a stratus of society and not to involve the audience into a complex,
sentimental tale.

In William Wordsworth's poem "We Are Seven," how does the author create eeriness at the beginning of the poem?

The poem "We are Seven" is about an eight year old girl
who is playing among the tombstones in a graveyard, and the poet observes how happily
she plays and with how much energy she is invested in her playtime. When he asks her how
many siblings she has, the girl insists in that there are five alive and two are in the
churchyard (buried). However, she insists in that they are still seven total. This is
indicative that the little girl's innocence prevents her from differentiating the pain
of death from the joys of life: She is joyful regardless because she represents the
innocent aspect of childhood and joy.

Wordsworth does,
however, use a bit of eeriness in the beginning, because the poem begins with a sudden
application of contrast in the play on words

A
Simple Child,
That lightly draws its breath,
And feels its life in
every limb,
What should it know of
death?

Wordsworth began his stanza using childhood
in the first verse, and death on the last verse, making the stanza contradictory and
contrasting in that childhood and death should not go together in one same thought, and
thus provoking a sense of eeriness. This is indeed an effective technique because the
contrasting quality of both terms bring the reader to suspect that something will occur
in the poem that will equally result in irony and even sadness.

Solve the inequality 16^(x-1)>2^(2x+2)

We'll write both bases as power of
2:

2^4(x-1)>2^(2x+2)

Since
the bases are bigger than unit value, the function is increasing and we'll
get:

4(x-1)> 2x+2

We'll
divide by 2:

2(x- 1) > x +
1

We'll remove the
brackets:

2x - 2 > x +
1

We'll subtract x both
sides:

2x - x - 2 > 1

x
- 2 > 1

We'll add 2 both
sides:

x > 2 + 1

x
> 3

The interval of values of x, for
the inequality holds, is (3 , +infinite).

In "Book Three: The Judges" of The Poisonwood Bible, why are Orleanna and Nathan fighting?

About 80 pages into the section, in a chapter narrated by
Ruth May, Orleanna and Nathan fight over the fact that some of the tribal elders are
saying that Rachel needs to be circumcised so that she won't be promiscuous later on in
her life,  "so she wouldn't want to run around with people's husbands."  This highly
controversial and brutal act of circumsizing females is often practiced in Africa, as a
way to stem the spread of AIDS, children out of wedlock, and promote male dominance. 
Nathan and Orleanna agree that it shouldn't be done, but Nathan ties it back to his
missionary work, and how he needs to teach the African people other ways so that they
don't lead "these female children like lambs to the slaughter."  Orleanna, at this
point, gets upset and accuses him of caring more for the African daughters than his own;
Mathan at this point is playing along with the tribal chief's request to have Rachel for
his wife.  Orleanna also doesn't like Axelroot hanging around Rachel and implores Nathan
to make him leave, but he concludes that Axelroot is better than the natives, and much
more safe.  Orleanna is so upset that she tears a sheet in
two.

That is the most specific instance of fighting that I
can find.  Throughout the entire book is the thread of Orleanna hating it there, being
worried about Ruth May's illness, and declaring outright that she wants to leave. She
stops supporting Nathan in his insane perspectives, and becomes a bit more independent,
which causes strife in the marriage.  I hope that those thoughts helped; good
luck!

Can you please give 4 characteristics of Koly from Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan?If you can, please list quotes or page numbers (preffered)....

Being able to deliver pages numbers is going to be
difficult because different versions of the book's printing exist.  Yet, I think that
there are some overall characteristics where textual support is abundant.  I would say
that Koly is devoted to her family.  She understands that while the marriage is not
something that she embraces joy nor about which there is excitement, it is something
that she has to do for her family.  Accordingly, I think that loyalty is a critical
element that Koly possesses.  She is loyal to her mother in law and the responsibilities
that being a daughter carries even though she is mistreated.  I would say that courage
is another trait, for when in Vrindavan, she makes the conscious choice to break free of
her former life and try a new state of being in the world.  Finally, I think that there
is a belief of redemption that is present in Koly's character makeup, as she is
convinced that her new life is something that will work, can work, and something worthy
of working out for her best.

What are some examples of satire from Huck Finn directly relating to nobility?5 examples

As the first answer suggests, most of Twain's satire
regarding nobility relates to the Duke and King.  Here are a few specific
examples.

1. The King and the Duke are con artists by
profession, illustrating Twain's belief that "nobles" are simply normal people who are
able to convince others to respect them (usually through false pretenses) and to offer
them money or other goods.

2.  The King and the Duke prey
upon the ignorant just as nobility often tries to keep the lower class illiterate and
uninformed.  While the Wilkes girls are certainly not illiterate, they and their fellow
townspeople are naive and ignorant when it comes to other cultures and customs.  Because
of their ignorance, the "nobility" is able to once again take advantage of
them.

3. The Grangerfords and Shepherdsons represent the
closest thing to royalty or nobility that the American South possessed during the
pre-Civil War time period; and yet, they are some of the most uncivilized characters in
the book.  Twain uses them to show that "breeding" and social class do not equal
morality.  Both families act barbarically, resulting in an almost complete annihilation
of a family.

4.  The Grangerfords also serve as a satirical
attack upon nobility in that they own slaves, forcing Jim to hide from them as Huck
enjoys his time with Buck Grangerford. Instead of representing what is noble and good in
society, the Grangerfords continue to participate in the barbaric practice of
slavery.

5. In the end, when the Duke and the King get
their comeuppance, it is almost entirely because of a small child (Huck).  Twain seems
to be implying that nobility is not as infallible or untouchable as it thinks, and that
their abuse of power does not have to continue.

What's the internal and external conflict between Waverly and her mother in "Rules of the Game"?

This story is really one big struggle for independence
between Waverly and her mother. Waverly, as the story progresses and she becomes more
aware of her talent, shows embarrassment at the way her mother takes pride in her and
wants to exploit her gift and talent to bring attention to
her:

My
mother would proudly walk with me, visiting many shops, buying very little. "This is my
daughter Wave-ly Jong," she said to whoever looked her
way.

One day, after we left a shop I said under my breath,
"I wish you wouldn't do that, telling everybody I'm your
daughter."

While the narrator
enjoys the challenge of winning at chess for its own sake, clearly the mother enjoys the
success of her daughter for the admiration it brings to
her.

At the end, the imagery of the chess board in
Waverly's dream is used to symbolise the conflict between Waverly and her mother, as
each struggles for mastery over the other. The way that the story ends, with Waverly
closing her eyes and "pondering my next move," indicates Waverly's desire to escape her
mother and treats her conflict as a game of chess. Although Waverly has lost this round,
she is considering how to eventually beat her mother and gain the independence she so
desperately desires.

Solve the system 2x-4y = 5 x+3y = 7

2x - 4y = 5 ............(1)

x
+ 3y = 7 .............(2)

We will use the elimination
method to solve for x and y.

We will multiply (2) by -2 and
add to (1).

==> 2x -4y = 5
..............(1)

==> -2x - 6y = -14
............2*(2)

==> -10y =
-9

==> y = 9/10 =
0.9

Now to find x we will substitute into
(2).

==> x = 7 - 3y = 7- 3(0.9) = 7- 2.7 =
4.3

==> x =
4.3

Then, the solution to the system is the
pair ( 4.3 , 0.9)

In Chapters 10 and 16 of Great Expectations, what 2 items from Pip's past mysteriously reappear?

In Ch.10 it is the file and in
Ch.16 it is the leg-iron.

In
Ch.10 Pip and Joe go to the pub "the Jolly Bargemen." There they meet a stranger talking
to Mr.Wopsle who

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was a secret-looking man whom [Pip] had never
seen before. His head was all on one side, and one of his eyes was half shut up, as if
he were taking aim at something with an invisible
gun.

The stranger ordered
three glasses of rum for himself and Joe and Wopsle. When the drinks arrived the
stranger in a pointed manner stirred his glass of rum and water not with a spoon but
with a file  to communicate to Pip that he was an acquaintance of Magwitch to whom he
had given the same file:

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he stirred it and he tasted it: not with a spoon
that was brought to him, but with a
file.

He did this so that nobody
but I saw the file; and when he had done it he wiped the file and put it in a
breast-pocket. I knew it to be Joe's file, and I knew that he knew my convict, the
moment I saw the instrument. I sat gazing at him,
spell-bound.

The stranger
departs after having rewarded Pip with a shilling and two one pound
notes.

In Ch.16 Mrs.Joe Gargery has been found knocked
unconscious and the police have arrived at the crime scene to investigate . Joe and Pip
have just returned from the pub. Every one is clueless as to the identity of the
assailant. However, the instrument of the crime is lying close to Mrs.
Joe:

But,
there was one remarkable piece of evidence on the spot. She had been struck with
something blunt and heavy, on the head and spine; after the blows were dealt, something
heavy had been thrown down at her with considerable violence, as she lay on her face.
And on the ground beside her, when Joe picked her up, was a
convict's leg-iron which had been filed
asunder.

Pip
recognizes immediately that it is the same leg-iron of Magwitch's. He is bewildered but
is certain that Magwitch would not have attacked his sister. He is convinced that it is
either Orlick or Compeyson the other convict:

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I believed the iron to be my convict's iron --
the iron I had seen and heard him filing at, on the marshes -- but my mind did not
accuse him of having put it to its latest use. For, I believed one of two other persons
to have become possessed of it, and to have turned it to this cruel account. Either
Orlick, or the strange man who had shown me the
file.

What is the climax of "The Lady of Shallot"?

In this fascinating poem a lot seems to be said about the
division between art and life. The Lady of Shallot is trapped or "embowered" in her
tower and left to see life as a pale imitation as mediated through her mirror. She
spends her time recoring life in her embroidery, a "magic web with colours gay." We hear
about the curse that is on her, that if she were to look down to Camelot herself without
using the mirror, her doom would come upon her.

So, quite
clearly, the climax of this poem comes when the Lady of Shallot is so overwhelmed by
reality that she is tempted into looking down at the sight of Sir Launcelot trotting
past her window. Note how he is described with such
vibrancy:

A
bowshot from her bower eaves,

He rode between the barley
sheaves,

The sun came dazzling through the
leaves,

And flamed upon the brazen
greaves

Of bold Sir
Launcelot.

In this poem, we
can see from the dramatic way in which he enters, that he could be said to symbolise the
forces of life and reality. The impact this sight has on the Lady of Shallot is enough
to bring the doom upon her:

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She left the web, she left the
loom

She made three paces through the
room,

She saw the waterlilly
bloom,

She saw the helmet and the
plume,

She looked down to
Camelot.

Note how the
repetition of the phrase "She" functions to increase the dramatic nature of this stanza.
This is the climax of the poem because it results in the irrevocable breaking of the
mirror and her abandonment of her tower.

What motivates Montag, Clarisse, Mildred, Beatty, and Faber in the novel Fahrenheit 451?Please give me a quotation from the story that illustrates...

Fahrenheit 451 is a wonderful book,
and anything I can do to help you better understand it would be my
pleasure.

Your question deals with motivation, which in
essences asks "why do the people in the book do what they do."  I take it that you are
asking from a general standpoint, and not in relation to any particular part of the
book.  As such, let's take a
look.

1. Montag --
   What motivates this guy?  That's a difficult question to answer because Montag is the
   character who undergoes the most changes in the book.  What motivates him at the
   beginning, middle, and end changes.  Generally, if I had to put my opinion in, I would
   say that Montag is motivated by "truth."  His character has an inquiring mind, even if
   it is slow to get moving, and his actions in the story seem to be based around "getting
   to the bottom" of why books are banned and whether the life they are living is a proper
   one.  I like this as a quote about Montag: "You're not
   like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at
   me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon,
   last night. The others would never do that. The others would walk off and leave me
   talking. Or threaten me. No one has time any more for anyone
   else. You're one of the few who put up with me. That's why I think
   it's so strange you're a fireman, it just doesn't seem right for you,
   somehow."


2. Clarisse
   -- Clarisse would appear to be motivated by beauty, creativity, and an inquisitive
   nature.  She desires freedom of thought and expression and her lifestyle revolves around
   that.  As a quote about her, this is a good one: "She didn't want to know how
   a thing was done, but why. That can be embarrassing. You ask
   Why to a lot of things and you wind up very
   unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off
   dead."


3. Mildred --
   The character of Mildred is motivated to maintain the "status quo."  She
   likes the life she has (at least that is what she says...her subconscious may be saying
   otherwise) and doesn't like her husband rocking the boat.  At least on the dominant
   level, she wants things to keep going the way they are.  Here is a good quote for
   her...it isn't about her, but it is something she says that sums up
   her character pretty well: "She's nothing to me; she shouldn't have had books.
   It was her responsibility, she should have thought of that. I hate her. She's got you
   going and next thing you know we'll be out, no house, no job,
   nothing."


4. Beatty --
   Beatty is probably the most complex character in the book.  Like Faber,
   he is "ideologically motivated."  He does what he does in the book because he believes
   it serves a greater cause (in Beatty's case, he feels it is for the good of society.)
    Here is a quote from him that shows you what he is like: "She didn't want to
   know how a thing was done, but why. That can be embarrassing. You ask Why to a lot of
   things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better
   off dead." Incidentally, this quote also tells you more about Clarisse as
   well.


5. Faber --
   Faber, like Beatty, is motivated by ideology.  In his case, though, it is the idea of
   preserving knowledge contrary to the cultural norm. He is motivated by the love of
   knowledge and a feeling that the current social situation is wrong.  Unfortunately, he
   is also afraid: "So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most,
   like myself, scare
   easily."
   

Like all good
characters, this is just a quick sum-up of their
motivations.

In Elizabeth Barret Browning's sonnet "Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me Many Flowers," what advice does the speaker give her beloved?

In response to the many gifts of beautiful flowers that
the speaker of the poem has received from her beloved, which all act as symbols or
tokens of the love that he has for her, she gives a gift in return, which likewise
symbolises her deep love and affection for her beloved. The advice that the speaker
therefore gives to her beloved is to accept this gift, and to keep them so that the
original purpose and message is still clear to him:

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Take back these thoughts which here unfolded
too,

And which on warm and cold days I
withdrew

From my heart's
ground.

It is important to
realise that the author uses the extended metaphor of the flowers to describe her
poetry, her "thoughts" which she gives to her beloved. Just like the flowers she has
been given, she has "withdrawn" her verse from her "heart's ground" throughout the year.
This explains the final two lines of this powerful sonnet and the advice contained
therein:

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Instruct thine eyes to keep their colours
true,

And tell thy soul, their roots are left in
mine.

Thus the speaker urges
her beloved to keep the vitality and the "colour" of her poetry "true" and to remember
that her verse is a product of the love she has for him in her
soul.

In "The Shawl" by Cynthia Ozick, describe the horror in the story.

“Then Stella
took the shawl away and made Magda
die.”

The horrors found in
“The Shawl” by Cynthia Ozick culminate in man’s inhumanity to man. During World War II,
the Nazis removed people from their homes and possessions.  Many times, they also took
their lives, particularly if the family were Jewish. Usually, the family was initially
placed in a concentration camp far from their
countries.

The characters in this story include a trio of
females--Rosa, the older girl; her baby, Magda; and Stella, Rosa’s fourteen year old
niece—who have walked a long way from their home in a cold march toward the destination
of a concentration camp. 

Normally, Magda would have
already been killed.  The Nazis immediately killed all small babies; however, Rosa hid
her baby in a large shawl that she wore over her shoulder.  From the shawl, Rosa could
feed Magda and allow the baby to sleep without being
noticed.

Horror abounds in the story. 

The beginning of the
terror

Rosa’s milk dries up, and she teaches
Magda to suck on the corners of the shawl for comfort. No one touches the shawl but
Magda and her mother.

Rosa often saw Stella staring at
Magda as though she would like to kill her and eat her
thighs.

Rosa kept Magda alive for fifteen months in the
barracks. 

Magda learns to walk; Rosa knew then that Magda
did not have long to live.

Stella constantly complained
about hunger.  Stella’s heart was cold as well as her
body. 

Finally, Stella steals Magda’s shawl without Rosa’s
knowledge.

The final
terror

Looking for her shawl, Magda goes outside
into the area where the Nazi soldiers can see her.  Rosa heard Magda for the first time
yell out:

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‘Maaaaaaa---‘ and again
‘Maaaaaa…aaa!’

Rosa hurries
into the  barracks looking for the shawl to lure Magda back inside.  Stella was sleeping
under Magda’s shawl. Rosa jerks it off and runs to the door to show
Magda. 

Rosa comes out into the open air.  The ironic
vision she sees through the electrified fence is flowers, butterflies.  She could hear
the hum of the electricity going through the fence. 

Magda
was slung over a soldier’s shoulder with her arms held out toward her mother.  The
soldier was taking Magda in the other direction.  Rosa could see a glimmer of light
reflecting off of the soldier’s helmet that carried her baby. She could hear Magda’s
cries: Maaamaa.

The black uniformed soldier continues
walking down past twelve barracks. Rosa could barely see Magda now. Without warning, the
soldier flung Magda up into the air.  To Rosa, she looked like a butterfly.  She could
see her feathered blonde hair and ballooned stomach as it sprawled out and crashed into
the fence. 

The sounds of the electric fence went crazy as
the fence burned the flesh of the baby.  When she could see Magda’s  body again, it was
just burned sticks. Rosa wanted to go and pick up her
baby. 

In her heart, she knew that the soldiers would shoot
and kill her.  She stuffed Magda’s shawl in her mouth preventing the screams in her
throat from emerging. Rosa sucked on the shawl tasting Magda and drinking up the juices
of her child.

The mother must now live forever with the
horrific vision of seeing her child electrocuted.   Her niece began the end of Magda. 
How would she ever forgive Stella?

The Nazis exemplified
the motif: man in certain circumstances is capable of treating his fellow man with
extreme cruelty and evil.   With no feeling at all, a mother loses her beloved child
forever.  

In what way is there a sense of futility in "The Outsiders?"

The most effective way to convey a sense of "futility" in
literature is to depict individuals attempting to break through institutional barriers
that are entrenched, protected by interests and overall inertia.  I think that Hinton
does this in her work in a couple of ways.  In depicting the world between the Socs and
the Greasers as one of economic reality, the fact of the matter becomes that the
Greasers will never be able to defeat the class system that has relegated them to the
periphery.  It is a futile reality that is constructed, but the Socs have all of the
resources.  To quote Warren Zevon, they have "the lawyers, guns, and money."  The
Greasers can try to defeat this configuration, but in the end, they will only be
reaffirming the exclusionary practices that benefit the Socs and disempower them. 
Dally's quest is a forgotten one, and for each one of him, greater marginalization
occurs.  This becomes the futile existence that is conveyed through Hinton's work. 
Adolescent frustration is evident, in part, because of a socio- economic reality that
silences voices.  The real interesting element is that the Greasers are right.  They are
the victims of class warfare and economic modes of silencing voices.  Yet, it is the
adolescent group that points this out to the reader.  The recognition achieves even
greater futility when one recognizes that American society, a reality that espouses
fairness and equality in opportunity, is constructed in a contrary manner and not
adults, but adolescents have discovered this and live it.  In this light, Hinton is able
to convey the sense of futility that is lived out by these adolescents and one that
forces us, the reader, to reexamine our own settings and
practices.

What is a good thesis statement for the role of women in the 19th century in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice?

To find a thesis statement, one must define the role(s) of
women in this period. Austen actually shows a fairly broad range of roles of women in
the 19th century (though published in the 19th century, Pride and
Prejudice was actually written in the late 18th century) in Pride
and Prejudice. The range spans from Lady de Bourgh to Mrs. Younge and from
Lydia to Miss Darcy and Miss de Bourgh.

The most active
role is represented by Lady de Bourgh. She is not only nobility who hostesses dinner
parties and intimidates guests, she also has the full running of the estate (most
probably with the aid of a steward though none is specifically mentioned) and the
village of peasant who work on the estate. Along with managing the estate's agricultural
productivity, she also ensures that the ill are tended to, the quarrelsome are
admonished, the aged are cared for, and all other social dynamics are provided for so
that the village is peaceful as well as productive. This may seem insignificant since we
of modern times have little concept of what running an estate in the 19th century
encompassed, but in reality it was something akin to administering a small modern
hospital full of able bodied workers, the infirm and aged, those needing to be fed and
those needing attention.

Mrs. Younge, a widow, represents
an educated, genteel working class woman who has sufficient background, breeding, and
cultivation to be an acceptable teacher and (ironically) moral guide for a girl of Miss
Darcy's breeding, social position, family connections, and expectations. A common myth
is that the role of women at this period was to remain "uneducated." True, women did not
have access to university education or to the range of subjects for study, but upper
class women of Austen's day were certainly not uneducated. This is one of the topics of
censure that Lady de Bourgh levels against the Bennet's: no governess and no tutors were
provided the girls for their education:

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No governess! How was that possible? Your mother
must have been quite a slave to your
education.

Lady de Bourgh and
Mrs. Younge represent one role of women in this period: active participation in economic
activities (earning money) and in the directing and molding of individuals in society,
one in an administrative capacity and one in education.

The
most discussed role is represented by Charlotte Lucas. Women were expected to marry.
Women might work as governesses, dressmakers, domestic servants, or farm laborers for a
time but were expected to marry. Charlotte so well depicts this imperative that she
marries Mr. Collins, whom few readers really like, in order to have some independence
from her parents, a home, and some degree of choice.

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I ask only a comfortable home; and considering
Mr. Collins's character, connexions, and situation in life, I am convinced [of] my
chance of happiness ....

The
most emphasized role for women is that of purity and chastity. Books, such as Forsyth's
sermons, abounded on the purity of womanhood and its relevance for children. This is
represented by Lydia who demonstrates this role by providing the opposite principle.
Where purity and chastity hold a family together and lead to opportunities, Lydia's
choice divides and levels its hoped for opportunities--unless aided by an Uncle Phillips
and a Mr. Darcy. Your thesis might be: Though purity was required, the role of women
could be broader in scope in the 1800s than that of governesses, servants, and
wives.

In Chapter 4, how does Crooks' attitude change after the encounter with Curley's wife? Why do you think it changes?

Specifically, in chapter four of Of Mice and
Men, Curley's wife threatens Crook with her ability to tell white men that
he, a black man, did something sexually to her.  It isn't directly stated as such, but
it is definitely implied.

Crooks stands up to her and is
immediately put back in his place by her.  She
says:

She
turned on him in scorn.  "Listen, Nigger," she said.  "You know what I can do to you if
you open your trap?"

And
again:

She
closed on him.  "You know what I could
do?"

Crooks
reacts:

Crooks
seemed to grow smaller, and he pressed himself against the wall.  "Yes,
ma'am."

And she finishes him
off:

"Well,
you keep your place then, Nigger.  I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain't
even funny."

Her use of the
perjorative that ignorant whites use for blacks, and her reference to lynching, makes
her meaning clear--all she has to do is say Crooks tried something sexual with her, and
he would be hanged.  He is, figuratively speaking, put back into the place society keeps
him in.

In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo kills Tybalt... With what was Tybalt killed?With a dagger, a sword, knife...?

In Act III, Scene 1 of Romeo and
Juliet, Romeo returns from his marriage to Juliet by Friar Laurence to find
his friends.  But, he sees an altercation in progress and seeks to defuse the
situation.  Now that he is married to Juliet, he tells Tybalt that he loves him and does
not wish to quarrel.  Calling upon Benvolio to get Tybalt and Mercutio to lay down their
swords after the enraged Tybalt draws his sword, he stands in the way of Mercutio,
causing him to be stabbed.  After the mortally wounded Mercutio is taken off, Romeo
bemoans his weakness:

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...O sweet
Juliet,

Thy beauty hath made me
effeninate,

And in my temper softened valor's
steel
(3.1.115)

Here
Romeo refers to his sword, that he uses against Tybalt, just as Tybalt has slain
Mercutio with his sword. 

It is only logical that Romeo
would use the same type of weapon that Tybalt does.  Also, the sword is the weapon that
the men of that time used.  For instance, in the first act, Sampson, the Capulet servant
tells Abraham, "My naked weapon is out," an allusion to his sword which has been pulled
from its sheath.  Later, old Lord Capulet calls for his "long sword" when he hears the
feuding.  So, with the mention of "steel" for his weapon, as well as the other mentions
of swords, it seems very likely that Romeo, too, has a sword with which he kills
Tybalt.

What is the invitation process for Gatsby's parties in Chapter 3 of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby?

For the most part, there is no invitation process for
Gatsby's parties.  That's one of the points of the
parties.

People come from all over with no invitations. 
The word travels about the parties and the people of the Jazz Age are so eager to party
and drink illegal alcohol that they show up from all over.  The attendance at the
parties demonstrates the recklessness and carelessness and lack of consideration of the
people.  They come without knowing whether the host wants them there.  They don't care
if he wants them there or not.

This, of course, contrasts
with the attendance at Gatsby's funeral.  The contrast shows that the party-goers use
Gatsby like everyone else does. There is one exception, of course.  Gatsby does invite
Nick to join the party.  The process is that he just asks him to
come.

I am writing a Research paper about the Swine flu and I have all the information I need but I can not figure out how to write the introduction.I...

In addition to starting broadly and narrowing down to your
thesis, another common way to begin an essay of the sort you describe is to start with
something opposite of what you're writing about, or, to rephrase and explain, to start
with something similar yet different.

In your case, you
could start with the traditional flu.  If you know the history, symptoms, and treatment
of traditional flue, you can start with them, then lead into the swine
flu.

Another option is to start with the common cold.  This
would be particularly relevant, since people seem to struggle with the ability, or
inability, to tell the difference.  This is vital because a cold doesn't usually require
a doctor's visit or hospitalization, while the swine flu
might. 

Starting with something similar yet different, can
be a way to naturally introduce your topic and thesis.

Identify and discuss the significance of the narrative point of view of "Harrison Bergeron."

The narrative point of view employed in "Harrison
Bergeron" is third person omniscient.  It should also be noted that the narrator poses
judgements on the occurrences in the story.  For example, at the beginning of the story,
the narrator defines the setting of the story as the year 2081, a time when many
additional amendments to the Constitution have been made.  The attempt has been to make
everyone equal, yet the narrator claims that "[s]ome things about living still weren't
quite right, though."  Because the narrator interjects on events and characterizes the
nature of events in a particular way, the tone of the story is bent towards the absurd. 
Using the narrative point of view in this way allows the author Kurt Vonnegut to develop
the story as a satire.

What did the prisoner do in the last two years of his confinement?was he left free from the prison ? what actually happened in the end ? did anyone...

The prisoner, a young lawyer, spent the final two years of
confinement reading. He read books on topics such as philosophy, religion, science,
literature, and medicine. The banker recounts that the young lawyer read avidly and
voraciously, incessantly moving from text to text. Apparently, the lawyer has resolved
to survey the span of accumulated human knowledge.

Your
second question asks if the prisoner (the lawyer) was set free. The lawyer had been free
to leave at anytime during the fifteen years. He would, of course, have to forfeit the
two million dollars. Because he researched the wisdom of the world, he determines that
despite any human success or accomplishment, life is futile. He states that mice and men
have the same fate because they all eventually die. He no longer values money or
achievement, so he leaves the lodge a few hours before the fifteen years end. Neither
man dies.

How will the "Great Leap Forward" affect the people in China and Chinese communism in the long term?

Mao  launched the Great Leap Forward, an economic and
social campaign, in 1958, that aimed to industrialise China and transform it from a
backward, agrarian country to a modern nation. A policy of rapid industrialisation and
collectivisation was advocated, large amounts of funds were used to construct huge state
enterprises for steel production, peasants were encouraged to establish small-scale
backyard furnaces to produce iron and steel, and communist organisations, known as the
“People’s Communes”, were set up, where private ownership was abolished. Wooden doors
and windows were burned to fuel the fires in the furnaces and domestic household items
melted to produce metal. This was a huge waste of resources as the steel produced was
often of low-quality and thus could not be used in industrial activities. Residents of
the communes not only had to work together, they also ate together at  canteen. The
communes soon ran out of food and faced with a lack of food reserves, large-scale
famines occurred. Agricultural innovation, as advocated by Mao, also did not drastically
raise grain production. In fact, policies, such as close-cropping, only lowered
production rates. State officials, afraid of being punished, provided the central
authorities with fabricated statistics that painted a rosy picture. As a result, the
government took away more grain from the communes, which were exported to support poorer
communist states, while Chinese starved to death. The campaign was a disaster of
unprecedented proportions, resulting in a great famine that destroyed 30-40% of houses
in China saw more than 30 million people dead at the end of it. Mao’s reputation
declined and he was forced to cede the presidency to Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping, who
rose in power within the Communist Party, which led to a change in policy
direction.

Analyze "The Lady of Shalott" as a representative Tennysonian poem.with reference to the MUSICAL QUALITY, MELODY, SYMBOLISM, WOMAN QUESTION

"The Lady of Shalott" is an early Tennyson poem, and as
such is still very much romantic in nature.  The beautiful natural imagery of the area
around Shalott is idealized, as is Lancelot.  The Lady herself, of course, is
imprisoned in a tower in need of rescuing, also.  Nature and
medieval allusions and symbolism mark this as from Tennyson's early works, and
demonstrate the early influence of Romanticism on the
Victorians.

More importantly, the work concerns the
creative process and the isolation of artists--something Tennyson is often concerned
with.  The Lady doesn't live life, she only interprets it through the mirror images she
sees.  She is separate from experience--dangerous for an
artist.

In the fictional world of this ballad, the Lady
must die before she gets to Camelot.  Why?  Because reality can never live up to
fantasy.  The fantasy is always better.  Thus, artists must be careful of separating
themselves from society.  

The imagery, symbols, and ideas
or themes connect this to other works by Tennyson.

I need thought provoking questions for an assignment: Ethan Canin's short story "Star Food."

When you are asked to provide "thought-provoking
questions" for an assignment, the most important thing is for those questions to come
from you.  I would suggest rereading the story carefully and marking thoughts, ideas,
and even questions in the margin.  If you can't write in your book, you can use post-it
notes or even little pieces of note paper as you read.  Start by asking questions at
certain places, such as "Why does he think this?"  "Why does he react this way?"  "What
would I do in his place?"  Keep in mind that Dade, the sensitive narrator, is recalling
how he disappointed his parents and himself when he turned
18.

Thought-provoking questions could deal with the
disappointment of the parents ("Why were they disappointed?" "Were they right to be
disappointed?") or Dade's developing feelings about the shoplifter ("Why does he let her
go?"   "Why does he think about her needs instead of understanding the business needs of
the store?")

The most thought-provoking questions will be
those that help you to think more deeply about the character development and conflict in
the story.  Good luck.

The summary and analysis of the
story available on E-Notes might help you with your questions,
too.

Pick one character and discuss the methods Enger uses to characterize him or her in Peace Like a River.Consider the following methods of...

The fact that the question contains the words "thus far" I
will assume that you have not read the entire book yet.  This means you only have to
look as far as you have read to find examples.  In order to complete this assignment I
encourage you to follow these simple steps in
order:

1. Choose a
   character. (The easiest, in my opinion, are either Reuben or Swede,
   though Jeremiah would also be fun.)


2. Make a
   list of examples for your character following the characterization
   guidelines above (speech, action, reaction, etc.)  If you found just one example (a
   quote or paraphrased idea) for each, you would have a great
   start.


3. Examine your list. 
   From it, try to draw a one-sentence conclusion about your character.  This is where you
   will include a few pointed adjectives to describe who he or she really
   is.


4. Your one-sentence character "summary" will become
   your thesis statement.  Then, you can prove the thesis using the
   examples you brainstormed in step #2.

A couple
of things to consider:

Reuben is the narrator.  Most of the
insight you will glean from him comes from his easy way of speaking and story-telling,
the personal connection he has to each member of his family, and his imagination. 
Consider that he is young when he experiences the story, but tells much of it from a
grown up perspective.  You might also want to include the fact that he should have died
as a baby, but didn't, and thus believes his father works miracles, and his life has a
purpose.

If you choose Swede, her writing and poetry
throughout the story should not be ignored.  Much like her brother Reuben, she is
imaginative, intelligent, and acts much older than her age.  Also consider that she is
the only female, being raised by a father and two older
brothers.

How was the cultural life of America in the period known as Great Depression?

Culture in America was profoundly impacted by the poverty
and lack of power caused by the economic crises of the time.  There was greater impact
found in documentaries that depicted reality as it was.  Even fiction moved towards this
realm such as in the works of John Steinbeck, who articulated the condition of the
dispossessed.  The films of the time period were vastly different from the ornate and
wealthy extravagance of the previous decade.  The films of the 1930s focused on the
"common man," and sought to bring the message that individuals can do great things. 
This message might have been advocated because it was believed that individuals had to
become the miracle they sought for government was not in the position to help anyone at
the time.  The time for governmental miracles was supplanted by heroines like Scarlett,
who vowed "to never go hungry again," in Gone with the Wind or
Dorothy who had to go to the ends of the earth to understand that "There's no place like
home" in The Wizard of Oz. Poets like Langston Hughes in works such
as "Waitin' on Roosevelt" gave voice to the idea that the time
period brought unique challenges for people of color who were feeling pressure on both
economic and racial fronts.  In the end, culture of the 1930s profoundly mirrored
Shahn's murals where the different faces of pain, hunger, want, and barrenness were
evident.

In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, what is Atticus's temperament?

Atticus is very calm, even mellow.  His children think it
is because he is old, but it has more to do with his attitude toward people.  He
believes that everyone should be treated with respect.  What makes him unusual is that
this idea extends to children, poor people, outcasts and people of all
races.

Atticus tries to raise his children to be good
people.  He treats them with "exaggerated courtesy" and more like adults than children. 
This is likely due to his attitudes toward people in general, and the fact that he
raised them without a mother.  He chose Calpurnia to be not just a cook and housekeeper,
but rather his partner in raising his children.

Atticus is
never mean or loud.  He threatens constantly to beat Scout and Jem, but it is revealed
that he has never laid a hand on either of them.  He tells Jack that he has gotten away
with threats instead, but based on Jem’s attitude it is clear that his children are more
afraid of losing his respect and letting him down.

Atticus
is soft-spoken, but when he talks everyone listens.  His manner at trial is polite and
shrewd, but also unnervingly calm.  When he is polite and gentle to Mayella, she assumes
he is making fun of her.  He treats the jury just as respectfully, and they return that
respect by taking longer than usual to convict Tom.

How would I write a poem with three lines of blank verse, 5 iambs each, second line with assonance, third line with alliteration? Please help!

First of all, if you do not have a subject for your poem,
you will need to brainstorm about what you will write.  Try to avoid the usual topics of
love or friendship; perhaps you could write about some aspect of a day such as dusk or
dawn or about a creature of nature as Emily Dickinson and D. H. Lawrence did.  Also
expressing your unique point of view about a feeling can provide ideas, as well.  Miss
Dickinson, for instance, wrote about hope being "a thing with feathers."  When you
decide upon a topic for your poem, then determine what the controlling metaphor will be.
That is, to what are you going to compare this idea or feeling?  The metaphor that you
use should be a fresh and unusual one.

One you decide
upon the subject matter of your poem, write lines that express the comparison of the
controlling metaphor.  For them to be iambic pentameter, there must be 5 feet (5 sets)
of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.  The line's rhythm then
reads ta dum, ta dum, ta dum, ta dum, ta dum.  For examples of
iambic pentameter refer to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet which is
written almost entirely in iambic pentameter (or his sonnets).  Of course, assonance is
the repetition of vowel sounds and alliteration is the repetition of initial cosonant
sounds.  For instance, these two lines have alliteration of the
/s/:

I craved
strong sweets, but
those

Seemed strong when I was
young

And here is an example
of assonance in which the a sounds contribute to the poem's
musicality:

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Cooked on the homeblack of a flat
stove.

Flipped to slap the birth
awake.

Wrapped by corn
hands. 

Take a walk and
think; you will be surprised what good ideas spring from a good walk.  Below is a site
that the poets e.e.cummings advice to young poets "APoet's
Advice". 

What is the moral behind "There Will Come Soft Rains"?

There always seems to be a cautionary note in the way that
science fiction writers like Bradbury construct their future worlds. They offer us a
glimpse of one possible future which we could be heading towards, and by so doing hope
to correct the various excesses or attitudes that could be responsible for leading to
that future. In a sense, they act as fortune tellers by tantalising us with visions of
the future, but then empowering us to be able to change ourselves now to prevent
destruction later.

Let us consider what Bradbury might be
trying to warn us about in this excellent story. What is notable in this tale is the
complete absence of any human characters. The only mention of any humans in the story is
the outline that they left against the wall of the house when they were consumed by
flames:

The
five spots of paint--the man, the woman, the children, the ball--remained. The rest was
a thin charcoaled layer.

We
are presented with a house that demonstrates the incredible scientific advances of man
with its technology. Human beings almost have to do nothing because the house does it
for them. And yet, it is the same minds that have reached this level of technological
sophistication that have also created weaponry capable of annihilating the entire
species of humanity. The irony of this is evident.

Bradbury
therefore seems to be suggesting that this technology and scientific advancement that we
are achieving (after all we are progressing so rapidly) is great, but that if we do not
have wisdom to know how to use such science correctly, then what is the point? We are
not as safe and secure as we think we are, and by presenting us with a picture of nature
carrying on perfectly happily without us, Bradbury tries to highlight our vulnerable
position.

"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" by Walt Whitman is as much a poem about affirming life as it is a poem about death. Do you agreee?

I definitely agree. If you read this excellent poem
lamenting the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln carefully, you will see, apart
from the many instances of images and words that convey the poet's shock and sorrow
about the death of the President, many images that also celebrate the rebirth of life
and nature's natural cycle. Note first of all that the poem is set in spring, an obvious
time of rebirth and a celebration of the cycle of nature as life emerges. Note the
following quote from the first stanza:

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O ever-returing spring! trinity sure to me you
bring;

Lilac blooming perennial, and drooping star in the
west,

And thought of him I
love.

It is as if the
meditation on death that this poem represents places our lives in the scheme of the
natural cycle of life. As we read through the poem we see many more such examples that
celebrate life and the rebirth inherent in nature. Every leaf of the lilac plant is said
to be a "miracle" as it grows and blossoms, just as the poet mourns the death of his
friend. At every stage, death is coupled with new life, as in the following
stanza:

Over
the breast of the spring, the land, amid cities,

Amid
lanes, and through old woods, (where lately the violets
peep'd

from the ground, spotting the grey
debris;)

Amid the grass in the fields each side of the
lanes--passing the endless grass;

Passing the
yellow-spear'd wheat, every grain from its shroud in the dark-brown fields
uprising;

Passing the apple-tree blows of white and pink in
the orchards;

Carrying a corpse to where it shall rest in
the grave,

Night and day journeys a
coffin.

Note here how there
is ample evidence of the phoenix-like qualities of nature. Violets are emerging, the
wheat is "yellow-spear'd" and growing, the apple trees are blossoming, all alongside the
corpse that "shall rest in the grave."

Thus in this poem it
is clear that Whitman is keen to set this tragic event against a wider framework that
celebrates life and affirms it. This is not a mere lament, but a poem that talks about
the cycle of life and how the world continues and how often death is coupled with
life.

In The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton, what reasons do Steve, Darry and Sodapop have for fighting?

The Outsiders traces the harsh
reality for the "Greasers," a gang of boys who try to survive in an unforgiving
environment where class distinctions are a good enough reason to fight and the rival
gang, the "Socs", which is short for the "Socials, always seems to have the upper hand.
The Socs are the "west-side rich kids" and the greasers are from the "East side."
Greasers, Ponyboy who is the narrator explains, cannot "walk alone too much or they'll
get jumped" by Socs for no reason. 

Darry and Sodapop are
Ponyboy's brothers and Pony describes Soda as "happy-go-lucky and grinning while Darry's
hard and firm and hardly grins at all" (ch 1). Together the brothers help look after
Ponyboy as their parents were killed in "an auto wreck." The Greasers have the
occasional gang fight but Pony tries to stay out of trouble. However, Pony and Johnny
find themselves changed forever after a series of events which include Johnny killing
someone and the boys saving some children from a
fire. 

However, tensions are running high as Johnny has
killed a Soc and the Socs have almost killed Johnny, he is so critically injured.
Therefore, the Greasers talk about the "rumble" that will take place between the Socs
and Greasers. Dally reminds them that "we gotta get even with the Socs. For Johnny" (ch
8). In chapter 9, the fight takes place. There are twenty-two Socs' and twenty
Greasers. 

Soda says that he likes fights because they are
like drag-racing, "It's action. It's like a contest." Steve likes fights because he
wants to "stomp the other guy good" and Soda suggests that Darry likes fighting because
he gets to show off his muscles.  

calculate the sum sin x+square root(1-sin^2x)

To calculate the expression we'll have to transform the
sum into a product. The terms of the su are not like trigonometric
functions. 

We'll re-write the second term: sqrt(1-sin^2x)
= sqrt (cos x)^2

sin x + sqrt(1-sin^2x) = sin x + sqrt (cos
x)^2

sin x + sqrt(1-sin^2x) = sin x + cos
x

We'll  express the function cosine,
depending on the function sine.

cos x= sin
(90-x)

The expression will
become:

 sin x + cos x = sinx + sin
(90-x)

Now we can transform the expression into a
product:

 sin x + cos x = 2 sin (x+90-x)/2*cos
(x-90+x)/2

 sin x + cos x = 2 sin 45*cos
[-(90-2x)/2]

 sin x + cos x =  2* (sqrt2/2)*cos
(45-x)

 sin x + cos x =  sqrt 2*(cos 45*cos x
+ sin 45*sin x)

How do the animals deceive Mr. Whymper in Chapter Seven in Animal Farm?

By this time, the animals' lives are getting to be really
hard.  They don't have much to eat and they are having to work really hard.  But they do
not want the people around them to know this.  So they decide to fool the people by
fooling Whymper.  They are counting on Whymper to spread the word that the animals are
doing great.

So they do things like filling up the feed
bins with sand and then putting a bit of food on top to make it look like the bins are
completely full.  They have various animals talk about how the rations have been
increased at times and places where Whymper can hear.

That
way, they make him think the farm is doing fine.

In Rhinoceros, how is the theme related to Nazism?

The political and social conformity that seeks to
eliminate "the other" is the central idea behind Ionesco's play.  In the drama, the
townspeople become rhinos and seek to eliminate all signs of being human.  In an
increasing trend, the people in the town become rhinos only to eliminate any other
voices.  For Berenger, the immediate transformation of the townspeople into rhinos is
unsettling as he is the only one left to stand against a political tide of conformity
and control.  It is this point where one sees the connection to Nazism.  The sweeping
and intense manner in which the townspeople change is reflective of how people became
sympathizers or outright supporters of Nazism.  The political conformity, like the
transformation to Nazism, came out of belief or agreement, political convenience, or the
desire to be like everyone else.  Berenger's painful predicament of being the lone voice
against the rhinos reflects how agonizing it is to be the one person standing against an
overwhelming political current such as the Nazis.

What is areopagitica?Milton's prose work

The "Areopagitica" was Milton's response to government's
plans to enact censorship laws on writers. He did not want the government to be given
control of publishing because he felt, and rightly so, that this could lead to the
suppression of thoughts and ideas. He preferred that accountability for writing should
be controlled by other means, at the editorial level within the publishing cycle, for
instance, instead of at the governmental level.

Milton felt
that freedom of expression was an integral aspect of education and learning, of the
development of humankind. He writes:

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Where there is much desire to learn, there of
necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is
but knowledge in the
making.

He also believed that
taking control of thought away from thinkers, researchers, teachers and the like would
render that thought useless to the world, stating:

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And how can a man teach with authority, which is
the life of teaching, how can he be a doctor in his book as he ought to be, or else had
better be silent, whenas all he teaches, all he delivers, is but under the tuition,
under the correction of his patriarchal licenser, to blot or alter what precisely
accords not with the hidebound humour which he calls his
judgment?

Lastly, he thought
that the censoring of writing was just the first step on a slippery slope that would
lead to the censoring of all artisitc expression:

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If we think to regulate printing, thereby to
rectify manners, we must regulate all recreations and pastimes, all that is delightful
to man. No music must be heard, no song be set or sung, but what is grave and Doric.
There must be licensing of dancers, that no gesture, motion, or deportment be taught our
youth, but what by their allowance shall be thought
honest

Knowing what we now
know of the long legal history of battles against artistic censorship, one cannot help
but see that Milton's fears were quite accurate!

How do Pride and Prejudice and Romeo and Juliet present ideas about people in love?

Pride and Prejudice gives us a peek
into the strange dynamics of human relationships. This story presents people in love
whose pride and prejudice tend to suppress their true emotions, and highlights the role
of social norms in the romantic experiences of people in love. It characterizes the
power of reason - that of pragmatism and idealism as standards for love and
marriage.

Meanwhile, Romeo and Juliet
is as much about hate as love. Here, love as Romeo sees it in Rosaline is more of a
physical attraction than an emotional one; one has been struck by Cupid's arrows. Juliet
on the other hand is not overly concerned about love and will not take notice of it
until she meets Romeo. In Romeo and Juliet, the overwhelming power
of love consumes the lovers when they finally met. Love becomes potentially dangerous as
they learn that their families are feuding and all ends up in tragedy. This therefore
presents the danger and stupidity of love based on emotions
alone.

In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, what do Victor and the monster talk about?

In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, when
Victor and the monster meet face to face, they speak of several
things.

Victor curses the creature and wishes him dead. His
sole intent is to do whatever he can to destroy that which he has created. The monster
responds that Victor is responsible in creating him in the first place. The creature
states that even though his life is miserable, he still loves it and will defend himself
against Victor's attack.

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Life, although it may only be the accumulation of
anguish, is dear to me and I will defend
it.

The creature notes that
Frankenstein has a responsibility to him. Victor has rejected him, as do all other
members of society. He lives a lonely existence where only nature does not judge him. He
accuses Victor of hypocrisy: Victor calls the creature a murderer, yet wants to kill the
very thing he brought life to—the monster sees no justices in
this.

Victor once again curses the creature, and himself
for giving the creature life. He tell the monster to leave him, but the
creature implores Victor to at least listen to the tale he has to tell. As he thinks
about it, Victor is moved:

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I was partly urged by curiosity, and compassion
confirmed my resolution...For the first time, also, I felt what the duties of a creator
towards his creature were, and that I ought to render him happy before I complained of
his wickedness. These motives urged me to comply with his
demand.

And so it is that
Victor follows the monster so that he may hear the monster's
tale.

Describe the purpose of the Federal Witness Protection Program?

The Federal Witness Protection Program has been in
existence since 1970.  Its main purpose is to allow the government to have a better
chance of getting witnesses to testify against people who might be inclined to harm
those who testify against them.  This is especially important in the prosecution of
people who are allegedly involved in drug trafficking and/or organized
crime.

In such cases, witnesses (especially those who once
belonged to the organized crime families or drug cartels) are often afraid that they
will be killed if they testify.  This makes it hard to persuade them to testify as to
what they know.  The witness protection program was set up so as to protect these
witnesses by giving them new identities that, it is hoped, will prevent them from being
found and killed for their role in the trial.

Was the French Monarchy doomed to failure from the start of the French Revolution?

Yes, it had no chance to succeed. French society was
influenced to a great extent by the American Revolution and the idea of the rights of
man as well as the right to change a government that did not protect the rights of the
individual. The Bourgeoisie believed that only a representative government could
adequately protect their rights. An aggravating factor is that the country was
practically bankrupt, and Louis XVI was powerless to raise taxes. Rather than address
the needs expressed by the Estates General, Louis called in troops to dissolve the
meeting. This led, of course to the first meeting of the National Assembly. This was a
perfect storm of difficult economic circumstances, Enlightenment ideas from the American
Revolution, and a weak, vacillating monarch.

In "To Althea, from Prison" by Richard Lovelace, what three things does the poet do in prison?Please help!

In Richard Lovelace's poem, "To Althea, from Prison," the
poet "does" several things. Paradoxically, this poem discusses the contradictions
between the sense of captivity and freedom.

The author can
freely express his opinion while in prison: no one has gagged him. The author can still
enjoy his feelings of love. No prison can rob him of
this.

He also can find peace in his guiltlessness. This is
expressed in the following lines:

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Stone walls do not a prison
make,

Nor iron bars a
cage;

Minds innocent and quiet
take

That for an
hermitage;

This means that
being imprisoned and being a prisoner are different things. Just because he is in a
prison does not mean he is not free: his mind is innocent and so he can simply spend
quiet time in reflection, as one might on a hermitage (or a religious retreat). The
reference to a "hermitage" might also suggest that he is free to
"converse" with God during this quiet time allotted to
him.

And at last, though bodily confined, the author
stresses that he may still enjoy the freedom of his soul, which
cannot be confined, and he compares his freedom to that of the
angels.

What are 5 adjectives that describe King Claudius from the play Hamlet?

Ambitious:  He craved the throne, and went to great
lengths to obtain--and keep--his position as king once he gets it.  No one would murder
and connive quite so much unless they were ruthlessly
ambitious.

Manipulative:  Claudius is able to manipulate
other people to do what he wants them to.  Take for example Polonius, who does his
bidding all of the time.  Also take Rosencrantz and Guildenstern; they used to be
trusted friends of Hamlet's, but under Claudius' manipulation turn into spies and
potential murderers.  Then, Laertes is cunningly manipulated into challening and
intending to kill Hamlet.

Selfish:  Claudius takes what he
wants, with no concern for others.  He murders his brother and woos the queen, all to
obtain the kingdom.  Whether this hurts people in the process is of little concern to
him.

Conflicted:  One telling scene in the play shows
Claudius on his knees, praying, tormented by his sins.  So despite his crimes and
cunning nature, he still has a conscience that afflicts him
occasionally.

Clever:  Even though Claudius is able to take
the throne and manipulate people, he is very smart in how he does it.  He is aware of
his position and popular opinion, and works around it very well.  Instead of having
Hamlet killed for Polonius' murder, he sends Hamlet away on a ship, ordering his death
away from the kingdom where people might rebel.  He carefully arranges for Hamlet's
death to look like it had no connection thi himself.  He is smart, clever, and uses that
gift to his benefit.

I hope that helped; good
luck!

What are the unusual features of The Postmaster by Rabindranath Tagore?

I think that there are many unusual features of Tagore's
short story.  These help to contribute to its greatness.  One such feature is the
ending.  Tagore manages to make the reader feel a sense of disquietude amongst moral
ambiguity shrouded in uncertainty in the ending.  On one hand, there is a genuine hope
or belief in redemption or the Platonic "noble lie," that the Postmaster will come to
his senses and return to get Ratan and bring her with him.  There is a hope that this
will happen even in his mind.  Yet, he rationalizes his decision to do nothing and there
is a certain experience of feeling that the reader endures as a result.  It is easy to
criticize the Postmaster for his actions, yet Tagore might be suggesting that, to a
great extent, all human beings are guilty, on some level, of this.  At some point, we
all leave people that depend on us or have left people who possessed great feeling for
us.  Like the Postmaster, we, too, have rationalized this as being for the best.  While
we, as the reader, might be quick to throw stones at the Postmaster, one of Tagore's
great qualities and something unusual is that we are forced to confront both the
Postmaster and our own similar actions.

Another unusual
feature would be that the heroine of the short story, Ratan, for all practical purposes,
endures a suspended fate, to a great extent.  The reader is not necessarily certain as
to what is going to happen to this orphan.  On one hand, we know she is left behind. 
She has acquired a certain dignity with the beautiful and loyal manner she displayed to
the Postmaster.  Yet, we don't know exactly what is to become of her.  She stays on in
the village, and while we don't know her fate, perhaps, in a genius stroke, all we can
do is rationalize and conjecture, like the Postmaster, himself.  In another unusual and
brilliant move, Tagore reduces the reader to doing the same as the Postmaster regarding
Ratan.  It is his genius and an unusual feature to the short story to make the heroine
subject to wonderment by both her opposite in the story and the reader who reads
it.

What are three things the man in "To Build a Fire" could have done to make his trip more successful?

In the first place, he could have listened to the warnings
of the people who told him that he should not make the trip when he did. He should have
waited until the weather was warmer. The fact that the path had not been recently
traveled should have been an indicator to him, just as it was a foreshadowing to us,
that making the trip at this time of the year was not something other people did and
therefore not the best idea. He set himself out for failure by not listening to good
advice.

Secondly, if he still felt he had to try to make
the trip, he should have learned a bit more about the simple facts of nature such as
where to build your fire. Had he taken the time to think about it, he might have
realized that building a fire under a tree that had branches laden with snow was not the
best idea.

Lastly, he could have let go of his arrogance
and superiority and learned to watch the reactions of his dog who knew how to survive
against the odds.

Given sin x = 2/3 and sin y=1/3, 0

First of all, we'll have to find out if tan x and tan y
are positive or negative. From enunciation, we'll have tan x belongs to the first
quadrant and it is positive and tan y belongs to the second quadrant and it is
negative.

tan x=sin x/cos
x

cos x = sqrt[1 - (sin
x)^2]

cos x = sqrt[1 -
(2/3)^2]

cos x = sqrt (1 -
4/9)

cos x = (sqrt 5)/3

cos y
= - sqrt[1 - (sin y)^2]

cos y = - sqrt[1 -
(1/3)^2]

cos y = - sqrt[1 -
(1/9)]

cos y = - 2(sqrt
2)/3

tan x= (2/3)/[(sqrt
5)/3]

tan x = 2(sqrt5)/5

tan
y= (1/3)/[- 2(sqrt 2)/3]

tan y =
(-sqrt2)/4

tan (x+y)=(tan x + tan y)/(1-tan x*tan
y)

tan (x+y)=[2(sqrt5)/5+
(-sqrt2)/4]/[1+2(sqrt10)/20]

tg (x+y)=
[8(sqrt5) - 5(sqrt2)]/[20+2(sqrt10)]

From the characterization of Polyphemus, what conclusions can you draw about qualities that ancient Greek society considered barbaric or...

In the episode of the Cyclops, Homer comments on the
differences between Greek civilization and the barbaric and monstrous Cyclopes who have
no law.

Odysseus says to
Alcinous:

"We
sailed hence, always in much distress, till we came to the land
of the lawless and inhuman Cyclopes. Now the Cyclopes neither
plant nor plough, but trust in providence, and live on such wheat, barley,
and grapes as grow wild without any kind of tillage, and their wild
grapes yield them wine as the sun and the rain may grow them.
They have no laws nor assemblies of
the people, but live in caves on the tops of high
mountains; each is lord and master in his family, and they take no account of
their neighbours."

We
see that essential to civilization are law and assembly.  The Greeks have both, and
their gods have both.  But Polyphemus lives alone in his
cave.

Important to keeping Greek society civil is the
guest-host relationship. Greeks prided themselves on being
good hosts: they were expected to take in any guest, and to feed, clothe, and give him
shelter before he even asked his name.  In this way, Odysseus expects, as a guest, to be
treated with civility.  He expects the owner of the cave to give he and his men cheese
and lamb.  When Polyphemus refuses and eats Odysseus' men, Odysseus revenges according
to the guest-host relationship.

He takes revenge on the
giant by getting him drunk.  Odysseus turns the tables and plays host, giving the
cyclops wine.  This sets the giant to sleep, giving Odysseus time to blind
him.

What is the x-intercept of the graph of y = x^2 – 4x + 4 ?

Given the equation of the curve y= x^2 - 4x +
4

We need to find the x-intercept
.

We know that the c-intercept is the point where the curve
y meets the x-axis.

When the curve touches the x-axis, the
values of y will be 0.

==> y= x^2 - 4x + 4 =
0

Now we will
factor.

==> (x-2)(x-2) =
0

==> x =
2

Then, the x-intercept is the point ( 2,
0).

Describe what leads up to an organizational change.

In order for us to make a change in an organization we
have to consider two factors: the environment and the
goal.

Hence, the factors that lead up to organizational
change are influential enough to make the change occur. Now, this change is not small in
order to be considered under this context. When one speaks of organizational change one
is talking about major shifts in the mission, vision, or goal of the organization. For
these changes to take place the following scenarios are often what makes it
happen:

• budget
  cuts


• changing
  trends


• change in
  demographics


• change in
  goal


• change in vision


• lack
  of resources/or surplus

All these and some more
are unequivocally cause for any organization to shift and re-visit what their purpose or
mission is, and do their best to persist (and not succumb) to
change.