What is the conflict in the book My Side of the Mountain?i need to write an editorial about the conflict of the book

Sam Gribley lives in New York City with his  family of
eleven. When the family cancels their vacation to the mountains, Sam is determined to
live alone in the woods, adapting to and surviving nature's challenges. Surprisingly,
his parents do not resist the idea. Sam is challenged by all nature can throw at him in
the way of weather and animal behavior. His observations of the wild lead to his success
in beating the odds of a modern day child surviving in the woods with no help from other
humans and little in the way of supplies.

Distinguish between Base and Superstructure with special reference to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

Basically speaking, Marx says that the "base" is the
foundation of our society.  It is the thing that is truly important.  By contrast, the
superstructure consists of things that are built upon that
base.

Marx argued that what was truly important in any
society was the "relations of production."  In other words, it is the relationship
between those who do the work and those who own the means of production that really
determines how a society is.

On top of that base, there is
a superstructure that seems to be what is important about our society.  This consists of
things like our structure of government or our culture.  These are things that seem
really important but aren't.  What is really important is what the relationship is
between those who work and those who own the means of
production.

Change this invalid argument into a valid argument. all students are brilliant,she is brilliant,so she is a student.

Error: Incorrect
Reversal.

All students are brillants can be translated
into: If you are a student, then you are brillant. There is an error consisting in
reversing the two terms of the syllogism without negating
them.

Correct Reversal should read: If you are not
brillant, then you are not a student: the two terms must be reversed and then negated in
order to reach a valid conclusion.

All students are
brillant: in other words, if you belong to the category of students then you also belong
to the large category of brillant people.

However, there
are some people belonging to the category of "brillant" personnes who are note students;
therefore the correct statement should be:All students are brillant; she is a brillant
person but she may not be a student.

All students are
brillant

Why do the dwarves come to Bilbo's home?

Gandalf brings the dwarfs to Bilbo because he wants Biblo
to join them on the treasure hunt.  As a wizard, Gandalf knows that Bilbo is not an
ordinary Hobbit.  He tells the dwarfs that Biblo is a burglar, even though Bilbo has
done no such thing.  Gandalf knows that Bilbo has a special part to play in the
adventure.

As it turns out, Bilbo does take to adventuring
rather well.  He is scared at first, but when he is captured by the trolls he tells them
that he is a burglar, then changes him mind and tells them that he is a hobbit.  They
think he is a burra-hobbit.  Gandalf rescues him by tricking the trolls into arguing
until daybreak, when they turn to stone.  This is the first time Bilbo realizes that he
can be brave.

What Act & Scene in Shakespeare's Macbeth did the character Macbeth have trouble sleeping?How about Lady Macbeth?

The motif of sleeplessness first occurs in Act 2, scene
2.  After Macbeth kills Duncan and returns to his chamber, we can see that he is already
in the grip of guilt and severe anxiety. He tells his wife, "There's one did laugh in's
sleep, and one cried, “Murder!" (30). He tells her that the servants were crying out in
their sleep with "God bless us" and "Amen", as if they had seen him
murder the king. Yet when Macbeth tries to pray he could not, a fact that distresses him
greatly.

When Lady Macbeth urges him not to dwell on the
matter ("consider it not so deeply"), he seems unable to hear her. He continues to
recount his experience: "Methought I heard a voice cry “Sleep no more! Macbeth doth
Murder sleep--” (35-36) and “Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor Shall
sleep no more. Macbeth shall sleep no more" (43).

Macbeth
next mentions sleeplessness in Act 3 scene 2, just after her orders the murder of Banquo
and his son Fleance. Although he has no idea that the plan will go awry, he tells Lady
Macbeth it is better to be dead, like the King, than to lie in bed tortured by doubts
and fears--a suggestion that he has been suffering in this way himself. Coincidentally,
his statement mirrors one that Lady Macbeth makes while alone on the stage (see Act 3
scene 3 ll 6-9).  Later in the act, after Macbeth has made a spectacle of himself
reacting to Banquo's "ghost", Lady Macbeth tells him that he lacks sleep, "the season of
all natures" (170).

Ironically, it is next Lady Macbeth who
next has trouble with sleeping--or at least with sleeping while not walking and talking
at the same time.  In Act 5, scene 1, the Doctor and Gentlewoman are bewildered to
witness her episodes of sleepwalking, which are accompanied by such morbid ramblings
about blood, guilt, and murder that the Doctor claims that her ailment can only be cured
by God: "More needs she the divine than the physician" (68).

What elements of Romanticism do you find in Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" and Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight"?

The first two elements I notice are solitude and
connection with and meditation on nature. Other Romantic themes are nostalgia and hope
for the future. These themes are all interconnected through one of Romanticism’s major
themes which is the connection between humanity and nature, or imagination and the
world.

In “Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey,”
the ruined abbey invokes a simpler time in the past. The speaker’s references to the
past five years and his current state of mind ground the poem in a sense of nostalgia,
yet solace in his current wisdom. The speaker perceives the abbey differently now and
this corresponds to his change in mentality. He used to look at nature and exude passion
effortlessly. Now, he is less passionate but more thoughtful because he understands
perception is an active rather than a passive function. Being more mentally engaged, his
thoughts are more profound.

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For I have
learned,

To look on nature, not as in the
hour

Of thoughtless youth, but hearing
oftentimes

The still, sad music of
humanity,

Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample
power

To chasten and subdue. And I have
felt

A presence that disturbs me with the
joy

Of elevated thoughts: of a sense
sublime

Of something far more deeply interfused,
(89-97)

One of the most
common elements of romantic poetry was the connection between perception (especially
with nature) and the imagination. This is a connection between humanity (the mind) and
nature. After recollecting his times at school, in “Frost at Midnight,” the speaker
compares the infant’s silence in sleep with images in nature such as “the quiet moon”
and the “ministry of frost.” The form of this poem also supports the theme. It is a
conversation. The speaker is talking to nature, then to the infant and also to himself.
The speaker in "Tintern Abbey" exhibits these same
techniques.

In “Frost at Midnight,” the speaker compares
the sleeping infant with nature:

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But thou, my babe! shall
wander like a breeze

By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the
crags

Of ancient mountain, and beneath the
clouds,

Which image in their bulk both lakes and
shores

And mountain crags: so shalt thou see and
hear

The lovely shapes and sounds
intelligible

Of that eternal language,
(55-61)

The speaker foresees
this child experiencing nature as he did. And he speaks of this connection as something
inherently spiritual.

In both poems, the speakers wish for
continued tranquility and naturally inspired imagination for future generations. In
“Frost at Midnight,” the speaker wishes this for the
infant:

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Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee,
(66)

In “Lines Written a Few
Miles Above Tintern Abbey,” the speaker wishes this for his sister,
Dorothy:

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Therefore let the
moon

Shine on thee in thy solitary
walk;

And let the misty mountain winds be
free

To blow against thee:
(135-138)

Romanticism’s
stress of the importance of the imagination encourages idealism, dreams and visions.
Both of these poems illustrate dreams of past, present and
future.

How did the Magna Carta influence the U.S. Constitution?

On June 15, 1215, a disgruntled group of landed barons
achieved a great if very short-lived victory over the reigning monarch of the time, King
John.  That victory was the king’s consent to a document presented for his stamp that
limited the monarch’s authorities vis-à-vis his subjects.  That document, the
Magna Carta, or Great Charter, was a detailed list of
demands and principles that were intended to protect these elites from the tyranny of a
king with unchecked powers.  Among its more notable provisions was paragraph
#28:

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“No constable or other bailiff of ours
shall take corn or other provisions from anyone without immediately tendering money
therefor, unless he can have postponement thereof by permission of the
seller.”

This
limitation on the taxation of the king’s subjects, and its prohibition on the enforced
requisition of those subjects’ crops and other properties, remained a pillar of
democratic thought for centuries to come, and was reissued several times over the
ensuing years until it finally stuck.  Its influence on the British subjects residing in
the Crown’s North American colonies who were contemplating the text of what would become
the Constitution of the United States was considerable.  Those rebellious colonies were
heavily influenced by the intellectual developments characteristic of the Age of
Enlightenment, but central to those developments remained the principles established in
the Magna Carta.  That this nation’s founders were similarly influenced by the 1215
document is evident in Alexander Hamilton’s essay defending the draft constitution and
advocating for its ratification.  In that essay, designated Federalist
Paper #84, Hamilton wrote the
following:

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“It has been several times truly
remarked that bills of rights are, in their origin, stipulations between kings and their
subjects, abridgements of prerogative in favor of privilege, reservations of rights not
surrendered to the prince. Such was Magna Charta, obtained by the barons, sword in hand,
from King John. Such were the subsequent confirmations of that charter by succeeding
princes. Such was the Petition of Right assented to by Charles I., in the beginning of
his reign. Such, also, was the Declaration of Right presented by the Lords and Commons
to the Prince of Orange in 1688, and afterwards thrown into the form of an act of
parliament called the Bill of
Rights.”

In that
passage, Hamilton recognizes the enduring influence of the Magna Carta, and of the
document’s role in the evolution of political thought through the ensuing centuries. 
The concept of limitations on the power of a ruler had sufficient appeal that it
survived many monarchs’ efforts at resisting the relinquishment of authority the
document stipulated.  The American Bill of Rights was a direct outgrowth of the
evolution of political thought that didn’t begin with the Magna Carta, but for which the
document represented perhaps its most important manifestation to
date.

What was the role of the SS in Hitler's Germany?

The role of the SS in Hitler's Germany was as the model of
racial purity, the social, military and political elite of the New Germany, and as
executors of the Final Solution Holocaust of the
Jews.

Entry requirements in the early SS were extremely
strict.  Applicants had to prove three centuries of pure German bloodline in their
family trees, undergo strenuous physical testing and training, and submit to rigid party
indoctrination.  Their training ended with a blood oath to the Fuhrer, Adolf
Hitler.

As wartime losses among the SS mounted, and the
scope and size of the Holocaust grew, they became less particular, admitting Ukranians,
Latvians, Lithuanians and Estonians.

How is science a boon to us? in debate form

Science is a boon or benefit to us because it provides us
with a systematic way of asking and answering questions about the observable physical
and living things around us.Science provides us with a way to model possible outcomes by
using the experimentation model with controlled variables.  Science provides us with a
way to determine if our idea about the way things are is valid or invalid based on
whether or not the theories behind that idea can be proven true or
false.

If a person comes up with a hypothesis regarding a
particular set of events such as Sir Isaac Newton did when he dropped a lead ball and a
wax ball from the top of the tower at Pisa. He then learned about the force of gravity
which acts upon things dropped with equal force as these items both hit the earth at the
same moment in time. Newton's original hypothesis was proven
false.

Science provides humanity with a way to experiment
with possible outcomes of a particular situation such as earthquakes and tsunamis by
building small scale models and then testing the possible outcomes. By allowing scale
model testing to occur, great human tragedies may be prevented by designing early alert
systems.

Science can greatly benefit humanity through the 
discovery of disease agents, genetic mutations, and the effects of radiation on the life
forms inhabiting the planet. Based upon these findings, scientists can make suggestions
or develop medicines to help cure or curb disease causes in living
things.

Science has been in the middle of huge religious
and political controversies as long as people have made discoveries that ran counter to
the currently held religious or political views. One must understand that science is not
a "faith" nor is it a "political party".

Please give me 10 important things that happens in Chapter 7 of The Witch Of Blackbird Pond.

Ten things? That's quite a few! Instead, I will give you a
general summary of this chapter and then you can pick out the information that you want
from it. It isn't that long a chapter, so you might even want to have a read of it
yourself.

This chapter primarily concerns the courtship
between William Ashby and Kit. Kit finds his first visit when he "calls" on her to be
slightly awkward as she doesn't know how to make conversation with him. What is worse is
that William seems quite happy to just sit and stare at her, not feeling the need to
talk to her at all. Kit, of course, does try to make conversation, but is frustrated by
its failure, and so she is greatly relieved when Rachel asks them in to join the rest of
the family and Holbrook, who is visiting. Rachel prepares popcorn for them and William
begins to talk about his house that he is having built. This topic moves on to a
discussion based on the right to own property, and Kit is amazed when William defends
his point of view against Matthew concerning politics. A small argument develops
concerning the policies of Governor Andros, and with three different points of view
represented. Matthew Wood argues against royalism and for the freedom of the colonists.
William seems to not want to anger the King, and finally John, as we would expect,
follows the position of his teacher, Dr. Bulkeley in saying that the problem is an issue
of interpretation of the charter.

The two visitors leave
shortly afterwards. Kit expresses relief that this will be the last visit of William
Ashby, but Mercy and Judith are swift to tell her the true intention of William's visit.
The house he talked about is being constructed for his new wife, and it is clear to them
that he is planning to marry Kit. Unfortunately for her, her cousins seem to be right,
and this is the first of many visits William makes to call on Kit. Although Kit is
confused by his attentions, she still looks forward to these visits as a welcome break
in a routine that consists of hard work, that, in spite of her efforts, she seems unable
to master.

Summarize "The Egg" by Sherwood Anderson? What impact do the changes in the characters have on the meaning of the story?

Basically the entire story is based around the changes in
the characters, particularly the father.  His decision that he really needs to be more
cheerful in order to be successful helps to highlight the real conundrum of the story
which is really the chicken or the egg question.  Because the story centers on the egg
itself, it is the changes of the characters and their actions around the egg that serve
to bring out its meaning.  For example the fact that the father, in the midst of his
rage, still cannot bring himself to destroy another egg brings up all kinds of ideas
about an egg being full of life or at least a symbol of it.

Discuss the importance of fossils as a record of evolutionary change over time.In addition, please name an animal group that appears to have...

Fossils are remains of a plant or animal that long ago in
prehistoric time or even earlier.  Fossils are formed by leaves, shells, skeletons, or
other organic forms that were preserved death of a plant or animal.  Tracks or trails
left by moving animals also form fossils.

Fossils help
scientists discover forms of life that existed in the past and how they lived. In this
way scientist can study how life on earth has changed over
time.

Fossils can provide a great deal of information about
the appearance and ways of life of prehistoric organisms.  One way of studying fossils
of an animal or plant is by comparing them with living species. Study of Fossil that do
not have close living relatives are more difficult to understand.  One way to learn how
such plant and animals  lived is to compare their fossils to unrelated living species
with similar shaped structures. The conditions under which fossil creatures died and
were buried is also useful in determining how they lived. Fossils of tracks, trails, or
burrows help scientists to figure out the behaviour of prehistoric animals. The location
of fossils in the(layers of rocks helps to determine when a particular type of plant or
animal lived.

Study of fossils also helps to determine how
the earth's climate and landscape have changed over time.  For instance, presence of a
fossil of a particular type of plant in a specific place, and belonging to a specific
time period indicates the that the climate was suitable for existence of that type of
plant.

The nature of differences and similarities in
characteristics of plant and animal life in different parts of the world at different
times also helps to understand the nature of continental drifts that has taken place
over millions of years.

What is the Shakespeare quote about needing to express your anguish or it will destroy you?I cannot recall a single significant word that was in it...

Esterlein is correct. The lines appear in Act 4, Scene 3
of Macbeth, lines 246-7 in my edition of the play. Macduff has just
been informed that Macbeth's soldiers have murdered his wife and all his children in
revenge for Macduff's deserting him and going over to the forces being raised by Malcolm
in England. It is Malcolm who speaks the words to Macduff. These lines have often been
quoted over the centuries because they contain a truth that pertains not only to Macduff
but to anybody who is suffering from grief.

Describe the role of the U.S. Constitution with regards to the formation of criminal laws by the individual states and by the federal government?

It seems like there are a couple of elements in the
question.  The first one is the issue of federalism in the Constitution.  As one of the
seven principles by which the goals of the Constitution can be fully recognized,
federalism is the belief that state government autonomy is a concept that is fully
recognized and embraced by the federal government.  Federalism indicates that there is a
relationship between state and the national government.  While this is understood, the
belief of the Constitution being the "supreme law of the land" is another pillar upon
which the Constitution stands.  The Supremacy Clause argues this and ensures that all
states in the nation understand it.  The formation of laws on the state level is
something that can be done so long that it does not take away from the Constitution's
supremacy.  A state is able to form laws that it sees fit so long as this formation does
not detract or take away from the Constitution's supremacy.  In this light, the role of
the Constitution is to enhance and encourage state autonomy, but to ensure that the
states understand that no law can be formed if it challenges the supremacy and validity
of the Constitution.

In Shakespeare's Hamlet, what had the players come to do?

In Shakespeare's Hamlet, the players
come to Elsinore to do what they do, put on plays.  They are a traveling group of
actors.  They are entertainers.  In short, that is the answer to your
question.

In terms of the drama, they serve the function of
presenting the "play-within-the-play," which not only draws attention to the theme of
acting/pretending/seeming in the play, but also draws attention, after a bit of
manipulation by Hamlet, to Claudius's guilt as the murderer of King Hamlet.  Claudius's
reaction to the murder scene that presents a murder similar to that he committed,
convinces Hamlet that Claudius is, indeed, guilty of murdering his
father.

The players also provide opportunities for Hamlet
to ruminate on acting theory, and serve as catalyst for Hamlet's "Hecuba"
soliloquy.

Again, though, in short, the players come to put
on plays.

1,5,16,13,13,2,16. find the mean, and median.

The numbers given to us are
1,5,16,13,13,2,16.

Their sum is 1 +5 + 16 + 13 + 13 + 2  +
16 = 66.

The sum divide by the total number of terms is the
mean. This is 66/7.

The median is the term that occurs in
the middle of the set if they are arranged in ascending or descending
order.

1,5,16,13,13,2,16

=>
1 , 2 , 5, 13, 13 , 16 , 16.

Therefore we see that 13 is
the term in the middle.

The required mean is
66/7 and the median is 13.

Where does Ralph show a lack of cooperation in the beginning of the book that affects him later on?The first quotation is a decision and the...

If I were to answer this question, I would look at Chapter
4, in which Ralph refuses to allow Jack a free pass on letting the fire go out when Jack
and his group went hunting.  Even though Jack kills his first pig, Ralph refuses to
congratulate him, saying instead,

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"There was a ship.  Out there. You said you'd
keep the fire going and you let it
out!"

In the same scene,
Ralph refuses to forgive Jack for breaking Piggy's glasses,
repeating,

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"That was a dirty
trick."

Rlaph's decision to
stand up to Jack, to call him out, so to speak, has enormous consequences in the novel.
 It is in this chapter that we see different priorities forming--Ralph wants rescue;
Jack, fun.  Ralph sides with Piggy, who also has rescue as a top priority.  Ralph's
refusal to cooperate with Jack in this scene, establishes a chasm between the two boys,
who were initially friends.  This animosity continues to grow until Jack eventually
leaves the group (in Chapter 8) and starts a tribe of his
own:

I'm not
going to play any longer.  Not with
you!

What are learning skills?

If you are asking what the definition of learning skills
is, learning skills are much like study skill.  They are the skills that help a person
be able to pick up and retain new information and ideas.

If
you are asking for examples of learning skills, there are many.  Some of the more basic
learning skills (beyond the ability to read)
are:

• Taking notes.  When reading or listening to
  a lecture, it is important to be able to take good notes.  In order to do this, you have
  to be able to understand what is important in the text or the
  lecture.


• Reviewing.  Since it's hard to know what is
  important the first time you read or hear something, it is often useful to go back over
  your notes and rewrite them.  This involves reading over the notes and adding or
  deleting things once you know more about the subject.  This encourages you to think
  about the subject some more and increases your
  learning.


• Reading.  Although you already know how to
  read, reading more effectively and reading for better comprehension is a skill in
  itself.

What did the Pentagon Papers reveal about the Vietnam War & how did the Supreme Court rule on Nixon’s attempt to block their publication?

President Johnson had stated that two American destroyers
(a type of warship), the U.S.S. Maddox and the U.S.S. C. Turner Joy, had been attacked
without provocation in international waters. He then asked the Congress for permission
to accelerate American involvement in Vietnam and to bomb certain sites within North
Vietnam. Congress gave him permission with the Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution.

The Pentagon Papers, a series of articles being
published in the New York Times, revealed this to be, at best, an exeration of the
truth. It suggested that the American destroyers might even have penetrated into North
Vietnamese territorial waters prior to the attack on them. This intrusion would have
justified, under international law and international precedent, a retaliation by North
Vietnam. This retaliation is what Johnson described at an unprovoked attack (an apparent
lie).

These papers were being published during the Nixon
administration which tried to stop their continued publication. The Supreme Court ruled
that this would amount to "prior restraint" and is not allowed. They were published in
their entirety.

In these passages, what is the literal meaning and how does it develop theme in Hamlet?1)I would have such a fellow whipped for o’erdoing...

In Shakespeare's Hamlet, the lines
you cite literally mean that Hamlet would have an actor whipped for overacting, because
overacting creates an overblown performance compared even to an overblown
tyrant.

Hamlet is offering acting suggestions or advice to
the 1 Player.  He tells the actor to not overplay emotionally powerful speeches.  He
mentions overblown hand gestures and impassioned words presented without restraint as
things to avoid.  He says not to concentrate on pleasing the groundlings (those patrons
in standing positions on the floor of the playhouse who appreciate only mime shows and
spectacle).  Impassioned speeches must appear natural, and not be overdone just to
impress the masses.

Termagant is thought to be a Mohammedan
deity, and is represented in medieval mystery plays as a violent and ranting personage,
according to the note on the text in the Norton Critical Edition of
the play.  And Herod, of course, is the cruel tyrant from the New Testament.  Hamlet
would, then, have an actor whipped for overdoing a violent and ranting Termagent,
because doing so would present a character even more cruel and violent and outlandish
than Herod's actual "performances."

Thematically, the scene
focuses on acting, playing roles, restraint, precision.  Hamlet acts with restraint in
the play concerning his revenge, firmly establishing Claudius's guilt instead of acting
rashly, as Laertes does, for instance, after his father's death.  And almost everyone
acts and plays different roles in the play:  Hamlet pretends to be mad; Ophelia acts
like she doesn't love Hamlet and returns his gifts to her while Polonius and Claudius
spy on the two of them in order to judge Hamlet's reaction; Ros. and Guil. pretend to be
acting only as Hamlet's friends, when they are really acting on behalf of the
king.

Hamlet, of course, readers assume, wouldn't really
have an actor whipped for overacting.  He is just making a
point. 

How is Pearl both a sin and a joy to Hester?Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

Hester Prynne's child, Pearl, is her sin incarnate; yet,
as her child she brings joy to her forlorn mother. In her interview with Governor
Bellingham and the Reverend Wilson, who wish to take Pearl from Hester, Hester fiercely
replies to them,

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"God gave me the child!" cried she. "He gave
her, in requital of all things else, which ye had taken from me. She is my
happiness!--she is my torture, none the less! Pearl keeps me here in life! Pearl
punishes me, too! See ye not, she is the scarlet letter, only capable of being loved,
and so endowed with a million-fold the power of retribution for my sin? Ye shall not
take her! I will die
first!"

As a constant
reminder of her sin of passion, Pearl is the living scarlet letter that brings on the
ridicule of the children and glances of the community.  She is the fruit of Hester's
trangression that demands penitence, love, and patience.  For, Pearl laughs at the
As exaggerated shape reflected in the governor's armor, she pelts
her mother's mark of shame with burrs, she refuses to cross the brook until her mother
replaces the cast off letter upon her bosom.  And, yet, she is a constant companion to
the alienated woman bereft of all human companionship but hers. It is with Pearl, who
holds her hand "in both her own" when they look up to the minister that Hester feels
loved. It is with Pearl that Hester finally returns to the old country from which she
has come; it is with Pearl that she has the joy of seeing her daughter married
happily. It is with Pearl that Hester feels worthy, for her motherhood is
fulfilled.

x^log2 x + 8*x^-log2 x = 6. What is x?

We'll substitute x^log2 x by t and we'll re-write the
equation in t:

t + 8*t^-1 =
6

We'll use the rule of negative
powers:

t  +8/t = 6

We'll
multiply by t both sides:

t^2 + 8 =
6t

We'll move all terms to one
side:

t^2 - 6t + 8 = 0

Since
the sum is 6 and the product is 8, we'll conclude that the roots of the quadratic
are:

t1 = 2 and t2 = 4

x^log2
x = t1

x^log2 x = 2

We'll take
logarithms both sides:

log2 x^log2 x = log2
2

We'll apply the power rule of
logarithms:

log2 x^log2 x =
1

(log2 x)^2 - 1 = 0

We'll
re-write the differnce of squares:

(log2 x - 1)(log2 x + 1)
= 0

log2 x - 1 = 0 => log2 x=1 => x =
2^1

x = 2

log2 x + 1 = 0
=> log2 x = -1 => x = 2^-1

x =
1/2

x^log2 x = t2

x^log2 x =
2

log2 (x^log2 x) = log2
4

log2 (x^log2 x) = log2
2^2

log2 (x^log2 x) = 2log2
2

log2 (x^log2 x) = 2

log2
(x^log2 x) - 2 = 0

(log2 x)^2 - 2 =
0

(log2 x - sqrt2)(log2 x + sqrt2) =
0

log2 x - sqrt2 = 0

log2 x =
sqrt2 => x = 2^sqrt2

log2 x =- sqrt2 => x =
2^-sqrt2

x =
1/2^sqrt2

The solutions of the equation are:
{1/2 ; 2 ; 2^sqrt2 ; 1/2^sqrt2}.

What is the value of sum of k!*k, for k = 1 to n?

Required to find the sum k!*k for k = 1 to k =
n.

Let Sn be the sum  of the n terms of the series.. We
write the actual series for k = t to k= n:

Sn =
1!/*1+2!*2+3!*3+4!*4 +....+(n-1)!.(n-1)+n!*n-----(1).

We
take the k th term  k!*k= (1*2*3*....r)*k , k being an integer  of natural
number.

So r!*r = (1*2*3*4*...*k)(k+1 -1) = (k+1)! -
k!....(2).

So now we rewrite each term of on the right side
of (1) as in (2):

Sn =
(2!-1!)+(3!-2!)+(4!-3!)+(5!-4!)+.......[(n-1)!-(n-2)!]+
[(n!-(n-1)!+[(n+1)!-n!].-----(3).

The right side of (3)
could be rearranged as below:

Sn =
-1!+{(-2!+2!)+(-3!+3!)+(-4!+4!)+......(-n!+n!)}+(n+1)!.

Sn
= -1!+(n+1)!.

Sn = (n+1)!-1, as 1!=
1.

Therefore the sum of k!*k for k= 1 to k =
n is (n+1)!-1.

What is the intended effect of "A Modest Proposal" on the reader?

Historically, Swift had tried several times to get the
attention of the British Parliament and Irish officials, to make them see that the
poverty and overpopulation of Ireland was a huge problem. Since he had tried several
times before to get their attention, to no avail, he decided to get their attention by
proposing that the children of the poor be sold and eaten. The persona that he uses is
misanthropic, but Swift was truly sincere in wanting to help fix the problem for his
people. If you define "the reader" as the government officials, then he was trying to
get their attention so that they would do something about the problem. Nowadays, people
see "A Modest Proposal" as funny and humorous, but we STUDY it to see the very skillful
and exact manner with which he states his proposal. We can take from Swift, an example
of how to create social change through satire.

Prove the following identity: (1+ sin x + cos x) / (1+ sin x - cos x) = cot x/2

We know that 1 + cos x = 2(cos x/2)^2
(1)

We'll write sin x = sin 2(x/2) = 2sin(x/2)*cos (x/2)
(2)

We'll add (1) + (2):

2(cos
x/2)^2 + 2sin(x/2)*cos (x/2)

We'll factorize by 2cos
(x/2):

1+ sin x + cos x = 2cos (x/2)[cos (x/2) +
sin(x/2)]

We'll write the terms from denominator
as:

1 - cos x = 2(sin x/2)^2
(3)

sin x = sin 2(x/2) = 2sin(x/2)*cos
(x/2)

We'll add (3) +
(2):

2(sin x/2)^2 + 2sin(x/2)*cos
(x/2)

We'll factorize by 2sin
(x/2):

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

We'll re-write the numerator and denominator of the
ratio:

2cos (x/2)[cos (x/2) + sin(x/2)]/2sin(x/2)*[sin(x/2)
+ cos (x/2)]

We'll simplify the
brackets:

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

We'll simplify and we notice that the ratio
cos (x/2)/sin(x/2) = cot (x/2)

(1+ sin x +
cos x) / (1+ sin x - cos x) = cot (x/2) q.e.d.

Five numbers such that their mean is equal to their median. If 4 of the numbers are 14, 8, 16, and 14, what is the 5th number?

Given the set of numbers 14 , 8, 16, 14 , and
x

We know that the mean = the
median.

Let us arrange the numbers from smallest to
largest.

==> 8, 14, 14, 16,
x

Since we so not know that value of x we will try and
determine the median.

If x is 14 , then the median is
14

If x is between 8 and 14 ==> the median also
14

If x is between 14 and 16 ==> the median is
14

If x is less than 8 ==> the median is
14

If x is larger than 16 , the median is
14.

Then, we conclude that no matter what is the values of
x, the median is 14.

Now we will calculate the
mean.

==> The mean = (8+14+14+16+x) / 5 = The median
= 14

==> (52 + x)/5 =
14

We will multiply by
5.

==> 52 + x =
70

==> x = 70 - 52 =
18

Then, the fifth number is
18.

Who is a minor character in Black Beauty and why is (s)he in the story?

More than any single work of its time, Anna Sewell's
Black Beauty effected the humane treatment of horses and other
animals, as well. With the narrative set in a time when horses were the means of
transportation, little consideration of their feelings was often the case as men simply
wanted to have them carry the heaviest loads they could and travel as fast as they could
so that money could be made.  The wealthy class, who had carriages, oten bought horses
for show; therefore, if these horses became marred or "defective" in any way, they were
sold with no regard to their future treatment. Also, in their vanity, the owners of
magnificent carriages often used inhuman measures to make the horses appear equally
magnificent.

For instance, in Chapter 8 Ginger, a minor
character and the stablemate of the narrator, tells Black Beauty that with her previous
owner she was made to wear a bearing rein and two sharp bits, both very painful devices
as the bits cut into her mouth and the bearing rein forced her to hold her head high
constantly. Later in the novel, also, Ginger is victimized as she dies from pulling a
heavy load.  Her poignant history is one that led to action for the humane treatment of
horses.

What results from Frederick Douglass' escape from bondage?

One of the most powerful elements to emerge from Douglass'
escape is the idea of creating social solidarity.  Douglass never loses sight of
connecting his struggle to a larger one.  For example, Douglass does not give many
details on how he escapes so that he does not jeopardize such a method of escape for
others.  When he settles in the North, Douglass commits himself to the abolitionist
cause.  He does not see himself as one who is alone.  It is not as if Douglass gets his
freedom and turns his back on others in a similar predicament.  Rather, he sees his
struggle as a broader one connected to others.  In this construction of freedom, one of
the strongest and most evident realities to result from Douglass' escape is to ensure
that individuals view themselves as part of a larger whole.  Individual action and
freedokm is geared towards this end in Douglass' configuration.

What are the characteristics of the character Antigone in terms of what she is committed to?I am writing a research paper on Antigone, and I wanted...

Antigone is a tragic hero who
makes at least two mistakes which contribute to her death: she takes an unbending course
of action which leads, ultimately, to self-martyrdom; she refuses to suffer her
punishment alone and commits suicide out of weakness or love of
death.

Antigone is a feminist,
as she is not defined by men.  She demands to be heard by Creon and the public.  Unlike
her submissive and fearful sister Ismene, Antigone is an outspoken vixen generations
ahead of her time.

Antigone upholds the gods' laws over
man's laws. In this way, Antigone is a religious hero.  She
knows that her brother's body must be buried according to the gods' decree, and she is
willing to enact civil disobedience in moral
defense.

Antigone is a romantic
idealist.  In short, she has a death wish.  She sees suicide as a noble
cause, and she makes decisions that lead her to this fate.  She wants to be remembered
as a martyr.

Which of the following least describes Twain as a teenager? Answer: daring, secure, imaginative, competitive.which one would you choose

I would say the word that least describes Mark Twain
(Samuel Clemens) is "secure." His life was far from secure - ever -- but especially when
he was a teenager. He became a printer's apprentice when he was only 15 years old, left
home at 18 and worked as a printer in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, among other
cities. He spent his evenings in public libraries and became an autodidact - that is, he
taught himself. He was daring, imaginative and most likely competitive as well. He later
trained himself well enough to become qualified as a river boat pilot (after his teen
years), and the amount of information required for that designation was very rigorous.
It took him more than two years to study everything he needed to know to become a river
boat pilot, so this tells us that he was driven.

These
qualities followed him into his adult life, not always with great success. He had
constant financial problems due to making bad investments in some rather crazy schemes
and inventions and his imagination led him to become involved in the paranormal. Even
though he earned a great deal of money from his writing, he never became rich because he
was overly daring in his investments.

What do YOU
think?

What role can softliners play in a dictatorship?

Within a functioning dictatorship, softliners can play a
role by helping to moderate the dictatorship and by making it more palatable to the
people who live in it.  When there is a hardline and a softline faction under the
dictator, the softliners can push for more lenient policies and can, thereby, make the
dictatorship not seem so bad.  If, by contrast, there are no softliners, the
dictatorship will be harsher and may be more susceptible to being overthrown by
dissatisfied citizens.

Softliners are also a major part of
possible transitions from dictatorship to democracy.  During the dictatorship, they can
push for more liberalization.  If, then, something happens and the dictatorship starts
to fall, they can provide a "soft landing."  Since they have already lightened the
dictatorship, and because they are somewhat trusted by the people, they can serve as a
step between the dictatorship and a truly democratic system that might eventually
evolve.

Discuss ambivalence and modern literature through William Faulkner's themes and techniques.

This is a huge question that I can't begin to do justice
to here, but I can give you a place to start.

Faulkner's
heroes/protagonists are often unlikeable, even despicable characters, but he presents
them without apology and sometimes even with dignity.  Abner Snopes in "Barn Burning" is
one such character.

Snopes is as unlikeable as unlikeable
gets.  He abuses his family, looks for reasons to start his little wars, and burns barns
to get back at people who wrong him, as he sees it.  I don't think he possesses one
obvious and normal positive character trait.

However, at
the same time, Abner Snopes is a poor man's hero, one might say.  He, in a sense, does
what many powerless people would like to do, but don't.  We are refined, we know
better.  Abner does it anyway.

Abner holds on to his
dignity the only way he can.  In his world (the South after the Civil War), he is dirt
poor with few opportunities to improve his lot.  He is powerless, as twentieth century
thinkers realized most humans are in the face of overwhelming powerful economic and
social forces.  Dignity is in short supply, as they say, for modern man.  But Abner will
not give in.  He will hold on to his dignity any way he
can. 

If you want ambiguity, Faulkner's your man, and "Barn
Burning" is a good place to start.

A heavy bumper weighing 150 N is suspended along the wall of the Welland Canal to protect the ships from scraping against the side of the wall.A...

The bumper is initially hung vertically and it has a
weight of 150 N.

The sailor grabs the rope holding the
bumper and pulls it horizontally so that the rope makes an angle of 40 degrees with the
wall.

We have two forces acting on the rope, one is by the
weight of the bumper acting vertically downwards and the other is the force applied
horizontally by the sailor pulling the rope. The result of the forces is that the rope
makes a 40 degree incline.

Let the tension in the rope be
T. This can be divided into its horizontal and vertical
components.

The vertical component is T*cos 40. This is
equal to the weight of the bumper.

T*cos 40 =
150

=> T = 150 / cos
40

=> T = 195.81

The
horizontal component is T*sin 40. This is equal to the force being applied by the
sailor.

T* sin 40 = F

We have
determined that T = 195.81

=> F = 195.81* sin 40 =
125.86

The force applied by the sailor is
125.86 N and the tension in the rope is 195.81 N.

write the equation of the equation with radius "a" and touching both axesgeometry

We have to determine the equation of the circle that has a
radius a and touches both the axes.

This is possible if the
center lies on the line x = y.

Also the distance of the
center from the x-axis and the y-axis is equal to the radius or
a.

Therefore the center is the point ( a,
a)

The general equation of a circle with center (a, b) and
radius r is given by (x - a)^2 + (y - b)^2 =
r^2

Substituting the values we have
here:

(x - a)^2 + (y - a)^2 =
a^2

=> x^2 + a^2 - 2ax + y^2 + a^2 - 2ay =
a^2

=> x^2 + y^2 - 2ax - 2ay + a^2 =
0

The required equation of the circle is x^2
+ y^2 - 2ax - 2ay + a^2 = 0

What were Rousseau's talents?

It would be difficult to designate any particular
"talents" which Rousseau possessed, other than those of a great thinker and philosopher.
He was by nature very suspicious to the point of being paranoid; and believed his
friends were plotting against him. He abandoned his family to live with a common law
wife.

As a thinker, he was without equal. It was Rousseau
who stated that reason and civilization were destructive forces, not advances.
He believed that human beings were fundamentally good; but all this was lost with the
advent of civilization. It was he who developed the concept of the "noble
savage."

He also advocated something he called the "general
will," a concept that he did not clearly define.

Two famous
statements by Rousseau define his philosophy: (1

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Everything is good as it comes from the hands of
the Author of virtue; but everything degenerates in the hands of
man.

Also: "men are born
free; yet everywhere they are in chains."

Rousseau's
writings were influential in the French Revolution. Sadly, many dictators used his
arguments about the "general will" to justify their rule, claiming that they ruled by
the general will.

Who is Justine?

In the novel Frankenstein by Mary
Shelley, the character of Justin Moritz refers to a servant in the Frankenstein estate
who became a confidante and friend of Elizabeth. The quote that you can find as to why
she arrived at the Frankenstein estate is as follows (as told by Elizabeth
herself:

Madame Moritz, her mother, was a widow
with four children, of whom Justine was the third. This girl had always been the
favourite of her father; but, through a strange perversity, her mother could not endure
her, and, after the death of M. Moritz, treated her very ill. My aunt observed this;
and, when Justine was twelve years of age, prevailed on her mother to allow her to live
at her house.

So basically Justine was morally
abandoned by her mother and Elizabeth's aunt rescued her.  Another thing about Justine
is that she was in a weak position as a servant, for which she became falsely accused of
killing William and was executed for it to the dismay of the Frankenstein clan, whom
embraced her as family, educated her, and treated her as a favorite. They also were
convinced of their innocence.

If f'(x) = ( 2x+3) /x find f(x) if f(1) = 3

Given the first
derivative:

f'(x) =
(2x+3)/x

We need to find
f(x).

First we will simplify
f'(x).

==> f'(x) = 2x/x  +
3/x

==> f'(x) = 2 +
3/x

Now we know that f(x) = intg
f'(x).

==> f(x) = intg ( 2 + 3/x)
dx

             = intg 2 + intg 3/x 
dx

              = 2x + 3*lnx +
C

==> f(x) = 2x + 3*lnx +
C

But we are given that f(1) =
3

==> 2 + 3ln1 + C =
3

==> But ln 1 =
0

==> 2 + C =
3

==> C = 1

Then we
conclude that:

f(x) = 2x + 3*lnx + 1

What are some possible reasons that John Proctor would forbid Mary Warren from going to Salem?

John Proctor initially sees the trials as nonsense and
wants nothing to do with the trial.  Additionally, he doesn’t want his family to have
anything to do with the trials and Mary Warren, being his house servant, is included as
part of his household. When Proctor finds out she has gone he is furious at her for
disobeying his wishes.

Proctor may be opposed of his
household getting involved with the trial because he doesn’t want his adulterous past to
be revisited. Abigail is at the heart of the trial, and he believes her intentions are
bad.

Is there a point in Macbeth where the main character feels lonely—in the sense that no one understands his guilt?

In Shakespeare's Macbeth, I don't
believe Macbeth feels lonely because no one understands him, but I do believe that
towards the end, he feels isolated because he is alone, which I think is very different
from loneliness.

At the start of the play, Macbeth is an
honored warrior. His King loves him for all Macbeth has contributed to the war effort,
and promises to further reward him. Macbeth is close to Banquo, his friend and one of
his men-at-arms. When Macbeth returns home, we find that he and Lady Macbeth have a
strong bond as well. In terms of the kingdom, Macbeth also enjoys a reputation of valor
and strength.

This changes dramatically: he kills the King;
his peers become suspicious of him; he kills Banquo; and, he and Lady Macbeth become
very distant. (Whereas they had planned everything together, he has started to leave her
out of his schemes; ultimately,  she takes her own
life.)

By the time Lady Macbeth dies, there is no one
Macbeth can share his ideas or concerns with: his servants are fearful of him (for good
reason). All he can see is his obsessive need to hold onto his power. As his servant
Seton helps him dress for battle as Malcolm approaches, Macbeth's bravery is dampened by
his desperation, and perhaps an inkling that the witches have played him
false.

As Macbeth goes out to fight, we see a glimpse of he
noble warrior he once was: it's as if the madness that accompanied the witches'
predictions clears for a moment, and Macbeth decides to go out bravely, much the way the
former Thane of Cawdor, another traitor, went to his death at the beginning of the play.
At this point, he must fight this last battle alone, as even his soldiers have fled or
joined the other side. He is certainly alone.

At the end of Chapter 30, why does Heck Tate lie about what has happened?Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

In addition to the idea of protecting "the mockingbird,"
Boo Radley, Heck Tate, sherriff in Harper Lee's To Kill a
Mockingbird, seems reluctant to subject frail and mentally delicate
Boo to the rigors of another court case that could easily end in travesty as did that of
Tom Robinson.  At any rate, Boo's trial could be, as Scout remarked of Tom's "a
carnival."

Like Tom Robinson's trial, the interrogation of
Boo--not to mention his father--would become an event that would bring out the curious
and the cruel.  As Mr. Tate himself tells Atticus,

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To my way of thinkin', Mr. Finch, taking the one
man who's done you and this town a great service an' draggin' him with his shy ways into
the limelight--to me, that's a sin.  It's a sin and I'm not about to have it on my
head.  If it was any other man, it'd be different.  But not this man, Mr.
Finch.

Here is Mr. Heck
Tate's statement is another motif of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, "The
greater good is always the most important."

Describe the boy Dave in David Pelzer's book, A Child Called "It."

Dave is David Peltzer, a young boy who was horrifically
abused by his mother, in the book, A Child Called
"It".

As David's mother sinks deep in alcoholism
and possible psychosis, her abuse of Dave escalates. His father, who Dave had hoped
would rescue him, tries to intervene early on, but eventually escapes into alcoholism as
well. It appears Dave was abused more "actively" than his siblings; ultimately, Dave is
completely isolated from the entire family, while his mother even stops calling him by
his name, hence the book's title. She starves, burns, stabs and even tries to poison
Dave.

Dave, however, is determined to live. Not getting
enough food at home, he steals from other students' lunches, but when word gets back to
his mother, the abuse intensifies, and he is rarely fed. Dave does
his best to accomplish what is asked of him by his mother, including some, and
eventually most, of the household chores. The reader gets the sense that Dave tries to
be tough, and displays great courage, even in light of his age. It is easy to imagine
that many other children, under like circumstances, would not have survived a similar
situation.

It is only through the intervention of the
principal and teaching staff at his school, who notice signs of abuse, that Dave is
finally removed from his home.

What is the gasoline-air surface tension its height in the capillary tube is 0.4mm and the density of gasoline is 700 kg/m^3?

The rise of the gasoline in a capillary tube is given by
the relation:

h = (2*Sf*cos T)/(rho*g*r), where h is the
height of the gasoline column, Sf is the gasoline-air surface tension, T is the contact
angle, rho is the density of gasoline, g is the acceleration due to gravity and r is the
radius of the capillary tube.

You have only provided the
height of the liquid column and the density of the gasoline. It is not possible to
proceed further without knowing the radius of the capillary tube and the contact angle
as the height depends on it. For a broad capillary tube the height would be negligible
whereas it would be substantial if the capillary tube is made
narrow.

All I can provide from the information provided is
that the value of Sf that you require is given by Sf = h*rho*g*r/ 2*cos
T.

Here g is 9.8 m/s^2 and you know rho and h, substitute r
and T and you can determine Sf.

What are the main ideas in Donna Haraway's: A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science , Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s?

The cyborg icon is liberation from ideology by embracing
technology and avoiding categorization.

Haraway is
exploring the borders between human and machine, physical and nonphysical; human and
animal. Rather than constructing another icon/myth of the scientific/social feminist as
something essentially human, Haraway embraces the relevance of technology and invents
the cyborg as this new icon for the social feminist since technology is now already a
part of what it means to be human. Being “always” on the border between human and
machine, the Cyborg is not subjected to the traditional myths and icons of the West. The
Cyborg is post-gender, post-essentialist and therefore, not subjected to prescribed
roles in gender or any essentialist doctrine; from feminism to Marxism. Therefore, the
Cyborg has the privileged position (potential) of avoiding any essential categorization.
One the one hand, this is flimsy and perpetually wishy-washy; on the other hand, it is a
perception of being totally open to difference. Since Haraway’s Cyborg is an icon of
feminism and socialism, this Cyborg does have an agenda; the point is that the Cyborg
will not allow itself to be categorized in any essential way. This would be like saying
and actually believing/living/doing something like, “I’m a democrat, but I don’t
automatically bend to the will of the party and I don’t belong to any essentialist sect
of democrats.”

Haraway recognizes the role of technology
and writing and the multiplicity of both. So, her feminist cyborg is not just some myth
of escape from real material oppression. By integrating her myth with technology, she is
acknowledging the way the world works. This is a departure from feminists
and other –ists which suppose that there is an absolute (or even fundamental-ist) way
for every “-ist” to be. It is also a departure from the romanticized, rural notion of
feminist or Marxist, uncorrupted by culture and technology. Although
technology has played a role in oppression, Haraway does not retreat from it. She
intends to use it. The only way for political action to be effective is to engage in the
systems it uses.

Haraway argues that we are already
Cyborgs. (Think of how connected to our machines: ipods, phones, PC’s etc.
industrialized countries have become. Also, consider the growing comparison between
computers and brains and all the apocalyptic tales where computers take over the world).
Being non-organically reproductive, the cyborg evades all religious and even some
scientific discourses such as biological/genetic determinism. In this sense, the cyborg
is a liberation from those histories; and that’s what liberation is: the possibility of
creating something new. Since computers are increasingly smaller and the information
transferred itself is in the ether, the cyborg is non-physical as well as physical; able
to program her/himself.

In chapter 4 of Gatsby how is language used to set the scene and influence interpretation?

At the beginning of Chapter 4 of The Great
Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses language usually reserved for weddings and comedies
to set a festive, jubilant tone.  Fitzgerald wants us to feel the romanticism and
anticipation in the air as Gatsby is about to receive Daisy at Nick's home in Chapter 5.
 His use of language is a clear set-up by Fitzgerald to build up our hopes, only to let
us down in the later chapters.

Fitzgerald uses the
wonderful metaphor "...the world and its mistress" to connote the spring-like fertility
in the air.  Notice too it is "Sunday" and there are "church bells" ringing--both part
of a marriage ceremony.

As contrast, the rumors about
Gatsby fly about: "He's a bootlegger" and "he killed a man" further add to the mystery.
 It seems the wedding imagery would appeal to female readers and the gangster imagery
would appeal to males of the time.

Fitzgerald uses a
catalogue method, speaking of guests who descend upon Gatsby's West Egg grounds: "From
East Egg, then, came the Chester Beckers and the Leeches, and a man named Bunsen, whom I
knew at Yale, and Doctor Webster Civet, who was drowned last summer up in Maine. And the
Hornbeams and the Willie Voltaires, and a whole clan named Blackbuck."  This fits the
wedding motif and stresses the themes of mobility and
wealth.

Fitzgerald also uses much time imagery, "nine
o'clock," to reveal his theme of displaced time.  He uses car imagery "Gatsby’s gorgeous
car" to foreshadow the death by car at the end.

And then
there's Gatsby's use of "old sport."  He uses it in both a new (flirty) and old
(good-ole-boy) way.  Indeed, life seems to be a game to Gatsby, full of fast cars and
women.  He is a new breed of American, focused almost entirely on
recreation.

There there are the lies.  He's from the
Midwest?  San Francisco?  They are all prefaced by "I’ll tell you God’s truth"--which is
always a set-up for a lie.  In all, Gatsby is confirming his reputation as a Byronic
Hero--he of mysterious origins and dangerous
affiliations.

All told, there is sense of movement and
anticipation in Fitzgerald's prose.  It moves along quickly.  The reader is very much
like Nick, moving fast in Gatsby's car and being lied to along the way.  The irony is,
of course, is that neither Nick or we mind too much.

How do the events of "A Hunger Artist" match up with the flat, matter-of-fact tone in which it is written?

This is an excellent question. Of course, the point of
view of this challenging short story is third person limited, which helps create the
detached tone that you refer to. From the very start of the story, it is clear that the
tone that is created stresses the normal, factual elements of "fasting" as a form of
art:

During
these last decades the interest in professional fasting has markedly diminished. It used
to pay very well to stage such great performances under one's own management, but today
that is quite impossible. We live in a different world
now.

The story presents
fasting as a now outmoded and anachronistic form of art that is no longer popular.
However, to be taken in by this factual tone would be to ignore the very real element of
humour that lurks behind this detached point of view. Of course, the hunger artist is
presented as a figure of pity, but at the same time we cannot ignore the presence of the
absurd. The notion that fasting is an "art" which is presented as an art form before
admiring spectators is ludicrous. Likewise as we follow the struggle of the hunger
artist to pursue his art to its highest and most purest form, we cannot escape the
feeling that the hunger artist is a bit too self-important and places too much emphasis
on his art. Kafka seems to be asking deep questions about the nature of art and the
fervency with which we lead ourselves into states of artistic
excess.

In "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," how long has the Mariner been under the curse?

The exact answer to this question is that we are not told.
I have carefully checked the poem again for any time references that could give us an
indication, but no specific time markers are given to us. The only thing that we can
deduce is that the Mariner has been under the curse for a long time. Note how he is
described in the penultimate stanza of the poem:

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The Mariner, whose eye is
bright,

Whose beard with age is
hoar,

Is
gone...

We can assume that
the Mariner would have been a young man when he had this experience, and his aged state
as described in this stanza suggests therefore that he has been wandering and sharing
his tale with the supernatural compulsion that he describes for a long time. Killing
albatrosses has its consequences, obviously. ...

What does the term moral complacency mean?

Moral complacency is a term that refers to people
rejecting moral opinions that go counter to their own as a moral opinion is one that is
considered as the absolute truth of sorts and about which one cannot be wrong. It is a
belief that a moral opinion requires no justification and as a result the issue of
proving or justifying it and be willing to change the way one thinks based on better
arguments presented by others does not arise.

As an
example, if you believe that abortion is wrong, you may consider it totally justified to
not hear any argument of mine to prove that abortion has its benefits, that abortion is
not putting an end to a life, and the alike.

Please explain lines 238-259 in Shelley's "The Triumph of Life." (Include any similes used by the poet.)

Percy Shelley's "Triumph of Life" was his last major poem.
He drowned before he could finish it. It is, in a way, a tribute to the poet Dante
Aligheri, written in terza rima, just as is Dante's Commedia. Its
main theme is the nature of being and how life has a way of ultimately corrupting the
spirit, even of those we consider to be great. In the lines you have asked about,
Shelley (the narrator or speaker of the poem) is describing a vision of a chariot and
groups of people, particularly some of the famous people he sees passing by him in his
waking dream. He describes kings and rulers and tells how life conquered all of them
despite their accomplishments and achievements. Thus, Life triumphs over everything in
the end. There are no similes in the lines you mention.

heat!!!what are 6 ways in which heat enters the house in summer. also link me a diagram of heat entering the house, if possible. thank you v. much

Orientation of the home also matters in this instance. For
example, the front of my home faces the east. There is a room upstairs which has a very
large window and a cathedral ceiling. There are already three strikes against keeping
this room cool in the summer. First of all, the sun shines directly into the room in the
morning because the sun rises in the east. Second, heat rises (second floor). Third,
there is the cathedral ceiling which means there is no attic. The heat has nowhere to go
but to stay in the room.

There are many other ways that
homes retain heat. For example, using the oven creates heat. Heat also enters through
windows. One way to prevent this from happening is by covering windows with solar
shades.

What is the story or basis of the first book of Paradise Lost?I'm reading up to line 270 for English Literature and I am stumped. I have no...

I am sorry you are struggling so much! Yet if you have as
little religious background as you say you do, this epic poem is going to be hard work
in terms of grasping all of the allusions. Centrally this poem is about charting the
Fall of Man in the form of mankind's ultimate ancestors: the first two humans, Adam and
Eve. This is the phrase given to what happened when Adam and Eve tasted from the Tree of
Knowledge in the Garden of Eden, which was an act of direct disobedience, because God
had told them not to do so. As a result, mankind experienced a "Fall" which could be
said to be parallel with the "Fall" that Satan experienced when he tried to rebel
against God in heaven and was cast down into Hell.

Book 1
of Paradise Lost therefore begins by referring to the main theme of
the work, which is the disobedience of man and how he lost his place in the Garden of
Eden or "Paradise" because of this. The blame is laid firmly at the door of Satan, in
the guise of the serpent, who had tried to revolt against God by drawing many angels to
his side, but failed, and was cast down "into the great deep." The poem, after this
contextual summary, jumps straight into the action, presenting us with Satan and his
angels in a place of darkness called "Chaos." Satan and his angels are on the burning
lake and are astonished at what has happened to them. However, Satan quickly recovers
and dialogues with his second in command about their fall. He then calls all of his
army, and the chief leaders are named. Satan addresses them with a rousing speech,
convincing them that there is hope yet of being successful in their bid to gain Heaven,
but also telling them of a new world and a new species that God has created according to
ancient prophecy. Satan calls council to discuss how they can find out if this is true.
Pandemonium, the palace of Satan comes out of the deep, and as Book 1 ends, the fallen
angels begin their council.

Can you describe how genetic information can be stored in a sequence of nitrogenous bases in DNA and relate it to the structure of DNA.

The DNA molecule is a double helix therefore, either side
can serve as a template to be copied by RNA. DNA stores the genetic code in the nucleus
of every cell. This genetic information is stored in a sequence of nitrogenous bases
that get transcribed or copied by mRNA(messenger RNA). Every three bases is called a
codon. The mRNA codon is actually the information that gets translated once the mRNA
leaves the nucleus and attaches to a ribosome in the cytoplasm. There, each codon will
be translated into a particular amino acid, by the transfer RNA. As each amino acid gets
assembled into a chain, it forms a polypeptide. When the polypeptide reaches a "stop"
codon, the whole molecule detaches from the ribosome and proceeds to fold into a three
dimensional shape. It is now a protein.

Why is The Chrysalids written in a first-person narrative?

Let us consider the aspects of first-person point of view.
Because of the intensely personal nature of the narrative, because after all we see
everything through the eyes of one central character, we as readers become very
emotionally involved in the struggles and challenges of this one character, as we see
everything from their point of view. This is very important in this excellent dystopian
novel, because, through our access to David's thoughts and feelings, we are able to
appreciate his danger and the way that his gift places him in such a perilous position.
It also helps us side against the barbarity of David's father and the society at large,
which would callously mutilate and exile children such as David and
Rosalind.

Of course, we cannot escape that any first-person
narrative is essentially limited and partial in its nature. This of course helps raise
the suspense for us as readers. An omniscient point of view would give access to the
thoughts and actions of all characters. By only being able to see things from David's
point of view, we, like he is, are left in suspense as we wonder when and if his secret
will be discovered and what will happen to him.

Lastly, I
think the first-person narrative is essential as well to help us understand the gift
that David and the others have. It is an intensely inter-personal gift that would be
difficult to describe from a third person perspective. Having it described from David's
perspective helps us as readers to appreciate how it creates a profound link between the
group.

Is this a simple, compound, complex, or a compound complex sentence?" I leant against a pillar of the verandah,drew my grey mantle close about...

Is this a simple, compound, complex, or a compound complex
sentence?

" I leant against a pillar of the verandah,drew my grey
mantle close about me,and,trying to forget the cold which nipped me without,and the
unsatisfied hunger which gnawed me within, delivered myself up to the employment of
watching and thinking."

Name the elements of tracking stolen goods

I assume you mean Receiving Stolen Goods, when one knows
that the articles received are stolen. The classic definition
is

Buying or
acquiring the possession of property knowing that it had been obtained by theft,
embezzlement, larceny, or extortion by someone else. Paying for the goods or intending
to receive a reward for their return are not
defenses.        

It
should be noted that stealing property and receiving stolen property are mutually
exclusive defenses; one may be guilty of one but not both. As a rule, Prosecutors will
charge a defendant with both defenses; however the jury will be instructed that they can
find the defendant guilty of only one of the offenses. There is little distinction
between the punishment for each offense, unless there were aggravating circumstances
surrounding the larceny, such as burglary, or the use of deadly
force.

What qualities earned Kira-Kira the Newbery Medal?

Kira-Kira won the Newberry Medal in
the year 2005. The Newberry Medal is given by the ALSC, or the Association for Library
Services for Children, to their choice of best original story. Kira-Kira
reunites the qualities that the ALSC observes in order to select a story for
the John Newberry Medal.

These quality indicators
are:

• Interpretation of the theme or
  concept


• Presentation of information including accuracy,
  clarity, and organization


• Development of a
  plot


• Delineation of
  characters


• Delineation of a
  setting


• Appropriateness of
  style.

Kira-Kira is a
fictional story about a Japanese family that struggles in America. The delineation of
each of the characters is quite clear and realistic. The situations through which the
characters struggle go hand in hand with the setting of the story:  A rural town during
the 1950’s, during a period in American history when there was a collective feeling of
“Anti-Japanese sentiment”. The style in which the story is narrated conveys the personal
feelings of the characters and helps to explain the intensity of their emotional and
social struggles. Furthermore, the story presents a social situation that was real and
had not been written about before for this specific genre and
audience.

It is very likely that the reason why this story
won in 2005 is because the Newberry committee saw a combination of historical, social,
and literary value in this story.

In "The Black Cat", why do the narrator and his wife go down in the cellar?

The narrator does not give details of why he and his wife
went into the cellar. He simply says-

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 One day she accompanied me, upon some household
errand, into the cellar of the old building which our poverty compelled us to
inhabit.

It is evident that
the wife trusted her husband, despite his unreasonable anger and strange
behaviours.

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 The moodiness of my usual temper increased to
hatred of all things and of all
mankind;

 He is humbled by
her devotion and humanity, to him and to the cat he perceives as
evil-

 my
uncomplaining wife, alas! was the most usual and the most patient of
sufferers.

It is her humanity
and goodness in trying to prevent her husband from taking his axe to the cat he is
tormented by night and day. His wife intervenes as he raises the axe to the cat, and she
pays most cruelly for her action-

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 Goaded  by the interference, into a rage more
than demoniacal,  I withdrew my arm from her grasp and buried the axe in her
brain.

Discuss George Herbert as a metaphysical religious poet.

George Herbert chose at Cambridge to devote his poetry to
God and seemed to adjust easily to a religious life after leaving a court life. His
poetry expresses the notion that one feels God's presence or one doesn't, propounding
the theologically arguable concept that one cannot reason with God. His poetry is an
extension of his sermons and seeks to instruct by example rather than by precept. He
writes about his personal struggles in order that others may follow his example and thus
overcome their struggles. His struggles are not on the same order of Donne's, his fellow
religious poet, however, being less desperate and less
personal.

Herbert's approach to poetry writing is a more
commonplace approach than an intellectual one. He uses common everyday domestic
metaphors and imagery along with conceits (elaborate, intellectually original metaphors,
short or extended), which are important in his poetry. The questions that Herbert
explores, which constitute an extension to his sermons, are often resolved with a device
he innovated: two quiet lines that convey a resolution founded in emotion and that may
or may not answer the question(s) raised in the poem. The function of extending his
sermons determines the his poetic style, in large part.

How is the 1999 movie Sleepy Hollow an example of the Romantic movement?

Burton's film is representative of Romanticism in a
variety of ways.  The concept of the Headless Horseman is represented as a vision a
someone or something of "the unknowable."  Romanticism was animated by the idea that
there is something beyond the empirical, of what can be scientifically proven. 
Romanticism was a strong follower of this, and that within the mysterious, something
unique to individual consciousness was present.  The nightmares that Crane experiences
would be a part of this.  At the same time, I think that Crane's exploration of the self
is also something that is representative of Romanticism.  In this light, Crane's
understanding of his own subjectivity is something that is vitally important to
Romanticism.  Finally, the idea of emotional aspect of Crane's characterization, in
terms of fears, hopes, and expectations are representative of the movement, is an
important aspect of Romanticism.  Romantic thinkers believed that the exploration of
self, the true essence of identity, is rooted in the emotional and feeling aspect of
humanity.

In Animal Farm, what are some reasons why Snowball would be considered dangerous?

I find that linking the Animal Farm
characters to their Russian Revolution counterparts helps me to think through
why they do what they do.

Snowball represents Leon Trotsky.
He was a celebrated military mind, and he instituted many committees. This is a
dangerous place when the committees don't necessarily achieve
anything.

Snowball followed in these footsteps. He tried to
institute these committees: re-education, planning and development, and production. What
has made that dangerous for Snowball is that he spent all this time thinking and for
what? Working with incompetent animals? This is dangerous for him, but it is also
dangerous to another authority figure because it shows that he can think and
plan.

Describe the process as food enters and exits the stomach. Are there glands that control this?

The human stomach is a muscular bag located in the upper
middle of the abdomen.  When empty, the stomach flattens out, leaving a small air bubble
in the upper portion, and with the walls of the main body and lower portion of the
stomach more or less touching one another.  The lining is thrown into folds that
disappear as the stomach distends with food.

Ingested food
and liquids pass down the esophagus to enter the stomach.  The esophagus has a sphincter
muscle at its junction with the stomach that can contract to slow or control the entry
of food into the stomach.  There are no glands controlling this process, however there
are pressure sensors involved.

Gastric (stomach) emptying
is a complex process and varies according to the nature of the ingested
food.

In the case of ingestion of a large quantity of
water, there is no need for the water to remain in the stomach for processing, and it
will pass rapidly through the stomach into the duodenum and small
intestines.

A Big Mack, on the other hand, is handled
differently from the water.  Pressure sensors will promote relaxation and expansion of
the stomach and delay emptying.  Glands in the duodenum and small intestine will relay
information back to the stomach to modulate the stomach’s contraction and emptying. 
Like the esophagus, the stomach has a sphincter muscle at its outlet that helps control
the rate of gastric emptying.  The food will remain in the stomach longer than the water
in order for the gastric pepsin and acid to begin digesting the
food.

The first reference refers to the dog’s stomach, but
is applicable to humans.  The second gives expanded information on human gastric
emptying.

Compare the lives of slaves in the Chesapeake to the lives of slaves in South Carolina.

Although life in slavery was not good anywhere, the lives
of slaves in the Chesapeake are generally said to have been better than the lives of
slaves in South Carolina.  This is largely because the working conditions were better in
the Chesapeake.

In the Chesapeake, the main crop was
tobacco.  By contrast, the slaves in South Carolina worked on indigo and rice
plantations.  These crops were much harder to work than tobacco and the climate in South
Carolina was much harsher.  Because of that, slaves in South Carolina typically had much
shorter lives.

In addition, the Chesapeake was much more
densely populated.  This meant that there were more people (and more slaves) around. 
Because of this, slaves in that area had much more of a chance to form communities than
did slaves in South Carolina.

Slaves in the Chesapeake had
easier working conditions and more of an ability to create a community with other
slaves.  This made their lives better than the lives of those in South Carolina.  This
can be seen in the fact that slave populations in the Chesapeake grew by natural
increase (more births than deaths) from early on while those in South Carolina did
not.

Write the difference in tanpi/4-cosx as a product?

First, we'll substitute the function tan pi/4 by it's
value 1.

To transform the difference into a product, we'll
have to express the value 1 as being the function cosine of an angle, so that the terms
of the difference to be 2 like trigonometric functions.

1 =
cos 0 or cos 2pi

1 - cosx = cos 0-cos
x

cos 0-cos x =  -2 sin (0+x)/2*sin
(0-x)/2

cos 0-cos x = -2sin (x/2)*sin
(-x/2)

Because of the fact that the trigonometric function
sine is an odd function , we'll write sin (-x/2)=-sin
(x/2)

cos 0-cos x = 2sin (x/2)*sin
(x/2)

tan pi/4 - cos x = 2[sin
(x/2)]^2

State the domain and range and explain the importance of the horizontal asymptote in the following case:The profit, in thousands of dollars, from...

The function for the profit is given as:
P(x)=(5x-400)/(x+600)

Note:
Here, the domain is x > 0. I have taken this as the domain under the assumption
that you cannot sell less than 0 kilograms of tuna and for x = 0 the function is not
defined. The range for the domain x> 0 is
y<=5.

f(x) = (5x - 400)/ (x +
600)

The horizontal asymptote is f(x) =
5.

We get a horizontal asymptote as even if x-->
inf, the value of the function can grow till only 5. So, even if a very large number of
tuna is sold the maximum profit is only 5.

The required
domain is x>=0 , range is
y<=5. The horizontal asymptote places a limit on the
maximum profit.

What is x if 1-square root(13+3x^2)=2x ?

We'll impose constraints of existence of square
root:

13+3x^2 >=
0

Since it is a sum of positive amounts, we'll accept any
value of x as solution of equation.

We'll subtract 2x both
sides:

1 - 2x =
sqrt(13+3x^2)

We'll raise to square to eliminate the square
root:

1 - 4x + 4x^2 =
13+3x^2

We'll move all terms to one side and we'll cmbine
like terms:

x^2 - 4x - 12 =
0

We'll apply quadratic
formula:

x1 =
[4+sqrt(64)]/2

x1 = 6

x2 =
(4-8)/2

x2 =
-2

The solutions of the equation are {-2 ;
6}.

How did Amelia Earhart's ideas impact history?

The ideas that Amelia Earhart advocated did in fact change
history, but it is not really accurate to say that they affected history
because of her.  She was one of the influences that allowed
the ideas that she believed in to move forward.

Earhart's
ideas were mainly concerned with the importance of flying and with promoting women's
rights.  Both of these ideas have changed the world since Earhart's
time.

For example, airplanes have had a huge influence for
good and bad.  On the bad side, they have been used as bombers to transform war and
cause huge amounts of destruction (WWII).  On the other hand, they have given us a great
deal of mobility and have allowed people to travel much more than ever
before.

If anything, the increase in rights for women has
changed things much more than airplanes.  The fact that women are now seen as
essentially equal to men has changed the lives of practically every person in America. 
It has changed the way we conduct our family lives and our marriages.  It has given more
opportunities to generations of women and has generally made our society more just and
equal.

Earhart did not cause these changes to happen, but
she and others promoted these ideas which have changed the
world.

I need help to figure out a topic for my analogy essay for my English composition class.We are taking a geographic location and comparing it to...

There are probably several different ideas and directions
you could take this essay, but after reading your initial "backyard" idea, my first
thought was to go with something imaginative and childlike.  If this is a place that is
sentimental because you associate it with childhood, think of ways you could portray
that sentiment as well as a childlike tone in the
essay.

Perhaps you could compare the yard to a faraway
fairy-tale land with a castle.  Another idea might be to compare it to an amusement
park.  You could also toy with the idea of taking another childhood memory (perhaps a
book you read or movie you watched) and comparing your backyard to places from the
story.  You've given yourself a great idea to work with here, because the imagination of
a child is limitless.  The fact that this backyard is tucked away in a childhood memory
opens the door for imaginative, narrative, and even childishly whimsical
writing.

I'm not sure if there is a format you've been
taught to practice in this essay, but you could easily accomplish your task by creating
an extended metaphor based around the real concept (your backyard) and the imaginative
one.

Have fun, and good
luck!

Though the links below do not seem to pertain
directly to your assignment, both contain good pieces of advice you could apply
here.

find the maximum value of f(x)=xe^(-0.5x)^2

The maximum value of the function could be calculated
using the first derivative test.

The roots of derivative
represents the critical values of the function, where the function has an extreme
value.

We'll determine the first derivative using product
rule:

f'(x) = x'*e^(-0.5x)^2 +
x*[e^(-0.5x)^2]'

e^(-0.5x)^2 =
e^(0.25x^2)

[e^(-0.5x)^2]' =
0.5x* e^(0.25x^2)

f'(x) = 1*e^(0.25x^2) +
x* 0.5x* e^(0.25x^2)

We'll factorize by
e^(0.25x^2):

f'(x) = e^(0.25x^2)(1 +
0.5x^2)

We'll put f'(x) =
0.

e^(0.25x^2)(1 + 0.5x^2) =
0

Since the factor e^(0.25x^2) cannot be zero for any real
value of x, we'll impose to the 2nd factor to be zero.

(1 +
0.5x^2) = 0

0.5x^2 = -1

x^2 =
-1/0.5

Again, neither real value of x, raised to square,
can give a negative value, such as
-1/0.5.

So, the function has not a maximum
value. The function is continuously and increasing all over real set
number.