What are the six organs of the United Nations, as created by the UN Charter?

There are several power structures within the United
Nations that allow it to function more efficiently and effectively.  Your teacher may be
asking for a specific six that they have gone over in class or from a text, but these
are the ones I believe they would be referring to:

1) 
The General Assembly - Every member nation belongs to this,
and has one vote in resolutions.  Basically the Congress of the
UN

2)  The UN Security Council
- The five members of the UN who have veto power and are on the Security Council
forever,Britain, France, China, Russia and the US. Ten countries that serve two year
terms on the 15 member Security Council.  Every member country is eligible except the
five permanent members.

3) International
Court of Justice - Judicial branch of the UN, and responsible for cases
involving international law and UN resolutions.

4) 
UN Secretary General - Currently South Korean Ban Ki Moon,
they serve as the executive of the UN, and hold more power than ordinary
ambassadors.

5)  The Economic and Social
Council - Charged with improving economic and social conditions in
problem areas around the world.

6)  The
Trusteeship Council - Administers those countries and territories
controlled by the UN, to oversee their best interests.  All such territories have gained
independence, though, so this council is currently
inactive.

7)  UN Peacekeeping Forces -
An armed force that maintains the peace in various hot spots around the
globe, with military force if necessary.

A downward sloping straight line shows what relationship?

A line is represented mathematically by a "linear"
equation, which takes the following standard form:

y = mx +
b

This equation defines the point y given the input x, and
parameters m and b.

m is the slope. A downward sloping
straight line will have a negative value of m. What this means is that as x increases in
value, y decreases in value. Thus there is a negative correlation between the variables
x and y. The parameter b establishes a fixed reference point, namely the point
(0,b).

Is John Proctor a Christian?

The play also shows a John Proctor who is conflicted about
his faith.  There is the issue with Reverend Parris and the money he spends on gold
candlesticks.  As the witch trials heat up, especially since he knows the truth, he
loses faith in some of the church elders and the court, because they cannot see the
farce for what it is.

I don't think Proctor ever abandons
Christianity, per se, but without saying so, he may have abandoned Puritanism by the
end.  But then again, so did a lot of people at that time.  By 1730, a mere 38 years
after the Salem fiasco, there was no Puritan Church left in New
England.

How is the film Invasion of the Body Snatchers a reflection of American concerns with communist subversion?

To answer this, just look at the plot of the film.  You
have good Americans who are replaced by people who look just like them but who are
actually aliens.  This can be seen as a metaphor for what many Americans feared that
communists could do.

In those days, there were fears that
anyone could be a communist.  McCarthyism fed this fear--if there could be that many
communists in the government, who might not be a communist?  You would never be able to
tell.  This is just like what happens in the film.  In the film, it is impossible to
really tell the pod people from the regular people, just as it was seen as impossible to
tell a communist from a "good American."  In the film, the pod people are gradually
infiltrating and changing people.  This was what people thought the communists could
do.  They worried that the communists would secretly infiltrate and then start turning
other people into communists without anyone knowing it.

In
this way, the film reflects the concerns that people had--it reflects the fear that the
communists could covertly subvert the whole country, turning good Americans into
reds.

There are 2 numbers whose sum is 53. 3 times the smaller number is equal to 19 more than the larger number. Which are the numbers?

assume that the fsmaller number =S and the larger number
is=L

then, S+L= 53.......
(1)

3 times the smaller number = 19 more than the larger
number

==> 3 S = 19 + L ........
(2)

Now, combining equation (1) and (2) we
have:

S+L = 53

3S = 19  + L
==> L = 3S -19

substitute in eqution
(1),

 S + (3S- 19) = 53

 4S -
19 = 53

4S = 72     divide by
4

S = 72/4 = 18

and L = 3(18)-
19 = 35

How does Hamlet show cold revenge and Laertes show hot?In what acts/scenes do the show this. Thankyou

This is an interesting way to describe the difference
between Laertes and Hamlet.  Laertes's revenge would be considered "hot" because he is
very hot-headed upon his return to Denmark and claims that the will stop at nothing
to avenge his father's murder.  When he first arrives at Elsinore, he is blaming
Claudius because he sees it as Claudius's fault for not controlling his crazy step-son,
Hamlet.  He demands the whole story saying:

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I'll not be juggled
with:

To Hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest
pit!

I dare damnation.  To this point I
stand,

That both the worlds I give to
negligence,

Let come what comes; only I'll be
revenged

Most thoroughly for my
father. 

 He is clearly
exclaiming that he isn't thinking of the possible consquences of his actions.  He is
willing to damn his soul to hell in the process of getting revenge.  He won't be loyal
to anyone on earth, or God in heaven.  These are the kinds of words that would NEVER
come from Hamlet!

Hamlet's revenge would be considered cold
as it shows to be the opposite of Laertes's behavior.  Hamlet desperately wants to exact
revenge on Claudius, but he much more thoughtful in his actions and expresses several
concerns about the justice of his actions and the need to have proof so that the death
of Claudius will be justified.  He wants the death to be in a time of sinful behavior so
that Claudius's has no chance at heaven.  Hamlet doesn't jump to action immediately
after the ghost reveals the truth, he takes weeks to finally take action.  Hamlet is
motivated, but cautious about the consequences of his action.  He feels strongly, but
doesn't act quickly, therefore his revenge is more cold and
calculating.

In The Great Gatsby, how long did it take Gatsby to make the money to buy the mansion?

After he meets Daisy once again in Nick's cottage, Gatsby
and Nick are left alone for a few minutes. In their conversation, Gatsby tells Nick he
earned the money to buy his house in only three years. This fits the timeline of
Gatsby's history as it unfolds. He had met Daisy in Louisville approximately five years
earlier, gone to war, and then returned to New York where he met Meyer Wolfsheim and
began his illegal, but quite lucrative, career. The chronology of these events indicates
that Gatsby is telling the truth when he says he became quite wealthy in only three
years.

sqr(3-x)-sqr(1+x) >1/2.......................find x

We'll impose constraints of existence of square
roots:

3 - x >= 0

x
=< 3

1 + x >=
0

x >= -1

The range of
admissible values for x is [-1 ; 3].

Now, we'll solving the
inequality by raising to square both sides:

3 - x + 1 + x -
2sqr(3-x)*(1+x) > 1/4

We'll eliminate x and we'll
combine like terms:

4 - 2sqr(3-x)*(1+x) >
1/4

We'll subtract 4 both
sides:

- 2sqr(3-x)*(1+x) > 1/4 -
4

- 2sqr(3-x)*(1+x) >
-15/4

We'll multiply by
-1:

2sqr(3-x)*(1+x) <
15/4

We'll divide by
2:

sqr(3-x)*(1+x) <
15/8

We'll raise to square
again:

(3-x)*(1+x) <
225/64

We'll subtract
225/64:

(3-x)*(1+x) - 225/64 <
0

We'll remove the brackets:

3
+ 2x - x^2 - 225/64 < 0

64*3 + 64*2x - 64x^2 - 225
< 0

- 64x^2 + 128x - 33 <
0

64x^2 - 128x + 33 >
0

The expresison above is strictly positive if discriminant
of the quadratic is negative:

delta = 16384 -
8448

delta = 7936

Since delta
>0, the quadratic has 2 real roots.

x1 =
(128+16sqrt31)/2*64

x1 =
16(8+sqrt31)/2*2*2*16

x1 =
(8+sqrt31)/8

x2 =
(8-sqrt31)/8

The expression is positive over
the ranges [-1;(8-sqrt31)/8) U ((8+sqrt31)/8 ;
3].

Explain the importance of Maleeka's diary in influencing the events of the novel The Skin I'm In.

Maleeka's writing allows her to explore a self with
strength. She reverses her name to Aleekma, and in a sense, reverses her self-image by
creating an alter-ego. Her character faces unspeakable horrors below decks in a slaver
ship. No matter the conditions, she stays strong and fantasizes about Kinjari, a fellow
slave with beautiful eyes who watches her constantly. More than likely, this fantasy
male is the reflection of Caleb, a fellow student who likes Maleeka despite her dark
skin. Caleb is a sensitive, hard-workingstudent who is the opposite of many of his
fellows in an inner city school. From Aleekma's strength, Maleeka can face up to the
demands of Char and the twins and end up doing what is right. Ms. Saunders supports her
is spite of her efforts to resist the understanding that she is beautiful and
smart.

In Brave New World, how do Solidarity groups help to achieve the World State motto?

The motto of the World State is "Community, Identity,
Stability."  Solidarity Service groups help to achieve all of these three
goals.

Every other week, people have to go to Solidarity
Services with the other members of their groups.  At these services, they take soma,
participate in some chants, and have an orgy.  These services are meant to make them
feel more part of a community.  By going to these services, they share a common
experience with the other members of their group.  That makes them feel more like they
belong to that community and it gives them an identity (as part of the group).  This
promotes stability by making them feel more belonging.

In
addition, the services offer emotional release.  The drugs, the chanting and the sex are
extremely powerful experiences and leave most of the participants drained and cleansed
and happy.  By doing so, the services can make the people more contented and less likely
to rebel.

What is a character sketch of Norman Gortsby in "Dusk" by Saki.

"Dusk" is told by an omniscient third-person narrator
through Norman Gortsby's point of view. He is sitting on a park bench watching people.
This would seem to characterize him as something of a loner, an introvert, an
intellectual, a man with some education who considers himself a philosopher. The young
man who tells him his hard-luck story sounds like an English gentleman, and he takes
Gortsby to belong to his own social class. Both of them have to work for their livings,
but they would only consider doing work appropriate to gentlemen, such as trading in
stocks and bonds.

One outstanding character trait of
Gortsby is that he is skeptical. This is because he is an urbanite. This is hardly the
first time he has sat on a park bench watching the passing parade. A man like him who is
fairly well dressed and at leisure is sure to be approached regularly by men, and some
women, who have different stories to tell but who all want money. He listens to the
young man's story of losing his hotel, but his attitude suggests that he has no
intention of helping him out with a loan. He even waits until the stranger has finished
with the concluding gambit:

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"I'm glad, anyhow, that you don't think the story
outrageously
improbable."

Then:

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"Of course," said Gortsby slowly, "the weak point
of your story is that you can't produce the
soap."

The word "slowly" is
significant. It suggests that Gortsby has been listening patiently and evaluating every
detail. It also seems to suggest that Gortsby enjoys hearing the different stories
people will invent in order to extract money from the gullible; and it further suggests
that Gortsby never had any intention of giving the young man any money whether he was
telling the truth or not. Gortsby is a little bit cruel, but he has been cheated too
often in the past and doesn't mind getting back at one of these
tricksters.

Nowadays it is common to hear the telephone
ring and to have someone working in a boiler room tell us how they are raising money to
help women with breast cancer, or children with leukemia, or perhaps to help wounded
veterans. The caller is probably reading a standard pitch off a card, and the funds
collected will probably go mostly to those who are raising them. But some of us will
listen to the whole pitch, partly for amusement and partly because the caller makes it
impossible to get a word in edgewise until he or she is ready to ask for the donation.
That is Norman Gortsby. He is a man with a great deal of leisure time, and he is
probably lonely, like most unmarried people who live in big cities. He might just as
well be listening to this articulate young man as sitting there alone. But he is not a
soft touch. He has seen plenty of people like this young stranger get money from one
person and then go on to ask for more money from the next likely prospect.

It is only when Gortsby finds the soap that he feels
ashamed of himself. The soap convinces him, not only that the stranger was really in
trouble, but that he really only wanted to borrow money which he fully intended to pay
back as soon as he could locate his original hotel.

Gortsby
is not as sophisticated as he would like to think he is. He is still young. He has been
conned before and has made up his mind that he is not going to let that happen again.
But he is basically what the young stranger took him for, i.e., "a decent chap." He
still has some of that "milk of human kindness" that grifters count upon to earn their
livings.

In A Thousand Splendid Suns, do characters rise above their gender?When I say rise above their gender, I mean do they go beyond the expectation...

The two main characters of the novel, Laila and Mariam,
certainly attempt to rise above their lowly status as women in the Muslim world. Mariam
has a positive attitude at the beginning of the story, trusting in her father and hoping
that she will one day rise above the bastard status of which her mother always reminds
her. Although she sees little choice but to agree to Jalil's arranged marriage for her,
Mariam at first believes that Shaheed's strict ways are to her benefit. She soon learns
that his abusiveness will continue to grow as her failed pregnancies multiply. She takes
a giant leap forward when she agrees to attempt the dangerous escape with Laila, but
then resolves herself to a life of sorrow after she is caught. The murder of her
husband in order to save the life of Laila is one of the supreme acts of her life,
exceeded only by her decision to take the full blame of the crime upon herself. Though
she has given up at the end, she knows that her death will allow Laila and the children
a new start and a life of freedom.

Laila's life seems to be
on a positive road, thanks to the progressive upbringing and education by her father.
But after her parents' tragic deaths, Laila is forced to make a crucial decision. She
decides to marry Shaheed in order to give her unborn baby a father, rather than bringing
him up shunned as Mariam was. She has a plan from the start, but her failed escape keeps
her imprisoned within Shaheed's home until Mariam rescues her from strangulation. She
grows stronger after marrying Tariq, and her decision to return to war-torn Kabul to
help rebuild the orphanage endears her to a new generation of young children who, like
her, have been orphaned by the long conflict. She never forgets that Mariam has saved
her life more than once, and she plans to honor her next child with Mariam's name if it
is a girl.

Both of the women rise above expectations that
society would otherwise have for them. Despite her birth as a
harami (perhaps the lowest possible class in all Muslim
society), Mariam rises above it, dedicating herself to being a good wife and mother, but
many misfortunes keep her from fulfilling her dreams. Although Laila's dreams of life
with Tariq are sidetracked, she eventually fulfills them through persistence and an
inner strength which must have surprised even her. 

If the sun is used as your frame of reference, why do you always have kinetic energy?

When the sun is used as the frame of reference, the Earth
is constantly moving around the Sun. And so is a body that lies on the Earth. Even a
body which may appear to be stationary on the Earth is moving around the
Sun.

The movement results in a kinetic energy that is given
by the relation KE = (1/2)*m*v^2, where m is the mass of the body and v is the velocity
of the body in the reference frame of the Sun.

To have a
zero kinetic energy in the frame of reference of the Sun, we would have to be still and
have the same location with respect to the Sun. This is not possible to do, as
attempting the same would result in our collapsing into the Sun due to the gravitational
force of attraction.

In the "Ransom of Red Chief," why should Sam and Bill worry about how long Mr. Dorset can hold on to Red Chief?

The short answer to this is that Sam and Bill shoud worry
about how long Mr. Dorset can hold his son because they should be afraid that the son
will catch up to him.  He has done such terrible things to them that they never want to
see him again.

In this story, Sam and Bill kidnap the boy
to get his father to pay a ransom.  The problem is that "Red Chief" (Johnny Dorset)
makes their lives miserable.  He abuses them in various ways while they try to get his
father to pay a ransom for him.  Johnny thinks that it is great fun getting to be with
Sam and Bill and getting to do all these things to them.  Finally, the two men have had
enough and they agree to pay Mr. Dorset $250 to take Johnny
back.

They want Mr. Dorset to hold on to Johnny long enough
so that they can get far enough away.  They don't want Johnny to find them.  They should
feel this way because he has hurt them both (especially Bill) so much that they should
want to get as far away as possible.

How is an understanding of the robber's MO valuable in investigating a robbery?

"MO" is short for "modus operandi."  It refers to the way
that a person habitually does things.  In the investigation of crimes, knowledge of
criminals' MOs can help to solve crimes by matching a person to a
crime.

If a certain robber's MO is known, then other crimes
with the same MO can potentially be linked to that person.  This is not sufficient to
get a conviction, but it can serve to point the investigators towards the right person. 
Instead of having no suspects, the police can use the MO to establish a number of
suspects to investigate.  They can, for example, investigate all robbers who have been
known to enter buildings through unlocked second story windows or who commit them by
having an accomplice fake having an accident while the robber takes money from the cash
register in a store.

By keeping track of the MOs of known
criminals, the police can have a way to know who to investigate when a crime is
committed using a particular MO.

If we remove the subplot of pride and prejudice, can the main plot develop in Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and if so, how?

First, it is necessary to dispute the use of the “ title="Subplot: Literary Terms and Definitions. Dr.Kip Wheeler, Carson-Newman College"
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pride and prejudice in Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice.
“Subplot” is defined as a story line built upon conflict that centers around a
supporting character (e.g., the romance between Jane and Bingley or the marriage of
Charlotte and Collins or the story lines that center around Wickham). In contrast, title="Theme: Literary Terms and Definitions. Dr. Kip Wheeler, Carson-Newman College"
href="http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_T.html">theme is defined as the
central unifying idea upon which the entire work is founded. In this case, Austen’s
Pride and Prejudice is unified around the central thematic idea of
pride and prejudice. Having pointed this out, I’ll follow up with an answer that
utilizes the term “subplot” instead of “theme,” as the end result of the discussion will
be the same.

href="http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_C.html">Conflict drives the plot
by definition: “Conflict is the engine that drives a plot” (Wheeler). The conflict in
Pride and Prejudice is Elizabeth's prejudice and pride and Darcy's
pride and prejudice, which produces their misunderstandings and fuels the conflict,
which by definition drives the plot.

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She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to
tempt me; and I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are
slighted by other men (Darcy; Chapter 3, Vol.
1)

It is pride and prejudice
that form the foundation of the thematic concerns of the rising middle class of newly
wealthy tradesmen, like the Bingleys; wealth, social class, and prestige; and love and
marriage, especially prejudice in love and marriage (e.g., Elizabeth's prejudice against
Collins and Rosings versus Charlotte's humble acceptance of the
same).

If the subplot of pride and prejudice were removed,
some other basis for Elizabeth’s and Darcy’s determined misunderstandings (especially
Elizabeth’s) would need to be supplied. In order to keep the plot in tact, this new
basis for misunderstanding would need to be flexible enough to encompass the thematic
elements of new wealth, prestige, and marriage detailed above. Perhaps there is some
subplot that could stand in lieu of pride and prejudice that would not significantly
alter the thematic and psychological dynamic, but those I think of alter the
psychological dynamic beyond recognition. One might give Darcy a serious personality
flaw, like a pathological degree of shyness, but that would add a negative psychological
component and dependency that would radically alter the nature of the characters and the
novel as a whole (Lydia and Mary might come out looking like the psychologically stable
characters!).

So, on one hand, yes, if the subplot of pride
and prejudice is removed from Austen's novel, the plot can develop: there can be balls
and Charlotte's marriage and Jane's ruined romance and the trip to Derbyshire and
Lydia's fall from favor and the reconciliations. On the other hand, no, if the subplot
of pride and prejudice were removed from Austen's novel, the plot could not develop in
the same way with the same psychological and thematic outcomes.

What were the three different systems of recruiting factory labor that developed between 1820 and 1860.References Brinkley, A., (2007), A Survey:...

I think the very worst way to recruit factory workers was
from the orphanages and workhouses.  Sometimes the children were as young as six years
old, very poorly fed and clothed, overworked, and exposed to very dangerous conditions. 
Many died.  These horrific conditions eventually led to child labor laws prohibiting
children under the age of 14 to work. 

A second way to
recruit factory workers was to entice them into newly formed trade unions.  They were
promised better wages, living conditions, and better jobs.  Especially targeted were the
massive waves of immigrants coming to America for a better way of life.  They were
recruited by the thousands.

A third way to recruit factory
workers was to appeal to the womenfolk.  With  automation and machines taking away some
of the tasks they used to do by hand, they were freer to go into the job market.  Men
used propoganda to convince the women they were strong, intelligent, and very
needed.

Life must have been extremely hard, cheerless, and
depressing during this period of history.  In fact, there have been several historians
who've argued over the benefits versus the disadvantages of our country going from an
agricultural society to city life overnight.  Was it really worth
it?

Solve the system: 2x+y=9 10x-4y=36

This is a simple quadratic
function.

To solve x or y, we need to put the coefficient
of x or y same for each equation so that x or y can be eliminated when we subtract or
add the two equations.

Let's eliminate
y.

The coefficient of y in the first equation is 1, and in
the second equation, it is -4. Therefore, if we multiply 4 to the first equation, the
coefficients of ys in the both equation will be
same.

4(2x
+y=9)

==> 8x +4y=
36

Now, let's add both the
equation.

8x+4y=36

+)10x-4y=36

18x
      =
72

18x=72

x=72/18 =
4

Now, let's  solve
y.

Substitute x for 4. Then, the first equation
is

2(4) +
y=9

8+y=9

y=1

Therefore,
x=4, y=1.

Let's check if these two values are
correct.

If we substitute these values in the second
equation,

10(4)
-4(1)=36

40-4=36

Since the
equation is correct, x=4 and y=1.

How does the ambiguous nature of the term "carry" introduce the soldiers and themes of the novel?

In O'Brien's novel The Things They
Carried, the description of items in this first chapter, “The Things They
Carried,” moves from concrete to abstract things.  It begins with military necessities
(guns, helmets, radios, ammo, rations) and personal items (comic books, pictures,
letters, drugs) and ends with emotions, memories, family, history, tragedy, heartbreak,
guilt, love.  In this way "carry" is a transitive verb: it requires direct objects, and
O'Brien lists them, and their weights, to give the novel military verisimilitude and to
give the men psychological baggage.

The heaviest thing they
carry, ironically, can't be weighed at all: the “unweighed fear.”  Jimmy Cross, a
Christ-figure (initials J.C.), carries the guilt over Lavender's death.  His mind was on
Martha, girl who symbolizes the comfort of home, when Lavender was
killed.

After his death, Lavender's ghost hangs over the
novel like King Hamlet's Ghost: “ . . . they all carried ghosts.” And “they carried all
the emotional baggage of men who might die.”

In the end, to
atone for the death (again the symbolic Christ-like metaphors), Lt. Cross burns Martha’s
letters and photographs? (p. 23)  Or so we think.

How does Zaroff stock his island with the "game?"

There are two ways that General Zaroff gets people on to
his island so that he can hunt them down and kill
them.

First, the island is in a particularly dangerous
place in the ocean.  It is very easy for ships to wreck near the island just because
that's the way the ocean is.

Second, though, Zaroff does
not just rely on chance.  He has a light set up to lure ships to go the wrong way.  That
way, he can make sure that some ships wreck if he is running low on people to
hunt.

Here is the relevant
passage:

This
island is called Ship Trap," he answered. "Sometimes an angry god of the high seas sends
them to me. Sometimes, when Providence is not so kind, I help Providence a bit. Come to
the window with me."

Rainsford went to the window and
looked out toward the sea.

"Watch! Out there!" exclaimed
the general, pointing into the night. Rainsford's eyes saw only blackness, and then, as
the general pressed a button, far out to sea Rainsford saw the flash of
lights.

The general chuckled. "They indicate a channel," he
said, "where there's none; giant rocks with razor edges crouch like a sea monster with
wide-open jaws. They can crush a ship as easily as I crush this
nut."

Discuss the motive of heroism in The Red Badge of Courage.

One of the ways that the approach to courage and heroism
in The Red Badge of Courage is so powerful is that Henry does not
immediately accept his role as a hero or even as a brave soldier.  The description of
his inner emotions during the first battle all the way to the last give the reader a
clear picture of the emotional battlefield that he fights in so that he can actually
approach a battle with something like what people consider outward
courage.

With the image of the head wound, the "red badge
of courage," Henry's transition to being a brave soldier is complete, but the reader has
that clear map of how he got there by challenging his fears and learning to manage
them.

Find the maximum or minimum value of f(x) = -3x^2 + 9x

Given the curve f(x) = -3x^2 +
9x.

We need to find the extreme value of the
function.

First we notice that the coefficient of x^2 is
negative, then the curve will have a maximum point.

Now we
will find the first derivative.

=> f'(x) = -6x +
9

Now we will determine the critical value which is the
derivatives zero.

==>< -6x + 9 =
0

==> x = -9/-6 = 9/6 =
3/2

==> x = 3/2

Now we
will calculate f(3/2)

==> f(3/2) = -3(3/2)^2 +
9(3/2) = -27/4 + 27/2 = 27/4

Then the
function f(x) has a maximum value at the point (3/2,
27/4)

Complete the square and find x. 9x^2-6x+21=0

Given the equation :

9x^2 -6x
+21 = 0

We need to solve by completing the
square.

==> Let us rewrite 21 = 21
+1

==> 9x^2 -6x + 1 + 20 =
0

==> (3x-1)^2 + 20 =
0

==> Now we will move 20 to the right
side.

==> (3x-1)^2 =
-20

Now we will take the square root of both
sides.

==> 3x-1 = sqrt-20 = 2sqrt-5 =
2sqrt5*i

==> 3x-1
=2sqrt5*i

==> 3x = 1+
2sqrt5*i

==> x1 = (1/3) + (2sqrt5)/3
*i

OR :

-(3x-1) =
2sqrt5*i

==> -3x +1 =
2sqrt5*i

==> -3x = -1 +
2sqrt5*i

==> x2 = (1/3) -(2sqrt5)/3
*i

Then we have two
solutions:

x= { (1/3)+2sqrt5/3 *i ,  (1/3) 8
(2sqrt5/3)*i }

Why does George allow Candy to become part of the dream to own a farm?How does this affect the reality of the dream.Give Evidence?

George allows Candy to become part of the dream of "livin'
offa the fatta the lan'" in many ways because Candy is much like them. He is a person
that perhaps much of society finds little use for and has disregarded in many ways; he
has outlived his usefulness in the eyes of some. Candy, like George and Lennie, dreams
of place where he will not be told what to do, where he can be himself, and work on his
own terms.

Candy's offer is one of more than
money:

"S'pose
I went in with you guys. Tha's three hundred an' fifty bucks I'd put in. I ain't much
good, but I could cook and tend the chickens and hoe the garden some. How'd that
be?"

But Candy's money turns
the dream from being some off in the distant future to something being more accessible.
As George says:

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"In one month. Right smack in one month. Know
what I'm gon'ta do? I'm gon'ta write to them old people that owns he place that we'll
take it."

I need help writing a newsletter about Hamlet killing Polonius .. someone give me some tips?i have the who what where when why but i dont know how...

If you are allowed to be humorous, you can make an
underground newsletter as there should be a receptive audience since the entire court of
Denmark is corrupt.  This newsletter would, of course, have to be distributed
outside the castle walls.  This would be a satirtic piece, like
those of SNL and Mad Magazine.

For
example, you could have a headline such as Old Windbag Finally
Deflated

Then, this headline is followed by
a lead line and a back-up quote in the manner of jounalistic pieces.  Something
like--

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Polonius, personal advisor to Queen Gertrude,
who seems a bit daft herself, hid in the queen's closet while she spoke with her mad
son, Hamlet. 

When questioned
about the circumstances, the court jester explained, 'It is all very logical.  If you
were foolsih and given to much talk, would you not want to hide and listen to a madman,
yourself?  Polonius was given to loquacity and probably wanted for new
thoughts.'

[Return to the passage in Shakespeare's
Hamlet and find incongruent occurrences that you can use to parody,
if you may use this genre of satire and parody]

Write on Shakespeare's use of the handkerchief in Othello.

For me, the most important thing to note about the use of
the handkerchief is that it is a stage prop in the play, and, as such, can be
manipulated by the actors in any number of ways.  This fact implies the lack of control
over the prop's use that any playwright, even Shakespeare, can have, a circumstance
quite different from the use of an important object in a work of literature written to
be read only, like a story or novel.

In the novel, the
object's appearance, use, and subsequent disappearance will be described by the author
in detail, according to the significance of the object, and this fact will be
unchangeable.  However, in a play, the playwright can indicate the presence of a prop
and even suggest its importance to the events of the plot, but it will, ultimately, be
the use of the prop by the actors that gives the audience the clearest sense of its
significance.  In this way, the prop's use, even a significant prop like the
handkerchief in Othello, cannot ever be fully determined by the
playwright.

Let's look at a few of the scenes in which the
handkerchief appears to examine how differing uses of it by the characters in the scene
could alter the sense of its meaning.

First, it is produced
in Act III, scene iii by Desdemona, intended to wipe Othello's face.  It falls to the
ground (We know this from Othello's text after it drops, line 292:  "Let it alone."),
and Emilia retrieves it.  In the subsequent scene with Iago, she begins with the
handkerchief in her possession, and he ends the scene with it in his.  But, it is
entirely up to the actors (and their director) to decide whether Emilia gives him the
handkerchief or he simply takes it from her.  Emilia's participation in the deception
surrounding the handkerchief is strengthened or weakened, depending upon how the
exchange of the handkerchief in this scene is played.

Then,
in Act IV, scene i, when Bianca returns to fling the handkerchief at Cassio, it is
entirely stage-able to consider that Cassio runs off after Bianca, leaving the
handkerchief onstage to be picked up by Iago, who then uses its presence to torment and
further enrage Othello.  Alternately, Cassio could take the handkerchief off when he
pursues Bianca, leaving Iago without this significant ammunition present
onstage.

These two scenes are but examples of how the use
of any prop, but especially a very significant prop like the handkerchief in
Othello, is determined by the choices made in performance by the
actors rather than by the playwright.

For more on the
handkerchief in these scenes, please follow the links below.

What do you understand by the term "Metaphysical" as applied to John Donne?

The term and application of the term "metaphysical" in
poetry and literature refers to the exploration and extrapolation of themes that cannot
otherwise be explained but through self contemplation, observation, and the analysis of
life, its patterns, and its connection to the higher realm of
spirituality.

John Donne belongs to a generation of 17th
century poets whose commentary of life is based on such exploration. It is not the
allegory to life and its consequences, but the appeal to the higher, spiritual,
misunderstood, and mysterious characteristics of one's
existence.

In not so many words, metaphysical refers not
only to the world which is above the physical, but also to the analysis of the
connection between the two.

Why do Daisy and Tom want to fix Nick up with Jordan in The Great Gatsby?I don't see much indication that Tom is as eager as Daisy to complete a...

Daisy does not like to deal with real issues or with
reality.  She prefers to live in an existence of dolls and make believe where she can
create worlds and lives and alter them to her liking in order to avoid the harshness of
the real world.  This becomes evident almost as soon as she is introduced into the
novel, but it especially becomes clear when she tells Nick, in the first chapter, what
she said when her daughter was born:

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I'm glad it's a girl.  And I hope she'll be a
fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little
fool.

Because of this
attitude, creating a romance between Nick and Jordan is nothing more than a pleasantly
diverting game for Daisy.  Tom does not have the same aversion to reality because he
believes he controls his world anyway.  A romance between Nick and Jordan is irrelevant
to Tom, other than the fact that he likes both Nick and Jordan and sees them as being
worthy of his company.

How does Romeo convince the apothecary to sell him poison?

The answer to this can be found in Act V Scene 1. 
Basically what Romeo does is he tells the apothecary "you are so poor, you really need
to sell this stuff to me so you will not starve."

That is
why Romeo picks this particular apothecary to buy the poison from.  He looks around to
find an apothecary who looks like he is really poor and does not have much luck selling
stuff to people.

He tells the apothecary that he can see
that the guy is terribly poor and hungry.  That's why the man is willing to
sell.

What does the scene on the castle's battlements in Shakespeare's Hamlet, reveal about Prince Hamlet's state of mind?

At the beginning of William Shakespeare's play,
Hamlet, Horatio comes to Hamlet to tell him that Old Hamlet's ghost
has appeared on the battlements. Hamlet assures Horatio that he will join him there
later, to see the spirit himself.

In Act One, scene four,
Hamlet joins Horatio and Marcellus on the battlements at midnight. When Hamlet sees the
Ghost, he reacts in several ways.

First, Hamlet approaches
the Ghost, determined to speak to it.

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HAMLET:

...Be
thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd,

Bring with thee
airs from heaven or blasts from hell,

Be thy intents wicked
or charitable,    (45)

Thou comest in such a questionable
shape

That I will speak to thee. I'll call thee
Hamlet,

King, father, royal Dane. O, answer
me!

Hamlet wants to know why
the Ghost, looking so like his father, is walking the
earth.

When the Ghost wants Hamlet to follow, Horatio and
Marcellus try to dissuade him, but Hamlet curiously moves to follow the spirit, still
not certain that it is his father's ghost.

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HAMLET:

It
will not speak; then will I follow
it.

HORATIO:

Do
not, my
lord!

HAMLET:

Why,
what should be the fear?(70)

I do not set my life at a
pin's fee;

And for my soul, what can it do to
that,

Being a thing immortal as
itself?

It waves me forth again. I'll follow
it.

At this point, Horatio
and Marcellus, fearful that the Ghost may be evil, sent from hell to trick Hamlet, try
to physically prevent Hamlet from following. Hamlet defies them with his bravery, and
furiously threatens the men—committed for his father's sake to hear what the Ghost has
to say:

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HAMLET:

My
fate cries out,(90)

And makes each petty artery in this
body

As hardy as the Nemean lion's*
nerve.

[Ghost
beckons.]

Still am I call'd. Unhand me,
gentlemen.

By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets
me.

I say, away! Go on. I'll follow thee.  
(95)

From the beginning of
this scene until the end, Hamlet welcomes the possibility that the Ghost may be his
father. He is curious. He is committed. And ultimately, he bravely, even defiantly,
chooses to follow the Ghost to hear what it has to say. Hamlet explains to his
companions that his mind is not only committed to his purpose, but the very arteries in
his body hum with the need to follow the specter. Hamlet is firm of purpose and clear of
mind.

Hamlet's state of mind in scene four is clear, and he
is determined to speak with the Ghost.

*Nemean
lion's nerve: "As hardy as the nerve of the lion killed by
Hercules"

Explore the ways Steinbeck develops a central character in Of Mice and Men.

Steinbeck's characterization of Lennie in Of
Mice and Men can be listed in several
stages. 

1. In chapter one, Lennie is revealed to
   be like a little kid.  He is simple minded and cannot think for himself.  He also likes
   to pet things, even gross things like dead mice.  He will get away with whatever he can
   when he thinks he can, again like a child.  He doesn't mean to hurt anyone or anything,
   like the mouse, but he can't help himself.


2. In the
   clubhouse, his dependence on George is further revealed.  He is not allowed to speak
   because as soon as he opens his mouth he reveals his mental condition.  But he is a
   great worker.


3. His strength is confirmed by someone other
   than George.  He is, indeed, a great worker, as witnessed by others on the
   ranch.


4. His lack of intelligence and his strength come
   together and are highlighted by the fight with Curley.  Unskilled as a fighter, he
   merely wins the fight by catching Curley's fist in his hand and crushing it.  He first
   takes a nasty beating, however, because he will not fight back without permission from
   George.  Though Lennie gives Curley what he deserves, the kind of strength Lennie
   possesses paired with the mind of a child is foreshadowed as extremely
   dangerous.


5. Lennie identifies with Crooks as a fellow
   outsider, and he is a gentle and friendly man.  But he is also extremely innocent and
   naive.


6. Lennie is manipulated by Curley's wife into
   talking to her, which he tries to avoid because George has ordered him to.  Curley's
   wife, too, though, is starved for attention and manipulates Lennie into talking with
   her.  Lennie's lack of mental ability and great strength lead to his killing Curley's
   wife the same as he had killed the mouse.  There's no place for someone like Lennie in
   the novel's society, and Lennie is doomed. 
   

Steinbeck uses dialogue and character actions
to reveal Lennie, one of the central characters in the novel. 

Who is responsible for math?who ever made Math I hate them and love them at the same time I don't see how that works

There was no single person who invented mathematics.
Mathematics was used, and technically invented, by many cultures around the world. These
cultures used their own form of mathematics, which could be considered 'math' in their
time and how they used it. These cultures include the Mayans, Indians, Greeks, and
Chinese, India and Greece. These forms of math spread throughout the world, and
eventually became the math we know today.

Well technically
no one has ever invented math but I know that the Greeks had started a way of counting
numbers.

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Tuition.

In To Kill a Mockingbird, what does the novel suggest about the limitations and necessity of empathy ?In particular, chapter 31 of To Kill a...

In Harper Lee's novel of maturation, To Kill a
Mockingbird, the motif of empathy is introduced in the words of Atticus Finch
as he instructs his daughter Scout in the necessity of considering things from the point
of view of others in Chapter 3:

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"First of all,...if you can learn a simple
trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks.  You never really
understand a person until you consider things from his point of view---until you climb
into his skin and walk around in
it."

In Chapter 31, Scout
reiterates the words of her father as she stands upon the Radley
porch:

Atticus
was right.  One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his soes and
walk around in them.  Just standing on the Radley porch was
enough.

From this vantage
point, Scout senses what it has been like for Boo to have been the recluse he has;
imprisoned inside his home, Boo has had only this small vision of the world.  Thus, his
contact with the children has been magnified in importance and his loss of the medium of
the knothole in the tree devastating.  Scout feels ashamed that she and Jem and Dill
have made him the sport of their games as they have considered him a "malevolent
phantom."  She now realizes the meaning of Miss Maudie's words that perhaps Boo chooses
to remain inside.  Perhaps, the world is too much for the shy and sensitive man who has
been so misunderstood by his own family.  Instead, he has vicariously experienced love
and joy by viewing the interaction of children with each other and with their
father. 

Scout's understanding now that she is mature gives
her an empathy for Boo.  But, earlier as a smaller child, Scout has not felt anything
for the "phantom"; her empathy for Boo then has been non-existent.  For, empathy only
comes from maturity of the soul, a maturity that must be nurtured by those kind,
understanding men such as Atticus Finch.

In "Shiloh" by Bobbie Ann Mason, compare and contrast Norma Jean and Leroy.

In "Shiloh," Norma Jean embraces and wants to be a part of
the future, while Leroy retreats into and wants to reclaim the
past.

The two live in a changing environment.  Their world
is changing from rural to urban.  Norma Jean tries to better herself.  She exercises and
takes a class at the local college.  She wants a contemporary house.  Leroy dreams of
building an old fashioned log cabin.  The two are heading in different
directions.

They even exchange gender roles.  Norma Jean
becomes the main earner in the home, rejects her mother, and even drives her and her
husband to Shiloh near the end of the story.  Leroy, the truck driver, lets his wife
drive him around, stays at home keeping busy doing crafts usually performed by women,
doesn't work, and sides with Norma Jean's mother, the
in-law. 

Their marriage is as dead as the soldiers buried
at Shiloh surrounding them when Norma Jean tells him she wants to leave
him. 

In "Babylon Revisted," how is the past constantly superimposed on the present, and why is that significant?

This is a great question based on this excellent short
story. I think to answer it we need to remember the context of what is going on here.
Charlie is returning to Paris after a long absence to try and re-claim his daughter from
his sister-in-law and her husband, who have been looking after her. Charlie was formerly
an alcoholic, and they took his daughter in because he had shown himself unable to look
after her. As he returns to Paris, he is constantly thinking about what his life was
like then, during the carefree days of ridiculous opulence and wealth, compared to the
Paris that he visits now: a much grimmer, bleaker place. Therefore one way in which the
past is imposed upon the present is through Charlie's own
memories:

He
remembered thousand-franc notes given to an orchestra for playing a single number,
hundred-franc notes tossed to a doorman for calling a
cab.

Another way in which the
past literally intrudes on the present is when Charlie meets two "sudden ghosts from the
past" in the form of Duncan Schaeffer and Lorraine Quarrles. These former partying
friends act as a literal reminder of Charlie's drinking past, and of course their
appearance ruin his chances of gaining his
daughter.

Finally, the past is brought up by Marion as she
tries to establish whether her brother-in-law has reformed and stopped drinking. She
reveals to us the rather painful memories of what happened between her sister and
Charlie, and we can see her reluctance to believe that he truly has
reformed.

The repeated references to the past seem to
perform the function of constantly questioning or challenging the supposed sobriety of
Charlie. He appears to present himself as a reformed alcoholic, yet at the same time he
has a past that he appears unwilling or even unable to escape, just as there are hints
that his alcoholism is not completely conquered. Charlie, as he returns to Paris,
revists his own personal "Babylon," which is full of ghosts, some of them far more
substantial than Lorrainne and Duncan.

Is Steve/John the father of the baby Sissy pretends to have in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn?Husband tells Sissy about woman at work who is pregnant and...

This is an interesting question, as, I too, wondered it
when I first read the book.  When it first comes up in chapter 34 we know the father was
a "married man" and when the baby is born she looks like Steve "especially around the
ears," but that is all.  At this point in the story, it is a little strange that
Steve/John neither objects nor seeks answers to this mysterious
baby.

Later in the story, however, things become a little
more clear.  In chapter 47, Sissy and Steve finally marry legally.  This is a turning
point in their relationship, as well as a major characterization turning point in
Steve.  For one thing, he finally demands to be called his real name, by Sissy and the
rest of the family.  Also, Sissy opens to him with the truth of the baby.  He, of
course, knew all along that she didn't actually have the baby, and he doesn't seem to
mind that it isn't hers.  The final piece of evidence to suggest that the baby
might actually be his is the fact that he is the one who told Sissy
about Lucia, the baby's mother who was in trouble.

If Steve
is the true father of the baby, it would make sense on many levels.  It would make sense
that he was cheating on Sissy at the beginning of their relationship because at that
point, Sissy herself did not treat the relationship very seriously.  It would also make
sense why he is so forgiving of Sissy's life (and past mistakes).  At the point that the
two finally come together as a man and a wife, it marks a sense of maturity that both of
them have finally achieved.  Steve finally begins to act like a real man and Sissy
finally respects him as one.

Whether Steve is the father of
baby Sarah is never fully revealed, which means it is not entirely important.  What is
important is that Sissy receives atonement for her past by correcting (or taking on the
burden) of someone else's similar mistake.  It would only heighten the irony if that
person also happened to be her husband.

Can you please comment on the use of idioms in "Miss Rosie" by Lucille Clifton?

I had to edit your question as what you were asking for
wasn't very clear. This poem does employ a very powerful idiom, but what you quoted in
your original question certainly wasn't an idiom. An idiom is defined as an expression
that is peculiar to a certain language and cannot be understood by a mere literal
definition of its individual words. These are very difficult for foreign language
learners to understand, as the phrases, such as "to have the upper hand," or "I played
my ace," have no literal meaning if you understand the words themselves, but point
towards comparing a situation with another one.

In "Miss
Rosie," this tremendous poem lamenting the "destruction" wrought by age, the poem ends
using a powerful idiom: "I stand up." This doesn't literally mean that the speaker does
stand up, rather, this idiom suggests the way that that speaker mourns for Miss Rosie
and wants to express her outrage, sadness and grief at what has happened to her.
Standing up is a symbol of solidarity and protest, and this is what the idiom refers to
in this poem.

Evaluate cos 165.

We that cos (180 - A) = -cos
A.

cos ( 165) = cos( 180 - 15) = -cos
15.

cos 2A = (cos A)^2 - (sin
A)^2

= 2*(cos A)^2 - 1

cos 30
= 2* (cos 15)^2 - 1

sqrt 3/2 = 2*(cos 15)^2
-1

=> 2*(cos 15)^2 = 1 + sqrt
3/2

=> (cos 15)^2 = 1/2 + sqrt
3/4

=> (cos 15)^2 = (2 + sqrt
3)/4

=> cos 15 = sqrt (2 + sqrt 3)/
2

=> cos 165 = -sqrt (2 + sqrt 3)/
2

So cos 165 = -sqrt (2 + sqrt 3)/
2

How does a multinational state differ from a nation-state?

When answering this question, you have to remember the
difference between a nation and a state in political science terminology.  A nation is
not a country -- it is a group of people who identify with one another on ethnic
grounds.  And a state is not a subset of a country (like Wisconsin or Washington).  It
is, instead, an actual whole country.

So, using these
definitions, a multinational state is a country that has citizens of many different
ethnic groups.  These ethnic groups would see themselves as fundamentally different from
other groups within their same country.  The Soviet Union was a great example of this
because it encompassed many different nations (Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Ukrainians, Russians,
etc).

A nation-state, by contrast, is one where the country
has only one ethnic group.  Perhaps the clearest example of such a state today would be
Japan since only ethnic Japanese are considered to truly be full citizens of that
country.

From To Kill a Mockingbird, what does this mean? "John looked at him as if he were a three-legged chiken or a square egg."Is this a...

This is not a common expression in the United States as
far as I know. It may have been a more common phrase in the 1960s when it was published
or in the 1930s when the story was set. It is a more characteristically southern trait
to make odd or hyperbolic similes. There are no three-legged chickens and there are no
square eggs. So, John looked at Ewell like he was something unnatural, a fool or just
downright silly. I don’t think this particular expression is standard, but the use of
similes is pretty typical in the United States, but even more so in the south and south
east.

How do you write a topic sentence that supports solar energy?

A topic sentence needs to tell the reader what you are
going to talk about in your paragraph.  As the link below says, a topic sentence
is

a general
sentence that provides a very broad, sneak peek into the specifics of your
paragraph.

This means that
you have to decide why solar energy is good before you
write your topic sentence.  So, first you need to know what your argument will
be.

For example, if you want to talk about environmental
reasons for using solar power, you should say something like "As global climate change
becomes a bigger and bigger problem, it becomes more important to support the use of
solar energy."

Alternatively, you might want to talk about
energy security.  You might say "Because much of the fossil fuels we use has to be
imported, it is important for us to develop domestic sources of energy such as solar
power."

These sentences give the "broad sneak peek"
mentioned in the link.

Compare or contrast the U.S. Constitution with the Haudenosaunee Great Law of Peace (the Iroquois Constitution).

It is not entirely surprising to see the Iroquois
Constitution having some relevance to the United States' vision.  Some of the initial
framers of the American document of securing the nation were inspired by the Iroquois'
attempts.  Franklin circulated Iroquois ideas to other framers as early as mid 1700s. 
Delegate John Rutledge from South Carolina studied the Iroquois work intently and
advocated that its introduction be a part of the American version:  "We, the people, to
form a union, to establish peace, equity, and order..."  It is interesting to see the
levels of similarities between both documents.  For example, Article 37 of the Iroquois
Constitution states the following:

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There shall be one war chief from each
nation, and their duties shall be to carry messages for their chiefs, and to take up
arms in case of emergency. They shall not participate in the proceedings of the Council
of the League, but shall watch its progress and in case of an erroneous action by a
chief, they shall receive the complaints of the people and convey the warnings of the
women to him.

It
is interesting to see the language about "complaints of the people."  This is
representative of the popular sovereignty principle that asserts that people in the
democratic nation can vote and have a voice.  Additionally, one sees a bit of "checks
and balances" present in the language of "watch its progress and in case of an erroneous
action by a chief."  The Iroquois might have influenced the idea of how government needs
to be limited by other branches.  The framers did credit this idea to Montesquieu, but
it is conceivable that they believed in this from the Iroquois, as well.  It should be
noted that the language of the Iroquois Constitution heavily empowered women, something
that the framers did not do and something that the U.S. Constitution did not do until
the early 20th Century.

Why are more frequent performance reviews better in the following situation?Why does frequent feedback and recognition have a more powerful impact...

In general, more frequent feedback is more effective in
all cases in which you are trying to affect a person's behavior.  This is because more
frequent feedback is more immediate and therefore more
meaningful.

If you are trying to get a person to perform
better, you will want to let them know how they are doing quite often.  This is good
because it will give them feedback very soon after their actions.  It is also good
because it allows them to try to make changes and then get feedback on those changes
relatively quickly.

By contrast, if you only review someone
once a year, the connection between performance and reward will not be immediate and
will therefore be less meaningful--it's less meaningful to say "remember what you did 6
months ago" than to say "let's look at what you did last week."  The person will also
not get any feedback on any changes they make in their performance for another year. 
Therefore, the longer time between reviews will be less
effective.

In the second paragraph of the poem "Mirror" by Sylvia Plath, why has the mirror been compared to a lake?

Crucial to understanding this poem as a whole is realising
that Sylvia Plath is examining ageing through a very interesting medium. By telling the
poem through the persona of the mirror, she allows us to see the woman who comes to the
mirror and despairs over her ever-increasing wrinkles and
crows-feet.

You are completely right in identifying that in
the second stanza, the mirror suddenly describes itself using a metaphor, saying that it
is now "a lake." It is not literally true, it is just using this comparison to describe
how the woman reacts to it and to prepare us for the shocking ending of the poem. Let us
examine this second stanza in detail:

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Now I am a lake. A woman bends over
me,
Searching my reaches for what she really is.
Then she turns to
those liars, the candles or the moon.
I see her back, and reflect it
faithfully.
She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.
I
am important to her. She comes and goes.
Each morning it is her face that
replaces the darkness.
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old
woman
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible
fish.

Describing herself as a
lake allows the metaphor to effectively describe the action of the woman in her
obsession with the mirror and how she spends so much time looking at it, trying to find
who "she really is." As the poem says, the mirror is "important to her." However, as the
last two lines of the poem comment, the mirror is so important to her that effectively
the woman has "drowned a young girl" in the "lake" that the mirror represents, and in
the mirror each day an old woman rises towards her. Thus the poem comments upon the
finality of ageing and its inevitability. The horrid simile that is used to describe
this process, "like a terrible fish," really gives the poem a lot of
impact.

So, the mirror describes itself as a lake to allow
us to think about the ageing process in different ways. In a sense, it is a kind of
extended metaphor that runs throughout the second stanza and prepares us for its
shocking finale.

Please help me write a good thesis for my essay on gays adopting children.I am trying to compose an essay on the controversy on gays adopting...

I think that people should actually write the rest of
their essay first, because they will then have a better idea of exactly what they want
to say in their introduction/thesis statement.  It helps to know what your arguments
will be before you write your thesis.

From what you tell
us, I think that you should say something like
this:

Although many people are opposed to gay people
adopting children, there is no rational basis for preventing same sex couples from
adopting.  The main focus of any adoption law should be the good of the child who is
being adopted.  Children will be best served if they are raised by suitable parents of
whatever sex.  Therefore, laws should make it possible for couples of whatever sex to
adopt if they will make good parents.

I think
that this would do a pretty good job of introducing what I assume you are going to be
saying in your essay.

What is the tone of the story "Gimpel The Fool"?

Isaac Bashevis Singer's short story, "Gimpel the Fool" is
written in an honest, literal, simplistic tone, devoid of sarcasm from the narrator.
 Instead, the irony is situational: Gimpel is a fool only because people think it so,
and he good-naturedly believes it too, only because it doesn't matter what people think
of him.

The story is a parable, a kind of morality tale.
 In this way, we have a reliable narrator.  The story, however, is humorous, because
Gimpel is just as he says he is:

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I am Gimpel the fool.  I don’t think myself a
fool.  On the contrary.  But that’s what folks call
me...

And yet, he's not.
 What Gimpel is in public, he is not in private.  When it comes to spirituality and
matters of the heart, Gimpel is no fool.  Rather, he is a believer, an optimist, a man
of his word.  He knows his wife is cheating on him, and yet he still loves her.  He
says:

What’s
the good of not believing? Today it’s your wife you don’t believe; tomorrow it’s God you
won’t take stock in.

Singer's
tone suggests that the reader and the townspeople should reconsider their definitions of
"fool," for a fool in this life may be in heaven in the next.

In Othello, is Iago's account of being passed over for promotion the main cause of his hatred of Othello? Is the account he gives...

You must be careful, when reading a play, not to be too
quick to look for "certain" proof of a character's motivation.  You can certainly find
all the evidence you might need for confirmation of things a character says, but, since
all the reader of a script is given is what that character says (not the most reliable
source of accuracy) and what other characters say about him/her (an even more unreliable
source of accuracy), a reader is destined never to know for sure what motivates a
character.  This is why, if you, for example, Googled "Iago," you would get nearly as
many opinions as entries about what his motivates his action in the
play.

It is true that, in the long speech that you cite,
Iago tells the story of being passed over for promotion by Othello in favor of Cassio. 
But, just after he has this long speech, he also tells Roderigo that "there's no remedy"
for his being passed over, "'tis the curse of service" (seeming not to blame anyone, but
to rather blame the way the military works).

And then Iago
goes further in explaining that he only "follows" Othello to "serve [his] turn upon
him."  Here, he explains to Roderigo that he is not one of those "yes" men that do
whatever they must for their superiors in order to win favor.  This point of view, as he
notes in talking about how the military operates, would hardly win him promotion,
whatever else might take place.

But the most telling lines
(57-64) come just after this.  He says:

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Were I the Moor, I would not be
Iago:

By following him, I follow but
myself.

Heaven is my judge, not I for love
and duty,

But seeming so, for my own
peculiar end.

For when my
outward action does demonstrate

The native act and figure
of my heart,

. . .'tis not long
after,

But I will wear my heart upon my
sleeve.

. . .I am not what I
am.

These
lines reveal a very important warning from Iago -- a warning to Roderigo, to all the
characters in the play (though they don't hear it), and also to the audience.  Iago is
stating quite plainly here that he intends never to show his true face, that he will
never, in effect, "wear [his] heart upon his sleeve."  His own end, his desired outcome,
is, he says, "peculiar," which suggests that it bears no logic, and, therefore couldn't
be figured out.  But most importantly, he warns everyone that he is not
what he appears to be.

So, in brief, since
Iago has confessed that he cannot be trusted in action or word to represent his own true
feelings, then that means that we, the readers/audience, cannot know his true motivation
or if his story of any event is accurate.

For more on Iago
and truth-telling and Act I, scene i, please follow the links
below.

Do Claudius & Polonius have the same reasons for spying on Hamlet & Ophelia? How are their goals similar in Hamlet? How are they different?

In Shakespeare's Hamlet, Claudius and
Polonius, on the surface, have the same reasons for spying on Hamlet and Ophelia, but
only on the surface. 

Both Claudius and Polonius are trying
to figure out why Hamlet is "mad," or acting insanely.  Polonius believes that Hamlet's
behavior is due to his love for Ophelia being rejected by Ophelia (which he put her up
to in the first place).  He is trying to prove his theory to
Claudius.

Claudius wants to know if this is the reason for
Hamlet's insanity, too.  In this respect, Claudius and Polonius are similar.  But
Claudius has a further motive, as well.  He is trying to keep an eye on Hamlet and
figure out Hamlet's behavior, so he can judge whether or not he is in danger from
Hamlet. 

Claudius, of course, has recently kept Hamlet from
inheriting the thrown by marrying Gertrude, and has also "replaced" King Hamlet
as Hamlet's father, at least technically.  Neither of these make Hamlet happy.  Claudius
wants to know if Hamlet is so upset due to Ophelia's rejection, or due to the other
recent events.  Claudius is hoping that Ophelia's rejection is the cause of Hamlet's mad
behavior.  If that is the case, then Hamlet is no threat to
him. 

Of course, according to Hamlet himself, his behavior
is all an act, a smoke screen, if you will.  Hamlet says that he is only pretending to
be mad, in order to, we assume, keep Claudius busy worrying about his madness, rather
than about Hamlet's plans for revenge.  Hamlet's madness is a
diversion. 

In "The Signalman," what is the critical analysis of the signalman as a character?

The mystery of the signalman's death lies in the
character's diligence and his sensitivity as a "student of natural philosophy." In this
story, Dickens employs details that stress the signalman's careful attention to his
duty, his faithful adherence to routine, and his constant vigilance. After meeting the
narrator, the signalman asks him to come to visit one night so that he can inform his
guest of all the details so that together they can, perhaps, deduce how to solve the
mystery of the voice that is heard.

Overriding all of these
characteristics of the signalman, however, is  his extreme isolation and loneliness.  In
fact, with no names given for either the signalman or the narrator, the characters are
mitigated by the detailed descriptions of the area around the train tunnel with its
"crooked prolongation" and "dripping-wet wall of jagged stone" as well as the details of
the signalman's office with its fire, official entry book, a telegraphic instrument with
its dial, face, and needles, and a little bell.

And, thus,
the Victorian conflict between the new technology, represented by the trains, and man
takes place. For, there is something foreboding and sinister about the impervious
machine that travels through the dark tunnel. In a sense, the train seems an adversary
to the sensitive man. With the train's having disturbed nature with the carving of the
tunnel as well as by the intrusion of the looming black machine, supernatural forces are
set in motion, forces too strong for the signalman to overcome as they seek what may be
retribution.

Yet, somehow the preternatural world
interferes, making the train impervious to the warnings.

How can we compare "The Use of Force" to real life?

This is a very interesting story to try and compare it to
real life. However, I would take issue with your question, as it implies that the events
contained within the story are not realistic or relevant to "real life." I think part of
the strength of the story is the way that actually this is an incredibly realistic
portrayal of an event that could easily be part of reality. Consider the girl, Mathilda,
who is so desperate to protect the secret of her illness. She is trying to ignore
reality. Her attitude is that if it is not revealed, then she will not be ill. However,
it is the doctor's job to investigate fully the reasons for her sickness and expose the
disease:

The
damned little brat must be protected against her own idiocy, one says to one's self at
such times. Others must be protected against her. It is a social
necessity.

Thus if you are
looking for a "real" situation to compare this already "real" situation too, you might
want to think about the way in which some people try to ignore or cover up symptoms of
disease and death, even when it can be a risk to other people.

Suggest two possible themes that may be driving the action and plot of Ethan Frome.Discuss briefly how each of these is evident and is a force.

One significant theme of the novel is the affect of
isolation and loneliness on a person.  This theme creates the a significant number of
events in the novel.  It is suggested that Ethan only proposed to Zeena because he was
afraid to face a long winter alone in house after his mother died.  Because this is a
rather loveless marriage from the start, it doesn't have much reason to grow into
anything more.  When Ethan gets to know Mattie he sees how isolated he is even in his
marriage and he starts to imagine how much better his life might be in a new place and
with a new woman.  Mattie too is an example of isolation.  Her family is all dead and
she arrives at the Frome's to help Zeena and because she has no where else to go.  When
Zeena sends her away at the end of the story she is terrified at the thought of being
utterly alone in the world and suggests suicide as means to end it.  She knows that she
can never have Ethan, and that they can never be together any other way, so this seems
like the only option. 

Another significant theme that
affects the story is society/social obligation.  Ethan makes all of his choices in the
novel based on what society tells him is the right and moral thing to do.  He returns
from school to care for his ailing mother; he marries Zeena because it is what young men
should do; he stays with her because he took a vow; he doesn't take the money from the
Hales because it is dishonest; he doesn't leave with Mattie because he would be leaving
Zeena with no viable means to support herself; he cares for Mattie until the end because
he is ultimately responsible for her injuries as a result of the sledding "accident." 
Ethan could have been a lot happier if he hadn't been so moral and conscious of
society's expectations.

How was the slave trade organized and who controlled each aspect of the trade?

The Atlantic slave trade was taking place between Africa
and the Americas, for the most part.  Of course, different people participated in it at
different times and different people profited from it.

In
general, the slave ships tended to be English.  They could be from England or they could
be from the Northern colonies of North America (Massachusetts, etc).  These traders
profited a great deal from taking the slaves to the Americas and from shipping American
goods such as rum to England.  Profits were also made by people who outfitted the ships
and the people who wrote insurance policies for them.  In other words, many people in
the North profited.

It is also worth noting that some
Africans profited.  Specifically, the Africans who caught other Africans and sold them
to the slave traders made a great deal of profit from their part in the
trade.

State why productivity is important during competition and economic slowdown.Principles of Management 2

High productivity is important under all conditions. It
enables manufacture to reduce cost, and increasing production. Which ultimately means
improved capacity  to deliver more value to customer. The greater value thus generated
bu increased productivity can be shared by the company and the
customer.

However, when there is no completion the
customers are often forced to be content with lower value delivered by the products
purchased by them. The manufactures also manage to survive, although at lower profit.
But in competitive markets the customer will shift their business to competitors who are
able to offer lower prices and higher value because of their better productivity. In a
situation like this a company cannot compete with more productive firms on price
also.

Similarly, firms with low productivity find it
difficult to survive during economic slowdown. In such periods, the total consume demand
is reduced, and the firm that have lower productivity and hence create lower value find
it most difficult to maintain their sales volume, and therefore are the worst hit by
economic slow down, and if the conditions are very bad may be forced to close
down.

In "Morte D'Arthur," what does "the old order" mean in Arthur's perspective in the quote "the old order changeth, yielding place to new"?"Morte...

In the poem "Morte D'Arthur" by Tennyson, Sir Bedivere had
been mourning the loss of the old way of life of the Knights of the Round Table as he
was saying that "the true old times are dead" and that the "whole Round Table is
dissolved." As the wounded Arthur prepares to sail for the legendary Avilion, he
attempts to give Bedivere some comfort or at least courage by agreeing that, yes, his
Knights and the Round Table were done but that it was just the changing of the tides of
time as the old moves out to make way for the new.

From
Arthur's perspective, the "old order" was his kingdom and the ideology that he had
established that his Knights had lived by. So he says the "old order changeth" and means
that order--the governance, the established way of things--represented by himself and
his Knights was over, was gone, was changed and that something new would now arise to
fill the gap, the empty space left by the dissolution of the Round
Table.

What passages describe or discuss any of the attributes of chivalry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?

There are a number of characteristics attributed to
chivalric behavior found in Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight.

A knight was to adhere to certain rules.
Wikipedia.com notes that these included:

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...[d]uties to countrymen and fellow Christians:
this contains virtues such as mercy, courage, valor, fairness, protection of the weak
and the poor, and in the servant-hood of the knight to his
lord.

Mitchell's website on
chivalry provides more specific details:

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Honor:

Always keep
one's word

Always maintain one's
principles

Never betray a confidence or
comrade

...and...

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Courtesy:

Exhibit
manners

Practice the rules of
decorum

Be respectful of host, authority and
women

When Gawain travels to
meet the Green Knight, in answer to his original challenge issued the year before in
Arthur's court, the young knight shows his honor in keeping his word to show up, even
though he believes that when he faces the mystical Green Knight, he will surely
die.

When Gawain arrives early, near the chapel—the
appointed meeting place—he is invited to spend the holidays with Bertilak and his wife
at Bertilak's nearby castle. Unknown to Gawain, Bertilak is actually the Green Knight,
who tests Gawain each day to know if he is a true and honorable knight. The tests come
at the hands of the wife of Gawain's host, as she does her best to woo him with kisses,
romantic advances, and gifts.

Gawain adheres to the rules
of courtesy, never giving in to the wife's overtures. Gawain, fearing for his life,
however, does not divulge to his host the gift of a magic belt, given by Bertilak's
wife, to protect him from death in his upcoming confrontation with the Green Knight.
This is a betrayal of his code of honor, but when the Green Knight and Gawain finally
meet, Bertilak exposes his real identity, revealing his knowledge that his wife gave
Gawain the Green Knight's magic belt.

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'That belt you're wearing: it's mine, my wife
/

Gave it to you—I know it all
knight...

...But you failed a little, lost good
faith...

...For love of your life. I can hardly blame you.'
*

Bertilak forgives Gawain
for wanting to save his own life, noting that in all other ways, the young knight did
his best to be faithful to the chivalric vows he had pledged in becoming King Arthur's
man.

'You
stand confessed so clean, you took /

Such plain penance at
the point of my ax, /

That I hold you cleansed, as pure in
heart /

As if rom your birth to this day you'd
never'

Sinned.'
*

In Gawain's second meeting
with the Green Knight (in the person of Bertilak), we see how the young knight does his
best to adhere to two of the characteristics of chivalry: honor and
courtesy.

*Translation by Burton Raffel; printed
in Adventures in English Literature. Orlando: Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich, Publishers: 1985.

When did Theseus first meet Hippolyta?

In a Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare, the time when
Theseus first met Hippolyta was not explicitly stated. However, the circumstance
surrounding their meeting was mentioned in Act 1 Scene
1.

Hippolyta,
I woo'd thee with my sword,
And won thy love doing thee
injuries;

In the play, the
statement by Theseus confirmed events in Greek mythology that described how Theseus
first met Hippolyta. According to the myth, Theseus among other Greek heroes waged war
upon the Amazons, a race of independent warrior women. Theseus fought against Hippolyta
and defeated her in combat. He was also attracted to Hippolyta because she was queen of
the Amazons. Theseus decided to marry her and make her queen of Athens. In this regard,
Theseus first met Hippolyta during the war with the Amazons, as inferred by Theseus’s
statement in Act 1.

The wedding arrangements were made in
Athens and Theseus was set to marry Hippolyta, while at the same time offered to share
their wedding with the two couples of; Hermia- Lysander and Demetrius -
Helena.

Using details from Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown," demonstrate the universal truth of honor.

In Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story, "Young Goodman
Brown," there are a number of themes to consider.

One
central theme is "honor." Young Goodman Brown's sense of honor is what influences his
behavior—"honor" is something he has already chosen by which to live his life...it is
the central part of his belief system.

Dictionary.com
defines honor as:

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honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs
and actions

The integrity of
Goodman Brown's beliefs and actions is at the heart of the story. As he walks through
the woods with the Devil, he witnesses respected members of his community who have
formed an alliance with the "dark one." This includes his ancestors, Goody Cloyse,
Deacon Gookin, and finally Faith, Brown's wife. Even as he is confronted by examples of
all those he admires being drawn away from the path of goodness, he refuses to be moved
himself. It is, however, sad to see how removed he is from then on,
from the company of friends and even his wife because of his beliefs; he is very much
alone in the world because he stands firmly by what he
believes.

The story demonstrates that honor is a personal
choice every person must make. It speaks to the temptations that are present at every
turn, and the decision a person must make to stick to his or her beliefs regardless of
what those around him chose to do. If everyone cheats on a test, or
on taxes, some will say it's all right. Others believe that cheating is not wrong, but
getting caught is.

Goodman Brown
exemplifies the sense that honor is an absolute: there are no degrees of honor. One has
it and sticks to it, or does not. For Goodman Brown, his dedication to his principals
does not waver, but it makes his life a difficult one when there seems to be no one else
around him dedicated in a similar way.

The universality of
the concept of honor is that it knows no boundaries, but applies to people of every
race, religion and ethnic background. A sense of not just knowing
what the honorable thing to do is, but putting it into practice regardless of
the personal consequences, makes "Young Goodman Brown" a timeless, relevant
piece of literature even today.

For project information, does the name of the company, address, and phone number in the listings count as an ad in the Yellow Pages Directory book?

There is a difference between phone book listings in the
directory and an ad.  Most phone book companies will require a fee for listing in the
phone book, but the cost of an ad is much higher.

I am not
sure if you are referring to a listing or a simple ad.  If the company name, address,
and phone number appear to be the same as the surrounding residential listings, then it
is not an ad but a directory listing.  A company will usually have to pay a monthly fee
for an ad.  If the information is emphasized in any way, like bold face or outlining,
that is an ad.

The cost of an ad depends on the size, where
the ad is placed, what is in the ad (pictures, graphics and so on) and how much color
there is in the ad.  Even a small, relatively simple ad can cost hundreds of
dollars.

With smartphones, many people look on their online
yellow pages to find a business.  Oftentimes, online directories are the same companies
that sell the phone books.