In terms of form and content, what identifies "The Other Boat" by EM Forster as a post-modernist work of prose?

The question of identity, in particular sexual identity
and status as the other is a major theme in this story.When Lionel gives in to his
homosexual desires with Cocoanut, he is forever changed. He has broken out from the
constraints thrust upon him by a society that views same sex erotic love as unnatural,
and he is forced to confront not only the fact that he has defied the natural order as
it previously existed within his mental framework, but also the fact that he enjoyed the
act and began to feel a closeness and affection for another man.The only escape for him,
in the end, is the destruction of the object that he sees of his unnatural
desire.

Looking at the novel in terms of one of the basic
tenets of postmodernism, there is an emphasis on subjectivity and deconstruction. It is
about ways of seeing that matter, and the ways in which views are shaped by perception.
Lionel's view is shaped by what he sees as natural love when he leaves the room. When he
returns, he cannot confront the fact that what he has experienced does not agree with
what he has been taught to believe. The fragmentation of society and the deconstruction
of belief systems is a major aspect of postmodern literature, as is the emphasis on the
individual and identity. Both are themes that are examined heavily in the
story.

Find the derivative of ln (-8 + 3z^2).

We use  d/dx {ln{fx} = (1/f(x))*(d/dx)
f(x).

Or

{lnf(x)}' =
(1/f(x)f'(x).

Here we apply the above method to  f(z) = (-8
+ 3z^2).

The differentiation is with respect to
z.

f'(z) = (-8+3z^2)' = (-8)'+(3z^2)' = 0+3*2z =
6z.

Therefore {lnf(z)} = {ln (-8 +
3z^2)}'

{ln (-8 + 3z^2)}' = {1/ (-8 + 3z^2)}* (-8 +
3z^2)'

{ln (-8 + 3z^2)}' =
6z/(-8+3z^2).

Therefore {ln (-8 + 3z^2)}' =
6z/(3z^2-8).

Why would Captain Beatty want to kill himself?why would he provoke montage when he had a flamethrower?

In Fahrenheit 451, suicide is
common.  This is revealed by the nonchalance with which the technicians treat Millie
after her overdose.  It is not surprising that Beatty would just as soon die as remain
alive.

Today, we call what Beatty does "Suicide by cop." 
Beatty commits suicide by firemen.

To know why Beatty
commits suicide all you have to do is look at the society in which he lives.  Beatty is
intelligent--he's too intelligent not to know that his existence is
lacking. 

Ironically, Beatty allows himself to be killed
for the same reason Montag begins reading books--his existence sucks. 
 

The world they live in is mindless, superficial,
unemotional, unenlightening, unfulfilling. 

The real
question is:  why would anyone want to live?  

What is the center and the radius of the circle x^2 + y^2 -3x + 5y -25 = 0

x^2 + y^2 -3x + 5y -25 = 0

We
are given the equation of the circle.

We need to determine
the radius and the center of the circle.

First, we need to
rewrite the equation into the standard form:

(x-a)^2+
(y-b)^2 = r^2  such that (a,b) is the center and r is the
radius.

Then we will complete the
squares.

==> x^2 -3x + y^2 +5y =
25

=> x^2 -3x + 9/4 + y^2 + 5y + 25/4 = 25 + 9/4 +
25/4

==> (x -3/2)^2 + (y+5/2)^2 =
(100+9+25)/4

==> (x-3/2)^2 + (y+5/2)62 = 134/4 =
33.5

==> (x-3/2)^2 + (y+5/2)^2 =
33.5

Then, the center of the circle is the
point (3/2, -5/2)

and the
radius is sqrt(134) /2 = sqrt(33.5) = 5.79
(approx).

How does loneliness tie in as an overall theme of A Streetcar Named Desire?

Loneliness is a dominate theme in the play "A Streetcar
Named Desire". Almost all of the characters experience loneliness in some fashion or
another.

Blanche is above and beyond the loneliest
character. While she seems to exude the right characteristics used to surround one self
with many friends, one can tell from her past that she has never really found her place.
Blanche was a prostitute. She needed to feel the security of a man simply to feel loved-
even if for one night.  Unfortunately, this "profession" caught up with her and ruined
her one chance at a true relationship.

Stella can be seen
as being lonely at certain points in the play as well. While she finds comfort in a
neighbor after being abused by Stanley, her need lies with him- for it is only when she
is with him when she feels complete. Therefore, when she leaves Stanly, even for a
night, she considers herself lonely.

Mitch is another
character who houses loneliness. He has lost a love and finds refuge in his mother. He
knows that his mother will not live forever. He needs to find a woman to love him the
way his mother does. Unfortunately, he thought he had that in Blanche, but he was
wrong.

Many references to music signify loneliness as well.
The lone instruments portray solitude. Another symbol is the Mexican woman sells flowers
for the dead. She is alone and selling flowers to those who have been left as
well.

What point is Shirley Jackson making about certain kinds of rituals and traditions in her short story "The Lottery"?

Shirley Jackson's much-anthologized short story "The
Lottery" is a particularly traumatic transaction between reader and text. Through its
narrative, the reader is relentlessly and finally compelled to ask the hitherto
taboo question: 'How much is our society also laced with mindless, but brutal
traditions?' To do this Jackson first lulls the reader into assimilating the pleasant,
even prosaic behaviour of a nameless small town. On a benign early summer day the
villagers have paused in their affairs to participate in a traditional
lottery:

The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with
the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the
grass was richly green. The people of the village began to gather in the square, between
the post office and the bank, around ten o'clock; in some towns there were so many
people that the lottery took two days and had to be started on June 26th, but in this
village, where there were only about three hundred people, the whole lottery took less
than two hours, so it could begin at ten o'clock in the morning and still be through in
time to allow the villagers to get home for noon dinner.

As
it unfolds, the narrative - as if creating a tapestry - stitches in more and more
apparently innocuous details. But at a certain point, earlier for some, later for
others, the reader begins to realize that winning the lottery is not the lucky event one
would expect. Inexorably the reader has been brought into the circle of townspeople
who pick up stones to execute the unwilling winner of the lottery, Tessie Hutchinson. At
the same time, the reader recalls that details overlooked have been preparation for the
acceptance of ritual sacrifice. This was alluded to, but dismissed in an earlier
reader/text transaction when Old Man Warner, the village's outspoken redneck
opines: "Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon." The reader, in some consternation,
realizes that he or she has become an unwilling participant and
victim of an age-old ritual of scapegoating, now moribund, where only the bloodlust
remains. Herein lies the reader's trauma which constitutes an essential part of the
meaning of the story.

In "To His Coy Mistress," the poem can be reduced into if, then, but, and therefore. Can someone help me figure it out? If- Then- But- Therefore-

Marvell's invitational lyric, To His Coy
Mistress, uses the syllogistic structure of if
(then)-but-therefore to work out the ancient Classical theme of
carpe diem to metaphysical transcendence. The speaker addresses his
beloved, who is not prepared to surrender in love, in the form of a syllogistic
argument. The argument is in three parts.

IF
the lovers had enough space and time, they could have gone for all the
paraphernalia of traditional romantic love-making, for they would have been in no
hurry.

BUT in reality,Time
runs fast, and chases every human being as the hunter pursues the hunted. As and when
the beloved dies and lies in the grave, all her love is gone unfulfilled, just as all
the passions of the lover get burnt
up.

THEREFORE, the lovers
should utilize the moment without bothering for eternity. They should make love with all
the strength and energy of 'amorous birds of prey', not as victims but as victors,
running with the sun, united in love.

What is the true subject matter of Shakespeare’s “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”?

This is a great sonnet to look at, because in it,
Shakespeare deliberately pokes fun at other poets at the time who greatly exaggerated
the qualities of the women they wrote about, producing idealised damsels that were in
every sense of the word, angelic and too beautiful for this world. This poem, on the
other hand, deliberately and with great relish demolishes such approaches, by presenting
the mistress that is the subject of the poem with a grittly
realism:

And
in some perfumes there is more delight

Than in the breath
that from my mistress
reeks.

Thus Shakespeare is
deliberately playing with our expectations as readers as we come to yet another love
poem that challenges what we expect. However, the point of this poem is that, in spite
of the "imperfections" of the mistress, or indeed because of them, the speaker of the
poem can love such a woman just as much as he scorns poetic cliches of
beauty:

And
yet, by Heaven, I think my love as rare

As any she belied
by false compare,

Thus this
excellent sonnet is really poking fun at other poets and the idealised and unrealistic
way in which they described their beloved. By taking a more realitic tone, the speaker
thus shows his true love for the mistress.

Analyze the ways that whiteness is being constructed while being the object of critical scrutiny in Caucasia.

When the character, Birdie, becomes a hybrid spectacle
under a magnifying glass with the ‘Black power’ lens, perceptions of the product of
intergradation becomes an unacceptable species. Her white skin and flaxen hair inherited
through her white mother’s genes are attributes of what her mother says is an “evil
line” (p. 21) in rejection of the white grandmother who symbolizes “a noble line” (p.
21). Birdie’s white heritage is disregarded by her parents, her parents’ friends, and
her sister. Deck Lee, her father, uses the offensive slang term “ofay” (p. 9) in her
presence to refer to white people as an overt show of denial of her mixed origin. The
oppression of white is blatant in the scene from Chapter Two where the riffles hold the
pillows hostage (p. 13). The riffles represent the Black revolution, and the soft
pillows being overpowered are the half-breeds, Birdie and Redbone. Deck calls Redbone a
“…fake-ass half-breed motherfucker” (p. 14), a comment befitting of Birdie as well since
she is a ‘half-breed’. Redbone speaks as if being white is a curse when he attempts to
recover from the insult by saying, “…You’re the one with the white daughter” (p. 14).
Birdie is surrounded with rich Black heritage: afros, peace signs, Motown, and the Bump,
but this garden of culture is a shoe that does not fit leaving her “barefoot wearing
mom’s T-shirt” (p. 20). “My sister is black” (p. 40), protests Cole, but Birdie is a
spectacle in the midst of Black power because she’s of a different variety and her mom
says she looks Sicilian.

How does the rhyme scheme of the poem "Sea Fever" by John Masefield contribute to the overall sound and music of the poem?

The rhyme scheme of the poem "Sea Fever", by English poet
John Masefield, contributes to the overall sound and music of the poem in the following
ways:

1. A rhyme scheme within
formal stanzas

The rhyme scheme
is also part of a formal stanza framework in this poem. This poem consists of three
stanzas. Each stanza consists of four lines. Therefore, examining each stanza one can
see that the first two lines of each stanza rhyme, and the last two lines of each stanza
rhyme. Hence, the rhyme scheme of “Sea Fever” within these stanzas is AABB – stanza 1;
CCDD – stanza two; and EEFF – stanza
three.

These stanzas and their rhymes contribute
to the overall sound and music of this poem in that the rhyming sounds move elegantly
from one line to the next and from one stanza to the next – just as a song often moves
elegantly from one lyric line to the next and from one verse to the next, with a song’s
typical rhyme scheme and verse/chorus arrangement. The stanzas of “Sea Fever” give order
to the poem and the rhyme is musical within this
order.

2. Proper word choice and
rhymes that reflect the poems
meaning

 

John
Masefield incorporates words into this poem, rhyming and un-rhyming, that evoke the sea.
In stanza one he uses the words “sky”, and also “shaking” and “breaking”. These
certainly convey the mood of time spent out on the open water…white sail’s
shaking, and also, grey dawn
breaking.

In stanza number two it’s
the use of the single word “tide”,and also the rhyming ofclouds flying,
andsea-gulls crying. Again, the word choices relevant to
waters, oceans, seas, marine-life, and the environment, along with the rhyming words
give the poem its musical forward
movement.

 

In
stanza number three it’s the words “gypsy life” and “whetted knife” that convey the aura
and image of life on ships on the sea. Again, the rhyming of these words impress upon
the reader the atmosphere of the sea. The rhyme helps the reader remember the images and
thoughts conveyed by John Masefield.

These
contribute to theoverall sound and music of this poem because the right choice of words
about the sea, while including end rhyme causes this poem to flow with regularity – like
waves in the sea course along their paths with a natural
regularity.

3. The repetition of
phrases

Each stanza begins with
these eight words:

I must go down to the seas
again,

As a result, this is rhyme. The first
part of line one in stanza one repeats in the first part of line one in stanza two and
the first part of line one in stanza three. Therefore, we have exact words exactly
rhyming to begin each stanza. This is a formal poetry construction and it gives the poem
structure and rhyme and makes the poem more a constructed “literary song’ as opposed to
an unregimented and un-rhyming free verse piece. Consequently, the emphasis on formal
construction by the poet contributes greatly to the overall sound and music of “Sea
Fever.”

How do the allusions in Octavia Butler's novel Kindred relate to historical context?

In Kindred, Dana, a present day
descendant of a slave and her white owner, finds herself traveling back in time
involuntarily. She begins to understand that she does this when the life of one of her
ancestors is in danger; when she saves them, she ensures her own present-day existance.
Butler uses this plotline to show the horrors of slavery. One of Dana's ancestors is
owned by the other. When Dana is in the past, as a black woman she, too, is treated as a
slave. She has to save people she does not like and endure situations that are horrible,
in order to allow her own future self to be born. Butler shows various horror of
slavery--rape, physical brutality, separation of family members--while writing an
interesting time travel novel. She was one of my favorite SF authors, and died far too
young.

A missile is fired at 840 m/s at an angle x to the horizontal. Prove that its range is the largest for x = 45 degree and find it.

The missile is fired at 840 m/s at an angle x to the
horizontal. We can divide its velocity into a horizontal component equal to 840* cos x
and a vertical component equal to 840* sin x.

The vertical
component starts to decrease due to the acceleration due to gravity, reaches 0, and then
reverses direction to reach – 840 * sin x. The time taken for this is (840* sin x + 840
* sin x) / 9.8

The horizontal distance travelled during the
time the missile is in the air is 840*cos x*2*840*sin x /
9.8.

2*cos x* sin x = sin 2x has a maximum value of 1 when
2x = 90 or x = 45 degrees.

The range for x = 45 degrees is
840^2/9.8 = 72000 m or 72 km.

The horizontal
range is maximum for x = 45 degrees and equal to 72
km.

How would you discuss the proposal scene between Darcy and Elizabeth?

I assume you are referring to the first proposal, in
Volume II, Chapter 11. Because this scene represents the height of misunderstanding
between Elizabeth and Darcy, it promises to yield much of thematic
importance.

1. One possible topic could involve how both
Elizabeth and Darcy demonstrate the qualities of pride and
prejudice in this scene; how Elizabeth’s prejudice and Darcy’s
pride fuel the hostility of the encounter and the near destruction of their chance for
happiness.

Elizabeth and Prejudice:  It is important to
take note of Elizabeth's state of mind just before Darcy's proposal.  Because of Colonel
Fitzwilliam’s earlier revelation that Darcy had intervened and effectively ended the
courtship between Bingley and Jane, Elizabeth is more disposed than ever to despise
Darcy—to be guilty of prejudice.  She is also blinded by prejudice because of her
ignorance—some might say willful ignorance—of the truth about Wickham’s character.  Near
the end of the scene she admits that “from the very beginning” she had been convinced of
Darcy’s faults and had formed a “ground-work of disapprobation.”  Elizabeth’s prejudice
for him has prompted her to “willfully misunderstand” Darcy, a charge he correctly makes
earlier in the novel.

Darcy and Pride: In this scene,
Darcy’s pride is most evident in his repeated remarks about the inferiority of
Elizabeth’s family.  His confidence that Elizabeth will accept him, despite his
insulting remarks, demonstrates a surfeit of both pride and arrogance.  Moreover, he is
unaware of his own hypocrisy: while accusing Elizabeth of reacting to him out of injured
pride, he goes on to boast about his superior place in
society.

2. After a close reading, you may discover that
neither character is guilty of possessing only one of the flaws alone.  How is each
character guilty of the same fault with which they earlier denounced the
other?

Elizabeth and Pride: Elizabeth’s pride in her own
judgment and wisdom has fed her dislike for Darcy throughout the novel.  It enables her
to carelessly show off her intelligence and to feel justified in aiming her sharp wit at
Darcy, often unfairly.  Elizabeth’s confidence in her judgment also leads to her
unthinking acceptance of Wickham’s story of his treatment by Darcy. In this scene,
notice how Elizabeth’s pride is wounded throughout.  Although her anger is
understandable, observe how it leads to her devastating declaration of rejection near
the end. (Only a short time later, she perceives how premature and reckless some of her
impressions have been, and she continues to make this discovery throughout the rest of
the novel).

Darcy and Prejudice: Darcy’s pride in his
superiority of his situation and character is no doubt grounded in his prejudice against
people beneath his rank. Up until this point in the novel, we have witnessed him
denounce Meryton and its inhabitants on many occasions.  He seems unable to acknowledge
the value of people below his station (except for his own intimate family servants).  In
this scene he seems unable even to credit Elizabeth with the sensitivity to be hurt by
the more offensive features of his proposal.  Not until she makes the accurate
observation that Darcy had failed to act in a “gentleman-like manner” does he seem
cognizant of any wrongdoing on his part, much less the degree to which his words had
provoked her.

What is a catalyst? How does it work?

A catalyst is a chemical substance which can speed up the
rate of a chemical reaction without being consumed itself. This happens due to the
activation energy required for the reaction to take place getting
reduced.

Catalysts can be substances which are in the same
state as that of the reacts or they can have a different state. State here is used with
reference to solid, liquid or gas. An example of catalysts which have the same state are
enzymes, which speed up, and in many cases allow, reactions within our body to occur.
Both the reactants as well the catalysts are in the liquid state. An example of a
catalyst in a different state as the reactants would be the platinum-rhodium catalyst
used in catalytic converters of cars to break down nitrogen oxides into nitrogen and
oxygen. The catalyst here is solid and the reactants are
gases

The working of catalysts usually follows this
path:

Two substances X and Y have to react to yield Z. The
direct reaction of X and Y requires a lot of activation energy. The catalyst works by
forming an intermediary with X or CX; Y reacts with CX forming CXY; this is converted to
CZ and finally Z is liberated freeing the catalyst C.

The
catalyst is able to facilitate the reaction of X and Y as it requires lesser energy to
form CX and for Y to react with CX to finally result in Z than the direct
reaction.

Show how classical economics was used to defend the laissez faire policies of the Industrial Revolution.

Classical economics can always be used to defend laissez
faire government policies.  This is because classical economics is based on the idea
that government should stay out of the markets.

According
to classical economics, the most efficient outcomes always happen when markets are left
to function on their own.  When this happens, supply and demand meets at an equilibrium
price -- there is no shortage and no surplus.

However, if
governments interfere in the markets, shortages or surpluses occur.  For example, if the
government forces railroads to lower their prices, there will be a shortage of railroad
shipping.  This will occur because people will want to ship more things (because the
price is cheap) and railroads will want to provide less shipping space (because they
don't make enough when prices are low).  In this case, there is more demand than supply
and you have a shortage.

So people could make arguments
like that to defend laissez faire -- they could argue that government involvement in the
economy always leads to bad results.

How are the Parsons "character foils" of Winston Smith in 1984?chapters 1 to 5

A foil is a character who provides a clear comparison. So
what you are being asked to do is compare and contrast the Parsons and
Winston.

The Parsons are totally devoted to Big Brother and
the Party. The reader and Winston know they are highly unlikely to commit a thought
crime. Winston alludes to this early in Chapter Two and also points out that any thought
crime would really be impossible for them because they have children who are Spies for
Big Brother. This foreshadows what is going to happen later in the novel to Tom Parsons
when Winston is in a cell with him in the Ministry of
Love.

Winston is comparatively open in his "thought crime"
as he writes, "Down with Big Brother." The children seem aware of this somehow and run
around him yelling, "You're a traitor...You're a thought criminal." By this stage
Winston has already told us that he is as good as dead. The Parsons in contrast see
themselves as law abiding and completely loyal. We later realise that no one is safe and
there is no escape from Big Brother and the Party. Not even in the deepest recesses of
one's mind. Winston never had a chance.

In Pride and Prejudice, what is Mrs. Bennet's reaction to Lydia's scandal and what does it show about her character?

As we read this excellent novel it is impossible not to
ignore the harsh, biting irony of the authoress and the way that she shows her true
opinion of a variety of characters. Of course, a frequent target for her satire is Mrs.
Bennet, who has so much to be made fun of. When Elizabeth returns back home with her
aunt and uncle, she goes up to see her mother. Austen describes her as
follows:

Mrs.
Bennet, to whose apartment they all repaired after a few minutes conversation together,
received them exactly as might be expected; with tears and lamentations of regret,
invectives against the villainous conduct of Wickham, and the complaints of her own
sufferings and ill-usage; blaming everybody but the person to whose ill-judging
indulgence the errors of her daughter must be principally
owing.

Note the judgement in
the last remark. Mrs. Bennet conveniently ignores her own fault in bringing up Lydia to
be the flirt that she has become, and chooses to blame everyone else instead. Of course,
the amusement is heightened when we consider how Mrs. Bennet magically changes her
opinion of "the villainous Wickham," going on to describe him as a wonderful son-in-law
once he has been forced to marry Lydia. Such responses show Mrs. Bennet to be incredibly
self-absorbed and lack self-awareness about the impropriety of her own
conduct.

Essay topics about Othello's downfall, his suicide, Desdemona, role of race, and jealousy: which topic is best?These are the topics: 1. write an...

I would be torn between answering questions 1 and 5. Each
has some similar elements when discussing so I'll tell you what I think and you can
decide which best fits your understanding.

The changes in
Othello, directly related to his jealousy, are quick, violent, and drastic. The course
of the play spans only a few weeks and when you consider this, that seems even more
incredible.

When we first meet Othello he is well-spoken,
calm, and assured in the reciprocal love between him and Desdemona. He stands up to her
father, the Duke, and all of Venetian society to defend a marriage that would be
considered taboo and scandalous had any other man tried it. If we are discussing flaws
in his character it is obvious at this point that he is blissfully unaware of the bias
that exists toward him (he is referred to as "thick-lips" and other obvious black
imagery). He is a man who takes everyone around him at face value. At no time does he
sit and wonder if maybe people are more than they seem on the surface. If he were at all
astute he would realize how angry Iago is; Iago's personality is rather obvious to
anyone paying attention.

Another major character flaw of
Othello's is his inability to trust his own judgment. He allows his jealousy (his major
flaw) to overwhelm his common sense. He is ruled entirely by his passions. Any good
leader would be able to temper that intensity with rational thought. You would think
that someone as successful in battle would be able to apply those same principles to
life itself. Instead, he is a man ruled by physical
emotions.

The jealousy is shown in a number of ways. The
most obvious device Shakespeare uses is Othello's repeated "illness". These fits of his
are evidence to the audience of the dangerous physical effects of the jealousy on
Othello. They are conveniently placed at moments in the play when Othello's jealousy
overtakes his common sense. They also obscure for him the obvious. He misses the
handkerchief falling to the ground. He mis-hears the conversation between Cassio and
Iago. He realizes his error when Emilia points out he has been
duped.

Overall, Othello's flaws- his inability to look
beyond surface appearances, his inability to trust his own judgment, and his overweening
jealousy- are direct contributors to his downfall. These elements of his character allow
Iago to successfully manipulate him to do the most awful thing
imaginable.

Was "The Necklace" believable? Give two supportive details to show that it was or was not.

Maupassant, the author of "The Necklace," is considered a
naturalist, which is a kicked up version of realism.  As such, he attempts to depict
reality or actuality, with an eye on his character's plight, particularly as
he/she contends with forces beyond control.  As such, "The Necklace" is certainly
intended to be realistic.

To examine it to answer your
question, one could look at what might possibly be seen and labeled a coincidence (which
doesn't work well in traditional fiction): the loss of the necklace.  There probably
isn't any good reason for doubting the veracity of a woman becoming so involved in her
situation and surroundings that she loses her necklace and isn't aware of it.  That's
plausible, and plausibility is the usual test for coincidence.  If something is
plausible, it's not a coincidence.

I recently started my
car, moved it into my driveway, shut it off and then cleaned the snow off of it.  A few
minutes later the car key was not in my pocket.  I looked for it and never found it.  I
didn't at first realize it was lost and couldn't find it once I did.  Mathilde's loss of
the necklace is plausible.

My anecdote also leads us to a
second point:  not only is the loss of the necklace plausible, but not being able to
find it is also realistic.

Just to throw in a third point
in case you need it, Mathilde's not even thinking of the possibility that the necklace
is fake is also plausible--maybe not for a wealthy woman who knows jewelry well and owns
plenty of it, but for a woman of Mathilde's economic class it is.  The thought never
crosses her mind.  She is inexperienced in the ways of the
wealthy. 

That final point, by the way, plays to the
naturalistic aspect of the story.  Mathilde is "out of her league," as they say.  She
is trapped by a situation that is out of her control.

In Part I of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, who or what is the Golem?

A golem is a mystical being that some exceptionally holy
Jewish Rabbis can create from mud and can animate into a semblance of life with special
Jewish incantations. There are several legends of golem. The most famous one, and the
one relevant to The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, is the Prague
Golem.

The lengend, though with many versions, says
essentially that during the reign of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II of Austria, the
Emperor began a persecution of Jews during which Jews were either expelled from their
homelands or killed outright. Rabbi Loew created a golem in order to protect the Jews of
Prague and animated it with the Jewish word meaning "truth" written across its mud
forehead.

The golem however became increasingly violent as
it grew and turned to killing gentiles as furiously as the gentiles were killing Jews.
The Emperor begged the Rabbi to stop the Golem of Prague and in return the Emperor would
cease the persecution. The Rabbi agreed and erased the first letter of the word "truth,"
which then rendered the Jewish word "death" written across the Golem's forehead. It is
said that the Golem of Prague still sleeps in the attic of the Old New Synagogue awating
a time of further need and that Rabbi Loew also sleeps in the same attic near his Golem.
It is this Golem of Prague that Kornblum and Josef discover and smuggle to San
Frandisco, CA.

In The Kite Runner, show with clear evidence from the work how the character's view of the past is used to develop a theme in the work.Can...

I think you can develop the theme of "atonement" using
The Kite Runner. Amir is told by his father's friend, Rahim Khan
that "there is a way to be good again" at the outset of the story. The entire story
develops through Amir's attempt at and desire for atonement for what he did to Hassan,
his Hazari "friend" and housemate.

For the question that
you've asked, the structure of the story fits nicely. There is a prologue, or some such
introduction in which we find out that the entire story will be told from past events.
The conflict is offered in the beginning chapters; Hassan's brutal rape at the hands of
Assef. It is set up in such a way that that the focus is on the guilt that Amir feels
about not doing anything to help Hassan and then his continued abuse of Hassan through
lies and psychological torment. It is only when Amir leaves Afghanistan that he realizes
he should have done something about what happened, but even then, he goes reluctantly
when offered the chance by Rahim Khan. Throughout the story, he wants atonement, but it
is only when the chance is forced upon him that he actually makes the effort to atone
for his misdeeds.

What is one example of dissent groups changing/trying to change a law?

Expanding on one of pohnpei's points, there was an event
yesterday where President Obama was in California attending a fundraiser/rally for
Senator Barbara Boxer, a Democrat who is up for re-election, and some people in the
crowd started yelling at the stage to repeal the military's "Don't ask, don't tell"
policy against gays openly serving as homosexuals in the
military.

The gay rights movement campaigned for Obama, but
also made him promise to repeal the policy once in the White House, which he did.  He
has already relaxed the enforcement of the policy, and this group was asking them to do
more.

Explain the difference between verbal and nonverbal communication.

The above answers do a good job when it comes to verbal
communication. So, I will focus on non-verbal
communication. 

Non-verbal communication is communication
between people through non-verbal or visual cues. This includes body language
(kinesics), distance between people (proxemics), voice quality (paralanguage), and touch
(haptics). 

Based on these considerations, non-verbal
communication communicates just as much or at times more than verbal
communication. 

For example, if a person has an angry
facial expression, enters into an aggressive stance (kinesics), encroaches upon another
person's personal space (proxemics), and touches another person in an inappropriate way
(haptics), then it is clear that a confrontation is in view, even if the verb
communication sounds neutral. The non-verbal cues override anything
verbal. 

Another consideration is that even in written
text, there is non-verbal communication such as handwriting style, space, and the
like. 

In conclusion, communication is both verbal and
non-verbal, which shows that human communication is more complex than it might first
appear.

What are businsses responsibilities toward the environment?use less energy, less hurmful tools,

There is an ethical and moral responsibility businesses
have, but it is difficult to enforce.  There is also a practical
responsibility.

Businesses, especially those that consume
resources, have an ethical and moral responsibility to use those resources and to
dispose of wastes in a way that does not harm employees or the citizens that live where
that business does.

Businesses that do not do so are
fundamentally unsustainable.  These companies need clean air, clean water, and a healthy
workforce.  The environment affects all of those
things.

From a practical standpoint, businesses will be
more profitable in the long run if they are sustainable in terms of
resources.

In Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried," how do the soldiers keep from being overwhelmed by the threat and reality of death?

In Tim O'Brien's short story entitled, "The Things They
Carried," it is the things they carry with them and the things they
do that help distract them from being overwhelmed by the threat and reality of
death.

Some of the things the men carried were required for
each soldier. But there were other things too. There were love letters (or almost-love
letters). Bibles were carried and photographs.

One man
carried his girlfriend's pantyhose around his neck for comfort. Another carried
tranquilizers. Among the group there was a rabbit's foot, chess sets, Vietnamese
dictionaries, basketballs.

Lt. Jimmy Cross carries a "good
luck" pebble Martha sent him. He carried it in his mouth as he marched, tasting the
water on the beach from where it had come, and his mind was on her more than what he was
doing as they passed through the jungle.

They men talked,
told jokes and made random conversation. When they lost one of their men, some had to
talk about it, while others refused to. Different people cope in different ways. Some
would daydream about a place or person. It was hard being there and wishing to be
somewhere else. They did the best they could...and starting marching
again.

Given `A= ((4, 3, 2),(5,6,3),(3,5,2));B = ((a, b, c),(d,e,f),(g,h,i))`Find B so that AB = I = BA as follows: First equate entries on the two...

You need to multiply the matrices A and B such
that:

`((4,3,2),(5,6,3),(3,5,2))*((a,b,c),(d,e,f),(g,h,i))
= ((1,0,0),(0,1,0),(0,0,1))`

`((4a+3d+2g, 4b+3e+2h,
4c+3f+2i),(5a+6d+3g, 5b+6e+3h, 5c+6f+3i),(3a+5d+2g, 3b+5+2h, 3c+5f+2i)) =
((1,0,0),(0,1,0),(0,0,1))`

Equating corresponding terms
yields:

`4a+3d+2g = 1
`

`4b+3e+2h = 0`

`4c+3f+2i = 0
`

`5a+6d+3g = 0 `

`5b+6e+3h =
1 `

`5c+6f+3i = 0 `

`3a+5d+2g
= 0 `

`3b+5e+2h = 0
`

`3c+5f+2i = 1`

You need to
consider the equations that contain a,d,g such
that:

`4a+3d+2g = 1
`

`5a+6d+3g = 0 `

`3a+5d+2g =
0`

You need to subtract the third equation from the first
such that:

`a - 2d = 1`

You
need to multiply the first equation by 3 and the second equation by -2 and then you
should add the new equations such that:

`12a + 9d + 6g =
3`

` -10a - 12d - 6g = 0`

`2a
- 3d = 3`

You need to multiply the equation a - 2d = 1 by
-2 such that:

`-2a + 4d =
-2`

Adding this equation to 2a - 3d = 3
yields:

`2a - 3d - 2a + 4d= 3 -
2`

`d = 1 =gt a - 2 = 1 =gt a =
3`

`15+6+3g = 0 =gt 3g = -21 =gt g =
-7`

You need to consider the equations that contain b,e,h
such that:

`4b+3e+2h = 0
`

`5b+6e+3h = 1 `

`3b+5e+2h =
0`

Subtracting the third equation from the first
yields:

`b - 2e = 0 =gt b =
2e`

Substituting 2e for b in the first and second equations
yields:

`11e + 2h = 0 `

`16e +
3h = 1`

You need to multiply by 3 the equation 11e + 2h = 0
and by -2 the equation 16e + 3h = 1 such that:

`33e + 6h =
0 `

`-32e - 6h = -2`

`33e + 6h
-32e - 6h = 0-2`

`e = -2 =gt b =
-4`

`-16-6+2h = 0 =gt 2h = 22 =gt h =
11`

You need to consider the equations that contain c,f,i
such that:

`4c+3f+2i = 0
`

`5c+6f+3i = 0 `

`3c+5f+2i =
1`

`4c+3f+2i - 3c-5f-2i =
-1`

` c - 2f = -1 =gt c = 2f -
1`

Substituting 2f - 1 for c in the first and second
equations yields:

`4(2f-1)+3f+2i = 0=gt 11f + 2i = 4
`

`5(2f-1)+6f+3i = 0 =gt 16f + 3i =
5`

`3(11f+2i) - 2(16f+3i) = 12 -
10`

`33f + 6i - 32f - 6i =
2`

`f = 2 =gt c = 4 - 1 =
3`

`12+6+2i = 0 =gt 2i = -18 =gt i =
-9`

Hence, evaluating the matrix B under
given conditions yields `B = ((3,-4,3),(1,-2,2),(-7,11,-9)).`

Which elementwould be most reactive with potassium?Calcium,Gallium,Bromine,Krypton Which would be most reactive with...

Elements react with others in such a way to have 8
electrons in their valence shell (the outermost energy level.) Sometimes they form ionic
bonds, in which electrone move from one atom to the other; the atoms are then held
together by the difference in their charges. In other compounds, electrons are shared,
so that both atoms end up with 8 in their outer shells.

In
your examples, potassium has one valence electron, and would therefore react with an
atom that has 7--again, that magic number of 8 is key. Which one of your listed elements
has 7? Bromine. (Krypton is a noble gas; it already has 8, and is very, very
NON-reactive.)

Your second question is about oxygen, which
has 6 valence electrons, so we are looking for the element with
2--calcium.

What are some allusions in The Devil's Arithmetic?

An allusion is a casual reference to a well-known
place,story, book, historical event or work of art.  There are many literary and
Biblical allusions in The Devil's
Arithmetic.

When Hannah first meets Rachel and
the girls at the wedding, she tells them stories  and totally entertains them.  The
stories she tells them are current day movies, stories, and
books. 

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"Stories seems to tumble out of Hannah's mouth,
reruns of all the movies and  books she could think of.  She told the girls about
Yentl and then about Conan the Barbarian with
equal vigor; about Star Wars, which confused them; and
Fiddler on the Roof, which did not.  She told them the plot of
Little Women in ten minutes, a miracle of compression, especially
since her book report had been seven typed pages." (pg
50)

These are literary
allusions since they are about movies and books.  Jane Yolan is alluding to literary
works that she feels the reader will know and make a connection.  Another literary
allusion is

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"'So let me tell you about the Wizard
of Oz' she said.  She couldn't remember which was the movie and which was the
book.  Shrugging her shoulders. she began a strange mixture of the two, speeding along
until the line 'Gosh, Toto, this sure doesn't look like Kansas." (pg
51)

This makes a literary
allusion by not only giving the title of the book and movie but also by giving a famous,
well-known line from the story.

An illusion that comes from
Jewish mythology and deals with God is the story of Lilith's Cave.  According to
mythology, when God first made man and woman, he made Adam and Lilith.  Adam wanted to
govern Lilith, and she rebelled, leaving Adam and taking residence with the demons. She
told the angel that God sent to get her that she was going to kill all the children. The
entrance to the gas chambers was called "Lilith's Cave" in the book as an allusion to
this myth. God then made Eve for Adam.  Fayge tells
Hannah,

"Your
words will fly up to heaven and call down the Angel of Death, Lilith's bridegroom, with
his poisoned sword." (pg
67)

When Reuven is taken to
the gas chamber, Hannah gets upset and feels that all humans are monsters for letting
the Holocaust happen, Rivka tells her,

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"God is letting it happen....But there is a
reason.  We cannot see it yet.  Like the binding of Issac." (pg
142)

This is a Biblical
allusion to the story of Abraham and Issac.  God told Abraham to sacrifice his only son
to him, and Abraham went as far as binding his son to the sacrificial altar until an
Angel of God stops him.  God had a reason for his request, and Rivka believes that God
has a reason for what is happening to them. Rivka also
says,

"You
want to be a hero, like Joshua at Jericho, like Samson against the Philistines." (pg 
142)

Again, these are
Biblical allusions. Joshua, following God's orders, destroyed the city of Jericho and
led his people into the Promised Land.  Samson, to whom God had given unbelievable
strength, was betrayed by Delilah and captured by the Philistines, who cut out his eyes
and made him work for them.  He pulled down the pillars around the Philistines, killing
them and himself.

Finally, there is an allusion to a
Yiddish proverb.  I do not know what it means, but it
says,

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"Afile brenen un bruin....
even if you should be burned and roasted.  Here that is not a proverb to be spoken
aloud." (pg 143)

Could someone please provide one quote that shows prejudice in Chapters 1-6 of To Kill a Mockingbird.

I assume that you are looking for quotes that show that
people in Maycomb during the time the book was set were prejudiced -- not that you are
looking for evidence that Harper Lee herself was prejudiced.  If that is the case, there
are some examples.

Here are a couple of
them:

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The sheriff hadn't
the heart to put him in jail alongside Negroes, so Boo was
locked in the
courthouse basement.

That
shows that people did not think that it was right to put a white suspect in with black
suspects.

Then, in Chapter 6, we find that Mr. Radley has
shot at a "Negro" just for being in his collard patch.  Miss Stephanie says Mr. Radley
missed:

Shot
in the air. Scared him pale,
though. Says if anybody sees a white nigger
around, that's the one.

What is the symbolism of the dark haried girl "throwing aside her uniform" in Winston's dream?

I think this represents a couple of
things.

First, you ask about the symbol of throwing off the
uniform. I think this symbolizes throwing off the Party from one's self. She is letting
go of the exterior that she has to maintain to reveal the real self on the
inside.

Second, I think this action is very literal too.
Sex is frowned upon by the party, and Winston allowing his mind to go to the place to
actually long for it is rare, but human. Winston is being a normal and very real man
imagining a woman undressing.

Discuss the role of two women characters in Sheridan's The School for Scandal.

I find Lady Sneerwell and Lady Teazle the two most
actively engaged women in the intriguing comic plot of Sheridan's The School
for Scandal. Both of them are typical comedy of manners personages, and both
of them possess their respective idiosyncrasies.

Lady
Sneerwell, true to her name, runs the scandal academy in her drawing room, where Lady
Teazle is a frequenter in search of urban elite fantasies. Lady Sneerwell was once upon
a time a victim of slandering, and now she happens to be the queen of scandal-mongering,
ably assisted by her servant, Snake. Lady Teazle, a simple village woman married to Sir
Peter Teazle, is the typical country wife allured by the slanderers, a victim who
finally discovers her errors to find love and trust in her husband. Lady Sneerwell goes
down to discomfiture and disclosure.

Summarize Scout's assessment of second grade.

Scout is, in a word,
disappointed.

She is an intelligent little girl who seems
to be ahead of most of her peers. She can already read and write, but instead of having
a teacher who recognizes this as a positive quality, Miss Caroline tells Scout she is
wrong for learning outside of school and thus invalidates any knowledge she has that
Miss Caroline has not given her. This all happens on the first day of school, so Scout
cannot help but be disappointed at having to put up with an entire year of performing
below her actual skill levels.

In addition, Miss Caroline
seems generally irritated by Scout's perceived meddling, as Scout jumps into the
conversation about Walter Cunningham and tries to explain why he does not have any lunch
and will not be able to accept her offer of lunch money. Altogether, Scout really "gets
off on the wrong foot" on her first day of second grade!

Trace the evolution of thought in John Keats' poem, "Ode to Nightingale."Keats thoughts in "Ode to a Nightingale"

With regard to John Keats' poem, "Ode to a Nightingale,"
and the author's evolution of thought, he begins the poem by stating that he feels as if
he is under the influence of a drug: hemlock or an opiate that has served to make him
drowsy. In this state, he speaks to the beauty of the nightingale's
song.

That
thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, 
In some melodious plot 
Of
beechen green and shadows numberless, 
Singest of summer in full-throated
ease.

In stanza two, Keats
wishes for a brew of nature:

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O, for a draught of vintage!...
With
beaded bubbles winking at the brim, 
And purple-stained mouth; 
That
I might drink, and leave the world unseen, 
And with thee fade away into the
forest dim...

...may refer to
a pure and wonderful wine that would allow Keats to leave his world behind to join the
nightingale, wherever she is.

In the next stanza, the focus
of Keats' words turns to the life of humans: the world of sickness, groans and pain.
(This would have been a personal response to Keats' own terminal illness,
tuberculosis.)

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The weariness, the fever, and the
fret 
Here, where men sit and hear each other groan...
Where youth
grows pale, and spectre-thin, and
dies...

The next stanza
returns Keats' attention to the bird: he will not join it through liquor, but through
poesy (poetry) where they can approach the skies, illuminated by the moon and
stars.

In the following stanza, Keats cannot see, but he
sense the products of nature that surround him, praising
nature:

The
grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild...
Fast fading violets cover'd up
in leaves; 
And mid-May's eldest child, 
The coming musk-rose, full
of dewy wine...

Stanza seven
speaks to the immortal nature of the bird, that has been heard for countless
generations, heard by emperors, as well as Ruth, the Biblical character who found
herself also alone, as Keats feels at that moment.

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The voice I hear this passing night was
heard 
In ancient days by emperor and clown: 
Perhaps the self-same
song that found a path 
Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for
home, 
She stood in tears amid the alien
corn;

The last stanza brings
Keats back to the reality of his situation:

Forlorn! the
very word is like a bell 
To toll me back from thee to my sole
self!...
Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades... 
and now 'tis
buried deep 
In the next valley-glades...

And as
Keats leaves the world of the nightingale, he is saddened to come back to his existence
of illness and approaching death, he asks:

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Was it a vision, or a waking
dream? 
Fled is that music: - Do I wake or
sleep?

The evolution of
Keats' thoughts:

• the poem begins with the
  dream-like quality Keats experiences perceiving the
  nightingale.


• Keats wishes to join the bird somehow, while
  leaving the trials of his own world behind.


• Keats'
  thoughts turn to death and illness.


• His attention shifts
  again, as Keats decides to use poetry to capture the essence of the bird and join
  her.


• Then Keats praises nature, even that which he cannot
  see.


• He notes that the nightingale has been around
  throughout time.


• Finally, Keats knows he must leave the
  world of the bird, and return to his own place, and so he says his farewells to the bird
  who has brought him such joy and
  diversion.

Consider the peoms of Gwendolyn Brooks. What portriat emerges of black urban life from the peoms in the text?

I had a magnificent opportunity to hear Gwendolyn Brooks
speak and recite her poetry in Charlotte, NC before she passed away. Brooks has an
amazing body of work that tends to create, as your question suggest, a picture of black
urban life.  Much of her poetry concerns life in Chicago, as that is where she worked
with the Black Arts Movement.

While many poets of her time
were blaming the cities for the problems of the black members, particularly young black
men, Brooks places some responsibility on the individuals themselves. If you look at the
poem "We Real Cool", Brooks examines the attitude of street youth, but provides an
ending "we die soon" that shows the fatal outcome of living their
lifestyle.

Yet, some others of Brooks's characters do seem
small and unimportant in their cities, still they make the best of what they have. 
Examples of this include the poems "Of Dewitt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetary"
and the "Sundays of Satin Legs Smith".  In these poems, the individuals are relatively
ordinary, even insificant to others, but have a small level of interest inherent within
themselves.  One critic describes this as:

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Brooks is content to describe a moment in the
lives of very ordinary people whose only goal is to exist from day to day and perhaps
have a nice funeral when they
die.

Finally, Brooks give
insight into characters who experience realizations about their own responsibility in
some of the tragedies of urban black culture.  In "A Boy Died in My Alley,"  the speaker
receives notice that a boy was murdered in her alley.  At first she attempts to blame it
on a failed society or system, but ultimately realizes that since she knew the boy too,
she was partially responsible because of her failure to act.  This is expressed in the
line:

And I
have killed him ever.

Hello, I have to do a paper on The Crucible and I need some help. In the paper I have to list three people responsible for the witch trials.

I think the whole town, with the exception of a few (Giles
Corey, Elizabeth Proctor and the wrongly accused), are all culpable because the lot of
them conformed to the hysteria of the witch hunt. But if I had to pick three of the most
responsible, I would start with Reverend Parris. He cares more about his own status than
he does about the town’s welfare, the truth or the moral implications of his own
actions. I’m reluctant to choose Abigail. She does instigate the entire string of lies
which lead to the witch hunt. But her parents are dead and the only person who shows her
affection is John Proctor; and this is doomed from the start. Abigail is one of those
most responsible for the witch trials, but I personally hold more contempt for Parris
and Deputy Governor Danforth. He is more concerned with the dignity and reputation of
the court than he is about obtaining justice. His actions do not directly lead to the
witch trials, but he has the ability to stop them and does
not.

You have to blame those who started the witch scare
but also those officials who perpetuated it and exponentially increased the
hysteria.

When the officer says the boys should have “put up a better show”(p. 230), what is he implying? Lord of the Flies by William Golding

At the conclusion of Golding's novel, Lord of
the Flies, there are implications the British officer is appalled that the
boys who appear to have degenerated into savages have not made a "good show" and
remained more civilized.  For traditionally, decorum is held in high regard by the
British (One does not display weakness).  Remembering that the boys, who are
Australian--not English--are members of the English Commonwealth, the officer makes this
remark as he is also somewhat embarrassed, as a fellow Brit, by what he perceives
as their breakdown.

His remark that chides the boys for not
having been civilized and overcome adversity as the English schoolboys did in the
Victorian novel, The Coral Island, is quite ironic in light of the
fact that he wears a military uniform and is from a warship which engages in anything
but "civilized" actions.  Golding's juxtaposition of these contrasts points to the
inherent evil in man, an evil that is present even in the "deus ex machina" that saves
Ralph from certain death at the hands of the savages.

In what ways does the narrator feel both at home and foreign in China, in Amy Tan's "A Pair of Tickets?"

Jing-Mei, the narrator of Amy Tan's short story, "A Pair
of Tickets," from her collection entitled, The Joy Luck Club,
travels to China where she feels at home and, at the same time, alien to her
surroundings and experiences.

From the time Jing-Mei was a
child, she insisted there was no Chinese in her at all beneath the skin, although she is
the daughter of two Chinese immigrants. When she returns to China with her father,
traveling on the train, though she has never been there before, she feels a sense of
coming home:

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For the first time I can ever remember, my
father has tears in his eyes, and all he is seeing out the train window is a sectioned
field of yellow, green, and brown, a narrow canal flanking the tracks, low rising hills,
and three people in blue jackets riding an ox-driven cart on this early October morning.
And I can't help myself. I also have misty eyes, as if I had seen this a long, long time
ago, and had almost
forgotten.

Jing-Mei feels
alien when she arrives in Guangzhou: her passport picture shows a westernized young
woman with make-up and chic hair, but in the heat, her face and hair are plain. Though
she may look Chinese, her passport announces that she is an
American.

When Jing-Mei meets her father's great-aunt,
Aiyi, and her children and grandchildren, the difference in language also makes Jing-Mei
feel like an outsider. Her father and his aunt speak Mandarin, while Aiyi's family
speaks Cantonese. Jing-Mei can understand Mandarin, but cannot really speak either
language, and her relatives do not speak English.

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Aiyi and my father speak the Mandarin dialect
from their childhood, but the rest of the family speaks only the Cantonese of their
village. I understand only Mandarin but can't speak it that well. So Aiyi and my father
gossip unrestrained in Mandarin...And they stop only occasionally to talk to the rest of
us, sometimes in Cantonese, sometimes in
English.

Jing-Mei worries
about meeting her half-sisters, daughters that her dead mother had to leave behind in
China while trying to escape, almost dying herself. Jing-Mei is afraid she was not a
good enough daughter, did not appreciate her mother. She fears the reception she will
receive when they meet. However, her fear is unfounded. The girls look much like her
mother, in an instant, and Jing-Mei feels immediately at home with them. Her mother's
spirit seems to move among the three of them, and they joyfully welcome each other,
surrounding Jing-Mei with a sense of homecoming and
belonging.

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And now I see [my mother] again, two of her,
waving and in one hand there is a photo, the Polaroid I sent them. As soon as I get
beyond the gate, we run toward each other, all three of us embracing, all hesitations
and expectations forgotten.

What is "The Saddest Poem" by Pablo Neruda about?

"The Saddest Poem" by Pablo Neruda is about lost love. The
speaker laments over the loss of a lover, not who has died, but who has moved on from
him. His strong connection of the poem to the stars and sky suggests the insurmountable
distance between him and his former love:

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I can write the saddest poem of all
tonight.

Write, for instance: "The night is full of
stars,
and the stars, blue, shiver in the
distance."

Because he is no
longer with his love, he is able to write the "saddest poem of
all."

At the end of the poem, the speaker offers some hope
for himself. While the body of the poem is very sad and depressing, he is purging
himself of her and has decided that this is the last time that he will think of her.
This is the last night that he will lament,

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Because on nights like this I held her in my
arms,
my soul is lost without her.

Although this may be the
last pain she causes me,
and this may be the last poem I write for
her.

In the morning, we get
the sense that he will move on and begin his life anew. His "saddest poem" is the final
purge of a wonderful and difficult time in his life.

What is the antiderivative of y=x/square root(x^2-9) ?

We'll substitute x^2 - 9 =
t

We'll differentiate both
sides:

2xdx = dt

xdx =
dt/2

We'll re-write the integral in
t:

Int xdx/sqrt (x^2 - 9) = (1/2)*Int dt/sqrt
t

(1/2)*Int dt/sqrt t = (1/2)*t^(-1/2 + 1)/(1 - 1/2) +
C

(1/2)*Int dt/sqrt t = (1/2)*t^(1/2)/(1/2) +
C

(1/2)*Int dt/sqrt t = t^(1/2) +
C

(1/2)*Int dt/sqrt t = sqrt t +
C

We'll substitute t by the original expression x^2 -
9:

The antiderivative of f(x) is: Int
xdx/sqrt (x^2 - 9) = sqrt(x^2 - 9) + C

You're a reporter for the Paduan Enquirer, and have crashed the wedding of Katharina & Petruchio. What kind of scandalous events were in Act 3?

In Shakespeare's The Taming of the
Shrew, there are several scandalous events that take place in Act III that
might well make the newspaper in Padua.

It might appear
scandalous that Bianca seems to accept Lucentio's intent to court Bianca, though he has
not formally received the blessing of Bianca's father (though the audience knows that
Bianca cannot marry before her sister Katharina).

As scene
ii begins place, Petruchio arrives late to his own wedding, dressed like a homeless
person, traveling on a broken down nag. Baptista and Tranio chastise Petruchio for his
manner of dress and encourage him to change; he
refuses.

During the marriage ceremony, Petruchio hits the
priest, and kisses Katharina so loudly, that the sound echoes throughout the church. By
comparison to Petruchio's roguish behavior, Katharina resembles a demure young woman,
quite unlike the town's usual perception of her based upon her
behavior.

After they are pronounced man and wife, Petruchio
announces that he must leave Padua immediately; he will not even attend his own wedding
feast. Katharina refuses to depart, defying her new husband. Petruchio rants on about a
woman's duties to her husband, and announces that a woman is the chattel of the man of
the house. He asserts that others may try to abscond with his new bride, so at sword
point, he threatens all, grabs Katharina, and takes off—leaving his guests and family
amazed.

Not the kind of behavior the townspeople expect of
or appreciate from Petruchio, these things would probably have made the newspaper, some
perhaps on the front page, with other pieces on the "society"
page.

what were your first general impressions if the video?Did those impressions remain the same as you watched or did they change?Explain.I have this...

I would like to help you with your question, but it is a
very personal question that only one can answer.  Perhaps it will help if I break down
the question for you.  Your "impressions" refer to how you felt as you watched the
video.  What did you notice about the way Laurence Fishbourne portrayed Othello?  Did he
make the character seem more real to you than when you read the play? Was Shakespeare's
language easier for you to understand when you heard it rather than read it--and when
you heard it acted by a fine actor?  These are the kinds of things you could include in
"impressions."

On the other hand, maybe the film was
difficult for you to understand.  That would be an impression also.  You might have
liked parts of it (perhaps the action, the costumes, or the settings), but perhaps you
still had difficulty keeping the characters
straight.

Presumably you watched the entire video because
your homework question asked you how your impressions changed. That means: Did you like
the movie more or less as it went on?  Did you find you understood it more?  Did you
enjoy it?  Did you feel strongly for Othello when he was duped by Iago?  Did you feel
strongly for Desdemona?  What other character portrayals did you like or
dislike?

Only you can determine what your own "impressions"
are, but I hope by breaking down the kinds of things you might include in these
impressions I've helped a little.

Good luck, and don't
hesitate to ask another question if this is still unclear.

If someone has a velocity of 32 ft/sec, will they be able to ring the bell( more info below)?At a carnival, a new attraction allows contestants to...

The initial velocity is u feet/sec. The bell is at a
height of 20 feet above the platform. Whether the contestant will be able to jump a 20
feet height from the spring board is the question. So the actual equation is h(t) =
ut-(1/2)gt^2 in accordance with the laws of motion, where h(t) height at time t from the
take off, and g is the acceleration due to gravity.

By
data  initial velocity u = by 32 ft/sec.  g = 32 ft/sec^2  a fact
assumed.

Therefore the the equation of motion is h(t) =
ut-(gt^2).

h(t) =
ut-(1/2)t^2.

So if the spring board has a height of 20 ft,
then the model would have to be h(t) =
32t-16t^2+20.

Therefore d(t) = -16t^2-bt+20 and
32t-16t^2+20 must be identical.

 When time t = 0, d(0) =
-16*0^2+32*0+20 = 20 is the platform height which is the initial height of the
contestant from where he takes off.

The bell is at 20 ft
above the platform. So the height of the bell = platform height + 20ft = 20ft +20ft = 40
ft.

By calculus, the maximum height d(t) is when d'(t) = 0
and d"(t) < 0.

d(t) =
ut-(1/2)gt^2+20 .

d'(t) = u-gt and d"(t) = -g <
0.

d'(t) = 0 gives u-gt= 0. So t = u/g , when
d(t) is maximum. Or d(u/g) is the maximum height the contestant can jump with an initial
velocity u.

When u =
32ft/sec:

d'(t) = -16*2t+32 and d"(t) = -32 <
0

So d'(t) = -16*2t+32 = 0, or  32t = 32. so t =
1

The maximum height  the contestant  jumps = d(1) =
-16*1^2+32+20 = 36 < 40ft.

Therefore the contestant
does not reach the bell.

If u = 35 ft/sec, then the maximum
height the contestant can jump  = d(u/g) = d(35/32) = -16(35/32)^2+35(35/32)+20 = 39.14
ft < 40 ft. So the contest  falls down before reaching the
bell.

If u = 40 ft/sec, then the contestant can jump a
maximum height of d(u/g) = -16(40/32)^2+40(40/32)+20 = 25+20 = 45 ft > 40 ft. So
the contestant  reaches a height above the bell. So he can ring twice the bell while
going up and falling down.

If u = 45 ft, then the maximum
height the contestant reaches d(t) = d(u/g) = d(45/32) = -16(45/32^2+45(45/32)+20 =
51.64 ft > 40 ft. So the contestant reaches a height above the bell. So he can
ring the bell twice. He can ring while going up and falling
off.

If u = 32 ft/sec, then the contestant  reaches a
maximum height of d(u/g) = d(32/32) = -16*1^2+32+20 = 36 feet = (20+16) ft. So the
contestant  jumps 16 ft above the platform. If the bell is placed at 10 ft, 12 ft and 15
ft above the platform, the contestant can reach and ring the bell. But he can not reach
the bell place at the  height of 18 feet as his maximum jump is only 16ft above the
platform.

Pick out images, emotions and language in "The Horse Dealer's Daughter" that are used to described love.

Love does steal upon both of the central characters rather
swiftly in this excellent short story. We first see the indications of love when the
doctor brings Mabel around after her abortive suicide attempt and explains to her what
had happened and how he had rescued her. When he tells her that it was him who undressed
her to revive her, she responds with a question: "Do you love me, then?" As he stands
and looks at her, we are told that "his soul seemed to melt." Then we are given a
touching and moving description of her love for him and how it manifests
itself:

She
shuffled forward on her knees, and put her arms round him, round his legs, as he stood
there, pressing her breasts against his knees and thighs, clutching him with strange,
convulsive certainty, pressing his thighs against her, drawing him to her face, her
throat, as she looked up at him with flaring, humble eyes of transfiguration, triumphant
in first possession.

Note how
love is described in Mabel's character. She clutches Ferguson with "strange, convulsive
certainty," and her eyes are "flaring" and "humble." Above all though the change is
indicated in her eyes, which are transfigured and "triumphant in first
possession."

In response, Ferguson is "amazed, bewildered,
and afraid." This event is sudden, unexpected and not wished for. And yet, even though
he says that he had never wished to love her, he finds himself unable to break away from
the compulsive element of love:

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He revolted from it violently. And yet--and
yet--he had not the power to break
away.

Thus it appears that
love is described as a transfiguring force in the case of Mabel, but then also as an
irresistible force in the case of Ferguson. He appears to be controlled by this exterior
force that overpowers his reason and intellect. Again and again the text refers to his
unwillingness to go along with what is happening, but then also his complete inability
to do anything about it. It is as if love has swept him away and taking him places that
he did not wish to go to.

In Tuesdays with Morrie did Mitch change as the book went on? In what way?

In the book "Tuesdays with Morrie" Mitch was not very
responsible about visiting the people that he cared about.  He had let too much time
pass between Morrie and himself and he had promised him he would visit and not come back
for years. 

Mitch recognizes this in himself and begins to
make sure that he visits Morrie consistently every Tuesday.  As Mitch watches Morrie
physically dying before him but still having his sense of humor and dignity, Mitch
begins to question his own life and the things that he did not do because it was easier
to make other choices.

Morrie teaches Mitch how to truly
live and embrace his life.  Mitch changes because he has more appreciation about his
life and decides to pursue other dreams he had once had.  He later writes the book
Tuesdays with Morrie.

In Hamlet, please provide examples of important imagery, symbols, or allusions in Claudius's soliloquy, Act 3 scene 3i am having a hard time...

This is Claudius's only significant soliloquy in the play
and in it he reveals his guilt over what he has done.  For the first time we hear from
him how he feels about his actions.  He clearly recognizes that he has committed a
terrible sin and he would like to be forgiven that sin, but in the end he knows that if
he doesn't give up the gains from that sin (the throne and Gertrude) then he will never
be forgiven by God. 

Here are two quotes that have
several of the literary devices you are asked to
consider:

What
if this cursed hand / where thicker than itself with brother's blood, is there not rain
enough in the sweet heavens to wash it white as
snow?

In this quote there are
a couple of things to notice.  The image of the thick blood of his brother is very
powerful.  The "thick" makes it heavy and vital and the fact that it is thicker than his
hand suggests an overwhelming amount of blood.  Blood is usually a symbol of life.  In
this case it is spilled blood, and therefore symbolic of a loss of life -- King
Hamlet's.  It is also an allusion to Cain's murder of his brother Abel from the Bible. 
This is traditionally considered the first murder -- these are the children of Adam and
Eve.

Rain is usually symbolic of cleansing -- both physical
and spiritual.  Here it is a symbol of heavenly cleansing, or God's forgiveness.  He is
thinking that there is not enough forgiveness from God to cleanse him of his
sin.

He later uses hand imagery again.  He
says,

In the
corrupted currents of this world / Offense's guilded hand may shove by justice / And oft
tis' seen the wicked prize itself / Buys out the
law.

Here, Claudius is
calling his hand gilded which means it is covered over with a thin layer of gold (but
what is under the surface is considerably less worthy or valuable.)  What he really
means that he is now has all the power of the kingdom because he is king (the "wicked
prize", and as king, he will likely get away with his crimes because no one will dare to
suspect him and charge him with the crime.  In this case, no one knows that a crime even
took place, but perhaps that is because no one dared to investigate the story.  His gold
hand was able to shove justice away from his guilty acts.  The strong imagery and
symbolism again come into play in order to illuminate Claudius's
guilt.

Compare and contrast encomiendas and haciendas to mita and slavery.

During the colonial era of New Spain during the 1500's,
the Spanish crown granted Haciendas, or land holdings to the conquistadors and other
nobles. This land was their to farm or to lease to other Spaniards of lesser social
status. In comparison, the encomienda was not a land grant, but rather a system of
labor, where the holder was granted the responsibility for a number of natives. Under
this system, natives recieved protection from enemies and instruction in the Catholic
faith in return for tribute. This was sometimes pain in the form of goods, but most
often with labor.

This is where the mita comes into the
picture. The Spanish colonizers borrowed the idea of required labor from the Inca
Empire, who required its citizens to perform public service for a certain number of days
out of the year. The remainder of the year was given to each man to farm his own land.
While the mita system was considerably harsher under the Spanish conquistadors, it
differs from slavery, which is defined as the forced ownership of human
beings.

Does Césaire build on Marx’s ideas in Discourse on Colonialism?

Césaire was a member of the Communist Party of Martinique.
He developed ideas that expanded Marx's ideology of proletariat versus the ruling
powers, socialism versus capitalism. Discourse on Colonialism is
often addressed by critics in terms of whether it either conforms to or breaks with
Marxist orthodoxy. However Césaire emphasizes ideas that contribute to thinking about
colonialism, fascism and revolution. Césaire did build upon Marxist thought and he
expanded it. He recast Western Civilization's history in order to examine the
interconnectedness of colonialism and fascism and to demonstrate that these threaten
humanism on which Western Civilization is founded. His revisions of Marxism followed in
line with his predecessors W.E.B. DuBois and M.N. Roy and suggest that the proletarian
revolution takes second place to the anticolonial struggle. His conclusion is the vision
of a total overthrow of racism and colonialism, in any
guise.

[For more information, see " href="http://www.monthlyreview.org/1199kell.htm">A Poetics of Anticolonialism" by
Robin D.G. Kelley from which this answer is drawn.]

What does "Neighbors" suggest about people's character?

Carver's "Neighbors" is a story about voyeurism:  the
natural, human tendency to want to live the lives of others and see how others live. 
The story doesn't suggest this is positive or negative, it just is, and a one-line
cliche certainly can't explain a Raymond Carver story. 

The
story doesn't make value judgments.  Given the opportunity to investigate the lives of
their neighbors, the husband and wife, but particularly the husband, since the "camera
on the wall" point of view follows only him, is aroused, sexually and otherwise.  The
idea is that, given the chance to do the same, in privacy, we are all like the husband
and wife in the story.  The story simply presents a kicked-up version of looking into
someone else's medicine cabinet.

In short, the story does
reveal elements of human character--we are all voyeurs, to an extent.  Remember, the
couple appears to be completely normal until they get into the neighbor's apartment. 
The story suggests that they are still being normal, even inside. 
  

In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, what is a decription of the jail, Calpurnia's church, the school and Mrs. Dubose's house?

MAYCOMB
JAIL.  It "was the most venerable and hideous of the
county's buildings." It "was a miniature Gothic joke one cell wide and two cells high,
complete with tiny battlements and flying buttresses. It had a "red brick facade" and
"ecclesiastical windows," and stood on a hill between the hardware store and the
jail.

MAYCOMB
SCHOOL.  The school is right around the corner from the
Finch house and is visible from Scout's front yard. It has a dirt school yard and an
auditorium, but there is little else mentioned about the description of the
school.

MRS.
DUBOSE'S HOUSE.  Mrs. Dubose
lived two doors up from the Finches. The house had a front porch where the old lady
liked to sit; her beloved camellias grew in the front
yard.

FIRST
PURCHASE A.M.E. CHURCH.  The
outside had peeling paint with the only steeple and bell in Maycomb. The adjoining
church yard was of clay, with a cemetery on one side. Inside, the church was unpainted
and the ceiling open. It was lighted by kerosene lamps and "pine benches served as
pews."

Who is the founder of cognitive psychology?

Cognitive psychology is the empirical study of mental
processes that take place in our brain during specific behaviors and episodes throughout
life.

Cognitive psychology and its study can be traced back
to earlier attempts to organize studies in human behavior and mental processes that date
back to the 18th century with the works of Berkeley and Hume. These are philosophers who
intensified their search to establish clear patterns of behavior and cognition in
humans.

In modern times we have been able to enhance the
study of this field thanks to the works of Jean Piaget, BF Skinner, Wolfgang Kohler and
Noam Chomsky. Therefore, there we cannot disport the entire charge of founding the
science as a whole in one person. It has been a collective effort since centuries back
into the field of psychology.

A solid cube of silver (density = 10.5 g/cm3) has a mass of 90.0 g. What is the resistance between opposite faces of the cube?

The solid cube of silver, between the opposite faces of
which we have to find the resistance, has a density of 10.5 g/cm^3 and a mass of 90
g.

Now density is given by mass/ volume or volume is equal
to mass/ density.

Here, the volume is equal to 90/ 10.5
cm^3.

The volume of a cube with sides of length l is equal
to l^3

=> l^3 = 90/
10.5

=> l = (90/10.5) ^ (1/3)
cm

=> l = 2.04
cm

=> l = .0204 m

The
resistivity of silver is 15.87* 10^-9 ohm*m.

So the
resistance between opposite faces of the cube is:
0.0204*15.87*10^-9

=0.317*10^-9
ohm.

The required resistance between the
opposite faces of the silver cube is 0.317*10^-9
ohm.

What is the significance of the quote the woman recites when the men arrive to burn her house in Fahrenheit 451?

When Montag and his team of fireman arrive at a woman's
house to burn it, she greets him with a quotation: "Master Ridley, we shall this day
light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put
out.

The quotation is from Hugh Latimer, who lived from
1487-1555.  Latimer was an English clergyman who developed religious ideas that were
considered heretical by the Church of England establishment under the leadership of
Queen Mary.

In 1555, Latimer was sentenced to death,
together with a colleague named Nicholas Ridley.  Just before being killed, Latimer
addressed Ridley and uttered the words quoted above.  He seems to have meant that his
sacrifice for his ideals will eventually help those ideas to become
accepted.

This would also seem to be the intent of the
woman in Fahrenheit 451.  By burning herself together with her
books, the woman hopes to demonstrate and publicize her resistance to the
firemen.

In The Merchant of Venice, how would Shakespeare's audience have perceived Shylock?

In one of the paperback editions we find Professor
Barnet's note:  "Nothing is surely known about how Shylock was played in the earliest
productions.  The Folio calls the play a "Comicall Historie," but that does not prove
beyond all doubt that Shylock was portrayed comically, since a comedy was a play with a
happy ending."  When Shylock says, "My deeds upon my head! I crave the law"(4.1), some
may have recalled Egeus, Hermia's father, from MND:  "Enough, enough, my lord.  You have
enough!  I beg the law, the law, upon his head.  They would have stolen away, they
would, Demetrius,  Thereby to have defeated you and me"(MND4.1).   Capulet, Juliet's
father, in ROM is also a bit angry.  I also think that it is reasonable to suggest that
some may have found it interesting to see and hear the actors in Shakespeare's company
play various characters.

If limit of function f(x)=(sin x-cos x)/cos 2x is l, choose the good answer: a)l=0;b)l=-1;c)=6;d)l=1/6;e)l=-square root 2/2

We 'll re-write the denominator of th ratio
as:

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

We'll re-write the difference of squares as a
product:

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

We'll re-write the
function:

f(x) = (sin x-cos x)/(cos x - sin x)(cos x + sin
x)

We'll simplify and we'll
get:

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

Now, we'll take limit both
sides:

lim f(x) = lim [-1/(cos x + sin
x)]

lim f(x) = -1/lim (cos x + sin
x)

lim f(x) = -1/(cos pi/4 + sin
pi/4)

lim f(x) = -1/(sqrt2/2 +
sqrt2/2)

lim f(x) =
-1/2sqrt2/2

lim f(x) = -sqrt
2/2

Since the limit of the function is l,
then l = -sqrt 2/2, so the good answer is e).

What does the gun represent?

Seeger’s acquisition of the German-made Luger is described
in paragraph 84. The gun represents a victory for him and a symbol of justice (paragraph
121), and it also represents a possible armed response to anti-Semitism (paragraph 122).
As a means of gaining the $65.00 that would permit the men to have a good time, it is
potentially a source of conflict between Seeger and his friends. The climax of the story
(paragraphs 141-48) occurs when Seeger decides to sell the gun; it causes the resolution
which is the story’s major act of faith.

In "The Veldt," can you describe the situation between the parents and their children with a few sentences, and the reasons for that situation?

It is clear that Bradbury presents us with a world in
which technology has actually become more important to the children than their parents.
When David McClean is called in to give his expert opinion, he identifies that the
nursery has "become a channel toward--destructive thoughts." As he continues questioning
the parents, and in particular the way that George Hadley says that he had given his
children everything they wanted and then as punishment shut down the nursery, he gives
his expert advice:

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"Where before they had a Santa Claus now they
have a Scrooge. Children prefer Santas. You've let this room and this house replace you
and your wife in your children's affections. This room is their mother and father, far
more important in their lives than their real parents. And now you come along and want
to shut it off. No wonder there's hatred
here."

According to McClean,
building your life around "creature comforts" or technology to make your life easier for
you, has far-reaching and disturbing consequences, which has resulted in the situation
of discord between the parents and children in this story.

What are 5 similes (with page numbers) found in part one of Fahrenheit 451?

A simile is a figure of speech that compares two different
things.  Often the things are nothing alike at first glace, but the comparison helps
bring to light characteristics of each that a person might not have noticed before.
 

One side note, the page numbers that I will provide might
not match up correctly with your book. There are a lot of different printed versions of
the book, so there might be some discrepancy between my pages and your pages.
 

Page 4: Montag is talking to Clarisse and she says the
following: 

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"Oh, just my mother and father and uncle sitting
around, talking. It's like being a pedestrian, only rarer. My uncle was arrested another
time-did I tell you?-for being a pedestrian. Oh, we're most
peculiar."

Later on that same
page, Montag describes her face.  He describes it as the
following: 

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She had a very thin face like the dial of a
small clock seen faintly in a dark room in the middle of a night when you waken to see
the time and see the clock telling you the hour and the minute and the second, with a
white silence and a glowing, all certainty and knowing what it has to tell of the night
passing swiftly on toward further darknesses but moving also toward a new
sun.

Moments later, Montag
describes her face with another simile. 

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He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror,
too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know that refracted your own
light to you?

Then
immediately following that thought, Bradbury uses a simile to describe Clarisse's
demeanor. 

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What incredible power of identification the girl
had; she was like the eager watcher of a marionette show, anticipating each flicker of
an eyelid, each gesture of his hand, each flick of a finger, the moment before it
began.

Montag's thoughts
about Clarisse stand in stark contrast to his thoughts about his wife on page five.
 

His wife
stretched on the bed, uncovered and cold, like a body displayed on the lid of a tomb,
her eyes fixed to the ceiling by invisible threads of steel,
immovable.