Comparing Shakespeare's Macbeth to the historical Macbeth.What would be a good intro paragraph talking about how Shakespeare altered the dramatic...

Your opening paragraph should probably note how
Shakespeare was not attempting an historical play in Macbeth. 
While Holinshead's Chronicles form the basis for much of his information, Shalespeare
took that information and changed and shaped it to help make a dramatic story.  In that
way, it is much like Arthur Miller's The Crucible, which takes some
historical information about the Salem Witch Trials and then adds details and even
changes some characters to make the drama effective.  (Walt Disney Studios did much the
same thing with some of their most famous cartoon adaptations such as Beauty
and the Beast or The Little
Mermaid.)

Shakespeare was also keenly aware of
his audience.  King James I of Engliand (who was also James VI of Scotland) was
interested in witches.  James I was also a descendent of Banquo's.  Both of these ideas
are brought into the plays as well.

Explain Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection.

Natural Selection is a theory of evolution based on the
premise that organisms which have genetic traits that make it easier for them to survive
in an environment and more attractive to the opposite sex are more likely to pass on
their gene pool to future generations. This makes future generations acquire their
genetic characteristics and alters the genetic pool of the
species.

Natural selection works in two ways, the first
being that the genetic traits make it easier for some organisms of a species to survive
in an environment. Examples of this could be genetic traits that make the color of some
insects such that they blend in easily with the surrounding and this saves them from
predators. Insects which do not have this trait are easily hunted which reduces the
number of organisms with alternate genetic traits.

The
second is that the genetic traits of some organisms make it easier for them to attract
the opposite sex and mate. They are in this way able to pass on the genetic traits which
make them look more attractive.

Usually the gene pool that
results in genetic traits making organisms of a species more attractive is also the one
which increase their ability to survive in the environment. For example, the most
brightly colored birds are also the ones which are the strongest and can easily find
food. This makes the opposite sex attracted to them and they have a higher probability
of passing on their gene pool to future
generations.

Natural selection in this way changes the
genetic traits of a species over time by selecting the gene pool of the organisms which
have features more suitable for survival in an environment.

In the book The Giver, what is a description for Jonas's bedroom and the dining room?

In The Giver, Lois Lowry offers a
purposeful lack of description of Jonas' physical surroundings.  His sleeping room
consists of his bed and, on some occasions, Gabriel's crib, but aside from that we are
given no details.  It does have a door and seems to be the one place in his dwelling,
and perhaps in the whole community, where Jonas can have any real privacy.  We know it
is the one room where Gabriel can sleep through the night without much fuss, but this is
due to Jonas soothing the child with his "memories" rather than to any physical
attribute of the room.

The dining room, too, lacks real
description.  It is the place where the family shares their dreams after the morning
meal and significant events from their day after the evening meal.  Much of the
interaction between Jonas and his parents occurs here.  Beyond a table and chairs,
however, we never really get a sense of what is in the room.  In fact, we get a sense
that it is not a separate area at all.  When family members move from the table to the
shelf, desk, or cupboard, it does not appear that they leave the room.  In Chapter 5,
Lowry describes Jonas' mother cleaning up the morning meal and then placing the tray by
the door for the Collection Crew to retrieve.  This tells us that the family does not
cook their own meals, and therefore their dwelling does not need a kitchen.  We might
speculate that aside from the sleeping rooms and, presumably, a bathroom, the dwelling
consists of just one large room.

What are the values of parameter m if the vertex of parabola y = x^2-2(m-1)*x+m-1 is on the first bisector line?

Firts, we'll determine the coordinates of the vertex of
the parabola.

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

deta = b^2 -
4ac

a,b,c, are the coefficients of the
quadratic.

a = 1 , b = -2(m-1) , c =
m-1

xV = 2(m-1)/2

xV = 2m -
2

delta = 4(m-1)^2 -
4(m-1)

delta =
4(m-1)(m-1-1)

delta =
4(m-1)(m-2)

yV =
-4(m-1)(m-2)/4

yV =
-(m-1)(m-2)

The coordinates of the vertex are: V(2m - 2
;  -(m-1)(m-2)).

We'll impose the constraint of enumciation
that the vertex has to be located on the bisectrix of the first
quadrant.

yV = xV

2m - 2 =
-(m-1)(m-2)

2(m-1) =
-(m-1)(m-2)

We'll add
(m-1)(m-2):

2(m-1) + (m-1)(m-2) =
0

We'll factorize by
(m-1):

(m-1)(2 +m - 2) =
0

m(m-1) = 0

m1 =
0

m-1 = 0

m2 =
1

The values of m for the vertex of the
parabola to be on the bisector of the 1st quadrant are: {0 ;
1}.

In Flannery O'Connor's story titled "Revelation," how is external ugliness compared to internal ugliness?

In Flannery O’Connor’s short story titled “Revelation,”
internal and external ugliness are compared and contrasted in various ways.  Here are
some examples:

• Claud has an ugly sore on his
  leg, but this external ugliness is as nothing when compared with the internal ugliness
  of his wife.


• Mrs. Turpin thinks that she is physically
  unattractive because she is too fat, when in reality it is her spiritual ugliness that
  is far more significant and blameworthy. Rather than being embarassed about the
  condition of her body, she should be ashamed of the state of her
  soul.


• Mary Grace has ugly skin, but far more important is
  the ugly personality she reveals later in the story.


• Mrs.
  Turpin is thankful that her skin is not ugly, like the skin of Mary Grace, but Mrs.
  Turpin reveals an inner ugliness that is far more important than Mary Grace’s lack of
  physical beauty.


• The “white trash” characters in the
  doctor’s waiting room are not well dressed and are physically unappealing in other ways,
  but it is Mrs. Turpin who seems, in many respects, the ugliest character (spiritually)
  in the entire story.


• At one point, Mrs. Turpin looks at
  Mary Grace, and O’Connor writes as
  follows:

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Mrs. Turpin felt an awful pity for the girl,
though she thought it was one thing to be ugly and another to act
ugly.

Of course, it never
occurs to Mrs. Turpin to regret or attempt to control her own ugly
thoughts.

• When the white trash woman remarks
  that she would like to get some “joo’ry” (that is, jewelry), Mrs. Turpin thinks that she
  ought instead to get “a wash rag and some soap.” In other words, Mrs. Turpin considers
  the white trash woman physically unclean, unfortunately ignoring her own spiritual
  uncleanliness.

This list could easily be
extended, but by now the main point is clear: O’Connor contrasts superficial physical
ugliness with the spiritual ugliness of the sin of pride, which is the source of perhaps
all of the real and important ugliness in this story.

In "Lamb to the Slaughter," what does Mary Maloney do for her husband coming home?

Everything! It really is quite sickening the way that Mary
Maloney panders to her husbands every whim. Just consider the first paragraph of the
story and see how it presents her as a wife who is completely devoted to her
husband:

The
room was warm and clean, the curtains drawn, the two table lamps alight--hers and the
one by the empty chair opposite. On the sideboard behind her, two tall glassess, soda
water, whisky. Fresh ice cubes in the Thermos bucket.

Mary
Maloney was waiting for her husband to come home from
work.

Note how everything is
completely ready for her husband's arrival. She has clearly worked hard to do this, and
we can infer from her attitude towards her husband that she does this every single day
for him as well. I know it was just Valentine's Day yesterday, but please: this is
rather exaggerated. Of course, you need to be aware of what Dahl is doing through this.
He is clearly setting up her character as a devoted wife, which makes the situational
irony of what happens later in the story all the more acute.

What were the names of the author's brothers and sisters?

In the book Kaffir Boy, Johannes
(also known as Mark) Mathabane is the eldest of seven children. When the story begins,
he is five years old, and only two of his siblings, Florah and George, are born yet. The
arrival of the fourth child, Maria, is confusing to Johannes, who cannot understand why
his mother keeps looking fatter when the family has no food to eat. By the time the
youngest three, Merriam, Dinah, and Linah, are born, Johannes knows what is happening.
He sometimes resents his new siblings because they are a drain on his family's scant
resources.

In Lord of the Flies Chapter 5, Simon comes up with a dangerous idea. What is it?William Golding's Lord of the Flies

In Chapter 5 of Lord of the Flies, Golding writes
that

There was
a long pause while the assembly grinned at the though of anyone going out in the
darkness.

Significantly, this
line bespeaks of the weakness that lies in mankind when faced with its own shortcomings
and dark nature.  Too quickly, it is much easier to laugh and deride the grim truth or
find other explanations for what is too uncomfortable a truth.  For instance, the boys
try to label the beast as a sea creature.  But, after Ralph gives Simon the conch, Simon
explains,  "What I mean is...maybe it's [the beast] only
us."

"Shocked out of decorum," Piggy, who has said that he
seeks a solution, rejects Simon's intuitive answer since he represents the rational side
of man:  "Nuts!"  Piggy's reaction causes Simon to become "inarticulate in his effort to
express mankind's essential illness."

When Simon attempts
to explain to the boys by using the analogy about "the dirtiest thing there is," his
efforts are parodied, and he shrinks back to his seat; symbolically, Ralph peers "into
the gloom," the darkness of the boys' minds that will not open to Simon's insightful
observation.

Is Slim a lonely character? How?It seems like Slim and George have each other to talk to. They get along pretty well. Does that mean that, after...

Slim is a lonely character in the sense that not many in
his world match his level of skill, intelligence, and sensitivity. He is described in
narration as godlike in comportment; when he speaks, men listen. Even Lennie, whose
memory is terrible, remembers Slim. When George questions Lennie about Slim and Curley's
wife possibly being in the barn, Lennie is able to tell George that Slim had been alone,
and had told Lennie not to pet the pups so much.

Perhaps
the only character in the novel for whom Slim felt  companionship was, indeed, George,
but as the answer above states, George seems primed to go about the rest of his life in
the way he described to Lennie in part one: in cathouses, drinking whiskey and shooting
pool.

What "disaster" happened at Christmas between Scout and Francis, in the book, To Kill a Mockingbird?

Yes, Scout fights her cousin Francis for saying the ugly
things he says, but I think the issue is bigger than just the fight. We all know that
Scout is quick to fight and think later, but this time it is with a family member.
Francis doesn't mind telling Scout exactly what Aunt Alexandra has said about Atticus
and the way he is raising his children. He even makes fun of Dill, and this sets Scout
on edge.

"If
Uncle Atticus lets you run around with stray dogs, that's his own business, like Grandma
says, so it ain't your fault. I guess it ain't your fault if Uncle Atticus is a
nigger-lever besides, but I'm here to tell you it certainly does mortify the rest of the
family-"
"Francis, what the hell do you mean?"
"Just what I said.
Grandma says it's bad enough he lets you all run wild, but new he's turned out a
nigger-lover we'll never be able to walk the streets of Maycomb agin. He's ruinin' the
family name, that's what he's
doin."

After Francis tells
Scout just what the family thinks of Atticus, Scout fights him. In her young age, she
doesn't understand the ramifications of what has been told to her. Francis is just
repeating what his grandmother has said to him. This is the first time Scout is hearing
these horrible things being said about her father by his own family. It is a shock to
her, and she has a hard time understanding it. This whole event takes place to set up
the way the town is going to feel about Atticus and the things Scout is going to
hear.

A ray of light entering through the pole of a concave lense emerges without deviation; why?

A convex lens is a converging lens, meaning that light
rays entering the lens parallel to its axis are converged as they pass through the
lens.  When they come out the other side of the lens they will strike the focal point
behind the lens.  The process by which the lens bends the light rays is called
refraction.

A concave lens is a diverging lens.  Light rays
are refracted so that they diverge as they pass through the
lens.

For either lens type the refraction is caused by the
angle between the light ray and the surface of the lens.  The greater the curvature of
the lens, the greater the angle between the ray and lens surface (angle of
incidence).

At the pole (axis) of the lens the lens surface
is exactly perpendicular to the light path, representing a zero incidence angle.  The
ray will simply pass through the lens without refraction (bending) and continue out the
lens to pass through the focal point, regardless of the distance of the focal point
behind the lens.  It is only the light rays that are off center from the lens’s axis
that are bent.  They will be angled in a way to converge on the focal point behind the
lens.

These concepts are illustrated in the upper left
diagram on the first page of the reference.  One can see what happens to the light ray
passing straight through the lens’s axis (pole), versus the rays above and below the
axis that are bent by the lens as they go through.

What lesson can be learned from Sydney Carton's death?A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens What lesson does Dickens tell to his readers with...

The theme of redemption is exemplified in the sacrificial
death of Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities.  As a Christ-like
figure, Carton is the sacrificial victim who dies for the sins of the Evremonde twins
who killed members of the family of Madame DeFarge.  In dying for the family of Charles
Darnay, ne Evremonde, Carton also redeems his dissipated life by his act of love for
Lucie in returning to her her beloved husband.

That Sydney
Carton has redeemed himself is evident in the final passages of the novel in which
Carton envisions a child who bears his name on the lap of his dear
Lucie,

a man,
winning his way up in that path of life which once was mine.  I see him winning it so
well, that my name is made illustrious there by the light of
his.

This theme of death and
resurrection/redemption has been prevalent through Dickens's novel.  First, it is
introduced in Book the First as Dr. Manette is "Recalled to Life," then, it is presented
humorously as Jerry Cruncher, who refers to himself as a "resurrection man,"
contemplates that it would not do for him if men were "recalled to life."  Charles
Darnay is imprisoned--buried from society--and then released twice in the novel.  And,
finally, it takes another's death to resurrect the life of Charles
Darnay.

How is the plot structure of "Everday Use" developed?

Alice Walker develops the plot of her short story by
contrasting three conflicts as they are portrayed in the lives of the two sisters Maggie
and Dee.The three conflicts which structure Alice Walker's moving short story "Everyday
Use" are:

1. Fantasy and
reality: The story begins with the mother dreaming and
fantasizing about how she would like her relationship with Dee to be:"You've no doubt
seen those TV shows where the child who has "made it" is confronted..........But that is
a mistake. I know even before I wake up." The mother desires to have a sentimental
relationship with Dee whom she expects to be overwhelmingly and eternally grateful
towards her for all the sacrifices she had made to give her a prosperous life style.
Hence the difference between the mother's dream and expectations and the reality of the
situation where Dee has scant regard or respect for her mother's
expectations.

2. Conservative and
progressive attitude: Dee has changed her name into the
African Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo, because her old name "Dee" reminded her of her white
colonial masters. Outwardly her reason for changing her name might be politically
correct but its certainly not culturally correct.  Her entire past is negated because of
this name change. Dee's mother traces the family history of that name saying, "though,
in fact, I probably could have carried it back beyond the Civil War through the
branches."  Thus the conservative attitude of the mother clashes with the progressive
attitude of
Dee.

3. Education:
Dee was the intelligent girl who graduated from high school in Augusta unlike Maggie who
"knows that she is not bright" and only semi literate;  the mother of course confesses,
"I never had an education myself." Thus education and a lack of education is also a
source of conflict in the mother-daughter relationship and sister-sister
relationship:

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"Maggie will be nervous until after her sister
goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down
her arms and legs, eying her sister with a mixture of envy and
awe."

how to solve problems in ionic equilibrium

Perhaps the most important ionic equilibrium is the ratio
of hydrogen ions to hydroxide ions in pure water. This can be used to deduce the
dissociation constant of water.

It is known, from
measurements, that the equilibrium constant for water @STP (standard temperature = zero
celcius, standard pressure = 101.3 kilopascals) is ten to the power of minus
fourteen.

Expressed
mathematically:

[H+] x [OH-] =
10^-14

Where [H+] is the concentration of hydrogen ions in
moles per litre, and [OH-] is the concentration of hydroxide ions in moles per
litre.

This simple formula is the basis for the solving of
a multitude of problems in preparation for university entrance to do
chem.

One example:

What is the
pH of a 0.1 mole per litre (0.1M) solution of sodium hydroxide
solution?

NaOH is a strong base and it is assumed that it
dissociates in water completely so that the concentration of OH- can be assumed to be
0.1M ( = 0.1 moles per litre OH minus ions) = 10^-1M

This
affects the above mathematical equation like this:

[H+] x
[10^-1] = 10^-14

Rearranging for
[H+]:

[H+] = (10^-14)/[10^-1] =
10^-13.

pH = -log[H+] = 13 the correct value for a dilute
alkali solution.

When a plant reproduces vegetatively its offspring are genetically _____.

Many plants are able to produce individuals asexually,
without producing seeds. Therefore, there is no pollination, fertilisation or gametes.
This form of asexual reproduction is called vegetative
propagation.

The offsprings produced are genetically
identical to its parent as well as others. Because it does not undergo the process of
meiosis, where changes may occur genetically.

What does the Gospel Of Paul teach us that is different from the other Gospels?

I think you have seriously confused yourself with the
various books of the Bible. There is no actual "Gospel of Paul." There are only four
gospels in the New Testament, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. However, Paul is definitely
the most prolific writer of the books we have that make up the New Testament. He is
responsible for a series of letters or "Epistles" to various church groups. These are
mostly called after the area that they are sent to or the area in which they were
written, such as Romans, Corinthians and Ephesians. Key to note in terms of the
difference between the Pauline Epistles and the Gospels is the way that Paul's writings
focus on the development and challenges of the early church as it seeks to work out how
to respond to the call to follow Jesus Christ and his teachings in the context of the
time. Thus we have teaching regarding issues such as the circumcision of Gentiles,
response to authorities and rulers, legalism and Jewish customs for the Gentile
believers and how Christians should respond in the face of persecution. The main focus
of the Gospels is obviously the life and times of Jesus and his teaching. The Pauline
Epistles seek to explore how that is applied into the context of the early
church.

How did European nations dominate the world economy at the beginning of the 20th century?

European nations were among the first to experience the
modern phenomenon of national industrial revolutions. As early as the mid-1700's
Britain, France, Germany and Spain were already in the throes of rapid industrial and
technological advancement. This advancement was fueled by the cheap labor and export
economies of European colonial territories. European colonialism gave several
nation-states access to valuable raw goods at cheap prices and to a wide-open market in
which to sell finished products.

European nations dominated
the world economy at the beginning of the 20th century because European national banks
were able to maintain an even currency value throughout the 19th and early 20th
centuries, and most experienced an increasing GDP throughout the early 20th century. 
Import and export economies supported by colonial expansion and general exploration
created a large middle class comprised of merchants, government officials, and
educators.

However, Europe began to experience a decline
following World War II, in which many economic and cultural centers were destroyed and
many European nations became deeply suspicious of cross-national
alliances.

How are the themes in Kanthapura reflective of Gandhi's epic struggles?

I had to make some alterations to the original question. 
Given what was there in it and in the tags, I think that I might have been able to
capture its original essence.  Part of what makes Gandhi's movement such a compelling
one is that it sought to transform both political reality and its foundation of moral
reality.  Gandhi's calls for independence resonated on both levels.  In many respects,
this is what made his movement even more distinctive in that it did not merely seek to
change the aggressors, it changed those who were involved in it.  Gandhi's targets were
both British rule and the injustice he saw in Indian practices.  It is this reciprocal
level of change that makes his struggle of epic proportions and something that is highly
evident in Rao's work.  Moorthy's call for change are both reprehensible from the
British point of view and viewed with some level of disdain by Indians in the villages. 
Even Moorthy's own mother is disconcerted by some of the changes to the traditional
system that Gandhi via Moorthy demands.  In the end, the reader understands through
Rao's work that the desire to change Indian mentality is as much of a heroic feat as the
defeat of the British. When the women in the village learn to take up the cause, to
fight for the struggle, and to have the "Indian" voice heard cutting through gender and
tradition bound stratification, there is a full understanding of what Rao sees as
Gandhi's epic struggle for liberation.  This emancipation resonates on the political
level, as the villagers led by the women, fight for autonomy and on a spiritual level,
where the caste based and tradition dictated stratification and prejudice is
abolished.

Who are the characters in the book "The Face on the Milk Carton"?I need to know them in order of importance please and thanks

Likely the most important, if you are trying to actually
rank them, would be Janie Johnson, then you could move to her parents since the three of
them together drive most of the action of the story.  You might also be able to put
Reeve shields up there but it is difficult to decide whether or not he would surpass the
parents in order of importance.

Again this is sort of a
difficult question as you could interpret it in different ways.  My feelings go for
Janie, then Mom and Dad though.

Attempt a feminist reading of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

The ironic aphorism of the opening sentence of
Pride and Prejudice brings the issue of money and marriage at
the center of Austen's novel. That marriageable girls are driven to the young, solvent
bachelors for their security and identity must be an important feminist angle in the
last decade of the 18th century.

The whole book has been
written from Elizabeth Bennet's point of view, and Elizabeth's self-respecting
intelligence serves as a strong resistance to the offensively proud cynicism of the male
chauvinist in Darcy. Elizabeth's disapproval of Charlotte's marriage to the clownish
Collins is yet another aspect of seeing marriage from the feminist standpoint.Elizabeth
accepts Darcy's proposal only after the proud male is sufficiently humbled to make a
second proposal to her.

Elizabeth was Austen's fictional
counterpart, an exceptional woman who finds love and marriage  in her own terms. She
even successfully encounters Darcy's formidable aunt to become the mistress of
Pemberley.  Austen's ironic stance in respect of the new economy of love has marked her
book an early discourse in the politics man-woman relationship.

To what extent do wounds play a role in understanding the facts and circumstances surrounding wrongful death?facts

Wrongful death suits arise from many situations. You are
asking specifically about wounds. Yes, wounds could be valuable evidence, depending of
course on how the person died. Wrongful death suits are Tort actions. A tort is a civil
wrong propagated against a person. In other words, torts are not criminal matters, but
some turn into criminal matters if intent is shown. For example, you are admitted to the
hospital for a routine "minor" surgery. Something happens in the perioperative period
and you die. A couple of things are possible... maybe you had an unforeseen allergic
reaction to the anesthesia, this is not a tort because no one did anything wrong. Let's
say you had that same surgery but this time the surgeon or operating room nurse
inadvertently left an instrument inside you. This of course is an accident, it was not
intentional, but it is a tort because you are now injured and then you died. A wrongful
death suit could be filed by your next of kin, and they would win !  But... the problem
is you are still dead !

What is unusual about McMurphy?

What isn't unusual about McMurphy?  The word "unusual"
takes on a much different meaning in a mental institution.  I spent the first half of
the book just trying to decide whether he was truly mentally ill or not.  Or whether
many of those inside were.  Clearly, some of his compatriots needed to be
institutionalized, but McMurphy was a match for Nurse Ratched, and the others enjoyed
watching them go back and forth, with McMurphy winning a good deal of the time.  If he
did have mental issues, they didn't affect his intelligence or awareness of himself and
those around him.

His voice and laughter were commanding,
they had a presence that gained attention, both positive and negative from those around
him and the hospital staff.

What is the significance of Louisa's obsessive neatness in "A New England Nun"?

Under a modern perspective one could certainly argue that
Louisa's compulsive and obsessive neatness is a consequence of the repressed emotions
that she has pushed down within regarding the wait for her fiance. She had been waiting
already fourteen years, but that is not all that she is holding upon her shoulders: She
is slowly realizing that she really does not want to marry him, and that she would
prefer to do the unthinkable for her day and time: To live independently without a
husband.

Given the societal expectations of the time,
Louise is really having dangerous thoughts that may have put her at a level of anxiety
that she can only channel through consistently operating in the same way over and over.
In fact, doing this is the only thing that puts her in control of a life she is trying
so desperately to control in terms of its fate. In her time and place, women had control
of nothing. She wants control of everything. Hence, it may very well have been that she
developed an obsession with doing things she could do and undo, clean and soil, fix and
break as a way to show herself (in a modern OCD way) that she can hold control at least
of some of her choices.

What is the symbolism in Henry James's novel The Wings of the Dove?

As with all novels from James's so-called "major phase",
the symbolism of The Wings of the Dove is complex and
multi-layered. F. O. Mathiessen, one of the most important American critics of the first
half of the twentieth century, has written interesting pages on the novel's symbolism,
which I summarise here and that you can read in full following the second link
below.

The image of the dove evokes images of purity and
innocence. This is certainly one ways in which the narrator sets up an opposition
between Milly Theale and the more manipulative characters such as Kate, her aunt Maud
(who is compared to an eagle with "gilded claws") and her lover Merton. It is Merton who
first sees Milly as a "Christian maiden, in the arena, mildly, caressingly martyred" by
"domestic animals". Yet, the narrator immediately complicates the symbolism quoting
Milly's own self-description of having used "the wisdown of the
serpent" to find the doctor that can best address her illness. In a
later scene in Venice, the image of the dove itself is shown as not only denoting
innocence, but also ability to conceal feelings and the truth. Finally, the whiteness of
the dove is also linked to Milly's pearls thus symbolizing the power that her wealth
gives her. The wings are also used as a symbol of protection.

What was Aldous Huxley's background in science, and how is it reflected in the novel Brave New World?

Aldous Huxley's brother, Julian
wrote,

The
more [science] discovers and the more comprehension it gives us of the mechanism of
existence, the more clearly does the mystery of existence itself stand
out.

Thus, although Huxley
had to abandon science because of his poor eyesight and turn to literature, his outlook
remained essentially scientific.  For the theme of his novel is stated by him in the
foreword to the novel: 

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The theme of Brave New World
is not the advancement of science as such; it is the advancement of science as it
affects human
individuals.

The Bokanovsky's
Process,the Podsnap's Technique, decanting, the scientific hypnopoediac conditioning,
the feelies, the fertility treatments, the Malthusian drill--these are all scientific
"advancements" that destroy and mitigate the humanity of the people of Brave
New World.

Rather interestingly, although
Huxley's Brave New World, which was published in 1932, contains a
radically pessimistic view of human nature in its antiutopia, with its eerie combination
of a totalitarian society and "ubiquitous feel-good drugs," and free sex, Huxley made
his home in California after the 1940s.  By the 1960s, ironically, Huxley himself had
embraced the drug culture promulgated by Timothy O'Leary, experimenting with mescaline
and LSD.  With his religious penchant at the time, Huxley felt that LSD and mescaline
gave users essentially the same experiences that mystics attained through prayer,
meditation, and fasting.  In fact, he wrote two books about the effects of psychedelic
drugs, The Doors of Perception (1954), and Heaven and Hell
(1956).

And, most ironically, as Huxley was dying from
cancer in 1963, he had LSD pumped through his veins--a scene reminiscient of the death
of John the Savage's mother, Linda.

How should I defend this quote from the movie Dead Poets Society?"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry...

If I were to defend the quote given from Dead
Poets Society, I would note the separation between the affairs of man and the
affairs of the heart and mind.

"Medicine, law, business,
engineering" are elements of the world-at-large. Here lie the heavy burdens of keeping
our society and its members productive; we need these things to survive. Here we find
the support structure for every culture. It is also where the rats race. These are the
everyday affairs of "man."

Poetry, I believe, is a matter
of the heart and mind because it requires us to assume responsibilities to
ourselves. If we write poetry, we try to bridge the disconnect
between the world-at-large and matters of the heart. The poet speaks out: but it does
not need to always be sober or tragic; poetry can be uplifting, enlightening or funny.
We need only be honest with ourselves as poets, and the work will speak its own
truth.

With poetry how can there be mistakes? It is very
forgiving. The poem, like any piece of art, speaks to each member of its audience in a
different way. When it leaves its "creator," it becomes a new entity that draws its
identity from the specific and personal response of each person who
experiences it, with his or her own collection of personal experiences at hand. We are
given flexibility to explore, to report and to be praised or
misunderstood.

It is interesting that in the quote, poetry
is placed on the same level as medicine, law, business and engineering. It is described
as something with a substantive purpose, and the speaker insists that "cute" isn't it.
However, poetry is defined by the presence of "passion." This reminds us what fire and
energy may be found in verse.

And whether we read or write
poetry, its power is obvious to us and others. When we write poetry, we inspire others
with what we feel deeply about. When we read poetry, we acknowledge and validate the
author's work: whether we agree with it or not. We choose to examine and evaluate, and
these are the things that the poet searches for: not acceptance, but attention and
consideration.

We read and write poetry because of our
heart's passion. And rather than be categorized with the more serious aspects of the
precise world of engineering or business that "sustain life," poetry is placed with
beauty, romance and love: they are the things that guide us, feed us. Poetry can speak
of beauty, love and romance where nothing else may, but it also feeds the spirit within,
and keeps it alive.

Literally, poetry is verse often
written in meter, with rhyme and other literary devices to give it a musical sound.
Poetry catches the ear, and is best read aloud. And It is amazing that poetry can speak
so many ways to so many different people.

Poetry may not
serve the sole purpose of being fun, though often it is, but it allows us to express and
connect in a way that can lift us up, help us to better know ourselves and our world,
and provide the foundations for the more serious, sometimes less pleasurable aspects of
life, such as business or work. It is the soul's "oasis." And it makes us whole, even
while sometimes chopping us into pieces. It is the language of beautiful things that
cannot easily be defined.

There are some things that are
necessary in order to live. Poetry is something that is necessary to be
alive.

why does impulse condition starts in receptors?

The impulses from the receptor pass along a
sensory neurone to the central nervous system. A
motor neurone carries the impulses to the muscles which
moves the hand away from the source of heat. This is the
RESPONSE

There are
two types of responses controlled by the nervous system.

1.
Learned responses. These responses are slower and need to
be learned (you are not born with them). Example imagine an athlete is waiting to start
a 100m race. The starter starts the race with a gun.

The
noise of the gun stimulates the sensitive cells in the ears, these cell then send
electrical impulses (messages) to the central nervous system, that is the spinal cord
and brain, via sensory neurone. Once the impulses get to the brain, it sorts out the
message and then co-ordinates a response. The impulses then travel from the brain to the
muscles via the motor neurone. When the muscles receive the impulses they contract and
move the athlete.

The stimulus
is the starter shooting the gun.

The
receptors are the cells in the athletes'
ears.

The co-ordinator is the
athlete's brain.

The effectors
are the muscles in the athletes' legs.

The
response is to start
running.

Stimulus - receptor - sensory neurone -
co-ordinator - motor neurone - effector - response

2.
Reflex actions. These types of reactions are very fast and
are automatic (you are born with them). These actions involve three neurones called
sensory, relay and
motor neurones. For example: if you touch something hot
with your hand.

Pain sensitive receptors in the skin detect
pain. The impulses from the receptor pass along a sensory
neurone to the central nervous system. At a junction
(synapse) between the sensory
neurone system and the relay neurone, in the
central nervous system, a chemical is released that causes
an impulse to be sent along the relay neurone. At a junction
(synapse) between the relay
and the motor neurone, a chemical is released that causes
impulses to be sent along the motor neurone. The
motor neurone carries the impulses to the muscles (the
EFFECTOR) which moves the hand away from the source of
pain. This is the RESPONSE.

A
reflex action always follows the
path:

Stimulus -
receptor - co-ordinator
- effector -
 response

The
major difference between learned responses and the reflex action is that the body
increases the speed of reflex actions by cutting out a part of the nervous system, that
is, the brain.

NOTE: The
effector can be either a muscle or a gland. Muscles respond to impulses by contracting,
glands respond by secreting.

What does the term "agents of socialization" mean?

To know what agents of socialization are, you must first
understand what socialization is.  Socialization is the process by which the members of
a society are taught the values of that society.  In other words, the process of
socialization is the process of making people hold the same general set of values as are
held by others in their society.

For example, we in the
United States believe strongly in the value of the individual.  This is one of our basic
mores.  Therefore, we socialize children to believe in that idea.  This socialization is
done by agents of socialization -- the people or processes that actually do the
socializing.  The most common agents of socialization are parents, teachers, peers, and
(often) the media.  By talking to and interacting with parents and teachers and peers,
American kids are socialized to believe that each individual is
important.

So, agents of socialization are the people (or
institutions like the media) that teach our children what is expected of them as members
of our particular society.

If xy = 144, x + y = 30, and x > y, what is the value of x – y ?

Given the equations:

x*y =
144.............(1)

x+ y= 30
.............(2)

We will use the substitution method to
find the values of x and y.

from (2) we know that y=
30-x

Now we will substitute into
(1).

==> x*y=
144

==> x*(30-x) =
144

Now we will open the
brackets.

==> 30x - x^2 =
144

==> x^2 - 30x + 144 =
0

Now we will
factor.

==> (x -24) ( x-6)  =
0

==> x1= 24 ==> y1= 30-24
=6

==> x2= 6==> y2= 30-6 =
24

But we know that
x>y

Then the values are : x= 24 and y=
6

Now we need to find the values of
x-y

==> x-y = 24-6 =
18

In chapter 15 in To Kill A Mockingbird, what do you think of Atticus's comment about the Klu Klux Klan?To Kill a Mockingbird

After the group of men who have assembled in the front
yard depart, Jem asks his father,

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 "They were after you weren't they?...They wanted
to get you, didn't
they?"

Atticus asks Jem what
he has been reading to think in such a manner; Jem broaches the subject of the Klu Klux
Klan having run off some Catholics one time.  This remarks amuses
Atticus:

"Way
back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan, but it was a political organization more
than anything else."

He
continues that the KKK paraded by the Jewish merchant of Maycomb, Sam Levy, at
whose house they appeared one night, but Mr. Levy shamed the men by telling them they
had bought the very white sheets they wore from his store.  Further, he tells Jem that
"the Ku Klux's gone" and it will never come
back.

Originally formed after the Civil War to protect the
"purity" of Southern womanhood from the many former slaves that were released from the
plantations "to roam" the streets of cities like Atlanta, the KKK sought to also run off
the Jewish carpetbaggers from the North who had come to exploit the people and to
protect good Baptists from the hated Papists, this organization today is so closely
monitored by the FBI that its power is virtually gone, as Atticus remarks.  Today there
are websites for this organization, but its membership lacks the numbers and strength of
the days of old.

In Of Mice and Men by John Steinback in ONLY CHAPTER 3,why is Lennie smiling when Curley enters the bunkhouse?Please provide evidence from the...

When reading a novel, it is important to consider the
narrative and all the elements of fiction as a whole.  For, it is erroneous to evaluate
scenes solely as isolated incidents, when they are often connected to previous
foreshadowing or other incidents.  This incident of Curley's entering the bunkhouse and
seeing Lennie smiling is an example.  For, the simple happiness Lennie displays as he
contemplates his and George's dream is misinterpreted by Curley as a smirk of Lenny
against him. after the derogatory remarks of Carlson and Candy who have accused him of
being "yella as a frog belly" and weird about his one hand:  "What the hell you laughin'
at?...I'll show you who's yella."  (Curley also feels safer saying something to Lennie
because he has observed George telling him to be
quiet.  

And, this misinterpretation carries much import
for the entire narrative of Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. First of
all, this misinterpretation of Curley about Lennie's smiling indicates Curley's
insecurity about being short.  For, he thinks Lennie is scoffing at him as physically
inferior.  Secondly, this misread of Lennie causes Curley to foster aggressive,
antipathetic feelings toward Lennie.  So, when he takes a swing at Lennie, there is
verisimilitude that has been established since he thinks Lennie will not fight and he
can punch him quickly, whereas Carlson and Slim would probably not let Curley even take
a swing at them.  Finally, these scene underscores Steinbeck's theme that alienation
from others--as the itinerant workers of the Depression era were--makes for fearfully
agressive men who try to disguise their vulnerability.

if the roots of the equation l(m-n)x^2+m(n-l)x+n(l-m)=0 are equal.Show that m=2ln/l+n.

If the roots of the equation are equal, since the equation
is a quadratic, its discriminant has to be
zero.

Discriminant = delta = b^2 -
4ac

a,b,c, are the coefficients of the
equation:

delta = [m(n-l)]^2
-4l(m-n)*n(l-m)=

We'll expand the
square:

m^2*(n^2 - 2nl + l^2) - 4ln(ml - m^2 - nl + mn) =
0

m^2*n^2 - 2m^2*nl + m^2*l^2
- 4mnl^2 + 4lnm^2 + 4l^2*n^2 - 4lmn^2 =
0

m^2*n^2 - 2m^2*nl + m^2*l^2
= 4mnl^2 - 4lnm^2 - 4l^2*n^2 + 4lmn^2 (1)

We'll re-write
the
constraint:

m=2ln/l+n

m(l+n) =
2ln

We'll raise to square both
sides:

m^2*n^2 +2m^2*nl + m^2*l^2 =
4l^2*n^2

m^2*n^2 + m^2*l^2 = 4l^2*n^2 - 2m^2*nl
(2)

We'll substitute (2) in
(1):

4l^2*n^2 - 2m^2*nl  -
2m^2*nl = 4mnl^2 - 4lnm^2 - 4l^2*n^2
+ 4lmn^2

4l^2*n^2 - 4m^2*nl = 4mnl^2 - 4lnm^2 - 4l^2*n^2
+ 4lmn^2

We'll divide by
4:

l^2*n^2 = mnl^2 - lnm^2
+ lmn^2

2l^2*n^2 = mnl^2 +
lmn^2

We'll factorize by m*n*l to the right
side:

2l^2*n^2 = m*n*l(l +
n)

We'll divide by l*n:

2l*n =
m(l+n)

m = (2ln)/(l+n)
q.e.d

Does the line "I stand up" in the poem "Miss Rosie" indicate that the speaker thinks that she is better than Miss Rosie?

I don't think Clifton intended this poem to mean that the
speaker stands up in superiority over Miss Rosie. But, I will say that if you don't know
Clifton's intent, the poem is totally vague on this point. After a slew of insults, the
speaker says "I stand up" and it really seems like she's saying "I am better than you;
or this will never happen to me." It really sounds downright self-righteous on the
speaker's part. Had the poem ended with "why don't you stand up" or "will you stand
up."

"I stand up" - "through your destruction." The use of
the word "through" just baffles me. Through - as if the speaker is just plowing through
it; getting past it as you would through some obstacle. In this respect, I agree that it
does sound like the speaker is being high and mighty here. And since I believe in the
interpretation of the reader just as important as the inent of the author, this is a
valid interpretation.

But, you will probably read (in
criticism) that the fact that the speaker acknowledges Miss Rosie's past recognizes her
as a human being and not just a wet bag; as most people have become so used to homeless
people that they ignore them as they would trash in the street. In this interpretation,
when the speaker stands up, she is acknowledging Miss Rosie as a peasant would stand up
when a queen walks by. So, rather than standing up to look down, the speaker stands up
in deference or as in a standing ovation. Considering Lucille's frequent themes of
African-American heritage and feminism, this is certainly the intended interpretation.
In this case, she stands up “through” the destruction, meaning she symbolically shares
it, goes through it with Miss Rosie. Standing up is in support, sympathy and maybe even
reverence; not condescending.

Account for the symbolic values of Walden.

Thoreau develops his themes in Walden
primarily through figurative language, rather than symbolism. Frequently, he develops
analogies. Ideas are communicated by comparing one thing to another and then explaining
how they are alike. For instance, consider this
passage:

It
is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a
beaten track for ourselves. I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from
my door to the pond side; and thought it is five or six years since I trod it, it is
still quite distinct. It is true, I fear that others may have fallen into it, and so
helped to keep it open. The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of
men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the
highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and
conformity!

In comparing the
well worn path to the minds of men, Thoreau makes the point that falling into tradition
and conformity, without thinking, is quite easy and not to be desired. When removed from
the analogy, a worn path can be symbolic of conforming to tradition without thinking
independently.

In a following passage, Thoreau makes this
statement:

I
did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck
of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish
to go below now.

In this
passage, Thoreau does not develop an analogy, but instead develops an implied metaphor.
Taking a sea voyage is indirectly compared to living one's life. It can be done
independently and adventurously or traditionally and safely. Within the metaphor, living
adventurously "on the deck of the world" is more enriching for the
spirit.

Rather than developing a few central symbols within
Walden, Thoreau communicates his Transcendental themes through
figures of speech that appear frequently throughout the work.

How does Chinua Achebe portray colonialism using Things Fall Apart?essay question

The picture that Achebe paints is not a very positive one,
using the story to depict a colonial power that enters and then brings about the death
of the Igbo culture.  Through the Christian religion as well as technological advances,
the agents of colonial power enter the village and work tirelessly to convince the Igbo
that their ways are the ways of the past and of ignorance and that the ways of the white
man are better.  They create rifts in the village and seek to exacerbate those by
continuing to point out ways that the village is
backwards.

Eventually the interference of the white men and
the conflict of their ways with the traditions of the Igbo bring about the death of the
Igbo culture signified in part by Okonkwo's suicide.

Can someone please explain budgetary slack?

The creation of “Budgetary Slack” is an accounting
maneuver (usually frowned-upon) to allow extra expenditures in a future cash flow. 
Budgetary Slack (BS) is created during the budgeting process by underestimating future
revenues (income), and/or overestimating projected expenses, thus “padding” the budget. 
 It results in increased ease of “making the numbers”.  BS is most common in companies
in which large numbers of managers (and sometimes employees) participate in the
budgetary process.

Most accountants disapprove of the
creation of Budgetary Slack because it is an attempt to guarantee staying on budget
without requiring top performance or efforts to economize.  In other words, budgetary
slack destroys motivation and devaluates efficiency.  It also represents an artificial
projection rather than a realistic assessment of the company’s condition and the
business environment.

The reference defines BS and has
links to multiple treatises on the subject.

Who are the Montagues and the Capulets?no

“Two households, both alike in
dignity

(In fair Verona, where we lay our
scene),

From ancient grudge break to new
mutiny,

Where civil blood makes civil hands
unclean.

From forth the fatal loins of these two
foes

A pair of star-crossed lovers take their
life,

Whose misadventured piteous
overthrows

Doth with their death bury their parents’
strife.

The fearful passage of their death-marked
love

and the continuance of their parents’
rage,

Which, but their children’s end, naught could
remove,

Is now the two hours’ traffic of our
stage-

The which, if you with patient ears
attend,

What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to
mend.”

Two households- The Montagues (Son: Romeo Montague
Age: 18) and the Capulets (Daughter: Juliet Age: 13 nearly 14) To understand Romeo and
Juliet you must know of the Capulet’s and Montague’s on-going fight. Generations before
Romeo and Juliet takes place the Capulets and Montagues had their fight started. I guess
it’s kind of like our Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie; subtract the anorexia, and the
once “best pals,” then horrible enemies back to “best
pals”

Since of this parent’s “strife,” I believe this is
why Romeo and Juliet fall in love, not because they really are, just because they know
they can never be together because of the parents fighting.  If the families weren’t at
war with each other, maybe the tragedy known as Romeo And Juliet were the two lovers
fall in love and end up killing themselves since they can’t be together, might have
never happened. Maybe they might ended up just married, with a kid or two, and ,
probably divorced since very rarely do many people have “love at first sight” and end up
married and living “Happily ever after”

The End… 
NOT!

With Love and
Care,

Alice. :)

How does the narator of "Sonny’s Blue's" change and what brings about his change?

The way the story starts and the narrator's clear feelings
of shame and anger at his brother's involvement in drugs and jazz music present us with
a massive conflict that clearly shows no sign of being resolved. The narrator himself
wonders whether the seven years that separate himself and his younger brother can ever
be bridged. However, the key moment of transition comes when the narrator learns from
his mother that his father had a brother who died as a result of a drink-driving related
incident perpetrated by white men. The mother tells the narrator this story to try and
make him see how important brothers are to each other in supporting and helping each
other through life, especially as Sonny is struggling. This causes the narrator to feel
guilt as he reflects that he has not been there for his younger brother in his
difficulties. He also however recalls with anger his disappointment that Sonny chose to
follow jazz music over classical music, a choice that was "beneath him" from the
narrator's perspective. It is clear that the two brothers follow very different
lives.

The next key transitional moment comes when both the
narrator and Sonny witness a revival scene. The brothers talk and it is clear that the
narrator is genuinely trying to understand his younger brother and his perspective. When
Sonny shares with his brother how the revival meeting made him think of how heroin gave
him the feeling of being in control, the narrator discerns that Sonny is really
referring to a much greater issue: the way that, for Sonny, heroin was a preventitive
measure to keep Sonny from "drowing in" the sorrows of humanity. He continues to expand
on this, saying that for us to learn from suffering we have to be able to "own" it. For
Sonny, the two things that helps him "own" this suffering is jazz music and
heroin.

The change in the narrator is finally confirmed at
the end of the story, when he agrees to accompany his brother to a jazz club and hear
him play. As he hears Sonny take the lead in a jazz song, he finally realises how music
can be a vehicle can help people to express and learn who they are and how it can keep
them from drowing in the sorrows of humanity, as Sonny has obviously discovered. He has
finally experienced and understood his younger brother's
perspective.

How did sectionalism shape American history during the early to mid 1800's?

Sectionalism was apparent in the United States as early as
the Constitutional Convention, in the late 1700's, when the issue of slavery became a
point of contention between representatives of the Northern and Southern states.  Cash
crop farming for cotton, rice and tobacco were the primary source of income for most
southerners and the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney accelerated the
dependence on/profits of cotton plantation owners exponentially.  Farming of these items
was not as lucrative in the North due to the rocky soil, and the Industrial Revolution,
facilitated by Samuel Slater's espionage of some of Britain's trade secrets, had taken
the economy of the north in an entirely different direction.  By 1849, about twelve
years before the beginning of the Civil War, there had been multiple attempts at
legislative compromises, not to mention harsh words between Northern and Southern
lawmakers, over the issues of slavery and states rights (further complicating matters
was a growing abolitionist movement in the North, and people like Harriet Tubman who
were actively helping slaves escape their Southern owners).

Is it always advisable for a manufacturer to pass on savings due to more efficient manufacturing, and will this tend to maximise profit?

I would not say that it is necessary for a manufacturer to
pass on all the savings due to an increased efficiency in manufacturing. One important
thing that needs to be considered is the price elasticity of demand. If a reduction in
price can boost sales to a large extent, it may be advisable to reduce the price. The
price at which a manufacturer makes the highest profit is that beyond which a reduction
in price does not increase profits even with higher
revenues.

If maintaining the same price does not reduce
sales, and reducing the price does not increase profits, there is no point in passing on
the savings. Any manufacturer needs to be able to offer a better deal than its
competitor; if the price of both is the same, and they are also able to manage aspects
like advertising, promotion, distribution, etc. in the same way, it shouldn't be
necessary that the prices be brought down.

In the Catcher in the Rye, why should Holden be institutionalized?

I think that if one were to mount a case for Holden being
institutionalized, it would have to start with the fact that Holden is mentally
exhausted and not in the best frames of mind.  In looking at chapter 25, we see Holden
as being mentally driven to the edges of his own psyche in assessing and reassessing
situations.  He is not eating well nor is he physically feeling well, passing out in the
museum and being sick, overall.  There is a sense that he is free falling into an abyss
where he is unable to control what he is feeling and experiencing.  One could make the
argument that institutionalization is needed for him to feel as if he can gain some
level of control over his life.  A further argument could be advanced that Holden is in
need of psychological remedy, but in going to this point, one almost discounts much of
his own perceptions and understandings.  I am not willing to go there, as I think that
it moves into the realm of Holden being "different." Institutionalization is not the
answer for those who are simply "different."  Yet, I think that a case could be
plausibly made for him being institutionalization because of the mental exhausted
condition we see him at the end of the novel.

Briefly describe Danish society in regards to Beowulf. How do the Danes acquire wealth, fame, and honor?

The mead hall is the center of Anglo-Saxon life both in
the epic poem Beowulf and in actual Anglo-Saxon society.  The mead
hall is the center of social life and the center of defense and
protection. 

The mead hall is led by a gold-lord like
Hrothgar.  Men serve him and join him in battle and he in turn organizes protection for
them. 

No central government exists, so life is
precarious.  One mead hall can attack another and take over the mead hall.  Defeated
residents are often killed or exiled.   

Grendel, then, in
the poem, is every Anglo-Saxon's greatest nightmare.  Grendel does in the poem what any
other mead hall might do at virtually any time.  Thus, though Grendel is a creation of
imagination, of course, the threat he poses to warriors is
actual. 

Wealth, fame, and honor come through great deeds
in battle.  Bravery and courage are highly honored.  Beowulf speaks repeatedly about his
reputation and, in fact, his view of immortality centers on being remembered for great,
heroic deeds in combat.   

What are Eppie's plans for the future in Silas Marner?

It is towards the end of Chapter 16, after a description
of the massive changes that have taken place between the end of Book I of the novel and
the beginning of Book II, that we are given an indication of Eppie's plans whilst she is
sitting outside with Silas Marner and discussing the future. It is Eppie who brings up
the topic of marriage and tells Silas that Aaron wants to marry her. She makes it clear
that he is determined to not take Eppie away from Silas, and that they would live
altogether and he would be a good son for Silas. However, when Silas asks Eppie what she
would like, she expresses that what she wants above all is for things to stay the
same:

"But I
don't want any change," said Eppie. "I should like to go on a long, long while, just as
we are. Only Aaron does want a change; and he made me cry a bit--only a bit--because he
said I didn't care for him, for if I cared for him I should want to be married, as he
did."

Silas tries to tell her
the truth; that change will come whether we like it or not, and then determines to speak
to Dolly Winthrop about this plan and gain her advice.

Why is scene v of Act I of Romeo and Juliet an effective piece of drama in regard to action and excitement?

In scene v of Act I, the Capulet's host a ball. A great
deal of time is elapsed in a very little space. Shakespeare jumps from the servants
finishing the setting up to Lord Capulet greeting and teasing guests into merriment with
Juliet at his side ("Ah ha, my mistresses! which of you all / Will now deny to dance?")
to frolicking dancing ("And quench the fire, the room is grown too hot") to Tybalt
recognizing Romeo in the midst of the gaity ("Fetch me my rapier, boy. What dares the
slave / Come hither,") to guests departing and host going off to rest ("honest
gentlemen; good night. / ... / Come on then, let's to bed.") to Juliet learning who
Romeo is ("My only love sprung from my only hate!").

The
momentum of rapidly changing scenes builds frenzied excitement that matches the frenzied
dancing that requires the fire to be snuffed out for the heat created. The scene
crescendos through the dancing and reaches forte at Tybalt's quarrel with
Capulet:

He
shall be endured: ...
Am I the master here, or you? go to.
...
You'll make a mutiny among my guests!
You will set cock-a-hoop!
you'll be the man! ...
Be quiet, or-- / ... / I'll make you
quiet.

In addition, the
characters who hold the focus changes as often as the time sequence does. First the
focus is Capulet, then Tybalt and Capulet, then Romeo, then Romeo and Juliet, then
Capulet and his parting guests, then Juliet and Nurse. These rapidly moving chords of
orchestrated character changes adds to the excitement as the action moves from one focal
character to another. The action also moves from mood to mood as well as it goes from
gaiety to anger to quiet romance to exhaustion to shock. This also keeps the scene
reeling in excited flux. These are three characteristics of the scene that make it a
highly effective piece of drama.

What is the probability that the element from the set {1,2,3,4,5,6} to be the root of the equation 4^(2x-5)=64 ?

Probability formula is presented as a
ratio;

P = m / n, where m is the number of ways an event,
that has the property "root of the equation: 4^(2x-5)=64 " can occure and n is the total
number of possible outcomes. 

To find out the value for m,
we have to solve, at first, the
equation

4^(2x-5)=64

We've
noticed that 64 is a multiple of 4 and we'll re-write the
equation:

4^(2x-5)=4^3

Since
the bases are matching, we'll apply one to one
property:

2x-5=3

We'll add 5
both
sides:

2x=5+3

x=8/2

x=4

Knowing
that x=4 is the single root for the equation 4^(2x-5)=4^3, that means that
m=1.

P=m/n, where m=1 and n=6 (6 countable elements in the
set)

The probability of an element from the
given set to be the solution of the equation 4^(2x-5)=4^3
is: P=1/6.

What are some words that decribe a sexually active female and male? Are they positive or negative meaning?Also whar differences do you notice?

Views of single men and women who are sexually active are
usually very different. Single men who are sexually active are seen in a more positive
way than females. When single females are sexually active they are seen in more of a
negative way.

I agree that some common slang terms for men
who are sexually active are player or stud. These names are not really negative. Males
are often encouraged to participate in sexual activity and when they do so they are
usually not seen in a negative way.

Some names for women
who are sexually active are slut or whore. There are also very negative slang terms for
older, single, sexually active women. All of these terms are very
negative.

Given the string an=(n+1)/(5n+2), verify that the limit is 1/5 using epsilon-delta theory.

We'll have to show that for any positive number epsilon,
there is N = N(epsilon), so that:

|an - 1/5| <
epsilon for any n > N(epsilon)

We'll substitute an
by it's given expression:

|(n+1)/(5n+2) - 1/5| =
|(n+1-5n-2)/5(5n+2)| = 3/5(5n+2)

We'll get the
inequality:

3/5(5n+2) <
epsilon

3 < 5 epsilon (5n +
2)

We'll remove the
bracktes:

3 < 25*epsilon*n + 10
epsilon

We'll subtract 10
epsilon:

25*epsilon*n > 3 - 10
epsilon

n > (3 - 10 epsilon)/25
epsilon

N(epsilon) = 3/25epsilon -
2/5

For all terms that have n >
N(epsilon) = 3/25epsilon - 2/5,

|an - 1/5| <
epsilon

In the Old English poems titled Beowulf and "The Wanderer," compare and contrast the two titular characters.

The two Old English poems titled Beowulf
and “The Wanderer” present title characters whose various similarities and
differences include the following:

• The Wanderer
  implies that he is a man “eager for fame” (Donaldson translation), and certainly a
  desire for fame is one of Beowulf’s motivations as
  well.


• Both the Wanderer and Beowulf lose, through death,
  the kings they obviously love.


• Both the Wanderer and
  Beowulf have spent much time at sea, although this seems to be especially the case with
  the Wanderer.


• Both the Wanderer and Beowulf are familiar
  with loss and mutability.


• Both the Wanderer and Beowulf
  know the importance of being wise.


• Both the Wanderer and
  Beowulf ultimately place their trust in God, as when the Wanderer concludes his poem by
  stating,

It will be well with him who seeks
favor, comfort from the Father in heaven, where for us all stability
resides.

• The Wanderer seems much more lonely
  than Beowulf, who is often surrounded by loyal
  followers.


• Nothing suggests that the Wanderer is a
  particularly high-ranking person, unlike Beowulf.


• The
  Wanderer seems sadder than Beowulf, who is generally a confident, even up-beat
  character.


• The Wanderer has apparently been an exile, a
  fate not suggested about Beowulf.


• The Wanderer seems to
  think that he cannot (or should not) share his thoughts freely with others, whereas
  Beowulf is typically outspoken and eloquent.


• The Wanderer
  seems far more dependent on others than does Beowulf.


• The
  Wanderer seems anxious about his future on earth, whereas Beowulf (until the very end)
  seems generally confident.


• The Wanderer seems preoccupied
  with a strong sense of loss and nostalgia, whereas Beowulf generally looks to the future
  and assumes that he will be able  (with God’s help) to meet most of the challenges life
  may bring his way.

In The Outsiders, what sort of character is Bob?

We are not supplied with that much information about Bob
in this excellent novel. However we are told that he is handsome, wealthy, and most
importantly, a Soc. He is Cherry's boyfriend, and it is clear that he likes to drink,
but that this causes problems in his relationship with Cherry. Note what she says to him
in Chapter 3:

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"Bob, I told you, I'm never going out with you
while you're drinking, and I mean it. Too many things could happen while your're drunk..
It's me or the
booze."

However, it is also
strongly indicated that it was Bob and his gang that was responsible for Johnny's attack
that has left him so traumatised. Note what Ponyboy sees as the car pulls
up:

Johnny was
breathing heavily and I noticed he was staring at the Soc's hand. He was wearing three
heavy rings. I looked quickly at Johnny, an idea dawning on me. I remembered that it was
a blue Mustang that had pulled up beside the vacant lot and that Johnny's face had been
cut up by someone wearing
rings...

So, clearly Bob has
a violent side to him that, when unleashed, could be incredibly destructive. However, as
Cherry tells Ponyboy later on, it would be wrong to label him as a violent psychopath
alone:

"You
only knew his bad side. He could be sweet sometimes, and friendly... Bob was something
special. He wasn't just any boy. He had something that made people follow him, something
that marked him different, maybe a little better, than the
crowd."

It is important that
the author presents Bob as just human like everyone else in the play. He is another
character that would benefit from looking at sunsets, and another young man caught up in
a system beyond his understanding and control. So whilst we are perhaps tempted to think
of Bob in purely negative terms, it is important to maintain a balanced view of his
character.

Explain how the structure of DNA enables the molecule to be easily transcribed. Why is this important for genetic information.I need a short answer...

D.N.A. consists of a double helix. One can think of a
ladder, which has two sides, with steps in between. Since the molecule has two sides,
each side is the complement of the other and can function as a template for
transcription(copying)by messenger R.N.A. D.N.A. remains in the nucleus, however, mRNA
can transcribe it and take the message to the ribosomes for translation. Since D.N.A.
only has four bases, adenine, guanine, cytosine and thymine, and they pair according to
the following rules, A pairs with T and C pairs with G, then, only the complementary
R.N.A. base will copy the D.N.A. instruction. For example, if the D.N.A. code reads
A-T-G-C, the complementary R.N.A. that is transcribed will read  U-A-C-G. *Remember that
R.N.A. doesn't have the base thymine, so substitute uracil instead when transcription
occurs.

Explain who is considered guilty in Othello.

Part of what makes this so challenging is that little, if
anything, is clear from Shakespeare's drama.  There is a struggle to identify concrete
and distinct realities that come out of the play, but some do.  The first that does is
the idea that Iago has to bear a great deal of responsibility for all that happened. 
Iago's machinations and his calculations are responsible for nearly everyone's
suffering.  With this being said, I think that Othello has to bear some guilt for
allowing things to have spiraled to such a condition.  Othello would have to be seen as
guilty for not being able to open dialogues with those he suspected.  Instead of
capitulating to fear and doubt, Othello could have simply spoken and confronted
Desdemona or Cassio and not succumbed to Iago's insinuations.  I am not sure Desdemona
is worthy of being considered guilty because she suffers such a great deal.  If there is
any blame for her to bear, it might have been in the same condition as Othello in that
there is so little open and honest dialogue between them and so much more hidden in the
shadows.  Yet, I think that her inability to be transparent with Othello stems from his
unwillingness or incapability to do this with her.

Verify if the line x=42-14y intersects the line y=2x-11.

To determine if the lines are intercepting each other,
we'll have to solve the system formed form the equations of the lines and to see if it
has a solution. The solution of the system represents the intercepting point of the
lines.

We'll change the 1st equation
in:

 x+14y=42 (1)

We'll change
the 2nd equation in:

2x-y=11 
(2)

We'll solve the system using elimination method. For
this reason, we'll multiply (2) by 14:

28x - 14y = 154
(3)

We'll add (3) to (1):

28x
- 14y +  x + 14y = 154 + 42

We'll eliminate like
terms:

29x = 196

We'll divide
by 29:

x = 196/29

We'll
susbtitute x in (1) and we'll get:

196/29 +
14y=42

We'll subtract 196/29 both
sides:

14y = 42 - 196/29

14y =
(1218-196)/29

We'll divide by
14:

y =
1022/406

The lines are intercepting and the
coordinates of the intercepting point are: (196/29,
1022/406).

Current causes the temperature of a real resistor to increase why? What effect does thisheating have on the resistance? Explain

The basis of this effect is kinetic molecular theory -
which means that the particles in all matter are always in motion as long as the
temperature is above absolute zero. Their rate of motion is directly related to the
temperature of the material.

So in a copper wire the atoms
are constantly interacting and vibrating. When a current is passed through the wire it,
in a sense, has  to force its way through the material in the wire. This results in
internal friction which then produces heat. The heat, in turn, causes the particles to
move even faster, producing more heat and more
resistance.

So the higher the temperature of a material,
the more resistance the material has.

This phenomenon also
is at work in high voltage transmission lines. Much of the energy produced at the power
plant is lost as the current flows through the lines to the end
users.

Engineers have proposed cooling these lines to
relatively low temperatures to decrease the resistance of the current in the lines.  If
the temperature is reduced enough, to the critical temperature of the material, the
resistance disappears and the material becomes a superconductor. Much research is being
done to find alloys whose critical temperature is relatively high so not as much energy
is needed to cool them down.

Briefly describe the policy of "containment" as is applied to U.S actions during the Cold War?U.S history

Containment was the idea of George F. Kennan, a diplomat
who worked in the US Embassy in the Soviet Union for 20 years.  He suggested in what is
known as "The Long Telegram" to Truman that containment was the way to deal with the
Soviets.  That is, do not directly threaten them or try to roll back communism where it
already existed, but contain the spread of it and be willing to fight to stop the
spread, or aid our non-communist allies to stop it for
us.

I like to compare it to the Free Soil Party of the
1840s US.  They did not seek to abolish slavery, only to stop it from spreading
west.

Provide examples and evidence of Marxism, existentialism, feminism, and Freudian psychoanalysis in The Stranger.

In The Stranger, Meursault is Camus'
absurdist (similar to existentialism) hero: he loves life,
hates death, and scorns the gods.  Instead of crying at his mother's funeral, he refuses
to participate in the morbid culture of death.  Instead, he loves his freedom, weekends
frolicking in the ocean with Marie.  In Part II, Meursalt scorns the chaplain and the
court, both forces of determinism.  He refuses to feel their imposed
guilt.

Meursault is no friend of the
feminists.  He helps Raymond write a letter to get
Raymond's Arab girlfriend back so that he can take revenge on her (physical abuse).
 Meursault, however, does treat Marie as a modern woman: he spurns talk of marriage,
instead favoring an open relationship.

Meursault suffers
from the Oedipal complex.  He loves his mother so much that
he is in denial of it.  This is why he refuses to even see her face before she is
buried.  Because he suffers from Oedipal guilt, he takes out his rage on threatening
male-figures (not his father, but the Arab).

In
Marxist theory, Meursault is a hero to the proles.  He is a
working class hero.  First, he hates menial labor, and he refuses a promotion to France
that his boss offers.  Instead, Meursault refuses to be corrupted by greed and false
dreams.

What are your thoughts on a husband leaving his wife pregnant? How do you think the women would be able to cope up with the situation.What...

When I was pregnant with my first child, I used all of the
horrific realities of pregnacy to deter my students from sexual relationships, or at the
very least, to practice EXTRA SAFE sex.

I cannot imagine
the reality of such a situation, but pregnancy alone would have been next to impossible
for me without a husband who was willing to do every household chore while I was in bed
with all day "morning" sickness for almost 5 months.  Add to this the immeasurable fears
that comes with becoming a first-time parent (all the insecurities, questions, worries,
financial and otherwise fears, etc.) and again, I cannot imagine having to go through it
alone.

We live in a world where teenage pregnancy is on the
rise, which means there are many girls who are doing it alone.  I actually think though,
the idea you presented of a husband LEAVING his wife would be worse.  The two likely
planned a family together (at least she did) and going into this situation with a plan
of doing it together, only to have that plan killed, seems like it would be even more
difficult than going it alone from the very beginning.

What do the emperors of Blefuscu accuse the Lillputians of doing with religion? no

The battle between the Blefuscu and the Lilliputians began
several years before Gulliver met them. The problem was that the emperor of Blefuscu
(who is ancestor of the current one), cut his finger when he cracked open an egg on the
wider side. For this reason, he passed a law to be followed: That all Lilliputians have
to break their eggs on the smaller part of the egg instead of the wider part like what
they do.

Reldresal explained to Gulliver that, as a result
of this command there were battles among the group, books were written about it, and it
was basically a really big deal.  Those who rebelled against the egg law where accused
of violating religion, or the Brundrecral, like they named it. The Blefuscu said that if
they were real believers they would do as they were told and break the eggs the way that
the emperor said to break them.

So, basically the
Lillputians were accused of refusing to follow the religious imposition of the emperor
by not willing to break the eggs the way they were told to.

Does a stretched band have energy stored in the form of potential energy or kinetic energy?

A stretched band can return to its normal state if it is
allowed to do so. The energy stored in a stretched band is in the form of potential
energy which arises due to the position of the particles that make up the band. This
gets converted to kinetic energy when the band is no longer being
stretched.

Kinetic energy is energy in a moving particle
and is given by the formula KE = (1/2) m*v^2, with m being the mass of the particle and
v being the velocity of the particle.

A body can have a
potential energy stored in it due to many causes some of which include potential energy
due to the gravitational force, the electromagnetic force and many
others.

Potential energy is converted to kinetic energy if
the body is given an opportunity. Like if the stretched band is released, all the
particles that make up the band accelerate and return to a neutral position where they
have zero potential energy.

What are some literary devices used in Act V?

In Act V, Scene 3 of Macbeth there are also the
following:

Metonymy 

Macbeth
asks the doctor, "Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff/Which weights upon
the heart?" (heart represents the
soul)

Alliteration

Macbeth
says,

"And with some sweet oblivous antitdote..."
(repetition of /s/)

"Thou lily-livered boy..." (repetition
of
/l/)

Parallelism

Macbeth: 
"Go prick thy face and over red thy
fear"

Assonance

Macbeth: 
"As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,/I must not look to have; but, in their
stead,/Curses not loud byt deep, mouth -honor, breath..."  (repetition of vowel
/o/)

Personification

Macbeth: "Curses
not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath,/Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare
not." (the heart denies, but only a person can deny)

Homer, Virgil, Ovid: used the same characters in their tales, wrote down originally oral tales, or wrote the same poetic verse form?

Interesting question -- I believe that the answer is that
Homer, Ovid and Virgil all wrote in (essentially) the same meter (hexameter, mostly
dactylic).  They did use some of the same characters (namely the Olympian gods, and, in
the case of Virgil and Homer, some shared human characters from the story of the Trojan
War).  Ovid and Homer certainly wrote down mostly oral tales (Ovid, in the
Metamorphoses, compiled many of the Greek and Roman myths, many of
which were oral tales of many hundreds of years standing), but Virgil only took a part
of his story from oral tradition -- a large portion of it he invented (the particulars
of much of the Aeneas story).  So you could say that all three authors did all three
things, but the one clear unifying characteristic that all three authors use is the
characters of the Olympian gods.

Homer, of course, wrote in
an early form of Classical Greek.  By Ovid's and Virgil's day people certainly could
still read this text (in fact, educated Romans of that time, such as Ovid and Virgil,
all were well trained in reading Greek), but it was a literary language that was
significantly different from the Greek spoken at that time.  Ovid and Virgil, of course
wrote (and spoke) in Late Classical Latin.  Nevertheless, all three poets wrote in
hexameter (the six-foot line), even though there are signficant differences between the
languages, and certain poetic conventions must be changed to accomodate them.  Homer had
established the hexameter as the epic poetic form, so both Ovid and Virgil (and other
poets of the time) were, in essence, imitating
Homer. 

Homer's story, of course, is the oldest of the
three, and, possibly, the least adulterated.  This is difficult to prove, however, since
there is very little literature in Greek before Homer (mostly fragments or accounting
records).  The religious system of Ovid and Virgil's Rome was inherited, at least
partially, from the original Greek pantheon of gods.  Many of the tales of Roman
mythology are re-tellings or re-workings of earlier Greek tales, changed to fit local
Roman lore.  So while Ovid, Virgil, and Homer all drew from the same well of shared
pagan mythology, Homer predated Ovid and Virgil by (at the very least) six hundred
years, and therefore had a different perspective and (possibly) access to older tales
than Ovid and Virgil.  It is without a doubt that Ovid's, especially, tales are, in some
cases, of very great antiquity.  But Ovid's tales are a collection; Homer's work is more
of a "snapshot" view of a Mycenaen tale of his time, while Virgil's is another
compilation injected with a large dose of poetic invention (and imperial flattery!) 
These three works of literature are each very different from each other, so it is
difficult to say that they each "came from oral tradition".  Probably the purest example
of that came from Homer, followed by Ovid (some of his tales had, of course, been
written down long before he collected them), and lastly Virgil's
Aeneid.