How do you think WWII might have ended if the United States didn't drop the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Agreed with the statements above, but let's also be
clear.  The war would have ended the same way - with a Japanese surrender to the United
States.  Consider the military position Japan was in by early August 1945, with no
remaining air force or much of a navy to protect the home islands with.  Vulnerable to
all other kinds of bombing as well, as they had been for a year or
more. 

While historians consistently argue that the war
ended sooner with a lower cost in lives, we will never know this for sure.  The war
ended not because of the atomic bombs, but because the Emperor of Japan told the
military to lay down their weapons.  Who is to say that the Emperor would not have done
so after five more firebombings of Tokyo?  How can we accurately say what was in his
mind in early August before the bombs were dropped, or how strong his will was by that
moment?  We will never know, and at least part of why we argue that the bombs saved
lives, in my opinion, is because we find a need to justify our actions as the only
country ever to use nuclear weapons in war.

What is the moral lesson Liesel learns in The Book Thief?Does it relate to death?

One of the moral lessons that Liesel learns in
The Book Thief is that even in the heart of tragedy, good is still
possible.  Liesel is no stranger to grief--many of her family members are killed and her
mother has to give her away to the Hubermanns so that she can survive.  The Nazi regime
creates a constant threat to everyone around Liesel, but from Hans, Liesel learns that
people can still be good at heart.  Hans takes in Max even though this act of kindness
could bring death to the entire family.  Similarly, when Hans sees starving people being
marched to Dachau, he offers one of the men a piece of bread for which he is beaten. 
Hans risks his own safety to follow what he believes to be morally right.  As a result,
Liesel learns that good can withstand evil.

What creates the unity of effect in "The Things They Carried"?

You are of course referring to Poe's idea of the "unity of
effect" that a story achieves. His idea was that the author should decide what emotional
effect he or she wants to create in their work and then use every stratagem to achieve
it through, for example, words or phrases that occur and reoccur in a particular work of
literature.

Thinking about the meaning of this phrase when
applied to "The Things They Carried," we can see that O'Brien obviously wants us to feel
immense empathy for the group of soldiers, and in particular for Lieutenant Cross. Again
and again the phrase "They carried" is used to emphasise the way that these soldiers are
burdened in a number of different ways, both physically, with military equipment, but
also mentally and emotionally. Jimmy Cross, for example, carries his photo of Martha
that, in some ways, weighs more than anything else. It is his love for Martha that he
"blames" on Lavender's death as he feels he was distracted. Note what he says after
Lavender's death:

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It was very sad, he thought. The things men
carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to
do.

The text then goes on to
suggest how Jimmy Cross does precisely this by deliberately cutting off his emotional
ties to Martha and focussing dispassionately on the job. We witness the way that war is
dehumanising the soldiers who are supposed to be fighting it through their relationship
with the things they carried, and our hearts ache for these young men, some of them
still even teenagers, who so much is being expected of.

Describe the basic concept behind criminal responsibility regarding infancy and diminished capacity?

The basic concept here is that a person cannot be found
guilty of a crime if the person was, for whatever reason, incapable of understanding
that the act they were committing was illegal.  Such a person would not have the
appropriate mental state to be found guilty of a
crime.

Legally speaking, there is the idea that a person
must reasonably be able to know their conduct was illegal.  They must be able to
understand the nature of their act (that it is illegal) and its consequences (that it
can result in them being punished).  People who are too young or who are otherwise
impaired (such as by mental illness) are deemed to be incapable of understanding these
things.

This points to a basic concept -- that an action is
only criminal if the person committing it is capable of understanding that it was
criminal.  It is not only the act that makes the crime, it is the act plus the mental
state of the actor.

In "The World is Too Much with Us," what are the negative aspects of the world according to Wordsworth?

The "world" in this poem is presented by Wordsworth in
overwhelmingly negative terms. His central argument in this poem is that we have given
ourselves over to the world to such a degree that we have made a "sordid boon," actually
unwittingly giving "our hearts away" as we pursue the world--the material world of
possessions and wealth--instead of focussing on our souls and on our relationship with
Nature. Wordsworth goes on to argue that by devoting ourselves to "getting and spending"
alone and not our souls and Nature we actually "lay waste our powers" and have made
ourselves "out of tune" with Nature and its glories that are capable of restoring and
nourishing our soul:

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This Sea that bares her bosom to the
moon;

The winds that will be howling at all
hours,

And are up-gathered now like sleeping
flowers;

For this, for everything, we are out of
tune;

It moves us
not.

By giving ourselves over
to the world we have dulled and sensitised ourselves to the beauty and majesty of
nature, being not moved by the natural wonders that we can see. Wordsworth thus argues
that we need to return to Nature and re-kindle our respect and admiration for it by
separating ourselves from the malign and profoundly damaging influence of the
"world."

The Jazz Age (roaring twenties) and what role it had on Fitzgerald's perceptions of America.

In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald's
perceptions of the roaring twenties can probably be best seen in chapter three, the
chapter that contains the elaborate descriptions of one of Gatsby's
parties.

Nick says:

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At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers
came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a
Christmas tree of Gatsby's enormous garden.
(44)

The buffet tables are
"garnished with glistening hors d'oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of
harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold" 44). 
Extravagance is also evident in the bar, which is stocked with "gins and liquors and
with cordials so long forgotten that most of his female guests were too young to know
one from another (44), and the band is no band, but an orchestra, with "a whole pit full
of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos and low and
high drums" (44).

And the people at the party appear to be
wealthy, to have a great deal of idle time, to be freeloaders, to come to the party even
though they are not invited, and to be extremely reckless and
careless. 

The majority of people at the party "were not
invited" (45) and "conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated
with amusement parks" (45).  Lucille is one example:  "I never care what I do, so I
always have a good time " (45).  And recklessness and carelessness are further
demonstrated in the final party scene with its drunk driving and wrecked car and hurt
driver and gawking spectators.  This, apparently, reveals the author's perception of the
roaring twenties.   

The novel as a whole shows the
American Dream to be a sordid myth--one achieves it only at great personal and ethical
costs, and it is in some ways an illusion and hollow.

Given the following concepts: Chaos, futility, pessimism, instability, loss of faith, and collapse of moral order.How can I extract these...

I don't think it is going to be too difficult these ideas
in modern poetry.  There are a couple of elements to bring out in such a discussion. 
The first would be that it might be easier to search for images of these concepts in
poetry.  For example, what images, or mental pictures, of futility can be found in
Yeats' "The Second Coming?"  Another example would be to find examples of instability in
Hughes' "Dream Deferred."  A final example could be to find images which show a loss of
faith in the poetry of Karen Gershon.  If we engage upon the extraction of these values
through images in modern poetry, the task becomes easier for one is searching for
pictures rendered that help to bring out these ideas.  Another approach is to find
specific writers of the modernist time period and examine how the concepts were present
in their work.  For example, how can the concepts be found in the writings of Pound and
Eliot?  I think that this could be another approach to take in the extracting of said
concepts in modern poetry.

Where is the sympathy in Hughes' story, "Thank You, M'am?"

There has to be sympathy in both characters.  Roger might
have succumbed to bad choices in terms of criminal activity, but there is an
overwhelming feeling of sympathy in his predicament.  Essentially, he is raising
himself, as there is little parental guidance.  Roger is also a character of dignity in
that he is overcome by Mrs. Jones' compassion and kindness.  There is sympathy for him
in him wanting to convey gratitude, yet being unable to do so.  The magnitude of the
moment causes him to become silent.  There is also sympathy in Mrs. Jones, herself.  The
reader understands that her narrative is filled with pain and suffering, and that she,
too, has committed acts that do not reflect the best of human beings on any level.  Yet,
where the reader has sympathy for her is in how she does not let fear overtake her
actions.  She is able to display love and affection towards Roger.  In a world where
harshness and pain is all- encompassing, Mrs. Jones refuses to take the form of this
condition.  She transcends it, earning sympathy and respect from the reader in the
process.

What are the real roots of the equation 6x^4+x^3+52x^2+9x-18=0 if one root is 3i?

Since one root is a complex number, then the other root is
the conjugate of the complex number.

x1 = 3i => x2 =
-3i

The number of the roots of the equation is 4 and 2 of
them are complex roots. Then, the other 2, could be the real roots of the
equation.

Since x = 3i and x = -3i are the roots of the
equation, the polynomial 6x^4+x^3+52x^2+9x-18 is divided by (x - 3i)(x +
3i).

We'll write the reminder
theorem:

6x^4+x^3+52x^2+9x-18 = (x^2 + 9)(ax^2 + bx +
c)

We'll remove the
brackets:

6x^4+x^3+52x^2+9x-18 = ax^4 + bx^3 + cx^2 + 9ax^2
+ 9bx + 9c

6x^4+x^3+52x^2+9x-18 = ax^4 + bx^3 + x^2(c + 9a)
+ 9bx + 9c

Comparing, we'll
get:

a = 6

b =
1

9c = -18

c =
-2

The quotient ax^2 + bx + c = 6x^2 + x -
2

If 6x^4+x^3+52x^2+9x-18 = 0, then 6x^2 + x - 2 = 0,
too.

We'll apply quadratic
formula:

x1 = [-1 + sqrt(1 +
48)]/12

x1 = (-1+7)/12

x1 =
1/2

x2 = -8/12

x2 =
-2/3

The real roots of the equation are x =
1/2 and x = -2/3.

Prove that the curves x^2-3x+1 and 2x^2+x+4 are intercepting.

To prove that 2 curves are intercepting, we'll have to
solve the system formed by the equations of the curves. If the curves are intercepting,
then the system will have solutions.

We'll note y =
x^2-3x+1 (1)

 and y = 2x^2+x+4
(2)

We'll put (1) =
(2)

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

We'll
subtract boths sides x^2-3x+1 and we'll use symmetric
property:

x^2 + 4x + 3 =
0

We'll apply quadratic
formula:

x1 = [-4 + sqrt(16 -
12)]/2

x1 = (-4+2)/2

x1 =
-1

x2 = (-4-2)/2

x2 =
-3

For x1 = -1, y1 = 1+3+1 =
5

For x2 = -3, y = 9+9+1 =
19

The intercepting points of the given
curves are: (-1 ; 5) and (-3 ; 19).

Describe the CPR experience.

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) is a practice used
when a person's heart ceases to function properly. This is called "cardiac
arrest."

It has been a while since my training, and I would
not take this as medical advice in any way, but as I recall, the first thing to do is
call the person to see if he or she is conscious. If the administrator of CPR believes
that cardiac arrest has taken place, time is of the essence. The
individual needs to be flat on his back, with head tilted back to make sure the airway
is unrestricted. (And someone needs to call 9-1-1
immediately.)

Short breaths are administered alternately,
mouth-to-mouth, with nose closed off, along with chest compressions at the appropriate
spot. This should be continued until help arrives, at which time paramedics, police,
etc., can take over.

It is important for someone to
ascertain as best as they can that cardiac arrest is, in fact, taking place, as this
procedure should not be practiced on an individual not suffering from cardiac
arrest.

One should do his/her best not to panic, and to
make sure to have an up-to-date certification.

More
specific details can be found in the sources provided.

Why does the Director choose the Fertilizing Room to meet Bernard, and why are people more curious about John than Linda? Chapter 10 of The...

In Chapter 10 of Brave New World, a
reading of this chapter reveals other reasons for the Director's choosing the
Fertilizing Room are that he may wish to remind Bernard's of his birth "accidents" which
have caused him to be somewhat of an aberration from the other Alphas, who also will
witness this confrontation between the Director and Bernard, thus effecting even more
humiliation for Bernard.  He tells Henry Foster that he is
going to make Bernard

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'A public example...In this room, because it
contains more high-caste workers than an other in the Centre.  I have told him [Bernard]
to me me here at half-past
two.'

When Bernard arrives,
the D.H.C. announces before everyone there
his intention to transfer Bernard to a "Sub-Centre of the lowest order,"
explaining that Bernard has "grossly betrayed the trust imposed in him" and
that Bernard's unorthodox attitudes and
behavior threaten Society as he tells an inquiring Henry
Foster,

'The
greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.  It is better than one
should suffer than that many should be corrupted.  Consider the matter dispassionately,
Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of
behaviour....'

Of course,
the main motivation of the D.H.C.'s is his concern
about Bernard's revealing his past.  But, of course, his
efforts are too late. For Linda appears, running to the Director, who repels her. 
Desperately, she clings to him, calling him "Tomakin," saying, "You made me have a
baby."  With these words there is "an appalling hush."  Then, when John appears, he
hurries to the Director, falling on his knees before him, exclaiming, "My
father!"

The
word (for "father" was not so much obscene as--with its connotation of something at one
remove from the moral obliquity of child-bearing--merely gross, a scatological rather
than a pornographic impropriety); the comically smutty word relieved what had become a
quite intolerable tension.  Laughter broke out, enormous, almost hysterical,...as though
it would never stop.

Because
of their conditioning, to the people of the New World, John is something ridiculous,
something like a bathroom joke.  The people of the New World would certainly be curious
about this man born in the obscene process of human intercourse since they have never
before encountered such a creature.  Thus, they would prefer seeing John instead of
Linda, who has aged and grown fat with a "blotched and sagging face" that the Alphas
would find grotesque and repulsive, rather than obscenely interesting and
curious.

[please note that what John believes in has not
yet been revealed in this chapter.]

In Hamlet Act III scene iii Claudius is found "praying" and Hamlet comes upon him doing so. Does Claudius know Hamlet is there?I ask this because a...

Well, according to the stage directions in the play,
Hamlet enters after Claudius gives his soliloquy, which is intensely spiritual and
focused on his soul and the afterlife.  Observe:

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O, my offence is rank it smells to
heaven;

AND

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O, what form of
prayer
Can serve my
turn?

AND

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O wretched state! O bosom black as
death!
O limed soul, that, struggling to be
free,
Art more engaged! Help, angels! Make
assay!

You can't
have Hamlet step on those lines with an entry.  They are full of apostrophes to pain and
suffering, and to have another body on stage will diminish their power and
relevancy.

Hamlet enters and says his monologue, so the
audience should be watching and listening to it, for it is a response to the soliloquy.
 You can't have the audience's eye drawn to Claudius acting like he knows Hamlet is
there.  It's just too hoaky.

Plus, there's not enough time.
 Claudius only has a couple of lines after that, and then he's gone.  Not to mention
that when Claudius says, "My words fly up...," he's talking about the silent ones in
prayer, so he's obviously busy praying.  His praying is dramatic irony enough: the main
thing is that we know Hamlet is there, not him.  You can't have him praying and noticing
Hamlet.  Too busy.

The scene is about spiritual crisis for
both Claudius and Hamlet, not about the closeness of two actors.  It's about Claudius
worrying about his soul, maybe for the first time.  Hamlet, too, is worried about
Claudius' soul: he doesn't want to send him to heaven, only hell.  He realizes that it's
spiritually not the right time to kill, which is ironic and
funny.

Let the audience focus on the words, not some
non-verbal action on stage.  Shakespeare's all about the language, not the action, and
certainly not subtext and subtleties.  I wouldn't diminish those words for anything.
 That's what a movie adaptation is for.  You might be able to do it with a close-up, but
not on stage, not even in the round.  Too much can go wrong.

In the story, "A Rose For Emily," what about her personality help her to endure during the years after Homer's death?

In the story A Rose for Emily,
several personality traits may have allowed her to continue to live a life as if nothing
had happened out of the ordinary in terms of the death of her longtime companion Homer
Barron.

First, Emily was strong-willed and stubborn. This,
we can see in the way that she refused to pay taxes for her family's old connection to
the old Colonel Sartoris.  She is also strong-willed and stubborn in letting time pass
and change to take place. Her home, her demeanor, her behavior and her mentality was the
same as she had since she was a young woman with money in a powerful family. Now, times
changed and she remains in the same psychological
niche.

Second, she is in denial- When her father died she
had a hard time letting go of his body and after his burial she had an even harder time
to accept that he was gone. She continued with the sheepish and shy attitude of a woman
whose father is controlling and looms over her
existence.

What this has to do with Homer's death is that
both her strong-will, stubbornness, stuck-up ways, and the outstanding ability to deny
reality mixed up perfectly to help her imagine that things were alright, even when the
corpse of Homer Barron was laying next to her in bed every night, even though she killed
him with arsenic, and even though she was well-aware of it. It was her personality which
made her the unique and eccentric person that she was.

How do Shakespeare's "Sonnet 31" and Donne's "Holy Sonnet 10" compare and contrast with each other? It's just to give me an overview, which...

The sonnets contrast with each other on subject,
underlying metaphor, entity being addressed along with problem and solution.  On the
other hand, they compare with each other in regard to optimistic tone and on the
thematic topic of eternal life, although they contrast once again on the means of
attaining eternal life.

In Donne's sonnet, "Death Be not
Proud, Holy Sonnet 10," the subject is the real or feigned power of a personified Death.
Donne asserts that Death's power is feigned. The underlying metaphor is the comparison
of Death to a pleasant refreshing sleep. The entity being addressed by the poem is
Death, itself. The problem or situation presented in the octave is that Death has no
power to kill the speaker and that those who Death takes are only resting. The solution
presented in the sestet is that Death is the pawn of fate and kings and that when the
dead awake to eternal life, then Death itself shall die.

In
Shakespeare's "Sonnet 31," the subject is the nature of the poetic speaker's beloved in
whom all hearts reside and who is Love personified. The underlying metaphor compares
past loves lost to death with the quality of all-encompassing love in the present
beloved. The person being addressed is the living beloved. The problem or situation
presented in the octave is the tears of mourning shed for lost loves that now are
accumulated in the beloved. The solution presented in the sestet is that the beloved,
who embodies all who have preceded, is now the sole recipient of the speaker's love and
devotion.

Both speak of eternal life, Donne's of eternal
life through victory over Death, a victory in which Death will die, and Shakespeare's of
eternal life through metaphorical resurrection through the all-encompassing qualities of
the newly beloved one. The final contrast is that Donne is theologically serious while
Shakespeare is entirely metaphorical.

The rhyme scheme of
Donne's marks it as a Petrarchan sonnet in an a b b a a b b a  c d d c  e f scheme with
no rhyming end couplet, while the rhyme scheme of Shakespeare's marks it as a
Shakespearean sonnet, which is an innovation on the Petrarchan sonnet. It is in an a b a
b c d c d   e f e f  gg scheme with a rhyming end couplet. Both sonnets have subject
changes at the fifth and ninth lines as established by Petrarch as the definitive sonnet
structure. In Donne's the changes, or turns (called voltas), are
from those who have died to (5) the metaphor of sleep for death to (9) Death being the
slave of kings and chance, etc. In Shakespeare's, the turns are from Love to (5) the
speaker's tears for those past to (9) the new love being the grave of the past loves,
their embodiment, their completion.

To what does the speaker in Longfellow's poem, "The Children's Hour," compare the children, & what words or phases sustain the metaphor?

In this light and playful poem by Longfellow, the poetic
speaker compares the children, "Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, / And Edith with
golden hair," in an implied metaphor, to an ambushing army storming a castle. He
underscores this metaphor through an allusion to an old oral tradition folk tale called
"The Mouse Tower," which features "the Bishop of Bingen / In his Mouse-Tower on the
Rhine!" The Bishop was besieged by hungry town's people who repeatedly begged for wheat
from his granaries to feed their children during a time of failed crops following the
flooding of the Rhine River.

In this dark folktale (making it a
surprising allusion for Longfellow's playful poem), the Bishop flatly refuses to aid
them, which results in a tragedy that ends with his being ambushed by a vicious army of
devouring rats. Longfellow inverts the intention of this devouring army when he says of
the girls that "They devour [him] with kisses."

The words and phrases
that sustain Longfellow's metaphor are many and liberally sprinkled throughout the poem.
Some of these are: surprise, indicating ambush;
raid, indicating army; castle wall, indicating
assault. Others are:

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plotting and planning
doors left
unguarded
enter castle wall
climb up into my
turret
escape
surround me
O blue-eyed
banditti
scaled the wall
fast in my fortress
down in the
dungeon
the round-tower
Till the walls shall crumble to
ruin.

What are the important points to note while doing psychoanalysis criticism of the kite runner by Khaled Hosseini?

This novel touches upon some issues that have
psychological ramifications. For example, the destructive effect of abuse. When Hassan
is raped, it affects him in a profound way psychologically. Also, later, when his little
son is kidnapped and raped by the Taliban member (who turns out to be Assef), this
abusive treatment has almost destroyed the boy mentally. The complex relationships
between fathers and sons is important to discuss. Amir's relationship with his father as
a child while they are in Afghanistan differs from their relationship as men, when Amir
is grown and can understand his father's actions from an adult perspective. Growing up
as a child, however, Amir never felt accepted by his father. He always felt that his
father loved Hassan more, so this can be explored. How did this constant striving to be
accepted by his father affect Amir's adulthood relationship with his father? Also, how
does finding out the truth about Hassan, that he is really Amir's half brother, affect
Amir psychologically? Finally, I think it is interesting to explore why Hassan was so
devoted to Amir. What made him, as a child, grow up with such fierce devotion? Amir
mistreats Hassan and even frames him for stealing, and yet Hassan never wavers in his
adulation of Amir. Amir does not deserve this admiration, and yet Hassan is steadfast
and keeps trying to win back Amir's favor.

What is the definition of psychosocial task?

When we think of psychosocial
development and psychosocial tasks, we usually think of
Erikson and his stages of psychosocial development.

In this
theory, human development is defined as going through 8 stages from infancy until
adulthood.  The psychosocial tasks are the developmental
markers that define each stage.  They are social and physical challenges that the person
is able accomplish, thereby marking which stage he or she has mastered, and which he or
she is in at any given point in life.

For example, in the
infancy stage, the only psychosocial task the baby is expected to master is to learn
whether caregivers actually provide basic needs or neglect them.  In this way, the baby
comes to rely on and cling to only those who meet his or her basic needs.  In contrast,
during the "care" stage (between 45 and 60 years old) a psychosocial task includes
making meaningful contributions to society and actively furthering the progress of
future generations.

This is related to economics and from concepts of short run and long run?My question is how managers follow concepts of short run and long run in...

Businesses are in business to make a profit. Therefore if
a business faces a choice on production alternatives it will choose the one it thinks
will yield the greatest profit. To maximize profit businesses must analyze their
capacity to produce. This is accomplished two ways: The short run refers to the capacity
produced utilizing the existing equipment it already has available to them. The long run
refers to variables in the factors of production, such as labor and machinery. For
example, the potential increase in profits by adding more labor or machinery to the
production process.  Before any manager makes a decision regarding the profit value in a
short or long run they would be involved in research, consultants, and field experts all
of which play a significant role in the process.

How can I get of stretch marks naturally?I have stretch marks, and some are so red. How can I make them disappear forever?

Stretch marks, or striae, are lesions that tend to form in
the dermis during periods of hormonal flux, with weight gain or loss, pregnancy, and
other periods of hormone change.

Due to loss of elasticity
in the fibers found under the epidermis,these marks
emerge.

These are difficult to remove but their appearance
can be improved greatly using:

chemical peels: The skin is
cleansed with an agent that removes excess oils and the eyes and hair are protected. One
or more chemical solutions, such as glycolic acid, trichloroacetic acid, salicylic acid,
lactic acid or (phenol), are applied to small areas on the skin. These applications
produce a controlled wound, enabling new, regenerated skin to
appear.

   microdermabrasion:
The affected area is thoroughly cleansed with an antiseptic cleansing agent and then
your doctor will apply a special spray is applied that freezes the
skin.

A high-speed rotary instrument with an abrasive wheel
or brush is used to remove the outer layers of the skin and improve any irregularities
in the skin surface.

lotions and creams :
with retinoids - specifically, retinaldehyde, tretinoin or isotretinoin
trigger skin's regeneration, promoting new skin growth to repair and replace the lost
tissues.

 diet  and
exercise: Be sure to consume foods that promote skin health: foods rich
in zinc, such as nuts or fish; foods high in vitamin A & Cwhich are natural
antioxidants, such as carrots and citrus fruits and milk; protein-rich foods, such as
eggs.

What would be the best description of the relationship between Walter and his wife?

I think they fit the cliche, "agree to disagree" to a tee.
Each have determined their own ways to deal with their irritations of one another and
have agreed to stay together. I think all marriages have to be this way to a degree, but
theirs certainly does not appear positive.

Although it's
pretty sad, at least they have a commitment they are keeping in spite of
struggle.

They are like water and oil, they don't mix well,
but if you throw a lot of other ingredients into the mix, you just might be able to get
water and oil working for the benefit of the consumer. This works in cars (as long as
the water's in the radiator and oil is going through the engine) and salad dressings
(throw in some sugar and vinegar and the water and oil will play nicely when
stirred).

0.048 g of magnesium was reacted with excess dilute Hydrochloric acid at room temperature & pressure. The hydrogen gas given off was...

The experiment could be done in a Wolff's bottle fitted
with an exit tube and a long neck funnel. The other end of the exit tube should be bent
and trapped under water. A gas jar of 0.05 Lit. capacity, filled with water has to be
inverted over that end. The hydrogen gas will be collected at the gas jar through
downward displacement of water. The volume of gas ollected can be calculated by
considering the stoichiometries

                Mg +
2HCl react to produce MgCl2 + H2 (g)

   24 g or one gm-atom
Mg produces            22.4 lit H2 (g) at NTP

 0.048 g
Mg produces       22.4*0.048/24 = 0.0448 lit H2 (g) at
NTP

Now at Room temp (higher than NTP), this gas will
expand and the final volume can be obtained from gas law eqn. V/T =
constant

so V1/T1 = V2/T2

or
 0.0448/273 = v/298

or v= 0.0448*298/273 = 0.0489 Lit. =
0.05 lit. (approx.)

How had Penelope tricked the suitors in The Odyssey?

While Odysseus is away, during the ten years after the
war, men (suitors) have come to Ithaca to take over Odysseus’ house and kingdom.  They
keep telling Penelope that Odysseus must be dead and that they will not leave until she
marries one of them.  She believes, in her mind and heart, that her husband is still
alive. Therefore, she refuses to marry another.  After a long time passes, they become
so demanding that she comes up with a plan to make them wait: she tells them that her
father-in-law, Laertes, is old and may die soon.  She wants to weave him a shroud for
his body, for when he is buried.  She sets up a weaving loom in the middle of the
courtyard.  Every day, the men eat, drink, and party (with Odysseus’ food and wine)
while she sits weaving, where they can plainly see her.  However, at night, she undoes
most of what she did during the day.  This goes on for three
years.

When the suitors catch on to this, she has to come
up with another plan. She tells the suitors that she'll marry the suitor who can string
Odysseus' bow and shoot an arrow through 12 holes that are at the top of axes. However,
she knows that only Odysseus himself can accomplish this feat. Again, she buys some
time.

Were there successful farming plantations during the Great Depression?

Lanterns on the Levee is a memoir
about a plantation owner, his principles and ideals, and his plantation that existed
before and during the Great Depression.  It is by William Alexander Percy.  It was first
published in 1941.  (A memoir is a book that recounts personal knowledge of the
author.)  Lanterns on the Levee is a very highly regarded
memoir.

An excerpt from the memoir is found in vol. II of
Major Problems in the History of the American South by Paul D.
Escott and David R. Goldfield (1990, 110-114).  This excerpt is about the plantation
during the Great Depression.  It was a cotton plantation in
Mississippi.

Perhaps your public library can borrow one or
both of these books for you.

The link that I have provided
below, gives short reviews of the book.

You asked about
plantations; plantations are large farms that devote all of their resources to the
production of one crop for market.  Coffee plantation, cotton plantations, banana
plantations, and so on.

What quotes are there to describe the "hollowness of the upper class" in The Great Gatsby?

Certainly you have identified one of the major themes of
this novel as it depicts the infamous "jazz age" of the 1920s that only really the
wealthy were able to enjoy in all its hedonistic decadence. A great place to start if
you are trying to identify quotes that support the theme of the hollowness of the
upper-class is Chapter Three, that details the first of Gatsby's parties that Nick
attends. Key to this description is Nick's opinions of these wealthy upper-class
individuals:

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Once there they were introduced by somebody who
knew Gatsby, and after that they conducted themselves according to the rules of
behaviour associated with an amusement
park.

Clearly this indicates
the riotous behaviour that the guests (half of whom invited themselves) engaged
in.

You also might like to consider Daisy's famous quote in
Chapter Seven:

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"What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon?"
cried Daisy, "and the day after that, and the next thirty
years?"

Clearly this points
towards her own sense of emptiness and futility in her life as she tries to fill it in
whatever way she can. According to Nick, of course, upper-class individuals like her
only "smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their
vast carelessness..." and this again points towards the essential hollowness at the
heart of the upper-class that Fitzgerald so competently
dissects.

What would be good topic for a compare-and-contrast paper on Robert Frost's "Birches" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"?

Regarding Robert Frost's two poems, "Birches" and
"Stopping by a Woods on a Snowy Evening," perhaps you could compare and contrast the
speaker's involvement with nature as he observes it. 

For
instance, in "Stopping by a Woods on a Snowy Evening," the speaker's main desire is to
contemplate the beauty of nature, to take a respite from his obligations--"I have
promises to keep"--and simply revel in the peace and beauty of the woods.  However, in
"Birches," the speaker does not approach the observation of the trees from an aesthetic
perspective; instead, he is more analytical.  The pliable quality of the birches--"I
like to think some boy's been swinging them"--initiates an involved meditation on the
part of the speaker.  Unlike the contemplation of nature in the other poem, the
speaker's contemplation is the appreciation of the beauty of the birches is not the
final thing that interests the speaker; rather it is the strange association of the
trees with his reasoning that is most central to "Birches."  The tension between what
has actually happened and what the poet would like to have happened is central to this
poem.  Thus, the lines

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We may as well go patiently on with our
life

And look elsewhere than to stars and moon and
sun

For the shocks and changes we need to keep us
sane

while ostensibly similar
to the refrain "I have promises to keep" have a much different
implication.

Be sure to check out the sites below which
will assist you in more interpretation.  And, do not forget that in comparing and
contrasting poems, one always should examine how poetic devices are employed in each
poem.

What is the significance/message of the poem "Hubris" by Mary Karr? Is its theme only arrogance, as the title announces?Why do you think she wrote...

The title "Hubris" is an ironic one. The tone of the
speaker reveals that this is so.
Hubris means overbearing pride or
arrogance. Arrogance means to have a
feeling of self-importance and superiority over others. The poetic speaker's
tone conveys the feeling or attitude
of the speaker toward the subject of the poem, who is, in this poem, "The man in the
next office."

The speaker’s tone reveals two important things at the
start. The first is that the speaker does not take herself seriously; she expresses
herself with self-irony as is shown when she says of
herself:

while
I shamelessly covet
his gray
baseball jacket.

The second
is that the speaker thinks very highly of "The man in the next office." She describes
him as cultured, intellectual and of a dignified inner character through the simple
phrase "he quotes Whitman" as they wait for the elevator.

The
conclusion is that Karr wrote this poem as a tribute to "The man in the next office" and
that the theme pointed to by the ironic title is not arrogance but rather
humility as she diminishes her mundane
feats ("to take the stairs ... two at a pop.") and elevates his stature in the face of
his great feats:

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he waves me on--
(...)
he
says with cheer.

Maybe he doesn't
mean
to be a figure of courage
with his
cane and his corkscrew knee,
this smart man who can't reach
some
sinks. ....

Have technologized mass cultural forms (cinema and TV) enhanced or impeded the scope of literary studies?

There's a flaw, I think, in the nature of the question:
cinema and TV are types of literature.  I teach a class called Film Literature.  They're
not great literature, but literature nonetheless.  (Video games, I'll give you, are not
literature).

So, you're saying, "Does low-grade mass
literature impede or enhance literary studies?"  A bit of circular logic,
no?

They're all part of the study of literature.  Visual
mass media influences the mainstream culture in ways unimaginable.  Young people are
born into it.  It shapes their worldview.  Students must move through the visual to get
to the written.  The early visual literature is synthesized into the written literature.
 You can't distinguish them once they're all swimming around in there together, can you?
 So, how can they enhance or detract each other?  It's like saying what you see detracts
from what you hear.

Early cinema influenced the modernists
this way.  Steinbeck, Faulkner, and Camus were all influenced by silent film and early
talkies.  Visual rhetoric is very powerful.  Cubist painting, for example, lead to much
of Faulkner's free-style narration and use of stream-of-consiousness.  Lately, mass
media has creeped into the graphic novels and fictions of young novelists (e.g.,
Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud & Incredibly
Close).

For further study, you should read the
chapters on the written vs. visual in Annie Dillard's The Writing
Life.  She says:

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The written word is weak.  Many people prefer
life to it...Film and television stimulate the body's senses too, in big ways...The
printed word cannot compete with the movies on their ground, and should not....Why
should anyone read a book instead of watching big people move on a screen?  Because a
book can be literature.  It is a subtle thing--poor thing, but our
own.

What were the effects of the Salem Witch Trials on American society?American society in general.

From a theoretical or intellectual historian's point of
view, Salem shows the danger of homogeneous social setting committed to a singular
notion of the good.  The impact of Salem might have been negligent in terms of pure
history.  Yet, in tracing the development of American consciousness and how one
understands what it means to be "American," Salem plays a significant function.  The
notion of a social and political climate dominated by fear and silence, as opposed to
vocal advocacy and the spirit of dissent can only lead to bad things.  America,
consciously or not, used the moment of Salem to define itself as standing against these
values.  When America has reverted back to Salem form, "bad things" have not been far
off the pace, and a corrective measure has taken place afterwards to ensure that a
spirit of free discourse, heterogeneity, and individual dissent remains as part of the
blueprint of American identity.

In "Young Goodman Brown," how are the setting and characters interrelated?

You have asked a question that points towards the
allegorical significance of this excellent short story. Clearly, the setting plays an
immensely important part in the story. Note how Young Goodman Brown is said to leave his
home and to head towards the forest, which is described in terms that make it ominous
and foreboding, foreshadowing the evil sights that Goodman Brown will
witness:

He
had taken a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of teh forest, which barely
stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind. It was
all as lonely as could
be...

The forest is
definitely described as an evil place, a place hidden from light and where evil acts can
be perpetrated without others knowing. Thus it is a fitting place for Goodman Brown in
his "present evil purpose." Of course, as he meets the Devil, and has to choose between
heading on and turning back, the other characters that he sees, fine upright, good
Christian folk (or so he thought) indicates one of the central themes in the story: the
way that we are all tainted by evil, no matter how "good" we appear to be. Note how this
is indicated by Goodman Brown's conversation with the devil about his
family:

"They
were my good friends, both; and many a pleasant walk have we had along this path, and
returned merrily after midnight. I would fain be friends with you for their
sake."

The setting and the
charactes therefore help to advance Hawthorne's main message in this story: that evil is
part of the essential human condition that cannot be ignored or covered up by masks of
spiritual hypocrisy. It is this truth that Goodman Brown learns, and which, ironically,
destroys the rest of his life as he commits himself to gloom and
doom.

In "Old Woman Magoon", who is the biggest beast?Who has the most flaws and who is the most evil inside?

This is a very poignant question given the Naturalistic
perspective by which the story was written. Typical Naturalistic pieces exemplified the
importance of "man as a beast", or animalistic behavior by man. Therefore, your question
poses one which can be looked at as simplistic or
theoretical.

To begin, let us look at the simplistic answer
to your question. Many would argue that old woman Magoun is by far the biggest beast in
Freeman's story "Old Woman Magoun". There are many reason as to why one would consider
her behavior beastly.

First, Magoun keeps Lily, her
granddaughter under lock and key. To say that Lily is sheltered is an understatement.
The one time in which Magoun allows Lily to leave on her own is the turning point of the
story (she meets her father Nelson Barry for the first time on her life). Lily's life,
and that of Magoun, is changed forever.

Second, the fact
that Lily is sheltered pales to the fact that she remains childlike in her appearance
and actions (Lily still, at almost 14, plays with dolls). Lily is described through a
conversation of Magoun and a friend of Magoun's (Sally Jinks) in the following
way:

“Some
girls at her age is thinkin' about beaux instead of rag dolls” said Sally
Jinks.

The grandmother bristled. “Lily ain't big nor old
for her age,” said she. “I ain't in any hurry to have her git married. She ain't none
too strong.”

“She's got a good colour,” said Sally Jinks.
She was crocheting white cotton lace, making her thick fingers fly. She really knew how
to do scarcely anything except to crochet that coarse lace; somehow her heavy brain or
her fingers had mastered that.

“I know she's got a
beautiful colour,” replied Old Woman Magoun, with an odd mixture of pride and anxiety,
“but it comes an' goes.”

“I've heard that was a bad sign,”
remarked Sally Jinks, loosening some thread from her
spool.

One can tell from this
conversation that Lily is not necessarily healthy. This, again, can be contributed to
the care that Magoun takes in the girl.

Lastly, and perhaps
the most poignant example of Magoun's beastliness is the fact that she poisons Lily.
Magoun cannot bear to think of Lily living a life with her father and believes that
death would be better for Lily.

Now, onto the more
theoretical answer to the question. Naturalists believed in the power of nature over
man. Nature "decided" the outcome of all which happened in life. Therefore, one could
justify an argument that Nature (used capitalized because of personification typical in
the movement's texts) is the "biggest beast" in the story "Old Woman
Magoun".

Nature is not concerned with anything. It simply
exists and what happens as a result of Nature's powers is simply because of the theory
of the survival of the fittest (Charles Darwin and Herbert Spenser greatly influenced
Naturalistic writers). That being said, one could interpret the "cruelty" of Nature in
allowing a young girl to die as representing the grandest beast in the
text.

It is not Magoun who takes the life of young Lily; it
is, rather, the nightshade berry. Magoun did not create the berry- Nature did. Magoun
even, earlier in the story, told Lily that she could not have the berries. (Although her
exact words were "You can't have any now.")

So, depending
on your school of thought, either Magoun or Nature can be defined as the "biggest beast"
in the story "Old Woman Magoun".

What does Napoleon do to chase Snowball off the farm?

Napoleon does not really do all that much to chase
Snowball off the farm.  Instead, he relies on his dogs to do it for
him.

At one point, Snowball is speaking at a meeting. 
Napoleon decides it is time to get rid of him and he emits a high pitched sound.  That,
apparently, is the signal for the nine dogs to chase Snowball.  Snowball runs for his
life and leaves the farm.

So all Napoleon really does right
then is to emit the high pitched sound.  Other than that, it's just that he had trained
the dogs.

What is a description of Joel's character in The Bronze Bow?

Joel from the start of this excellent novel is paired up
with Daniel. They are both eighteen years old and appear together in the first chapter.
Likewise, both Joel and Daniel are filled with nationalistic zeal against the Roman
overlords that have controlled their country for so long. Both desire and yearn for the
end of the occupation of the Romans. Note how he is described in Chapter
One:

He was
Joel bar Hezron, the red-cheeked boy who used to come to the synagogue school, the
scribe's son, the one the rabbi held up for an example, the one they used to tease
because his twin sister always waited outside to walk home with
him.

Even though Joel comes
from a studious background, he still believes passionately in a free Judea, and he lies
to his father to be involved in the rebel campaign against the Romans. However, in spite
of the way in which he compromises his own personal standards to follow Rosh and the
rebels, he shows that he is sensitive, caring and forward thinking. Note how it is he
who aids Daniel in his plight when he is injured. He shows himself to be a supportive
friend brother.

Of course, Joel is also used to present a
character who is based in the Jewish law and thus struggles in his response to Jesus
coming from this background. Joel, in confronting the claims of Jesus, needs to
re-examine everything that he has been brought up believing. However, he too, like the
other main characters, ends up following Jesus.

In The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, is Bruno in conflict with the setting?

I think that Bruno is in conflict with his setting.  On
face value, it would be presumed that he is in conflict for his setting is Auschwitz. 
Yet, the fact that he is in conflict with its mere pronunciation ("Out- With") reflects
that Bruno's dissonance with it is more profound.  Bruno feels out of place from where
he is because it lacks the personal and emotional connections of his Berlin.  He is in
conflict with the limitations and seeming boredom that is present.  This causes him to
go to the end of the fence in the first place and find Shmuel.  Bruno's innocence is in
conflict with what is happening at Auschwitz, although he is unaware of it.  There is a
very interesting element in that Bruno's nature compels him to feel at ill ease with
Auschwitz even though he has little idea of what takes place at it.  Ironically, the
only time in which Bruno is not at opposition with Auschwitz is when he and Shmuel
become victims of it.

In "The Rocking-Horse Winner," how do you explain the ever louder voices in the house?

It is important to realise that D. H. Lawrence used this
story as a vehicle for expressing his own concerns and worries about materialism and
greed and how it could destroy individuals and families. Interestingly, the mother in
this story was actually based on one of the author's friends, and apparently displayed
very similar characteristics. It is clear that the voices in the story become louder and
louder at a key moment when Paul has organised for his mother to receive some of the
money that he has won through his gambling. What is interesting is that, instead of
becoming quieter, the voices actually do the
opposite:

And
yet, the voices in the house, behind the sprays of mimosa and almond blossom, and from
under the piles of iridescent cushions, simply trilled and screamed in a sort of
ecstasy: "There must be more money! Oh; there must be more money. Oh, now, now!
Now--there must be more money!--more than ever! More than
ever!"

Thus Lawrence shows
the self-destructive cycle that greed and materialism can lead us into, and how, when we
have gained some money, it appears to be never enough, and only drives us on to seek
more and more and more.

What are the rules for an elegy? I can not find any

Elegy in the beginning was related to a particular kind of
prosodic or metrical structure that was called the elegiac rhythm but now it is regarded
as a thematic notion. It is a lyric poem/song of lament, mourning the death of a near
one or beloved or at a deeper level even a phenomenon, an emotion, a state of the
matter, an ideology or an era.

Some of the conventions of
pastoral elegy are--

1. The mourning in the form of a
dialogue between two shepherds.

2. The active participation
of rural nature in the mourning.

3. The idealization of the
dead figure of the shepherd.

4. The description of some
funeral procession or other commemorative measure.

5. The
rather Christian conclusion where the elegiac emotions of mourning and melancholia are
undercut by the Christian rhetoric of belief where death is a happy occasion, a true
homecoming of the soul after the finite sojourn of mortal life on the earth or a reunion
with the God. This divine optimism is made to counter the elegiac mood in this final
movement of transcendence.

How did the events of the 1950s and 1960s help bring equal rights to those who deserved them?

People of all races fought for equality during this time
period. Not only did they risk their standing in their communities, but they risked
their lives as well.

"The Movement" consisted of many
people and groups including African Americans, college students, and religious groups.
They organized marches, sits ins, and freedom rides all with the intentions of bringing
awareness to the fact that equality was not a reality in the
US.

The events that happened during this time period
brought awareness out in to the open. Thanks to people like Martin Luther King who
advocated for peacefulness and non-violence, blacks were able to achieve equal
rights.

What are some causes and effects of the Battle of Little Bighorn?

The various Indian tribes of the Black Hills region had
been given until January 31, 1876 to voluntarily report to their new assigned
reservations. The U. S. military was assigned to round up all delinquent tribes,
including the Sioux, Arapaho and Cheyenne. Hunkpapa Lakota chief Sitting Bull had called
a meeting of these holdouts along the Little Bighorn River. It was part of Lt. Colonel
George Armstrong Custer's detachment of the 7th Cavalry Regiment that stumbled upon this
large group of hostiles. Custer had less than 600 troops separated into three large
battalions and several other small detachments. Combined Indian forces range from
1000-5000; in any case, the usually thorough Custer was heavily outnumbered when he
ordered the ill-timed assault.

Following the massacre at
Custer's Last Stand, the Lakota and Cheyenne regrouped and attacked the remnants
of Custer's command led by Major Marcus Reno and Captain Frederick Benteen. They held
off the attacks (until reinforcements under General Alfred Terrry arrived), and both of
these officers survived the fighting. The victory was a hollow one for the Native
Americans, however. A renewed effort by the military forced Sitting Bull's followers
into Canada, where they remained exiled for nearly four years. The remaining 200 Lakota
headed south, where they surrendered in July 1881. They were housed at the Dakota
Standing Rock Reservation after some shuttling for fear of another
uprising.

Sitting Bull eventually appeared in Buffalo
Bill's Wild West Show, while Custer's death cemented his place in American military
lore.

I need to contrast "To His Coy Mistress" with "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love."

These are two great poems and I am sure you will find much
to talk about. A good place to start though is to consider what obvious similarities and
differences there are concerning the theme or message of the poem. Both poems are an
invitation to love and feature a male speaker entreating his beloved to embark on a
relationship with him. Both also fit into the "carpe diem" school of poetry, in that the
speaker urges the woman to "seize the day" and respond to this invitation now, living
life to its fullest straight away rather than postponing life until
tomorrow.

In "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," the
speaker urges his love to "Come live with me," outlining some of the simple pleasures of
life in the countryside. He goes into great detail about the wonderful things he will
craft for his love, including slippers with gold buckles and beds of roses, and promises
that young shepherd boys will dance and sing for her pleasure every May morning. The
poem is one of temptation, as the speaker conveniently ignores the hardships of life in
the countryside and focuses on the pastoral beauty of such a
life.

In "To His Coy Mistress," the speaker uses hyperbole
to describe the way he would like to show his love to his beloved if there was only time
to do so. He refers to his "vegetable love" growing "vaster than empires and more slow."
However, in one of the most famous lines of this poem, he refers to the ever-present
pressure of time:

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But at my back I always
hear

Time's winged chariot hurrying
near;

And yonder all before us
lie

Deserts of vast
eternity.

Life is brief, the
speaker tells his beloved. Then, in the final section of the poem, in a defiant tone, he
urges her to extract what pleasures she can from life, because time cannot be made to
halt or pause whilst we play at being "coy."

So, whilst
there are obvious similarities in theme and message, you might have noticed that "To His
Coy Mistress" places far more emphasis on the effects of time, whereas "The Passionate
Shepherd to His Love" does not focus on the brevity of time so much. Of course there are
other differences, but hopefully this will get you started. Good
luck!

Why does Harper Lee have changes in the narrative with Scout's change?Why does Harper Lee make Scout change and make the story change? Prejudice?...

Since Harper Lee's To Kill a
Mockingbird is designed as a bildungsroman, the motif of
the novel is the maturation of the children, especially Scout. As such, therefore,
Scout's perspective moves from one of childish superstitions and selfish notions to one
that is more objective and broader in scope.  From her father's strong example, Scout
learns to respect people's perogatives on how they want to live, to learn to understand
people better by considering things from their point of view by "climb[ing] into [their]
skin and walk[ing] around in it." In addition, Scout learns how people have mindsets
that are irrational.  In the courtroom, Scout learns the detrimental aspects of such
ignorance.  In fact, she learns the evil that men do without regard to the individual. 
At the jailhouse scene, Scout realizes how powerful it can be to individualize in one's
perspective. 

Thus, as Scout matures, the world grows
larger for her and more different; she stands on the porch of the Radleys and looks at
the neighborhood as though perceiving it for the first time.  She
remarks,

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

What was Harlem like when Langston Hughes lived there?

At the time of his writing, Hughes and other members of
the Harlem Renaissance had seen Harlem as the center of the Black experience.  Thinkers
like Hughes found Harlem to be a cultural center from which composition on issues of
race/ ethnicity, identity, and sociological reality would be possible.  Hughes'
attendance at Columbia allowed him to use Harlem as the canvas upon which some of his
finest work would be rendered: 

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The move was a watershed event in Hughes’s life,
not because of college, which he found uncongenial and quit after his first year, but
because it brought him to Harlem, Manhattan’s teeming African American district and the
locus for the Harlem Renaissance, a burgeoning cultural revival in which Hughes soon
immersed himself. Hughes also explored Harlem’s vibrant
nightlife.

It is in this
light that Hughes' vision of Harlem helped him to develop his own voice as both poet and
person of color in America.

What is the function y if dy/dx=13x^14+4x^5-2x ?

To determine a function, when knowing it's derivative,
we'll have to determine te indefinite integral of the expression of
derivative.

We'll determine the indefinite integral of
f'(x)=13x^14+4x^5-2x.

Int f'(x)dx = f(x) +
C

Int (13x^14+4x^5-2x)dx

We'll
apply the property of the indefinite integral, to be
additive:

Int (13x^14+4x^5-2x)dx = Int (13x^14)dx + Int
(4x^5)dx - Int (2x)dx 

Int (13x^14)dx = 13*x^(14+1)/(14+1)
+ C

Int (13x^14)dx = 13x^15/15 + C
(1)

Int (4x^5)dx = 4*x^(5+1)/(5+1) +
C

Int (4x^5)dx = 4*x^6/6 + C
(2)

Int 2xdx = 2*x^2/2 + C

Int
2xdx = x^2 + C (3)

We'll add:
(1)+(2)-(3)

Int (13x^14+4x^5-2x)dx = 13x^15/15 + 4*x^6/6 -
x^2 + C

So, the function
is:

y = 13x^15/15 + 4*x^6/6 -
x^2

What are the similarities between the novel, The Kite Runner and The Great Gatsby?

Both novels are coming of age stories that involve the
maturation of the major characters - Jem and Scout and Amir. Both novels are narrated in
the first person by the main character of the story. Both novels involve family
relationships. Both novels have a father as a main character (although Atticus and Baba
are quite different). Both novels involve characters who learn important lessons about
life and themselves and both novels have local color. In To Kill a
Mockingbird, the local color involves a small town in the southern United
States and in The Kite Runner, the local color involves Afghanistan
and later, California.

From the movie Swing Kids, when Peter and Thomas steal a radio that they saw a Nazi steal from a "traitor's" home, did this scene actually...

Swing Kids is a historical fiction
film.  This means that the story itself is not explicitly factual but the events in the
film could have taken place in real life - and likely did.
Events and people in the movie were based on actual
history.

There were real swing kids.  Peter and Thomas are
probably based on actual people and real experiences - but they were not meant to be
historical figures.  The original scene of the Nazis confiscating the radio was also a
realistic portrayal of actual events.  Many times, Nazis stole valuable items from the
homes of "traitors" and Jews.  The music played and jazz musicians mentioned were also
factual.  The HJ was real.  The costumes were realistic replicas of the actual uniforms
of different Nazi groups.

Imagine you are Ravi at the end of "Games at Twilight." Write your thoughts.It should be based on how you feel if you were to put yourself in the...

This is a very good question! Obviously, to answer it
well, you need to understand the ending of the story and what Desai is trying to suggest
or say about human experience. The game of hide-and-seek that somehow turns into
something a lot more significant and important causes Ravi to have a kind of epiphany or
sudden realisation about himself and his place in the world. Let us examine the last
paragraph:

He
would not follow them, he would not be included in this funereal game. He had wanted
victory and triumph--not a funeral. But he had been forgotten, left out, and he would
not join them now. The ignominy of being forgotten--how could he face it? He felt his
heart go heavy and ache inside of him unbearably. He lay down full length on the damp
grass, crushing his face into it, no longer crying, silenced by a terrible sense of his
insignificance.

What Ravi
experiences therefore is an ironic moment full of pathos. Having wanted so much to win,
he has won, but only to find that the game has been long forgotten. Wanting glory and
recognition, he is only ignored. He refuses to participate in the funeral game that the
other children are now playing but he has suffered a death--the death of his innocence
and hopes. In the face of our hopes and dreams, the world is often absolutely and
colossally indifferent.

Therefore any response that you
write has to try and capture this sense of insignificance and how specifically Ravi is
changed by the experiences of this short story. He will obviously be a very different
boy after the story than when he started out. Good luck!

How did the Japanese react to European exploration?

The major Japanese response to European exploration was
one of isolation.  Between the years 1633 and 1853, Japan was a "locked country" which
did not allow Japanese to leave or foreigners to enter.  Japan acted in this way largely
because of a fear that an influx of foreigners would destabilize the Shogunate that was
then ruling the country.

Japan did not completely close
itself during this time.  The Japanese knew there were things that the Westerners could
sell them that they wanted.  So they allowed very limited amounts of trade to be
conducted through the port of Nagasaki in Southern
Japan.

Thus, Japan tried to have the best of both worlds --
the tried to shut out European influences (like Christianity) that they did not like
while admitting things that they did like.

When Lennie and George sit by the river to rest, what do they talk about in Of Mice and Men?

In the beginning of the book, George and Lennie are
traveling to their next job.  They stop to drink on a riverbank.  George complains about
the burden Lennie is, but also says that they need to stick
together. 

Lennie has a mouse that he has been "petting"
that died.  This foreshadows later incidents in the story involving Lennie's innocent
petting , like the death of the puppy and Curly's wife.  George tells Lennie he can't
have the mouse, but Lennie keeps it secretly.  George entertains Lennie with stories
about the rabbit farm that they will have some day, where Lennie can pet the
rabbits.

The rabbit farm is symbolic of the unreachable
dream.  George and Lennie will never be able to live successfully and peacefully,
because they can never get ahead as migrant labor.  Lennie will continue to be a burden
on George, and George cannot keep Lennie safe or protect others from Lennie.  This is
exemplified by Lennie drinking unsafe standing water, and the mouse's accidental
death.

This opening also demonstrates that while George
berates Lennie and says he is a burden, he also is careful to look out for Lennie.  His
spinning the story shows both that he cares for Lennie and that he realizes that they
will never achieve their dream.

What is the theme?

This is a deceptively simple question. A theme, in short,
is the main idea of a story. However, you have to keep in mind that stories, especially
good ones have many themes, and some of the best stories have two or more themes that
may even compete with each other. In this way, it leaves the reader to decide for
himself or herself what the theme is. Let me give you an
example.

In the tragedy, Antigone,
there are many themes. On the one hand, loyalty to family is a theme. This is why
Antigone wants to bury her brother even at the expense of the law of Creon. Creon, the
ruler of Thebes does not want anyone to buy Polynices, the brother of Antigone, because
he attacked the city.

 On the other hand, there is a theme
of obeying the laws of the land. So, what should a person do? This is not an easy
question. So, here is an example of many themes and in this situation there are two
themes that oppose each other.

What is the exposition, complication, climax and resolution?Please help me.

EXPOSITION.  This is the
background information regarding the two characters and their previous relationship. We
find that Fortunato has in some way offended Montressor, who has decided that he must
seek retribution against
Fortunato.

COMPLICATION. 
Montressor must find a way to kill Fortunato, but without the possibility of being
caught by authorities. He decides to lure him into the Montressor family catacombs
located beneath his home. But how will he do this without arousing Fortunato's
suspicion?

CLIMAX.  Montressor
suddenly thrusts chains upon Fortunato and secures him to the floor in a far corner of
the catacombs. Montressor begins to wall Fortunato up--building a wall of bricks that
will leave his chained prisoner no chance of
escape.

RESOLUTION.  Many
decades later, the older Montressor relates his story, assuring the reader that
Fortunato's body has never been found and that his revenge is
complete.

Discuss the events that unfold because of the performance by the visiting players in Hamlet.

As a result of the players' performance of "The Murder of
Gonzago," the first action that affects the course of Hamlet is
that Claudius rises from his seat and calls for light and exits the scene (Act 3, sc.
2).  This action proves to Hamlet that Claudius is guilty of killing Hamlet's father
just as the ghost had described because Claudius' reaction was proof of guilt.  Hamlet
tells Horatio that he is sure now that the ghost was telling the truth, so now Hamlet
realizes he must kill Claudius in order to fulfill his promise to the ghost of his
father to get revenge.  After some mad raving in front of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern,
Hamlet encounters Claudius in the chapel seemingly in prayer (Act 3, sc. 3).  Hamlet
decides not to take advantage of the opportunity to kill Claudius there because he
thinks Claudius is praying and he does not want Claudius to have the chance to be
absolved of his sins and go to heaven.  Hamlet then goes to his mother's room (Act 4,
sc. 4) where he has a very emotional encounter with her regarding her actions since her
husband, his father, died.  Here, he hears a noise behind the arras and thrusts his
rapier into the tapestry, killing Poloinus who was hiding there to try to find out what
was bothering Hamlet.  He reveals to his mother also, that he has seen, and sees, his
father's ghost.  He tells his mother how to act around Claudius and that she should
trust him to have a plan.  As a result of her father's death in this scene, Ophelia is
driven mad and in her madness is incapable of helping herself when she falls into the
water and drowns (Act 4, sc. 7).  The death of his father drives Laertes to want
Hamlet's death and that desire is further solidified by his sister's death.  Claudius
uses Laertes' anger to help him get rid of Hamlet.  This then does, indeed, bring about
Hamlet's death.  All of the steps that Claudius and Laertes use to ensure Hamlet's death
in the duel though, also bring about the deaths of Laertes, Gertrude, and Claudius.  The
play performed by the players impacts the rest of the play,
Hamlet.

Use elementary fractions to write the fraction 1/(x^3+x^2+x+1)

To use in elementary fractions to write the fraction
1/(x^3+x^2+x+1).

x^3+x^2+x+1 =  (x^2(x+1) +1.(x+1) =
(x+1)(x^2+1).

Therefore  let 1/(x^2+x^2+x+1) = a/(x+1) +
(bx+c)/(x^2+1)....(1).

 We have to determine a, b and
c.

We multiply both sides of (1) by (x+1)(x^2+1) and we
get:

1 = a(x^2+1) +
(bx+c)(x+1)

 1 =  ax^2+a
+bx^2+bx+cx+c.

1 = (a+b)x^2+(b+c)x+ (a+c). We treat this as
an identity. So we can equate the coefficient of like terms on both
sides:

x^2 terms: 0 =
a+b...(1).

x terms = 0 =
b+c......(2).

Constant terms: 1 = a+c, or a+c =
1.....(3)

 (1) -(2): a - c =
0...(4).

(3)+(4) : 2a = 1. So a=
1/2.

(3-(4): 2c =  1. So c =
1/2.

Therfore we put a = 1/2 in (1) and get a+b = 0, or
(1/2 +b = 0. S = b= -1/2.

Therefore a = 1/2, b=-1/2 and c =
1/2.

So

1/(x^3+x^2+x+1) =
1/{2(x+1)} + (-x+1)/{2(x^2+1)}

1/(x^3+x^2+x+1) = 1/(2(x+1)}
+1/{2{x^2+1) - x/{2(x^2+1)}.

Explain what the following quote tells us about Bernard's character. Explain what the quotations given below show us about each character....

Bernard Marx is something of a malcontent in the society
in which he lives.  He has something that went wrong with him (it seems) in his process
of being "bottled."  Therefore, he is a little too small and too dark.  This makes him
unhappy and his unhappiness shows up in this quote.

In this
society, everyone should be happy to be useful and to be in their proper place.  But
Bernard is not.  He is willing to say something as radical as that he wishes he wasn't
useful.

However, he is just a whiner, really, and I think
you can see that in this quote.  He doesn't do anything to be less useful -- he just
wishes he were.

Discuss the role of Biblical allusions in The Crucible.

Miller does an excellent job in bringing out the Bible in
the lives of the Salem townspeople.  The Bible, the good book, is what drives the town
into a sense of madness.  The belief that the Bible forbids the practice of witchcraft
and gives sanction to the idea of finding and targeting people suspected of witches is
the basic element of the drama.  On more personal levels, I think that the Bible plays
an important role in the life of John Proctor, himself.  It ends up hurting him that he
carries himself in an spiritual way that does not embrace the institution of the church,
represented by Parris, and that Proctor has not had one of his children baptized.  It is
in this light that Hale questions both Elizabeth and John in their knowledge of the Ten
Commandments from the Bible, of which John forgets the commandment about adultery. 
Finally, I think that the use of the Bible is seen when Abigail pretends to see a vision
in the courtroom, a vision that seems to hearken the calls of the Bible’s sign of the
devil or, at least, of a vision from dark forces.  When Abigail calls out “Heavenly
father” at this sight, it is a moment where she seems to be calling out from a knowledge
of a script that helps to bring to light that the Bible, as a source of truth and
understanding, has been manipulated by Abigail and others in the position of power to
advance their own agenda.  Thus, the allusions to the Bible are meant to bring out the
nature of hypocrisy that runs amok in Salem.

How did the illustration 'The Bradys and the Chinese Dwarf' help to foster anti-Chinese sentiment in the last half of the 19th...

First of all, this illustration could not have fostered
anti-Chinese sentiment in the last half of the 19th century since it's dated 1907. 
However, nitpicking aside, it does show the sorts of fears that led to persecution of
the Chinese during the time that you mention.

During the
late 1800s, many white Americans feared that the Chinese would come and take jobs away
from Americans.  They also feared what they saw as "inscrutable" Orientals who were
prone to creating criminal gangs.  You can see this second fear in the illustration. 
The Chinese are going to burn these Americans alive, probably because the Americans have
uncovered a Chinese criminal organization.

One of the
reasons Americans disliked Chinese was because it was feared that they and their gangs
would take over parts of the US economy where Chinese were plentiful.  This is shown
quite clearly in the illustration.

What are the two views of nature contrasted in Act 1 Scene 2 of King Lear?

Shakespeare plays upon the double meaning of the word
"nature" in this scene.

The action of the scene revolves
around the setting in motion of the main subplot of the play -- the hoodwinking of
Gloucester by his illegitimate son, Edmund, into believing that his legitmate son, Edgar
has turned against his father.  Edmund is intent upon having Glocester disinherit his
half-brother so that he may be the one to claim his father's
lands.

The double meaning comes in at the beginning and the
ends of the scene.  In his opening soliloquy of the scene, Edmund confides to the
audience that he is bound in "service" to the law of nature.  By this, he exposes his
dissatisfaction with the laws of man (rather than nature) that would brand him an
outsider because he is born a bastard.  He questions:

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. . .Why bastard?  Wherefore
base?

When my dimensions are as well
compact,

My mind as generous, and my shape as
true

As honest madam's issue?  Why brand they
us

With base?  With baseness?  Bastardy?  Base,
base?

And he goes on to point
out that "in the lusty stealth of nature" that he is fare more fit and suited to have
position and power that the those that come from "a dull, stale, tired bed"  -- meaning
his brother.  This argument is Edmund's reasoning for convincing his father to believe
that his brother is a turncoat.  In this soliloquy, Edmund examines his own "nature" as
contrasted with that of his more do-gooding brother and finds his own qualities of
person, not birth, to render him the superior man.

Later,
once Gloucester has swallowed Edmund's story, hook-line-and-sinker, Shakepseare brings
in the other meaning of "nature" when Gloucester, searching for some external cause that
his true and loyal son Edgar should turn against him, blames Nature, by way of cursing
the aligment of the moon and stars.  He says:

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These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend
no good to us.  Though the wisdom of Nature can reason it thus and thus, yet Nature
finds itself scourged by the sequent effects:  love cools, friendship falls off,
brothers divide. . .in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked 'twixt son and
father.

And Edmund ends this
part of the scene with a scornful dismissal of this superstitious appraisal of Nature. 
He does not believe that the events of the stars decide his future.  He believes himself
to be the architect of his future not the external movements of the natural world.  So
Edmund believes it to be his own "nature" rather than "Nature" that decides his
course.

In this scene the meaning of nature (as being one's
character and tendency towards certain behaviours) is contrasted with the forces of the
natural world (ie Nature).  For more on "nature" in this play and Act I, scene ii,
please follow the links below.

What is the history of the Taj Mahal?

The Taj Mahal is considered one of the most beautiful
architectural monuments in the World and was built by the Indian emperor Shah
Jahan.

The Emperor had married a girl named Arjumand Begum
in 1612 while he was a prince and she was the only one of his many wives whom he truly
loved. He gave her the name Mumtaz Mahal or "beloved ornament of the
palace."

It is said that the Taj Mahal was built by the
Emperor as a tribute for their love. It is what Mumtaz Mahal had told him to do as one
of her last wishes while she lay on her deathbed after giving birth to their fourteenth
child in 1631.

The Emperor began the construction of the
monument six months after her death and had over 20000 of the most gifted craftsmen and
artists from all over the world work on it for 22 long years. The tale goes that after
the Taj Mahal had been constructed the emperor had the thumbs of all the artists who had
worked on the monument cut off, so they would not be able to create another monument
like the Taj Mahal.

After the monument had been created the
body of Mumtaz Mahal was shifted and placed in it; and when the Emperor died in title="Taj Mahal: Shah Jahan. TajMahal.org.uk"
href="http://www.tajmahal.org.uk/shah-jahan.html">1658, he was also buried
in it beside his wife.

What section of Romeo and Juliet do you suggest for a monologue?

It seems to me that part of the challenge here is to find
a monologue where the greatest amount of emotional display can be present to highlight
your skill at acting.  There are many passages from which to choose.  When Juliet learns
of her cousin Tybalt's death at the hands of Romeo, there is a great deal of emotional
contrast in the passage in Act 3, scene 2.  This might be a passage to take because in
order to pull it off, there has to be a great deal of emotional complexity.  There is
grief, mixed with anger, and underscored by total confusion.  To display an emotional
range, this passage might be one to consider.  If one wanted to select a passage of
unending grief and a sense of despondency to be displayed, Friar Laurence's unenviable
task of explaining everything to everyone at the end of the play might be another
option.  It seems to me that the actor here has to possess an almost unending reservoir
of pain and hurt as the story of both lovers, now dead, is
retold.

In your opinion, why is it important to live with people who share similarities with you?Please elaborate and explain in a journal response form...

The two points that clairewait has mentioned are vital to
harmony in being roommates.  College students, in their own journal writing, have
underscored these points repeatedly, and from personal experience, this is the
truth!

If the person who is a lark, gets up and leaves the
room or apartment, things are all right; likewise, if the night owl, just stays out
somewhere else and is quiet about returning and retiring, there can be no problem.  But,
even then, it is difficult not to disturb someone.

Another
point that is important for females, especially:  Do not room with someone who wears the
same size.  That favorite outfit or those favorite shoes may be ruined or gone when you
want them.

Certainly, mutual respect and consideration for
others is the best assuredness of harmony with a roommate. If two people are from the
same socio-economic class they often have similar values, which helps. Surprisingly,
only children sometimes make better roommates than others if they are eager to have
a sibling type of relationship. At any rate, learning to think about others is good
preparation for marriage, indeed.

1) Can an insulating ball actually be attracted to a negatively charged plate? 2) Upon touching, will the insulating ball then be negatively charged?

Neutral objects can be attracted to charged objects
through a process called induction.  This works because all matter is composed of
positive protons and negative electrons.  While the protons are basically fixed in
place, the electrons are able to move somewhat within a substance.  Remember also that
like charges repel and opposite charges attract

In your
example when a negative charge is brought near a neutral object the negative electrons
in the neutral object will be repelled. They will try to move away from the approaching
negative charge. When they do this, the neutral object appears to have a small positive
charge on the side where the negative charge is approaching.  A temporary charge
separation has been "induced" in the neutral object, egen though its overall charge is
still neutral. If the negative charge is then removed, the electrons in the neutral
object will move back to their original  positions. Since opposite charges attract, the
neutral object will now move toward the negative
charge.

Now consider what will happen when the negative
charge is brought in contact with the neutral object.  As the negative charge
approaches, as explained above, there is a positive charge on that side of the neutral
object. When the two objects make actual contact, some of the electrons from the
negatively charged object will actually move to the neutral object to try to neutralize
the apparent positive charge. Now when the objects are separated both objects have a
negative charge.

Discuss the symbolic values of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by M. Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
contains several values of our national
history.

1. RELEVANCE OF BOYHOOD/CHILDHOOD: Twain writes
this book from a child's point of view. Thus, we readers catch every silly misconception
that a child might have about society or they way things are, as well as every lie and
the human emotions that accompany lies. We find the creativity of Tom Sawyer at work
that demonstrates the imagination of children, and the contention between Tom and Huck's
different approaches that demonstrate how some little kids think irrationally and others
practically. For each, it is a matter of continuing to grow. The morality of children
comes through in Tom's determinations of when to pay for a crime or item, and when to
just steal.

2. IMPORTANCE OF HUMAN DIGNITY FOR
ALL RACES: Huck views Jim from the beginning as a toy or object. As time goes on, he
grows a love for Jim that forces kindness and sacrifice. When he considers continuing to
help Jim, he considered how his efforts for aiding Jim are against the law, but to Huck,
it didn't seem right. This is where morality begins to strike Huck. He even finally
decides he'd rather go to hell and help Jim instead of turning Jim in. Huck didn't live
the finest childhood a kid could have by any means, but he comes to value Jim and see
his humanity as Jim cares about his kids and experiences pains and ultimate frustration
at the Phelps' farm. I believe when Jim risks his freedom for Tom's health, Huck gains
even further respect for Jim.

3. TRUTHFUL REPRESENTATION OF
HISTORY: In the news right now, there is a publisher considering changing some of the
language of Huck Finn for a "cleaner, less offensive version". Although there are many
sides to the debate, Twain, in his own interviews and writings about the book claims
that he set out to represent the truth of life along the river in terms of slavery and
children. No pains are spared to show the evil of Pap. The chances for Jim to get caught
occur endlessly.

4. COMMENTS ON RELIGION, EDUCATION AND
FREEDOM: Twain uses his book to satirize the acts of religious people. Although Miss
Watson is a contagious Christian, she also takes snuff in private. At other moments,
Huck mocks prayer or Providence. In the long run, I think he still hopes for
forgiveness, but remains a child nonetheless doing things wrong. The education he
receives on the river with Jim may be of more value than he would receive at school
because he learned morality, something he struggled with in the classroom or under Miss
Watson's control. Jim's freedom granted in the will wasn't enforced until the ability to
control it was given up by Tom. Although we say we want things in our society, we don't
always actually put them into play until years later.

This
book SYMBOLIZES hundreds of years of AMERICAN HISTORY. Whether he intended it to or not,
it touches slavery, humanity, rights, dignity, childhood, abuse, imagination, and many
other topics that are truly American ideals.