Why does Romeo keep secret from his friends the reason for his dramatic change in mood in Romeo and Juliet?

After the night in which Mercutio and the others search
for Romeo, who has scaled the orchard walls of the Capulets in order to see with love
dazzled eyes she who "doth teach the torches to burn bright,"  Romeo visits Friar
Laurence.  At the priest's cell, Romeo asks the friar to perform the marriage rites
for Juliet and him.  Amazed, Friar Laurence exclaims,

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Holy Saint Frances, what a change is
here!

Is Rosaline, that thou didst love so
dear,

So soon forsaken?  Young men's love then
lies

Not truly in their hearts, but in their
eyes.

Jesu Maria, what a deal of
brine

Hath washed thy sallow cheeks for
Rosaline!....

The sun not yet thy sighs from heaven
clears,

Thy old groans ring yet in mine ancient
ears.

Lo, here upon thy cheek the stain doth
sit

Of an old tear that is not washed off
yet....

Thou and these woes were all for
Rosaline.

And art thou changed? 
(2.3.68-77)

Since the priest
has chided him and since the Capulets are the sworn enemies of the Montagues, Romeo may
be more than a little reluctant to reveal his infatuation and increasing passion for
Juliet.  Certainly, he does not want to broach the subject when he meets up with
Mercutio, his cousin, who is engaged in a heated dialogue with Tybalt in the streets of
Verona.  And, it is possible that Romeo considers the parting words of the priest,
"Wisely and slow.  They stumble that run fast" (2.3.97)

Does anyone know quotes in TKAM that expresses evil said by Bob Ewell referring to the Finch family?

Bob Ewell made only one specific threat against Atticus
following the Tom Robinson trial in To Kill a Mockingbird. Shortly
after the trial, Bob confronted Atticus outside the post office and spat in his face.
According to Miss Stephanie Crawford, who witnessed the encounter, Bob also "threatened
to kill him (Atticus)." He also called Atticus "'a nigger-lovin' bastard'" and other
"names wild horses could not bring her to repeat." In October, Bob "acquired and lost a
job in a matter of days"; Ruth Jones, "the welfare lady, said Mr. Ewell openly accused
Atticus of getting his job," and indirectly called him a
"bastard."

How long was Jeanne in Manzanar in Farewell to Manzanar? What happened to her father?

Jeanne Wakatsuki was at Manzanar for three-and-a-half
years. On February 25, 1942, all individuals of Japanese descent were ordered to
evacuate Terminal Island, California, where the Wakatsukis lived. Given only forty-eight
hours notice, they were forced to sell their possessions for "humiliating prices," and,
with the help of a charity organization, were able to resettle in Los Angeles. After a
short time, however, the order was given that Japanese Americans would have to be
relocated inland. In early April, 1942, Jeanne was interned at Manzanar, in California's
Owens Valley, where she remained until October, 1945. Jeanne was seven years old at the
time of her internment; ten-and-a-half when she was
released.

Because he operated a fishing boat off the
California coast for a living, Jeanne's father, Ko Wakatsuki, was one of the first to be
arrested in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor in December, 1941. In the hysteria engendered
by the attack on American soil, it was suspected that Wakatsuki, and other Japanese
Americans, would be loyal to the country of his birth, and would potentially engage in
espionage for Japan. Wakatsuki was imprisoned in faraway North Dakota, where he was held
for almost a year. After that time, he was reunited with his family at Manzanar, but his
incarceration changed him, and he returned a bitter, angry
man.

At Manzanar, Ko Wakatsuki was subject to sudden,
ferocious rages. He drank copiously, and when drunk, was abusive to his wife and family.
Eventually, however, he became resigned to what had happened to him, and spent his days
peacefully tending a Japanese garden he created on the desert grounds. When the family
was released from Manzanar, Ko relocated them in Long Beach, California. While his
children were determined to assimilate into the American mainstream, he stubbornly clung
to his Japanese customs, trying to instill an appreciation for their heritage in his
children, with little success. Having lost everything when the family was interned, Ko
Wakatsuki found himself essentially "starting over from economic zero." Unable to
support his family, he began drinking again, while, to his humilitation, his wife took a
job at a cannery to keep food on the table. After a couple of failed attempts at
starting his own business, and a near-death experience brought about by his excesses, Ko
Wakatsuki returned to farming. He pulled himself together growing strawberries outside
of San Jose, California, and continued in this endeavor until his
death.

Why is Lenina's looking at the moon important?Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Apparently, the hypnopaedia conditioning was not 100%
effective with Lenina.  She enjoys being with just one man, and there is some atavistic
magnetism from the moon that she senses.  In the real, natural world, the tides are
moved by the moon, and animal behavior is affected by full moons.  During full moons,
fish tend to be more active, as well, and often breed at this
time.

It is significant that Lenina senses, perhaps, the
energy from the moon. Certainly, there is something primal in her nature that wants to
respond to it. However, she is not quite capable of genuine, whole feelings because her
conditioning tells her to reject it.  All Lenina experiences are twinges from a soul
long buried in conditioning, consumerism and soma. 

The intuitive John, who loves nature, senses
the inclinations that Lenina has towards it and assumes that she has some natural
feelings.  But, such is not the case.  For, Lenina is simply not capable of feeling as
John wishes her. 

What is a good thematic statement (universal theme) of the message/lesson the author of The Crucible conveys?

I would use some language that helps convey aspects of
those themes as well. For example, the use of guilt and manipulation play into those
topics as well.

1. Authority figures within Arthur Miller's
The Crucible allowed their hopes of maintaining great power
interfere with their care for humanity, the purpose of the very offices to which they
were appointed.

2. Fear manipulated the town of Salem
during Arthur Miller's The Crucible causing a mania that cost
people their very lives.

Are you writing a thesis statement
in two sentences? What is the purpose of your assignment?

Discuss the properties of English verbs with examples.

The properties of English verbs is a complex subject that
we can only touch on in part here. English verbs are a
word class that are lexically and morphologically distinct
and indicate an action, a state of being or an event
(occurrence). English verbs have inflectional
properties that indicate tense, aspect and
mood. They also show active and passive
voice, which indicates the relationship between the Subject
and the Verb of a sentence. There are regularly conjugated
and irregularly conjugated verbs. English verbs conjugate
for person: first (I; we), second (you; you) and third
person (she, he; they) in both singular and plural. English verbs have
non-finite, or infinitive, forms (to have, to be, to do)
and participle forms (singing, sang; staying, stayed).
English has auxiliary verbs and modal
auxiliary verbs. English verbs can be followed by article particles to
form phrasal
verbs.

Tense
locates verbs in time and shows past time, present time or future time. Examples are:
Past: Yesterday I swam. Present: Today I swim. Future: Tomorrow I will swim.
Aspect of a verb shows whether or not an action or
occurrence (event) is completed or not. Aspect shows that which is
incomplete through progressive aspect,
also called continuous aspect, and
complete through perfect aspect.
English verbs indicate mood, or attitude, as ordinary
indicative, questioning interrogative, urgent
imperative, contingent conditionals, and
doubtful or wishing subjunctive. Examples are: Indicative: I swam.
Interrogative; Will you swim? Imperative: You must not swim. Conditional: I might not
swim if it could be unwise. Subjunctive: If it were I, I would
swim.

Regularly conjugated verbs, or regular
verbs, are those that follow the standard English conjugation model for
present, past simple and participle forms: Root word: bake: bake, baked, baking;
infinitive: to bake. Irregularly conjugated verbs, or irregular
verbs, are those that follow a different conjugation pattern in the past
simple and past participle forms: Root: rise: rise, rose, risen. Root: bring: bring,
brought, brought. It is posited that these high usage words maintained Middle English
conjugation whereas lower usage words did not.

Finally,
English auxiliary verbs are do, be and
have. Modal auxiliary verbs, or
modal verbs, commonly known are can, may, could,
should, would, shall, ought (ought to), will, while some uncommonly known
ones are need, and dare. There are three
Simple tenses; three Perfect
tenses: have + -ed participle; three
Progressive (aka Continuous) tenses: be + -ing
participle; and three Perfect Progressive (aka
Perfect Continuous) tenses: have + be + -ing participle. The three
categories for each are Past, Present and Future yielding twelve English
tenses.

How are Antigone, Gertrude and Ophelia similar?

In the plays Antigone and
Hamlet, Antigone, Gertrude, and Ophelia are all tragic victims,
though only Antigone, I would say, is a tragic
hero.

Antigone is a tragic
hero because she incites the action of the play, makes a tragic mistake,
and suffers dearly for it.  Her rebellion against Creon's unjust civil law causes her to
suffer and die.  And, let's face it, she makes the tragic mistake of being stubborn even
after she proves her point.  She goes to her death full of tragic
hubris (pride), a romantic zealot with a death
wish.

Gertrude and Ophelia get caught in the cross-fire
between the tragic heroes Hamlet and Claudius, but their roles are not enough to be
classified as tragic heroines along side Antigone.  Instead, I would classify them as
supplients who provide vision
of unmitigated suffering and helplessness.  This is an archetypal term used by critic
Northrop Frye, who kind of wrote the book on classifying
characters.

Other
similarities:

• All three die, obviously, but
  their deaths can all be blamed on the state (unjust laws,
  kings).


• All three are blind: Antigone to her pride;
  Gertrude to her son and husband and Ophelia to her father.
  

Differences:

• Antigone
  and Ophelia suicide, but Gertrude's death is murder
  


• Antigone and Ophelia are victims of incest, but not
  Gertrude (who commits it herself).  Antigone's family is cursed by incest: she is the
  daughter/sister of her brother/father Oedipus.  Ophelia is caught up in Hamlet's revenge
  against incest and adultery, not to mention her brother's and father's incestuous-like
  jealousy of her and Hamlet.

Would you agree with defendant in the following case?A woman sued a former boyfriend, seeking the return of personal property. The lawyer...

The answer to this depends on what question you are
asking.  If you are asking if the statute is too broad, we would have to know the
wording of the statute in question to judge.  If, however, you are asking if the woman's
action constituted an assault, the answer is clearly
no.

Let us look at the definition of assault from the link
below.  The link says that

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Generally, the essential elements of assault
consist of an act intended to cause an apprehension of harmful or offensive contact that
causes apprehension of such contact in the
victim.

None of these
elements appears to be present in this case.  First of all, the woman did not intend to
cause the lawyer to be afraid.  Second, the contact was not (depending on what contact
you are calling a "poke") harmful or offensive.  Finally, the contact should not have
caused any fear in the "victim."  The lawyer would surely have known that the woman was
not going to be able to physically harm him.

Therefore,
this contact is clearly not an assault.  It might be a
battery, but it is definitely not an assault.

Define and explain allotropy forms of carbon. allotopic forms of carbon

"Allotropy is
a behavior exhibited by some chemical elements. These elements can exist in two or more
different forms, known as allotropes of that
element."

In each allotrope
the atoms are bonded together differently.  The end result is different structural
modification of an element. Allotropy refers only to different forms of an element
within the same phase or state of matter.  "The changes of state between solid, liquid
and gas in themselves are not considered allotropy." 

The
following are some Carbon
Allotropes:

Diamonds form when
the carbon atoms are bonded together in a tetrahedral lattice
arrangement. 

Graphite forms
when the carbon atoms are bonded together in sheets of a hexagonal
lattice.

Fullerenes forms when
the carbon atoms are bonded together in spherical, tubular, or ellipsoidal
formations.

How are the residents of Maycomb, Alabama compassionate and forgiving in To Kill a Mockingbird?I am writing a five paragraph essay for to kill a...

In many cases, the residents of Maycomb are racist and
discriminatory.  Yet there are instances where they are supportive of one another,
exemplifying Southern hospitality.  For example, during the fire at Miss Maudie’s house,
everyone comes out and Mr. Avery risks his life.  Similarly, when the rabid dog comes
out many people pitch in to get rid of the danger.

Many
adults are protective of the children, and try to provide them with guidance.  Of
course, the children are not always open to criticism from adults such as Miss Stephanie
Crawford and Mrs. Debose.  The fact that everyone looks after the children of the town
as their own indicates a close-knit
community.

Families like the Finches are kind
and protective toward the less fortunate.  Atticus accepts payment in goods and services
when people can’t pay in money.  When Walter Cunningham comes home for lunch, he is
treated like a guest and Scout is scolded for not being polite to him just because he’s
poor.

 In general, the people of Maycomb do help each other
and reach out to each other.  Although they are usually only kind to those they view as
their equal, there are many who do not hold with the beliefs of society.  The Finches
are not the only family that sees people as equals.  Dolphus Raymond is another example,
since he married a black woman and only pretends to be miserable so other folks won’t
feel uncomfortable

What were the effects of the American Revolution?

There were many effects of the American Revolution. The
most important effect was that as a result of the colonial victory over Great Britain,
the new country of the United States of America was created. When we declared our
independence from Great Britain, he had to fight to achieve it. The fight was known in
the United States as the Revolutionary War.

Another effect
of the American Revolution is that it allowed us to establish our system of government.
While the first plan created as a result of the Articles of Confederation had many
weaknesses, our current plan created by the Constitution is a good one. We have a
representative democracy where we elect leaders to make decisions for us. We also have a
Bill of Rights that protects our freedoms. We believed that the system of government
Great Britain created for us was not doing what a government should be doing. We
believed the British weren’t protecting our rights. Thus, we fought for independence to
establish a new country and a new government that would serve us better and that would
protect our rights.

The American Revolution also served as
a model for the movement for independence in other countries. The French used our
revolution as a model for the French Revolution in 1789. Latin American countries in the
1800s and Vietnam in the 1900s also used our revolution as a model for their struggle
for independence. The American Revolution has served as a guide for other countries that
have wanted their freedom from another country.

Determine the extreme value of the function x^2-2x+2.

To establish the extreme value of a function, we'll have
to calculate the first derivative of the function.

Let's
find the first derivative of the function
f(x):

f'(x)=( x^2-2x+2)'=(x^2)'-(2x)'+(2)'

f'(x)=2x-2

Now we
have to calculate the equation of the first
derivative:

2x-2=0

We'll
divide by 2:

x-1 =
0

x=1

That means that the
function has an extreme point, for the critical value
x=1.

f(1) = 1^2 - 2*1 + 2

f(1)
= 1-2+2

We'll eliminate like
terms:

f(1) =
1

The extreme point of the function is a
minimum point whose coordinates are: (1 ; 1).

Prove that the number a is natural.a = (2^(2n+3)*3^(n+2)*5^(2n+1) + 3^(n+3)*4^(n+2)*5^(2n))/792 n is from N set

We notice that we can find common factors at numerator.
We'll factorize by the numbers that has the lowest
powers.

First, we'll compare the
powers:

3^(n+2) <
3^(n+3)

5^(2n +
1)<5^(2n)

For the beginning, we'll factorize by
3^(n+2)*5^(2n)

a = 3^(n+2)*5^(2n)*[2^(2n + 3)*5 +
3*4^(n+2)]/792

We notice that we can write 4^(n+2) as a
power of 2:

4^(n+2) = 2^2(n + 2) = 2^(2n +
4)

2^(2n + 4) > 2^(2n +
3)

We'll factorize by 2^(2n +
3):

a = 2^(2n + 3)*3^(n+2)*5^(2n)*(5 +
6)/792

a = 2^(2n +
3)*3^(n+2)*5^(2n)*(11)/792

We'll simplify by
11:

a = 2^(2n +
3)*3^(n+2)*5^(2n)/72

We'll re-write the
numerator:

2^(2n + 3) = 2^2n*2^3 =
8*2^2n

3^(n+2) = 3^n*3^2 =
9*3^n

2^(2n + 3)*3^(n+2) =
8*9*2^2n*3^n

2^(2n + 3)*3^(n+2) =
72*2^2n*3^n

a =
72*2^2n*3^n*5^2n/72

We'll simplify by
72:

a = 2^2n*3^n*5^2n

Since n
is natural, then 2^2n is natural, too.

Since n is natural,
then 3^n is natural, too.

Since n is natural, then 5^2n is
natural, too.

The product of 3 natural
numbers is also a natural
number:

a = 2^2n*3^n*5^2n is a
natural number.

Can someone sum up what Hamlet's inner conflict is in the play Hamlet?

Hamlet's inner conflict centers around whether or not he
should enact revenge upon his father's murder, or not.  Wrapped up in that conflict are
questions about whether the ghost of his father was real or not, because if not, then he
would be murdering his uncle all because an evil ghost prompted him to.  Also, Hamlet
wonders whether or not he is capable of murdering his uncle; he spends so much of his
time worrying and fretting about it, and so little time actually doing anything that he
gets mad at himself for inactivity.  It takes Hamlet the entire course of the play to go
from a man who is fearful and hesitant and wallowing about "in words" to a man who can
stand up and declare, "the readiness is all."

Before he
learns of his uncle's betrayal and murder of his father, Hamlet's inner turmoil was
caused by his distaste of his mother's actions in marrying so soon after becoming a
widow.  This conflict within him makes him so upset that he declares Denmark and
everything in it "rotten" and vile.  He is grieving for his father while at the same
time seething over his mother's quick recovery and marriage.   Once his father's ghost
visits him, that conflict soon turns towards his own struggle to enact revenge.  I hope
those thoughts helped; good luck!

Find the antiderivative of the function y=e^x*cos^2x .

The antiderivative of a function is the indefinite
integral of the given function.

Int f(x)dx = Int e^x*cos^2x
dx

We'll substitute the square of cosine of function, by
the formula:

(cos x)^2 = (1 + cos
2x)/2

We'll re-write the
integral:

Int e^x*cos^2x dx = Int e^x*(1 + cos
2x)dx/2

We'll apply the additive property of indefinite
integrals:

Int e^x*(1 + cos 2x)dx/2 = Int e^xdx/2 + Int
(e^x*cos 2x)dx/2

We'll note Int e^xdx/2 =
I1

Int (e^x*cos 2x)dx/2 =
I2

I1 = e^x/2 + C (1)

We'll
solve I2 by parts:

u = cos 2x => du = -2 sin
2x

dv = e^xdx => v =
e^x

I2 = u*v - Int vdu

I2 =
e^x*cos 2x + 2Int e^x*sin 2x dx

We'll solve 2Int e^x*sin 2x
dx by parts:

u = sin 2x => du = 2 cos
2x

dv = e^xdx => v =
e^x

2Int e^x*sin 2x = 2e^x*sin 2x - 4 Int e^x*cos
2xdx

But Int e^x*cos 2xdx =
I2

I2 = e^x*cos 2x + 2e^x*sin 2x - 4
I2

We'll add 4I2 both
sides:

5I2 = e^x*cos 2x + 2e^x*sin
2x

I2 = (e^x*cos 2x + 2e^x*sin 2x)/5 +
C (2)

Int e^x*(1 + cos 2x)dx/2 = (1) +
(2)

Int e^x*(1 + cos 2x)dx/2 = e^x/2 +
(e^x*cos 2x + 2e^x*sin 2x)/10 + C

What is the difference between the gulling scenes of man and woman in act 2 scene 3 and act 3 scene 2 in Much Ado About Nothing?

One interesting way to approach answering this question
would be to consider the response of both Beatrice and Benedick to hearing the elaborate
deception of their friends in stating that the other is in love with them. This yields
particularly interesting results. Interestingly, if you do this, it is Beatrice that
comes out looking much better than Benedick.

It is in Act
II scene iii when Benedick is gulled, and this scene is much longer than the following
scene in Act III scene i when Beatrice is similarly ensnared. However, what is
interesting to note is Benedick's reaction after Don Pedro, Leonato and Claudio have
left. Benedick's biggest preoccupation seems to be what they will think of him in
receiving the love of Beatrice rather than any concern for Beatrice herself. Also, the
declaration that he makes to justify his change of heart hardly endears us to
him:

No. The
world must be peopled. When I said I would die a batchelor, I did not think I should
live till I were
married.

Benedick apparently
needs to go through quite a significant internal debate before he can decide to accept
this love and court Beatrice.

However, Beatrice, in Act III
scene i, needs no such internal debate and does not worry about what others will think
of her. What she has heard is enough to change her completely. Note her instantaneous
transformation:

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What fire is in mine ears? Can this be
true?

Stand I condemn'd for pride and scorn so
much?

Contempt, farewell; and maiden pride,
adieu.

No glory lives behind the back of
such.

And, Benedick, love
on.

It is hard to escape the
fact that Beatrice seems to be more easily tricked, but that her change of heart is all
the more noble and endearing because of her instant decision to let Benedick "love
on."

Why does Chaucer use material from other literary works in his writing, The Canterbury Tales?It shows a lack of originality and I would presume...

In Chaucer's "Wife of Bath's Prologue" and "Tale" in
The Canterbury Tales, I believe that Chaucer would not have been
worried about a lack of originality. Reading was still not a wide-spread activity. While
there may have been an emerging middle class on its way at the time, the poor were not
taught to read, nor could they afford books; only those with the Church, or the very
wealthy would have had an education and be able to afford books. As Chaucer's tale
criticized a great deal of what went on with the servants of the Church (such as the
Pardoner), I doubt the Church was greatly pleased with his
writing.

However, this literary piece is considered
Chaucer's masterpiece. "The Canterbury Tales is recognized as the first book of poetry
written in the English language" (a different version of English than what we speak). He
was considered a student of human nature and obviously spent a great deal of time
filling out his characters. Including famous/other literary works would have been
appreciated by many, I'm sure, and would have made the book of poetry much richer. Much
the way a comic movie uses allusions for humor that some of the audience won't get, the
overall humor of the film may still work.

Using material
from other works would lend authenticity in the areas where he chose to include it. And
if the audience hearing the story (lower-class) or reading it (upper-class) did not
appreciate the literary references included, the stories in the Prologue would have been
very entertaining and well-received.

Solve for x, a/(ax-1) + b/(bx-1) = a+b

a/ax-1 + b/bx-1 =
a+b

=> ( a- ax) / ax  + ( b-bx)/ bx = (a+
b)

We will multiply by
abx^2

==> (a- ax)(b-bx) = (a+b)
abx^2

==> (ab - 2abx + abx^2 = (a+b)
abx^2

==> ab - 2abx = (a+b)( abx^2) -
abx^2

We will facro abx^2 from the right
side.

==> ab -2abx = abx^2 ( a+b
-1)

We will factor ab from the left
side.

==> ab ( -2x +1) = abx^2 ( a+
b-1)

Now we will divide by
ab.

==> (-2x+1) = x^2 ( a+ b
-1)

==> (a+b-1) x^2 +2x -1 =
0

Now we have a quadratic equation, we will solve for x in
terms of a and b.

==> x1= ( -2 + sqrt(4 +4(a+b-1) /
2(a+b-1)

            = ( -2+ 2sqrt(a+b) /
2(a+b-1)

           = (-1+ sqrt(a+b) /
(a+b-1)

==>x1= (-1+ sqrt(a+b) /
(a+b-1)

==> x2= ( -1-
sqrt(a+b) / (a+b-1)

What is the summary of "The Ruined Maid"?

This is classic Hardy at his best with just the right
amount of ambivalent irony. The poem commences with a chance meeting in town between
Amelia and an old friend of hers from the country. As they chat, the friend raves about
the way Amelia has been transformed from country bumpkin to an urban lady, sophisticated
in her manners and dress. Amelia, however, in the last line of each stanza refers again
and again to the fact that this has only come through her "ruin." This of course means
that she is now working as a prostitute. Her tone, however, indicates that she is far
from regretful about what has happened to her. She has indeed lost her chastity and
suffered the inevitable moral backlash, but she clearly feels that she is in a more
advantageous position than she was when she was working in the
fields.

Perhaps the last stanza expresses the ambivalent
irony of the poem best:

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-- "I wish I had feathers, a fine sweeping
gown,

And a delicate face, and could strut about Town!"
--

"My dear--a raw country girl, such as you
be,

Cannot quite expect that. You ain't ruined," said
she.

Hardy's treatment of the
fallen woman in this poem therefore expresses a certain amount of ambivalence through
the way it focuses on how Amelia's life, in some ways, has definitely
improved.

what are the characteristics of contemporary poetry?maybe in contrast with modern poetry..

To allow students to comprehend the difference between
contemporary poetry and formal poetry by assigning them to write a traditional and
contemporary poem on the same picture in the Freestyle mode of PicLits.com. Background
Traditional poetry is more strict in its form. The sonnet, ode, blank verse, ballad,
dramatic monologue each have formal elements that poets follow. For example, the sonnet
is a 14-line poem in iambic pentameter with a set rhyme scheme. William Shakespeare,
John Milton, John Donne, Alexander Pope, William Wordsworth, and John Keats wrote
traditional poetry, among others.

Below is a traditional
poem: On the Sea

It keeps eternal whisperings around
Desolate shores, and with its mighty swell Gluts twice ten thousand Caverns, till the
spell Of Hecate leaves them their old shadowy sound. Often 'tis in such gentle temper
found, That scarcely will the very smallest shell Be mov'd for days from where it
sometime fell, When last the winds of Heaven were unbound. Oh ye! who have your
eye-balls vex'd and tir'd, Feast them upon the wideness of the Sea; Oh ye! whose ears
are dinn'd with uproar rude, Or fed too much with cloying melody— Sit ye near some old
Cavern's Mouth, and brood Until ye start, as if the sea-nymphs quir'd! –John Keats
1819

What is Contemporary Poetry? Contemporary poetry is
difficult to define as it is a plane that is being built while in flight, but there are
some fundamental characteristics of contemporary poetry that distinguish it from
traditional poetry: Contemporary poetry is most often written in free verse (unrhymed
lines). The lines follow the natural rhythms of the language and not the strict five
stresses per line in iambic pentameter. Contemporary poetry is written in language that
is accessible to the common reader. Contemporary poetry suggests ideas rather than
overtly stating ideas. Contemporary poetry is brief in comparison to traditional poetry.
Contemporary poetry is grounded in the image. Contemporary poetry invites the reader to
complete statements, offer conclusions, and extract meaning. The meaning of the
contemporary poem exists more in the mind of the reader than in accessing the mind of
the poet. Below is a contemporary poem that is brief, unrhymed, suggestive, grounded in
imagery, and written in common, accessible language: The Peace of Wild Things When
despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of
what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of
wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the
presence of still water. And I feel above me the day blind stars waiting with their
light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. –Wendell
Berry

During President Wilson's second term, what bills did he and the government pass that would indicate that he/they were trying to legislate morality?

The only bill that I can think of that was passed during
Woodrow Wilson's second term and that would have showed that his government was trying
to legislate morality was the 18th Amendment.  This was ratified in 1919.  The Volstead
Act, passed to enforce Prohibition, could also be categorized in this same
way.

This amendment, of course, is the one that brought
about Prohibition.  Prohibition was perhaps the most prominent example in all of
American history of an attempt to legislate morality.  The idea behind Prohibition was,
in large part, that drinking alcohol was bad for people and that they should be
protected from their destructive desire to drink.  By basing such a sweeping law on this
sort of idea, Wilson and Congress were clearly trying to legislate
morality.

Are the characters in The Picture of Dorian Gray stereotypical?

The characters in The Picture of Dorian
Gray are not necessarily round and complex. For a character to be round and
complex it needs to change throughout the plot as a result of the different dynamics
that take place in the story. Dorian Gray, Lord Henry, and Basil remain the same from
beginning to end. Therefore, one can conclude that, with the exception of a few minor
changes in their characteristics, all three characters are quite stereotypical and
somewhat flat.

Here is why:

If
you start your analysis with Lord Henry Wooton, you can immediately notice how his
character is no different than Wilde's other dandies from other works such as Lord
Goring or Lord Darlington. The role of Lord Henry is to corrupt Dorian Gray and to show
him a life of sin without remorse. It is clear that Lord Henry remained the same
throughout the novel and did not change as a consequence of
anything.

Dorian Gray never changed either. Aside from the
fear of seeing his picture, he never attempted to change his immoral ways. When he
ripped the picture (and killed himself as a result), he did not do it out of remorse for
the things that he did. He did it because he was too scared of the picture and was sick
of it, but not of his sins.

Basil never changed either. He
is stereotypical of the artistic classes in Victorian London, as he said to Lord Henry
himself. He is the typical "entertainment" of the upper classes, who opted to befriend
artists and become their patrons to make up for their own lack of intelligence and
charisma. His devotion to Dorian never changed either. If anything, it intensified
through time to the point of trying to protect Dorian from the awful things said about
him in London. His love for Dorian led to his death (by Dorian's own
hand).

Therefore, you can say that the characters in
The Picture of Dorian Gray are flat and stereotypical, but also
interesting, full of charm, and truly classic.

Radiation is more readily absorbed by actively growing cells. How is this both useful and dangerous?

The fact that radiation is more readily absorbed by
actively growing cells is very useful in the treatment of cancers. Radiation treatment
uses high power radiation which is applied to the organ that has cancer. An important
characteristic of cancerous cells is that they develop and reproduce at a faster rate
than normal cells.

When radiation is used, it damages the
DNA of cells which form the affected organ; the cancerous cells are damaged more due to
their fast rate of growth. Normal cells which reproduce at a slower rate are not
affected as much as the diseased cells and recover within a short period of the
radiation treatment.

But the absorption of radiation by
actively growing cells makes it very injurious to newly born babies and those in the
mother's womb. This is a reason why pregnant women are not advised to undergo radiation
therapy.

What are the advantages of using organic compounds to society, and what are the disadvantages of using them?

It sounds like you might mean simply "organic", rather
than "organic compounds". trophyhunter answered your question as written--organic
compounds are indeed those that contain carbon, and Organic Chemistry is an entire
course on just those compounds. The other use of the term "organic" is supposed to mean,
generally, earth-friendly, or not using artificial chemicals in food, agriculture, or
manufacturing in general. The legal and general use of the term are different, and has
evolved as food producers have used misleading advertising to make their products seem
healthier than they are. It is only in the last hundred years or so that this has even
been necessary--before artificial additives and fertilizers, everything was already
something that was found in nature.

Benefits are that when
we eat fewer additives, we may decrease our risk of diseases such as cancer; we don't
really know what long-term use of some of these chemicals can do, both to individuals,
humans, and the earth overall. Problems arise when people don't really understand what
the term means, and reject everything that is not "natural"; getting diseases is
"natural", for example, but we don't want to go back to getting
smallpox!

I've attached a couple of links--this is a
complicated subject, with long-term effects we don't really know,
yet.

What are some examples of satire in chapters 12 and 13 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?Please give at least 2 examples.

While Huck and Jim commence their adventurous journey on
the Mississippi River, the raft becomes a makeshift home as Jim forms a wigwam for them
to get out of the elements, placing a fire box outside.  In the night, Huck slips ashore
to buy some meal and bacon; sometimes he "lifts" a chicken, rationalizing that Pa always
said to take one

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when you get a chance because if you don't want
him yourself you can easy find somebody who does, and a good deed ain't ever
forgot.

In the morning, Huck
sneaks into corn fields and "borrows" a watermelon, a mushmelon, a pumpkin, or some new
corn, reasoning again that Pap has said it is no harm to borrow if you intend to pay
someone back.  However, since the widow has said that such acts are stealing, Jim feels
that both Pap and the widow have points, so the best thing to do is just to decide not
to borrow the same things all the time.  So, they have eliminated taking persimmons and
crabapples.  Huck narrates,

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We warn't feeling just right, before that, but
it was all comfortable now.  I was glad the way it come out ,too, because crabapples
ain't ever good, and the p'simmons wouldn't be ripe to two or three months
yet.

In this passage of
Chapter XII, Mark Twain satirizes the way in which people rationalize and justify their
wrongdoings.

In Chapter XIII, when Jim and Huck encounter a
wrecked steamboat, they find a skiff full of plunder and transfer this to the raft, but
think nothing of taking this because the "gang of murderers" have really stolen it. 
However, Huck does feel some obligation to find someone to rescue the men on the wrecked
boat.  So, he fabricates a story that his family is stranded on the Walter
Scott in order to convince the watchman to rescue the thieves.  Pip feels
"ruther comfortable" about what he has done because he believes that the widow would be
proud of him for helping the thieves

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because rapscallions and dead beats is the kind
the widow and good people takes the most interest
in.

Here Twain satirizes the
efforts of people to provide charity to people who are strangers and of little character
when they often neglect those in their own family or
neighborhoods.

What are the rhetorical devices in King Lear's speech in Act 4, scene 6?It is the speech where Lear is talking about adultry and saying that...

King Lear, Act IV, scene vi, is one
of the great monologues in literature.  It's full of sexual imagery, analogies, and
verbal irony (sarcasm).  Literally translated, it reads something like this (according
to my No Fear Shakespeare):

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Women are sex machines below the waist, though
they’re chaste up above. Above the waist they belong to God, but the lower part belongs
to the devil. That’s where hell is, and darkness, and fires and stench! Death and
orgasm!

In the monologue Lear
uses the following rhetorical
devices:

Rhetorical question:
"What was thy cause?
Adultery?"

Animal
imagery: "The wren goes to 't, and the small gilded
fly"

Eye /
Sight imagery: "Does lecher in my
sight."

Verbal irony (sarcasm),
sexual imagery, and analogy: "Let copulation thrive;
for Gloucester's bastard son Was kinder to his
father than my daughters Got 'tween the lawful
sheets."

Animal
imagery: "The fitchew (a skunk), nor the soiled horse, goes to
't / With a more riotous
appetite."

Hell / fire
imagery: "There's hell, there's darkness, there's the
sulphurous pit," AND "Burning, scalding, stench,
consumption;"

Appearance
vs. reality motif (women are gods above the waist, devils
below):

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"Down from the waist they are
Centaurs,"
Though women all
above:
But to the girdle do the gods
inherit,
Beneath is all the
fiends';

Analogy
and apostrophe (compares Gloucester to an apothecary; addresses an
apothocary not present):

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Give me an ounce of
civet,
good apothecary, to sweeten my
imagination:
there's money for
thee.

Describe the startling objects that Pip finds in Miss Havisham's opposite room in Ch. 11. What does she intend to have happen there after her death?

This room is the famous room that Miss Havisham has kept
as a reminder of how horrible it was when she was "left at the altar."  The most
startling thing about it is how it contains the rotting remains of the feast that people
were supposed to enjoy after her wedding.  There are mice and spiders all over
everything, for example.  The wedding cake is beyond recognition -- Miss Havisham points
it out to Pip.

Miss Havisham also tells him that she
intends to be laid out in that room after she dies.

find x : 10^log^2 x +x^logx= 2

To find x : 10^log^2x +x^logx =
2.

Solution:

 The first term
on LHS: 10^log^2x = 10^(logx)^2.

Second term: Let logx = y.
Then  x = 10^y.

So x^logx = (10^y)^y = 10^y^2 = 10
^(logx)^2.

So LHS = 10^log^2x +x^logx = 10 ^(logx)^2
+10^(logx)^2 = 2*10^(log x)^2.

So the given equation
becomes: 2*10^(logx)^2 = 2.

10^(logx)^2 = 2/2 =
1.

10^(logx)^2 = 1=
10^0.

Since the bases are equal , we equate
exponents:

(logx)^2 = 0.

 logx
= 0.

Therefore x = 1.

Tally:
We put x= 1 in 10^(logx)^2+x^logx = 10^(log1)^2+16log(1) = 10^0^2 + 1^0 = 1+1 = 2=
RHS.

Solution is  x=
1.

What is "academic honesty?"

I recently had the assignment to teach a senior English
class.  I assigned them a research paper to work on, and gave them 6 weeks to complete
it.

I showed them examples of research papers, gave them
examples to use, and spent almost two weeks on how to not plagiarize other's
work.

Being seniors, they did not think they should have to
do much in senior English, but unfortunately, I didn't think that way.  So, the
assignment was given.

When the papers were due, I had more
than half of the class that hadn't even start, and then, when they did turn in the
papers within the next three days, most of them were copied, word for word, without
documentation, from the internet.  They wouldn't even read a book to get information. 
Of course, their grades reflected their work, but they didn't understand.  Their
thoughts and verbalization on this was that the internet was for anyone to copy what
they wanted.

At the beginning of the semester, I had a
student tell me that he didn't need senior English because he'd already taken a course
online for another student.  I spent the rest of the year trying to convince the
majority of these senior students that copying work or letting someone else copy their
work was dishonest.  This young man plagiarized every word of his research paper, but he
made one hundred dollars taking an online college class for another student, and he was
proud of himself for that accomplishment.

So, what is
academic honesty?  It's simple.  It is you doing your own work and getting your own,
hard earned grades.  What it isn't is copying other's work, letting them copy yours or
having them do your work for you.  That's just plain old
cheating!

To what does the title of this book refer?

Kosinski's title, The Painted Bird,
refers to a form of animal torture a character uses in the novel.  If you haven't read
it, you should stop reading this answer now and read it yourself.  It's as good as it
gets. 

A character literally paints a bird, so that when he
releases it and it flies back to its flock, its flock will reject it, attack it, and
kill it. 

It's a symbol of how humans treat other humans. 
The twentieth century is nothing if it is not an example of advances in how one set of
humans can mistreat and be cruel to another set of humans.  Never before have humans
been so efficient at killing one another.  This novel demonstrates one historical
instance of this--WWII.  It centers on the little discussed fact that Nazi-like ethnic
cleansing occurred all over Central and Eastern Europe during the war, not just in Nazi
concentration camps.  And this "cleansing" was performed by neighbors, village leaders,
every day people, not just Nazis. 

Anybody different,
anybody "painted," is at risk in our world, as well as in the world of this novel. 

What is the rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution of the story "The Bet"?

In order to determine the pieces of the story line for any
story, you must be able to identify the main conflict.  In
this story, the conflict is between the lawyer and the banker.  It is, the bet they make
concerning the more humane choice: capital punishment or life imprisonment.  In order to
settle the bet, the lawyer agrees to voluntary imprisonment for 15 years.  The questions
the reader should be asking are: "Who will win?  Will the lawyer last the full 15
years?  What will happen as a result?"  These questions lead to the understanding of the
rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.

The
rising action of a story is the events and complications
that lead to the climax.  In this story, it is the details of the lawyers imprisonment. 
Notice how things start off relatively easy (and in fact, seem positive).  As the story
progresses however, the lawyer gets mentally and physically weaker.  This story actually
has an anti-climax, which is when the banker (who has lost
all of his money in the 15 years) decides he will kill his prisoner in order to avoid
serious debt.  The actual climax, however, is when the banker finds the lawyer in his
cell with a note before him, announcing his intentions to leave just before his
imprisonment is scheduled to end, therefore forfeiting his winning of the
bet.

The falling action
includes the banker hiding the note in a safe, his hatred of himself, and the empty
prison cell the next morning.  The resolution to the actual
conflict in this story is somewhat left to the reader.  Who actually won?  It turns out
the lawyer lasted the full fifteen years (save 5 minutes), but in
the end decides it would have been better to die than to endure it.  The banker is
released from the debt he should owe the lawyer, but is left with a
sense of guilt, defeat, and self-hatred.  So who really won?

If Montressor had met Fortunato during the day instead of at dusk, what is the outcome that would result from a change in setting?

The main thing I think would happen here is that the whole
story would feel less foreboding and spooky.  I think that if the two of them had met in
the middle of the day, it would have not felt like something bad was about to happen --
at least not so much.  Even though bad stuff can happen in broad daylight, we tend to be
afraid of the dark just because it seems spooky.  That is, I think, what the difference
would be.

I suppose that you could argue that if it had
been the middle of the day, maybe Fortunato would not have been so drunk.  Maybe if he
had been sober, Montresor would not have been able to trick him so easily.  To me, this
is the main possible reason for a totally different ending to the story.  However, it
was carnival time and Fortunato could have been drunk at any time of the day seeing as
how he seemed to like to drink a bunch.

What contexts and values of her times does Jane Austen examine in Pride and Prejudice?

Some contexts of her time that Jane Austen examines in
Pride and Prejudice are the military, farm laborers, and estate
wills. Austen is unique in that she does not discuss externals directly, either in terms
of descriptions or social contexts. She does however allude to or indirectly infer some.
The presence of the Regiment in Meryton alludes to England's military involvements.
Pride and Prejudice was written between 1796 and 1798. In most
immediate proximity to the writing period, England signed a treaty in 1795,, which was
ratified in 1797, with the United States guaranteeing that England would remove its
regiments from the US Northwest territory. In 1796, General Bonaparte led the victory
against Austria; though England was not involved, this was nonetheless part of the
military context of the times.

Regarding farm laborers,
when Elizabeth visits Rosings, it is made quite clear that Lady de Bourgh takes an
active interest in overseeing the running of her estate and the lives of her farm
laborers. Darcy's housekeeper alludes to the same overseership of farm laborers when she
says,

"He is
the best landlord, and the best master," said [Mrs. Reynolds], "... There is not one of
his tenants or servants but what will give him a good
name."

Property laws, and
particularly entailment of estates away from the female line, are alluded to through the
presence and role of Mr. Collins, who would have married one of the Bennet girls in
order to keep the property in the Bennet family.

Values
that Austen examines are contained with her themes: love and marriage; pride and
prejudice; wealth and prestige; middle class wealth. Love and marriage are examined
through every major character from the ill-behaved, scandalous Lydia, Wickham and Mrs.
Younge to the practical and ridiculous Charlotte and Mr. Collins to the proud and
prejudiced Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy. For example, Austen examines the necessary link
between love, marriage and society when Colonel Fitzwilliam informs Elizabeth that his
position in life depends upon his marrying a wealthy upper class woman because he is a
penniless earl’s second son who, as such, cannot inherit lands, title, or wealth. Austen
examines the relationship between love, social standing, independence, and marriage
through Charlotte's decision to marry Collins for independence and position without any
love being involved--good will stands in the stead of love in Charlotte's attachment to
Collins.

Wealth and prestige follow the examination of love
and marriage in Austen's novel. The issue enters  into every relationship and problem.
For example, Bingley is worthy of a marriage with a gentleman's daughter because his
father was successful enough at a trade to be significant wealthy to give his children
lives of privileged independence. He thus came to represent the newly risen wealthy
middle class. The Gardiners further represent the connection between wealth and
prestige. Gardiner is a tradesman; Elizabeth scorns to think of Darcy or the Bingleys
enduring a relationship with such an individual:

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Mr. Gardiner was a sensible, gentlemanlike man,
... [They] would have had difficulty in believing that a man who lived by trade, and
within view of his own warehouses, could have been so well-bred and
agreeable.

Yet, after Darcy's
change in inner character, it is with Gardiner's help that he rescues Lydia, thus
emphasizing a newly begun re-evaluation of wealth and social
prestige.

What is Old Major's main idea or purpose in Animal Farm?

Old Major's main idea is to make the animals aware of a
transformative vision of reality.  His primary purpose was to suggest to the animals
that they can be the agents of their own state of being on the farm.  The vision Old
Major proposes is one that calls for the overthrow of the humans that own the control of
the farm.  In his vision, Old Major seeks to inspire the animals to no longer be
relegated to the periphery of decision making, but actually move to the center.  In
teaching the animals the song, "Beasts of England, Old Major reaffirms to the animals
that they can collectivize to cause change.  This is something that his "disciples" like
Snowball and Napoleon take to heart in the acting upon the call for revolution.  Old
Major's main idea is one that serves as the catalyst for the events that follow and the
advancement of the plot of the novel.

What verbs and adjectives describe the actual combat of the soldiers in the poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Lord Tennyson?

You would do well to read through this famous and
excellent poem yourself to identify the fight scene. This occurs in the fourth stanza,
and pay attention to how the diction (word choice) emphasises the bravery and courage of
the soldiers who were part of this famous charge in the Crimean
War:

Flashed
all their sabres bare,

Flashed as they turned in
air

Sabring the gunners
there,

Charging an army,
while

All the world
wondered.

Plunged in the
battery-smoke

Right thro' the line they
broke;

Cossack and
Russian

Reeled from the
sabre-stroke

Shattered and
sundered.

Clearly Tennyson is
highlighting their bravery and prowess in the heat of battle. They are said to charge an
entire "army" and their sabres are described as "flashing" in the light as they attack.
The whole world (an apposite use of hyperbole) is said to "wonder" at this sight. They
"plunge" into the smoke and "break" through the line of enemies. Their enemies are
described as "reeling" from the onslaught and are "shattered and sundered." Clearly the
soldiers who participated in this most famous of military charges were immensely
effective, and yet in spite of this effectiveness we are left to question the meaning of
honour, bravery and valour when the price in human life is just so terribly
high.

Who was Dorothy Plunk and what happend to her?

Dorothy Plunk of course was the girl that Homer had fallen
in love with very early on in his high school career.  He studied with her and fell ever
more deeply in love with her as time went on but was broken hearted when his brother
took her out.  From that point on he vowed not to care for her anymore, but was
generally unsuccessful.

He writes that she (the girl whose
name isn't Dorothy Plunk but who the character was based on) went on to marry a
wonderful guy and raise a couple of wonderful daughters.  He writes that they are still
friends and that when he saw her again 25 years after their high school graduation, he
still loved her.

Does loud music affect the way students are able to learn their lessons?

The affect of music on learning has been widely researched
and there is a lot of variation in performance based on the type of music and the
setting where it is used.

There can be no two answers on
the question whether loud music hampers study. Loud music only distracts students and
diverts their attention from their work. But other research is less
conclusive.

In the case of educational programs on
television, music has been found to be able to maintain the concentration and attention
of listeners and therefore is useful. A preliminary study of the affect of music on
students while they are doing homework shows that light music of the students' choice
improves performance, though TV shows have been found to be very distracting. In a
classroom setting also light music was found to improve
performance.

Though inconclusive, the research done till
now does suggest a correlation between better performance while light music is being
played in the background.

The probability that a coin turns up heads when it is tossed is 1/2. Does that mean if the coin is tossed twice, we will get one heads?

The probability is 1/2 because there are only two
outcomes: heads or tails. Since it is equally likely that either a heads or a tails will
result from a coin flip, this means that the probability of either event is
50%.

You can compare probability to an average. Just
because the average grade in a class is 80% doesn't mean that if you pick two people in
the class both will have a grade of 80%.

You know from
experience that if  you flip a coin twice, sometimes you get tails twice in a row. That
is because each time you flip the coin, the odds remain 1/2; the two flips
are independent of each other. The odds of getting tails twice in a row are 1/2 * 1/2 =
1/4. So 25% of the time you'll get heads twice in a
row.

The odds of flipping a coin 100 times, and getting 100
heads is 1/2^100 = 1/1.2676506 × 1030

But, if you've
already flipped a coin 99 times, and gotten heads each time, then the odds of your next
flip being heads is still just 50:50.

However, if you have
actually flipped a coin 100 times, probably you will have gotten heads about 50 times
and tails about 50 times, because this is the most likely average outcome. But, it
doesn't have to be like that.

In paragraphs 6 and 7 of "The Ballad of Father Gilligan," what did Father Gilligan do and why?

W.B.Yeats' "The "Ballad of Father Gilligan" is a moving
story of how God comes to the rescue of a sincere priest whose only concern is the
salvation of the souls of his
impoverished parishioners.

Father Gilligan who was
exhausted in fulfilling his priestly duties day and night during an epidemic in the
Irish countryside,  either  in giving the last communion to his poor parishioners who
were dying in large numbers or conducting funeral services for them,  was at home
one evening taking a well deserved rest and had dozed off in his
chair.

Just as Father Gilligan had dozed he was disturbed
from his sleep by the urgent call of another dying parishioner. Wearily, Father Gilligan
began to grumble and murmur about his lack of rest:

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'I have no rest, nor joy, nor
peace,
For people die and
die;

But the very next
instant he checks himself seeks God's forgiveness and kneels down by the side of his
chair and begins to
pray:

And after cried he,
'God forgive! My body spake, not
I!'

Father Gilligan
seeks God's forgiveness for his murmuring and grumbling by saying that it was his weak
and fatigued body which complained and not his spirit and mind which were keen to save
the souls  of the dying villagers. As he continues to pray he  is completely overwhelmed
by sleep. The tired Father Gilligan slept the entire night kneeling down by the side of
his chair.

In stanza 6 early in the morning, at dawn he
woke up to the cheerful sound of the chirping
sparrows:

Upon the time of sparrow-chirp When the
moths came once more. The old priest Peter Gilligan Stood upright on the
floor.

In the 7th stanza Father Gilligan wakes up
from his sleep and realizes that he has fallen asleep even while he was kneeling down
and praying - he was so tired and exhausted. He realizes that he has not attended to the
dying request for the last communion of one of the villagers and saddles his horse and
rushes off in a tearing hurry to administer the last communion to the dying villager and
thus hoping to save his
soul:

'Mavrone, mavrone!
the man has died While I slept on the chair'; He roused his horse out of its sleep, And
rode with little
care.

Poor Father
Gilligan realized his mistake and rushed off to the house of the dying parishioner, only
to be greeted by the dead man's widow with the news that he had actually come earlier on
and had ministered the last communion to the dying man and by doing so had ensured the
salvation of his soul:

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The sick man's wife opened the
door,
'Father! you come
again!'

It is then that he
realizes that God the Creator had taken pity on him who had worn himself out completely
in His service, had sent an angel to minister the last communion to the dying
man:

'He Who
is wrapped in purple robes,
With planets in His care
Had pity on the
least of things
Asleep upon a
chair.'

Solve for x : sin3x=2sin^3x

sin3x = 2sin^3 x

First we
will rewrite:

sin3x =
sin(2x+x)

But we know that
:

sin(A+B) = sinAcosB +
cosAsinB

==> sin(2x+x) = sin2xcosx +
sinxcos2x

But sin2x =
2sinxcosx

==> sin3x = 2sinxcosxcosx + sinx (1-2sin^2
x)

                = 2sinxcos^2x + sinx  ( 1- 2sin^2
x)

                =2sinx ( 1-sin^2 x) + sinx ( 1- 2sin^2
x)

                 = 2sinx -2sin^3 x + sinx - 2sin^3
x

==> sin3x = 3sinx - 4sin^3 x = 2sin^3
x

    ==> 3sinx = 6sin^3
x

Divide by 3

==> sinx
= 2sin^3 x

==> 2sin^3 x - sinx =
0

==> sinx( 2sin^2 x -1) =
0

==> sinx = 0 ==> x = o, pi,
2pi

==> sin^2 x -1 =
0

==> sin^2 x =
1/2

==> sinx =
1/sqrt2

==> x = pi/4 ,
3pi/4

==> x = { 0, pi/4, 3pi/4, 2pi }
+ 2npi  n= 0, 1, 2, ....

What is the probability that a number selected at random from the set {2, 3, 7, 12, 15, 22, 72, 108}will be divisible by both 2 and 3 ?

Given the numbers : 2, 3, 7, 12, 15, 22, 72,
108

We need to determine the probability of choosing a
number divisible by 2 and 3.

Let us determine which numbers
in the set are divisible by both 2 and 3.

2 ==>
divisible by 2.

3 ==> divisible by
3

7 ==>
None

12 ==> divisible
by 2 and 3

15 ==> divisible by
3

22 ==> divisible by
2

72 ==> divisible by 2
and 3.

108 ==>
divisible by 2 and 3

The bold font numbers are the numbers
divisible by both 2 and 3.

Then the probability of getting
a number that is divisible by 2 and 3 = the total number of elements divisible by 2 and
3 / total number of elements

==> P = 3 /
8

Then the probability is
3/8

In To Kill a Mockingbird, what metaphors are there in chapters 1-3?

A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a comparison is
made between two unlike things that actually have something in common. The first person
style of writing gives the novel a wonderful format in which to use imagery.  The novel
To Kill A Mockingbirdis full of
literary elements like metaphors and similes.  Harper Lee was a very image heavy
author.  Her imagery makes one feel like they were truly going through the story with
Scout, Jem, Aticus and the rest of the characters. Ms. Lee was once asked about her
beautiful style of writing and whether or not she would ever write another novel.  She
is quoted as saying that she said everything she had to say in
To Kill A Mockingbird.

In the
first chapter of To Kill A Mockingbird
there is a statement make by Scout.  She
says,

"Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town
when I first knew it." pg 11

Later in the same chapter Jem
tells Dill,

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"Lord, what a name." "your name's longer than you
are.  Bet it;s a foot
longer."

Later in the same
chapter one Scout describes Mr. Radley with a
metaphor;

"He
was a thin leathery with colorless eyes, so colorless they did not reflect light."
(pg18)

At the end of the
first chapter Scout describes the Radley house;

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"The old house was the same, droopy and sick,
but as we stared down the street we thought we saw an inside shutter move.  Flick. A
tiny, almost invisible movement, and the house was
still."

These are just a
couple of the myriad of metaphors in the novel

What is the indefinite integral of y=3x^2+2x-1 ?

We'll write y = f(x) and we'll compute the indefinite
integral of f(x):

Int f(x)dx = Int (3x^2 + 2x
-1)dx

We'll apply the property of integral to be additive
and we'll get:

Int (3x^2 + 2x -1)dx = Int 3x^2dx + Int
2xdx - Int dx

We'll re-write the sum of
integrals:

Int (3x^2 + 2x -1)dx = 3Int x^2dx + 2Int xdx -
Int dx

Int (3x^2 + 2x -1)dx = 3*x^3/3 + 2*x^2/2 - x +
C

We'll simplify and we'll get the indefinite integral of
y=3x^2+2x-1:

Int (3x^2 + 2x -1)dx = x^3 +
x^2 - x + C

Explain the Biblical parable of the talents that Milton refers to in his poem "When I consider how my light is spent".

In the poem commonly known as "When I consider how my
light is spent," John Milton refers to a Biblical parable found in the books of Matthew
and Luke.  In this parable, a man was preparing to leave on a lengthy trip and entrusted
three of his servants with differing amounts of money in his absence. One servant
received five talents, one received two talents, and the final servant received one
talent.

Each of the first two servants chose to invest the
money entrusted to him and ended up doubling the amount given him.  The last servant,
who had been allotted one talent, chose to hid the money, rather than risk or venture
anything.

When the "lord of those servants" returned, he
called them to him and was thrilled with the cunning of the first two servants.  Because
they had acted wisely, he promoted them.  The servant who had hidden his money told his
master that he had been frightened and hidden the money.  The master was furious and
ordered that he have the talent taken from him and given "unto him which hath ten
talents."

Is "The World Is Too Much With Us" a Miltonic sonnet?

I'm not sure what you mean by a "Miltonic" sonnet, but
this sonnet connects with Milton's sonnets in that it is an Italian sonnet in form: it
consists of two sections, an Octave with rhyme scheme abbaabba, followed by a Sestet
with various rhyme schemes (here cdcdcd).  Another term often used to identify the form
of this kind of sonnet is "Petrarchan sonnet," and both Petrarch and Milton tended to
use the Octave to set forth a problem or proposition, then to answer it in the Sestet,
as Wordsworth does here.  Wordsworth's "London, 1802" actually speaks of wanting to
bring John Milton into the speaker's time period, in order to help him save them from
the decadence and impersonalization of the industrialization of England, so perhaps you
could call this poem "Miltonic" in the sense that its complaint is similar to the one
offered in this sonnet, which so laments the industrialized "progress" of London that
the speaker wishes he were a pagan nature-worshipper who could retreat into the
countryside and become lost, I suppose, in nature.  Granted, Milton often used the names
of classical gods to make religious connections in his poetry, but that device --
especially in Renaissance poetry like Milton's-- is very different from Wordsworth's use
of paganism in his poetry.  My answer is that it would be more accurate to call "The
World Is Too Much With Us" an Italian or Petrarchan sonnet than a Miltonic sonnet, but
to the extent that Milton did write Italian/Petrarchan sonnets, I suppose some
might call it "Miltonic."

The sum of all odd #'s between 2 and 30.

  Odd numbers between 2 and 30 would be the
sequence:

3, 5, 7, ....,
29 

 The sum of odd numbers from 1 to n, where n is an odd
number, formula is:

1 +3 + ....+ 2n-1 =
n^2

then,

1 +3+....+ 2(15)-1 =
(15)^2

by subtracting 1 from both
sides:

3+5+...+ 29 = (15)^2 - 1 =
225-1=224

the sum of the odd numbers between 2 and
30 equals 224

Please explain the relationship between a hypothesis and an experiment; how do independent and dependent variables differ?

Scientists use the Scientific Method as a systematic
approach to discovery. First, a tentative explanation is made to explain some
phenomenon, this is called the hypothesis. Second, the hypothesis must be tested by the
process we call experimentation. Simplicity is important to try and avoid influences of
variables.

If the results of the experiment support the
original hypothesis, then it is accepted as true. If not, then the hypothesis is
rejected.

If other researchers can duplicate the results of
the experiment, then the hypothesis is widely accepted. A hypothesis that has gained
high levels of confidence is considered a law or theory.

Describe the two main steps of the French Revolution.How would I describe the scene of the revolution?

The French Revolution began in June 1789 with the Third
Estate's members convening in what has come to be known as The Tennis
Court Oath, a pledge signed by them that would effect a new
constitution.  This oath, which was a revolutionary act, was an assertion that political
power derived from the people and not from the monarchy.  The oath signified the first
time that French citizens were in opposition to the
monarchy.

The second event of the burgeoning revolution
is the march to and attack on the Bastille in July,
14, 1789.  Since the old prison held only seven prisoners [Dr. Manette is one], the
attack was more figurative than literal.  It signified the end of royal authority and
most prisoners in the Bastille were political ones.  After this storming of the
Bastille, the Declaration of the Rights of Man was written.  After some conflict between
liberal assemblies and a conservative monarchy intent, a republic was proclaimed in
1792. 

Monsieur and Madame DeFarge participate in the march
upon the Bastille. In Book the Second, Chapter 21, Madame DeFarge is
in

...the
howling universe of passion and contention that seemed to
encompass....

When an old
grim officer falls dead, Madame DeFarge  becomes "suddenly animated" and, placing her
foot upon his neck, and with her"cruel knife--long ready--hewed off his
head":

Saint
Antoine's blood was up, and the blood of tyranny and domination by the iron hand was
down--down on the steps of the Hotel de
Ville....

How does O'Brien's interrogation of Winston in the Minstry of Love relate to the destruction of rational thought as a prominent idea in the novel?

In 1984, George Orwell's ominous
vision of the near future, Winston Smith, the protagonist, finds himself in a world that
actively seeks to suppress any attempts to think independently.  As an employee of the
Ministry of Truth, Winston sees the evidence of these attempts.  As part of his job,
Winston "rectifies" past newspaper articles that provide information possibly damaging
to the Party and to the reputation of Big Brother.  In addition, Syme, a colleague,
actively works to develop a revised dictionary of Newspeak, an abbreviated language
intended to weed out any language with even shades of ambiguity in its meaning, thereby
eliminating the majority of the words in the English.  These efforts ultimately result
in filtering not only the information the general population receives about its
government and its foreign relations but also the very language in which it is
expressed.  As a result, the average person only sees what the Party wants them to see,
and the average person, having an increasingly smaller vocabulary, cannot formulate any
resistance to the Party.  They literally cannot express
themselves.

Winston is well aware of these possible
consequences when he meets Julia, someone he feels has a similar attitude toward the
Party as he does.  During their "relationship," they endanger their "freedom" by
speaking out about the Party (though semi-cautiously).  Ultimately, they are turned in
and sent to the Ministry of Love.  In O'Brien's interrogation of Winston, he seeks to
break down the foundations of Winston's knowledge.  In its place, O'Brien seeks to build
a epistemological structure based on "truths" held by the Party, with the ultimate
result being Winston's inability to question ideas put forth by the
Party. 

Orwell provides numerous instances throughout
Winston's interrogation to this effect.  Perhaps the most noteworthy is O'Brien's
ability to convince Winston to accept that "2+2=5."  This clearly runs counter to
accepted mathematical truth.  It represents the destruction of rational thought in the
sense that the possibility that "2+2=4" is not discounted, for, according
to "doublethink," one can hold contradictory ideas at the same time.  Furthermore, it
brings all of Winston's assumptions into question, replacing them with ideas without any
rational basis.  Their only basis is that the Party mandates them as truth.  The
individual's ability to reason is replaced by the will of the Party - no thought
needed. 

What does "State Sovereignty" mean?

I assume that you are asking this in the context of the
field of International Relations (because of other questions you have asked).  In
international relations, the idea of state sovereignty is the idea that the state (the
government of the country) has complete authority over what it does within its
territory.

The idea of the sovereign state is one of the
bases of modern international relations.  It assumes that, for example, the United
States cannot simply tell China to free Tibet or to stop cracking down on internal
dissent.  Because China is a sovereign state, it has the right to do whatever it wants
within its borders.

State sovereignty, then, is the idea
that each state is sovereign within its borders and can therefore do what it wants in
terms of its domestic policies.

solve the linear system 4x-y+12=0 3x-y+6=0

We'll re-write the equations of the system, isolating the
variable y to the left side:

The equations
are:

y = 4x + 12 (1)

y = 3x +
6 (2)

We'll put (1) = (2)

4x +
12 = 3x + 6

We'll isolate x to the left side. For this
reason, we'll subtract 3x both sides:

4x - 3x + 12 =
6

x + 12 = 6

We'll subtract 12
both sides:

x = -12 + 6

x =
-6

We'll substitute x in
(2):

y = 3*(-6) + 6

y = -18 +
6

y =
-12

The solution of the system is: (-6 ,
-12).

How does self-deception function as a coping mechanism for the Lomans in Death of a Salesman?

I think that the idea of believing in appearances over
reality plays a major role in all of the characters in Miller's drama.  Part of the
particular strength of the drama is how each character is shown to be predisposed to
focusing on what can be as opposed to what is as a result of the matrix of their states
of being in consciousness.  It might be easy for the reader/ audience to criticize the
characters for doing this, but in assessing the configuration of their own lives and the
circumstances in which the characters are placed, the recognition of self- deception as
a way in which life is lived is understandable.  Willy's pursuit of a dream that never
quite materializes or embracing something that has no real chance of happening is
something that defines his state of being where self- deception is a means by which to
cope with the reality that surrounds him.  In a way, Biff deceives himself in blaming
his father for all of his woes.  In being able to deceive himself in blaming his father,
Biff does not have to fully embrace the responsibility of progressing down a path
whereby he must face his own failure.  Linda might be guilty of her own form of self-
deception.  She understands that her husband and her sons might be embracing a sense of
delusion and se;f- deception, but she facilitates this in perhaps deceiving herself in
believing that this is what a supportive mother and wife is supposed to
do.

Is social class "natural" or constructed?

In an everyday scenario, we all know that money does not
buy class. It can purchase a good enough costume to make it look like someone has class,
but behavior is often the key of whether one will be accepted or not in certain
society.

In a scenario such as Daisy Miller's, her world is
quite different than ours. As a nouveau-riche, Daisy has been able to basically
"purchase" her ticket to join the high society. However, this high society we are
talking about is quite different from what Daisy is used to knowing. For once, these
high class individuals such as Winterbourne and his peers are closely related to the
aristocratic classes, or have strong ties with their European ancestors. This is
especially true of the early 20th century New York dutch-tied society as shown, for
example, in Edith Wharton's Age of
Innocence.

Due to these strong ties to Europe,
the American nouveau-riches had the money, but not the connections to establish a strong
peerage with powerful families. Hence, what many of them did was to become patrons to
poor aristocrats that would benefit them with a European
connection.

All this being said, Daisy still lacks all the
elements she needs to succeed as a bona fide member of the upper crust of society: She
lacks the needs that they have to preserve an image of superiority and power. Hence,
while they display behaviors that date back to their proud ancestry, she displays the
behaviors of, well, a nouveau riche. This is both shocking and annoying to most upper
class people. This is also the reason why it was easier for Winterbourne to dismiss
Daisy than what we as readers would have expected.

I need help to write an essay on the works of John Keats, his poetry, and his letters.

There is a great deal of space in which you can play with
this topic.  It seems wide open.  I would focus on how the letters and poetry of Keats
really stresses the idea of Romanticism and Keats' own place in the pantheon of
literature.  Part of what makes Keats' work so powerful is that he was so young and was
only a part of the literature scene for so little time.  Yet, he fully grasped his
function on this stage and understood his place amongst the greats.  His letters reflect
this grasp of English Literature and his place within it, while his works reflect the
same reality.  I think that this deep and profound understanding of the history of
Romantic literature is something that defines him as a Romantic thinker.  It is this
aspect that can receive significant attention in any paper.  While all of the Romantic
thinkers and writers understood their place in their own movement, Keats was one of the
few that helped to integrate the Romantic movement into the consciousness of Western
Literature.  Much can be written on how Keats brought this out in his writing and in his
personal correspondence.  This makes Keats a product of his time and a reality that
transcends it.

Should Johnny and Ponyboy be charged with murder or manslaughter? Why?

Johnny and Ponyboy should not be charged with murder or
manslaughter, however, given their social status and economic situations, they probably
would have.  I agree that any decent lawyer would have claimed self-defense, if the
girls had the courage to testify in court, this defense would have held.  I often
wonder, given the place and time, if any lawyer would have done so and if the girls
would have willingly stood up for them.  Money and social status are often strong
elements that impact legal outcomes for this setting.

What is the poet's intent and message in the poem "Flower-Fed Buffaloes" by Vachel Lindsay?

In "The Flower-Fed Buffaloes," Vachel Lindsay is singing a
lament (i.e., a mournful song of sorrow)  in poetry for the buffalo which were driven
off or hunted to extinction by the advent of the power of Western civilization's
Industrial Revolution and the engines it porduced. Lindsay's intent is to mourn the
passing of the buffalo and all that sustained them, the "prairie flowers" and the
"perfumed grass," along with all those whom they sustained, the "Blackfeet" and the
"Pawnee" tribes, now "lying low." Lindsay's intent is bound up with his message, which
is that while Western civilization progresses forward and gives increasing opportunity
to Western people, there is a cost attached to the forward push in which "locomotives
sing" and the natural environment is "swept away by wheat." The cost is in reduced life
and freedom for animals, the buffalo; flora, the prairie flowers; natural habitat, the
"tossing, blooming, perfumed grass"; and other human beings, non-Western human
beings:

With
the Blackfeet lying low,
With the Pawnee lying
low.

What is the value of the definite integral of x^2/(x^3+1)^2 from x = 1 to x = 2?

Let f(x) = x^2/(x^3+1)^2

We
need to find the integral of f(x) from 1 to 2.

Let F(x) =
Int f(x)

==> The definite integral
is:

I = F(2) = F(1).

Let us
determine F(x).

==> F(x) = Int = x^2/(x^3+1)^2
dx

Let us assume that x^3+1 = u ==> du 3x^2
dx

==> F(x) = Int (1/u^2) *
du/3

               = Int du/
3u^2

                = (1/3) Int u^-2 du = (1/3) u^-1/-1 =
-1/3u

==> F(x) =
-1/3u

Now we will substitute back u= x^3
+1

==> F(x) =
-1/3(x^3+1)

==> F(2) = -1/3(8+1) =
-1/27

==> F(1) = -1/3(1+1) =
-1/6

==> I = -1/27 + 1/6 = -2/54 + 9/54 =
7/54

Then the definite integral is
7/54.

In Henry V, what kingly attributes does Henry reveal with his dealings with Cambridge, Scroop and Grey?

It is absolutely vital to remember that this play is as
much about the makings of a perfect king as it is about anything else. Henry has a lot
to prove. Remember how he was famed for his dissolute days with Falstaff and how he
disappointed his father. Now, he is the King of England, and as such, he needs to show
that he can act like a King. This of course involves incredible harshness when
necessary. In Act II scene 2 this does become necessary, as his three most trusted
friends, Grey, Scroop and Cambridge have been found out to be traitors and Henry must
face them, administering justice.

He does this by giving
them a hypothetical situation and asking for their opinion: should he show mercy to a
man that drunkenly insulted him? Although he is inclined to show mercy, his three
friends all strongly advise him to punish the man harshly. However, as he hands them the
papers with the information about their treachery on it, and they plead for mercy, he
tells them that:

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The mercy that was quick in us but
late

By your own counsel is suppressed and
killed.

Henry has to show
himself strong and unyielding. His personal attachments must not enter into what he does
as King here. We can almost see the other faithful advisers in this scene, Bedford,
Exeter and Westmore-Land, watching carefully whether Henry is able to administer the
justice that he needs to administer on his friends, especially his former
"pillow-fellow," Scroop. Some productions have Henry really upset and torn in this
scene, doing what he knows he has to do, yet angry with his former friends for putting
him in this impossible situation. Either way, this scene is an important part of Henry's
path to becoming the perfect King.