Please offer a critical interpretation of Sonnet 78.

The speaker in Spenser's Amoretti, Sonnet No
78 feels a separation from his beloved deeply, wandering “from place to
place,’lyke a young fawne that late hath lost the hynd” (lines 1-2). The poet’s usual
motif of the predator and prey is here transformed into that of a baby deer for its
mother. He longs to be near to her, and so seeks out those places she has recently
frequented: “the fields” where she has recently walked and “her bowre with her late
presence deckt” (lines 5-6). However, he can only find reminders of her, which in turn
remind him of her absence and he finds himself “but fed with fancies vayne” (line 12).
He resolves at last to stop looking to the outward world to remind him of her presence,
and instead to turn his eyes inward, that he might “Behold her selfe in mee” (line 14).
It is within himself that the most perfect picture of his beloved resides, so it is
there he will search for the idol of his love.

In this
sonnet occurring towards the close of the sequence, the poet-lover seems rather passive,
caught up in his memory and desire, wandering in a trance, looking for his beloved in a
fanciful hunt from place tp place, only to discover her in his own
mind.

Can anyone please define "coyle" for me, as in "lord, what a coyle he kepes" in The Two Noble Kinsmen? Thanks!

'Coyle' is an obsolete spelling of a now obsolete usage of
the word 'coil'! In the 16th century, it was a colloquial expression, which fell into
literary usage. It means 'confusion', 'din', 'disturbance' or even 'turmoil'; 'to keep a
coil' means to make a disturbance.

The jailer's daughter is
speaking of her love for Palamon, and so uses the term metaphorically, to mean the
turmoil that her feelings create in her heart. It is something over which she has no
control, hence she says 'what a coyle he kepes' - making him the active
agent.

In To Kill a Mockingbird, what do Dill's lies about his father add to the children's lives?

I will answer this question, because you can only ask one
question at a time.  Dill lies because he desperately wants to have a real family. 
Dill's father left, and it deeply affected him.  Dill has a mother and no father, and
the Finch children have a father and no mother.  It is natural that the three children
would find each other, since they are close in age and all similarly inquisitive and
intelligent. 

Scout and Jem know that Dill is making up
everything he says about his father, and he knows that they know.  The descriptions of
his father are just part of the vivid fantasy life that all three children inhibit when
Dill is in town.

For the narrative, Dill accomplishes a few
things.  First of all, he allows the children to explore Boo Radley's story because they
introduce Dill to it.  Second, he provides the children with opportunities to move the
story along, including the night Jem left his pants at the Radley's house and during the
trial.  Dill's situation also adds to the theme of family explored throughout the book,
because Dill's story line involves another unhappy family.  When Dill's mother
remarries, Dill feels left out and unloved, so he is able to return to the Finches, his
true family.

What did the American Anti-Slavery Society think of the war with Mexico according to "A People's History of the United States"?According to Ch. 8

The American Anti-Slavery Society, like many in the North
did not like the war with Mexico at all.  The society and others felt that the only
purpose for the war was to help slavery.  They thought that the war would only help get
more territory in which white people would be allowed to own
slaves.

The society felt this because all of the land that
might be taken from Mexico would, of course, be in the South.  Since the South was where
slavery existed, it was natural to fear that any land added to the southern part of the
US would also have slavery.

For this reason, the
Anti-Slavery Society believed that the war was meant only to extend slavery.  Therefore,
it strongly disapproved of the war.

What are the different types of journeys in The Kite Runner?

Hassan has to journey back to his childhood hut after
being attacked by Assef and his friends. He was retrieving the prized, defeated kite for
his friend for whom he would do anything. His friend, Amir, witnessed the attack and did
not intervene in fear. The journey home represents the turning point in their
relationship of best friends. Despite Hassan's apparent injuries and emotional distress,
Amir does nothing to help him. Amir turns from his friend toward another
path.

The journey of escape from Afghanistan of Amir and
his father to the US represents a major turning point in the father-son relationship.
Amir becomes the son he always wanted to be to the father who has crumbled from his once
superior status in the Afghan society.

Amir's journey back
to Afghanistan to redeem himself by saving Hassan's son is his path to redemption for
betraying his childhood friend. Through this journey, Amir is able to bury his past
transgressions and forge a path to the future. With the love of his wife and the slow
recovery of his dead, best friend's traumatized son, Amir will find peace inside,
something he has not felt since childhood.

How do I get the full version of "White Angel" by Michael Cunningham?I am trying to do a research paper on Michael Cunningham's short stories and I...

You have 3-4 options for obtaining a copy of this
text.

"White Angel" is a short story that was first
published in the July 25th edition of The New Yorker in 1988.  In
order to read the full story online, you would need to purchase or
use someone's subscription to access all of it.  It is possible that a teacher in your
school or a local librarian could get this for you.  You might also check your local
library to see if they have back copies of this magazine (as many
do).

Cunningham's novel A Home at the End of the
World, published in 1990, is the expanded version of this short story.  The
short story is one of the first chapters of the entire novel.  Finally, "White Angel"
was later selected for publication in The Best American Short
Stories of 1989, which can also be found at many public libraries. 

What is Ulysses' opinion of retirement in "Ulysses"?

The construction of Ulysses in Tennyson's poem is one that
dislikes retirement.  Essentially, Tennyson constructs a character who cannot return to
the life of domesticity.  After enduring so very much in his trials to get back home,
Tennyson argues that Ulysses would have a difficult time putting this aside and
returning to the life of the simple husband and father in Ithaca:  "Tennyson’s Ulysses
refuses to accept a gentle death... He returns home with his men but becomes bored and
leaves again."  For Ulysses, retirement is something to be dreaded because it helps to
deaden the sensibilities that helped to forge and create greatness.  The idea of being
retired, or remaining home, is one that Tennyson's Ulysses rejects because it denies the
opportunity to touch greatness, to achieve a level of arete or
glory that would never be achieved with the banal domestic life featured in retirement. 
In the closing lines of the poem, this is the most evident as Tennyson's protagonist
goes back out on the dangerous seas "to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." 
This ending rejects retirement seeing it as the static life, as opposed to one of
dynamic vitality.

Calculate the volume of hydrogen gas at rtp liberated at the cathode in the electrolysis of acidified water by 18 moles of electrons.(One mole of...

At the cathode the positive H+ ions accept an electron and
are converted to H; as hydrogen is not stable as an individual atom, it immediately
combines with another H atom to form the stable H2
molecule.

For the formation of each H2 molecule we need 2
electrons.

18 moles of electrons can help convert a
quantity of H+ ions equal to 18/2 = 9 moles. The 9 moles of hydrogen gas that are formed
due to the 18 moles of electrons occupy a volume equal to 9 times the volume occupied by
a single mole of hydrogen gas.

As one mole of any gas at
rtp occupies 24 dm^3, 9 moles of hydrogen occupies 9*24 = 216 dm^3 of
volume.

The volume of hydrogen gas liberated
at rtp due to 18 moles of electrons is 216 dm^3.

In Frankenstein, what does Elizabeth say in Justine’s defense?

On Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,
Elizabeth had the very tough task of having to identify the locket that William had
before his death, and then somehow ended up in Justine’s possession. This could have
proved that Justine committed the murder, since there would not be any other reasonable
way to explain how she ended up with the locket that the child was wearing prior to his
death.

However, Elizabeth was clear in her position. She
defended Justine and was very keen in expressing the reasons why she completely trusted
and believed in her. Not only did she explain how Justine had a natural tendency to take
care of people, but that she had nursed Madame Frankenstein during her ill days, and she
was the epitome of love and joy for the entire family, especially to
William.

In Elizabeth’s
words:

For my
own part, I do not hesitate to say, that, notwithstanding all the evidence produced
against her, I believe and rely on her perfect innocence. She had no temptation for such
an action: as to the bauble on which the chief proof rests, if she had earnestly desired
it, I should have willingly given it to her; so much do I esteem and value her.
(Frankenstein, chapter
8)

Therefore, Elizabeth
pointed out Justine’s lack of motif, her impeccable behavior, and her natural tendencies
for caring and loving people in order to try to convince the jury that there was no way
nor reason for Justine to be found guilty of murdering
William.



What inspires Walter's daydreams?

James Thurber, the author of "The Secret Life of Walter
Mitty," never openly tells us what inspires his hero's
daydreams.

The dreams are prompted by
little things that Mitty does in real life.  For example, his dream of being a fighter
pilot is prompted by his reading about warfare in a magazine; his dream about facing a
firing squad is prompted by his standing momentarily in front of a brick
wall.

What really inspires Mitty's
dreams?  It would seem that he is stuck in a boring, mundane life, tied down to a
nagging wife.  His only escape is to dream.

The Mitty who
appears in the daydreams is daring, calm, and highly skilled.  He is a surgeon who saves
lives, a fighter pilot who flies "forty kilometers through hell," and a condemned man
who fearlessly faces a firing squad.  All of this is in sharp contrast to the real
Mitty, who can't remember a shopping list, who tangles chains around his tires, and who
mutters "puppy biscuits" as he walks around a shopping district.

In Inferno, Dante compares Paolo and Francesca to doves. Canto 5, lines 82-87. Why do you suppose Dante uses such a sympathetic image for the...

I think that your assertion that the dove is a sympathetic
symbol is an assumption. Dante draws from plenty of classical sources; in classical
myth the dove is associated with Venus (eros as opposed to the caritas of the Holy
Spirit). Note also that Dante is careful to say that Francesca and Paolo come from "the
flock where Dido is" (85; Musa's trans.). Dante wants us to
recall Book IV of the Aeneid
here.

That said, the idea that the dove is part
of a series of images and words that convey sympathy certainly fits in with the
psychology of the entire episode. In telling the first part of her story Francesca uses
the language of the courtly love tradition to attempt to excuse her sin (while what she
actually says reveals that she first praises her own beauty and ends by wishing her
killer be buried in hell.) Her graceful speech has the intended effect: it leads to the
Pilgrim becoming dazed by (false) pity. She then readily agrees to his request to give
the precise details of what led her and Paolo into giving into lust. It is enough to
make him faint and fall to the ground, symbolically becoming one of the
damned.

After all, the lustful are higher up in the second
circle precisely because theirs in a common, "warm-hearted" sin of indulgence as opposed
to sins such as treachery. While Dante is honest about how easy it is to fall into lust,
the end of the episode--with the Pilgrim on hell's floor like a dead body--clearly shows
that the two lovers deserve their condemnation.

Would you consider Barbara Allen's treatment of Jemmy Grove to be cruel or not?

I assume that you are talking about the fictional story of
Barbara Allen that has been made famous by folk songs and such.  A version of that is in
the link below.

If this is the whole story (and I have not
heard or seen any versions of the song that differ greatly from this) then I would say
her treatment of him is partly cruel and partly not.

Her
original attitude towards him is not cruel.  If he really loved her so much (that he
would die because of her scorn) then why did he "slight" her when making toasts?  In
addition, it's not her fault that he had it so bad for her that he would waste away
because she's mad at him.

However, once she comes to see
him, she might as well have been a little nicer.  Sure, Jemmy said mean things to her
then, but he's dying -- why not be a bit nicer to him.  She could have said she was
sorry even if she wasn't.  She could have shown some compassion instead of basically
saying "you're dying and that's what you get for being rude to
me."

So I don't think that she was cruel to "make" him pine
away for love of her.  But I do think it was a bit cruel for her to act as she did as he
lay dying.

In "The Crucible" do you think Abigail alone was responsible for the Salem Witch Trials or did the blame lie with other people or situations?

There are many other people to
blame.

1.  The Putnams.  Mrs. Putnam was fixated on
assigning blame for the death of her children.  She had already resorted to witchcraft
to find out who "murdered" her children, so was quick to jump on the accusation
band-wagon.  Thomas Putnam, we learn in act three, had been "prompting" his daughter to
cry out against people whose land he wanted to take when they were
imprisoned.

2.  Reverend Parris.  Quick to blame those who
didn't like him, and to try to win favor in the town by being a lackey to the judges,
Parris often sided against the townspeople, asking incriminating questions and giving
the judges prejudiced backstories on people brough into the courts.  He also
conveniently left out the fact that his own niece had been caught dancing and concocting
spells in the forest; desparate to protect his reputation, he didn't tell this
information.

3.  Danforth and Hathorne.  These judges often
rejected logical fact, devised tricky scenarios and questioning, and refused to hear
testimony that would prove the innocence of so many that were accused.  Once it became
clear the accusations were false, they clung to their pride, refusing to recant
convictions, so that their reputations wouldn't be
foiled.

Those are just a few people that contributed, and
were all too happy to jump in and ride the wave of accusations. I hope that helped; good
luck!

What kind of defenses might a defense attorney us to defend the clients in the following scenario?An elderly woman resisted a purse snatching near...

The main focus of a defense that could be mounted for
these individuals would have to be on predicated on the lack of motive--that is, there
was no intent on the part of the individuals to inflict serious injuries on the victim,
and certainly not death.

The problem with such a defense,
however, is that the theft involved an assault.  Pushing an elderly woman to the ground
so that a crime could be successfully perpetrated will likely be considered aggravated
assault, given the woman's age and the defendants disregard for an injury even simple
assault could cause, which probably rules out a charge of involuntary
manslaughter.

Depending on the prosecutor, a charge
of third degree murder is not out of the question, as the jury will be very
sympathetic.  I could probably avoid conviction based on the lack of intent, but all the
prosecutor has to do is establish that the defendants committed the robbery and assault,
and they would likely get a conviction on any charge lesser than
murder.

Some might be tempted to highlight that the woman
resisted the theft, but try selling that one to a jury and you'll be in trouble.  I
think the best chance for an acquittal would be to raise reasonable doubt that the
defendants were at the scene at all.

Explain fundamentalism and the Scopes Monkey Trial.

Below is a link to a very good discussion of this topic. 
Please follow it.

Fundamentalism in the 1920s grew out of
worries on the part of "traditionalists," especially in non-urban parts of America. 
They saw a new culture growing up around jazz, illegal drinking, flappers, and other
such things.  This made them fear that their traditional values were under
attack.

Many fundamentalists saw the teaching of evolution
as part of this attack.  Teaching evolution contradicted, in their minds, the truth of
the Biblical story of Adam and Eve.  Because of this, some states, like Tennessee,
banned the teaching of evolution.  It was in response to this ban that the ACLU got John
Scopes to be part of a test case.  The case was meant to publicize the law in hopes of
overturning it and others like it.

What is Karana's father's name?

In this book, Karana's father is the chief of the
island.

At the beginning of the book, the Aleuts and their
Russian captain come to hunt for sea otters on the island.  When they get there, they
come on shore and talk to Karana's father about what they will pay for the otters and
other such "business" matters.

When the Russian captain
identifies himself, Karana's father answers by giving his name.  He says his name is
Chief Chowig.

Karana is shocked because that is her
father's secret name and he has told it to a stranger.

In Macbeth, what effect is created by beginning the scene of Lady Macduff and her son's murders by showing the two in an affectionate family scene?

Opening the scene in which Lady Macduff and her son are
slaughtered with them talking to each other serves several
purposes.

In relation to their slaughter later in the
scene, their conversation introduces them to the audience and allows the audience to get
to know them.  This, of course, makes their deaths that much more horrific.  We may be
especially drawn to Macduff's son, who comes off as intelligent and witty, if a little
bit stiff.  The murder of this child then demonstrates the heights Macbeth's treachery
has reached.

Through their dialogue, however, other
purposes are accomplished as well.  The question of Macduff's leaving his family
unprotected is raised by Lady Macduff.  She is angry at Macduff and can't believe he
would leave them unprotected.  Malcolm of course echoes this sentiment when he at first
doesn't trust Macduff in Act 4.3, citing his leaving his family unprotected as possible
evidence that he is in league with Macbeth, and therefore his family is not at
risk. 

The son's words in his conversation with his mother
also further the theme of the unnatural, fair is foul and foul is fair, and opposites. 
The liars, as he points out, certainly are more numerous than those that are not
treacherous.  Virtually everyone in the play except the Macduff's are acting throughout
the play, putting on a false face. 

How is the Animal Farm movie different from the book?

There was a movie version made in 1955, but I have not
seen that one recently so I will discuss the more recent made-for-tv adaptation from TNT
in 1999. One of the most significant differences between the two versions is in the
narration.  The book has a third person narrator that is not quite omniscient.  The
movie is narrated by Jessie, a Border Collie.

The plot of
the movie basically follows the book, although there is some creative license taken. 
For example, the movie shows propaganda films made by the pigs after they discover that
the television keeps the animals entertained.

What are some things that other characters say that are really opinions of Atticus in chapters 1-7 of To Kill A Mockingbird?

One of the first opinions that originally came from
Atticus was what Scout says in chapter 2 about the Cunningham family.  She says that
they don't take anything from anyone unless they know they can pay them back.  She said
that "they never took anything off of anybody, they get along on what they have."  She
learned that from Atticus when she found Mr. Cunningham bringing different food items
and firewood to pay him for his services.

In chapter 3,
Atticus tells Scout that in order to understand others, she had to "climb into his skin
and walk around in it."  Scout tries to do this with Miss Caroline to understand her
better, and she does it with the Ewells when trying to figure out why they get to hunt
and trap out of season. 

Then in chapter 7 Scout once again
tries to use this rule to understand Jem and why he wouldn't talk to her after he
brought back his pants when he lost them at the Radley fence.  In the same chapter, Jem
has the idea of writing a thank you note to the person leaving them gifts.  That sounds
like something Atticus would suggest, so that could also be considered Atticus'
influence.

Describe the narrative technique employed by Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice.

In this novel Jane Austen adopted the direct or epic
method of narration in which she employs the third person narration.As the events of the
novel are concentrated around the actions of Elizabeth,it can be said that she is being
used as a focalizer.Austen's technique of using focalization allows the readers to build
up a relationship with Elizabeth so that we can better relate to and sympathise with her
feelings.

Influence of drama is clear in the present
novel.One critic have tried to demonstrate how the actions of the novel can be divided
in five acts of drama.She uses dialogues to make her characters speak for themselves
while she overhears them and narrates everything to her readers in a manner of a
drammatist.It has been said ofPride and Prejudicethat many pages of the novel can be
read as sheer poetry of wit and irony.

The plot of
Pride and Prejudice is a neatly constructed one.Then the plot is
highly symmetrical also.

Letters are used as a dramatic
device in the novel to further the plot,aid in the revelations of characters and in the
exposition of theme in this novel.

Austen is a master at
ending each chapter in the novel with a bang,providing great humour or insight into a
character within few lines giving a greater impact because of the fact that it is the
conclusion to each little situation.

In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, how does Gawain express or show generosity and where is it in the poem?

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magnaninous

The first example
of generosity I see on Gawain's part is his willingness to take up arms for King Arthur;
he begs permission to stand rather than having Arthur defend the court against the Green
Knight's challenge.

In the first book (section 15), during
the Christmas feast, when no one else stands except the King, Gawain offers himself,
which I see as a generous gesture.

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Gawain, sitting by the
queen,
could tell the king his
mind:
"Lord, hear well what I
mean,
and let this match be
mine."

Gawain
requests permission to take the match with the Green Knight from Arthur, and fulfill the
challenge himself.

In Book Two (section 24), Gawain speaks
to the knights who are so worried for them. Instead of feeling sorry for himself or
making a fuss for his own fate, he generously comforts those around him, telling them
not to worry on his account:

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But Gawain said with
cheerful face:
"Why shrink back from the
quest?
Though fate bring glory or
disgrace 
A man must meet the
test."

In the
second part of Book Two (section 35), Gawain is generous with his praise to those who
have so kindly welcomed him to Bertilak's castle, and helped him out of his
armor:

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He nobly acknowledged each of those
knights, 
proud men close-pressed to honor a prince.

At the end of the
same passage, Gawain meets his host and is generous of spirit, calling down blessings on
the man, and joining him in a friendly embrace:

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"God bless you," said
Gawain then, 
"And Christ repay your
grace." 
They met like joyful
men
in open-armed embrace.

As a "true and
gentle knight," Gawain is generous in his manner with King Arthur, and down to the
lowliest of servants at Bertilak's castle. While everyone looks to see if he will be a
honorable a man as the Arthurian knights are rumored to be, Gawain is true to his oath
to chivalry and Arthur's court.

What are the true identities of the Duke of Bilgewater and the Dauphin in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?What clue does Twain give to their...

At the end of Chapter XIX of The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn, Huck comments on the conversations that he overhears
between the two men who have jumped into the skiff that he has taken
ashore: 

It
didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liaars warn't no kings nor dukes, at
all, but just low-down humbugs and
frauds. 

While their true
names are never revealed in Twain's novel, Huck recognizes them for con men as they
speak of the reasons why they have been run out of town.  The younger, who claimes to be
the Duke of Bilgewater has been selling a substance which removes tartar from teeth;
however it also removes the enamel.  The older man, who boasts of being the Dauphin, the
son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and the rightful King of France, has been leading
a temperance league, but has been discovered
drinking.

Since the two men have "big fat ratty-looking
carpet-bags," Huck suspects that they are carpetbaggers, or opportunists, who have come
to the area to take advantage of the unsuspecting.  Besides this observation, Huck
recognizes the two men as similar to his Pa,

If I
never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his
kind of people is to let them have their own way.

Can Of Mice and Men be compared to someone else's work from the Lost Generation?

John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men
exhibits many characteristics basic to others created by authors of the Lost
Generation. One that comes to mind immediately is Sherwood Anderson's
Winesburg, Ohio. The characters in both novels are lonely,
isolated, and filled with longing. There is an aimlessness to their lives, and they find
it difficult, if not impossible, to establish true connection with other people, for
reasons both within themselves and in their
environments.

In Of Mice and Men,
Lenny and George are itinerant ranch hands with no place to call their own.
They dream of having their own place, but though they work tirelessly, they do not
achieve it. Lenny and George are more fortunate than many because they have each other's
companionship. Still, that companionship limits George's ability to connect with others,
as he has taken on the responsibility to care for Lenny, who is developmentally
handicapped. Lenny's handicap makes it necessary for the two to move around constantly;
his propensity for not knowing his own strength gets him into trouble time after
time.

A parallel character in Winesburg, Ohio,
is Wing Biddlebaum in the story "Hands." Wing's "handicap" is that he uses
his hands in ways that are misunderstood, and are considered by some to be
inappropriate. Although he means no harm, his inclination to touch makes others
uncomfortable, and ultimately leads to his banishment from his hometown. He spends the
rest of his days in Winesburg, where, afraid of his own natural tendencies, he lives
friendless and alone. The only one who even talks to him much is George
Willard.

The theme of isolation in both books extends
beyond the main characters. In Of Mice and Men, Candy is old and
disabled, terrified of reaching the point to where he can no longer work, Crooks is set
apart because of his race, and Curley's wife is hungry for freedom, adventure, and love.
In Winesburg, Ohio, Enoch Robinson is consumed with fear over how
others perceive him and his family, Dr. Reefy is a lonely man who falls in love with a
married woman, Elizabeth Willard, whose life is similarly unfulfilled and lonely.
Sherwood Anderson directly names the characters he has written about, calling them
grotesques. Grotesques are people who are doomed to live in
isolation because of forces they cannot control; it is clear that the characters in both
books are grotesques.

Where do Johnny and Ponyboy go when they leave the park?

I assume that you are asking about what happens in Chaptr
4.  In that chapter, Johnny and Pony have gone to the park separately to avoid
situations at home.  They find each other there are are about to leave when the Socs
jump them.  Johnny ends up killing Bob Sheldon.

After that,
the two of them are kind of panicked about what is going to happen to them.  They leave
the park to go find Dallas Winston.  They think Dally will have a plan to get them out
of trouble.  He is at the house of a friend, Buck Merrill.

Is there the conflict between the savage and the civilized in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights? Explain.

In Emily Bronte's novel, Wuthering
Heights, I believe there is a conflict between the
savage and the civilized.

Heathcliff is brought to
Wuthering Heights by its master, Mr. Earnshaw; his two children are Catherine and
Hindley. When Heathcliff, an orphan on the streets of Liverpool, comes to live with
them, he undoubtedly appears "savage," while Hindley probably
sees himself as a decent, civilized young man. Hindley becomes
jealous, growing to resent Heathcliff.  When Hindley and Catherine's father dies,
Hindley comes back to the Heights with his wife, and treats Heathcliff like a servant,
savagely turning on him; in some ways, Heathcliff is more
civilized.

Catherine, who was bitten by a dog at the
neighboring estate, has to remain there for five weeks. When she returns, she is
different: in dress—and in her manner toward Heathcliff. She agrees to marry Edgar
Linton, their neighbor. This subtle rejection (which she blames on her brother's poor
treatment of Heathcliff, making him something he was not before)
probably seems savage to the insecure Heathcliff. When he overhears
Catherine speaking of it...hearing only a portion of the discussion...he feels
rejected.

Heathcliff runs away, returning some time
later—educated, with money. At this point of the story, Heathcliff becomes savage. He
never gets over the loss of Catherine. And he becomes obsessed with gaining ownership of
Wuthering Heights. Hindley loses the Heights to Heathcliff while gambling. This is only
one part of Heathcliff's savagery. He marries Isabella Linton, Edgar's sister, only to
get her inheritance. She becomes so afraid of her husband that she leaves the area to
get away from him, even while carrying his child.

Years
later, Heathcliff's final act of savagery occurs with Catherine's grown daughter.
Catherine has died, and young Catherine one day visits Wuthering Heights where she meets
Heathcliff and Hareton (Hindley's son), and again sees Linton, Heathcliff's son.
Eventually, Heathcliff forces Linton and Catherine to marry, and then forces Linton to
sign all of the properties he and Catherine own over to
Heathcliff.

Had Heathcliff had the opportunity to grow up
under the watchful care of Mr. Earnshaw, he would have been able to handle himself in a
much more civilized fashion. He is, however, a product of his environment when Hindley
turns on him after his father's death, and Heathcliff is changed forever. Even had he
been able to hold onto Catherine, he might have been saved, but he loses her as
well.

Hindley represents that part of society, the
well-to-do heir, who should have been a gentleman, but his petty
jealousies and drinking push him to drive Heathcliff out; he gambles away the Heights,
losing everything. But in light of these events, Heathcliff also behaves savagely to get
what he wants, after losing Catherine. In would seem that savagery begets savagery in
this story.

In "A&P," what does Queenie's wearing a bathing suit represent?This is for a character analysis in literature, cannot really see any symbolism...

In John Updike's "A & P," Queenie and the other
girls's intrusion into the grocery store attired in only bathing suits causes quite a
stir among customers and mangerial staff alike within the 1950s setting.  That the girls
have not covered themselves with  beach robes or other cover-ups seems unusual, not to
mention intentional.  Queenie's entrance, especially, represents an act of rebellion. 
Described by Sammy as stepping deliberately in her bare
feet,

putting
down her heels and then letting the weight move along to her toes as if she was testing
the floor with every step, putting a little deliberate extra actioninto it. You never
know for sure how girls' minds work....but you got the idea she had talked the other two
into coming in here with her, and now she was showing them how to do it, walk slow and
hold yourself straight.

In
her attempts to appear seductive, and tease any of the men, Queenie's straps to her suit
are off the shoulder "looped loose over the cool top of her arms."  Clearly, Sammy ogles
her with desire as he remarks, "...I mean, it was more than
pretty."

When the manager, Lengel, approaches the girls and
tells them "Girls, this isn't the beach," Queenie blushes, revealing her embarrassment
at her charade.  Her voice, too, betrays her, sounding "flat and dumb yet kind of tony,
too" and she makes excuses, saying "We weren't doing any shopping. We just came in for
one thing." Clearly, Queenie small act of bravado has failed, perhaps presaging Sammy's
act of rebellion which finds him outside with the
apprehension,

I felt how hard the world was going
to be to me hereafter.

Could you please analyse this relating to Of Mice and Men: Lennie

Bereft of the love of family and friends, a place in the
world, and personal dignity, the itinerant worker of the 1930s Great Depression
possessed little hope of any future.  Steinbeck's setting of Soledad, California,
metaphorically expresses the terrible aloneness and alienation of these "bindle
stiffs" who wandered throughout the state in search of work.  Because this work was
seasonal and only temporary, the men learned to plan on nothing, for it was unrealistic
to do so.

Lennie, however, is not truly cognizant of the
plight in which he and George, exist as itinerant workers.  Child-like in his simplicity
of thought, Lennie is generally content as he has a good friend with George, who, like a
parent, assumes the responsibility of providing for their existence. Therefore, it is
not out of character for Lennie to fantasize and to perceive an impratical idea as a
real possibility.

While Lennie has George recite the dream,
much as one recites a fairy tale over and over for a child, this recitation makes George
start to believe in it. But, it is only Lennie's great faith in the dream of a ranch
which creates this possibility.  Once Lennie, the keeper of the dream dies, so dies the
dream for George and the others because they are left only with the reality of
their lives since the magic of the dream was only in Lennie's
mind.

How were the Native Americans and White people depicted in The Searchers and Dances with Wolves?

You are accurate in suggesting that both films depict each
group opposite of one another.  In Ford's work, Native Americans are shown as savage
terrorists while justice and honor have to be instilled by white men.  In this
depiction, the Native Americans lure the men away from their homes, savagely kill their
families, and commit wrong.  It is the white men who have to painstakingly hunt down the
Indians to restore justice, righting the wrongs that have been done.  Native Americans
are depicted as a demonizing form of "the other," a force to which fear and repression
can be the only responses.  Costner's work almost inverts this.   White society is the
demon while the Native Americans are apotheosized.  In the end, I think that both films
capitulate to stereotypes of different time periods.  The 1950s sought to present a very
consensus driven vision of American History in which Native Americans would be the
"other" that contradicts the established vision of American exceptionalism.  The late
1980s was a period where the diversity of narratives began to emerge, contributing to a
conflict based expression of American History where the established "consensus" based
aspect had undergone significant revision.

How did the slave trade affect Africa's political structures?

The majority of the African slave trade consisted of
Europeans trading African tribes for slaves. The slave trade became so lucrative for
Africans themselves that they frequently waged war against other tribes in an attempt to
secure captives for the trade. Among those kingdoms who profited from the slave trade
was the kingdom of Ndongo, which Portuguese traders referred to as Angola, after the
title of the Ndongo King. Portuguese slaving efforts were opposed by a powerful Queen,
Nzinga, who dressed as a man and insisted her subjects refer to her as the King. On one
occasion, when she met with the Portuguese governor of Angola and he refused to offer
her a chair, she sat on the back of her servant while she negotiated with him.

What are the seasonal winds that play a large role in South Asia called?

Yes the right answer is "monsoon". I am giving below some
additional information on monsoon.

The name monsoon is
derived from a local name for these winds, which means seasonal winds. The monsoon blows
over the northern part of the Indian Ocean, especially the Arabian Sea, and over most of
the surrounding land areas.  The monsoon blows from the southwest from April to October,
and from the northeast from November to March. The southwesterly monsoon brings heavy
rains to southern and southeastern Asia, including Bangladesh, Burma, India, and
Thailand. Popularly the word monsoon is used only for these winds tha bring tain with
them.

Compare and contrast the crowd of men who gather outside the Finch home to those who gather in front of jail.This was in chapter 15 of To Kill a...

Interestingly, it appears that Harper Lee intends for the
reader to make this observation of the similarities and differences between the two
groups of men. For, the men of one group appear in the front yard of the Finch home
after supper in Chapter 15 as a preface to the others' appearing at the jail in Chapter
16 of To Kill a Mockingbird.

Among the
men who call Atticus outside from his house in Chapter 15 are Sherriff Heck Tate and Mr.
Link Deas, who owns the newspaper.  They are concerned about Tom Robinson's being put up
in the jail the next day, and want a change of venue for the trial.  But, Atticus thinks
that they are overly concerned, "Don't be foolish, Heck....This is
Maycomb."  Nevertheless, Mr. Deas says that he is worried about "that Old Sarum bunch"
who "get liquored up."  Atticus argues that they do not usually drink on Sundays, and he
holds to his conviction that Tom deserves a fair trial.  There is a murmur of discontent
and the men move closer to Atticus.  However, when the phone rings, Jem shouts to his
father and Atticus tells him to answer it, laughter breaks up the crowd composed of
people that the Finches observe every day:  merchants, in-town farmers, Dr. Reynolds,
and even Mr. Avery.

On the following evening at the jail,
though, it is a much different crowd that Scout and Jem, who follow Atticus out of
concern for him, observe.  These men have their collars pulled up and hats dragged down
over their ears so they will be indistinguishable from one another.  Scout remarks
that there is "a smell of stale whiskey and pigpen" in the air, and when she looks
around, she realizes the men are strangers to her: 

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They were sullen, sleepy-eyed men who seemed
unused to late hours.

When
Scout finally recognizes Mr. Cunningham, he looks away as she speaks.  This crowd of men
do not wish to be individualized as were Mr. Tate and Mr. Deas. Forming a semi-circle
around Atticus, they become a mob, possibly equipped with weapons since they have on
more clothes than necessary for the weather.  But, again the children mitigate the
tension as this time Scout speaks to Mr. Cunningham.  As he is singled out, Mr.
Cunningham becomes uncomfortable and no longer wishes to threaten Atticus Finch, who has
always treated him fairly.  So, he motions to the others to go, and they follow his
lead.  This action also is in contrast to the other men at the Finch home, who each
laugh and disperse of his own will.

please describe the solar system, what is it made of? and how was it formed?include details about all the planets: including:- - the dwarf...

according to popular believe there was a big bang, where a
massive ampunt of debre was shot into space, this debre had a slight rotation which over
millions of years began colliding into each other increasing the size of individual
atoms.

they increased in size to become large rocks and
eventually asteroids, these asteroids collided into each other to farm even larger
bodies of mass which began to form planets.

during this
time the centre of the solar system was just this very dense area, thermonuclear fussion
gave birth to our sun which consists of about 90% of our solar system, some bodies of
mass failed to collide with others to form planets and instead were captured by the
gravitational force of planets which then made them to become natural satellites (moons)
which orbit that specific planet.

planets closer to the sun
(terrestrial planets) developed a solid surface because the planets were are heated by
the sun and most elements could not remain in solid or liquid
phase.

outer planets (jovian) developed a liquid surface as
their temperatures were cooloer and elements could settle easier, the jovian planets
having a relatively large size compared to terrestrial planets have much higher
gravitational pull and atmospheric pressure which allows some elements like hydrogen to
exist in a liquid metallic state. 

dwarf planets developed
primarily from colliding asteroid but did not reach a size large enough to be considered
a planet, even today there are still many asteroids which orbit the sun in the asteroid
belt...

What is the role of supernatural machinery in The Rape Of The Lock?

The role of supernatural machinery in this mock epic is
key. The chief sprite, Ariel, is presented as the commander of the sylphs and other
faeries who are trying to work hard to protect Belinda and to prevent fate taking its
course. Ariel appears in Canto I in a dream to Belinda, warning her to beware of pride
and men, but then again, after Belinda has appeared in society Ariel appears with his
army of faeries and tells them to be wary because it is clear something terrible will
happen on that day:

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This day, black omens threat the brightest fair

That e'er deserved a watchful spirit's care:
Some dire disaster,
or by force, or slight;
But what, or where, the Fates have wrapp'd in
night.

The job of these
sylphs and supernatural beings is therefore to do everything they can to prevent
calamity by protecting Belinda, and particularly her lock of hair which ends up being
cut. Of course, the supernatural machinery in this text is used by Pope to establish his
mock epic. The fact that supernatural armies of faeries have to work so hard to prevent
such a "calamity" shows that he is poking fun at Belinda and the way that the "rape of
the lock" was made into an event of such importance, whereas in reality it was nothing
at all. The supernatural machinery is thus used by Pope to reinforce his central
message.

What are three ways Holden changes as a character? (Use examples).

Hi, stb:

This is a tough
question, because in The Catcher in the Rye you could make the case
that Holden doesn't change much at all.  Really, he's a critic of society (but not of
himself) throughout the entire novel.  In the end, he regrets telling us his story at
all, which shows that he is very conservative and in denial of change and maturity.  In
short, he's a reluctant hero not ready to cross the threshold into the adult,
illegitimate world.

If I had to choose only three (3) ways
in which he changes, it would be:

1)  He doesn't commit
suicide, like James Castle.  Because of Antolini's advice ("The mark of a mature man is
that he lives for [a noble cause]"), Holden refuses to romanticize his own death.  He
refuses to martyr himself for the phony culture.

2)  Holden
refuses to enter that adult world of sex.  He hires the prostitute Sonny only to talk to
her.  In short, he wants to protect his and her innocence.  By losing his virginity, he
might have been swallowed up and drowned in the adult world
completely.

3)  Holden chooses to live for Phoebe, his
sister, instead of kill himself for Allie, his brother who died of leukemia.  Holden
lives with survivor's guilt, and he can't turn to adults for help.  So, he looks to
become a surrogate parent to his little sister, a type of therapy and a noble
cause.

What is the theme of section/chapter 9 in Night?

The theme of God and what the role of divinity is in the
Holocaust is something that we see throughout the narrative.  In particular, we see it
in the last section.  The fact that Eliezer is freed could represent the presence of God
and the redemptive power of the divine.  Yet, this is undercut in several manners,
similar to Eliezer's faith having been undercut in many instances throughout the
narrative.  The fact that Eliezer has lived when all of his family has perished, and
enters a new world of post- Death camp consciousness alone would represent an
abandonment that is not consistent with divine grace.  When Eliezer looks into the
mirror and cannot recognize what he sees, it might also remind the reader of the theme
of maturation and change along with the idea of the divine.  The last time Eliezer was
able to see his own reflection, it was complete with a faith in God, a belief in the
power of the absolute.  Yet, what he sees in the mirror is a being that can no longer
fully embrace or understand what has happened in terms of his relationship with the
divine.  The feeling of forlornness is reminding of the theme of God that has been
developed throughout the narrative.

Find the length of the line segment AB if A(2,-4) and B(-2,1)

Given the line segment AB such that the coordinate of A is
( 2,-4) and the coordinates of y is (-2,1)

We need to find
the length of the line segment AB.

We will use the distance
between two point formula.

==> We know that D= sqrt[
(x1-x^2)^2 + (y1-y2)62]

Now we will substitute with A and
B.

==> D = sqrt[ (2+2)^2 +
(-4-1)^2]

           = sqrt[(4^2 +
5^2]

           = sqrt(16+25) =
sqrt(41)

==> D= sqrt41 =
6.403

Then, the length of the line segment AB
is sqrt41=6.403

How does the author of "The Parable of the Prodigal Son" convey its meaning?I'm trying to figure out what literary devices are used to show the...

[I have tried to find a separate group for this excellent
parable, but unfortunately it appears that such a group does not exist, so I will leave
this question in The Bible group, though of course this parable
comes in "The Gospel of Luke" in the New Testament.]

When
we think about understanding this parable, it is important to realise how it functions
allegorically. On a literal level, the return of the younger son who has done so much to
harm is father, and yet receives unconditional forgiveness, clearly suggests that those
who repent their mistakes should be forgiven unconditionally. However, it is important
to consider what various characters and aspects of the tale symbolise to unlock the
meaning of the parable. We can safely assume that the younger son symbolises the human
sinner. His employment as a swineherd represents the way that humans can become
associated with unholy things (remember that pigs are considered unclean to Jews) and
the elder son's anger and resentment clearly symbolises his envy at his younger brother.
The long suffering father can be said to symbolise
God.

However, it is also important to realise that Jesus
said this parable to an audience that consisted of "sinners" and also the religious
elite of his day. Indeed, it is in response to hearing the disapproving murmurs of the
Pharisees and teachers of the law that Jesus tells this parable. Therefore we can
speculate that Jesus is challenging their notion of forgiveness by placing the tax
collectors and other sinners in the role of the younger son, and the Pharisees in the
role of the elder son. The elder son expresses just the same kind of dissatisfaction and
envy with the father and the Pharisees do to Jesus about his treatment of the sinners.
Vital to the parable though is a sense of parallelism. Both times the father goes out to
seek his son. However, whilst the younger son comes back and joins his father's house
once more, the elder son is left arguing with his father in the fields. The response to
the father's final words is left up to the Pharisees and teachers of the law. They can
either join their father and make merry, or remain in the cold.

How would you describe the character of Dexter as it relates to a theme of success in "Winter Dreams"?

One of the aspects of contemporary society that Fitzgerald
always seemed to write about, at least to some extent, is the American Dream. Here, in
this story, clearly Dexter is an excellent example of somebody from more humble roots
who, by hard work, manages to get ahead and become part of the "new wealth" of society.
He is clearly described as being different from the "old wealth" (those who inherited
their wealth rather than earned it):

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All about him rich men's sons were peddling
bonds precariously, or investing patrimonies precariously, or plodding through the two
dozen volumes of the "George Washington Commercial Course," but Dexter borrowed a
thousand dollars on his college degree and his confident mouth, and bought a partnership
in a laundry.

Note how Dexter
is compared to the "rich men's sons" who seem to be rather ineffectual in terms of
actually going out there and earning money. Dexter, on the other hand, shows that he is
"newer and stronger" by his get-up-and-go spirit.

However,
apart from his ability to make financial success come true for him, what is interesting
is that his "winter dreams" have focussed on attaining Judy Jones, not just becoming
wealthy:

It
did not take him many hours to decide that he had wanted Judy Jones ever since he was a
proud, desirous little
boy.

To him, Judy represents
the confidence and carelessness of the wealthy. Note key descriptions of Judy that
associate her with gold, such as "a slender enamelled doll in cloth of gold." Fitzgerald
is keen to associate her person with the dream of wealth and success that inspires
Dexter to quit his job at the beginning of the
story.

However, unfortunately, Dexter's "winter dreams" are
doomed to failure. When he hears of the loss of Judy's beauty, it appears that he
himself experiences his own loss of innocence and youth. As Dexter himself says, "That
thing will come back no more."

How is Daisy cynical in The Great Gatsby?

In The Great Gatsby, one example of
Daisy's cynicism is evident when she tells Nick the narrator about the birth of her
daughter.

She explains how dissappointed she was when the
baby turned out to be a girl instead of a boy.  She tells Nick that she mentally gave in
to her daughter's fate.  Very well, then, she says, her daughter must grow up to be a
beautiful little fool.  That's the only hope for a
female. 

The idea is that Daisy, and her daughter, are
women in a man's world.  Women had only recently even received the right to vote. 
Divorce laws were heavily weighted in favor of males.  Education was rare for females. 
Daisy suggests that the only way for a female to get ahead in American life at the time
is to marry wealthy, to be a beautiful little fool, look pretty, do what a man tells
her, and marry wealthy.  The American Dream is limited only to men.  The only way women
can take part, according to Daisy, is to marry a wealthy man. 

That's what Daisy had to do, of course, and she regrets
that her daughter will have to do the same.

Of course, only
some wouldcall this cynicism.  Others would say it's realism. 

What does Daniel dream of presenting to Rosh?

Daniel dreams of presenting a group of young men to help
push the Romans out of Israel. Daniel had once been a part of Rosh's group hiding in the
mountains. He is also a Zealot, like Rosh and his men, seeking to free fellow Jews from
the oppressive Romans. When he must return to his village to care for his sister and
becomes the village blacksmith, he forms a group of young men eager to fight the Romans.
He, along with his friend Joel and his twin sister Malthace, meet secretly with an
ever-growing group to undermine the Roman rule of their land. At times, Rosh contacts
them to assist in the cause. Daniel respects and loves Rosh, seeking his approval
because Rosh saved his life when he was young. Though he is beginning to question Rosh's
methods in seeking liberation, Daniel still dreams to giving Rosh a body of fighting
men.

Comment on male/female roles and expectations in Macbeth.

In Macbeth, men are at the top of the
Great Chain of Being, women at the bottom.  Here's the order at the beginning of the
play:

1. Duncan (King); 2. Malcolm (Prince); 3. Donalbain;
4. Macbeth; 5.  Banquo

So, this is clearly a patriarchy,
with males as Kings, Princes, and warriors.  Men fought in battle and women stayed
home.

Of the women, Lady Macbeth is ranked highest, but
still she is fairly low in order of importance.  Women's roles were domestic: to be good
hostesses and make babies.  Lady Macbeth is terrible at both.  She completely resents
her domestic role: she wants to be a warrior, or at least achieve the status of warrior.
 She doesn't want to be a man, but she definitely resents being a woman.  She
says:

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Come, you
spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex
me here,
And fill me from the crown to the
toe top-full
Of direst cruelty! make thick my
blood;
Stop up the access and passage to
remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of
nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace
between
The effect and it! Come to my woman's
breasts,
And take my milk for
gall, you murdering ministers,
Wherever in
your sightless substances
You wait on nature's
mischief!

So,
convincing Macbeth of murder is about the closest way for Lady Macbeth to get on the
"battlefield" and achieve status in this society.

The
lowest ranked, of course, are the witches.  Even if you consider them not supernatural,
just old hags, they are still at the bottom.  They are the equivalent of homeless
beggars or mentally ill patients.

But, after Macbeth kills
Duncan, Lady Macbeth becomes a queen and the witches become his advisors.  Though we
don't see the socio-economic benefits for these women, their status is clearly risen
after the toppling of the earlier patriarchal stratus.

Verify if the function is odd or even? y=17x^3-12x^2

A function is even if f(-x) =
f(x).

In other words, plugging in a number will be the same
as plugging in the negative value of the same number. The function is not
changing.

We'll analyze the given function, replacing each x by
-x.

f(-x) = 17(-x)^3 -
12(-x)^2

We'll compute raising -x to the 3rd and 2nd
powers and we'll get:

(-x)^3 = (-x)(-x)(-x) = x^2*(-x) =
-x^3

f(-x) = -17x^3 - 12x^2

So
we can see that:

f(-x) is not equal to f(x) which means
that the function f(x) is not an even function. 

We'll
check if the function is odd;

f(-x) =
-f(x)

f(-x) = -17x^3 -
12x^2

If we'll factorize by -1 we'll
get:

f(-x) = -(17x^3
+ 12x^2)

The expression inside brackets is not the function
f(x).

The given function is nor odd neither
even function.

why did Peter the Great want to have absolute power?

There must surely be a passage in your textbook that tells
you the answer that your teacher wants.  Otherwise, there would really be no way to know
for sure.  This is because people cannot ever really know what motivates other
people.

Peter the Great was an autocrat.  This means that
he wanted to be able to rule by himself, with no one to check his power.  This is in
keeping with the idea of the Divine Right of Kings.  This idea said that God had given
power to the royal families and that is why they deserved to rule.  This idea was still
common in much of Europe in Peter's time (and it persisted in Russia much longer than in
other parts of Europe).

So my answer would be that he
wanted it because he believed in the Divine Right of Kings.

Where can I find dialogue from the play Romeo and Juliet between two characters from the play, at least 20 lines long?This is for drama class

The first one I would consider, which is simply 4-5 lines
each back and forth would be the last 20 lines or so of Act I, scene 2.  It's between
Romeo and Benvolio and they are discussing crashing the Capulet party where Romeo can
compare Rosaline's beauty to others at the party.

The next
is Act II, scene 2, where Juliet starts with the famous "Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art
thou Romeo" line. They go back and forth through the famous balcony scene, and it would
be fun to do as well.

Another scene that would be fun would
be the bantering back and forth between Mercutio and Benvolio in the very beginning of
Act II, scene 4.  Neither one knows that Romeo is now in love with Juliet, and both are
worried about Tybalt's challenge to Romeo.  This would be good since they go quickly
back and forth as well--and Mercutio is always a fun character to
portray. 

Hope that helps!  Good
luck!

What are two statements of conflict in The Devil's Arithmetic?

In the book The Devil's Arithmetic,
Hannah opens a door and finds herself suddenly sent back in time to a polish
village where the Nazis have arrived.  On the day of a cousin's wedding the soldiers
come and load them into trucks and take them to the trains and send them to
concentration camps.

The first conflict with the Nazis
occurred on page 65 when the rabbi was told that they would have to accompany the
soldiers.

"He
spoke gently.”They insist that we go with them in those
trucks."(65)

Another conflict
occurs when they are all ordered to undress for the showers.  Hannah knows about the
showers sometimes being gas showers instead of ones to wash in.  She becomes afraid when
they are told to take all of their clothing off.  She stars talking about the
showers.

"Now,
all of you undress. Schnell!"(90) a guards
words.

What are the symbols that Frost presents in "Mending Wall"?

"The Mending Wall" is a poem that contains many symbols,
the chief of which is the mending wall itself. The mending wall can represent separation
or alienation--the walls that people construct to separate themselves from
others:

"Good
fences make good
neighbors."

Or it can
symbolize the adherence to ritual and routine even when the ritual or routine  no longer
serves any purpose: 

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There where it is we do not need the
wall

In addition, it may also
symbolize a unity or connection between people as both neighbors come together each
spring to repair the wall. 

The characters in this poem are
symbolic as well.  The neighbor is the symbol of tradition. He
will

not go
behind his father's
saying

while the speaker is
the symbol of creativity and rebellion:

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Before I built a wall I'd ask to
know

What I was walling in or walling
out.

These symbolic elements
work nicely in the poem to show the complexities of human interactions.  A balance
certainly is needed between connection and separation; ritual and whimsy, following
tradition and questioning it.   

What are the criteria for "evaluating fiction" ?

My favorite method is quite simple.  I like to forget
about literary terms and look at a bigger picture: How does the work of
fiction connect?

1a.  How does this fiction
of fiction connect to its reader (in general)?  Who is its audience?  Is the audience
real or imaginary, alive or dead?  Male or female?  Young or
old?

1b.  How does the work of fiction connect to you
(specifically)?  Emotionally, ethically, stylistically, thematically, how do you respond
to this work?  Do you agree with its thesis or premise?

2.
 How does the work of fiction connect to other works of fiction?  By genre, theme, tone,
character, setting, organization, does it match up with other
books?

3.  How does the work of fiction connect to the
world?  What makes it relevant now?  What current issues, lifestyles, controversies,
problems does it reflect in our culture today?

How does the feud in Romeo and Juliet contribute to the lovers' deaths?Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

The animosity between the Capulets and the Montagues
is only part of what contributes to Romeo and Juliet's becoming "star-crossed" lovers,
doomed from the beginning.  Even the light/dark imagery employed by Shakespeare in
Romeo and Juliet conveys this idea.  For, in the daytime, the
lovers are not safe together; only in the darkness can they love.  Thus, their secrecy,
forced by the conditions of the feud, leads to the complications that turn
to tragedy. 

Since Romeo cannot ask Lord Capulet for
permission to marry Juliet and secretly weds her instead, Paris unknowingly asks for the
hand of the young maiden. The complication of this marriage proposal to Juliet's life
cannot be resolved because Juliet dare not reveal to her mother that she has married one
of their enemies.  Thus, she panics and flees to Friar Laurence, who unwittingly sets in
motion the tragic events at her tomb.

When Tybalt, who has
become enraged by Romeo's presence at the party for Juliet, walks the streets of Verona,
his enmity causes him to engage in conflict with the loyal friend of Romeo, Mercutio,
who is fatally wounded during Romeo's well-meaning intervention. Without this enmity
between the two families, Romeo and Mercutio would not conflict with Tybalt,
and neither would be placed in danger.  Romeo's resulting banishment has resulted from
this conflict, a banishment that has caused him to remain ignorant of what transpires
with Juliet's supposed death.

Because of the feud and its
ramifications, Romeo is unable to defy the stars as he avows, in several circumstances. 
However, it is yet his impulsive behavior and rash judgment that leads to his tragic
end, not the feud itself.  Likewise, Juliet places herself in precarious situations
because of the secrecy she becomes involved in as a result of marrying a Montage; but,
again, she, too, dies from impetuosity, not hatred as she remains in the tomb instead of
accompanying Friar Laurence out of it.  There, she rashly decides to join Romeo in
death.

What are some insults in that the capulets and montagues use in the story ?Shakespeare insult : the montagues and the capulets carry on their feud...

Insults abound in Shakespeare's Romeo and
Juliet. I'll just list a few for you.

In Act
3.1.126 Tybalt calls Romeo a "wretched boy" just before they fight and Romeo kills
him.

In Act 3.1.56-57 Tybalt calls Romeo a "villain" a
little while before Tybalt kills Mercutio.

And in Act
1.5:73 Tybalt again calls Romeo a "villain":

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It fits when such a villain [Romeo] is a guest
[at Capulet's party]:...

This
is the party at which Romeo and Juliet see each other and instantly fall in love.  This
starts it all, of course, and leads to the two killings cited
above.   

What does "Alas! Poor Yorick. I knew him well," mean?

Yorick, in the scene you ask about (Act 5.1) in
Shakespeare's Hamlet, was more than someone who was once nice to
Hamlet, he was the court jester.  He bore Hamlet on "his back a thousand times" and was
kissed by Hamlet "I know not how oft." 

A court jester was
a clown who provided entertainment for the king and the royal household, but he was also
often a friend and confidant.  The role was one that allowed him to say whatever he
wanted to or thought necessary to the king, without fear of reprisal.  Perhaps, the
jester was the only person in the kingdom who could do
so. 

In Hamlet, Yorick apparently spent much time with
Hamlet when Hamlet was young. 

Importantly, notice that the
past has meaning for Hamlet here.  He has changed since his opening soliloquy in which
he compared the world to an unweeded garden (Act 1.2.135) and showed strong evidence
that he was suffering from melancholy, or depression.  All is not useless, now.  The
memory of Yorick has meaning for Hamlet.  And Hamlet misses
Yorick:

Where
be your gibes now, your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that were wont to
set the table on a roar?  Not one now to mock your own grinning?  (Act
5.1.165-170)

Of course, in
addition to Hamlet revealing that he misses Yorick, here, his line of thought also
contributes to his past contemplations of existence, and forward to the contemplations
to come:

Dost
thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i' th' earth?...And smelt so?  Pah!  (Act
5.1.175-78)

This is what
human life comes to, for a jester or a great conqueror.  But although Hamlet has not
stopped thinking and contemplating, he is not made inactive by his thinking.  In a
minute or two, he will leap into action and leap into the grave with Ophelia, and
declare:

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...This is I,

Hamlet
the Dane.  (Act
5.1.233-34) 

Hamlet has
changed in more ways than one.  From now on, as he says in Act
4.5.66:

My
thoughts be bloody, or be nothing
worth! 

Define Kirchhoff's law of radiation.

Kirchhoff's Law refers to the fact that all bodies own the
quality of emission and absorption. At a given temperature (T), in conditions of
thermodynamic equilibrium, the ratio of capacity of energy  and capacity of absorption
of a certain body is a constant value, equal to the capacity of emission of the absolute
black body, both, for radiation with a specific wavelength and for the total radiation
with different wavelengths.

Kirchhoff's law leads to the
following conclusions: a body that is a good absorber is also a good
radiant.

The perfect black body absorbs all of the amount
of radiant energy that falls on its surface. His capacity of absorption is equal to
1.

In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, what is the monster’s reaction when he sees himself reflected in a pool of water?

In chapter 4, volume II of
Frankenstein the creature was still in awe of the cottagers, and he
fully expressed his admiration towards them during his moments of reflection. He liked
their looks, their actions, and even the utterances that later he  identified as
words.

The creature was in a state of bliss. He was
connecting emotionally with the family and he created a fantasy in his head in which he
was one of the De Laceys. Shortly after he had begun to experience those feelings of
love and affection, he had the horrid experience of seeing his reflection in a pool of
water.

In the monster's
words:

...
but how was I terrified, when I viewed myself in a transparent pool! At first I started
back, unable to believe that it was indeed I who was reflected in the mirror; and when I
became fully convinced that I was in reality the monster that I am, I was filled with
the bitterest sensations of despondence and mortification. Alas! I did not yet entirely
know the fatal effects of this miserable
deformity.

The creature's
words demonstrate that he suffered two huge disappointments: First, having to break from
the fantasy world that he had created, in which he was a part of the De Lacey family.
Second, having to accept that he was a far cry from what he would have wanted to
be.

It must have been a devastating blow for the creature
to know that he possessed the needs, wants, and desires of a human and yet he had to
live hiding from humanity itself. The reflection in the water was more than just the
monster facing himself, but it also represented the creature's sad acceptance of his
reality and his destiny.

Can the parents be convicted of theft of the van in the follwing case?The parents of two children in state custody stopped a van in which the...

Yes, the parents could be convicted of theft of the van in
this case.  To see why this is so, we must look at the definition of theft that is given
in the link below.  It defines theft as

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A criminal act in which property belonging to
another is taken without that person's
consent.

What the parents did
clearly fits this definition.  First, the property clearly belonged to another.  Just
because the government is not a person does not mean that its property can be taken with
impunity.  Second, no one in authority consented to allow the parents to have the van. 
Finally, note that the definition does not say anything about how long the property must
be held.  The simple act of taking the property (which clearly occurred) constitutes a
theft.

Therefore, the parents could be convicted of theft
in this case.

What are the elements of fiction that are most available/recurrent in this story ?"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin

In Kate Chopin's masterful short story, "The Story of an
Hour," subtle foreshadowing and irony are certainly recurrent elements.  Environment as
a reflection is also employed by Chopin in parts of the
story.

Chopin's opening line, "Knowing that Mrs. Mallard
was afflicted with a heart trouble...." hints at a weakness of the heart that may cause
her problems when she learns of the death of her husband.  The irony here is subtly
hidden by Chopin's use of the article a.  For, as the reader later
learns, the heart trouble is not physical, but rather spiritual:  Mrs. Mallard's spirit
has been repressed for all the years of her marriage.

In
the second paragraph, again foreshadowing and irony pair together as Chopin
writes,

She
did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to
accept its significance.  She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her
sister's arms.  When the storm of grief had spent itself whe went away to her room
alone.  She would have no one follow
her.

The word
abandonment is ironic since the reader may infer that Mrs. Mallard
feels abandoned.  Later, of course, the reader realizes that Mrs. Mallard lets her
emotions free after so many years of repression.  Also, she wishes to be alone so that
she can digest the idea of her newly realized freedom, not that she wishes to mourn by
herself.

It is while she is alone in her room that the
environment acts as a reflection of Mrs. Mallard's inner moods.  That she can see the
"tops of trees" suggests that Mrs. Mallard can now look to the future.  And, the
internal changes taking place in her are mirrored by what she sees as she faces the open
window in her room:

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The delicious breath of rain was in the
air....The notes of a distant song ....patches of blue sky showing here and there...in
the west

The idea of being
free is "delicious" to her; the song and blue sky reflect her lightness of heart as she
looks to the west, a symbol of the rest of her life.

The
irony and foreshadowing of the original use of abandonment is
confirmed as, after Mrs. Mallard begins "to recognize this thing that was approaching to
possess her," Chopin writes,

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When she abandoned herslf a little whispered word
escaped her slightly parted lips...."free, free, free!"....Her pulses beat fast, and the
coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her
body.

Here, too, the reader
discerns that the "heart trouble" of Mrs. Mallard has not been physical at all.  Rather,
it has been a result of her stultifying marriage.

Again,
irony and foreshadowing recur as Mrs. Mallard
breathes

a
quick prayer that life might be long.  It was only yesterday she had thought with a
shudder that life might be
long.

The front door is
opened with a latchkey by Brently Mallard, "travel-stained,...carrying his umbrella." 
Mrs. Mallard, caught under his rule again, as symbolized by the umbrella, dies of
repression, "heart disease--of joy that kills."  In these final words, the foreshadowing
of earlier paragraphs and the irony and the reflective environment find their
culmination.

What is the importance of Curley's wife in the novel Of Mice and Men?

Curleys wife is an important character in the novel for
many reasons.

Number one:  She is often
misjudged, the other characters describe her as a 'jail
bait'.

Number two: She represents the theme of
loneliness in the novel. She is a lonely character, who in some ways, uses her beauty:
'full roughed lips' to attraction on all male farm, where the men to a great extent are
deprived of sex. Although, many of the men pay little attention to her, and Curleys
'glove' which he keeps 'for his wife' is symbolic of how little she means to him. Later
in the novel, she gains the attention of one man, Lennie, who has a strong physical
figure, but a mind of a child, which links to the contrasting title of the novel, 'Of
Mice and Men'. Lennie, like Curleys Wife is lonely, and he has his own American Dream of
owning a ranch. Towards the end of the novel both of the characters die with what they
enjoy most, and have so longed for. Curleys wife dies knowing that someone has
eventually listened to her, and gave her the attention shes crys for so deeply; and
Lennie dies with the thought of his own American Dream in his
mind.

Curley's wife character on the other hand
is like her husband. Curley's wife uses her beauty to try to attract attention on the
ranch from the men; but she gets little of it. In some ways, her 'full rough lips' and
use of make-up show that she is concealing a hidden personality, and that
this make-up gives her all of the confidence she has. Similarly, Curley is described as
wearing boots to (dont know the quote) higher his status on the ranch. Both characters
are very similar here in how they use clothes and appearance to boost their status, and
actually get attention.

Many people beleive Curley is a
horrible character, but in many ways he is very misunderstood, and his horrid ways maybe
the only way to attract attention and respect on the land.

How does Dickens attack the contemporary education theory in Hard Times?

Mr. Gradgrind is famous for his utilitarian philosophy of
education. His approach to instructing his "pitchers" is to try and produce robots that
operate without emotion, feeling or empathy, and only act based on "facts." Perhaps the
most interesting chapter to analyse with regard to his approach to education is Chapter
2 of Book the First, which is rather ironically called "Murdering the Innocents." His
approach to education can be summarised quite aptly by referring to his charges as
"pitchers" that were to be "filled full of facts." Note the following
quote:

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Indeed, as he eagerly sparkled at them from the
cellarage before mentioned, he seemed a kind of cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts,
and prepared to blow them clean out of the regions of childhood at one discharge. He
seemed a galvanizing apparatus, too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute for the
tender young imaginations that were to be stormed
away.

Note Dicken's critical
commentary on his belief that education should "blow them clean out of the regions of
childhood." Interestingly, he is described as being "charged with a grim mechanical
substitute," which illustrates his desire to form children into little machines that
behave according to quantifiable rules. Thus it is that a "horse" to the mind of Mr.
Gradgrind is easily defined as:

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"Quadruped. Graminivorous. Forty teeth, namely
twenty-four grinders, four eye-teeth, and twelve incisive. Sheds coat in the spring; in
marshy countries, sheds hoofs, too. Hoofs hard, but required to be shod with iron. Age
known by marks in
mouth."

Stripping such
objects of all fantasy, imagination and emotion, which of course is what Sissy Jupe
struggles so much to understand, fortunately.

However, as
the novel progresses, the shortcomings of this educational system are made abundantly
clear by the character of Louisa, who is a perfect product of her father's system, and
is left to live a life that she is not able to emotionally enjoy or appreciate, having
abandoned her own feelings so long ago.

What is Aspect in English grammar?

Aspect is a construction in
English grammar (not every language has aspect) that (1) relates to the passage of time
and (2) identifies whether actions (occurrences, events, states of being, etc) that take
place in time are completed or incomplete and continuing: If they are incomplete, they
are said to be continuing. There are four aspects in English. The first is
Indefinite Aspect, also called Zero or Simple
Aspect. In Indefinite Aspect, the action of the verb has no relation to the
passage of time; the verb is in its simple form (hence, Simple Aspect) and shows that an
action, etc. did or did not happen: I ate. She walks. He will not come. They do not
go.

The second aspect is Perfect
Aspect. It is important to know how to form Perfect Aspect and what
passage, or flow, of time this aspect indicates. First, it is formed with the auxiliary
verb have (have, has, had) plus the
-ed or
-t past participle of an infinitive
verb (regular or irregular, e.g.,
gone, arisen):
e.g., climbed, combed, went, spent. It may indicate the flow of time as past (had
climbed), present (have combed), or future (will have gone or will have
spent).

Perfect Aspect indicates a passage or flow of time
in which something occurred in the past and is completed, yet that past occurrence was
before another point in time: I had combed the cat before the Cat Show last week. I have
climbed Mt. Fuji before today. I will have spent more by next month than I spent last
year. This indicates a past occurrence in reference to a fixed point in time: e.g., last
week, today, last year.

The third aspect is
Progressive Aspect. It is formed with the auxiliary verb
be (be, is, was, am, are) plus the
-ing present participle of an
infinitive verb: e.g.; climbing, combing, going, spending. It too may indicate the flow
of time as past (was climbing), present (am combing), or future (will be
going).

Progressive Aspect indicates a passage or flow of
time in which something is in the process of occurring, so the event, etc. is not
completed. It indicates a condition of continuance: I was climbing the ladder when you
phoned. I am combing the cat for the show this afternoon. I will be going to the cinema
on Saturday.

The fourth aspect is Perfect
Progressive and is a complicated one because it combines both Perfect
Aspect and Progressive Aspect. It is formed by combining the auxiliary verbs
have and
be plus the
-ing present participle of an
infinitive verb. An example of Perfect Progressive associated with past tense is “had
been climbing”; associated with present tense, “have been combing”; associated with
future construction, “will have been going”.

Perfect
Progressive indicates that a continuing occurrence progresses to a certain past,
present, or future time. The action is incomplete and continuing until that certain
time: I had been climbing all morning when the storm broke (past: continuing until the
storm interrupted). I have been combing the wool all morning and still the basket seems
full (present: continuing indefinitely). I will have been going to Arthur Murray dance
classes ten years come May (future: continuing to a specified future date of completion,
May in this case).

Tenses in English are named for their
combination with aspects. Tenses locate events on a timeline from past to future, while
aspect says whether the event is ongoing or finished and states the event’s relationship
to other times and events in time: e.g., the cat show, the storm, the upcoming May,
today, last week, etc.

What is x if |5x+8|=17?

To solve |5x+8|=1.

If 5x+8
> 0, then |5x+8|=1 would mean 5x+8 = 17.

So 5x =
17-8 = 9.

5x/5 = 9/5 = 1.8.

So
x = 1.8 is the solution.

If 5x+8 < 0, then |5x+8| =
17 would mean -(5x+8) = 17.

Multiply both sides of -(5x+8)
= 17 by -1 and we get:

5x+8 =
-17.

5x = -17-8 = -25.

5x/5 =
-25/5 = -5.

x = -5 is the
solution.

So there are 2 solutions: x= 1.8, or x=
-5.

What is the theme of the book Slam! by Walter Dean Myers?

In many ways the theme is individual vs. society and the
individual figuring out their place in society.  Greg is a star basketball player trying
to figure out how to balance basketball, school work, and a relationship with his
girlfriend.  The story revolves around him trying to figure out which one should be a
priority and deciding whether or not to switch schools knowing he likely wouldn't fit in
in the new school.  Of course the entire time he is also dealing with crime and other
dangers in his neighborhood.

Evaluate the limit of f(x)=[1+1/(x^2-2x)]^2x

Since it is not specified if x tends to a certain value,
we'll evaluate the classical case when x tends to
infinite.

We notice that if x->infinite, we'll get
the case of indeterminacy 1^infinite.

We'll create the
elementary limit e.

For this reason, we'll multiply the
suprescript 2x by x^2-2x and we'll divide by the same amount
x^2-2x.

Lim f(x) = lim
{[1+1/(x^2-2x)]^x^2-2x}^2x/(x^2-2x)

We know that lim
[1+1/u(x)]^u(x) = e, if u(x)-> infinite

lim
{[1+1/(x^2-2x)]^x^2-2x}^2x/(x^2-2x) = e^lim
2x/(x^2-2x)

e^lim 2x/(x^2-2x) = e^lim 2x/x^2(1 - 2/x) = e^0
= 1

lim [1+1/(x^2-2x)]^2x = 1, if x->
infinite