In The Great Gatsby, account for Tom's comment about being "old-fashioned" and "women run[ning] around too much these days the suit...

This quote is an excellent example of the hypocrisy of his
attitudes about women.  Based on his behavior and expectationsof Myrtle, it would seem
that he thinks it is just fine for a married lady to "run around."  Look at how
established he is in that relationship!  The two of them have a furnished apartment to
go to -- not some seedy motel at the end of road.  He brazenly talks to Wilson, all the
while, secretly planning to meet up with Myrtle later.

On
the other hand, it is NOT OK for Daisy to have any kind of life outside of her marriage
to Tom.  He is demanding and controlling because that is the societal expectation --
especially in his social class.  These people don't have public scandals, and the women
know their place is in the home.  He calls himself old-fashioned.  He is in regards to
his treatment and attitude about his wife.  She is treated almost as a
possession. 

I think the final irony is that it is an "old
fashioned" stereotype that men can run around on their spouses, but women cannot.  The
old attitude was (is?) "boys will be boys."  On some level, women were expected to
tolerate this behavior, and sometimes didn't have many viable choices, considering that
they may have had little means to support themselves outside of marriage, and the social
stigma of divorce would have had a more negative impact on the woman than the the
man.

What major changes happened between 1940 and 1970 for education?

Well, that's a thirty year time period, and a lot happened
in those thirty years, so it's hard to say if this is the information you are looking
for.

I'll concentrate on two major changes.  In 1954, the
Supreme Court ordered schools to be desegregated.  The government enforced the ruling
and across the South, schools were forced to open their doors to black students as
well.  By 1970, that process was largely complete.

After
Sputnik, a Russian satellite, was launched in 1957, the US passed the National Defense
Education Act, which changed all of the graduation requirements, placed an emphasis on
math and science, and created the AP program.  High school moved away from basic job
preparation towards college preparation.

In the book, "The Miracle Worker" what does Annie feel is her greatest obstacle with Helen?

I haven't read this book for years, since I was in high
school, but my son just finished it in his 9th grade English class.  This gave me a
chance to rethink what was going on when he and I discussed it for his
assignments.

I think, as most agree, that the biggest
obstacle Annie faces in trying to teach Helen is her parents, Captain and Mrs. Keller. 
While they obviously love their daughter, they do not know what to do with her.  They do
not understand her disabilities as we do in today's society.  The prevailing attitudes
of the time were to put these children away in institutions, or hide them away at home. 
They were not thought to be teachable so they were left basically on their own -
provided only the basic necessities to sustain
life.

Captain Keller, and to a lesser extent the rest of
the family, hinder Helen's growth and development from early childhood.  They allow her
to roam wildly around the house, especially at mealtime, taking what she wants and
shoving it in her mouth to eat.  She is not given any direction and allowed to roam
the home and yard.  Helen has to teach herself how to get around.  She has no way of
communicating her needs other than grunting, groaning, taking things, or hitting and
screaming when she is frustrated and doesn't get what she wants.  Helen is not taught
that there are appropriate ways to communicate her needs even when she doesn't have the
benefit of sight and speech. 

Annie, with her own
disability, has a unique perspective on Helen's situation.  She has faith in Helen and
believes that she can learn to communicate her wants, needs, and desires.  "Annie truly
is a Miracle Worker.  With love, dedication, and a few kicks to the shins, Annie is
successful in teaching Helen many of the things she needs to know how to do to get along
in life and be able to do so independently.

Sandy races her sister to get home. If they use different routes will the winner have the greatest average speed or greatest average velocity?

Sandy is on a race with his sister to reach home. The two
of them take different paths.

The person who wins the race
is the one who can reach home from the starting point in the shortest amount of time.
Velocity reflects the value of the displacement from where they start to their home
divide by the time taken. Speed is the total distance travelled divided by the total
time taken. If one of them were to take a longer path, it would mean spending a longer
duration of time to reach the same destination. This would mean a higher average speed
but the same average velocity.

This gives us the result
that the person who reaches home first and wins the race is the one with the greatest
average velocity rather than the one with the greatest average
speed.

What are the importance of free ports in international trade?Restrictions on trade e.g. tariffs, quotas, embargoes.

Free ports are locations from which goods can be imported
and exported without the exporter or importer having to pay tariffs that are levied on
the same products when they are brought into the nation through other locations. There
is also a reduction in the restrictions that apply for the same products entering or
exiting from elsewhere.

Free ports are created to encourage
foreign trade. Normal tariffs are to be paid only when products leave a free port to the
rest of the nation. An example of the utility of free ports is that they allow
manufacturers to import raw materials, process them and export them without paying
tariffs that make it uneconomical to do the same and organizations would opt for
importing the finished products directly. The creation of free ports is very useful in
encouraging local industries.

How does Great Expectations highlight sociological problems in relation to an individual ambitions?

What an interesting question! Thinking about it, the best
way to tackle this question would be to consider how Pip is changed by his "great
expectations," and in particular, how his relations with Joe are changed for the worst.
A great chapter to analyse closely with regard to this would be Chapter 27, when Joe
comes to visit Pip in London. This visit is full of humorous events, which at the same
time are deeply tragic. Now that Pip has started living as a "gentleman," it is clear
that the social distance between himself and Joe has increased exponentially. Even
before Joe arrives, Pip reflects that if he could have kept Joe away by paying him, he
would have.

Joe is clearly overwhelmed by the opulence in
Pip's living conditions. As the meeting goes from worse to worse, the elder Pip,
reflecting on his youthful follies, says:

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I had neither the good sense
nor the good feeling to know that this was all  my fault, and that if I had been easier
with Joe, Joe would have been easier with me. I felt impatient of him and out of temper
with him; in which condition he heaped coals of fire upon my
head.

However, the message is
completely clear. The wealth that has been responsible for allowing Pip to rise socially
has separated him from those that love him best and his home. Joe's words in parting,
which bestow upon him particular dignity and nobility, make the sociological
implications of one man's rise to power clear:

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"Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so
many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man's a blacksmith, and one's a
whitesmith, and one's a goldsmith, and one's a coppersmith. Diwisions among such must
come, and must be met as they
come."

Unfortunately, it
seems, to rise socially creates divisions that are extremely difficult, if not
impossible, to surmount. Social class, which is so closely intertwined with the
possession of wealth, is shown to create different groups of individuals that have
little, if anything to do with each other. This was, and is today, a profound
sociological problem. However, it is great testament to Pip's maturity that he is able
to bridge the gap between himself and Joe and Biddy by the end of the novel. However,
interestingly, this is only achieved after the loss of his "great expectations." Money
is not all it is promised to be.

How does Keats use form and structure in "The Eve of St. Agnes" in his presntation of love?my premise is that he presents love positively in...

In the poem "The Eve Of st Agnes" by John Keats, the poet
presents a vivid depiction of love. He tries to keep an elevated state of mind right
through the love story. This romantic story takes place in the context of medieval
times, and we see familiar fairy tale-like characters displaying all the charming
eccentricities of their historical surroundings.The old-fashioned way that they speak
adds a new charm all of its own.The verse form in which this is expressed is the fluent
but challenging Spenserian stanza. The hint of an asymmetric rhyme scheme is a change
from predictable couplets or quatrain. An extension of the ninth line reminds us of
ordinary speaking voices which are naturally irregular.The introductory stanzas contrast
the Beadsman, coldly praying, against the “argent revelry” of the more festive great
hall. Images of heat and cold, silver and red, chastity and indulgence, indoors and
outdoors, run through the poem, a silent opinion on the plot.

If g(x)=2log(x-3)+1 and the base is 10 what is g-1(x)?

We have g(x) = 2 log (x - 3) +
1

Let y = g(x) = 2 log (x - 3) +
1

=> y - 1 = 2 log (x -
3)

=> (y - 1)/2 = log (x -
3)

taking the base of the log as
10

=> 10^[(y - 1)/2] = x -
3

=> x = 10^[(y - 1)/2] +
3

interchange x and
y

=> y = 10^[(x - 1)/2] +
3

Therefore the inverse function of g(x)
is

g^-1(x) = y = 10^[(x - 1)/2] +
3

Where in the book does Jonas learn he can find his parents' parents names in The Giver?

I thought you were asking where the names were found, but
maybe you are asking where in the book this is mentioned?  I have changed the question
for you.  The Hall of Open Records is first mentioned is in chapter 2, on page 17.  The
names are in the Hall of Open Records and anyone can look at them.  Jonas considers that
he can look up the name of his parents’ parents in chapter 16, on page 124, in this
conversation with The Giver.

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Jonas frowned.  “But my parents must have had
parents!  I never thought about it before.  Who are my parents-of-the-parents?  Who will
be their grandparents?”

“You could go look in the Hall of
Open Records.  You’d find the names.  But think, son.  If you apply for children, who
will be their parents-of-the-parents?  Who will be their
grandparents?”

“My mother and father of
course.”

 Jonas learns that
the concept of grandparents has no meaning in his society, because families only stay
intact long enough to raise the children.

WHAT ARE THE MAJOR THEMES IN "A & P" by John Updike?

In my opinion, the main theme of this short story is
individualism.  It is a story about what happens when people try to do "their own thing"
rather than doing what society expects them to do.

In this
story, the three girls are, to some extent, doing their own thing.  Queenie has gotten
them to go to the store in their bathing suits, which was completely unacceptable at the
time.  They pay for this by being humiliated by the
manager.

Sammy also tries to be an individual.  In his
case, he tries to stand up for the girls against his boss.  He, too, pays for his choice
by losing his job and having nothing to show for it.

So I
think the theme is that in our society, you have to do what is expected or pay the
price.

How does the Bill of Rights and the US Supreme Court regulate the police?

Neither Bill of Rights or the US supreme Court directly
regulate the activities of police. The actual regulation of police, or for that matter,
of any government institution or process are regulated by separate laws, rules and
regulations, enacted separately for different fields.

The
main purpose of the bill of rights is to ensure that such laws, rules and regulations do
not violate the bill of rights. For example consider the fist clause of Bill of Rights
forming the first amendment to the constitution. It
says:

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Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the
freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble,
and to petition the Government for a redress of
grievances.

Also the function
of supreme court, in relation to bill of rights is to decide if any action by government
or any law passed by the it violates the bill of rights. This is also done by supreme
court only when referred it following the laid down procedures. In deciding on such
matters, the supreme court also interprets the provisions of law that are open to
ambiguity. For example, the fifth amendment uses the term "due process of law", which
can be interpreted to mean different things by different people. Supreme court
interprets and clarifies such provisions of bills of rights as and when
required.

Describe the consequences of 'warrants e.g. PACE Act 1984'?IMPORTANT NOTE - Relate the consequences to a student working with IT within a High...

Great question!

The PACE 84
was an act passed in the UK Parliament which is the American equivalent of the Search
and Seizure rights as they appear in the American Bill of
Rights.

Prior to the Act, there was no specific protocol
for searches and arrests made on people in the UK. Anything that was considered, as the
Act itself says, "arrestable" would indeed become so. Comparatively, in America we have
to read Miranda rights, obtain warrants, get judge orders from court, and go through a
specific procedure prior to enter a home, arrest a person, and thinks of that
kind.

The Pace 84 basically establishes guidelines, or what
they call "benchmarks", that must be followed prior to conducting a search and seizure,
and even for making an arrest upon suspicion. It even offers procedures for interviews
and interrogations.

 An IT student working in a high school
has to be specifically careful not to break any confidentiality codes, especially when
prompted by a school administrator to crack into student accounts to obtain information
about possible undisciplined activity. No matter how pressing for information a teacher,
parent, or administrator is, the IT person most maintain the same rules of action when
accessing information. A specific school protocol must be in place and signed by
personnel, students, and parents, understanding the limits to their computer usage, and
the extent to which the information entered will be protected by the
law.

In the United States a judge is able to accuse and
find someone guilty of numerous offenses done by false data collection, intrusion in
people's personal files, and by obtaining information for purposes not regulated. Among
the consequences, a person doing things of this sort could be expelled from a learning
institution, from the workforce, licenses can be revoked, jail time could be pending, or
the accusation of felony in the case of identity theft, or invasion of privacy. That can
also include civil suits made from person to person on behalf of their rights to
privacy.

Please comment on Hamlet's soliloquies.

This is a rather broad question! A soliloquy is a speech
or monologue that a character gives when no one is listening but the audience. In the
case of Hamlet, one soliloquy is given when he thinks no one is
listening. This occurs during the famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy at the beginning
of Act III. He doesn't realize that he is being spied upon by Polonius and Claudius.
Still, the results are the same. In all four of Hamlet's soliloquies, the audience
receives an inside look into Hamlet's suffering
head.

Hamlet's thoughts during his soliloquies cover many
different aspects of his life and the events that have taken place. In the first, Hamlet
laments over the fact that his mother has married his uncle, crying "Frailty, thy name
is woman!" He also discusses suicide in this first one, but not quite on a personal
level. At the end of this speech he says "break my heart, for I must hold my tongue." He
is upset because he suspects all of these horrible things regarding his father's death,
but he can't say anything or do anything about them. In the second soliloquy, Hamlet
discusses revenge and his cowardice at not doing anything about what he now knows was
the murder of his father. The "To be or not to be" soliloquy finds him discussing
suicide primarily. And finally, in the fourth soliloquy, he berates himself for his
inaction and vows that "from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing
worth."

In all, the soliloquies offer much needed
perspective into Hamlet's thoughts for the audience.

Are there scientific explanations for the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle?

The Bermuda Triangle continues to be a magnet for
questions for believers and non-believers alike.  I agree that while there is no
scientific "proof" that the triangle caused planes, people, and ships there are a number
of theories.

One is that the area is known for very
unpredictable weather.  Sudden and fierce storms are common there as well as weather
conditions that cause water spouts.  These are so powerful that they would destroy
anything in the air or on the waters surface.  Any wreckage would quickly be washed away
by the Gulf Stream currents.  Alternatively, if a ship sank just a few miles from the
coast of the US, it would sink in more than 5,000 feet of water making it almost
impossible to find.

The triangle is also one of 2 places on
Earth where a compass points to true north rather than magnetic north.  This makes it
difficult for some navigators to know where they really are.  This loss of compass
heading was experienced by the space shuttle when flying over this
area.

There are many more bizarre theories which you can
research if you like but scientific proof...not there!

how does Attean become a man and how does Matt become a man?

Attean begins his manhood ritual when he kills the bear
that was attacking Matt and him. This is a sign to his grandfather that he is old enough
and skilled enough to begin the ritual. During the ritual, he must go into the woods
alone and survive, awaiting a sign from his manitou. His manitou will become his spirit
guide, helping him as he grows to face the challenges of
life.

Matt has no such ritual clearly showing he is a man.
His survival throughout the absence of his father is part of the route to manhood. What
he learns from the Beaver clan enables him to survive the winter, when all of his native
American friends have departed to the hunting grounds. When his family finally arrives
months late, Matt has harvested the crops, preserved the cabin, and is alive and well,
although a little thin. If he can survive alone in the wilderness (much like Attean),
then he is a man.

Stienbeck presents disadvantages in Lennie, Crooks, Curley's wife and Candy what main quotes show them as disadvantaged ?

lmost every character in the novel is disadvantaged in
some way.  The most obviously disadvantaged character is Lennie; he is mentally
handicapped and it prevents him from being able to live as an independent adult.  He
relies on George, which is evident from their very first interaction.  In chapter one, 
Lennie mimics George and walks behind him, indicating that he is the follower in the
relationship ("....even in the open one stayed behind the other..." pg 2).  Lennie is so
forgetful, he mistakenly thinks he has lost his bus ticket when he never even had it to
begin with! (" 'George, I ain't got mine, I musta lost it.' He looked down at the ground
with despair..."pg 5).  There are instances of the disadvantages Lennie faces in each
chapter.

Although the fact that Crooks is the only African
American seems like an obvious sign of his disadvantage, the racism and isolation he
faces is more subtle, and not expressed by Crooks until Chapter 4.  Candy introduces the
character of Crooks to the readers by telling George and Lennie in Chapter 2 that, "the
stable buck is a nigger."  He sleeps in a separate bunk, and is not always included in
their recreational activities.  Finally in Chapter 4, Crooks openly vents his
frustrations to Lennie, knowing Lennie is incapable of
understanding.

 "S'pose you didn't have nobody. S'pose you
couldn't go into the bunk house and play rummy 'cause you was black. How'd you like
that? S'pose you had to sit out here an' read books. Sure you could play horseshoes till
it got dark, but then you got to read books. Books ain't no good. A guy goes nuts if he
ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell
ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets
sick."

Curely’s Wife is defined by her relationship.  She
has no name! (I am always surprised at how long it takes my students to realize this,
and they often like to name her after they find out).  Her obvious disadvantage is being
the only woman on a farm full of men, but she is also young, not very wise, and in an
unhappy marriage.  Like Crooks, Curley’s Wife confides in Lennie.  In chapter 5, she
confronts Lennie when he tries to ignore her attempts at conversation, and in that
conversation, she reveals her sadness.  She says, “Why can’t I talk to you?  Don’t I get
to talk to anyone?  I get awful lonely.”  In other parts of the work, she reveals that
Curely doesn’t like it when she talks to other men and that he has a bad temper, even
breaking some of her records. 

Finally, Candy is disabled,
and incapable of working well.  He is a swamper, a man who does odd jobs.  It seems
that, in Candy’s eyes, he is doing this job because he is old, disabled, and no longer
valuable to his employers.  This is symbolized by his dying dog.  Candy’s dog was once a
fine dog, but now he is old, smelly and unable to do much.  Candy knows the other men
want to shoot the dog, but he feels the dog has been a lifelong friend and does not
deserve to die.  Candy suggests to George that perhaps when he is old, someone will
shoot him (Chapter 3).  Candy recognizes that, like the dog, he is incapable of giving
back in the ways he once could and is sometimes seen as a hindrance rather than a help. 
He fears he too will soon be “dead,” to the men; not in the sense that he will be
killed, but in the sense that his services will no longer be required, and he will not
be able to find new work.

How to write a half page introduction (oevrview) of 3 week unit lesson plan on CHARACTER on Lois Lowry's The Giver?

I noticed that your question asks how to write an
introduction to a lesson plan, and does not ask for the introduction.  So I will explain
how.  The purpose of the introduction is for those who see the lesson to understand your
objectives.  This could be for an outside audience, like an administrator or sub, but it
could also be for you.  You may return to the lesson after not teaching it for years,
and the introduction will help you understand your purpose in writing
it.

 First of all, I would describe the reasons you are
focusing on characterization and why you chose this book.  One of the things that make
this book ideal for teaching characterization is that it has richly developed
characters, but there are very few of them.  The Giver and Jonas are the most developed
characters, but there is some characterization of Fiona, Gabriel, Mother, Father and
Asher.  By having students analyze all of these characters, you can teach the difference
between dynamic and static characters and the difference between round and flat
characters. 

 Next, I would briefly describe some of the
activities that would take place during the lesson.  Giving this overview will enforce
how these lessons introduce and explore the concept of
character.

How can the distance traveled during the first 10 second for the graph provided be found?The graph can be found at:...

The velocity of an object is the change in displacement
per unit time. The instantaneous velocity is the change in displacement divided by the
duration of time taken with the duration of time tending to zero. If the displacement
can be expressed as a function of time, velocity is the derivative of the function of
displacement.

In the website you have provided we are given
the velocity as a function of time. It is not possible to find the distance travelled
without the exact function that the graph represents. Once you have the function that
the graph represents, it can be integrated with respect to time between the intervals of
time t = 0 and t = 10 to find the distance travelled in the first 10
seconds.

How do the relationships in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird create conflict and tension in the story?

There are two types of relationships that create conflict
and tension in To Kill a Mockingbird.  Relationships between family
members create conflict.  Tension is also caused by relationships between different
members of Maycomb society.

There are conflicts between Jem
and Scout, and between the children and their father.  Any family has tension, and the
tension between Scout and Jem is mostly based on Jem being older than Scout and having a
better understanding of the way the adult world works than she does.  Tension between
Atticus and his children is also caused by his choice to defend Tom Robinson, a choice
that causes problems for both of his kids and one that they do not fully understand
until the trial.  Another example of family conflict is Aunt Alexandra, who has
conflicts with Scout over what it means to be a lady.

There
is also tension and conflict caused by relationships between Atticus and other members
of the Maycomb community due to Atticus’s defense of Tom Robinson.  Atticus is normally
well-respected in Maycomb.  His high standing in society is maintained even throughout
the trial, because people respect his choice even if they disagree.  However this puts
Atticus at odds with various members of Maycomb, such as the incident with the
Cunningham mob.  If Atticus had no relationships with these people to begin with, then
the tension would not be so high.

Explain why Sheriff Tate insists on declaring Bob Ewell's death an accident. Do you agree or disagree with the way he handles the situation?...

Sheriff Tate is aware of the problems that will arise if
he decides to charge Boo Radley with murder (albeit in self-defense). Boo will have to
make appearances in court, as will Jem and Scout, and the sheriff decides that justice
will be best served by calling Bob Ewell's death a self-inflicted
accident.

"To
my way of thinkin', Mr. Finch, takin' the one man who's done you and this town a great
service an' draggin' him with his shy ways into the limelight--to me that's a sin. It's
a sin and I'm not about to have it on my
head."

As Sheriff Tate says,
"let the dead bury the dead." He believes that Ewell got what he deservea by trying to
harm Jem and Scout and that Boo was only protecting the children. His decision is best
for all involved.

Can enzymes and hormones be considered as catalysts?

In the human body hormones and enzymes are substances that
initiate and speed up a majority of the reactions. Enzymes play the role of catalysts in
the human body. They speed up many reactions and even allow many to take place which
would not occur in the absence of enzymes at the temperature and in the other
environmental conditions within the body.

Some examples of
the function of enzymes is in our body is in digestion, respiration, energy production,
among many others. It would not be entirely inaccurate to say that everything that
happens in our body is in some way facilitated by enzymes acting as
catalysts.

Hormones on the other hand, do not play the role
of catalyst; instead they are chemical messengers which initiate chemical reactions when
they are required. Hormones are produced by many organs which can control the activities
going in the body using them. Hormones are a means to start or stop reactions as the
need arises.

Why do you think Odysseus chose to sail toward Scylla rather than Charybdis in The Odyssey?

Charybdis is a whirlpool, an act of nature that would not
have been defeatable. Scylla, begin a living monster could be killed under the right
circumstances. While both were deadly, chances are with the other living being. If
enough men were able to shoot arrows, or if they were likely to catch Scylla asleep,
then safe passage would have been possible next to
Scylla.

It turns out for Odysseus and his men they made the
wise choice. If they would have gone towards the whirlpool, loss of life would have been
total loss. However, because they went toward Scylla, they only lost six men to her
appetite.

What are the main ideas presented in the prologue in Act II?

As I have told the theatre four class when we studied
Romeo and Juliet (again) “Back in Shakespear’s time, they went to the theatre all the
time-well, as much as they could- so, they knew the play by heart, so, they didn’t have
to have a “SPOILER ALERT!!!” because they knew the story all
ready.”

So, the common people as well as the royals had
been to the theatre and probably saw the same play; six, seven times a month. If money
would allow them.

With Love and
Care,

Alice.

Discuss the two positions taken up by Q. D. and F. R. Leavis and C. S. Lewis with respect to English Literature.

The literary criticism by the Leavises in such books as
Fiction and the Reading Public (1932) and The Great
Tradition (1948) is based on the assumption that there is only one form of
great literature, that practised by a restricted literary elite. Leavisite criticism is
therefore hostile to popular culture which does not merit the title of literature. Both
critics denounced the corrupting effect of popular literature and the expansion of the
reading public. This notion of a single culture has been challenged since the
introduction of Cultural Studies on the literary scene in the
1960s.

As the author of many children's books such as the
seven-volume series The Chronicle of Narnia (1950-56), C. S. Lewis
wrote popular literature. To him, popular fiction was a way to communicate Christian
teachings to a large audience and, thus, it had an important function. His literary
criticism too focused mainly on texts with a religious message, particularly from the
Middle Ages. Emotions are therefore considerably more important for Lewis than for the
Leavises who argued for a literary criticism that could put together scientific and
humanistic thoughts.

What purpose do the musical terms in The Great Gatsby serve?Why does F. Scott Fitzgerald use so many musical terms throughout the novel? (Please...

There are indeed many references to music and musical
terms in the novel. Here are a few:

• There is
  music in Daisy's voice.


• A drunken guest at one of
  Gatsby's parties is asked "to sing the notes on her face" (her smeared
  mascara).


• A "celebrated tenor" sings in Italian and a
  "notorious contralto" sings jazz to entertain party
  guests.


• One of the parties is interrupted by "the boom of
  a bass drum" as the orchestra leader introduces the next selection, "Vladimir Tostoff's
  Jazz History of the World."


• In describing a very
  significant moment when Gatsby kisses Daisy, he listens to "the tuning fork that had
  been struck upon a star."


• Music emanates from Gatsby's
  house on summer nights.

These musical
references serve two purposes. Some of them, such as the references to jazz and
specifically to Tostoff's composition help establish authentically the era of the
Roaring Twenties. Many such specific details create a great deal of historical accuracy
in the novel.

Many other musical references develop what
has been termed Fitzgerald's "evocative" style of writing: to use language and imagery
to evoke a certain mood or emotion. Music frequently emphasizes romantic settings,
images, and specific moments in the narrative.

How do I balance the equation: C6H5COOH + O2 = CO2 + H2O? Also, are there a general set of rules that I can adopt.

The equation that needs to be balanced is: C6H5COOH + O2
--> CO2 + H2O

To balance these kind of equations
follow these steps:

• First balance the carbon
  atoms on both the sides. So the number of CO2 molecules on the right hand side would be
  equal to the number of C atoms on the left hand
  side.

• Next balance the number of
  hydrogen atoms on both the sides. The number of H2O molecules on the right hand side
  would be half the number of H atoms on the left hand
  side.

• Now add the number of O atoms
  on the right hand side, and subtract the O atoms not present as O2 molecules on the left
  hand side. Half of the number you get by doing this is the number of O2 molecules on the
  left hand side.

• In case it is not
  possible to balance the equation as you get fractions for any of the molecules you may
  have to use multiples of the numbers.

Using the
steps listed above, the balanced form of the given equation
is:

2C6H5COOH + 15O2 --> 14CO2 +
6H2O

How do Tom and Daisy treat Gatsby in a despicable manner?

In The Great Gatsby, first of all, if
by destruction you mean death, Wilson is responsible for Gatsby's death--he pulls the
trigger.  And Tom tells Wilson that Gatsby owns the car that hit Myrtle, so Tom plays a
part as well.  Furthermore, Daisy lets Gatsby take the blame and doesn't tell Tom, as
far as evidence in the novel suggests, that she was actually driving the car.  So she is
responsible, too.

In terms of his death, Gatsby is
responsible for his own death only in that he takes the blame for the accident for
Daisy.  His act of love and protection gets him killed, you could
say.

If you're asking about more than just the death, Daisy
says she loves Gatsby but then withdraws from him because, as she says, Gatsby asks too
much--he demands that she announce that she always loved him and never loved Tom, and
she refuses to do that. 

Tom slanders Gatsby with
speculation about his past, etc., in an effort to keep
Daisy.

Gatsby, if you're asking about more than just the
death, causes his own failure by dedicating himself to an illusion, and trying to
recapture a past that never was. 

When Nick asks Gatsby what business he is in, Gatsby responds "that's my affair." Why does he give that answer?And why is it not an appropriate reply?

Because one of the themes of Gatsby's life is this attempt
to break into the posh set and of course in the end to work things out so that Daisy
runs off with him, he is incredibly concerned about his image.  He has worked so hard to
cultivate this very cultured image and he could ruin that by allowing others to know how
he got his money.

It is absolutely unacceptable among
Daisy's crowd to have had to work for your money, especially if it is tied to anything
improper or illegal.  It is perfectly acceptable to have huge parties with alcohol,
etc., but to be connected to smuggling it would be a mark on his character that nothing
could undo.

As the previous post says, definitely rude, but
Gatsby can ill afford to tell the truth.  Of course we know that he also struggles to
lie to Nick (as everyone does according to Nick) so he also can't just make something
up, so the response is a rude one instead.

What would be the dominant theme in the entire story of Romeo and Juliet?

I had to change the question a bit.  From "preferred," I
went with "dominant" because I think that you are looking for the theme that is most
present, one that could be more easily selected from Shakespeare's drama.  I think that
there are many themes that can be extracted from the play.  The link below might help in
this pursuit.  I think that there is a very strong theme evident on the Capulet side of
the drama.  The intense gap that exists between Juliet and her parents might speak to
the danger of what happens when parents do not listen or hear their children.  In Act
III, Sc. 5, the discussion that takes place is one that reflects parents seeking to
enforce their will on their child.  Shakespeare's exploration of the child and parent
theme is not necessarily new.  Yet, he does bring a new dimension to it in suggesting
that if parents do not have a close connection to their children, enforcement of
authority's desires upon them can only result in dangerous realities.  The bond between
parent and child is severed when this happens.  This is a very powerful theme that I see
in the drama and one that I find extremely compelling.

Why did Mary Shelley include Percy Shelly's poem in volume 2, chapter2?

Mary Shelley included the poem
Mutability by Percy Bysshe Shelley (her husband) because the
central theme of the poem is intrinsically connected with the fate of Victor
Frankenstein. 

We rest; a dream has power to poison
sleep.
   We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day.
We feel,
conceive, or reason; laugh, or weep,
   Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares
away;
It is the same: for, be it joy or sorrow,
   The path of its
departure still is free.
Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his
morrow;
   Nought may endure but
mutability!

Mutability is the essence of life: It is the
combination of all the elements and circumstances which directly affect our destinies
and change our lives forever.  At first glance the poem does not seem to fit in the
narrative at that specific point in the story. Yet, if we analyze the message of the
poem, we realize that mutability has indeed been ever-present in the
story.

From the very beginning we see that something big
will happen to Victor and that it may not necessarily be something good. His hunger for
learning, his obsession with the idea of creating life, and his intensity of character
can help us predict that a huge change is in the horizon for him. Hence, mutability is
the source of that change which not only affected Victor, but also Elizabeth, Henry,
William, and Justine.

How to differentiate y=(2+4x^2)^3?

Since the given function is composed, we'll apply chain
rule to differentiate it.

We'll differentiate with respect
to x. First, we'll identify the composed functions, whose final result is
y.

dy/dx =
(dy/dt)*(dt/dx)

We'll put 2+4x^2 =
t

y = t^3

We'll differentiate
with respect to t:

dy/dt =
d(t^3)/dt

dy/dt = 3t^2

We'll
differentiate t with respect to x.

dt/dx =
d(2+4x^2)/dx

dt/dx = 8x

dy/dx
= 3t^2*8x = 24x*t^2

We'll substitute back
t:

dy/dx = 24x(2 +
4x^2)^2

My teacher giving a test on the story The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling could you give me a summary or just explain it to me please?

In this story, some soldiers go out drinking together and
get drunk. One of the men, Fleete, does not know very much about India. On the way home
he desecrates an Indian god, Hanuman the Monkey God, by stubbing out his cigar on the
statue. A weird priest, who has the disease leprosy, grabs him and bites him on the
chest, leaving a large and ugly mark. As the men laugh and leave the temple, another
priest warns them that Hanuman will get his revenge.

Soon
after, Fleete begins to act crazy. He is possessed. The monkey god has put a spell on
him. His friend, Strickland, is familiar with the mark of the beast from the Bible (the
number 666) and believes that if his friend does not get better, they will have to take
drastic measures. Finally,

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"Watch!" said Strickland. "If this happens six
times I shall take the law into my own hands. I order you to help
me."

Fleete's two friends
kidnap the leper priest and force him to remove the spell on Fleete. Fleete recovers and
has no memory of being possessed.

In the Bible, in the book
of Revelation, the number 666 is called "the mark of the beast." It is the number of the
Antichrist. Anyone that does not get this number stamped on his hand will not be able to
survive. It symbolizes that one belongs to Satan, not God. When Fleete is bitten by the
leper priest, he becomes a beast himself. He belongs to the
beast.

Now -- what do you think the story means? I will
give you a hint: it is an allegory of British colonialism in India. Think about this as
you figure out the theme of the story.

How do the advancements of science affect the individual in Brave New World?

In the New World of Aldous Huxley's dystopia, science
absolutely dictates the lives of the people.  From their "birth" in the Hatchery where
they are cast as an Alpha, Beta, Delta, Gamma, or Episolon, they are conditioned by
hypnopoedia to like and dislike certain things and certain castes, to be satisfied with
what they are, to believe that "everyone belongs to everyone else" and to revile
monogomy, to be repulsed by natural births, to detest nature, to desire to consume. Most
of the women are designed to be Free Martins, who are infertile, while others must take
certain drugs to control their urges to become
mothers. 

The Solidarity Service with its orgy-porgy
replaces religious ceremony; the "feelies" satisfy other urges;
soma washes away any discontent from their minds.  Science also
prevents them from aging, but when they do die, their bodies become part of phosphorous
recovery and are recycled by science as gases. 

How many different four letter words with the 1st letter M and the last letter S can be formed using the letters of the word "MATHEMATICS.

We are given the word MATHEMATICS. The 4 letter words that
we have to create have to start with M and end with S.

Now,
for the letters at the 2nd and the 3rd place, we have 2 As, 2 Ts, H, E, M I and C to
choose from.

We can choose the same letter for both the
places or different letters. If we make them the same, we have two choices A or
T.

If they are different, the 2nd can have 7 choices and
the 3rd can have 6 choices. So we have a total of 6*7 = 42 ways. This with the 2 ways
that we found earlier gives a total 44 ways.

Therefore we
can form 44 four letter words using the letters of the word
MATHEMATICS with the first letter as M and the second as S.

In the "The Fall of the House of Usher" how is a formal vocabulary used?Edgar A. Poe

Fluent in several languages, Edgar Allan Poe employed
words often because of their sounds and connotations as well as their denotations.  For
instance, it seems that Poe prefers those of Latin derivation in his story "The House of
Usher"; perhaps the antiquity of this language parallels that of the Usher mansion and
the family tree, as well.  One such example of this use of Latin words is in the
description of the family in the third paragraph:

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it was this deficiency, perhaps, of
collateral issue, and the consequent
undeviating transmission, from sire to son, of the
patrimony with the name which had, at length, so identified
the two as to merge the original title of the
estate in the quaint and
equivocal appellation of the "House of Usher"--an
appellation which seemed to include, in the minds of the
peasantry who used it, both the family and the family
mansion.

In
addition to his use of antiquated and more formal words, much of the structure of the
sentences in this narrative also demonstrates Poe's knowledge of Romance languages and
Latin with their more formal structure than commonplace English. One instance of this
use of Latin-type sentence structure is the placement of the subject of the sentence at
the end:

To an
anomalous species of terror I found him a bounden
slave.

Such a long sentence
as this one is not to be found often, either, and certainly not in informal
language:

A
cadaverousness of complextion; an eye large, liquid, and luminous beyond comparison;
lips somewhat thin and very pallid, but of a surpassingly beautiful curve; a nose of a
delicate Hebrew model, but with a breadth of nostril unusual in similar formation; a
finely moded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy; hair
of a more than weblike softness and tenuity; these features
[features, here, is the subject of the sentence], with an
inordinate expansion above the regions of the temple, made up altogether a countenance
not easily to be
forgotten.

Indeed, Poe's
story of "The House of Usher" exhibits much formal language.  This language in such
sentences as

A
settle apathy, a gradual wasting away of the person, and frequent although transient
affections of a partially cataleptical character, were the unusual
diagnosis.

creates a
mysterious, antiquated atmosphere--one that shrouds a horrific conclusion to Poe's
bizarre tale.

What is the value of the function g(x) = x^2

To find the value of the function g(x) = x^2 - 5 for x=0.5
and x=h+1.

(1)To find the value of g(x) = x^2-5, for x =
0.5, we substitute  0.5 in place of x in x^5-5 and then calculate the
value.

Therefore g(0.5) = 0.5^2-5 =
0.5*0.5-5

g(0.5) =
0.25-5

g(0.25) = -4.75.

(ii)
To find g(x) for x= h+1 we put h+1 iplace of x ing(x)
x^2-5:

g(h+1) =
(h+1)^2-5.

g(h+1) =
h^2+2h+1-5

g(h+1) =
h^2+2h-4.

Therefore  g(h+1) =
h^2+2h-4.

In "A Rose for Emily," why don't the aldermen collect taxes from Emily Grierson?

The aldermen try several times to collect Emily's taxes,
finally going in person to see her at home. They don't succeed in collecting them
because Emily refuses to pay them. She believes that her taxes are paid in Jefferson
because Colonel Sartoris had told her so at the time of her father's death many years
before. Sartoris had deceived Emily out of kindness, knowing that she could not afford
to pay the taxes and that she would not accept charity. When the aldermen appear in her
living room, she tells them to check their records; when the aldermen say there are no
records to show her taxes are paid, she tells them to talk to Colonel Sartoris. This
they cannot do since he has been dead for almost a
decade.

The aldermen do not pursue the issue further. Emily
Grierson is an old woman, apparently out of touch with reality. Additionally and very
importantly, she is a Grierson. The aldermen are respectful of her and of her family
history in Jefferson; they are, in fact, intimidated by her. Southern gentlemen all,
they leave immediately when Miss Emily coldly tells Tobe to show them
out.

Why do Dill and Jem want to give Boo Radley a note? What does Atticus say when he finds out about their plan?

The reason that they want to do this is that they are
fascinated with the idea of Boo Radley.  To them, he is like some sort of a monster.  He
is not a real person -- just someone to make up stories about and use as the basis for
games.  So they think that they can prove their bravery and daring by getting a note to
him.

Atticus makes them stop when he finds out what they
are doing.  He tells them to stop tormenting Boo.  This, to me, is because he expects
them to treat people like people -- not to use them as playthings and treat them as
monsters.

Disadvantages of productivity improvement?principles of management t y baf university exam question

I do not know what your particular textbook says and you
probably ought to look in it for the exact answer that you are expected to put on the
exam.

To me, the disadvantages of productivity improvement
are closely tied to the disadvantages of capitalism in general because capitalism and
productivity improvement go hand in hand.

When productivity
improves, people in that industry tend to lose their jobs.  This is certainly a
disadvantage.  As productivity improves, there comes to be a race between firms to cut
costs and gain profits.  This leads, in the modern, world, to outsourcing.  Outsourcing
is certainly a problem for the people whose jobs are lost.

How do poetic devices help suggest underlying meaning in the "All the world's a stage" monologue from As You Like It by William Shakespeare?

Jaques of As You Like It by William
Shakespeare employs the theatrical metaphor of "All the world's a stage" for his famous
monologue.  This speech is, of course, an extended metaphor as the idea of people
playing a role throughout life is carried througout the entire speech.  And, with this
metaphor of the life as a stage, there is the underlying suggestion that fate plays a
rather strong role in one's life and that one is not quite as independent as one
imagines oneself.  In addition, while the individual takes so seriously his/her role,
this role is yet merely entertainment for others as the audience in this theatre of
life.

Within the metaphors of each stage of life there are
other literary devices employed.  For instance, in the lines about the young boy, there
are similes:

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Then the whining school
boy with his satchel

And shining morning
face, creeping like
snail

Likewise,
in the description of the boy as he grows older there is also a
simile:

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And then the lover, sighing like
furnace

So,
too, is the soldier compared to a pard (an animal from Medieval
bestiaries):

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.....Then a
soldier

Full of strange oaths, and
bearded like the
pard

In
addition to the similes, Shakespeare employs much parallelism; for
instance,

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Jealous in honour, sudden and quick
in quarrel

With spectacles on
nose, and pouch on
side

Metaphor
is in this line:

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Seeking the bubble reputation

Personification
follows in the next line:

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Even in the cannon's
mouth

The
poetic devices, such as simile and metaphor and personification, help suggest the
underlying meaning by providing vivid comparisons that are commonplace, common to
everyone's experience, and humorously true and by creating vivid images that are easy to
understand.

Who made up Buddhism?

Buddhism is one of the major religious and philosophical
traditions in the world.  It began over 2,500 years ago in northeast India, with the
teachings of Buddha.

Buddha (563? to 483? B.C.) was son of
king Shuddhodana of Kapilvastu. He was named Siddhartha Gautama by his father.
Disenchanted by seeing the miseries of the world in form of old age, disease, and death,
at the age of 29, he gave up his princely life including his wife and son in quest of
peace and deliverance from miseries of life.

After
wandering, learning from other great teachers of his time, practicing asceticism and
seeking the the peace for 6 years, the right path or means of attaining true peace and
happiness in life dawned upon him with absolute clarity while he was meditating under a
tree on the outskirts of village Gaya.. This event is describes as reaching
enlightenment or realization as per Hindu philosophy and tradition. He was conferred the
title of Buddha, meaning the enlightened one, in recognition of this
enlightenment.

Buddha spent the next 45 years travelling
round northeast India preaching to people, and debating with many other religious
teachers. He spread hi teaching with the help of five men who became hi close
disciples.

Buddha was able o spread his teaching
considerably within Northern India during his life time. His work was continued after
his death by his disciples and a fairly well developed organization of monks. However
the credit for spreading Buddhism beyond India goes to a great extent to King
Ashoka.

King Ashoka (272?-232 B.C.) ruled the Maurya Empire
in India from about 272 B.C. until his death. He waged many wars to extend his empire.
However he conquest of Kalinga, in which his armies killed about 100,000 people 150,000
prisoners brought a sudden change in his life and thinking. Horrified at the Kalinga
carnage he renounce warfare, adopted Buddhism, which among other principles was based on
practice of non-violence. For the rest of his life played a very important role in
popularising Buddhism in India and many other countries.

In Chapter 4-7, how did Jem get even with Scout for contradicting him about "Hot steams"?

Hot steams is a supersition. Jem explains it to Dill in
chapter 4:

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"Haven't you ever walked along a lonesome road
at night and passed by a hot place?" Jem asked Dill. A Hot Steam's somebody who can't
get to heaven, just wallows around on lonesome roads an' if you walk through him, when
you die you'll be one too, an, you'll go around at night suckin' people's
breath."

The children are on
summer vacation and they are trying to figure out a game to play. In front of the Radley
house, Dill says "I smell death" and then he proceeds to tell how it is possible to know
when someone is going to die. This conversation brings up the topic of hot steams. When
Jem tells Dill what hot steams are, Scout contradicts him, telling him that they are not
real, and that Calpurnia has told the children that hot steams "is nigger talk." Jem
gets angry about this, so when the children decide to play with an old tire, Jem is too
big to get into the tire, so Scout gets in, Jem pushes her too hard because he is angry,
and she winds up rolling right in front of Boo Radley's
house:

The
tire bumped on gravel, skeetered across the road, crashed into a barrier and popped me
like a cork onto pavement. Dizzy and nauseated, I lay on the cement and shook my head
still, pounded my ears to silence, and heard Jem's voice: "Scout, get away from there,
come on!"

What are the characteristics/ features of the autobiographical novel?

An autobiographical novel is a work of fiction that is
based on the life of the author. It is different from an autobiography because it does
not claim to be entirely true, but is instead mostly fiction with connections to the
author's life. The author has written a book based on his/her life, but distanced the
novel from reality in some way by incorporating fictional events and characters.
Autobiographical novels often include intense themes such as sex, war, and family
troubles which an author may not be comfortable exposing in a true autobiography. Some
examples of autobiographical novels include: Little Women by Louisa
May Alcott, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, and
the Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.

What are three examples the speaker is insane in "The Tell-Tale Heart"?Please describe the examples.

The opening of the story gives one example-he openly
admits to having a "disease" that "sharpened [his] senses" and openly admits to being a
"very, very dreadfully nervous" person.

He also seems a bit
preoccupied with the old man's "vulture" eye; this eye so bothers him that he decides to
take the old man's life "and thus rid myself of the eye
forever".

Once he finally succeeds in killing the man, he
admits to still hearing that "hideous heart" still beating, even after the man is dead;
this, of course, happens at the end of the story also when the police are there to
investigate-the narrator can hear the sound of the heart under the floor and acts quite
peculiarly: "They heard!  They suspected!  They knew!  They were making a mockery of my
horror!"

The narrator definitely shows traits of being
"insane": he has unusual preoccupations, he plots a murder and succeeds in its
execution, he shows manic behavior patterns, and he is delusions of persecution (that
others are somehow out to get him).

In The Awakening, how is Edna's father, the Kentucky Colonel, relavent to the story, and what is his role?I'd like to know how The Colonel affects...

The obvious answer, of course, is that he's her father, so
he's influenced her simply by living in the same household as her.  However, the picture
we get of him is not a particularly pleasant one.  He's a man who enjoys drinking, tells
rather outlandish stories of the past, likes to gamble, and believes women were meant to
be servants to men. It's clear he treated his wife poorly, as Edna's husband assures
us:

The
Colonel was perhaps unaware that he had coerced his own wife into her
grave 

Edna, rather than
seeing him as a blustering bully, now sees him as something amusing, something to watch
and listen to and enjoy.

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She had not much of anything to say to her
father...; but he did not antagonize her. She discovered that he interested her, though
she realized that he might not interest her long; and for the first time in her life she
felt as if she were thoroughly acquainted with him. He kept her busy serving him and
ministering to his wants. It amused her to do
so.

Edna's father serves as
an example in The Awakening of how Edna has come to view all men,
even the one who believes women are lesser beings, meant to serve, and who must have
treated her that way throughout her life.  She has become independent and refuses to be
subservient unless it suits her to do so. 

Identify the setting and explain its significance. Is the drama a historical account of the trial?

The setting in many ways is vital to the story as it was
chosen by the real town that they would be the place to have this debate take place in
the form of a trial.  It provides a great deal of drama for the movie as well given that
it takes place in the South, always seen as a hotbed for revivalist and evangelical
religious feeling, some of the main opposing forces to the idea of teaching evolution in
schools at the time.

The setting also provides another
element of conflict as it pits the Northern lawyer against the southern one, and two
mindsets of the two different regions against each other as
well.

What is the velocity of the bullet of mass 10 g if it raises a mass of 5 kg when it hits it by 10 cm?

The mass of the bullet is 10 g. The mass that is hung is
of 5 kg. When the bullet strikes the mass its height increases by 10
cm.

The potential energy of the mass changes by m*g*h =
5*(10/100)*9.8

This potential energy is imparted by the
bullet that strikes the hung mass.

It does not make a
difference if the bullet is embedded in the 5-kg mass or has passed through it because
its mass of 10 g is negligible compared to that of the mass that is
hung.

The kinetic energy in a body of mass 10 g travelling
at a velocity of V m/s is (1/2)*(10/1000)*V^2

This is equal
to the change in the kinetic energy

=>
(1/2)*(10/1000)*V^2 = 5*(10/100)*9.8

=> V^2 =
(100)*9.8

=> V^2 =
98

=> V = sqrt
98

=> V = 7 * sqrt 2
m/s

The velocity of the bullet is 7* sqrt 2
m/s

What is biolinguistics?

A brief answer is the only one that can be given to the
fairly newly emergent field of interdisciplinary linguistic study, biolinguistics.
According to renowned linguist href="http://www.chomsky.info/talks/20040517.htm">Noam Chomsky (2004), the
first and "most far-reaching" conference on biolinguistics, organized to discuss "the
biolinguistic perspective," was held in 1974 and coined "biolinguistics" in the title of
the conference, "Biolinguistics." Chomsky asserts that the questions raised at this
conference still govern the search for data in today's biolinguistics
studies.

As explained by Chomsky, from whom this entire
answer will be drawn, href="http://www.chomsky.info/talks/20040517.htm">biolinguistics considers
all aspects of language ("sound, meaning, structure") as being a "state of some
component of the mind." Mind is defined as the outcome of a process of the brain, a
process of "emergences" that "we do not yet understand," according to Vernon
Mountcastle. Biolinguistics is a science that relies upon "Newton's separation" of the
mind-body duality, so that "no coherent mind-body problem remains" and so that all
things falling under the designation of mental processes may be identified as and
examined as what Joseph Priestley said were the result of the "organic structure of the
brain."

The thesis in force in biolinguistics is that
language, the focus of biolinguistics, is an entirely natural phenomenon "caused by the
neurophysiological activities of the brain." This opposes earlier ideas such as those
posited by Locke and Alfred Wallace asserting that mental functions--such as cognition,
moral judgement, imagination, language, even personality--could not be explained by
evolutionary principles alone but required recourse to the existence of an external
power, force, or will to provide reasonable explanation: for Locke it was God and a
“superadded” faculty, whereas for Wallace it was some unidentified additional universal
force along the lines of the nature of gravity or cohesion. Thus biolinguistics
represents a controversial (now as well as earlier) and radically new approach to mental
"emergences" and linguistics. Present research is greatly aided by technological
innovations such as fMRI and PET Scans. This is a brief encapsulized summary of
biolinguistics.

What does Scout learn from Aunt Alexandra? Do you like her or not? Why?

Scout learns many negative aspects about her Aunt
Alexandra during the course of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
Scout begs Atticus to skip the Christmas visit to Finch Landing because of her dislike
of Alexandra and her grandson, Francis (Scout's cousin). Scout recognizes her aunt's
high and mighty ways, especially concerning her misplaced pride concerning previous
generations of the Finch family. Scout hates Alexandra's attempts to make her more
lady-like, and she resents her aunt's haughty presence when she comes to stay with
Atticus during the Tom Robinson trial. Alexandra is particularly cruel to Scout when she
refuses to allow Walter Cunningham Jr. to visit the Finch home, calling him
"trash."

However, Aunt Alexandra is not all bad. Scout sees
her good side at the Missionary Circle meeting after Atticus reveals that Tom Robinson
has been killed. Scout even determines that "if Aunty can be a lady at a time like this,
so could I." Perhaps Alexandra's best moment comes after the children have been attacked
by Bob Ewell. When her aunt brings clothes to put on afterward, Scout is stunned to see
that

... Aunty
brought me my overalls. "Put these on, darling," she said, handing me the garments which
she most despised.

Describe the features of the following animals: fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.

Fishes

Fishes are
vertebrate animals that live in water. Various kind of differ widely in shape colour and
size. Thus different kind of fishes number more than all other kind of land and water
vertebrates put together.

Some fish look like lumpy rocks,
and others like wriggly worms.  Some fish are nearly as flat as pancakes, and others can
blow themselves up like balloons. Many have many different colours that are as bright as
those of the most brightly coloured birds.

All fish have
two main features in common. (1) They have a backbone, and so they are vertebrates. (2)
They breathe mainly by means of gills.  Nearly all fish are also cold-blooded animals.In
addition, almost all fish have fins, which they use for swimming.  All other water
animals differ from fish in at least one of these
ways.

Amphibians

Amphibians
are a class of animals within the vertebrates. There are about 3,200 kinds of
amphibians, which include species such as frogs, toads, salamanders, and
caecilians.

Amphibians - with a few exceptions - live part
of their life in water and part on land. They hatch from eggs laid in water or moist
ground, and begin life as water-dwelling larvae. Over a period the larvae change into
adults which  look very different from the larvae. Most adults spend their lives on
land. while some continue to live in water  But almost all return to water to for
mating.

Amphibians are divided into three groups: (1) frogs
and toads; (2) salamanders; and (3)
caecilians.

Reptiles

Reptiles
are cold blooded vertebrate animals with dry, scaly skin, who breathe by means of lungs
There are about 6,500 species of reptiles, Reptiles include alligators, crocodiles,
lizards, snakes, turtles, and the tuatara.

Many reptiles
live a long time, and some turtles have lived in captivity for more than 100 years.
Reptiles live on every continent except Antarctica and in all the oceans except those of
the polar
regions.

Birds

Birds
are animals with feathers. There are no other animals with feathers. Bird are generally
able to fly and achieve great speed. The fastest birds can fly at speed exceeding 160
kilometers per hour. However, not all birds can fly.

There
are about 9,300 species of birds.  The smallest bird is the bee hummingbird, which is
about 5 centimetres long.  The largest bird is the ostrich, which may grow to about 2.5
metres
height.

Mammals

Mammals
are vertebrates that feeds its young on the mother's milk.  There are about 4,500 kinds
of mammals including human beings.

Mammals live almost everywhere on
land as well as in water. Blue whale, the largest animal that ever lived, is a mammal,
measuring more than 30 metres long and weighing more than 150 tons.  The smallest mammal
is the Kitti's hog-nosed bat of Thailand which weighs only about 2
grams.

Mammals differ from all or most other animals in
five major ways.

1. Mammals feed their babies on
   the mother's milk.


2. Most mammals give their young more
   protection and training than other animals do.


3. Only
   mammals have hair.  All mammals have hair at some time in their
   life.


4. Mammals are
   warm-blooded


5. Mammals have a larger, more well-developed
   brain than other animals do.

Is Holden himself guilty of being a phony?I want more than 3 quotes to prove this...

Since the novel is satire, Salinger's focus is more on the
society as phony rather than the individual.  Of course Holden is a phony, but it is
only because he is a victim of the phony culture.

On the
phony scale, though, Holden is pretty low: he is materialistic and obsessed with sex.
 But, he's tame compared to Stradlater, for instance.  Here are the major
phonies:

1. Glad-handing adults
(headmaster)

2. Over-sexed teens
(Stradlater)

3. Pretentious snobs
(Luce)

4. Celebrity-obsessed girls (in Lavender
room)

5. Materialistic artists
(D.B.)

Now that he is given a choice as a young adult,
Holden is deciding whether or not to drop out of the phony culture.  He doesn't know if
he is courageous enough to live as a non-phony for the rest of his
life.

Holden fears being a hypocrite, or a phony.  He wants
to live a quiet life surrounded by books instead of people and money, but he's afraid
that he'll be the "wrong kind of monk," a "stupid
bastard."

Later, on his run-away journey in the city,
Holden sees two nuns and their dilapidated suitcases.  The nuns also are symbols of
holiness, and their suitcases are symbols of modesty, humility, and anti-materialism.
 Holden likes the way they look and the way they "never [go] anywhere swanky for lunch."
 As such, nuns are some of the few non-phonies in the entire
novel.

All this is echoed near the end of the novel when
Holden gets advice from Mr. Antolini, an Italian and--like Mercutio and the nuns--likely
a Catholic.  He says Holden is “in for a terrible
fall”:

"The
mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of
the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for
one."

Was Mercutio a noble
man?  Are the nuns noble?  Would Holden be noble if he becomes Catholic?  Or joins a
monastery?  What is Holden's noble cause?

Holden could end
up like Mercutio or the nuns.  He could die for a noble cause, like Mercutio and James
Castle, both of whom committed suicide.  Or, he would live humbly for one, like the
nuns.

In = integral of x^n/(x+1), x=0 to x=1. What is the relation between the terms In+1 and In?

We'll calculate first, I0.

I0
= Int x^0dx/(x+1)

I0 = Int
dx/(x+1)

I0 = ln(x+1)

We'll
apply Leibniz-Newton to evaluate the value of definite integral
I0.

I0 = F(1) - F(0)

I0 =
ln(1+1) - ln(0+1)

I0 = ln2 - ln1, but ln 1 =
0

I0 = ln2

We'll determine
I1:

I1 = Int x^1dx/(x+1)

I1 =
Int xdx/(x+1)

I1 = Int dx - Int
dx/(x+1)

But Int dx/(x+1) = I0 = ln
2

I1 = x - I0

I1 = 1 - 0 -
I0

I1 = 1 - ln 2

We notice
that In+1 = Int x^ndx - In

In+1 + In = Int
x^ndx

In+1 + In = x^(n+1)/(n+1), for x = 0 to x =
1

The relation between the consecutive terms
is In+1 + In = 1/(n+1).

How do you find the height of the roof in the following case:A tennis player, standing at the edge of her building's roof throws her tennis ball...

We have to use the concepts of motion here. The tennis
player throws the ball straight up with an initial speed of 6
m/s.

There is an acceleration acting on the ball due to the
gravitational force of attraction which is equal to 9.8 m/s^2 acting
downwards.

Let the height of the roof be H. The ball rises
up and due to the acceleration its speed reduces, until it reaches 0 m/s. Then the ball
starts to fall down.

We first find the time taken to reach
the highest point. We have the relation t = ( v - u) / a =
(6/9.8)

The highest point reached by the ball is u*t +
(1/2)*a*t^2 above the roof.

=> 6*(6/9.8) -
(1/2)(9.8)((6/ 9.8)^2

From this point the ball falls
towards the ground. The time taken by it to do so is 3.35 -
(6/9.8)

So we have 6*(6/9.8) - (1/2)(9.8)((6/ 9.8)^2 + H =
0 + (1/2)*9.8*(3.35 - (6/9.8))^2

We solve 6*(6/9.8) -
(1/2)(9.8)((6/ 9.8)^2 + H = (1/2)*9.8*(3.35 - (6/9.8))^2 for
H.

6*(6/9.8) - (1/2)(9.8)((6/ 9.8)^2 + H = (1/2)*9.8*(3.35
- (6/9.8))^2

=> H = (1/2)*9.8*(3.35 - (6/9.8))^2 -
6*(6/9.8) + (1/2)(9.8)((6/ 9.8)^2

=> H = 34.89
m

The height of the roof is 34.89
m

What was mercantilism?How could it have been a cause of war? Of economic growth?

During 16th to 18th century Great Britain practiced an
economic philosophy called Mercantilism in international trade. Great Britain, the
mother country was the largest empire in history and, for over a century, was the
foremost global power. Colonizing America and pursuing a policy of mercantilism greatly
increased their power.Mercantilism is the idea that colonies existed for the benefit of
the Mother Country and it states that nation becomes stronger by keeping strict control
over its trade. Britain sought to increase its power by obtaining large amount of silver
and gold and by establishing favorable trade with its thirteen colonies. Based on these
ideas, Great Britain, the mother country made decisions that were more advantageous to
themselves than they were to the colonies. There were many regulations that were passed
to support this theory; Navigation Act of 1651, Act of 1660, and many laws as well. This
definitely angered the colonists, but this didn’t really play a role in prompting
Americans to rebel in 1776. There were far more other reasons for the Americans to rebel
in 1776. Therefore, Mercantilism plays a small role in sparking the
rebellion.

To begin with, the theory of Mercantilism
represents the colonists as Britain’s tenants providing “rent” by supplying raw
materials to England. In return, colonists had to buy the finished products back from
Great Britain. To have to export more than you import is not beneficial. But to Britain
it was more than beneficial. Britain wanted to accumulate as much hard money as
possible, since colonial money was worthless in England. Hard money was the source of
prosperity, prestige, and the strength for a
nation.

Furthermore, Mercantilist economy is a managed
economy, managed by the larger and stronger power. The mother country, Great Britain
wanted to be self-sufficient, but for this to be successful, it needed laws and
regulations to protect wealthy British merchants and industrialists at the expense of
the colonists. The regulations that supported mercantilism was the Navigation Act of
1651 which stated that all imports or exports had to be carried in Great Britain ships.
Act of 1660 required that European nations must sell products to the colonies by first
stopping at English ports where they would have to pay a custom duty, taxes, which is a
way for Britain gain more money. Exports from the colonies could only be shipped in
British or colonial ships and had to be sent to England first. After that, the products
would be taxed and was allowed to be sent to other countries in European nation.
Colonial products could not be shipped directly to any foreign nation. These laws and
regulations supported the theory of Mercantilism.

In
addition, Mercantilism doesn’t play much of a factor in prompting Americans to rebel in
1776. As suppliers of raw goods only, the colonies could not compete with Britain in
manufacturing. In fact English ships were favored. It’s being said that the relationship
between Britain and the colonies in the mid-1700s were good. The colonies joined Britain
to fight the French in the seven years’ war. During this time the British had to deal
with the wars in Europe and really didn't enforce the Navigation Acts, due to their
focus with the war. Colonists began to prosper on its own by trading with non-British
colonies in the Caribbean. Britain once again tried to enforce these laws after the
French and Indian War, but the colonists objected. Moreover, Britain had a lot of debt
from the war and thought that the colonies in America should pay much of the debt so
Britain imposed several acts such as the Stamp and Townsend act.  Because of this, their
relationship deteriorated, prompting Americans to rebel in
1776

In conclusion, Mercantilism is a theory that basically
stated that the colonists existed for the benefit of the mother country.  Many
regulations were passed to support this theory. But, once the French and Indian War
began the theory became a little loose since Britain’s main focus was the war. Britain
didn’t really get to enforce the Navigation acts. Mercantilism didn’t really play a big
role in prompting the rebellion of 1776, but the events that did play big role would be
after the seven years of war.

What did Atticus try to decide while walking to window, in Chap. 18 of To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee?In chapter 18 of "To Kill a...

Great question...reading between the
lines!

As this seems to be more an answer based upon
opinion, I can only tell you what I think.

In Harper Lee's
To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch is a gentleman, of this there
is no doubt. He has a strong sense of fair play, believing someone is innocent until
proven guilty, and that every person on God's green earth has the right to a fair trial,
as best as he is able to provide one for Tom Robinson in Maycomb.
Atticus shows concern for Boo Radley and Mrs. Dubose. He has a strong moral compass and
cares that the example he sets for his children by the way he lives is one they will
learn from, and still be proud enough of him to be able to look him in the
eye.

With all this said, Atticus is getting ready to
cross-examine a member of the Ewell family. Everyone knows them, and they are neither
upstanding citizens of Maycomb, or kind or honest folk, as opposed
to, for example, Walter Cunningham. Bob Ewell drinks, he is a bigot, his children often
go hungry, they are a disrespectful bunch (remember Burris in Scout's class), and Bob
Ewell appears to be physically abusive, and is probably emotionally and psychologically
abusive as well.

Atticus is a good lawyer. He is also
confronting a witness who, if anything like her father, is not going to be easy to deal
with. When he turns to the window, I believe Atticus is probably gathering his thoughts
about how best to approach Mayella. I doubt it would occur to him to be anything but a
gentleman, but perhaps he is trying to decide at what level to approach this witness who
is already terrified of him, and clearly is not as bright (or clever) as her father, as
she is upset that Atticus seems to have tricked her father into admitting he is left
handed. Even Scout asks Jem: "Has she got good sense?" (Jem isn't sure
yet.)

(Turning away will also give Atticus time to let the
dust settle after the prosecution has finished. And when Mayella becomes upset and
antagonistic because Atticus is respectfully addressing her as "Miss Mayella" or "ma'm,"
Atticus leaves this to the judge and returns to the window
again.)

If I were to try to find the meaning behind
Atticus' movement to the window, I believe he does so in order to decide how to proceed
with Mayella in such a way that it will most help get to the truth for the sake of Tom
Robinson—which is a tall order in that courtroom, in
that town.

What is the thesis in, "If I can stop one heart from breaking,'' by Emily Dickinson?

Emily Dickinson's poem, "If I can stop one heart from
breaking," provides a clear insight into the kinds of things that the author genuinely
cared about. Though she traveled very little from home, Emily Dickinson had a remarkably
perceptive view of the world—a world which inspired her beautiful
poetry.

If I were looking for a thesis statement regarding
this poem, I would study first to the main points of Dickinson's
verse.

Her focus is on three
things:

If I
can stop one heart from breaking...

If
I can ease one life the aching...

Or
help one fainting robin / Unto his nest
again...

In these three
lines, we see that Dickinson concerns herself with a wide variety of interests: she
looks to nature, she refers also to one's breaking heart, and finally, she concentrates
on the quality of a person's life.

Because Dickinson does
not list these things from most important to least important, we might assume that to
the author, all three are equally important in her eyes. She also tells the reader that
her own satisfaction comes from helping others: that another's wellbeing is enough to
not only make her feel happy, but to provide her with a sense of
personal value in life. The concept that seems of primary significance is that helping
others, if she can, will be the most important legacy she could leave behind when she
dies.

When we stop to consider these things, this
seven-line poem says much more than we might notice at first
glance.

With all this said, my own thesis would have to
reflect the sense that Emily Dickinson placed a higher value upon the wellbeing of
others, rather than her own personal satisfaction, which shows her to be generous and
selfless in her desire to see the world a better place.

How does the contrast between Jack's and Ralph's personalities reveal itself at the meeting?Lord of the Flies by William Golding

When read as an allegory, William Golding's Lord
of the Flies's characters, Jack and Ralph, can be viewed as Cain and Abel on
the Garden of Eden of an island.  For, Jack represents envy, brute force, and absolute
rule, while Ralph exemplifies good behavior and concern for others, as well as
beneficient rule that exerts nothing stronger than reasonable persuasion.  Ralph works
with the others in building shelters and stoking the rescue fire; however, Jack, in
contrast, desires absolute rule, and paints himself like a pagan, demanding service
and obedience at the risk of physical punishment.

When, for
instance, Ralph calls the meeting "put things straight," in a reasonable manner with the
conch to be given to each speaker who is properly recognized, Jack rudely shouts,
"Bullocks to the rules!" He cruelly accuses the littluns of being "useless lot of
cry-babies!" telling them summarily that "there is no beast in the forest," whereas
Ralph says that they should "talk about this fear and decide there's nothing in
it."

When Simon attempts "to express mankind's essential
illness," Jack follows Simon's efforts to explain with "the one crude expressive
syllable," that refers to a bowel movement, mitigating the seriousness of Simon's
intuitive knowledge as the littluns laugh with delight. Then, when Piggy attempts to
restore rational order for Ralph, Jack shouts "Who cares?" telling him that he and the
others hunt, and if there is a beast he and his hunters will kill it.  Clearly, Jack is
concerned only with absolute power and brute force, much in contrast to the reasonable
persuasion that Ralph seeks in his leadership, aspiring to make life as comfortable for
the boys as he can rather than intimidating them physically as Jack
does.

What happens in a Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl in Thursday, 19 November, 1942 to Saturday, 27 February, 1943.

The section you have identified runs from Thursday, 19
November, 1942 to Saturday, 27 February, 1943. This section begins with the arrival of
Dussel, who has joined the Frank family in their hiding place. Anne is slightly
frustrated that she needs to share her room with him, but she is happy to do so for a
"good cause." Dussel also brings sad news from the "outside world," of many people who
have been taken away. Anne experiences guilt because of her safety when so many of her
friends have been taken away. Anne and the other Jews with her try to cope with this
gloom. Anne also begins to feel isolated and lonely.

They
use to much electricity and therefore have to cope with two weeks without electricity.
They engage themselves in all sorts of activities to pass the time, but Dussel is said
to show himself for who he really is: "a stodgy, old-fashioned disciplinarian." The
celebrations for Chanuka and St. Nicholas Day are reported, and Dussel's rather
unfortunate attempts to practice his dentistry are shared. The
somewhat claustrophobic nature of life in the annexe is referred to, and the simple joys
and frustrations. Reference is made to "outside" again and how terrible life is, not
just for Jews, but for the Dutch as well. Anne feels intense anger at the way she is
being treated by the adults and reports how she "flares up" in response to all the
rebukes she receives. Clearly, Anne is not the only one to be impacted by the
claustrophobic nature of their lives.

Why did Dimmesdale say, before his death, that God was merciful to him?

In Chapter 23 of The Scarlet Letter,
after the Reverend Dimmesdale finishes his Election Sermon he addresses the people of
the Puritan colony, confessing to his "sin and infamy."  Calling to Hester and Pearl to
join him, he mounts the stairs to the scaffold against the pleas of Roger Chillingworth
who tells him he can still save him. 

Dimmesdale calls
himself a sinner and reveals his chest with "a flush of triumph" while the sinister
Chillingworth complains, "Thou hast escaped me!"  To this, Dimmesdale replies, "May God
forgive thee!.... Thou, too, hast deeply sinned!"  As he then kisses Pearl, she is
humanized and pledges that she will grow up amid joy and sorrow and not constantly
battle the world.

After the minister bids her "farewell,"
Hester asks, "Shall we not meet again?"  The minister
replies,

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'Hush, Hester, hush!....The law we broke!--the
sin here so awfully revealed!--let these alone be in thy thoughts!  I fear!  I
fear! ...it was thenceforth vain to hope that we could meet herafter, in an everlasting
and pure reunion.  God knows and He is merciful!  He hath proved his
mercy, most of all, in my afflictions.  By
giving me this burning torture to bear upon my breast!  By sending yonder dark and
terrible old man, to keep the torture always at red-heat!  By bringing me hither, to die
this death of triumphant ignominy before the people!  Had either of these agonies been
wanting, I had been lost for ever!  praise be his name!  His will be done!
Farewell!

Oddly, Mr.
Dimmesdale's declarations are not those of a Puritan minister. And, it is here that
Hawthorne's greatest invective is given against Puritanism which will allow no sin.,
which will forgive no sin.  For, in the speech of the Reverend Dimmesdale is revealed
more the concept of forgiveness for sins after confession--a concept of the Anglican
church from which the Puritans had broken.

Dimmesdale says
that God is merciful because he has been allowed to confess his sin, and so now he can
make atonement and receive the mercy of God, the forgiveness of his sin.  "By giving me
this burning torture to bear upon my breast!" means that Dimmesdale feels God is kind
and merciful because He gave him a penance to do for his sins. [Remember that Dimmesdale
has begun scourging himself with ropes in atonement for his
sins.]

By suffering here on earth, the Reverend Dimmesdale
feels that he can still be rewarded for his good deeds on earth--God is
merciful--another concept in direct contradiction of Puritanism that holds that some are
just chosen as the elect.  "God is merciful; God will
forgive sins is a holdover from the old country; the church of England. 
There is redemption.