Discuss OPHELIA'S attitude towards HAMLET?answer in detail

Ophelia was very sheltered from the ways of the world by
both her father and her brother.  Hamlet had been in love with her because of her
purity, innocence, and virtue but when she accepts her father's bidding above his
(which, in the time period this was written was the proper thing to do unless Hamlet was
her husband which he was not), he takes out all his mommy issues on her and calls her a
whore to her face among other things. 

This is of course
devastating to her because she was very much in love with him and couldn't figure out
why he would suddenly turn on her in such a terrible way, but she still defends him and
loves him even during this.  We can see how painful it was for her in this
exchange:

Hamlet: ...I did love you
once.
Ophelia: Indeed, my, lord, you made me believe
so.
Hamlet: You should not have believed me...I loved you
not.
Ophelia: I was the more
deceived.

When Hamlet kills her father, she doesn't seem
able to handle that Hamlet has not been kind to her family (including herself), but too
fragile to stop loving him or join in the plotting, she instead loses her mind and
drowns (whether it was suicide or not is up for interpretation).

In the 1930's how did the media differ in the making of To Kill a Mockingbird compared to today's movie-making?To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Filmmaking in the 1930s was much less technologically
advanced, of course, that in the 20nd and 21st centuries.  While there were some color
films at the end of the 30s,such as the 1939 The Wizard of Oz and
Gone With the Wind, nearly all were recorded with black and white
film.  In actuality, the technicolor was not the same as that of modern times:  a
special camera ran three strips of film--red,blue, and yellow.  When the three strips of
primary colors were consolidated, the resulting images were in full color, albeit rather
exaggerated, as they are in the above-mentioned
movies.

Because of the lack of technological advances,
movies were similar to the stage dramas from which they burgeoned.  Sets were created,
and actors delivered their lines much as they were delivered in theatres.  The
on-location films that lend realism and authenticity to films did not come about until
movie-making became extremely profitable.  And, method-acting in which the actor
"becomes" the character, assuming dialects, realistic mannerisms, his/her thoughts and
actions. also did not become de rigeur for actors until actors like
Marlon Brando adopted this style of acting taught by Lee Strasberg.  Strasberg's
students include many of the famous actors of the 20th century:  Montgomery Clift, James
Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Paul Newman, Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, Alec Baldwin, and Robert
de Niro, to name a few.

One significant difference between
the movies of the 1930s and those of modern times is in the endings.  The uplifting
ending was essential during such dismal times as the Great Depression when people
attended movies to escape their desperate lives.  Audiences desired the promise of a new
tomorrow in the movies, providing them a respite from their hardships for a least an
hour.

Of course, the Oscar-winning film version of
To Kill a Mockingbird starring Gregory Peck was made in
1962.  Using  black and white film to recreate the era of 1930s filmmaking, the movie
was set on location in Harper Lee's hometown of Monroeville,
Alabama.

To maximize profit, you need to sell your output at the highest price

To maximize profits a firm need not sell the output at the
highest price. As a matter of fact in most cases trying to increase the price will
result in a loss in revenue and may ultimately lead to a decrease in the profits made.
Selling at the highest price may be possible only in the case of a monopoly or where the
output is an essential product and has very little price elasticity of
demand.

We usually consider a market with perfect
competition for the analysis of the optimum price to be charged and the optimum quantity
to be produced. In perfect competition the price at which the output has to be sold is
its marginal price.

As there is an unlimited demand for the
output, the producer can manufacture as much as it likes but it can sell it only at the
marginal price. The higher the production, the higher are the profits
made.

Regarding totalitarian regimes of the 1900s and unregulated Enron, WorldCom, etc, to what extent is it beneficial to regulate markets and...

Clearly, there is some benefit to having the government
regulate the economy.  However, too much regulation is just as dangerous as not enough
regulation.

In your question, you mention totalitarian
regimes, but those are not really representative of what happens when there is too much
government regulation.  A better example these days is a place like Greece or Spain
where excessive government regulation has helped cause slow economic growth and (now)
fiscal disaster.  In Greece, for example, there are laws specifying how much profit
pharmacists must be allowed to make. There are laws
designating how many people can enter certain lines of business.  These kinds of laws
drive prices up for consumers and stifle the kinds of competition that can make for
better products at lower prices.

Of course, laissez-faire
capitalism is not without its faults.  You are right to mention Enron and World Com and
you could also mention the problems that led to the financial crash of late 2008. 
Completely laissez-faire economies would suffer from all sorts of problems -- things
that existed in the early 1900s in the US like child labor and horrible working
conditions.  They would also suffer from things such as air and water pollution as
companies dumped wastes into rivers and allowed unlimited emissions into the
air.

So governments must always balance.  They need to
allow markets to be fairly free so that there can be innovation and economic growth. 
But regulation can be somewhat beneficial because it can prevent the worst abuses of
workers, the environment, etc. that come with a laissez-faire
system.

Explain why chemical substances with different bonds have different properties.Please include features of the type of bonding that gives the...

Three different types of bonds in chemistry exist:
covalent, ionic, and polar.  All matter, in whatever state it exists, is held together
by the interaction of that substance's molecules or atoms.  Covalent bonds are created
when atoms or molecules share electrons; Ionic bonds are created when atoms or molecules
transfer electrons; Polar, or Hydrogen bonds, are created when a difference in
electrical charge occurs across a molecule. A molecule of water, (H2O) comprised of two
hydrogen and one oxygen atom, exemplifies a Covalent Bond -- the oxygen and hydrogen
share their outer electrons so that the molecule has a stable configuration. Adding
another oxygen to that molecule creates hydrogen peroxide, (H2O2) which is also
covalently bonded, but a much less stable configuration than water. The weakly held
extra oxygen tends to break from the molecule, transforming hydrogen peroxide into water
and oxygen gas.  Common table salt, or sodium chloride (NaCl) is an example of the
stronger Ionic Bond - a positively charged sodium atom (Na+) bonds with a negatively
charged chlorine atom (Cl-) and the electrostatic charge keeps the molecule together.
 The characteristic properties of melting and boiling points of a substance give some
indication of the bonds that must be overcome or formed for that substance to change its
state. The melting point and boiling point for sodium chloride are 801 C and 1465 C.
 However, sodium fluoride (NaF) is also held together by an Ionic bond, but here the
bonding of the atoms is so strong that the melting point and boiling point are 993 C and
1700 C.  Finally, water can also exhibit the formation of Hydrogen or Polar Bonds
between its molecules; one end of a given water molecule has a slight positive
electrical charge, whereas the other end has a slight negative electrical charge.  These
intramolecular bonds give water its unusual but well-known melting and boiling points of
0 C and 100 C. In contrast, Hydrogen sulfide (H2S), even if similar in construct to
water (H2O) has no polar bonds between its molecules, and exhibits melting and boiling
points of -85 C and -60 C.  In other words, it changes state from solid to liquid and
liquid to gas with far less energy than water due to its lack of Polar
Bonds.

How does Nick characterize Tom and Daisy at the end of the book? What has each of them “smashed” during the course of the novel? please help! (:

This line says it all:

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they were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they
smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast
carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up
the mess they had made. . .
.

Tom and Daisy are the type
of people Nick does not want to become. They are only concerned with money and
appearances. Whenever they destroy something, they buy their way out of it. It does not
matter to them who gets hurt in the process.

What they have
smashed:

Tom is partially responsible for Myrtle's death
and Wilson's suicide; he is directly responsible for Gatsby's murder. Tom leads Myrtle
on and this is the path to her destruction.

Daisy is
responsible for Myrtle's death and, in a way, for Gatsby's as well. Daisy leads Gatsby
in in just the same way Tom does Myrtle.

In "Through the Tunnel" by Doris Lessing, how are the descriptions of the "wild and rocky bar" reflections of the story's protagonist?

Well done for observing this difference! There is
definitely a marked contrast between the wild bay and the safe beach where Jerry's
mother stays. For Jerry, however the "wild-looking" bay meets his need for danger and
his feeling that he has to exert his independence and show his maturity by going through
some kind of rite. The setting of this wild bay is incredibly important, as it is here
that Jerry discovers the tunnel and decides on the challenge that he is going to set for
himself. It is this desire to prove himself that causes Jerry to go to the wild bay,
rather than follow his mother to the safe beach, as she would like. Thus it is that,
after having gone once, we are told that "he did not ask for permission" the next day to
return there and he continues to exert his independence from her throughout the rest of
the tale as he prepares for his challenge.

What is Shakespeare trying to tell us in the balcony scene of Romeo and Juliet?

It is interesting to consider what Shakespeare wanted to
be most clear about conveying in this Act II, scene ii.  And, it is worthwhile to
consider what he intended to convey, both theatrically and in terms of the
story.

First, he wants the audience to understand that, for
most of the scene, Romeo can see Juliet, but she cannot see him.  He notices the "light"
from her "window" at the beginning of the scene, and when she appears, he describes her
actions to the audience, thus making it crystal clear that he sees
her.

Juliet, however, when she is interrupted by Romeo's
voice, doesn't know who he is ("What man art thou that thus bescreen'd in night/So
stumblest on my counsel?") and must discover his identity through listening to his
voice:

My ears
have not yet drunk a hundred words

Of thy tongue's
uttering, yet I know the sound.

Art thou not Romeo. .
.?

And so, one of the things
Shakespeare is telling us is that Juliet must declare her love to a man she cannot even
see.  Romeo is in grave danger here in the Capulet balcony, and his remaining in the
shadows reminds the audience of the nighttime setting of the scene and the danger of his
beeing seen under Juliet's window.

In terms of the story,
the scene is telling us how hasty Romeo and Juliet are willing to be.  Despite having
just met they delcare their love for each other and, upon Juliet's insistence, decide to
marry the very next day.  Shakespeare provides a nice emphasis on the haste in this
scene, as Juliet is under pressure from the Nurse to return inside, even as she
challenges Romeo to "send word" the next day "where and what time thou wilt perform the
rite."

So, Shakespeare is up to a few significant things in
this scene.  Theatrically, he wants to make sure the audience realizes that the scene is
taking place mostly in the dark and that the stakes of being in this place are, for
Romeo, very high.  He also wants to demonstrate the absolute haste with which Romeo and
Juliet are willing to act -- a haste that will lead to their ultimate downfalls and
their deaths.

It is also worth noting that this scene is
meant to be played with Romeo and Juliet unable to actually touch each other.  Written
to be performed in a theater with an "above" or balcony, Juliet and Romeo would have
been separated to such a degree that they could not touch.  This fact suggests that
Shakespeare wanted to convey the desperate desire that the young lovers have to break
through the obstacles that separate them to be together -- the obstacle that is their
families' hatred being represented by the obstacle of distance in the
scene.

For more information on the balcony scene, please
follow the links below.

What are some clues or symbols that Boo Radley is watching the children in To Kill a Mockingbird?

In Harper Lee's To Kill a
Mockingbird, there are several clues that indicate that Boo is watching the
children.

When the children are playing the "tire game" and
Scout rolls into the Radley yard, she later admits that she heard laughing from inside.
Of course, Boo leaves little gifts in the tree on his property for the children to find
on their way home from school, until Mr. Radley cements the hole closed. At another
point, the children see the blinds move in the house: had it been Mr. Radley, he would
have come out to yell at the kids.

During the fire at Miss
Maudie's, Scout ends up with a blanket around her shoulders, put there quietly by Boo to
keep her warm. Jem's pants are repaired, sewn like a child might mend them, after Jem
gets caught on the fence escaping from the Radley's
yard.

Finally, it is only by keeping an eye on the children
that Boo is able to save them from Bob Ewell when he attacks them at the end of the
novel. Boo becomes an unlikely hero in this way.

What is x if 113^(3x-4)-1/113^(x-12)=0?

First, we'll use the negative power property of
exponentials:

1/113^(x-12) =
113^-(x-12)

Now, we'll re-write the
equation:

113^(3x-4) - 113^-(x-12) =
0

We'll add 113^-(x-12) both
sides:

113^(3x-4) =
113^-(x-12)

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

3x - 4 = -x +
12

We'll isolate x to the left side. For this reason, we'll
add x both sides and we'll add 4 both sides:

3x + x  = 12 +
4

We'll combine like terms
:

4x = 16

We'll divide by
4:

x = 4

The
solution of the equation is x = 4.

What your views about a girl physically struggling at a young age?When compared, a boy has more physical strength than a girl.

I think that there are a bunch of issues here in this
question.  If I am understanding it correctly, there is discussion as to how girls cope
with the challenges posed by differences in strength between boys.  Initially, I think
that the idea that there is a vast difference in strength might not be entirely
accurate.  The enforcement of Title IX legislation, especially in athletics, has helped
significantly to allow girls to share in the physical development as men.  We are able
to find women athletes being as competitive as the men.  One might be able to say that
there is a difference in terms of style of play, but I am not entirely certain that
there is such a vast difference that one gender is overwhelmed by the other.  Along
these lines, younger girls are involving themselves in physical activities at the same
age as boys.  It is very common to find both boys and girls engaged in sports and sports
training at a young age.  This helps to bring out the idea that "struggle" might not be
as evident or as drastic as initially thought.

Do you think Granger's comparison of humanity of the phoenix adds to a major theme of the novel? Explain you answer.

I think that you can argue that it does.  I think that one
of the major themes in the novel is the idea that a society like the one Montag is
living in must be destroyed pretty completely before a new one can be
made.

We see this in some of the things that Faber says to
Montag.  He tells him that the goal should be simply to hold on until something happens
and they can start the society again.  Maybe if that happens they will do a better job
the next time.

So we have this idea that the society needs
to burn like the phoenix so it can rise again from the ashes.

In The Outsiders, why does Ponyboy feel that the gang cannot survive if Johnny were to die?It's in chapter 8, and the quote is: "'we couldn't get...

This is an excellent question. Of course, as you are
aware, this quote comes in Chapter Eight, when Ponyboy is basically having to confront
Johnny's inevitable death. This is indicated by the doctor's comment of "He's been
asking for them. It can't hurt now." Note, too, how when they Ponyboy and Two-Bit begin
talking to Johnny, Ponyboy notices that Johnny was "as pale as a pillow and he looked
awful." Thus what Ponyboy says initially as a kind of automatic remark to cheer Johnny
up becomes something much more significant.

The quote you
have identified does two things: it firstly identifies how tightly the gang is bound
together. Ponyboy is perfectly right. The gang in its present form cannot survive
without Johnny, as Johnny is part of their "family" and not having him there will never
be the same again. Secondly, consider how Johnny is described throughout this excellent
book. Johnny's "big black eyes" are constantly referred to, and quotes establishing his
sensitivity abound in the text:

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Johnny was a good fighter and could play it cool,
but he was sensitive and that isn't a good way to be when you're a
greaser.

In a sense therefore
the gang needs Johnny precisely because of his sensitivity. He is able to bring that to
bear for the whole gang. Losing Johnny would mean losing that
sensitivity.

What is the angle y if sin^2y=5siny-6 ?

sin^2 y = 5siny - 6

We will
move all terms to the left side so the right side is
0.

==> sin^2 y - 5siny + 6 =
0

Now let us assume that u=
siny

==> u^2 - 5u + 6 =
0

Let us factor.

==>
(u-2)(u-3) = 0

==> u= 2 ==> siny =
2 

==> u= 3 ==> siny =
3

Both solutions are invalid because the the values of sine
must be between -1 and 1.

==> -1 =< siny
=< 1

Then, the function has no
solution.

How does the short story "A Respectable Woman" demonstrate the universal truth of pride?

Kate Chopin's short story, "A Respectable Woman," has
several themes, to be expected from an author with such strong female protagonists.
However, the story may also demonstrate the universal truth of
pride.

Mrs. Baroda, our antagonist, is a strong woman. She
has a solid marriage and lives a comfortable life. When her husband, Gaston, invites an
old college friend, Gouvernail, to stay for several weeks, she is not pleased, having
hoped to spend some quiet time with her spouse, with no need to
entertain.

Mrs. Baroda has a preconceived idea of the kind
of man Gouvernail is, even before he arrives: she credits him with a cynical, studious
appearance, when in fact, he is anything but that. And above all, he is no bother: he
makes no demands on their time, but simply enjoys the opportunity to live in the
moment.

This bothers Mrs. Baroda, as she cannot seem to
figure him out, and wishes he would leave. Eventually, she decides to take care of
dressmaking concerns out of town and allow the men the rest of their visit
alone.

However, the night before she leaves, Gouvernail
strolls out and sits beside her on a bench and begins to speak of many things. For a
moment, she longs to touch his face and whisper to him, not of anything specific, but to
make a connection. Being a "respectable woman," she will not do so. She leaves the next
day, and for some time, resists her husband's attempts to have him visit
again.

Eventually, Mrs. Baroda changes her mind, allowing
that should Gouvernail visit again, she will be very nice to
him.

Looking for a universal theme of pride in mind, it is
important to recall the types of guests Mrs. Baroda has been accustomed to in the past.
She is used to being able to understand the people who visit. She has a sense of what
they are thinking, and she knows how to organize household affairs to be a good hostess.
With Gourvernail, none of these things matter. He is not demanding. He is rather
private. He has no desire for special attention. If she is present, he is satisfied, and
if she absents herself, he is equally satisfied.

Perhaps
her pride is a requirement of women of society at the time, in that the expectation is
there that the social gatherings in the home revolve around her, her plans for
entertainment, and her attentions to guests. This man does not look for any of these
things. And though she likes him well enough, she is not happy with him because she
cannot fulfill her social duties.

Had Mrs. Baroda been
trained differently, perhaps she would not have taken Gouvernail's "distance" so
personally. However, it gets under her skin and irritates her that he does not follow
the conventions of "polite" society.

The universality of
pride can be seen in the need of most people to believe the world revolves around them.
And as society has placed this expectation upon Mrs. Baroda, it still does with people
today, in some ways. We often feel insecure, worrying that others will find us coming up
short in some way. We may demand attention from others. We may have unfair expectations
of others and how they treat us.

Instead of needing to be
the center of the social activity within her house, seeing to Gouvernail's comfort,
regardless of his attention to her, should have been more important than trying to
discover what lies beneath his quiet exterior.

What three points show that the theme of the American Dream is found in The Great Gatsby and Death of a Salesman?

The American Dream, and its destruction, are primary
themes in both works.

1. Jay Gatsby and Willie Loman are
both dreamers who work to succeed and thereby shape the futures they dream for
themselves. When he was young, Gatsby (as Jimmy Gatz) worked hard, stayed true to some
core American values, and tried to better himself through study. Willie Loman worked
hard and honestly as a salesman as he and Linda made a home for their two
sons.

2. Gatsby and Loman become corrupt in pursuit of
their dreams. Gatsby works for Meyer Wolfsheim, a gangster, to build a fortune. Loman
lies and cheats, first to get ahead and then simply to survive in the increasingly
competitive world of sales.

3. American society as
presented in each work is entirely materialistic and money-driven, suggesting the
destruction of the American Dream. Fitzgerald's 1920s and Miller's 1950s are presented
as American eras in which the desire for wealth and material possessions has corrupted
the beauty of the American Dream as it was first held by immigrants--an idealistic dream
of freedom. Also, the promise of hard work leading to great financial success is dead.
In The Great Gatsby fortunes are not earned by hard work; they are
inherited, stolen, or acquired by good luck. In Death of a
Salesman, no matter how hard Willie Loman works, he lacks the skills and the
education to succeed in the modern marketplace of the 1950s.

In the poem, "Mother to Son," where does Hughes use onomatopoeia and assonance?

Langston Hughes' poignant poem, "Mother to Son," tells the
story of a mother giving some hard-life-experience advice to her son. The
onomatopoeia (the formation or use of words--such as
hiss or murmur--that imitate the sounds
associated with the objects or actions they refer to) is not as definitive as most
examples, but the closest wording to fit this literary device would be the colloquial
"I'se been a climin' ", which attempts to imitate the act of the hard and
never-ending climb up the steep stairs of life. The closest example of
assonance (also called vowel rhyme,
in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the
stressed syllables of the rhyming words) would be the line "Where there ain't been no
light"; the first three words use the hard "eh" sound. The examples of "I'se" and
"climbin'" would also fit the definition of the term. Perhaps a better used literary
device is the personification, where Hughes gives "life"
the attributes given to stairs (tacks, splinters, boards, no
carpet).

How is the theme of war treated throughout the 1920-1945 literary period?Highlight how changing social and cultural aspects influence the...

As consistent with modernist writing, I think that war was
seen as an incomplete entity.  This is in stark opposition to what governments and
social orders constructed war.  War was seen by states as a means to resolve problems as
well as feeding the strength of the government.  In war, there could be little room for
dissent and, as nations plunged into war, the spirit of questioning authority
disappeared.  As ruling political orders sought to strengthen and bolster the Status
Quo, modernist writers and thinkers saw their function as quite the opposite.  Viewing
fragmentation and disunity where the opposite were being preached, war was treated in
the works of the Modernists as something that embodied the sense of loss and disunity
that was a part of consciousness.  We can see this, most notably, in the works of Pound
and Yeats, modernist writers who could not conceive of consciousness in the totalizing
and direct manner that governments and social orders were advocating at the
time.

In The Giver, do the old people from the house of old get hit with wands?and if so support with a quote. add any extra details about the house of...

Yes, the discipline wand is used in the House of the Old. 
In chapter 12, Fiona tells Jonas this.  She explains that she has a lot to learn in
caring for the old, and one of the areas is "punishment for disobedience" with the
discipline wand.

"[Did] you know that they use a discipline
wand on the Old, the same as for small children?"

She does
not go on to elaborate, but we can assume that since she says "the same" that the
application is the same.  In chapter 7, the discipline wands are described as “a system
of regulated smacks” with the discipline wand, described as “a thin, flexible weapon
that stung painfully when it was wielded” and the Childcare workers are specially
trained to administer “a quick smack across the back of the hands for minor misbehavior”
and “three sharper smacks on the bare legs for a second
offense.”

Note that this system is only used on small
children.  Older children make apologies for misbehavior.  The fact that the community
treats the Old the same as young children implies that they do not consider the old to
be adults with adult rights and characteristics.  They are considered dependent, like
small children.

Name the industries where ESP can be used. What do you know about its efficiency?

ESPs are frequently used to collect submicron particulate
that arises from combustion, drying operations, process chemical production, and similar
sources. They are also used as polishing devices to reduce particulate loadings to
extremely low levels. They are generally used where the inlet loading of particulate is
under 0.5 grs/dscf and where corrosive gases may be present. They also excel where the
particulate is sticky but can be water
flushed.

Applications
include

• chemical and hazardous waste
  incinerators;


• hog fuel
  boilers;


• acid mists;
  


• steel mill applications;
  


• vapor-condensed
  organics;


• nonferrous metal oxide fumes from calciners,
  roasters, and reverb furnaces;


• veneer dryers;
  


• sludge incinerators;


• and
  blue haze and fume control.

Efficiency of an
electro static precipitator is calculated as :-

E=
1-e(-AVd/Q)

E= Collection
efficiency

Vd = Particle drift velocity 
m/s

Q= Gas flow rate  m3/s

A=
Collecting electrode area m2

Solve the inequality: 17x + 5 >= -6x^2.

17x + 5 >= -6x^2

First
we will move -6x^2 to the left side so the right side is
0.

==> 6x^2 + 17x + 5 >=
0

Now we have a quadratic function, we will use the
quadratic formula to find the roots.

==> x1= ( -17 +
sqrt(289-4*6*5) / 2*6

             = (-17 + 13) / 12 =
-4/12 = -1/3

==> ( x+1/3 ) Or ( 3x+1) is a factor of
the function.

==> x2= ( -17-13) /12 = -30/12 =
-5/2

==> (x+5/2) OR (2x + 5) is a
factor.

==> ( 2x+5) ( 3x+1)
>=0

Then ( 2x+5) >= 0   and ( 3x+1)
>=0

==> x >= -5/2  and   x>=
-1/3

==> x = [ -1/3,
inf)

OR:

 x =<-5/2  
and  x=< =-1/3

==> x = (-inf,
-5/2]

==> x = (-inf, -5/2] U [-1/3,
inf)

What are the roles of the characters in "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury?The characters whose roles I am looking for are: Mr. Travis, Eckels,...

Ray Bradbury's science fiction short story "A Sound of
Thunder" has a plot driven by the actions of the
characters:

Eckels

This
character certainly is the catalyst to the problem of the plot of Bradbury's story. 
Were it not for Eckels's stepping off the path where he has been forbidden to do so and
bringing back the crushed butterfly on his boot, the alterations in life in the present
time would not have happened--the "butterfly
effect."

Mr.
Travis

Travis is the safari guide into the
past who takes Eckels on his trip to shoot a Tyrannosaurus Rex in the Time Machine.  He
describes the dangers of the time travel and of shooting a dinosaur to Eckels, who
accuses Travis of attempting to frighten him.  Travis replies that he is doing so in an
attempt to prevent anyone from going who will disrupt the order of things or cost people
their lives.

When Eckels does get frightened, it is up to
Travis to shoot the dinosaur and make Eckels remove the bullets so that nothing will be
out of order in the
past.

Lesperance

Interestingly,
this character's name means "hope."  Working for the time-travel company, he scouts
ahead for animals that will not have a future, and, therefore, have no part in any order
of the future.  For instance, he has found a Tyrannosaurus Rex who will be killed by a
falling tree; this is the dinosaur that Eckels is assigned to shoot. If Eckels kills
this dinosaur, nothing in the future will change. 

What is Robert Frost's attitude in his poem "Desert Places"?

In "Desert Places," Robert Frost takes a scene from nature
and uses it as a springboard for a philosophical idea.

The
poem begins with a description of a field filling up with snow at
night:

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Snow falling and night falling fast, oh,
fast
In a field I looked into going past,
And the ground almost
covered smooth in snow,
But a few weeds and stubble showing last.

The poet proceeds to
interpret the scene before him as a symbol of loneliness and
emptiness:

And
lonely as it is, that loneliness
Will be more lonely ere it will be less
-
A blanker whiteness of benighted snow
WIth no expression, nothing
to express.

The
poet then moves from the snowy scene on Earth to the great "empty spaces / Between
stars"; he says that no-one can scare him with those empty spaces
because:

I
have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.

Frost seems to be saying
that one does not have to travel to outer space on a solo rocket mission to exprerience
loneliness.  Rather, loneliness is part of the human condition.  Each person is, by
definition,  separated from all other people and thus has his or her "own desert
places." 

When x = 3 and y = 5, by how much does the value of 3x^2 – 2y exceed the value of 2x^2– 3y ?

Given the equations:

3x^2 -
2y

2x^2 - 3y

Also we know that
x= 3 and y= 5

We need to know the difference in values
between both equations.

First we will substitute x and y
values in each equation.

==> 3x^2 -2y = 3*(3^2) -
2*5 = 27 -10= 17

==> 2x^2 -3y = 2*(3^2) - 3*5 =
18-15 = 3

Now we will calculate the difference between both
values.

==> 17 -3 =
14.

Then the values of 3x^2 -2y exceeds the
values of 2x^2 -3y by 14.

Describe the use of boundary-spanning roles.

Boundary-spanning roles are used as a business practice in
order to get closer to the trends and the new clientele that may become the consumers of
the products of an organization. It consists on obtaining information from outside
sources and presenting information from inside sources regarding the most current uses
and preferences of the changing population.

An example of
the boundary-spanning role practice is to ask children to taste certain cereals to
determine which cereals kids are most likely to prefer in terms of taste, texture,
entertainment factor, and other qualitative characteristics. Prior to sending a product
into the market, producers will use testers who are from the same market that they are
going to target to determine which product will be the most
successful.

What is the dream that George and Lennie share in Of Mice and Men?

In Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men,
readers learn the story of George Milton and Lennie Small--two ranch hands who travel
together.  It is almost immediately evident that George serves as Lennie's caretaker, as
Lennie essentially has the mind of a child.  In Chapter 1, Lennie begs George to desribe
their dream to him, and George does:

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Someday--we're gonna get the jack together and
we're gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an' a cow and some
pigs.

Lennie is primarily
focused on the idea that he'll be able to tend the rabbits,  since he likes to pet soft
things, but George is more interested in not having to work for someone
else. 

To both, the dream of the ranch represents
independence and a place where each man will be able to live for
himself. 

Find the indefinite integral of 1/(cos^2x-cos^4x).

First, we'll re-write the denominator. We notice that we
can factorize it by (cos x)^2:

1/[(cos x)^2 - (cos x)^4] =
1/(cos x)^2[1 - (cos x)^2]

We'll  also substitute the
numerator1, by the fundamental formula of
trigonometry:

(sin x)^2 + (cos x)^2 =
1

We notice that [1 - (cos x)^2] = (sin
x)^2

We'll re-write the
ratio:

1/(sin x)^2*(cos x)^2=[(sin x)^2 + (cos x)^2]/(sin
x)^2*(cos x)^2

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

We'll
simplify the fractions:

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

We'll integrate both
sides:

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

Int dx/(sin x)^2*(cos x)^2 = tan
x - cotan x + C

What is the meaning of "Shall I keep your hogs,and eat husks with them?" spoken by Orlando to Oliver in As You Like It?IN Act 1st Scene 1st

In this scene, Orlando is complaining to Oliver about the
way Oliver (his older brother) is treating him.  He believes that he is being treated
like a animal or a servant.  This is what he is saying to his brother.  Oliver tells him
he should do more with himself, be more useful.  Orlando speaks the line you mention,
asking if he should act like a servant/animal.

In order to
fully understand what is being said here, you have to understand the allusion that is
being made in this line.  It is clearly an allusion to the biblical story of the
prodigal son.   If you are not familiar with this story, copy and paste this link (I
can't get it to work in the links
section...)

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2015:11-32&version=KJV

In
this story, a younger son (like Orlando) goes off and squanders his part of his father's
fortune.  He ends up working for someone, feeding the swine and wishing he could eat the
"husks" they were eating.  The point of the story is that this son was really stupid and
wasteful and yet (later in the story) his father welcomed him
home.

Everyone hearing this play in Shakespeare's day would
have understood the allusion and what it was saying (since they were all Christian).  By
using this allusion, Orlando is rebuking Oliver.  He is pointing out that he himself has
not done anything wrong the way the prodigal son did and yet his brother is treating him
badly (unlike the actions of the father in the
parable).

So, to truly understand this line from the play,
it is important to know the biblical story to which it alludes.

What is x if 13^x - 20=13^(3-x) ?

We'll remember the quotient property of
exponentials:

13^(3-x) =
13^3/13^x

We'll re-write the
equation:

13^x - 20 - 13^3/13^x =
0

We'll multiply by 13^x both
sides:

13^2x - 20*13^x - 13^3 =
0

We'll substitute 13^x =
t:

t^2 - 20t - 2197 = 0

We'll
apply quadratic rule:

t1 = [20+sqrt(400 +
8788)]/2

t1 = (20 +
sqrt9188)/2

t1 =
10+sqrt2297

t2 =
10-sqrt2297

13^x =
10+sqrt2297

log 13^x = ln
(10+sqrt2297)

x = log (10+sqrt2297)/ln
13

x = 1.5825 approx.

13^x =
10 - sqrt2297 impossible! ( since 10 < sqrt2297 => 13^x = negative value,
that is impossible).

The equation has only
one solution, x = 1.5825 approx.

What is a theme statement about pride and 2 example?

The Crucible is a fantastic piece
that deals with guilt, lies, and honor. You use the word pride, but by the end, I think
we see honor.

I would write a statement like
this:

The Crucible clearly
demonstrates the theme of pride through the characters of John and Elizabeth
Proctor.

I say this because in Act 4, Elizabeth doesn't
turn on John and confesses how she led him to an adulterous relationship by keeping a
cold house. John, likewise refuses to confess to witchcraft because he isn't a witch.
Knowing he will die for telling the truth, he keeps telling the truth. These two
examples should fulfill your theme statement.

In To Kill a Mockingbird why is Boo Radley so mysterious?At the end of the book I still never got a direct answer or I must have just missed it.

Symbolically, Boo Radley represents the innocence of
childhood.  When the children are younger, before they learn how the world really works,
Boo Radley is their resident monster.  As they get older, they lose their innocence when
they learn about poverty (though the Cunninghams and Ewells) and racism (through the
trial of Tom Robinson and people’s reaction to it).  Poverty and racism are the real
monsters, and as they are revealed Boo Radley becomes less of a monster.  He begins
reaching out to the children by leaving them the presents in the tree.  He protects Jem
from punishment by sewing his pants, and he protects Scout from death when Bob Ewell
attacks her.

Boo Radley becomes less and less mysterious
throughout the book as the children age and mature.  At the end, he comes out.  This is
the point at which they realize that there are good people and bad people in the world
but they are not the ones they thought.  Racists are the real monsters.  Boo, one of the
story’s Mockingbirds, is actually the innocent one.  He has been victimized by society,
and this is the result of severe abuse from his parents.  He is socially stunted as a
result.

In Charlotte Bronte's novel, Jane Eyre, why would Jane not stay with Mr. Rochester even if his wife is alive?

In Charlotte Brontë's novel, Jane
Eyre, Jane leaves Mr. Rochester, and she refuses to return, saying that
perhaps they will meet again one day in heaven.

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'One instant, Jane. Give one glance to my
horrible life when you are gone. All happiness will be torn away with you. What then is
left? For a wife I have but the maniac up stairs as well might you refer me to some
corpse in yonder churchyard. What shall I do, Jane? Where turn for a companion, and for
some hope?'

'Do as I do: trust in God and yourself. Believe
in heaven. Hope to meet again
there.'

Jane has nowhere to
go because she has no family, but is taken in at Moor House, where two sisters and their
brother St. John Rivers. Jane learns that they are all related, and that she has
inherited money from her uncle. St. John proposes; but then Jane hears Edward's voice
calling her one evening, on the wind, and she returns to
Thornfield.

Jane refuses to stay with Edward in the first
place even though she is in love with him because he is married already. Jane has very
strict morals and believes that to stay with Edward would be a sin because he has a wife
and is bound by the vows of marriage to her, even if she is
insane.

It is only after Thornfield is destroyed by fire,
and Bertha, Edward's wife, is killed in the fire (that she set), that Edward is no
longer bound by his marriage vows. At this point, Jane returns to Edward, even though
his home is destroyed and he is blind. Still in love with Edward, Jane agrees to marry
him.

What can we infer about cultural and social conventions of the time in Act II, scene iii of Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing?

There are many inferences of social and cultural
conventions of the day in Act II, scene iii of Shakespeare's Much Ado about
Nothing (pronounced note-ing). One inference reveals
attitudes relating to servitude. In the beginning of the act, Benedick calls to his
servant with an imperious, depersonalizing "Boy!" The servant comes instantly and
replies with "Signor?" There is not much in the single word itself to reveal the
servant's attitude but his following line, after being asked to bring a book, reveals
good humour (and maybe some intentional stupidity!) if in no other way than though the
lack of resentment and bitterness: "I am here already, sir." The conclusion follows that
one socio-cultural convention was for masters of servants to be rude, curt, and
disrespectful while at least some servants responded with readiness in carrying out
commands and good humor, with a touch of intentional or unintentional
stupidity.

Two other socio-cultural conventions pertaining
to a soldiers life are exposed in Benedick's Act II, scene iii monologue about Claudio.
He reveals that soldiers take a serious interest in their accoutrement's of war ("would
have walked ten mile a-foot to see a / good armour") and that this interest can be
side-tracked by feelings of love, as is the case with Claudio: "now will he lie ten
nights awake, / carving the fashion of a new doublet." Benedick also reveals that
soldiers "speak plain and to the purpose." Yet again, love may turn them from their
habitual plain ways, as is also the case for Claudio: "his / words are a very
fantastical banquet."

Two other socio-cultural conventions
inferred relate to music and love. Music was a household constant. Wealthy individual
had household musicians as is testified to by the presence of Balthasar and his
musicians; this is a socio-cultural convention confirmed in As You Like It
by the presence of the singer in the forest of Arden with the deposed Duke
Ferdinand Senior. Love always follows music, and music always accompanies love, so it is
no surprise that from Balthasar's music we learned that the socio-cultural convention of
disappointment in love was the same as it is today:

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troubles in love as now / … /
Men were
deceivers ever,
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing
constant never:

In Beowulf, who is Hrothgar? Briefly summarize his boast to build Herot. What is the function of this building?

Hrothgar is king of the Danes during the time of Grendle's
attacks.  Hrothgar is the son of Healfdane, the grandson of Beo, and the great grandson
of Shild, all Danes who were victorious in battles and highly regarded.  When Hrothgar
inherited the throne, he led the Danes in battles with such honor and glory that men
eagerly joined his armies.  Because of his battle triumphs, Hrothgar wanted to build a
mead hall that would hold all his men and reach higher toward heaven than any other mead
hall.  He did not want any lives lost in the building of his mead hall and he didn't
want to take away any lands used for pastures.  The mead hall was built and named
Herot.  This was the place where social gatherings were held.  These gatherings were
feasts with sumptuous meals, large quantities of drink, much dancing and music.  It was
all the merriment that angered Grendle and led him to attack the men in Herot.  Mead
halls were a common sight in communities during this time.  They were the places where
communal gatherings occurred.

What are some similarities between Lily in The Secret Life of Bees and Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird?

Both of these girls are at a critical time in their lives.
Scout is entering school for the first time, and Lily is entering adolescence with its
endless questioning of life. Both girls have lost their mothers, but in radically
different ways. Both have an African American maternal figure in their lives, Calpurnia
for Scout and Rosaleen for Lily. Both have an antagonistic influence in their lives to
conform to the accepted standards of their day. Lily's dad tries to make her conform to
a proper girl's life, and Aunt Alexandra tries to make Scout into a young lady. However,
the differences between them are much greater.

Which real numbers satisfies the inequality (x+3)(x+4)>0?

To satisfy the inequality, both factors of the product
have to have the same sign, that means that, if (x+3) is positive, (x+4)>, too,
and reverse.

Let's solve both
cases.

First, let's consider both factors as being
positive:

x+3>0

x+3-3>-3

x+0>-3

x>-3,
which is the interval (-3,
inf.)

x+4>0

x+4-4>-4

x>-4,
which is the interval (-4, inf.)

The common interval which
satisfies the inequality is (-3, inf.).

The other case is
when both factors are
negative.

x+3<0

x<-3,
which is the interval (-inf,
-3)

and

x+4<0

x<-4,
which is the interval (-inf, -4).

The common interval which
satisfies the inequality is (-inf, -4).

Why does Curley's wife come to visit? Explain why she starts a fight with the two men.

In Of Mice and Men, Curley's wife
visits and starts a fight for a couple of reasons, one obvious and one
psychological.

Obvious reason:
Steinbeck wants her to. She's a character, a minor
character at that.  She doesn't even have a name.  She's the only female character in
the novella.  She's an archetype: a temptress.  Temptresses tempt.  They tempt men.
 What else is she going to do?  Sing and dance?  She's got to visit the bunkhouse, the
barn, the stable.  She's got to start a fight.  These men are animals, and she's just
the thing to get their blood boiling.  Even when she's not there, she's there starting a
fight.

Psychological reason: she's lonely.
She wants attention from Curley, but he's not giving it to her.  So, she
seeks it from the others.  There's two new guys, one big and one small, and she's
curious.  Maybe she wants to make Curley jealous by seeing her talk to the big buy
because she knows Curley hates big guys.  But that might get her beat up, so I don't
think she would want that.  So maybe she wants to see Curley beat up someone
else.

In Death of a Salesman, how old are Biff and Happy during their conversation in the bedroom? Does it take place in the past or present?

The conversation between Biff and Happy that takes place
in their bedroom is found in the beginning of the play. The time is the present. Willie
has just returned home, tired and confused; Biff and Happy listen to their parents'
conversation in the next room. Biff is 34 years old; Happy is 32. These facts are
established directly and indirectly. Willie makes a reference to Biff's being 34;
Miller's author notes say that Biff is two years older than his
brother.

What is the symbolic significance of the cigar scene in Chapter III of Crane's The Open Boat?

The cigar scene in Crane's The Open Boat
symbolically reinforces the thoughts and feelings the men in the boat have as
they approach the lighthouse and watch the land grow from "paper thin" to "a line of
black and a line of white, trees, and sand." The third person narrator of the story of
peril on the sea first describes the feeling between the men in the boat and their
devotion to the captain. He then begins to describe the progress of the lighthouse
growing large enough to see: "the light-house had been growing slowly larger," which is
itself a symbol for the men's hope of rescue growing correspondingly
larger.

As the "land arose from the sea" with silhouettes
of commonplace things, the narrator describes the transformation in the men: all
"watched the shore grow"; the men felt "the influence of this expansion"; "doubt and
direful apprehension was leaving" the men's minds; the boat "could not prevent a quiet
cheerfulness." In their increasing optimism, they "rode this wild colt of a dingey like
circus men."

It is here that the narrator explains that the
correspondent finds four good cigars out eight in his pocket while another finds three
good matches. Now they smoke their cigars feeling that all is right with the world
because of how "beautifully the land loomed out of the sea." It is clear now that the
cigar scene symbolizes their feelings of hope and deliverance that grows as the vision
of land grows. The broader purpose in terms of the text is to create a growing tension
and suspense leading into the next chapter in which the dialogue portends of more
suffering: "there don't seem to be any signs of life about your house of refuge ...
Funny they don't see us! ... We'll swamp sure."

Analyze Ayn Rand’s use of darkness and light in Anthem.

There are a lot of interesting angles that you could take
with light and darkness in this book. To start, Equality 7-2521 is enveloped in
darkness. The tone of the novel is dark, both figuratively and physically. For instance,
the third paragraph starts with the sentence, "It is dark here. The flame of the candle
stands still in the air." As we move through the book, we find out that Equality 7-2521
is in a tunnel which is from the Unmentionable Times. He has found this tunnel with
International 4-8188, his street sweeping partner. Ironically, this dark tunnel is where
Equality 7-2521 develops his knowledge of light and electricity, which causes him to
eventually run away from the society in which he
lives.

Symbolically, darkness usually illustrates ignorance
while light stands for knowledge. In the case of Anthem, Equality
7-2521 goes to the darkest place, an unlit tunnel, and discovers light. This light leads
him to knowledge in the form of electricity and eventually causes him to escape to
freedom, allowing him to learn as much as he
wishes.

Equality 7-2521 and The Golden One rename
themselves Prometheus and Gaea, respectively. Prometheus "took the light of the gods and
he brought it to men, and he taught men to be gods." Prometheus plans to go and get some
of the men that he left behind to teach them about what he has learned. Further, he and
Gaea have found a house at the top of a mountain with a ton of windows and books. In
Chapter XI, Prometheus says, "I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head
and I spread my arms. This, my body and spirit, this is the end of the quest...I am the
meaning." He has found a place of ultimate light in the summit and he realizes that he
is ultimate knowledge.

What are the fairy tale elements in "The Fall of the House of Usher"?

Well, there are certainly lots of elements in this classic
Gothic story that are reminiscent of a fairy tale or a ghost story. You might want to
consider the isolated location of the House of Usher, which of course adds a
psychological component to the experience of the narrator as he is away from civilised
society. Added to this, consider the way in which both Roderick and his twin sister
Madeline are described as being half-dead and half-alive. The narrator cannot look at
Roderick "with any idea of simple humanity" and likewise when he catches a glimpse of
Madeline, the narrator looks at her with "an utter astonishment not unmingled with
dread."

Lastly, the shocking revelation that Roderick
actually buried his sister alive in the tomb combined with her ghostly reunion with her
brother gives this story a real horrific fairy tale
ending:

For a
moment she remained trembling and reeling to and fro upon the threshold--then, with a
low moaning cry, fell heavily inward upon the person of her brother, and in her violent
and now final death-agonies, bore him to the floor a corpse, and a victim to the terrors
he had anticipated.

The way
that the fates of Roderick and Madeline are matched by the destruction of the house adds
a real supernatural element to the conclusion of the story, as it becomes clear that the
fates of these three were inextricably intertwined in their life and
death.

Please give a summary of the poem "Weathers" by Thomas Hardy.

One of the themes of Hardy's poetry that it is hard to
ignore is the weather and the countryside, and in this simplistic poem Hardy re-visits
these themes by focussing on two different states of weather and how one is desired and
loved by himself and others and the other state of weather is disliked and
shunned.

The first season is spring, when "showers betumble
the chestnut spikes, / And nestlings fly." The singing of the nightingale and the
feeling of joy in people as spring comes, announcing the end of winter, creates an
excitement in the natural world that is shared by the
narrator.

The second season is autumn, which "the shepherd
shuns." This is when "beeches drip in browns and duns," and birds such as rooks, in an
attempt to escape the bad weather, "homeward go." This sentiment of wanting to escape
the bad weather is shared by the narrator, who likewise heads home to his warm
house.

Things to note in this poem is the simplistic,
child-like rhythm that is reinforced by repetition of lines such as "And so do I," that
make this a poem more for children compared to Hardy's more serious
poems.

How does Ender change throughout the book, Ender's Game? In what parts of the book is this shown?

Ender begins the story as a naive, trusting six year old,
but not as the typical six year old of today. He is extremely gifted in battle and
strategies beyond his years. As the events unfold, Ender becomes a lonely outcast and
understands that he is being manipulated by the adults and the military. He learns to
cope with the loneliness by withdrawing from people. He learns from situations, both
good and bad, and puts that knowledge to work manipulating others. He becomes cynical
yet masterful. His love of his sister never dies, and the manipulative military uses her
to steer Ender in the direction they feel is best. Ender knows this but continues to
love his sister while steering the military in the direction he wants them to go. Once
the war is over, he withdraws from the world and travels in space doing only what he
wants with his equally burned out sister as his companion.

What did the Big Three decide to do about Germany at the Yalta Conference?

Yalta Conference is the name given to meetings of key
Allied leaders - President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States, Prime Minister
Winston Churchill of Great Britain, and Premier Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union -
during World War II.  Yalta, a famous Black Sea resort in Ukraine, on the southern coast
of the Crimean Peninsula, along the Black Sea. The conference took place from February 4
to 11, 1945.

The agreements reached by the three leaders at
the conference included the following:

• To accept
  the structure of a world peacekeeping organization. This ultimately resulted in
  formation of the United Nations


• To  bring order in Europe
  after the war  help the defeated countries establish democratic
  governments.


• To divide Germany into four zones to be
  occupied by Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and
  France.


• To support the Soviet-backed government and hold
  free elections in Poland.


• To extend the Soviet Union's
  territory into Poland.


• To force Germany to reimburse the
  Soviet Union by way of equipment and other resources to make up for Soviet losses.
  

Also Soviet Union agreed to join the war
against Japan in return for control of some territories an strategic
ports.

What is spermatogenesis? Plus diagrams.I need some help on spermatogenesis and oogenesis. I also need some diagrams. Please help.

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"Spermatogenesis is the process by which male
spermatogonia develop into mature spermatozoa, also known as a
sperm cell."

The cycle of the
spermatogenesis takes 64 days and can be broken down into two successive
sections:

Spermatocytogenesis:
primitive cells called spermatogonia increase in number by
mitosis.

Spermiogenesis:
spermatids change in form during spermiogenesis.  They change into the
streamline spermatozoa adapted for fertilization.

Oogenesis
is the process by which the ovum is developed. "Oogenesis consists of several
sub-processes: oocytogenesis, ootidogenesis and finally maturation to form an ovum.
Folliculogenesis is a separate sub-process that accompanies and supports all three
oogenetic sub-processes." 

Oocytogenesis:
starts with the process of developing oogonia. This stage is complete
either before or shortly after
birth.

Ootidogenesis: when the
primary oocyte develops into an ootid. This is achieved through the process of meiosis. 
The ootid eventually matures into an ovum.

What is the magnitude of the energy dissipated by the frictional force on the child in the following case. A child of mass 27 kg takes a ride on an...

The height of the slide is 8.45 m and the child is
starting at rest at the top. The mass of the child is 27 kg and acceleration due to
gravity is 9.8 m/s^2.

The potential energy of the child at
the top of the slide is equal to m*g*h, here m = 27, g = 9.8 and h =
8.45

m*g*h = 2235.87 J.

When
the child reaches the bottom of the slide, if there were no friction the velocity would
have been v with (1/2) m*v^2 = m*g*h

=> v^2 =
g*h*2

=> v = sqrt (9.8 * 8.45 *
2)

=> v = 12.86
m/s

Instead, the velocity is 11
m/s.

The energy dissipated by the force of friction is
(1/2)*27*(12.86 - 11)^2

=> 47.17
J

The energy dissipated due to the force of
friction is 47.17 J

What strange occurrence happens to Victor on his way back to Geneva? Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Having received a letter from his father whose contents
reveal the tragic news of his brother William's mysterious death, Victor Frankenstein
makes his immediate return to Geneva.  However, upon his arrival, Victor discovers that
the gates of the town have been closed, so he must spend the night in Secheron, a nearby
village.  Since he cannot rest, Victor decides to visit the area where William has been
murdered.  While there, the serene sky changes and a violent storm moves into the area. 
As the thunder echoes over the Jura and Alps and brillant flashes of lightning "dazzle"
Victor's eyes, the lake is lit by this natural forces appearing as a "vast sheet of
fire."  The storm strikes in various places, lighting the sky in all its
corners.

Victor watches this tempest, "so beautiful yet
terrific," feeling that the "noble war in the sky" is the funeral for William:  "this
[is] thy dirge."  Omniously lurking in the gloom is "the filthy daemon to whom I had
given life," Victor thinks.  Victor shudders as he considers that the creature may be
the murderer of his beloved brother.  Deducing that nothing could have destroyed the
child as he was but the giant, Victor's teeth chatter with the horror of his
realization.  He thinks of pursuing the creature, but it is gone having reached the
summit and disappeared.

What comparisons can you make between the short story "The Wall" by Jean-Paul Sartre and the album and movie "Pink Floyd's The Wall"?

Tough question.  I'm guessing one comparison could be how
both of the main characters, Pink and Ibbieta, both had to face a tyrannical,
overpowering force: Pink faced a judge, who blurts out how Pink deserves the "full
penalty of law"; Ibbieta, on the other hand, also faces interrogation from an oppressive
military force who wants him to reveal an acquaintance's whereabouts or face death by a
firing squad.

We know that Sartre was an existentialist,
which is clearly seen in many lines in the short story; similarly, Pink seems to
struggle to find some sort of meaning to his life as well: he seems to simply give up at
times just like Ibbieta does.

I may be stretching here, but
both main characters also seem to harbor quite a bit of hostility: Ibbieta narrates his
thoughts about how he hates the others and finds pleasure in teasing the guards.  Pink
seems quite complacent, but can quickly fly off the deep end or do something extreme
like join a Nazi-like extremist group.

In The Witch of Blackbird Pond, why does Hannah tell Kit that she "has never escaped at all" by marring William?

Let us be very careful with what the text actually says.
This reference comes in Chapter Sixteen when it looks as if Kit and William Ashby are to
be married. When Kit is with Hannah Tupper, she says that one of her reasons for
marrying William is to escape from her uncle's house and all the drudgery and daily work
that she has had to do since her arrival. However, in response, Hannah
says:

"But
remember, thee has never escaped at all if love is not
there."

Thus, this is a
slightly different situation from what your question suggests. Your question seems to
suggest that Kit marries William in the novel, whereas this never happens. Hannah is
actually telling Kit to be very wary of committing herself to a marriage if she does not
love the other person, because, although escape is what Kit wants, she will not find it
in a loveless marriage.

What is cos x if tan x=6/11?Solve using right triangle

We'll write the fundamental formula in
trigonometry:

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

If you divide the above formula with (cos
x)^2

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

But the tangent function is the ratio between sin
x/cos x, so (sin x)^2/(cos x)^2 = (tan x)^2

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

(cos x)^2[(tan x)^2+ 1] =
1

(cos x)^2 = 1/[(tan x)^2+
1]

cos x = sqrt1/[(tan x)^2+
1]

cos x = sqrt[1/[(6/11)^2 +
1]

cos x = sqrt[1/[(36/121) +
1]

cos x =
sqrt[1/(36+121)/121]

cos x = sqrt
(121/157)

cos x = 11/sqrt
157

Discuss the significance of the conversation between Lenina and Henry prompted by the Slough Crematorium in Brave New World.

The major significance of this conversation is that it
shows us how important the castes and conditioning are in maintaining stability in the
society.

As Henry and Lenina talk, she talks about how
happy she is that she is not an Epsilon.  But Henry points out to her how the
conditioning that people receive makes them all happy to be in the caste that they are
in.  He also points out that the people's different heredities make them want different
things.

These are very important points in this book.  A
major point of the book is that the World State has (or at least has tried to)
engineered things so that no one is discontented.  Through genetics and conditioning,
they have made people who are perfectly fitted for the jobs they will do and who are
happy with their status.

This is the best and worst thing
about the World State.  It is perfectly stable because everyone is happy (as Henry says)
but it is also terrible because everyone is denied the chance to be a human being. 
Instead, they are sort of robots who have been engineered to think and act in given
ways.  Because the conversation points this out to us, it is very
significant.

Why did so many people go to work in factories during WWII?

To understand why this happened, just think about the fact
that WWII was the most mechanized war in history up to that point.  Think about all the
airplanes used in that war -- the first war where airplanes were extremely important. 
Think of all the ships that were needed to carry supplies from the US to Europe as well
as all the way across the Pacific Ocean, eventually almost all the way to
Japan.

Then think about all the bombs and the guns and the
bullets and the uniforms and the food.  All of that stuff had to be made by someone and
those someones had to do the work in factories.

So the
answer to this is that so many people went to work in factories because so many
manufactured goods were needed to fight this war.

What is a character synopsis for Lily? What are her most importanct qualities?

Lily Casey Smith is QUITE a character, and as you read the
novel, she becomes almost bigger than life! Jeannette Walls, the author even says in her
notes that she remembers her grandmother's voice and tried to capture her voice, tone
and attitude as she filled in the narrative of the stories she remembers about the
lady.

Lily Casey Smith never had it easy, but she always
managed to figure out a way to get it done and be at peace with her decisions. She is
the definition of a no-nonsense woman. A few examples: saw no need to wash clothes --
the dirtier the Levi's the better they withheld the dirt and slop of the ranch. Saw no
need to vary their diet -- steak and beans was well-rounded enough. Saw no need to
overly-protect her children -- getting thrown from a horse taught them how to land right
to avoid injury.

Lily had no patience with fools and lived
life by her standards no matter the consequences: she left home at a very early age to
teach school and when she got fired from that job she tried to make it on her own in
Chicago - a long way from the family ranch. She taught her students what SHE thought
they needed; this especially irked the Mormonleadership as she told the girls there were
more options for women than marriage and children. She sold boot-leg liquor to make ends
meet, and didn't back down when a drunken man made a scene when she refused to sell to
him. She whipped her daughter hard when she caught her skinny-dipping with a group of
young Indian men. She took on all the jobs at a school in order to make more money. She
did all the hard work required of a rancher's wife. She was always open to taking a
chance on something new -- new ranches, new cities, new teaching jobs, new investments,
but she was never foolish.

Ultimately, Lily was loyal in
her love of her family. She always made sure they were cared for. She supported her
husband's hopes and dreams as well as her own. She created an equal partnership with
him. She tried very hard to protect Rosemary, but also recognized that the girl was
going to do whatever she wanted and that it was better to have a relationship with her
daughter and her grandchildren than to not have one, so she did what she could to
support Rosemary. She was a remarkable lady. 

How is Nick affected by West Egg? How has the nature of the place changed him?

Class and social standing are important themes in this
novel and present conflicts to almost every main character. East and West Egg symbolize
two different levels of class and social standing. Tom and Daisy live on East Egg where
the people are well-bred and have class and family money. Nick and Gatsby live on West
Egg where the people are "nouveau riche" - that means, they have money but not breeding.
The green light shining from East Egg represents the envy Gatsby feels towards what he
has always wanted -- the woman that he never gets. The water symbolizes the barrier
between East and West Egg that keeps the characters apart from one another and from
their desires.

Nick
says:

"I lived
at West Egg, the—well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most
superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between
them."

 In describing his
house, Nick says:

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"My own house was an eyesore, but it was a small
eyesore, and it had been overlooked, so I had a view of the water, a partial view of my
neighbor’s lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires—all for eighty dollars a
month."

By contrast, he
describes Daisy's home thusly:

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"Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of
fashionable East Egg glittered along the water, and the history of the summer really
begins on the evening I drove over there to have dinner with the Tom
Buchanans."

Nick says that
when he came back from his trip back east, he was changed. Where he once thought himself
tolerant, he now found that he wanted things to be more even in the world. He
says:

"When I
came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and
at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with
privileged glimpses into the human
heart."

At the end of the
novel Nick is no longer tolerant of everyone, especially people like Tom and Daisy. They
have destroyed his faith in humanity and turned him into a rather jaded individual. He
says:

"They
were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then
retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept
them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. . .
."

Read the novel at the
beginning and at the end to see the changes in Nick. This should get you
started.

what is the relationship between orlando and oliver

William Shakespeare's As You Like It
is a very witty comedy. Here, the characters of Orlando and Oliver are clearly
distinguishable from each other.

Oliver is
Orlando's elder brother. Both are the sons of late Sir Rowland de Bois. In the very
beginning, we find out, in accordance with the rule of primogeniture in England, which
instructs that all the property would be inherited by the eldest of the family, Orlando
gets the possession of the belongings that his father leaves. Though, he was instructed
to take proper care of Orlando, he, out of jealousy and loath, makes Orlando totally
deprived. In fact, when the royal wrestler Charles is supposed to fight Orlando, Oliver
leaps with joy thinking of the probable death of his brother. But, in Orlando, we find
no such cruel feeling or motive. He is not even confident enough to stand on his own
feet. He just flees away in fear of his
brother.

Later in the play, when Oliver is
attacked by a lioness in the forest of Arden, it is Orlando who rescues him. Orlando
could have shown abhorrence or reacted vindictively by not saving Oliver, but he does
not do so. Unlike Oliver, he proves to be a sensible brother and a good-natured human.
And, at this point, his valour is also
expressed.

Another notable point is that,
Orlando's character develops gradually with the help of Ganymede, whereas Oliver's
character faces a sudden change in the forest of Arden which is very
miraculous.

Finally , the difference between the
two brothers has clearly been depicted in the play, where Shakespeare's portrayal of
Orlando is almost a mirror image of Oliver.

How do the eyes transform light energy into neural messages?

The optic nerve transmits an impulse from the retina to
the brain, where vision is interpreted. The retina lines the inner surface of the eye
and is sensitive to light waves. Photoreceptor cells are located in the retina and are
of two types. Cones can sense color and are mainly used in daytime vision and rods can
sense black and white and function mainly in dim light. When light strikes the retina, a
nerve impulse is triggered. This is an electrical and chemical signal that is
interpreted in the vision center of the cerebrum cortex.

Research hypothesizes that an adult responds differently to the same baby depending on how the baby is dressed. Design a research study.

Scientific studies are generally set up to test the effect
of one variable (called the "independent variable") on another variable (called the
"dependent variable"). In this study, the item of clothing the baby wears would be the
independent variable. The adult's reaction to the baby would be the dependent variable.
Each variable needs to be classified. For the independent variable, we could have three
classifications: for example, red clothing, blue clothing, and white clothing or dressy
clothing, play clothing, and minimal clothing. For the dependant variable (adult's
reaction), we could have four classifications: very favorable, mildly favorable, mildly
unfavorable, and very unfavorable.  Bring the baby out and allow him or her to interact
with each adult for ten minutes. Record the adult's reaction via digital camera. Review
interaction and determine the extent to which the adult's reaction was favorable or
unfavorable. The more adult subjects in the study, the more representative and reliable
the research will be.

In "Barbie Doll," when people view her corpse in the funeral parlor, explain why this is "consummation at last?"

In the ending of the poem, Piercy has constructed a vision
of woman as a result of industrialization.  The idea of a fan belt being "worn out" has
yielded a product that has broken due to overuse.  In a very odd way, the modern woman
has become the version of Boxer from Orwell's Animal Farm.  Both work to please an
external order that has little or no regard for their state of being or their own
existence.  Instead, government and society view both Boxer and women as means to ends
and when this end has been accomplished they are disposed of without hesitation.  The
ironic manner in which the people view the Barbie doll vision of women in the funeral
parlor reflects that the woman has served her purpose in society.  The feeling of the
"happy ending" is rendered and used to mask the suffering of the woman.  It is a way for
the patriarchal society to maintain control of the use and disposing of women.  In this
case, of course, Piercy is saying that because of women’s subservient position in
society, it is often difficult for their lives to have happy
endings.

What are the roots of x^3 – 2x^2 – 23x + 60?

We have to find the roots of : x^3 – 2x^2 – 23x +
60

x^3 – 2x^2 – 23x + 60 =
0

As the equation has a highest power of x, we will have 3
roots.

From the numeric term equal to 60 we know that the
product of the roots is 60, substituting values 1,-1, 2, -2 and 3,  we get that 3 is a
root. So now we have to factor out x – 3, the other roots have a product of
20.

x^3 – 2x^2 – 23x + 60 =
0

(x^3 + x^2 – 20x – 3x^2 – 3x + 60) =
0

(x – 3)(x^2 + x – 20) =0

(x
– 3)( x^2 + 5x – 4x – 20) = 0

We can factorize the
quadratic term as 5* -4 = -20 and 5 - 4 = 1

(x – 3)( x(x +
5) – 4(x + 5)) = 0

(x – 3)(x – 4)(x + 5) =
0

This gives the roots of x^3 – 2x^2 – 23x + 60 as x = 3 ,
x = 4 and x = -5.

The required roots are

x = 3 , x = 4 and x =
-5.

Is there betrayal or abandonment in the play Death of a Salesman?

It should be remembered that, for Willy, history repeats
itself. Willy was abandoned by his father and older brother when he was
little:

WILLY
(pulling Ben away from her impatiently): Where is Dad? Didn’t you follow him? How did
you get started?

BEN: Well, I don’t know how much you
remember.

WILLY: Well, I was just a baby, of course, only
three or four years old...

BEN: Three years and eleven
months.

WILLY: What a memory,
Ben!

BEN: I have many enterprises, William, and I have
never kept books.

WILLY: I remember I was sitting under the
wagon in — was it Nebraska?

BEN: It was South Dakota, and I
gave you a bunch of wild flowers.

WILLY: I remember you
walking away down some open road.

BEN (laughing): I was
going to find Father in Alaska.

WILLY: Where is
he?

BEN: At that age I had a very faulty view of geography,
William. I discovered after a few days that I was heading due south, so instead of
Alaska, I ended up in
Alaska.

Willy's father made
and sold flutes. He too was a traveling salesman. Thus, that Willy spent so much of his
time on the road is not surprising at all. Compared to his father and brother, however,
Willy was much more of a family man, absent for long periods of time though he may have
been.

His infidelity can not be so easily explained, but
it, too, may stem from his early abandonment. As Willy says to
Ben:

WILLY
(longingly): Can’t you stay a few days? You’re just what I need, Ben, because I — I have
a fine position here, but I — well, Dad left when I was such a baby and I never had a
chance to talk to him and I still feel — kind of temporary about
myself.

What a
sad admission to com from a grown man.

How are the prophecies proclaimed by the three apparitions in Act IV, scene 1, fulfilled in Act V of Macbeth.

The first prophesy is that Macbeth is to "Beware
Macduff."  He should beware because Macduff will be the one to kill
him.

The second is that "None Born of Woman" can destroy
Macbeth.  Macbeth now thinks he is invincible.  However, Macbeth finds out in Act V that
Macduff was "untimely ripped" from his mother's womb.  So he wasn't officially "born of
woman."

The last prophesy is about the woods making their
way up the hill to his castle.  He doesn't believe this could happen either.  However,
the men decide to cut down branches with leaves to camouflage their numbers as they make
their way to his castle. 

Explain Juliet's use of imagery in the passage "Yon light... Thou need'st not to be gone" in Act III, Scene 5.

At the beginning of this scene, Romeo is with Juliet in
her garden, and it is daybreak.  Romeo is readying to leave, and Juliet is trying vainly
to prevent him from going, asserting that the lark he hears is in fact a nightingale; a
herald of darkness, rather than light.  When she states that “yon light is not
day-light,” but instead “some meteor that the sun exhales,” she is further attempting to
convince Romeo to stay; to convince them both that morning has not come to end their
tryst.  Romeo, somewhat jokingly, replies, “Come, death, and welcome!  Juliet wills it
so./How is’t, my soul?  let’s talk; it is not day.”  To which Juliet replies that he
must leave, having realized how selfish and short-sighted her words
were.

These images serve to emphasize how ardent the two
young lovers are, and how deeply they feel about each other – that by merely saying that
the day is not come, one could convince the other that it is so.  That one would readily
deny what he sees with his own eyes, simply because the other says that it is not the
truth.

In addition, later in this scene Juliet learns of
her arranged marriage with Paris, to take place only a few days later.  So, much as the
day comes, unstoppable, to end her time with Romeo, so does her love seem to be coming
to a permanent end with the news of this union.  And just as Juliet tries to deny the
obvious signs that the sun is rising, she attempts to deny her father and deny Paris –
yet one cannot prevent the sun from rising, and one cannot prevent one’s
fate.

Conrad alters his narration by making Marlow jump back and forth in time in Heart of Darkness. Cite when he does this, and explain the effect.

Many narrators jump around for a variety of reasons. The
most typical reason I see is to give the reader some background knowledge that is
required to understand the current situation. Another very important reason
that author's do this is to develop character. I think Conrad does this in
reference to Kurtz throughout the book.

We hear about Kurtz
from a variety of perspectives well before we actually see him. These multiple
perspectives serve to force readers to make their own choice about his motivations and
morality. Marlow seems to have an amazing admiration for him. Conrad, the author, may
not really have that same passion.

An example of this
occurs when the unnamed storyteller reports Marlow telling of the time in the beginning
of the second section what he was over-hearing about Kurtz. The uncle and the manager
were discussing Kurtz' effectiveness and the manager seems to have a distaste for Kurtz.
It is as if Marlow is trying to determine if Kurtz is going to be purposely taken out,
or if his sickness is taking the life from him. This example serves to create intrigue
and curiosity in Marlow, and likewise the readers. We are continuing to try to determine
if Kurtz is inherently good or evil. The closer we get to him, the more we find the
latter to be true. Thus, Conrad builds the concept as time goes on, but every once in a
while a quick jump in time is necessary to go back or forward to a moment about Kurtz to
make us wonder. The best books keep the reader guessing. Conrad successfully employs
this strategy.

Proving trigonometric identities Prove: sin2A = 2tanA/1 + tan^2A

We need to prove that:

sin2A
= 2tanA/ (1+tan^2 A)

We will start from the right side and
prove the left side.

We know that tanA =
sinA/cosA

==> 2tanA / (1+tan^2 A) = 2(sinA/cosA) /
[1+ (sinA/cosA)^2]

                                = 2sinA/
cosA[ 1+ (sin^2A/cos^2
A)]

                                = 2sinA/ cosA*[(cos^2 A
+ sin^2 A)/cos^2A]

But we know that sin^2 A + cos^2 A =
1

==> 2tanA/ (1+tan^2 A) = 2sinA/ 
(1/cosA)

                                      =
2sinA*cosA

But we know that sin2A =
2sinA*cosA

==> 2tanA / (1+tan^2 A) =
sin2A

What was Plato's definition of poetry before Aristotle's definition of poetry, and was it influenced by Aristotle?

Because Plato was Aristotle's teacher, it is unlikely that
works of Plato directly respond to Aristotle; rather, Aristotle's work was written in
response to Plato. Both Aristotle and Plato shared a concern about the moral effect of
poetry. For Plato, poetry was morally problematic for two reasons. On the level of
content, it showed the gods behaving in an imoral fashion. Formally, it acted by means
of imitation, and rather than imitating the forms, only imitated phenomena which
themselves imitated forms. For Aristotle, poetry could serve a useful function by using
fictional examples to train and purify the emotions.

Read the last three lines of Cathy Song's poem "Girl Powdering her Neck," What is she trying to say?

In this poem, there is a girl who is preparing herself for
her day. The last three lines that you are asking about illustrate her looking in the
mirror of a pond, as illustrated in these lines:

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Her face appears in the mirror,
a
reflection in a winter pond,
rising to meet
itself.

She is looking at her
reflection and as she's about to "paint herself" she wipes the reflection with her
sleeve. I get the feeling that she is not happy with her situation in life. I think
perhaps she's a geisha or something similar. The morning at the pond, or when she's
looking at her reflection is the only time that she sees the real person inside of
her.

The eyes
narrow
in a moment of self-scrutiny.
The mouth parts
as if
desiring to disturb
the placid plum face;
break the symmetry of
silence.
But the berry-stained lips,
stenciled into the mask of
beauty,
do not
speak.

The fact that she
can't speak, that the poet calls her face a "symmetry of silence" tells us that she
leads a "secret" life that she doesn't like to admit or talk
about.

In the last three lines, Song
writes:

Two
chrysanthemums
touch in the middle of the lake
and drift
apart.

In this case, the one
flower has to go to do what she has to do, while the other waits in the pond for her to
come back
tomorrow.