Should George Milton be found guilty for his role in the death of Lennie Small in Of Mice and Men.Describe why George would be found guilty in John...

In Of Mice and Men, I think George
performs a "mercy killing," not murder, on Lennie, his long-time
friend.

To convict on murder you need: 1) the act of murder
and 2) an intent to kill which is intentional, purposeful, malicious,
premeditated.

So, while George's mercy killing is
intentional, purposeful, and premeditated, it is not malicious.  The two men had not had
a public fight; there's no signs of scuffle.  George was a type of guardian to Lennie,
and his role was that of protection.

According to
California State Law, George may not be guilty of murder.  There are exclusions,
according to Voluntary Euthanasia Under the
Law:

• Unlawful killings
  without malice or intent are
  considered manslaughter.


• Justified or
  accidental killings are considered homicides. Depending on the
  circumstances, these may or may not be considered criminal
  offenses.

So, I tend to think it
is voluntary euthanasia, or manslaughter, or justifiable homicide and not murder,
because there is no malicious motive on George's part.  He knew that Curley and the
posse were out for blood, and so he performed an act of mercy on his friend to prevent
the inevitable.

What were the major influences of the Italian Renaissance that changed art and religion of the time?

The beginning of the Renaissance in the mid-fourteenth
century was marked by a turn from medieval life and values dominated by the Church
toward the philosophical principles of humanism. The major influences of the Italian
Renaissance that changed art and religion were the questons being asked by
scientist/artists like Leonardo DaVinci; writer, Francesco Petrarch, often known as the
founder of humanism and scientists such as Copernicus and Newton who discovered
mathematical relationships between objects and questioned known "religious" explanations
for objects in space etc.

The Italian Renaissance was a
period of looking back into the classical age of the Greco-Roman period of art, form and
philosophy. Writers valued classical philosophy of Plato, Aristotle and Socrates over
the more current schools of thought.

Discoveries in
anatomy, math and science caused Renaissance thinkers to question the authority of the
church and to develop a new humanistic school of thought that valued the human creature
as God's greatest creation. This highly glorified view of humanity is seen in
Renaissance art depictions of the Madonna, David, and La Pieta. The authority and
"correctness" of a geo-centric universe is questioned by Copernicus who was told by
church authorities that his "science" was heritical.

Art
works were primarily sponsored by rich and the Church. The expressions on the faces of
the Renaissance sculptures and paintings are much more alive than those of previous
periods partly due to discoveries of anatomy and science.  The realism in the art is a
nod to the classical Greek and Roman artworks that had been recently
re-discovered.

How can a teacher become a successful business person in the education field?I am a teacher of english in a little town called "Las Flores" in...

The most success for teaching comes from a teacher with
higher education. By gaining a Masters you can see a huge raise in money for your work.
Many schools will actually pay for your Master, once you start teaching in their
district. Now I noticed you are from Argentina, and this may mean that the schools may
not do the same thing as here in the United States. The best thing to do is to ask your
supervisor. Keep in mind, there is not a lot of money in teaching. The reward is the
fact that you are shaping the mind of future generations! The nice thing about teaching
is that you have the summers off and could possibly get a summer job to make more
money.

Solve the inequality: SQRT (3x - 2)2

We have to solve sqrt ( 3x - 2)^2 <
5

=> (3x - 2)^2 <
25

Now (3x - 2)^2 can be less than 25 if 3x - 2 is less
than sqrt 5 or if 3x - 2 is greater than - sqrt 5

This
gives two inequalities

3x - 2 <
5

=> 3x <
7

=> x < 7/3

and
3x - 2 > -5

=> 3x >
-3

=> x >
-3/3

=> x >
-1

So we have -1 < x <
7/3

What were the Federalist attitudes towards the national government in 1870's?Who were leaders and the supporters of the two parties?I dont seem to...

First of all, 1870s can't be right -- there were no
Federalists by then.  I think you probably mean 1780s.

The
national government means what we often call the federal government or the government in
Washington DC.  That is as opposed to the governments of the individual
states.

The Federalists were in favor of having the
national government be very powerful.  They thought it ought to have more power and the
state governments should have less.  The Federalists were led by people like Alexander
Hamilton.  The Democratic-Republicans were led by Thomas
Jefferson.

In "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," what point is Bierce making about the dangers of fantasy?

I had to change your question as you are not allowed to
ask multiple questions. Please remember in future to only ask one
question.

Does this story teach us the dangers of fantasy?
In what sense is the flight of fantasy that Peyton Farquhar embarks on dangerous? I am
not convinced that Bierce deliberately tries to present the hallucination that Farquhar
experiences in a negative fashion. After all, the protagonist is presented as acting
instinctively in the fact of death. There is no sense in which Peyton Farquhar is
choosing to live in a fantasy world, and I don't think we can detect that Bierce judges
his character for doing this. Rather, I feel that this story is an examination of the
psychology of someone facing inevitable death and shows us the kind of impact that death
has on someone in this situation. Note how, in Farquhar's case, the terror of death
distorts perceptions of time, heightens the senses and creates elaborate fantasies of
escape. Consider the following description of
Farquhar:

He
was now in full possession of his physical senses. They were, indeed, preternaturally
keen and alert. Something in the awful disturbance of his organic system had so exalted
and refined them that they made record of things never before
perceived.

Therefore, I have
to disagree with the crux of your question. Bierce is not trying to expose the dangers
of fantasy. This story acts as a psychological examination of the impact of inevitable
death on the human psyche.

In "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," why is the Sun called "glorious" in line 97 and yet called "bloody" in line 111?

In line 97 the sun is called glorious for a couple of
reasons. Their ship was surrounded by fog and mist, and once the sun rose, the fog and
mist cleared away.  The sun was described as glorious because it helped to clear the
haze so they could sail on.  This word also has religious reference to it.  It was as if
it took something more powerful than humans or nature to get them out of
trouble.

In line 111 the sun is described as bloody because
of the new situation they are in.  They are not happy. They are all stuck at sea with no
winds, no food or water. The sun simply beats down on them, dehydrating them even more. 
The sun is called bloody because it is drying them up and beating down on them
violently.

The author uses the power of nature along with
characters in order to further explain the themes of the poem.  The sun is one of the
most powerful aspects of nature that we have today, and Coleridge with his love of
nature uses the sun to help portray the emotions and trials of the mariner.  Depending
on the situation, the sun could be beautiful and helpful, or it could be cruel and
debilitating.