What is the substance of "The Moon" written by Percy Bysshe Shelley?

"The Moon" by Percy Bysshe Shelley is a complicated poem
though short. It has both a poetic conceit (i.e., an extended comparison between two
things) and an underlying metaphor, which is the metaphor (i.e., comparison of any
length between two things) upon which a poem is composed. In stanza one, the conceit is
a comparison between the moon and a "dying lady ... / ... / led by the insane ...
wanderings  of her feeble brain." This is how Shelley perceives and describes the moon
as it rises through the atmosphere that varies and veils the appearance of the moon. The
underlying metaphor is revealed in stanza two when we learn by inference (i.e., to
conclude through a reasoning process) that the poetic speaker--who may or may not be
different from Shelley--is comparing his lot in life to his perception of the moon as
told in stanza one.

In a pathetic fallacy (i.e., rhetorical
device in poems that gives human traits to nature), the speaker asks the personified
moon why it is pale and wandering. He asks if it is because the moon is weary "Of
climbing heaven ... / ... / Wandering companionless." He asks if it is because it is
alone among stars that are of a different kind than it is: "stars that have a different
birth, ...." He asks if it is because it is "ever changing." The final line and a half
make it clear by inference that it is the speaker himself who feels what is imputed to
the moon. He sees the moon as having a "joyless eye" and as finding "no object worth its
constancy" when in fact it is the speaker who has a joyless eye because he can find no
object worth his devotion and constant love. In other words, he has a broken heart
because his lady fair (who is never mentioned) has abandoned him and unworthily
withdrawn her love from him.

When the play was produced in New York, the magic-lantern slides were omitted. Is the device an extraneous gimmick? Might it even interfere with...

Critics and theatre directors alike have argued that the
inclusion of the slides was and would have been unnecessary for the action of the play
can and should be able to speak for itself. The strength of the dialogue and the
characterization alone tells the story. As they can be a distraction from what the
characters are doing on the stage, I can easily see how they would be a distraction,
particularly for an audience that was not accustomed to that sort of convention.
However, on the other hand, as Tom was a writer and this is Tom;s story, I think you
could also argue that the slides might be representative of the story that is playing
out inside of Tom's head in his memory. They are very cinematic, and with Tom;s
connections to the movies and his love of escaping from the apartment that serves as his
prison there is an element of dramatic narrative that could be played our on these
slides. They can create an almost split focal perspective - which can be either a good
or bad thing depending on how they are implemented.

Some
theatres have integrated the use of slides effectively. Kansas City rep, for instance,
updated William's original concept through projected cinematic imagery and integrated it
into the action of the play to give the play a "new" interpretation that stayed faithful
to Williams' original concept (see review). The Broadway revival, on the other hand, has
been criticized for integrating the device as a full curtain which served to conceal so
much of the action that it ended up being a distraction, (see
review).

As a director, I have directed the piece without
the inclusion of the images, and I have worked on a production in which they were
included. The biggest problem with them is that, although they can serve as a glimpse
into Tom's writers' mind (as the play is autobiographical, this can be useful) they are
often more distracting than driving. They tend to split the audience's focus, and that
can be dangerous.

How to find derivative of f(x)=(2x^2+1)/(2x^2-1)

We notice that we'll have to find the derivative of a
fraction, so, we'll have to use the quotient rule.

(u/v)' =
(u'*v - u*v')/v^2

We'll put u = 2x^2 + 1 => u' =
4x

We'll put v = 2x^2 - 1 => v' =
4x

We'll substitute u,v,u',v' in the formula
above:

f'(x) = [4x*(2x^2 - 1) - (2x^2 + 1)*4x]/(2x^2 -
1)^2

We'll factorize by
4x:

f'(x) = 4x(2x^2 - 1 - 2x^2 - 1)/(2x^2 -
1)^2

We'll combine and eliminate like terms inside
brackets:

f'(x) = 4x *(-2)/(2x^2 -
1)^2

f'(x) = -8x/(2x^2 -
1)^2

What is modernism?

In addition to the excellent answer above, here are some
more points regarding Modernism:

•Modernism places faith in
the ideas, values, beliefs, culture, and norms of the
West

•Modernism attempts to reveal profound truths of
experience and life.

•Modernism attempts to find depth and
interior meaning beneath the surface of objects and
events.

•Modernism focused on central themes and a united
vision in a particular piece of literature

•Modern authors
guide and control the reader’s response to their work.

•
Modernism

•
rational

• scientific

•
utopian, elitist, belief in universal values

•
democratic

• hierarchical

•
organized

• centered

•
European, Western

•
generalizing

• determinate

•
objective

• objectivist values,
masterpieces

• formal
disciplines

• purposeful,
meaningful

• construction

•
belief in progress

•
theoretical

• analytical &
synthetic

• simplicity, elegance, spartan,
streamlined

• logical,
scientific

• cause-effect

•
linear

• harmonious,
integrated

• permanence

•
abstract

• communicative, prefer to be
understood

• unified,
coherent

• objective truth

•
apolitical to occasionally political

disciplines primarily
indifferent to power struggles

• reality is not
anthropocentric

What are poetic devices, including metaphor and personification, used by Vachel Lindsay in the poem "Flower-Fed Buffaloes."

Some poetic devices Lindsay uses in "The Flower-Fed
Buffaloes" are personification, hyperbole, metaphor, and imagery. Lines 3 and 4 begin
the personification. Personification is the giving of human qualities or behavior to
nonhuman objects. In line 3, "locomotives sing" as though they were human. In line 4
"prairie flowers lie low" as though they were napping in the grass as humans might
do.

Hyperbole is the use of exaggeration or overstatement
to make something larger than it is and more impressive or emphatic. In the title and
line 1, Lindsay opens with a beautiful hyperbolic image of buffaloes feeding on flowers.
Of course they fed more on grasses than on flowers, but the overstatement makes the
imagery more emphatic and the buffaloes more
sympathetic.

Lines 5 and 6 offer the best example of
imagery. Lindsay writes about the "The tossing, blooming, perfumed grass / Is swept away
by wheat." Here he uses tactile imagery, visual imagery, and olfactory imagery. Imagery
is language that calls up metal images in relation to things that can be felt (like
tossing), seen (like blooming), smelled (like perfume), heard (like locomotives
singing), or tasted (like flowers fed upon).

There are
other examples of poetic devices. One example of metaphor is line 8 in which "spring" is
called "sweet," implicitly comparing spring to a sweet treat--or to sweet tasting
flowers: "In the spring that still is sweet." Repetition makes lines 4, 12, and 13
important to Lindsay's message of loss as he repeats "lie low" with the variation of
"lying low."

Can someone help me put something on a 15 PowerPoint slides from motivational theoies to include maslows hierarchy?i need to address...

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs was published in
1943.

Initially Maslow’s theory was applied to human
motivation.  Later it was extended to the human’s innate curiosity.  The hierarchy is a
theory in human developmental psychology.  It describes stages of growth in humans.  In
his research, Maslow studied only the most accomplished and successful subjects, and
specifically rejected study of defective, neurotic or mentally ill
persons.

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is often expressed as
a pyramid of human needs; the most basic needs at the base of the pyramid, with more
refined and developed needs progressing toward the apex.

A
summary of the pyramid sections is as
follows:

Physiological Needs (base of pyramid):  breathing,
food, water and sleep

Safety Needs:  security of body, job,
health and property

Love/belonging:  family, friends,
spousal intimacy

Esteem:  self esteem, confidence,
appreciation by others

Self-actualization:  morality,
spirituality, creativity, lack of prejudice

A patient who
has not achieved the base-level physiological needs will show defective physical
development.

Failure to fulfill the needs in the other
levels results in no physical abnormality, but the patient will have
mental/psychological issues such as tension and anxiety.  The most basic needs must be
met before the subject will have any motivation toward the higher
levels.

In international business, and especially
marketing, Maslow’s hierarchy is applied in recognizing the levels of need achieved by
various peoples throughout the world, the cultural determinants of levels achieved, and
hence an understanding of the motivations and desires of a specific targeted
audience.

In summary, the Maslow Hierarchy defines the
levels of need fulfillment for the normal physical and mental/psychological development
of humans.  In International business an understanding of these levels as modulated by
cultural influences permits the businessman to properly design and direct marketing
efforts.

Reference 1 defines in detail Maslow’s Hierarchy
of Needs.

Reference 2 is a PowerPoint presentation on
motivation and applications in the workplace.  It includes a link to over 100 PowerPoint
slides on all topics of needs, motivation, rewards, recognition, Maslow’s Hierarchy,
other motivational theories and plenty of ideas for a question you might use at the end
of your presentation.

Is the following statement valid or invalid?All forms of cheating are ethically wrong. Plagiarism is a form of cheating. Therefore, plagiarism is...

A philosophical argument is considered
valid if the truth of the premises logically create a truthful
conclusion.  In this way, an argument based on false premises can still be considered
valid.

On the other hand, an argument can only be
considered sound if all of the premises are actually true and also
logically lead to a truthful conclusion.

On first reading,
this argument sounds both valid and sound.  The only questionable part of the above
statement is the first premise, "All forms of cheating are ethically wrong."  The
question "What is ethical?" could be considered subjective, which makes this a valid and
sound argument based on the presumption that cheating is always
unethical.

Consider that there might be time where
cheating, say, a corrupt system for example, might result in a more
ethical situation than the system in place.  In such a case, the first premise of this
statement could be considered falsifiable.