How does long-run growth analysis justify its focus on supply?This is for Macroeconomics

In macroeconomics, classical economists argue that long
run growth can only be achieved by increasing supply.  They base this argument on the
idea that the aggregate supply curve is vertical.

According
to classical economists, the AS curve is vertical.  When you put this together with an
upward sloping aggregate demand curve, you can see why increased supply is necessary. 
If you use these assumptions about the shape of the curve, an increase in AD would lead
only to an increase in price levels, not an increase in RGDP.  By contrast, if you move
the vertical AS curve to the right, you get (all other things staying constant) an
increase in RGDP without an increase in price level.

So,
because long-run growth analysis believes that the AS curve is vertical, they focus on
supply rather than demand.

Write the standard form of the equation of the line passing through the point (2,-2) and perpendicular to the line -2x-5y=10

The standard form of and equation of a line is of the form
ax+by+c = 0.

An equation of  a line perpependicular to
ax+by +c = 0 is got by interchanging the coefficient of x and y with a minus sign to one
of the coefficients.Thus ax-by + k = 0 is a perpendicular line to ax+by+c = 0, where k
is aconstant to be determined by some other  given
condition.

Therefore -2x-5y = 10 has the equation
perpependicular line like -(-2x)-5y + k = 0. Or 2x-5y -k =
0.

Now this line passes through (2 , -2). So it should
satisfy 2x-2y-k = 0. So 2(2)-5(-2) -k = 0.

4+10-k = 0 .
Therefore k = 14. Substitute k=14 in 2x-5y-k = 0. So we get: 2x-5y -14 =
0 which is the standard form of the equation of the perpendicular line 
to -2x-2y = -10 and passing through (2 ,-2).

Solve for x, y , z. 3x+4y+2z=10 x+2y+3z=6 3x+2y+z=4

We'll note  the equations
as:

3x + 2y + z = 4 (1)

x + 2y
+ 3z = 6 (2)

3x + 4y + 2z = 10
(3)

We'll subtract (2)
from (1):

3x + 2y + z  - x - 2y - 3z = 4 -
6

We'll combine and eliminate like
terms:

2x - 2z = -2

We'll
divide by 2:

x - z = -1
(4)

We'll multiply (1) by 2 and we'll
get:

2*(3x + 2y + z) = 8

We'll
remove the brackets:

6x + 4y + 2z = 8
(5)

We'll subtract (3) from
(5):

6x + 4y + 2z -3x - 4y - 2z = 8 –
10

We'll combine and eliminate like
terms:

3x = -2

We'll divide by
3:

x =
-2/3

We'll substitute x in
(4)

-2/3 - z = -1

We'll
multiply by -1:

2/3 + z =
1

We'll subtract 2/3 both
sides:

z = 1 - 
2/3

z =
1/3

We'll substitute x = -2/3 and z = 1/3 in
(2)

-2/3 + 2y + 3*1/3 =
6

-2/3 + 2y + 1 = 6

2y = 5 +
2/3

2y = (15 + 2)/3

We'll
divide by 2:

y =
17/6

The solution of the
system is: {(-2/3 , 17/6, 1/3)}.

Why does Denver tend to Beloved in Toni Morrison's book Beloved?

Denver tends to Beloved because she is lonely. In Beloved,
she is reminded of her sister, feeling as if she has "been returned to her in the
flesh." Denver perceives Beloved as being needy, and longs to be the one to provide her
protection.

Denver is affected deeply by Beloved from the
moment of her appearance. When Beloved arrives and Sethe and Paul D are trying to
determine why she has come, Denver is shaking, "look(ing) at this sleepy beauty and
want(ing) more." Denver, who is usually stand-offish and reserved, takes the initiative
in nursing Beloved, who appears to be ill. In watching her daughter act with
uncharacteristic patience and extreme compassion, Sethe reflects that Denver "has been
lonesome...very lonesome." Denver discovers that Beloved likes sweets, and delights in
feeding her. She also "worrie(s) herself sick trying to think of a way to get Beloved to
share her room,  

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"so that they can have "talks...at night when
Sethe and Paul D (are) asleep; or in the daytime before either (come) home...sweet crazy
conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling
than understanding could ever
be."

In Beloved, Denver sees
a sister, someone with whom she can bond, and escape her
loneliness.

Have they found fossilized bacteria on Mars or not?A textbook i read said that, and now another says no support of simple or complex life has been...

The most up to date information that I know of is that
NASA says that they have not found any actual evidence of life on
Mars.

I do not know what any of your textbooks might say,
but the one that says there was life may be based on a 1996 announcement in which some
NASA scientists showed a rock that they said had holes and stuff in it showing a colony
of bacteria had lived there.  But since then, that interpretation has been discredited
and is not widely believed.

So, as you can see if you look
at the link, current thinking is that there is no evidence of life on Mars at this
point.  I wonder if the text that said there was life is older and the one that says
there was not is newer.

In part II of Fahrenheit 451, Faber says that Christ has basically become what now?

What Faber says about Christ is that Christ has become
"part of the family."  When he says "family" he means the families that are in the shows
that are on the parlour walls -- like the ones that Millie Montag is so into.  He goes
on to say that Christ has been essentially turned into an advertising
tool.

Basically, what has happened is that the society has
taken all the meaning out of Christ and out of religion.  It is only using him for the
materialistic purposes that are so important to the society.  Like everything else, he
has been dumbed down and used for society's own purposes.

What was the main conflict in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas?

The main conflict in the novel is one of friendship. 
Particularly, the conflict resides in how friendship can transcend the conditions of
circumstances and contingency.  The loyalty shared by Bruno and Shmuel is a transcendent
one.  It is one based on the ethos of care, compassion, and expansion of moral
imagination to fully grasp the plight of another.  It is this very essence that is
challenged by the circumstances of the Nazis and the Holocaust.  The conflict present is
what happens to values that represent permanence in a condition that emphasized
contingency and impermanence.  This conflict is what plays out between the two boys,
enabling Bruno to understand the plight of his friend, change into "pajamas" in helping
his friend find his father, and ultimately allows them to walk hand in hand into a
situation where transcendence might have been wounded, but certainly not
wounded.

Aside from Boo Radley and Tom Robinson, can Atticus Finch be considered a mockingbird?

To Kill a Mockingbird is all about
mockingbirds, even though the actual word is only mentioned three or four times in the
novel.  The reason it's a sin to kill a mockingbird is
because

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mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music
for us to enjoy.  They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they
don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for
us. 

Boo has never done
anything but try to be kind to the Finch children; he minds his own business and helps
when he can; his only sin was being born different.  Tom has never done anything but be
kind and helpful to a young woman who clearly needed help; his only sin was taking pity
on a white woman.

Atticus is not an obvious mockingbird, as
he is neither poor nor black nor an outcast.  Instead, his offense is trying to do the
right thing in the face of prejudice and hate.  For trying to right a wrong--"to make
music for us to enjoy"--he was spit on and villified, and his children were nearly
killed.  That makes him a mockingbird.

What is a Theme of Narrative of Sojourner Truth?

One theme that comes out of the work is how Truth balances
the demands of individuality with collective identity.  Truth is an individual fighting
battles that differentiate her from others.  Being a woman of color and one who has
endured unspeakable pain creates her as an individual distinct from all.  Yet, at the
same time, Truth is shown as a person who seeks to broaden her reach to others and with
others.  Through religion and activism, there is a solidarity sought and a desire to
forge bonds with others.  While Truth may articulate a condition of pain and sadness,
she is one whose active stance of dissent is not isolating nor alienating, but rather
empowering as it seeks to bring others into the equation of resistance.  I think that
this theme of exploring how the individual can connect to their larger community element
is something that is seen in the Narrative.

In "Everyday Use", who or what is the narrator's intended audience for this story?

I think it is important to focus on the setting of the
story to think about the kind of message that Walker is wanting to convey and, in
addition, the kind of audience she has in mind. This story takes place in the rural
South during the 1960s, when values and ways of life were changing rapidly. The story
concerns traditions and, in particular, some family heirlooms, especially the quilts.
Let us also remember that quilting is an American folk art. In the South, quilts have a
rich tradition influenced by African textile designs and historic American patterns.
Quilts are often passed down in families for
generations.

Bearing in mind this setting, let us think
through the message of this story. Clearly the central conflict in this tale is Mama's
decision not to give the quilts to Dee and to give them to Maggie. It is clear that
these quilts are an incredibly important part of their family
heritage:

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They had been pieced by Grandma Dee, and then
Big Dee and me had hung them on the quilt frames on the front porch and quilted them.
One was in the Lone Star pattern. The other was Walk Around the Mountain. In both of
them were scraps of dresses Grandma Dee had worn fifty and more years ago. Bits and
pieces of Grandpa Jarrell's paisley shirts. And one teeny faded blue piece, about the
size of a penny matchbox, that was from Great Grandpa Ezra's uniform that he wore in the
Civil War.

However, it is
clear from Dee's attitude that she has rejected her heritage and family history in an
attempt to re-connect with her African heritage. Mama's decision to give the quilts to
Maggie and not to Dee, therefore, sums up the message. We must all be aware of and take
pride in our family heritage. It is wrong to deny our roots. Given the massive change in
values and ways of life in the 1960s, we can see Walker directing this story to those
who are perhaps being so quick to embrace new values that they forget their origins and
how this defines them.

In the poem "There's Been a Death in the Opposite House," what attitude does the speaker have toward death?"

This poem is describes what goes on in a house in which
someone has recently died.  The tone is matter of fact, much like a reporter would
notice details.  Without mentioning death, she describes all the things that go on after
a death:  she mentions the "numbness" of the house, but that is the appearance of those
who come and go rather than that of the building; neighbors "rustle" in and out, perhaps
offering support; the doctor has done all he can, so he leaves; they throw out the
mattress of the deceased (giving the boys something to speculate on); the minister comes
"stiffly";  then the miller and the man of the "appalling trade" come to prepare the
body for burial; and finally the tassels and coaches will come to finish the
task.

All of the images and information suggest the formal
ways we deal with death; it's a part of life and we have a rituals to put some of the
sadness of the event off.  Death is the last part of life, and we need to deal with it
as such.

This poem reminds me of another poem that is very
much like it:

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The bustle in a house
The morning after
death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted upon earth, -

The sweeping up the heart,
And putting love
away
We shall not want to use again
Until
eternity.

Again, death is
spoken of in terms of "bustle" --- the things we do to put something between us and the
experience of death.  But this one is, on the surface at least, is more hopeful. 
Although our hearts as "broken," we sweep them up and put them away, because we shall
want to use them/it one day again --- in eternity.  It takes the some stale image of the
"broken heart" and uses it in a new and interesting way.

What is 'Restoration comedy' ?

A Restoration comedy is a form of comedy which flourished
during the Restoration in England (1660-1700).

According to
M. H. Abrams -

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It deals with the relations and intrigues of men
and women living in a sophisticated upper-class society, and relies for comic effect in
large part on the wit and sparkle of the dialogue - often in the form of
repartee, a witty conversational give and take which constitutes a
verbal fencing match - and to a lesser degree, on the violations of social standards and
decorum...

Actually, the
common features are: witty dialogue, intrigues in the plot, and most
importantly satirizing of that contemporary Restoration upper-class social
system. William Congreve's The way of the Word is an
excellent example of Restoration comedy, since it contains all the above
characteristics.

But, above all, I would like to suggest
you to go through the following link; it might help you.

How does Nathaniel Hawthorne use word choice to support the element of supernatural in "Young Goodman Brown"?

There are words suggesting the supernatural all through
the story.  Here are few examples:

As Goodman Brown enters
the forest, there is darkness and gloom everywhere, and it is as though Brown might be
"passing through an unseen multitude," suggesting some supernatural and invisible beings
are lurking (736).

When Goodman meets the man whom he
intends to meet, the man has a staff, "which bore the likeness of a great black
snake"(737).

Goodman and his companion encounter a woman
from the village a page later, who exclaims, "The devil!"
(738).

There are many such passages in the story, and this
should be enough to give anyone an idea about the kinds of words Hawthorne uses to make
the reader think that the story is a supernatural one.

A parabolla passes through the points (1,0), (2,2), (3,10). Deterine its equation.

A point is on a graph if it's coordinates verify the
equation of the graph.

We'll use this rule to determine the
equationof the parabola.

We'll write the standard equation
of a parabola:

y = ax^2 +bx +
c

Since (1,0) is on the parabola, we'll
have:

0 = a + b + c

We'll use
symmetric property and we'll get:

a + b + c = 0
(1)

Since (2,2) is on the parabola, we'll
have:

4a + 2b + c = 2
(2)

Since (3,10) is on the parabola, we'll
have:

9a + 3b + c = 10
(3)

We'll subtract (1) from (2) and we'll
get:

4a + 2b + c - a - b - c =
2-0

We'll combine like
terms:

3a + b = 2 (4)

We'll
subtract (1) from (3) and we'll get:

9a + 3b + c - a - b -
c = 10 - 0

We'll combine like
terms:

8a + 2b = 10 (5)

We'll
multiply (4) by -2:

-6a - 2b = -4
(6)

We'll add (6) to (5):

8a +
2b - 6a - 2b = 10 - 4

We'll combine and eliminate like
terms:

2a = 6

We'll divide by
2:

a =
3

We'll substitute a in
(4):

9 + b = 2 (4)

We'll
subtract 9 both sideS:

b = 2 -
9

b =
-7

We'll substitute a and b in
(1):

a + b + c = 0

3 - 7 + c =
0

-4 + c = 0

We'll add
4:

c =
4

The equation of the parabola
is:

y = 3x^2 - 7x +
4

A common theme in literature is "Don't judge a book by its cover." Analyze how Sonnet 130 uses this theme.Give two examples to support your analysis.

I understand your confusion with this sonnet, and
Shakespearean sonnets in general.  The beauty often lies in the complexity, which makes
them so great once you've figured them out.  In the meantime, they can definitely be
tricky.

Sonnet 130 is one such sonnet.  Here, Shakespeare
is actually using some common imagery from his time to do two things.  First, he is
describing the beauty of this "mistress."  Second, he is making fun of all other poets
and poetry by taking several cliche images and showing--ironically--that this mistress'
beauty surpasses all of these natural elements.  In fact, based on the ironic nature of
this sonnet alone, I think perhaps Shakespeare would be a little offended by the cliche
comparison of this piece to the "don't judge a book by its cover"
theme.

Nevertheless, the comparison is there.  The sonnet
opens with

My
mistress' eyes are nothing like the
sun.

This
image is then built on with further images of comparison, each growing slightly more
brazen ("breath that from my mistress reaks" and "music hath a far more pleasing sound"
than her voice).  On first reading, it sounds like the speaker here
doesn't think much of his mistress at all.  She first appears to be ugly, stinky, and
noisy.

But then,

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And yet, by heaven, I think my love as
rare
As any she belied with false compare.

The speaker finishes by
giving an even higher tribute to the mistress than if he had simply compared her to
roses and music and coral.  The real message is to every other romantic poet, accused
here of making "false" comparisons for the women in their poetry.  This sonnet says,
basically, I have such a wonderfully rare love, that comparing her to the same
old images that everyone else uses actually wouldn't be good enough for
her.

Solve the equation 4^4x-2*16^x+1=0

This is an exponential equation that
requires substitution technique.

Now, we
notice that 16  = 4^2

We'll re-write the equation
as:

4^4x - 2*4^2x + 1 = 0

It
is a bi-quadratic equation:

We'll substitute 4^2x by
another variable.

4^2x =
a

We'll square raise both
sides:

4^4x  =a^2

 We'll
re-write the equation, having "a" as variable.

a^2 - 2a + 1
= 0

The equation above is the result of expanding the
square:

(a-1)^2 = 0

a1 = a2 =
1

But 4^2x = a1.

4^2x =
1

We'll write 1 as a power of
4:

4^2x = 4^0

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

2x =
0

We'll divide by 2:

x =
0.

The solution of the equation is x =
0.

The mass # is used to calculate the number of__in 1 atom of an element. In order to calculate the # of neutrons you must subtract the__from...

The atomic mass of an atom is the sum of the number of
protons and neutrons that it has in its nucleus. The mass of protons and neutron varies
slightly as is generally taken as 1, and the mass of electrons is taken as 0 as it is
very small compared to nucleons.

So to find the number of
neutrons you have to subtract the atomic number from the atomic
mass.

The mass # is used to calculate the number of
nucleons in 1 atom of an element. In order to calculate the # of neutrons you must
subtract the atomic number from the atomic mass.

Determine the integrand f(x) if F(x) = x^2+cosx+1

F(x) = x^2+cosx+1.

To find
the integrand f(x).

Since the integrand is
f(x),

F(x) = integral f(x)
dx

Threfore Integral f(x) =
F(x),

Integral f(x) dx =
x^2+cosx+1.

Differentiating both sides, we
get:

f(x) = d/dx
{x^2+cosx+1}

f(x) = d/dx (x^2) + d/dx(cosx) +d/dx
(1)

f(x) = 2x -sinx +0 , as d/dx(x^n) = nx^(n-1) ,
d/dx(cosx) = -sinx.

f(x) = 2x-sinx.

Explain the disagreement that Brutus and Cassius have about the battle strategy?

Brutus wants to march to Phillipi.  In other words, he
want to take to battle to them.  Cassius wants to stay put and let the battle come to
them.

Cassius believes that if they stay where they are, 
Anthony and Octavius will need to come to them, thus wearing their troops out before the
battle itself.  By staying where they are their troops will be fresher for the
battle.

Brutus feels that it is better to take their troops
and meet Anthony and Octavius at Phillipi since the people in between where they
currently are and Phillipi cannot be trusted to be loyal to them.  It would be better
for them to show these people a show of force to keep them in
line.

Brutus wins the arguement and they march to Phillipi
where they are defeated.

What is surface tension?

Surface tension is a property exhibited by the surface of
liquids. It arises due to the cohesive forces between molecules. When molecules of
liquids are not totally surrounded by other molecules of the liquid itself they tend to
get attracted to molecules of other materials around them. Surface tension is defined in
units of force per unit length or N/m.

Surface tension is
what attracts molecules of liquids to form drops, it allows light objects to float on
the surface of liquids, and insects to walk on water, it creates a layer of separation
between substances that are not similar like oil and water.

What meaning is Hitchcock trying to portray in 'Aborgast' killing scene Psycho film?

I think that Hitchcock wants to bring out the truly
horrific side of Norman Bates' schizophrenia.  The killing of Arbogast is shown to be
quite awful.  The stabbing down the staircase, and the manner in which he is shown as he
descends backwards helps to create an image of how awful Norman, as his mother, can
truly behave.  Additionally, the continued view of the knife over Arbogast's screams
help to make the image feel really bad at what is happening.  I think that this is what
Hitchcock sought to bring out in his depiction of Arbogast's killing.  It is also one of
the first moments where we begin to see "Norman's mother" as a truly malevolent force. 
From this point on, the view of Norman and his mother become more shrouded under a cloud
of suspicion and mistrust.

What is the name of the owner of Tim Johnson, the crazy dog?I know the person's last name is Johnson, but what is the first name?

Tim Johnson is certainly one of the most unusual
characters in Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird. He makes
only one appearance (in Chapter 10), and it turns out to be his last. Tim is a
"liver-colored bird dog" who is familiar to the families that live near the Finch house.
However, in Chapter 10 his abnormal walk and actions are quickly perceived to be a case
of rabies. Atticus is called upon by Sheriff Tate to do the dirty work, and "Old
One-Shot" makes his return and lives up to his nickname, dispatching of poor Tim with
one bullet to the head. It is one of the most interesting chapters in the novel (and the
movie). Tim was owned by his master, Mr. Harry Johnson.

There are three arts of chameleon: red, blue, yellow. One morning there are 20 blue, 30 yellow, 50 red. In the evening 100 red. Is it possible?If...

From the information given in the question there are
originally 50 red, 30 yellow and 20 blue creatures. Also we know that if two creatures
of different color meet, both change to the 3rd color and if two creatures of the same
color meet half of them change to the second color and half to the
third.

So let's
start:

Initially there were 50 red
creatures.

Now let 20 of the blue and 20 of the yellow
creatures meet, all 40 change to red.

So now we have 90 red
and 10 yellow.

Now let the ten meet each other, 5 turn to
red and 5 turn to blue.

Now let 4 of the yellow meet each
other, 2 change to red and two to blue.

So we have 1
yellow, 2 blue and the rest red.

Now when the two blue
meet, we have 1 red and 1 yellow.

Finally the two yellow
meet, 1 turns red and the other blue.

Therefore finally
there are 99 red and 1 which can either be blue or yellow depending on how you go about
it.

It is not possible to get all red
finally.

In To Kill a Mockingbird, what are the implications of the truth about Mayella and Tom Robinson "coming out"?

In my opinion, the Ewell family would have been majorly
disgraced if the truth had come out about what happened between Mayella and Tom
(assuming that what Tom said was the truth).  Although the Ewells are already pretty far
down the social ladder, this would make things worse for
them.

If what Tom said was true, Mayella willingly came on
(to some degree) to a black man.  This would have made her a total outcast.  No white
man would ever want to marry her after that and people would look down even more on her
family because they would think the Ewells were so low that they would allow their
daughter to have contact with a black man.

So Bob Ewell
really had a pretty strong reason to try to keep the truth from coming
out.

How would you write a dramatic monologue of the sniper who suddenly realizes that he shot his brother in O’Flaherty's "The Sniper"?

Very interesting question. I might even give this as an
exercise to my students! To my mind you need to start off by looking at the story again
to see first off why the author ended it so suddenly the way he did and also how he
foreshadowed the shocking ending. There is one key part that I think achieves this
function of indicating the truth of what he has already done. This section comes after
the sniper has won his duel to the death and the body falls from the
roof:

The
sniper looked at his enemy falling and he shuddered. The lust of battle died in him. He
became bitten by remorse. The sweat stood out in beads on his forehead. Weakened by his
wound and the long summer day of fasting and watching on the roof, he revolted from the
sight of the shattered mass of his dead enemy. His teeth chattered, he began to gibber
to himself, cursing the war, cursing himself, cursing
everybody.

This is a highly
fascinating passage for a number of reasons. It shows the sniper after the rush of
adrenaline that has carried him through the last few hours now that it is over and it
also shows his humanity. He realises the horror of war - that it splits nations apart
and even families - as he is soon to discover.

Thus, to my
mind, any dramatic monologue would try to capture some of these feelings of regret,
severe remorse, and the lesson that the sniper has already learnt - that war creates
schisms between countries, cities, families, and even brothers, with tragic and
unforgettable consequences.

Solve for lim x-->0 [(x – sin x) / x^3]

Here if replace x with 0 we get the result as 0/0 which is
indeterminate. Therefore we can use L’ Hopital’s Rule which states that if an expression
of the form lim x-->0 [f(x)/ g(x)] gives the indeterminate form 0/0, the limit
can be found as [f’(x)/g’(x)] for x=0.

Now for the given
expression [(x – sin x) / x^3], f(x) = x – sin x and g(x) =
x^3

f’(x) = (1- cos x)

g’(x) =
3x^2

Now we have [f’(x)/g’(x)] for x=0 as (1- cos x) / 3x^2
= 0/0 again for x =0.

So we take the differential
again

f’’(x) = sin x

g’’(x) =
6x

If we determine sin x / 6x for x=0 we get 0/0
again

So we take the differential
again

f’’’(x) = cos x

g’’’(x)
= 6

Now cos x / 6 for x= 0 = 1/6, which is not
indeterminate.

Therefore the result is
1/6.

How does the setting of commonplace details of rural life and folksy language contribute to the impact of the story?Please provide examples from...

The setting of a quiet rural town with villagers who know
and greet one another in short phrases and cliches on familiar terms disarms the reader
of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."  The expectation is for an activity much like a
picnic or fair of some sort rather than the grim and macabre stoning of one of the
villagers that the others know so well.

For example, when
the villagers draw lotteries from the worn black box that Mr. Summers brings and places
on the three-legged stool, nothing seems to be out of the ordinary.  After the people
say, "Bill Hutchinson's got it."  Mrs. Dunbar quietly says to her older son, "Go tell
your father."  The sudden shouting of Tessie Hutchinson and her cry of "It wasn't fair"
causes the reader to wonder what is occurring, especially when Mrs. Delacroix acts as
though Tessie is out of control:  "Be a good sport, Tessie," Mrs. Delacroix calls, and
Mrs Graves adds, "All of us took the same chance."

At
first, the reader does not realize that Tessie's name has been drawn for a stoning. 
For, the festive move of the children running about and gathering stones suggests a
playful atmosphere, not a deadly one.

Having written this
story in the wake of World War II, Jackson wished to alert people to the innate
brutality of man.  Jackson herself noted:

"I hoped
by setting a particularly ancient brutal rite in the present and in my own village
[North Bennington, Vermont], to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization
of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their
lives."

How do Winston and Julia feel about each other, and why do they feel this way?

In my opinion, the two of them are not really in love with
one another.  Winston may be more in love than Julia, but they are really both just
using the other to fulfill a particular need.

Julia is just
using Winston because she hates the Party having control over her personal life.  She
just wants to have some fun and she does not really care all that much about whom she
has fun with.  All she really cares about is her own desires and about hurting the
Party.

Winston is looking for a bit more than that.  He
seems to truly want to have a relationship.  But it is not clear to me whether he really
wants a relationship for its own sake or because such things are forbidden.  He feels
that what the Party is doing is wrong and he wants to try to destroy the Party's power. 
I do not know how much he actually cares for Julia in particular and how much he is just
having the affair because it is a human relationship that he longs to
have.

What is x for log 3 9 - log 3 2 = log 3 x?

For the logarithm to exist, x has to be
positive.

log 3 (x) = log 3 (3)^2 - log 3
(2)

Because the bases are matching, we'll transform the
difference of logarithms from the right side, into a quotient. We'll apply the
formula:

lg a - lg b = lg
(a/b)

We'll substitute a by 9 and b by 2. The logarithms
from formula are decimal logarithms. We notice that the base of logarithm is
3.

log 3 (x) = log 3
(9/2)

Because the bases are matching, we'll apply the one
to one property:

x =
9/2

x =
4.5

Since the value of x is positive, the
solution of the equation is valid.

What are the main arguments by historians against the assertion that Germany was responsible for the outbreak of the war in Europe in 1914?:)

An early opponent of the German war guilt theory was the
German historian Alfred von Wegerer. He credits the Russian decision to begin
mobilization as the main catalyst for war. Von Wegerer condemns this act by Russia and
indicts them as the first European power to abandon diplomacy as a means of resolving
the crisis in the Balkans. 

American scholar Sidney
Bradshaw Fay in a series of articles published in The American Historical
Review from 1920-1921 examined the origins of the First World War.  Although
finding fault with a variety of actors during the crisis, Fay places particular blame on
Austria-Hungary.  He bluntly states that Austro-Hungarian minister of foreign affairs
Count Leopold von Berchtold was, “…more than anyone else was responsible for the World
War....” Fay charges Berchtold with using the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand as
justification for a campaign designed to weaken the growing Serbian threat and
strengthen Austro-Hungarian rule, a position adopted in part because of the Alliance’s
growing fear of “encirclement” by a strengthening
Entente.

Although Fay largely absolves Great Britain of
blame in the breakdown of diplomacy in July 1914, however, the culpability of Russia and
France are directly addressed in his 1930 Origins of the World
War.  Russia’s encouragement of Serbian aggression toward Austria-Hungary and
its promise to back Serbia in the event of conflict in addition to the mobilization of
its armies inflamed the crisis and ultimately ended the possibility of a diplomatic
solution.  The Russian stance was strengthened and even encouraged by the strong support
of French premier Raymond Poincare and ambassador to Russia
Paleologue.

Deemed as one of the most radical revisionists
of his time, Henry E. Barnes places primary blame for the July crisis and ensuing world
war on Serbia and the Entente powers Russia and France.  Fault for the immediate crisis
is placed on the Serbian government who, according to Barnes, had prior knowledge of the
conspiracy to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand yet failed to warn Austro-Hungarian
authorities to the threat and took no steps to prevent
bloodshed.