Who influenced Erich Fromm?especially in his work entitled The Art of Loving?

Born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1900, Erich Fromm's early
influences came from scholarly Jews: Herman Cohen, known as a neo-Kantian, was a very
liberal thinker; Rabbi Nehemia Nobel, a famous Talmudist who was also knowledgeable of
much psychoanalytical literature; and Rabbi Salman Baruch Rabinkow, a student of Jewish
mysticism with a strong sympathy for socialism.  From these men, Fromm chose a vocation
as a rabbi, but World War I deterred him from it.  He wrote that he was obsessed with
the question of how war was possible, and desirous of a wish to understand human mass
behavior.

Moving from his religious background, Fromm
became profoundly influenced by the psychonanlytical theories of Sigmund Freud and
social theories of Karl Marx.  In addition, his experiences at the University of
Frankfurt and the Frankfurt Psychoanalytical Institute exerted influence upon
him. 

Erich Fromm sought to bring together psychoanalysis
and an appreciation of the influence of social structure.  He
wrote,

I
wanted to understand the laws that govern the life of the individual man, and the laws
of society--that is, of men in their social existence.  I tried to see the lasting truth
in Freud's concepts as against those assumptions which were in need of revision.  I
tried to do the same with Marx's theory, and finally I tried to arrive at a synthesis
which followed from the understanding and criticism of both thinkers. (quoted by Funk,
1999)

Fromm's great work,
The Art of Loving, however, disturbed orthodox Freudians because of
its inclusion of religion.  Also, it is an exploration of love as a social theory,
asking "Is love an art?"  He goes on to examine the theory of love, then discusses love
and its disintegration in modern Western society.  In the final chapter, the practice of
love is examined.  Written from a humanistic perspective, Erich Fromm's works manifests
much religious influence, as well, attesting to the early affects of his Jewish
scholars.

Discuss the tone in "Barbie Doll," focusing on word use, irony and exaggeration.

"Barbie Doll" by Marge Piercy, is a poem which relies
heavily on irony to make its point.  Irony, of course, is a contrast or discrepancy
between two things.  In this case, the contrast is between the oh-so-normal details in
this young girl's life and the outrageous actions which eventually occur.  It starts in
the first lines, when the speaker obviously and ironically knows everything about this
young girl--except her name. 

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This girlchild was born as usual
and
presented dolls that did pee-pee
and miniature GE stoves and
irons
and wee lipsticks the color of cherry
candy.

The irony
continues as we hear about all the wonderful attributes of this young lady, contrasted
with what we later see as self-loathing strong enough to incite
suicide.

 

She was healthy, tested intelligent,
possessed strong arms and
back,
abundant sexual drive and manual
dexterity.

The
next description we have utilizes exaggeration and a sense of the ridiculous--she did
not cut off her nose, nor did she cut off her legs, the offending body parts others
criticized. This contrasts with the dark reality of a suicidal death. 

So
she cut off her nose and her legs
and offered them
up.

The next irony
contrasts the sweetness of the comments regarding her beauty with the fact that they're
only spoken after she has died.  While she was alive, she only heard the negative
comments.

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Doesn't she look pretty? everyone
said.
 

Finally,
the last lines are verbal irony--a contradiction between what is said and what is
meant.

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Consummation at last.
To every woman a
happy ending.

Clearly this
poem is a condemnation of the modern standard of perfection (as seen in the symbolic use
of the Barbie  image) and it uses the technique of irony to make that
point.

What is the Commonwealth

Commonwealth, or Commonwealth of Nations  is an
international organization with the membership of about 54 countries that has been
formed to foster cooperation between them in the various fields including economic and
cultural. Initially this association was as an organization that were formerly colonies
of UK and the organization was called British Commonwealth. Even today the ceremonial
head of this organisation is the Queen Elizabeth II of UK. The membership of
Commonwealth includes UK also.

The origin of Commonwealth
dates back to early twentieth century when, Britain introduced this idea to perhaps keep
the people of its colonies happy by giving them some semblance of freedom without really
loosening is control over them.

Current activitiwes of the
common wealth include promotion of democracy and development, support to youth programs,
education, and promoting cultural interchange. A sports competition covering multiple
sports is held every four years.

solve the equation sin^2x-3sin2x+5cos^2x=0

The given equation is a homogeneous equation in sin x and
cos x and we'll divide the equation by (cos x)^2.

Before
dividing by (cos x)^2, we'll write the formula for sin
2x:

sin 2x = sin (x+x) = sin x*cos x + sinx*cos
x

sin 2x = 2 sin x*cos x

We'll
substitute sin 2x by it's formula in the given
equation:

 (sin x)^2 - 3*2*sin x*cos x + 5 (cos x)^2 =
0

Now, we can divide by (cos
x)^2:

(sin x/cos x)^2 - 6(sinx/cosx) + 5 =
0

But the ratio sin x/cos x = tan
x

We'll substitute the ratio by the function tan
x:

(tan x)^2 - 6tan x + 5 =
0

We'll substitute tan x =
t

t^2 - 6t + 5 = 0

We'll apply
the quadratic formula:

t1 = [6+sqrt(36 -
20)]/2

t1 = (6+4)/2

t1 =
5

t2 = 1

tan x =
t1

tan x = 5

x =
arctan 5 + k*pi

tan x =
t2

tan x = 1

x = arctan 1 +
k*pi

x = pi/4 +
k*pi

The solution of the
equation are: {arctan 5 + k*pi}U{pi/4 + k*pi}.

How can you show leadership and character?

In my opinion, leadership is a pattern of behavior, a
habit of being assertive, speaking up, being a role model and getting involved.  We show
leadership in our daily lives, by how we carry ourselves in public and how we interact
with the people we come in contact with.  Leadership means taking initiative, being the
one to volunteer, or the one who takes action without being asked or required to do
so.

We have a definition for character painted on the wall
of our school: "Character is doing the right thing when no one is looking".  To have a
set of values, a clear understanding of right and wrong, and then living according to
those values, even if difficult circumstances.  This is
character.

Please summarize this article.http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sc-dc-bernanke-economy-20101016,0,2044340.story

Basically, this article is telling us about what the
chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, said in a recent speech.  These speeches
are always important because they give us some idea as to what the Fed is planning to
do.

In this case, Bernanke came out and pretty much said
that the Fed needs to do more to stimulate the economy.  He is worried about how much
unemployment there is and he also fears deflation.  In order to try to solve these
problems, the Fed seems likely to put more money into the economy by buying government
bonds and such things from banks.

The article goes on to
say that not everyone is convinced that this is the right thing.  However, it seems
clear that the Fed must do something because there is not enough growth in the economy
right now.

Evaluate the effectiveness of direct democracy?

This is largely a matter of opinion.  There is no question
that direct democracy is less efficient than representative democracy.  But there is a
great deal of dispute over whether direct democracy is good in cases where it is
feasible.

A major example of this is in the intiative and
referendum procedures that we have here in the Western US.  By using these mechanisms,
individual citizens are able to vote directly on issues that are set before them.  This
is quite controversial.

Supporters of such direct democracy
argue that this gives the people a more direct voice and that this is good for a
democracy.  Detractors argue that the people do not have the time or energy to properly
inform themselves on complicated issues like taxation (a big issue in many
initiatives).  They believe that direct democracy leads to bad
decisions.

In The Chrysalids, would the signs that hang around David's house be an example of foreshadowing?

It is in Chapter 2 that David describes to us the house in
which he lives and the signs that you refer to. The signs are placed in the biggest room
- the main living room of the family, and David comments on how it
appears:

The
nearest approach to decoration was a number of wooden panels with sayings, mostly from
Repentances, artistically burnt into them. The one of the left of the fireplace read:
ONLY THE IMAGE OF GOD IS MAN. The one on the right: KEEP PURE THE STOCK OF THE LORD. On
the opposite wall two more said: BLESSED IS THE NORM, and IN PURITY OUR SALVATION. The
largest was the one on the back wall, hung to face the door which led to the yard. It
reminded everyone who came in: WATCH THOU FOR THE
MUTANT!

I wouldn't necessary
argue that these signs are examples of foreshadowing, as they don't really predict any
particular events. What they do indicate is the kind of community that Waknuk is - one
that always has its eyes open for deviants or "mutants" and is determined to purge them
from the face of the earth. This, you could argue, foreshadows the zealous manner in
which the community punish Sally and Katherine and then hunt Rosalind, David and
Petra.

The chanceConsider a fair coin tossed 100 times. a) what is the probability of landing heads 55 times or more? b) what is the chance of...

In an unbiased coin chance of getting a head = chance of
getting atail = 1/2

The probability of getting x heads in n
tosses of the coin is given by

P(x) =( nCx
)(1/2)^x)(1/2)^(n-x).

Since n =100, probability of getting
hed s 55 or more = p(x=55)+P(x>55) = P(x > =55) = Summation P(x) for x =55
to 100.

Summation  (100Cx) ((1/2)^x) (1/2)^(100-x) =
(100Cx)(1/2^100

=0.18410080866 from
tables.

Probability of number of  hesds(= x ) between 40
and 60 is

P( 40 < x<60) = summation 100Cx
(1/2)^100.  for x= 41, 42, 43,...60.

=  P(x <= 59) -
P((x< = 40) = 0.977155 60331 - 0284439668 = 9511120662 from
tables.

What is the major conflict in John Chioles' "Before the Firing Squad"?

A major conflict in the story is the obvious one between
the townspeople and the German armies. Another is the uncertainty within the German army
itself, which contains cruel men (SS men, whom the townspeople call “Ludwig”) and the
young occupiers (men of the German army, called “Fritz”). But the young occupiers and
the natives treat each other as friends, so that the major conflict ultimately centers
on the character and choices of a young German soldier actually named Fritz. He seems no
older than sixteen, and has become close to the narrator’s family despite the hostility
of the narrator’s father, who claims that Fritz is “the enemy” (paragraph 6). He
regularly visits the house, brings rations to the family, describes his home in Germany,
and explains his feelings of homesickness. When the narrator hurts his knee, it is Fritz
who provides first aid. In short, Fritz represents one of war’s major ironies: Warfare
puts people into opposing roles even though they have a greater common interest to be
friendly and helpful.

What is the significance of the opening scene in Ender's Game? Closing scene?

The opening scene shows us a variety of things, one is
that there is a plan for this boy, another is that we get to see through Ender's eyes
the way he rationalizes hurting Stilson.  He begins to gain depth as a character as we
find him contemplating the consequences of various options and then deciding to kick him
again and again while he is on the ground.

The ending of
the opening scene is important because it shows also his loathing of Peter and his
desire to not be like him.

The ending scene is perhaps best
seen as a contrast to the opening one as it shows Ender's great capacity for empathy and
his love for the enemy he destroyed so ruthlessly.

What examples are there proving that Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince is not just for children, but for adults as well, and exposes the reality...

The Little Prince exposes the reality
of life by exposing many social issues. Among those issues
are materialism, vanity, problems of absolute authority, conceit, and drunkenness.
Saint-Exupery argues that rather than all of these problems, what is really important in
life are the things that can't be seen, such as love and faithfulness. Below is a
discussion of a couple of the social issues Saint-Exupery
exposes.

Saint-Exupery especially exposes the issue of
materialism in the first chapter of the book through the use of the
pilot's drawing of a "boa constrictor from the outside." The fact that the adults who
viewed his picture did not have a keen enough ability to interpret minor details, but
rather saw the image as a material object, such as a hat, shows us that the problem he
is trying to expose is materialism. In addition, the pilot asserts that he is able to
discern a person's ability to reach "true understanding," an understanding of things
beyond the corporeal (Ch. 1). Materialism is especially exposed through the businessman
who can't be bothered to converse with the prince because he is "concerned with matters
of consequence" (Ch. 13). In fact, he is busy counting the stars that he considers to be
his own material objects that will make him very rich. He believes he owns the stars
because he "was the first person to think of it," as we see in his subsequent lines of
reasoning, "When you find a diamond that belongs to nobody, it is yours. When you
discover an island that belongs to nobody, it is yours" (Ch. 13).

The
social issue of vanity is expressed especially through the
prince's rose. Her vanity makes her very demanding and not at all appreciative. She
demands a screen to keep out the draft and a glass globe to protect her from the cold
night air. She torments the prince so much that he decides to leave her and his planet.
Finally, she realizes her errors and asks for his forgiveness, assuring him that she
truly loved him all the while, showing us just how dangerous vanity can
be.

Hence we see that The Little Prince deals
with many complex social issues and teaches many lessons, making it a very adult book
told in a child's voice. In addition, Saint-Exupery shows us that these social issues
are a way of life and that in rising above them we reach "true
understanding." 

In The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, why does Liesel Meminger tell Mr. Steiner that she kissed his son Rudy's dead body?

At the conclusion of the novel, Liesel Meminger gives her
friend Rudy Steiner, lying dead in the rubble of Himmel Street, what he never received
from her in life - a kiss. During their three years of coming of age in Nazi Germany,
Rudy's unrequited kiss represents sexuality repressed. Put another way, the teased kiss
is an affirmation of childhood innocence, and, in a time of inhumanity, underscores
Liesel's behaviour, tested but never bested: Her book-stealing isn't hardcore thievery;
her Nazi youth training leaves her untouched; when food-stealing becomes a brutal act,
she gives it up; she never hardens her heart to the sight of helpless Jews paraded
through town. But, most importantly, Liesel never consummates a sexual relationship with
Rudy, one that most certainly would have begun with a kiss. What then is the
significance of the kiss planted on the lips of the corpse of Rudy Steiner? It is the
consummation of innocence. In that one act, Liesel affirms that Innocence, not
Inhumanity, is victorious. 

In the play how do I explain about "Family Life"? please

We see in the play that family life is in no way your
conventional ideal of what we would call a nuclear family today. There are seldom any
mentions of a "normal" family in the play.

We know that
Lady Bracknell despises her husband in how she continuously puns at not having space for
him at the dinner table, but that it would not matter to him whether to be there or
not. 

We also know that Gwendolyn hardly mentions her
father but once (when she met Cecily) and then she shun him off in the conversation as
someone not worthy talking about.

Lady Bracknell and
Gwendolyn are the closest sample of "natural" family, and still what we see is that
theirs is a relationship in which the mother controls the daughter for the purpose of
grooming her for a rich marriage.

Ernest is a ward to
Cecily Cardew. Since he was found inside a bag at Victoria Station by Cecily's rich
grandfather, this man raised Ernest as his own child, and left him in charge of Cecily
and the estate after he died.  Here we also see a rare family circle composed of a man
who was once found and abandoned taking care of a girl whose parents are also
unmentioned in the play.

Finally, we have the actual
Worthing family. We know that Miss Prism used to be Jack's governess when he was a baby
and worked for his family. We know that she took him in a perambulator down to Victoria
Station and "accidentally" left the baby, and not her manuscript, inside the back she
checked in.  We assume that Prism had gone to the Station to escape and publish her
manuscript, leaving the baby behind. Yet, as she was confronted years later about the 
whereabouts of the baby, she could not answer. We do not know either what was the
reaction of Jack's parents upon the loss of the baby. Another odd family practice in the
play.

In the end, we know that Lady Bracknell was the
sister of Jack's mother (and Jack's aunt), that Algernon is then Jack's brother, and
that Jack's father's real name was Ernest and that he was a soldier at one point. Yet,
still nothing else remains to be said about family in general: Other that, In
the Importance of Being Earnest a family is as functional as its members.
Hence, there are no functional families in the play.

How does Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine pesuade us in the stories The decleration of independence and the crisis.

Both works prove to be persuasive because of the cases
made for revolution and the need for change.  Jefferson's document argues that there is
a natural call for separation from England because of its violations of the Colonists'
political and economic rights.  He argues that such transgressions are fundamentally
against the very nature of how political orders and societies should be structured.  In
this light, one understands that the call for Revolution is a natural one, consistent
with human values of inalienable rights.  Paine's work takes this idea one step further
in its assertion that the colonists are fighting for what is theirs and what is
rightfully owed to them and that this struggle is something which is a part of their
identity.  In this light, the darkness of the challenges in fighting for freedom have to
be realized and understood.  Paine's pamphlet helps to give comfort and reassurance in
the early stages of the Revolution when things were not progressing well for the
Colonists and their cause.

Solve a+3b+2c= 6, a-b+4c= 2 and c-b-a =2

a + 3b + 2c = 6
.........(1)

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

-a - b + c = 2
.............(3)

To solve the system, we are going to use
th elimination methos.

First we will add (2) and
(3):

==> -2b + 5c = 4
...........(4)

Now subtract (2) from
(1)

==> 4b - 2c = 4
..........(5)

Now multiply (4) by (2) and add tp
(5):

==> 8c =
12

==> c=
12/8

==> c =
3/2

Now to calculate b, we will substitute
in (4)

-2b + 5c = 4

==>
b= (5c - 4)/2 = 5*3/2 - 4 )/2 =
7/4

==> b =
7/4

Now to find a, we will substitute in
(2)

==> a -b + 4c =
2

==> a= b - 4c +
2

            = 7/4 - 4*3/2 +
2

              = (7- 24 + 8)/4 =
-9/4

==> a=
-9/4

What are multiple signs of bullying that take place in the novel The Kite Runner?

How do you define bullying precisely? If you are after
examples of bullying during Amir's childhood, that is one thing, yet if you are looking
at violence between characters, that is a much wider issue that occurs throughout the
novel in a number of different contexts. I will assume you are referring to bullying
that occurs between children in the first section of the
novel.

Of course, the biggest example is Assef and how he
picks on both Hassan and Amir. This of course threatens to move into physical violence
but definitely is an example of psychological bullying. Consider this description of one
little run-in that Amir and Hassan had with Assef and his
gang:

Assef
slipped on the brass knuckles. Gave me an icy look. "You're part of the problem, Amir.
If idiots like you and your father didn't take these people in, we'd be rid of them by
now. They'd all just go rot in Hazarajat where they belong. You're a disgrace to
Afghanistan."

I looked in his crazy eyes and saw that he
meant it. He really meant to hurt me. Assef raised his fist and
came for me.

Of course, as
the narrator himself identifies (but in his older, maturer self who is looking back at
the action), Assef is a psychopath who delights in violence, but clearly Assef is
bullying Hassan and Amir because of Hassan's race. It is only the bravery of Hassan in
threatening to blind Assef with his sling that prevents Amir being beaten up by
Assef.

Therefore, if you are looking for examples of
bullying during the first stage of the novel, you need look no further than Assef and
his cronies who intimidate and bully Hassan and Amir because of his association with
Hassan because of Hassan's race.

What are the coefficients of the quadratic equation ax^2+ bx + c =0 if it has the roots -4 and 13/7?

The given quadratic equation is ax^2+bx+c
=0.

Given that this has roots -4 and
13/7.

We know that if x1 and x2 are the solutions of the
quadratic equeion ax^2+bx+c = o, then ax^2+nx+c = a(x-x1)(x-x2) is an
identiy.

So ax^2+bx+c = a(x-(-4))(x-13/7) is an
identity.

ax^2+bx+c = ax^2 -a(-4+13/7)x
-a*4*13/7

ax^2+bx+c = ax^2
+(15/7)ax-52a/7

Since the above is an identity, we can
equate like terms on both sides:

b = 15a/7 and c =
-52a/7.

Therefore for any a we choose  given b = 15a/y.  c
= -52a/7.  But cannot be zero. If a = 0, the equation degenerates into a linear
equation.

How has Ralph become more compromising to Jack? What is the significance of Ralph reminiscing about the storybooks?This is from Chapters 7 in Lord...

In this chapter, Ralph and Jack are working together, for
the most part.  They are both in the hunting party that is looking for a pig.  This is
one of the few times since the earliest chapters, the two boys have been working
cooperatively.  It is also the last time they work together.  After this, the divide
between these two leaders becomes progressively wider until they split apart
completely.  It is important to the story, though, that these two are together when they
encounter the dead parachutist and think they are seeing the beast.  Their ideas on what
should be done about it, in the next chapter, differ and this shows the difference
between the two boys.

Ralph reminisces about the story
books as the boys are hunting for the pig.  The hunt is a savage endeavor and the story
books remind Ralph of a time in his past that was very civilized.  The memory is sharply
contrasted with reality which makes the memory stand out.

Write 5 social-economical problems of adolescence.

This is a question that depends a great deal on the
socio-economic status of the teenagers because problems will vary from one class to
another.  However, generally, teenagers have socio-economic problems in the following
categories:

1. The need to keep conform to the consumption
of their peers, including the need to wear particular clothing or have the latest
electronic gadget or game.

2. The need for money for dating
and other social activities.

3. The need for
jobs.

4. The need to juggle work, school, and social
life.

5. The temptation of drug
use.

As I said, there is a great amount of variability in
classes. For example, a teen from a poor family might have the pressure of helping his
or her family financially and have concerns about keeping up with material goods in the
peer group.  A teen from a wealthy family will have other kinds of pressures and
problems.  Middle-class often teens face the difficulties of financing college and the
social pressure that accompanies the expectation that they will go to
college.

It is difficult for teenagers because they have
all of these pressures and very little control over the means to overcome
problems.

What is Prufrock’s (and more importantly, Eliot's) attitude towards taking risks in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?

The repeating phrase "there is time" is where I would look
for an answer to the question of Prufrock's (and Eliot's) attitude toward taking
risks.

The narrator speaks of the unending cycles that seem
to pervade each day.  He starts by saying that "we" should move along like "a patient
etherized," unaware, following the same meaningless paths, participating in the same
cheap methods of entertainment.  However, I do not believe he means this.  He is writing
satirically: saying one thing, meaning the opposite.  He points these things out, the
movement of people no more aware than the movement of fog on a window pane.  And always
there is consistency in what is done: "the women....talking of
Michelangelo."

The narrator warns not to ask any questions,
but especially those like "What is it?" or "Do I dare?"  In truth, Eliot
wants the reader to dare.  In continually repeating there
is time, he leads us to the inevitable, asking "Do I dare?" while getting
old, hair sparse on the head, limbs thinning, trousers rolled up as age robs one of his
height.  And "we" keep telling ourselves, "There is
time."

The narrator has had all meaningless experiences and
all the emptiness life has to offer, measured in taking tea, listening to the music in
another room (not where he is), following the
swishing path of the hem of a skirt across the floor, and having no more impact on or
interaction with life than "a pair of ragged claws/Scuttling across the floors of silent
seas," in other words, a crab on the ocean's floor.

With
several wonderful allusions, Eliot makes his point. He notes that he is not Prince
Hamlet: Hamlet's tragic flaw is that he is too indecisive and fails to take action when
he has the opportunity.  This is not an accidental comparison he
makes.

He also wonders looking back, if he should have
taken the universe on (rather than asking, "Do I dare disturb the universe?") in order
to be like Lazarus (another famous allusion) returning from the dead to tell others what
being dead was like.  He could have done so--talked about what life was
really about, IF he had taken chances, dared
to take risks.

So when Eliot speaks to us through the
narrator (Prufrock), he is telling us to take the risks and not count on "there will be
time." Time has a way of slipping through our fingers, though it is more valuable than
gold. Time passes and somehow we never have the chance to do the things we have promised
ourselves to do over the years, until, too late, we can no longer do them.  Or, even
more tragically, life flashes before one's eyes in that moment before premature death,
when it is sadly apparent that there will be no more "time" left to
use.

Eliot's poem says: Carpe diem!
(Seize the day!)

In the play A Midsummer Night's Dream, what is the play within the play about?William Shakespeare

In Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's
Dream, Bottom and the other mechanicals (tradesmen) go to the forest to avoid
scrutiny to practice the play that they will present as part of the celebration for the
wedding of Thesus, Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta, Queen of the
Amazons.

Their play is to be called The Most
lamentable comedy and the most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisbe.  Before
they go into the woods, the tradesmen, who fancy themselves great wits and actors,
discuss the play.  Bottom, the weaver, says that he will play the lover Pyramus, who
dies; he believes that he will be so good that the audience will cry.Flute, the bellows
mender, who has been assigned the role of Thisbe, wonders how he will play a woman when
he is growing a beard. Quince, the carpenter and director, tells him he will have a
mask. Snug, the joiner, plays the lion and worries that he will not know his lines in
time when all he must do is roar.

Foolishly, Bottom wants
to play the lion, too, but he is to be killed by this lion. Robin Starveling, the
tailor, will play Thisbe's mother, and Tom Snout, the tinker, will be Pyramus's father. 
When Bottom describes how he will roar if he plays the lion, Quince tells him he will do
it so loudly that he will frighten the duchess and the ladies, getting them all hanged. 
Bottom says he will not be loud, but Quince will hear no more.  He tells the troupe to
memorize their lines by the next evening when he will meet them all in "the palace wood"
because if they meet in town they will be "dogged with company" and everything known
about their play.  They agree to meet at the duke's oak
tree.

The next day when the tradesmen meet to rehearse,
Puck and Oberon and his wife are also present in this woods.  The king and queen of the
fairies, Oberon and his wife Titania argue with one another, showing that the natural
world is at odds with itself. As Titania lies in the woods, sleeping, the tradesmen
arrive and comically dispute their roles among themselves with Bottom telling Quince he
will need two Prologues so that the ladies will not be frightened by the sword scene or
the lion. The logistics of having a wall through which Pyramus and Thisbe can talk and
of the moonlight are discussed. At this point, Puck enters to distract the men and to
protect his queen.

Jerry is referred to as a "young English boy." What might you ask about his age?"Through the Tunnel" by Doris Lessing

One may well ask about the significance of Jerry's age. 
As an eleven-year-old, Jerry is probably pre-pubescent and longing to no longer be
considered a child.  While he loves his mother, he watches her "naked white arm" whose
hand once held his as they walked along the beach.  Now, it no longer is connected to
his physically, yet there is still a connection as she has not released him from his
childhood psychologically.

Yet, she is "determined to be
neither possessive nor lacking in devotion."  So, she releases Jerry emotionally, and
alllows him to swim out to the sharp rocks by himself.  There, he encounters the Iranian
boys who only accept him after he dives through the rocks as they have.  But, when he
cannot understand how they accomplish the feat of disappearing in the water and
reappearing some distance, they frown their disapproval.  So, Jerry practices after he
asks his mother for goggles; he develops his lungs so that he can hold his breath long
enough to pass through the tunnel that he finally
discovers. 

This passage through the tunnel is a rite of
passage for the child of eleven to the burgeoning teen.  When his mother asks him, "Have
a nice morning?" with manly understatement, Jerry responds "Oh,yes, thank you."  It is a
"day of triumph" when Jerry passes through the tunnel.  Now that he has accomplished his
manly feat, "It was no longer of the least importance to go to the
bay."

What is the theme and purpose of the story?

This story is a fable about the purpose of life, the
vanity of earthly greatness, ambition, pride. The guest has lofty ambitions for his
life, not because he wants to improve mankind, but because he wants to be remembered.
Ironically, the reader discovers that he has really done nothing remarkable and yet, he
makes comments that imply that the family with which he is visiting is wasting their
lives. The guest is a wanderer and has no connection to humankind whereas the family,
although perhaps not doing anything remarkable to ensure that they are remembered when
they pass on, nevertheless are in community with each other. They enjoy each other's
company, they like to sit by the fire.

The major irony of
the story occurs when they are all destroyed by the landslide, yet nothing remains of
the ambitious guest. What does remain are small, poignant tokens of the family that used
to live in the house. These tokens leave the reader to ponder what is really important
in life - living it while you can, doing something to improve the lives of those left
behind, or going around telling people how great you are and how insignificant everyone
else is.

Analyze how the presence of the Europeans affected the physical environment in Heart of Darkness.I don't really understand what is being asked, a...

There are several clear examples of European influence on
the face of the Congo territory, found in the first section of Joseph
Conrad's Heart of Darkness. At the Lower Station, Marlow is
confronted with the "graveyard" of machines and parts rusting chaotically throughout the
area. There seems to be no sense or reason to the materials strewn about, or why they
are being given up to the elements.

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I came upon a boiler wallowing in the grass,
then found a path leading up the hill. It turned aside for the boulders, and also for an
undersized railway-truck lying there on its back with its wheels in the air. One was
off. The thing looked as dead as a carcass of some animal. I came upon more cases of
decaying machinery, a stack of rusty
nails.

Then Marlow describes
how the construction crews are demolishing the land on a nearby cliff with dynamite
blasting, but there seems to be no logical purpose—they do not need to pass through a
mountain or build a road. The blasting is a waste: it has no
purpose.

A
horn tooted to the right, and I saw the black people run. A heavy and dull detonation
shook the ground, a puff of smoke came out of the cliff, and that was all. No change
appeared on the face of the rock. They were building a railway. The cliff was not in the
way or anything; but this objectless blasting was all the work going
on.

Finally, the physical
mark of the Europeans is seen on the people of the Congo. They have been enslaved by the
white Europeans—the employees of the Company—as they rob the land of its resources and
the life from its people. It is as if the very souls of these enslaved human beings have
been liberated from their bodies: they are like
zombies.

A
slight clinking behind me made me turn my head. Six black men advanced in a file,
toiling up the path. They walked erect and slow, balancing small baskets full of earth
on their heads, and the clink kept time with their footsteps...I could see every rib,
the joints of their limbs were like knots in a rope; each had an iron collar on his
neck, and all were connected together with a chain...All their meagre breasts panted
together, the violently dilated nostrils quivered, the eyes stared stonily uphill. They
passed me within six inches, without a glance, with that complete, deathlike
indifference...

can anybody write summary of the poem "I too sing america"by langston huges.I am unable to get the summary of the poem, can you help me please my...

This important poem by Hughes is in response to Whitman's
"I Hear America Singing." It is in reference to the African American plight before the
Civil Rights movement (circa the Harlem Renaissance.) African Americans also are part of
the American landscape and experience. When Hughes says, "I am the darker brother" in
the poem he means darker in skin, obviously, but also darker in experience. He may also
mean the speaker of the poem is a darker skin black man in opposition with lighter
skinned black persons. (An African American professor at Nova Southeastern University
interpreted that line in this way.)

Who are the littluns in Lord of the Flies? Brielfy tell about their condition being lost in the island.

The littluns make up the younger population of boys
stranded on the island in Lord of the Flies.  Golding dedicates the first part of
chapter four to provide characterization for this group of
characters:

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"The undoubted littluns, those aged about six,
led a quite distinct, and at the same time intense life of their own"
(59). 

The narrator details
their lifestyle on the island as one primarily concerned with picking and eating fruit
and playing in the sand on the beach.  At night, "they suffered untold terrors in the
dark and huddled together for comfort;" as the notion of a beast is introduced, their
fear becomes increasingly significant (59).  The presence of the littluns influence both
Jack and Ralph's leadership.  By building shelters and making rules to keep life on the
island orderly, Ralph's actions reveal him to be concerned about taking care of the
littluns and providing for their needs.  Jack, on the other hand, plays on the littluns'
weakness and fear, using their terror of the alleged beast to frighten and control the
other bigguns. 

If in a triangle ABC ,AD,BE and CF are medians , then prove that: 3(AB^2+BC^2+CA^2) = 4(AD^2+BE^2+CF^2)step by step proving

Let us have the triangle
ABC.

Let D , E and F be the mid points of BC, CA and
AB.

Consider the triangle
ADB:

AB^2 = AD^2+ BD^2 - 2AD*DB cos ADB . Due to cosine
rule.

AB^2 = AD^2 +(BC/2)^2 - AD*BC* cos(ADB)....(1), as D
is mid point of BC.

Similarly  if we conseder trangle ADC,
we get:

AC^2 =AD^2+(1/2 B/2)^2 -
AD*BC*cos(ADC)......(2)

(1)+(2):

AB^2+BC^2
= 2AD^2 + ((BC)^2)/2 - AD*BC{cosADB+cosADC).....(3).

But 
the angles ADB and ADC are supplementary angles. So cosADB +cosADC = 0. Therefore eq (3)
becomes:

AB^2+AC^2 = 2AD^2 +(1/2)BC^2....
(4)

Similarly we can show by considering triangle BEC and
BED that

BC^2+BA^2 = 2BE^2
+(1/2)CA^2.........(5)

Similarly we can show
that

CA^2+AB^2 = 2CF^2
+(1/2)AB^2................(4)

(4)+(5)+(6):

2(AB^2+BC^2+CA^2)
=2(AD^2+BE^2+CF^2) +(1/2) {AB^2+BC^2+CA^2).

Subtract (1/2)
(AB^2+BC^2+CA^2) we get:

(3/2)(AB^2+BC^2+CA^2) =
2(AD^2+BE^2+CF^2).

Multiply by
2:

3(AB^2+BC^2+CA^2) =
4(AD^2+BE^2+CF^2)

Why are waterways fuel-efficient?

Four factor contribute to making water transport more
efficient than than either land or air transport. First, because of buoyancy of water,
the effective weight experienced by a transport vessel like a ship in water is less than
that by a land vessel or air plane for comparable
mass.

Second, because of the lower friction between water
and surface of water vessels, as compared to friction experienced by the wheel and axle
system of  land vehicles, the force required to move the same weight is lower for water
vessels than for land transports.

Next, land transportation
frequently usually takes place over roads with many upward and downward slopes and with
many turns. In comparison, water transport is usually on surfaces without any slopes.
Water transport, particularly that in seas, has many fewer turns in the transport route.
Finally, it is possible to make the water transport vessels very large to achieve
economies of scale.

It is worthwhile noting that air
transport also has the advantages mentioned in the second and third points above.
However, such advantages of air planes are more than offset by the need to make the
airplanes very light as compared to its size. This means that for every kilograms of
total goods and passenger weight transport a much larger weight of the transport vessel
must also be transported. This ratio of vessel weight to total weight is highest for
land transport.

Explain the objectives of cost audit.

To begin with, think about the definition of an audit.  It
is the review of something, usually financial records.  In the case of a cost audit the
financial records being reviewed relate to the cost of something, usually something
manufactured.

 The key objectives
are:

1. To address internal controls over inventory and
cost of goods sold. 

2. Verify correct records and costs
related to inventory.

3. To be certain the cost of goods
produced is accurate.

4. To be certain that accounting
procedures related to inventory and cost of goods sold follow correct accounting
procedures.

5. To be certain that the inventory on hand
actually belongs to the client. 

What are some good metaphors or similes that reveal intelligence, determination, motivation, strength, perfection or persistence?They do not all...

As a suggestion about writing metaphors, remember that
there are four ways to write metaphors, depending on whether the literal and figurative
terms are respectively named or
implied:

1. In the first form, both
the literal and figurative terms are named.

e.g. Maurice
was as intent upon his purpose as sprinter three yards from the finish
line.

2. In the second form, the literal term is named and
the figurative term is implied.

e.g. Jack's strength
exploded.

3. In the third form, the literal term is not
named, but the figurative term is.

e.g. Gene's relentless
quest continued

4.  In the fourth term, both the literal
term and the figurative term are implied.

e.g.  She drives
forth, denying herself any weakness.

Remember, too, that
similes are stated comparisons of two unlike elements using either
as....as or
like.

Why does Mr. Wopsle change his name to Mr. Waldengarver in Chapter 31?Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

In Chapter XXX, Pip reaches into his pocket and finds a
playbill which Joe has given him.  Quickly, he tells Herbert about the "celebrated
provincial amateur of Roscian renown."  So, in Chapter XXXI, Mr. Wopsle is performing in
Hamlet at the theatre; he has changed his name to Waldengarver for
the stage.  But, no only is his stage name ridiculous, so is his appearance as Pip
describes it,

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My gift townsman stood gloomily apart with folded
arms, and I could have wished that his curls and forehead had been more
probable.

His performance as
Hamlet is a parody.  Pip and Herbert attempt applauding, but the laughter overrides
their applause.  After the serious conversation that Pip has had with Herbert in which
he has declared his love and devotion to Estella, the comic relief of Mr. Waldengarver's
ridiculous performance points to the foolish idea of people that they can make
themselves into something else as  Mr. Wopsle's performance is absurb to everyone but
himself.

What is poetry?

There's more to consider about poetry than just its
definition.  When we want to write down our thoughts, there are essentially three
choices:  list, prose, or poetry.  A list is just that--a series of words which have a
fairly loose connection and there is no real attempt to communicate anything with them
beyond the obvious.  Prose is anything written in sentence form, ranging from a
paragraph to a novel.  In prose, writers can utilize images as well as words to create
meaning.  The structure of prose is such that there are rules and conventions to which
writers must generally conform.

Poetry, though, is another
form of expression entirely.  It uses words and phrases, senses, and imagery--generally
in their most condensed, compressed, or compact forms--to create meaning.  All the
extraneous elements are omitted, leaving those words and images to draw a picture for
the reader.  It may be more or less structured, but it's a condensation of longer and
more wordy prose and the effect is generally much more powerful.

In a speech about John Donne and other metaphysical poets, I would like to know some information and points I can talk about.I am delivering a talk...

I can perhaps help you with Donne.  Donne, in some ways,
is particularly suited for public performance.

First of
all, many lines of his poetry are conversational or informal in style.  For instance,
the speaker begins "The Canonization" with "For God's sake, hold your tongue, and let me
love!"  This poem is  a beautiful glorification of the love between and man and woman,
yet it begins with such bluster and anger.  "The Sun Rising" begins in much the same
way, "Busy old fool, unruly sun." Even his religious poems such as "Death, be not proud"
 or Holy Sonnet 10, use such informalities.

Further, the
tone of the poems changes dramatically in many of his poems, making them especially
suitable for performing.  "The Canonization" and "The Sun Rising" begin with irritation
and end with serenity.  "The Fever" begins with a disconsolate speaker and ends with
acceptance of a loved one's death.  Holy Sonnet 10 begins with  defiance and ends with
triumph.

But most importantly is the dramatic situation
that many of Donne's poems employ.  "The Flea," a seduction poem, concerns the speaker's
argument to a woman.  In this poem, the speaker's intended audience is the woman:  "Mark
but this flea."  But the woman has a role in the poem as well.  She responds to the
speaker's words, and the speaker fashions his argument according to her responses.  As
she starts to kill the flea, the speaker pleads, "Oh stay, three lives in one flea
spare."  When she kills the flea, the speaker responds with "Cruel and sudden, hast thou
since/Purpled thy nail in blood of innocence."  You can find this type of dramatic
situation, to a lesser extent, in "The Good-Morrow" and  "Break of Day."  Even "The Sun
Rising" contains a specific setting (the bedroom), a specific audience (the sun), and
events to which the speaker responds, (morning
breaking.)

Hopefully I have given you a few ideas for your
talk.

What length of fence is needed to surround the garden in the following geometry question?A garden is in the shape of a right triangle. The base of...

We know that theb area of the right angle triangle
is:

A = (1/2) * base *
height

==> A = (1/2) * b *
h

Given:

 the base (b) = 12
m

the area (A)= 30 m

Then we
can calculate the height:

30 = (1/2) * 12 *
h

30 = 6 h

==> h = 30/6
= 5 m

Then the height of the triangle
is:

h = 5 m

Now we have the
measures of both sides of the triangle, then we can obtain the third side (s) using the
foluma:

Hypetenuse^2 = base^2 +
height^2

==> s^2 = 12^2 +
5^2

==> s = sqrt(144+ 25) = sqrt(169) = 13
m

==> S = 13m

Now we
have all 3 sides .

The fence needed should equal the
perimeter of the triangle:

P = 12+ 13 + 5= 30
m

Then length of the fence needed is 30
m

In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, why are the images of the pentangle and Mary’s face painted on a shield and not some other article of arms?

Shields were used in the past for two major reasons.
First, the shield was used to protect the knight or foot soldier from harm, both from
swords and arrows, among other kinds of weapons and forms of
attack.

For knights (and they were generally of noble
birth, or had been awarded knighthoods by the king for service in battle), the shield
also had symbols on it to help alleviate confusion during battle as to which side a
knight supported. In allowing your comrades from other castles of the realm to know you
were a friend, it also identified you to your
enemy.

However, the symbols on the shields were carefully
and specifically chosen, as the pictures shown had symbolic meanings. Often the symbols
would reflect the motto that a noble family had carried for generations to inspire
themselves, and declare their sense of family and/or loyalty, for example. The symbols
used in the medieval period were widely recognized, as are symbols used today, such as
the cross or the Star of David.

In "Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight," the pentangle was a "symbol of harmony, virtue and idealism" for
Christians.

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That Gawain is Mary's Knight is made clear as he
is robed for battle. She is represented as one of the five points of the pentangle,
through the five joys of Mary, and her image is etched on the back of his shield. The
poem describes the arming scene which shows her special relationship to
him:

That [Gawain's] prowess all depended on the
five pure Joys that the holy Queen of Heaven had of her child. Accordingly the courteous
Knight had that Queen's image etched on the inside of his armored shield, So
that when he beheld her, his heart did not fail. [emphasis is my
own]

Recognizing the
significance of the symbols on Gawain's shield, and pairing those symbols with the sense
that the shield was one of a knight's main sources of protection against attack, it is
easier to see that the symbols on the shield provide Gawain with defense against not
only aggression in battle, but against the evil that might tempt him to turn his back on
his honor and who he served: not only Arthur, but particularly the Virgin Mary, who
throughout time, regardless the politics of men, has served as the epitome of a pure and
chaste woman.

[Remember, too, the idea of chivalry was
introduced by the Church to provide knights with a code of honor so they might behave in
a more civilized way while on the Crusades, battling the "infidels" in the name of
Christianity abroad. Before the idea of chivalry was adopted, many knights were little
more than murderers, rapists and pillagers, and the Church did all it could to control
those "soldiers of Christ." It did not always work, but it gave many men an ideal to
follow.]

Is Growing Up by Russell Baker, appropriate for a 12-year old? The back cover references the author's sexual discovery as part of the storyline.I...

"Growing up" is a novel published in 1982 that won the
Pulitzer Prize for literature the following year, so it is a widely acclaimed book.  It
deals mostly with growing up in the 1930s in a dysfunctional family, facing the hard
times that were the Great Depression.  My impression when I read it (in the 10th grade
in 1984) was that sexual awakening was not the central theme of the book.  That was a
long time ago too, so all I can say with certainty is that I remember other
themes.

That being said, you have concerns about what your
child is reading in school, and what you or I find "appropriate" may be vastly
different.  It is a fairly subjective term, after all.  So I encourage you to find out
the process by which books are approved in your school district, and to call your
Superintendent, or Curriculum Director, or School Board member to see if these concerns
may have already been addressed, or if the book has been properly screened by
them.

In a public school setting it is sometimes difficult
to shield our kids from ideas we may find inappropriate or distasteful.  In the
classroom, you may be able to request an alternative assignment if, in the end, you find
the book crosses your line of appropriateness.  If there is an issue of trust, you may
be able to place your daughter in another teacher's
class.

I say all of these things as a public school
teacher, who respects parents and what they have to say.  I also find that most teachers
do the same.  Good luck, both with your daughter and with her
education.

In The Witch of Blackbird Pond, in Chapter 3, why does Nat accompany Kit to Rachel's house and then is sorry to leave her?

In Chapter 3 Kit finally arrives at her destination - her
aunt's house, Rachel Wood. Nat goes with Captain Eaton to escort Kit to her destination
but also to help carry all of Kit's luggage, of which she has quite a bit. What is made
clear when Nat leaves her with the other sailors is that there is a kind of connection
between them, but unfortunately they do not have time - yet - to develop
this:

Two of
the tree sailors had already started back along the road, but Nat still stood beside the
trunks and looked down at her. As their eyes met, something flashed between them, a
question that was suddenly weighted with regret. But the instant was gone before she
could grasp it, and the mocking light had sprung again into his
eyes.

As the rest of the
novel makes clear, Nat is sad because he would like to continue developing his
friendship with Kit, however, circumstances dictate otherwise and so he has to leave Kit
where she is and go off with his father.

What is tan2a if cosa = 1 - sina?

We'll re-write the given constraint cosa = 1 - sina. We'll
add sin a both sides and we'll have:

sin a + cos a =
1

We'll square raise the new relation sina + cosa =
1.

(sina + cosa)^2 =
1^2

(sina)^2 + (cosa)^2 + 2sina*cosa = 1
(1)

But, from the fundamental formula of
trigonometry:

(sina)^2 + (cosa)^2 =
1

We'll substitute (sina)^2 + (cosa)^2 by
1:

The relation (1) will
become:

1 + 2sina*cosa =
1

We'll eliminate like
terms:

 2sina*cosa =
0

But  2sina*cosa = sin
(2a)

We'll write the formula for tan
2a:

tan 2a = sin 2a/cos 2a

tan
2a = 0/cos 2a

tan 2a =
0

I need to know about Snout from A Midsummer Night's Dream.How would you describe him?

Tom Snout is part of a subplot of the play that concerns a
group of "rude mechanicals" (description coined by Puck) who are meeting to rehearse a
play that they hope to perform for Theseus and his guests on his wedding day.  The most
famous of this group is Bottom, who is turned into an ass by
Puck.

Snout is the tinker, which we might consider today as
someone who does odd jobs.  Tinkers would travel around with a cart of wares and tools
from house to house to sell items and fix things around the
home.

His name certainly conjures up an animal's nose, but
whether that is any reference to the size of the nose of the actor Shakespeare
originally had in mind for the part, we cannot know.  The mechanicals are meant to be
the "clowns" in this play, and as such, it could be very useful for this actor to have a
large nose, even if the only joke is connected to his name.  Clowns often relied on
physical humor.

Quince originally casts Snout as Pyramus'
father, and Snout doesn't really say much in this first mechanicals scene.  Once the
crew moves their rehearsal to the forest in Act III, scene i, however, Snout has lots to
say.  He agrees with Bottom that the lion will frighten the ladies and suggests that
they have a Prologue saying that the lion is not real.  He suggests they rely upon the
real moon for reference in their play and also that it will be impossible to bring in a
wall, an important set piece in their play.  He comes across as very concerned over the
"reality" of the setting and characters of the play, and also ready with a solution. 
Bottom, whom all the other mechanicals defer to, suggests that one of their company will
present the wall in the play, and though it is not decided here, that man ends up being
Snout.

In Act V, in the play, he does have lines, but since
those are his "wall" lines, it is not really possible to use this text to characterize
Snout.

As with any clown in an early Shakespeare play, most
of the things that an audience learns about Snout will come from the behavior and antics
which the actors develop to increase the comedy of the scenes.  These choices will vary
from production to production as they are not set down in the text.  So, you can learn
some things about Snout (or any of the mechanicals) from reading the text, but lots more
from seeing the play performed live.

How does fear affect Okonkwo's actions and relationship with others?

Okonkwo's fear of turning out like his father is the major
motive of his life, and also his downfall. Because he does not want his tribe to think
he is weak, he becomes the most famous and feared wrestler in the clan. Because he does
not want to be unable to support his family, like his father, he works incredibly hard
to make a success of his yam farming operation. Because he does not want to appear weak
in front of the other men, he beats his wives and acts impulsively, resulting in his
accidentally killing people. This causes him to be exiled from his clan for many years.
Because he fears that his son will turn out like his grandfather, a weakling, he is
cruel to the boy and ruins his relationship with him. Because he fears appearing weak
before the men in the hunting party, he participates in the killing of his adopted son
Ikemefuna, in spite of being warned by the village elders not to participate. This winds
up angering the gods. Okonkwo's fears are what cause things to fall apart in his
life.

In Goodbye, Columbus, what is the climax and what the falling action?

The climax of Roth's novella
Goodbye Columbus occurs when Brenda invites Neil to Boston to
celebrate the Jewish holiday of atonement, Rosh Hashanah, also the Jewish New Year.
Brenda and Neil had been having intimate relations while he was visiting her parents
home as a house guest over the summer. After Brenda and Neil check into a Boston hotel
as Mr. and Mrs. Klugman, Brenda breaks the news to Neil that her mother had discovered
her contraceptive and was deeply shocked. Brenda shows him two letters she has received,
one from each parent, and tells him that she won't see him anymore. She tells him that
she is ashamed to face her parents and will find it unbearable to continue to see him,
especially since they have lost all esteem for Neil through this shocking
discovery.

This event marks the
climax, the point at which the final outcome of the story is set in
motion. It is an emotional moment yet the emotion is more of personal suffering than
overt, tearing emotion. Moreover it is the decisive moment when the conflict is resolved
and the future predicted: the class divide has not been permanently breached and Neil
and Brenda will not be a couple. As a result, Neil returns to the working-class area of
Newark, New Jersey, and to his job at the public library, symbolic of his common roots.
The falling action occurs when Neil wanders hopelessly
around Harvard yard, catches his train, returns to Newark and gets there just in time to
get to work at the library.

Relating to "The Possibility of Evil," how is the author's view of society and evil revealed in the story? "The Possibility of Evil" by Shirley...

Shirley Jackson's view of the world was always a little
off center.  She had a way of presenting characters and situations that often had a
hidden message about the quirky side of human nature.

In
the short story entitled, "The Possibility of Evil," Jackson presents Miss Strangeworth
as a woman in society who is well accepted and respected in her life and throughout the
town.

When people meet Miss Strangeworth, she impresses
them as being a cornerstone of the community, well-grounded and deeply rooted to all
that is good and decent in this world. Because of these perceptions, we are all shocked
when we learn her secret.  As a society, we often judge people based upon what we see,
and not what or who a person really is.  As a society we are easily tricked, and often
unaware that even the nicest people in the world can hide behind outward
appearances.

There is a quote by Shakespeare that says,
"There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so."  This basically means that
things are bad sometimes only if they are perceived as bad.  For instance, in this
story, no one thinks Miss Strangeworth is evil.  They cannot conceive of such a thing
with Miss Strangeworth.  However, she is the evil in in this
story.

On the other side of the argument, things are often
considered evil simply because of the perception.  In a male-dominated society, a woman
might be considered bad if she went to school and started to share her own
ideas.

In "The Possibility of Evil," Miss Strangeworth's
perception of evil is not accurate.  The narrator tells us that Miss Strangeworth does
not deal in facts.  Someone does not need to actually be bad to be considered bad in her
mind.  For Miss Strangeworth, it is the "possibility" that someone might be bad, in
order for her to act on this "fact" and send a letter.  The evil does not actually
exist, only Miss Stangeworth's perception of evil, which is not a
valid observation.

Society and people like Miss
Strangeworth are confused equally when a person or situation is judge by appearance
rather than the truth.

What is the main theme in Messenger by Lois Lowry?

To me, the main theme in this book is how greed can cause
hatred and intolerance.

At the start of the book, more or
less everything is okay.  The people of the village are so welcoming, so into helping
the people who come to their village as refugees.  But then that all changes.  And it
seems to change because of the teacher and the things that are done at the Trade
Mart.

It seems to me that the Trade Mart symbolizes greed. 
When the people start to want more and more (things that are really pretty pointless)
they also are willing to hate the outsiders.  I think Lowry is trying to say that the
two things -- greed and hate -- are connected.

How is Mildred conforming to society in Fahrenheit 451?

Mildred, in Fahrenheit 451, is
trapped in conformity.  She is a product of her
society. 

She is a product of mindless entertainment and a
system designed to keep people from thinking for themselves.  She watches TV on three
walls and can't stop thinking about the day when she'll get a fourth wall.  The
programming is so simplistic and unenlightening that a ten-year-old child would get
bored with it, but Mildred watches it faithfully.  She conforms to society by being
engrossed with its mindless programming.

Mildred also
conforms concerning the issue of books.  She is the one who informs on her husband
because he is too nonconforming--he reads books.  Importantly, she gives little effort
to understanding any of the words in the books Montag tries to interest her in.  This,
too, is conformity.

Her conformity is also apparent in the
horror she feels when Montag reads a poem (nonconformity) to her friends.  She is
threatened by anything that her society doesn't
sanction. 

Perhaps the only nonconformist act on Mildred's
part, in fact, is her attempted suicide.  This, apparently--since the technicians are so
nonchalant about pumping out her stomach--is what conformity in her society often leads
to. 

Why should we not wage wars against each other? (Please refer to the poem "No Men are Foreign.")

The idea that we should not fight one another is the basic
message of this whole poem.  So, to find the answer, you simply need to look at the
arguments Kirkup makes.  The best place to find these arguments is in the part of the
poem up to line 12.

Basically, Kirkup is saying that we are
all brothers -- that all people are alike.  He says that we all walk upon the same earth
and we will all be buried in that earth when we die.  He says that all people share
common goals and hopes and dreams.  In these ways, we are all alike.  Because we are all
alike, it would be perverse to fight one another.  It would be as if we were fighting
ourselves.

The theme of Macbeth is the relationship between gender and power.

You don't ask a question in your question, you just give a
topic, so I don't really know if you're supposed to agree or disagree, explain, or use
the prompt as a thesis statement.  Also, the 150 words are up to you.  It's your
assignment.  You have to take the information given and write your own assignment
answer. 

Gender and power certainly do not constitute
the theme of Shakespeare's Macbeth.  They
constitute one theme--one idea or issue raised--in the
play. 

Males possess the power.  Lady Macbeth would like
to.  She would alter her gender if she could.  She wants to be an aggressive, powerful
warrior and ruler, but she is limited by her gender to using her husband to achieve
power. 

Lady Macbeth is supposed to be a good wife, be a
good hostess, and be a good mother.  She relishes the role of wife (possibly only
because her husband is her path to power, we don't know), but plays hostess only to set
a trap for Duncan, and rejects the love a mother should have for a child in favor of her
ambition for power. 

Lady Macbeth is intelligent, a planner
and organizer.  Born a female, she longs to reverse roles and be a male.  When she comes
as close as she can by manipulating her husband into murdering
Duncan--her only means of power--it backfires.  Macbeth shuts her
out of his decision-making process and causes his own downfall, as well as
hers.

She, figuratively, is a man trapped in a woman's
body.  She, literally, is a woman trapped in a man's world.

In Macbeth, how does killing Banquo connect to the killing of Macduff's family?

Concerning Shakepeare's Macbeth, the
ordering of killings demonstrates the extent to which Macbeth will go in order to
maintain and enhance his power--sort of. 

Ordering Banquo's
murder makes strategic sense for Macbeth, because Banquo knows about the witches'
predictions.  Banquo suspects Macbeth of murdering Duncan and Macbeth suspects he
suspects, so to speak.  Killing Banquo is a strategic move.  Ordering the death of
Fleance, however, demonstrates how Macbeth's ambition has grown.  Before killing Duncan,
all Macbeth dreamed of was being king.  He had no thoughts of creating a dynasty by
having his heirs continue as kings of Scotland.  Once he has the crown, though, it's no
longer enough.  He orders Fleance's death in an attempt to open the way for him to
create a dynasty.  He tries to enhance his power.

Ordering
the slaughter of Maduff's family, however, does not improve Macbeth's chances of holding
on to power, nor does it enhance his power.  It serves no strategic purpose.  Killing
Macduff would serve a strategic purpose, but slaughtering his family does not.  This
slaughter is more personal.  Macduff refuses to give loyalty to Macbeth,
snubbing Macbeth by not attending his coronation or his feast.  When Macbeth finds out
that Macduff has traveled to England to join Malcolm and seek help from the English, he
lashes out at Macduff by ordering the slaughter of his family.  Macbeth can't get
at Macduff, so he lashes out at his family instead.  This demonstrates, not Macbeth's
ambition or its growth, but his pettiness and ruthlessness and callousness.  It's almost
like Macbeth is throwing a sophisticated temper tantrum--very dangerous when we're
talking about a man with great power in his kingdom. 

In
short, then, the killings you ask about are connected in that a tyrant orders them. 
They also, by the way, reveal Macbeth doing his own planning (not involving his wife,
who is the better planner) since murdering Duncan.  But the murders are different in the
purposes they serve and by what motivates them. 

What is "Penguin on the Beach" by Ruth Miller about?Penguin on the Beach Ruth Miller Stranger in his own element, Sea-casualty, the castaway...

What is "Penguin on the Beach" by Ruth Miller
about?

Penguin on the
Beach

Ruth
Miller

Stranger in his own
element,

Sea-casualty, the castaway
manikin

Waddles in his tailored coat-tails.
Oil

Has spread a deep commercial
stain

Over his downy shirt front. Sleazy,
grey,

It clogs the sleekness. Far too
well

He must recall the past, to be so
cautious:

Watch him step into the waves. He
shudders

Under the froth; slides, slips, on the wet
sand,

Escaping the dryness, dearth, in a white
cascade,

An involuntary shouldering off of
gleam.

Hands push him back into the sea. He
stands

In pained andsilent
expostulation.

Once he knew a sunlit, leaping
smoothness,

But close within his head’s small knoll, and
dark

He retains the image: Oil on
sea,

Green slicks, black lassoos of
sludge

Sleeving the breakers in a strain-spread
scarf.

He shudders now from the clean flinching
wave,

Turns and plods back up the yellow
sand,

Ineffably wary, triumphantly
sad.

He is immensely wise: he trusts nobody. His
senses

Are clogged with experience. He
eats

Fish from his Saviour’s hands, and it tastes
black.

What are the stregnths and weaknesses of the Roman Republic political structure?

One of the strongest features of the Roman republic was
its very definition of the principle of republicanism.  In representing a government
where elected officials are meant to represent the will of the body politic proved to be
a lasting legacy to all governments that followed the Romans.  The United States
Constitution used the Roman Republic as an example of leadership and the principle of
republicanism was something embedded into the minds and hearts of the framers.  I think
that one of the weaknesses of such a system ended up becoming what happens when the
citizens' needs are not met by representative government.  Essentially, what redress is
there when a government committed to the nature of the people's wishes are not fully
embodied by said government?  This becomes a critical issue and something that helped to
destabilize the Roman government.  It is also a reality that all representative
governments must address, and in the process, one that helps to define the essence of
how different principles of government must work with one another to prevent the
weaknesses of one being exposed and making the government a crippled
one.

Where would you expect to find zinc and calcium on the periodic table?

Zinc and Calcium form compound by losing electrons which
are in their outermost shell. By doing so, they form positive ions. Both of them have 2
electrons in their outermost levels.

Calcium should be
found in group 2 and Zinc in the group 10 of the periodic table. This has been predicted
using the number of electrons in the last two shells of Ca which is 8, 2 resp. and is
18, 2, respectively for Zn.

Elements with 2 electrons in
the outermost shell and 8 electrons in the shell before that should have properties
similar to Ca. Similarly elements with 18 electrons in the shell before the outermost
and 2 electrons in the outermost shell should have the properties of
Zn.

How would you describe Sonny`s attitude towards addiction in "Sonny’s Blues"?

“Sonny’s Blues” is a fascinating story about drug
addiction. The story opens with the narrator’s feeling of ice in his own veins as he
reads about Sonny’s arrest for possession of heroin. Sonny’s friend is also an addict
and is looking for money from the narrator for his next fix. In the scene before the
brothers go to Greenwich Village to hear Sonny play, Sonny says that he needs drugs to
be able to stand “it.” Suffering is seen as a cause of drug addiction, though the theme
of suffering is also tied to the loss of Grace, the narrator’s daughter. The narrator
himself does not fall into drug addiction but certainly comes to a clearer understanding
of Sonny and others who are addicted. The story also has strong generational ties.
Sonny, as he points out in his letter to the narrator, wishes he could have the faith
his mother had. After she tells the story of the father’s brother’s death on that long,
dark road in the past, she says, “I praise my Redeemer.” Without faith, there seems to
be left only music or drugs. Readers have also suggested that the older brother may be
addicted to his feeling of superiority or possibly an addiction to his status as one who
is better than his younger brother.

Though, at the very
end, the brothers do reconcile and knowing his younger brother's addiction, the older
brother still buys him an alcoholic drink at the end of the story, not because he
doesn't understand the effects of drugs and alcohol, but he has an awareness of
accepting his brother for who he really is.

Fred picked four numbers out of a hat. The average of the four numbers is 9. If three of the numbers are 5, 9 and 12, then what is the fourth number?

If the average of 4 numbers is X, then the sum of the
differences between each of the numbers and X has to be equal to
zero.

Here we have the average as 9. Let the fourth number
to be found be D.

So we have the differences as (5-9) , (9
- 9), (12 - 9) and (D-9)

Now , (5-9) + ( 9 -9) + (12 - 9) +
(D-9) = 0

=> -4 + 0 + 3 + D - 9
=0

=> D - 10 =
0

=> D =
10.

Therefore the fourth number is
10.

What electoral system do you feel is best: First-past-the-post or proportional representation or any others, and why?I just want to see other...

The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the
Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and
DC).

Every vote, everywhere, would be
politically relevant and equal in presidential elections.  Every vote would be counted
for and directly assist the candidate for whom it was cast. Candidates would need to
care about voters across the nation, not just undecided voters in a handful of swing
states.

Now, policies important to the citizens
of ‘flyover’ states are not as highly prioritized as policies important to
‘battleground’ states when it comes to
governing.

The bill would take effect only when
enacted, in identical form, by states possessing a majority of the electoral votes--that
is, enough electoral votes to elect a President (270 of 538). When the bill comes into
effect, all the electoral votes from those states would be awarded to the presidential
candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and
DC).

The bill uses the power given to each state
by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution to change how they award their electoral
votes for president.  It does not abolish the Electoral College, which would need a
constitutional amendment, and could be stopped by states with as little as 3% of the
U.S. population.  Historically, virtually all of the major changes in the method of
electing the President, including ending the requirement that only men who owned
substantial property could vote and 48 current state-by-state winner-take-all laws, have
come about by state legislative action, without federal constitutional
amendments.

The bill has been endorsed or voted
for by 1,922 state legislators (in 50 states) who have sponsored and/or cast recorded
votes in favor of the bill.

In Gallup polls
since 1944, only about 20% of the public has supported the current system of awarding
all of a state's electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most
votes in each separate state (with about 70% opposed and about 10% undecided). The
recent Washington Post, Kaiser Family Foundation, and Harvard University poll shows 72%
support for direct nationwide election of the President. Support for a national popular
vote is strong in virtually every state, partisan, and demographic group surveyed in
recent polls.

The National Popular Vote bill has
passed 31 state legislative chambers, in 21 small, medium-small, medium, and large
states, including one house in Arkansas (6), Connecticut (7), Delaware (3), The District
of Columbia  (3), Maine (4), Michigan (17), Nevada (5), New Mexico (5), New York (31),
North Carolina (15), and Oregon (7),  and both houses in California (55), Colorado (9),
Hawaii (4), Illinois (21), New Jersey (15), Maryland (10), Massachusetts (12), Rhode
Island (4), Vermont (3), and Washington (11). The bill has been enacted by Hawaii,
Illinois, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Washington. These six states possess
73 electoral votes -- 27% of the 270 necessary to bring the law into
effect.

See
http://www.NationalPopularVote.com

What are two major conflicts developed throughout The Face on the Milk Carton?

In the book The Face on the Milk Carton
Janie discovers that she has been kidnapped when she sees her picture on a
milk carton at school.  She lives next door to a high school student who she has a crush
on.  The boy is called Reeve.  Janie and Reeve become close in a girlfriend and
boyfriend way.  One day Janie asks Reeve to skip school and drive her to New Jersey.  It
is getting late and the two are worried that they will get into trouble.  Janie does not
want her mother to know that she has tried to seek out more information about her real
parents.  As the two contemplate having a sexual relationship they rent a motel room. 
However, Janie and Reeve decide not to stay and instead they put the key in the mailbox
and leave.  They return home.

Janie has walked around with
fear and worry about her need to contact her family of origin.  She has been in denial
about the situation but can no longer deny it.  Reeve convinces her to tell her parents
the truth and also contacts his sister to help.  Janie tells her parents the truth about
the kidnapping and lets them know she needs to contact her origin
family.

What are two examples of symbiosis?

Symbiosis is simply defined as a very close relationship
between two different species of organisms.  There can be many different types of
symbiosis.

In some types of symbiosis, the two species both
benefit from the relationship between them.  This is called mutualism.  An example of
this is the relationship between some species of wrasses and other fish.  The wrasses
"clean" the other fish, eating parasites and other things that irritate the other
fish.

Another kind of symbiosis is commensalism.  In this
case, one species benefits and the other is unaffected.  An example of this would be a
remora attaching to a shark and getting food from what the shark
eats.

The marietta.edu link below provides many more
examples of various types of symbiosis.

The floor of a room is covered with a carpet with a 2-color design. The room is square shaped. Each side has 12 ft.The red circle of the carpet,...

First, we'll evaluate the area of the room. Since the room
is a square, the area is:

A =
12ft*12ft

A = 144 ft^2

We'll
use now the 2 given prices and we'll calculate:

144ft^2 *
$10/ft^2 = $1440

144ft^2 * $12/ft^2 =
$1728

Now, we'll determine the diameter of the red carpet,
circle shaped. Since we have 2ft to each wall, the diameter will
be:

D = 12 - 4

D = 8
ft

r = 8/2 ft

r = 4
ft

The area of the red circle
is:

A = pi*r^2

A =
3.14*16

A of red carpet = 50.24
ft^2

The cost of the red carpet
is:

50.24 ft^2 * $12/ft^2 =
$602.88

The area of the white carpet
is:

144 ft^2 - 50.24 ft^2 = 93.76
ft^2

The cost of the white carpet
is:

93.76 ft^2 * $10/ft^2 =
$937.60

The total cost of the entire carpet
is:

$602.88 + $937.60 =
$1540.48

In the following scenario, do we see reflective writing or reflective thinking?In an effort to match buddy reader from next 3rd grade, second grade...

I would say it is reflective thinking because the piece of
writing that the student is going to offer will reflect constructive criticism and
feedback. If it were reflective writing, it would seem as though the student is asked to
respond to a specific prompt, such as a reader's response, or as it is done in the case
of creative writing.

In both cases, of course, the student
is doing both thinking AND writing, but the student is judging both his own reading and
that of someone else's so more processes are taking place in their minds. They include:
critical thinking, inductive reasoning, comparing and contrasting, analyzing, and much
more.

Discuss and explain the rhyme scheme of the poem."The voice" by Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy's poem "The Voice" has a very specific,
regular, and recognizable rhyme scheme.  Rhyme scheme, as I'm sure you know, is simply
the pattern of the rhyme in a rhymed poem.  The first line is given the indicator A, and
the next line either rhymes and is also designated with an A or has a different sound
and is designated with a B, and thus it goes.  This work by Hardy clearly has an ABAB
rhyme scheme in each stanza, with a new set of rhymes for each.  Each of the rhymes is
exact except for those in lines 2 and 4 in the first stanza--were and fair are
approximate or slant rhymes.  This distinct and regular pattern of rhyming serves to add
a steadiness and consistency to the images and themes of the poem, something for you to
examine more closely on your own.

In macroeconomics, what is the difference between nominal GDP and real GDP?

The gross domestic product or GDP is the value of all the
goods and services produced in a country. GDP can be expressed in two ways. One is by
using the current costs of all the goods and services produced in the country. This is
called the nominal GDP. This is equivalent to the prices that you would pay if you
bought the goods or services today.

GDP can also be
expressed as the cost of the goods and services produced in a country but at the prices
they had in a particular year which is taken to be the base year. If there no inflation
the nominal and real GDP will remain the same, else the two
vary.

Can an equilateral triangle also be isosceles?

According to the rule that an isosceles triangle has 2
sides that have equal lengths and 2 angles, formed with the equal sides, which have the
same measure, we'll conclude that any equilateral triangle could be considered as an
isosceles triangle.

The equilateral triangles present the
property of having all 3 sides of equal lengths and all 3 angles of equal measures.
Since the sum of the angles in a triangle is 180 degrees, it's easy to figure out the
measure of all 3 angles in the equilateral triangle.

Let's
note the measure of the angle as a:

a+a+a =
180

3a = 180

a =
180/3

a = 60

So, all 3 angles
have the measure of 60 degrees.

So, besides 2 equal lengths
of the sides, we'll have also 2 equal measures of the angles formed with the equal
sides.

Since all constraints of isosceles triangles have
been satisfied, we can state that all equilateral triangles are isosceles
triangles.

In Ender's Game Chapter 7, why are the adults the real enemies?

The thing the kids at Battle School have largely forgotten
is that they are in training for a real war.  So many of them are
so wrapped up in the "games" and battles against other armies, that they have lost sight
of the big picture.  Ender realizes that Bonzo is one such
student.

Rather than attempting to become the best
commander he can be, to learn from others and learn from his mistakes, Bonzo instead
takes everything personally.  Bonzo has made a personal enemy out of Ender.  Ender
realizes this - but rather than retaliate, or become afraid, he weighs his options.  He
knows that the teachers are aware of everything in the school - and at this point he has
a pretty good idea that they are not going to intervene in advance to stop something
potentially dangerous.

Ender sets his sights on personal
survival in more ways than one.  He takes personal defense classes in case it ever comes
to hand-to-hand fighting with Bonzo.  But more than that, he begins to think about how
he can be the very best student that ever existed in the history of the Battle School. 
Ender knows this is his only real chance at not only surviving through training, but
surviving the bigger picture as well.  The teachers have complete control of Ender while
he is in Battle School - and in this chapter he realizes he does not need to worry about
petty battles with other students - but instead learn how to beat the
system.