Monday, January 30, 2012

Determine all the values of x if 2tan^2x-tanx-1=0

We have to solve 2(tan x)^x - tan x - 1 =
0


Now 2 (tan x)^2 - tan x - 1 =
0


=> 2 (tan x)^2 - 2tan x + tan x - 1 =
0


=> 2 tan x( tan x -1) +1 (tan x -1)
=0


=> (2 tan x +1) (tan x-1)
=0


Therefore tan x = -1/2 or tan x
=1


If tan x = 1 , x = 45
degree


If tan x = -1/2 , x = -26.56
degree


Therefore the solutions are 45 degree
and -26.56 degree.

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Was the story comical in any way?

In “The Other Two,” Wharton exhibits the more comic
aspects of divorce. She describes none of the anguish and grief of Alice’s previous
marriages, and, in fact, suggests that Alice may have exaggerated the previous
unpleasantness. Indeed, once Alice announces to her third husband that her first husband
must make a visit to her sick daughter, she is told to put all embarrassment out of her
mind, which she promptly does. In addition, the experience of Waythorn is in no way
affected by his being the third husband of Alice. As he learns about the “other two,” he
finds that they are ordinary, pleasant human beings, not monsters, and he is able to get
along well with both of them. The manners of the world which Waythorn inhabits prevents
conversations from becoming personal and difficult, and hence he is able to maintain
cordial relationships with the other two.

Saturday, January 28, 2012

cake wghs 550g & has 3 ing. flour sugar & raisins Theres twice as much flour as sugar & one & a half times as much sugar as raisinsthis problem is...

The total weight of the cake is 550g. Let the weight of
raisins be R.


As the cake has one and a half as much sugar
as raisins, the weight of sugar is (3/2)*R


Now as the cake
has twice as much flour as sugar, and the weight of sugar has already been expressed as
(3/2)*R,  the weight of flour is 2*(3/2)*R = 3*R


So the sum
of all the three is 550


=> R + (3/2)*R + 3*R =
550


=> R (1 + 3/2 + 3) =
550


=> R ( 11/2 ) =
550


=> R = 550/
(11/2)


=> R = 1100/11 = 100
g


So the weight of flour in the cake is 3*100
= 300g

Introduce briefly the character Hecuba from Homer's Iliad.

Hecuba (Hecabe in Greek) is the wife of Priam, king of
Troy, and the mother of 19 of Priam's 50 sons. Among Hecabe's children are Hector,
Paris/Alexander, and Cassandra.


In Homer's
Iliad, Hecuba does not frequently appear. She is mentioned in Book
6, where she offers one of her robes to goddess Athena. Hector also makes mention of
Hecuba's anticipated grief when Troy falls.


Hecuba also
appears in Iliad 24, as Priam tells Hecuba that he is going to the
Greek camp to try to give Achilles a ransom in exchange for the return of Hector's
corpse. Hecuba tries to persuade her husband not to do this, but Priam's resolve remains
unchanged.


Hecuba is also present at the end of the epic
and leads the women in lamentation for her dead son
Hector:


Hector, far dearest to my heart of all my children,
lo, when thou livedst thou wast dear to the gods, and therefore have they had care of
thee for all thou art in the doom of death.


After the fall
of Troy, sources outside of Homer (see especially Euripides'
Hecuba) tell us that Hecuba became the property of Odysseus, who
would have taken her back to Ithaca with him as a slave, but Hecuba dies on the voyage
not long after they sail from Troy.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

How do you make a thesis about the history of something?

Writing a thesis about the history of something is not
particularly difficult since it will probably fall naturally into some kind of
chronology.  A thesis generally contains three main points outlined in a sensible
order.  Consider several options for, let's say, writing about the history of the
pencil.


One option is to literally start with the first
crude version of the pencil up to the present-day mechanical pencil.  Break the time
line down into three periods and go from there.


Another
option might be to start with the original lead pencil and then give two major
improvements which have been made to improve this writing device (for example, using
graphite and the mechanical pencil).


You might also select
the parts of the pencil (lead, wood, eraser) and discuss the changes which have been
made over time in each part. 


An historical event can be
divided by years, by key moments, or by people who had an impact.  A biographical
history can be divided by years or stages of life.  Really, anything historical can
always be dealt with chronologically, and that's where I'd begin.  Best of
luck!

How is the tunnel in Doris Lessing's "Through the Tunnel" a symbol?

Clearly the major symbol in this story, the tunnel and
Jerry's passage through it, is linked to the theme, which is the transition from the
state of being a child to being an adult. What is important to focus on is how the theme
is developed through the use of the symbol of the tunnel in this excellent short story.
By the end of the story Jerry has gone through a journey from childhood to manhood,
symbolised most stridently in his journey through the
tunnel.


At the beginning of the story we are introduced to
a character who is on the cusp of adolescense, and very clearly feels responsible for
his mother due to their enforced intimacy. Yet despite his feelings of responsibility
towards his mother, he nonetheless feels drawn to the "wild beach", which is away from
the "safe beach" and his mother's attentive care. The wild beach here can be said to
symbolise independence and life away from the protection of a parent figure - note how
Lessing describes the two beaches to draw out this
comparison.


His discovery of the tunnel and the challenge
that the French boys set him through swimming through the tunnel spur Jerry on to train
hard and eventually succeed in his attempt to go through the tunnel. Although certainly
at the beginning of the story it is Jerry's need to be accepted by the older group of
French boys that drives his desire to go through the tunnel, it is interesting that at
the end of the story he no longer feels this is the case, as he is happy to go back home
and spend time with his mother. This indicates that the tunnel was more about a process
of self-acceptance and doing something to show he could do it for himself rather than
for any other reason.


His relationship with his mother
likewise has changed by the end of the story. Jerry deliberately witholds his triumph,
only relating his ability to hold his breath. The dramatic irony in his mother's
response ("I wouldn't overdo it, dear") indicates the independence that Jerry has
achieved in his journey through the tunnel - he has now entered an arena where he has
secrets from his mother and is able to engage in activities, dangerous activies, away
from his mother's protection.


Clearly this story is about
adolescence and the steps that one boy take to become a man, at least in his own eyes,
and to emerge out of the other end of the tunnel of adolescence. This is how Lessing
uses the tunnel in this excellent short story.

What makes Mr. Nuttel susceptible to Vera's story in "The Open Window"?

To me, there are a couple reasons why Framton Nuttel falls
for Vera's story.


The first has to do with Vera.  She is
clearly a very good actress and that is not something you would expect from some 15 year
old girl -- you wouldn't expect her to come up with a wild story and then tell it so
seriously.


But the second has to do with Nuttel.  We can
see from what we are told of him that Nuttel is not the most sophisticated or the most
social person around.  His sister predicted that


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you will bury yourself down there
and not speak to a living soul, and your nerves will be worse than ever from moping.



If he is that
sort of a person, he may not really be perceptive enough to realize when he is being
tricked.


So I think it's a combination of Nuttel's
gullibility and Vera's believability.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

What is the theme of the poem "An Apology for Using the Word "Heart" in Too Many Poems"?

No doubt a student has read a poem in which the word
death or heart appears many times. It seems to
the student that poets only write about either love or death as if those are the only
two emtions that humans have. This poem is the author's response to that assumption.
This poem professes to be an “apology,” which might mean either a defense or an
explanation of why the poet should regret using the word “heart” too often, with the
possible promise not to use the word again. Most of the poem draws the reader’s
attention to a variety of interpretations of the meaning of “heart,” with the climax of
these definitions being reached in lines 27–28: “the capacity to love in the fullest /
Sense.”

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Do you think that Piggy's spectacles has any symblic significance in Lord of the Flies?

In my opinion, Piggy's spectacles do have a symbolic
significance in this book.  I believe that they symbolize science and technology and the
power that those things carry.


In the story, Piggy's
spectacles are really the only piece of technology on the island.  They are powerful
because they are the best way of starting a fire.


The
spectacles are also connected to science because they belong to Piggy.  Piggy is the
smartest boy on the island -- he is the one who is closest of any of them to being an
intellectual.


The fighting over the spectacles can be seen
as a symbol of the ways in which countries fight over things that give them
technological power.

Saturday, January 21, 2012

In "The Tell-Tale Heart,"how does imagery (the beating of the heart) describe the narrator's unbalanced nature?

This excellent story, like "The Black Cat," shows an
unreliable narrator who gives himself away because of his own unbalanced nature. For me,
a key quote to consider in how Poe uses the heart beat of the old man to show the mental
instability of the narrator is the first mention of the
heart-beat:


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And have I not told you that what you mistake
for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? - now, I say, there came to my ears a
low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that
sound well, too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the
beating of a drum stimulates the solder into
courage.



Of course, because
of the character of the narrator, we disagree with his first sentence. His "hearing" of
the heart beat reflects his own inner mental instability. It is interesting how, once
the man is dead and disposed with, that the beating begins again, just at the time when
it looks as if the narrator is going to be successful in getting away with the crime.
The beating of the heart then could be said to describe both the madness of the narrator
but also his guilty conscience at some kind of level, representing the guilt he feels
about killing the man.

Write about an encounter with a religious person.Can anyone please tell me what to write on this topic? I find this quite challenging.

It sounds like that the nature of the prompt is a
narrative one.  It is asking you to describe your experiences with encountering someone
who is religious.  If you really wanted to make this assignment worthwhile, I would
arrange an individual appointment with someone who has devoted their life to religious
service.  Conducting an interview or discussion with a priest, rabbi, cleric, or someone
of this capacity would be an excellent starting point here.  Asking them questions about
what they consider to be the meaning of life, the purpose of existence, why suffering is
present in the world, how does one navigate through the field of sin, and/ or how we
know God, as a force, exists could reveal some really powerful answers.   Being able to
ask someone who is a religious servant these questions could make for a great writing
task and could also open new doors of perception in your own life.  It would really be a
sight to behold if you were able to conduct separate interviews with religious people
from different faiths and backgrounds and compare these points of view.  If you approach
this in the right way, this assignment could be more than a grade, more than a writing
task.  It could actually be one of those endeavors that could change your life or alter
your thought process about being in the world.

Thursday, January 19, 2012

What is the reason(s) for the speaker’s decision to commit suicide in "Suicide Note" by Janice Mirikitani? We have to write an essay on...

The speaker in this poem is a woman. Throughout the entire
poem, the speaker gives the reason for committing suicide - it is because she "is not
good enough" in the eyes of her parents. The note is for her
parents.



not
good enough not pretty enough not smart enough
dear mother and father.

I apologize
for disappointing
you.



In her mind, the young
woman believes she has disappointed her parents for just not measuring up to their
expectations. Also, she is apologizing for being a girl, not a
boy:



If only I
were a son, shoulders broad
as the sunset threading through pine,

I would see the light in my mother's
eyes, or the golden pride
reflected
in my father's
dream



I read that this poem
was inspired by an Asian-American college student having jumped from her dorm window
because her grades were not high enough. In many Asian cultures, boys are more valued
than girls. In some areas of China, for example, where families are allowed to only have
one child, if a girl is born, the girl is put up for adoption or worse, left to die.
This is why there are so many adopted babies in the U.S. from China, and most of them
are girls. In any case, Asian families, even when they come to the U.S., are very hard
working and motivated. The parents have high expectations for their
children.


An Asian friend of mine tells me that in Chinese,
there is even a phrase for a child in the family who has greatly pleased his/her
parents, a child who is successful - and the translation for that phrase is "favored
one."


So, bottom line to answer your question, why the
suicide? TOO MUCH PRESSURE!

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

What plants and animals lived during the Ice Age?

The last ice age occurred between 70,000 years ago to
10,000 years ago. Many animals that existed then are extinct now, or no longer live in
that part of the world. Animals like wooly mammoths, mastodons are relatives of modern
elephants, but these varieties are extinct. Various Lagomorphs like snowshoe hares
were adapted to this environment. Giant sloths, horses and tapirs are all extinct in
North America. Saber-toothed cats, various rodents, voles, shrews, musk ox, bison,
wolves were all present. Many types of insects were found. We have much information
about animals during the last ice age due to fossil evidence, frozen specimens found in
the Arctic and the La Brea tar pits preserving thousands of remains  and even cave
drawings. Plant found in the La Brea tar pits include oak, walnut, pine, poison oak,
juniper. There were also redwood and other trees including sycamore . Bushes like
raspberry, juniper, sagebrush, have all been found as well.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Can you explain the possible allusions or symbolism of some of these names in "The Lottery":Delacroix Graves Summers Bentham Hutchinson WarnerMartin

Some of the names are symbolic while others were just the
most popular names around at the time the story was written. Some of the names, too, are
obviously significant: the ritual is presided over by Mr. Summers, the first man to draw
a lot is Mr. Adams, and conservative warnings are uttered by Mr. Warner. Note, too, that
the leaders of the attack on Mrs. Hutchinson are Adams (the first sinner) and Graves
(the result of sin was death). Mr. Summers, a “round-faced, jovial man,” has the “time
and energy to devote to civic activities.” His name is ironic, too, for summer usually
connotes youth and freedom, but he perpetuates a deathly ritual.

Sunday, January 15, 2012

on a map of scale 1:20000 the area of forest is 50 cm sq. On another map the area of forest is 8cm sq .find the scale of the second map.

This question can be solved as
follows.


On the first map the scale is 1:20000 and the area
of the forest is 50 cm^2.


With a scale of 1:20000, a unit
length on the map represents a length of 20000. 1 cm^2 = 1 cm* 1 cm which represents
20000*20000 cm^2 = 4*10^8 cm^2


50 cm^2 represents 4*50*10^8
cm^2 = 200* 10^8 cm^2


Now on the other map the same 200*
10^8 is represented by 8 cm^2. So the scale is sqrt [ 200* 10^8 / 8 ] = sqrt [ 25* 10^8
] = 5* 10^4 = 50000.


Therefore the scale on
the second map is 1: 50000.

Why is the gravitational field strength halfway up Mount Everest the same as at sea level at the equator?I'm trying to understand Newton's Laws and...

The key to answering this question is to understand that
the earth is not a perfect sphere but rather an oblate spheroid. That means that its
diameter is relatively larger around the equator than the diameter measured from pole to
pole. The difference in diameters is about 25 miles, whereas Mt. Everest is about 6
miles high.


Now the universal law of gravitation does state
that the force is proportional to the mass and inversely proportional to the square of
the distance between two objects.


However, because the
earth is deformed, the distance from the center of the earth to Mt. Everest is about the
same as the distance from the center of the earth to the surface of the sea at the
equator.  Therefore, the gravitational field strength is the same at both
points.

What is the slope of the parallel line if a line is parallel to the line for the equation: (1/2)y = (1/2)x

The slopes of 2 parallel lines are
equal.


We'll have to put the equation of the line in the
standard form:


y = ax + b, where a = m is the slope and b
is y intercept.


If the equation of the line
is:


(1/2)y = (1/2)x - 9


We'll
have to divide both sides by (1/2):


y = [(1/2)/(1/2)]x -
9*2


y = x -
18


It is obvious that m = 1 and n is
-18.


The slope of the parallel line is m =
1.

Why did Medea kill her own children though they were innocent ?

When considering this question, students will first need
to think about the ancient source in which they are encountering Medea. Several
different sources tell the story of Medea killing her children (e.g., Euripides' Medea,
Seneca's Medea, Ovid's Metamorphoses).


Euripides' version
of the story is the most famous. In that play, Medea is shown as wavering between
killing her children by Jason and sparing their lives. At around lines 1079-1080 in
Euripides' Medea, the title character indicates that she knows what she is doing is
dreadful, but that her anger is too strong to overcome those
feelings.


Also, Medea has a very strong sense of pride and
she does not want to be laughed at or mocked, especially after being divorced by Jason.
So, to retaliate against Jason and ensure that she does not become a source of laughter
for her enemies, Medea takes away what is most precious to him, his male
children.


Medea's children were innocent, but in her
mind destroying them was the most effective way to get back at Jason, who would have to
live for the rest of his life knowing that his divorce of Medea led to the deaths of his
sons. 

Saturday, January 14, 2012

"Newspeak is Ingsoc and Ingsoc is Newspeak" Discuss 1984 keeping the above in mind.plz answer in detail

To me, the major meaning of this statement is that the
whole idea of this society is to control the minds of the
people.


In order to understand this, let us think about the
nature of Newspeak.  The point of this language is to limit the ways in which people can
think.  If they have no words for various concepts, if the Party has told them what
words they can use, the Party has limited what they can talk about and has thus limited
how they can think.  I think this is perhaps the major theme of the book -- the Party is
trying to control the people all the way down to controlling their thoughts.  By saying
Newspeak and Ingsoc are synonymous, we are highlighting this
fact.

In The Tempest, what is a character sketch of Prospero as a Father, Duke of Milan and a Magician?

Your question correctly identifies the somewhat ambiguous
position that Prospero fulfils in this excellent play. It is Prospero of course who
plays the most significant role in the play - he is on stage longer than any other
character and he controls the fate of all the others on the island. You might want to
think about how he uses his powers and what that reveals about his character. His name
clearly means "prosperous" and you also might want to think about how prosperous he is
in the kindness he received from Gonzalo and his ability to win back his
kingdom.


Prospero initially lost his dukedom because he
failed to recognise his brother's raging ambition and he neglected his first duty - the
governing of Milan. Prospero was too busy studying magic to focus on his proper duties.
However, this situation has left him suspicious of human appearances. It may look as if
Ferdinand is in love with Miranda, but Prospero is determined to test the strength of
this love:


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They are both in either's pow'rs: but this swift
business


I must uneasy make, lest too light
winning


Make the prize
light.



It is uncertain about
how caring and loving Prospero is in his role of father. For example, he protests his
caring role as father to Miranda when he says to her:


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I have done nothing but in care of
thee,


Of thee, my dear one; thee, my
daughter



Although it was his
behaviour and ignoring of his duties that caused Miranda's fate in the first place.
Likewise ambiguity exists in his relationship with other characters. On the one hand he
protests that he loves Ariel "Dearly", yet then he clearly shows himself able to act
cruelly towards Ariel, bullying him and being violent towards
him.


However, he also shows an ability to forgive,
especially in the case of Alonso, Antonio and Sebastian. However, his harshness towards
Caliban must rate as his greatest weakness. Although Caliban did try to rape Miranda, it
appears his treatment of Caliban is unnecessary severe, and his act of giving Caliban
arthritis smacks of the excessive. This relationship between Prospero and Caliban is
extremely problematic, as by using non-human metaphors to describe and insult Caliban,
Prospero paves the way for treating him as not a
human.


Therefore, how you view Prospero depends a lot on
how you choose to play him. Is he a powerful and magnanimous man or a cruel sorcerer,
rejoicing in his power over others? The choice is yours...

Monday, January 9, 2012

What are some of the symbols in the short story "The Sin Eater" by Margaret Atwood?

The very premise of this story lies on a symbolic
principle.  In fact, the story is almost held together by symbolism, so you can probably
analyze any object (or character) of importance in the story and assume that a symbolic
meaning exists there.


To get you started consider the
symbolism involved in the act of "sin-eating"
itself:


  • "The sin-eater": a person who performs a
    spiritual ritual of "eating" the sins of a dead person so that his soul can go to
    heaven.

  • the bread the sin-eater eats: symbolic of sin

Other elements in the story that could be
considered symbolic are:


  • Joseph's name: possibly
    symbolically linked to the Joseph of the Bible - Jesus' earthly father.  In this way,
    the religious allusion here is a symbolic effort to show the vast
    differences between this character and the Biblical
    figure.

  • Joseph's profession of psychiatry: though Joseph
    is opposed to the idea of "sin-eating," his profession is very similar in that he
    listens to and takes on his patients problems (sins) while they are still
    alive.

  • flower symbolism: the calla-lillies that Joseph
    grows are symbolic of his desire for positive change; the stolen-sunflower could be
    symbolic of the "stealing" of Joseph's ability to maintain
    fidelity

There are several
other symbols throughout the story that you could add to this list.  Many of
the objects have symbolic meaning outside of the story's context that could be applied
to further understand the meaning of the story.

How does Brian live an ethical life in terms of family, social interaction and career in My Sister’s Keeper?

The primary purpose of Brian's character is to act as a
foil to his wife Sara.  A foil is a character
who is set up as an opposite or contrast to another more primary character.  The purpose
is to highlight certain traits of the more primary character by drawing a direct
comparison.  In this case, I would not consider Sara to be
unethical by nature, however, Brian's inherent goodness and
integrity tend to paint Sara in an even more negative light.  The main difference
between these two characters is the different relationships they have with their
children (as a result of different parental and gender roles) as well as the different
ways they cope with stress.  Because Brian is such a decent man, the audience more
naturally sides with him over his wife.


As far as Brian's
ethics are concerned, he is a devoted father, husband and firefighter.  He puts in to
all three jobs equal attention and positivity.  He is not rich, but (main story line
aside) seems happy.  He is probably hardest on his son, as all fathers tend to be, but
he admittedly loves his children equally and shows that he has a unique relationship
with each one.  He also admits that he isn't perfect, but tries to do the best with what
he has.  It is clear that he is well liked at the fire station, and respected by his
daughters.  Even his son, who is on the verge of dilinquency, eventually comes around,
showing that his father, as a role model, has done an adequate job.  Brian wants what is
best for his entire family, and shows this by pushing Sara to allow the girls to decide
for themselves what they want to do.  Because of his more paternal sense of patience
(mothers tend to worry more and show more emotion) the comparison between Brian and his
wife paints Sara as the "bad guy" in the family.  Brian's sense of right and wrong is
very black and white, which is likely why it seems easier for him to come to conclusions
on major decisions and seem less emotionally driven.


In the
end, however, it is clear that Brian loves his wife and his children.  It is also clear
that he is equally (if not more) stressed about the medical/legal situation created by
his daughter(s).  Despite this, he makes an effort to keep things as normal and routine
as possible.

How long, over what distance, can an once of pure gold be stretched?

Gold has for a long time been a metal the properties of
which have made it so appealing to people that it has been the reason behind hundreds of
wars over the centuries. Some of the properties of gold that make it a very unique metal
include its inertness, its beauty and the hundreds of industrial applications it has.
Many of these have to do with the fact that gold is the metal which has the highest
ductility and malleability.


The extremely high ductility of
gold allows a wire that is 3.2 km long to be drawn from just one gram of gold. So the
length of wire that can be drawn using an ounce of gold would be approximately 91
km.


A 91 km long wire can be drawn with 1
ounce or 28 grams of gold.

How persuasive are the Shepherd and the Nymph as they make their cases?"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" and "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"

The speaker of "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" is a
humble shepherd who makes a grand offer out of what he has.  What he offers her is a
kind of peaceful, rustic, simple life.  Their time will be spent sitting upon the rocks,
watching the river flow by and listening to the songbirds singing their
"madrigals" around them.  For added entertainment, they shall watch the other shepherds
dance and sing.  It's all quite simple, but he is offering his time with her as the
grand gesture.  In terms of material things, he offers her the finest nature will
yield:  "beds of roses [a]nd... posies," a "cap of flowers," and a dress sewn with
myrtle leaves, a gown from the finest wool their sheep will provide, warm slippers with
"buckles of the purest gold,"


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a belt of straw and ivy
buds,


With coral clasps and amber
studs.



In short, he offers
her the best of what a shepherd has to offer: his time, his possessions, and his love. 
She may want more, but he has offered her all he has.


In
"The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd," a response is made to this proposal of marriage. 
It doesn't look good for the hopeful Shepherd if the first word she speaks is
IF.  Her argument iscompelling:  If young men were all truthful and
if time could stand still, perhaps I would consider your offer.  As it stands, she
reminds him of the perils of weather and seasons and the rotting or withering away of
all his nature-based gifts.  In short, time is the enemy and young love fades
away.



All
these in me no means can move


To come to thee and be thy
love.



Both arguments are
valid and deserve consideration.

Sunday, January 8, 2012

What is the difference between the two most common advanced directives, the Health Care Proxy and the Living Will ? Discuss the value of having...

As people are now living longer than in past years, and
often times require more long term care, and are more likely at some point to suffer
from either cancer, dementia or Alzheimer's, advanced directives have taken on a new
urgency for most people.  The case of Terri Schiavo in Florida several years ago also
underscored the point for many Americans about how they didn't want to die in a similar
manner.


A health-care proxy places your decisions about
your health care in the hands of a family member or someone you trust.  It gives them
legal permission, and waives from them legal consequence, to make decisions regarding
your treatment and care after you are no longer able to decide such matters for
yourself.  This would include whether to continue chemo or IV's to a terminal cancer
patient, or whether to give a Do Not Resuscitate order, or whether or not to disconnect
from life support machines.


A Living Will, on the other
hand, means you have made your own decisions about such situations ahead of time, and
have legally notarized such decisions in writing so that no one needs to be faced with
the burden of making such difficult decisions for you.  This is generally more common
than power of attorney.

Why did it depress Holden when an old guy told him that his days at Pencey were the happiest days of his life?

You see, Holden didn't like Pencey to begin with. In fact,
he didn't like any of the prep schools he went to -  the teachers
were phony, and so were the students. He never applied himself, because he never cared.
When the older man was talking about the happiest days of his life being at Pencey,
Holden thought it was a load of crap, and was wholly annoyed with the guy. He really
didn't like him. Then, to top it off, the guy wanted to go see if his dang
initials were still in the bathroom stall when he'd carved them
there when HE used to go there. But, see, when he says "it depresses me", and "it kills
me", he's not only giving a hint on his case of teenage depression, he's also trying to
say, "it really pisses me off" "or it really gets me worked up", just in a different
sort of way. (At least, that's what I think.)

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

What arguments can prove that "the Last Leaf" of O. Henry is a typical local color story?

The story takes place in New York City, in an artists'
enclave in Greenwich Village. Many local landmarks are mentioned, such as Delmonico's on
8th Street, 6th Avenue and Washington Square. It is well known that Greenwich Village,
during the time this story was written, was a haven for musicians and artists. Further,
the influence of Dutch architecture is referred to in the story, and the Dutch were the
early settlers of New York. The story takes place in November, and the weather is a
typical cold, rainy, New York City bone-chilling month. So, I would say that these
elements of the setting prove that there is local color in this story. The characters
that inhabit the story as well are artist-types, and that adds to the local
color.

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

What is the theme of "The Yellow Wallpaper"?

The story may be construed as the revelations of a woman
being overwhelmed by madness over a three-month period. Confined mainly in the top room
of a mansion as a prescription to cure a nervous disorder, the narrator sinks into
schizophrenia, characterized by her identification with a woman within the walls who
seems to be clawing her way out of the grotesquely baroque yellow wallpaper adorning the
room.The power of this story depends on the fact that the narrator describes some of the
details without totally understanding their place in her increasing disassociation from
reality. We learn in paragraph 32, for example, that some of the wallpaper in her room
is torn. A natural conclusion is that she herself has torn it (for she tears it
completely as the story progresses), but has begun doing so unknowingly—a symptom of her
illness. Similarly, her bedstead has been bitten, and we learn in paragraph 230 that she
has bitten it at least once. Is it fair to conclude that she has been gnawing the wood
regularly during the period of her confinement? Additionally, she mentions the
temptation to jump from the window (paragraph 240), but observes early in the story that
the barred windows must have been placed in the room as a safeguard for small children
(paragraph 31). Questions: Were the bars installed initially for children, or for her?
Or was the room selected for her because of the bars?

if you open a new bottle of soda and quickly put a balloon over the opening of the bottle. As you gentle shake the balloon expands. Whats happening?

What is happening here is that gas is escaping from the
soda bottle and moving up into the balloon.  As the gas enters the balloon, the balloon
will, of course, expand.


As you know, soda is carbonated. 
That means that it has carbon dioxide mixed into it.  That's what makes the bubbles. 
You also know that if you leave soda out it gets flat (it stops being bubbly).  This is
because the gas has leaked out.  It goes out faster if you shake it (as you know if
you've ever shaken a bottle of soda and then opened it.


So
in your experiment that you are describing, you are trapping the gas that escapes from
the soda in the balloon.  This makes the balloon expand.


Go
down to "Soda Balloon Pump" in the link to see more.

Comment on the setting and character of "The Fall of the House of Usher."How does setting act as a character?

Excellent observation, as it identifies how the settings of Poe's stories reflect the characters of their protagonists. Whet...