Wednesday, February 29, 2012

What is the initial incident in "The Veldt"?

The initial incident occurs when Lydia (the mother in the
story) first voices her concerns to her husband George about their children's spending
so much time in the interactive nursery. The conversation not only foreshadows that
something significant might happen in the nursery; it also sheds light on the reversal
of roles between parent and child that is beginning the family and on George's tendency
to disregard his wife's opinion.

Why does a conflict take place between Agamemnon and Achilles in the Iliad ?

I assume that you are asking about the conflict between
Agamemnon and Achilles that takes place in Book I of this epic.  In that case, the
conflict comes about because Agamemnon wants to take Briseis away from Achilles. 
Briseis is a woman who has been given to Achilles as a war
prize.


Agamemnon had also had a woman, Chryseis, given to
him as a war prize.  But her father was able to get the Achaeans to agree that she
should be given back to him.  When that happened, Agamemnon demanded that he should be
compensated for the loss of his prize.  The only compensation that he would agree to was
Briseis.


When Briseis was taken from him, Achilles' honor
was insulted and the conflict arose betwen him and Agamemnon.

What is ironic about Nathaniel Hawthorne's allusion to the Madonna and Child in The Scarlet Letter?

Indeed, it is ironic that Hawthorne should propose the
image of the Virgin Mother with her Child; and, yet, its irony is also directed at the
Puritans as Hawthorne points to the spiritual beauty of Hester in spite of her sin of
adultery.  Here Hawthorne ironically criticizes the sanctimonious hypocrisy of the
Puritans that allows the sinner no redeeming qualities, no forgiveness.  There in plain
garb, scorned as she stands upon the ignominous scaffold,is the profound emanation
of Hester's inner beauty of soul and beautiful love for her child, her image of "Divine
Maternity":


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Here, there was the taint of deepest sin in the
most sacred quality of human life, working such effect, that the world was
only the darker for this woman's beauty, and the more lost for the infant that she had
borne.



Hawthorne's veritable
comparison of Hester to the Madonna proves itself later in the narrative as she consoles
the sick and aids the aged, so much so that the scarlet A is interpreted as meaning
"Able" and even "Angel."

Please paraphrase the earl of Surrey, Henry Howard's poem, "Alas! So All Things Now Do Hold Their Peace."Alas, so all things now do hold their...

A summary is required before you can properly understand a
paraphrase of this sonnet. It is a lament that the quietude and peace of night displayed
by "Heaven and earth" does not carry over to the poet/sonneteer. Nonetheless, sometimes
his "sweet thoughts" do bring the moment of illusionary quietude when he thinks of his
beloved. This illusion is shattered, though, when his heart-pain reminds him that he has
been rejected. Remember that paraphrases take many more words than compressed poetry
with its metonymy, metaphor, allusion, analogy and figures of
speech.

PARAPHRASE


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With woe I notice that all things in nature hold
their peace and are quiet.
Neither heaven nor earth have anything
stirring.
The animals, the winds, the birds, all are quiet; there is no song
anywhere.
The night sky swirls the stars past in orderly
rotation.

The sea is calm; the waves work less and less in the
lowering tide.
I am not like the sea; I grow not quieter, I who love does
woefully pain.
Love brings me the image of the one I love that causes me to
both weep and sing.

In both joy and sorrow, love brings me double
feelings.
My loving thoughts sometimes give me pleasure
Until the
cause of my woe returns to my thoughts
Causing me an inward pang of stinging
pain.

This is because I again think of what grief I have
In
living when I lack the returned love that would rid me of my
pain.



This sonnet is written
in three quatrains with an ending couplet. Sonnets are 14 lines, and Surrey experimented
with different forms derived from the original Petrarchan sonnet. This one is divided
into three quatrains of four lines each plus an ending couplet of two lines; couplets,
of course, always rhyme. The value of separating a sonnet into quatrains, sestets (six
lines) or octaves (eight lines) is that the topics falling under the sonnet's subject
matter (the effects of his love that is rejected) may be switched or paradoxes may be
described or resolutions to problems may be introduced.


In
this sonnet, Surrey covers three topics and introduces a paradox in the couplet
resolution that explains his lament ("Alas! ... and woe"). The topics are (a) the
quietude of night (1-5); (b) his disquietude and woe (6-9); (c) his unrequited love
"disease" (10-12). Lines 13-14 explain his lament of "woe" and "grief": he lives without
the love that would still his pain; his love is unrequited (unreturned).


The turn from one topic to the next, called the "volta,"
occurs at the first line of the next quatrain. In other words, Surrey uses the last line
of a topic as the bridge into the next topic. For example, the quiet of night is the
topic of the first quatrain yet the calm sea is the first line of the second quatrain;
it acts as a bridge to the topic of his own feelings and pushes the turn, or volta, from
line five to line six. Thus the two voltas, turning to the new topics (b) and (c), are
placed experimentally at lines 6 and 10 instead of at the expected lines 5 and 9. Each
quatrain has the same abab rhyme scheme, while the couplet is
cc.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

What is a Calorie?

Calorie comes from the Latin, calor, meaning heat. A
Calorie is a measure of heat energy. In many countries, Calories are a measure of the
energy stored in the foods we eat.  A definition for the Calorie is-- the amount of
energy required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water, one degree Celsius. A
Calorimeter is a device that can determine how many Calories of stored energy a food
has. If one compares the Calories in an equal amount of carbohydrates, proteins and
fats, fats contain the most Calories.

Monday, February 27, 2012

How does the voice of the poem suggest the passing of time in "The Flower-fed Buffaloes" by Vachel Lindsay?FLOWER FED BUFFALOES by Vachel Lindsay...

This is one of my favorite poems. There is certainly a
melancholy mood established as the writer reminisces about the decline and virtual
disappearance of the buffalo. Lindsay uses the word "spring" to signify the buffalo in
their prime, ranging far and wide freely without restraint. Those times were "sweet" for
the buffalo before the arrival of the white man, who transformed the wide, open ranges
to wheat fields; and the appearance of the railroad, whose workers feasted on buffalo
meat as the tracks extended westward. Lindsay also repeats the words "long ago" several
times, suggesting both a passage of time and a wishful remembrance of better days.
"Lying low" suggests the interment of both the buffalo and the Pawnee, both residing in
graves on the land they once shared.

Explain how nemises overtook a.) Claudius b.) Laertes c.) Gertrude d.) Hamletplzzz help outt...this question iz from the book Hamlet by William...

A nemesis is generally a foe who seeks revenge; in a
broader sense, it's any enemy.  I'm not sure these characters all have a true nemesis,
but they each die because of someone else's
actions.


Laertes - Hamlet is the one who kills Laertes, but
he absolves Hamlet of guilt.  He understands, as he's dying, that Claudius fed his anger
against Hamlet and used him to try to further his plans to kill
Hamlet.


Claudius - He's only one of two in this play who
does die at the hands of a true nemesis--Hamlet avenging his father's
murder.


Gertrude -  She dies for much the same reason as
Laertes, a casualty of Claudius's plot to kill
Hamlet. 


Hamlet - While it is Laertes who inflicts Hamlet's
fatal wound, Hamlet dies due to the scheming of Claudius.  Claudius is his true nemesis,
in that the King has plotted and schemed to have him killed.

In Of Mice and Men, is George's final act toward Lennie justified?

Absolutely.  Assuming that you are talking about George
killing Lennie, what he did was absolutely justified and might even have been the only
moral thing he could have done.


George knows that what
Lennie did is not really Lennie's fault.  Lennie is just not bright enough to truly be
guilty of murder.  But Curley is never going to see it that way.  He has sworn that he's
going to hurt Lennie before Lennie dies and there is no reason to doubt that he will
since his father is a powerful man in the area.


So George
has two options -- kill Lennie himself or let Curley get his hands on Lennie.  Given
that choice, killing Lennie in a merciful way is much more humane and is therefore
justified.

Sunday, February 26, 2012

How can I write a good composition without grammar mistakes ?Also, while writing a composition, I feel that either I have no ideas or too many...

The easiest way to avoid sentence level
grammar
mistakes when writing compositions is to memorize the simple Who
What model of English sentence structure. This model is the same as the Somebody
Something model you may have seen utilized in dictionaries, such as href="http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/throw_1">Longman Dictionary of
Contemporary English
, as in the definition of
throw:


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throw something to somebody: He threw his shirt
to someone in the crowd.
throw something at somebody/something: Someone threw
a stone at the car.
throw somebody something: Throw me that towel, would
you.



These models can guide
you to constructing sentences that are free of error. The Who
What
model asks these questions: Who Did What to Whom Where When How and
Why. It's rather like the prescribed accusation in the world famous
Clue game: "I suspect Colonel Mustard killed him in the Ballroom
with the candle stick [for the purpose of getting the jewels from the
safe!]."


Look at that Clue sentence
this way: "I suspect Colonel Mustard [Who] killed
[Did What] him [Whom] in the
Ballroom [Where; we might insert "yesterday" for
When
] with the candle stick [How] for the jewels
[Why].


This model provides the
basic order of an English sentence. Of course the elements
of How, Why, When and Where, as adverbials, may be moved to
other locations in the sentence [e.g., I suspect that yesterday he was killed for the
jewels with the candle stick in the ballroom by Colonel Mustard, etc] but until you are
very confident with the Who What model in its standard form, it is recommended that you
use only the standard form.


Precisely the same thing can be
accomplished through using the Somebody Something model, which uses assertions instead
of questions. The only advantage of one model over the
other relates to your preference: If you prefer to think in
questions (Who? Did what? etc), then use the Who What model. If you prefer to think in
assertions (Somebody Did Something etc) then use the Somebody Something model. The
Somebody Something model goes like this: Somebody Did
Something to Somebody Somewhere at Some Time with Something (or Somehow) for Some
Purpose (or for Some Reason).


Word level
grammar
has many more points to it, but some things that commonly affect
writing are href="http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/599/01/">noun - verb
agreement
, articles, and
prepositions. Firstly, nouns and verbs must agree
in number
. This means that when you have a plural noun, you must also have a
plural verb. A singular noun (one horse, deer, plate, moose etc.) goes with a singular
verb (e.g., is, has, runs, walks, goes, falls, etc). A plural noun (two or more horses,
deer, socks etc.) goes with a plural verb (e.g., run, have, are, walk, go,
etc.).


Secondly, especially in American English, nouns most
often require an article (a, an, the) in front of them unless they
have a noun or pronoun in front (our car; Martin's car): a decibel, a door, the door,
the car, the hospital, a hospital, etc.


Thirdly,
prepositions can be tricky to use as some overlap in meaning. For
preposition use, the best advice is to look up the meanings and common usage of the
prepositions in question in a dictionary; you'll find guidance from a dictionary about
which preposition to use (e.g., I might have written: you'll find guidance
in a dictionary on which to
use).

In the story "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, is there a passage from the story that explains the title?

Near the end of Alice Walker's short story "Everyday Use,"
Mama bequeaths the quilts to Maggie:


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"The tuth is," I said, "I promised to give them
quilts to Maggie, for when she marries John
Thomas."



In denial, Dee
responds:



She
gasped like a bee had stung her.


"Maggie can't appreciate
these quilts!" she said. "She'd probably be backward enough to put them to
everyday
use
."



Dee, the
materialist, wants only to collect and display her culture, not to put it to everyday
use.  Knowing this, Mama passes the bedding on to her more grateful daughter Maggie,
crowning her the next family matriarch.


You see, quilts are
a living memory of the Johnson family.  Rather than throw away old dresses, patches were
saved and recycled into bedding.  This feminine self-sufficient practice not only honors
the past generations--dating back to the slaves--but it gives purpose to the practical,
domestic work of women.

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn what are four key passages Huck makes an important decision concerning his relationship with Jim?

One passage comes after Huck pulled the prank on the
lifeboat where he became separated from Jim and tried to make Jim believe that he had
just dreamt the entire scary episode in the fog.  It was a cruel joke to play, but up
until this point in the book, Huck didn't really see Jim as a person with real feelings
to consider.  But Jim was so upset at Huck's degrading lie that Huck felt bad, and in a
significant passage at the end of chapter 15, he apologizes to Jim and states, "I warn't
ever sorry for it afterward, neither."  This shows that Huck is making progress, and
seeing Jim as a person and not just an object or a slave.


A
second and third passage comes in the next chapter when they run across a boat and Huck
paddles out in the canoe determined to turn Jim in as a runaway slave.  The first
passage is when Huck is mad that Jim has plans to buy his wife and children back.  He
states,



"Here
was this nigger...coming out flat-footed and saying he would steal his
children--children that belonged to man...that hadn't ever done me no
harm."



This passage shows how
Huck still has lingering strands of the Southern attitude that slaves weren't people,
and were owned by their masters.  However, when he tries to turn Jim in, he can't. 
Instead, he concocts a lie about his dad having the smallpox on the raft, in order to
keep the men away.  This shows that Huck is continuing to come to the realization that
Jim is more than just property to be sold and bought.


A
third passage comes at the end of the book when Jim stays with the wounded Tom Sawyer
while Huck goes to get a doctor.  Huck writes that he knows he can trust Jim to stay,
even if it meant he was giving up his freedom, because he "know'd Jim was white on the
inside."  This shows that Huck finally feels that Jim is his equal.  They are on equal
ground, as friends, and Huck respects him.


I hope that
helped; good luck!

Friday, February 24, 2012

In what scenes in "Macbeth" does greed appear

If you look at greed, as not just the desire for
possessions, but as the unharnessed desire for anything, then greed appears as early as
scene 3 of Act 1 when Macbeth finds out he's been named the Thane of Cawdor as the
witches predicted and he wonders if he'll become king as they also predicted.  He
hungers for the crown when he begins his "Two truths are told..." aside (ll. 148-163). 
Act 1, sc. 4 shows greed when Macbeth hears that Malcolm has been named the crown prince
and Macbeth realizes that action will either stop him from becoming king or make him do
something about it ( ll. 55-61). Greed also appears in scene 5 of Act 1, when Lady
Macbeth receives her husband's letter telling her about what has gone on with the
witches and his new title. If we continue to equate greed with runaway ambition, then
greed shows itself in the last scene of Act 1 as well.  Act 3 displays the them of greed
as well.  At the beginning of the scene when Banquo is talking, he speaks of all  that
Macbeth now has.  Later in the scene, when Macbeth speaks to the murderers, he tries to
convince them that Banquo was to blame for their lack of fortune (ll. 80-90).  Greed is
mentioned in Act 4, sc. 3 when Malcolm is testing Macduff's loyalty by saying that he,
Malcolm, would be a terrible king because he had so many faults, including greed (ll. 
69-78 and ll. 106-115).

Can anybody explain the theory of relativity an with example?

This is the basic theory of relativity and then a brief
explanation of Einstein's special relativity.  Basic relativity (Galileo and Newton)
states that the laws of physics are the same for all things moving in uniform motion. 
That is, everything is moving; there is no privileged or absolute "at rest."  So, there
is no "One" best place from which to observe things
happening.


Everything is moving; you are on Earth, which
spins on its axis and revolves around the Sun, yet, standing still, you think you are at
rest.  You're not.  Everything moves relative to everything
else.


Imagine you are standing on a street.  A car is
coming at you at 50 mph.  The driver of the car sees you coming at him at 50 mph.  Who
is right?  Both of you. 


Imagine you are standing on the
shore. You watch someone on a boat drop a ball on deck.  From the boatsman's point of
view, the ball drops straight down.  From your point of view, on the shore (at "rest"),
you see the ball drop not straight down, but on a slant to the east because the boat is
traveling east.  You're and the boatsman's perceptions of the path of the ball are
different because you have different frames of reference. Neither of you has a
privileged reference point (no absolute state of rest), so you are both justified in how
you see the ball. 


Now, imagine an airplane is struck by
lightning at the front and back.  From your position on land (again, seemingly at rest),
you see the two bolts strike simultaneously.  But for a person seated in the middle of
the plane, and although it is a difference of fractions of a second, she sees the front
bolt first because she is moving towards that bolt and she is moving away from the bolt
hitting the tail of the airplane.  Classic relativity tells us that the bolts occur
simultaneously because time is absolute; she (on the plane) sees the front bolt first
because it has less distance to travel to her eyes - because she is moving towards it
and away from the rear bolt. Makes sense,
right?


Transition:


Einstein
thought the speed of light is constant.  That is, it travels the same speed relative to
anything no matter what speed or direction that thing is traveling. So,
the light from bothbolts travels at 186,282 mps towards the middle of the
airplane regardless of the airplane's movement; even though you'd think the light from
the front would have to travel faster or go a shorter distance.


Since the light from the two bolts is is
the same speed and since both bolts travel the same distance to the middle of the
airplane, what is the remaining variable?  It's not distance and not speed that is
relative here, so it's TIME.  Here is where Einstein showed time to be relative! For the
person moving, in the plane, she observes the front bolt - Not because it is moving
faster and Not because it has less distance to travel.  She sees it first because it
takes less time for the front bolt to get to her.  Why?  Same distance, same speed. 
Time slows down as you approach the speed of light. The faster you move, the slower time
becomes - only noticeable at near light speeds. 


Common
sense tells you that you'll experience the event you're moving toward because it has
less distance to get to you. Your observation is relative to your motion.  This is
classic relativity.


Special relativity states that time is
also relative to your motion. Since light moves at the same speed, regardless of speed
or direction, it is time that changes!

Explain some of the specific means by which the shifting of power has been attempted among state and federal governments in recent years.Your help...

To me, the clearest way in which this is happening is
through the federal government attaching conditions to the money that it gives to the
states.  This is not new, but it is still common.


A good
example of this is the No Child Left Behind Law.  This law did not tell states that they
just plain had to do testing or anything else.  Instead, it told them that they had to
do those things if they wanted to keep getting federal
aid
.  They were free to do what they wanted, but if they did not do what
the federal government wanted, they would lose money.  A similar thing is being done by
the Obama administration which is giving states money for education in their "Race to
the Top" only if the states do things the way that the administration thinks they should
be done.

Thursday, February 23, 2012

In "The Minister's Black Veil", what different meanings do you think the black veil represents for Mr. Hooper, Elizabeth, and the townspeople?Need...

You have asked an excellent question because it identifies
what a versatile symbol the black veil that Mr. Hooper dons is. There are a variety of
symbolic meanings that can be applied to the black veil, and it is never precisely
specified what the specific meaning is. However, the veil could symbolise Hooper's own
secret sin, the sins of his parishioners, and/or Hooper's and everyone's isolation from
God. Consider Hooper's last words:


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"I look around me, and, lo! on every visage a
Black Veil!"



Hooper here
suggests that people's own sins cause them to react with fear and horror to the veil,
making the symbol all the more awful. This is an impression that is certainly borne out
by the story, for when the a group of churchgoers try to confront Hooper about his veil,
they are unable to:


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Thus they sat a considerable time, speechless,
confused, and shrinking uneasily from Mr. Hooper's eye, which they felt to be fixed upon
them with an invisible
glance.



It is implied that
the veil in some way condemns them for their own sin or confronts them with a truth that
they do not want to face, and thus they are unable to confront Hooper
directly.


For Elizabeth, the fiancee of Hooper, it is clear
that she at first interprets the veil as a symbol of some secret sin of
Hooper:


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"Beloved and respected as you are, there may be
whispers, that you hide your face under the consciousness of secret sin. For the sake of
your holy office, do away this
scandal!"



Yet, by the end of
the story it is clear that her continued presence nursing him indicates a change of mind
- she has come to understand the symbol as something that applies not just to Hooper but
to all humanity.


It is clear therefore that the meaning of
the veil is ambiguous, and it certainly changes through the story and depending on the
character who is trying to interpret this symbol. However, it can be implied that Hooper
himself has donned this veil as a symbol of the universal condition of humanity that
will remain separate from God until their death.

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

What scene pictures can I draw for chapter 8 , very important scenes.I need 3 scene pictures about chapter 8 but I can't think of any I can draw...

I am not quite certain what you mean by scene pictures,
but I am assuming that you are supposed to draw three pictures that illustrate things
that occur in chapter 8. If this is not correct, please repost your question and give us
more specific information.


This chapter comes right after
the death of Ikemefuna. Okonkwo is very upset over having been forced (in his mind) to
participate in the killing of his adopted son, so he hangs out in his hut for two days
without eating anything, drinking palm wine, and snorting snuff. How about drawing a
picture of him in his hut, getting drunk on palm wine and snorting snuff while his wife
and daughters stand by wrining their hands, trying to offer him food, and having worried
looks on their faces.


In the next part of the chapter, he
goes to visit Obierika, a tribal elder who reminds him that he should never have
participated in the killing of Ikemefuna. So for the second scene, you could draw the
two men sitting side by side, Okonkwo with a concerned look on his face, and Obierika
with a stern, warning look, perhaps shaking his finger at Okonkwo in
warning.


Another thing that happens in this story is the
arrangement of Akueke's marriage. You could draw a picture of Akueke with her beautiful
beads on, and the men sitting around negotiating the bride price, which is settled to be
20 bags of cowries.

Simplify ( 2x^2 - 8 )/( x - 2 ) + 13/x( x -2 ) - ( 4x^2 - 16 )/( x + 2 )

In order to calculate the sum or difference of 3 ratios,
we have to verify if they have a common denominator.


But,
before verifying if they have a common denominator, we'll solve the difference of
squares from the brackets.


We'll factorize by 2 the first
ratio:


( 2x^2 - 8 )/( x - 2 ) = 2(x^2 - 4)/( x - 2
)


We'll write the difference of squares (x^2 - 4) as a
product:


(x^2 - 4) =
(x-2)(x+2)


We'll re-write the
ratio;


( 2x^2 - 8 )/( x - 2 ) = 2(x-2)(x+2)/(x
- 2)


We'll reduce like
terms:


 ( 2x^2 - 8 )/( x - 2 ) =
2(x+2)


We'll factorize by 4 the third
ratio:


( 4x^2 - 16 )/( x + 2 ) = 4(x^2 - 4)/( x + 2
)


4(x^2 - 4)/( x + 2 )
=  4(x-2)(x+2)/(x + 2)


We'll reduce like
terms:


4(x^2 - 4)/( x + 2 ) =
4(x-2)


We'll re-write now the given
expression:


2(x+2) + 13/x( x -2 ) -
4(x-2)


It's obvious that the least common denominator (LCD)
is the denominator of the second ratio:


To calculate the
expression we'll do the steps:


- we'll multiply 2(x+2) by
x*(x-2)


- we'll multiply 4(x-2) by
x*(x-2)


We'll
get:


2(x+2)*x*(x-2) + 13
-  4(x-2)*x*(x-2)


We'll open the
brackets:


2x^3 - 8x + 13 - 4x^3 + 16x^2 -
16x


We'll group like terms and we'll
get:


-2x^3 + 16x^2 - 24x +
13

What are a and b if x*y = y*x and (x*y)*z= x*(y*z) x*y = xy + 2ax + 2by

If the law has the property x*y = y*x, then the law is
commutative.


We'll write the law of composition for
x*y:


x*y = xy+2ax+2by (1)


y*x
= yx + 2ay + 2bx (2)


We'll put (1) =
(2):


xy+2ax+2by = yx + 2ay +
2bx


We'll eliminate like
terms:


2ax+2by = 2ay + 2bx


The
coefficients of x from both sides have to be equal:


2a =
2b


We'll divide by
2:


a =
b


If the law has the property  (x*y)*z =
x*(y*z), the law is associative:


 (x*y)*z =
x*(y*z)


(xy+2ax+2by)*z = x*(yz+2ay+2bz)
(3)


But a = b and we'll re-write
(3):


(xy+2ax+2ay)*z =
x*(yz+2ay+2az)


(xy+2ax+2ay)z + 2a(xy+2ax+2ay) + 2z =
x(yz+2ay+2az) + 2ax + 2(yz+2ay+2az)


We'll remove the
brackets:


xyz + 2axz + 2ayz + 2axy + 4a^2x + 4a^2y + 2z =
xyz + 2axy + 2axz + 2ax + 2yz + 4ay + 4az


We'll eliminate
like terms (the bolded
one):


xyz +
2axz + 2ayz + 2axy + 4a^2x +
4a^2y + 2z = xyz + 2axy +
2axz + 2ax + 2yz + 4ay +
4az


Since the law is associative, the correspondent
coefficients from both sides:


2a =
2


We'll divide by
2:


a =
1


Since a = b, b  =1,
too.


The law of composition is
determined and it's expression
is:


x*y =
xy+2x+2y

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

The Kite Runner, is portrayed as a work of fiction, yet one can argue it is largley autobiographical. Would this work as a thesis?First time back...

Is your assignment a literary analysis, an argument, a
review?  Depending on your assignment, your thesis statement might need some tweaking. 
If you are simply writing an analysis, the thesis is on track.  You might consider
claiming something like: Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner earned
its position on fiction bestseller lists, but its autobiographical elements and
portrayal of Afghanistan offer readers a gritty
reality.


When doing your research, look for interviews with
Khaled Hosseini so that you can use the author's own words as proof that aspects of the
novel are autobiographical.  Just be careful because Hosseini has made it clear in
interviews that the situation with Hassan and Assef are completely fictional.  When
discussing the real elements, consider Amir's relationship with Baba and Hosseini's with
his own father (or what Hosseini doesn't say about his relationship with his
father).


Keep in mind that the key to an effective thesis
is that is must be provable, must be a statement, and it needs to give you enough to
work with in your paper.  That's why if you add the aspect of "a realistic portrayal of
Afghanistan" to your thesis, you will have more to work with in your body
paragraphs.


The links below are a good place to start. Good
luck!

Why, according to Polonius, has Hamlet gone mad??is it (a)He grieves too much for his father. (b)He despises Claudius for marring Gertrude (c)He is...

Well, process of elimination as well as Polonius's own
words will quickly answer this question. 


a) Both Claudius
and Gertrude make several comments regarding Hamlet's excessive mourning for his dead
father.  They say this to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, to Polonius, to each other, and
to Hamlet.  Polonius never says it.


b) Hamlet does, indeed,
despise Claudius for marrying his mother--among other things, of course.  Hamlet says so
to himself, to his freinds, and to his mother.  Even if he believed it, Polonius would
never dare say such a thing to his boss, the king.


d)
Hamlet is envious of anyone who can leave Denmark, the place he has come to see as a
"prison."  This, though, is the least likely answer because it demonstrates the weakest
emotion on the list.  If he really wanted to leave the country he could; he cannot
change his father's death nor his mother's remarrying.


So,
that leaves the correct answer.


c)  Polonius asks Ophelia
to give him anything Hamlet gives her; when she does, he discovers Hamlet's passionate
(though ill-written) love for Ophelia.  In whatever form they were written (as true
expressions of love or as indicators of some melodramatic, overacted passion), Polonius
believes them.  He takes them to the King and hopes to win his favor once again by
solving the mystery of Hamlet's melancholy madness.  In one his most humorous speeches
(IIii), he says: 


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"...I have found


The
very cause of Hamlet's
lunacy."



A hundred likes
later, he finally announces that he has commanded his daughter to rebuff any advances or
tokens from Hamlet, which has, in turn, driven him
mad.



"That
she should lock herself from his resort,


Admit no
messengers, receive no tokens,


Which done, she took the
fruits of my advice,


And he, repelled, a short tale to
make,


Fell into a sadness, then into a
fast,


Thence to a watch, thence into a
weakness,


Thence to a lightness, and by this
declension,


Into the madnes wherein he now
raves...."



Clearly Polonius
wants to believe Hamlet is mourning the lost love of his daughter.  It's in his won best
interests to think so, of course, but he also thinks he's been pretty clever in rooting
out the cause when no one else can. 

What was a big problem facing American medical care in the first half of the nineteenth century?

Perhaps their biggest problem at that time was a lack of
technology and medical knowledge.  Scientists still didn't understand how disease was
spread and were unaware of the existence of germs, so even trained doctors had little
means of disease prevention, and little more than that to treat
them.


Doctor Benjamin Rush, considered one of the nation's
leading physicians and researchers in the early 1800s, prescribed Lewis and Clark's
expedition healthy doses of "Rush's Thunderbolts", a laxative so powerful that sick men
taking it would probably have been better off taking nothing at
all.


Another large problem was access to trained doctors. 
In the small towns and rural areas where most Americans lived, the best you could
usually hope for was a "country doctor", who was usually little more than a glorified
nurse.  First aid responders today have much more sophisticated knowledge and skill than
most doctors of the time.

Monday, February 20, 2012

In the course of Book 2, Chapter 5 of George Orwell's 1984, how and why does Winston change?

Book 2, Chapter 5 of 1984 in part
relates the story of Winston's 'summer of love'. Trysts with Julia in the bedroom above
Mr. Charrington's curio shop have worked astonishing changes in Winston's health: He has
lost the craving for synthetic gin. He has gained weight. The varicose ulcer on his
ankle, normally inflamed, has nearly disappeared while the coughing fits, which normally
doubled him over in the morning, have ended. A certain equanimity has entered his
emotional life: No longer must he fight the temptation to make faces at the telescreen,
or shout curses at the top of his lungs. With a place of refuge where a man can be a man
and a woman a woman, free from the artificiality and fraud necessary for existence in a
totalitarian world, Winston begins to taste what well-being, happiness, and freedom from
fear could be. 

Sunday, February 19, 2012

What are the causes of the argument between Miss. Havisham and Estella that makes Miss. Havisham sink to the floor and cry?in chapter 38 of Great...

After visiting Estella in Richmond, Pip is told that he is
to accompany her to Satis House to visit Miss Havisham.  While he is there, Pip notices
how Miss Havisham eagerly devours the news of Estella's exploits.  She sits "of a mind
mortally hurt and diseased," hanging on Estella's words and gestures, eagerly "devouring
the beautiful creature she had reared" in her mind.  However, after Estella has
finished, some sharp words fall between the two.  Estella begins to detach herself from
the position in which she sat with Miss Havisham's arm through hers, having merely
endured the affection.  Miss Havisham asks her if she has grown tired of
her:



Estella
looked at her with perfect composure, and again looked down at the fire.  Her graceful
figure and her beautiful face expressed a self-possessed indifference to the wild heat
of the other, that was almost
cruel.



Miss Havisham
reproaches Estella for being cold; however, Estella asks her "Do you reproach me for
being cold?" telling Miss Havisham that she is the one who has made her this way,
encouraging Miss Havisham to take "all the blame,...take all the success...in short,
take me!" She explains to Miss Havisham that she has been brought up to be cold: "I am
what you have taught me."  Heartbroken, Miss Havisham settles upon the floor,"among the
other bridal wrecks, and it was a miserable sight to see," Pip narrates. For,
tragically, Miss Havisham has failed to realize that in raising Estella to wreak revenge
upon the male sex, she also brought her up to be heartless and incapable of returning
the love Miss Havisham has bestowed her.

Evaluate the product (1-1/4)(1-1/9)...(1-1/100)

We notice that the factors 1/4,1/9,...1/100 could be
written as:


1/2^2,
1/3^2,...,1/10^2


For calculating the product, we notice
that in the brackets we have differences of squares, type a^2 – b^2=
(a-b)(a+b)


So, (1-
1/2^2)=(1-1/2)(1+1/2)


(1- 1/3^2)=(1-1/3)(1+1/3) and so on
till


(1-1/10^2)=(1-1/10)(1+1/10)


Now,
we’ll do the arithmetical operations in each
paranthesis


(1-1/2)(1+1/2)=(1/2)*(3/2)


(1-1/3)(1+1/3)=(2/3)*(4/3)


…………………………….


(1-1/10)(1+1/10)=(9/10)*(11/10)


We’ll
re-group the factors in a convenient
way:


[(1/2)*(3/2)]*[(2/3)*(4/3)]*….*[
(9/10)*(11/10)]=


=(1/2)*[ (3/2)*(2/3)]*…*[(10/9)*(
9/10)*(11/10)=


P=(1/2)*(11/10)=11/20

How did the Neolithic Revolution set the stage for early civilizations?

The Neolithic Revolution was the time in history when
people first started to practice agriculture.  At this point, they started to
domesticate plants and animals.  This changed the world forever and led to the the
creation of civilizations.


The beginnings of agriculture
lead to civilization in a number of ways:


  • They
    produce more food, allowing some people to become artisans, merchants, government
    officials, etc -- all the things you need to have a
    civilization.

  • They allow people to live together in dense
    towns and cities.   These are necessary for civilization and they also cause a need for
    governments to keep the peace between all these unrelated
    people.

  • They (in some places) give rise to a need for
    public works like irrigation projects.  This also makes governments more
    necessary.

Saturday, February 18, 2012

What events lead to burris leaving school before the day is over?

Miss Caroline's reason for asking Burris Ewell to leave
class was his having head lice (kids called them
"cooties"). 


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Miss Caroline said desperately, "I was just
walking by when it crawled out of his hair...just crawled out of his
hair--"



Burris was not upset
by his infestation of lice and simply killed the creatures as they revealed themself. 
However, Miss Caroline was concerned with the other children remaining free of
lice.


Despite the fact that Miss Caroline excused Burris
for the remainder of the day, she was not his real reason for leaving.  He maintained
that he "was on the verge of leavin'--I done done my time for this year." According to
one of the oldest students, there were many Ewell children attending that school and
each of them attended only the first day of school each year.  Between his expectation
of coming to school only that day and Miss Caroline's instruction to leave, Burris found
no obstacle preventing him from abandoning his first grade
education.

Friday, February 17, 2012

What are the various reasons why many developing nations are skeptical about the comparative advantage principle and free trade?

The principle of comparative advantage is the belief that
the economic interest of a nation is best served by producing and exporting those
commodities which it can produce at relatively lower cost, and it should import other
commodities which it can produce at relatively higher cost. This belief or
recommendation is based on the fact that given a set of relative advantages and
disadvantages possessed by different countries, the practice of free trade will result
in maximization of economic benefit of each and every
country.


However, this logic is misleading, because it
holds true only when we assume that the relative advantages and disadvantages of the
different countries are unchanging. But this assumption does not hold true in reality.
Reality is that the developed nations have become developed by improving their economic
capabilities in the past. They were able to do so under condition where they faced
limited competition.


For the developing countries to
develop by improving upon their present capabilities and improving relative advantage
over other countries, they need to protect domestic production from free trade. Thus,
some selective restriction on free trade is helpful and even necessary for improving the
economic condition of the developing countries. This is why, it is justified for the
developing nations to be skeptical about the principle of comparative
advantage.

In what way is the story wry?

Wharton is able to preserve a wry treatment of the subject
of divorce. Ironically, then, Alice forgets how Waythorn takes his coffee, and thus puts
cognac into it for him, in the way that Varick prefers his (paragraph 72). To avoid
embarrassing Waythorn, Alice lies by denying that she had seen Haskett when he first
comes to see Lily, her daughter. Wharton has Waythorn think of Alice as being “ ‘as easy
as an old shoe’—a shoe that too many feet had worn”—a domestic image that is comically
reductive as it also points out that divorced people do not lose their humanity just
because they get divorced (paragraph 143). Life itself overtakes custom because people
themselves have common interests. Thus, Waythorn deals with Varick in an important
financial venture that will be profitable not only to Varick but to Waythorn’s firm.
Haskett complains to Waythorn about Lily’s governess, a matter of household employment
in the Waythorn residence that Haskett has a concern in because of his interest in Lily.
Life goes on.

Thursday, February 16, 2012

What are x and y intercepts of the graph of f(x) = x^2 - 3x + 2 .

The y-intercept of the graph is the point where
the function crosses the y-axis.  The x-value is equal to zero for every point on the
y-axis.


1. Substitute x = 0 into the given function: y =
(0)^2 - 3(0) + 2 = 0 - 0 + 2 = 2.  Therefore the y-intercept is at the point (0,
2).


The x-intercept of the graph is the point where the
function crosses teh x-axis.  The y-value is equal to zero for every point on the
x-axis.


2. Substitute y = 0 into the given function: 0 =
x^2 - 3x + 2. 


Since this is a quadratic function we can
factor the equation or use the quadratic formula.


3. 0 =
x^2 - 3x + 2          (Need to find the factors of 2 whose sum is equal to -3).  (-2) x
(-1) = 2 and (-2) + (-1) = -3, so:


0 = (x - 2) (x -
1)


0 = x - 2     and     0 = x - 1          Solve both
equations for x.


+ 2    + 2             + 1     
+1


2 = x     and     1 = x


The
x-intercepts are at 1 and 2, so the coordinates are (1, 0) and (2,
0).

How can I write an introduction to Guns, Germs and Steel?

If I were writing an introduction, I would want to give my
readers a basic idea as to what the book is about.  So that is what I think you should
do -- you should figure out how to summarize the main argument of the book in whatever
space you are supposed to fill.


For me, the major point of
the book is that some societies became stronger than others by the late 1400s because
they were lucky.  Their luck was geographical.  In other words, some societies were
lucky enough to spring up in places that were well located.  These societies got to
develop agriculture first and that led to them being able to have guns, germs and
steel.


So I would start by restating Yali's question.  Then
I would say that Diamond thinks that most common explanations say that the strong
societies got that way for cultural reasons -- because they had "better" cultures.  But
Diamond believes that it was all geographical luck.


I hope
that helps.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

In the short story 'The Sniper' is the main character a hero or not?

This is a very interesting question and the answer of
course depends on how you determine the word "hero". My initial impression is to say
that we are not given enough information about the man to indicate if he is heroic or
not - we know little of his reason for fighting, for instance, or his character, apart
from his skill in battle.


Yet if you consider a hero to
mean that someone is able to outwit his opponent in battle, this would indicate that the
main character of this short story is a hero - he is able to cunningly entice the other
sniper to reveal himself by feigning death:


Crawling
quickly to the left, he peered up at the corner of the roof. His ruse had succeeded. The
other sniper, seeing the cap and rifle fall, thought that he had killed his man. He was
now standing before a row of chimney pots, looking across, with his head clearly
silhouetted against the western sky.


Of course, being able
to coolly think of a plan to outwit your enemy whilst wounded and then to carry it out
successfully could be considered one aspect of being a
hero.


However, on the other side, you will want to consider
the man's actions in cold-bloodedly killing the informer, who is described as "an old
woman, her head covered by a tattered shawl." Killing an unarmed civilian suddenly by
surprise is definitely not an heroic action. Also important to note is what the sniper
thinks of himself once he knows he has killed the other
sniper:



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



This appears to be
a critical moment in the narrative when the sniper has a moment of epiphany, or sudden
insight, and realises the futility and the inhumanity of the war. Is he a hero? Well, he
certainly does not think he is at this moment, which of course foreshadows the
revelation that his enemy is his brother.

How did Puritan values cited in the Overture influence the ways in which they dealt with the “space so antagonistic to man" in The Crucible?

What Miller is saying here is that the very values that
made the Puritans so capable of doing bad things (like the witch trials) also made them
capable of doing great things (like surviving and prospering in this fairly harsh place
where they had come to live.)


Miller says that the
Puritans' no-nonsense attitudes really helped them survive and thrive.  They did not
waste any of their energy on being fancy or on having arguments over who would lead them
or anything like that.  Instead, they obeyed their leaders and they worked hard.  This
sort of single-mindedness allowed them to overcome great obstacles.  At the same time,
though, it also led them to be fairly intolerant of those who did not act and think
"right."

When Othello throws coins at Desdemona, what does he call her?

I suspect you are referring to Act IV, scene ii, when,
after striking her in front of Lodovico, Othello finally calls Desdemona a whore.  The
scene proceeds from Desdemona asking, "[W]hat ignorant sin have I committed?," to
Othello finally voicing what he has been jealously fearing for so much of the
play:



Was this
fair paper, this most goodly book,


Made to write "whore"
on?. . .


Impudent
strumpet!



And when Desdemona
denies being a whore, Othello says:


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I cry you mercy,


I
took you for that cunning whore of Venice


Who married with
Othello.  You mistress,


That have the office opposite to
Saint Peter,


And keeps the gates in hell, ay, you, you,
you!


We ha' done our course; there's money
for your pains,


I pray you turn the key and
keep our counsel.



This
"there's money for your pains," I have taken to be the moment you are referring to you
in your question.  Only, Othello is talking to Emilia, not Desdemona.  The "You
Mistress" is addressed to Emilia who has been guarding the door since the opening of the
scene, which is why Othello makes reference to "Saint Peter" and the "keep[ing] the
gates."  And the "I pray you turn the key and keep our counsel," means simply, "Open the
door now, but don't tell anyone what you've heard
here."


So, Othello throws money at a women whom he
considers a servant, Emilia, not Desdemona.

Monday, February 13, 2012

1. determine the cubic roots of 8(cos120 + jsin120) 2. solve for x & y if y(j2-2) - x(j4 + 3) = 2In problem 1 write down the principal...

1. It's easiest to find the cubic root of 8(cos120 +
jsin120) if we convert it into polar form (via euler's rule). We need to use radians,
not degrees for this: 120o = 2pi/3 rad


8(cos120 + jsin120)
= 8(cos 3pi/2 + jsin 3pi/2) = 8 exp(j3pi/2)


Now apply the
cubic root:


(8 exp(j3pi/2))^1/3 = 8^1/3 exp(j3pi/2 *
1/3)


2exp(jpi/2)


to
convert the above into rectangular form, use euler's
identity:


2exp(jpi/2) = 2(cos pi/2 + jsin pi/2) =
2j


2. If x and y are not real
numbers, then you don't have enough information to solve this problem. So, lets assume
that x and y are real.


y(2j-2) - x(4j+3) =
2


2jy - 2y - 4jx - 3x = 2 +
0j


This system gives you two equations, since the imaginary
and real components have to sum to 0 and 2,
respectively.


2jy - 4jx = 0     and      -2y - 3x =
2


x = y/2           ---->      -2y - 3(y/2) =
2


.                                   -y(7/2) =
2


y = -4/7 and x =
-2/7

In "By the Waters of Babylon", what are the sequence of events in this story?

The series of events that make up this masterful dystopian
short story, which has profound lessons for all of us if we sit up and take notice,
follow.


However, the best way to find out what happens in a
short story is to - see if you can guess what I am going to say - read it! Therefore, I
am going to talk about one part of the story - the falling action, which will hopefully
provide you with a pillar or foundation which will allow you to understand the rest of
the story. The link provided below will also help you out with a summary, but please do
not rob yourself of the pleasure of enjoying this excellent short story - you would be
doing yourself a disservice.


The falling action of a story
is normally defined as what occurs after the climax or high point of the story, leading
towards the ending and the resolution of what happens. Given this definition, the
falling action of "By the Waters of Babylon" occurs after the epiphany or moment of
insight that the narrator experiences after discovering the "dead god". Thus the falling
action consists of his return back to his father and his tribal grouping before his
conversation with his father and the resolution of the
story:



I had
no fear after that - I had no fear going home, though twice I fought off the dogs and I
was hunted for two days by the Forest
People.



Thus we are brought
from the climax of the story through to the end of the story, where John the narrator
shares his new-found knowledge with his father and they decide what they are going to do
about it. Note their resolution to use this knowledge but to apply it with wisdom - this
is surely a challenge to us to not repeat the mistakes of ourselves as depicted in this
story.

Sunday, February 12, 2012

What is the theme of "Naming of Parts"?

The theme of "Naming of Parts" by English poet Henry Reed
is “War”. In this poem, the poet explores war’s effects on young men who desire in their
hearts to enjoy life for the beauty it offers. However, these men are inducted into
warfare by their respective governments and these governments’ geopolitical
agendas.



The focus of this poem is contrasting
the mechanical, boring, ‘naming of parts’ of a weapon of warfare, with the aesthetically
pleasing elements of life. These pleasing aspects of life include the natural beauty of
the physical environment around them, the flora and fauna of the earth. This is
expressed in the line “Japonica/Glistens like coral in all of the neighboring
gardens”.



The contrast here, as the
theme of War is explored, is that the soldiers are under duty to learn and understand
the parts of a rifle (and how they work). They will become proficient at killing, while
the earth and its beauty and bounty are witnesses against them of their destructive
behaviour.



In essence, the world around us, in
its splendour, silently accuses humankind of its penchant for chaos and destruction. The
world around us does not take sides. It laments for all opposing parties who engage in
war and its destructive results.



This
abomination of the ruination of the creation is also referred to in a line in the Book
of Revelation in the New Testament, which says, “… and that you should give
reward to your servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear your name,
small and great; and should destroy them which destroy the earth. (Portion of Revelation
11:18; American King James Version).



The theme of War is also discussed
in that Henry Reed considers that men of war, - in fact all who engage in war, whether
voluntarily or involuntarily - are not of eloquent gestures when they perform warlike
acts. Humankind in general is not eloquent at all when it inflicts pain on one another.
Nonetheless, simple branches of trees “Hold in the gardens their silent,
eloquent gestures”.
People can destroy the eloquence of the environment
around them.



Other pleasing aspects of life are
also conveyed in the discourse in the poem, especially about the beauty of lovemaking.
As noted above, this isn’t obviously pointed out. Upon studious reading, this is
recognized; it is an indictment against human beings for considering War not Love,
within the Family of Man. It evokes a 1960s nostalgic “Make Love not War” feeling,
however hackneyed and antiquated that seems today. The poem includes a reference to bees
– the birds and the bees if you like.



The poem
speaks of horrific War against the backdrop of spring, love, almond-blossoms, flowers,
and such. War is man-made. It is mechanical in its cold precision. It often relegates
feelings to the basement of our psyche, so that on the upper floors we concentrate on
the objectives of War.



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Saturday, February 11, 2012

A classroom contained an equal number of boys and girls . 8 girls left to play hockey, leaving twice as many boys as girls in class room.What was...

We'll put the number of boys or girls as
x.


If 8 girls left to play hockey, the total number of
students is:


x-8


The number of
boys is twice the number of girls:


2(x-8) =
x


We'll remove the brackets and we'll
get:


2x - 16 = x


We'll
subtract x both sides and we'll add 16 both sides:


x =
16


The number of boys is 16 and the number of girls is also
16.


Initially, the total number of students
present in classroom is:


16+16
= 32.

What is the point of view of the ballad "Sir Patrick Spens" ?

The ballad  tells the story of Sir Patrick Spens being
commissioned by the king of Scotland to go to Norway to bring the king's daughter home.
This trip resulted in the boat sinking, and Patrick Spens and all his men
drowning.


The ballad is told by an omniscient narrator who
recounts the king's search for the best sailor of the sea and the answer from his
knight: Sir Patrick Spens.  The point of view then shifts to Spens when he opens the
letter from the king requesting that he sail the seas and his laugh in response, for he
knows that the seas are not safe to sail this time of
year.


Then the narrator shifts to an observer's view
describing the hats of the sailors floating in the sea, the same sailors who were loathe
to wet their shoes.  And lastly the narration focuses on the ladies of the lords and
sailors who are waiting for their loved ones who will never
return.

What does Stanley learn about Blanche?it now mid-september and Blanche's birthday. stella has prepared party for her. stanley lets stella know...

There are plenty things that Stanley finds out about
Blanche:


First, that she had a very bad reputation at
Laurel where she kept a room in a hotel where she was staying after leaving Belle Reeve.
We know that she ran a form of brothel out of her room in that a lot of men kept keys to
her room and she entertained them, presumably sexually, for
money.


Second, he knew that she had lost Belle Reeve do to
her own misjudgements, and that she was a destitute. There were no rich friends, nor any
social merit that would make Blanche seem respectable in
society.


Third, he found out about her shameful firing from
the school district when it was found out that she was having sex with a high school
student while she was teaching. This, left her marked for
good.


Hence, what Stanley found out was who was the real
Blanche, and how she had made up an image about herself which now he realizes was  a
made up tale. And this was a great weapon for Stanley to knock her out of the
scene.

Friday, February 10, 2012

I need quotes by Mr. Underwood from To Kill a Mockingbird.Please include chapter numbers.

Although Mr. Underwood, the editor of the local paper, is
a minor character in the book and is almost never directly quoted, his ideas are
extremely significant in undertanding the events that take place in Maycomb concerning
Tom Robinson. In Chapter 25, he writes about the trial that has just taken place, and
Scout relates the jist of what he is saying without actually quoting his words. Scout
says, that Mr. Underwood


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"didn't talk about miscarriages of justice, he
was writing so children could understand. Mr. Underwood simply figured it was a sin to
kill cripples, be they standing, sitting, or escaping. He likened Tom's death to the
senseless slaughter of songbirds by hunters and
children."



After pondering
upon Mr. Underwood's words for awhile, Scout comes to an understanding of what he is
trying to say. Mr. Underwood means that


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"Atticus had used every tool available to free
men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men's hearts Atticus had no case.
Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and
screamed."



Despite the lack
of direct quotes attributed to Mr. Underwood, he apparently is a man who can be quite
garrulous. In Chapter 15, on the night that Atticus holds vigil over Tom Robinson,
trying to ensure his safety by sitting in front of the jail, Scout notes that "it seemed
that Atticus and Mr. Underwood would talk for the rest of the night." Just previously, a
mob had come to take the law into their own hands, only to be defused by the innocent
talk of Scout, who appeals successfully to their individual sense of decency. When the
incident is over, Mr. Underwood comes out and says the only words directly quoted by him
that I could find. Mr. Underwood, holding a double-barreled shotgun, calls out after
Atticus tells Tom the men won't be bothering him
anymore,


"You're damn tootin' they won't. Had you
covered all the time, Atticus."

Find the perimeter & area of triangle ABC, whose vertices are A(-4,-2), B(8,-2) & C(2,6). Find the length of the perpendicular from A to BC.

A(-4,-2)  B(8,-2)  C(2,6)


let
us calculate the length of the sides:


AB = sqrt[(8--4)^2 +
(-2--2)^2]= sqrt(12^2)= 12


AC= sqrt[(2--4)^2 + (6--2)^2]=
sqrt(100) = 10


BC= sqrt[(2-8)^2 + (6--2)^2]= sqrt(100)=
10


We notice that ABS is an isosceles
triangle.


The perimeter (P) = AB + AC + BC=
12+ 10 + 10 = 32


Since it is an isosceles,
where AC = BC


==> let the perpendicular line from C
on AB divides AB in midpoint


Let D be the
midpoint,


==> AD = BD = 12/2=
6


But :


AD^2 = AC^2 -
CD^2


         = 100- 36 =
64


==> The perpendicular line from C
to AB (AD) = 8


The area of the triangle =
(1/2)*AD* AB


                                       =
(1/2)*8*12= 48


The area (a) =
48

What are the personalities of the characters in "The Veldt," written by Ray Bradbury?

Authors develop characters through such methods as
description, dialogue, other characters' reactions and comments, and the characters'
thoughts, feelings, and speeches and actions.


From what one
reads, then, Lydia and George Hadley of Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt" are much like many
contemporary parents: lenient, disconnected from their children, and ineffective and
indecisive in their parenting.  With nothing to do in their Happylife Home, the Hadleys
have no chores for their children, and there is no need to engage in play with them
because they have the nursery.  Into this nursery, Wendy and Peter--ironically named for
characters in Peter Pan--spend their time creating their own
amusements.  If there is anything to their relationship with their parents, it is
antagonism.


For instance, when George and Lydia become
concerned about what is occurring in the nursery after they are chased out by a virtual
lion, George decides that he will shut off the house, telling his children. Then, Peter
disrespectfully tells his father, "I don't think you'd better consider it any more,
Father."  Rebelliously, the children break back into the nursery after George closes it
and tells them to stay out.  After this incident, George talks with a psychologist since
he cannot decide what to do on his own. Finally, when George does decide to shut off the
house, the children "with wet faces" plead with him; to quiet them, George weakens and
listens to his permissive wife who entreats him, "Oh, George,...it can't hurt [to turn
on the nursery for a few minutes].


Wondering why they had
ever bought the "nightmare" of the nursery, his wife replies, "Pride, money,
foolishness."  These characteristics have been their nemesis, as by allowing the
children a few minutes, the nursery is changed to an African veldtland and the parents
are attacked by beasts and killed.  When the psychologist arrives, Wendy and Peter in
their sociopathic unconcern at murdering their parents are polite and act civilized,
offering David McClean a cup of tea.

Thursday, February 9, 2012

What were the purposes of the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of the Rights of Man?

In the most broad of senses, both documents seek to
establish the universal entitlements of all men.  Both arise from the Enlightenment
ideals that that there certain elements that must be endowed to all men because it is
within their natural state of being.  Both documents speak to this truth and establish
an understanding of who individuals are and how their governing bodies must approach
them.  For example, the Declaration of the Rights of Man stresses that individuals
possess an entitlement of freedom of speech and a state of being in the world that
precludes arbitrary arrest.  The Bill of Rights argues the same ideas in constructive
language that firmly embeds such entitlements in the framework of American government. 
In both documents, the reality seeking to be implemented is one where there is a firm
understanding that a sphere to prevent government or external intrusion is
constructed.

What did the Spanish call Tenotchtitlan? Why?Please watch the following short movie about Aztec Civilization of South America (about 10 minutes)...

When the Spanish came to Tenochtitlan, they called it the
Venice of the Americas. It was a very large city and was exceeded in size only by Paris,
Venice and Constantinople. The city had large buildings, a great infrastructure
crisscrossed by canals that provided a means of
transportation.


There were five lakes that had been
interconnected and dikes built to keep the sea water out. There were bridges that
interconnected the lakes and served many other important
purposes.


There were large marketplaces, the biggest of
which had over 40,000 people trading every day.


The
impressive masonry made Tenochtitlan a city that was admired by the Spanish conquers who
found it matching in stature to the largest cities in Europe.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

What is the criteria for selecting a research problem ? My question relates to Research Methodology.

In selecting your research problem (or question/topic),
consider an area of study that first, interests you so that you do not become bored with
the research process. It must be a topic you can grasp and understand about which others
have not exhausted all possible elements of research. Be sure to check the literature on
the subject to determine if there is still anything left to research on the topic. Scan
for resources as well, to insure that there are available sources of
information. 


Once you have taken these steps, consider the
topic's importance to society. Is there a need for research on the topic? If so, you
will probably need to narrow the topic to a manageable area of study. Be careful not to
leave the topic so broad that you cannot cover it nor so narrow that there is not enough
to research.


Write a specific question that will be your
over-arching research problem and a few sub-questions to guide your research. In your
questions, define the problem concisely in a way that others can
understand. 


Research methodology refers to research based
on a set of principles or rules. For example, you will need to decide on the process for
your research. Does your topic lend itself to a quantitative (a deductive process that
seeks generalizations leading to predictions) or qualitative (an inductive process that
seeks patterns and theories) process? Perhaps your research topic requires a mixture of
both. 

What do you mean by 'Research Design' ?My posted question is related with Research Methodology Subject.

Research design is the description of the overall
structure of the intended research identifying the various element or components of
research, the type of each element, and how these elements relate to each other. The
purpose of research design is to select and define the overall structure and methods of
intended research that will enable us to answer the initial research question
effectively and efficiently.


The research design provides
answer to questions like the following:


  • Type of
    research - such as qualitative, quantitative or
    exploratory.

  • Research methods to be used  - such as
    laboratory experiment, field survey, and case
    study.

  • Typical design of
    experiments.

  • Method of data collection - such as
    observation, questionnaire, or interview.

  • Nature of data
    analysis.

Is there any grotesque elements or qualities in the story Fleur by Louise Erdrich

Louise Erdrich uses magical realism to describe life in
the here and now an in between. Here Anglo and Chippewa Indian culture collide on the
American prairie sometime in the 1920s. Erdrich’s style of magical realism more nearly
resembles the style of Latin American writers like Gabriel García Márquez and Jorge Luis
Borges who both incorporate the magic, mythic, and religious histories of a culture with
the events of everyday life.The result is a broader and, in some ways, a more accurate
and encompassing representation of the essence of a
community.


Grotesque elements might be in the form
of description of the mysterious Fleur Pillager, starting with her name. Fleur means
flower in French; it is also associated with the fleur-de-lis, the armorial insignia for
French nobility. Pillager is one who pillages, takes things with destructive force, as
in a war. As a Pillager, she is already accorded cunning and certain power, but Fleur
stands particularly close to the thin edge that divides the spirit world from the human,
physical one. Look at Fleur’sappearance, her relationship with Misshepeshu, the legends
that spring up around her. From this vantage point, she recognizes the power of Fleur:
somehow Pauline knows that Fleur’s “fifth toes were missing,” and she remarks ofthe men
at the slaughterhouse that


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“[t]hey were blinded, they were stupid, they only
saw her in the flesh.”



While
she initially fears Fleur, motherless Pauline comes to adore her for the attention
Fleurpays her. Pauline’s insight into the nature of Fleur’s and Chippewa beliefs turns a
story of gambling,revenge-rape, and a “fair-minded” tornado into a clash of cosmic
forces.

Write two of sentences, each one containing introductory and internal participial phrases.Example: My father's hair, streaked with gray and...

Lets first start by remembering that a particple phrase is
always used as an adjective and is uses an -ing verb or a past tense verb form to
start.  In your example sentence, the words streaked and receding are the participles
that introduce the rest of the phrase (and illustrate both types of verb forms that can
be used.)


Here are a couple more examples of each.  First
are two that use an introductory participle phrase to modify the subject of the sentece
that immediately follows the phrase.


Ex.  Running wildly
for the bus, Susie barely made it on time.


Ex.  Shredded
beyond repair, the jeans finally had to be replaced.


Here
are couple of examples of the phrase coming in the middle of the sentence (internal
example).


Ex. Susie, running wildly, jumped on the bus at
the last minute.


Ex. The jeans, shredded at the knees and
faded, had to be replaced.


The value of learning about
participle phrases is that they can easily be used to make your writing more interesting
and your sentence patterns more varied.  Your descriptive language can have a place of
prominance at the start of the sentence, or can be regarded as less essential when it is
set off with commas in the middle of a sentence.  You can combine both to create an
interesting and complex thought.

Monday, February 6, 2012

Identify the speaker, recipient, and signficance of this line from "Antigone":"We are only women."

Ismene tells her sister Antigone, "We are only women." 
Antigone has revealed to her sister that she plans to bury the body of their brother
Polyneices, and she wants to know if Ismene will help her.  Antigone believes that it is
the right thing to follow the laws of the gods, and she wants to honor the life of her
brother by burying him.  Ismene, on the other hand, believes that it is more important
to follow the laws of men, and she does not want to get into trouble and be punished for
burying the body.  Creon has ordered that the body remain in the street for carrion to
take it away, and he says that anyone who tries to move it will be executed.  Ismene
tells her sister that "we are only women" because she is following the traditional
social order of their culture--men make the laws and women do not have the right or
power to challenge these laws.  The line is significant because it sets the line of
conflict in the play--to follow the laws of the gods or of men.

Friday, February 3, 2012

Analyze "Night Sounds."

The poem is confessional, with the speaker, a woman,
baring her soul, expressing the terror that comes to her at night, and lamenting the
loss of her love and the onset of loneliness, admitting that she is altering “our
history” to justify the breakup by stating that her loved one, even when things seemed
good, was always “withholding something.” We may presume that the “you” of the poem is
the departed husband, or lover. The speaker closes with reminiscences of “lovely times”
when no was met with affirmation. In the present time, however, she contrasts her fear
with lost love, her cries with no answers, her silence with only distant voices. The
words all suggest that the speaker’s circumstances have changed, and that everything she
now experiences is “tinged” with weeping and nightmares, terror or sentimental reliving
of a better past. The use of participles indicates ongoing situations of the past and
the present. The participles “coaxing,” “withholding,” “trying,” and “feigning” are all
in the past, and these are consistent with the presently perceived imperfections in the
relationship. The participles “living” and “weeping” are descriptive of the speaker’s
present condition, both indicating the difficulties she is now
experiencing.

Thursday, February 2, 2012

What is one example of a symbol or metaphor in "The Lives of the Heart"?

Many readers may initially find the poem overwhelming
because of the swiftness and range of the symbolism, similes, and metaphors. Line 14,
for only one example, takes a rapid journey that might leave readers breathless to catch
up: “Rise up as cities, as serpentined magma, as maples.” Readers will need to supply
ideas about why the lives of the heart may bring people together in large cities.
Similarly, to compare the lives of the heart with magma suggests that there are
incredibly powerful forces at work within individuals, which at times may erupt, just as
a volcano erupts. But one of the end results of such eruptions is serpentined rock,
which may serve ultimately as the basis of sculpture, and more broadly, of art--this can
be a stretch for readers to see. “Maples” suggests the harvesting and manufacture of
syrup, which brings out the idea of sweetness, and of constructive thought. It may take
readers a little time to follow such a line, which is typical of the depth of mind
exhibited by Hirshfield. She does not invite passivity from her readers, but active and
engaged involvement.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Act 5 What secret knowledge does Prospero choose not to reveal to all members of the king's party?

There are actually at least a couple of different bits of
knowledge that Prospero withholds from various members of the royal party at various
times in Act V.  So I am not sure which one you are asking
about.


At the start of the act, for example, he has
concealed from all of them that he is actually Prospero, whom they know.  Later on,
Prospero conceals from all of them (and especially the king) the fact that Ferdinand is
still alive and well.


But I think maybe what you are
thinking of is the fact that Prospero does not tell the king about what Sebastian and
Antonio have done.  He does not tell the king that those two have been plotting against
him.

Instead of a firehouse dog, like a dalmatian, each firehouse now has a mechanical hound. Describe it.

The hound is like a robotic dog.  Like a dog, the hound
can track people by smell.  It is programmed by the firemen to track someone based on
their body chemistry.  The hound is used to track down fugitives.  It is equipped with a
long needle that it can use to inject its victims with to immobilize
them. 


Bradburn describes the hound in the following
passage. 


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"...brass and the copper and the steel of the
faintly trembling beast. Light flickered on bits of ruby glass and on sensitive
capillary hairs in the nylon-brushed nostrils of the creature that quivered gently,
gently, gently, its eight legs spidered under it on rubber-padded
paws."



Montag has several
encounters with the hound.  The time readers learn of the hound is when it growls at
Montag in the firehouse.  Later after he burns Beatty, the hound attacks him and injects
his leg.  He is able to escape, the firemen send another hound after him.  Faber, and
later Granger, help him to change his scent to lose the hound.

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...