What would happen to the pressure inside any enclosures on the moon as the sun hits the exterior and the temperature begins to rise?what kind of...

The moon rotates on its axis only once in every 27 days.
So, while there are about 13 24-hour periods of "day" and 13 24-hour periods of "night",
there is no atmoshphere to spread the temperature around, thus meaning that when the
temperature changes, it can change very quickly and by a huge, 250 degree Fahrenheit
(107 C) margin!

When temperature increases, pressure
increases and vise versa. So, any enclosure on the moon would have to take
precautions.

Whatever precautions any permanent enclosure
on the moon will ultimately take will probably be related to existing technology. Today,
astronauts' spacesuits--small and mobile space enclosures--use layeres of fabric,
reflective materials and internal cooling systems to combat these temperature and
pressure fluctuations.

There have already been some
preliminary studies done by contractors seeking NASA contracts for lunar enclosures.
Some of these are available in pdf form from the NASA Technical Reports
Server.

One such report recommends using liquid hydrogen
cooling plates and heat-sink/radiator technology--much like the CPU on your computer is
cooled using a heat sink that absorbs the heat generated by your CPU, transfers that
energy to a cold plate and then allows it to radiate a way passively or with the aid of
a fan.

A complete pdf copy of this report may be found at:
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PMAD technology assessment

From Macbeth, explain the meaning of Macbeth's aside that begins, "This supernatural soliciting/Cannot be ill;cannot be good." In what ways does...

In Macbeth, Macbeth is clearly a
decorated soldier, admired and trusted by his fellow soldiers and his king, Duncan. His
initial comments about the day being both "foul and fair," (I.iii.38) are mainly in
reference to the poor weather conditions - the storm - and the success in battle he has
just enjoyed. However, the presence of the witches confirms the contradiction.
 

Macbeth is astute and recognizes the potentially spurious
(not being what it seems) intentions of the witches. His first reaction, one of shock,
noticed by Banquo who wonders why Macbeth fears, as he says, "things that do sound so
fair," (52), is soon replaced by an impatient need to know more. Things become more
sinister when, subsequently, Macbeth receives the official news that he is to be Thane
of Cawdor and, in disbelief at the powerful truth of the witches' words, he wonders
whether Banquo, whose sons will also be kings, according to the witches, has any
thoughts on the matter. Banquo's own prophetic words about the potential for the witches
to "betray us- in deepest consequence," (125) foreshadow the betrayal later when Macbeth
will have his own friend killed, supposedly to protect his own future.
 

Macbeth is conflicted by his emotions. His ability to
recognize his own, what he calls, "earnest of success," (132) reveals his
self-awareness. He knows that the witches' "supernatural soliciting," (130) or their
unnatural petitioning of him, is not normal and he wonders why, if the news of his
promotion to Thane of Cawdor is good, he is troubled by the implications of what else
may follow. Macbeth reflects on his own terrible thoughts and the "horrid image" that
will change everything ("unfix my hair," (135)). He can only think of the worst possible
or "horrible imaginings" (137) when he considers what may be necessary to ensure that he
does become king. Even murder is in his thoughts, he admits, although it is
"fantastical" (138), meaning that he knows it is so extreme that he can hardly believe
it of himself. Macbeth admits that the  only things he can be sure of, when "nothing is
but what is not," (141), are those things he does not know. In other words, all those
things that he thought he knew about himself, he now questions. This foreshadows his
transformation from gallant and loyal hero to corrupt and dishonorable
murderer. 

How does the body have emotional responses to an orgasm when it is a series of muscle contractions?

The muscle contractions are only one aspect of an orgasm. 
There is also a release of hormones in the body that cause chemical changes in the
brian, which consequently effects how we feel.

Hormones
that are released into the blood stream during
orgasm:

Endorphins - the body's natural pain killer.  One
of the most effective pain reliefs for a woman during her menstrual cycle is actually
intercourse.

Phenetylamine - curbs your appetite: have sex,
lose weight!

DHEA - a natural steroid that does a whole
bunch of wonderful things for your body like improving your skin, cardiovascular, and
immune system

Oxytocin (it's a neurotransmitter in the
brain) - effects thing such as bonding and trust formation

What do strophe a and antistrophe a refer to?

Stophe and
antistrophe are terms denoting the movement and counter movement of
the chorus from one side of their playing area to another.  Choral odes and dances serve
to separate one scene from another since there was no curtain in the ancient Greet
theater.  They also comment on the action, reinforce the emotion, and interpret the
situation.

Strope is a turn and antistrophe is the turn the
other way.  Along with the epode, or added song, these were all
sung while the chorus danced.  Sometimes the chorus performs dance movement during
certain portion of the scenes themselves.  In Sophocles's play, Oedipus
Rex, for instance, there are strophe 1,
antistrophe 1, strope 2,
antistrope 2, and strophe 3,
antistrophe 3.  Perhaps in other additions they be
labeled strope a, b, and c as well as
 antistrophe a, b, and c.

Who is the protagonist in "Lullaby"?

The central character in the story is Ayah, and she is
obviously more sympathetic than her husband, Chato. Ayah is strong, and she endures
despite all the adversities she has experienced. Somehow she lives through her many
childbirths, and in order to keep Ella and Danny with her she takes them up into a
mountain, where she tries to shelter them until the doctors and police take them from
her. She somehow blames Chato for this, and has nothing to do with him for years until
he is infirm and needs her to sleep next to him to keep him warm. Chato has not been as
much of a rock as Ayah, but for many years he had worked seriously to keep his family
housed and fed. Regrettably, when his work collapses, he gives in. He squanders his
monthly check to get himself drunk, and at the story’s end it is clear that his life is
over. 

Two reacting substances which obey the law of mass action starting with 80 kg and 60 kg after chemical reaction leads to the...

We'll integrate to get a logarithmic formula for x and to
determine the amount of reaction product.

Int
dx/(80-x)(60-x) = k Int dt

We'll solve the integral using
the partial fractions method.

We'll write the integrand as
an algebraic sum of irreducible ratios.

1/(80-x)(60-x) =
A/(80-x) + B/(60-x)

We'll calculate  LCD of  the ratios
from the right side:

A/(80-x) + B/(60-x) = [A(60-x) +
B(80-x)]/(80-x)(60-x)

We'll remove the
brackets:

1 = 60A - Ax + 80B -
Bx

We'll combine like terms:

1
= x(-A-B) + 60A + 80B

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

-A - B = 0

A
= -B

and free terms:

60A + 80B
= 1

-60B + 80B = 1

20B =
1

B = 1/20

A =
-1/20

1/(80-x)(60-x) = -1/20(80-x) +
1/20(60-x)

Int dx/(80-x)(60-x) = Int-dx/20(80-x) + Int
dx/20(60-x)

We'll substitute 80 - x =
t

We'll differentiate:

-dx =
dt

Int-dx/20(80-x) = Int
dt/t

(Int dt/t)/20 = (ln |t|)/20 +
C

Int-dx/20(80-x) = (ln |80 - x|)/20 +
C

Int dx/20(60-x) = (-ln |60 - x|)/20 +
C

Int dx/(80-x)(60-x) = (ln |80 - x| - ln |60 - x|)/20 +
C

We'll use the quotient property of
logarithms:

Int dx/(80-x)(60-x) = (1/20)*ln
|(80-x)/(60-x)| + C

What is the organizing process of unions? Include details requirements unfair labor practices and other important aspects of union organization

I think that different unions have different requirements
and organizations.  The basic process is for workers to be able to coalesce into a
collective body in order to be able to petition management in order to have their
membership's voice represented.  In terms of the unfair labor practices, this becomes
the fundamental reason as to why unionizing happens.  Unionizing in a particular setting
happens when there is a consensus reached that the collectivity proposed would be
something to best represent the needs and demands of the membership.  There is a real or
perceived mistreatment of workers or a desire to protect workers' rights in its approach
to management.  The union then ends up becoming the force that negotiates and represents
the workers' voices to management as an organization.  The process of representing the
collective membership can revolve around issues such as compensation, grievance of
worker treatment, proper conditions, as well as other elements that are within the
rights and entitlements of workers in relation to the management
body.

"Shakespeare has no heroes, but only heroines." What are Rosalind's leading traits in As You Like It?

Like many of Shakespeare's female characters in the
comedies, Rosalind is strong, intelligent and resourceful.  she also has a great sense
of humor.

It takes a strong young woman to be able to live
in the court knowing that her uncle is the reason her father has been banished.  This
strength comes from her companionship of her cousin. Celia.  Their relationship is
important for both of them.

Once she is told that she must
leave, she is resourceful in coming up with the plan which takes them to the forest of
Arden.  These disguises prove to be perfect.  Nobody recognizes
them.

Her intelligence and sense of humor are evident in
many ways.  She uses both in order to teach Orlando how to woo.  As for Phoebe's
infatuation, she finds this amusing and we get the double meanings she uses with
her.

All in all, Rosalind is a delightful character and
remarkable young woman all things considered.

How does the woman "triumph..." in stanza 3 in John Donne's poem "The Flea"?

The brief answer would be that the woman triumphs by
killing the flea that the speaker has been begging her not to kill.  We can infer from
the poem that she has killed it with one of her nails.  We know this because she is said
to have "Purpled thy nail in blood of innocence..."

I think
you can also think of this as the woman triumphing by rejecting the man and his
desires.  He has been hoping that she will not kill the flea and you can see that as a
symbol for him hoping she will make love with him.  So you might say that she triumphs
by rejecting his physical advances (or by squashing his argument about why she should
make love with him) as well.

Considering the following problem, how far should the end of the ramp be from the base of the building?Problem: You are in charge of building a...

For every 1 inch rise the ramp must extend 12
inches.

Therefor:

For a rise
of n inches the ramp must extend by n*12 inches.

The
required rise = n = 18
inches.

Therefore:

The
required length of ramp = 18*12 = 216 inches

This is
equivalent to 216/12 = 18
feet.

Answer:

Distance of end
of ramp from building = 18 feet.

An alternative, quicker
way to solve this problem is as follows:

As the ramp must
extend 1 foot (12 inches) for every 1 inch rise, the ramp must extend by 18 feet for 18
inches rise.

What's a thorough definition of a Greek Tragedy, as well as what it includes? A Greek tragedy includes. . .

To answer your definition
literally:

"According to Aristotle, a Greek tragedy
includes an:

1. Incentive moment:
pre-existing "in medias res" situation that achieves unity of time,
place)

2.  Peripeteia/Rising
Action: a series of rising actions induced by the tragic hero that
inevitably bring about his downfall rather than prevent it, which is his
intention

3.
 Anagnorisis/Climax: a turn of events that leads to the
tragic hero's inevitable suffering, but he is not as aware of it as we, the audience,
is.

4.  Catastrophe/Falling
Action: the tragic hero becomes aware of the fact that he has caused his
own fall, and he punishes himself or expresses guilt, shame, or
responsibility.

5.
 Resolution: the Chorus usually adds a moral exemplum after
the tragic hero leaves the stage.

* And it must conform to
the three unities: unity of time (take place during one
day), unity of place (one setting), and unity of action (begin at the end with no
flashbacks).

* It must focus first on
plot (the 5 parts of the Aristotle triangle) and
character, focusing on the tragic hero who suffers from a
tragic flaw (hamartia), usually pride.  My favorite
definition of tragic hero comes from critic Northrop
Frye:

“Tragic
heroes are so much the highest points in their human landscape that they seem the
inevitable conductors of the power about them, great trees more likely to be struck by
lightning than a clump of grass.  Conductors may of course be instruments as well as
victims of the divine
lightning.”

So, the gods send
down tragedy in the form of lightning.  The tragic hero Creon is the "highest point" in
the human landscape since he is king, and he becomes a conductor of tragic lightning to
others, the "clump(s) of grass" (Antigone, Haemon, Eruydice).  It is Creon's decision
not to bury his nephew is the sacriligeous inciting incident that leads to the gods'
punishment of him.  Antigone may be a tragic hero, but I think of her more as an agent
of the gods: a kind of lightning bolt herself.

Does the US system reflect the principle of political equality?Political Equality: the principle which means that each person carries equal weight...

[I have edited your question because we are not supposed
to answer more than one question at a time.]

First of all,
I'd argue a bit with your definition of political equality.  I do not think that every
person has to have equal weight in political decision making.  They just have to have
the chance to have equal weight.  In other words, I have much less say in the country's
affairs than Harry Reid does, but I could conceivably become a Senator if I wanted
to.

I think that we do have political equality, but it is
not perfect.  We do all have the right to vote and our votes count more or less
equally.  In that sense, we do have political
equality.

However, you can argue that we do not have
complete political equality because of the extent to which money talks in our system.  A
person with a lot of money can buy access to political decision makers and can pay for
ads proclaiming their point of view.  These people, then, have more potential power than
I would have no matter how much I wanted to influence the
system.

Is kilogram a measure of weight or mass? Is my weight 123 pounds?

Mass is the amount of matter in an object. This amount
doesn't change no matter where the mass is located. It can be on Earth or on the moon,
but whatever the object's mass is, that would remain the same. However, weight is due to
the affect of the force of gravity on an object. Weight can change depending on where
the object is. Kilograms are a metric measure of weight.  Someone can have a weight of
123 pounds. That would be their weight on planet Earth. However, on a smaller celestial
body, such as the Moon, where the pull of gravity is one sixth that of Earth, their
weight would be one sixth their weight on Earth. On a larger planet, like Jupiter, there
weight would be much greater. Actually, even on Earth, at the equator their weight would
be slightly different than at the poles. The closer they are to the gravitational pull,
the more their weight would be. And since the Earth is not a perfect round object, but
an oblate spheroid, the weight varies slightly where you are located on
Earth.

Does Elie Wiesel suggest any rationale behind the Holocaust in Night?

I think part of what makes the narrative so powerful is
that Wiesel does not pose any simple solutions to the complex issue of human evil.  The
Holocaust, and any moment in time where there is such wonton and rampant cruelty, is
something that defies imagination and lies beyond the reach of words.  However, Wiesel
does not capitulate easily.  His argument is that while rationale is difficult to
establish, it should not prevent us from talking about the element of human suffering
and the desire to expand one's moral and ethical imagination.  Wiesel does not seek to
bring the Holocaust into a paradigm where all is answered.  His narrative brings to
light that there is a failure in human community, in bonds between individuals being so
readily dissolved and ruptured as to confound the imagination.  It also brings to light
how nations or governments failed to act and protect the interest of those who endured
unimaginable suffering.  At the same time, Wiesel does not spare the power of divinity
and religious faith in attempting to explore why what happened did happen.  I would pay
close attention to the moments such as "Never Shall I Forget" or the child hanging from
the gallows.  In these instances, there is a desire to explore the issue of human
suffering and cruelty from different points of analyses.  In the end, Wiesel does not
suggest anything easy.  Everyone bears responsibility.  To a certain extent, this
infects the reader, who has little choice but to examine their own lives and their own
state of being in seeing whether or not they are  replicating the same behaviors of the
cruelty in the narrative.  It is in this understanding of the difficulty in providing an
answer, but also grasping the need to articulate a condition where blame is understood
that makes the work distinctive from so many others.

Why does Billy time travel and what is its significance in Slaughterhouse-Five?

In Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five,
Billy's time traveling is his experiencing what all Tralfamadorians
experience.  The aliens experience all of existence at any given time.  Thus, they see
their existence as a whole.  They see consequences and repercussions of their actions at
the time they act.

That's the point of Billy's time
travel.  Humans don't see the whole picture.  Humans don't see the consequences and
repercussions of their actions.  The implication is that, if humans could see, or would
think about, the whole picture, they wouldn't do things like bomb the city of Dresden,
treat each other cruelly, etc. 

Vonnegut uses the
Tralfamadorian view of their lives, and Billy's time travelling, to demonstrate this
point.  Vonnegut was an atheist, but he was not a nihilist.  He satirizes humans with
the hope that they will learn to behave better.

At the same
time, I would be amiss if I didn't point out another side of the issue.  Since neither
the Tralfamadorians or Billy can change the future even though they see it, being
"unstuck" in time suggests a lack of free will.  Billy sees his death before it occurs,
but is unable to or at least does not stop it.  And the aliens know that they will cause
the destruction of the universe, but will do it anyway. 

In Hamlet, what is Hamlet's attitude toward Laertes at Ophelia's funeral?

This is Act V, scene i, and it is the first scene in which
Hamlet re-appears after he is sent by Claudius to England.  He listens to the scene in
hiding to begin with, but finally jumps out to challenge Laertes' love for Opheila.  It
is important to note that Hamlet had no idea, before this moment, that Ophelia was
dead.

He, at first, seems to make fun of Laertes' show of
grief:

What
is he whose grief

Bears such an emphasis, whose phrase of
sorrow

Conjures the wand'ring stars and makes them
stand

Like wonder-wounded
hearers?

But, when Laertes
obviously attacks him (Hamlet says:  "take thy fingers from my throat" and "Hold off thy
hand."), his tone darkens and he stands his ground:

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I will fight with him upon this
theme

Until my eyelids no longer
wag.

...I lov'd Ophelia.  Forty thousand
brothers

Could not with all their quantities of
love

Make up my
sum.

And then Hamlet
challenges Laertes to prove that his love is more than Hamlet's.  It's  almost like two
kids on the playground proving that one is braver or stronger or smarter than the
other.  Hamlet lists off challenges to Laertes, claiming that he will also do them all
and more:

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Woo't weep, woo't fight, woo't fast, woo't tear
thyself,

Woo't drink up eisel, eat a
crocodile?

I'll do
it.

And finally, Hamlet
displays his ignorance of the cause of Laertes' anger towards him.  He seems to have
forgotten that he killed Laertes' father, and that the death of that same father might
have had something to do with Ophelia's death as well.  He asks
Laertes:

What
is the reason that you use me thus?

I lov'd you
ever.

His final line of the
scene seems to foreshadow the final scene of the play, but it is a very curious line, a
little hard to decipher.  Hamlet says:

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...But it is no
matter.

Let Hercules himself do what he
may,

The cat will mew and the dog will have his
day.

So, in sum, it seems
that Hamlet's attitude towards Laertes is at first, one of challenging Laertes' right to
love Ophelia "most," but then it becomes one of questioning, as he, un-remembering of
Polonius' death, asks Laertes why he seems to have something against him, since they
were always friends before.  Later, of course, Hamlet and Laertes do, in their final
moments, reconcile and regain their lost friendship.

The sum of n terms is 4^n - 1. Prove that is a geometric series.

Let's recall the rule of 3 consecutive terms of a
geometric progression, where the middle term is the geometric mean of the ones adjacent
to it.

We'll determine the formula of the general term bn,
and after finding it, we'll utter any other term of the
progression.

From enunciation, the sum of n
terms:

Sn = b1+b2+b3+...+bn
(1)

But the result of the sum is 4^n - 1. We'll substitute
in (1)

(4^n)-1=
b1+b2+b3+...+bn

We'll subtract b1+b2+b3+...+b(n-1) both
sides:

bn =
(4^n)-1-(b1+b2+b3+...+b(n-1))

But (b1+b2+b3+...+b(n-1)) is
the sum of the first (n-1) terms.

We'll put the sum of n-1
terms as
S(n-1)=[4^(n-1)]-1.

bn=(4^n)-1-4^(n-1)+1

bn=4^n(1-1/4)=4^n*3/4=3*4^(n-1)

We'll compute 3
consecutive terms,
b1,b2,b3.

b1=3*4^0

b2=3*4^(2-1)=3*4

b3=3*4^(3-1)=3*4^2

Following
the rule:

 b2=sqrt
(b1*b3)

3*4=
sqrt(3*1*3*16)

3*4=3*4

Since
the computed terms were chosen randomly, the series of n terms is a geometric
progression.

How does the quote at the beginning of Chapter 11 relate to what is happening in The Secret Life of Bees?

All that work to produce one result. Both the bees and the
women  are working hard for a purpose. The women's purpose is to celebrate Mary Day, or
the Feast of the Assumption when Mary died and ascended into heaven. The celebration
goes for two days and one night with decorations, food, celebration, worship, and even a
long awaited proposal that June finally accepted. All that hard work in such a short
time. The celebration, much like Communion, resulted in the sharing of honey cakes as
the body of the Queen, Mary. June's engagement to Neil and the culmination of Zach's
kiss show the fruits of that labor. Zach vows to become somebody and find Lily to be
with. This is the crowning promise of the celebration, a hope for a sweet
future.

What is the significance in the scene enacted in Crook's room with Curley's wife, Lennie, Crooks and Candy in Of Mice and Men?This passage is...

When George talks with Slim, the mule skinner with
"God-like eyes," he tells him,

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"I ain't got no people....I seen the guys that go
around on the ranches alone.  That ain't no good.  They don't have no fun.  After a long
time they get mean.  They get wantin' to fight all the
time."

Chapter 4 of
Of Mice and Men illustrates this statement of George.  The long
years of alienation have had an effect on Crooks and Candy and George.  Because he has
been isolated so much, Crooks exhibits hostility to Lennie when he enters the barn; in
fact, Crooks baits Lennie, telling him George will not return.  But, when Lennie becomes
upset, Crooks relents and eventually confesses to being desperately
lonely:

A guy
needs somebody--to be near him....A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.  Don't make no
difference who the guy is, long's he's with you.  I tell ya...I tell ya a guy gets too
lonely an' he gets sick.....He got nothing to measure
by."

Then, as he and Lennie
converse in a friendly manner, they are interrupted by the entrance of Candy.  Crooks
returns to his cot as his mistrust seizes him again.  Still, it is difficult to "conceal
his pleasure with anger" as Candy stands in the doorway, so he invites the old man to
come in his room.  Candy does, but remarks that he has not ever been in Crooks room even
though the two of them have been on the ranch for
years. 

It is significant here that the dream which now
includes Candy stretches almost to include Crooks, who offers to work for free.  At this
point the theme of fraternity is evinced.  But, this dream is interrupted by the
appearance of the Eve, Curley's wife, and the mood of camaraderie is
broken. 

Steinbeck's theme of isolation is exemplfied in
this chapter with the lonely misfits present in one place.  Evidence of man's intrinsic
cruelty is also illustrated as the rejected character turns on the
others.

What are the daily requirements for carbohydrates and fats?

The American Dietetic Association recommends the following
dietary guidelines for adults to maintain a healthy body weight and ward off chronic
diseases.

1. Total carbohydrate consumption should account
for 45-65 percent of daily caloric intake.

2. Total fat
(lipid) consumption should be between 15 and 20 percent of daily caloric consumption. (
This is assuming your blood level of lipids is not elevated). If the level is high,
consult with your physician for more precise
guidelines).

3. Total protein consumption should be between
10 and 35 percent of total caloric daily intake. Increased amounts of protein are needed
in several clinical situations like trauma or burns.

In Hamlet, please find literary terms in this passage. Terms such as personification, hyperboles, assonance, alliteration, synecdoche and OTHERS....

In this soliloquy, Hamlet's second in the play, we again
see Hamlet in a very depressed state of mind.  He has just witnessed the enactment of a
play by the Players and he can't help by compare himself to the actors and see himself
lacking.

Here are a few examples of the some the techinques
you will notice in this soliloquy:

He starts with a
metaphor, calling himself a "rogue and peasant slave." 
Hamlet is a prince by birth, but his lack of action in revenging his father's death
makes him see himself as like someone from the lowest class of society.  He is a slave
to his emotions and intellect instead of being the ruler of those things and he knows
that this is just part of his problem.

When he is talking
about the actor's performance he claims that the actor could "drown the stage with
tears."  This is an example of hyperbole used to express
the extreme emotion shown by the actors for their
tale. 

When Hamlet's anger rises at the thought of Claudius
he calls him a "Bloody, bawdy villian."  The alliteration
here draws attention and emphasis to the  adjectives he is using to
describe Claudius.

To what extent are race, social class and religion important?

I would say that Roy places a great deal of weight on how
the social stratification of a nation can impact its people.  The divisions caused by
race, class, and religion are ones that occupy important roles in the novel because they
help to isolate individuals from fully understanding one another.  The notion of
individuals being "trapped," precluding them from fully embracing the condition of
another is something that is brought out in the novel.  This is brought on by the social
stratification that lock individuals into roles that define their identity.  When the
upholding of the caste system prompts a father to kill his son, or when social
transgressions reveal the harshest of punishments, the structures that demand such
adherence are critical to individual identity.  It is to this extent that Roy depicts
race, class, caste, and religion as vitally important elements that define individuals
and in doing so, raises the point that perhaps this structure needs to
change.

What is Bloody Sunday?

It is very hard to know what event you are asking about
here without having more context.  There are many events in history that are known to
various people as "Bloody Sunday."

The one that sticks out
most in my mind, that I think of right off, is the Bloody Sunday massacre that happened
in Northern Ireland in 1972.,

Northern Ireland was a place
of great violence because there were two factions, one which wanted to remain part of
Great Britain, and one which wanted to be part of the Republic of Ireland.  The tensions
were made worse by religion -- the faction that wanted to remain part of Britain was
Protestant while the other was Catholic.

Bloody Sunday was
a day in 1972 when a group of Catholic, non-violent protestors was attacked by soldiers
from the British Army.  26 of the protestors died.

What is symbolic about the name Jim Cross in The Things They Carried?

Lt. Jimmy Cross's name symbolizes the burden that he has
to carry as the reluctant leader of men during wartime.  First, his initials are
intentionally J.C. (Jesus Christ).  While Cross is hardly a Messianic figure for his
men, he feels the weight of trying to keep them safe just as Jesus Christ came to "save"
mankind.

Similarly, Lt. Cross has his own "cross" to bear. 
When O'Brien lists the tangible elements that the soldiers carry in the title story, he
also notes Jimmy Cross's carrying the responsibility of his men's lives.  This creates a
comparison between Jesus of Nazareth's carrying the crossbeam to his execution site and
Jimmy Cross struggling under his weighty responsibility--each man struggles for others'
sake.

Brutus and Cassius die in rather simliar ways, but Caesar's death is very different. What is the meaning of this contrast?

This is a very good question, as one would imagine that
Shakespeare is making a point about the characters through how they die.  This could be
possible, and I'll look at the different deaths thematically in a moment, but first, it
is important to note that this play is based upon historical fact and is accurately
reporting the method of death for each real life character.  So, whether, hisotrically
speaking, Fate directed their deaths and provided "meaning" in the "contrast," is not
something we can know.

In the play, however, honorable
action is a key theme.  This theme plays into the different deaths in that both Brutus
and Cassius take their own lives (with assistance), while Caesar is set upon and
murdered.  Brutus and Cassius decide to end their lives, as they see this as the most
honorable course of action left to them.  Caesar is killed because others believe that
he is acting dishonorably, even though he, Caesar, sees himself as completely
honorable.

So, while the deaths are required by historical
fact, we can still find some meaning in contrasting the deaths of the of Cassius, Brutus
and Caesar in relation to the theme of honor.

In The Book Thief, what is the chronological order of the books Liesel steals?A list of the stolen books in chronological order please!

Liesel, the orphaned protagonist of Markus Zusak's
The Book Thief, steals a total of nine books throughout the
novel:

The first is The Grave Diggers
Handbook, stolen on January 13, 1939, the day Liesel's brother dies, and the
day she last sees her mother.  With it Hans Hubermann, her foster father teaches her to
read.

The second is Faust the Dog, by
Mattheus Ottleberg, received as a Christmas gift, paid for by
cigarettes.

The third is The
Lighthouse, by Ingrid Rippinstein, also received at Christmas, and paid for
by cigarettes.

The fourth is The Shoulder Shrug,
'stolen' from a bonfire of banned books on April 20, 1940. The mayor's wife
witnesses the theft.

The fifth is Mein Kampf
("My Struggle"), written by the Fuhrer himself, Adolf
Hitler.

The sixth is The Whistler,
given by the mayor's wife on the day she fires her laundress, Liesel's foster mother.
 Enraged, Liesel threw it back, but later decided to keep the book only if she could
steal it. In November 1941, she and her best friend, Rudy, sneak into the mayor's
residence to steal the book, almost getting caught in the process. Viktor Chemmel, their
enemy, threw it into the icy river, but Rudy gallantly retrieved
it.

The seventh is The Dream Carrier,
stolen because the title of the book reminded Liesel of the dreams she shared with Max,
the Hubermann's secret, because Jewish,
houseguest.

The eighth is Song in the
Dark, stolen because Liesel didn't have a green book in her collection, and
because the insignia of a flute between the title and the author's name appealed to her.
This was the first book she stole without Rudy's
assistance.

The ninth and last book is The
Complete Dulden Dictionary and Thesaurus, left on the window ledge by
Liesel's secret admirer, the mayor's wife.

What is the purpose of the poem "Jabberwocky"?

This poem shows that we can understand our language to
some extent without knowing the meanings of all the words. Like Alice, we can get the
drift without being able to pin down the exact meaning of any lines. To make the poem as
clear as it is, Carroll depends on the suggestions that sounds create for meaning. More
importantly, however, he uses key standard words to give us the essential idea (such as
“Beware,” “sword,” “through and through,” and “dead”), and he also scrupulously observes
proper syntax, so that we may construct meanings for the nonce words. Ironically, some
words that Carroll created for this poem have become so integral to our language that
computerized spell-checkers do not flag them as misspelled.

In book 2, chapters 7-9, What does Charles's renunciation of his French title and inheritance show about his character?I'm not quite sure which...

In this section of A Tale of Two
Cities, Charles doesn't actually renounce his title and inheritance, but he
certainly makes his intentions to do so quite clear to his uncle--the same uncle who
probably tried to get him convicted of treason and who would just as soon Charles was
dead. 

This intent to renunciate is based on Charles' good
character as well as his understanding that his father and his uncle created a tainted
legacy, one which he had no desire to inherit.  In chapter 9 he
says:

What is
it but a wilderness of misery and ruin?...To the eye it is fair enough here; but seen in
its integrity, under the sky, and by the daylight, it is a crumbling tower of waste,
mismanagement, extortion, debt, mortgage,  hunger, nakedness, and
suffering.

Clearly Charles is
aware of the inequality and inherent unfairness of an aristocratic system,as well as the
fact that his family holdings are steeped in evil and pain--even though he is unaware of
the exact history.  This intent to denunciate not only makes him a good man but a wise
one.  Now, if only he had actually done it....

What irony is there in Mockingjay?

What kind of irony are you concerned with?  There is
situational irony in regards to Peeta.  What we are led to believe is completely
different than what eventually happens with his character.  Anything that comes as
unexpected, especially a surprise "plot twist" would be a good example of situational
irony.  Many aspects of life in District 13 are
ironic.

Verbal irony is when a character says one thing but
means another.  It can be sarcastic in tone, but it doesn't have to be.  You could look
at the characters who are trying to manipulate Katniss and consider whether what they
are saying is exactly what they mean.  For example, Petrarch tells Katniss they have a
deal, but they don't reveal all the aspects of the deal.  You could also reveiw things
said by Haymitch.  Even Peeta's "cease-fire" speeches could be considered
ironic.

The last kind of irony is dramatic irony.  This is
when the audience knows more than the characters in the book.  Suzanne Collins does a
pretty good job of not letting us "know" much, but if you are a good reader you know
that giving such powerful weapons to Katniss and Gale could have some potential
downsides!

How is brand value calculated?

Brand value or brand valuation is an estimate of the total
value of the brand expressed in monetary terms. Companies adopt several different
methods to estimate the brand value. One way is to take brand value of the company as a
whole, in terms of its market capitalization, and subtract from this the value its
physical and other assets except the brands. The remainder is then considered to be
equal to the brand value. Another approach to calculate the brand value is to calculate
the present value of all the expected future profits of the company as its brand value.
For this purpose profit is taken as the net profit after providing for the nominal
interest on the net worth of the company.

Brand value at
product level may be calculated by comparing the market prices of the branded product
with comparable product without significant brand value, and then using this price
difference to calculate additional profits earned due to brand image of the product.
Calculating the present value of the stream of additional profits expected in future
gives the brand value.

How important is the setting?

The setting of “I Stand Here Ironing” is particularly
significant and real. The year 1932, when the mother indicates that she herself was 19,
was the time of the Great Depression. During this time talking movies were new, and a
favorite child star was Shirley Temple (paragraph 35), who sang and danced to divert
filmgoers from their real troubles. Many mothers of the time tried to model their
daughters on Shirley Temple, and many other mothers regretted that their daughters
resisted such molding. In World War II (1941–1945), wives and girlfriends were
encouraged to write “V-Mail” (paragraph 45) to loved members of the armed services. From
1945 to 1952, many students developed a fatalistic attitude about atomic weapons
(paragraph 53), before nuclear weapons became an even more ominous reality. In the 1930s
a single parent like the narrator would have experienced just such difficulties with
preserving a secure home that the narrator describes, and things would have improved
during and after the war. All these aspects of setting make the story real, almost like
genuine autobiography.

Summary of this news story, posted below?http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/crime/article/835253--man-guilty-in-stabbing-death-of-20-year-old?bn=1...

There is a certain amount of latitude featured in the idea
of "how it relates to the world."  The summary of the article is probably best featured
in the title of it.  The news story details the events of a young woman's death.  The
jury took five hours in finding the man, William Immona- Russel, guilty of raping and
then using a pair of scissors to murder 20 year old Yasmin Ashareh.  Sentencing will
take place Wednesday and could carry a maximum of 25 years.  There was a sense of relief
on the part of the victim's mother, who praised the jury and hoped that Russel gets
"what he deserves."  Naturally, there is a sense of sadness and hopelessness in such a
story.  There is a loss of young life through something so horrifically sad and brutal.
 One need only reflect on what those agonizing last moments of life must have been like
to have been raped and murdered with a pair of scissors. At the same time, one can only
imagine the horrific pain of Yasmin's mother who is glad that some level of justice has
been served, but must always live with the fact that she outlived her daughter through
an unnatural end.   Such a crime is also a reflection of the savage level to which human
beings can descend and raises severe questions about the nature of a criminal justice
system that punishes offenders and then sees some of them released to commit the same or
worse offenses.  Russel was accused and found guilty of a sexual assault against a
former girlfriend, a detail that the jury did not hear.  If one were to continue to
delve into how such a story relates to the world, it reflects that violence against
women is a real and perceptible threat that must be understood and rectified in the
quickest of manners.

What are the sides of a right angled isosceles triangle?

Let  abc be an isoscele right angle triangle, such
that:

ab = bc

angle b =
90

Since ab = bc , then angle a = angle
c

But angle a + angle c =
90

==> angle a = angle c =
45

We know that:

 cosa =
cos45

          = sqrt2/2 =
adjacent/hypotenuse

          =  sqrt2/2 = 
ab/ac

==> ab = bc =
sqrt2.....(sides)

==>
ac (hypotenuse) = 2

Discuss the characterization of Brave Orchid in the excerpt from The Woman Warrior where she takes a day off to wait at the airport for her sister.

When writing about characterization, you should consider
several things. Look at what the character says or does and ask yourself what this says
about the character. What kind of person is Brave Orchid based on her words and actions?
Brave Orchid's actions after her husband goes to America tell us quite a bit about her.
She loses two children and puts herself through medical school in two years. What words
would you use to describe Brave Orchid based on these actions? Then look at what the
other characters say about Brave Orchid. Is their judgment of her fair or biased? For
example, consider Maxine's opinion of her mother and whether the things she says about
her mother is justified. Be sure to take into account the setting as well. When Brave
Orchid goes to America, she gives up being a doctor to work in the laundry. What does
this say about her? Why is it important to Brave Orchid that her children know their
Chinese roots? What do her "talk stories" tell us about her? Consider her name, "Brave"
Orchid. Does this accurately depict her
character?

Basically, you want to look at the events and
ask yourself what conclusions can be drawn about the character. Be careful not to retell
the story. Don't give details about what Brave Orchid does because that is plot. Your
first sentence should introduce Brave Orchid by using words that describe her in
general.

I have given you two links below that will further
help you. I hope I have helped you as well. Good luck!

Why did Scout Finch intervene on behalf of Walter Cunningham in the classroom in chapter two of To Kill A Mockingbird?

In essence, Scout takes it upon herself to teach Miss
Caroline about the citizens of Maycomb--in this case, Walter Cunningham.  When Walter
refuses the lunch money that Miss Caroline offers him and doesn't provide a reason for
doing so, Scout replies, "He's a Cunningham."  She feels this answer will provide Miss
Caroline with enough information to know why Walter has refused her offer, since
everyone in Maycomb knows that the Cunninghams won't accept anything they can't pay
back. 

However, Miss Caroline takes exception to Scout's
behavior on the first day of school (Scout is also caught writing a letter to Dill and
already knows how to write in cursive), and punishes Scout by hitting her hand with a
ruler.  As a result, Scout attacks Walter Cunningham because she feels it's Walter's
fault that she has been reprimanded. 

Being out in the wild how does Buck start to feel?

You do not really tell us where in the book you are
talking about, so I'm not sure that I can give you a precise
answer.

However, over the whole book, Buck starts to feel
more and more like a wild dog.  This is really the main story of this book -- it is
about how Buck goes from being a civilized pet to being a wild
animal.

When Buck first gets to the wild, he has to learn
how to be vicious and wily.  He learns about how to act in a fight and how to survive in
the cold and how to steal food.  As he grows stronger and more competent, he starts to
hear the "call of the wild" and he becomes more and more like a wild
animal.

Finally, at the end of the book, he abandons humans
altogether and goes to live with the wolves.

What is self-pollination?

Pollination is the transfer of pollen from the male part
of the plant, anther, to the female part, stigma. Pollination is necessary for
fertilization and reproduction, in other words, for the propagation of plants. It can be
either cross-pollination or self-pollination. 

In
cross-pollination, the transfer of pollen takes place from the flower of one plant to
that of another plant of the same species, usually by external means such as wind and
insects. In the case of self-pollination, the pollen transfer occurs within the same
flower. It is usually observed in legumes (such as peanuts), orchids, wheat, rice, oats,
etc. A relatively small amount of pollen is transferred from anther to stigma, as
compared to cross-pollination. Self-pollination leads to more uniform progeny and the
plant does not have to spend energy on attracting pollinators. It results in perfect
flowers as compared to cross-pollination, which causes both perfect and imperfect
flowers.

Please...help me...what is the theme of The Kiss by Kate Chopin?

Many of Kate Chopin's short stories deal with the
experiences of women in a culture dominated by men. So it is with this story. A young
woman, Nattie, is intent on making a match for herself with a rather "insignificant and
unattractive" but extremely rich young man named Brantain. She is sitting with him in
the parlour when an attractive, brash young man named Mr. Harvy comes in and kisses her
square on the lips. She is embarassed and explains to Brantain that he is an old family
friend, a pal of her brother's, and that he really means nothing to her. He just thinks
he is one of the family.

Nattie marries Brantain but at her
wedding, Harvy comes over to her and tells her that Brantain has sent him over to kiss
her for her wedding day. He smiles and tells Nattie he has given up kissing women
because it is dangerous, and as the story ends, it indicates that Nattie is sorry to not
have received the kiss, because she obviously was "anticipating" it. But, she concludes,
she still has her millions.

Perhaps Nattie was planning to
be one of those women who could have her cake and eat it too -- be the wife of a rich
man but the lover of a poor man, whom she loved.

The story
is a comment on the types of marriages that were often common among the wealthy
aristocrats that people Kate Chopin's stories. People of class often must marry for
social position, for money, not love. When Nattie concludes, with resignation, that
sometimes "you can't have everything" this indicates that she has accepted her choice -
money over love.

DISCUSS THE ROLE OF INFORMATION WITHIN AN ORGANISATION IN FULL DETAILS.for an organisation to act with it needs to have information about itself,...

Information can be considered as the raw material used in
producing each and every decision taken in an organization. Organizations need to decide
regularly on what objectives to be achieved, what actions to take to achieve theses
objectives, how and when these actions are to be taken, and the resources to be used for
all these activities. These decisions are taken by all the people in the organization
who work at different level of organizational hierarchy and handle different aspect of
the organizational work.

The exact decision that in
individual takes varies from person to person and from time to time, depending on nature
of organizational tasks being performed. Also some people need to do more of decision
making as compared to implementing the decisions. But everyone in the organization needs
has to takes some decisions for which availability of adequate information is
critical.

Information is also required to convey decisions
taken to the people responsible for implementing the decisions taken, and for monitoring
the actual results achieved as the work progresses. In this way information plays a
critical role in working of every organization.

What affectionate object that belongs to Mrs. Darling does Peter take with him when he leaves?

One of the things that the author talks of a great deal at
the beginning of the story is Mrs. Darling's kisses, among other
things.

Mrs. Darling is the consummate mother, wanting not
just to love her own children, but unable to say no when, at the end, the lost boys come
to their home looking for a place to live.

They all line
up, with hope and trembling, to see if Mrs. Darling will have them. Without even asking
Mr. Darling, she agrees to take all six of them. Mrs. Darling offers, too, to take
Peter, but Peter is vehement: he does not want to grow up; how would he look in a
beard?

Peter also wants to take Wendy so she can continue
to take care of him, but Mrs. Darling won't allow it. She does
offer to let Wendy visit him once a year to conduct spring cleaning on his home, and he
agrees.

As Peter leaves, he takes one of Mrs. Darling's
kisses as he flies out the window.

What are a and b from expression a + b + 2i = i*a - i*b + 6 ?

To find a and b in a+b+2i =
i*a-i*b+6

We know i  =
sqrt(-1).

a+b +2i =  i*a- i*b
+6.

We write both sides in  x+yi form where x is real part
and y is imaginary part.

(a+b) +2i = 6
+(a-b)i.........(1)

We equate real parts on both side of
(1):

a+b = 6...........(2)

We
equate imaginary parts on both sides of (1):

2 = a-b.
Or

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

Adding eq(2) and (3) we
get:

2a = 8

a = 8/2 =
4

Eq(2) - eq(3) gives:

2b =
6-2 = 4.

b = 4/2 = 2

Therefore
a = 4 and b = 2.

What is the critical appreciation,figures of speech and summary of the poem 'Upagupta'?I really want to know about this poem...please help me...

The scholar John Strong has written a great deal about the
saint, Upagupta. Many believe that this is the source of inspiration for Tagore's poem.
Others believe that Upagupta is the Lord Buddha himself, while there is a very strong
and distinct Krishna presence in the poem (Mathura, the flute, the description of him as
being "beautiful," the hearing of lovers, as well as the fact that the manner in which
Upagupta speaks in the poem is really reminiscent of how he spoke to Arjuna in
demonstrating his status as Vishwaroopa in the Gita.)    The imagery is what grabs me in
the poem. Tagore's initial description of how the ascetic is asleep on the ground and
hears the anklets of the young and beautiful dancer is powerful along with the closing
ideas of the storms raging in the end of the first stanza. Such imagery is continued in
the second stanza when the ascetic comes back into town and hears "love- sick koels" as
well as the "mango branches." The nighttime settings in both stanzas are punctuated by
the contrasting vision of the girl, who is beautiful in the first stanza, horrifically
riddled with pain and sores in the second. Yet, the transcendent vision of the ascetic
is constant, who applies healing paste to her body and tells her "I am here."  If we
examine the poem as representative of the spiritual dimension of Hinduism, there is much
here which could put the poem in the same type of caliber as depicting the power of
spirituality as seen in the Gita or Mahabaratha. The most basic elements jump out at the
reader. The benevolence of the young dancer who is rebuffed, for all practical purposes.
This is something that is unique, as we already know that the subject, Upagupta, is an
ascetic. The idea that he would rebuff her generosity is quite powerful. Yet, he does so
with the warning that "When the time is ripe, I will come to you." This helps to bring
to light the Hindu or even Eastern belief that one does not choose their time, but
rather their time chooses them. The figure that we see in the second stanza, as isolated
and rejected, riddled with pain and scars is horrific enough. Yet, this is countered
with the ascetic who approaches her with taking care of her. Yet, in my mind, the genius
is not here. Tagore's genius comes in the last line which does not pretend to offer any
other conclusion other than the statement of "The time has come, at last, to visit you,
and I am here." This statement and its ideas are profound. We, as the reader, do not
know what happens to the woman. Is she healed? Does she die? Perhaps, the larger
question is whether this even matters. She has achieved a certain level of salvation, of
moksha, or liberation. This is what we are left with, that the vision of the divine has
come to the realm of the mortal. This is very reminiscent of any of the Hindu gods, such
as Vishnu (Krishna and Buddha avatars), descending from their abodes to bless their
mortals who have proven worthy, whose acts in this life have fed their own karma and
ensured that the spiritual atman has been, to an extent, fulfilled. In a body of work
that is highly political and literary, Tagore's poem is reminiscent and containing much
of what makes the Indian lexicon of writing as something that encompasses a sense of the
spiritual in almost any realm.

Determine the limit of the function (x^2 + 1)/(x + 1)^2 , x--> + infinite

First, we'll expand the square from the denominator, using
the
formula:

 (a+b)^2=a^2+2ab+b^2

We'll
put a = x and b =
1.

(x+1)^2=x^2+2x+1

In order
to calculate the limit of a rational function, when x tends to +inf., we'll divide both,
numerator and denominator, by the highest power of x, which in this case is
x^2.

We'll have:

lim (x^2 +
1)/(x+1)^2 = lim (x^2 + 1)/lim (x^2+2x+1)

lim x^2*(1 +
1/x)/lim x^2*(1 + 2/x + 1/x^2)

After reducing similar
terms, we'll get:

lim (x^2 + 1)/(x+1)^2 =
(1)/(1+0)

lim
(x^2 + 1)/(x+1)^2 = 1

In Act 3, what are the 4 most important events in this act of Macbeth?

Four most important events of act 3 are the
following:

1) Macbeth hosting his coronation
banquet;

2) Macbeth talking to two murderers and finalizing
the killing of Banquo and his son, Fleance;

3) The
murderers killing Banquo with Fleance escaping;

4) The
appearance and re-appearance of the ghost of Banquo at the
banquet.

The second part of your question sounds a bit
confusing to me. Still I am trying to make some comments on each of the four events
already mentioned:

1) Macbeth specially invites Banquo to
be present at the banquet as the chief guest and the latter promises that he would not
fail. Macbeth then speaks his mind in a soliloquy that reveals as to why he wants to get
rid of Banquo. The banquet later exposes Macbeth's villainy in the assembly of all
Scottish nobles.

2) As we see how Macbeth finds out two men
to antagonize them against Banquo, we understand that Macbeth can now work out his evil
designs by himself and in a very cleverly manipulating
manner.

3) As the rain of blows on Banquo's head dispatch
him to death, we see how Macbeth enhances his own doom. Banquo shall have to keep his
promise of attending the banquet in the form of a ghost born of Macbeth's own
terror-stricken mind, since Fleance has escaped.

4)
Banquo's ghost appears and disappears twice in the banquet scene. Dead Banquo thus
proves to be more potent a threat to Macbeth than the living Banquo. The ghost forces
Macbeth to betray his crime and prepares his way to doom as Macbeth resolves to meet the
witches to know 'by the worst means, the worst'.

Hope you
will find all this reasonably helpful.

How does Fitzgerald present clandestine relationships in The Great Gatsby with particular reference to the eponymous character?Furthermore...

Good question. Both novels deal with clandestine
relationships gone wrong, but while Gatsby is attracted to Daisy because she is a member
of better social circles and has an exciting lifestyle, Ethan in Wharton's
Ethan Frome cannot offer Mattie a glamorous life. However, it might
be fair to say that both females, Mattie and Daisy, are impressionable. The crucial
point in both works is perhaps what happens after the catastrophe- the car accident in
Gatsby and the sledding accident in Wharton's text. There is no happy ending for any of
the relationships. While Ethan takes Mattie into the house with him and his wife, this
is not really a happy household. Remember he was unhappy with his wife Zeena to begin
with. In Fitzgerald's text there is another crucial influence-money. All the
extramarital relationships are directly driven by money. Myrtle for instance is smitten
by George because he mingles in higher social circles and Daisy, of course, believes
that same misleading fact about Gatsby. Interestingly enough, Wharton usually depicts
those same issues in her fiction (the interaction of money and social status), but shies
away from it in Ethan Frome.

What are the early theatrical troupes of Elizabethan England compared to today? The early actors of Shakespeare’s times would regularly do what?

In Elizabethean England, actors formed companies.  For
example, Shakespeare was a member of The Lord Chamberlain's Men which was later renamed
The King's Men when they got royal patronage from James
I.

Shakespeare was a shareholder which meant that he owned
a share of the company.  These share holding actors were like mastercraftmen.  When a
shareholding actor left, he would sell his share to another master actor.  For example
when Will Kemp left, he sold his share to Robert Armin.  Since each of these comic
actors were different, the role of the fool changed in Shakespeare from the buffoon to
the thoughtful fool.  When Shakespeare retired, he sold his share to John Fletcher, a
playwright.

Other parts were taken by journeymen actors. 
It could be argued that the apprentices were the young boys who played the young female
roles since it was not thought to be fitting for females to be on stage.  The theatres
were located across the Thames in an area of drinking, gambling, bear & bull
baiting, houses of ill repute, etc.  Not a fit place for a
lady.

Like actors today, these actors would be trained to
use their voices.  Physically they would need to learn to move effectively.  They would
learn how to dance and use various weapons.  An actor whether then or now must be
phyically fit.

Since the plays were written in blank verse,
it was easy for them to memorize.  They would need to keep somewhere between 30-40 plays
in their head since a play could be revived upon request and there were no brush-up
rehearsals.

There was no director as we have today.  Stage
directions in Shakespeare are contained in the language itself.  Since these actors were
master craftsmen, they understood how this worked.  If they had a question, Will was
right there to ask.  The stage directions we find in todays Shakespeare were added by
editors.  Shakespeare wrote only a few.  The most famous is "Exit Antigonus followed by
a bear" in The  Winter's
Tale.

Compared to today, there are companies
like the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon where a company of actors work
with a director to explore how to perform Shakespeare's plays.  However they do not own
shares in the company but are contracted for a season.  This is also true of the
current company of actors at Shakespeare's Globe in
London.

Actors then and now basicaslly do the same things. 
They train and take classes.  They rehearse and go home and learn their lines.  They
study.

Compare the writing style of Hector Munro in "Dusk" and O. Henry in "Gift of the Magi."

In addition to the similar use of irony and point of view
as mentioned above, there is in both Saki's "Dusk" and O. Henry's "Gift of the Magi" the
surprise ending which results from the characters' misperceptions and assumptions about
others. 

In "Dusk," for instance, Norman Grotsky, who sits
on the bench at the park on Hyde Park Corner, assumes that all who come there seek
anonymity as they have somehow been defeated in life.  But, of course, he has misjudged
the old man at the end of the bench who bought the cake of soap.  Similarly, Della and
Jim have assumed a pre-existing condition with each other which allows them to make the
decision to buy the gifts that they have.  They, too, underestimate others; they
underestimated the love that their spouse had for them. 

In Lord of the Flies, what are Jack's attitudes toward grownups?Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Within the allegory of William Golding, Piggy most closely
represents adults; therefore, to examine Jack's attitude toward adults, the reader may
wish to look at the interplay between Jack and Piggy. In this relationship, Jack's
disrespect and rebellion is evident once he finds himself in the absence of
civilization.  Even in Chapter One, Jack's arrogance emerges as he tells Piggy, "Shut
up, Fatty." And, he first broaches the subject of being rescued.  When Piggy wants to be
included with Simon and Ralph as they set out on an expedition, Jack tells him, "We
don't want you."

In Chapter Four, Jack "smacked Piggy's
head.  Piggy's glasses flew off and tinkled on the rocks."  When Jack carelessly breaks
Piggy's glasses, he does not apologize; instead, he thrusts his head significantly over
the top of a rock that lies between them, mimicking the whine and scramble of Piggy for
his glasses.  Later, in Chapter Four, Jack talks over Piggy even though Piggy holds the
conch.  Further, Jack steals Piggy's glasses as the ultimate insult and refuses to
return them; then, he allows Roger "with a sense of delirious abandonment" to push the
boulder that strikes Piggy's head, sending him careening through the air, then crashing
against the great pink rocks.  After this, Jack merely shouts, "I'm chief!" as he has
lost all respect and recognizes only brute,savage force. Only the reappearance of the
adult world as civilization at the end of the novel reduces Jack to embarrassed silence
as he recalls his previous conditioning by society.

Does anyone have any examples of epiphanies in literature?

This is a great question, though I see you're in 9th grade
and some of my best examples may be from things you haven't yet read.  An epiphany, of
course, is a moment of awakening, of realization, which generally changes a person's
motives, outlook, actions, and/or thinking.  It may be triggered by something big or
small, and it often happens in private rather than in
public.

In Romeo and Juliet, the
feuding families have a sort of epiphany when they realize their children have died for
their foolish enmity.  The Capulets and the Montagues are sworn enemies until they step
into the tomb and see what their hate has caused.  At that moment, they each vow to
honor the other's fallen child in some public way.

In
Oedipus, King Oediupus has an epiphany when he suddenly realizes he
is the one who has brought a curse upon his town by inadvertently killing his father and
marrying his mother.  When he realizes it is he who is the curse, he immediately blinds
himself because he can no longer bear to see his own face after the horrors he has
committed.

In The Crucible, John
Proctor has an epiphany when he has to either sign his name to a lie or die.  He
believes he is already a sinner of the worst sort, so he signs his name to the false
confession.  Almost as soon as he does, he has an epiphany in which he understands that
God will forgive his sins and he will die as a forgiven man.  He then tears up his false
confession, thus sealing his own fate--death on this earth but eternity in
Heaven.

In Animal Farm, Benjamin the
donkey is a rather quiet animal, totally dedicated to his friend Boxer the horse.  Boxer
is symbolic of the working man in this allegory, and Benjamin represents the academic or
scholarly people in the country.  When Boxer has literally been worked to death, the
animals are told he is being taken away to the hospital.  Instead, though, the dying
horse is being taken to the knacker's to be butchered for his parts.  Benjamin can read,
and when he sees the name on the side of the cart, he has his epiphany.  He understands
they have all been lied to, and that if Boxer leaves the farm he will never return. 
Benjamin raises the alarm and rallies the animals, but his moment of understanding comes
too late. 

There are lots and lots of similar examples
throughout literature, but I'm hesitant to give you too many from things I'm guessing
you haven't read yet.  Hope this was helpful to get you started thinking about
epiphanies.  I'm confident that, looking back at other things you've read, you'll find
even more examples. 

What is the main theme of the poem "The Sea" by J Reeves?

"The Sea" by James Reeves is rich in imagery and in
creative metaphorical relations made between the sea and the idea of a dog. The poem is
not, however, rich in theme. In discussing the formal theme of the poem, we can simply
point to central comparison made in the poem that identifies the sea as being akin to a
dog. 

The sea
is a hungry dog, 
Giant and grey.
He rolls on the beach all
day.

Formally speaking, the
theme of "The Sea" is highly focused on the equivalency between the sea and the idea of
a dog. The sea experiences joy and feels forlorn. It is happy and it is lazy,
etc. 

To look at the intellectual or semantic themes of the
poem, we might assess the poem's comment on the sea as an emotional being. The sea, as a
representative of nature (or the natural world), is a living thing with passions and
joys and moods. 

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And when the night wind
roars
[...]
He bounds to his feet and snuffs and
sniffs, 
[...]

And howls and hollos long and
loud.

With this
personification of nature, the poem may be suggesting that the world around us can be
engaged in some ways as if it were alive, awake and aware. We might consider the whims
of nature and its appetites as elements to be feared and appreciated and recognize that
creatures with appetites can be unpredictable.  

We might
also read the poem as implying that the sea is only a small part of a larger natural
system and therefore is subject to forces beyond its control just as we are -- or just
as a dog might be. The sea experiences the weather and the sunshine and reacts. It may
be huge and powerful but the sea is not in command of hot and cold, of rain or
sunshine. 

These readings are available in the poem, yet
the overall sense the poem projects is one of camaraderie and understanding. The voice
of the poem is less awed by the sea than it is sympathetic with the playfulness and
lonesomeness of the sea. 

In "The Japanese Quince," Mr. Nilson at first thinks something is wrong with his health, but what really is troubling him as indicated in the text?

The key connecting point to understanding what critical
theory generally identifies as Mr. Nilson's ailment in "The Japanese Quince" is that, in
the story, the ailment comes upon him suddenly on the first spring morning as he opens a
window: "spring at last!" Tellingly, it occurs again shortly later when he performs the
antithetical action of picking up the morning newspaper, undoubtedly to read the
financial section to corroborate his musings on the "price of
Tinto."

Critics generally agree that Galsworthy's central
theme is the personal physical and mental deterioration that inevitably occurs when a
person disassociates from exposure to and appreciation of nature. Under the aegis of
this theme, Nilson's ailment would be the signs of inward deterioration following years
of isolation from nature, an isolation (1) that is reflected in Nilson's alterego
doppleganger neighbor, Mr. Tandram (similar to "tandem") and (2) that renders him
looking a little foolish in his awkward and unaccustomed contemplation of a spring
blooming quince tree, which he cannot admire until the correct species is
known.

Galsworthy believed that the human ability to heal
was integrally connected to an ability to appreciate nature, which makes the inverse
equally true: an inability to appreciate nature leads to an inability to heal.
Galsworthy illustrates this by Nilson's ailment, a "queer" "choky" feeling that was a
"faint aching just above the heart." He supports his thesis in Nilson's name: nil is
"nothing; naught; zero." Mr. Nilson is suffering from a zero connection to nature and as
a result is becoming a nothing, naught, with a ache where his heart should be and a
choke where his breath of life should be. All of which returns our consideration to the
neat opening gambit of the story in which Nilson is beset with his ailment on the first
day of spring when nature is renewed.

Are tides due to the Sun or the Moon?

The gravitational force between the Earth and the Sun, and
the gravitational force between the Earth and Moon lead to the formation of tides. But
as the Moon is closer to the Earth, it has a larger influence on the formation of tides.
The gravitational pull of the Moon creates two bulges of water, one on the side of the
Earth facing the Moon, called the sub-lunar point, as the effect of the water getting
pulled towards it more than the effect of the land getting pulled. The reverse is true
on the other end called the anti-podal point, and again leads to the formation of a
bulge. This is the reason behind the occurrence of the high tides. The areas between the
sub-lunar points and the anti-podal points experience a low tide. Tides occur in a cycle
of approximately 12 hours 30 minutes.

The effects of the
Sun on the tides are apparent from the higher high tides and lower low tides once every
two weeks when the sun and the moon are aligned. These are called the Spring tides. When
the Sun and the Moon are at positions right angled to each other, it results in lower
high tides and higher low tides. These are called the Neap tides and occur at intervals
of 2 weeks between the spring tides.

Do Stephano and Trinculo seem kinder or more respectful to Caliban than Prospero does in The Tempest?

In The Tempest, Stephano and Trinculo
appear to be kinder and more respectful to Caliban than Prospero is to Caliban and this
is one of the reasons why Caliban decides to follow their rule instead of continuing to
follow Prospero.  However, Stephano and Trinculo still see Caliban as a base creature,
and they only use him to try to gain power on the island.  Caliban says that he will
show the two the secrets of magic on the island, and Stephano and Trinculo think that
this will be key in usurping Prospero and taking Miranda for themselves.  So although
they do not speak cruelly to Caliban in the way that Prospero does, they still do not
truly respect Caliban in the play.

What is the significance of "The Mousetrap" in Hamlet regarding suspense, appearance vs. reality, and the overall effect on the plot and characters?

In Shakespeare's Hamlet, the
play-within-the-play, which Hamlet tells Claudius is titled, The Mousetrap, creates
suspense by providing a way for Hamlet to know if the Ghost is telling the truth about
King Hamlet's death.  Thus, as Hamlet waits to see Claudius's reaction, so does the
audience.  That's suspense.

Throughout the play, virtually
no one in the play is what they seem, or more specifically, no one is playing the role
that is expected (Hamlet acts insane, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Polonius, and
Claudius all act as spies, etc.).  Hamlet himself raises the issue of seeming when he
insists that others may only seem to be in mourning, but he genuinely is in mourning. 
Continuing this theme, The Mousetrap seems to be only a simple entertainment, but in
reality is a trap.  And Claudius seems to be innocent to the people of Denmark, but is
not.  The Mousetrap is Hamlet's means of exposing the truth--at least to
himself.

The play, and Claudius's guilty reaction to it,
give Hamlet corroboration for the Ghost's story.  This frees Hamlet to morally kill
Claudius.  It also sends Claudius into a figurative tailspin, moving him to an emotional
prayer.  The play should conclude when Hamlet finds Claudius at prayer and has a chance
to kill him.  It doesn't, however, because Hamlet doesn't want to send Claudius to
heaven by killing him as he confesses.  And this leads to the climax of the
play. 

Hamlet goes beyond his station in life when he
attempts to determine another human being's eternal salvation.  When he doesn't kill
Claudius he is guilty of hubris (acting above one's station in life), and he dooms
himself and numerous others.

Thus, The Mousetrap leads
directly to the climax.  And though Hamlet's plan works--the mouse is trapped--and
Hamlet wins the cat-and-mouse game he's been playing with Claudius, the
play-within-the-play also leads to the climax and Hamlet's
doom. 

Is scorpion a reptile or insect?

Scorpion's are classified as arachnids, they share this
category with spiders and mites. They have eight legs and are considered nocturnal (most
waking activity is at night) arthropods. Scorpion's are also considered venomous
invertebrates ( they lack a backbone). Over 1,200 species of scorpions exist worldwide
and are found in almost all geographic locations. Scorpion's are not considered insects,
but they do feed on insects. This is their primary food source. A small percentage of
scorpion's have a deadly sting, but of those who do, the venom secreted is quite toxic
to humans. In the United States, scorpion habitats are mainly in dry, arid environments
like the great deserts. but are found in almost all U.S.
states.

Spiders and Things/Melton/p.
71

The sniper killed a woman in cold blood. What does this say about his character in "The Sniper"?

I think that the most obvious answer to this is that this
action shows that the sniper is a ruthless man.  He is willing to shoot even an old
woman.  To most of us, this would seem like an incomprehensible act because we are
supposed to treat the old more gently than others.  So his killing an old woman shows
that he will do anything for his cause.

I think you can
also say that he is a vengeful person.  When he shoots her, she has already told the
soldiers where he is.  Killing her will not take that knowledge away from the soldiers. 
So his killing her shows that he wants to take revenge on people who try to hurt
him.

So, overall, I'd say this shows him to be a ruthless
and vengeful person at this point in the story.

how do i factor this using the quadratic equation 21x^2+22x-8=0

We can also use the quadratic formula to factorize the
equation:

21x^2+22x-8=0

x1 =
[-b + sqrt(b^2 - 4ac)]/2a

We'll identify the coefficients
a,b,c:

a = 21

b =
22

c = -8

b^2 - 4ac = 484 +
672

sqrt (b^2 - 4ac) = sqrt
1156

sqrt (b^2 - 4ac) = 34

x1
= (-22+34)/2*21

x1 = 12/42

x1
= 6/21

x2 =  (-22-34)/2*21

x2
= -56/42

x2 = -28/21

We can
now factorize the quadratic:

21x^2+22x-8 = 21(x - x1)(x -
x2)

We'll substitute x1 and
x2

21x^2+22x-8 = 21(x - 6/21)(x +
28/21)

or

21x^2+22x-8
= (21x - 6)(21x + 28)

What is the acceleration of the electron in this region and how long is the electron in the region where it accelerates?An electron in a cathode...

The acceleration of an object can be calculated by the
formula:

a = (v^2 -
u^2)/2s

where:

u = Initial
velocity

v = Final Velocity

s
= Distance travelled during increase of velocity from u to
v.

Substituting the given values of u, v, and s for the
electron in the above equation for distance:

s =
[(1.5x10^6)^2 - (3.5x10^4)^2]/[2x(2/100)]

= (2.25x10^12 -
12.25x10^8)/0.04

= (2.25x10^10 -
12.25x10^6)/4

=
(2.248775x10^10)/4

= 5621937.5x10^3
m/s^2

The time (t) taken to accelerate is given
by:

t = (v - u)/a

Substituting
the values of u, v and a in above equation:

t = (1.5x10^6 -
3.5*10^4)/(5621937.5x10^3)

=
(1.4658x10^3)/5621937.5

= 0.0002591277
s

How do the suitors Antinous and Eurymachus treat Telemachus in book one?

Antinous and Eurymachus are men (suitors) who have
descended upon Odysseus' wife, Penelope, vying for her hand in marriage (and all that
comes with it) because Odysseus has been gone for twenty years, and they presume him
dead.

Odysseus' son and heir, Telemachus receives no
respect from these suitors.  They will not leave the house (even though he is the "man
of the house"), they show him a clear disregard--not like their host or Odysseus' heir,
but with disdain.  They are men who are egotistical and rude.  They care for nothing but
what they think they can get from Odysseus' "estate."  Even Penelope has to chide
Antinous about his poor manners as a guest of her son, when
Antinous insults Odysseus (in disguise); she tells him that had he any respect for
Telemachus, his host, he would never have opened his
mouth.

Even when Telemachus tells his servant Eumaeus to
take the bow to Odysseus (still in disguise) the suitors harass Telemachus, and when he
stands up to them, they laugh at him.

Why can starfish move equally well in any direction?

Starfishes are  spiny-skinned sea animal that live in all
oceans of the world. They have thick spikes or arm-like extensions on the
body.

Starfishes are able to move equally well in any
radial direction because of the structure of their body. The body of a starfish is made
up of a center with five or more spikes radiating out of the center like spokes of a
wheel.

Most kinds of starfish have five such spikes. This
makes them look like five pointed stars. Some species of starfishes have as many as 40
or more spikes.

These spikes, which are used by the
starfish for many different activities including movement, make it possible for the
starfish to move in any radial direction with equal ease.

How did MARBURY vs. MADISON help define the amount of power each of the three branches of our government would have?

This Court case essentially made the judicial branch as an
important branch of the government.  It did so by giving the judicial branch the power
of judicial review.

The Constitution itself does not give
the Court the power of judicial review.  It says laws may not violate the Constitution,
but it does not say who gets to say whether laws do violate the Constitution.  In this
case, the Supreme Court declared that the judicial branch is the one who gets to do
this.

By making this claim, they set themselves up as a
major power in the government.  They would now be able to rule that actions of the other
two branches were unconstitutional.

My name is Alexxis and I typed it in on fb and it said my name was inappropriate but that's how its spelled and nothing was changed!how do i...

Well, Alexxis, the first thing you should know, is that
you are far from alone in your annoyance.  The article below is only a tiny sample of
the numerous complaints with Facebook about this and other management short-comings. 
Likely your name is getting kicked out because of an automatic recognition of the
double-x - encoded with facebook as something potentially vulgar. 
Sorry.

You can email facebook by hitting the "help" link on
the sign in page (bottom right corner), then go to the "contact" link (sort of hidden in
that mess of "common searches" on the far right) and let them know your problem.  Don't
be surprised if one of two things happens:  1) Nobody ever gets back to you, or 2) they
get back to you but won't let you use your real name
anyway.

My advice is fight it if you really care - and wait
out the time it takes to get your real name on there.  But if all you want is to have
your facebook account up and running, just go by your first initial and last name, or
something like that.

Facebook, for all its greatness,
probably has an equal number of flaws as quality points.  Don't get so attached that
your social life would be over without it.

Solve for x : 1/(x^2+6x+9) + 1/(x+3) = 4/9

We notice that the denominator of the first ratio is the
result of expanding the square (x+3)^2.

We've applied the
formula:

(a+b)^2 = a^2 + 2ab +
b^2

So, x^2+6x+9 =
x^2+2*3*x+(3)^2

We'll re-write the
equation:

1/(x+3)^2 + 1/(x+3) =
4/9

The least common denominator is
9(x+3)^2.

We'll multiply the first ratio by 9, the second
ratio by 9(x+3) and the third ratio by (x+3)^2.

We'll
re-write the equation, without denominators.

9 + 9(x+3) =
4(x+3)^2

We'll remove the brackets from the left side and
we'll expand the square from the right side:

9 + 9x + 27 =
4x^2 + 24x + 36

We'll subtract 4x^2 + 24x + 36 both
sides:

9 + 9x + 27 - 4x^2 - 24x - 36 =
0

We'll combine like terms:

-
4x^2 - 15x = 0

We'll factorize by
-x:

-x(4x + 15) = 0

We'll set
each factor as zero:

-x = 0

x
= 0

4x + 15 = 0

We'll subtract
15:

4x = -15

We'll divide by
4:

x =
-15/4.

The solutions of the equation are:
{-15/4 ; 0}.

Identify the spaker, plot and significance of following quotes from The Great Gatsby1. I'm p-paralyzed with happiness 2. "Gatsby?" she demanded....

The first quote is Daisy speaking to Nick the first day he
walks into her home on East Egg to greet her after not seeing her for such a long time.
Daisy and Nick are distant cousins but he was in the war when she married Tom and was
unable to attend the wedding. She is telling Nick she is happy to see him, but the words
"paralyzed with happiness" are a strange choice. I think it means that she is happy to
see Nick, but her unhappy marriage has left her "paralyzed" in a way. It is an ironic
play on words.

The second quote is Daisy as well. She is
talking to Jordan. Jordan has mentioned casually that Gatsby is a man that gives
parties. Daisy immediately recognizes the name as someone she used to know. Later, she
tries to find out more. Nick is not sure later that Daisy has learned about Gatsby
living so close to her and Tom, but even if she knows he lives there, she never visits
him on her own until Nick helps Gatsby arrange a meeting. This comment signifies that
she still remembers Gatsby.

The last one is Nick. He and
Gatsby have been having lunch with Meyer Wolfsheim in New York and Nick has learned a
lot more about Gatsby's history. After lunch, Nick spots Tom across the room and goes
over to greet him. He introduced Tom to Gatsby and Gatsby recognizes Tom as Daisy's
husband because a strange look came over him. Tom asks Nick why he has not visited him
and Daisy, and he says that he has just been having lunch with Gatsby, but when he turns
around, Gatsby has left. This is significant because Gatsby is in love with Tom's wife
and probably is uncomfortable being around Tom.

How would say Deontology and forensic science would apply to each other.Deontology: a person performs his or her duties, the action is considered...

Deontology is a branch of philosophy and ethics that is
concerned with the concepts of duty and the moral obligations that most people have. The
forensic scientist is charged with maintaining a high degree of integrity because of the
nature of his/her work.

Forensics attempt to uncover the
truth about a situation. The evidence examined must be kept in a pristine state and the
forensic scientist must follow accepted scientific guidelines while undergoing his
investigation.

Sometimes it would be quite easy to make the
evidence fit the crime. People who work for police agencies want to catch the offender
and then see the offender prosecuted. However, personal bias and preconceived notions
have no place in the scientific study of evidence. This is why forensics must take a
deontological approach to the investigation of crime.