What is the mood of "The Masque of the Red Death"?I need to find a passage that best fits it.

I would actually go for the very last paragraph of the
story, which, to my mind, makes explicit what has been implicit throughout the tale. The
story has been a putting off of the inevitable, as Prince Prospero has tried to "cheat"
the Red Death by locking himself and his courtiers away and sealing themselves off from
the rest of the Kingdom. Yet if we take the Red Death as a symbol of death itself, we
realise how futile this is. The last paragraph shows the puncturing of this particular
dream as all the guests and courtiers have to face the harsh reality of
death:

And now
was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night.
And one by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died
each in the despairing posture of their fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out
with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness
and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over
all.

This sums up the mood of
grim despair and the certainty of the victory of death against all - no matter how
wealthy, powerful or important. Note how the repetition of sentences beginning with
"And" strengthens the sense of inevitability and the powerful might of death against all
who try to resist it. A grim end indeed....

In your opinion, why does Montag approach the campfire in the forest?

I think that there are two things that contribute to
making Montag approach the campfire after he has escaped across the
river.

First, he must surely be thinking that anyone who is
hanging out by a campfire out in the wilderness is a rebel like him.  We know that the
people in this society all live in the cities.  They do things like watching the parlour
walls and going to the amusement parks and driving way too fast in their "beetles." 
They do not sit around campfires out in the middle of
nowhere.

Second, as he watches the men, he can see and hear
that they are talking.  We know that people in the society don't just sit around and
talk.  Clarisse's family did and they were seen as really antisocial.  So these men are
doing something that "normal" people would never do.  Therefore, they must be rebels
like Montag.

For these two reasons, it is clear to Montag
that these are rebels like him and will probably want to help him.  That's why he
approaches them.

Ronald Reagan, Speech to the House of Commons (1982)What is the overall tone of this speech? Is it positive about the future?

The overall tone of this speech exhibits the eternal
optimism associated with Ronald Reagan. He tells the House of Commons that in looking
back over past decades, it may seem that

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“Optimism comes less easily today, not because
democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy's enemies have refined their
instruments of
repression.”

Nevertheless, he
tells them, there is hope for the future because “optimism is in order because day by
day democracy is proving itself to be a not at all fragile flower.” He says that in
1982, the world was coming to the “end of a bloody century.” He argues that regimes that
are established by “bayonets” do not take root and that ultimately, such violent regimes
will fail, nevertheless, with modern nuclear weapons, we cannot ignore the threat from
warlike regimes. The fine balance as we go into the future is to “preserve freedom as
well as peace.”

It is his belief that all people everywhere
want freedom, despite what dictators claim to the contrary. He specifically targets the
Soviet Union. He says it is not wrong for the free nations to band together to achieve
the goal of freedom and peace:

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“Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our
strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible
but probable.”

He refers to
Winston Churchill’s comment during WWII towards the German attack: “What kind of people
do they think we are?” Were the British people that would give up their freedom so
easily without a fight? No! This is how we should proceed into the future, then, making
sure our enemies know that freedom is important to us and that we are willing to fight
to maintain it if necessary. We prefer to
preserve our freedom through peaceful means, but we are not unwilling to preserve it by
force if left no other choice. He says the world has come through the worst, and should
move forward into the future by securing the best.

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 “For the sake of peace and justice, let us move
toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own
destiny.”

Reagan did not
foresee a future in which our enemy would be cowards, crashing planes into our buildings
and blowing up our soldiers every day with IEDs and RPGs.

What are some aspects of modern life that seem to encourage feeling of isolation?

Another factor that I think leads to this feeling of
isolation is the fact that with modernization our family system has
changed.

From what I have seen in India, in the relatively
less modern regions people usually live in large families. Grandparents are not sent
away to institutions for the old and there is no particular hurry for children to live
in separate homes as soon as they are done with their education. A home with three
generations living together is almost the norm.

But in the
cities, where society is evolving fast towards the American model, the size of families
is reducing too. It's just parents living with their children until they turn adults and
then you have just a couple living in one house.

And as my
colleague rightly pointed out, as things start to move too fast, it becomes difficult to
adjust and find support and company. You are not sure that who you find around you today
will be there tomorrow. A family is a group of people that you have known all your life
and in that way you feel comfortable with. As families split up into smaller units, a
feeling of isolation does set in.

What are the role of the chorus in Oedipus and in Hamlet?what replaces the chorus in hamlet?

The role of the Chorus is Oedipus is
to act as the voice of reason.  It's the chorus which prompts Oedipus to action (by
documenting for us the curse which has apparently fallen on their town), asks him to be
reasonable when he gets out of control (as in his confrontations with Tiresias and
Creon), and holds him accountable when his past is revealed.  The Chorus changes its
opinion of Oedipus throughout the play, as do we; however, it is the reasonable,
questioning entity through which we change our view of
Oedipus.

Hamlet has a kind of chorus,
as well, if we use the same definition: the voice of reason.  Horatio is the voice of
reason, of course, and Hamlet and others turn to him for a reasoned response to puzzling
or perplexing things.  When the palace guards have seen the Ghost but don't think anyone
will believe them, they bring Horatio to see the spectacle.  If he sees it and
believes--for he is the consummate doubter of such things--they know they can move
forward.  Once he sees and believes, it is Horatio's voice which compels Hamlet to see
for himself.  When Hamlet is about to "catch the conscience of the king," he asks
Horatio to watch with him; and afterwards Hamletseeks Horatio's affirmation of what he
thinks he observed.  As Hamlet is dying, he entrusts Horatio to tell the truth of what
must have seemed to be inexplicable events to everyone but those who were no longer
alive to tell the truth.  Horatio is the arbiter of truth and reason, even at the
end.

Interesting comparison!

Would you describe the ending of A Doll's House as happy or unhappy (i.e. is the play more like a comedy or a tragedy)?

A Doll's House, in my opinion is a
tragedy of sorts, but it is a result of the people of the time.  The society is
male-dominated and though Nora's behavior seems sometimes comic in its ridiculous
nature, she is actually simply playing a role (like a "doll") in order to get what she
wants and, in a real sense, absolutely needs: money to pay Krogstad's
I.O.U.

Nora leaves her children at the end and goes into an
uncertain future. She knows she can not care for them, but regardless of the situation,
a mother leaving her child is unnatural and hard to comprehend in any society, though it
happens all too often.

I would say this play is sad: the
family is destroyed and Nora has no idea of who she is or how she will survive.
(Kristine has already described the horrors that a single's woman's life, trying to
survive alone in a man's world, will hold for her.) Torvald has no clue, but this has
been the case through the entire play. Even when he finds what she has done—only to save
HIS life—all he cares about is his reputation. He is, of course, a product of his
society, but in any age, there have always been people who have lived outside the
confines of society to do great things.

For example,
Ghandi, Mother Teresa, and Martin Luther King, Jr., are only a few examples: they could
have stayed where society expected them to, but each chose to take a different path that
confounded some, and enraged others. And thank God they did
so.

Unhappy and tragic: that is how I see "A Doll's
House."

Create a function with the given features: a vertical asymptote the y-axis, an oblique asymptote y=3x+1, and no x- and y-intercepts. Please...

We know that f(x) and g(x) are asymptotic if f(x)/g(x)  =
1 as x--> infinity. Or f(x) - g(x) = k a constant as x -->
infinity.

We consider the function y(x) =
(3x^2+5x+5)/x

Let f(x) =
3x+5.

Then y(x) - 3x+5 = (3x^2+5x+5)/x - 3x+5  =
{3x^2+5x+5-3x^2-5x) = 5/x  > 0 x for all x ant 5/x = 0 as x -->
infinity.

Therefore  3x+1 is the oblique
asymptote.

Also  for a vertical asymptote, at  x= a , y
should be infinite.

So at x = 0,  y(x) = (3x^2+x+5)/x = 
3x+1 +5/x  is infinte as 5/x = ifinity as x-->
0.

Threfore 3x^2+1  and y axis  are the asmptotes for the
curve y = (3x^2+x+5)/x.

Discuss why management is an art and a science.no

"Management is acutely planning
 , organizing, coordinating ,directing ,motivating and achieving the set
goals"Management of different aspects need different management styles
.

for example in economics management is regarding factor
of production ,while as human resource its management of
people.

Management is taking inputs ,transforming those
inputs in good or services with effectiveness when resources are limited .while science
is the collection of systematic knowledge and collection of truths after
a continuous research and experiments .the relation ship between limits and variables
are defined.science has following three specific characters
.

1. its very systematic
   


2. we arrive at result through the continuous experiments
   


3. its has logically defined principals which are
   applicable universally

management principals
is evolved through continuous chaining in the human behavior while in science to reach a
specific conclusion we keep the one variable constant and reach the results. so we can
say that management is science because all the factors are
widely varying

on the other hand the Art
is known principals and rules to use the skills expertise to reach the desired
results.the main points how to get thing done in desired manner to reach at desired
results new method can be adopt to improve the old process and to improve the
past experience ,effective management is the same as the art so management defiantly and
art .

Management has two faces of pictures one
side is art and other is science. Management has specific principals
which constitute the points of science and its has talent and skills like and art

Explain your responsibility as an enrolled nurse when a client provides a urine sample testing positive for illicit drugs.In mental health for a...

The chief concern in this situation is to strictly adhere
to your institutions policy and procedure, whatever that may be. Different health care
institutions have varying policies on matters such as this. A second point is to not
judge the person based on the test results of the urine specimen. All individuals that
work in health care must learn to be tolerant of others and keep their own opinions to
themselves. Basically, what you think about the person or the urine results has no
bearing on the care that you must provide them. You must treat every patient with the
same amount of courtesy and respect. Thirdly, if in fact the person consumed the illicit
substance, what physical or psychological manifestations might
occur?

Further, was the chain of custody observed in
regards to the urine sample? If not, the test results could be false. Also, until we
examine the maintenance records of the specific instrumentation that ran the test, a one
hundred percent positive test result can't be ascertained. Machines, just like people,
make errors.

Why did Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General, use a double-barrelled ten-gauge shot-gun, not another one, in "Harrison Bergeron"?

Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" is a futuristic tale
in which everyone is supposed to be the same.  Anyone with special talents and gifts is
given handicaps to counterbalance those abilities.  As the opening lines
say:

THE YEAR
WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the
law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was
better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody
else.

One young man, Harrison
Bergeron, towered above everyone else, despite his many handicaps.  At the end of the
story, when Harrison dances with an equally free and talented ballerina in a display of
creativity, freedom, and individuality, they

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reeled, whirled, swiveled, flounced, capered,
gamboled, and spun. They leaped like deer on the moon. The studio ceiling was thirty
feet high, but each leap brought the dancers nearer to it. It became their obvious
intention to kiss the ceiling. They kissed
it.

As the room was in awe
and as this young, talented couple broke all the rules of equality, in walked the
Handicapper General, Diana Moon Glampers.  With a double-barreled ten-gauge shotgun, she
shot each of them, and all were equal again. 

This
particular gun is used under several conditions:  large, short-range targets, generally
in the air rather than on the ground.  That suits all the conditions here:  Harrison was
an extraordinarily large young man, they were a mere thirty feet above her, and they
were in the air. 

What is the major conflict in The Magician's Nephew?

In all of the books in the series The Chronicles
of Narnia, the over-riding conflict is good versus evil, most of which
involves Aslan versus the White Witch. The individual novels all have different stories,
however, where there are other characters whose conflicts against  evil are more in the
forefront. Aslan is always present at some point in all of the novels, so this is always
the battle that supersedes the other ones.

In The
Magician's Nephew, readers find out how humans first entered the kingdom of
Narnia - through a magic apple planted in Digory's backyard that grew up into a tree,
from which the wardrobe was constructed  that allowed the Pevensie children to enter
Narnia while visiting the old professor, who is Digory grown up. Digory, however, is the
magician's nephew because his uncle Andrew is the magician. In this story, the evil
queen Jadis is in conflict with Digory and Polly, who mistakenly bring her to London. As
with all the other stories, Aslan must show up to rescue the humans, however, so there
is always the main conflict of good vs evil despite the different story
lines.

In Lamb to the Slaughter, how would you explain the language technique in the quote, "She fell right into Jack Noonan's arms."

This expression must be a hyperbole, an exaggeration. Most
of the time when we fall, no one is there is pick us up, let alone falling straight into
someone's arms. The act of falling into someone's arms would mean that you didn't
experience the hard fall that was expected. They saved you some pain like a scrapped
knee. In literature, it usually refers to when a woman falls in love with a man. He
"catches" her in a sense. He finds her interesting enough a person to begin a
relationship with her. The woman is saved the hard fall of not having a man who cares
for her. Of course, it is proper to have the scene reversed when a guy falls into a
girl's arms. Equal rights, you know.

A train 50m long moving on a straight track passes a pole in 5 seconds. Find the speed of the train time it will take to cross a bridge 500m long.

If the train passes the pole in 5 seconds, and the train
is 50 meters long, its speed is 10 meters per second.  You can find that by dividing its
length by the time that it takes to pass a given
point.

From the time that the front of the train reaches
the bridge, it will take 50 seconds (500 meters divided by 10 meters per second) for the
front to cross the bridge.  However, the rest of the train will still be on the
bridge.

It will be 5 more seconds (50 meter train divided
by 10 meters per second) for the rest of the train to get off the
bridge.

Therefore, from the time that the front of the
train reaches the bridge, it will be 55 seconds until the end of the train gets off the
bridge on the other side.

What were some of the characteristics of the Nightingale that made it easier for the frog to use her for his selfish and mean motive?

You are correct in identifying the from as "mean."  He
turns out to be kind of a jerk in the poem.  I think that the nightingale suffered from
a fatal combination of trust and insecurity.  The irony is that the nightingale is truly
talented, yet she has not been made aware in her own life of her gifts.  Note the lines,
"Quite unused to such applause/ Sang till dawn without a pause."  These help to bring
out that the nightingale both possesses talent, and yet does not realize her own
greatness.  This causes her to succumb to the praise of others and bask in the glory, as
if it's the first time she has experienced it.  The fact that the nightingale responds
and continues to respond to praise indicates to us that she can be easily manipulated.
 Notice again that she asks the frog, who has little musical talent, if he liked her
song. Think about that:  The person who has talent goes to the person who doesn't have
any for advice.  This had to have led the frog presume that he holds the power in their
relationship.  No doubt the frog has understood this, and rather than outwardly suggest
that she leave, he veils his venom and poison with the guise of experience.  When he
"critiques" her performance, she is "Greatly flattered and impressed/
That a
critic of such note/Had discussed her art and throat."  In this, we can see that the
nightingale has ceded power to the frog, emboldening him to pursue on his quest to
eliminate the competition.  He continues to play on her weaknesses, calling her a
"beginner" and assuring her that he can make her a "winner."  These are obviously
sensitive points for the nightingale who takes the bait, in all of its forms.  When we
see her, "flushed with confidence," it's the beginning of the end.  The frog has her and
does everything in his power to ruin her voice under the pretense of "training."  This
is because he is indeed mean, but because the nightingale allowed herself to be used and
abused.  If she had the confidence to either sing her song and care not for the frog, or
to rebuke the frog's attempts, or even not care in what he says, she would have been
better off and would not have been run off and lost her precious talent.  In the end,
the sadness of the nightingale and the cruelty of the frog make a bitter combination for
her and a great one for him.

Makes you dislike
frogs, eh?

How do you get power in Autocracy and Democracy?You have to compare and contrast the two.

While I agree with the first answer that power in an
autocracy can be seized, that is not the only way that a ruler can get power.  There are
other ways, especially later on in the life of the
autocracy.

The most common (historical) way for an autocrat
to get power was to inherit it in some way.  Many monarchies have essentially been
autocracies.  But in these governmental systems, each autocrat did not have to seize
power.  Someone in the past had seized power and then that power had been handed down
through the generations.  You can see this in the modern world in, for example, North
Korea (not a monarchy, but power has been handed down from father to son to this
point).

Neighbors play a central role in small towns, and Maycomb is no exception in To Kill a MockingbirdChoose TWO of Jem and Scouts neighbors that we...

Perhaps the neighbor who exerts the most
profound influence upon Jem and Scout is Boo Radley.  For, he is the neighbor who
teaches the children the meanings of Atticus's
aphorisms

• You never really understand a
  person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin
  and walk around in it


• ...it's a sin to kill a
  mockingbird


• Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. 
  It is knowing that you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway, and you see
  it through to the end.

Boo Radley has remained
in his house, but he has lived vicariously through Jem and Scout as they have scampered
through his yard attempting to peer into a window, left things for him in the tree
knothole, and walked up and down the street.  While Atticus has taught them to not
bother Boo, Boo himself has taught them what kindness is by sewing Jem's britches, by
leaving them little gifts in the tree, and, most of all, by coming to their defense as
Bob Ewell attacks them.  In the final chapter of Harper Lee's novel, Scout looks around
as she stands on the Radley porch:

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Atticus was right.  One time he said you never
really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.  Just standing
on the Radley porch was
enough.

Another neighbor is
Miss Stephanie Crawford, who teaches the children what is not charity. This town scold
maligns poor Boo by saying that he is a maniac who sits with his scissors, waiting to
cut unsuspecting victims:  "Lord knows what he's doin' or thinkin'."  She also claims
that at night he is a peeping-tom, spying on the neighbors in their beds.  When Miss
Maudie accuses her of moving closer to the window so that Boo will see her better, the
children applaud Miss Maudie's castigation of Miss Crawford's
hypocrisy.

What key issues and themes does Oscar Wilde convey through his texts? Also, any particular literary devices he uses or how these themes relate to...

The previous answer beautifully and accurately analyzed
Wilde's texts in terms of his preferred writing styles and his predilection of genres.
My answer will therefore try to answer the same question but from the point of view of
Wilde's biography and how it blends in perfectly with specific works of his.  Most of
this information can be found in the superb biography written by Wilde's grandson,
Merlin Holland, The Scarlet Marquess and the Irish Peacock, which I
strongly recommend.

There is, indeed, a lot of personal
value at stake in specific texts by Wilde, particularly when you look at
:

• The Portrait of Mr. W.H. (story published in
  Blackwood Magazine in 1889)


• 
  The
  Picture of Dorian Gray (first a story, then a novel,
  1890)


• 
  The Importance of Being
  Earnest (play, St. James's Theater,
  1895)


• 
  An Ideal
  Husband (play, also
  1895)


• 
  Lady Windermere's
  fan (play, 1892)

The works produced
six years prior to Wilde's conviction, aside from being his most popular works, are also
works that feature the same conflicting issues that were going on in Wilde's life. This
time period also coincides with the chaotic relationship between Wilde and Alfred
Douglas. It is the latter's father, the Marquis of Queensberry, who would cause Wilde's
conviction. 

This being said, all of these works feature
major salient themes that were also preoccupying
Wilde:

• blackmail


• excess


• corruption


• homoeroticism


• criticism
  of women


• fear of
  consequences

Blackmail

By
1895, Wilde had been blackmailed by Charles Parker and
Alfred Wood (and others) over some sensually-suggestive letters that Wilde had sent to
Lord Alfred Douglas, his off and on love interest.Under the Criminal Law Amendment Act,
homosexual relations were considered illegal and punishable with a maximum sentence of
two years of hard labor. That is exactly what Wilde was accused off eventually in 1895,
and that was the sentence that he
served.

In Dorian Gray and
An Ideal Husband, and Lady Windermere  the
topic of blackmail is mentioned and talked about in ways that reflected Wilde's own
knowledge about these things. 

Excess and
consequences

During this time it is argued that Wilde was
also acting completely out of character by excessively
consuming food and drink. By the time of his trial, he was overweight and many say that
he was drinking uncontrollably. He was also spending excessively on his (male) love
interests and on page boys.

All of this got him in a huge
pickle with creditors (much like Ernest Worthing did in The Importance of
being Earnest). He eventually lost everything he owned when his assets were
seized by the government after his imprisonment.

The
characters of Jack (Ernest), his friend Algernon Moncrief, Dorian Gray, Lord Henry
Wotton, Lord Goring and Lord Darlington are all excessive
individuals who are always chased by the consequences of
their actions. All the 90-95 works also show Wilde's high preoccupation with the topic
of
"consequences".

Corruption

Prior
to his conviction, Wilde had been accused of corrupting
young men. In The Picture of Dorian Gray, the character of Lord Henry
is Wilde's mouthpiece, spreading Wilde's own ideas about the "modern hedonism" that
corrupts Dorian into horrid acts that reflect in his painted image. Similarly, the
dandies Moncrieff, Darlington and Wotton clearly are amoral therefore they have either
already corrupted someone or will corrupt someone
else. 

Homoeroticism and criticism of
women

Homoeroticism and criticism of
women permeates each and every one of these 90-95 works. "The Portrait of
Mr. W.H." talks about Shakespeare's love fixation with a young unknown male whose
initials are "W.H." 

Dorian Gray talks
about the main character reading a "certain book" that influences him in a way that he
starts to corrupt all young men who deal with him (Wilde was surreptitiously referring
to Huyssman's A Rebour which is a homoerotic
novel).

Women are consistently criticized or mocked. Lady
Bracknell is a snob, Cecily and Gwendolen are conniving airheads, Mrs. Cheveley is a con
artist, Sybil Vane is a weakling, Lady Wotton is "unkempt", and in general, men prefer
to hang out close together without the annoying presence of their female
counterparts.

Even in The Importance of Being
Earnest the male characters do a lot of naughty deceiving before they finally
fall in love with their respective female love
interests. 

Therefore, shortly before Wilde was arrested
and accused, he had already put a lot of his own life onto his works, presumably because
he was aware that something was going to happen eventually. Others say it is because he
had a penchant for self-sabotage and wanted to give himself away for once and for all.
Regardless the cause, it is certainly something to consider given the consistent way in
which he presents these themes over and over. 

I need help editing my soliloquy of Macbeth in a Modern context (gang theme) to a High standard....I am having quite some difficulty with my Year...

If I understand the assignment correctly, you are writing
your own soliloquy based upon paraphrasing of Macbeth's soliloquy.  If this is correct,
then you must focus as much (if not more) on creating the character voice of your gang
leader as on editing, proofreading, or being professional.  A simply paraphrase ( a
rewriting of the soliloquy using words that you understand more easily) is one thing,
but writing a speech for a character to say involves making sure that you have that
character's tone and voice.

I like these phrases that you
have, and think they send your soliloquy in a good
direction:

But
what if it came back to haunt me? What if my brother’s and friends found out?  Then who
would be on the firing line? Where would I go? Surely this isn’t worth it.  I’d be
living in fear day-after-day and there’d be nothing worth living for.  These men are
smart – they’d find and kill me, like I’ve seen them hunt down other criminals and gang
lords. They would be uncontrollable on their desperate hunt and they’d be all over me
not forgetting the cops.

The
thing that your soliloquy needs, to give it the flavor of a drug-dealing gang member,
is, actually, less grammatical correctness and more of a sense of street language.  You
should look at a movie or TV show that you know that involves characters like the one
you are creating.  Notice their speech patterns and try to create a pattern of speech
for this character that really catches the flavor of the
street.

In case you're interested, here's the trailer for a
film version of Macbeth, set in a modern gang world.  The text is
still 100% Shakespeare, but at least you'll get a feel for the atmosphere.  If the link
below doesn't work, the director of the film is Geoffrey Wright, and you can search for
the film using his name.

What are the key factors that led to the beginning of Renaissance?

The Renaissance was a period of scientific, intellectual,
and cultural awakening beginning in mid-14th century Italy.  The Renaissance stressed
humanist ideas, that is ideas founded in classical Greek and Roman thought, from
philosophy and education to art and cultural influence.
 

One key reason for the Renaissance was
the emergence of secular curiosity.  During the long feudal
period in Western Europe, education was done through the church.  Not even kings were
necessarily literate; those who could read and write [in most cases] learned through the
church.  This logically means that all education was non-secular; it was founded in
Catholic principles.  The Black Death, and a combination of other factors, led to the
decline of feudalism.  With increased trading with the East, new and different thoughts,
principles, and ideas came into Europe, and a renewed interest in secular education came
about.

Another reason for the Renaissance
was the printing press coupled
with humanism.  We have already defined humanism as a
revival of classical Greek and Roman thought and culture.  Humanism became a basis for
new works, paintings, sculptures, and texts.  These texts could now be widely
disseminated thanks to the printing press (a technology adapted from a wood-block press
invented in Tang/Song China in the 1000's CE).  The printing press allowed for fast
reproduction of text.  Because of this, single page pamphlets became the best ways to
share information.  This was crucial to Western European growth as a whole- instead of
waiting for cultures to independently develop new ideas and concepts, the information
could be shared as quickly as the pamphlet could be carried from merchant to merchant.
 

Another crucial reason that allowed for Renaissance was
the impact of the Black Death on Europe.  Carried over by
Mongols into trading ports on the Black and Caspian Sea, the Black Death arrived by
merchant ships to Sicily in 1347.  Within four years, thanks to a prevalence of plague
infected fleas and rats, plague had run its way through most of Europe (the areas that
are now known as Poland Belarus, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (among others) were not
affected), and up to 1/3 of the population is estimated to have died from plague.  This
impact the political situation in Europe because the plague knocked out an overwhelming
amount of peasants.  Because the feudal system in Europe relied heavily on the peasants
for food production, labor, and other services, a diminished labor force had major
consequences for production.  Those peasants that survived revolted against their
vassals (for they were doing more work for no greater reward) and eventually the feudal
system crumbled.  Peasants were granted land and money for their work; this made the
entire feudal system pointless.  A new political system was needed, and leaders sought
out different ideas for ruling their people.  This helped encourage learning and trade,
which both ushered in Renaissance.

What are y intercepts of the lines 6x + 7y = 35 , 6x - 3y = -15

We'll have to put the given equations in the standard
form:

y = mx + n, where m is the slope and n is y
intercept.

To put it into the standard form, we'll have to
isolate y to the left side. For this reason, we'll subtract 6x and add 35 both
sides:

7y = -6x + 35

We'll
divide by 7 both sides:

y = -6x/7 +
35/7

y = -6x/7 +
5

We notice that the y
intercept of the line
is 5.

6x-3y+15=0 

To
put it into the standard form, we'll have to isolate y to the left side. For this
reason, we'll subtract 6x and 15 both sides:

-3y = -6x -
15

We'll divide by 3 both
sides:

y = 2x +
5

We notice that the given
line has the y intercept of 5, also.

How does the setting of Things Fall Apart effect/reflect the characters, plot, themes and such?

The novel takes place at the turn of the 20th century, at
the end of the colonial period and beginning of the modern era.  Britain colonizes
Nigeria in an effort to keep up with the rest of the European colonial powers who are
dividing up Africa for its natural resources.  Although the slave trade had been banned,
the Ibo culture is threatened by extinction because of the institutional (churches,
legal system) and technological (weapons, infrastructure) advancements of the
Empire.

Setting is also important before the colonists
appear.  In the village itself, the important settings are as
follow:

• Okonkwo's compound: with its many huts,
  yam farm


• the Oracle of the Hills and
  Caves


• the Umuofian village in relation to the neighboring
  villages (Mbaino, etc...)


• the Evil
  Forest


• Mbanta (Okonkwo's exiled
  Motherland)

All of these places "fall apart" as
a result of the colonization.  The center of the village, Okonkwo's compound, becomes a
place of suicide, a portent that signals the end of his people's culture.  According to
his friend Obierka, Okonkwo was the greatest of men; therefore, his exile, death, a
destruction of property forms the void for the entire death of
Umuofia.

What day or date did Fudge have his birthday party on in Chapter 5?

As far as I can tell, there is nothing in the chapter that
tells us what date Fudge is born on.  We cannot really even tell what season of the year
it is.

But we can tell what day of the week the birthday
party is held on.  You can find that answer on the second page of Chapter 5.  On that
page, there is enough information to tell us that the party is held on a Saturday.  We
can tell the party is on a Saturday because Fudge and Peter's dad can't come.  The book
says that "He had a Saturday business appointment."  That implies to me that the party
is being held on a Saturday.

Who were the Aryans that Hitler constantly referred to?

I agree with the first
post.

There are actually a kind of people that are referred
to as Aryans.  However, many of these people are not the sort that Hitler would have
called Aryan.  In fact, the Aryans are originally from
India.

So Hitler essentially used the word "Aryan" to refer
to something that he made up.  In Hitler's racial terminology, Aryans were the only
people who could actually create a true civilization.  He believed that all
civilizations had been created by these Aryans who roamed around Eurasia creating
civilizations.  In modern times, Aryans had settled in Northern Europe.  As the first
answer says, they tended to be blonde and blue-eyed.  They lived in places like Germany,
the Scandianavian countries, Holland and England.

solve for x: sec^2x - tanx-3 = 0 2. 2x^2-18=9y^2 3. x^2+y^2-6x+4y=3 4. 25y^2-225+9x^2=0In 2,3,4 write the equation in...

To solve for x:

1) sec^2-tanx
-3 = 0

Solution:

sec^2x -
tanx-3 = 0

(tan^2x+1)-tanx-3 = 0, as sec^2x =tan^2x+1 is an
identity.

t^2-t-2 = 0, where t =
tanx

(t-2)(t+1) = 0

t=2 ,
t=-1,  x = arc tan2 = 63.435 deg approx , or 180 +63.435
deg.

t=1: x = arc tan 1 = 45 deg or 180+45
deg.

2.   
2x^2-18=9y^2

Solution:

2x^2-18
= 9y^2

2x^2 = 9y^2+18

x ^2 =
(9y^2+18)/2 = (9/2)(x^2+9)

x = + Or- 
{(9/2)(x^2-9)}^(1/2)

Standard form of 2x^2 -18 =
9y^2:

2x^2 -9y^2 = 18  equivalent
form

2x^2/18 -9y^2/18 = 1 equivalent
form

x^2/3^2 - y^2/(sqrt2)^2 = 1 is the standard form of
hyperbola:

X^2/a^2-Y^2/b^2=
1

3.    
x^2+y^2-6x+4y=3

Solution:

We 
use the formula of solution for the quadratic equation ax^2+bx+c =0. This has
solutions   {-b+or -sqrt(b^2-4ac)}/(2a)

Wrting as a
quadratic equation in x, we get:

x^2 -6x+(y^2+4y-3) =
0

a=1, b =-6 and c =
y^2+4a-3

x = {- -6 +or-
sqrt( (-6)^2-4*1(y^2+4y-3))}/(2*1)

=
{ (6+or-sqrt(48-y^2-16y)}/2

= {3 +or- 
sqrt(12-y^2-4)}

The standard form is the circle
 x^2+y^2+2gx+2fy+c =0 with (-g,-f) as centre and (g^2+f^2-c )^(1/2) as
radius.

Here x^2+y^2-6x+4y-3  is the circle  with (3, -2)
as centre and radius , ((3)^2+(-2)^2-(-3))^(1/2) =4.

4.    
25y^2-225+9x^2=0

Solution:

Re
arranging, 9x^2 = 225-25y^2

(3x)^2 = 25(9-y^2), Take the
sqre root.

3x = +or-  
sqrt{25(9-y^2)}

3x = +or-
5(9-x^2)^(1/2)

Standard form of ellipse is X^2+Y^2+b^2
=1

25y^2-225+9y^2 = 0 could be written as
:

25x^2+9y^2 = 225

25x^2/225
+9y^2/225 = 225/225

x^2/3^2+y^2/(5^2) =2,  , where 3 and 5
are the x semi minor  and y  (semi major) axis.

What is the practical use of equations of motion?In real life the equations v=u+at, v^2=u^2+2as,etc. have no use as many other factors like...

Of course, you're right:  the physics you are studying
make a great many simplifying assumptions (like the biologist who found the ideal food
for chickens, as long as the chickens were spherical).

The
purpose of studying in this way is not to have you design the next Space Shuttle, but
rather to show you how this sort of math works, and to introduce you to principles that
will be expanded later to handle real situations, if you decide to go into a scientific
or engineering profession.  If you can start with F = ma
and come up with relationships between mass, force, velocity, position, and time, you're
getting valuable practice.  And maybe getting a sense of elegance (meaning grace and
beauty) in this simplistic mathematics.

Newton himself
derived his three laws of motion according to an idealized universe where only the
masses and the forces that affected them existed.  He did not invent his formulas, but
derived them from basic principles; in the process he had to create the set of
mathematical tools -- the calculus -- to justify his conclusions.  In fact, his formulas
work pretty well for calculating the motions of the planets, because you can often
consider only mass, velocity, and the gravitational
force.

The reference gives a bunch of cross-references to
related ideas.  You might find it worth while to just take a look at some of them: not
necessarily to learn what they mean, but more to see what's out
there.

What do you think the title of the story means?

The phrase often refers to the malleability of human kind:
The ability that we all have to transform and be transformed by the many experiences we
endure throughout our life. Also, it is an allegory to the creation of man from the
group by God and the making of Adam. It is also the precursor to the phrase "from dust
you come, to dust  you will return", as the clay packs that same ethereal dust from
which man was supposedly created.

It also pays tribute to
the fact that we are not the strongest, nor the toughest, nor the most perfect. We are
simple creatures...made of clay. It is a call to humbleness, a remembrance of our
imperfections, and a reminder that all that we may destroy, we can create
again.

How does the mood in The Cask of Amontillad change as the story unfolds?How does the mood in The Cask of Amontillado change as the story unfolds?

Even though the first paragraph hints at trouble, the
intensity of the mood increases with each paragraph. A wine cellar in the basement was
normal, but this wine cellar was below the basement in the catacombs of the Montresors.
The spider webs and nitre hanging from the walls added a macabre touch. Montresor used
false sympathy, offering to turn back because of Fortunado's cough, to lure Fortunado
onward to his doom. When Montresor produced a trowel from his cloak, the poor, drunken
Fortunado still did not catch on. A niche in the wall with shackles and bricks with
mortar compound still did not penetrate his stupor. Only when Fortunado was shackled to
the wall did he begin to catch on. Hoping he was wrong, Fortunado laughed about the
splendid joke. Only joke, it was not. The jingling of bells and shackles as Montresor
worked allowed the reader to realize the horror of his slow death in the darkness. The
final plea "For the love of God" was only mocked by his soon to be
murderer.

How did the colonists and England differ in their attitudes concerning the rights of the colonists?If possible be specific I'm having trouble...

It does depend a little on what time frame you are
specifically referring to, as the disagreements and tension between the colonists and
Mother England was greater in the years immediately preceding the
Revolution.

Jefferson's long list of charges against the
King in the Declaration of Independence shed some light into what grievances the
colonists had in terms of what they believed to be their
rights. 

1) The colonists believed their local governments
should be given more authority to settle local issues, rather than being run from 3000
miles away and overruled at the King's discretion

2)  They
believed they should be tried in the colonies for crimes they were accused of, as
opposed to in England in front of the King's courts.

3) 
They believed they should not be taxed when they had no representative vote in
Parliament to oppose such taxes

4)  They also believed that
they should be free from military occupation by British troops according to the
Quartering Act, especially since they were not at war, and colonial towns were not
threatened when they were (The French and Indian War was fought on the frontier and the
open seas).  It was a practice, they noted grimly, that did not take place in
England.

If x^4 + x^3 + x^2 + x + 1 = 0 what is the value of the product (x1 + 1)(x2 + 1)(x3 +1)(x4 + 1) ?

The roots of the given equation are:x1, x2, x3,
x4.

We'll use Viete's
relations:

x1 + x2 + x3 + x4 = -b/a =
-1

x1*x2 + x1*x3 + x1*x4 + x2*x3 + x2*x4 + x3*x4 = c/a =
1

x1*x2*x3 + x1*x2*x4 + x1*x3*x4 + x2*x3*x4 = -d/a =
-1

x1*x2*x3*x4 = e/a = 1

We'll
calculate the product:

P =
(1+x1)(1+x2)(1+x3)(1+x4)

P = 1+(x1 + x2 + x3 + x4) + (x1*x2
+ x1*x3 + x1*x4 + x2*x3 + x2*x4 + x3*x4) + (x1*x2*x3 + x1*x2*x4 + x1*x3*x4 + x2*x3*x4) +
(x1*x2*x3*x4)

P = 1 - b/a + c/a - d/a + e/a = 1-1+1-1+1 =
1

P =
1

What is the device used in Hamlet, Act 1 Scene III, line 63?"Give thy thoughts no tongue / nor way unproportional thoughts his act."

There are a couple of devises used in this line on both a
small scale and on a large scale.  First, there are two figures of speech
(personification and metaphor)
working together.  In this speech of fatherly advice, spoken by Polonius, "Give thy
thoughts no tongue nor any unproportioned thoughts his act," he is simply reminding
Laertes to think before speaking and acting.  Here, "thoughts" are personified into
having a "tongue" and ability to act.  The use of the word "tongue" is also a metaphor
for speech.  In other words, Polonius is saying, Don't always say what you are
thinking and don't be too quick to act on your thoughts.

The bigger picture however, proves this quote
to also be ironic.  The very advice that Polonius gives his
son just before Laertes leaves for school, is not put into practice by the old man
himself.  This could very well be one argument for why Polonius meets an untimely and
early death.

Briefly describe the battle between Ajax and Hector in Homer's Iliad.

In the seventh book of Homer's Iliad,
the Trojan Helenus proposes that Hector fight a single combat with one of the Greeks to
determine the outcome of the war. Initially, all of the Greeks are too frightened to
accept the challenge, so they draw lots to determine who will be Hector's opponent. Ajax
"wins" this lottery. A description of Ajax arming himself for battle and a description
of his shield follows.

After some initial "trash-talking"
between the two warriors, Hector throws his spear, which penetrates six layers of Ajax's
shield, "But it stopped at the seventh." Ajax's spear-cast also strikes Hector's shield,
but Hector avoids being hit. Ajax then knocks Hector down with a massive stone, but
Apollo raises Hector up.

At this point, two heralds
intervene between the two men and stop the fighting since it is determined that
"Cloud-gatherer Zeus cares for you both" (Ian Johnston translation) and that night is
approaching.

The two warriors agree and exchange gifts to
indicate that they fought but became "reconciled and parted
friends."

What would be the possible theme for "August 2026: there will come soft rains?"

In addition to--paraphrasing William Wordsworth--people's
laying waste to their lives with the overuse of technology, Ray Bradbury's short story
"There Will Come Soft Rains" has as it theme Nature vs. Science.  For, as the very title
suggests, despite the devastation caused by technology/science, Nature is a more
puissant force.  While humans have created such a thing as the atom bomb, capable of
great destruction, yet scientifically able to counter this destruction with a house
that resists destruction by a formidable bomb, fire, a natural force, is capable of
destroying this house.  And, in the end, even though the house is destroyed, the earth,
albeit charred, remains. Thus, Bradbury's story points to the folly of machines that
will overrule natures.

What language techniques did Golding use in Lord of the Flies?

Clearly as this novel is a renowned example of literature
we can assume that there are many excellent examples of language techniques such as
imagery and figurative language that are used to make the novel come alive to the
reader. I am going to focus on one particular paragraph to highlight some of these, but
really, the novel is full of them, so after reading my example I would really encourage
you to examine the novel again and try and find your own examples. Consider this
quote:

The
shore was fledged with palm trees. These stood or leaned or reclined against the light
and their green feathers were a hundred feet up in the air. The ground beneath them was
a bank covered with coarse grass, torn everywhere by the upheavals of fallen trees,
scattered with decaying coconuts and palm saplings. Behind this was the darkness of the
forest proper and the open space of the scar. Ralph stood, one hand against a
grey trunk, and screwed up his eyes against the shimmering water. Out here, perhaps a
mile away, the white surf flinked on a coral reef, and beyond that the open sea was dark
blue. Within the irregular arc of coral the lagoon was still as a mountain lake - blue
of all shades and shadowy green and purple. The beach between the palm terrace and the
water was a thin stick, endless apparently, for to Ralph's left the perspectives of palm
and beach and water drew to a point at infinity; and always, almost visible, was the
heat.

This is an excellent
example of imagery - where writers appeal to the five senses to build a picture and make
it real to the reader. Also, there are some great examples of figurative language.
Consider how the leaves of the palm trees are described as "feathers" - this metaphor
comparing them to birds' feathers, but also emphasising the shade and softness that they
provide. The description of the ground with its "coarse grass, torn everywhere" and
"fallen trees" and "decaying coconuts" and the mention of the "scar" create stark visual
images that help us imagine the impact of the plane on the land. Note too the use of
colour to describe the water of the lagoon, which is "blue of all shades and shadowy
green and purple." Then finally consider the metaphor which describes the beach as a
"thin stick", separating the palm trees from the
water.

Hope this helps! Now go and look for some more
examples yourself! Good luck!

If f(x) = (3x-1)/(x^2 -2) find f ' (1)

f(x) = (3x-1)/(x^2 - 2)

Let
us differentiate f:

f(x) = u/v    such
that:

u= 3x-1   ==>   u' =
3

v= x^2 -2   ==>   v'=
2x

==> f'(x) = (u'v-
uv')/v^2

               = (3(x^2 - 2) - (3x-1)2x ]/(x^2
-2)^2

                = (3x^2 - 6 - 6x^2 + 2x)/(x^2 -
2)^2

                  = (-3x^2 + 2x - 6)/(x^2
-2)^2

Now let us substitute with x=
1

==> f'(1) = (-3 + 2 -
6)/(-1)^2

                 = -7/1 =
-7

==> f'(1) =
-7

Identify a character versus himself in the novel Lord of the Flies.

Your question has too many components, so I'll take the
first and go from there--the character who has the most inner conflict in Lord
of the Flies seems to be Ralph.  He looks most like a
leader, which is why he gets elected to that position.  The reality, though, is that
Ralph has trouble collecting his thoughts and can't really function well without the
help of Piggy.  Ralph is the one who has always dreamt of being someplace without any
adults; once he got it, he did his best but didn't really know what to do.  His inner
conflict shows itself physically:  he bites his nails until they bleed, he hates his
long hair hanging in his face, he is annoyed by his salt-encrusted clothes rubbing
against his skin.  These are simply pictures of his inner turmoil.  He's aware his
leadership is slipping on the outside; on the inside he is worried that he just can't
think well any more.  He is a physical being asked to do an intellectual job, and this
is a source of conflict in Ralph nearly from the
beginning.

Simon is in some conflict with his world and
even directly with the evil of his world.  Piggy is in a clear man vs. man conflict with
nearly everyone on the island.  Jack is in conflict with, well, I guess with the pigs
and then with the other three main characters.  The clearest inner
conflict, to me, is Ralph's.

What are the themes in "Frederiksted, Dusk" by Derek Walcott?

To find the themes of "Frederiksted, Dusk" by Derek
Walcott, let's start with trying to sort out the meaning of this complicated poem. It is
a kind of transcendental poem that addresses the transcendence of life over death by a
poetical examination of objectified life experiences (e.g., staring at sunset; tanning
on a rock) and by philosophically reflecting on that which has been objectified, thus
transcending (rising above) objectifications.

The poem
starts out like a narrative with perhaps the commonest of all sorts of people as the
protagonists, old men "set down ... outside the almshouse," or the poor house. The
narrative-like current of the poem goes on to compare the old men's "level stare of
light" to a "girl tanning on a rock" who "fills with light," connecting them again
further down the poem with references back to the light-filled, youthful girl: "would
shine in them"; "substantial light and insubstantial
stone."

The transcendent process begins right at the start
of the poem in the opening metaphor and simile Walcott employs: sunset is a picture
show; old men are like empty bottles set down in the morning (like empty milk bottles
set out to be picked up). Walcott then launches a series of completely impossible
figures of speech, a trope called
catachresis: "the rising evening brim
their eyes"; "level stare of light"; "more than mortality brightened air"; a girl who
"fills with light."

The narrative fades out after the girl
full of light on the rock and the focus changes to philosophical musings on "Whatever it
is / that leaves bright flesh like sand," thus transcending the objectified narrative.
The main topic is death ("leaves ... flesh ... and turns it chill"), but it is death
with an incongruous twist examining the complex realities between the "simplicities" of
"life and death."

This "Whatever it is" is a "state," a
"collective will," that shines--like the light that fills the girl--in the dying old
men. The "state" waited ("a state ... and it waited") like the girl also waited ("it
waited too") in the incongruity of
substantial  light and insubstantial
stone. The message derived from the poem is that human inner being, inner
light, transcends over both the substantially real misfortune of being set out like an
empty bottle in front of almshouse and the equally substantially real rock to lay and
tan on.

The themes now emerge
a little more clearly. The major theme is as stated before, that being the transcendence
of life over death. Another is the transcendence of humanity's inner light over
objectified reality. Another is the shared resource and essence of light: the sunset and
the old men shared a stare because they share essential light, one source of the shared
light being the Sun, the other source the inner being of
humanity.

What is the main idea for Chapter 1 of The Great Gatsby?I need a single main idea for every chapter I dont need the overall main idea of the...

Here is chapter 1:

A lot is
learned in this first chapter. We find out where Nick is from, we find out he was in the
war, we find out he decides to go East to earn a living, we find out he is a distant
cousin of Daisy, we are introduced to the cultures of East and West Egg, and we hear
rumors of the mysterious Jay Gatsby. So, in one
sentence:

A fairly well-to-do young man from a
prominent mid-West family returns from the war, decides to go East to earn a living, and
finds himself living next to a wealthy distant cousin and an incredibly rich and
ostentatious mystery man named Jay Gatsby.

A lot
of background information and character development occurs in chapters 2, and 3, but to
sum up in one sentence:

Chapter
2:

Daisy’s husband Tom Buchanan is having an
affair with Myrtle Wilson, the wife of a mechanic, and Tom introduces Myrtle to
Nick.

 Chapter
3:

Nick attends one of Jay Gatsby’s elaborate
parties where he hears many rumors about Gatsby and visits with Jordan
Baker.

How do any of the television programs you watch reinforce positive or negative views of government? Do you think that cartoons, television,...

Good question.  As I pondered the idea of government in
each of the media you mentioned (cartoons, music, movies, television), I could think of
examples in each which both support and mock or satirize  the authority of government. 
So the short (and rather lame) answer has to be that it depends on the cartoonist's,
musician's, director's, or producer's point of view. 

I
will say this, though--it's much easier to lampoon or satirize all authority, government
included, than to praise it.  Look at the comics, and anything political is making fun
of the government rather supporting it.  Movies in which there is political corruption
or ineptitude are way more common than movies where the President or the politicians are
heroes (such as Independence Day).  Television shows are rarely set
in the political arena; when they are there is generally a perspective and practice of
corruption.  (My favorite TV series of all time, West Wing, is a
glaring exception to the rule.) Music which concerns itself at all with such matters is
either patriotic and supportive of the country (with rare references to actual political
offices) or hating "the man" who's in charge.

It seems to
me what is more prevalent in each of these venues is an attitude toward
authority--parents, law enforcement, the courts, teachers...anyone who is an authority
figure.  They're villified or made to look foolish many more times than they're
portrayed as the actual heroes or authorities they are in real life.  And that's across
the board in movies, cartoons, television, and music.

An
interesting idea to think about to start my morning.  Thanks!

Select 3 adjectives that best describe Edmond Dantes's personality and explain an incident or passage that supports the meaning of the adjective.

A complex character of Alexandre Dumas's tale of revenge
and redemption, Edmund Dantes exhibits certain saliet
traits:

INGENUOUS

In
the opening chapters of The Count of Monte Cristo, Edmund Dantes is
certainly an ingenuous young man.  Ever the dutiful frst mate, Edmund, who knows nothing
of the political world of his time, delivers the letter from Captain Leclerc to Elba
where the banished emperor, Napolen, resides.  After he must bring the ship to port when
the captain dies, Edmund does not notice the looks of hatred that Danglars casts his
way.  Then, at his wedding feast, Edmund innocently acknowledges his good fortune in
possessing the love of the beautiful Mercedes as he sits with Ferdinand, Danglars, and
Caderousse
present.

LOYAL

After Edmund
Dantes effects his escape and learns of how Monsieur Morrel aided his poor father, he
comes to the aid of the shipowner upon learning that all but one of his merchant ships
have sunk.  By leaving the red purse with money for M. Morrel, the purse which Morrel
himself has filled for M. Dantes in his impoverishment and misery while his son has been
condemned to prison.  Using the pseudonym of "Sinbad the Sailor," Dantes staves off M.
Morrel's suicide.  Later, Dantes comes to the aid of Morrel's son, Maximilian by saving
the life of his beloved, Valentine deVillefort and by uniting the two lovers, redeeming
them both from
despair.

INGENIOUS

Exploiting
the vices and weaknesses of his enemies, Dantes systematically and most cleverly wreaks
revenge upon the enemies who have sent him unjustly to prison.  For instance, in order
to destroy the prosecutor Dantes fabricates the character of the Count of Calvacanti,
who woos de Villefort's daughter to the delight of the avaricious Prosecutor who sees
the match as a profitable one.  However, Calvacanti (Benedetto) is no Italian noble. 
When this is exposed, de Villefort, unsuspectingly demands justice and puts the young
man on trial.  During this trial, however, it is revelaed that the former criminal
had witnessed years ago de Villefort's burial of his illegitimate child.  When this
information is revealed in court, de Villefort's reputation as a man of honor is
destroyed and he later goes insane.

PROVIDENTIAL (tied to
the above adjective INGENIOUS)

In an intimate conversation
with de Villefort in Chapter 49, the Count of Monte Cristo
reveals

I wish
to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing
in the world is to recompense and
punish.

Not only does Monte
Cristo create ingenious plots, but he feels that he is the "Paraclete" who wreaks "an
eye for an eye" and rewards the just.  However, although Monte Cristo commits the sin of
pride in feeling that he is an agent of Providence, he does achieve redemption in the
end of the novel.  In a letter to Maxmilian:

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Tell the angel who is going to watch over you,
Morrel, to pray for a man who, like Satan, believed for the moment he was the equal of
God, who now acknowledges in all Christian humility that in God alone is supreme power
and infinite wisdom.... 

How does someone get the shingles?

Shingles is caused from the same virus that causes chicken
pox. Sometimes the virus goes dormant (in the nerve roots) never to reappear, but
sometimes it awakens. Years later, it may reappear for many reasons including illnesses,
weakened immune system, or stress. Shingles can be very painful and often causes a
rash.

Shingles itself is not contagious but a person who
has shingles can spread the chicken pox virus to someone who has never had chicken
pox.

Like chicken pox, shingles needs to run its course but
there are medications that can be taken to hurry the process up and alleviate some of
the symptoms.

What is the significance of the fact that General Zaroff sings a tune from Madame Butterfly after Rainsford jumps off the cliff?I don't think that...

This is a very interesting question!  I'm not sure that I
have the answer you're looking for, but I think that one aspect of the plot of Puccini's
Madame Butterfly might be
significant. 

Though the opera's story is somewhat
complicated (and much of it isn't relevant for your purposes), in a nutshell, it's about
a Japanese woman (Butterfly) and an American soldier (Pinkerton) who get married and who
live atop a hill--or cliff--overlooking the city and the bay.  The cliff is significant,
as the journey to the top of it is difficult, yet Butterfly insists that more difficult
is the anticipation of seeing her husband.  At the beginning of the opera, the cliff is
significant, because it represents Butterfly's
happiness.

However, Pinkerton returns to America, leaving
Butterfly in Japan for a few years, and refusing to acknowledge that Pinkerton might not
want to come back for her, Butterfly fantasizes that she is on the top of a cliff and
sees her husband's ship coming toward her.  She says she won't go down the cliff to meet
him, but that he will come to her. 

Pinkerton does return,
eventually, but it is with his new American wife, Kate.  Butterfly becomes so distraught
that she commits suicide so that the child she bore years earlier with Pinkerton may go
to America with him and his new wife and have a better life.  Thus, the cliff, which was
once a place of joy and hope, becomes one of tragedy. (Just as, perhaps, Zaroff hopes
the cliff on Ship-Trap Island will become
for Rainsford.) 

In "The Most Dangerous Game," it's
probable that Connell's knowledge of Puccini's opera--and its setting--gave him the idea
for what is certainly a subtle yet complex allusion to Madame
Butterfly. 

As I said before, I'm not sure if
this is the information that you're looking for.  But I hope it
helps! 

In Sonnet 43 of Elizabeth Barrett Browning the lines I love thee freely, as men strive for Right I love thee purely, as they turn from praise...

This whole poem is a list of all the different ways the
speaker loves the person the poem addresses.  Elizabeth Browning was writing this to her
true love, Robert Browning.  In these two lines she is expressing the pureness of her
love for him.  When she states that she loves him freely, she means no one else is
'making her' love him.  She loves him because it is what her heart is telling her to
do.  She compares that feeling to the feeling of men who do the right thing just because
it is the right thing to do.  The next line follows up that idea.  She says, "I love
thee purely as they turn from praise" meaning I love you genuinely for the sake of love,
not because I will be praised for it.  Just as good men don't do the right thing for
praise, they do it because it is the right thing to do.  These two lines work together
to compare her love to the actions and attitudes of good men.

Describe Professor Faber and his values in Fahrenheit 451.

Faber is the one redeeming individual that Montag meets in
the story who still thinks. What's better, Faber doesn't necessarily need books to
think, he is one who still indeed uses his brain.

This
novel is a sort of dystopia. In the middle section of modern dystopian literature, we
often see this character who gives the glimmer of hope to the everyman character that
acts as the novel's protagonist.

Faber seems to very much
value his privacy and acts on his intellect, but he also seems to know that the society
is on its way to nowhere, so he willingly helps Montag. Faber values putting together a
plan and sticking with it. He values technology only as it assists man, not as it
defines man.

On what type of conflict (man vs man, man vs himself, man vs circumstance or man vs society) is the story "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant based?

Having served as a civil servant himself, Guy de
Maupassant often satirized the class to which these civil servants belonged.  Often his
works contain subtle social commentary.  Such a story is "The Necklace" in which
Mathilde Loisel is

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one of those pretty and charming girls, born, as
if by an accident of fate, into a family of clerk.  With no dowry, no prospects, no way
of any kind of being met, understood, loved, and married by a man both prosperous and
famous, se was finally married to a minor clerk in the Ministry of
Education.

In this first
paragraph, Maupassant already sets Mme. Loisel in conflict with society.  For she could
easily have been a lady had her parents been wealthy.  Consequently, she is as "unhappy
as a woman who has come down in the world" because she
possesses

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natural poise,...instinctive good taste, and
..[the] mental cleverness [that] make daughters of the common people the equals of
ladies in high society.

Thus,
because Mathilde Loisel realizes that she could be the equal of aristocratic ladies, she
is discontent and places excessive value upon material possessions as she perceives
monetary things being the means to higher positions in society.  This is why she thinks
that Mme. Forestier has loaned her a real diamond necklace, for in her mind, no wealthy
woman would possess faux diamonds; this is why she does not confess to Mme. Forestier
that she has lost the necklace.  She is too proud to admit such a fault, already feeling
inferior. 

Throughout the narrative of Maupassant's story,
Mme. Loisel sees herself as the "accident of fate" as Maupassant writes in the first
paragraph.  She is meant to be a lady, but is denied this role because she is the child
of a civil servant and has married a civil servant.  Her obsession with this idea
prevents her from appreciating what a kind, generous person her husband is, and what a
kind friend Mme Forestier has been.  Thus, Mme. Loisel's conflict with her social
position becomes internalized and is, then, an internal conflict of person versus self. 
Indeed, it is her pride that causes her to live the miserable years in payment for the
diamond necklace.

Determine the set of values of m for which both roots of equation x^2 - (m+1)x + m+4 = 0 are real and negative.

x^2-(m+1)x+m+4 = 0. To decide the values of m so that the
roots are
negative.

Solution:

 We know
that x^2 -(m+1)x + (m+1)^2/4 is a perfect square
{x-(m+1)/2}^2.

Therefore by adding and subtracting
[(m+1)^2]/4, the given expression becomes:

{(x-(m+1)/2)^2 -
(m+1)^2/4 + (m+4) = 0

(x-(m+1)/2)^2 =  {(m+1)^2-4(m+4)}/4 =
(m^2-2m-15)/4

Therefore, taking square root, we get the
roots:

x1 =  (m+1)/2 + (1/2)sqrt(m^2-2m-15)
Or

X2 = (m+1)/2 -
(1/2)sqrt(m^2-2m-15).

x1 and x2 are real if  the
discriminant  (m+1)^2-4(m+4) =m^2-2m-15 > 0 Or (m+3)(m-5) > 0. Or  for
m<-3  or m >5, the roots are
real...........(R)

Again, satisfying the above
coditions, the both roots are -ve.So

x1<0 and x2
<0 so that x1x2 > 0 or x1x2 = m+4 >
0.

Or m > -4.

Also
x1+x2 =  - {-(m+1)} < 0  Or m+1  <0  Or

m
< -1.

So the condtions for m is  -4 < m
< -1  .................(N) for both roots to be
negative.

So combining  the conditions for reality as at
(R) and negativity as at (N), we should have the condtion for
m:

{ (m<-3) Or (m>5)} & {-4 <m
<-1)} =  (-4 < m < -1
)

So if m belongs to the open
interval  ]-4, -1 [ , both the roots of x^2-(m+1)x+m+4 = 0
are real and
-ve.

Verification:

m=-3, x^2
-(-3+1)x+(-3+4) = 0  or x^2+2x +1has x = -2+or- sqrt (4-8) .
Satisfying.

m=-5: Equation is x^2+4x-1 = 0,  x= -4+or-
sqrt(16+4) ....one root is ppsitive. So the condition does not hold when m
<-4.

m = +6: Equation is x^2 -(6+1)x+ (6+4) = 0. The
roots are : 6+or-sqrt(7^2-4*10) both the roots are positive.

Crankshaft is subjected to pulls F1 and F3 parallel to z axis and F2 and F4 parallel to y axis .What are bearring reactions at A and B if the pulls...

The total reaction in A is parallel to the total reaction
in B, it is equal in magnitude with B and it is opposite in
direction.

The 2 total reactions form a couple, since
F1-F3, F2-F4 form couples when the forces are of
equal magnitude.

We'll write the equations of
equilibrium:

Sum of torques of z axis =
0

+F2(a+b)-F4(a+3b)+By(2a+3b) =
0

-Ay(2a+3b) - F2(a+2b) + F4*a =
0

Sum of torques of y axis =
0

-F1*a + F3(a+2b) - Bz(2a+3b) =
0

Az(2a+3b) + F1(a+3b) - F3(a+b) =
0

We'll consider F1=F2=F3=F4=F and we'll open the brackets
and we'll have:

Fa + Fb - Fa - 3Fb + 2aBy + 3bBy =
0

We'll eliminate and combine like
terms:

-2Fb + 2aBy + 3bBy = 0
(1)

- 2aAy - 3bAy - Fa - 2bF + Fa =
0

We'll eliminate and combine like
terms:

- 2aAy - 3bAy - 2bF = 0
(2)

-Fa + Fa + 2bF - 2aBz -3bBz =
0

2bF - 2aBz -3bBz = 0
(3)

2aAz+3bAz + Fa+ 3bF - Fa + Fb =
0

We'll eliminate and combine like
terms:

2aAz+3bAz + 4bF = 0
(4)

Bz =
2bF/(2a+3b)

By =
2bF/(2a+3b)

Az =
-2bF/(2a+3b)

Ay =
-2bF/(2a+3b)

How can one relate the following quote by Tupac Shakur to The Great Gatsby: "Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real."?

Gatsby is a good example of one who does not let reality
interfere with the conviction of his dreams.  He dreams of reuniting with Daisy--a
somewhat realistic goal which he succeeds in achieving.  But he also believes firmly
that he can turn back time.  He wants to return to the time when he first met Daisy and
begin again.  Nick tells him that he cannot repeat the past, to which Gatsby
replies,

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"Can't repeat the past. Why of course you
can!"

To that effect, he
encourages Daisy to leave Tom and tell Tom that she never loved him.  When this
confrontation takes place in the Plaza Hotel, Daisy backs out, crying to Gatsby, "You
want too much."  Even after this incident, Gatsby still cllings to the hope that Daisy
will need him as her protector against Tom and come to him.  He waits outside her house
looking for a signal from Daisy.  Even Nick at this point knows that Gatsby's dreams are
unrealizable and that Gatsby was like a boat

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"against the current, borne back ceaselessly into
the past." 

 Gatsby dream of
returning to the time he met Daisy,  that summer in Louisville full of "youth and
mystery," was real for Gatsby. Gatsby ignored the reality of Daisy's love for Tom, her
life without him,  and her daughter.

What is the importance and significance of dreams in A Midsummer Night's Dream?

Well, of course the title of the play suggests that the
whole event is, in itself, a dream.  And at the end, Puck says to the
audience:

If
we shadows have offended

Think but this and all is mended
--

That you have but slumbered
here

While these visions did
appear.

And this weak and idle
theme

No more yielding but a
dream.

While it seems in
these lines that Puck is apologizing to the audience if they, perchance, did not like
the play, he is also gently chiding those who might take it all too seriously.  "This is
a play, people," he might be saying.  "Lighten up!  Enjoy!  It isn't intended to be any
more logical or real than a dream you might have."

Hermia
is a character who actually falls asleep and has a dream in the play.  When she lies
down beside her true love to sleep in the forest, she awakens to find that he has
"fallen in love" with Helena.  Hermia screams for Lysander's help to "pluck this serpent
from my breast," which indicates that she has dreamed that a snake has come to attack
her, a common dream image of treachery, foreshadowing her assumption that Helena has
"come by night" and "stolen my love's heart from
him."

Bottom and Titania both claim to have dreamed their
drug-induced romance, but while Titania sees her dream of loving an "ass" as a
nightmare, Bottom seems inspired by the events he considers to have been a dream.  He
says that he will have a play written about it, of course casting himself as the star,
called "Bottom's Dream."  In this idea, he suggests somewhat the process of the
playwright.  Dreams could be the source of the playwright's ideas and
plots.

Of course, there are many more connections between
dreams and the play to be made.  Please follow the links below for more information on
"dreams" in Midsummer.

Why does a capacitor block DC current, but allow AC current to pass through?

The way capacitors and resistors behave is totally
different. While resistors allow a current to flow through them which is proportional to
the voltage drop across the resistor, capacitors oppose a change in voltage across them
by either drawing in or supplying current as they charge or discharge resp. The flow of
current through a capacitor is thus directly proportional to the rate of change of
voltage across it.

This is given by the relation, i = C*
(de/dt) where de/dt is the instantaneous change in
voltage.

As the voltage does not change in the case of DC,
de/dt = 0 and the current that is allowed to pass through by the capacitor is 0. For AC
voltage the voltage changes in a regular manner. Hence here de/dt is not 0 and a current
is allowed to flow through by the capacitor.

In the book Animal Farm, Why do the animals agree with Squealer's new history of the farm?

When Orwell introduces Squealer in Chapter 2, he describes
him as a very persuasive talker who jumps around and wiggles his tail in a way that
makes others believe him. He is said to be able to make them believe that "black is
white."

In chapter 7, Squealer recreates a questoned event
very graphically and, "when Squealer described the scene so graphically, it seemed to
the animals that they did remember it."

Another means of
persuasion he uses is to convince the other animals that they are stupid and he is
intelligent. He does this by using words that they don't understand, like "tactics"
(chapter 5)

Also, he begins to use the threat that if they
don't believe him, somehow that will cause Mr. Jones to return to the farm--something
that none of the animals want. He never explains how a leads to b, he just leaves the
threat hanging there.

Then, he gathers some dogs to look
mean and growl in chapter 5 so that if the people don't agree right away, they feel
threatened.

In chapter 6, when some of the animals begin to
object and say that there had been a prohibition against trade, Squealer asks
them,

" Are
you certain that this is not something that you have dreamed, comrades? Have you any
record of such a resolution? Is it written down anywhere?" And since it was certainly
true that nothing of the kind existed in writing, the animals were satisfied that they
had been mistaken."

In the
same chapter, when some of the animals begin to question the rightness of the pigs, who
have moved into the farmhouse, sleeping in beds. Clover thinks that she remembers one of
the commandments being against beds, but she can't read the list herself. She gets
Muriel to read it for her and discoveres that it says "No animal shall sleep in a bed
with sheets," This is obviously one of the commandments that has been changed after the
fact, but since nobody ever actually sees Squealer changing the commandments, then they
have to believe that it is their own memories that are to fault.

What does the threat of a "pointy reckoning" reveal about Abigail's true nature?

Abigail is not exactly the most moral person in Salem
village, as she has already engaged in an adulterous affair with John Proctor and now
she is involved in the fraud that was the Salem Witch Trials.  In Arthur Miller's play,
once the accusations have started flying and the trials are in motion, things become
much more serious and we see a side of Williams not revealed before.  If word gets out
that the story of witchcraft was a lie, she could lose her life, and in her desperation
to protect herself, she makes a direct threat against Mary Warren, who is nervous and
feels guilty for her part in the charade.  The "pointy" being a knife, and the
"reckoning" being a stabbing.  It reveals the lengths she will go to, and her potential
for violence if necessary.

What does this mean? "And, again, he saw himself in a green parl talking to an old man, a very old man, and the wind from the park was cold...

This line comes from the part after the old lady burned
herself up, where Montag is starting to feel that something is wrong with his society. 
He is looking at the lists of banned books and starts thinking of the park and the cool
wind.

To me, what is going on here is that Montag is
starting to feel unhappy with the society.  I think that you need to focus on two
things.  First, you should think about how there is an emphasis on cool in this
passage.  I think this is supposed to contrast with fire and the heat of the current
society.  So the cool symbolizes that Montag is thinking of a different kind of
society.  Second, you should think about who the old man is.  I think it is Faber.  I
think that this is foreshadowing how Montag will use Faber as a resource for his
rebellion against the society.

What affect, if any, did the abolitionist movement have on changing the opinions of northerners regarding slavery?

It's important to note that most northerners did not
believe in black equality, even after the Civil War.  In general, this was a racist
country, and would remain so for quite some time.  The abolitionist movement was a
minority, even by 1861 when the war started.  Most northerners believed that slavery was
OK if a state wanted it, they just didn't think it should spread farther west into new
territories.

What the abolitionist movement did, and this
took a considerable amount of time to achieve, was that it raised awareness of slavery,
and how brutal the institution was.  The movement did grow, especially in the 1850s, due
to influential speakers, writers and the influences of the churches.  But many
abolitionists, like John Brown or William Lloyd Garrison, were dismissed by the
mainstream of the North as too radical, and their influence was therefore more limited
than that of say, Frederick Douglass or Harriet Beecher Stowe.

In J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, who is it that must sleep in a cradle?

When Wendy goes to live with the lost boys, she becomes
their mother and cares for them in every way. Though she fears she does not have the
qualifications, she quickly takes on the responsibilities that a mother would, including
darning their socks and scolding when necessary.

They have
many adventures, and Wendy is always there to keep house for them and tell them
stories.

One thing Wendy does is tell Michael he must sleep
in a cradle. He feels he is much too old for this, but Wendy says their home must have a
cradle and he is the smallest of the boys, so he must sleep in the
cradle.

Why is Lenina's looking at the moon important?

In literature, the moon usually symbolizes mystery and
imagination.

Here's examples of the moon connected with
Lenina:

• The moon is first mentioned early and
  connected with how she was sleeptaught as a child about Epsilons: "Even Epsilons are
  useful."


• Later, Huxley says Lenina is appalled by the
  pale face of the moon.


• She mentions the moon and sea on
  the date with Bernard.


• Franny's face is described as
  "moon-like."

Huxley is trying to show that
Lenina has no sense of mystery and imagination.  Her memories are vague and empty.  She
is pulled in no direction.  For her, the moon has lost its symbolic value.  To her, the
night is simply night, and the moon is simply the moon.  There's no mystical or
religious attraction to it for a Beta like Lenina.

However,
the moon is still important to the Savages, especially John.  John will eventually be
Lenina's moon: he will give her a sense of mystery and imagination when they meet in the
second half of the novel.

What plea of Hester’s arouses sympathy and admiration in Chillingsworth? (chapter 14) Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

As Hester Prynne speaks in confidence to her former
husband in Chapter XIV of The Scarlet Letter, Roger Chillingworth
asks her,

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"And now what wouldst thou with me touching this
man?"

"I must reveal the secret," answered Hester firmly. 
"He must discern thee in thy true character.  What may be the result I know not.  But
this long debt of confidence, due from me to him, whose bane and ruin I have been, shall
at length be paid.  So far as concerns the overthrow or preservation of his fair fame
and his earthly state, and perchance his life, he is in my hands....nor do I perceive
such advantage in his living any longer a life of ghastly emptiness, that I shall stoop
to implore thy mercy.  Do with him as thou wilt!  There is no good for him,--no good for
me,--no good for thee!  There is no good for little Pearl!  There is no path to guide us
out of this dismal
maze."

This response of
Hester expresses her sense of looming fate upon her and Arthur Dimmesdale.  She feels
since she and the minister and Pearl and Chillingworth, are doomed by fate, Dimmesdale's
sin may as well be exposed and Chillingworth may as well do as he wishes to the
minister, for thy are fated, there "is no path to guide us out of this dismal
maze."

Hearing the plea of Hester, Roger Chillingworth
is

unable to
restrain a thrill of admiration, too, for
there was a quality almost majestic in the despair which she
expressed.

"...I pity thee,
for the good that has been wasted in thy
nature."

Hester further
pleads with him to

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"...Forgive, and leave his further retribution
to the Power that claims it!....There might be good for theee, and thee alone, since
thou hast been deeply wrong and hast it at thy will to pardon.....Wilt thou reject that
priceless benefit?"

But,
Chillingworth contradicts her, contending that he has no power to forgive
Dimmesdale:

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"My old faith, long forgotten, comes back to me,
and explains all that we do, and all we suffer....It is our
fate."

This chapter closes on
the dismal grey note of Puritanism's--Chillingworth's "old faith"--condemnation of the
sinner, its sealing of the sinner's fate.  For, it does not good to pardon, or to reveal
one's sin; the sinner is yet condemned. This is why Hester says that it serves no
purpose the scarlet letter removed, it does not good for her to ask Chillingworth--"do
as thou wilt"--since hers and Dimmesdale's fates are sealed.  At the same time,
Hawthorne suggests his theme with Hester's idea of Dimmesdale's revealing his
sin. Hawthorne gives this thought succinct words in the
Conclusion:

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"Be true!  Be true! Be true!  Show freely to the
world, if not your worst, yet some trait wherby the worst may be
inferred!"