A man is employed to count to RS.10710.He counts @180/- per min for 1/2 hrAfter this he counts @3/-less every min than preceding min.time taken?

Let n be the time taken in minutes, after half an
hour.

Then in half an hour he counts @180 /min an amount =
 30*180 and left out amount = 10710 - 30*180 = 5310.

Now he
counts 180-3  i1st min = 177.

In the 2nd  min he counts
180-2*3 = 174 .

 In  the nth minute he cnts = 180 -3n
.

Therefore the sum of the money in n minutes = 177+176+173
+.... 180-3n  which should be equal to 5310 

LHS = 3
(59+58+57+....60-n) , n terms  = 5310.

LHS is an AP  with 
common difference -1. So sum = (1st term +last term)/2

3
(59+60-n)n/2 = 5310

(110-n)n = (5310*2/3 =
3540

110n-n^2 = 3540

n^2 -110n
+3540 = 0

(n-60)(n-59) = 0

n =
60 Or n = 59.

So it take 59 minutes  after half an hour
when the sum  becomes 5310 . And in the 60th minutes after 1/2 hour  he does mot have
any thing to count and his speed of counting  reduces to 0 per
minute.

So the total time require = (1/2) hour+59 min = 89
min.

At what angle does a missile have to be launched to cover the greatest distance.

The path taken by by object projected in any upward
direction other than the vertical, moves under the influence of two forces. These are
the momentum of the object due to the velocity at the time of launch of the object, and
the force of gravity. In this way the object takes a parabolic path moving upward as
well as forward in horizontal direction. The horizontal velocity of the object,
neglecting the air resistance remains constant, but due to the force of gravity the
upward velocity gets reduced till the object reaches a maximum height, when the velocity
becomes zero. Beyond this point the object continues to move forward in horizontal
direction at uniform velocity but with increasing downward velocity. This continues till
the object hit the ground.

The total horizontal distance
covered by the object for a given velocity of launch depends on two things. The
horizontal component of the velocity and the time for the object to hit the ground after
launch. This horizontal component of velocity is maximum in the horizontal direction,
and reduces as the angle of launch with respect to horizontal is increased. At 90
degrees the horizontal component of velocity reduces to zero. On the other hand the
height to which the object will rise and the total time for which it will remain
airborne is zero at horizontal angle of zero, and maximum at angle of 90
degrees.

The total horizontal distance travelled by the
object is thus maximum at a point in between the two. This point occurs at an angle of
launch of 45 degrees to the horizontal.

Why, in the long run, will a farm earn just a normal profit?

A farm will earn only a normal profit if it is in perfect
competition.  Many textbooks give farms as a possible example of this market
structure.

In perfect competition, the firms (or in this
case farms) are producing a homogeneous product.  That means the produce from one farm
is just the same as that from another so buyers will not prefer one farm to
another.

In perfect competition, it is easy for new firms
to start up.

If you put these two together, you can see why
the farm earns only a normal profit.  If a farm is earning economic profit, others will
see that and they will want to farm as well.  Since it is easy to get started, more
farms will spring up.  Since the product is homogeneous, buyers will not prefer any
farm's products so the prices will have to be the same for all
farms.

This means that the prices that all farms receive
will have to go down if they are making economic profit.  If economic profit is made,
more farms enter the market.  They drive the price down until only a normal profit is
made.

In Act 2 Scene 1, what does Brutus refusing to swear an oath reveal about his character traits?

To start with, it is Cassius, in this scene, who suggests
that all the conspirators take an oath that they will stand together.  The fact that
Shakespeare uses this speech as a way for Brutus to disagree with Cassius foreshadows
all the conflict that will emerge between these two characters later in the
play.

Aside from opposing Cassius, Brutus is taking a stand
based upon the driving force of his character -- honor.  He wants the conspirators to
stand together based upon their word as Romans ("what other oath than honesty to honest
engaged"), rather than swearing to it.  Shakespeare is able to show, in this moment when
the conspirators don't swear an oath, that they are more strongly swayed by Brutus than
by Cassius, so his honor is a strength for him among his
comrades.

However, honor is key to Brutus' strength
and his weakness.  The Rome that Shakespeare portrays, doesn't
offer much political success to Brutus and his honor.  He is driven out of Rome on the
heels of Antony's emotional plea to the citizens to avenge the death of Caesar.  It is
interesting to note that Antony repeatedly calls Brutus an "honorable" man in this
speech, and it's unclear whether it intends it as a compliment or
not.

What is subversive comedy?

In a feminist criticism, subversive comedy refers to the
concept of female writers using various comedy constructs to point out, undermine and
subvert the traditional hierarchy of paternalistic reality. In other words, authors like
Fanny Burney to Jane Austen through Muriel Spark use comedy elements such as irony,
sarcasm, burlesque, satire and parody to examine cultural and societal prejudices
against women. the aim of this examination is to undermine the established male norm in
order to speed the downfall of Western dependence upon a patriarchal society governed by
men who govern and define women.

Some examples of works in
the subversive comedy vein are Fanny Burney's Evelina or the History of a
Young Lady’s Entrance into the World, Jane Austen's Sense and
Sensibility and Lady Susan (among others) and Muriel
Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Though Shakespeare doesn't
fall under the feminist criticism definition of subversive comedy, his comedies might be
said to fulfill the function of subversive comedy. Plays like As You Like It,
Much Ado About Nothing, and Twelfth Night might be said
to undermine the Renaissance doctrine of the innate superiority of males. In fact, it
might also be said that the reverse is true, that these plays prove the innate equality
of women with men as the hero's of these plays turn out to be the heroines themselves,
as Hero's name points out.

How do the spectra of the other elements compare with the spectrum of a light bulb and the spectrum of hydrogen?Why is the light that is emitted by...

Hydrogen is the simplest atom with one electron. The
electron in cold hydrogen is in its "ground state" which means it is orbitting as close
to the nucleus as it can get. The electron can be given energy by heat, electricity etc.
This can cause it to move away from the nucleus or jump to a higher "orbit". This is
called excitation.

Satellites orbiting the Earth can make
an almost infinite series of small increases in orbital radius but electrons cannot do
that due to quantisation of energy at these microscopic sizes. This means that the
electron can only ocupy certain discreet orbits.

An excited
electron in hydrogen may jump to any "allowed' orbit (properly called orbital) and may
fall straight back to the ground state when the energy it gained to make the jump is
released as a single photon of definite frequency and hence colour. Or it may fall
through any permutation of orbitals releasing photons of other frequencies. This is the
cause of the line spectrum seen in a spectroscope. A neat homemade spectroscope can be
made from a CD disc.

Every other element does this but
because there are different numbers of electrons and different nuclear charge affecting
their allowed orbitals they produce different line
spectra.

Tungsten filament lamps (globes) emit a seemingly
continuous spectrum similar to a rainbow because of the much larger number of electrons
emitting a very large number of close frequencies. Individual lines can be resolved with
a suitably sensitive spectroscope. This routinely done with
starlight.

One useful element for economical street lamps
is sodium (as an excited vapour) which has a particular electron transition (jump) that
produces a bright yellow light.

Some types of street lamp
use mercury vapour which emits UV photons that then excite a fluorescent material to
emit visible light.

On what part of the body is the bone tissue located?

Bone tissue is found all over the body. The skull or
cranium is bone tissue, it protects the brain. The vertebral column is bone tissue and
it protects the spinal cord. The adult skeleton contains 204 or 206 bones (depending on
the book). A few examples of bones or bone tissue are the clavicles (bilateral
collarbones), the acromium process of the shoulder or pectoral girdle, the humerus
(upper arm), the radius (lateral), and ulna (medial) of the forearm (between the elbow
and wrist).

Lower extremity examples could include the
ischium of the hips, the femurs bilaterally (large bone of the thigh), the patella or
kneecap, the tibia's (medial lower leg), and the fibula's (lateral lower leg). The
tarsals of the ankle, the metatarsal's of the feet, and the phalanges of the
toes.

What is environment? What do you understand by environment?Answers wanted in an explanatory notes in regards to the present environment in India.

Environment refers to all of the things,conditions and
influences that surround or affect a particular place, person, group, organization,
system, or the like. Thus we speak of many different kind of environment. We may speak
of the home environment of a person during childhood affecting the psychological
development of the person. We can speak of physical environment of a house affecting its
property prises. We speak of the environmental forces that influence the performance of
an industry or a business. We may classify environment in different types of influences
of factors such as physical, economical, demographic, technological and
political.

Talking about environment in India, we could
talk about it with reference to many different things like ecology, industry, culture,
or politics. Description of the environment of any one of these aspects will be too
lengthy to be included on this forum.

How does Zaroff justify his hunting of humans?

Basically, Zaroff justifies his hunting of humans with the
old saying "might makes right."  It is acceptable for him to hunt human beings because
he is strong enough, powerful enough to do it and get away with it.  As he
says

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"Life is for the strong, to be
lived by the strong, and, if needs be, taken by the strong. The weak of the world were
put here to give the strong pleasure. I am strong. Why should I not use my gift?

Zaroff goes
on to argue that the kinds of people he hunts are really inferior.  He says that a hound
is worth more than 20 of these kind of people.  So what he is saying is that he and
others like him are sort of a natural nobility.  They were born superior and therefore
they have the right to do pretty much whatever they want to do to the inferior
people.

From Guns, Germs, and Steel, how and why did technology developement differ from one place to another?This is in regards to Guns, Germs and Steel...

It is said that necessity is the mother of invention.  How
true.  As humanity developed, our ancestors invented what they needed.  Natural
resources, of course, played an obvious role.

In early
civilizations, trial and error was the first teacher.  This information would be passed
on as skills and crafts were taught and improved upon by successive
generations.

The needs of the societies became more complex
due to a number of factors.  They developed what was needed to survive.  For example, if
water was necessary for crop irrigation, ways were developed to meet that
need.

Factors influencing the changing needs would include
climate with changing and sometimes drastic weather, other neighboring societies and
their relationships, food availability, growing populations, belief systems, to name a
few.

The world grew smaller when our ancestors ventured out
to explore what was beyond.  Civilizations discovered other civilizations.  Information
was exchanged and shared as we continued to develop.  Often what one lacked in materials
and expertise, the other had in abundance.

Ideas were
shared.  We shared, for example, more efficient ways of killing with gun powder.  We
shared diseases common for one group into a group where no antibodies had built up
through successive generations of exposure.  We shared building materials and sky
scraper rose up.

This is called
progress.

In Death of a Salesman, how is Willy's killing himself for the insurance money symptomatic of the way he has lived?

Good question, but I'm don't think that his suicide is
symptomatic of the way he has lived.  But it does represent his continuing belief in the
American dream.

Willy and his brother Ben represent two
ways of being successful.  Willy chose to work hard in one organization.  He puts in
thirty-five years, expecting to be rewardid with a good salary and the respect of his
colleagues.  Ben is the opportunist.  He makes quick money.  He comes out of the jungle
a rich man.  In many ways, Willy wants Biff to follow Ben's example.  All Biff needs is
a stake, and he can make it big.  This is why he presses Biff to go to his former boss
to help set him up in the Loman brothers sporting goods
enterprise.

Willy himself always regretted not going with
Ben to Alaska when he had the opportunity.  In his final scene, Willy imagines that he
is talking with Ben.  He sees his suicide as a business deal, a proposition, that will
have an excellent return: "twenty thousand dollars on the barrelhead." With this
insurance money, Biff, Willy believes, will make it
big.

Willy's suicide is a gamble, a proposition, an
enterprise, much like Ben's venture in the diamond mines. And the venture he did not
take to Alaska.   It does not represent the way he had lived, but the way he wished he
had lived.

Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages that the American colonies had under the British colonial system.

The main advantages that the American colonies had was
that they were part of the British Empire.  This meant a great deal.  It meant a lot
economically.  That is because in those days there was little free trade and so
countries did always accept trade with other countries.  Because the colonies were part
of the Empire, they could trade with the richest empire on
earth.

It also meant that the colonies were relatively
safe.  The British were arguably the strongest military nation in the world at the time
and they, without question, had the strongest navy.  This helped protect the
colonies.

The main disadvantage was that the colonists had
to obey a variety of rules that were imposed on them by the British.  They had to obey
British rules on trade, especially.  In addition, they were not directly represented in
the British Parliament and so had less political power than people in England
did.

What do you think Augustus saw as the purpose of the inscription? Do you think he achieved that purpose ?May the following does not possess full...

Most likely you are referring to the RES GESTAE. In
English, it means "Things having been done." Basically it is a record of his
achievements, which he set up. We have a copy of it in Turkey -
Ankyra.

Almost every scholar believes that this work is
pure propaganda. Augustus knew how to market himself and get people to see him in a
certain way. He was remarkable in this regard. Perhaps the best the world have ever
seen.

The best explanation of this work that I have heard
is the following: Augustus has mastered the art of lying without ever lying. In other
words, what he says in the RES GESTAE is true, but the cumulative picture is not. For
example, he completely changed the Roman Republic forever. He accumulated all power to
himself and restored very little.

Given the sequence 3, 6, 12, 24, ... calculate the 9th and the nth terms of the sequence .

First, we'll from ratios from 2 consecutive terms of the
given sequence:

6/3 = 2

12/6 =
2

24/12 = 2

We notice that all
quotients are the same, so, the sequence is a geometric progression, whose first terms
is a1 = 3 and the common ratio is r = 2.

We'll calculate
a9:

a9 = a1*r^(9-1)

a9 = 3 *
2^8

a9 
=3*256

a9 =
768

The standard formula for any term of a
geometric progression is:

an =
a1*r^(n-1)

What is 'In medias res'? How it is used in the Homer's Iliad?

As noted by gcarden498, "in medias res" is a Latin phrase
meaning "in the middle of things." With respect to Homer's Iliad,
because other poems in the Greek epic cycle dealt with the events leading up to the
Trojan War, as well as the first nine year of the war, Homer's Iliad
picks up in the tenth year of the war with the quarrel between Agamemnon and
Achilles.

The first nine years of the Trojan War, which are
not dealt with in Homer's Iliad, were relatively quiet because the
Trojans learned during the early days of the war that they were no match for Achilles in
open battle. Therefore, the Trojans withdrew within their fortifications and endured a
nine-year seige by the Greeks. The quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon in the war's
tenth year causes Achilles' withdrawal from battle. This encourages the Trojans to come
out from the safety of their fortifications and fight in the open
battlefield.

We should also note that, with respect to "in
medias res," Homer's Iliad never deals with the death of Achilles
or the fall of Troy. These events were treated in other poems within the epic cycle. If
we count up the references to the passing of days in the Iliad, we discover that Homer's
Iliad covers only about a four week period in the tenth year of the
war.

Homer's Odyssey is probably a
better example of "in medias res" as some of Odysseus' most famous adventures are
recalled by Odysseus in Books 9-12 of this 24-book epic.

What are the main events in the story "The Minister's Black Veil"?

Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Minister's Black Veil" is, like
his novel The Scarlet Letter, an expose of the hypocrisy of the
Puritans and the destructive power of secret sin.  Thus, the action that is pivotal to
the plot is, of course, the donning of the dark veil over his face by the Reverend Mr.
Hooper.  From this action, all reactions
follow. 

• There are mixed reactions from the
  congregation after Mr. Hooper's sermon about secret sin                                 
  :

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At the close of the services the people hurried
out with indecorous confusion....Some gathered in little circles...with their mouths all
whispering in the center; some went homeward alone, warapped in silent meditation; some
talked loudly and profaned the Sabbath day with ostentatious laghter.  a few shook their
sagacious heads, intimating that they could penetrate the mystery, while one or two
affirmed that there was no mystery at
all.

• For the first
  time, no one invites Mr. Hooper to partake of the Sunday meal at his/her
  home.


• When Mr. Hooper does not remove the veil, people
  begin to believe that he may be hiding something, yet no one "chose to make the black
  veil a subject of friendly remonstrance." The veil becomes a "symbol of a fearful secret
  between him and them."


• Even his fiancee has doubts.When
  Mr. Hooper refuses to lift the veil and let her look in his face, Elizabeth bids him
  farewell.


• After this incident, no attempts are made to
  lift what Mr. Hooper has called but a "mortal veil--it is not for eternity."  No one
  seeks to discover the secret which it supposedly
  hides.


• As Mr. Hooper walks the streets, the timid turn
  aside and flee.  Others of "hardihood" would throw themselves in his way.  Children
  would hide; a "fable went the rounds, that the stare of the dead people drove him
  thence."


• Affected with an "ambiguity of sin or sorrow,
  which enveloped the poor minister so that love or sympathy could never reach him."  He
  is ostracized from the community.


• But, he becomes "a man
  of awful power over souls that were in agony for sin.  His converts tell him that before
  they have been brought to the "celestial light," they, too, hid behind a
  "veil."


• He is given the honor of preaching at Election
  Day as he sets the tone appropriate for the Puritan
  occasion.


• Mr. Hooper spends his long life "irreproachable
  in outward act, yet shrouded in dismal suspicions"; he is unloved and
  dreaded.


• As he lies dying, the Reverend Mr. Hooper yet
  refuses to lift his veil so that he should not "leave a shadow on his memory," as
  another minister beseeches him.  Before he dies Mr. Hooper states Hawthorne's
  theme,

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"Why do you tremble at me alone?....Tremble also
at each other!  Have men avoided me, and women shown no pity, and chren screamed and
fled, only for my black veil?...When the friend shows his inmost heart tohis friend, the
lover to his best-beloved; when man does not vainly shrink from the eye of his creator,
loathsomely treasuring up the secret of his sin; then deem me a monster, for the symbol
beneath which I have lived, and die!  I look around me, and, lo! on every visage a Black
Veil!"

• The
  villagers bury the Reverend Mr. Hooper without removing his black
  veil. 

Describe the conspiracy among Romeo, Juliet, the Nurse, and Friar Laurence in Romeo and Juliet, and what is the result?

Romeo and Juliet are secretly married, between Acts 2 and
3, and the Nurse and Friar Laurence, who performs the rite, are the only ones who know
about it.

Friar Laurence's ultimate goal, in marrying Romeo
and Juliet, is to end the feud between the Montagues and the
Capulets:

In
one respect I'll thy assistant be;

For this alliance may so
happy prove

To turn your households' rancor to pure
love.

He recognizes Romeo's
sudden change of heart (he was miserable because of his unrequited love for Rosaline,
then forgot about her as soon as he saw Juliet), and cautions him to "love moderately,"
advising, "Wisely and slow.  They stumble that run fast."  In a haunting example of
foreshadowing, just before the marriage ceremony, Friar Laurence
says,

These
violent delights have violent ends

And in their triumph
die, like fire and powder

which as they kiss
consume.

Juliet's Nurse, who
is the only other character aware of the relationship between Romeo and Juliet (she was
a messenger between Romeo and Juliet, and essentially arranged for Juliet to go to
church to be married), loses Juliet's confidence once Capulet announces that Juliet will
marry Paris:

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I think it bese you married with the
County.

O, he's a lovely
gentleman!

Romeo's a dishclout to
him.

Though the Nurse has
good intentions in counseling Juliet (especially since Romeo has been banished for
killing Tybalt, and presumably Juliet won't be able to see him anymore), Juliet sees her
stance as a betrayal.  From this point, Juliet does not include her nurse in any plans
that concern Romeo (specifically, her plan to take a sleeping potion that will make her
appear dead).

The result of this "conspiracy" is obviously
the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.  At the same time, though, the Capulets and Montague
have vowed to end the ancient feud they've been engaged in for so many
years.

What are the allusions in "The Gift of the Magi?"

"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry has three distinct
Biblical allusions -- the magi, King Solomon, and the Queen of Sheba.
 

The magi were three men that traveled from far away lands
in order to give gifts to the newly born Christ child.  Depending on who you ask, the
magi range from being simple wise men, to being kings. Regardless, all accounts agree
that the three men gave expensive gifts to Jesus (gold, frankincense, and myrrh).  Of
the three Biblical allusions in the story, the magi is the most overt.  It's in the
title of the story, and O. Henry explicitly tells his readers about them in the final
paragraph.  

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The magi, as you know, were wise men—wonderfully
wise men— who brought gifts to the newborn Christ-child. They were the first to give
Christmas gifts. Being wise, their gifts were doubtless wise
ones.

The allusions to the
Queen of Sheba and Solomon are much more veiled.  What O. Henry does though, by hinting
at Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, is pick two people who were historically crazy rich.
 From I Kings 10:

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And when the Queen of Sheba heard of the fame of
Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions. And
she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bore spices, and very
much gold, and precious
stones:

O. Henry hints at the
Queen of Sheba when he says that Della's hair was more beautiful and valuable than "any
queen’s jewels and gifts."  

As for King Solomon, the Bible
describes him this way:

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King Solomon was greater in riches and wisdom
than all the other kings of the
earth.

O. Henry tells his
readers that no king has ever had anything as valuable as Jim's watch. That king could
only be King Solomon.  

So despite the fact that Jim and
Della are dirt poor, they own things more valuable than any king or queen ever has, and
they willingly give those things up in order to give gifts to each other.  That's some
deep love.  

How do you rhetorically analyze somebody's essay? What are the elements to look for? The essay under evaluation is controversial claim by a...

The previous thoughts are well asserted.  The content is
not as important as how it is stated or phrased in a rhetorical analysis.  Prior to
this, I would ask if a rubric is present.  In many of these situations, there is a
rubric that outlines what is being assessed and how it is being evaluated.  If you or
your instructor has one, then I would ask to see if this could be used as a reference
point.  All essays are much easier to grade and more clear in the assessment analysis
with a rubric, as opposed to wide ranging thought and input that is not consistent with
stated goals or expectations.  If you are able to do so, there are many examples of
rubrics available on line for free that you can download or modify to your own
standards, or those of your instructor.  If these can be accessed and used, I would
strongly suggest doing so.  In terms of general basics on rhetorical analysis, I would
pay attention to how the paper has used word choice, syntax, and persuasive elements to
convince the reader of its thesis.  Simply put, how has the argument been framed through
language?  This is where a rubric would be extremely helpful.

Establish all polynomial functions, which have the property f(x) = f'(x)*f"(x), x is in the real number set.

We will take  tentatively : f(x) =
ax^n.

f'(x) = a*nx^(n-1)

f"(x)
= an(n-1)x^(n-2)

 So f(x) = f'(x)*f"(x)
gives:

a x^n = a * n x^(n-1)}{an(n-1)
x^(n-2)}

ax^n = a^2* n^2(n-1) x^(n+n-2) =
a^2*n^2(n-1)x^(2n-3)

So  equating the powers and
coefficients,

n = 2n-3.

Or
2n-n = 3

n =3.

a =
a^2n^2(n-1)

1 = a*3^2(3-1)
.

a = 1/18.

So  of f(x) =
(1/18)x^3

f'(x) = 3/18x^2 =
(1/6)x^2

f"(x) = (2/6)x =
(1/3)x

f(x) = f'(x)*f"(x) = (1/6)x^2 * (1/3)x^2 =
(1/18)x^3

Now again we assume
that

f(x) =
1/18x^3+bx^2+cx+d.

f'(x) = (3/18)x^2+2bx+c
.

f"(x) = (6/18)x+2b.

So
f'(x)*f"(x) = {(3/18)x^2 + 2bx+c}{(6/18)x+2b}

=
x^3+{(6b/18)+(12b/18)}x^2+{4b^2+6c/18)x+2bc . This should be identitically equal to
f(x). Now  equating  the coefficients of the like powers, we
get:

x^3 : both sides agree and is equal to
1

x^2: both sides agree and equal to
b.

x :  (4b^2+6c/18) =
c,

4b^2+c/3 =c

12b^2 +c =3c, 
Or 2c= 12b^2,  c = 6b^2.

Constant term: 2bc = d. So d =
2b(6b) = 12b^2.

Therefore the required polynomial
is

f(x) = (/18)x^2+bx^2+6b^2*x+12b^2 which
satisfies

f(x) = f'(x)*f"(x).

How does Montresor's response to Fortunato's screams add to the mood as the story reaches its highest point in "The Cask of Amontillado"?

Montresor responds by screaming even louder and longer
than Fortunato. His response only adds to the eerie and macabre atmosphere of the story.
As readers, we can imagine how the screams of the victim and the killer are echoing in
the catacombs where the bones of the dead are strewn about. Montresor's response is that
of an insane man, adding to the mood. Most of us would probably react to Fortunato's
screams with shock, but Montresor responds in kind to Fortunato's
screams.

In Oedipus Rex, what are two quotes that tell what Oedipus thinks of himself?With MLA parenthetical citations, please.

Two quotes that tell what Oedipus thinks of himself are a
bit hard to find in the events of the play that precede Oedipus' dramatic fall from
grace and his re-entrance as tragically blind and
destitute.

However, here is a moment, mid-riddle
unravelling, in which Oedipus grapples with the possibility that he might be a low born
son of a servant:

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Break out what will!  I at least shall
be

willing to  see my ancestry, though
humble.

...I account myself a child of
Fortune,

beneficent Fortune, and I shall not
be

dishonoured.  She's the mother from whom I
sprang;

the months, my brothers, marked me, now as
small,

and now again as mighty.  Such is my
breeding,

and I shall never prove so false to
it,

as not to find the secret of my birth. (Sophocles,
1076-86)

Once Oedipus is
confronted with the whole horrible "secret of [his] birth," he has this to
say:

O
Polybus and Corinth and the house,

the old house that I
used to call my father's--

what fairness your were nurse
to, and what foulness

festered beneath!  Now I am found to
be

a sinner and a son of sinners. (Sophocles,
1394-8)

Whats the reason behind conjugation, transformation and transduction?

Bacteria undergo recombination using the mechanisms of
transformation, conjugation and transduction. Recombination is the process of transfer
of genetic material and is essential for the organism to develop and evolve.
Recombination leads to gene conversion with a mutant allele becoming a wild-type or vice
versa.

For recombination an organism requires two
homologous DNA molecules but bacteria have only one chromosome. This makes them acquire
the extra DNA molecule either from the environment, or from another bacterium or through
a bacteriophage intermediate. These three processes are referred to using the terms
transformation, conjugation and transduction. Transformation is when a living bacterium
picks up a dead DNA remnant from a bacterium that has been destroyed. Conjugation is a
sort of sexual mating with two bacteria exchanging genetic material. Transduction
involves the creation of defective DNA package which cannot replicate by itself but can
infect other cells and become a part of their genetic
formulation.

Who is the speaker in "We Real Cool?"

In my opinion, the speaker in this poem is not any
particular person -- it is not someone that we can name.  Instead, the speaker in the
poem is meant to be someone who represents a certain group of
people.

The whole point of the poem is that some young
African-American men are making choices that are destructive.  They do things like not
going to school, things that make them end up dying young.  So the speaker is just a
representative of that group of young men.

So I would
answer this by saying that the speaker is not a specific individual but rather a
"person" who is meant to be the representative of a whole group on whose lives the poet
is commenting.

Which of the Factors of 36 are Prime numbers? Explain how you know.

The definition of a prime number is any number that is
divisible only by itself and 1.  If I factor out the number 36, I have 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9,
12, 18 and 36.  The only numbers in that selection that are only divisible by themselves
and 1 are 1, 2, and 3.

Another good way to tell if
something is not a prime number is if it is an even number.  The number 2 is the only
even number which is also a prime number.  Every other even number is not.  Also, just
because a factor is an odd number does not mean it is also a prime.  9 is an example of
an odd number that is a factor of 36, but it is also divisible by
3.

What part do the witches play in the plot of Macbeth?What part do the witches play in the plot and how is it represented in the script?

In Shakespeare's Macbeth, the witches
serve as the catalyst for the plot.  They ignite Macbeth's dormant
ambition. 

The witches, at the least, appear to be
supernatural.  They appear to know the future, though they don't appear to control it. 
When they give Macbeth a bit of truth in order to deceive him and lead him to ruin, as
Banquo predicts, Macbeth takes the idea that he will be king, and turns that into he
will be king now, as does his wife.  The play reveals Macbeth as a
loyal thane to Duncan, until the witches suggest the idea of his being king.  Though
slight evidence exists that Macbeth has thought of being king before, and of what his
being king would mean (he'd have to kill Duncan to do it), all evidence suggests that
that ambition would have stayed inactive, except for the
witches. 

Concerning plot, that is the central contribution
of the witches.  Of course, when Macbeth seeks them out in Act 4.1 they crystalize their
contribution while elaborating on their original predictions, which leads to further
acts of violence by Macbeth, such as the ordering of the deaths of Macduff's
family. 

The second meeting with the witches, by the way,
also provides another chance for Shakespeare to gain favor with King James I, his
patron.  The parade of kings descended from Banquo would have included King James, since
he was an actual descendant of Banquo. 

What is the derivative of f(x)=4 cos ( 5x- 2). Please explain in detail.

For a function f(x) = g(h(x)), express h(x) as
y.

Then f(x) = g(y), f’(x) = [d {g(y)}/
dy]*(dy/dx).

Here we have to find the derivative of f(x)= 4
cos (5x-2).

Let y=5x-2, this gives f(x)= 4 cos
y

f’(x)= [d (4 cos
y)/dy]*[d(5x-2)/dx]

We also know that the derivative of cos
x= -sin x.

=>   [d (4 cos y)/dy]= -4 sin
y

[d(5x-2)/dx]= 5

Therefore
f’(x)= [d (4 cos y)/dy]*[d(5x-2)/dx]

= (-4 sin
y)*5

=-4*sin (5x-2)*5

=-20 sin
(5x-2)

Therefore the derivative of 4 cos
(5x-2) is -20 sin (5x-2)

What happened in the end of the book A Boy at War?I need 5 words.

In the aftermath of the
attack on Pearl Harbor, the Pelkos receive a telegram from the Secretary of
War, confirming that

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"Lieutenant Emory J. Pelko has been
missing in action at Pearl Harbor since 7 December
41."

Although Adam wants to
believe that there is still hope that his father will be found alive, he knows that, in
reality, there is no hope (Chapter
23).

After awhile, Adams mother is informed that the navy
is sending all dependent families back to the mainland. Adam is
furious;

"the
thought of leaving his father...at the bottom of Pearl
Harbor (is) too
awful."

Although he protests
vehemently to his mother, she tells him that they have no
choice. The Pelkos sail home to the mainland on a troop ship, and there
are

"no bands,
no banners, and no waving and
cheering."

The full
grim reality of war has been forced upon Adam, and he
reflects that that one fateful day, 7 December 41, has changed his
life forever. People say that Lieutenant Pelko and the others who were
lost in the attack are heroes, but Adam feels only emptiness and hurt. As the ship sails
away from Hawaii, Adam drops a lei into the water, as a symbol that he would one day
come back, and for now, he says to himself
sadly,

"Goodbye, Dad"
(Chapter 24).

What would Buck eat for his daily rations?

In this book, Buck and the other sled dogs seem to subsist
solely on fish.  This was a kind of food that would have been easy to get up in that
area during this time and it would have been relatively light.  It would have been light
because, as we are told in Chapter 2, what they were eating was sun-dried
salmon.

In Chapter 2, at least, when Buck is working for
Francois and Perrault, his ration for each day is a pound and a half of the sun-dried
salmon.  There will be times in the book where he gets more or less than that, but he
always seems to be eating fish.

Praise about a manager? (official letter)

If the question is about praising a manager's
contributions, I would say that like all letters of support, there should be some basic
elements present.  It is extremely important to derive at least three specific supports
or reasons as to why this manager has earned praise.  I would ensure that each reason
remain distinct from one another.  Each reason should have sufficient detail to bring to
the reader's attention why praise is worthy.  Essentially, you understand the reasons
for the praise.  The reader, alas, does not.  Hence, your task is to persuade the reader
to your point of view as to why what is present is worthy of the highest of distinction.
 Certainly, part of this would involve a small introduction of how you were in contact
with the manager and your capacity in writing this letter, noting the praise.  Yet, you
should develop these clear and focused supports which bring to the reader's light what
you in your own mind have already concluded about this particular
manager.

How are symbols and motifs used to create suspense and meaning in ''Tell-Tale Heart'' and the Psycho film?

Since both "The Tell-Tale Heart" and Hitchcock's
Psychoare Gothic in nature, there are dark and foreboding objects. 
One animal that is depicted in both stories is the large bird;  in Poe's tale, the
vulture eye of the old man is mentioned several times by the narrator, while in
Psycho there are large dead stuffed birds that loom over Marion
Crane in her motel room. 

Spying upon their victims, both
the narrator of Poe's tale and Norman Bates of Psycho view their
victims surreptitiously.  However, in "The Tell-Tale Heart," the old man does realize
that the narrator is watching him, while Marion does not know of Norman's
voyeurism.

Of course their is the motif of terror that
predominates both works.  As the old man realizes
that

Death, in
approaching him, had stalked with his black shadow before him and enveloped
him.

Likewise, Marion utters
shrieks as the unknown woman suddenly and repeatedly stabs at her in the shower.  After
having committed their dastardly deeds, both the narrator and Norman Bates resume their
normal activities and when the authorities come to ask questions, they are cooperative. 
Finally, however, both Norman and the narrator come undone with the narrator claiming
that the heart is yet beating under the floor boards where he has buried the old man
while Norman claims that his mother has killed the girl in a jealous
rage.

Why were many native-born Americans alarmed at the large number of immigrants who came to the United States?Short answer please

It's partly human nature, and today's fear of and backlash
against immigrants is not unlike what's happened during past waves of newcomers like the
Poles, Jews, Russians and Italians, not to mention the
Irish.

The main reason is because people are unfamiliar
with the new culture, and see it as a threat to their own.  They see signs and hear
conversations in a language they don't understand and don't want to and it makes them
uncomfortable.  Also, when economic times are bad, immigrants are an easy target for
both politicians and natives, and since they are not part of the mainstream culture yet,
immigrants have a hard time defending themselves or becoming more accepted by
society.

What are an examples of situational, dramatic and verbal irony in Crane's "The Open Boat"?

Situational irony occurs when
the men in the open boat see people upon the shore. Situational irony
is where a situation occurs in which expectation is contradicted by reality.
The men in the boat see these people as their rescuers. The people on the shore see the
men in the boat upon the raging sea as a novelty, as part of their excursion, an
excursion they probably paid money for. The painful situation is that, in modern days of
excursions, the people on the shore do not expect to see a life and death situation play
out before them and therefore can not recognize waves and shouts of desperation as
anything other than amusement arranged, it would seem, exclusively for their benefit.
The situational irony is that while the people on the shore are thrilled and amused, the
men in the boat are grasping at rescue as they fight against impending death.

This same scene might possibly be used as an illustration of
dramatic irony on the condition that it is agreed that
readers do know that the people on the shore are not an illusion that the men in the
boat are jointly experiencing. In other words, we must agree that all ambiguity in the
scene is only fleeting and that the people are really there. Dramatic irony
involves situations in which the reader or audience knows something the
characters do not know. The dramatic irony would be that we, the readers, understand
that the people are merely visitors on an excursion who have no comprehension of the
ways of the sea and perceive the men in the boat as an amusement; they have no suspicion
of the life and death situation the men in the boat face. This is what we know that the
men do not know: the men see the people as rescuers--until the delusion finally becomes
bitterly obvious.

An instance of verbal
irony occurs during the conversation between the captain, the oiler and
the cook:

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"Oh, well," said the captain, soothing his
children, "we'll get ashore all right."

But there was that in his tone
which made them think, so the oiler quoth: "Yes! If this wind
holds!"

The cook was bailing: "Yes! If we don't catch hell in the
surf."

The oiler has just
rested hope of getting “ashore all right" in the wind keeping up its fierce blowing. The
cook responds that the surf might potentially bury them, while he bails water out of the
boat. The irony in this exchange is bred by the fact that the wind is responsible for
(1) the water in the boat that the cook is bailing and (2) the potential that a raging,
wind-torn sea might bury them. Despite the nature and action and effects of the wind,
the oiler ironically claims the wind as their one hope of getting ashore.
Verbal irony is verbal statements that express something other than
what is expected. It is not expected that the wind, which is the cause of the stormy
sea, might be said to the one hope of escape from the stormy sea. 

What are the differences between lymphocytes and phagocytes?In terms of looks, functions, size...

Phagocytes are cells found in
the bloodstream and protect the body by ingesting and destroying foreign cells. These
include, bacteria, dead or dying cells and  other invading cells. They are part of the
immune system. Chemical signals from invading cells are released and receptors
on phagocytes detect these cells which are not "self" and they then proceed to engulf
and destroy those
cells.

Lymphocytes are part of
the immune system. There are three types, T cells, B cells and Natural Killer cells.
Natural killer cells are able to recognize and destroy altered cells as in tumor cells
or cells that have been infected by viruses. B cells manufacture antibodies which
neutralize bacteria and viruses. T cells are of two kinds. Helper T cells produce
cytokines that direct the immune response. And other T cells produce granules that cause
infected cells to die. Both B and T cells are involved in the production of memory
cells. These provide long lasting immunity to the specific pathogen or
germ.

What happens simultaneously with the death of Simon in Lord of the Flies?

There is a big storm over the island simultaneously with
the death of Simon. The storm serves both as a symbol of the darkness and turbulence to
which the boys have descended, and a catalyst in making the mayhem happen. The hunters,
looking up at the darkening sky, first experience "a wave of restlessness," and then the
emotions of the little'uns, the most vulnerable, are whipped to a frenzy as the thunder
and lightning increase. Jack, seeking to direct the energies of his hunters, leads them
in a dance and chant, which begins to "beat like a steady pulse." At this
point,

"The
dark sky (is) shattered by a blue-white scar, (and) an instant later the noise (of the
thunder is) on them like the blow of a gigantic whip...(their) terror (and)...another
desire (rise), thick, urgent,
blind."

Another bolt of
lightning strikes, and Simon comes out of the forest, right into the midst of the
hunters, who have been stimulated to a killing frenzy. Because of the noise of the storm
and the excitement and terror generated by it, no one can hear Simon's exclamations
about the dead man on the hill, and without fully realizing the ramifications of their
actions, the hunters act on sheer instinct and momentum, savagely killing Simon. As they
leap onto him,

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"scream(ing), (striking), bit(ing), (tearing),
there (are) no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and
claws."

As Simon dies, the
clouds open and a torrent of rain descends on the scene, and a "great wind" blows the
parachute with the dead pilot off the hill where Simon had found him, carrying it over
the terrified boys and out to the sea. The storm is symbolic of the violent depths of
depravity to which the boys have descended. The scene created by the storm is indicative
of darkest and ultimate chaos, leaving the impression of a hell on earth (Chapter
9).

Classify each angle by its measure. The measure of angle PVQ, is 21 degrees(classify it by its angle please). The measure of angle RVT is 96...

Angles of are classified in different types according to
their size. The types of angles and their corresponding size in degrees is described
below.

Right angle: 90
degrees

Acute angle: less than 90
degrees

Obtuse angle: more than 90 degrees and less than
180 degrees

Straight angle: 180
degrees.

Thus the type of each of the given angle
is:

PVQ (21 degrees): Acute
angle

RTV (96 degrees): Obtuse
angle

PVS (143 degrees): Obtuse
angle

Why does the length of Representatives' terms make them behave differently than Senators?

The Framers of the Constitution wanted the House to be
"nearer" to the people and for the Senate to be "farther" from the people.  They wanted
the House to really closely follow what the people wanted while the Senate acted like a
brake on what the people wanted.  This is why they have different lengths of
term.

The 2 year term for the House is meant to ensure that
they Representatives will always represent the will of the people (because they are
elected frequently).  The Senators' 6 year terms were meant to ensure that they would be
more detached from what the people wanted.

So the longer
terms for Senators are meant to make them behave less as the people want and the shorter
terms for Representatives are meant to make them behave more as the people
want.

Discuss Chaucer's narrative art with special reference to The Canterbury Tales.

The beauty of Chaucer's prologue to The
Canterbury Tales, is that he gives us a microcosmic look at the Middle Ages. 
When he introduces the pilgrims, he gives us the good, the bad, and the ugly.  It is a
cross section of medieval society.

The Knight and Squire
are the picture of chivalry.

The clergy does not fare as
well.  Both the Monk and the Friar do not display the values that we associate with
religion.  The Nun is seen as vain.

The merchant class is
also represented dressed to reflect their status.

The rest
of the pilgrims are a wonderful cross section of people from the Oxford Scholar to the
Wife of Bath (my personal favorite) to the Pardoner.  Some of these people are rude and
crude while others seem to be virtuous and good.

Through
his narration, we are able to get a comprehensive picture of England in the Middle
Ages.  Rather than somebody writing about this after the fact, Chaucer is an eyewitness
to the time.

Is it important that the orginal paraphernalia(box and wooden tickets) for the lottery had been lost or damaged? Explain"The Lottery" by Shirley...

In Shirley Jackson's story, "The Lottery," by the fact
that the olriginal paraphernalia for the lottery had been lost long ago, but the people
have replaced it and put it into use "even before Old Man Warner, the oldest man in
town, was born," there is a clear indication that the villagers are a flock of sheep who
blindly and unthinkingly follow tradition simply because it is tradition.  For, if the
community had had any of a logical and reasonable nature, once the box and other
paraphernalia connected to the lottery was lost, these people should have rethought this
heinous tradition and done away with it as other communities
have.

Therefore, the mention of the loss and replacement of
the original paraphernalia is key to the understanding of the mentality of the villagers
who continue a ritual of such a nature.  This mentality underscores Jackson's themes of
Custom and Tradition and Violence and Cruelty.

What types of relationships does Holden attempt to create throughout the novel The Catcher in the Rye?

Holden vacillates between wanting relationships and
rejecting them, in a fashion perhaps that is a caricature of typical adolescent
behavior.  Holden does talk several times about being "alone" in the novel, and not
liking it, but then he does things which specifically create loneliness for himself. 
Holden has the desire to denigrate everything around him (calling people "phonies" for
example), while at the same time wishing to be part of something and have relationships
with other people.

One example would be the relationship
(or encounter) that Holden attempts to have with the prostitute Sunny.  Holden thought
that perhaps he would have his first sexual experience with her, but that does not
happen.  He tries to talk to her about his feelings, and make a friendly connection with
her, but she is not interested in talking to Holden.  She ends up cheating him and her
pimp demands double the fee that was originally agreed upon.  Holden fails utterly
to make any connection with Sunny.

Though Holden says a lot
of bad things about Sally Hayes, he tries to make a connection of a romantic kind with
her.  Though they neck in the cab, the fact that she enjoys things that he doesn't (like
the play they go to see, and the movies) alienates him from her.  He asks her to run
away with him, which of course she refuses.  Again, Holden fails to make any kind of
real connection with Sally, and succeeds only in making her angry and
frightened.

Holden wants, and achieves, a close
relationship with his sister Phoebe.  It is plain from the novel that Phoebe has always
been close to him, perhaps even more now after the death of their brother, Allie. 
Holden spends time in New York before seeing his sister, but he thinks about her often
and eventually makes goes home specifically to see her.   He reaches out to her and
tells her how distressed he is by telling her that he is going to run away.  Phoebe
responds loyally and lovingly, if misguidedly.  Phoebe and Holden's relationship is
continuous and successful. 

Holden does want some kind of
relationship with his overbearing roommate Stradlater, but it does not end up how he
wants it to be.  Stradlater dates a girl who Holden knows, which angers Holden. 
Stradlater uses Holden to do his homework for him, and then criticizes the paper Holden
writes for him.  Stradlater ends up by beating Holden up.  Any constructive relationship
is lost between the two boys, mostly because of their own problems with each other and
character failings.

Holden says he doesn't want to have a
friendship with the annoying hallmate at Pencey Ackley.  But Holden is very lonely, and
tries to alleviate this loneliness by hanging out in Ackley's room even after Ackley is
asleep.  This is more a relationship desired out of desperation; Holden doesn't really
like Ackley.

Holden wants a kind of mentor/fatherly type of
relationship with Mr. Antolini, which succeeds for part of the evening.  When Mr.
Antolini touches Holden (stroking his hair), however, Holden is convinced (possibly
correctly) that Mr. Antolini has homosexual desires for him.  This creates such a
problem for Holden that any further relationship with his ex-teacher is
ruined.

Holden attempts to have relationships of the
sexual, romantic, friendly, mentor, and familial kind, with varying
success. 

Is there any evidence in The Tragedy of Macbeth that Macbeth regrets the course of action he has followed? Evidence can be from anywhere in Act 5.

Despite the fact that he has been told he can't be killed
by any man born of woman, he has known from the moment he killed Duncan that he will die
a violent death.  "Blood will have blood, they say."

In Act
V, scene 3, he laments the fact that he will not grow old gracefully and enjoy the
benefits of old age, ..."As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends,/I must not look
to have..."  He is well aware that the actions he has taken to get the crown and to keep
it condemn him to a bloody and violent death.

Perhaps the
bleakest speech in the play is found in scene 5, the "Tomorrow" speech.  This speech
about life and time is brilliantly constructed. The last word of each line sums up the
entire speech---word, tomorrow, today, time, fools, candle (a measurement of time),
player, stage, tale, fury, nothing.  He realizes that all he has done has led to
nothing.

Macbeth is not an evil man but a man tempted by
evil.  Despite the fact that he knows where his actions will lead, he yields to this
temptation.  Once he murders Duncan, there is no turning back for him and he must keep
on killing to retain what he has gained.

When he is
confronted by Macduff, he tells him that he has avoided him because, "....My soul is too
much charged/With blood of thine."  He does regret killing Macduff's
family.

Evidence of his regret can be found throughout the
play since Macbeth is a good man gone bad.  He constantly debates with himself about the
course he has chosen.

Change the sense of attitude in the following business communication: "Your error on your tax form will result in a penalty to you."

The attitude in this sentence, which is an indicative
declarative sentence, is one of assertion of fact. The sense of attitude in
communication is a function of mood in grammar. In order to change the sense of attitude
currently expressed in the indicative mood of "Your error on your tax for will result in
a penalty to you," it will be necessary to change the mood. Of course, this quote gives
no indication as to whether this is an advance warning such as may be seen in tax form
instructions or a statement following the actual commission of an
error.

In either case, one possible mood change that will
change the sense of attitude is a change to a mood indicating probability or
improbability, certainty or uncertainty, through structuring the sentence as a
conditional. As a first conditional, the sentence would be paraphrased as, "If you have
an error on your tax form, it will result in a penalty to you" (i.e., if / present
simple verb / will + base verb ). As a third conditional, it would be paraphrased as,
"If you had an error on your tax form, it would have resulted in a penalty to you"
(i.e., if / past perfect verb / would have + past participle verb). A second conditional
wouldn't do for a mood since it requires a simple past tense in the
if-clause: if / simple past tense / would + base verb (e.g., "If I
won the game, I would buy a boat."). The quoted sentence could also be paraphrased in
the subjunctive mood as, "If there were to be an error on your tax form, it would result
in a penalty to you."

The conditional mood indicates the
probability or certainty of an occurrence happening and takes the form of a condition
expressed as an if-clause (e.g., "If pigs had wings") followed by a
result clause (e.g., "I will/would/would have laughed."). The subjunctive mood expresses
a type of condition that is wishful or doubtful and is used to express a doubt, regret,
demand, request, proposal, etc. It is often, but not always, expressed as an
if-clause (e.g., "If I were president") followed by the expression
of the wish, doubt, etc. (e.g., "... I would wish to resign"; "I wish I were able to
dance better").

Define isotope. Using 2 different elements, give examples of isotopes.Could you please give 2 examples(to help) using 2 different elements.

An isotope refers to atoms of an element which differ only
in the number of neutrons they have. An element is uniquely defined by the number of
protons it has. For example an atom with 6 protons in its nucleus is called a carbon
atom. The number of protons is called the atomic number and it is the same for all atoms
of a particular element.

In the case of isotopes of an
element the number of neutrons in the nucleus is different. For example, the atomic mass
of a normal carbon atom is 12 as it has 6 protons and 6 neutrons in its nucleus. The
isotope C-13 also has the same number of protons, i.e. 6, but the number of neutrons is
not 6 but 7. This makes the atomic mass 6+7 = 13.

As
another example of an isotope we could take tin. Tin has 50 protons and therefore an
atomic number of 50. But the number of neutrons in an atom of tin is 68 or 70 which
makes the atomic mass 118 or 120 resp.

Why does the narrator peel off the wallpaper in order to free the woman in "The Yellow Wallpaper"?

Despite the fact that the narrator initially feels that
the wallpaper is disgusting and frightening, she eventually comes to feel compassionate
toward the woman she believes is trapped behind the pattern of the paper (before she
believes it is actually herself).  As she descends into mental illness, she strives to
help the trapped woman:

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As soon as it was moonlight, and that poor thing
began to crawl and shake the pattern, I got up and ran to help
her.

I pulled and she shook, I shook and she pulled, and
before morning we had peeled off yards of paper.

And then
when the sun came and that awful pattern began to laugh at me I declared I would finish
it today!

It is clear that
the narrator is also removing the wallpaper because she feels it is mocking and
belittling her by laughing at her.  Both the feeling of being trapped and the notion the
wallpaper is laughing at her are indicative of her relationship with her husband.  She
is trying to save herself, essentially, by freeing herself.

What is the background of the story "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" by Leo Tolstoy?

Tolstoy wrote this excellent tale against a backdrop of
massive changes in 19th century Russia. Until the emancipation of Russian serfs by Czar
Alexander II, these peasants were virtual slaves of landowners and aristocrats. They
could be bought or sold and were not allowed to own property. Tolstoy wrote this story
after these serfs had already had their freedom for 25 years. They now had rights and
could own land. Certainly this was progress, and Tolstoy, who was himself an ardent
reformer in Russia, would never wish a reversal of the decree, yet in this parable we
see Tolstoy ask the question - with often black humour - of whether the peasants'
progress brought changes they would regret.

This sets the
stage for the parable that is contained within this story and the harsh warning of
unchecked materialism is clearly established through the fate of Pahom and his sad
death.

How do I do formalist criticism of "Spring and All" by William Carlos Williams, and how can it be related to subject and theme?Poem:...

In formalist literary criticism, the important thing is
the process by which the work is created. href="http://home.earthlink.net/~potterama/Michele/projects/hyper/formalism.html">Formalism
doesn't engage in evaluating the work in terms of truth or morality. On the other hand,
one of the goals of formalism is to evaluate the structure of the text. Formalist critic
href="http://home.earthlink.net/~potterama/Michele/projects/hyper/formalism.html">Viktor
Schlovsky said that a work, like a poem, is "equal to the sum of processes
used in it." Therefore, fomal criticism is an objective examination of literary style
and technique in order to explain as well as evaluate the text's
structure.

In William's "Spring and All," two very
prominent structural elements, which can be related to a discussion of subject and
theme, are his use of enjambment and closely related line-end punctuation. Enjambment is
used by a poet to carry an idea or expression of a thought from one live to the next.
Williams has only scattered instances in which he does not use enjambment in "Spring and
All," thereby making enjambment a primary structural
element.

There are also no end-stops (periods) in the poem,
not even one on the last line, though there is one line-end comma in "They enter the new
world naked,". A striking stylistic technique in punctuation is Williams' use of dashes.
Often dashes in poems indicate a pause longer than a period, thus they are often related
to rhythm instead of to meaning, whereas in prose, dashes are used to interject
explanatory information that is closely related to meaning. A question can be raised as
to how Williams is using the dashes: Are they rhytmic or integral to meaning? These
examinations are examples of that which will lead to explanations and evaluations of the
structure of "Spring and All" and that can be further related to subject and
meaning.

What is the significance of the closing scene in Oedipus Rex?

Oedipus Rex is what many consider to
be the perfect tragic play; Oedipus, the title character, perfectly embodies Aristotle's
description of a tragic hero, and the action of the play makes it what Aristotle defined
as a true tragedy.

In the closing
scene of Oedipus Rex, Oedipus, who has recently learned that he has
unknowingly killed his father and married his mother, blinds himself as a form of
self-punishment and prepares to live the rest of his life in
exile. 

The Chorus closes the play with these final
lines: 

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People of our country Thebes, behold this
Oedipus,
who knew the famous riddle and was a most powerful man,

whose fortunes all the citizens watched with emulation,(1555)
how
deep the sea of dire misfortune that has taken him!
Therefore, it is
necessary to call no man blessed
as we await the final day, until he has
reached
the limit of life and suffered nothing
grievous. 

This final scene
is significant because it portrays Oedipus as a tragic hero and shows audiences that not
even a noble man such as Oedipus is free of sin or wrongdoing.  After his reversal of
fortune, Oedipus accepts responsibility for his actions (killing his father and marrying
and having children with his mother) by blinding himself so that he won't have to "see"
his sin--his children--any more.  Further, he prepares to live a life of exile since it
is the punishment he vowed to impose upon the person who killed Laius (before he
understood that he himself was the killer). 

Essentially,
the Chorus, in the last lines of the play, is observing that no humans who are living
are "blessed," as even the most powerful and respected people can fall victim to fate at
any time. 
 

How does the speaker in the poem "The Taxi" feel about leaving the person he or she loves?

If you read the poem carefully you can see a number of
different images that the poet uses to describe how the speaker in this poem feels. Just
consider the first three
lines:

When I go away from
you

Whe world beats dead

Like
a slackened drum.

Note how
this simile creates an incredibly powerful image, depicting how bereft the speaker is in
her life when she leaves her beloved. The world is compared to a "slackened" drum which
is beating "dead", which of course uses onomatopoeia in "beat" to enact the sound that
the image creates. Note how the poem continues:

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I call out for you against the jutted
stars

And shout into the ridges of the
wind.

Two implied metaphors
are used here to further paint a picture of the bleak landscape which the speaker
inhabits without her lover - the stars are made out to be high, jutted mountains that
hem her in and the wind likewise has "ridges", equally creating an image of the speaker
feeling imprisoned and caged by nature. Life without her love is certainly very
difficult for her.

This quotation contains a figure of speech. What are the exact words that make up the figure. Then is it a personification, simile, or a...

This quotation is a metaphor.  It is a metaphor because it
compares "your" genius to a boat that is hoisting its sails.  This is a metaphor and not
a simile because of the way in which it makes the
comparison.

If this had been a simile, it would have said
something like "my genius is like a little vessel..."  In this case, the comparison is
made directly, by using the word "like."  Instead, this is a metaphor because it just
says that your genius is a vessel -- not that it is like one.

In “Death Be Not Proud”, explain the idea Donne conveys with the line “From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be.”

The speaker of this poem starts right away with a
challenge to the power that Death thinks it has.  He then goes on in each of three
quatrains to give a specific reason why Death should not be so full of pride and
arrogance.  In the second quatrain, he says, "From rest and sleep, which but thy
pictures be, / Much pleasure".  It is easier to consider what he is saying if we keep
reading the sentence.  Sleep as a kind of death, or death being just a kind of sleep is
a stock metaphor that has existed in the tradition of poetry forever, and Donne is
throwing that metaphor directly in Death's face.  He is saying, 'hey Death, you are
nothing but a kind of sleep -- and most people like to sleep.'  By suggesting that sleep
(and by comparison, death) is a pleasure, it takes the power of Death away.  He finishes
the second quatrain with further explaination of the pleasure that comes from death when
the soul is delivered from this earthly world, to an afterlife in
Heaven.

What are some biblical allusions and their connections in James Joyce's "Araby"?

Joyce's "Araby" opens with Biblical allusions. A literary
allusion is a device whereby the writer conveys a great deal of information in very few
words, usually through the imagery of very few words, that call up cultural recollection
of commonly know facts, legends, stories, myths, histories, etc. A Biblical allusion is
an allusion that refers to Biblical stories, characters, theologies, doctrines or
religious persons, groups, concepts, locations, etc.

In one
instance, the opening of "Araby" alludes to religious concepts of celibacy by having
former tenant of the house be a Catholic priest, indicative of the narrator's plight
regarding his love for Magan. It also alludes to the value of religious literary works
by classing a popular theological work of the day, The Devout
Communicant, with a detective story (The Memoirs of
Vidocq) and a novel by Walter Scott about Benedictine monks and by locating
them in the "waste room behind the kitchen ... with old useless
papers."

Midway through the story, the narrator calls up a
religious allusion when he says the deserted after-hours bazaar was like "a church after
a service": the energy of past sounds and past activity is still present and still
throwing out a metaphorical glow as a of ghost, which may suggest Joyce's sentiment as
to the value (seemingly nil) of church services.

What are the points of Marxist and Feminist criticism in the story Pinocchio?

This answer format allows for only a brief discussion of
these literary criticisms applied to Pinocchio
(1883).

Marxist literary, or critical, theory isolates the way the
text reflects the Base and Superstructure of economic structure. It particularly looks
for the answer to how workers are exploited and to how a text upholds or disrupts the
ideology of society, especially bourgeoisie values.

The opening three
chapters provide fodder for Marxist criticism. (1) The description of Geppetto's home
reveals economic exploitation derived from the economic base. (2) His relationship with
Mastro Antonio reveals the ideology of their community. (3) The encounter between
Pinocchio, Geppetto and the Carabineer illustrates the Superstructure they live
under.

(1) In Geppetto's home, a fire for warmth and porridge for
meals are painted on the walls signifying that, more often than not, these are all he
has for warmth and food. The economic base, therefore, is one in which the worker is
given only a menial wage that cannot keep him fed or warmed. (2) When Geppetto goes to
Mastro Antonio, we see an ideology prescribing lower class reliance on itself; Geppetto
doesn't hesitate to ask nor Antonio to grant a favor of something given outright.
 

"Mastro
Antonio, ... I have come to you to beg for a favor." ... "I want a piece of wood to make
a Marionette. Will you give it to me?"

Mastro Antonio, very glad
indeed, went immediately to his bench ....
[...]
Little as
Geppetto's house was, it was neat and comfortable. ... A fireplace full of burning logs
was painted on the wall .... Over the fire, ... a pot full of something ... boiling
happily away [was] sending up clouds of what looked like real
steam.

(3) The encounter with
the Carabineer (law officer) reveals the Superstructure of the community, which, as Marx
and Engels explain it, is the cultural system of laws, philosophies, religion, arts that
rise out of the ideology, while ideology is the unquestioned beliefs that govern a
community and arise from the nature of the economic base. The Carabineer's imprisonment
of Geppetto based solely on by-stander's speculation reveals the legal and political
power of the elite and the exploited powerlessness of the poor workers. In this brief
analysis of the beginning of Pinocchio, it is clear that Marxist
theory has its contentions borne out in the story.

Feminism has a
long history (not just post-World War I) with, according to some, three categorical
definitions. The one applied to Feminist literary theory and criticism is that it seeks
to reevaluate literature from a non-patriarchal bias thus reinterpreting and revising
literature and society from a feminist point-of-view seeing women as having voice,
individualism, and complex psychology instead of as voiceless appendages of men with
insignificant psychological facets.

Chapter 15 introduces the first
female character. Analyze her interactions with Pinocchio and her independent actions,
speech and thought through the Feminist lens to identify patriarchal (male) influences,
male subjugation, and voicelessness. For instance, her description marks her as a
typically disenfranchised, voiceless woman who is perceived as having no autonomy or
psychological complexity:

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She had azure hair and a face white as wax. Her
eyes were closed and her hands crossed on her breast. With a voice so weak that it
hardly could be heard, she whispered:

"No one lives in this house.
Everyone is dead." ... "I also am
dead."

Whom should the prince pardon, and whom should he punish? Why?

I agree with pohnpei397--I don't think the Prince should
punish anyone.  In fact, I'm not sure that in the Prince's last lines ("Go hence to have
more talk of these sad things./  Some shall be pardoned, and some punished") he's
referring to the type of punishment that he would
implement. 

To look at the situation more accurately, we
first need to look at the Prince's role in the play.  After the brawl between the
Montagues and the Capulets that occurs at the opening of the play, the Prince warns, "If
ever you disturb our streets again/ Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace." 
This threat, obviously, is one that the Prince is compelled to impose because of the
out-of-control fighting between the two families.  It's the only way, after so many
years--and even generations--of fighting that he feels he can keep more blood from being
shed.  Again, this is the Prince's responsibility given his position in
Verona.

At the end of the play, while Montague and the
Capulets look upon the bodies of their dead children and learn of their relationship
with each other, the Prince observes that "some shall be pardoned, some punished."  I
think the punishment here (specifically, for the Capulets, Montague, and maybe Friar
Laurence) is the guilt that they will experience that accompanies their role in this
tragedy.  Montague and the Capulets, in perpetuating the feud, have driven their
children to tragic ends.  Friar Laurence, though his intentions were good, could have
gone about things differently; as a result, Romeo and Juliet--and others--are
dead.) 

Given the Prince's threats in Act 1, readers might
assume that the Prince is the type of official who uses the threat of punishment more as
a deterrent than as anything else.  Further, it's important to note that even though his
Act 1 threat warned that anyone involved in more fighting would be killed, he only
banished Romeo for killing Tybalt.  (Though we understand this to
be a show of mercy, Romeo sees banishment as more of a punishment, as it prevents him
from being with Juliet.)  Thus, by no means does the Prince take pleasure in punishing
members of either family. As pohnpei397 notes, the deaths of Romeo and Juliet are, in
and of themselves, punishment enough for everyone else involved in the
situation.

Obviously, this is a question that's very
debatable.  Good luck in deciding for yourself! 

What is the change in tone after line 20 in "To His Coy Mistress"?

You have correctly identified a key turning point in the
poem. Remember what this poem is all about: the speaker is trying to persuade his
audience to love him now and not to be "coy." The speaker dwells on the details of human
mortality with morbid precision, to make his beloved feel that even immoral behaviour
while alive is preferable to being good but dead. The first section of the poem slowly
and languidly talks about how he would court his love if he had
time:

We would
sit down, and think which way

To walk, and pass our long
love's day.

The speaker says
he would spend a very long time praising her beauty and her various qualities, because
she "deserves this state" and he would certainly never want to "love at lower rate." So
the poem in this part is slow and sure in its praise of the beauty of the love of the
speaker. However, it is in line 21 that we see a distinct change of tone - from relaxed
to rushed and hurried. The voice of the speaker becomes urgent as he hears "Time's
winged chariot hurrying near" and he reflects upon the "Deserts of vast eternity" that
lie before them because of the mortality of human beings. Thus the message emerging from
this change of tone is clear - we do not have all eternity, because we are going to die
soon, so seize the day and love me with such passion and
intensity:

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Thus, though we cannot make our
sun

Stand still, yet we will make him
run.

How do the Defarges manipulate the mender of roads in the Versailles scene? (Chapter 15)

In A Tale of Two Cities, the French
are pretty clearly divided into patriots and aristocrats.  The patriots (peasants) must
stand as a united front against the aristocrats (rich) if they ever hope to win a
revolution to effect change.  The Mender of Roads is clearly not an aristocrat, and he
is clearly one of the poor peasants.

The Defarges take him
to Versailles, the glorious palace of the King and Queen.  They take him for one
purpose--to make sure he is not swayed, later on, by all the finery and trappings of
this luxurious lifestyle.  We watch his eyes glaze over when he sees it all for the
first time, and we understand that he will not be able to kill and destroy that which he
finds so beautiful and impressive.  The Defarges are quite sly with him, telling him as
he's cheering madly for the royals:

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"Bravo!...You are the fellow we want," said
Defarge in his ear; "you make these fools believe that it will last for ever.  Then,
they are the more insolent, and it is the nearer
ended."

After the Mender of
Roads pauses to reflect, he agrees.  The Defarges go on to use two analogies, dolls and
birds, to further their point.  They ask if he were given all the dolls or all the birds
he could find and wanted to take some of their clothing or plumage for himself, would he
not take the richest, brightest and finest?  When he says he would, indeed, Madame
Defarge replies:

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"You have seen both dolls and birds
to-day....now, go home!"

What
they hoped to achieve was some disillusionment for the sumptuous appearance of the
aristocracy, reminding him it was all trappings--trappings bought at the price of food
on his table and clothes on his
back.

I need a 500 words opinion on producers duties to the consumer?

I cannot provide you a 500 word essay but you can develop
on the following points to create it.

Producers have an
obligation to only sell safe products to their consumers. For each activity that a
producer undertakes, they have to:
1. Provide their consumers with the right
information that will enable them to assess the risks that may be inherent in the use of
a product through its normal period of use. The consumer should know about all the risks
when without warnings from the producer they are not apparent. Even providing these
warnings does not absolve the producer from selling products that may be dangerous and
injurious to the consumers.
2. Producers should adopt measures that are
commensurate with the characteristics of the products they supply; which would enable
consumers to be informed of risks that accompany the products and also take appropriate
action, when necessary, by  withdrawing products from the market.
3. Some
measures to be adopted include:

• proper marking
  of products or product batches so they can be identified
  


• doing adequate sample testing of products before they
  are sold


• dealing with complaints of consumers and keeping
  distributors informed of what they should do in such
  cases

In addition producers have the
responsibility to price their products appropriately and not try to misuse in any way
situations where their product has a high demand, is essential or the producer enjoys a
monopoly.

What is the motivation of Friar Lawrence in the play Romeo and Juliet?

Friar Lawrence is motivated by two factors in
Romeo and Juliet.  First, he is a monk.  Therefore we must assume
that he is living for the greater good, for the glory of God, to serve, etc.  This is an
underlying motivation for him to do anything that would better society.  His ultimate
goal in helping Romeo and Juliet is to bring the feuding families together.  He believes
this marriage will do just that.

Additionally, when we
first meet Friar Lawrence in Act 2, it is obvious he has had a long time
friendship/advisorship with Romeo.  He already knows all about Romeo's infatuation with
Rosaline, and likely other girls as well.  This suggests Romeo has been confiding in
Friar Lawrence for some time.  When he brings up his new love for Juliet, Friar Lawrence
speaks to him like a father-figure and friend.  He obviously has seen Romeo bounce from
one infatuation to another in the past.  His close relationship is confirmed later in
the play when Romeo comes to him crying and the Friar says something to the effect of,
"Stop acting like a woman."  Only a good friend could say something like
that.

Likely, Friar Lawrence realizes that Romeo's love for
Juliet is different than the other girls, and desires to see his young friend happy and
settled down at last.  Coupled with his motivation to bring the two families together,
Friar Lawrence truly believes he is doing the right thing by helping the young
lovers.

What is the distance if the velocity is v=1/sin^2t*cos^2t

The distance is ds =
v*dt.

We'll integrate both
sides:

Integral ds = Integral
v*dt

s = Integral v*dt

To
integrate the given function, we'll have to re-write the numerator of the function to
give odds to the resolution of the indefinite
integral.

We'll substitute the numerator1, by the
fundamental formula of trigonometry:

(sin t)^2 + (cos
t)^2 = 1

We'll re-write the
ratio:

1/(sin t)^2*(cos t)^2=[(sin t)^2 + (cos t)^2]/(sin
t)^2*(cos t)^2

1/(sin t)^2*(cos t)^2 = (sin t)^2/(sin
t)^2*(cos t)^2 + (cos t)^2/(sin t)^2*(cos t)^2

We'll
simplify the ratios:

1/(sin t)^2*(cos t)^2 = 1/(cos t)^2 +
1/(sin t)^2

We'll integrate both
sides:

Int dt/(sin t)^2*(cos t)^2 = Int dt/(cos t)^2 + Int
dt/(sin t)^2

Int dt/(sin t)^2*(cos t)^2 =
tan t - cot t + C

The
expression of the function of distance
is:

s(t) = tan t -
cot t

What does Linda think is the trouble with Willy's life? Why is she angry at her sons, Why does she put the rubber hose back after she had taken it?

Linda is very clear about Willy's problem: She has
witnessed the ghosts of the past showing up in his mind, and she is quite aware of his
problems with dementia and delusions, and she knows that he had attempted
suicide.

However, Linda is a much more complex character
than her lines: She is a submissive 1940's 1950s wife whose only duty was to obey her
husband and nurture the family. At this point, however, we know that Linda refers to
Wily "as a little boat in search of a harbor." THAT harbor is Biff: Linda feels that the
problem with Willy is NOT the dementia, but the loss of his hopes for Biff (and,
secondarily, for Happy)

This is why she is mad at her
children- Because they let themselves go and failed to comply with Willy's wishes. Willy
lived vicariously through his two boys, and saw Biff as a man who would do great things.
Yet, neither Happy nor Biff had much to show for, nor much to live
for.

The rubber hose incident was that basically Linda
found it, and knew right off the bat that Willy intended to die of carbon monoxide
poisoning. He had tried to kill himself before anyways to cash on his life insurance so
Biff could move on. Why did she put it back? Because it has been obvious trough the play
that Linda would never go against anything Willy does and, secondly, because she still
felt like problems would fix themselves once her children got themselves together. She
was an endless dreamer, often disappointed, but never
surrendering.