From The London Eye Mystery, define ten words with which you are unfamiliar.

The London Eye Mystery has a plethora
(overabundance) of words that a reader might not be familiar with. There are many in the
first two chapters that are critical in establishing the setting and in developing the
character of the narrator. For instance, the first and most critical part of the initial
setting is the London Eye. It is called an observation
wheel. This is term that is newly added to the English lexicon
(vocabulary). This is a upgraded term for an elaborate Ferris Wheel that is built on a
larger scale and has large capacity observation capsules for many people to ride in all
at once instead of the the standard suspended bucket seats of an "old fashioned" Ferris
Wheel. Observation: to notice or to perceive. Capsule: small compact
enclosure.

The London Eye observation wheel
is constructed with metallic hawsers. "Metallic" means that these "hawsers" are made of
metal (a class of crystalline elementary substance). But what are "hawsers"?
Hawser: heavy rope of cable for mooring or towing. The
hawsers are metallic rope-like cables that facilitate the operation of the observation
wheel. Another part of the observation wheel are the cantilevered
structures: a rigid part of the structure horizontal to a vertical
support that has tension on top and compression on bottom and is used for extended
support.

From the second chapter, American
readers learn of the English thing called "post" that comes
to homes. Of course, the UK's post is the USA's mail.
American English still has a vestige of the original noun for letters sent from person
or entity to another in the terms post office, postman (not gender
neutral), post box, postage stamp, and in expressions like "take it
the the post" and "did you post that." 

This gets you started on your way, and here
are more words from chapters 1 and 2 that you can look up. Dictionary.com is a
convenient and reliable online dictionary to
use.

massive
queue
devastation
souvenir
clumsy
emblem
catalogue
demolition
expert
borough
anticyclone
meteorologist

Evaluate the values of x for tan^2x=(1+tanx)/2

We have to determine x given that (tan x)^2 = (1 + tan x)
/ 2.

Now (tan x)^2 = (1 + tan x) /
2

multiply both sides by
2

=> 2 (tan x)^2  = 1 + tan
x

=> 2 (tan x)^2  - 1 - tan x
=0

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

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

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

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

=> tan x = -1/2  or tan x  =
1

Therefore x can take the values arc tan -1/2 and arc tan
1

or x = -26.56 + n*180 degrees or 45 + n*180
degrees.

The required values are x = -26.56 +
n*180 degrees or 45 + n*180 degrees.

What is an example of soliloquy?Preferably from The Crucible, The Great Gatsby, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Twilight Saga, To Kill A...

In the Crucible, at the end of Act 2, John Proctor faces
the open sky and declares:

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"Peace. It is a providence, and no great change;
we are only what we always were, but naked now. . . Aye, naked! And the wind, God's icy
wind will blow!"

This is an
example of a soliloquy. A Soliloquy is an audible oratory or conversation with oneself.
It is a term that is typically applied to theatrical characters engaged in a monologue.
But it can also be used as a term in a literary work that simply describes an occurrence
when a character talks with oneself. The soliloquy helps in the realization by the
character of certain things that may not have been realized if he had not verbalized
aloud.

In Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, what American Ideal(s) are satirized with each character below?1.Tom & Daisy 2. Gatsby 3. Easterners (ex....

In Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby,
American ideals are satirized in many different ways. The way in which Fitzgerald
chooses to do this is through his characters. Below are just a few of the characters and
the American ideals that they represent.

Tom and Daisy -
Here the American ideal Fitzgerald chooses to satirize is that of a perfect marriage.
The picture on all of the advertisements of the time, of the perfect, happy family
sitting around the dinner table, a roast made by the wife, and dad just home from work,
with time to play with the little ones, is not the picture that Fitzgerald chooses to
paint with Daisy and Tom. They are unhappy and look elsewhere for what they are not
getting in their marriage.

Gatsby - Probably the most
overarching American ideal that is made light of is that of the American dream. Gatsby
supposedly made something of himself from the work he did, and now he's reaping the
benefits of that hard work. However we soon learn that Gatsby's money was not so
honestly earned after all, and that "American dream" that he had supposedly earned, was
not so dreamy anyway, as he spent most nights looking longingly for love across the
water.

Easterners - Here Fitzgerald is mocking the wealthy.
One of the major American ideals is the ideal of the happiness associated with wealth.
These Easterners are very wealthy, spending days at a time lounging at parties, but
rarely if ever do we see them happy. Fitzgerald paints the picture of these people as
empty and searching, not so happy.

Jordan Baker - Probably
one of the most obviously satirized characters is Ms. Baker. Here, Fitzgerald shows that
women acting like men (the first time we meet Jordan, she has just been out golfing and
she's wearing pants - edgy for the time period) don't gain so much self-confidence as
they do lose relationships. Every time we see Jordan, she is aloof, separate, and
alone.

What is the most likely difference between Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the legend that originated it?difference

In "Gawain and the Green Knight," Gawain is a young, but
impetuous and untried knight of King Arthur's court who accepts the challenge of the
Green Knight to do battle.  When Gawain loses, he promises that he will meet the Green
Knight in one year so that the Green Knight has the chance to exact his revenge from the
young man.

When Gawain arrives at the agreed upon location,
temptation is placed before him three times in order to test his honor as a true and
loyal knight.  This is the central focus of the story.

The
difference between this popular version and what seems to be the original source of the
story is that "Gawain and the Green Knight" includes medieval values and moral
codes.

The earlier stories are considered "beheading game"
stories that did not focus on the elements of chivalry (knightly virtue, honor and
courtly love) as the "Gawain" story did.  The early stories focused on the battle—the
beheading.

So the primary element that differentiates the
old beheading game stories, and "Gawain and the Green Knight" story is the presence of
chivalry in the second tale.

“She spoke sullenly, careful to show no interest or pleasure, and he spoke in a fas, bright monotone.”What is the meaning behind and the...

In this story Connie is a adolescent girl who believes she
knows all about the world in which she lives, and that her mother hasn't a clue.
 Although her mother tries to teach her to behave herself, Connie plays the game of a
daughter who listens and knows better than to behave poorly as other girls might, when
in fact, she sneaks around behind her mother's back, hanging with an older
crowd.

One day at the diner to which she sneaks, she
catches the eye of a guy in a gold painted car.  While aware of him, she continues on
her way with the boy she is hanging out with, and thinks no more about
him.

Disturbingly, he is all too aware
of her.  She doesn't know this until he shows up outside of her
house one Sunday afternoon while her parents are away at a barbeque.  She remembers
Arnold Friend (though he is anything
but a friend!)  from that night, and toys a little with him, not quite flirting through
the screen door, but not closing the door firmly in his face, locking the door and
calling the police.  (Of course, the more he talks, the more threatening his words
become, until there is an implied threat against her family as
 well.)

The quote, “She spoke sullenly, careful to show no
interest or pleasure, and he spoke in a fast, bright monotone,” describes the way they
speak. At first she is a little cautious.  She does not act as if she is flattered by
his attention, but does not act displeased either.  His voice says pretty things to her,
but the monotone indicates that the words have no meaning to him: like a smile on his
face that doesn't quite reach his eyes, he is simply going through the motions. Rather
than being put at ease by what he says, Connie starts to become a little
alarmed.

Connie realizes that Arnold is not what she had
first thought: he is not a young man like the other boys she hangs out with.  The other
guy in his car is not so young either, and Arnold's abrupt "barking" or yelling at his
companion shows Connie that she is in a serious
situation.

Arnold continues to talk to her and even as she
tells him he must leave, it becomes apparent that he knows all about her, that her
family is out, and that she is completely alone.  His monotonous conversation, and the
repetition of the things he says to her, mesmerize her until she has been subdued like a
charmed snake.

“She spoke sullenly, careful to show no
interest or pleasure, and he spoke in a fast, bright monotone,” ultimately parallels the
way they act with each other.  She takes no real action to attempt to shut him out, and
he continues to work his way hypnotically into her mind, never backing down or letting
up.  It is in this way that Connie truly starts to think and behave like a
victim.

She becomes aware that she is caught up in a
situation not only that she never imagined (for she truly knows nothing about the real
world), but from which there is no escape; horrifyingly, to the reader, she just gives
up and goes out the door to him.  The reader knows that she is certainly going to her
death.

(This is loosely based on a true story.  See
link.)

What causes baldness?

Genetics is the main reason that people lose their hair
prematurely, although certain medical conditions can also cause people to lose their
hair.

There are three types of hair loss: generalized hair
loss, patchy hair loss, and baldness in men. Generalized hair loss can be caused by
certain infections, vitamin deficiencies, thyroid gland disorders, medication usage, and
exposure to certain toxins. Patchy hair loss is caused by ringworm and alopecia areata.
Baldness in men is caused by androgens, which is a male hormone. Genetics is a major
cause of baldness and woman can inherit this as well, although usually women do not lose
all of their hair as some men do.

What are ten good examples of figurative language in Of Mice and Men, and how do each of them describe either a character or setting?John...

In Of Mice and Men, the great
American writer, John Steinbeck, embellishes his narrative with figurative
language:

• Visual (colors) and auditory imagery,
  along with personification, is used in the opening paragraph, a description of the
  Salinas area:

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1-2...the Slina River drops in close to the
hillside bank and runs deep and green.  The water is warm...it has slipped twinkling
over the yellow sands in the sunlight...the golden foothill slopes curve up to the
strong and rocky Gabilan mountains [personification]...willows fresh and
green...sycamores with mottled, white, recumbent
limbs...

• Animal
  imagery is employed in his description of Lennie Small, images that underscore the brute
  strength of the man and lower intelligence as Lennie is likened to a bear.  He is
  portrayed as "dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his
  paws."

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3. His arms did not swing at his sides, but hung
loosely....Lennie dabled his big paw in the water and wiggled his fingers so the wter
arose in little
splashes...

• A
  metaphoric description of Slim, the mule-skinner is given in section
  3:

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4.George looked over at Slim and saw the calm,
God-like eyes fastened on
him.

 As Slim looks at
Candy's old dog, there is a metaphoric affinity to an
animal:

 5.He
seemed to shake himself free for
speech

• Another
  metaphor is found in the beginning of Section
  3:

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6. Slim reached up over the card table and turned
on the tin-shaded electric light.  Instantly the table was brillaint with light; and
the cone of the shade  threw its brightness straight
downward...

• In
  Section 4, Crooks uses a simile when he taunts Lennie,
  

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7. They'll tie ya up with a collar, like a
dog.

• In a
  description of Crooks, figurative language is used:  
  

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8.Crooks face lighted with pleasure in his
torture.

• In
  Section 4, the description of Curley's wife a simile is
  used,

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 9.She breathed strongly, as though she had been
running.

• As the
  men grow angry with her, she looks from face to face
  

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10.and they were all closed against her
[metaphor]

 

"Had to put him out good and proper to touch him. So scat." Chap.30 P.274. Please help me to understand this statement.Does Dr. Reynold joke with...

Dr. Reynolds's statement is actually made
after he has examined Jem.  He enters the room where Scout
and Atticus are sitting and places "a big package wrapped in newspaper" which probably
contains Jem's clothes from when he was attacked by Bob Ewell.  In the previous
paragraph Scout has described the physician's voice as "as breezy as his step," so he
has a nonchalant manner.  With no surprise in his voice, he greets Boo Radley, for
instance.

Now, he turns to Scout and allays her fears about
her brother: 

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"You're quite satisfied he's alive, now?  Tell
you how I knew.  When I tried
to examine him, he kicked
me."

Note that this statement
is in past tense.  The doctor has checked Jem and removed
his soiled clothing, covering it with newspaper to disguise the blood from Atticus and,
especially Scout.  In his reassuring of Scout that Jem is all right, he says "Scat,"
meaning "You can run along now."  (Dr. Reynolds uses a Southern colloquialism
here.)

Draw "dot & cross" diagrams to show how different types of chemical bonds are formed when fluorine reacts with a) hydrogen, b) potassium.

In a dot and cross diagram you show the new positions of
the electrons after chemical bonding as taken place between two elements.  In covalent
bonding the electrons are shared therefore the atoms will overlap one another to show
the sharing of the electrons.  In iconic bonding the electrons are transferred so the
the atoms will be next to one another to demonstrate the electrons transfer to the other
atom.

The bond between hydrogen and fluorine to make
hydrogen fluoride is covalent as it is a bond between two
non-metals.

The bond between potassium and fluorine to make
potassium fluorine is iconic as it is a bond between a metal (potassium), and a
non-metal (fluorine).

As I am unable to post images here, I
have provided links in the sources below to the two diagrams for Hydrogen fluoride, and
Potassium fluoride that already exist on the internet.

Is the murder of Duncan the only death that troubles Lady Macbeth? Answer specifically with direct quotations from Macbeth (act 5).

Lady Macbeth is troubled by more than just the killing of
Duncan in Act 5.1.

The imaginary blood on her hands
directly refers back to the blood on Macbeth's hands immediately after he kills Duncan
in Act 2.2.  Macbeth obsesses over the blood, worrying that he will never be able to
wash it off, and if he were, it would turn the ocean red.  Lady Macbeth tells him that a
little water will clear them of the deed they've just done.  That is, a little water
will wash off the blood and get rid of the evidence against them.  Ironically, Lady
Macbeth is the one suffering from guilt and seeing blood on her hands in Act 5.1.  She
is the one obsessing at this stage of the play.

The quip
about the Thane of Fife having a wife, of course, refers directly to the murders of
Macduff's family members in Act 4.2.  Lady Macbeth did not plan those murders and did
not, presumably, have any idea that what she started with her husband would lead to that
kind of slaughter.

Lady Macbeth's mention of Banquo refers
to Banquo's appearance at the feast as a ghost.  Specifically, she recalls the words she
told her husband about Banquo's inability to harm them, since he is dead.  This
reference reveals that it is not just guilt that is bothering Lady Macbeth.  Her
husband's guilty visions, as she interprets them, and his inability to follow her
directions to act normally and not draw attention to his guilt, also bother Lady Macbeth
here. 

The whole situation has gotten out of hand and
turned into chaos.  Lady Macbeth got what she wanted, but it didn't turn out the way she
planned.

Please analyze "Eagle Poem" by Joy Harjo.

The central metaphor in the poem is one that suggests
language is a circle of motion or that meaning is communicated, articulated or otherwise
manifested in circles of motion.

While engaging in prayer,
the individual realizes that the "voice that is you" is not contained in the self, but
is un-contained and exists in the world being witnessed and
experienced.

The world, perhaps especially the "natural
world," represents a verity or truth that one begins to see when "you open your whole
self": 

And know there is
more

That you can’t see,
can’t hear;

Can’t know except in
moments

Steadily growing, and in
languages

That aren’t always sound but
other

Circles of motion.

These
circles of motion are exemplified by the eagle circling in the
sky.

Like
eagle that Sunday morning

Over Salt River. Circled in blue
sky

In wind, swept our hearts
clean

With sacred
wings.

Later in
the poem, life is presented as another example of a circle of motion. These circles of
motion are both an expression of meaning and, we might say, the content of that meaning.
The eagle becomes finally a symbol of the ways that we experience meaning. The poem
suggests that the eagle rounds out the morning "inside us" and so is a link in the
circle of meaning-individual-natural world. 

To
see the poem as following a single conceit (extended metaphor), we might read the poem
as a map of the "circle of motion" wherein an individual looks outward to find a
spiritual or metaphysical truth (lines 1-9), recognizes the physicality of that truth as
it exists in the natural world (lines 10-21), and finally internalizes the sense that
meaning or truth is an expansive and ultimately connective element of existence itself
(lines 22-26). 

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Breathe in, knowing we are made
of

All
this.

What is the literal meaning of the metaphor "For it is as the air, invulnerable" found in Hamlet?

In Act I, Scene 1 of Shakespeare's Hamlet, 
the guard watches the shores of Denmark as there is an fearful apprehension
that Norway's Fortinbras, son of the late king who was slain by King Hamlet, who took
his lands, plans an attack in order to retrieve such lands.  This guard has seen during
their watches a spectre; however, Horatio says that Marcellus and Bernardo and Francisco
are merely imagining it.  So, Marcellus has entreated Horatio come and watch with
them.

The ghost, in fact, does appear, looking like the
dead King Hamlet.  Horatio orders it to speak, but the ghost disappears into the night;
Horatio believes that the ghost of the king "bodes some strange eruption to our state"
(1.1.70).  Again the spectre appears and Horatio urges it to speak to him, telling if it
knows anything of Denmark's fate.  As the ghost starts to move away, Horatio calls to
Marcellus, telling him to stop it:

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Shall I strike at it with my
partisan?

Do, if it will not stand.
(1.1.139-140)

But, Bernardo
and Horatio find themselves stabbing at the air. Marcellus
concludes,

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'Tis gone.

We do it
wrong, being so majestical

To offer it the show of
violence;

For it is as the air,
invulnerable,

And our vain blows malicious
mockery (1.1.143-145)

By
stabbing at the ghost of King Hamlet, Bernardo and Horatio make a mockery of killing the
majestical king, for he is already dead and, like the air that they have stabbed
invulnerable, or untouchable and incapable of being wounded or killed since it is
already dead.  The phrase quoted above in the question is precisely a simile as
mentioned in the previous post since the comparison is stated using as
(which means like).

Why do you think Snowballs various projects, except the reading and writing classes, were failures?

Another way to look at this may be the following: The
constant variable with most dystopias and with any other society in which rules are
implemented for the benefit of a small, powerful minority is that the inevitable always
happens: Personality infuses what is supposed to be a firm, rigid, and objective plan.
In the case of Napoleon and Snowball, there was a clear conflict of character and a
power struggle that clearly showed the double intention of any plan proposed by
Snowball.

Similarly in society, when a small fraction of
power hungry people attempt to dominate a huge following, their hunger for power is
demonstrated equally in the way they pretend to implement their
plan.

This is why most faction-type governments such as
Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, and the likes end up becoming failures and never last:
Because the human thread is too obvious and the personality of the ruler interferes with
what is meant to be general and universal.

In The Kite Runner, what was the route of Amir's journey within the Middle East and cities he visited along the way?

Rahim Khan wants Amir to see him in Pakistan. He calls
Amir and tells him he is very sick but there is a way “for him to be good again.” Amir
first goes to Pakistan, then, and meets with Rahim Kahn, an adult friend of his father’s
who had befriended Amir when he was yet a child. Rahim was a type of mentor to Amir.
When he first arrives, he goes through the Peshawar district. A cab driver tells him
that Afghanistan has become a disaster since the Taliban took over. Rahim tells Amir
that he had been living in Baba’s house in Kabul. Hassan and his wife also go to live
there, but they are shot by the Taliban one day. Rahim tells Amir that his father, Baba,
was really the father of Hassan. Rahim Kahan wants Amir to find Hassan’s son, Sohrab,
who was sent to an orphanage. At first, Amir does not want to go, but he finally
realizes he must, and Rahim Kahn gets a friend to take Amir to Kabul. Amir sees signs of
war all along the way. Taliban are present everywhere.

Amir
finds Sohrab, who is being held by a Taliban official that turns out to be the evil
 Assef of his childhood, the one who raped his friend Hassan when they were boys. There
is a fight, and Amir wakes up in a hospital back in Peshawar. Amir realizes that Sohrab
is not safe in Afghanistan, and takes him to Islamabad, Pakistan, to try to arrange to
bring him to the U.S.

Who else approaches Dimmesdale just as he invites Pearl and Hester to join him on the scaffold?Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

This scene from The Scarlet Letter is
the very climax of the novel.  For, it is the point at which the character, Arthur
Dimmesdale, resolves the terrible conflicts of conscience and soul in which he has been
engaged since the first scaffold scene.  By standing upon the scaffold and confessing
his sin, spiritually Dimmesdale is released--the truth does, indeed, set him free.  For,
Dimmesdale is set free from the devilish torture of the fiend that Roger Chillingworth
has become.  Standing beneath the minister, about whom he told Hester in Chapter IV,
"Sooner or later, he must needs be mine," now has lost the victim whom he has tortured
in his desire for vengeance. 

Having attempted to deter the
minister, to "snatch back his victim," he has promised Dimmesdale that he can yet save
him:

"Madman,
hold!  What is your purpose?...Wave back that woman!  Cast off this child.  All shall be
well!  Do not blacken your fame, and perish in dishonour!  I can yet save you!  Would
you bring infamy on your sacred
profession?"

Responding much
as Jesus did when the Satan tempted Him [Matthew 4:1-3] in the desert, Dimmesdale tells
the dark and evil man,

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"Ha, tempter! Methinks thou art too late!...Thy
power is not what it was!  With God's help, I shall escape thee
now!"

In his confession to
the town, Dimmesdale is freed from his secret sin; he fulfills the theme of Hawthorne
that is stated in the concluding chapter: 

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

For, by
being "true," no one can be false to any other. 

find the area of the rectangle ABCD where A(1,2) B(1,4) C(5,4) and D(5,2)

A(1,2) B(1,4) C(5,4) and
D(5,2)

We know that the area of the rectangle
is:

a = Length * width

Let us
calculate:

AB = sqrt(1-2)^2 + (4-2)^2 = sqrt(4 =
2

BC = sqrt[(5-1)^2 + (4-4)^2] = sqrt(16) =
4

Then :

 a = 2*4 =
8

The area of the rectangle is 8 square
units.

What is m if p=2x^4-mx^3+x^2-7 divided by x+2 to have the reminder r=4 ?

According to the fundamental theorem of algebra, if
P(x) is divided by (x+2) and the reminder is 4, then we could
write:

P(-2)=4 (1)

We'll
apply the rule of division with reminder:

2X^4 - mX^3 + X^2
- 7= Q(x+2) + 4

But P(-2)=4, so, we'll substitute x by -2
in the expression of polynomial P(x).

P(-2) = 2(-2)^4 -
m(-2)^3 + (-2)^2 - 7

P(-2) = 32 + 8m + 4 -
7

We'll substitute P(-2) by
4:

4 = 8m + 29

We'll use the
symmetric property:

8m + 29 =
4

We'll subtract 29:

8m = 4 -
29

8m = -25

We'll divide by
8:

m =
-25/8

The polynomial P(x),
whose reminder is 4 when it's divided by (x+2), is determined for m =
-25/8.

What is the argument in "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner?

There is no "argument" in Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily." 
It is a fictional short story, not a nonfictional essay.  Argumentative essays present
arguments, the best fiction usually doesn't, especially in the 20th
century. 

Faulkner, of all writers, knows better than to
present fiction that provides easy one-liners that presume to tell people how to live. 
His fiction is filled with ambiguities, as is life.  There is no "message" argued in the
story, only ideas that are raised and situations that are treated.  Faulkner's story is
above giving simplistic answers to its readers. 

The
desperation of the South following the Civil War is treated.  The loss of the South's
economy is presented.  The reluctance to change and inability to adjust are featured. 
As is mental illness.

Issues of parenting are touched upon,
and issues of isolation and of alienation are present as
well. 

Faulkner depicts human existence; particularly human
existence in the South following the Civil War.  He doesn't preach or teach or pretend
to have nice, neat, easy answers to life's difficult questions.  He knows
better. 

What tragic flaws does Creon show in his talking with Haemon in Antigone? What does Creon say about Ismene?

In Antigone, Creon is angry with
Haemon because Haemon comes to him to try to persuade him to free Antigone.  Haemon has
tried to appeal to his father's ego which seems to work at first; however, Creon sees
through Haemon's pleas.  Creon tells his son that Antigone has been able to control him
and says that he as the king will not be undone by a woman.  He also decides to exert an
act of revenge upon his son by telling him that he will have to watch Antigone's death. 
So in this scene, Creon exhibits the tragic flaws of hubris and wrath:  Creon is too
proud to admit that he may be wrong in his actions, deciding instead that he will not be
shown up by a woman, and he states that he plans to get back at his son for challenging
his authority.

In Fahrenheit 451, what would be Guy Montag's motivation for wanting a change in the society he lives in??

In my opinion, Guy Montag wants to change the society he
lives in because he does not feel like he is living a truly human life.  I think that he
truly comes to realize this when he meets Clarisse and when he sees the old lady die
with her books.

I think that Montag wants to have real
feelings -- he wants to care about other people.  I think he also wants to have
thoughts.  Both of these are things that are more or less contrary to the values of his
society.

Montag is living in a marriage that is not based
on love.  He and Millie can't even remember where they met and she, at least, shows no
signs of caring about him.  I think that he wants that to be
different.

Montag is living in a society where he is not
encouraged to think deep thoughts.  I think he wants that to change as well -- he wants
to be able to think about things without all the distractions his society throws at him
(symbolized by the Denham's Dentrifice ad).

To be human,
you have to be able to feel things like love and you have to be able to think deep
thoughts.  Montag lives in a society where these things are not encouraged and he is
sick of it -- he wants to be fully human.

Why does June continue to reject Neil and why is May against her rejection?

In the book The Secret Life of Bees,
June is a very headstrong and educated woman.  She and her sisters have had to make a
way in the world for themselves.  They have learned the benefit of being independent. 
June also feels responsible for her sister May.  By resisting the desire to marry she is
ensuring that she stays with her sister, August, in taking care of
May.

However, the biggest issue keeping her from marriage
is that June had to overcome was her own fear of rejection.  On page 211 of the book
there is a paragraph that tells how June was supposd to be married, but the man had
backed out of it.  Since then she had been afraid of love and would not take another
chance.

May knew that Neil was a good man and she also knew
her sister's heartfelt feelings.

Simplify:( x/x^2-16 -1/x-4)/4/x+4 The Quotient of Two Rational Expressions

Simplify:( x/x^2-16
-1/x-4)/4/x+4.

Solution:

{x/(x^2-16)
- 1/(x-4)}/ (4/(x+4)) or

{[x/(x^2-16-1)/(x-4)]/4 }/x and
then add .

Such cases arise as there is no unique
representation by using sufficient brackets.

I take the 1st
choice of freedom of putting bracket.

 (a/b)/(c/d) =
ad/bc.

x/(x^2-16) - 1/(x-4) = [x- (x+4)]/(x^2-16), as x^-16
is made the common
denominator.

=4/(x^2-16).

So
{x/x^2-16)-1/(x-4)}/{4/(x+4)] = -4
(x+4)/[(x^2-16)4

{x/x^2-16)-1/(x-4)}/{4/(x+4)]=
-(x+4)/(x^2-16) 

{x/x^2-16)-1/(x-4)}/{4/(x+4)]=
-(x+4)/(x-4)(x+4)

{x/x^2-16)-1/(x-4)}/{4/(x+4)] =
1/(x-4)

What is the tone and setting of "Shooting an Elephant?"

In a clever and typically British wry remark, the
introductory sentence of "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell indicates the
relationship between the Burmese and himself, a relationship that extends to the one
between the British and the Burmese people:

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In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large
numbers of people--the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this
to happen to me.

Later in the
passage, Orwell writes,

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Theoretically--and secretly, of course--I was all
for the Burmese and all against their oppressor, the British.  As for the job I was
doing. I hated it more bitterly than I can perhaps make
clear.  In a job like that you see the dirty work of Empire at close
quarters.

Thus, it can be
deduced from statements such as the above-mentioned that Orwell resents his post with
what he calls as a "despotic government."  For close
readers, those words that indicate the author's feelings are what determine the author's
attitude or tone toward his subject. And, of course, Orwell's actions, such as his
reluctance to perform his assignment suggest as well that he is not in agreement with
what his duties demand.

How can i explain The Federal Reserves System in this...

From the article you can see a reference made to several
issues: inflation, interest rates, and government
bonds.

Now the Federal Reserve System or the Fed can
influence all of these. The interest rates and inflation are influenced by the Fed
buying or selling government bonds. When the Fed sells bonds they are bought by banks;
this reduces the amount of money that the banks can lend. The banks also increase the
interest rates at which the money is lent. This decreases the money available with
borrowers. Now inflation has a direct correlation to the amount of money in the economy.
If there is more money in the economy it drives up prices as people have the resources
to buy the same products at a higher price. So this leads to a higher rate of
inflation.

Also, by selling bonds the Fed is able to
collect money which is required for all the tasks that the government performs. By
buying government bonds this amount does get reduced but it is more important right now
to infuse money into the economy for economic development, therefore here the Fed in
going ahead with this.

A careful reading of the issues in
the article followed by a more detailed study of the same will allow you to understand
how the Fed influences the whole economy by the actions it
performs.

What does Ender's understanding about gravity reveal about Ender's ability to think? How might this benefit him in outer space?Ender's Game in...

This happens on the launch.  Before the ship even leaves
the earth, Ender understands that without gravity, what they are using as a floor could
very easily be a wall of the ship in space, or the ceiling.  He begins to imagine (from
his seat) that instead of walking down the aisle upright, others are hanging upside
down.  Then he imagines that in his seat, HE is upside down.  Basically, this ability to
mentally change his perspective, shows that he is able to think outside the box - even
before the problem is fully presented.

You will find as you
read on how he uses this in the battle room.  Until he gets there, all of the armies
maintain the same orientation in the battle room that they did in the corridor outside
the room.  Ender comes up with a new strategy that becomes key, not only for winning
battles against armies at battle school, but beyond as well.

What is the Council of Home in Ayn Rand's Anthem?

In looking at the book closely, I have found that mention
of "The Council of the Home" comes when Equality 7-2521 speaks of the Home of the Street
Sweepers. He says:

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So we went to the Home of the Street Sweepers. It
is a grey house on a narrow street. There is a sundial in its courtyard, by which the
Council of the Home can tell the hours of the day and when to ring the
bell.

This tells us that
there are people who are in charge of running the Homes that the citizens of different
vocations live in. There are different Homes mentioned throughout the first few chapters
and each "Home" has a capital "H," which lends importance to the home. For instance, old
people go to live in the Home of the Useless once they have turned forty. Actors live in
the Home of the Actors. Each Home has a Council that runs its daily affairs. They are
likely in charge of headcounts at night as well as other controlling factors against the
citizens.

What are the themes in Anna Karenina?

Anna Karenina's basic karmic theme is that love nor
happiness can ever occur if it involves sacrificing the feelings of others. In other
words, only self-sacrifice (not sacrificing your family, current lover or husband,
children, or others around you) is the causative factor of
happiness.

Under this umbrella you find several other
themes in Anna Karenina which are directly linked to that statement: Infidelity,
abandonment, treason, jealousy, hypocrisy (societal), and the ardent furor of lust which
is often confused with love.

Anna's curse was that she left
those who loved her to follow a man she went crazy in love for. She found in him the
ardent furor described before, as well as he did. He was a dandy and heart breaker who
needed his next prey. She was the easiest of preys. In the end, both realize that what
bound them together was temporary, yet, they had single handedly changed and ruined the
lives of those whom had to endure their decisions. Hence, she ended her
life.

At what point on the curve y = 3x^2 + 3x +7 is the tangent drawn perpendicular to the y axis.

The tangent drawn is perpendicular to the y
axis when it is parallel to x axis. That means that the tangent line passes through the
vertex of the function  y = 3x^2 + 3x
+7.

We'll calculate the vertex of the
parabola, using the coordinates xV and yV.

xV =
-b/2a

yV = -delta/4a

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

a =
3

b = 3

c =
7

We'll substitute the coefficients into the coordinates of
the vertex:

xV =
-3/2*3

xV =
-1/2

yV = (4ac -
b^2)/2a

yV = (84 - 9)/6

yV =
75/6

yV =
25/2

The perpendicular line to
y-axis is passing through the vertex of the parabola: V(-1/2 ,
25/2).

What are some examples of abuse of power in A Tale of Two Cities?I need specific situatuons or quotes that have to do with people abusing their...

The two characters mentioned, the Marquis d'Evremonde and
Madame Defarge, are, certainly, the main characters quilty of power as so well explained
in the previous post.  Other characters to consider are the Monseigneur and the Jacques
and the Vengeance, characters who are more symbolic than real in Dickens's A
Tale of Two Cities.

-----In Chapter 7 of Book
the Second, Dickens describes the Monseigneur, who
represents the powerful aristocracy that lives in luxury.  He has the "truly noble idea
that the world was made for him," and snubs the Marquis d'Evremond at his sumptuous
ball:

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Bestowing a word of promise here and a smile
there, a whisper on one happy slave and a wave of the hand on another, Monseigneur
affably passed through his rooms to the remote region of the Circumference of Truth. 
There, Monseigneur turned, and came back again, and so in due course of time got himself
shut up in his sanctuary by the chocolate sprites, and was seen no
more.

"I devote you," said this person [the Marquis
d'Evremonde] ...to the
Devil!"

Then, in his "inhuman
abandonment of consideration," the Marquis leaves in the carriage that runs over the
poor child as previously mentioned.

-----Throughout the
novel, the Jacques and the
Vengeance act as the paracletes of revenge against the
aristocracy of France.  For instance, they take an aristocrat and force him to eat
grass, then run him across the countryside, and finally execute him.  These new
oppressors load the tumbrils with anyone who is suspected of association with the French
aristocracy, even a poor seamstress, who "has done nothing."

Could betrayal be a theme both shared by Arthur Miller's Death of Salesman and Ibsen's Hedda Gabler?I am trying to write a comparison essay on...

In a broad sense of the word, betrayal could apply to the
cause of each of these protagonists' suicide.  In other words, each character is
betrayed by the society in which he/she lives.  Willy Loman, for instance, put all his
faith in his version of the American Dream:   working hard and being well liked would
result in financial success. As he tells Howard:

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And old Dave, he;d go up to his room,
y-understand put on his green velvet slippers---I'll never forget---and pick uphis phone
and call the buyers, and without ever leaving his room, at the age of eighty-four, he
made his living.  and when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a
man could
want.

His career
as a salesman which he thought would be lucrative and rewarding has resulted in
frustration, alienation from his son Biff, and being cast out from his job like an
orange peel.  Willy's malfunctioning appliances and the apartment housing encroaching up
his own yard are symbols of Willy's failures and disappointments as a saleman.  Working
for a firm for thirty-four years has not resulted in the success he had
hoped.

Hedda Gabler also is betrayed by her society.  She
is a strong, attractive, ambitious, and  intelligent woman frustrated by her role as a
woman in her society.  She dreams of having a great influence over others; she dreams of
having true power, perhaps in the form of a political career. But she is trapped by her
role as a wife to Tesman and the expectation of a baby, the roles of wife and mother,
which seem to be her only options if she desires any kind of social status.    She does
want to be a help-mate to a man as Mrs. Elvsted is to Lovborg, nor an invalid caretaker,
like Tesman's aunt Bertha.

As a result, her desire for
power turns into a negative force when she destroys Lovborg's manuscript and encourages
him to commit suicide:  "the last great act, with its beauty!"  Ultimately, though,
Hedda has no real power, no true influence over another. Men control her.  All she can
do is take her own life.

What is the imgaery in the poem, "As I grew older", by Langston Hughes?

The primary imagery in the poem is light and dark.  The
speaker of the poem compares his dream to the sun.  Standing between the speaker and the
sun are a wall and a shadow, blocking the light of the dream.  The speaker sees "Only
the thick wall./ Only the shadow."

In the third stanza we
learn what the shadow and thick wall represent:  the speaker's dark skin:  "I am black."
 His dream for the future is denied him because of his
race.

The last stanza is a plea that his dark hands can
break through the obstacles created by his dark skin:

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Help me to shatter this
darkness,

To smash this
night,

To break this
shadow

Into a thousand lights of
sun,

Into a thousand whirling
dreams

Of
sun!

These last lines contain
a powerful mixture of light and dark imagery.  The speaker believes in the possibility
of his being able to break through the social barriers of being born black in a white
dominated society.  He sees the possibility of reaching the light, his dream.  This poem
ends with hope and strength.

Please give me an analysis of Bart Edelman's poem "Chemistry Experiment"?

The language is basically middle and easy throughout the
poem. The last five lines, for example, contain no elevated words, with the possible
exception of “elementary.” The diction in lines 13–18 refers mainly to the people
involved in the experiment and also to the “someone” down the hall together with the
“hazardous waste crew.” The phrases “lickety-split” and “out of danger” are contrasted
here. The first is everyday slang, or lingo. The second is more appropriate to an
emergency room or operating room. The poem ends on the notion of “this sick feeling,”
because the speaker still feels the danger and apprehension of the situation. The
connection with the previous parts of the poem is that the present recollection of past
danger is explained by the actual events of the disastrous experiment. One might suggest
that the participants in the experiment do not maintain contact because they do not wish
to relive the danger they faced and the chagrin they
experienced.

Why does Joyce not mention the object of the narrator's affection in the middle of the third paragraph?"Araby" by James Joyce

Concerning Joyce's "Araby," you should first realize that
no one can really speak for a writer.  We can only deal with effects and functions,
results.  We cannot speak with any kind of certainty about what went on in a writer's
mind.

Secondly, the object of the speaker's affection,
Mangan's sister, is mentioned in the third paragraph of the story. 
She is affectionately described by the narrator. 

I can
only assume, then, that what you're really interested in knowing, is why she isn't
identified as the object of the speaker's affection in paragraph three.  And to that, I
answer that she is, although indirectly.  Here are the
lines:

Her
brother always teased her before he obeyed and I stood by the railings looking
at her.  Her dress swung as she moved her body and the soft rope of
her hair tossed from side to
side.

I've
supplied the italics.  These lines demonstrate the speaker's interest, fascination, and
infatuation.  Those are words from a young boy infatuated with an older girl.  Thus, she
is identified as the object of his affection, even though the identification is made
indirectly.  The speaker shows the reader, instead of
telling the reader.  In this case, the showing is very effective. 
 

In the "The Yellow Wallpaper," how do the changes in the wallpaper in the daylight versus the moonlight affect the mood of the story?

Charlotte Gilman Perkins's "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a
story in which the wallpaper has become symbolic of the cult of the Victorian
Womanhood.  The wallpaper of a "repellent" yellow--which represents decadence--appears
different in the daytime from at night to the unnamed narrator.  She remarks, "This
paper looks to me as if it knew what a vicious influence it
had!"

Perkins's narrator observes that there is a kind of
sub-pattern in a different shade that can only be seen in certain
lights:

But
in the places where it isn't faded and where the sun is just so--I can see a strange,
provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to skulk about behind that silly and
conspicuous front design....On a pattern like this, by daylight, there is a lack of
sequence, a defiance of law, that is a constant irritant to a normal mind....the pattern
is torturing....

The narrator
remarks, also, that the pattern changes as the light changes.  At night with the
moonlight, the pattern becomes "bars" and the woman behind it is as plain as can be.  By
daylight she is "subdued."  The narrator feels that the daylight subdues the woman.  It
seems apparent that the changes in the yellow wallpaper reflect what transpires with the
narrator herself.  Thus, there is a disturbing mood, a tone of foreboding rebellion, as
she becomes obsessed with the wallpaper, finally feeling that she must free the woman
behind it.

Discuss the possible symbolism of the elements in "The Lottery." Specifically the possible symbolism of the specific names of many of the...

As an allegory, The Lottery
was written with many purposefully symbolic elements.  Like other allegories (such as
The Scarlet Letter or The Pilgrim's Progress)
many of the characters names are supposed to be
symbolic.

Mr. Summers: despite
the fact that Mr. Summers is intimately involved in the tradition of the lottery, his
name suggests joy, positivity, energy.  This character is symbolic of the dual nature of
this town - one that can host a variety of positive activities in addition to the yearly
ritual of death: "square dances, the teen club, the Halloween program, and of course,
the lottery."  Mr. Summers is involved in
everything.

Mr. Graves: as the
postmaster of the town, Mr. Graves holds a position of power.  His name, Graves,
suggests something ominous and/or related to death.  He helps Mr. Summers carry out the
procedure of the lottery directly associating the "death" connotation of his name to the
lottery itself.

Old Man
Warner: the "Old Man" part of this characters name suggests he is a
constant in the town, someone who has been there so long, no one remembers a time when
he wasn't there.  Old Man Warner symbolically represents the tradition of the town and
therefore the tradition of the lottery.  Also, his last name, Warner, suggests him to be
"One who warns."

Mr. Adams: he
is the first character to draw for the lottery because Adams comes first alphabetically,
but this is also a direct reference to Adam as the first man
(Biblical reference).  Interesting too, the Adams' are among only a few characters who
question the lottery.  This could be directly compared to Adam and Eve "questioning" God
when they ate the fruit and changed the course of mankind
forever.

Mrs. Delacroix: she
is a character who is known for her inconsistency and seeming two-faced nature.  Her
last name literally translates in French to "of the cross" and her name could be
symbollic of the same two-faced nature of the crowd in the New Testament who decided
crucify Jesus Christ instead of Barrabus.

*Below you find a
link to further examples of symbolism in the short
story.

What is the climax of A Northern Light?

The climax or turning point of A Northern Light
occurs when Mattie realizes that the death of one's dreams is nearly the same
as death itself.  Weaver has lost all of his college money, so he decides to skip school
to help his mother put their home back together after the fire.  Mattie is upset because
she thinks that Weaver would have been a great lawyer and now he is giving all that
away.  She herself has also given up her dreams of going to college so that she can
marry Royal Loomis.  Sadly, she comes to the realization that Royal really does not love
her and only wants to marry her so that he can gain advancements in property.  While she
reads through Grace Brown's letters, Mattie realizes that she cannot help Grace because
she is dead already; Mattie resolves to live her own life to its fullest potential
because she has the opportunity to do so unlike Grace.  At this point, Mattie's life
makes a turn-around and she decides to follow her dreams.

What cases best describe the judicial system in the 1930's in the South as they relate to To Kill a Mockingbird?This is the time period that "To...

In the 1930s the South was segregated and blacks were
disinfranchised; Jim Crow was in effect. Blacks could be arrested, harrassed, tried, and
sometimes even convicted with little cause. 

Harper Lee's
novel was published shortly after an infamous trial in Mississippi, the Emmett Till
case, in which a fourteen-year-old black male was accused of harrassing a white woman,
and was murdered by two white males.  When these men were brought to trial, as was the
case throughout the South, only white males were allowed as jurors, and the trial was
held in a segregated courtroom.  While the defense's case rested on the fact that the
body could not specifically be identified as Till and the defendants had been framed, it
took the jury only one hour to acquit the men of all charges.  Even when the men later
admitted to the murder of Till, they were never charged again with any crime.  Till's
mother had an open coffin for her son so that people would see what had been done to her
boy.

In another infamous case, The Scottsboro Trial, nine
black youths, ranging in age from 13 to 21 were arrested in Alabama on March 25, 1931,
and charged with raping two white women.  The black males had been riding with other
jobless youths on a freight train when a fight broke out between them and white males,
resutling in the white males being thrown from the train.  Getting word of this, a
sherriff's posse stopped the train in Paint Rock, Alabama; they took the nine youths
into custody along with two white women. What followed were a series of trials protested
by various groups and countries, especially the International Labor Defense of the
Communist Party.  In the first trial, held only two weeks after their arrest, eight of
the nine were sentenced to death.  With only one lawyer for all the defendants, there
was racial intimidation and a rush to convict the youths.  After this trial made
national and international news, the publicity is probably what saved the lives of the
defendants.  A second trial was held in early 1933; the attorney representing the ILD,
Samuel Leibowitz conducted an aggressive defense contending that the youths could not
possibly have a fair trial in the South.  Nevertheless, despite publicity and a
competent lawyer, the all white jury voted to convict again.  But, the judge, James
Horton, threw out the conviction.  He was replaced by an obviously biased judge for the
third trial, but the trial ended in plea bargaining.  Five of the youths were sentenced
to 6 to 17 years in prison, while 4 were acquitted.  This trial led to a Supreme Court
decision in Powell v. Alabama in 1932 and Norris v.
Alabama in 1935.

In Of Mice and Men, can you please find some quotes on loneliness?

Your question had to be edited because it asked more than
one question. Please remember that you can only ask one question each day. I have
focused your question on the theme of loneliness, and I thought it would be interesting
to explore this key theme through the eyes of one character in the novel: Candy. There
are no direct quotes that clearly state that Candy is lonely, rather you have to infer
his loneliness from what he says and does. For example when he overhears George telling
Lennie about the dream of owning a patch of land, he is eager to jump in and join them
in this dream, offering his own money to help them purchase some
land:

"Tell
you what -" He leanded forward eagerly. "S'pose I went in with you guys. Tha's three
hundred an' fifty bucks I'd put in. I ain't much good, but I could cook and tend the
chickens and hoe the garden some. How'd that
be?"

He is even willing to
leave his money to George and Lennie if he dies. We can see here his desperation for
companionship and fellowship because of his
loneliness.

Likewise we can infer his loneliness by his
reluctance to let his dog be shot. He tries again and again to put of Carlson from
shooting his dog, and he reveals the friendship he has had with
him:

"Well -
hell! I had him so long. Had him since he was a pup. I herded sheep with
him."

His reluctance to let
his dog be killed and the way he keeps on trying to change the subject and put Carlson
off clearly indicates how important this dog is to Candy - he only friend. Of course,
the dog killing clearly foreshadows the final killing of Lennie and the loneliness into
which George will plunge.

Questions for chapter 17 Describe Jake’s awakening after Robert calls him a “pimp” and hits him. Why is the statement the truth? How does...

Jake hits Robert when Robert calls him a pimp because on
some level, Jake believes there is some truth to it. Pimps usually do not have sex with
their girls, and Jake is incapable of having sex with Brett because of his injury. So
the pimp comment emasculates Jake. Plus, Jake is in love with Brett, even though he
knows she is promiscuous. Everyone is fed up with Robert anyway because he is constantly
throwing his morals in their faces. He doesn't drink all the time, like the others, and
he is old fashioned in his values -- wanting to make a lady out of Brett in the true
sense. She is a lady in title only, because she does not act like a lady in Robert's
view.

When Jake is walking back to his hotel, he
expeeriences a kind of awakening. He says he feels like everything is new. He notices
things he never noticed before. What do you think this means? Perhaps he has realized
the truth, and the truth has set him free?

Both Robert and
Jake say they need to take a deep, hot bath. They both feel the need to cleanse
themselves. Robert wants to cleanse himself from the twisted values of this group of
friends. They do not share his values, they do not like him, they are constantly telling
him to get lost (especially Mike), they insult him for being a Jew, and he has put up
with it because he loves Brett. But he realizes that Brett is not going to change, so he
needs a bath to wash it all away -- especially her. Jake wants to take a bath to cleanse
himself as well, but he is unable to get the water to work. On many other levels, Jake
is not working, so the bath is symbolic of Jake's physical dysfunctions as
well.

Explain black humour and dramatic irony with examples from the story "Lamb to the Slaughter"? How would you react in situations similar to that of...

Well, the end of the story is the biggest instance of
black humor when she serves the policemen the murder weapon for dinner (the leg of lamb
with which, while frozen, she hit her husband over the head and killed him). That is
also dramatic irony because her husband himself was a policeman, and you would think
that she would be the primary suspect, like it would happen in a real situation where
there are no other witnesses that could appeal to the
contrary.

In a situation similar to the story I would think
that she snapped. She was pregnant, happy to be married, and he was totally nonchalant
about how told her that he was leaving her. He would have changed her life by turning it
upside down. I think I would have snapped too. And blame it on
hormones.

How is Abigail Williams a hypocrite in The Crucible?When she says "I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus...I go back to...

You are absolutely correct in your assertions.  Your
analysis is dead on because Abigail is invoking the name of the God or the divine to
advance her own personal agenda. Her claims of witchcraft are fradualent as well as her
desire to "Want to the light of God."  We see as early as Act I that she knows all of
what is being said about witches and such is false and that she only covets John
Proctor.  She shows little devotion to the divine, but is savvy enough to understand
that her social order is theocratic, so in playing to it, she gains public support while
being able to advance her own agenda.  The only modification I would suggest in your
analysis is when you argue that Abigail is "seen" as devil- like character.  The only
change I would feel here would be that Abigail is not really seen as a devil- like
character as much as she acts as one.  The town believes her claims of others being a
witch and this is something that happens as a result of her own perception of
authenticity.  I think she is a "devil- like" character who is able to utilize the
social order's faith and fear in the divine to advance her own agenda, making her a
hypocrite.

Why can karyotyping be carried out only on cells about to divide?

When a cell is about to divide, the chromosomes have
coiled and thickened and are visible. At other times in the cell's life cycle, they are
not able to be visualized. A cell can be arrested during cell division by applying
colchichine. The chromosomes are stained, usually with Giemsa stain. When preparing a
karyotype, a cell's 23 pairs of chromosomes are microphotographed and a chart is made
with the chromosomes arranged by size and position of centromeres for pairs 1 through
22. The 23rd pair is the sex chromosomes which are either XX or
XY.

Find linear regression equation, y = ax + b. The data of following table gives the weekly maintenance cost (Rupees) to the age (in months) of 5...

We know that if  y  = ax+b is a linear regression 
equation of y on x, then  the sum of the squared deviation , S =  Sigma(Yi - aXi -b)^2.
We can minimise this squared diviation by equating the partial derivatives with respect
to b and a to zero and solve for x  and b and a .

So
dabaS/db = 0 and dabaS/daba a = 0 gives to the normal equations in b and a solving which
we can determine the equation Y = aX+b. So the required normal equations are
:

summation 2( Yi - a* Xi -sigma b)  = 0
and

Summation2(Yi-aXi-b)Xi = 0. Both these equations could
be simplified as:

a* summation Xi + nb = summation
Yi

a*summation Xi^2 +b summation Xi = Summation
Xi*Yi.

Solving for a  from these two equations we get  a
and b.

In the given  case we see that the given
data could be scaled down like Ui = (Xi- 30)5 and Vi = (Yi - 310)/10.
Then

U1 = (5-30)/5= -5 , U2 = (15-30)/5=-3 ....U5 =
(60-30)/5 =12.

V1 = (190-310)/10 = -12,  V2 = (250-310)10 =
-6,....,V5 = (395-310)/10 = +8.5.

So we can have the table
below:

.........   Ui        Vi         Ui^2        
Ui*Vi

.........  -5        -12      25             
60

.........  -3        -6        09             
18

.........  00       00       00              
00

.........  04       04      
16              16

.........  06      
8.5      36              
51

---------------------------------------------------

Total:
02       -5.5      86            
145

---------------------------------------------------

Therefore
the normal equations for Ui and Vi are :

a*sum Ui + nb  =
Sum Vi  Or 2Ui+5b = -5.5...................    (1)

a*sum
Ui^2+b*sum Ui = Sum Ui*Vi. Or 86a+2b = 145.....(2)

Solving
the simultaneous equations(1) and (2) we get:

a =
{145*5-(-5.5)*2}/(86*5-2*2) = 736/426 = 1.727699531

b=
(-5.5-2a)/5 = -(5.5+2(736/426))/5 = 
-1.791079812.

Therefore ,

Vi
=  1.727699531Ui - 1.79107912.

Now go back
transformation or  replace  Ui by  (Xi-30)/5 and Vi =
(Yi-310)/10.

Therefore,

(Yi
-310)/10 = 1.727699531(Xi-30)/5  - 1.79107912. Or

Yi =
3.455399062 Xi  + 310 -  1.727699531*30*10/5 
-17.9107912

Yi = 3.455399062Xi + 188.4272369 is the
required equation by the method of least square..

The
estimaied values of Yi 's are: for X= 5, Y = 205.70.
Or

(05, 205.70)

(15 ,
249.26)

(30 , 292.09)

(50 ,
361.20)

(60 , 395.75).

Find the sides of a rectangular prism if the volume = 30 cm^3 , the height = 3 cm and the perimeter of the base = 14 cm.

Volume of a rectangular prism is given by the
formula:

Volume = (Area of the rectangular cross
section)*Height

substituting given values of height and
volume in the above formula:

30 = (Area of the rectangular
cross
section)*3

Therefore:

Area of
the rectangular cross section = 30/3 = 10 cm^2

Let lengths
of two side of the triangle be x and
y

Then:

Area of rectangle =
x*y = 10

Therefore:

y =
10/x

And:

Perimeter of the
rectangle = 2*(x + y) = 14

==> x + y =
7

Substituting values of y as 10/x in above
equation:

x + 10/x =
7

Multiplying both sides by x, and shifting all the terms
of equation on left hand side:

x^2 - 7x + 10 =
0

==> x^2 - 2x - 5x + 10 =
0

==> x(x - 2) - 5(x - 2) =
0

==> (x - 2)(x - 5) =
0

Therefore:

x = 2 or
5

Therefore sides of the rectangular prism are 2 cm and 5
cm.

In act 3, scene 1, why is the aside from Cassius to Brutus before Antony's speech important?

In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, the
aside when Cassius talks to Brutus about not letting Antony speak to the crowd at
Caesar's funeral is important, because it provides an example of Brutus's poor judgment,
which is what leads Brutus, the tragic figure in the play, to his
fall.

Cassius tells
Brutus:

You
know not what you do.  Do not consent

That Antony speak in
his funeral.

Know you how much the people may be
moved

By that which he will
utter?

But Brutus decides to
let Antony speak anyway.  Of course, we know what happens.  Brutus errs in many ways. 
First, he underestimates Antony.  Second, he overestimates the importance of his
announcement to the crowd that Antony speaks only with his permission.  Third, he
underestimates the fickleness of the Roman crowd.  Fourth, he thinks the reasons behind
the assassination of the crowd will be evident to and accepted by the crowd without
question (and they are, until Antony speaks).  Fifth, he doesn't consider the
possiblility that Antony will speak with irony, thereby fulfilling his promise to not
speak against the conspirators, while still turning the crowd against them (this last
one is a bit of a stretch, I know).

Cassius, as it turns
out, is a much better judge of people and situations, and a much better decision maker
than Brutus.  Though Brutus is the noble one of the two, the conspiracy may have
succeeded if Cassius were the one making the decisions.

A “hot” concept in fast-food marketing is home delivery of everything from pizza to hamburgers to fried chicken Why do you think the demand for...

Competition over the years has driven down the price of
fast food (actually, it is ridiculously cheap) to the point where a delivery service
makes more financial sense.  In large urban centers, where the distances are shorter
between restaurants and delivery points, you can more than pay for the costs of
delivery, and raise your profit margin at the same time, as people are generally willing
to pay more for food they don't have to leave the comforts of home
for.

In the past twenty years, we have also seen a large
rise in the number of single-parent households in the last twenty years, where one
parent is working long hours, and the temptation to buy dinner is greater where the food
is the cheapest, such as in these franchises.  Also, as businesses and corporations have
squeezed expense accounts as a means of coping with the recession, a lot of business
travelers who used to eat better on the road, now have to cut corners to meet their per
diem allowance.

"Emily Dickinson is more a rebel than a pessimist." Explain.If I want to give reference from her poem which will they be from the following....

Emily Dickinson can be viewed as a rebel because she
challenged many traditional notions that people had at that time. For instance, in her
poem "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," Dickinson rejects the social tradition of
marriage by suggesting that death is a charming suitor. The poem begins with Death being
personified as a man coming to date the speaker. Death takes the speaker in a carriage
around town, past schools and fields, and the speaker suggests the encounter is rather
pleasant. Some may see the poem as pessimistic -- after all, most people do not desire
to die; however, Dickinson manages to portray a rather lovely, albeit tragic,
relationship. Dickinson's refusal to conform to social convention and her reclusive,
poetic nature are in an of themselves challenges to what society expected of women at
that time. She did not become a wife. She stayed in her room and wrote what she
desired.

Solve the equation cos2x+sinx=0

To solve the equation, we'll try to write it using just a
single function.

We'll write cos 2x = cos (x+x) = cosx*cosx
- sinx*sinx = (cos x)^2 - (sin x)^2

We'll substitute (cos
x)^2 = 1 - (sin x)^2 in the formula of cos 2x:

cos 2x = 1 -
(sin x)^2 - (sin x)^2

cos 2x = 1 - 2(sin
x)^2

The equation will
become:

1 - 2(sin x)^2 + sin x =
0

- 2(sin x)^2 + sin x + 1 =
0

We'll multiply by -1:

2(sin
x)^2 - sin x - 1 = 0

We'll substitute sin x =
t

2t^2 - t - 1 = 0

We'll apply
the quadratic formula:

t1 =
[1+sqrt(1+8)]/4

t1 =
(1+3)/4

t1 = 1

t2 =
-2/4

t2 = -1/2

So, sin x =
t1

sin x = 1

x = arcsin (1) +
k*pi

x = pi/2 + k*pi

sin x =
-1/2

x = (-1)^(k+1) * arcsin (1/2) +
k*pi

x = (-1)^(k+1) *(pi/6) +
k*pi

k is an integer number.

In the book The Lord of the Flies, chapter 1, how is piggy revealed as most closely tied to the world of adults?

In Chapter 1 he is also the only one, other than Ralph,
who refers to an adult relative.   While Ralph refers to his father, Piggy keeps
mentioning his auntie--at least four times.   Piggy is the one with the knowledge as to
how to blow the conch and that the conch can be used to call a meeting.  He is also the
voice of realism in the first chapter.  He is the one who knows that the plane has
crashed, and that all the grownups who came with them are dead.  He knows also that they
are on an island and that rescue may be a long way off.

In
Chapter 2, this role is reinforced when Piggy becomes the spokesman for the littlun with
the birthmark.  The littlun evidently shared his fear with Piggy, and Piggy like an
adult encourages him to express his fears of the "snakelike things" to the assembly. In
Chapter 2, Piggy chastises the boys when they get out of control at the prospect of
making a signal fire by saying that they are "acting like a bunch of kids," as if he is
the adult and the rest are children.

How would you describe the Pocket's household? How is Mrs. Pocket characterized?Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

In Chapter XXIII of Great
Expectations, Pip describes the household of the
Pockets:

Both
Mr. and Mrs. Pocket had such a noticeable air of being in someone else's hands that I
wondered who really was in possession of the house and let them live there until I found
this unknown power to be the
servants.

With characteristic
comic-irony,Dickens employs a double narrative to describe the Pocket household. For
instance, upon arriving at the Pockets' home, Pip notices that the children "were not
growing up or being brought up, but were tumbling up."  For, whenever the seven children
come near Mrs. Pocket who merely sits with the appearance of reading, they tumble over
her skirts because she rests her feet on a footstool.  When the servant, Flopson,
finally trips, Mrs. Pocket orders the children to take a nap, so Pip decides the
children are not only "tumbling up," but "lying
down."

After the servants Miller and Flopson take charge of
the children, Mr. Pocket appears with a perplexed expression and hair in disarray.  At
times he becomes so frustrated that he seems to "lift himself up" by his own hair.  This
frustration comes from Mrs. Pocket's refusal to assume any responsibility for the
raising of the children.  For, she has descended from some "quite accidental deceased
knight," and she has been brought up as

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one who was to be guarded from the acquisition of
plebian domestic
knowledge.

Here, again, is
Dickens mockery of the frivolous aristocrats who are unable to perform natural duties
as Pip, in his comic disparagement of Mrs. Pocket, remarks that the best part of the
house for one to have boarded would have been the kitchen where the servants
congregate.  In an imaginative passage, Pip illustrates just how incompetent Mrs. Pocket
really is.

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...before I had been there a week, a
neighbouring lady with whom the family were personally unacquainted, wrote in to say
that she had seen Millers slapping the baby.  This greatly distressed Mrs. Pocket, who
burst into tears on receiving the note and said that it was an extraordinary thing that
the neighbours couldn't mind their own
business.

And, even though
Mr. Pocket has been educated at Harrow and Cambridge, he is incapable of making Mrs.
Pocket understand her incompetence at mothering.  For, when he chastises her for paying
no attention to the baby's choking on nuts, telling her that the daughter Jane only
interfered for the sake of the child, Mrs. Pocket insists that she will not be exposed
"to the affront of interference."  Then, when she exclaims, "I hope I know my poor
grandpapa's position.  Jane, indeed!"  Mr. Pocket gives up, and in "desolate
desperation" lifts his hair again and "exclaims helplessly to the
elements."

From Pip's visit to the Pocket household it is
evident that no one but the servants have any control over the children; Mrs. Pocket who
reads about titles is only interested in advancing herself while the erudite Mr.
Pocket is inept at communicating with his wife and in raising his
children.

In Dostoevsky's "A Christmas Tree and a Wedding," how did Mastakovich marry the little heiress?In Dostoevsky's A Christmas Tree and a Wedding, how...

We are not exactly told how Mastakovich is able to marry
the little girl, but it seems pretty clear.  He is in some way "superior" to the family
of the little girl.  They are rich, but he must still in some way be "better" than
them.  Since this story is written and set in Tsarist Russia, you can assume that he has
a title or that he is in some way politically important.  Because of this, the girl's
family is happy to have him marry their daughter.  So Mastakovich gets to marry her
because of his status and because the girl's family wants to be connected to
him.

To me, the moral is that the society of this time and
place was hopelessly corrupt.  Mastakovich is physically and morally repulsive and yet
he is sought after.  Even though he is horrid, the family is willing and even eager to
have their young daughter marry him.  People of this time are shown as greedy and
unaffected by more human considerations (the girl's parents don't care about her
happiness, for example).

Tracing the history of the conch throughout the novel, explain how it is used, its purpose, its meaning to the boys, and what becomes of it?Refer...

This question requires an essay-length response.  Here are
some ideas to help you get started:

As the novel opens,
readers learn that the boys' plane has crashed on an uninhabited island.  As the
children begin to gather on the beach to try to figure out what happened (and what they
should do next), Piggy suggests that Ralph blow the conch as a signal for everyone to
come together for a meeting.  Eventually, the boys learn to associate the sound of the
conch with a summons, and understand that they must come to order when the shell is
blown.  Thus, the conch shell comes to symbolize order in the novel, and whoever has the
conch has the right to speak. 

As chaos begins to take over
on the island, the conch becomes less effective; the boys start to ignore its sound, and
Ralph becomes frustrated when he realizes that he's losing control.  Ultimately, in the
altercation that results in Piggy's death, the conch is shattered; this act symbolizes
the complete loss of order on the island. 

Again, you've
asked a very complex question--one that requires an answer that is too in-depth to be
posted here.  I hope this helps you get started.  Good luck! 

Analyze one short story from Edward Abbey's nonfiction work Desert Solitaire with reference to author's point, style, tone, theme.Discuss how the...

According to Edward Abbey's Introduction to
Desert Solitaire, the stories, which is a term loosely used in this
work, are drawn from the journals he kept during his months as a park ranger in Utah. He
specifies that he believes that "simple fact" provides truth and "a kind of poetry," so
Abbey's descriptions aren't literary descriptions built from
literary style to create a point, theme, metaphor, mood etc., they
are descriptions of "simple fact" that have literary merit and
qualities. As a consequence, when Abbey writes "lavender clouds," he means clouds that
are lavender--in fact.

This is not to say that Abbey's
creative mind hadn't seen below the surface and found metaphor and meaning and theme
within the experience of "simple fact" that he is telling, but it is to say that he
intends for his words--his descriptions, his experiences, his characterizations of
people then around him--to be taken as fact and truth and, moreover, as the poetry of
fact and truth.

On the topic of author intention, many
theories of literary criticism ignore, or even reject, author intention, but Abbey made
his intention in writing Desert Solitaire quite clear in his
Introduction. He says: "Do not jump into your automobile next June and rush out ... to
see some of that which I have attempted to evoke ...[M]ost of what I write about in this
book is already gone or going under fast, This is not a travel guide but an elegy. A
memorial. You're holding a tombstone in your hands. A bloody rock." Abbey makes it clear
that his large point, theme, objective is to eulogize that which was--that which
preceded tourism-attracting improvements--so that it may be remembered in its untrampled
state. The significance of the above discussion is that while examining Desert
Solitaire for the display of standard stylistic devices, structures and
forms, it is important to realize they are constructed of "simple fact" for the purpose
of creating a memorial of what--in fact--once was.

Having
said this, a brief analysis of the opening story "The First Morning," which tells the
"story"--or the facts--of Abbey's arrival at his ranger station twenty miles from
anywhere, anyone, and anything civilized, introduces the theme of home, an idea or
vision that Abbey says every human carries within their heart. Structurally, Abbey
builds from this thematic opening to describe his new home in contrasting terms of
frozen boots, improbably inadequate heating, and mice scurrying or watching from safe
places, versus "Lavender clouds" that "sail like a fleet of ships across the pale green
dawn," "the peaks of the Sierra La Sal, ... all covered with snow and rosy in the
morning sunlight," and "fogbanks ... scudding away like ghosts, fading into nothing
before the wind and sunshine." Thus, as support for his theme, he introduces early on
the idea of the poetry of "simple facts."

As to style,
Abbey's descriptions are replete with simile: "clouds sail like a fleet of ships." Some
phrases may sound like metaphor at first until one recalls that Abbey is writing a
memorial of fact, so when fogbanks "fade into nothing before the wind and sunlight,"
they literally dissipate under the joint physical influence of wind and sunlight. Which
leads to his stylistic use of imagery, illustrated by trading "dissipate" for "fade."
Part of the "poetry" of "simple fact" is embedded in strong sensory language, which also
contributes to an atmosphere of splendor and the authorial tone of awe-struck
pleasure.

How would you state the theme of "Soldier's Home"?Ernest Hemingway

To use the words of a title of Thomas Wolfe's "You Can't
Go Home Again."  The theme expresses the fact that a person is greatly altered by
something as horrific as war; therefore, he cannot return to his home and be what he was
before he left.  This fact is what causes the main conflict with Krebs; for, his mother
especially wants him again to be her boy again and resume a conventional life. Instead,
he has to lie to her, for he cannot be the person she
wants:

All of
the times that had been able to make him feel cool and clear inside himself when he
thought of them [what happened in the war]; the times so long back when he had done the
one thing, the only thing for a man to do, easily and naturally, when he might have done
something else, now lost their cool, valuable quality and then were lost
themselves.

Thus, the meaning
of the double entendre of the title comes is evinced:  The soldier
is home (soldier's home), but the home is not the soldier's anymore (not the soldier's
home) because he cannot reverse the past.

Please explain this quote from Chapter 30 of To Kill a Mockingbird."Why you ain't in the bed from it I don't know, but I do know that for once you...

This statement is made by Sheriff Heck Tate to Atticus.
Atticus is convinced that Jem killed Mr. Ewell in self-defense, but Mr. Tate insists
that it did not happen that way. In the statement in question, Mr. Tate is acknowledging
that Atticus has "been under a strain tonight no man should ever have to go through,"
and he is surprised that the strain hasn't been enough to leave Atticus unable to
function, which is what he means when he says

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"Why you ain't in the bed from it I don't
know..."

Mr. Tate is
insisting that Mr. Ewell fell on his own knife and killed himself, but, because of what
Scout said, Atticus is convinced that Jem killed Mr. Ewell while trying to save his
sister. When Mr. Tate keeps saying that Mr. Ewell caused his own death, Atticus thinks
he is making up a falsehood to protect Jem, and he does not want Mr. Tate to do that; he
is intent on being completely honest about what has happened. What Atticus does not
realize is that Jem is really not the one who killed Mr.
Ewell; Boo Radley did. Mr. Tate is indeed making up the story that Mr. Ewell caused his
own death, but he is not doing it to protect Jem, he is doing it to protect Boo
Radley.

Mr. Tate is frustrated that he cannot make Atticus,
who is usually very discerning, see what he is really doing. He attributes Atticus's
inability to understand to the strain he has been under, telling
him,

"for once you haven't been able to put two
and two together."

Do kangaroos have any commensal or mutualism relationships with other organisms?

Rat kangaroos have a commensal relationship with the dung
beetle Onthophagus. This beetle lives on and around their tail region. The males bring
dung to the females and they lay their eggs beneath the dung balls. The beetles get a
benefit as they use the dung for food. This is an example of commensalism. There is
mutualism between kangaroos and bacteria in their gut. Both organisms benefit from this
relationship. Kangaroos feed on plant fibers and the bacteria carry out fermentation.
They are provided with a place to live and food and help to break down the kangaroo's
food, as well as produce vitamins for the kangaroo. They also convert nitrogen
containing compounds into proteins for the kangaroo to use.

What does Jonas learn about what happens to the old in The Giver?

There are a lot of things that Jonas learns about the
old.  For example, he learns that they are hit with discipline wands when they
misbehave, just like kids are.  But I think that you are talking about the fact that
they get released when they are deemed to have lived out their usefulness.   Jonas
learns this relatively early on when he is told about a Release ceremony that has
happened at the House of the Old.  Later on, after he has become the next Receiver, he
learns that "release" means killing.

So Jonas learns over
the course of the book that old people get killed when they are no longer deemed useful
to society.

Please can you explain to me the last two stanzas in Keats' "To Autumn"?like a paraphrase. thank you

You have a really good answer here already, so I'll just
add a few more details.

This poem is an ode, a tribute,
like a toast to this season of harvest--"To Autumn."  We expect to hear positive things
after hearing that title, and we do.

The imagery in stanza
one is of ripeness, of a world ready for harvest:  "fruitfulness," "maturing," "load and
bless," "swell," "plump," and "o'er-brimm'd."  Hard to miss this picture of creation as
a ripened field ready to harvest.

Stanza two imagery is
full of harvest language:  "store," "a granary floor," "winnowing," "a half-reap'd
furrow," "hook," "swath,"  "gleaner," "cyder-press," and "oozings."  Clearly this
picture is one of a harvest either in progress or completed. These images are still full
of life, rather than depicting death or emptiness.

Finally,
the third stanza asks us not to think of spring (a time of newness and rebirth) as being
better than autumn--traditionally a time before winter and the death/hibernation of all
creation, including man.     

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"Where are the songs of spring?  Ay, where are
they? 
Think not of them, thou hast thy music
too."

This is also a
beautiful time.  Note the stubble in the harvested field reflecting the glow of a
setting sun; the river swallows who perform as a "wailful choir" as they dip and swoop
with the breeze; and the lambs and crickets and robins making their familiar
sounds.

This poem is a tribute to autumn, rarely seen--in
poetry, anyway--as a time of beauty.  While it is a time of reaping what has been sown,
metaphorically fall is a precursor to impending death.  The narrator asks us to examine
the beauty of this season without any looking ahead to the winter which will inevitably
come.