I need a critical analysis of the poem "Come into the Garden Maude" by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

"Come into the Garden Maude" by Alfred Lord Tennyson is an
exquisitely composed and crafted love poem. The story is
that after a long ball, the poetic speaker (possibly Tennyson) is devotedly waiting in
the garden for his wearied beauty. The theme is his undying
devotion to always await her with longing heart, even in
death:

Had I
lain for a century dead;
Would start and tremble under her feet,
And
blossom in purple and
red.

The
overall metaphor of the poem is a comparison of his beloved
to the monarch of the garden, the Queen of the
flowers:

Queen
rose of the rosebud garden of girls
In gloss of satin and glimmer of
pearls,
Queen lily and rose in
one;

A prominent
trope with a non-literal meaning that Tennyson uses is
synæsthesia. This is a technique of
imagery that mixes sensory categories producing images like
velvet that hums or songs that skip. Tennyson writes about a "daffodil sky" and hair
"sunning over with curls." The first joins tactile "daffodils" with ethereal, visible
"sky." The second joins visible light of "sunning" with tactile
"curls."

Tennyson makes use of pathetic
fallacy, where "pathetic" means "empathetic" and able to "feel."
Pathetic fallacy assigns human qualities of thought and
feeling to nature, inanimate objects, and concepts (anthropomorphic fallacy assigns
these to animals). Pathetic fallacy is related to personification
because they are both subcategories of rhetoric reification. Though
related, they have some differences: personification is not a rhetorical fallacy; it is
an explicitly direct attribution of life qualities; pathetic fallacy is broader and more
subtle than personification. An example of Tennyson's pathetic fallacy
is:

The red
rose cries, "She is near, she is near;"
And the white rose weeps, "She is
late;"
The larkspur listens, "I hear, I hear;"
And the lily
whispers, "I wait."

The
meter and rhyme scheme have interesting variations. The
base meter is anapestic trimeter (a pattern of ^ ^ / unstressed unstressed stressed for
three repetitions ^ ^ / ^ ^ / ^ ^ /). However, since variation on the meter greets the
reader at verse one, the first verse with pure anapestic trimeter is: "And^ the^ pla' /
-net^ of^ Love' / is^ on^ high',". The opening line starts with an anapest but then has
two varied feet of iambs: "For^ the^ black' / bat,^ Night,' / has^
flown',".

An alternate
scansion call this three feet of anapests with comma pauses filling
unstressed beats: "For^ the^ black' / bat^ ,^ Night' / ,^ has^ flown',". The
pause is recognized as an integral part of rhythm in
English poetics dating as back as the first use of the caesura as in
Beowulf. Tennyson also varies the meter with anapestic
tetrameter ("Be^ -ginn' / -ing^ to^ faint' / in^ the^
light' / that^ she^ loves'") and iambs (as in the above):
"My^ heart' / would^ hear' / her^ and^ beat',".

The
rhyme scheme is also varied. The lines in the stanzas are
in this pattern for ten stanzas: 5 / 6 / 6 / 8 / 6 / 6 / 8 / 6 / 8 / 8. The first stanza
has a rhyme scheme abaca. The remaining rhyme scheme is alternating rhymes expanding
progressively from a six line scheme of dedede at stanza 2, with variations for eight
lines at stanzas 4, 7, 9, and 10 (e.g., stanza 4: hihihihi).

Combine each pair of sentences by changing one of the sentences into a participial phrase.Films are part of a training program. The program was...

In addition to the answer offered above, you could also
complete this task by modifying parts of each of the sentences. Any of the following
possibilities might also meet your
needs:

• Including a number of films as part of
  its curriculum, the training program was designed in
  Minnesota.


• Designed in Minnesota, the training program
  makes extensive use of film.

The key to
combining sentences with the use of a participial phrase is to identify the noun that
both sentences share in common (in this case the training program) and identifying how
one of the two sentences can be altered so that it is phrased as a description of that
noun.

What is Teflon?

Teflon is a brand name of chemical compound of fluorine
and carbon called polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). The name teflon has now become so
popular that it has acquired the position of generic name for this
chemical.

Teflon is a plastic material that is highly
resistant against chemicals, corrosion, and oxidation.  It can withstand temperatures up
to 250 °C. Also it has one of the lowest coefficient of friction against any solid.  It
is used in the manufacture of chemical processing equipment and for coating cooking
utensils.

Is this the Second Gilded Age?Examples and proof would be helpful.

To some extent, I suppose that you could say that it is,
but in other ways it is not.

To me, the major
characteristics of the Gilded Age are 1) economic stratification between rich "robber
barons" and a mass of poor people and 2) political
corruption.

We do have increasing gaps between the rich and
the poor today.  However, I do not think that the gaps are as dramatic and I do not
think that the numbers of poor are as high (percentage wise) as they were back then. 
Most Americans today are solidly well off even if the very rich are way richer than the
rest of us.

Politically, there is no comparison.  Sure, we
worry about politicians being corrupt now, but there is no real widespread corruption on
the level that was going on in the Gilded Age.  Back then, people didn't elect the
Senate, for example, and Senators tended to be pretty much picked and "owned" by big
companies.

How do you get cat scratch fever?

Cat Scratch Fever is also known as Cat Scratch Disease
(CSD). It is a bacterial infection caused by Bartonella henselae. When a person
contracts this bacteria it is usually because they have been bitten or scratched by cat
(or kitten), which is how the disease got its name. Some symptoms of CSD are swollen
lymph nodes, headache, fatigue, and fever. Certain people may have complications, such
as those undergoing cancer treatments, people who have had an organ transplant, or
people with HIV/AIDS.

Nearly half of all kittens carry
Bartonella henselae at some point in their lives. To avoid getting CSD, it is important
to avoid playing "rough" with kittens or cats, practice proper hand washing after
playing with them, and controlling fleas. This bacteria has also been found in fleas
although the CDC has not found evidence that a flea can bite can transmit
CSD.

How did life in Victorian America shape our views on gender?

In America in the Victorian Age, the idea of separate
spheres for women and men came to prominence.  This idea has stuck with us to some
extent to the present day.  It is the idea that a woman's place is in the home, caring
for the family while a man's place is out in the world of economics -- making
money.

Before the Victorian Age, both men and women tended
to work at home.  There was a sexual division of labor, but both sexes were working at
home in ways that were economically important.  (The women might tend vegetables and
collect eggs and churn butter while the men did the field work, for
example.)

During Victorian times, more men started to go
outside the home to work and women were left at home (not on a farm) with no work to do
that brought in money.  This helped lead to our idea that women should not be involved
in the world of making money and being out in public.

Prove that 2*sqrt3*(sinA+sinB+sinC)/9

We'll put A,B,C as being the angles of the triangle
ABC.

We'll associate a function f(x)=sin
x

The variable x belongs to the interval [0,pi](because of
the constraint that A,B,C are the angles of the triangle ABC, where the sum of the
angles is 180 degrees).

We'll prove the
requested inequality, using Jensen's inequality.

We'll
calculate the first and the second derivative of
f(x):

f'(x)=cos x

f"(x)=-sin
x<0 => the function is concave

Because the
function is concave we'll apply the Jensen's
inequality:

f[(A+B+C)/3]>[f(A)+f(B)+f(C)]/3

Working
in a triangle, A+B+C=180 and (A+B+C)/3=180/3=60

f(60)=sin
60=(sqrt 3)/2

[f(A)+f(B)+f(C)]/3=(sin A+sin B+sin
C)/3

We'll substitute the resulted values in Jensen's
inequality:

(sin A+sin B+sin C)/3<(sqrt
3)/2

sin A+sin B+sin C<3(sqrt 3)/2

We'll cross
multiply:

2*(sin A+sin B+sin C) < 3(sqrt
3)

2*(sin A+sin B+sin C) / 3(sqrt 3) <
1

2*sqrt 3*(sin A+sin B+sin C) / 3*3 <
1

2*sqrt
3*(sin A+sin B+sin C) / 9 <
1

In Beowulf, why is it that Beowulf is considered a round character?I'm writing an essay where I have to support that claim, but can't seem to see...

Beowulf is round, dynamic character because he is the
poet's epic hero who changes greatly throughout the narrative.  He is full of paradoxes:
he is both pagan and Christian, blood-thirsty and generous, immortal and
vulnerable.

Beowulf begins as a young, proud hero who
defeats Grendel with his bare hands.  Then, he swims to Grendel's mother's lair and
kills her.  But, with each battle, and as Beowulf ages and his opponents become
deadlier, Beowulf must rely on weapons and armor to kill them.  He must use a magic
sword to slay Grendel's mother and heavy armor to slay the
dragon.

By the end, Beowulf becomes a victim of the cycle
of revenge that made him great.  Beowulf, once the idealized, indefatigable epic
warrior, becomes greedy for treasure and dies trying to protect his
status.

How does exercise lower blood sugar?

Exercise physiologists have discovered that routine
endurance training (aerobics) causes the body to become more efficient and utilize
glucose better. With type I diabetes mellitus the blood glucose concentration is too
high. Consistent, low impact, exercise increases the number of structures called insulin
receptors and makes those receptors have a better attraction or a higher affinity for,
the blood glucose. In this way, insulin is better utilized and the blood sugar level
will come down, sometimes quite substantially, it also takes less insulin to maintain
the blood sugar.

Circulation is also benefited which in
turn adds to the over all health of the individual. Increased circulation means an
increase in blood flow which means a lower incidence of infection. The body responds to
stress much more favorably when circulation is optimal.

What is magical realism and is it used in Green Gass, Running Water?

Magical realism, first employed by Latin American writers
Miguel Angel Asturias and Alejo Carpentier, creates a fusion of reality with magical or
supernatural events often presented as myths, legends or folklore. The affect of the
combination of reality with magical realism, of fact with fantasy, is intended to call
the accepted nature of reality to attention and into question. Green Grass,
Running Water, though not written by a Latin American writer (as magical
realism has found a broad acceptance and appeal), derives its structure from magical
realism and fully incorporates the blending of the aforementioned elements. In this
novel by Canadian Cherokee writer Thomas King, contemporary stories set in Canada and
peopled with ordinary individuals are interspersed with four mythical American Indian
figures, Biblical figures and improbable fantasy elements, such as the novel's
characters winding up with roles in old Hollywood cowboy and Indian movies, which are
preserved on videos, in which the Indians win out victoriously over the cowboys and
cavalries.

What do we learn of Cordelia's character in the line: "What shall Cordelia speak? Love, and be silent" in King Lear?

It is worth noting that though Cordelia's sisters Regan
and Goneril will later prove to be unloving and treacherous in their actions, in this
opening scene, the audience does not know this.  Shakespeare has them say all the lovely
"correct" things a child should say when a parent asks them to describe their feelings. 
At this point in the play, an audience that is new to the story might wonder like Lear,
why Cordelia isn't speaking as a good daughter should, like her
sisters.

Cordelia's decision to "love and be silent" since
her "love's more richer than [her] tongue", shows a conviction that mirrors a deeply
held Christian belief -- that love is an action that one performs, not a feeling that
one describes.  Cordelia's is often described as a Christ figure in the play, and this
opening determination to let her loving actions speak for themselves, supports
that.

Ultimately, Shakespeare doesn't give a definitive
answer, so how do you see Cordelia?

Do you have a good quote from the first chapter you can explain?

Here is one of my favorite quotations from the entire book
because of it's symbolism:

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But, on one side of the portal, and rooted
almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its
delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to
the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom,
in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to
him.

On the one hand, this
quote describing the rose bush next to the prison is rich with luscious literary devices
that tantalize the reader. The author figuratively
describes the roses as of great value by calling them "gems". These
roses' abilities to offer the sensory details of sight and
smell through "fragile beauty" and "fragrance" make us know they are not ordinary but
meant for someone special, maybe even a person of great value. The idea that the bush is
couched next to the door of a prison cell presents great
paradox because the good and evil just don't mix, except
for the one feature of a rose that pricks us all, the thorn. Finally the
personification of Nature, as if it could have the emotion
of feeling sorry for a criminal or extending kindness gives the bush status of almost a
character in the story. Tying all of these ideas together leads me to believe the rose
bush is a symbol of something, but I might not know what
until later.

On the other hand, it displays so much of the
story to come that a reader must sit with a longing wonder as to what the story is going
to be about. A reader wonders at the crime that one must commit to earn this punishment.
A reader wonders why the room might be so close to the cemetery. A reader wonders if a
person who enters this room might have the value of the rose bush or the ability to hurt
like a rose proving that appearances are and can be deceiving.

What is the explanation of the theme of class in Jude the Obscure?

Jude dreams of becoming a scholar. A rather romantic
dream, none-the-less, this vision for himself never quite releases its grip on Jude, who
comes back again and again to the city where he hoped to attain a formal
education. 

The dream of scholarship is also a dream of
social climbing, as demonstrated by the response Jude receives to his letter seeking
entrance in a university:

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Jude is told by the university officials that
someone of his class would be better off without a
degree.

As the
novel moves forward, Jude comes to terms with his class status for the most part. He
attempts to let go of his university dreams, along with his religious aspirations and
beliefs. 

However, on returning to Christminster with Sue
and his three children, Jude is drawn to discourse with some bitterness on the
regrettable intractability of the class system. He laments that he attempted to do
something in one lifetime (by becoming a scholar) that practically takes several
generations. 

Details of the class-based, daily experiences
of Jude and Sue are presented throughout the novel. These relate to the odd jobs taken
by each of them, the descriptions of lodgings they take, and descriptions of the people
who they mingle with in the various towns where they
live. 

Discussions of aspirations also occur throughout
much of the novel, regarding Jude, Phillotson, Sue and Arabella. These discussions often
concern ideas of 1) dealing with the realities of social class and 2) lamenting the
difficulty of moving up in the world. 

How can I find the area of a triangle given the coordinates of its corners ad (x1,y1),(x2,y2) and (x3,y3)?

Let the verices of the triangle be  A(x1,y1), B(x2,y2) and
C(x3,y3) .

Then I imagine (I can not draw here) A , B ,C on
a graph sheet.

AB, BC and CA form the trapeziums with
respect to X axis.

Area of trapezium under AB with x axis
=  (Sum of the || sides)*(distance between the || lines)/2 =
(y1+y2)(x2-x1)/2.

|||ly, we can say the area of the
trapezium BC = (y2+y3)(x3-x2)/2. Area of the trapezium under AC with x axis =
((y3+y1)(x2-x10/2.

The   bounded area by the triangle ABC =
Area of  trapeziums under AB  with axis + BC with  x axis - Area of trapezium under AC
with x axis.

Area ABC =
(1/2){(y2+y1)(x2-x1)+(y3+y2)(x3-x1)/2 -
(y3+y1)(x3-x1)}

Area ABC =
(1/2){(y1+y2)(x1-x2)+(y2+y3)(x3-x1)+(y3+1)((x1-x3)} in the cyclic form which is easy to
remember. This you can also write in the form of a
determinant.

Area of triangle =(1/2)| [(1 ,1,1 ), (x1 , x2
,x3),(y1,y2,y3)] |

In the Greek myth Echo and Narcissus Echo's punishment plays an important role in the life of Narcissus.if she had possessed the power of...

The notion of the heroic struggle—of a task to be
performed or a difficulty to be overcome by a character of heroic proportions—figures
prominently in Homer and other great dramatic writers. These writers emphasized that
one’s character is discernible early in life. The hero overcomes himself and restores
the proportionality appropriate to his nature. He returns to the right condition; he
sets things aright.

For rebuffing Echo’s love, Narcissus
was cursed by Aphrodite into falling in love with his own reflection in a pool.
Desperately he tried to make contact with himself, and desperately did he waste away and
die. Thus appeased, the gods transformed him into a flower that can blossom amidst
rocks. Beauty was preserved even as vanity was vanquished. If she had possessed regular
speech perhaps he could have understood all that she had meant.

How can i effectively analyse the x bar theory of syntax in linguisticsThis is a language question

The X-bar theory is used when performing syntactic
analysis on a phrase or sentence usually in the form of a syntactic tree.  Essentially
what this theory states is that there are syntactic features that are common to all
human languages, one structural similarity of which is the
"x-bar"

Essentially what you do is use X as an arbitrary
lexical category, which can later become an N, V, A, or P (noun, verb, adjective,
preposition respectively).  The rules of X-bar theory are as
follows:

1. An X Phrase consists of an optional specifier
and an X-bar, in any order:
2. One kind of X-bar consists of an X-bar and an
adjunct, in either order:
3. One kind of X-bar consists of an X-bar and an
adjunct, in either order:

Applying these rules we can know
that:

A sentence is always composed of a noun phrase, and a
verb phrase (rule two).
A verb phrase is always composed of a verb and a
complement (rule 3).
A noun phrase can be composed of adjective phrases, and
must contain a noun (rule one).
Prepositional phrases must contain a
preposition and a noun phrase (rule one).
The same goes for adverb
phrases.

How is Tess's life a constant movement between hope and despair in Hardy's Tess of the d'Ubervilles?

The text does not confirm the idea that Tess's life was
one of "constant movement between hope and despair." The definition of "constant" is
something that is not changing, not variable; something that is uniform and regular
(American Heritage Dictionary). In the story, there are three short seasons of happiness
during which Tess has hope while there are vast expanses of time during which she has
despair. This incongruity of number and duration of times of hope versus times of
despair can't really be characterized as "constant movement" between the
two.

Having said that and setting it aside for now, we can
discuss how Tess's life moves between an inequitable distribution of seasons (or times)
of hope and despair. We'll note though that it is this inequitable distribution of
despair amidst few moments of hope that helps create the tragedy of Tess's life and
suffering, and so the inequitability of these two fluctuations of life--hope and
despair--is a critically important element of Hardy's message about society and its
skewed definition of a pure woman, a definition Hardy debunks, rejects and redefines
through a psychological study of Tess's life.

The three
times in Tess's life, starting from when she was sixteen, when hope might be possible
are when she was still at home planning and hoping to be a school
teacher; when she was settled into working as the poultry keeper at
Stokes-d'Urberville's manor near Trantridge; when she and Angel Clare were courting
(though against her will and better judgement) at Talbothay's
dairy.

At the manor, she would walk out on Saturdays at the
end of the workday, with the other workers, to Chaseborough where they enjoyed
themselves and did shopping. During this time she was content though not
exactly hopeful, because her hope of being a
teacher had been sacrificed to the family need to have a replacement for their deceased
horse Prince and an introduction to the monied (though artificial) branch of the
d'Urberville family.

While at Talbothay's, she was happy
doing a good job at somewhat dignified dairy work and associating with the other country
dairymaids. She was even happy in becoming acquainted with Angel Clare because he was of
a higher social class and education thus appealed to her thirst for learning and refined
ideas, and he appealed to her heart strings. While she may be said to be happy, though
reserved still, it is hard to say she was hopeful because
she refused every offer of marriage Angel made to her and made efforts to keep him at
his distance and herself away from his notice (he had other plans and won). You might
say the one time Tess was truly hopeful here was after
Angel's confession on their wedding night of previous dissipated wrongdoing. She was
hopeful for those few brief moments that he would forgive
her past since their moral falls had been just the same ("'tis just the same!"), though
Clare's was by foolish choice while Tess's was from seduction and
force.

The despair that fills
her life between these three brief instances of content, happiness and sporadic hope
were a sacrifice of hope; seduction; a pregnancy; a child; a child's death; exile to a
strange part of the country; turmoil caused by love that she knew could not succeed;
rejection by her husband on their wedding day; penury and exile to a harsh unyielding
land; unwanted reunion with her seducer who has come as her "master"; the return of
Angel too late; her murder of Alec; her flight (with a few days of peace in Angel's
arms); her imprisonment; her execution. 

What are Estella Havisham's dreams, visions, and philosphy?

Having been taught from an early age to be cold-hearted
and cruel, Estella has never learned to care about what happens to any one--not even to
herself.  As such, Estella is rather a tragic figure; she has simply been manipulated by
Miss Havisham to wreak her vengeance upon the male gender.  But, by generating such a
cold, brutal nature in Estella, Miss Havisham has fostered a young woman who has little
or no feelings.

Without the human feelings of love for
others, there is little that Estella aspires to other than becoming a lady since meaning
in one's life depends upon sharing emotions.  She cannot respond to the love of Pip and
only identifies with Bentley Drummle because he, too, is cruel.  Always candid and
honest, Estella tells Miss Havisham that she cannot love her because Miss Havisham has
taught her not to love, but to be cruel and to have a "self-possessed
indifference": 

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 "You should know...I am what you have made
me.....Who taught me to be hard?....Who praised me when I learned my
lesson?"

Having been "made"
by Miss Havisham, Estella meets Pip years later and is "bent and broken" by her marriage
to the brutish Drummle.  She does tell Pip that she has thought of him, but says
honestly again that they "will continue friends apart."

In
the revised ending of Great Expectations, Estella indicates that
she has learned from her suffering and Pip feels the assurance "that suffering...had
given her a heart to understand what my heart used to be."

Describe the confrontation between Mistress Hibbins and Hester in chapters 22-24 of The Scarlet Letter.

The Scarlet Letter is a novel
concerned with the inner workings of the soul as it deals with sin and shame.  Hester
was an adulteress whose sin was made public.  The man she loved, Arthur Dimmesdale, hid
his sin and continued his role as revered minister to his church flock.  The day on
which this conversation took place was Election Day, one of the grand ceremonial days in
the town.  Dimmesdale was chosen to deliver the Election Day sermon, and the former
lovers had plans to leave for England immediately following the event.  As he walked
through the crowd on his way to the church, Arthur was a changed man.  The formerly weak
and frail man who was continually clutching at his heart was walking erect and strong,
with an apparently renewed energy and vigor.  He passes by Hester and Pearl without a
word or a glance, though Hester longed for some signal of recognition.  Mistress Hibbins
joined Hester and Pearl, creating a kind of aura which made others keep their distance
as they held the private exchange you're asking
about. 

Mistress Hibbins, perhaps with her witch-like sense
or perhaps something more, has figured out that Hester and Arthur had a meeting in the
forest and because of it things are changed.  She said to
Hester:

"Many
a church-member saw I, walking behind the music, that has danced in the same measure
with me, when Somebody was fiddler....  But this minister! Couldst thou surely tell,
Hester, whether he was the same man that encountered thee on the
forest-path?"

She is clearly
indicating that she knows Arthur, as a godly man, has sold his soul to the devil in
order to escape his guilty conscience.  Hester, of course, tried to deny and deflect;
however, Mistress Hibbins would not be deterred:

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"Fie, woman fie!" cried the old lady, shaking her
finger at Hester. "Dost thou think I have been to the forest so many times, and have yet
no skill to judge who else has been
there? 

She clearly knows
that Arthur has been lost to the devil.  Pearl, of course, wants to know all the
details, but none are forthcoming.  The unwanted visitor walks off, but Hester is
shaken.  This encounter clearly foreshadows trouble to come.

Why do you think Montag plants some of the books in a fellow fireman's house?

If you remember, this was Montag's original plan for how
to fight back against the society in which he was living.  So I think that he does this
as he runs away as a way of trying to fight back against the
society.

The idea behind Montag's plan was that he wanted
to undermine the reputation of the government.  He wanted to make people think that
there was something wrong with the people who were enforcing the rules.  So what better
way to do that than to put books in firefighters'
houses?

By planting the books there, he could make the
firefighters look bad and he could (he hoped) undermine the society a little bit in that
way.

Who is William Wordsworth?

he was the first great poet of romantic time.he was born
in cumberland England and educated at Hawkshead grammer school,where he was allowed to
roam the countryside and come close to the life of country people.This early and
continious contact with nature affected his poetry very
much.

Wordsworth and Coleridge produced thier book''LYRICAL
BALLADS'' in1798.wordsworth preface to this book was his important contiribution to
literary critcisim.

His main concept of poetry was that it
is ''a spontaneous over flow of powerful emotions,recollected in tranquility''
.

among his famous sonnets and lyrics are ; 'Composed upon
westminster bridge' , The Solitary Reaper' ,I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' . In 1843
Wordsworth was crowned 'poet  Laureate' ,the highest honour England gives to her
poets

How is satire an effective literary tool for an author to comment on the world around them?

Satire is one of the truly unique literary elements in
that, those who do it, do it well, and those who don't, don't touch
it.

Satire is a method of commenting (or in many cases,
complaining) about society, politics, leadership, or generally, anything affecting the
public that doesn't make sense, in a darkly humorous, and often subtly offensive way. 
Satire has the ability to offend and tickle an audience at the same time.  This is why
it is so effective when done well.  Satire is never executed without a clear message
intended from the outset.  Then, that message is delivered in a slightly less-clear
package.

Typically, in order to take a serious subject and
make a serious comment on it in a way that comes across with a note of humor, the author
has to succeed in a couple of areas.  He or she must be intelligent, well read and
informed, and relevant.  Finally, the author must be passionate about what he or she
believes.  When we think of satire in the classics, we think of Mark Twain,
automatically.  But even in our modern world, satire continues to thrive in television
(with shows like Saturday Night Live and Family Guy) and in print (publications like
The Onion).

It continues to be a small
and elite club, both on the sides of those who do it and those who understand it.  I
don't believe satire is something that is practiced and mastered.  I really believe it
is something that is innate and then honed to perfection.  This is the final reason it
will continue to be effective, because it will never become commonplace nor
cliche.

Calculate |z| if 8z+40z'=25+35i?

We'll write the expression of the module of a complex
number:

|z| = sqrt [(Re z)^2 + (Im
z)^2]

If z has is written
algebraically

z = a + b*i,
then

the real part = Re(z) =
a

and

the imaginary part is
Im(z) = b.

|z| = sqrt(a^2 +
b^2)

The complex number z' is the conjugate of z and it's
expression is z' = a - b*i

Now, we'll re-write the given
expression:

8z+40z'=25+35i

8(a+bi)
+ 40(a-bi) = 25+35i

We'll remove the
brackets:

8a + 8bi + 40a - 40bi =
25+35i

We'll combine like terms from the right
side:

48a - 32bi = 25+35i

The
real part from the left side has to be equal to the real part from the right
side.

48a=25

We'll divide by
48:

a = 25/48

The imaginary
part from the left side has to be equal to the imaginary part from the right
side:

-32b = 35

We'll divide
by -32:

b = -35/32

The module
of the complex number z = 25/48 - 35*i/32 is:

|z| =
sqrt(a^2 + b^2)

|z| = sqrt[(25/48)^2
+  (-35/32)^2]

|z| = sqrt (625/2304 +
1225/1024)

|z| = sqrt (625*4/2304 +
1225*9/1024)

|z| = sqrt
(2500+11025)/9216

|z| = (sqrt 13525) /
96

Differentiate the function y=sin^4(sqrt(u))

Here, you have one function inside another (inside
another) ; so you need to use the chain rule (twice).

Let x
= sqrt(u), f(x) = sin^4(x)

dy/du = df/dx *
dx/du

df/dx = 4sin^3(x) * cos(x)   --> here, you
used the chain rule to compute d/dx ( g^4), where g = sin x, and dg/dx = cos
x.

dx/du = d/du ( u^(1/2)) = 1/2
u^(-1/2)

So,

dy/du = 4sin^3(x)
* cos(x) * 1/2 u^(-1/2)

= 4sin^3(sqrt(u)) * cos(sqrt(u)) *
1/2 u^(-1/2)

"Contrary to usual belief "THE TEMPEST" is a badly constructed play;it lacks the conflict which is the essence of a drama"Do you agree?Substantiate...

Of course, this question is purely subjective, and the
answer depends entirely on what you see in the play. I disagree that the play contains
no conflict. It perhaps may not follow the "norms" for what happens in
Elizabethan/Jacobean drama, and many people think that the play was Shakespeare's
farewell to the stage.  Still, the play is character-driven, mainly by Prospero, and it
holds plenty of conflict. 

Prospero experiences conflict
with nearly every other character in the play, from his daughter Miranda, who would love
to get off the island, to Caliban, his unwilling servant, to Ariel, his willing servant,
who yet wants to be freed from servitude. 

The story began
with a long-ago conflict that caused Prospero to be banished with his daughter.  He is,
at the time the play takes place, trying to bring a resolution to that old conflict, not
just by settling a score, but by providing for Miranda's future.  True, things may work
out fairly smoothly, but that does not mean that conflict does not exist in the play. It
only means that Shakespeare was a master at dramatic resolution.

In The Great Gatsby, what teachable character traits does Nick Carraway possess?

I think that Nick is a great representative of someone who
is relevant even though he might not be the most relevant in a social context.  On some
level, all individuals have either been this or known someone who represents this.  Nick
is not going to be the center of the party, the driving force of attention.  He will not
captivate a room like a Jordan nor will he have the brashness of a Tom.  He will not
have the wealth of a Gatsby.  He is a regular person, and through his eyes, the reader
fully understands the social situation that envelops all of the characters in
Fitzgerald’s narrative.  One of his traits that is present throughout the novel is his
perception of the world and those around him.  This aspect of his consciousness shows
reflection and thoughtfulness, and while Nick might not be the most honest of narrators,
he is the voice that the reader must cling to in order to better understand the people
of this social setting, one that might be far removed from that of the reader.  In a
larger sense, Nick represents the vast majority of people who are not going to be the
center of all attention.  For all people who are the “belle of the ball” or the “life of
the party,” there are much more who are not.  There are many more people who are a part
of the crowd, as opposed to being distinct of it. Nick is one of these individuals, and
yet, through his narration, and his guiding, we begin to understand that he is much more
than an anonymous face.  This helps to prove that while social contexts might malign and
isolate someone, they do have a voice and have distinction to them that makes them
unique and able to be the “center” of someone’s attention.

What control procedure of a business's system of internal control is violated in this situation?The ticket seller at a movie theater doubles as a...

One of the ways of controlling dishonest practices in an
organization is to divide the jobs in such a way that an employee will find it difficult
to commit dishonest acts without colluding with one or more other employees. This method
of controlling dishonesty assumes that need for collusion between more than one
employees increases the risk of detection for each employee, thereby discouraging
dishonest practice. Also when dishonest acts require collusion between more than one
employee, the commitment of dishonest act involves the additional activity and risk of
forming the collusion relationship.

In the case cited above
this principle of control appears to be violated. When the ticket seller and ticket
checker are two different persons, the ticket checker will find it more difficult to
admit a person in the movie theater and let him occupy a seat, because if subsequently
the ticket seller sells tickets for the seats occupied by the person without the
tickets, this dishonest act will become known to others in the organization. However if
the ticket checker acts as a ticket seller even for a short period in a day, it will be
easier to manipulate the system so that seat assigned to a person admitted without
ticket is not sold to anyone else.

Is Brinker Hadley a dynamic or static character in the story? Can you give me an example showing the details of the character's behavior?

I think Brinker remains static. He doesn't change much
throughout the story. He wants to see Gene confess his crime about Finny in the Butt
Room in chapter 7, and then pushes it again in chapter 10 &
11.

He's a smart, tough guy the whole time who wants to
enlist when the time is right. That fits a tough guy. He is also a moral character, he
wants truth to emerge.

He is not a flat character, as
mentioned above he has many qualities or traits. Brinker takes on the whole crew at
the Winter Carnival when they try to steal the hard cider. This too matches his tough
guy mentality.  

How does the real 1920's England parallel with the setting and plot of "The Rocking Horse Winner"?So for our AP English class, we were told to make...

Well, you may find it useful to know that this story is
actually based on a real 1920's life. Lawrence wrote this story for his friend Lady
Cynthia Asquith. Cynthia was born into the upper class of British society, the daughter
of the eleventh Earl of Wemyss. She married a man with too little money and was always
short of cash. Her sons found her to be a neglectful mother whose love was conditional,
depending on their successes. Lawrence translated his impressions of the Asquith family
into this story.

Added to this, in general Lawrence viewed
men and women as torn between the promptings of their instincts (which he saw as good)
and the demanding voices of their upbringing and education (which he saw as being
inhibitive and destructive). In his writing he clearly tries to celebrate life. What
opposes this, according to Lawrence, is
materialism.

Hopefully that will give you some ideas about
the background of this excellent short story.

How does Monte Cristo avenge the treachery of his friends?The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

In the chapter (49) entitled "Ideology," of The
Count of Monte Cristo,  Monte Cristo has a rather intimate encounter with de
Villefort in which he accuses de Villefort,  "Do you really think that what you do
deserves being called anything?"  When de Villefort is, of course, insulted, their
conversation turns upon Monte Cristo's raison d'etre.  In response
to the Procureur du roi's remark that he unquestionably has some ambition, Monte Cristo
reveals,

I,
too, as happens to every man once in his life, have been taken by Satan into the highest
mountain in the earth, and when there he showed me all the kingdoms of the earth, and as
he said befre, so said he to me, "Child of earth, what wouldst thou have to make thee
adore me?'  I reflected long, for a gnawing ambition had long preyed upon me, and then I
replied,  "Listen,--I have always heard tell of Providence, and yet I have never seen
him, nor anything that resembles him....I wish to be Providence
myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing
in the world, is to recompense and
punish.'

This passage is key
to Monte Cristo's methods of revenge against his enemies and reward to those he loves. 
For, he is neither simply the diabolical villain nor hero. Rather, he is more the
Providence of the Old Testament who wreaks "an eye for an eye" and rewards the just. 
With regard to his enemies, Monte Cristo uses what is their sin against them. For
instance, Danglars the banker is destroyed by his own greed when Monte Cristo plots a
series of financial disasters for him; de Villefort, the defender of French law, is
destroyed when his attempted burial of his illegimate child is exposed in court; the
Count de Morcef (Ferdinand Mondego), the "peacock" who glories in his rank and fame, is
exposed as a traitor who has sold an ally to the enemy. Caderousse, the thief, is slain
by his fellow thief, Benedetto (Andrea de Calvacanti) whom he
betrayed.

While Monte Cristo arranges for his enemies'
destruction, he does not kill them.  Instead, he simply arranges for their own sins to
destroy them, as Providence would.  Likewise, he intervenes as Providence would for the
good and worthy by providing Monsieur Morrel the financial aid that he needs in order to
stave off ruin.  Monte Cristo intervenes to save Valentine de Villefort and enable her
to marry the son of his beloved friend, Maxillian
Morrel.

While Monte Cristo's sin is one of pride in feeling
that he is an agent of Providence, he achieves his redemption in the end of the novel. 
In a letter to Maxilmilian:

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

Paraphrase Atticus's speech about the Radleys' right to privacy. Do you personally agree with his viewpoint? Why or why not?Harper Lee's To Kill a...

Just after Atticus catches the children trying to deliver
a note to Boo Radley by attaching it to the end of a fishing pole, he tells them, once
again, to "stop tormenting that man."  He then proceeds to say that Boo Radley has the
right to come outside if he wants or stay inside all day if he wants, and he doesn't
deserve to be bothered by "inquisitive children" like Jem, Scout, and
Dill. 

Further, asks the children how they would feel if he
(Atticus) walked into their rooms without knocking, and essentially says that the
children are showing the same sort of disrespect to Boo.  Atticus ends his reprimand of
the children by noting that the appropriate way to communicate with someone was to knock
on that person's front door, not try to sneak something into his or her side window. 
Finally, he warns the children again to stay away from the Radley house unless they are
invited there, and tells them to stop playing games in which they make fun of Boo--or
anyone else who lives on the street. 

You'll have to decide
for yourself whether or not you agree with Atticus's speech.  Good
luck! 

In And Then There Were None,what are three red herrings?Please,if possible,include what chapter they occur in. Thanks

What makes one of my favorite novels of all time so
compelling and addicting to read, are because of these terms that you mentioned: Red
Herrings. As cited in the above answer, a Red Herring is often used in either suspense
or mystery novels, to keep the reader guessing and on the edge of their seat. As this
novel did for me, the Red Herrings in And Then There Were None, are not only well placed
in the book, but they completely throw off the reader: exactly what they are meant to
do.

Although there are many in this book, three Red
Herrings in this novel would be first, the confusion and suspense of who the murder
actually is. In the beginning, we start off with 10 suspects. As they get murdered one
by one (remember that they were all brought to the island because of murders they
committed), they grow increasingly paranoid of each other and afraid that they will be
the next to be murdered. However, in the end, we realize that none of the ten were ever
the murderer. That person was actually the man who invited them all: Mr. Owen. This
would be the second Red Herring.

The third Red Herring that
could be considered, is the admitting of each character to their crime. For instance,
Dr. Armstrong reluctantly gave way to the details of his murder, while Blore admits to
Lombard about his as well. This revelation of truths throughout the novel is really
something that not only catches the reader off guard, but also throws the story in a
completely different direction as well. 

What was the creation of the consumer economy during the late 1800s and and what were its effects on American life?

The consumer society that took shape in the United States
between the end of Reconstruction and the end of the First World War was the direct
result of the relentless process of industrialization that characterized the
nineteenth-century. The main feature of industrialization is the production of goods by
machine rather than by hand. The use of machines in factories lowered the costs of
production and, at the same time, it significantly increased the output. Thanks to the
mechanization and specialization of labor, the United States found themselves as
the world's most productive industrial state at the beginning of the twentieth
century.

This increased volume of goods allowed more
Americans than before to be able to satisfy their material desires. So products such as
toilets, canned food, ready-made clothes that were virtually absent from American life
before the Civil War became widespread at the turn of the century. Yet, although this
era has been described as "the democratization of consumption", large social
sectors still remained excluded from the benefits of consumerism and the uneven
distribution of resources among interest groups created dangerous concentrations of
power in few large corporations.

In the face of increased
mechanization, workers started to worry about their future and tried to regain control
of their production through unions. Labor unrest became a defining symptom of American
society. The creation of a consumer society also encouraged the people to move from the
country to the city, favoring urbanization.

In Macbeth, comment on Banquo's character and how he changes.

Very interesting question! In this play one of the main
purposes of Banquo's character is to act as a contrast to the character of Macbeth and
thus when examining Banquo's character we really need to think about how he is portrayed
compared to Macbeth.

A key scene to examine is how both
characters respond to the witches' prophecy. The different responses lie in the fact
that it is Macbeth that chooses to act on their prophecies, giving in to his overriding
ambition, whilst Banquo, although he clearly has ambitious thoughts, does not give into
ambition in the same way.

Interestingly, the first time the
witches appear to Macbeth and Banquo, Macbeth is startled by their predictions, but it
is Banquo that says to Macbeth: "Why do you start, and seem to fear / Things that do
sound so fair?" This shows that Banquo is definitely not averse at first to the witches'
prophecies. However, this quickly gives way to doubt and scepticism, and later Banquo
has troubled dreams regarding the witches and their prophecy, and says to Macbeth:
"oftentimes, to win us to our harm, / The instruments of darkness tell us truths, / Win
us with honest trifles to betray [us]." This is in sharp contrast with the increasing
fascination and obsession that Macbeth (and his wife) have with the predictions of the
weird sisters.

Note too how Banquo is not able to sleep
(like Macbeth) before the murder of Duncan. We are told that Banquo has had his sleep
troubled with dreams of the witches or the "weird sisters". It is clear that these
dreams have not helped him to have a good night's sleep - he
says:

A heavy
summons lies like lead on me,

And yet I would not sleep.
Merciful powers,

Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that
nature

Gives way to in
repose!

We can see therefore
that in some ways in this play Banquo acts as a comparison to Macbeth - and a rebuke to
Macbeth and the path he has chosen to take.

Interestingly,
it is the ghost of Banquo that haunts Macbeth (rather than the ghost of Duncan), and one
of the ghost's rebukes of Macbeth is how Macbeth responded to the witches' prophecies in
comparison with Banquo. Thus the character of Banquo shows us that it is one thing to
have ambitious thoughts (and don't we all), but it is something completely different to
become a slave to ambition and be led into paths which involve committing murder and
treason to satisfy the thirst of ambition.

Can you please contrast Tess's family with the family of Angel Clare in Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles?

The contrast between the Derbeyfields and
the Clares is rather stark though there is surprisingly one similarity
between them. The similarity is that both John (Jack) Derbeyfield and Vicar Clare are
men who are proud of their background and lineage. Jack didn't have much reason for his
pride until Parson Tringham told him of the newly discovered connection to the ancient
house of the Norman nobles, the d'Urbervilles, yet once that was known Jack's
Derbeyfield pride of family matched Vicar Clare's.

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"Sir John d'Urberville—that's who I am,"
continued the [reclining] man. "That is if knights were baronets—which they be. 'Tis
recorded in history all about me."

The above points out the
occupational contrast between the Derbeyfields and the Clares. Vicar Clare is a highly
educated clergyman as are two of his sons. His third son, Angel, disappointed him by not
following in the expectations of the family. Jack Derbeyfield is an undereducated
"haggler" who sells eggs and bees in the small village of Marlott. His eldest daughter,
Tess, has similarly disappointed him by not following in the family expectation by not
securing the patronage of the new d'Urberville family and by coming home to have a baby
without accepting an offer of marriage from the child's
father.

"I
have never really and truly loved you, and I think I never can." [Tess] added
mournfully, "Perhaps, of all things, a lie on this thing would do the most good to me
now; but I have honour enough left, little as 'tis, not to tell that lie."

In their deeper backgrounds,
the Derbeyfields are descended of French Catholic nobility while the Clares are
descended from English Puritan (Protestant) gentry and clergy. This makes the
Derbeyfield ancestry of a higher rank than the Clare ancestry, though at the time of the
story, the Clare's are higher in social rank. Another thing the families share in common
is their willingness to be accepting, forgiving and loving, though Vicar Clare seems to
have a few more limiting restrictions and qualifications attached to what he will
accept, forgive and love.

The fathers of both families set
the overall tones of what the families are like though Mrs. Derbeyfield has more
influence in her family than Mrs. Clare seems to have in hers.

The lengths of 2 sides of a kite are 7.6cm & 4.3cm.Length of the shorter diogonal of the kite is 5.2cm.Use a ruler & compass to construct.Please...

A kite  is quadrilateral (convex)  in which a pair of
adjascent sides  are equal and the respective opposite pair of adjascent sides are
equal. The digagonals intersect at right angles. The shorter  diagonal is
bisected.

A quadrilateral  ABCD is a  kite AB = AD   and CD
= CB. The diagonals AC and DB intersect at right angles.

In
the given case,

AB
=AD= 4.3cm

CD = CB = 7.6
cm

The diagonal DB = 5.2
cm

Construction:

Draw  DB 
5.2cm.

 Take 4.3 cm  as radius in compass  and with D as
centre  draw  an arc  to cut the arc  with same radius drawn with centre B. Let the
intersection of arcs be A.

Now take 7.6cm radius and draw
arcs on the other side of DB with centre D and B to intersect at
C.

Now by construction DB = 5.2,  AD = AC =4.3cm ,  CD = CB
= 7.6cm. So ABCD is the required kite.

In Lord of the Flies, what does the reader know about Simon's background?What type of family does he come from? What are his hobbies and interests?...

Though Simon is one of the main characters in this novel,
we know very little about his background.  We meet him for the first time in chapter 1
when the choir trudges its weary way across the sand to the sound of the conch.  "[O]ne
of the boys flopped on his face in the sand...."  That was Simon.  The reaction by his
fellow choristers is minimal; they simply "heaved the fallen boy onto the platform and
let him lie."  We know from this his fainting was not particularly
uncommon.

Their leader, Jack, tells them to leave him
alone.  The boys do mutter a protest or two, but Jack reminds
them:

"'He's
always throwing a faint....He did in Gib,; and Addis; and at matins [prayers] over the
precentor."

The rest of the
choir reacts by sniggering, so clearly they may like him but aren't averse to making him
the butt of a joke.  Once he recovers, he sheepishly laughs and--though he is one of the
smallest "big" boys on the island--is the first to volunteer to join Ralph on his
exploration of the island.

Simon faints once more, when he
meets the Lord of the Flies and has a vision where he realizes what he has hinted at all
along-- the Beast is them.  Ironically, it is this news which gets him killed once he
recovers from his faint and locates the boys in the
circle.

This is a symbolic novel, and Simon represents the
emotional/mystical/spiritual/intuitive component of who we are.  He is also often seen
as a kind of Christ figure. Simon demonstrates this more sensitive side consistently as
he pauses to pick fruit for the children, reassures Ralph that he will make it home, and
feels the need for solitude as he sneaks away to his hiding place with the candlebuds
and butterflies.

Simon's past has obviously shaped who he
is today--we just don't have many clues as to what those events and experiences were.  I
wish I had more to offer; however, it's clear that what Simon is and does on the island
is much more significant than what happened to him before he
arrived.

Why does Sam ask Bill if there is heart disease in his family in the story "The Ransom of Red Chief"?

The brief answer is that Sam does not want Bill to have a
heart attack (or at least he is acting as if he is worried that Bill will have a heart
attack).  So he asks Bill if anyone in his family has had heart disease before he tells
Bill to turn around.

The point of this line is that "Red
Chief" has been torturing Bill ever since Sam and Bill kidnapped him.  He has bitten and
kicked Bill and made him eat grass, among other things.  At the point in the story where
Sam asks about heart disease, Bill thinks that they have finally gotten rid of the kid. 
But they have not -- Red Chief is right behind Bill.

Sam
knows this will not make Bill happy and that fact is emphasized by Sam asking Bill about
the heart disease.  The author has put this line in here to be funny and to stress how
much Red Chief has made Bill's life miserable.

How does Macbeth react to Lady Macbeth's death and why is it so depressing?I'm not too sure about this one. It doesn't seem clear to me.

Macbeth's speech, as he prepares to go to battle,
following Seyton telling him that "The queen, my lord, is dead," is one of the most
famous speeches in all of Shakespeare's canon.  As far as literal reaction to her death,
he simply says:

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She should have died
hereafter.

There would have been time for such a
word.

Which means that,
according to Macbeth, she should have lived longer, so he might have had time to
grieve.

The rest of the speech can be considered depressing
because of the point of view that Macbeth gives on life and death.  It is however,
continually discussed and debated, so you should try to read it carefully for yourself
to see what your impression is of Macbeth's views.

Some
things that stand out to me are, first, the rhythm of the text.  The repetition with
which it begins ("Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow") really emphasizes monotony.  And
when he goes on to describe this procession of tomorrows as "creep"ing in at a "petty
pace," the pointlessness of this monotony is brought out.  Taking this parade of days to
its ultimate conclusion ("the last syllable of recorded time"), only shows that, for
Macbeth, there is no hope ever that life won't be a monotonous series of petty, creeping
days.  Pretty bleak stuff.

He also comments on human life
calling those who have gone before "fools" going to "dusty death."  He winds it up by
calling life itself a "tale"

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Told by an idiot, full of sound and
fury,

Signifying
nothing.

You might call this
"depressing," as you have mentioned in your question.  But whatever you call it, it is
devoid of hope for mankind or a hint of love for life.

Using specific examples, what are some of the different interpretations of Islam by Islamists and more moderate Muslims?This question is asking me...

Though the formation of different sects is forbidden by
the Quran, it has become a reality over time.  The largest are the Sunni sect and the
Shia or Shiites with the Sufis being the smallest.

One of
the major differences between the first two is that the Sunni's believe that Mohammed
did not select any kind of successor to lead the faith after he disappeared.  Shia
muslims believe that his family was ordained to lead and so his descendants are looked
to as the rulers of or interpreters of the faith and are considered
authorities.

In terms of radical and moderate, you might
look at the muslims that feel that jihaad includes the killing of infidels compared to
those that interpret it differently that the struggle is not necessarily a violent one,
but one of moral virtue and example.

Did Dylan Thomas often write poems about death?

I think that death is a topic upon which Thomas writes,
but it is part of a larger struggle.  This is a struggle to be human, to live and to
die.  Thomas is writing at the time of the Great Depression and the outbreak of World
War II.  If we examine this time period, it is one of worldwide bitterness.  There is a
feeling of death in his work because the sensation that is around the world is that
Thanatos, the death instinct, is prevailing over Eros, the force of love.  In this
wrestling and this intense battle, Thomas writes.  With a world gripped in economic and
political despair, Thomas speaks of a setting where individuals are almost powerless but
for their rage, their freedom.  It is this ability, to voice frustration and anger, that
comes out in his poems as a writing of death, an element that was so present in the
world in many forms at the time of Thomas' writing.

What is cachexia?

Cachexia also called wasting syndrome is a condition
characterized by acute loss of weight, muscle atrophy, fatigue, weakness and significant
loss of appetite even though the patient may not be actively trying to lose
weight.

This is a loss of body mass that cannot be reversed
nutritionally. It cannot be reversed by consuming more calories or shifting to a more
nutritious diet. Patients with AIDS, cancer, TB, addictions to drugs and many other such
illnesses suffer from cachexia. Cachexia does not have any cure, or FDA approved drugs.
Steroids that mimic progesterone may help to increase appetite and put on some weight
but the muscle loss is not reversed.

Comment on this sentence spoken by Foreman in W. Somerset Maugham's "The Verger":"The last vicar knew that, sir," he replied. "He said it...

W. Somerset Maugham's story "The Verger" is set in a small
church in which there has recently been a change in vicars.  (Vicars were the local
priests of a parish who performed most tasks of the church but did not receive the
tithes and were therefore not the "official" representatives of the church.  They were
the equivalent of a local pastor who represents a larger denomination.)  The old vicar
had been there for years, and Albert Edward Foreman had gotten along splendidly with him
without any complaints about his abilities.  Foreman was the verger for this vicarage;
he performed all the physical and menial duties of the church.  He wore an official robe
and had been performing his duty faithfully and with pride for the past sixteen
years. He loved his job.

The new vicar came to Foreman one
day in a state of amazement, shocked to learn, he said, that the verger of his parish
could neither read nor write. He was embarrassed by this fact and had felt compelled to
share that with the churchwardens (it was his duty, he said).  The line you mention is
Foreman's response:

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"The last vicar knew that, sir," he replied. "He
said it didn't make no difference. He always said there was a great deal too much
education in the world for 'is
taste."

This calm and
complacent answer did not suit the new vicar, and he informed the verger he was fired. 
The verger didn't know what to do with himself, so he saw a need and filled it.  There
was no tobacconist in his neighborhood, so he opened one.  The business did well, and
Foreman's banker was astonished at how successful the verger had been--and all without
being able to read or write.  At heart, of course, all Foreman wanted was to once again
be verger of the church.

The point of the story, of course,
is that being able to read and write may be a good thing, but it's certainly not the
only thing by which to measure either worth or success. This sentence is Foreman's way
of saying he was perfectly capable of fulfilling his duties despite his inability to
read and write. "Education" does not guarantee success, nor does the lack of an
education preclude it.

In The Canterbury Tales from The Nun's Priest's Tale, use your own words to paraphrase what Chauntecleer is telling the Fox."Nay thanne," quod he,...

This interesting quote comes at the resolution of
Chanticleer's misadventure in The Nun's Priest's Tale, which is the
twentieth tale in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. In order
to paraphrase the quote in one's own words, one must first know what Chaucer's words
mean. Some Middle English words are fairly easily sorted out. For instance, "thou shalt
namoore" is fairly easy to sort out to a Modern English "you shall no
more."

But some Middle English really requires a Middle
English Dictionary or a The
Canterbury Tales Glossary online. For instance, Middle English
"thee" seemes pretty straightforward and one would expect it to be the same as the
Colonial period "thee," which is a form of address. However, in Middle English, "thee"
actually means "to thrive; prosper" (Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Part
2; Glossary, Walter W. Skeat).

Now--what is the
meaning of the quotation so an acceptable paraphrase can be written for
it?:

"Nay
thanne," quod he, "I shrewe us bothe two,
And first I shrewe myself bothe
blood and bones,
If thou bigyle me ofter than ones.
Thou shalt
namoore, thurgh thy flaterye,
Do me to synge and wynke with myn
ye;
For he that wynketh whan he sholde see,
Al wilfully, God lat him
nevere thee."

What it means
is that Chanticleer is rejecting the fox's suggestion by saying that he curses (shrewe)
both of them and that he will curse himself "blood and bones" before he lets the the fox
trick (bigyle) him more than once. He goes on to say that never more shall the fox use
flattery to make Chanticleer sing (at dawn) and not take heed of danger, because anyone
who fails to take heed of danger--wholly willfully--when he should be alert, God should
never let prosper.

This is what it means. Now I'll attempt
a paraphrase that can be a model for your own paraphrase in your own words:  "No," said
he, "I'd sooner curse both of us. And I'll curse myself completely before I let you
beguile me one more time. Your flattery will never again make me sing and close my eyes
to danger; for anyone who willfully closes their eyes to danger, God should never let
thrive."

Thanne: then, than, sooner,
before
Shrewe: n. scoundrel, accursed, wretch
adj. evil, wicked

prp: beshrew, curse
Bothe: both
Bigyle: beguile, trick,
dupe
Ones: once
Namoore: never more, no more
Thurgh:
through
Flaterye: flattery
Synge: sing
Ye:
eye
Al: all, every, wholly, in every respect, entirely, all the day, all in
all
Thee: thrive, prosper

How can eating habits be changed for kids who get "enough" food, but do not get adequate nutrition?

The advent of fast food has been one major reason, as well
as the availability and cheap prices of a lot of the processed foods.  These foods are
high in saturated fat, cholesterol, salt and calories, but do not have a lot of
nutritional value.  The more often children eat these kinds of foods, the heavier they
are going to be, earlier in life, and the more likely they are to have poor eating
habits when they are older.  We are seeing a huge increase in childhood obesity rates
and Type 2 Diabetes as a result of these trends.

Education
of young people using modeling as a method is pretty rare.  Most kids can't give
detailed answers about nutrition or what a balanced meal is, or the difference between
carbs and fat.  Kids get way too much sugar and caffeine in the forms of soda and sugary
energy and coffee drinks that have little, if any, nutritional
value.

The world's smallest playable guitar is 13 micrometer long. Express the length in standard form.

Though meter (m) is the basic unit of length as per SI
units, use of multiples and subdivisions of meter is also permitted in the SI system.
Different standard practices are used by people in different profession. For measurement
of small lengths such as a guitar that is just 13 micrometers, some alternative standard
representation of its length will be:

• 13
  micrometers


• 13x10^-6
  meters


• 13x10^-6 m


• 0.013
  millimeters


• 0.013
  mm

An engineer will perhaps describe this
length as 13 microns.

What misgivings does Macbeth reveal in his soliloquy at the beginning of Act 1, scene 7 in Macbeth?

I have assumed that, when you mention Macbeth's soliloquy
in Scene 7, you are referring to Act I, scene vii.  This is one of the most famous
soliloquies in the play.  Macbeth has misgivings on a few
counts.

First he is concerned that there is no way that the
simple act of killing Duncan would ever be just that -- a simple act.  He says that if
that could be "the be-all and the end all" then he would "jump the life to come,"
meaning there would be no more reason to consider not killing Duncan.  He would "jump"
in and do it, no more questions asked.

He next considers
how, by committing a "bloody" deed against his fellow, he is merely creating his own
"justice" which will surely catch up with him in the end, giving him his own
self-induced punsihment, his just desserts.

He also notes
that it is added to his karmic debt of "just desserts" that Duncan has come in trust as
a guest under his roof, plus he should have the trust of Macbeth, since Macbeth is his
subject.  Duncan is also a man of great and noble actions, whose legacy will live on
after his death, gathering the pity of all.

Macbeth
concludes with the observation that the only thing he has to stack up against all these
misgivings is the thing that will drive him to his downfall, his tragic flaw --
ambition.  For ambition, Macbeth ignores misgivings that he knows are correct, sealing
his own fate in the choice.

The links below will provide
further insight into this very famous soliloquy.

A salesperson is paid 3.5% commission. How much does she sell to make $450?

The sales person is getting a commission of 3.5%.
Thereore  she gets a commission of $3.5 for every $100 of sale. So to get a commission
of $1  she should make a sale amounting $100/3.5 = $28.5714
.

She got a commission of
$450.

Therefore to get a commission of $450 , she should
make a sale of  $450*28.5714 = $12857. 14

Therefore to get
$450 commission she should  sell  worth $12858 (rounded to next
integer).

To get a commission of  $1 she
sells

Is Victor's fascination with the philosopher's stone an admirable one?

In Chapter 2 of Frankenstein by Mary
Shelley, Victor Frankenstein relates his history to the sea captain, Robert Walton.  In
so doing, he describes his hunger to know the secrets of science, a hunger that has not
been fostered by his family who are "not scientific."  Victor says that he works under
the guidance of his preceptors and diligently searches for the "philosopher's stone"--a
base metal that could be turned to gold--and the elixir of
life. 

At this point, Victor's fascination with the
"philosopher's stone," used metaphorically to mean the secrets of science is an
admirable one since he expresses this reason:

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"Wealth was an inferior object; but what glory
would attend the discovery, if I could banish disease from the human frame, and render
man invulnerable to any but a violent
death!"

In addition, Victor
is also intrigued by the power of electricity.  At first, he states that he has "the
spirit of good."  However, "Destiny was too potent."  His interest in alchemy as a means
of obtaining knowledge of science which could be utilized in curing diseases is
admirable.  However, in seeking knowledge about nature and existence, Victor ventures
beyond the ethical limits of man.

In Mary Wilkins Freeman's story, "A New England Nun," how does the female character triumph?

Louisa Ellis waited fifteen years for Joe Dagget to come
back to marry her.  While Joe was off making his fortune, Louisa’s mother and brother
died.  She has been alone except for her canary and her brother’s dog Caesar.  After all
this time, Joe is back, and Louisa is confused by her
feelings. 

The story “A New England Nun” by Mary Wilkins
Freeman features a protagonist who has built a life based on waiting.  The waiting is
now over, and the heroine does not feel the pleasure that she thought that she would.
However, she will demonstrate strength of spirit and will triumph over
adversity.

Louisa has learned to like her freedom.  She is
meticulous in her cleanliness.  The precision with which she goes through her day
borders on obsession.  This is her realm that she has made and
rules.

Louisa has come to define herself by her
independence that she only acquired after having been left behind and alone for so long.
As she thought about finally marrying Joe Dagget, Louisa began to fear losing the stable
and comfortable life that she had created for herself.

Each
evening, Joe comes to visit Louisa.  The cordiality between them does not show any
strong love between them. When they have their meetings, both of them make small talk. 
Joe’s mother is ill and requires a nurse.  Foreshadowing comes into  play when Louisa
inquires about the mother’s nurse:

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I suppose that Lily Dyer’s with her
now?

Dagget colored: ‘Yes, she’s with her,’ he answered
slowly.

Louisa does not
notice any odd reaction from Joe.  What she does notice is his moving things around,
knocking things off, and bringing in dust on the floor. This does not sound like the
makings of true love.  Joe promised Louisa that he would marry her, she has waited for
him, and the wedding is to take place in a week.

Louisa had
loved Joe for all these years, now that he was back, she was unsure.  He had been her
first and only lover. For the last seven years, Louisa has lived in a serene peace. Her
day had been planned and orderly.  Joe has disturbed the order of things.
 

After Joe leaves for the evening, Louisa goes on a
stroll.  There is a full moon.  On her walk, she hears voices.  It is Joe and the nurse
Lily.  Louisa listens to their conversation.

Joe and the
nurse have had an affair.  Apparently, they both have strong feelings for each other. 
Joe will not break his promise to Louisa, so the wedding is still
on.

 Louisa is in a daze.  She retreats to her home and
begins to think about what she should do.

When Joe comes
the next evening, Louisa sets Joe free.  She does not tell him that she knows about
Lily. Her excuse is that she had gotten used to living the way that she had.  Joe
agrees.

Louisa has shown grace under pressure.  For fifteen
years, she waited for this man.  He has wronged her. To her credit, she frees him to
find his happiness.  Louisa has elevated herself to true heroism by thinking of others
more than her own interests. 

That night, Louisa cries and
will not let herself admit why she is crying.  The next day she feels glad that it is
over.  She will go on with her life.  She will fill it with things that she
enjoys. 

At the end, Louisa is numbering the days as she
prays referring to herself as an uncloistered nun.  She has triumphed over adversity,
over the loss of the man, and now will live freely as she
chooses.

In England what is the role of the queen?

In Great Britain today, the role of the queen is
completely ceremonial.  She (and whoever comes after her as monarch) has absolutely no
actual power.  In political science terms, she is the head of state for Great Britain
but is not head of government.

It is said that the current
queen has at least a bit of influence because she has been around so long.  She is kept
"in the loop" on important matters of government and actually talks to Prime Ministers
relatively often.  However, she is not able to exert any power over them other than
perhaps some persuasive power if they choose to give it to
her.

Instead, all the monarch does is to be a symbol of
British unity and of the British nation -- in other words, she is the head of
state.

What is the author's style in The Poisonwood Bible? Can you give examples of that style?

The style of writing in the Poisonwood
Bible by Barbara Kingsolver involves the rather unique style of using five
different narrators of varying ages each telling the story from their first person point
of view. This style brings interest and depth to both the plot and characterizations in
the novel which is divided into books. Each book begins with Orleanna Price, the mother
peering back while narrating the chapter as she reflects on a particular time in the
family’s journey with her point of view. The other four narrators are Oleanea’s
daughters Ruth May, Adah, Rachel and the oldest, Leah, who, early in the book range from
five years old to seventeen. They mature throughout the book which gives each of them a
unique outlook on the events of the journey, living conditions, and emotions in each
chapter, which unlike their mother, they tell in
real-time.

Early in Book 1 Orleanna gazes back over the
years saying, "I could have been a different mother, you'll say. Could have straightened
up and seen what was coming, for it was thick in the air all around
us."

Leah, the oldest, talks about her future, "when I am a
grown-up American lady with a backyard garden of my own. I shall tell all the world the
lessons I learned in Africa."

Rachel, speaks with her
teenage perspective talking about missing boys saying, "Which I guess just goes to show
you how unaccustomed to the male species I have
become."

Adah shows her exasperation with the family’s life
by saying, "I never much imagined myself as a woman grown, anyway, and nowadays
especially it seems a waste of imagination."

Ruth May in
her five year old voice speaks to her understanding of life’s problems by seeking divine
intervention, "I was bad, sometimes I prayed for Baby Jesus to make me good, but Baby
Jesus didn't."

Each character gives the reader a different
mindset, during the same time frame in the family’s life.

What does the windmill in Animal Farm represent in Stalin's era?

The windmill in Orwell's "Animal Farm" is usually
considered to represent 'electricity' which was expected to make Communist Russia a
modern industrialized nation. Electricity, of course, was only a means to modernize the
agrarian economy of Russia at the time of the Communist Revolution. In Ch. 5 Snowball's
plans for the construction of the windmill are explained in the following
manner:

After
surveying the ground, Snowball declared that this was just the place for a windmill,
which could be made to operate a dynamo and supply the farm with
electrical power. This would light the stalls and warm them
in winter, and would also run a circular saw, a chaff-cutter, a mangel-slicer, and an
electric milking machine. The animals had never heard of anything of this kind
before (for the farm was an old-fashioned one and had only the most
primitive machinery), and they listened in astonishment while Snowball conjured
up pictures of fantastic machines which would do their work
for them while they grazed at their ease in the fields or improved their minds
with reading and
conversation.

The windmill
could represent a universal symbol for the tall promises which every politician makes to
his gullible electorate. Most of these promises are never fulfilled by the politicians
and even if they are fulfilled they do not work to the satisfaction of the general
public.

This was also the case with Communist Russia.
Electricity was generated and the country was industrialized and modernized but there
was no improvement in the standard of living of the ordinary
people.

I am reading "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and I was wondering what the summaries for each paragraph are?

I assume you are reading the edited version as given in
the Holt textbook, Elements of Literature. You might find it
helpful to try and read through each paragraph yourself and then summarise the key ideas
before looking at these suggestions. A summary, of course, cannot hope to capture all
the ideas but will just give you a flavour of the text. Anyway, here are my suggestions
of how to summarise the selection - there are five paragraphs in
total.

1) People eventually come to realise that they have
to be self-sufficient and that they will find happiness when they have done their best
in their work.

2) People need to have faith in themselves
and in their place in the world.

3) Society acts against
the self-reliance of individuals.

4) To be a proper person,
you need to find your own way in the world and not conform to
society.

5) Consistency prevents people from exploring and
fulfilling their own potential.

Having read these, it would
be well worth your time to go back and read the selection again to see if these provide
hooks to further your understanding of what Emerson was writing about. Good
luck!

Why is the Federal Reserve System of interest?

In talking about the Federal Reserve System of the United
States, it is of interest because it has a huge impact (potentially) on the United
States economy.  This is because of the fact that the Federal Reserve is the central
bank for the United States.

As the central bank for the
country, the Fed can do things like raising and lowering interest rates.  This often
impacts the amount of economic activity that goes on in the country.  The Fed can also
raise and lower the money supply by buying or selling government bonds.  This, too,
affects the level of economic activity in the country.

By
its actions, then, the Fed can have an impact on the economic health of the nation. 
Therefore, it is (or should be) of interest.

What is the introduction part of the critical analysis essay?i have to do a critical analysis essay on "the Lottery". I have been asked to do...

Definitely, the introduction is the first paragraph for
your critical analysis essay.  Now, we need to focus on what introductions need
generally and what an introduction to a critical analysis
needs. 

An introduction needs to ease the reader into the
main idea you want to discuss.  Starting with the main point you want to make is not
necessarily a good idea because there is no buildup.  For example, if you were to walk
up to a stranger on the street and say, "'The Lottery' is a story about a people who
blindly follow the leader,"  that stranger would probably walk away from you. You need
to build up to that idea.  Writing an introduction for your audience in no different. 
What would you say first if you wanted to talk about one main idea in this story?  If
your main idea were about people not wanting to take a stand, you might begin with the
idea that there are cowards in every society.  Do you see how that is a general comment,
but it opens the door to the main idea? 

In most
introductions, you want to structure the paragraph so that you keep leading to that main
idea, which is called a thesis statement.  The thesis statement is usually the last
sentence in the introduction, and we will talk a bit more about that
below. 

In most introductions, you will want to avoid using
any quotes from the story, saving quotes to support your idea in the body paragraphs
that will follow.  It is always best to use your own words in the introduction to
introduce your ideas. 

In a critical analysis, it is
important that you name the story and the author of the story.  Otherwise, no one will
know what you are writing about.  Sometimes, the introduction will include a very brief
synopsis of the story, including a sentence or two about the characters, the setting,
and the plot.  Sometimes this is in the second paragraph, or the story is told through
all the body paragraphs, as you explain the ideas you
have. 

Now, in a critical analysis, the thesis statement,
the statement of your main idea, needs to say something important about the story, for
example, what its theme is, why the setting is important, or an idea about the
relationship between the characters.  A good thesis statement will also give the reader
a "preview" of the points you want to make in support of that statement.  For example,
if I were writing an essay about The Secret Life of Bees, I might
say something like, "'The Secret Life of Bees makes use of many
symbols, the most important ones being water, bees, and a statue of Mary." Now, I don't
know if this is a book you have read, but those are very important symbols in the story,
and now that I have told my reader that these are important symbols, I can set up the
rest of my paper to talk about those symbols, one for each body paragraph.  So, you can
see why the main idea you have must be in the introduction and why you need to give the
reader that preview. 

Once you have all of these elements
in your introduction, you have a great guide to write the rest of the paper.  This is
such an interesting story, and there are many ideas that you can explore to write about
it.

How does the conversation about "the age of disposable tissue"(from Clarisse's house)relate to the events in Montag's house a few moments...

After Millie Montag gets her stomach pumped and her blood
replaced, Guy leaves the house and goes over to the McClellans' home.  He hears the
words you mention.  To me, they apply to what has just happened at his house in a couple
of ways.

First, something that was part of Millie has just
become, quite literally, disposable.  The men are taking away Millie's blood (as well as
the contents of her stomach) and will presumably throw it away.  This shows how much
people have lost their humanity -- their very blood has become
disposable.

Second, you can say that Millie herself is
disposable.  It's like she does not even care about herself anymore.  She no longer
thinks of herself as something important.