How does the English language develop?Does culture play an important role in the development of the english languange?

The present English language is a hodgepodge .For ,
in course of its development from Celtic language ,-the original language of the
forefathers of the English , it shared the Raman language , German languge ,
Scandinavian language , and the French language .

There was
Roman occupation from 43 A.D to 410 .The Celts served the Romans .Then , after the
withdrawal of Roman troops , the Celts were often raided by the Picts and Scots .The
Celtic people to have their seafty invited the Jute ,-a ferocious Germanic tribe .Then
the Jute invited the other two Germanic races ,-Saxon and Angle .It continued from the
middle of the 5th century to the opening of the 6th century .After this the major change
occured from 1066 , with the Norman Conquest .

So , the
Celtic language , through Roman , German , and French language , lost its originality ,
and a hybrid of German and French , came up as the present English language
.

"And hers shall be the breathing balm,-And hers the silence & the calm-Of silent insensate things.."Explain the lines taken from "Three Years She...

"Three Years she Grew in Sun and Flower" is one of
Wordsworth's Lucy poems, a group of poems that center on a girl who has passed away at a
young age.  In this poem, Wordsworth imagines that a personified Nature has taken Lucy
away because of her loveliness.  In taking her, however, Nature has imbued her with a
great deal of power over the world, specifically the natural landscape (the "sun and
flower") from which she came.

To understand these three
lines, it's helpful to look at them in the context of the entire third stanza.  The
first three lines are easy enough: in her new state, Lucy will embody all of the energy
and "glee" of a fawn running and jumping across a field.  These lines mean that Lucy now
inhabits all the joy in the world (certainly a comfort for the mourning speaker, in that
everywhere he looks and sees joy, he can imagine that it's Lucy).  By contrast the two
lines you've asked about indicate that Lucy also inhabits all of the peaceful, quiet
moments of the world and of nature; for example, the "mute, insensate things" mentioned
might be the plants that Lucy is so closely tied to--Lucy embodies their silence and
calm.  What's more, she even acts as a once-living "balm" to soothe them and induce
comfort and peace.

To Kill A Mockingbird Suggests that justice is impossible in an unjust world". This my essay topic and I REALLY need some help with my...

With any essay - it is always best to start with a prompt
question.  This means turn your big idea (idea for your thesis statement) into an
open-ended question.  Then, brainstorm as many examples of answers
as you can.  I'll help you get started:

In To
Kill a Mockingbird, how does racism get in the way of
justice?

• Tom Robinson is
  convicted despite obvious evidence that he is
  innocent.

Right here I tend to stop and ask,
"As far as justice goes (which automatically makes me think of
something legal), are there any other major examples of injustice as a result of
racism?"

Maybe...

• First
  Purchase church is used as a gambling hall on the weekdays - is it "just" that African
  Americans don't get their own building used for the sole purpose of
  worship?


• The majority of Calpurnia's church cannot read. 
  Is that just?


• Dolphus Raymond lives like an outsider
  because of his choice to love and have children with a black woman.  Is that
  just?

Due to the connotation of "law" in
respect to "justice" - I think with this topic idea you are going to have to do some
explaning of your definition of the word "justice."

If you
want to broaden the scope for examples in this essay - you might want to broaden your
thesis by tweaking it a little.

In To Kill a
Mockingbird, how does racism affect different characters, and ultimately get
in the way of justice?

Now you can focus on three main
characters - how they are affected by racism (I might go with Atticus and family, Tom
Robinson, Dolphus Raymond - not necessarily in that order), and ultimately how do they
deal with some sort of injustice?

I realize this is a lot
to digest - but I wanted to show you a glimpse of the thought-process behind
effective planning when it comes to essays.  If the essay seems
really easy to write - from the beginning on - you might not be doing the assignment
justice.  (Oh, there it is again.  Sorry.)

Can someone please identify the errors in the following bank reconciliation?Cash according to bank statement 11,320 Add: outstanding checks 2,690...

The correct bank reconciliation should be as
follows:

Cash according to the bank statement:    
$11,320

less outstanding checks:                           
-   2,690

add deposits not yet recorded:                 
+ 
3,330

                                                                  
________

Correct cash
balance                                
$11,960

                                                               
==========

Cash balance according to the books         $
7,003

add: note collected by the bank  
$4,000

      interest collected by the
bank      120

less: bank service fee for note          - 
18

net note
proceeds                                          
4,108

less check returned NSF funds                      
-    945

add error in recording
deposit                       +
1,800

                                                                   
_______

Correct cash
balance                                   
$11,960

                                                                   
=======

I hope this helps you see where the errors were
made. 

What is a short about five sentence summary for Chapter Nine of Lord of the Flies.It has to be short, about five to eight sentences that sums up...

To me, the big deal about this chapter is that it is the
one where Simon is killed.

At the beginning of the chapter,
Simon goes up on the mountain and he sees the body of the dead parachutist.  He realizes
that this is what they thought was the beast.  Thinking that this is important news, he
heads down to the beach to tell the others that there is not really a
beast.

Down at the beach things have gotten kind of crazy. 
There is a huge thunderstorm brewing and the littleuns are scared.  Jack has his people
do their pig killing dance with Roger pretending to be the pig.  As they get into a
frenzy and the storm gets violent, Simon comes into the middle of the circle.  They
think he is the beast and they kill him.

What is the main theme in Anton Chekhov's short story "The House with the Mezzanine"?

According to Carol A. Flath (" href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/0036-0341.00084/abstract">Art and
Idleness: Chekhov's 'The House with a Mezzanine'"), one of Chekhov's signature
themes is the contrast between work and idleness. As Flath says, this theme is featured
prominently in his later plays such as The Cherry Orchard and
Uncle Vania. It is also the main theme of Chekhov's short story
"The House with a Mezzanine."

The presence of this theme is
quite obvious. The protagonist and first-person narrator, a landscape artist, makes a
big show of describing his idleness and his enjoyment of the nothingness of his summer.
When he finally meets the Volchaninov's, they remark that they are admirers of his work,
which ironically and indirectly emphasizes the fact that he is doing no work, but only
sleeping on a sofa in a barren manor house.

Two situations
stand in contrast to the narrator's idleness. The first is Bielokurov's protestations of
hard work as a gentleman farmer, protestations that Mr. N, the narrator,
disbelieves:

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What a stupid, lazy lout! When we talked
seriously he would drag it out with his awful drawl--er, er, er--and he works just as he
talks--slowly, always behindhand, never up to time
...!

The second is Lyda's
industry on behalf of the local Zemstvo council meeting for which she establishes
schools, dispenses medicines, advocates for hospitals and libraries, and tutors peasants
in rudimentary reading and writing.

The presence of the
theme contrasting idleness and work is obvious. What is less obvious is the complex
pattern by which the theme fits with the whole story. Certain questions need to be
asked. In particular, are any of the characters representative of a "good" value in the
contrast between work and idleness? The narrator isn't, he makes it quite clear: "Doomed
by fate to permanent idleness, I did positively nothing. ... once more it became tedious
to go on living." Bielokurov isn't: "What a stupid, lazy lout!" Lyda isn't: "you enslave
them even more." Genya doesn't work; she reads and exhausts herself by doing so: "Genya,
pale with reading, and with her hair ruffled." Still, she is the only one to have
independent thought and sees through Lyda's ideas: "she thought differently from the
strong, handsome Lyda." Therefore it seems that Chekhov is denouncing all the
representations and espousing the brand of work that Mr. N describes in his debate with
Lyda: "If we all, in town and country, without exception, agreed to share the
work."

Next, what is the point of Chekhov combining the
story of Lyda's devotion to the Zemstvo and disagreement with Mr. N with a love story
about sweet Genya? Since a significant argument in Mr. N's debate is that Lyda's methods
are new slavery that force even more work on peasants, ("medical stations, ... only lead
to slavery [and they] work harder than ever"), the connection between Lyda's story and
Genya's story is seen as the illustration of Chekhov's point. Genya's story dramatically
illustrates that Lyda's brand of people do enslave others who are more lowly and weaker
than they are: people such as Lyda enslave people with their good works as opposed to
liberating them with changes to the social order. The proof of the argument is that it
is Lyda who orders Genya away despite the crying tears of both mother and Genya: what
Lyda does proves to be a kind of enslavement.

The shortest synopsis of "The Piece of String."Plot the summary itself.

Below is a short plot summary of Guy de Maupassant's short
story, "The Piece of String" (if I understand your post
correctly).

Maitre Hauchecorne is an old Norman peasant who
makes a trip to the town market one autumn day. Being a very crafty and frugal man, when
he spots a piece of string in the street, he picks it up, hoping it will come in handy
some day. As he is doing so, he sees that Mr. Malandin, an enemy of his, is watching
him. Ashamed to be seen picking up items in the street, Hauchecorne pretends to be
looking for something else. Later, the town crier reveals that a Mr. Houlbreque has lost
his pocketbook containing 500 francs. Hauchecorne is summoned to the mayor's office,
where he is accused of finding the missing pocketbook by Malandin. Hauchecorne is
innocent of the charge, of course, but he spends the rest of the day telling anyone who
will listen of his innocence. The next day, the pocketbook is found, and Hauchecorne is
vindicated--he assumes. He again retells his story to everyone he encounters, but he
realizes that the joking responses indicate that they do not believe him. He finally
comes to realize that everyone believes the original charge--that Hauchecorne had found
the pocketbook--but that he had discarded it himself or else had an accomplice to aid
him.

Hauchecorne knows he cannot prove his innocence and,
though he continues to retell his story, sees that no one believes him. He becomes the
butt of jokes in the town and finds himself alone with no friends or supporters. He
becomes sick in December and dies the next month;

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in his deathbed delirium, his denials of
wrongdoing are focused in a single phrase uttered repeatedly: “A little bit of string—a
little bit of string.”

Where did the "other animals" go wrong? How could they have prevented the downfall of their society?What applications can one make to Man in the...

The previous post was right.  The other animals' placed
complete trust in Napoleon and the pigs.  I actually place a great deal of blame on
Benjamin's shoulders.  As a cynic and one who withdraws from the political activism of
the farm, Benjamin is actually moved to action when Boxer dies.  Yet, he does little
with this after Boxer's death.  I think that Benjamin "went wrong" with his lack of
follow through in understanding the reality that Napoleon was perpetrating upon the
animals of the farm.  The fact that Benjamin has intelligence in his ability to read and
understands the nature of the political reality surrounding all the animals makes his
withdrawal and lack of leadership even more endangering to the other animals.  At the
very least, they might be able to claim some defense of ignorance.  I am not sure
Benjamin can claim this, indicating to me a very "wrong" direction being taken, proving
that cyncism does not benefit anyone and actually empowers the aggressors.  This is a
lesson that has been proven time and time again in the modern setting, and one that can
be fully understood through Orwell's work.

Discuss negation in English language.a detail answer with examples

In English, in order to express negation, one forms a
negative sentence by adding the word "not" to the positive sentence. Often, the
auxiliary verb "do" is required to express negation.

For
example:  WE SING SONGS (positive sentence), WE DO NOT SING SONGS (negative sentence) -
requires auxiliary verb "do"

For example: SHE IS PRETTY
(positive sentence), SHE IS NOT PRETTY (negative sentence) - does not require auxiliary
verb "do"

Depending on the tense of the sentence, "do" must
be conjugated to match the tense of the main verb in the positive sentence. For
example:

I dance - present tense, positive
sentence

I do not dance - present tense, negative
sentence...

BUT

I danced  -
past tense, positive sentence

I did not dance - past tense,
positive sentence - in this case, the auxiliary verb "do" is conjugated into the past
tense, which is "did"

Here are some examples of negation in
the six main tenses of English:

I dance, I do not dance -
present tense

I danced, I did not dance - past
tense

I will dance, I will not dance - future
tense

I have danced, I have not danced - present perfect
tense

I had danced, I had not danced - past perfect
tense

I will have danced, I will not have danced - future
perfect

(note that in the last 3 tenses, a form of "do" is
not used because there is already an auxiliary verb. To form the perfect tenses in
English, we use "have, has or had" as an auxiliary
verb).

There are also these
forms:

I am dancing, I am not dancing (present
progressive)

I was dancing, I was not dancing (past
progressive)

I will be dancing, I will not be dancing
(future progressive)

I have been dancing, I have not been
dancing (present perfect progressive)

I had been dancing, I
had not been dancing (past perfect progressive)

I will have
been dancing, I will not have been dancing (future perfect
progressive)

Complicated? Ha
ha!

English also uses other words to express the idea of
negation - words such as "no" or "neither" or "nor" or "never" or"seldom" or "hardly",
etc. These are called "negative adverbs" and can also be used to create the idea of
negation. For example:

She is no friend of
mine.

We are neither hot nor
cold.

He never answers.

He
seldom visits

She hardly
speaks

I rarely dance.

The second littlun, Percival, has lost his connection to the previous world in Lord of the Flies. What does his fear precipitate?

Your question is a little confusing, but I think you're
asking how Percival's fear of the beast foreshadows what happens in the novel.  If so,
it's a good question.  By chapter five of Lord of the Flies, the
boys have been on the island for a while.  Things haven't yet completely deteriorated,
but the lines between the hunters (soon to be savages) and the rest are clearly being
drawn.  These boys are accustomed to being away from home, as they've been in boarding
school; however, they're young and their fears are beginning to get the best of them. 
In one of the last assemblies on the island, Ralph scolds them all for being too lax and
not obeying the rules they established.  When the idea of a beast is broached by
Percival, it is initially dismissed as ridiculous.  The littluns, in particular, have
been experiencing nightmares, and the most common elements on the island have taken on
frightening aspects in the dark.  One of the older boys brings up the idea that the
beast can't be seen on the island during the day because it's actually at home in the
water, rising up every night to frighten them.  This image temporarily silences the
group, then there is restless movement until Jack boasts that he will kill the beast if
there is one. The boys are not reassured, and the chapter ends with the sound of a
littlun crying in the dark.

This incident foreshadows the
reality that there is a beast and it is them.  It can't be seen, except in nightmares,
because they don't recognize it in themselves.  This admission that there might be a
beast is brought to reality first by the Lord of the Flies and then by their own
actions.  Ironically, Jack is the one who claims he will kill the beast and yet is most
representative of the worst in human nature--the beast in all of
us. 

What is the theme of the story "The Lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara? "The Lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara.

 Miss Moore, a well-educated black woman, wants the
children in her neighborhood to be exposed to the more cultural aspects of life.
Supported by the local parents’ group,  she takes on the challenge of teaching the local
kids about life outside of the projects.  Toni Cade Bambara uses the story
“The Lesson” to expose the African-American problem of social inequality
and the lack of quality education for the black
children.

Theme

The
author uses the lesson by Miss Moore of poverty of  the
impoverished children of New York City’s ghetto.  It is apparent that all of these black
children have hopes and desires just like other kids their
age. 

Poverty does not mean stupid or lacking in desires. 
The teacher wants to empower the students to make a change in their future by seeing the
importance of education and what their lives could be like instead of the poverty in
which they live.

Protagonist and
Narrator

At the center of the story is
Sylvia, a young black girl, who serves as the protagonist and narrator of the
story:

Back
 in the days when everyone was old and stupid or young and foolish and me and Sugar were
the only ones just right, this lady moved on our block with nappy hair and proper speech
and no makeup. 

Sylvia’s
cynical attitude make her an unreliable narrator.  Everything is tainted by her
bitterness and defiance.  She does not need Miss Moore or her fancy ideas.  To Sylvia,
Miss Moore is the enemy who prevents the students from having
fun. 

Using the point of view of the sassy Sylvia makes the
story fun despite the seriousness of the subject.  Eventually, Sylvia understands what
Miss Moore wants and looks at her as the teacher not the
enemy.

Today’s
Lesson

The important lesson for this day
centers on a trip to FAO Schwartz Toy Store in downtown Manhattan.  Miss Moore hopes to
show the students another side of life and point out that the education is important if
they want the better lifestyle.

Miss Moore has the students
use math skills in figuring tips, the cost of cab fares  the prices of the toys, and
most importantly, the uselessness of some of the items.  From this, hopefully the
students will understand the difference between their  lives and the people who can
afford these toys.  

The students see a paperweight that is
useless in their lives.  A sailboat that costs $1,000 makes the point that the price of
some of the toys could feed a family of six or seven. Some of the children get the
message that there is social inequality, and they want to change the course of their
lives. 

Sylvia fights to accept the lesson of  Miss Moore. 
She gets mad at her cousin for taking part in the discussion with the teacher. Despite
her hard façade, Sylvia may be the only student that actually gets the
lesson. 

What
kinda work they do and how they live and how come we ain't in on it? Where we are is who
we are... But it don't necessarily have to be that way, Miss Moore always adds then
waits for somebody to say that poor people have to wake up and demand their share of the
pie and don't none of us know what kind of pie she talking about in the first damn
place.

Despite her cynicism,
Sylvia gets it.  Something has clicked in her.  At the end of the story, she wants to be
by herself to think over what she has learned. Still cynical and bitter, Sylvia is at
the edge of change. 

" It 's simple enough," he said. " send her word to have her place cleaned up. give her a certain tome to do it in, and if she don't ....""A Rose...

In "A Rose For Emily," at a certain point in the story, a
terrible smell is emitted from the house. The "elders" of the town try to meet with Miss
Emily to discuss the problem. First of all, she will not tolerate the intrusion of
visitors. And as one person puts it, 'How are you going to tell the woman to her face
that she smells?'

This is the result of a long-standing
Southern tradition to show families of high social standing the utmost respect,
especially the women of those families.  And although the town has changed over the
years, Miss Emily and her expectations of society to show her respect and acknowledge
her right to privacy have not changed.

In theory, the
elders feels that it is nothing more than asking her to clean up an old car sitting on
cinderblocks in front of her home: it is a business arrangement that "normal" people
might not want to comply with, but could see the logic driving it.  Miss Emily is having
nothing to do with it. She is important enough "in perpetuity" that no one will defy
her: others have tried and failed.

What makes this so
significant besides the fact that she has her way with the town elders, is that they end
up sneaking around her house one night to sprinkle lime to battle the smell--and soon it
does disappear. However, what makes this occurrence so central to the eerie plot is (as
we learn at the very end of the story), the smell came from the rotting corpse of her
lover, Homer Baron, who she had poisoned and placed in their bridal bed. (Of course, if
that's not enough to raise the hair on someone's neck, the long strand of iron-grey hair
on the pillow next to the skeleton indicates that she has been sleeping in that bed
since Homer disappeared so many years ago.)

That detail is
pivotal to understanding what this upright member of society was doing under the
public's nose years before.

Why is inflation considered good?

Inflation can also be considered "good" as an economic
indicator, although in some circumstances it is a bad economic indicator as well.  But
some inflation means that the economy is healthy, that demand for goods and services is
steady and that manufacturing sectors are humming along to keep their shelves stocked,
and place orders to factories for those goods.  All of these are positive things for an
economy.

There is a threshold, however, when inflation
becomes harmful to an economy, and takes away from real income and therefore consumer
spending.  This is why the Federal Reserve closely controls interest rates, so that
inflation can be kept at a reasonable and manageable level.

In Graham Greene's "The Destructors," discuss how Trevor overcame his circumstances.

I am uncertain as to the precise information you are
asking for. Normally when we use the phrase "overcome circumstances" we are referring to
a character, who, in spite of his poor upbringing or humble background, is nevertheless
able to achieve something extraordinary or spectacular. This is hardly the case with
Trevor. In fact, he is able to overcome his circumstances to commit an act of
destruction that reveals more about the pent up anger inside of him and his nihilism
than anything else.

Let us consider what we are told about
Trevor's family background:

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...the fact that his father, a former architect
and present clerk, had "come down in the world" and that his mother considered herself
better than his
neighbours.

The name that he
is given as well, Trevor, clearly marks him out as emerging from a different, higher
class than the rest of the gang, which is why they have to call him T. The little
information we are given about Trevor therefore shows that he has been raised in an
atmosphere of lots of conflict and resentment, and, as a result, he may have a lot of
pent-up anger. There is something ironic in the architect's son orchestrating the
complete and total destruction of an architectural gem in London that has somehow
managed to avoid being bombed.

Therefore Trevor doesn't
really rise up above his circumstances - he wallows in them, using them as a source of
rage and anger that he channels into destruction - for "destruction after all is a form
of creation."

What causes birthmarks, and why are some darker than others?

There are two different kinds of birthmarks: vascular
birthmarks and pigmented birthmarks. There are many kinds of vascular birthmarks and
they are related to abnormal proliferations of blood vessels and vascular skin changes.
Pigmented birthmarks are related to clusters of pigmented
cells.

It is not exactly known why birthmarks occur but
there are theories. One of these theories concludes that birth marks occur during fetal
development because certain cells are placed in the wrong layer of
skin.

Birthmarks are more common in females and they are
considered to be non-hereditary.

In Act I Scene I, what are the methods Shakespeare uses to spark the audience's interest?What is the atmosphere in the scene?

Your question had many sub-questions in it, so I will
answer your query about the atmosphere and the methods Shakespeare uses to achieve
it.

The play itself doesn't really create atmosphere.  The
setting, characters and action implied by the characters' words give a good foundation
upon which to build a plan for creating atmosphere, but  the atmosphere itself is a
purely theatrical construct and must be created by those who produce the
play.

In Shakespeare's day, they would have had some
impressive (for the day) special effects for thunder and disappearing/reappearing by way
of trap door -- all of which could be utilized to set a rather ominous, spooky and
other-worldly atmosphere for the opening of the play.  Lighting of any kind was not an
effect in the open-air performances of The Globe, so the audience and actors would all
have remained in the afternoon sun that lit the
performance.

The appearance of the witches to open the play
would have definitely sparked the audience's interest in Shakespeare's day.  In the same
way that we, today, have audiences who are fascinated with vampires (think
Twilight), Shakespeare's audiences were fascinated and repelled by
witches.  In fact, there were witch hunts still going on in Europe at this time, and
ordinary citizens believed that a witch might cast a spell on you if she did not like
you or you offended her in some way.

So, all of the witches
talk in spell-casting rhyme,  their talking about their familiars (animal sidekicks),
etc. would have really caught the interest of Shakespeare's audience.  Add to this the
special theatrical effects and the atmosphere would have been ominous, creepy and
supernatural.

What are the main characteristics of Shakespearean history plays? Are they based on morality plays from the Middle Ages?

Although Shakespeare's history plays deal with the
morality of actions, I wouldn't say that they are based in the English morality plays. 
Shakespeare's source for his history plays is Holinshed.  For his history cycle from
Richard II through Richard III, he was dealing
with fairly recent history.  Elizabeth I was a Tutor, granddaughter of Henry VII who
defeated Richard III at Bothsworth Field which ended the War of the
Roses.

It must be remembered that Shakespeare was a
dramatist not a historian so he took license with history.  If Richard III was not the
monster created by Shakespeare, it was politically safer.  Whether or not the man
created by Shakespeare is indeed the same as the king, we really don't know.  Tutor
propaganda spun the truth to suit their needs.  We don't know if Shakespeare knew the
truth or not but for a dramatist it was wonderful
material

Throughout the series of eight plays
(Richard II, Henry IV 1, Henry IV 2, Henry V, HenryVI 1, Hnery VI 2 Henry VI
3, and Richard III) Shakespeare explores his own and
England's recent past.

"Uneasy lies the head that wears the
crown" is revealed in various ways.  Richard II discovers that when he sends his
cousin,  Henry into exile, then takes his family lands.  Henry usurps the crown and
finds himself having to continually fight to keep it.  His son proves to be a valiant
leader who dies young in the Hundred Years War.  His son would have made a better priest
than king and not only has to fight the Hundred Years War but also a civil war aka The
War of the Roses with families torn apart and himself murdered.  Finally Richard, the
master villain.

Through this all, Shakepseare was able to
create wonderful and human characters all nurtured by
warfare.

There are several important lessons here. 
Shakespeare reflects warfare from the heroic to the cowardly but more importantly the
horror of warfare.  Warfare seems to bring out the worst in mankind.  Families are
literally torn apart and entire societies suffer as a result of the getting of and
keeping of the golden round.

Richard
III is the culmination of it all.  Richard even bitterly reflects on this in
his opening soliloquy.  Whereas the plays that precede Richard III
are sweeping landscapes, battlefields in France and England, this play brings the whole
family argument in to a microcosmic focus.  We listen to Richard tell us how he will get
what he wants and we then watch as he does exactly what he says.  He gets the throne but
has trouble keeping it.  In the end, the war is over and the Tutors bring peace and
stability, relatively speaking.

Another lesson is child
kings.  We see the ineptitude of both Richard II and Henry VI, both child kings who
never learned how to rule.  In Richard III, we have the possibility
of another child king.  If Richard did kill the little princes, it would appear that he
did England a favor since the Woodville family would have had the power.  This would not
have been a good thing.

Since in the end of Shakespeare's
history plays, it could be said that good conquers evil, it could be said to be a
morality play, but it is much more complicated than that.

What is the meaning of the quote from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" listed below?"But if the impressions ... are not, at will,...

But if the
impressions of what I have termed the first stage, are not, at will, recalled,
yet, after long interval, do they not come unbidden while we marvel whence they
come?

This quote
is spoken by the narrator in the beginning paragraphs of Poe's Gothic horror "The Pit
and Pendulum." The narrator explains he had just swooned. He has commenced to tell his
epiphanies about the state of consciousness resulting from (or confirmed by) his
swoon.

He explains that when returning to consciousness
from a swoon--a state, he claims, in which some small shred of conscious awareness still
remains--there are two stages to go through. The first stage is that in which mental or
spiritual awareness returns: you regain awareness of your perceptual capacities,
thoughts, impressions, humanity, etc. The second stage is that in which physical
awareness returns: you regain awareness of your bodily existence and physical parts and
capabilities.

The narrator suggests that in the first stage
of recovery to consciousness from a swoon impressions are retained of what exists on the
far side of conscious experience, in what he calls "the gulf beyond" consciousness, the
gulf that is unconsciousness, as one might retain the memory of a dream while rousing
from sleep. Impressions of the gulf can exist, as he asserts, because some small bit
consciousness awareness always remains, "even in the
grave."

He suggests that in the second stage of recovery to
consciousness it might be possible to access the impressions held in the first stage,
just as one fully awakened can sometimes recall the dreams of sleep. Then he suggests
that if these impressions fade away in the second stage with the coming of physical
awareness, as dreams fade away, they might return to conscious thought at some time in
the future and that if they were to do so, one wouldn't know their origin: one wouldn't
have a way to associate the rising impression about the gulf of unconsciousness with
one's previous swoon. Therefore, one would be puzzled as to the origins and meaning of
these seemingly random and inexplicable
thoughts.

Quote:
"But if the impressions ... are not, at will, recalled, yet, after long interval, do
they not come unbidden, while we marvel whence they come?"

Paraphrase:
But if the impressions are not intentionally recalled but at some remote future time
voluntarily resurface to consciousness, aren't the impressions revived without being
called forth, and will we not wonder at where these thoughts have come
from?

From A World Lit Only By Fire by William Manchester, what is Machester's thesis regarding thinking in the Middle Ages?

Hi Ish,

As the title of the
book suggests, A World Lit Only By Fire portrays the Middle Ages as
a barbaric and brutal period of history.

For Manchester,
this was an era dominated by chaos, violence and stagnation. At the heart of
Manchester's thesis is the centrality of the Church. This was a powerful and pervasive
organisation, plagued by immorality and corruption. It failed to provide proper
leadership for the people of Medieval Europe and was also responsible for halting
scientific advancement.

In essence, Manchester believed
that this period deserved to be known as the 'Dark Ages'.

Log 4 (2x-16) = 4

Before solving the equation, we have to impose constraints
of existance of logarithm
function.

2x-16>0

We'll
add 16 both
sides:

2x>16

We'll
divide by
2:

x>8

So, for the
logarithms to exist, the values of x have to be in the interval (8,
+inf.)

Now, we'll solve the
equation:

2x-16= 4^4

2x-16 =
256

We'll add 16 both
sides:

2x = 16+256

2x =
272

We'll divide by
2:

x =
136

The solution is admissible because the
value belongs to the interval (8,+inf.)

Why do kidney patients need sodium bicarbonate tablets?

The kidneys play a role of eliminating the acids that are
produced when proteins and fats are digested. When the kidneys are not doing this, it
increases the acid levels in the blood which can be very harmful and cause damage to the
heart, affect bones and interfere in metabolism. It also breaks down muscles. To prevent
these from happening sodium carbonate tablets are given to people whose kidneys are not
functioning properly and who are on dialysis or going to get a kidney transplant. The
sodium bicarbonate tablets restore the acid level in the blood to the normal
range.

What is the most important element of fiction in "The Yellow Wallpaper"?Charlotte Perkins Gilman

First published in 1892, "The Yellow Wallpaper" brought
different reactions from what has come from modern commentators who have perceived
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story as a feminist indictment of the subjugation of women,
praising its thematic depth.  While early reviewers of the story noted the skillful use
of Gothic elements that Gilman used, perceiving "The Yellow Wallpaper" as a horror
story, still both early and modern critics agree that Gilman creates the most compelling
characterization.

The unnamed narrator presents a woman who
suffers from the repression of male Victorian cultural attitudes about women, entering
into a harrowing journey into madness.  Gilman's skill at describing the woman's
frustration with the unsymmetrical pattern of the wallpaper in the room where she is
confined, and then her hallucinations of seeing a woman behind this hideously yellow
paper, a woman she feels compelled to free take the reader through the convoluted path
of the narrator's tortured mind.  Indeed, through her character, Gilman demonstrates the
psychological horror that such a treatment as that of Dr. Weir Mitchell's program of
rest and separation could produce.

Charlotte Perkins
Gilman's characterization of her unnamed narrator is both significant and innovative as
one of the earliest modernist portrayals of the unaware narrator with an intense focus
on what she thinks and feels.  The narrator struggles with this self-expression as it
runs against the conventional Victorian wisdom that both her husband and sister-in-law
embrace; at times she blames herself:  "I am a comparative burden already!"  Certainly,
Gilman's character remains a striking model of the repressed and tortured woman who
seeks desperately for self-expression but is unsure of her
direction.

When people encounter conflict they are often forced to confront their fearsi need some examples

The most obvious example of this in The
Crucibleis Reverend Parris.  He is many things--haughty, demanding, bitter,
indignant, cowardly, dishonest..and the list goes on.  All of these attitudes cause
conflicts with people of the town in this play on a rather consistent basis, it seems. 
At the heart of it all, I think, is Parris's fear that he will be released from his
position  and they won't think he's good enough.

I'm struck
by this in several ways. 

First, he keeps the girls' secret
of dancing in the woods as long as he can, and he keeps the fact that at least on was
naked is never revealed.  This is the beginning of the conflict regarding witchcraft in
Salem, and it's solely because he fears for himself.

He
wants more money and gold candlesticks and who knows what else as an outward sign of his
worth.  In Act one, he and Proctor are having what appears to be a common argument for
the two of them--Parris isn't getting paid enough.  Proctor simply restates what has
obviously been stated before, and Parris interrupts
with

"I am not
some preaching farmer with a book under my arm; I am a graduate of Harvard
College."

This is Parris
really saying, "I've studied and I know things and you aren't any smarter than I--even
though you always win this argument." 

Parris, even more
than the girls because he knows better, continues to have and cause conflict out of his
own fears.

How do you find owner's equity?

The relation between assets, liabilities and owner’s
equity is: Assets = Liabilities + Owner’s Equity.

So
Owner’s equity= Assets – Liabilities.

It is therefore
essential to calculate the assets and subtract the liabilities to arrive at the value of
the owner’s equity.

An asset is defined as anything which
has a value and which is owned by the owner. Assets
include:

• Current assets: cash, inventory, raw
  material, account
  receivables

• Investments: stocks,
  bonds, property, etc.

• Capital
  assets: Land, buildings,
  equipment

• Intangible assets.
  Patents, copyrights and other non-material
  assets

Liabilities
include:

• Current liabilities: short-term loans,
  accounts payable and any other liability that has to be paid within a
  year

• Long-term liabilities:
  long-term loans, mortgages, etc. which can be paid over a period that extends beyond one
  year

After calculating the assets and the
liabilities, subtract the liabilities from the assets, what you are left with is the
owner’s equity.

For more details check the links
provided.

For the series 3, 8 15, 24 , 35… what is the difference of the sum of the first 25 terms and the first 75 terms.

The terms of the given series is 3,8,15,24,
35....

a1 = 3, a2 = 8, a3 = 15, a4 = 24, a5
=35

Therefore we notice that an =  (n+1)^2-1 = n^2+2n =
n(n+1)+n.

Therefore  the sum  Sn of the n terms of the
series  could be written  as:

Sn = (1*2+1)+(2*2+2)
+(3*4+3)+(4*5+4)+(5*6+4)+.....

Sn = sum (n)(n+1) + sum of
(1+2+3+..)

Sn = sum n(n+1) +
n(n+1)/2

Sn = (n+2)(n+1)(n)/3
+n(n+1)/2

Sn = n(n+1){2(n+2)+3}/6
.

Sn = n(n+1)(2n+7)/6.

Tally:
 S1 = 1*(1+1)(2*1+7) / 6 = 18/6 = 3. Also S1 =a1 = 3.

S2 =
2(2+1)(2*2+7)/6 = 11.  Also S2 = a1+ a2 = 3+ 8 = 11.

S3 =
3(3+1)(2*3+7)/6 = 26, Also S3 = a1+a2+a3 = 3+8+15 =
26.

Therefore the sum of 25 terms S25 = 25(26)(2*25+7)/6 =
6175.

Similarly S75 = (75)(76)(2*75)/6 =
149150.

Therefore S75 - S25 = 149150-6175 =
142975.

Therefore the difference of the sum of the first 25
terms and the sum of the first 75 tems of the series is S75 - S25 =
142975.

In Frankenstein, what does victor want to accomplish in life, and what prevents him from continiuning his study?Also why does he turn to the study...

Victor is interested in conquering death ...  in bringing
eternal life to mankind.  It's a pretty noble aspiration, even if he doesn't go about it
all that well.  The science of mathematics presents him with an "eternal" framework that
can support his work, although I'm not sure it's all that important in/for his work. 
This was part of the new knowledge that replaced some of the superstitution of the
pre-scientific world.  Science presents us today with much the same question(s) that it
did in Shelly's day:  should we do all things just because we can?  Science may tell us
how, but it never brings moral content--the same science that brings us nuclear power
brings nuclear destruction.  Should we clone people just because we
can?

There's a similar theme in Hawthorne's "The Birthmark"
where science is used in pursuit of the perfect, the unattainable ... and the pursuit
kills the good; as the formula says, the enemy of the good is the
perfect.

Victor seems to realize this when he sees the
creature and realizes his mistake--creating a being that he refused to love and care
for: Maybe we shouldn't just do things because we can ....

How do I write a speech in the pesona of Hale in regards to "Staying true to our core values is the best way to deal with conflict" ?

I agree.  It seems to me Hale would
want to believe this statement, even used to
believe it.  Now, after his experience in Salem, he can no longer believe this is true. 
He tried it and he failed.  It's just that simple.  He has become disillusioned enough
to beg fellow believers to lie in order to save their lives, knowing both that they do
not deserve to die and that lying is a certain condemnation to hell (according to their
faith). 

Your speech, I think, should reflect the facts but
also convey this emotion of bitterness and hopelessness for this loss of faith.  The
speech should be a tragic reworking of the earnest hope Hale once had that it was the
Devil who was at work in Salem:

"Have no fear now--we shall
find him out if he has come among us, and I mean to crush him utterly if he has shown
his face!" (Act I p. 39)

Sadly, he now knows it was the
work of humans who created this mess.  That sadness, I think, is Hale's overwhelming
response to the events in Salem.

How did The Catcher in the Rye shape American culture?How did this book "change the rules" for acceptable prose and fiction?

I would say that Salinger's work was one of the first
works of art to critically assess the shortcomings in post World War II American life.
 If we go back and examine where America was at the time, the term "zenith" would be
appropriate. Essentially, the world looked to America as the nation that "had it all."
 Europe was decimated by two protracted wars financially, socially, and politically.
 Nations in Asia, Africa, and South America were just beginning to establish their own
independence.  The Soviet Union was closed off to the rest of the world as the Iron
Curtain descended.  America was seen as "perfect" in many ways.  To a large extent, its
citizens started believing this, as well.  In this light, there was much in way of
delusion being developed.  Works like "The Catcher in the Rye" helped to bring to light
that there might be something subterranean that explores elements that are wrong in and
with American society.  The idea of "phonies" and individuals who do one thing and say
another could be quite appropriately to a culture that might have professed its belief
in independence, justice and equality of opportunity, yet openly denied it to people of
color and women in the time period.  The idea that there was an "established" way to
behave belied the American notion of change and democratic horizons.  When Holden speaks
of a world that might not fulfill what is promises and speaks of a desire to protect
innocence from the corruption, he is laying the groundwork for the swelling of
transformative social change that emerges in the 1960s.  In this light, the book helped
give a voice to what can be as opposed to what is.

IS THERE A CURE FOR DYSTONIA?

Presently there is no cure for dystonia, but there are
several different courses of treatment to minimize the
symptoms:

Physical therapy - structured exercise to help
the affected areas for people with focal dystonia.  This method is not always
successful.

Medication - there are serval different
medications that are used to alleviate symptoms: acetylcholine inhibitors, muscle
relaxants, dopamine agonists, and baclofen.  All of these medications attempt to relax
the movement of muscles.

Surgery - in some cases
denervation of the affected muscles may provide relief, but as it is not reversible
caution is taken when choosing this procedure.

Name an occupation in the community, which is mentioned in The Giver, for which math would be inportant.

In The Giver, the occupation of Giver
would be benefited greatly by abilities in math of all levels. The Giver's task, as he
explains to Jonas, is to remember and transmit the memories "of the whole world." His
apartment is lined with books. Though the first memory the Giver transmits to Jonas is
the pleasurable and painful memory of snow, the books are archive of some of the world's
greatest knowledge, greater than snow but not more important. The books contain the
ideas of philosophers and mathematicians, for example, Euclid who wrote the first
treatise on geometry, Copernicus who wrote a description of the cosmos that challenged
Aristotle's description, and Newton's treatise on mechanical, or physical mechanics
called the Principia. A knowledge of and an ability with math would
certainly be important to the Giver as he remembers and transmits these and other great
philosophical and mathematical works.

What does Jem learn when Atticus forces him to read to Mrs. Dubose as a punishment? Why does he regard her as the "bravest person" he ever knew?in...

Although Jem only realizes later, this arrangement
requires inner strength from both Jem and Mrs. Dubose. Jem must fight with his anger
through all of the terrible, cruel things that Mrs. Dubose says about his father the
Finch family. It is incredibly difficult for him to be polite to her under these
circumstances, he aims to emulate Atticus, and so he keeps his anger under control.
Through this he learns inner strength and understands what it is to be a man above
anger, like Atticus.

Yet it is Mrs. Dubose who faces true
punishment. She is forcing herself to fight her addiction to morphine, which requires
great willpower and hidden bravery. This time with Mrs. Dubose becomes an important part
of Jem and Scout growing up. Although she is antagonizing and cruel, through Atticus the
children learn of her considerable strength of character. They also learn by her example
the true meaning of bravery-beating a drug addiction, and having no cravings when she
died. Thus, they have one final instruction in courage and grace before they have to
actually practice those values.

Explain the poem "Ode to Autumn" by John Keats.

"Ode to Autumn" is a three part praise to the nature of
autumn that begins with sensory imagery about spring. The poem follows the definitive
strophe, antistrope, epode structural form of an ode. Understanding
the form helps guide understanding of the ode.
The strophe (i.e., first
stanza) describes spring as the "Season of mists [rains] and mellow fruitfulness" and as
the "bosom-friend of the maturing sun." This line has an inversion of syntax in which
"maturing" precedes the noun "sun."

The structure of this
line should mean that the sun is maturing, or moving further into the year, which is a
convention usually reserved for the autumn season or the metaphoric autumn of life. Yet
in this perhaps less than successful word scheme, Keats has written "maturing sun" as a
play on words. In this syntax, "maturing" refers to the effect of the sun on the
"fruitfulness," or abundant fruits, of spring. The remainder of the stanza details the
signs of spring and ends with an allusion to summer (i.e., "later flowers for the bees")
and to autumn (i.e., "Summer has o'er-brimmed").

Stanza two
is the antistrophe, which replies to and balances the strophe. It addresses the
personification of autumn, to whom the ode is directed (i.e., "Who hath not seen thee
oft"), and describes autumn's activities related to harvest (e.g., "granary floor,"
"winnowing wind" and "perfume of poppies") and cider making (i.e., "by the
cider-press"). In keeping with the balancing function of the antistrophe, it is
delivered in a more somber tone than the strophe.

The third
stanza is the epode in which the cheerful first stanza and the more somber second stanza
are brought together and completed by Keats' description of the song of autumn. This ode
contrasts autumn to spring and corrects a conception of autumn being an inferior season
to spring. Keats points out that autumn has equally significant activities and a music
of its own, thus the poet says, "thou hast thy music too." The rest of the epode
describes that music: the flying wings of river swallows; the wind blowing or subsiding;
the crickets and redbreasts; "And gathering swallows twitter in the
skies."

Cite a passage that indicates the isolation of Roger Chillingworth in The Scarlet LetterNathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

In Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter,
the passage that signifies Roger Chillingworth's complete isolation is in the final
scaffold scene as the Reverend Dimmesdale, who has finished his Founder's Day sermon,
walks towards the scaffold and stretches out his arm to Hester Prynne who stands holding
her little Pearl.  Just then, Roger Chillingworth pushes his way through the
crowd, 

or,
perhaps, so dark, disturbed, and evil was his look, he rose up out of some nether
region--to snatch back his victim from what he sought to do!  Be that as it might, the
old man rushed forward and caught the minister by the
arm.

"Madman, hold!....Wave back that woman!  cast off this
child! All shall be well! ....I can yet save
you!....

  But the minister
repulses him, and he calls again to Hester to join him on the scaffold.  As they mount
the scaffold "Old Roger Chillingworth" follows them:

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"hadst thou sought the whole earth over, " said
he looking darkly at the clergyman, "there was no one place so secret,--no high place
nor lowly place, where thou couldst have escaped me,--save on this very
scaffold!"

The three are
united and whole on the scaffold, but Roger Chillingworth is alone.  He kneels down
beside the Reverend with a blank,

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"dull countenace, out of which the life seemed to
have departed."

"Thou hast escaped me!" he repeated more
than once.  "Thou hast escaped
me!"

Another chapter in which
Chillingworth is presented as a dark, alienated character is Chapter 14 in which Hester
talks to Chillingworth on behalf of Mr. Dimmesdale.  As she looks steadily at the old
man, she is struck with wonder to observe what a change had taken place in him.  As he
speaks to Hester, he admits that he has been

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"A mortal man, with once a human heart, [who]
has become a fiend at his elbow!....

The unfortune
physician, ...lifted his hands with a look of horror, as if he had beheld some frightful
shape, which he could not recognise, ursurping the place of his own image in a
glass.

Then, in Chapter 15,
after Hester walks away, Chillingworth, now alone, gathers herbs.  As he does so, Hester
wonders at what appears to be

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...a circle of ominous shadow moving along with
his deformity, whichever himself way he turned
himself?

Perhaps
the most spiritually isolated character of Hawthorne's novel, Roger Chillingworth has
been set apart from his fellow man from his youth when he was a student.  Vowing revenge
upon Dimmesdale and determined to learn his secret after returning to the colony,
Chillingworth lives a life apart from others as he feigns being the physician of the
minister.  His subjugation of his heart for his intellect furthers his alienation from
the community of man in his quest for revenge, turning himself by his own admission into
a fiend.  In the end, Chillingworth has alienated himself from his fellow man in his
quest for his one victim and from his God.

l2x + 3l

solving for
x

12x+31<6

1.
12x<-25

2. x< -25/12=-2.0833 (do this problem
so as not to have a rounding error)

3. x =
-2.0833...

but doing this problem to check i think you have
it set up wrong because i got 6 when it should be less than so im not sure...i did it
right, use your calculator the whole time so you dont have a rounding error..hope this
helped...

punch this into your
claculator..

6 minus 31 equals(do not clear) divide by 12
equals (do not clear) but this answer is what x equals...then check it by multipling the
answer by 12 and adding 31, this answer should be less than 6 but when i did it i got 6
so maybe your question is incorect, is the less than sign supposed to have a line under
it meaning less than or equal to six if so than that is the right answer of
-2.0833...

What causes a person to get a risen?

I will assume you are speaking of a cyst. Many things can 
cause the formation of a cyst. They can be infected or not infected.  A good example of
a cyst is in the female who shaves her underarms or axillary area. Sometimes when women
shave this area a small ingrown hair will be the initial site of the cyst. The tissue is
irritated by the hair and the body responds by inflammatory processes which causes the
area to swell. Pain in the area may be the first symptom, it may also be red, tender to
the touch, and heat may be felt in the area. Some of these will be infected, others will
not. With a cyst in this area of the female it is important to determine exactly what
the growth is because some forms of breast cancer can spread to this same area and may
be felt as a cyst.

I would encourage you to go see your
primary care physician to determine the etiology of this growth.

In what sense can Arms and The Man by Shaw be called an anti-romantic comedy?

Shaw calls the play an "Anti- Romantic Comedy". The term
romantic, according to Shaw, meant untruth. Romance refers to a kind of fiction, which
did not concern itself with real life; it gave greater importance to idealization. One
of Shaw's aims in this play is to debunk the romantic heroics of war; he wanted to
present a realistic account of war and to remove all pretensions of nobility from war.
It is not, however, an anti-war play; instead, it is a satire on those attitudes which
would glorify war. To create this satire, Shaw chose as his title the opening lines of
Virgil's Aeneid, the Roman epic which glorifies war and the heroic feats of man in war,
and which begins, "Of arms and the man I sing. . ". Moreover, he tries to remove
romantic notions of love as well which can lead to unhappy marriages. This is presented
through comic situations and incidents that arouse laughter, e.g. watching Bluntchli
sleeping like a baby in Raina's bed and knowing that he is carrying chocolates instead
of bullets in his cartridge. but we have to notice that  "Arms and the Man" is not a
farce, a true comedy. Though there are a lot of farcical, loud, laughter in the play,
 it has a serious purpose and this way it makes a difference from a
farce.

In which ways is Musee des Beaux Arts a reflective verse or reflective in nature?

W. H. Auden's poem, written after a viewing of the
painting "Fall of Icarus" by Bruegel, is reflective of the nature of man to be
indifferent to the misery of others.  For, in this painting there is a "ploughman" who,
as he trudges mechanically behind his horse, pays absolutely no attention to the
drowning Icarus.  Likewise, the "delicate ship that must have seen/Something amazing,"
keeps on to its course and sails calmly past.

This
indifference of mankind to an individual's misery is minimalized in the painting by
Bruegel as the drowning Icarus is painted in the corner of the canvas, but the ploughman
is large and in the foreground.  The painting also clarifies what Auden means in his
first lines:

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About suffering they were never
wrong,

The Old Master: how well they
understood

Its human position; how it takes
place

While someone else is eating or opening a window or
just walking dully
along;

 The insignificant and
terribly mundane act of children skating on a pond supercedes for the children the
importance of the celebration of the "miraculous birth" and Christ's dying on the cross,
"the dreadful martyrdom."

In The Crucible, what does Mary Warren tell Danforth? Why is she in court? Why is Danforth suspicious of her and of Proctor?

Mary Warren is in court because John Proctor has brought
her there to submit her deposition and testify that "She never saw no spirits [...]"
(Act 3).  He is attempting to save his own wife, as well as the wives of Giles Corey and
Francis Nurse, all of whom have been accused of witchcraft by Abigail Williams.  He also
wants the court to understand that Abigail has ulterior motives in her accusations.
 Danforth is immediately suspicious that Proctor's assertion that he only wants to save
his wife is untrue, and so he tells Proctor that Elizabeth is pregnant, and thus will be
saved for at least eight more months.  When Proctor says that he also wants to free his
friends' wives, Danforth with "an almost imperceptible hardness in his
voice" says, "Then your purpose is somewhat larger."  Since he and Parris
believe that innocent people are happy for the courts in Salem, Proctor's
dissatisfaction with court automatically singles him out as a potential problem.
 

Concerning Mary Warren's former statements that people
sent their spirits out on her, she now says, "It were pretense, sir."  She admits that
she lied before, when she accused them, even though she "knew that people would hang by
[her] evidence," according to Danforth.  

Judge Hathorne
instructs her to pretend to faint, as she did before, but she cannot: "I -- have no
sense of it now, I --," she cries.  Finally, when the girls begin to insist that Mary is
sending her familiar spirit to attack them, she calls Proctor "the Devil's man" and
returns to Abby's fold.  

To Proctor, then, Danforth says,
"What are you?  You are combined with anti-Christ, are you not?  I have seen your power;
you will not deny it!" By the end of the act, Danforth is sure that Proctor is in league
with the devil to tear down the courts in Salem.  

In Miss Brill, what did she enjoy the most?

I think Miss Brill enjoyed the cumulative effects of her
Sunday outings the most, she enjoyed life on those days. She looked forward to the
"season", the leaves were changing colors and the band always played on Sundays. Part of
her outings were getting dressed, she talked to her wrap. She enjoyed "people watching",
she made comments about the old couple, the man with the funny moustache, and the woman
who had turned grey (hair once was yellow). She considered herself an expert at
listening to peoples conversations and drawing conclusions from them. She enjoyed making
observations about other's behaviors, when the lady dropped her flowers and the boy
picked them up for her, then the lady threw them away. Miss Brill thought that was rude.
She liked the enormity of it all, she enjoyed life.

1. If know x = 112^{o}: find cosx ; sinx? 2. Find sin1^{o}.

1)

If x= 112 degree = 90+22
degree= 180-68 degree.

sin(90+22) = sin (180 - 68) = sin68
=  0.9272 using tables.

For approximation, sinx =
4x(180-x)/(40500-x(180-x), for 0<x<180
only.

= 4*112*68/(40500-112*68) = 0.9264, cosx =
sqrt(1-sin^2 x) = -0.3765

cos112 = cos(180-68) = -cos68 =
-0.3746 using tables

2)

sin 1
degree  = sin (pi/180 radians) = sin (0.1745 radians) = 0.017452, as for small x in
radians, sinx --> x.

What is the process by which glucose can pass through a cell membrane by combining with special carrier molecules?

The process you are referring to is facilitated diffusion.
No additional energy is required to transport glucose across a cell membrane. However,
there must be a concentration gradient(difference) outside and inside the cell for
transport to occur. If both sides of the membrane are equal, no net movementof glucose
molecules will occur. If glucose is outside the membrane in a high concentration
relative to inside the membrane, it will bind to a specific carrier molecule in the
membrane. A change occurs in the membrane exposing the glucose to the inside of the
cell. Once inside, it changes to glucose-6 phosphate. Because of this,  the level of
glucose inside the cell is close to zero. This maintains the concentration gradient
being higher outside the cell compared to inside the cell. This insures that glucose
will move into the cell from high concentration to low.

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

Reeves compares the many moods of the sea to a "hungry
dog." In doing so, he illustrates that the sea is angry and unpredictable. During the
day, the dog "rolls on the beach all day/ With his clashing teeth and shaggy jaws" and
at night, he "bounds to his feet and snuffs and sniffs/ Shaking his wet sides over the
cliffs/ And howls and hollos long and loud."

Reeves ends
the poem by telling us that even the "hungry dog" from above has a quiet side and can be
peaceful and serene. In this way, we can compare the sea and the dog that represents the
sea to humanity and its many moods.

What role does magnesium play in health?

Magnesium is a mineral found in various locations of the
body including bones, muscles, and intracellular fluids. Dietary sources of magnesium
include fruits, green vegetables, fish, and whole grains. The stomach absorbs
approximately one third of the magnesium consumed.

The
major function of magnesium is helping to regulate neuromuscular activity. It helps
nerves communicate with other structures and also helps muscle tissue contract normally.
It also helps repair DNA that is damaged. Additionally, protein synthesis is aided by
proper amounts of magnesium.

Dietary deficiencies of
magnesium can lead to a whole host of problems including irritability of nerve and
muscle tissue (especially the heart) which leads to disturbances in the normal
electrical stimulation of the myocardium. These disturbances can lead to cardiac
arrhythmia's.

Is the conflict in the story internal, external or both, and is it settled when the narrator kills the old man. Which is the climax?

As a reader I would think it is mostly internal, since we
obviously think he's mad; he, however, tries to convince us otherwise: "Nervous, very,
very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am
mad?"

He then goes on to discuss how it was the old man's
eye, which could be considered an external conflict in his mind: "I
think it was his eye! Yes, it was this! One of his eyes resembled that of a
vulture."

If the conflict is internal,
I would argue that no, the internal conflict is not resolved because he's still
obviously mad: he is dreadfully nervous when the police arrive, then finally admits to
the murder: "It is the beating of his hideous heart!"

If
the conflict is external, then I believe the conflict is still not
resolved, but more because he is still haunted by the old man even after his
death-killing the old man did not stop his external
conflict.

Bottom line: seems to me that it is
both internal and external, and these conflicts are not resolved
when he kills the old man in the climax since he is still mad and is still haunted by
him.

How to analyze Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech "I Have a Dream" on the basis of classic rhetoric argument analysis?Investigate under...

There are a variety of appeals within the speech, and an
analysis could focus on and highlight any one of them.

If
we begin with Logos, King appeals to the idea that the founders of the United States,
those who wrote the constitution, made a bargain and said in that bargain that all men
were created equal, that everyone was entitled to pursue life, liberty, and happiness. 
So he has simply come to Washington to expect a piece of that check or that bargain to
be "cashed" as he says.  Because this agreement existed, now we've come to get our
share.

Another appeal is to Pathos, particularly at the
very stirring conclusion of the speech.  The use of the images of white children and
black children playing together is a very powerful one and generates enormous emotional
appeal.

What is a Len Bias law?

Len Bias was a basketball player at the University of
Maryland when he died of a cocaine overdose. After his death, "Len Bias Laws" were
enacted. Simply put, these laws make people who illegally manufacture, distribute, or
sell illegal drugs strictly liable for a death that results from the inhalation,
injection, or ingestion of the drug they are associated
with.

If a drug dealer sells an illegal substance to a
person, that person takes the drug and then dies as a result of taking the drug, the
dealer can be charged with murder. Obviously this is easier said than done because of
the covert nature of the drug trade.

A good example is
this, say you bought cocaine and shared it with your girlfriend, she ingested it and
died. You could be charged with murder because you supplied her with the illegal
substance.

If a,b are the roots ( assumed non 0 ) of 3x^2-4x+1=0 form the equation whose roots are a^2/b and b^2/a.

If a and b are  the roots of the given equation, then,
using Viete's relationships, we could write:

a+b = -
(-4)/3

a*b = 1/3

Now, we know
that we could write an equation if we know the sum and the product of it's
roots:

x^2 - Sx + P = 0

We
know that the roots of the equation we have to form are: a^2/b and
b^2/a.

We'll write the sum of
them:

S = a^2/b + b^2/a = (a^3 +
b^3)/a*b

But the sum of cubes from numerator could be
written as:

a^3 + b^3 = (a+b)^3 -
3a*b(a+b)

We'll substitute in the relation above, the
values of a+b and a*b:

(a+b)^3 - 3a*b(a+b) = (4/3)^3-
3*(1/3)(4/3) = (4/3)(16/9 - 1)

a^3 + b^3 = (4/3)*(7/9) =
28/27

S =
(28/27)/(1/3)

S =
28/9

P = (a^2/b)* (b^2/a) 
=a*b = 1/3

The quadratic equation whose
roots are  (a^2/b) and (b^2/a) is:

x^2 - (28/9)*x + 1/3 =
0

9x^2 - 28x + 3 =
0

What is cultural materialism?

Cultural materialism is a concept that is related to the
writer Marvin Harris.  It is a materialist approach that implies that culture emerges as
a product of things.  Consider this; when thinking about the things
that our society finds as having value.  People strive to attain things they value. 
Yet, the things that we have available to strive for set the stage for that which we
work for and desire.  A shovel has value to dig.  If a person is a farmer having the
need for a shovel would propel him into working to afford to own
one.

Harris developed his theories in two of his books
Cannibals and Kings written in 1977 and Cultural
Materialism written in 1979.  He explained the idea by stating that in India
the non-killing of cattle is a religious vessel but it is also an economic move that is
related to cultural needs that help stabilize their economy.

In act IV, scene 1, what does Portia mean by telling Shylock the quality of mercy is not strained? in act 4 scene 1 what is portia means by...

What Portia is saying here is that mercy knows no
limits.

By the time Portia delivers this speech, Shylock
has refused payment of the money and turned down an offer of double the amount.  For
Shylock, it has gone beyond the money.  For him, it has become a chance for him to
strike a blow for all those personally suffered at the hands of Antonio plus
symbolically he was avenging all the injustices his people had suffered.  He had made a
pact with god.

For Portia it would appear simple.  In her
world, it is the Christian thing to do to be merciful.  This is easy for her to say
since she has never experienced the prejudice and abusive treatment that Shylock has
experienced.

She appeals to his humanity knowing she has an
ace up her sleeve.  Since he has not been treated humanely by the Venetian society, this
idea is totally alien to him.

She is telling this man that
mercy knows no limits, yet he has never in his life experienced
mercy.

How do the themes (beauty, self-doubt, and self-acceptance) relate the short story"Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self"?

I think that the themes mentioned play a prominent role
throughout the short story.  The notion of beauty is one that drives the entire
narrative.  Walker goes through three distinct periods in the short story . The first is
one of socially accepted notions of beauty.  This is the period of her life where she is
deemed as "the prettiest" or the one with the most beauty.  The second phase is one
where she is disfigured and the social experience of what it is like to be unwanted or
ugly.  The last phase is one where she strives to make peace with both of these
experiences.  It is here where we see the elements of self doubt enter the narrative
(The magazine cover discussion as well as the fears of her child examining Walker's eye
would be points of reference here.)  At the same time, the ending where Walker dreams,
listening to the Stevie Wonder song, of the dance with "the other," and where the
collision between both experiences finally ceases would be an instance where one can see
self acceptance present.

How does a policy of rotating clerical employees from job to job aid in strengthening the control procedures within the control environment?Please...

People may not consider clerical employees as the ones who
cause the major financial scandals but they do have a very important role to play here.
A fraud requires a considerable amount of time and usually it is the one with the
financial control teaming together with many employees working under him to implement
it.

Rotating clerical jobs helps in strengthening the
control procedure in two ways. One is that no person, even though he may be at a lower
post, gets to know the system so well that he can manipulate it for his own good.
Several small financial problems could result in the same outcome as that of a single
large financial crisis.

Also, as people at the clerical
position are aware of what their seniors are doing, they can avert any disaster. But
working under the same person for a long time makes it easier for those above them to
coerce and threaten them, which prevents them from bringing into the open any underhand
activity going on.

If the clerical employees work under
different managers and know that they would have to move on shortly, it would be
difficult for anyone to influence them, using rewards or punishment, to suppress the
actual facts.

The GCF of two numbers is 23 and their LCM is 1449. If one of the numbers is 161, find the other number.

Let x be the other
number.

Given that the GCF(  x  , 161) =
23...............(1)

Given that x and 161 has the LCM =
1449..........(2).

We know that  LCM (x , 161) =
x*161/(GCF)

So,  x*161/23 =
1449

x = 1449*23/161

x = 
207.

Threfore the other number is 
207.

Tally :

161 =
23*7

207 = 23*3*3

So the GCF =
23

LCM = 23*7*3*3 = , Considering  all the factors but
common factors for both  16 14491 and 207 only once.

What is paradoxical about the mottos in the novel 1984? WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

Distorted truths, outright lies, the degradation of
language and the widespread use of propaganda ("newspeak") are important ways that the
Party tricks people into beliefs that are not true and ultimately controls their minds.
These mottos are evidence of that because each word in the word pairs is an antithesis
of the other. "War" is the opposite of "peace"; "freedom" is the opposite of "slavery"
and "ignorance" is the "opposite" of "strength". By saying "war is peace", the mottos
are contradicting themselves and they make no sense, unless you are a twisted member of
Oceania's Party. If "peace" is something to be desired and "war" and "peace" are the
same (war is peace), then it would be just as desirable to have peace as it would be to
have war. This makes no sense. Same with the other mottos. No one wants to be a slave,
but if the Party can convince you that slavery is the same as freedom then, hey, no big
deal. If ignorance means one is strong, then everyone would seek after ignorance. See
how absurd this is? That's the point of the irony.

How long was Janie married to Logan in Their Eyes Were Watching God?

Their Eyes Were Watching God recounts
the story of Janie and her life's journey with three different men.  The first, Logan,
is the man she married because her grandmother was afraid.  She was afraid Janie would
end up unmarried and pregnant, like Janie's mother; and she was afraid Janie would not
be properly taken care of if something happened to her--which, of course, it did. 
Grandmother wanted her to marry someone decent, so she picked Logan
Killicks.

This marriage to Logan was a loveless one, and
the time it lasted was generally unhappy for Janie.  We don't have a lot of time clues,
but we do know a couple of things.  Janie and her grandmother have their discussion
about marrying Logan in the spring.  The next clue is

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in the few days to live before she went to Logan
Killicks,

so we presume it's
still spring.  The next time reference is when Janie feels like she should have "felt"
in love by now, since

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the new moon had been up and down three
times. 

This gets us to the
end of summer, then, probably.  Then this line at the end of chapter
3:

So Janie
waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time.  But when the pollen again
gilded the sun and sifted down on the world she began to stand around the gate and
expect things.

This appears
to be summer.  The only real unknown is the courting time with Joe, which couldn't have
been very long.  By these clues, I'm guessing the marriage lasted a year and a season,
probably fifteen or sixteen months. 

Compare the meanings of "The Chambered Nautilus" and "Thanatopsis" in regard to their messages about nature, life, and death.

There are, in fact, quite a few similarities between the
poems "The Chambered Nautilus" by Oliver Wendell Holmes and "Thanatopsis" by William
Cullen Bryant, but there are also some significant differences. Each poem confronts a
fear of mortality and looks to Nature for insight into human nature, though the poems
have differing ideas about the soul and the
body.

"Thanatopsis" means "meditation on death,"
and much of the poem is just that. The speaker of the poem begins by telling the reader
both joy and comfort can be found by observing Nature. The speaker regards Nature in a
general sense, describing valleys, mountains, the ocean, and the woods. He explains to
the reader that fear of death is unnecessary, since everyone has to die sometime, and he
asks the reader to find consolation in the fact that all men and women will become part
of Nature again as their bodies become one with the earth. For this speaker, comfort can
also be found in the fact that the dead inhabit every corner of the world and,
therefore, he will join a great multitude of spirits when he
dies.

While "The Chambered Nautilus" focuses on
one specific part of Nature--the shell left behind after the death of a mollusk--the
speaker finds a similar type of comfort when faced with mortality. For the speaker of
this poem, however, the spirit and the body are two very different things. While the
body will be left behind, as the nautilus was, the spirit has the chance to ascend to
heaven. The nautilus thus becomes a symbol of the spiritual journey. As the mollusk
outgrows each chamber, he builds a new one. Similarly, as a person grows in nobility, he
outgrows his figuratively small former life until, through death, he escapes the
confines of his body.

What is the conflict in Middle East about?

There are many different conflicts in the Middle East, so
I am going to assume you mean the one between the Israelis and Palestinians.  Just keep
in mind there are also conflicts in Iraq, Lebanon and Iran as
well.

Most people think the fighting over there is about
religion, but that is only part of it, the main conflict is about land.  Palestinians
are Arab peoples who live/lived in the State of Palestine.  Palestine became Israel in
1948 when the United Nations voted to create a Jewish state after the Holocaust. 
Palestinians believe that land was stolen from them, and want it back.  Many refuse to
recognize that Israel is a country at all.

Israelis, on the
other hand, believe just as the Palestinians that the land is holy and sacred to their
religion.  They believe God has given it to them just as He did to ancient Israel.  They
believe they should be able to do whatever is necessary to protect themselves from
another Holocaust.  Both sides claim Jerusalem and the Tomb of the Patriarchs (where the
prophet Abraham is buried) as their own.

Palestinians who
live in Israel or Israeli controlled land like the West Bank and Gaza believe they are
persecuted for who they are, just like the Jews were in Europe during World War II. 
They want full and equal citizenship, and the right to return to the land they
originally owned before 1948.

What is the single effect in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado?"

Poe was a master of writing stories of horror and revenge,
and as a "Dark Romantic" the focus of so much of his work is the dark side of humanity -
the capacity of us all to commit heinous acts. What is key to note about his work is how
he uses masterfully the first person narrator to reveal deeply disturbed psyches and
characters who often are unreliable narrators - in that we as readers can see that often
there is more going on in their account than their words at first
indicate.

This short story is of no exception - consider
how it begins:

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The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as
best I could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed
revenge.

As the story
progresses and we see in particular the friendly way in which Fortunato responds to the
narrator, we begin to doubt the veracity of the narrator's comments - would Fortunato
really entrust himself if he had insulted the narrator?

As
the story moves both its characters and us as readers to the labyrinthine catacombs and
underground darkness of Italy, we come to realise that we are being exposed to the
darkness, or the "underground" emotions and feelings of the narrator. The setting
therefore is a wholly appropriate place for the narrator to gain his terrible revenge -
sealing a man into a room and leaving him to die a slow and terrible death. As we
venture down into the catacombs, we go on a journey into the darkness and horror of the
narrator's innermost desires, and thus we are shocked and terrified just as Fortunato is
by what is revealed. Consider the following passage:

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No answer still. I thrust a torch through the
remaining aperture and let it fall within. There came forth in return only a jingling of
the bells. My heart grew sick - on account of the dampness of the
catacombs.

The way in which
the narrator describes the completion of his task in such a matter-of-fact way makes his
actions all the more chilling, as does his disavowal that the "sickness" of his heart
had anything to do with his act.

What is the prophecy told by Mr. and Mrs Beaver in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe?

There are actually three prophesies that Mr. and Mrs.
Beaver relate to the children; all of them can be found in Chapter 8, and address the
end of evil as represented by the White Witch's reign. The first tells about the coming
of Aslan, and how he will set all things right. The prophesy is told in rhyme, which Mr.
Beaver recites, saying,

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"Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in
sight.

At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no
more,

When he bares his teeth, winter meets its
death.

And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring
again."

The second prophesy
continues along the same theme, and is also told in rhyme. Mr. Beaver again
recites,

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"When Adam's flesh and Adam's
bone

Sits at Cair Paravel in
throne,

The evil time will be over and
done."

The final prophesy
offers further detail of the demise of evil as represented by the White Witch. Unlike
the others, it is not told in rhyme. Mr. Beaver relates this prophesy,
saying,

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"...when two Sons of Adam and two Daughters of
Eve sit in those four thrones, then it will be the end not only of the White Witch's
reign but of her life."

As
each edition of the work may vary in its pagination, I have not given you page numbers.
As I mentioned, all the quotes are in Chapter 8; the first two are in rhyme and are in
italics, so they should be easy to find. The third is just a little past the midpoint of
the chapter, in the paragraph which begins, "Because of another
prophecy..."

In Great Expectations, how does Dickens use setting to enhance readers' understanding of Miss Havisham?

In Great Expectations, the
description of the setting of Miss Havisham's property parallels the description of Miss
Havisham herself, enhances the reader's perception.  When Pip arrives at the decaying
mansion called, ironically, Satis House (enough),  Estella informs Pip that the
name meant that whoever owns this house would not want for more.  Pip also finds the
house barricaded with a locked gate.  Grass grows in every crevice.  There once was a
brewery, but it is closed, empty, and "disused."  As Pip looks around the "cold wind
seemed to blow colder" and as it blows through the open sides of this brewery,
it creates a noise like the rigging of a ship at
sea.

Inside, all the old curtains have been closed to the
daylight and only a lone candle lights Estella's and his way up the stairs.  Once in
Miss Havisham's room, no glimpse of daylight can be seen there, either.  Strangest of
all is the woman sitting at the lady's dressing
table,

She
was dressed in rich materials--satins and lace....And she had a long white veil
dependent from her hair, and she had bridal flowers in her hair, but her hair was shite.
Some bright jewels sparkled on her neck and on her hands and some other jewels lay
sparkling on the table.  Dresses and half-packed trunks were scattered about.  She had
not quite finished dressing, for she had but one shoe on--...her veil was but half
arranged, her watch and chain were not put on,...and some flowers, and a prayer book,
all confusedly heaped about the looking
glass.

Pip notices that
everything in his view is yellowed and faded.  The clock has stopped at twenty minutes
to nine as has her watch.  Like the exterior of the house, all is decaying inside, even
Miss Havisham.  As she notices that Pip looks around, Miss Havisham looks down at her
dress and at herself in a mirror; she says,

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"So new to him..so old to me; so strange to him,
so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of
us!"

On another visit, Pip
wheels Miss Havisham around a room that has a great table in the middle; the table is
covered in yellow lace, there is a rotting cake with mice eating at it. Miss Havisham
likens herself to the "heap of decay" that was once her wedding cake.  She tells Pip
that "when the ruin is complete," she will be laid upon the bride's table with the
decaying cake.

Clearly, Miss Havisham and her surroundings
are in moribund sympathy, as the reader discerns. Like the house, Miss Havisham wastes
away; like the locked gates, Miss Havisham locks out time, the outside world, and
virtually stops living.  The only light in her life is Estella, whose name means
star, the beautiful young girl that Miss Havisham teaches to break
hearts so that she can wreck vengeance upon men. These passages about Satis House and
its "ruin" of a mistress are much like those in an Edgar Allan Poe story entitled "The
House of Usher" in which the mansion deteriorates just as the family does, finally
crumbling into the ground as the last of the Ushers died.