In chapter 20 of Great Expectations, why does Jaggers believe that Pip will not make anything of his new good fortune?

When Pip meets with Jaggers, his new "guardian", Jaggers
gives Pip all sorts of instructions about how he is to get his money, how he is to work
with Wemmick, where he is to live, with whom he is to study, etc., and then he ends up
telling Pip that he expects Pip to fail. He says:

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"Of course, you'll go wrong somehow, but that's
no fault of mine."

Jaggers
proves to be a keen observer of human nature. He is an astute attorney who notices
things that others do not. The nature of his work brings him into contact with the lower
echelons of society -- criminals -- and he does not seem to have much faith in human
beings. Plus, he knows where Pip came from. He has seen Pip as a boy at Miss Havisham's.
He knows he is poor and lived with an uneducated blacksmith. He knows that when young
people come into huge amounts of money without earning it, they are often frivilous with
it and thereby lose it eventually. He also knows where the money came from, a convict,
NOT Miss Havisham as Pip suspects.

As it turns out, Pip
does fritter away his money. After not being in London for very long, he incurs huge
debts, thereby proving that Jaggers was right.

What is x for 5^-6 = 5^(x^2 - 5x) ?

This is an exponential
equation.

We'll write the equation again using symmetric
property:

5^(x^2-5x) =
5^-6

We'll use the one to one property, because the bases
are matching:

x^2 - 5x =
-6

We'll add 6 both sides:

x^2
- 5x + 6 = 0

We'll apply the quadratic
formula:

x1 = [5+sqrt(25 -
24)]/2

x1 =
(5+1)/2

x1 =
3

x2 =
(5-1)/2

x2 =
2

Verifying:

For
x1 = 3:

5^(3^2-5*3) =
5^-6

5^(9-15) = 5^-6

5^-6 =
5^-6

For x2 = 2:

5^(2^2-5*2) =
5^-6

5^(4-10) = 5^-6

5^-6 =
5^-6

We'll not reject any of found
solutions.

Why is the Marquis disappointed by the Monsigneur's grand reception?

In Book the Second, Chapter 7 of A Tale of Two
Cities, the Marquis has evidently fallen from favor in the French court. 
For, at the reception of the Monseigneur, one of the "great lords" in power, who holds a
reception twice a month in his "grand hotel" in Paris, the Marquis has stood apart from
others of the Parisian Court.  Not many have talked with him and the Monseigneur
himself has not greeted him with warmness:"Monseigneur might have been warmer in his
manner."

Angry at the coolness of the other aristocrats'
treatment of him, the Marquis finds it

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rather agreeable...to see the common people
dispersed before his horses, and often barely escaping from being run
down.

In his cruelty, the
Marquis has his carriage driven with "an inhuman abandonment of consideration";
consequently, the tragic incident of the child being run over occurs that is later to be
the cause of the demise of the Marquis himself.

In the following paragraph, what device does Fitzgerald use to create a musical effect in The Great Gatsby? Cite at least three examples. About...

What a fascinating question.  I must be honest, there is
no one literary device that jumps out at me and screams "music."  There is, however, a
certain rythm and cadence in this selection which inspire an image of musicality.  If I
had to put a name to it, I'd say it was personification because of the movement of
objects in the piece.

First we have a road,  veering toward
the train tracks and shrinking away from the gray and ashy terrain. Then we see the only
growing things, ashes "grow[ing] like wheat into ridges and hills," and ashes rising
like chimneys, and "men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air,"
suggesting a movement much like the sweeping ups and downs and fading away of a musical
composition.

Occasionally. it says we see a slow line of
cars which "crawl" and "creak," adding to the song of the ash heaps. There is a flurry
of ashes caused by the digging of spades, a great cloud of dust, this amazing  (and
amusing) billboard rising transcendent from the dust.  Then there is a sinking and a
dimming and a brooding, all very evocative of an orchestral piece winding down to its
coda.

Not sure if this is what you (or your teacher) is
looking for, but the elements and the dust do create a veritable symphony of the ash
heaps.

Design an experiment involving Pepcid and Gaviscon to investigate which is better at relieving excess stomach acid.

In any scientific investigation, you must first pose a
question or problem. In this case it would be, which drug is better at relieving excess
stomach acid, Pepcid or Gaviscon? Next, you will gather information about each drug, and
come up with a hypothesis. It is a statement about what you think the answer to your
question is. An example of a hypothesis could be, Pepcid will relieve stomach acid
better than Gaviscon. You are now ready to test your hypothesis. A large sample of
diverse people of various ages, both males and females should be used. The larger the
sample, the more valid your research will be. Since the variable you are testing is the
drugs' effectiveness against stomach acid, you will need a control group in your
research study, who won't get any drugs. They will receive a placebo. They are there for
comparison. It should be a blind study and no one should be told what group they are in.
During the duration of the trial you will have to keep a good record of data for all
three groups.  The data would be how many episodes of excess stomach acid the group
members had during the duration of your trial. You can collect data each day for all
three groups. At the end of the trial, you can analyze any data tables, charts or graphs
your research has generated and come up with a conclusion. You will either accept or
reject your hypothesis. If your data supports your hypothesis, several more trials need
to be conducted for it to be considered valid research.

"O. Henry Award" amount? What exactly you get when you win the "O. Henry Award"? I also want to know the amount of cash/cheque that you get...

Probably the most prestigious award for short story
fiction, the annual O. Henry Award does not offer a cash prize to the winner of the
competition. In the past, however, the O. Henry competition has given cash awards in a
separate contest for young adult writers. The winning story is chosen from a group of 20
short story finalists selected by the series editor. A jury then chooses the eventual
winner (and, in the past, 2nd and 3rd place winners) from the 20 finalists. Stories must
appear in a print publication in order to be considered (no online or unpublished
submissions are eligible). I have not been able to determine specifically what the
winner of the competition receives (plaque, medallion, certificate, etc.), but the
winning story is published--along with the finalists--in the annual O. Henry
Prize Stories Collection.

What is the purpose of the Easterner's explanation about the Swede?

The Easterner’s analysis in paragraph 90 explains the
Swede’s uneasiness when he enters the hotel, but it does not explain his strange and
aggressive behavior. There is a conflict in the story between the conventional
expectations of violence on the frontier (which the Swede believes) and the beliefs of
the Romper natives, who assume that their town is civilized. The story is hence not
conventional; its realism brings out the individual causes of violence, even though this
violence stems out of codes that might fit frontier expectations. The characters are
individualized, then, but the results of the card game support the convention that the
American West at the end of the nineteenth century was characterized by much mayhem. The
irony of the story is that the Easterner is thus both right and wrong about the
dime-store novels. In effect the Swede becomes the victim of a self-fulfilling
prophecy.