What is the significance of the line in Othello in Act V scene ii " Cold, cold, my girl, Even like thy chastity."?

Earlier in the play (Act 3, scene 4) , when Othello asks
for Desdemona's hand, he takes it and says,

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Hot, hot, and moist--this hand of yours
requires

A sequester from liberty, fasting and prayer . .
.

In this quotation, Othello
equates Desdemona's supposed licentious behavior with Cassio to heat and fire.  Her hand
is a "young and sweating devil."  Heat is a metaphor for sexual incontinence, infidelity
in marriage, looseness.

Here in Act 5, though, Othello
touches Desdemona's literally cold body.  He realizes that Desdemona was not a
promiscuous woman, that she was always true to him and thus her coldness is a metaphor
for her purity.  Othello is praising Desdemona; I don't think he believes that she was
frigid, or sexually unresponsive to him, as coldness commonly means
today.

In Hamlet, Shakespeare also
equates chastity or faithfulness to coldness when Hamlet tells Ophelia that "were she as
chaste as ice" she would not escape calumny.

Help with a geometry word problem! Triangle Side lengths! Suppose a chair has a seat that's an isosceles triangle and the congruent sides measure...

If you have stated the question properly, then all you
have to remember is that congruent triangles have both sides and angles that are
congruent.  This is as opposed to similar triangles that have congruent angles, but not
necessarily sides.

If these two triangles are congruent,
they both have the same side lengths and the same total perimeter.   Given that, we can
see that the sides of the second triangle (and the first) are 1.5 feet, 1.5 feet and 2.1
feet.

The reason for this is that the perimeter of a
triangle is the sum of all its sides.  We know that two of the sides are 1.5 feet each. 
Those two sides, then, come out to 3.0 feet in length.  If the perimeter of the whole
triangle is 5.1 feet, then the remaining side must be 2.1 feet.

How significant is the title?

From the title, readers learn that George is the lover who
jilted Granny when she was young. Obviously her memory of him is acute because she felt
publicly humiliated by this desertion on her actual wedding day. Her concern with George
indicates first of all her sensitivity and inability to forget the deep pain (paragraphs
49, 61), but it also indicates her sense of recovery and self worth, inasmuch as she
wishes that George be told (paragraphs 42, 56) that she got along well without
him.Throughout the story the jilting, and the parallels between the earthly and heavenly
bridegroom, are linked in Granny’s mind (see especially paragraph 61). The metaphor of
Jesus as a bridegroom is established in various New Testament passages. That the
bridegroom appears on neither her wedding nor her death days is, with this linking, an
extreme disappointment—both an earthly and a spiritual jilting—especially because a
priest is present in the house on both occasions to witness the pain and embarrassment
of her humiliation.

In "The Listeners" Mare had said after he'd published the poem that the "Traveller" is the ghost, could you please add this in?.It would add a...

Indeed, I could see that the traveller is the ghost.  I
could also see it as the speaker being someone who is enduring a complex set of
emotions.  For example, perhaps the speaker is someone who is attempting to resurrect
emotional connections that were severed for a great deal of time.  The fact that the
speaker feels a bit uncomfortable being there and the declaration at the end of "Tell
them I came" and "I kept my word" could help to lend credence to this.  At the same
time, it seems as if the speaker is knocking on a door that is locked in both literal
and figurative terms.  I think that an interesting case could be made to describing
someone who used to live there, but someone who left and, after a long time, is
attempting to reestablish connection.  It might also be an individual who is being
forced to face a part of life that had been silenced for a
while.

What was the extent of the Ottoman Empire?

At various points throughout its millennium-long history,
the Ottoman Empire controlled vast areas of territory.  The Ottoman Empire reached its
greatest westward extent in the seventeenth century.  In 1683, the Ottomans laid siege
to the city of Vienna.  Though they were ultimately unsuccessful, the fact they did so
serves as testament to their influence and power in European affairs.  Until 1571 at the
Battle of Lepanto, the Ottoman Empire enjoyed considerable influence on the eastern half
of the Mediterranean Sea.  After these two defeats, the power and influence of the
Ottoman Empire began to wane in the west. 

It would take
somewhat longer for the Ottoman Empire's power to decrease in the east and in the
south.  Rather than there being very decisive battles that crippled the Ottomans, there
were a number of smaller engagements over the span of years, resulting in a series of
defeats that began to eat away at Ottoman control.  It was not until the end of the
First World War that the Ottoman Empire crumbled. 

At its
highest point during the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the Ottoman Empire
spanned from Eastern Europe in the West, to Egypt in the South, and to Central Asia in
the East.  At no other point in its history did the Ottoman Empire control as
much territory and enjoy as much influence as they did during this 175-year
period. 

There are 9 members on a board of directors. They must form a subcommittee of 5 members. How many different subcommittees are...

The combination of 'n' numbers of object taken 'r' at a
time is represented by the mathematical
symbol:

nCr

This
can be calculated for any value of n and r
as:

nCr =
(nPr)/(rPr)

Where
nPr is the number of permutations of n things taken r at a time. This can be calculated
for any value of n and r
as:

nPr = (n)*(n - 1)*(n - 2)*
... *(n - r +1)

Substituting given values of n and r in the
formula for combination we get:

Number of possible
different subcommittees = nCr =
9C5

=
(9P5)/(5P5)

=
(9*8*7*6*5)/(5*4*3*2*1)

= 15120/120 =
126

Answer:

126 different
subcommittees are possible.

What are some examples of Beowulf being a good hero in Beowulf?

Isn't every hero a good hero?  That being the case, I
think, here are a few ways Beowulf is a hero:

1. He
   is self-less.  Beowulf crosses the waters to go help someone he's never met and has no
   real connection to but is in need.  It's simple--he knows he can
   help, so he does.


2. He is brave.  When
   he faces all three monsters in this epic, he does so
   fearlessly.


3. He is honorable.  He takes on Grendel without
   any weapons because that's how Grendel fights.  Hard to believe he feels a sense of
   honor even when fighting a monster that has no remorse about killing himans on a regular
   basis. But he does.


4. He is quick to give others honor. 
   Despite his rather, shall we say, strong sense of his own accomplishments, Beowulf still
   honors others.  He mourns for the soldier he lost, he honors Hygelac with some of the
   treasure he received from Hrothgar, and he is even gracious to the man who insulted him,
   Unferth.

This should get you started.  Think of
all the heroic figures in real life, in TV and movies, as well as the classic comic book
heroes such as Superman; then make a list of all their positive traits.  Bet you'll find
even more heroic characteristics for Beowulf.  Happy searching!