In Chapter 2 of Love Medicine, what is the relationship between Marie and Sister Leopolda?

In Louise Erdrich's novel, Love
Medicine, Sister Leopolda and Marie have an unhealthy relationship: Sister
Leopolda sees Marie as a soul the Devil craves, and she is physically and
emotionally abusive toward Marie based on this assumption. Marie,
who also believes the Devil wants her, as Sister clearly tells her, believes the only
way to be victorious over Sister Leopolda is to beat her to
Heaven.

As the story begins, Marie is in Sister's class.
There is an incident there (Marie believes the Dark One is in the closet, and smiles);
somehow Sister knows, and Marie ends up locked in the closet. This
is when Marie decides how best to beat Sister. She and Sister have a discussion, and
literally, Sister tells Marie that she has two choices: she can marry an Indian, give
birth to his "brats" and "die like a dog," or she can "give herself to
God."

However, in a more subversive way (based upon how
Marie reacts to her words), Sister tells Marie she can have the Devil or
love.

'He
wants you,' she said. 'That's the difference. I give you
love.'

Marie thinks to
herself:

Love.
The black hook. The spear singing through the mind. I saw that she had traced the Dark
One to my heart and flushed him out into the open. So now my heart was an empty nest
where she could lurk...Well, I was
weak.

Marie stays at the
convent for a several years. The battle between Sister and Marie rages. Eventually,
however, Marie is able to place doubt in Sister's mind and heart. Sister is a crusader
against "the Dark One." She fights the battle everyday, though the other sisters have
long since doing so.

At one point, Sister pours  boiling
water from the stove top onto Marie's back to drive the Devil out of her. Marie does not
utter a sound, and strangely, when it is done, Marie tells Sister how hard she prayed,
and Sister responds, saying, "My dear one, I know." Sister, with a twisted sense of
"love," puts a salve on the girl's back, but Marie has finally had enough. She knows she
must leave before she is completely broken. She yells at
Sister,

'He
was always in you,' I said. 'Even more than in me. He wanted you even more. And now he's
got you. Get thee behind me!'

...[Sister Leopolda] was
pretending nothing happened. But for the first time I had gotten through some chink
she'd left in her darkness. Touched some
doubt.

It is in this way that
Marie plants a seed of doubt in Sister. Sister pushes Marie on, insisting that she help
while Sister takes bread out of the oven. Enraged, Marie tries to shove Sister into the
oven. Sister is saved at the last minute by the fork and poker she holds. With these,
she stabs Marie in the hand, and knocks her in the head, into
unconsciousness.

When Marie awakes, Sister has told the
other nuns that Marie has the sign of the stigmata (wound of Christ at his crucifixion)
on her, and all are surrounding Marie in prayer. Marie realizes that Sister has told the
story to protect herself.

Marie knows she has won. And she
is ready to make Sister pay. However, she looks at the beaten nun, aware of her personal
"wrongness," "kneeling within the shambles of her love." Marie knows that there will be
no girls abused by Sister Leopolda from this point on. Rather than collecting the debt
she had planned to acquire for years of abuse, Marie can only see Sister with pity in
her heart, and know now that she can leave.

How do find the first four terms of an arithmetic sequence when given the first term (A1), An, and Sn?example: Find the first four terms. A1=10...

The two formulas you need to
know:

Find any term in an arithmetic sequence: An = A1 +
(n-1)d

where A1 = is the first term, n is the number in the
sequence, and d is the common difference.

Find the sum of
an arithmetic sequence: Sn = 0.5n(A1+An).

To solve d, we
need to know n for the An=67.  To do this we can use the sum
equation:

Sn = 0.5n(A1+An)
680 =
0.5n(10+67)
n = (2*680)/(10+67) = 17.66

This
equation is not contingent on n being a whole number, and so it is irrelevant that it is
not a whole number in this case.  It is customary for it to be a whole number, but the
equation does not fail if is not.

It is my opinion that
rounding it makes your final answer less accruate.  It is possible to have a value in
between two values in an arthimetic series, and as such, insisting that the 3.2nd term
in a sequence cannot exist is just bad math; values exist between numbers.  If they did
not, interpolating, and extrapolating would be moot
concepts.

You can still use the data given to find the
terms in the sequence, regardless of whether the value 67 is an nth term or a between
nth term.

Now, to determine d we can use the first
equation:

An = A1 + (n-1)d
67 = 10 +
(17.66-1)d
d = (67-10)/(16.66) =
3.42

Now:

A1 = 10
A2
= 10 + (2-1)(3.42) = 13.42
A3 = 10 + (3-1)(3.42) = 16.84
A4 = 10 +
(4-1)(3.42) = 20.26

In Act I Scene 3, what does "give thy thoughts no tongue" mean?

Polonius' advice to his son, when considered on the whole,
seems to place a heavy emphasis on protecting one's reputation.  He starts his advice
with "And these few precepts in thy memory / Look thou character."  He wants Laertes to
be very aware of his actions and what others may know or say about him that could be
judged by his speech or actions.  In three separate places his tells Laertes to not
speak his mind.  First in the line you asked about, and later when he says, "Give every
man thine ear, but few thy voice" and lastly the next line says, "Take each man's
censure, but reserve thy judgement."

Polonius has an
important position in the court and doesn't want either of his children's actions to
reflect badly on the family name.  This speech and the one that follows to Ophelia show
Polonius' emphasis on ettiquette and appearances.

 What is happening in the natural world the night that Duncan is murdered in Macbeth? Elizabethan England believed...

On the night that King Duncan is murdered, there is a
terrible storm outside and many strange sounds are heard.  When Macduff and Lenox arrive
at Macbeth's home, Lenox tells of the night
happenings:

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"The night has been unruly:  where we lay, our
chimneys were blown down; and, as they say, lamentings heard i'th'air; strange screams
of death, and, prophesying with accents terrible of dire combustion, and confus'd
events, new hatch'd to th'woeful time, the obscure bird clamour'd the livelong night: 
some say, the earth was feverous, and did shake."
(II.iii.53-59)

The unsettled
nature of the environment suggests that something out of the natural order has
occurred.  Further, just before Macbeth reports to Lady Macbeth that he has gone through
with the murder, she mentions the shriek of the owl:

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"It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman,
which gives the stern'st good-night."
(II.ii.3-4)

The owl is also
an element of nature that suggests that something is amiss, particularly that
something/someone has died ("good-night").  Shakespeare has used these elements of
nature as symbols to represent the death of King Duncan and to foreshadow the disorder
that will be brought to Scotland under the rule of Macbeth.

If 1 TV wall costs 1/3 of a fireman's yearly pay, app. how much do you think it would cost now? (let's say a fireman makes about $40,000 yearly...

The cost of the TV is expressed as ratio of the yearly pay
of the  fire man in the problem.

It means whatever the
amount the fire man gets  , we have to multiplly that amount by 1/3  and the result is
the cost of the TV.

We can also arrive at the cost of the
TV by dividing the yearly pay of the fireman by
3.

Given yearly pay of the fireman =
$40000.

The give ratio of TV  as fireman's yearly pay =
1/3.

Therefore the cost of TV =  $40000*1/3 =
$13333*33.

Hope this helps.

Which Characters from the Great Gatsby can fit the description of Flat, round, static, foil, stock, dynamic, and confidante?****why is this...

I think the flat role would really fit Tom pretty well. 
He is basically in there to be a boorish, nasty, racist bastard with tons of money.  You
don't get a more thorough look at him.

As a confidante,
Nick certainly fits the role, he is telling the story, treating the reader as a
confidante.

I think you could make the argument that Daisy
is static.  She maintains the constant role as a manipulator, no matter who she is
around, no matter who she is manipulating, she never relents and never changes her
tune.  She's used her beauty her whole life and she doesn't stray from that
path.

What do you think Dickens is saying about death and resurrection in Carton's final vision of the future?Is it believable that Carton would have...

In A Tale of Two Cities, Sydney
Carton has an idealized, romantic love for Lucie Manette.  Since he cannot marry her as
she loves Charles Darnay and marries him, Carton settles for a platonic relationship
with Lucie; he pledges his loyalty and love to her, promising to do anything for her if
she needs him.

Having lived a dissolute life, Carton has
allowed Stryver to use him and take credit for his genius in solving cases.  When he
sees his double Charles Darnay, Carton becomes aware of the opportunities that he has
wasted in his dissipated life.  So, in Book the Third, when Carton learns that Darnay
has been imprisoned for the injustices of his father and his family, the Evremondes, he
decides to sacrifice what he perceives as his miserable life for the worthy life of
Darnay whom Lucie loves dearly.  In keeping his pledge to Lucie, Carton finds worth to
his life:

"It
is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest
that I go to, that I have ever
known."

In contemplating his
sacrifice for his double, Charles Darnay, Carton knows that Lucie will be eternally
grateful.  For this reason--and justifiably so--that Lucie will honor his name by giving
it to her child. In this way, Carton feels that he will attain some value as this child
grows and, with the noble characteristics of his parents, he will bring respectability
to Carton's name. Thus, by dying Carton will
live. 

Remembering the verse from his boyhood, Carton
recites the words of Jesus: 

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Iam the Resurrection and the Life, saith the
Lord; he that believeth in me, though he were dead yet shall he live; and whosoever
liveth and believeth in me, shall never
die.

By dying, Carton is
resurrected through his love and sacrifice.  He will live through Lucie's child who will
bear his name and become a worthy man.  Sydney Carton dies knowing that his name and
memory will resurrect him as a much worthier man.