What is the meaning behind the soliloquy in act 3 scene 2 lines 17-33 in Romeo and Juliet?Act 3 scene 2 lines 17-33Come, gentle night, come,...

As Romeo and Juliet are married between Acts 2 and 3,
Juliet anxiously awaits their wedding night in Act 3, scene 2.  The lines you're
referencing occur at the beginning of the scene; in them, Juliet describes the
impatience she feels waiting for Romeo. 

In lines 17-23,
Juliet comments on Romeo's allure and says that when he's dead, and if he's cut into
"little stars," he'll make the night so beautiful that no one will want it to be
daytime.  (Of interest is the pronoun used in line 18.  In early editions of the play,
the line read "when I shall die," and text with this edition often footnote that Juliet
might mean that when she's dead she'll share Romeo's beauty with the world.  The pronoun
was changed from "I" to "he" in the Fourth Quarto.)

In the
rest of the lines you list, Juliet uses figurative language to describe the impatience
she feels while waiting for Romeo.  She comares her impatience to the eagerness of a
child who has new clothes but is not yet allowed to wear them, and she likens her new
(but not yet consummated) marriage to Romeo to a "mansion of a love" which she has
bought but not yet "possessed."

Finally, when Juliet sees
the Nurse returning, she remarks that any news containing Romeo's name is
"heavenly." 

Again, these lines all show how eager Juliet
is to see Romeo. 

What is the tone of the last 2 pages in chapter 19 of Great Expectations?

Chapter 19 marks the end of the first stage of Pip's
expectations, and closes as Pip begins his journey to London.  After Pip says goodbye to
Biddy, Joe, and Mrs. Joe, his tone becomes reflective, regretful, and
apprehensive. 

As Pip first leaves his home to set off for
London, he thinks to himself that leaving is easier than he had anticipated it to be. 
However, as he observes the peacefulness of the village and remembers his childhood, he
begins to cry. 

In the last three paragraphs of the
chapter, Pip is reflective and self-aware.  Specifically, he thinks about his
relationship with Joe and realizes that he has been ungrateful and that he is sorry for
it now.  Pip is so overwhelmed by these thoughts, in fact, that he almost turns around a
few time and even imagines that he sees Joe during his
travels:

And
while I was occupied with those deliberations, I would fancy an exact resemblance to Joe
in some man coming along the road towards us, and my heart would beat high.  As if he
could possibly be
there!

Despite Pip's
misgivings and feelings of uncertainty, he ultimately continues on his way to
London:

We
changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went
on.  And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before
me.

Dickens establishes Pip's
inner conflicts very early on in the novel, and readers quickly understand Pip to be an
extremely sensitive and pensive character who continually questions his own behavior. 
The last few paragraphs in the chapter are consistent with many others in the novel in
which Pip is reflective, regretful, and apprehensive.

In "The Outcasts of Poker Flat," what does Harte mean when he describes Oakhurst as the strongest yet the weakest?

I have always assumed that the weakness of Oakhurst had to
do with his decision to commit suicide rather than die slowly in the blizzard. But he
also had a weakness for humanity, which he showed on more than one occasion during the
story. As for being the strongest, he probably had a higher moral character than any of
the rest of the outcasts, and he also seemed to be the most intelligent. Oakhurst was
merely a gambler who had committed no other crime but playing cards in a town that
looked down upon the sport. He was the leader of the group, and the others looked to him
for guidance. In the end, he took the easy way out, dying alone so that the others might
still have hope for a few more hours.

What is Man Descending by Guy Vanderhaeghe about?

Man Descending is a collection of Guy
Vanderhaeghe's short stories that revolve around the themes of the psychological descent
of the protagonists who have feelings of paranoia from the problems in life and health
that seem to entrap or cage them while making them vulnerable and confused. Vandergaeghe
writes about his protagonists and their problems with sympathy so that while reading of
how their psychological development or stability is breaking down or has broken down or
is in danger of breaking down, we also have sympathy and compassion for the descending
protagonists and grasp with them at any glimmer of hope that
arises.

The overall theme of descent is symbolized in
"Cages" by the occupation of the narrator's father who is a miner who descends into the
earth daily. The hope of the arrest of full descent is depicted by the protagonist in
"The Watcher" who learns of the possibility of liberating himself from his ignorance and
weakness. The possibility of epiphany and transformation from descent to ascent is
represented in "The Expatriates Party" by the protagonist's ultimate questions about the
meaning of his life and the state of his humanity when he asks if he is the kind of man
who punishes his grown son with cruelly painful pictures?

What are some of the fundamental morals of the Igbo community, and how were they reflected by the material culture?Things Fall Apart

The Igbo community of Western Nigeria, as reflected in
Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart,
are:

Patriarchal: It is a
male-dominated society.  Status is defined by the male: titles taken, number of yams
farmed, wrestling throws, heads taken in war, number of wives and
sons.

Agrarian: The males work
hard to produce yams (a male crop).  The females work to produce coco-yams, cassavas,
and beans (female crops).  The men tend their fields, while the women tend to smaller
plots and the
marketplace.

Communal/Polygamous:
Each male with status has many wives, each of which has her own hut and children.  The
male lives in his own hut at the head of the compound.  Male children may live with him
once he has passed the initiations into adulthood (age
16-17).

Polytheistic: Although
debatable, the complex religion of the Igbo is seen by most Westerners as having many
gods.  The Igbo make the caveat that there is only one god, Chukwu, and he has many
servants, or lesser gods.  In light of the Holy Trinity, this should not be a stretch
for the British colonialists to understand, but they inevitably see the Igbo as
practicing polytheistic paganism.

Compare the Colisseum to modern structures beyond stadiums. What modern structures have similar roles or importance?you can answer by your own...

To answer this, you have to figure out what the
Colosseum's role or importance was.  In a previous answer, I talked about how it came to
be a symbol of the power, riches and glory of Rome.  So you would have to think about
what modern structures show similar things about their
societies.

To me, what comes closest to filling this role
in our society are monumental, huge buildings.  These would be things like the Petronas
Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur or the Sears Tower in Chicago.  These are buildings that
have a role beyond their primary role as office buildings.  They also serve to show off
the power and wealth of the societies that produced them.

What is the maximum temperature of viscosity?

Viscosity is a measure of how easily a given material will
flow. One way to look at it is how "syrupy" is the material.  A liquid such as water has
a low viscosity while molasses has a high viscosity.  Viscosity is related to the
temperature of the liquid.  For example, syrup just taken out of as refrigerator will
have a much high viscosity than the same syrup after it has been heated in a microwave 
before using on your favorite pancakes.  Therefore, when measuring viscosity, the
temperature at which the viscosity was measured needs to be
stated.

Viscosity is also used to describe motor oils used
in cars and trucks. Motor oils with a low viscosity will still flow even when the
ambient temperature is low whereas motor oils with a high viscosity will get very thick
when the temperature gets very low.

This change in
viscosity is why in very cold climates, like Alaska in the winter time, trucks keep
their engines running all the time. If they left them off overnight the oil would be so
thick and viscous that the engine would not start.

At the
other end of the temperature spectrum, as you increase the temperature for a given oil
you will reach a point where the liquid starts breaking down and no longer works as
intended. You could consider this the maximum temperature of viscosity for that material
but it would be different for every liquid.

The only way to
determine the maximum temperature for a particular substance would be to test it in a
lab and see when it starts breaking down.