This is a great line. Taking it literally, the idea of
being naked is one element present. We are what we are and there is little to change
it. Yet, our state of human beings is challenged when adverse conditions fall upon us.
The idea of the naked human beings having to deal with "God's icy wind" brings to light
the idea that the bitterness intrinsic to such realities will visit and the implications
from this will be brutal. The literal meaning is pain. There will be much in way of
pain and discomfort from what will result. The fact that this icy wind comes from God
is almost in the form of a delivering of judgment upon human beings for what has been
done. It is difficult to not see the symbolism of Proctor, who will end up being
executed in complete defiance against what is happening in Salem, speaking about
judgment and deliverance. The idea of "icy" also helps to bring out that the real
cruelty in Salem was not the accusations as much as the severed bonds, the connections
between human beings that were frozen with silence and cold
detachment.
Thursday, January 21, 2016
What is the literal meaning when Proctor says "We are only what we always were, but naked now. Aye! and the wind. God's icy wind, will blow."?
Determine the inverse of y = (2x - 1)/(2x + 1)
We'll solve this equation y=(2x-1)/(2x+1) for x,
multiplying both sides by (2x+1):
2xy+y =
(2x-1)
We'll move all terms containing x, to the left side
and all terms in y, to the right side:
2xy-2x =
-1-y
We'll factorizeby
2x:
2x(y-1) = -1-y
We'll
divide by 2(y-1)
x =
-(1+y)/2(y-1)
Now, we'll interchange x and
y:
y = -(1+x)/2(x-1)
So, the
inverse function is:
[f(x)]^(-1) =
-(1+x)/2(x-1)
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DEMENTIA AND ALZHEIMERS DISEASE?
The two diseases are quite similar. The relationship
between Alzheimer's disease and dementia is that Alzheimer's disease is one possible
cause of dementia. Because of this causal relationship it is quite common for the two
conditions to be confused as the same.
In dementia a
person's thinking and memory is affected to the point that a person begins to lose the
ability to do things they were once able to do.
Determining
whether the dementia is caused by Alzheimer's requires examination of the brain at the
microscopic level, which at this present time in medical history is not an ability we
possess. As such determining a patient's history, and abilities help point to the cause
of dementia. Other types of tests like blood tests are also
conducted.
Alzheimer's is a also a very slowly progressing
disease that works backwards from a person's present day memory. It is almost like
mentally ageing backwards while your body continues to age
forwards.
Essentially the difference is that dementia is a
symptom that causes an impairment to thinking and memory of many possible conditions,
one of which is Alzheimer's.
Explain the theme of lost innocence in "A & P" by John Updike.
Remember, you need to submit a separate question for each
piece of literature. I will answer the question regarding the theme of lost innocence as
it pertains to Updike's "A & P."
In this story,
Sammy is a youngster working in a grocery store. It is a hot summer day, and all of a
sudden three young women, close to his age, enter the store clad only in bathing suits.
Sammy and the young man he works with are overwhelmed at this sight: what a
treat.
In his mind, Sammy takes in every detail: how the
girls are different, who the "leader" is, the slipping of a bathing suit strap, the way
the "leader" walks on her feet, the path they take through the store and even their tan
lines. Sammy watches so intently that he makes a mistake on the order he is ringing
up.
Luckily, as they approach the front of the story, the
other checkout lane is filled, so the girls come to his line.
However, the manager comes out and scolds the girls for their inappropriate dress, not
at all an unusual expectation of that time period.
After
they leave, Sammy takes a stand with the store manager, a friend of the family. He
suggests they weren't doing anyone any harm. The manager reviews the store rules, but
Sammy quits on the spot.
Sammy does this for himself; the
girls are long gone. The manager shakes his head, though he doesn't really argue with
Sammy. However, Sammy felt "ethically compelled" to speak up in the face of what he saw
as unfair treatment. In that very moment, he somehow realizes that life will never be
the same for him.
He has left adolescent innocence and
naiveté behind, as if he has left Neverland. He will never be able to return to a time
when life was so easy, so black-and-white. In this there is a loss of his innocence as
he takes the step that a man might take rather than a boy, and he knows he has somehow
turned one of life's "big corners."
Give a character sketch of the postmaster in the story story 'The Postmaster' written by Rabindranath Tagore.
There are many attributes to "The Postmaster." One one
hand, he is very bright and extremely well read. He displays and communicates this to
Ratan. Additionally, he is urbane and well cultured. This is seen with his difficult
transition to life in the village. The strongest attribute of the Postmaster is that he
represents to Ratan a world that is so strongly different than her own. In the end,
though, he is shown to be limited emotionally and nowhere near the level of moral
stature and transcendence of Ratan. He is shown to be this towering figure of strength
and respect, yet over time, he is shown to be a baby of sorts. When his mother writes
to him that he is alone, the reader couples this with his inability to work though his
being sick alone as a constant need for attention and care. Ratan does provide this,
although he does little in way of full acknowledgement of it. His missing the life of
the city and continual complaining of the village is another indication that while the
Postmaster might possess individual qualities and strength, they pale to those held by
Ratan. What he complains and shows disdain for, she lives on a minute by minute basis.
In this light, the Postmaster is secondary to Ratan in strength and endurance. Finally,
the ending might reveal a great deal about both the Postmaster and Ratan. It is clear
that he laughs off her suggestion of going with him back to the village. This is
already understood, and the reader has some level of antipathy about it. Even if one
were completely partisan towards the postmaster, the manner in which he dismisses
someone's claims of love and loyalty is fairly shallow. Yet, when he does leave her,
she stands, alone and watching. As he departs, there are thoughts about Ratan, and
potential second thoughts about taking her. Yet, he rationalizes these thoughts away,
having to retreat to intellect to mask an obvious condition of affect. In this light,
the postmaster is revealed to be emotionally impotent or emotionally ambivalent about
one of the most important decisions of his life and Ratan's.
How does Buck balance his love for Thornton with his more primitive self?In Chapter 6.
Although Buck is not yet as wild as he will become, he is
already (in Chapter 6) very primitive. As the book says, the only thing that really
kept him from being totally wild was his love for
Thornton.
Buck shows his wild self by going around fighting
with any strange dog he sees. He shows it by stealing from any other human than
Thornton. And, above all, he is coming to hear the call of the wild more and more
strongly in his heart.
But at the same time, he is totally
devoted to Thornton. We can see this, for example, in the place where he is about to
jump off the cliff because Thornton told him to and in the big thing at the end of the
chapter where he pulls the heavy sled for Thornton.
So, in
this chapter, Buck is becoming more and more wild and only his love for Thornton holds
him in the modern world.
What is an example of how Cassius manipulates Brutus?
I would argue that Cassius is not able to manipulate
Brutus. He attempts to manipulate him through flattery and even some bullying, but it
seems to me that Brutus is the one that gets his way. Two important places where Brutus
overrides Cassius are in Act II, scene i, when the conspirators meet and Act III, scene
i when he insists that Antony be allowed to speak at Caesar's
funeral.
In Act II, scene i, first Brutus repudiates
Cassius' suggestion that they "swear [their] resolution" to murder Caesar. Brutus has
quite a long response to this in which he asserts that they are Romans and, as such,
have no need to swear. It is their honor that will create their bond. And then, more
crucially, when Decius Brutus suggests that they murder Antony too, Brutus puts the nix
on that as well:
Cassius
Let
Antony and Caesar fall
together.
Brutus
Our
course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius,
To cut the head
off and then hack the limbs...
For Antony is but a limb of
Caesar.
This, along with
Brutus overriding (once again) of Cassius after the murder of Caesar and permitting
Antony to speak at the funeral, could be argued as the two fatal mistakes to the success
of the conspiracy. In Act III, scene i:
Cassius
You
know not what you do. Do not consent
That Antony speak in
his
funeral...
Brutus
It
shall advantage more than do us
wrong.
Cassius
I
know not what may fall. I like it
not.
Well, like it or not, it
is not Cassius that has the upper hand, much to his own frustration. So, I would argue
that Cassius, try though he might, is not able to manipulate Brutus at
all.