How is Anne's goal of wanting "to go on living even after my death" fulfilled in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl?I didn't get how it was...

I think you are right! I don't believe that many of the Jews who
were herded into the concentration camps actually understood the enormity of the horrible
situation in which they were being placed. Most of them probably could not visualize their own
mass extinction at the hands of their own fellow Germans. Anne probably did not foresee this
either, but she decided to keep a diary to document her daily thoughts and activities. Whether
she ever believed that it would be read at all is uncertain, but she could never have recognized
the power that it would eventually have over the millions that have read it. Her diary has been
translated into dozens of languages, and it's still a relevant documentation of one of humanity's
worst episodes. The fact that it is still being taught regularly in schools throughout the world
has made it a certainty that Anne Frank will never be forgotten.

Calculate the perimeter of the triangle whose vertices are (1,2) (-1,4) and * (-2,3).

Let ABC be a triangle.

Given
the vertices's of a triangle are:

A(1,2) , B(-1,4), and
C(-2,3).

We need to find the perimeter of the
triangle.

First we need to find the length of the
sides.

==> AB = sqrt[( 1+1)^2 + (
2-4)^2)

            = sqrt( 2^2 + 2^2
)

            = sqrt(
4+4)

             =
sqrt8

==> AB =
2sqrt2.

==> AC = sqrt( 1+ 2)^2 + (
2-3)^2

              = sqrt( 3^2 +
1^2)

                = sqrt(9+
1)

                =
sqrt10.

==> AC=
sqrt10.

==> BC = sqrt( -1+2)^2
+(4-3)^2]

             = sqrt( 1^2 + 1^2
)

            =
sqrt2

==> BC =
sqrt2.

==> The
perimeter of the triangle
is:

P = AB + AC +
BC

   = 2sqrt2 + sqrt10 +
sqrt2

   = 7.4 units. (
approx.)

Consider Arms and the Man as a drama of ideas or a problem play.

Shavian drama primarily deals with ideas, using characters as
spokespersons and dialogues/situations as polemical. Arms and the Man is a celebrated example of
the Shavian drama of ideas. The play aims to satirize the long-cherished conventions of love and
romance on the one hand, and those of soldiering and heroism on the other. The victorious
Bulgarian cavalry-charge led by Sergius Saranoff against the Serbian artillery at the battle of
Slivnitza which makes him "the hero of Slivnitza" is actually a gross act of romantic
adventurism. Sergius's heroism makes Raina, his betrothed Petkoff daughter, and her mother
instantly ecstatic, but Sergius fails to get promoted in the army because his act of adventurism
is rightly looked upon as a piece of amateurish idiocy. The Shavian protagonist in the play,
Bluntschli, who enters Raina's bed-chamber secretly, explains Sergius's ludicrous suicidal bid to
the young romantic girl who gathers from the professional soldier what the realities of war
actually are. Raina's "soul's hero" Sergius and the fugitive Serbian artillery-man, Bluntschli,
are a pair of contrasted characters to highlight the conflict of the two ideas/attitudes to war,
heroism, soldiering and patriotism. Sergius, Raina, Major Petkoff and Catherine are all men and
women inclined to the conventional ideas of heroism, adventurism and patriotism. Bluntschli
serves as a typical Shavian ideologue to argue his way in his characteristic serio-comical manner
to lead the entire romantic-sentimental host to disillusionment. Raina gradually discovers that
Sergius is as much an adventurist in the domain of soldiering as he is a hypocrite in the domain
of love. He is found as making secret overtures to the Petkoff house-maid, Louka, behind Raina's
back. Louka, an example of a new woman, is very clever and ambitious to trap Sergius in love and
marriage. At the end of the play, Raina righly chooses to marry her "chocolate-cream soldier"
Bluntschli, and rejects the foolishly and falsely romantic Sergius Saranoff. The play can also be
seen as a problem play on the Ibsenian model. The play presents, analyzes and sarcastically
exposes the problems relating to love, relationships and marriage, problems relating to
patriotism, heroism and soldiering. Characters represent contrary and confronting ideas;
dialogues and situations underscore the problems and the conflicting trajectories. The whole play
does have a strong purpose of criticism and reformation.

What is the use of the character of Margaret in Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen?I have to write an essay on this question and am dyng for...

You are correct in your assumption that Margaret's character
provides entertainment, color and flavor to the story. After all, Margaret is still a child when
the events at Norland develop and the situation among the Dashwood women is way too pitiful to
allow for every single character to dwell in their misery.

Margaret
opens a window into the side of the Dashwood women which is still vital, happy, naive, and
mischievous. She does stir and move the action with her innuendos and her innocent blurts of
information. She is basically the happy medium between Elinor's sense and Marianne's sensibility.
She also allows the tense and stuffy atmosphere in the Dashwood household to soften to her
innocence and her natural curiosity.

In "Through the Tunnel," what is the specific theme in the story?

You are only allowed to ask one question - I will answer
your question by looking at the theme of this excellent short story. By the end of the
story Jerry has gone through a journey from childhood to manhood, symbolised most
stridently in his journey through the tunnel.

At the
beginning of the story we are introduced to a character who is on the cusp of
adolescense, and very clearly feels responsible for his mother due to their enforced
intimacy. Yet despite his feelings of responsibility towards his mother, he nonetheless
feels drawn to the "wild beach", which is away from the "safe beach" and his mother's
attentive care. The wild beach here can be said to symbolise independence and life away
from the protection of a parent figure - note how Lessing describes the two beaches to
draw out this comparison.

His discovery of the tunnel and
the challenge that the French boys set him through swimming through the tunnel spur
Jerry on to train hard and eventually succeed in his attempt to go through the tunnel.
Although certainly at the beginning of the story it is Jerry's need to be accepted by
the older group of French boys that drives his desire to go through the tunnel, it is
interesting that at the end of the story he no longer feels this is the case, as he is
happy to go back home and spend time with his mother. This indicates that the tunnel was
more about a process of self-acceptance and doing something to show he could do it for
himself rather than for any other reason.

His relationship
with his mother likewise has changed by the end of the story. Jerry deliberately
witholds his triumph, only relating his ability to hold his breath. The dramatic irony
in his mother's response ("I wouldn't overdo it, dear") indicates the independence that
Jerry has achieved in his journey through the tunnel - he has now entered an arena where
he has secrets from his mother and is able to engage in activities, dangerous activies,
away from his mother's protection.

Therefore, when we think
and consider the theme of this excellent tale, it is important to realise how Jerry
changes through the course of the story and passes from being a child to an adult,
symbolised most stridently through his voyage through the
tunnel.

What is the difference in characterization of Jocasta in Oedipus Rex and Desdemona in Othello?

While there are some similarities between Sophocles'
Jocasta and Shakespeare's Desdemona, there are some significant differences.  Both of
them support their spouses, but do so in different ways.  Desdemona's affirmation of
Othello's love causes her to break with her family and her social setting to live only
with and for him.  Once they leave together, she does not have much of a role in terms
of counsel or advice.  She loves him fully and with pure transparency, but the role of
Iago and Othello's own self doubt ends up subsuming him and reduces her to an object
upon which his insecurities are projected.  Jocasta is a bit more of an adviser or
counselor to Oedipus.  She is constantly advising him to not believe the prophecies, or
to not succumb to petty arguments with Creon.  At the same time, she does whatever she
can to shield him from the truth, invoking a maternal instinct, as well as defending her
own relationship with him.  Her counsel expires when the spiraling state of affairs
becomes too much for her.  Both depictions of women are different from one another
because they reflect different expressions of who what it means to be a spouse.  The
other significant difference would be their endings, in that one is killed by the hand
of another and the other is killed by her own hand.

What feelings were produced by the annexation of western lands in early mid 1800's?

Before the United States acquired the Louisiana Territory, the
port of New Orleans and the mouth of the Mississippi River were closed to Americans.  Americans
who lived between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River had to ship their produce
and import what they bought from overseas, through northeastern ports such as New York City,
Philadelphia, and Baltimore.  Thus northern and eastern merchants did not want the U. S. to own
the Louisiana Territory because this would make it easier and cheaper for trade to go through New
Orleans than through northeastern ports.

Almost from the start of
government under the Constitution, there were businessmen and politicians in the North who wanted
to use government to aid the growth of business.  At the same time there were politicians and
planters and yeomen in the South who did not want to pay the taxes that government aid to
business would entail.

When Louisiana was purchased, Northern
interests feared that more states would be created out of it that would be controlled by planters
and Southern yeomen and their politicians.  This would mean more senators and representatives who
would oppose Northern interests in Congress.  The Northern interests thought they would thus have
too little power in the federal government.  They were very upset about the Louisiana
Purchase.

When the territory taken from Mexico was added to the
U.S.,  Northern business and political interests tried to pass a law in Congress that would keep
slaveowners out of the new states that would be created from the territory.  This made
Southerners very upset, because whether they owned slaves or not, they did not want to see
Northerners achieve unchallanged control of the federal government.