How does alcohol damage the liver?

When a person consumes alcohol it is broken down by the
liver. During this process many extremely harmful substances like acetaldehyde are
generated that harm the liver more than the alcohol that is ingested. The damage caused
by these substances leads to inflammation of the liver, formation of scars, reduction in
the supply of oxygen through blood and over all liver damage. This makes it essential to
drink within limits and ensure that you are not getting addicted to consuming alcohol.
Alcohol consumption also damages other organs of the body and is very harmful to the
rest of the body too in addition to the liver.

In In the Time of the Butterflies, what is a quote that shows the relationship between Minerva and Manolo?

Well, remember that in this novel the relationship between
Minerva and Manolo changes as the action progresses. Their relationship doesn't really
start off very well as Manolo is unfaithful to Minerva early on, yet when they both
become leaders in the rebel movement, it is clear that this brings them closer together.
Maria Teresa gives us an insight into the strain that there marriage is under when she
goes and visits them and stays in their very small house in a poor region of the
country:

The
drive today was horribly tense. Manolo and Minerva kept addressing all their
conversation to me, though every once in a while, they'd start discussing something in
low voices.

Later on, Maria
Teresa hears Minerva emit a "cracking sob" and confronts her sister about what is going
on with Manolo, who is out "all hours," and Minerva confesses that Manolo is having an
affair.

Examine the aspects of atmoshphere and setting in the story that contribute to the readers' understanding of the characters' mental...

Like so many of Kate Chopin's stories, "Desiree's Baby" is
set in  Creole Louisiana.  Old plantations and an old, venerable family name contrast
with the unknown origin of a beautiful girl who is found lying asleep outside Valmonde
plantation.  As a young man, Armand Aubigny, from a neighboring plantation "looked into
her eyes and did not care" about Desiree's "obscure origin."  Like all Aubignys, secure
in who he is, he falls in love, "as if struck by a pistol shot, not
reasonably.

Considered fortunate to marry a gentleman of
such a fine name, Desiree settles into L'Abri, the plantation of the Aubgnys, and gives
birth to a son.  However, surrounded by Zandrine, the mulatto nurse and another mulatto
who fans the baby, it is apparent that Desiree's baby is not white.  People come from
neighboring areas to look at the baby, and Armand becomes distant with
Desiree:

And
the very spirit of Satan seemed suddenly to take hold of him in his dealings with the
slaves.  Desiree was miserable enough to
die.

Finally, Desiree sees
what others have already seen.  When her husband enters, she asks him despairingly about
the baby:  "Tell me what it means!" Armand "answers
lightly":

I
means that the child is not white; it means that you are not
white."

In the Creole
society, one that is male dominated, the question of any problem with Amand Aubigny's
ancestor does not enter his mind.  The colored blood must come from his wife, whose
origin is unknown.  Familiar with her society and the life at L'Abri, Desiree finds the
nerve to counter this accusation, declaring "I am white!"  But, as the female in a
male-dominated society, she is blamed.  This result is, of course, tragic, as Armand
discovers the letter from his mother to his father, a letter that reveals her race and
her happiness that it is hidden from her son, whom she adores.  Unquestionably, then,
Kate Chopin's story is a tale of despair caused by the conventionalities of a
Creole society in Louisiana.

Why does Goldstein say that, although the superpowers talk about total victory, no power believes it is possible or even desirable?

Goldstein makes the argument that the superpowers are more
interested in control than in power.  For Goldstein, the purpose of "is to use the
surplus of consumer products without raising the standard of living for everyone."  This
motiveless notion of war is one in which the desire for control is the only element that
matters to those in the position of power.  War is not fought for anything other than
control and the consolidation of power.  For Goldstein, victory means that war is over.
 In its absence, power dissipates.  Goldstein recognizes that "war is the health of the
state."  

Goldstein's primary purpose to discuss how the
superpowers fail to acknowledge the possibility and realistic element of peace is meant
to indicate how war is a construction of power.  It is not for national security as much
as it is an understanding in which those in the position of power see war as a way to
continue and advance their claims on power.  With war as an exercise for power, the
notion of victory is not the most important, reflecting the futility intrinsic to
it.

What is the major theme in "The Open Window"?

For me, unlocking the theme of this short story
necessarily involves considering the character of Vera. Vera, of course, is the
storyteller without equal, who is quickly able to seize on details and weave convincing
tales to horrific effect. Note how she dominates the story - it begins with her words
and ends with them. We are told in the first sentence that she is "a very self-possessed
young lady of fifteen". It is clear that she sees in Framton Nuttel an object for one of
her stories, as she is quick to establish that he knows nobody from the area and thus
she is free to use her excellent wit and intelligence to create a fable that will shock
Framton Nuttel for her own amusement. She shows herself to be an excellent actor as well
as a storyteller. Consider how the author narrates her duping of Framton
Nuttel:

Here
the child's voice lost its self-possessed note and became falteringly human... She broke
off with a shudder.

She is
not only creative, but quick, intelligent and able to fool others into believing her
words. This is demonstrated yet again at the end of the tale when, nonchalantly, she
creates another tale to explain Framton Nuttel's swift escape from the house to trick
her family, telling the tale "calmly" with complete equanimity. Clearly this tale
celebrates the power that a good storyteller can have over a susceptible audience, with
Vera presented as the master storyteller who takes all victim to her powers of the
imagination.

What "program for action" did Paine put forward in "The Crisis," p. 142?

In your message to me, you said that this question refers
to the article written in December of 1776.  In this article, the main "program for
action" (these words aren't actually used) is for all good Americans to get together and
back the war.

Paine is saying that he has (in the past)
thought that war was not the right thing.  But now that the British have made the first
moves, a war would not be an offensive war but rather a defensive one.  As Paine
says

Not all
the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an
offensive war, for I think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and
destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to
"bind me in all cases whatsoever" to his absolute will, am I to suffer
it?

So now that Britain has
taken the first offensive actions, what should be done?  Paine believes that all
Americans should come and fight.  He thinks that it is time for people to make
sacrifices and come out and fight so that their children can live in a better world.  As
he says:

I
call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state:
up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel; better have too much force than too
little, when so great an object is at stake. Let it be told to the future world, that in
the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and
the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it. Say not
that thousands are gone, turn out your tens of thousands; throw not the burden of the
day upon Providence, but "show your faith by your works," that God may bless
you.

So Paine is saying that
now that Britain has done wrong to the colonies, it is time for everyone in every colony
to come out and fight.  This is what I would take as the "program for action" in this
article.

How do the speakers in "Mirror" by Sylvia Plath act differently?

The first stanza speaks as if it is a mirror. The second
speaks as if it is the water of a lake. Both speak about their power of reflection which
means they tell the truth, report exactness, and the repetition of what they see. The
mirror reports what appears to be fact, whereas the lake seems to have relationship and
power to change the woman.

The big difference between the
two then, is the depth to which a person may engage with the reflection. The lake
provides the ability to die and to resurface differently. At the lake, a woman
engages:

"A
woman bends over me, searching my reaches for what she really
is"

This demonstrates a much
more intimate relationship with the lake. Further on, the lake
reports:

"She
rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.
I am important to her. She
comes and goes.
Each morning it is her face that replaces the
darkness."

The lake longs for
the company of the woman and senses the woman's pain. The mirror seems incapable of
this.

When Lady Capulet asks Juliet if she 'shall happily make thee there a joyful bride' what does Juliet's reply suggest?

This is from Act III, Scene
5.

First, let me point out that this is not a question. 
Lady Capulet is telling Juliet that she and Paris are going to get married.  Her way of
putting it is that

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The County Paris, at Saint Peter's Church,

Shall happily make thee there a joyful
bride.

So she is not asking
anything -- she's telling.

So then look at what Juliet
says.  Basically, she says "no way."  She does not just tell her mom that she won't
marry Paris, she swears that she won't do it.  She
says

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Now, by Saint Peter's
Church and Peter too,
He shall not make me there a joyful
bride.

So what does this
suggest?  It suggests that the relationship between Juliet and her mom (that was so nice
back in Act I, Scene 3) is no longer good.  Lady Capulet is telling Juliet what she is
going to do and Juliet is fighting back.  She is flat out refusing to do what she is
told.

In the coin toss scene, what does Chigurh have to say about fate and chance? What does the coin toss symbolize?

It's one of my favorite scenes in the movie, and it reads
well in the book also.  The idea he presents is a powerful one, in that this coin he has
in his pocket had traveled for twelve years to get to this one place, at this one time,
in a gas station in the middle of the Texas desert.  This same coin, then is to be used
to determine a man's fate, even though he is not fully aware of it.  Imagine the number
of transactions and the incredible random timing and coincidence of this coin being in
Chigurh's hands at this particular point.  I think the idea intrigues Chigurh too.  He
is a man who believes everything happens for a reason, that fate plays a role in these
decisions, if not the dominant role.

Also for Chigurh, this
is perhaps how he has come to rationalize the murders he carries out, that these victims
were fated to die at his hands, and that he is merely the delivery mode for random
chance.  We also see this in the man Chigurh pulls over by the side of the road, just a
random car with a random person that happened to be the next car in front of
him.

Overall, the coin toss can symbolize the randomness of
life and death many humans face at one point or another in their lives.  Those killed in
war and those not, those who live through the Holocaust only to be killed by a mugger
fifty years later, or those killed in an accident that was someone else's fault
(accident scene with Chigurh towards the end of the story too).  All of these are events
beyond our control, random fates determined by chance.  Chigurh believes in this
randomness, represented by the coin, very deeply.  He believes it absolves him of all
his crimes.

What is the setting of the story Beyond the Grave by Jude Watson?

The majority of this story takes place in Egypt, mostly in
the capital city of Cairo, as the two heroes of the story, Dan and Amy, track down clues
that lead them to study Pharaohs and goddesses and the ancient history that surrounds
them.  Some of the secrets they discover are in ordinary places, like their hotel, and
others in places you would expect in Egypt.

The book is a
mystery, and so the setting is both important and approproate since there are still so
many mysteries in that country and desert, and so as the clues lead to other clues, the
reader is taken on a tour of the ancient lands.  The book is the fourth installment of
"The 39 Clues" series.

What is the exposition of "A Christmas Memory"?

Your original question contained more than one question,
so I have edited it down to focus on the exposition of this great short story by Truman
Capote. Hopefully this will help you to go and complete the rest of your plot chart and
identify the other stages of this tale.

Remember that the
exposition or basic situation of a story is the opening of the story when the characters
and their conflict are introduced. So, looking at the tale, it is the first few
paragraphs that introduce the setting:

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Imagine a morning in late November. A coming of
winter morning more than twenty years ago. Consider the kitchen of a spreading old house
in a country town. A great black stove is its main feature; but there is also a big
round table and a fireplace with two rocking chairs placed in front of it. Just today
the fireplace commenced its seasonal
roar.

The coming of winter
and the cold exterior matched by the warm interior thanks to the fireplace is described
as we are plunged into a sprawling country house. The two central characters are then
introduced: the "woman with shorn white hair" and the seven year old boy, who have a
very special relationship, in spite of the age difference between them: "We are each
other's best friend."

The conflict becomes clear by the
somewhat mysterious first words of the woman as she says "It's fruit-cake weather!"
Having thirty cakes to bake introduces the conflict as the characters have to fight
against poverty to enable them to buy, make and post all of the fruit-cakes for
Christmas presents.

Hopefully this will help you identify
the rising action as they struggle to get all the ingredients for the cakes, the climax
as they manage to complete them and celebrate Christmas, and then the falling action as
the narrator tells us how time moved on and his special friend
died.

According to his book Confederates in the Attic, what does Horowitz discover on his travels throughout the South?

One theme that comes up over and over as Horowitz travels
through the Deep South is division; specifically, there is still a racial divide between
many whites and blacks over the cause of the war and the relevance of slavery in the
debates leading up to the firing of shots at Fort Sumter.  The apologist argument
generally focuses on political philosophies only as they affected the Southern way of
life; Confederate ancestors were fighting for states' rights, for their people first. 
Many people Horowitz interviewed discounted slavery as almost a non-issue in the
politics of the war.  Noted historian Shelby Foote mentioned in his visit with Horowitz
that most Southerners then and now operate from a philosophy of "One's people before
one's principles", saying the Southern code decreed that one must "be with my people,
right or wrong.  Even if I was against slavery, I'd still be with the South."  Students
of the antebellum South know that Southern allegiance was always to the state first,
rather than to the United States as a nation. General Robert E. Lee was first offered
command of the Union forces by Abraham Lincoln, but after an agonizing night of
contemplation determined that he didn't want to take up arms against his nation, but
that he absolutely could not do it against his home state of
Virginia. 

What does the Radley house mean to the children?I have only gotten throught chapter one.

At this point, only getting through chapter one, you
should see that the kids view the Radley house as a sort of haunted house or masoleum.
They believe a bogeyman-type character lives there. They are afraid of what the
bogeyman-type character is capable of and they believe many legends the neighborhood has
told about him.

This house signifies that which shouldn't
be touched. It is an unattainable, hand-off sort of symbol for them. Although they are
intrigued by the house's mystery, they have a reverence and a fear of the place that
keeps them from checking it out.

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"Radley pecans can kill
you."

You have to remember
what it is like to be a kid and make stuff up about a person or a place and believe
it.

Discuss the style that Camus uses in The Stranger.Discuss two specific moments, words, phrases, sentences, that shock or upset or intrigue etc....

Albert Camus uses a plain / tough narrative style,
featuring a detached narrator.  Meursault matter-of-factly opens the novel with one of
the most deadpan openings ever:

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Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don’t
know. I had a telegram from home: ‘mother passed away. Funeral tomorrow. Yours
sincerely.’ That doesn’t mean anything. It may have been
yesterday.

There's a couple
of ways to look at Meursault's tone.  First, he narrates from prison (death row), so he
may be under such duress that he cannot remember the day she dies.  Or, as most people
suggest, Meursault does not remember, or even care what day his mother died, because he
does not concern himself with the culture of death.  In other words, Meursault's tone is
fatalistic because he feels he is being condemned by a deterministic culture that
negates free will.

Another key passage is the murder
narration:

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“At the same instant the sweat in my eyebrows
dripped down over my eyelids all at once and covered them with a warm, thick film. My
eyes were blinded behind the curtain of tears and salt. All I could feel were the
cymbals of sunlight crashing on my forehead and, indistinctly, the dazzling spear flying
up from the knife in front of me. The scorching blade slashed at my eyelashes and
stabbed at my stinging eyes. That’s when everything began to reel. The sea carried up a
thick, fiery breath. It seemed to me as if the sky split open from one end to the other
to rain down fire. My whole being tensed and I squeezed my hand around the revolver. The
trigger gave; I felt the smooth underside of the butt; and there, in that noise, sharp
and deafening at the same time, is where it all started. I shook off the sweat and sun.
I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach
where I’d been happy. Then I fired four more times at the motionless body where the
bullets lodged without leaving a trace. And it was like knocking four quick times on the
door of unhappiness.”

Here,
Meursault uses much sensory imagery and metaphorical language, featuring the sun and
knife.  The plain / tough style of Camus' narrator is patterned after Ernest Hemingway's
macho journalistic style.  The "tough guy" word choice is full of the
following:

• -high frequency
  words


• -monosyllabic
  words


• -contractions,
  articles


• -1st person
  pronouns


• -action verbs, active
  tense


• -colloquial


• -Anglo-Saxon
  words


• -simple
  sentences


• -short,
  choppy


• -compound sentences (lots of coordinating
  conjunctions “and”)


• -1st Person (I
  –oriented)

Similar characteristics of Abigail Williams (The Crucible) and Lady Macbeth (Macbeth)What are some similar characteristics I can write about...

Both characters are very intriguing in terms of points of
comparison.  I would initially point out that both of them are able to manipulate
others' quite well.  Lady Macbeth is able to pinpoint how to get Macbeth to do what she
wants him to do in terms of committing murder.  In this light, she is very effective in
wrangling his will.  Abigail is also similar in how she is able to convince the people
of Salem of the supposed authenticity of her accusations and beliefs.  Along these
lines, the reader sees how each of them are able to demonstrate this to the men they
supposedly love.  Lady Macbeth is able to convince her husband of what has to be done
under the guise of the sanctity of marriage.  Part of what makes her counsel so
persuasive is that it is his wife that is giving him this advice.  When we see Abigail
with John, we fully understand how persuasive she can be, using any and all possible
allure, such as sexual innuendo and need, to ensure that she will not be denied.  I
think another point of comparison is that neither stick around to see the full
implications of their desires.  Abigail runs away and Lady Macbeth, already withdrawn
and haunted by guilt, ends up committing suicide before the end of the play.  In both,
we see what they have started or helped to start not necessarily finished by
either.

What are the two mistakes that Atticus does?He gives people the impression of never making mistakes but in fact he does.

1) he underestimated bob ewell. too naive. "he got it all
out of his system that morning." aunt alexandra tried to warn him. "he seems to have a
permanat running grudge with everyone connected with that case," and even scout and jem
express worry. yet he did not take extra precaution, which led to the
attack.

2) atticus is said to be free of
prejudice, but it is not true. scout identified the flaws of her father and maycomb-
"they gave them christmas baskets,relief cheques at the back of its hand." atticus knew
that the ewell children suffered from abuse- but he didn't do anything about it. he even
treats them like exhibits and showed jem and scout "how the ewells lived." he is no
different from those whites who think the ewells "lived among
pigs."

3) atticus failed as a parent - he
insisted that jem go on trial although he was already traumatized enough from the T.R.
trial. too caught up with his moral values. he also fails to empathize this time with
boo radley.

4) another mistake as a lawyer- he
took the trial personally, when he should have taken it at a professional level. he let
him affect it personally.

Why has William Golding portrayed Simon's death so beautifully as compared to Piggy's death in Lord of the Flies?

Simon's death is the first death the readers witness in
the book and it is a climactic scene.  The purpose of the scene is to show that the boys
have now descended to a new level of savagery and Simon's death is a symbolic killing of
the beast that has been terrifying the boys.  The description of Simon's death is drawn
out for the climactic effect that illustrates and emphasizes the horror of what is
happening.  By contrast Piggy's death is abrupt and ugly.  The purpose is to show the
complete disintegration into savagery.  While Simon's death still held some degree of
civility because the boys were already in a frenzy and the storm helped to obscure Simon
and his words, there is no such obscuring of Piggy's death.  It is blunt and
brutal.

What is the basic image of the poem "Love Should Grow Up Like a Wild Iris in the Fields"?

The wild iris is the basic image of the poem, and it
occurs six times as the image of the growth of love as an ideal. It is the constant
pattern of what love should be. At the end the speaker indicates that love is inherent
in individuals, who by nature are capable of opening “face up to the skies” in love. The
contrast is always in the poem, however, for the iris needs light to grow spontaneously,
just as human beings need the light to be right for love to flourish. The problem, as
the poem dramatizes it, is that light tends to be forgotten and submerged in songs that
are sung “over and over,” and in constantly taking seasonal clothing “to the cleaners
every fall.”

In To Kill a Mockingbird, what parallels exist between courtroom happenings and what Dill sees as cruel to the turtle?

First of all, in both situations Dill is the one innocent
child who does not have the stomach to accept cruelty to innocent victims. In chapter 1,
Lee writes:

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Dill said striking a match under a
turtle was hateful.

In
chapters 19-20, Dill has to leave the courtroom because the way that Mr. Gilmer treats
Tom Robinson makes Dill physically sick. Dill plays an important role in demonstrating
that man's goodness might be inherent and given to us at birth because he is closer to
that time of innocence than everyone else except
Scout.

Another parallel is the function of heat. Jem had
suggested the one way to get the innocent turtle out of the protection of his shell was
to heat his shell with a match. The trial ironically occurs on the hottest day possible.
Everyone is sweating, even Atticus. This trial squeezes the town and begins to get them
to move. Because Atticus convinces at least one person on the jury to really think about
this, we have hope that race relations will begin to improve. But no one changes without
difficulty. Often heat is a symbol used to prove that change hurts, but the heat often
molds us into a newer and better version of ourselves. I hope that's what it did for
Maycomb.

Find the value of n if n/3 - 1/3n = 1/n

Let the equation be  n/3 - 1/3n =
1/n

To solve, we will try and get rid of the denominator by
multiplying by the factor.

Multiply by
3n.

==> 3n(n/3) - 3n(1/3n) =
3n(1/n)

==> n^2 - 1 =
3.

Now we will add 1 to both
sides.

==> n^2 = 4.

Now
we will take the root of both sides.

==> n =
+-2

Then, there are two possible values for
n.

==> n = { -2,
2}

What is the comparison in Laux's poem "The Life of Trees"?

“The Life of Trees” contrasts the busy and
responsibility-driven life of human beings with the measured, nature-driven life of
trees. Negatively, the speaker’s summary of human responsibilities is presented, in
lines 15 and 16, as “Money, Politics, Power/ Will or Right.” Such things are not
relevant to the life of Nature, for the natural life of trees is concerned with “Sun.
Rain. Snow. Wind” (line 29). Laux’s poem is accurate in its personification of trees,
and presents a thoughtful description of their existence. Within the confines of a short
poem, it would be difficult fully to describe human duties and tasks, but as a brief
summary the poem succeeds in contrasting the natural life of trees and the preoccupied
life of human beings.

In The Great Gatsby is there any historical context in the list of people that are mentioned in the beginning of Chapter 4?

Well, I don't know about historical context - it seems to
me that the list of guests who visit Gatsby's party is a comic set piece, a literary
exercise, which includes puns and verbal jokes. It is quite distinct from the lyrical
prose in which much of the novel is written. Fitzgerald had a great respect for
Thackeray's Vanity Fair, which contains similar lists, and so
perhaps this is an act of homage to Thackeray.

Note that
there are plant names here: "Hornbeam", "Endive", "Orchid", "Duckweed"; animal names:
"Civet", "Blackbuck", "Beaver", "Ferret", "Klipspringer"; and names of sea creatures:
"Whitebait", "Hammerhead", "Beluga". Perhaps we can see these names as a satirical
strategy, suggesting certain characteristics associated with these natural phenomena.
This should serve to draw our attention as attentive readers to the way that Fitzgerald
uses names with other characters, such as Gatsby, Carraway and Daisy and
Myrtle.

Describe how Jon in "Civil Peace" and Sylvia in "The Lesson," are able to rise above their circumstances?

[The stories' meanings may be perceived in different ways
by different people. The best references I can give are specific examples from each
story.]

In Toni Bamabara's short story "The Lesson," and
Chinua Achebe's "Civil Peace," both protagonists are able to rise above their
circumstances.

The biggest difference is the age of the two
protagonists: Jon is a husband and father, and Sylvia is still just a
kid.

Sylvia understands Miss Moore's "lesson," but she
won't admit it.

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"You sound angry, Sylvia. Are you mad about
something?" Givin me one of them grins like she tellin a grown-up joke that never turns
out to be funny. And she's lookin very closely at me like maybe she plannin to do my
portrait from memory. I'm mad, but I won't give her that satisfaction. So I slouch
around the store bein very bored and say, "Let's
go."

As they travel home,
Sylvia thinks about the trip to the store able to put things in
perspective.

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I'm thinkin about this tricky toy I saw in the
store. A clown that somersaults on a bar then does chin-ups just cause you yank lightly
at his leg. Cost $35...Thirty-five dollars could buy new bunk beds for Junior and
Gretchen's boy. Thirty-five dollars and the whole household could go visit Grand-daddy
Nelson in the country. Thirty-five dollars would pay for the rent and the piano bill
too.

After their day out,
Sugar runs ahead; Sylvia takes her time to think. "Democracy" does not apply to
everyone: this concept has grabbed Sugar and Sylvia's attention, but it will take time
before Sylvia can act on this knowledge. However, she does not whine that she cannot
have what others have. Her realization strengthens her determination to one day rise
above her poverty. She says:

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But ain't nobody gonna beat me at
nuthin.

In "Civil Peace," Jon
has the ability to change his world, for which he feels blessed. During the Nigerian
Civil War, he and his family could have lost much more than they
did.

Achebe writes:

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Jonathan Iwegbu counted himself extra-ordinarily
lucky. 'Happy survival!' meant so much more to him than just a current fashion of
greeting...It went deep to his
heart.

Examples of Jon making
the best of his situation include:

• Jon uses his
  bike as a taxi to make money.


• The family returns to their
  home to find it still standing.


• The family works together
  to make more money to repair the house.


• Jon opens a bar
  for the soldiers in his house because he cannot go back to his job as a miner, and many
  others have not been so lucky.

When the thieves
attempt to rob Jon and his family, Jon calls for help, but no one comes—they are too
afraid. Facing the danger of the men (toward not just Jon, but his entire family as
well), Jon only has the "egg-rashers" which he just newly received; otherwise, his money
is gone. Jon gives what he has to the men and they
leave.

The next day, the neighbors express their regret for
his loss. He explains that he had never depended upon what was taken, so it doesn't
worry him. He feels, again, lucky that things were not
worse.

Both Sylvia and Jon have forward-thinking attitudes.
Sylvia is too young to do anything now, but is committed to succeed one day, and remain
strong. Jon is older, and he can do things to improve his and his
family's lot in life, and does so with thankfulness: he continues to feel greatly
blessed.

Both protagonists work to rise above their
circumstances: Jon with thanksgiving, Sylvia with resolve.

What are some good questions about the novel The Grapes Of Wrath from chapters 7 though 11?

Chapters 7, 9, and 11 of The Grapes of
Wrath insert information about the Great Depression and the migrant movement
so that readers can build a larger perspective about these issues. As you read these
chapters, which are sometimes called interchapters, it is important to consider how John
Steinbeck probably intended readers to interpret them. It is also necessary to keep
track of the point of view, which shifts continually. Good questions to ask yourself
include: Who is speaking in each chapter/paragraph/line? Which passages use irony, and
which are serious? What emotions does John Steinbeck intend to elicit in the reader
through each of the interchapters? Why does John Steinbeck omit the quotation marks
around the dialog in interchapters?

Chapters 8 and 10 focus
on Tom Joad's reunion with his family and on the Joads' preparations for the trip to
California. Good questions about literary narrative usually focus on how and why the
events happen the way they do, not just on what happens. As you read these chapters, try
to figure out the thematic meanings behind the characters' actions. Why are Ma and Pa
afraid when they first see Tom? Why does Jim Casy resist praying? How and why does John
Steinbeck compare Jim Casy to Jesus Christ? Why does Ma get angry at Pa in chapter 10,
and how does her anger contribute to the development of the novel's themes? Why does
Grampa want to stay behind, and how does his resistance contribute to the development of
the novel's themes?

How does Wordsworth's Intimations explore the question of human suffering and/or the speaker's experience of suffering?

The opening stanza is about mourning the loss of
childhood, so there is a general sense of melancholy about aging and a heart-wrenching
nostalgia/yearning for one's lost youth.  The speaker notes the change from the way he
experienced the world as a child and how he experiences the world as an adult.  For him,
immortality means the Soul exists before, during and after the life of the body. So, the
child is closer to the memory of that spiritual realm than the adult.  Stanza
V:

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:/ and later,
"not in entire forgetfulness" and "but trailing clouds of glory do we
come."

As the child becomes an adult, he is further removed
from that dream and becomes mired in a life of "endless imitation." (Stanza VII).  The
adult must rely on memory, which fades with age, to get glimpses of that fresh outlook
that is characteristic of a child.  The older you get, the more you focus on the day to
day repetition of life.  Also, the more you understand of the world, the less miraculous
it seems.  So, the adult suffers in that loss of viewing the world with such freshness. 
He grieves in "nothing can bring back the hour/Of splendour in the grass and the glory
in the flower" (X), but then goes on to say he'll find strength in what remains
behind.

The speaker also finds strength or wisdom in that
the mature philosophic mind can see "through death" to immortality, and more to your
question, as the speaker ages, he learns to more appreciate the fragility of life, the
tenderness of the human heart and sensitivity, empathy to human suffering.  So the
speaker talks about suffering individually, only being able to intimate immortality from
recollections from early childhood.  But he achieves wisdom through philosophical
maturity and finds "soothing thoughts" arising from his appreciation of this world, the
fragility of mortality and sensitivity to human suffering. 

How does Roald Dahl create tension in "Lamb to the Slaughter?"

I think that one of the key ways in which Dahl creates
tension in this darkly humorous and incredibly ironic short story is through the killing
of Patrick Maloney by his wife, Mary. Mary is deliberately described in great detail as
the ideal, loving and caring wife, who is completely devoted to her husband. Note how
the text says:

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She loved to luxuriate in the presence of this
man, and to feel - almost as a sunbather feels the sun - that warm male glow that came
out of him to her when they were alone
together.

This is clearly
rather over the top, but it also makes us feel incredibly sympathetic towards her when
we discover her plight when Patrick tells her he is leaving her. Her murder of course is
a shock - we don't expect a woman who is so devoted to her husband to suddenly kill him,
but it also increases the tension incredibly by making us wonder what will happen to her
and what her fate will be, especially as she is pregnant. It is this that, above all,
raises the tension as we wait and see how Dahl resolves this deliciously wicked
tale.

How do people respond to Sally Oates ?

Sally Oates herself is a simple woman from the town. Her
presence alone would have not caused such a stir, however, it was her disease which made
her, like the story says in a quasi satirical way

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"raised her into a personage of much interest and
importance among the
neighbours"

Therefore, as
much townsfolk with not much to be entertained with, the combination of having a very
ill person and her claims that a mysterious man gave her a miracle cure to make her feel
better must be surely a reason to exalt anyone for the smallest of
reasons.

It was so good for them to have something new to
talk about and someone at who to marvel, since in small towns those things are often
part of the lore of the people.

What is the theme of the story "The Highway" written by Ray Bradbury?

"The Highway" comes from a collection called The
Illustrated Man, in which the narrator sees another man's tattoos move and
tell each of the stories. A theme which comes up in many of the stories is technology
gone awry and that a simpler life is more desirable.

In
"The Highway," Hernando notes the desolate road and then is surprised to find thousands
of cars racing north: to America. He learns from a car of teenagers that the atomic war
is coming. They tell him this would mean the end of the world. And, here is the quote I
would use, he says, "What do they mean, the world?" Hernando is a part of the "world"
and yet he has not heard about this end of the world war. Is it because he is just out
of the media loop; or is there also a more subtle implication about his role (a poor
farmer) in the grand scheme of things.

There is a clear
separation between the industrialized part of the world and the less industrialized
countries; this is a separation between city and country, urban and rural, rich and poor
(in this case Hernando, the farmer.) When he asks (himself) what they mean by "world,"
he is suggesting that the part of the world interested in war, land, and technology is
different from his world. Hernando is unaware; somewhat separate from that world. If it
is the end of the world, he won't know until the end, so he goes about his business.
This is part of a long tradition in science fiction that, while technology has
incredible benefits, the downsides can be devastating (atomic
weapons).

The underlying theme is about the idea of the
"world." It is as if only the more powerful, industrial countries comprise the "world"
and all others are just subject to their whims and potentially, they can become
collateral damage in the event of a war. Hernando either recognizes his separation from
that “world” or doesn't care if the war reaches him, or, knowing he is separate from
that world, he realizes there's nothing he, a poor farmer, can
do.

When you hear reference to the "third world," it is a
description of countries which are not necessarily less civilized (they certainly don't
have world-ending weapons); these countries are just less industrialized. Hernando
represents one of these ordinary people from any world: 1st, 2nd, 3rd. The term "third
world" has faced criticism because it implies that it is fundamentally inferior to 1st
or 2nd. And the term "third world" is based solely on industry and market; i.e., $ and
power.

The overall theme is about the dangers of technology
and that simpler lives are desirable and that there is still a separation between
industrial and agrarian, between rich and poor. The underlying theme is about the
concept of "world." In this case, the world is still separated between industrial and
poorer countries. The poor, represented by Hernando and his family, can only hope the
industrial countires don't screw things up for the "other" parts of the world, or the
so-called "third world."

Are the key issues in the debate over splitting the Ninth Circuit administrative, regional, or partisan?

In my opinion, the key issues include aspects of all of
these, but I think that the major driving force is
partisan.

The Ninth Circuit is one of the most liberal
circuit courts in the Federal system.  This is fine (for the most part) with people in
the coastal regions that it includes.  However, the people in the inland areas of
Washington and Oregon (and all of Idaho, Montana, Nevada and Arizona) do not really care
to be in a circuit that is dominated by liberals.  So that is somewhat of a regional
issue, but it is only an issue because of
partisanship.

Although the partisanship is the main issue,
there is a lot of talk of efficiency because the circuit has so many cases.  This serves
as sort of a cover so that people don't have to talk in nakedly partisan
terms.

The Chorus in Oedipus Rex describes a wild, impious, violent man. Whom do they mean?

The Chorus in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex
plays a very specific role.  It is the voice of the common people, and their
view of Oedipus their king changes over the course of the play.  The words in your
question--"wild, impious, and violent"--are descriptors of King
Oedipus. 

At the beginning of the play, Oedipus is still
seen as their savior.  If he saved them once (from the Sphinx), he can surely do so
again.  The Chorus champions Oedipus in every way.  As soon as the blind prophet
Teiresias arrives and is abused by Oedipus, though, the Chorus begins a subtle shift in
thinking regarding their king.  When Oedipus treats Creon with vitriol (hatred) and
accuses him of treason, the Chorus no longer defends his actions; and once the
entire truth has been revealed, the Chorus feels only pity for their formerly proud
king. 

That middle position--between adulation and pity--is
where they see Oedipus as being "wild, impious, and violent." He has hit an old blind
man, made outrageous accusations against his brother-in-law, and called down curses on
what turns out to be his own head.  They say he is "quick of temper," and they are
right. Once the truth is fully revealed, the Chorus sees a patricidal murderer, a
usurper to the throne, and worse--one who committed theimpious action of marrying one's
own mother.  The people, as represented by the Chorus, finally see the truth of
Oedipus's character.

How does Hrothgar know of Beowulf?

In the Epic Poem Beowulf, the
character Beowulf is a typical Epic Hero. This being said, as a typical Epic Hero, his
name is renowned. It is through his heroic actions and epic challenges that his name
precedes him.

Upon arriving at Hrothgar's lands, Beowulf's
arrival is announced by Wulfgar to Hrothgar. Learning of Beowulf's arrival, Hrothgar
states that he has heard of Beowulf. Hrothgar admits that he knew Beowulf when he was
younger and that he also knew Beowulf's father, Ecgtheow (or Edgetho depending upon
translation).

Hrothgar thanks God for sending Beowulf to
rid Heorot of the monster Grendel. Given that Beowulf's name has made it to the shores
of the Danes, his legendary status in known by all.

What does the castle and all its barricades symbolize in "The Masque of the Red Death"?

In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death," after
Prince Prospero's "dominions were half depopulated" by the plague that was spreading it
red stained death upon the kingdom, he decides to beckon the knights and his friends to
one of his "castellated abbeys."  In the medieval ages, abbeys were built for monks, but
often they were used as bulwarks against enemies.  So, Prospero gathers people from his
kingdom in this abbey in an effort to prevent the Red Death from entering and killing
any more of his subjects.  He hopes that the abbey, a fortress with its "lofty wall with
gates or iron," will prevent any unwanted guest from entering.  Having welded shut the
iron gates and sealed themselves inside the "lofty wall," the prince and his guests
have, they feel, "defiance to contagion," and they leave the external world to "take
care of itself."  Thus, the barricades and walls of the catellated abbey represent man's
efforts to fight an abstract force with material objects, demonstrating how people react
to their mortality.  Sadly, no physical object or force can prevent death from
entering.

Four kilograms of water are placed in an inclosed volume of 1 m^3. Heat is added until the temperature is 150 C.Find the pressure, mass and volume...

We'll calculate the volume of 4 kg of saturated vapor, at
the temperature of 150 C.

0.3928*4 = 1.5712
m^3

The resulted volume is bigger than the given volume of
1 m^3.

If the given volume is less than the resulted
volume, the state is in the quality region, whose pressure is P = 475.8
KPa.

Now, we'll calculate the mass of the vapor. First,
we'll have to determine the quality.

The quality of the
mixture is given by the ratio:

x = mass of saturated
vapor/total mass

v = 1/4

v =
0.25 m^3/Kg

The total volume of the mixture is the sum of
the volume occupied by the liquid and the volume occupied by the
vapor.

v = v1 + x(v2-v1)

0.25
= 0.00109 + x(0.3928 - 0.00109)

We'll remove the brackets
and we'll have:

0.25 = 0.00109 +
0.39171x

0.39171x = 0.24891

x
= 0.24891/0.39171

x
= 0.6354

Mass of saturated vapor = Total
mass*x

m = 4* 0.6354

m = 2.542
Kg

The volume of the vapor
is:

V =
0.3928*2.542

V = 0.998
m^3

Speak about gender roles regarding character vs society in A Doll's House.Note the symbolism in Nora's "costume change" in Act 3

During Nora's costume change, in Henrik Ibsen's
A Doll's House, the reader symbolically sees Nora and Torvald throw
off the conventions of society to become—temporarily—different
people.

Norwegian author, Henrik Ibsen, published and
performed the play in 1879. It would not be until 1888 that women would be allowed to
own property—a major point in this story. Norway had won its independence from Denmark
in 1814, and freedoms of all kinds, including political and social, were opened up to
change, but not for Nora's character. Even in 1879, there was little freedom from
society's expectations for a woman of good character.

A
woman would have been expected to conform in other ways: she was to be subservient to
her husband, could not entertain men alone, could not make major decisions on her own,
and was expected to always be "prim and proper." Basically, women belonged to their
husbands and depended upon their beneficence to survive. A woman would have been
expected to show respect, personal restraint, and decency in dress and manner. (For an
independent-thinking woman, this would be an example of character vs
society.)

With the costume change, however, Nora is
"permitted" to shed the shackles of a repressive society, and Torvald loves it. She
dresses as a peasant girl, dancing the tarantella (a southern Italian dance); her
performance (and costume) is suggestive and wild. Torvald comments on it, but doesn't
seem too concerned:

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...though [it was] possibly a trifle too
realistic—more so than was aesthetically necessary, strictly speaking. But never mind
that. Main thing is—she had a
success.

The dance has an
arrousing effect on Torvald; he says his "Capri signorina" was a "roaring success," and
he cannot wait to get her alone. But as Nora is so concerned about Krogstad's letter in
the mailbox, she has no time to even consider that Torvald wants to make love. (This
demonstrates character vs society, in that Nora basically says
"no.")

Nora:
Leave me, Torvald! Get way from me! I don't want all
this.

Helmer: What? Now, Nora, you're joking with me. Don't
want, don't want—? Aren't I your
husband—?

Nora, and Torvald,
see the costume as the chance to change oneself and be something other than who each
person is during the daytime—out in society. For Nora, ironically, she will usually do
so because it is like playing "dress-up" (a childish response: the complete opposite of
Torvald's response). However in this instance, it helps her to
distract her husband. (Manipulating one's husband could also be seen as character vs
society.)

For Torvald, he is able to see Nora as he
imagines her to be: sexy, young, untouched. While Torvald expects
Nora to adhere to society's norms during the day, he wants her to be different at home,
in private. In this we see character vs society. (The adherence to social conventions
during the day was expected, but "Victorian" society was also known as a time of
hypocrisy for exactly this reason: the distinction between public and private
behavior.)

What is the meaning of the following statement: The average speed that maroga's taxi used from mankweng to polokwane was 110km/h

The average of several values  is got by adding all
the values and dividing by the number of values.

The
maroga's taxi  could have gone at different speeds at different times. Then the total
distance travelled divided by the total time the taxi took to finish the complete
distance is the average speed.

As a particular simple
example ( constructed for the purpose please) , the taxi might have travelled 75km/h for
1 hour , 120km for hours and  115km for 3 hours.

Then the
total distance travelled = (75*1+120*2+115*3)kms =
660kms.

The total time taken to complete the travel =
(1+2+3) hrs = 6 hrs.

Then the average speed of the taxi =
Total distance travelled /total time taken for the travel = 660km/6h =
110km/h.

The average gives an over all
information.

Why doesn't Hapsy come to her death bed in "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"?

You have asked a really interesting question as there is a
certain ambiguity about the character of Hapsy in this excellent short story. Hapsy is
an ambiguous character because her identity and whereabouts are open to interpretation.
Her name suggests that she had or has a sunny disposition and that she made or makes
Granny Weatherall happy. Note how Hapsy is referred to in the last
paragraph:

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You'll never see Hapsy again. What about her? "I
thought you'd never come." Granny made a long journey outward, looking for Hapsy. What
if I don't find her? What then? Her heart sank down and down, there was no bottom to
death, she couldn't come to the end of
it.

Of course, it is vital to
recognise that the stream of consciousness narration means that everything is very
confused as Granny Weatherall moves closer and closer to death and makes more and more
random connections between her scattered thoughts. And yet it is possible to suggest
that Hapsy could be her favourite daughter that she longs to see one more time, or
perhaps that Hapsy is a character or a dear friend who is going to welcome Granny
Weatherall into the afterlife.

Either way, Hapsy does not
appear, and perhaps this is another sign of the rejection of the jilting that Granny
Weatherall so courageously faces at the end of the story as she yields herself up to
death at the very end.

Which financing method provides a float period? a)instalment loan b)credit card c)lump-sum loan d)home equity line of credit e)a loan from a relative

The period between your taking a loan and the rate of
interest that is charged getting fixed is referred to as float
period.

Lenders of home loans usually allow a float period
during which the borrower can at any time fix the rate of interest prevailing in the
market as the rate of interest of the home loan.

As
borrowers, in an attempt to find the lowest rates of interest, cause long delays before
they are able to fix the rate, most mortgage lenders have a pre-defined period within
which the borrower has to make the decision. If the time limit is exceeded, the borrowed
money has to be returned and the loan is cancelled.

Does Claudius' murder relate to the murder of Abel in the bible?I know they do I just need a little bit more guidance. Explain why. Give examples...

In the biblical story, Cain and Abel are the sons of Adam
and Eve, and Cain kills Abel because he is jealous of him -- he seems more favored by
God.  This is usually considered the first murder and this is where the connection is
made.  Just as Cain killed his brother Abel for shallow and selfish reasons, so does
Claudius kill his brother, the King Hamlet.  Once he commits the murder, he then is able
to seize the things that he envied of the brother -- most noteably the thone, and next
most important, his sister-in-law Gertrude whom he proceeds to convince to marry him
within a month of the King's death.  Claudius admidts in Act 3 that he did in fact kill
Hamlet and then questions how he could ever be forgiven, especially considering that he
is not willing to give up the things he gained from it, namely "my crown, my own
ambition, and my queen." He was jealous of his bother's life, and killed him in order to
take the "life" for himself.

Two cars are driving at the same speed. What is true about the lines that represent the distance traveled by each car at a given time?

The cars are in the same
speed.

Speed indicates oly
magnitude.

The lines the car travel are not
indicated.

The cars may travel in the same line and
direction . Then they keep the same distance between
them.

The cars may travel in opposite direction in the same
speed. They meet exactly half the way at a time , half inital the initial distance
divided by the speed.

If the cars travel in different 
lines paralel to each other, then  the situation similar as
above.

If the cars travel at different lines(not parallel)
, then the  directions of their speed , the angle of inclination between the path of the
lines the cars move are to be considered  and the n only we can say  about the relative
distance of the cars on different lines.

Who were the Federalists and Anti-Federalists?

In the debate over ratification of the Constitution, two
groups emerged.  Those who supported the new Constitution were known as Federalists. 
Those who opposed the new Constitution were known as Anti-federalists. There were
several arguments made by the Anti-federalists against ratification of the Constitution.
First, they argued that the Constitution gave too much power to the national government
at the expense of the states. They also argued that there was no bill of rights.  The
Federalist countered with several arguments of their own. They said that there were
built in safeguards against the federal government becoming too powerful and dominating
the states.  First, there was the idea of separation of powers where the government
would be divided into three separate branches, each with its own powers.  Next there was
a system of checks and balances whereby each branch of government was given the ability
to check the power of the other two branches of government.  And finally, there was the
idea of federalism, where power would be divided between the federal government (that
is, the national government) and the state governments.  Some powers would be given or
delegated only to the federal government, some powers would be reserved to the states,
and some powers would be shared—both the federal government and state governments would
have that power. Perhaps the best known Federalists were John Jay, Alexander Hamilton
and James Madison who anonymously wrote a series of essays that appeared on a regular
basis in four out of five newspapers in New York City.  No one knew who the real authors
were at the time.  The essays, called The Federalist Papers,
explained the reasoning behind the new Constitution and argued for its ratification.
There were 85 essays in all.  In the end, the Federalist prevailed, with all states
eventually ratifying the Constitution.  The Anti-federalists also won a victory when it
was agreed upon to add a bill of rights to the new Constitution shortly after being
ratified.

In "A Good Man is Hard to Find," if the old woman had not revealed that she recognized The Misfit, would they still be alive?

This is a difficult question, as really, there seems to be
no firm evidence either way to suggest that the Misfit would not have killed them had
the grandmother not recognised him. What is interesting though is that after the
identification, the Misfit says something that is rather
intriguing:

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"Yes'm," the man said, smiling slightly as if he
were pleased in spite of himself to be known, "but it would have been better for all of
you, lady, if you hadn't of reckernized
me."

This seems to suggest
that if the grandmother had not identified him, the Misfit would have let them go alive.
And yet, I am forced to wonder, if this is actually the case. The Misfit and his gang
are clearly after another car. Because they are on the run, they would not want anyone
left who had identified them and who could give the police any information about their
new set of wheels or their direction, and so it seems clear that the Misfit would have
killed them anyway, if you consider the argument from this
perspective.

The motion of an oscillator is described by the equation x(t)=sin t+sin2t. What is x if cos t=-0.25 and t is in the interval (180, 270)?

First of all, before calculate sin t, we must establish to
what quadrant belongs. Due to the facts from hypothesis, t is in the interval (pi,
3pi/2), so the angle t belongs to the third quadrant, where the value of the function
sine is negative.

cos a = -.25
= -1/4

sin a  = sqrt[1- (-1/4) (from the fundamental
formula of trigonometry,where (sin a)^2 + (cosa)^2  =
1).

sin a = -sqrt(15)/4

To
determine x, first we have to calculate sin 2t.

We'll apply
the formula for the double angle:

sin 2a = sin
(a+a)=sina*cosa + sina*cosa=2sina*cosa

We'll substitute 2a
by 2t and we'll re-write the equation x(t).

x(t) = sin t +
2sint*cos t

e= -sqrt(15)/4 +
2*(1/4)*sqrt(15)/4

We'll calculate the LCD of the
ratios:

LCD = 16

We'll
factorize by sqrt(15)/4:

x(t) = [sqrt(15)/4](-1 +
2/4)

x(t) = [sqrt(15)/4](-1 +
1/2)

x(t) =
[-sqrt(15)/8]

In "A Rose for Emily," how does the change of Emily's outer appearance reflect the change in her personality?

Certainly when you are thinking about how the character of
Miss Emily changes in this masterful story, one key, intriguing description we are given
of Miss Emily and her character is presented to us in the first section towards the end
of her life when she is described by the aldermen that go to her home to tell her that
she needs to start paying taxes as a drowned corpse. Note the
description:

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She looked bloated, like a body long submerged
in motionless water, and of that pallid hue. Her eyes, lost in the fatty ridges of her
face, looked like two small pieces of coal pressed into a lump of dough as they moved
from one face to another while the visitors stated their
errand.

Note how the similes
reinforce the impression of her bloated, dead status - she resembles a corpse that has
been "motionless" for some time.

This foreshadows her
attachment to the dead Barron that we discover in the final paragraphs of the story - it
appears that Miss Emily, in her isolated, withdrawn state, has actually been more "dead"
than "alive" for some time - symbolically reflecting the decline of Old Southern values
that have departed. She inhabits a lost world which has died long
ago.

I need help writing a paper on the character Lucio in Shakespeare's play Measure for Measure.

I moved your question to the Measure for
Measure Group, because it seems that information about the character Lucio is
really what you are seeking.  Here are some questions to consider about Lucio that will
help you create a thesis statement, the first step in writing any
paper.

The following questions are meant to help you
consider how you see Lucio in the play.  Each of them can easily be changed into a
statement, creating a thesis upon which to build an essay that provides examples from
the text to support your thesis.  Here are the questions to consider about
Lucio:

• Is Lucio a true friend to Claudio?  Why
  or why not?


• What are Lucio's motives in the play?  Does
  he act for the good of other characters or does he simply desire to stir up
  trouble?


• Is Lucio a character who speaks truthfully? 
  Does he every contradict himself?  What might the consistency (or lack of consistency)
  in his speech tell the audience about his character?


• Does
  Lucio operate as a foil to the Duke?  If so, which characteristics of the Duke does
  Lucio highlight by providing an opposing
  example?

This list of questions is certainly
not meant to be exhaustive, and you may have a very different idea for a thesis
already.  Here is an abbreviated list of steps (link below) from the Entoes page, "How
to write a Character Analysis," which might also
help:

• Pay attention
  to the character’s ethics.


• Decide whether the character’s
  actions are wise or unwise.


• What is the character’s
  motivation?


• Consider the effects of the character’s
  behavior on other characters.


• Is the character “flat” or
  “round”?

Please
follow the links below to more on Lucio and writing a character
analysis.

What are the setting, problem of the story, climax, events leading to resolution, and ending of the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens?

While short stories usually have a singleness of setting,
conflict and climax, in novels there are often multiple settings and conflicts.  Such is
the case, of course, with Charles Dickens's Great Expectations.  In
fact, the novel itself is divided into three parts, a division which indicates that
there are various elements at work in the extensive narrative of Dickens. However,
here is an outline of the key elements to
consider:

SETTING:  Victorian England (mid-nineteenth
century), the marshes  and London

CONFLICTS:  There are
both internal and external
conflicts. 

A. internal--

1. Pip
   wishes to become a gentleman (move upward in social class) and not be considered
   "coarse" so that he can marry Estella and be respected by people of the upper class. 
   


2. He wrestles with guilt over his rejection of Joe as not
   fitting to be associated with.


3. He also wrestles with his
   repulsion of Provis (Magwitch) and his gratitude for the man when the old convict visits
   him in London.


4. Pip has conflicting feelings about
   Estella, as well.

B.
external

1. Pip initially comes into conflict with
   the grey convict and Mrs. Joe


2. Earlier on and later in the
   novel, Pip comes into conflict with the envious Orlick who years later seeks revenge
   against Pip for his having been fired by
   Joe.


3. He conflicts with Estella who mocks him and reacts
   to his offers of affection with disinterest and
   coldness.


4. He struggles against Miss Havisham, whom he
   believes his benefactor and who teaches Estella to be cruel towards
   him.


5. Pip is a rival of Bentley Drummle and jealous of
   Estella's attention to him.


6. Pip struggles against
   Compeyson as he and Herbert try to get Provis on a ship leaving
   England.

CLIMAXES: 

1. Between
   Chapters L and LVI there are moments of high intensity to the conflicts mentioned
   above. 


2. Orlick tries to kill Pip.
   


3. Pip and Herbert attempt to get Provis out of London and
   escape hanging.


4. Pip saves Miss Havisham from the fire and
   is burned himself.


5. At the end of the novel, Pip meets
   Estella for the last time.

FALLING
ACTIONS: 

1. After Magwitch is captured and lies
   dying, Pip consoles him and grows to love the old convict. 
   


2. When Joe comes to Pip's aid after the fire, Pip
   apologizes for his cruelty and begs forgiveness; Joe and he reconcile. 
   


3. Pip aids Herbert who goes on to marry and live a good
   life.


4. Pip returns to the forge.
   


5. Pip talks with Estella and pledges
   friendship.

DENOUEMENT: 

1. Pip
   returns to the forge and country life, abandoning the falseness of his life in London. 
   


2. He realizes that goodness does not lie in one's social
   class, but in one's heart instead. 


3. Finally, Pip
   acknowledges that he and Estella will never
   marry.

If a number is chosen at random from the following list, what is the probability that it is not prime? 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19

The list numbers  given is: 2,3,5,7,11,13, 17 and
19.

The number of numbers are
8.

Each of these numbers are
prime.

So the number of choices to make in a random choice
= 8.

Since all  the 8 numbers given in this list ,
 2,3,5,7,11,13 , 17 and 19,  are primes, we are sure that any number chosen is a prime
number.

Therefore number of favourable choices =
8.

The number possible choices is
8.

Therefore the probability that a chosen number from the
list at random (or otherwise) is a prime = 8/8 = 1.

What were the long term outcomes/effects of the French Revolution?

The French Revolution had two main
outcomes:

1. Spread of Enlightenment ideas
around Europe.  One of the biggest effects the French Revolution had was
spreading the "revolutionary" ideas of the Enlightenment around Europe.  During the
revolution, monarchies around Europe were disturbed by what was happening in France. 
For the people to rally together and behead a king meant trouble - what happens if the
rest of Europe's lower classes did the same?  This ultimately did occur with the
Revolutions of 1848 in Russia, Italy, Austria, etc.  But the Enlightenment itself didn't
just spread on its own like the plague; after the revolution, when Napoleon took power,
he attempted to create a French Empire, where he conquered much of Europe for a short
time.  While his dream of a French Empire failed, his legacy was to spread Enlightened
ideas around Europe.

2. Domino Effect of
revolutions.  During the French Revolution, all French men were freed and
considered equal citizens under the law - this included all slaves on the French island
of Haiti.  Haitians enjoyed their freedom temporarily - when Napoleon seized power, he
eventually reinstated slavery in Haiti in order to make more money for his wars across
Europe.  This resulted in the only successful slave revolt in history.  But Haiti wasn't
alone in its revolution - much of Latin America learned from Haiti's example, and men
like Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin led independence movements in South America. 
Bolivar helped create Gran Colombia (which freed itself from Spanish control but later
split into three countries- Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador) and Jose de San Martin
helped liberate Argentina, Chile, and Peru.  So while France gained its freedom from
monarchy (until King Louis XVIII took over after Napoleon...whoops!), revolutions sprang
up in new world colonies in a domino effect.  By 1830, most Latin
American countries were independent.

Who did Afrikaaners claim founded ancient African civilizations?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBbMxJuAQY0&feature=player_embedded...

According to the first link that you attached here, the
brief answer is that all of the white people who came to Africa (including the
Afrikaners) believed that white people had founded the ancient African
civilizations.

The idea here was that Africans were
inferior.  Because they were inferior, there was no way that they could have created any
great civilizations.  If the Africans did not create the civilizations, it made sense
that white people must have because (as all the white people thought they knew) white
people were simply better than everyone else.

This has been
a pretty common idea in the minds of European scholars (until recent times).  It was,
for example, a major Nazi idea -- that all civilizations had been created by
Aryans.

Could someone give me some names of who formed the Civil Rights Movement pleaseI need to get some names of people who formed the civil rights...

The first post is a great list, and it's difficult to
compile a universal or complete list because the movement originated and continued with
so many people, but in addition to those listed above, you might also consider the
impact of the following people on the evolution of Civil
Rights:

1)  Frederick Douglass -- instrumental in
abolition, but most people forget about his efforts securing a black suffrage amendment,
and citizenship for former slaves.

2)  W.E.B. DuBois -
student of Booker T. Washington and socialist who advocated immediate equality and
resistance to Jim Crow legislation.  He founded the NAACP and led the Niagara
Movement.

3)  Medgar Evers - Some call him the Martin
Luther King of Mississippi, but he was more active early on in the movement before King
became a national figure, and paid for it with his life as
well.

4)  Malcolm X - He often gets overlooked in terms of
the movement because he did not initially believe in civil disobedience tactics like
King and others.  But he represented and spoke for a large number of African-Americans
that did not fit into the so-called mainstream of the movement, and associated more with
the separatist stance of the Nation of Islam and Elijah
Mohammed.

What does it mean 'rift widens'?how was proceed events..

Because your question is rather incomplete, I am unable to
answer it all.  The term, "the rift widens" means that the division or opening between
two people, ideas, or countries has gotten larger.  The word rift can mean a problem
also, and the word widen suggests that it has become worse.  As for the events, which
events do you mean and from what source? If you mean which events are the steps to widen
the division, look for the problems the people have and how they allow the problems to
worsen without making an effort to correct them.  You could also look at the efforts
they make to correct the division which do not work.  Just put them in order and show
why they don't accomplish the healing this rift needs.

Derive the formula for the sum of the first n terms of an AP?

To calculate the formula for the sum of the first n terms
of an AP, we go about it this way.

We know that the nth
term of any AP can be written as a1+ (n-1) d.

Now, the sum
of the first n terms S = a1+ a2 +a3 … an

=> S= a1+
a1 + d +a1+ 2d …a1 + (n-1) d

Or starting with the last term
it can be written as

=> S= an + an-d + an-2d +…an-
(n-1) d

Now adding the two
forms

=> 2S = a1+ an + a1 + d + an-d +a1+ 2d +
an-2d…a1 + (n-1) d + a1

all terms with d
cancel

=> 2S = n (a1 +
an)

=> S= (n/2) (a1+
an)

Now an = a1 +
(n-1)*d

=> S = [2*a1 +
(n-1)*d]*n/2

Therefore the sum of the first n
terms is [2*a1 + (n-1)*d]*n/2 for all AP

Give me some quotes describing ship trap island in detail.

In Richard Connell's short story, "The Most Dangerous
Game," Ship-Trap Island is situated in the Caribbean sea.  The "old Swede," Captain
Nielsen, who steers the ship on which Whitney and Rainsford journey in the jungle to
hunt jaguars, is uneasy about navigating around this island. Whitney recalls what the
old captain has told him,

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"'This place has an evil name among seafaring
men, sir.....Don't you feel anything?'--as if the air about us was actually poisonous. 
Now, you musn't laught when I tell you this--I did feel something like a sudden
chill.

"There was no breeze.  The sea was as flat as a
plate-glass window.  We were drawing near the island then.  What I felt was a --a mental
chill; a sort of sudden
dread."

Of course, Rainsford
scoffs at the words of Whitney.  But Whitney tells his friend that he thinks at times
that evil is tangible and has wavelengths, just as sound and light have; then, he
retires for the evening.  After Whitney leaves, it is not long before Rainsford falls
overboard into the "blod-warm waters of the Caribbean Sea."  He swims for a long time
until he hears a pistol shot and a shriek.  Finally, he hears the sea breaking against
"a rocky shore."

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He was almost on the rocks before he saw them; on
a night less calm he would have been shattered against them.  With his remaining
strength, he dragged himself from the swirling waters.  Jagged crags appeared to jut up
into the opaqueness...Dense jungle came down to the very edge of the cliffs.  What
perils that tangle of trees and underbrush might hold...did not concern Rainsford just
then....an unbroken front of snarled and ragged jungle fringed the shore. [There was] a
closely knit web of weeds and
trees....

On the island is
a

palatial
chateau; it was set on a high bluff, and on three sides of it cliffs dived down to where
the sea licked greedy lips in the shadows....[There is] a tall siked iron gate....the
massive door with a leering gargoyle for a knocker was real
enough.

Once inside Sanger
Rainsford meets Ivan and General Zaroff, equally as formidable as the weeds, underbrush,
cliffs, jagged crags, and jungle. When he is later "hunted" by Zaroff, Rainsford finds
himself making his way by "a swamp" and "on a ridge," he climbs a tree.  "Down a
watercourse" he can see the bush moving as Ivan and the dogs track
him.

What are the two significant biblical allusions mentioned in Moby Dick?Who do the allusions reference?

There are actually several Biblical allusions in
Moby Dick.

One is the allusion to the
story of Jonah. The story of Jonah centers specifically around God calling Jonah to do a
job, which Jonah is reluctant to do. While sailing on a ship away from God's destination
for Jonah, a great storm threatens the ship; Jonah is thrown from the ship at his own
suggestion believing he is the cause of the storm in failing to carry out God's will.
Jonah is saved from drowning when he is swallowed by a great fish (the "whale"). During
his "captivity," he repents, and God orders the whale to throw Jonah
up.

Ahab might be seen as a Jonah-character, in that he is
a Quaker, a man of God who is supposed to be a pacifist, and yet he becomes maniacally
bent upon pursuing and destroying the whale, turning his back on the teachings of his
own religion.

Another allusion is the use of the name
Ishmael, the son of the slave girl Hagar, son of Abraham—before Abraham and Sarah's son,
Isaac (promised to them by God) is born. Though Sarah has suggested that Abraham sleep
with their slave girl Hagar in order to have a son, when Hagar's son is born, Sarah and
Hagar fight so much, that Hagar finally runs away. (God appears to her and sends Hagar
and Ishmael back to Abraham's camp; but the sense of the outcast is found here as she
laments her exile from humanity, fearing for the death of her son, as well as
herself.)

The first line, the novel's most famous, is "Call
me Ishmael" which is a direct reference to the story of Hagar and Ishmael, which
symbolizes all who feel exiled or outcast, as does the character
Ishmael.

Another reference is to the Bible can be found in
the names Elijah (a prophet of God), and Ahab is a Biblical king (and worshipper of
idols, who is eventually destroyed by God).

Cells from a chicken's stomach complete a full cell cycle in about 625 minutes. Cells with cancer require only 450 minutes. What is the significance?

According to the information provided in the question, a
healthy cell from a chicken's stomach completes a full cell cycle in 625 minutes whereas
a cell that has cancer only requires 450 minutes. This shows that cancerous cells would
be able to reproduce at a rate that is faster than the rate at which normal cells can
reproduce. The result is the cancer spreading and affecting a larger portion of the
chicken's stomach.

All cells die after a certain duration
of time. A balance is achieved due to the new cells that are created to replace those
that die. If the rate of creation of new cells is faster than the rate at which they
die, the number of cells grows in number exponentially.

1. solve the inequality x^2 + 5x > 14

x^2 + 5x  > 14

To
solve the inequality, first we will have to move 14 to the left side of the
inequality:

==> x^2+ 5x - 14 >
0

Now we can factor the left
side:

==> (x+ 7) (x-2 )
>0

Now we notcie that we have a product of two
functions.

In order for the product we be greater that 0,
we have two possible cases:

1. Both terms should be
positivs:

==> x+ 7 > 0     and    x-2
> 0

==> x > -7    and    x >
2

==> x belongs to the interva ( 2,
inf)

2. Both terms should be
negative:

==> x+ 7 < 0     and    x-2
< 0

==> x < -7    and   x <
2

==> x belongs to the interval ( -inf,
-7)

Then x = ( -inf, -7) U ( 2,
inf)

OR x = R -
[-7,2]

How did humanism "shatter" the medieval mind?Its for History 102. During the middle ages

This statement assumes that the "medieval mind" held ideas
that were very different from the ideas espoused by the humanists.  By bringing their
new ideas into circulation, the humanists made it much less possible to hold to a
medieval mindset.

Specifically, we are told that people in
medieval times were very centered on God.  They did not think about the importance of
human beings.  They did not look for explanations as to why things happened beyond just
saying that things were God's will.  When the humanists came along, these ideas were
challenged.

The humanists argued for the inherent
importance of human beings.  They argued for the idea that the world could be understood
through logic and science.  These ideas went directly against the medieval mindset and,
therefore, "shattered" it.

In the Act IV in the play Hamlet, compare and contrast Fortinbras and Hamlet, explaining their similarities and differences.

Overall, Hamlet and Fortinbras are foils. Both men are
sons whose fathers have died. Each wants to avenge his father's death. However, the big
difference is that Hamlet is seized by doubt at every turn, questioning whether the
ghost is really his father's or something evil, bent on destroying his immortal soul.
Therefore, he does not act.

Fortinbras, on the other hand,
wages war against Denmark as he tries to take back land that he feels Old Hamlet took
from his own father unfairly. However, when he is ordered by his uncle to cease trying
to take the land forcibly, he is honorable, bows to his uncle's will, and stops
fighting.

To be fair to Hamlet, he does not listen to his
uncle, the new king, because he believes Claudius has murdered his father. Fortinbras'
uncle is an honorable man, and the throne has come to him honestly upon his brother's
death. If he wanted to, Fortinbras could have ignored his uncle (Old Norway) and
continued because Hamlet's father killed Fortinbras' father in battle, but Fortinbras
takes his uncle's direction.

In addition, Claudius has
married Hamlet's mother (which Elizabethans would have seen as incest), and he has done
so too soon after Old Hamlet's death (primarily to solidify his place on the throne,
though he also seems genuinely attracted to Gertrude), and Hamlet has nothing but
disdain for his uncle/stepfather and his mother
Gertrude.

Specifically in Act IV, scene iv, a
chance meeting between Hamlet and Fortinbras's army gives Hamlet pause for
reflection:

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Hamlet and Fortinbras' captain discuss the goals
of Fortinbras' army. The captain tells Hamlet that they are making war to reclaim a
small piece of land, which is not actually worth much. Hamlet is stunned that Fortinbras
is willing to risk so many men's lives over something that matters so little. He
compares this to his own inability to kill Claudius, despite the fact that his father
has been murdered and his mother seduced. He decides to start acting on his vengeful
feelings.

In the story The Gift of the Magi how does O. Henry uses irony to develop the theme of the story?

In the story The Gift of the Magi O.
Henry uses irony to develop the theme of the story by presenting us with two characters
who are described as "silly" or "foolish", because they are young, in love, and living
life with financial difficulties during the holidays: A time where everyone is bit by
the fever of gifting, and buying things for others.

Within
this context we get the biggest irony of all: They cannot find the way to please each
other during the season, and their love for each other makes the other sacrifice things
they like for the sake of making the other happy. In the end, they gave each other the
same thing they sacrificed.

All this is a lesson on
altruism and the things one does for love. It is a lesson also on how sacrifices become
small when one does them for the right cause, and how getting things becomes unimportant
in relationship to the happiness that they provoke in someone we
love.

PHYSICS helpA metal wire of diameter D stretches by 0.100mm when supporting a weight W. if the same length wire is used to support a weight W. if...

We know that the Young's modulus E, the coefficient of
linear stretch of the material of a wire is given by:

E =
(F*L0)/{A( L1-Lo)}, where F is the force tensile force , A is the cross sectional are of
the wire and L0 is the length of the wire beore applying the tensile stretch and L1  is
the length of the wire after applying the tensile force
F.

We know that Young's Modulus  E is fairly constant  for
a considerable variation of force.

Therefore ,
for

E =  FLo/{kd1^2*(L1-L0)}... (1) , as fross sectional
area is proportional to diameter, and d1 is the diameter of the wire for which we get
L1-L0 = 0.100mm.

E = 3FL0/{kd2^2 *(L2-L0)}....(2), where d2
is the diameter when applied a force of 3 times F. But L2 -L0 =
0.100mm.

Therefore , we cal equate the righ sides of the
equations (1) and (2), and L1-L0 = L2=L0 = 0.100mm = 10^(-4)
m

Therefore
,

FL0/{kd1^2*(L1-Lo)} =
3FL0/{kd2^2*(L2-L0)}

FL0/{kd1^2 *10^(-4)} =
3FL0/{kd2^2*10^(-4)}

After cross multiplication and
cancelltion of common factors , we get:

(d2)^2 =
3(d1)^2.

Therefore d2 = (sqrt3)
d1.

So the diameter of the wire should be sqrt 3 times the
wire , in order that it stretches the same for 3 times the pulling
weigtht.

Analyze the significance of clothing in Hwang's M. Butterfly.

Clothing serves as a symbol of character in Hwang's
M. Butterfly.  When Song takes on the role of Butterfly, he must
dress in lavish feminine clothing and costumes to disguise his true sex.  But more than
just a disguise, Song's clothing is symbolic of what entices Gallimard--he believes that
not only is Song a woman, Song is a representation of the perfect "Oriental" woman.  The
clothing is symbolic of the stereotypical images that men create of what this perfect
woman really is.  Later in the play, after Song reveals that he is in fact a man,
Gallimard cannot accept that he has been tricked because he feels that he has truly
grown to love Song.  When he must accept the fact that he has fallen prey to this
illusion, Gallimard dresses in one of Song's dresses so that he can relate himself with
Butterfly from Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly.  Here the clothing
is significant because Gallimard uses it to compare himself with a character from the
opera who was also betrayed.