What do the last two lines of the poem, "I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference," suggest?

This is one of the most frequently asked question and very
important.

First let us consider the previous line
-

I shall be
telling with a
sigh

The
"sigh" in this line has confused every person on Earth who has read this as it can be a
sigh of relief or a sigh of a depressed individual. However, this commonly taken as a
sigh of relief, which will easily answer your
question.

Frost took the path less trodden
upon, the uncommon path. He was one of those individuals who dared to
dare. Now, "ages and ages hence" he says that he "took the one less travelled by, and
that has made all the difference" .

This clearly shows that
Frost advocates the message of courage and risk-taking. He tells us that
there will often be two choices in our life - one, the common one and two, the uncommon
one.

He took the uncommon one
which is brought him unbound fame, wealth and a sigh of
relief.

For your interest, you may wonder
how can we deduce whether it is a sigh of relief. Once, he had said
-

It was
aprivate jest at the expense of those who thought I was sad of the way I was leading my
life.

In Let the Great World Spin, why do the stories of diferent characters keep weaving in and out, skipping chapters?

Let the Great World Spin, by Colum
McCann is constructed episodically to show time and life in motion. Picture eleven
rivulets slowly pushing further from a source of melting snow. All rivulets are arranged
around one central sphere that they will all reach as more snow melts and pushes their
course forward toward the center. At the center is the event that thrusts them all
together. It will be the central junction where all meet. In this metaphor explaining
McCann's structure, the tightrope walker is the clock that all time moves in accord
with. So the walker, besides being a tightrope walker having a great adventure, is two
things: he is the background for measuring the movement of the rivulets and he is the
measure of the progress of time.

McCann weaves from one
character's story to another and back and forth again so you can see how they are
progressing according to the one clock that unites them--the tightrope walker--and so
you can see how they are all moving toward one central point, the point at which all
their lives, lives of friends, family and strangers, all converge at a central
destination against the same backdrop of the tightrope walker's adventure and at the
central, pivotal event in the story. They progress slowly, as slowly as the tightrope
walker, so you check the progress of one group of rivulets, then another, then another,
then back to the first.

McCann has created a expansive and
extended metaphor in Let the Great World Spin. Even while the
related and unrelated people of New York watch the 110-story-high tightrope walker move
slowly from a starting point to an ultimate destination, the reader watches these eleven
people do the same thing as they move slowly from their starting points to their
ultimate destination where they then collide with each other, metaphorically and
literally. When they arrive, all unrelated lives, like Lara's, flow into other rivulets
until all lives are united, just as the tightrope walker's rope and act unite the Twin
Towers. The final union occurs when Jaslyn, who was raised by Gloria, who knew Corrigan
and Tillie, goes to call on Claire. It is significant that they rest together at the end
because the journey is finished; the last rivulet has joined the center: all are united.
McCann brings a final comfort and ease to disrupted and at some times tragic
lives.

What are the themes of Shakespeare's Othello?

Most obviously, the play is about jealousy and the damage
that jealousy can do to a relationship.  In the play jealousy is a "green eye monster
that mocks the meat it feeds upon."  At the heart of the play, we have two jealous men,
Iago who is jealous because he is jealous, and Othello, is becomes inflicted with the
"poisonous mineral" because of Iago's lies and
machinations.

But the play is also about the way men view
women:  the tendency to view women as prizes that are won, and women's infidelity as
attacks on their pride.  This inability to see women truly without generalization and
without stereotyping is a central idea of the
tragedy.

Another theme is the insider/outsider theme.
 Othello's race, while not a factor in his achieving prestige as a military man, makes
him feel insecure in his marriage.  "Haply for I am black" Othello cries, and when
comparing himself to Cassio, who is one of the "curled darlings" of Desdemona's country,
he feels as if he has lost her.  Part of Iago's manipulation of Othello is to make him
feel as if he is an outsider to Venetian society.

And of
course as is common with Shakespeare, the play explores the appearance versus reality
idea.  "When devils with the blackest sins put on, they do at first with heavenly shows
as I do now," Iago boasts.  Iago, clearly the devil of the play, is seen by every major
characters as honest, honorable, and trustworthy.  Desdemona, who is clearly the angel
of the play, is viewed as deceitful and ungrateful by her father and a whore by her
husband.

How does Hawthorne use symbolism to get across the main point of "Young Goodman Brown"?

There are several different answers to your question. 
Here's the one I like best.

As you read the story, you'll
notice that almost nothing is certain.  Hawthorne uses ambiguity is almost all cases
when something strange is happening.  Here are some
examples:

As
nearly as could be discerned, the second traveller was
about fifty years old, apparently in the same rank of life as Goodman Brown, and bearing
a considerable resemblance to him, though perhaps more in expression than
features

This, of course, must have been an
ocular deception, assisted by the uncertain
light.

So saying, he threw it down at her
feet, where, perhaps, it assumed life, being one of the
rods which its owner had formerly lent to the Egyptian magi. Of this fact,
however, Goodman Brown could not take
cognizance.

When
we get to the end of the story, we discover that we don't even know if ANY of it
happened; in fact, it is suggested that Brown fell asleep in the woods and that the
whole experience was a dream.

So if it happened it might
not have happened, and it might not have happened at all
:)

What is important is that Brown exits the woods with NO
sense of ambiguity, with the conviction of all those he trusted since his youth are
hypcrites and sinners.  Of course they're sinners, but hypocrites?  Only to Brown whose
holds people up to an impossible measuring stick.

"The
enemy of the good is the perfect."

What indicators in reading "Everyday Use" (besides the author) show that the story was set in the 60's and has Civil Rights Movement undertones?

There are several underlying context clues within
"Everyday Use" that reveal the time period to be sometime in the late 60s to early 70s. 
Each of these clues comes the night Dee comes home with her new boyfriend
"Hakim-a-barber."

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, in the
wake of the peak of the Civil Rights Movement (and leaders such as Martin Luther King
and Malcom X), many African Americans began exploring and embracing their African
Heritage.  It became known as the "Black Power" movement, or Black Nationalism, and was
done as a means to bolster self-esteem and create a sense of pride and unity that was
truly unique.

Aside from the description of
Hakim-a-barber's "wild looking hair" (indicating he has an afro), another indication
that Dee and Hakim-a-barber are involved in Black Nationalism is the changing of their
names.  Dee wishes to become Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo.  This shows that she and her
boyfriend are part of the Black Muslims, a group (originally led by Malcom X) which
believed that white society was incapable of being non racist.  Therefore, it was in
African American's best interest not to integrate, but rather, to
remain separate and grow in power independently.  The act of changing their names was a
symbolic rejection of their given "slave names" or "Christian
names."

There are also smaller clues alluding to the Black
Arts Movement and the Black Feminist movement in the short story.  Walker's use of women
as the the focal points to this story is one clue.  These women fighting over ancestral
pieces of value (the quilts) is another.

Discuss the poem by William Carlos Williams, "The Red Wheelbarrow." Which strategy allows you to come up with what seems the most plausible?...

Of the strategies mentioned, I believe "The Red
Wheelbarrow" is described best when referring to Formalist
Strategies.

Research states
that

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"Formalist critics focus on the formal elements
of a work: language, structure and tone, and the keys to understanding a text exist
within the text itself."

With
this in mind, this poem's value comes from within the smallest  of its elements. The
beauty of the verses is that it is brief, yet concise. Its message arrives in this
"small package," but Williams is able to make every word count without having to
describe what he is trying to say. He writes, but does so in such a clear way that the
words speak and the reader comprehends without extensive analysis. There is almost a
scientific approach to this kind of strategy: to analyze what is presented by the
author. A poem that is well done will need little explanation, but the author depends on
the reader to draw conclusions that are written and
implied.

This strategy is directly related to the
"relationship between form and meaning," which promotes a literal interpretation to
understand the writing. Also referred to as a "close reading," this strategy examines
various literary elements in the writing.

"The Red Wheel
Barrow" is short, however the images are direct (such clarity is essential), but, as
such, reflect the poem's intricacies in the physical structure of
William's poem. The size of the poem correlates to the size of the wheel barrow: both
seem easily dismissed, but each is really important despite physically
size.

For example, the poem consists of sixteen words. If
Williams did not have such talent and command of the language, he would never have been
able to express himself so succinctly and
successfully.

Colors stand out: red and white. Other images
are important: depends, wheel  barrow, glazed with rain,
chickens.

Alone, these words are meaningless, with
seemingly no connection.

The central idea is "so much
depends on a red wheel barrow." I would argue that the color is irrelevant to the
value of the work done by the wheel barrow, but the color  and
"glaze" draw our mind's eye to the "piece of
equipment."

Its setting is also important. The wheel barrow
does not command a great deal of notice at first glance, and it is left in the rain and
kept next to the chickens—further extending its casual appearance in a corner of the
garden or in the midst of farm tools, and perhaps giving an initial sense of
unimportance.

Narrative technique is important: the "tool"
is clearly presented—a common farmyard sight—but with great
value. As mentioned in the research, this poem fits into the category of verse where
each word is meaningful beyond one's initial impression that there
is little here to be said: it communicates a great deal to the
discerning eye.

A trope ("turn") may occur if we accept
that the poem may be a metaphor: it is possible that important
tasks depend on the red wheelbarrow, despite its innocuous appearance. The initial sense
may be that some things in this world seem unimportant, but upon
second glance, are items of the greatest value, beyond the simple
setting in which they have been placed.

Is there not also
irony in that this little red (how serious a color is that?) tool, inconsequentially set
among chickens and in the rain, can do so many wonderful things: moving materials,
creating a garden, cleaning property, etc. It is small, and a childish red, but it is
"mighty."

These are the reasons that I see a formalist
strategy used here.

Describe the key features of the Hungarian uprising in 1956

Basically, this uprising happened because the people of
Hungary were unhappy with the communist government that was running their country.  They
were especially unhappy with the fact that the Soviet Union was basically telling their
country what to do.  They wanted more freedom for their country to act independently of
the Soviet Union.

The Hungarians felt that they actually
had a chance to get more freedom.  This was because the USSR was going through a period
of deStalinzation after Stalin's death.  It appeared that the Russians were going to be
more open and do less to try to control other
countries.

The Hungarian rebels were really fairly
unorganized militias.  They rose up and started fighting against the government's
forces.  It might have had a chance of success except for the fact that the USSR decided
to send its army into Hungary to crush the rebellion.

In
the aftermath of the rebellion, the Soviet Union's power over all of Eastern Europe was
no longer questioned--all communist countries would pretty much be forced to do what the
USSR told them to do.

If log72 48 = a and log6 24 = b prove that a(b+3) - 3b + 1 = 0

We'll remove the brackets from the expression in a and
b:

ab+3a - 3b + 1 = 0

We'll
factorize by 3:

ab + 3(a-b) + 1 = 0
(*)

We'll substitute a and b by the given
logarithms:

log 72 48*log 6 24 + 3(log 72 48 - log 6 24) +
1 = 0

We'll change the base 72 of the number log 72 48 into
the base 6:

log 6 48 = log 72 48*log 6
72

But log 6 72 = log 6
(6*12)

We'll apply the rule of
product:

log 6 (6*12) = log 6 6 + log 6
12

log 6 (6*12) = 1 + log 6
12

But log 6 12 = log 6
(6*2)

log 6 (6*2) = log 6 6 + log 6
2

log 6 (6*2) = 1 + log 6
2

log 6 48 = log 72 48*(2 + log 6 2)
(1)

We'll write log 6 48 = log 6 6 + log 6
8

log 6 48 = 1 + 3log 6 2
(2)

We'll substitute (2) in
(1):

1 + 3log 6 2 = log 72 48*(2 + log 6
2)

We'll divide by (2 + log 6
2):

log 72 48 = (1 + 3log 6 2)/(2 + log 6 2)
(3)

We'll also write log 6
24:

log 6 24 = log 6 6 + 2log 6
2

log 6 24 = 1 + 2log 6 2
(4)

We'll substitute (3) and (4) in
(*):

(1 + 3log 6 2)(1 + 2log 6 2)/(2 + log 6 2) + 3[(1 +
3log 6 2)/(2 + log 6 2) - 1 - 2log 6 2] + 1 = 0

We'll
remove the brackets and we'll multiply by (2 + log 6 2):

1
+ 2log 6 2 + 3log 6 2 + 6(log 6 2)^2 - 3 - 6log 6 2 - 6(log 6 2)^2 + 2 + log 6 2 =
0

We'll combine and eliminate like terms and we'll
get:

0 = 0
true

So, for log 72 48 = a and
log 6 24 = b, the equality

ab+3a - 3b + 1 = 0 is
true.

What are the main themes and messages that Orwell wants to give us in Animal Farm?If you would not mind, please if it can be in simple English as I...

Orwell's main messages:

1.
All revolutions are betrayed eventually. The idealism they begin with will disappear and
society will become corrupt.

2. Those who take power (the
pigs) will take more and more and they will misuse it for their own selfish
benefit.

3. Do not trust politicians. Boxer trusts
Napoleon, but Napoleon sends him to his death.

4. Any
political system will become corrupt if they (the politicians) are allowed to get away
with it. Think of how the pigs gradually change all the commandments for their own
benefit.

The novel is really an allegory about the Russian
Revolution and the what happened in the Soviet Union up to 1945. If we add this
perspective, we can say that Orwell's other message is

1.
Stalin and the Communist Party (Napoleon and the pigs) betrayed the ordinary people of
Russia in the name of equality. Stalin murdered millions of his countrymen - this is
mirrored in the scene where many animals are slaughtered in the
barn.

Have you studied the book as an allegory? If not -
feel free to ask more questions!!

In The Time of the Butterflies, what is a quote that would show Las Mariposas to be a good, strong, and determinated group?

Unfortunately, you need to remember that the book presents
us with all four of the sisters and their own separate characters, identities and
journeys to becoming rebels against Trujillo's regime. Therefore, although they become
united as a cohesive group against dictatorship and become an important symbol in the
rebel movement, they all join that movement at different stages in their lives, with
Maria Teresa being one of the last. Clearly, Minerva is one of the first, however, there
is no quote in the novel that gives you want you want. You need to think of how the
sisters, in spite of the opposition that they face, remain steadfast to their ideals and
beliefs. Picking out individual events like that should be able to help you find the
evidence you need. But remember - part of the beauty of this book is that we are shown
las mariposas as being different and separate from one another, rather than
a homogeneous group.

In "The Most Dangerous Game" are the characterizations carried out in direct way or indirect ways?"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell

Since the first question that was posed has been recently
answered, a check with the Questions in "The Most Dangerous Game" will reveal the
response needed.  Thus, the second question is the one edited in, as only one question
at a time is permitted.

For the most part, Connell employs
indirect characterization for the personages of his thrilling short
story. 

Here is a list of the elements of
indirect
characterization:

• Physical
  description:

General Zaroff and
his servant Ivan are both described as Cossacks who are a group of Eastern Slavic people
known for their brutality.  They were military guards for the Russian borders. 
Interestingly, while Rainsford's physical description is not given, his impressions of
Zaroff are.  The general is an "erect, slender man" with a "cultivated voice marked by a
slight accent."  On the other hand, Ivan is

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a gigantic creature, solidly made and
black-bearded to the waist.  In his hand the man held a long-barreled revolver, and he
was pointing it straight at Rainsford's
heart.

• Description
  of the character's actions

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He [Rainsford] examined the ground closely and
found what he had hoped to find--the print of hunting boots.....Eagerly he hurried
along, now slipping on a rotten log or a loose stone, but making
headway.

The general shrugged his shoulders and delicately
ate a hothouse grape....He nodded toward the corner to where the giant stood, scowling,
his thick arms crossed on his hogshead of chest [Ivan].

Out
of the snarl of beard two small eyes regarded Rainsford.
[Ivan]

• Description
  of the character's thought, feelings, and
  speeches

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Rainsford's first impression was that the man
[Zaroff]was singularly handsome; his second was that there was an original, almost
bizarre quality about the general's face.

"No thrill left
in tigers, no real danger.  I love for danger, Mr. Rainsford."
[Zaroff]

"Surely your experiences in the
war--"

"Did not make me condone cold-blooded murder,"
finished Rainsford
stiffly.

Connell
does, also, employ direct characterization, which  involves the author's telling his/her
audience rather than dramatizing or showing as in indirect
characterization.  

Here is an example of
direct characterization:

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Rainsford did not want to believe what his reason
told him was true, but the truth was as evident as the sun that had by now pushed
through the morning mists....Then it was that Rainsford knew the full meaning of
terror.

 

What are the character traits of Macbeth? (Please add in quotes as evidence if possible.)So far I have: - Morally weak...

Shakespeare's Macbeth is a play which
explores the darker side of human nature, to be sure.  The list of Macbeth's character
traits which you've already begun is a good one and covers mostly the negative aspects
of this murdering usurper king.  That's as it should be, since those elements are the
focus of this story.  But dark things always look darker next to light, so let's examine
a few more positive characteristics which Macbeth also clearly possessed.  You started
with his having a conscience, which is true. We also have evidence that Macbeth loved
his wife, "his dearest partner in greatness."  Though he proved otherwise later in the
play, at the beginning of the story he loved and was loyal to his cousin and king,
Duncan.  The same is true for his fellow soldier, Banquo, until Macbeth grows desperate
to maintain his ill-gotten power.  I would encourage you to use both sets of
characteristics in anything you write about Macbeth, as the positive traits at the
beginning serve as a stark contrast to his darker traits.

In "Shooting an Elephant," what does Orwell mean when he says he understands "the real motives for which despotic governement act?"

Interestingly, this quote comes before the actual
narration of the shooting of the elephant, which indicates the theme of the rest of the
story that is conveyed through the elephant story. This concerns, as Orwell describes
it, "the real nature of imperialism."

As Orwell
demonstrates through the subsequent narration, the "real motives" for imperialism seem
to be nothing more than saving face and not being laughed at. Orwell discovers through
this story that actually, in spite of his power and prestige, he has lost his freedom by
the very power that he has gained, because he is forced to act "like the white man" and
kill the elephant:

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Here was I, the white man with his gun, standing
in front of the unarmed native crowd - seemingly the leading actor of the piece; but in
reality I was only an absurd puppet pushed to and fro by the will of those yellow faces
behind. I perceived in this moment that when the white man turns tyrant it is his own
freedom that he destroys. He becomes a sort of hollow, posing dummy, the
conventionalised figure of
a sahib.

Thus, in turning
"tyrant," Orwell explains the paradox that white man actually destroys his "own
freedom," being forced to act in a way that he has conditioned the oppressed natives to
expect. The danger of not to act in this way would be to look "like a fool," as Orwell
says as he closes this essay, which would be an anathema to a colonial officer. The
fiction must be sustained.

Help me to write an essay on the topic "Social networking: Marvel or Menace?"

In order to write an essay on this topic, you'll need to
have some points in favor of each view.  Then you should decide which of the views you
find more persuasive.  Once you have decided this, write an introduction and conclusion
telling why you think "your" side is more persuasive.

I
would go with "marvel."  To me, social networking is amazing because it allows me to
keep in touch with people who I would never previously have been able to do that with. 
I am in touch (on Facebook) with people who I haven't seen since 8th grade, for
example.  I'm also in touch with many of my former students.  Before Facebook, I was not
really able to keep up with what was going on in their lives.

What is significant about the word order in "The poetry of earth is ceasing never," in John Keats' poem "On The Grasshopper and The Cricket"?

This is a very interesting question the answer to which
involves a discussion of negation in English and present participles. First let's look
at negation in English. The negator
never is an inherently negative adverb
that may function as a constituent negator. This means it is always negative and may
negate a single part of a sentence in addition to its function of negating a whole
sentence: e.g., (constituent negation) I think he never sings; (sentence negation) Never
carry antique chairs by the rungs.
Never may precede the verb: She never
cooks fish. Never may follow the verb:
She is never coming.

Now to
Keats. Keats uses poetic variation in positioning the negating adverb
never to optimize his meter and in
order to emphasize his dramatic point relating to the poetry of earth. Keats positions
never behind the present participle
ceasing rather than behind the to be linking
verb is, as in "She is never coming."
The present -ing participle
ceasing comprises part of the compound
present progressive verb (also called continuous progressive verb)
is ceasing (i.e., simple present
to be + -ing
participle).

According to current Standard
English (both U.S.A. and U.K.), the negator
never would be placed following
is and would be the constituent
negator in the compound verb. In other words, negative
never in current standardization would
follow the linking verb and precede the present participle, producing
is never
ceasing.

It is interesting to
note however that standardization for placement of this negating adverb
never did not occur until sometime
during or after the nineteenth century. In Keats' time, it was still commonly acceptable
in varius English dialects to locate
never in phrase-final position in the
same pattern that you might use for a non-negating adverb, as in "He is cleaning
carefully" or "She is sleeping soundly." In
summary, the significant thing about the wording in this quotation is that the negating
adverb never is in a dialectical
phrase-final position instead of in the standardized position following the
to be verb. The reason for the
variation in placement is because it heightens poetic effect and
meaning.

In 1984, what crime does the main character commit, how does he do it and what is the punishment?

The main character, Winton, commits a bunch of crimes.  He
has a sexual relationship with Julia.  He keeps a diary and writes "Down with Big
Brother" in it.  He seeks out an organization that supposedly exists to see the downfall
of Big Brother.  All of these are things are crimes against the ruling government;
however, all of the crimes are thematically the same.  Each crime is technically the
same crime, because each crime is technically a thoughtcrime.  Winston is doing all of
his rebellious acts, because he hates Big Brother and the government system that is in
place.  

His punishment is capture and torture.  The
torture is a combination of both physical and psychological.  That was a rough section
to read, because I'm not a fan of rats either.  

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‘You understand the construction of this cage.
The mask will fit over your head, leaving no exit. When I press this other lever, the
door of the cage will slide up. These starving brutes will shoot out of it like bullets.
Have you ever seen a rat leap through the air? They will leap on to your face and bore
straight into it. Sometimes they attack the eyes first. Sometimes they burrow through
the cheeks and devour the
tongue.’

The result of
Winton's torture was a complete brainwashing.  Winston goes back to functioning as an
automaton in complete support of Big Brother. 

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But it was all right, everything was all right,
the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big
Brother

Is it fair to say that in A Doll's House the women strive to find happiness in two different ways?

Yes, it would be fair to say that the search for happiness
is different, because the characters come from very different places in their
life.

Nora, for example, strives to find happiness through
acceptance: She sacrificed her time taking care of her Dad, and then sacrifice her
dignity to take care of her husband.

Both cases ended up as
failures: Her father died putting her in Torvald's hands, and Torvald placed more value
on social stigma than on Nora's efforts to help him get back to
health.

After this, Nora simply gave up and tried to find
happiness through contemplation and not through the acceptance of
others.

If we take Linde as an example of women striving
for happiness, it would be strange to place her. She does not seem to be looking for
happiness, but for the basic elements of survival: Company, a little comfort, and a
reason to get up in the mornings (a job).

She has had a
life of sacrifice and she has equally come out with nothing to show for it. When she saw
Krogstaad, she saw in him the companion that she longed
for.

There is very little romance in the play as a whole.
There is no specific mention of the joys of love and marriage. Yet, there is a lot of
talk of the convenience of marriage, which is a completely different
story.

In a way, you could say that the women did try to
find a form of happiness in completely different ways, but that none of those forms of
happiness came in the shape of romance, nor fantasy: They were seeking basically for
ways to cope with harsh realities.

In Fahrenheit 451 why is it surprising that Beatty knows the Master Ridley quote?

This incident occurs as part of "The Hearth and the
Salamander", the first section of the book. Montag goes to burn a woman's secret
selection of books and she chooses to be burnt with her collection rather than to live.
As she dies, she says:

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"Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day
light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put
out."

What is key about this
quote is that it comes from Master Ridley, who was burnt alive because of their
insistence of spreading the translated Bible in England which was viewed as heresy at
the time. The woman, likewise, sets herself ablaze for a similar cause, as the
government of the time is set to suppress the spread of literature and to destroy it
completely, and she is obviously against this.

What is so
surprising is that Beatty knows the quote and its origin. As the leader of a force whose
job it is to destroy printed matter, it is somewhat shocking that he knows the content
of what he is implacably set on eradicating.

What are the solutions of the equation 2*16^x = 4^x + 1 ?

We notice that 16=4^2!

We'll
re-write the equation in this manner:

2*(4^2)^x - 4^x -
1=0

We'll substitute 4^x by another variable,
t.

2*t^2 - t - 1=0

t1=[1+sqrt
(1+4*2)]/4

t1=[1+sqrt
(9)]/4

t1=(1+3)/4

t1=1

t2=[1-sqrt
(1+4*2)]/4

t2=(1-3)/4

t2=-1/2

We
didn't find the values of x,
yet!

4^x=1

4^x=4^0

Since
the bases are matching, we'll apply one to one property:

x
= 0

4^x=-1/2

The exponential
4^x is always positive, for any value of x, so, we'll reject the second
solution.

The equation has just one solution.
The only solution is x= 0.

In "There Will Come Soft Rains," the theme can be summarized as technology replacing humans and vice versa. Do you agree?

Well, I definitely agree that a key theme to this
excellent short story is the way that technology has replaced, or perhaps it is more
accurate to say outlived, humans. However, I find it hard to see how a theme of humans
replacing technology can be extracted from this story.

Let
us remember that we are presented with a level of unprecedented technological
sophistication in this story. From the very first sentence, it is clear that mankind has
reached new heights of scientific knowledge in this world which they have applied to
make their lives easier. The house is able to manage itself completely, ironically
without the need for humans at all:

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Out of warrens in the wall, tiny robot mice
darted. The rooms were acrawl with the small cleaning animals, all rubber and metal.
They thudded against chairs, whirling their mustached runners, kneading the rug nap,
sucking gently at hidden dust. Then, like mysterious invaders, they popped into their
burrows. Their pink electric eyes faded. The house was
clean.

And yet perhaps this
is precisely why Bradbury creates such a world. The story, because it contains no human
characters, operates as an ironic reflection on the strengths and weaknesses of human
nature. It also functions as a warning about the dangers of technology. After all, it is
the same technology that has created the self-governing house above that is responsible
for the creation of nuclear weapons that has resulted in the extinction of mankind.
Bradbury forces us to confront hard questions about the use of our cleverness if it is
not moderated or seen in context with our intense vulnerability in the natural
world.

Why are helium or hydrogen filled balloons not used for transportation of goods?

A helium or hydrogen filled balloon could be used for
transporting goods but there are many problems involved in doing
so.

First, if hydrogen is used, there is a risk of the
balloon catching fire and to prevent it would require the use of a special material to
make the balloon.

Second, such balloons would be very large
and special areas for their landing is required. Also, during flight, the large number
of airplanes that fly today could easily strike a
balloon.

And finally, the speed of these balloon is not
very high compared to modern airplanes and though they can travel in a straight line
between destinations, they will take a very long time.

I
can think of a few other reasons why they haven't been put to use as you say they can,
but the answer will get too long.

Explain why normal cell cycle regulation is critical to the health of both humans and animals?

Normal cell cycle regulation, for most eukaryotic cells,
is the process governing when a cell divides or doesn't, if there is something wrong
with that process and this in turn leads to mutations or mistakes in the transfer of DNA
for that division, it will lead to the death of that cell in order to prevent the
development of mutant cells.

The four stages of this cycle
include:

1-growth

2-mitosis
(or division of the nucleus)

3-
cytokinesis

4-division of the
cytoplasm

These four stages have to take place
each time the cell divides and any time the resulting daughter cells, from previous
division, divide.

If there are problems with cell cycle
regulation, those mutant cells can survive and even proliferate, leading to further
problematic divisions, leading to things like cancerous or other types of dangerous or
improperly functioning cells.

Aberrant DNA in these cells,
which is passed on thanks to the lack of a properly functioning cell cycle regulation,
can lead to all kinds of problems, not just within each particular cell but also to
cells that aren't doing their particular job, aren't growing to the right proportions,
basically anything and everything in a human or animal can be affected in a very
negative way.

Why does free chlorine atoms affect the ozone layer but chloride ions do not?

Simply put, an ion is molecule having a different number
of electrons than protons thus giving it a negative or a positive charge
respectively. 

Sometimes a phenomenon occurs called
ionic bonding.  All except the six Noble Gases (helium,
neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and radon) are subject to ionic bonding.  In ionic bonding,
the atoms form a crystal lattice molecule in which ions of opposite charge are bound to
each other.  This present a more stable configuation.  Salt is just such an example of
ionic bonding. 

So, just like single men and women are free
to roam at will, the same holds true in nature.  Think of the free chlorine atoms as the
singles still looking for fun, adventure, and a mate!  Think of the chloride ions as
marrieds with less of a tendency to flit here and there! 

what are some elizbeth II's private residences in England that she owns and can sell? (other than Sandringham House)

Many of the most famous residences of the British Monarchy
are in fact owned by the state, such as Buckingham Palace and the Palace of Holyrood
House. These fulfil the role of the official residences of the Queen and the Royal
Family in various areas of the UK.

Other residences, such
as Balmoral Castle (Scotland) and Sandringham (East Anglia) are private residences owned
by the Queen. Their estates are used to generate a private income for the monarchy,
although this is now subject to UK tax.

There is another
category of buildings, those run by the charity Historical Royal Palaces. These are
former residences of the monarchy, which are still owned by the Queen on behalf of the
nation. They include many famous British tourist attractions such as Hampton Court
Palace, the Tower of London, Kew Palace and Kensington Palace. There are also hundreds
of smaller buildings and hoes which the monarchy own. Many of these are no larger than
cottages, and may be sold by the Crown Estates. However, buildings of
national significance, such as the palaces, cannot be sold.

Why does Alan Brinkley describe “Is this a Republican form of government?” as “biting”? This is a political cartoon in the textbook by...

I assume that you are talking about the Thomas Nast
cartoon that I have linked to below.  It is a cartoon about the conduct of the South
during Reconstruction.

The reason that Brinkley calls this
"biting" is because it is clearly an angry cartoon that grabs a hold of a person and
makes them think.  This is the definition of "biting."

In
the cartoon, Nast is saying that the behavior of vigilante groups in the South (like the
KKK or the "White Liners" that you see referred to in the background) is unAmerican. 
The South tended to argue that Reconstruction was bad because it denied them a
republican form of government (guaranteed in the Constitution).  Nast is rebuking them,
saying that what they do to the blacks is in no way consistent with republican values. 
He is telling them that if they don't act in a republican way towards blacks, they don't
deserve to be treated as republicans themselves.

So this is
a biting cartoon because it is emotionally powerful and it has a very clear and
compelling point.

a flexible container, like a balloon, with an initial volume of 1.0L is occupied by a gas at a pressure 1.5atm at 25 Celsius.what is the...

Gases are measured using three variables:  temperature
(T), pressure (P), and volume (V).

When more than one
variable is changing you use the universal gas law which combines Boyle's Law and
Charles's Law into one general equation.

That equation
is:

(P1 x V1)/T1 = (P2 x 
V2)/T2

where P1, V1 & T1 are initial conditions and
P2,V2,T2 are final conditions.

There are three important
things you need to watch when solving these problems:

1:
make sure the temperature is converted to degrees Kelvin using the formula:  K = 273.15
+ degrees C

2. make sure the units for pressure are the
same for the initial state and final state.  You do not have to change them to kPa
unless that is the units you are asked to use in the final
answer.

3. make sure the units for volume are the same for
the initial and final states.

Once you have done this, put
your known values into the equation above and solv e for the
unknown.

In this problem:

P1 =
1.5 atm

V1 = 1 liter

T1 = 25
degrees C = 298.15 K

P2 = 6
atm

V2 = ?

T2 = 100 degrees C
= 373.15 K

Solving:

(1.5 x
1)/298.15 = (6V2)/373.15

first multiply both sides by
373.15 and you get

(373.15 x 1.5 x1)/298.15 =
6V2

now divide both sides by 6 to find
V2

(373.15 x 1.5 x1)/(298.15 x 6) =
V2

solving you get V2 = .313 liters or 313
mL

Notice that in this case the increased pressure had a
greater effect on the final volume than the increased
temperature.

How does Freeman reveal Mother's character through description and figurative language in the story "The Revolt of Mother"?

A simile is used to describe
Mother.

Figurative language is a
comparison.  Figurative language is used to describe Mother’s newfound strength.  When
the minister comes, she holds her ground.  She continues her work shelling peas with a
“saintly expression” and does not invite him in.  Her handling of the pease is described
figuratively.

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She handled the pease as if they were
bullets.

By comparing the
peas to bullets, Freeman is making a simile.  A simile compares two unlike things by
saying they are like each other.  The mother handles the peas like bullets because she
is tough and strong.  She is ready to stand up to the minister and won’t take anything
from anyone.

Which nation emerged stronger after the Thirty Years' War?

I do not think that the 30 Years War was really good for
any nation, but I suppose that you could at least make the argument that France emerged
stronger after this war.  The Holy Roman Empire was the clear
loser.

The major reason that France emerged stronger from
this war was because Spain was hurt so badly by the war.  The Spanish Habsburgs were
hurt by the extent to which the Holy Roman Empire (also in Habsburg hands) was a loser
in the war.  This led to the French being able to dominate the Spanish in the years
after the end of the 30 Years War.

How is marxism expressed in Oscar Wilde's "An Ideal Husband?"

Marxism is a super wide and broad concept to reduce to one
aspects of this particular play.

However, if we go with
Lenin's tripartite version of Marxism, we see that they are a) critique of political
economy, b) philosophy of materialism and, c) socialist
politics.

Some of the characters exemplify some of these
elements:

Lord Goring, for example, lives above his means,
has no intention to work, yet expects to live off his father. His father talks about
buying him a seat in the House of Lords, to which Lord Goring scoffs off saying how
tedious the House of Lords is "when" they have to work (not that they do
anything).

Lady Chiltern is the epitome of charity and
social grace. Yet, Lord Goring consistently puts down this "modern necessity" for
charity and philanthropy. In fact, this is a topic also present in "The Picture of
Dorian Gray", "The Importance of Being Earnest" and "A Woman of no Importance"- the
excessive preoccupation of charity for the sake of attaining social
standing.

Sir Robert Chiltern and Mrs. Chevely are also an
examples of the marxist obsession with materialism and the recklessness of obtaining it
by any means, even if the means are illegal. Power is
everything.

In all, the major characters indeed represent
fragments of the tripartite version of Marxist thought, and it was Wilde's way of
criticizing the hypocritical Victorian society.

Based on his comments and behavior in court, what is a good description of Bob Ewell in To Kill a Mockingbird.

For writing a character description, you must identify
many adjectives that describe a character and then provide the evidence of those
descriptors.

For example, Bob Ewell
is:

DUMB: Atticus easily proved that Bob was illiterate,
and then that he had a limited understanding of vocabulary by positioning him to talk
about what hand was his dominant hand.

CARELESS: Bob did
not care enough about his daughter to call for a doctor when she was allegedly raped. A
doctor could have not only attended to her pain, but confirmed the rape and helped
provide evidence.

DIRTY: The scalded color of his skin
revealed to a watching audience that this was a man who didn't bathe much. Not only does
this suggest a hygiene problem, but it suggests a lifestyle of dirty in many other
meanings of the word, like underhanded and corrupt.

IN THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES what is the significance of the quotation in ch7 at the beginning of the chapter?What is the significance of the...

The quote I believe you are referring to is, "How did bees
ever become equated with sex? They do not live a riotous sex life themselves. The hive
suggests cloister more than bordello." It refers to the talk about the "birds and the
bees" that every parent dreads having with their child sooner or later. Lily and Zach
are becoming more and more interested in each other as those of the opposite sex do.
Bees mate only with the queen, and most drones do not mate at all. How bees came to be
in the phrase above is funny given their mating habits (or lack of them). Each chapter
begins with a quote from a nonfiction book about the life of bees. The quote, in some
way, relates or foreshadows the human events in each chapter.

To what does Montag compare kerosene in Fahrenheit 451?

Montag compares kerosene to at least a couple of different
things over the course of the book.

The first comparison
comes in the very first paragraph of the book.  At that point, he compares kerosene to a
snake's venom.   He sees the hose as a snake and the kerosene as its venom.  This seems
like he sees kerosene as something dangerous and a bit
evil.

But then, when he first meets Clarisse, he says
something completely different.  He says that kerosene is, to him, "nothing but
perfume."  This, clearly, is showing kerosene in a much more positive
light.

So Montag seems to have something of a love-hate
relationship with the stuff.

What is x if 72/(3x+3) -x=3?

First, we'll factorize by 3 the denominator of the ratio
72/(3x+3) = 72/3(x+1).

Then, we'll divide by 3 both
numerator and denominator of the ratio:

72/3(x+1) =
24/(x+1)

We'll have to multiply both sides by the
denominator x+1.

24(x + 1)/ (x + 1) - x(x+1) =
3(x+1)

We'll simplify and we'll move all terms to one
side:

24 - x(x+1) - 3(x+1) =
0

24 - x^2 - x - 3x - 3 =
0

We'll combine like terms:

-
x^2 - 4x + 21 = 0

We'll multiply by
-1:

x^2 + 4x - 21 = 0

We'll
apply quadratic formula:

x1 =
[-4+sqrt(16+84)]/2

x1 =
(-4+10)/2

x1 = 3

x2 =
(-4-10)/2

x2 = -7

What is the marginal productivity theory of income distribution proposed by Henry George?

The marginal productivity theory of income proposes that
the factors of production (like labour inputs) that are used to produce goods are in
equilibrium to the value of the output of the production (the finished product). The
theory primarily deals with how workers are compensated for their labour and presumes
that their labour is compensated on the basis of the marginal value of the products they
make. Parts of the theory also propose
that:

1. There should be a tax on land because it
   is the collective property of the community and rent seeking is generally unproductive
   to the economy.


2. There should be minimal restrictions on
   free trade.

In The Crucible, how is Abigail able to control the girls?

Abigail is clearly a young woman of great charisma and
strength, as is seen in Act 1. She knows what is at stake now that her Uncle, Parris,
has seen a group of girls dancing naked in the woods and that it could mean whipping or
worse for her. We see Abigail's desperation but also her implacable strength of
character that forces the girls to bow to her commands. Note how in Act 1 she "furiously
shakes" Betty to get some kind of response from her. It is when Betty shouts out what
Abigail did that we see Abigail's true colours:

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You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife!
You drank a charm to kill Goody
Proctor!

At this point
Abigail "smashes her across the face", screaming "Shut it! Now shut it!" She quickly
works to assure everyone of the "truth" to try and limit their
punishment:

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Now look you. All of you. We danced. And Tituba
conjured Ruth Putnam's dead sisters. And that is all. And mark this. Let either of you
breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in
the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder
you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow
next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish
you had never seen the sun go
down!

This, then, clearly
shows how Abigail maintains her control of the girls - it is through intimidation -
physical, mental and psychological, which induces terror in the girls and makes them
compliant to her commands. Note how in the rest of the play the girls always follow
Abigail's lead and never gainsay her.

In the play Romeo and Juliet what are quotes that show love is hell, and why?

Romeo refers to love early on because he thinks he is in
love with Rosaline. He offers these words that portray love with allusion
through images of smoke and
fire:

Love is
a smoke raised with the fume of sighs;
Being purged, a fire sparkling in
lovers' eyes;
Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears:
What
is it else? a madness most discreet,
A choking gall and a preserving
sweet.

What makes this
definition of love equal to hell is the fact that love does nothing but kill, which can
lead to hell. It also shows love as a paradox, once attained, it drives someone almost
insane. This is from Act I, scene ii.

Later, in scene iv,
Romeo and Mercutio are talking about going to the Capulet's feast. Romeo doesn't want to
go because Love is weighing him down. Here is their
conversation:

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MERCUTIO 
You
are a lover; borrow Cupid's wings,
And soar with them above a common
bound.

ROMEO 
I am too sore enpierced with his
shaft
To soar with his light feathers, and so bound,
I cannot bound
a pitch above dull woe:
Under love's heavy burden do I
sink.

MERCUTIO 
And, to sink in it, should you burden
love;
Too great oppression for a tender
thing.

ROMEO 
Is love a tender thing? it is too
rough,
Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like
thorn.

MERCUTIO 
If love be rough with you, be rough with
love;
Prick love for pricking, and you beat love
down.

Romeo paints the
picture of love that it is excruciatingly painful. This is the problem of Hell. There is
to be extreme pain. Romeo is living a hell on earth for having to exist without
Rosaline's love.

I hope that is helpful. Maybe another
editor can think of another specific place which refers to Hell more directly. I have
had to work figurative examples for you.

What is unique about the Chinese written language system compared with those of the West?Look at the oracle bone and Chinese writing example and...

According to the text that you have included here, what is
unique (or at least very unusual) is that Chinese writing has not evolved to use an
alphabet or, at the very least, a syllabary.

In Chinese
writing, there are thousands of characters.  Educated Chinese people have to memorize
around 4,000 different characters.  There is no way to sound a word out (as you can if
you have an alphabet) unless you happen to have memorized the sounds that those
characters make.

This system is pretty hard to learn and
most languages have gone away from such systems.  Chinese hasn't and that makes it
relatively unique.

How was Phoenix Jackson's outlook on life influenced by her actions in "A Worn Path"?

This is a great question, and I have just answered the
same question for you based on "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall." You might like to
compare and contrast the two strong protagonists in that story and in "A Worn Path."
There are several similarities that are easily
identifiable.

I think one of the characteristics that we
associate with Phoenix Jackson is her complete stubborn resilience. She makes the walk
"regular as clockwork" as the nurse says, in spite of personal danger and the long
distance she needs to cover. She meets the obstacles that she faces in the story head on
and these hindrances reveal that she is polite, imaginative, humorous, optimistic,
courageous and sly. Consider how she responds to having a gun pointed at
her:

She
stood straight and faced him.

"Doesn't the gun scare you?"
he said, still pointing it.

"No, sir, I seen plenty go off
closer by, in my day, and for less than what I done," she said, holding utterly
still.

Her central action,
phoenix-like, in renewing her love for her grandson each time she makes her journey
along the "worn path," indicates her outlook on life, which is characterised by
impressive determination and stoicism.

What is the process of reduction when referring to metals within the earth?

It appears your question is referring the process of
"reduction" as applied to chemical
process.

In chemistry the process of reduction is applied
in general to any chemical reaction in which molecules of the substance reacting gains
electrons. More particularly, this term is applied to the process in which a substance
loosed oxygen atoms. In this sense the process of reduction is
opposite of the process of
oxidation.

The metals as existing in
the natural form within the earth are generally in the form of oxides of those metals.
For example. iron ore contains iron in the form of FeO and Fe2O3. To obtain the pure
metal from their oxides the metals need to be refined. This process of refining
includes, among others, the process of reduction to convert the oxides of the metals to
the pure metal form.

In "The Gift of the Magi," what is the situational irony?

Situational irony can be defined as when we as readers are
led to believe that one thing is going to happen only to be shocked and surprised when
something entirely different or the opposite of what we expect takes place. Situational
irony seems to be used by authors to remind us as readers that it is often chance or the
unexpected that has the last word in life. O. Henry in this classic short story
therefore used situational irony to create an unforgettable and shocking ending, when we
realise that both Jim and Della have sacrificed their most valuable possessions to buy
something for the other to use with their most valuable possession - Della's hair and
Jim's pocket watch, respectively:

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For there lay The Combs - the set of combs, side
and back, that Della had worshipped for long in a Broadway window. Beautiful combs, pure
tortoise shell, with jewelled rims - just the shade to wear in the beautiful vanished
hair. They were expensive combs, she knew, and her heart had simply craved and yearned
over them without the least hope of possession. And now, they were hers, but the tresses
that should have adorned the coveted adornments were
gone.

This is the situational
irony in this story - Della finally has been given the combs that she has desired for so
long, but only when she is not in a position to use them, for she has cut her
hair.

What do the geraniums at the Ewells and the camillias of Mrs. Dubose symbolize?symbolism in the novel

The flowers mentioned in context with the Ewell's place
are geraniums, seven red ones. They connect to Miss Maudie, not Mrs. Dubose. Miss Maudie
militantly and religiously cares for her garden and flowers. In fact, during the fire,
those flowers were of more concern and care to her than anything
else.

These red geraniums represent Mayella's deep desire
to live a better life than the one she's living. These are the few items in this world
that she can pour effort and care into and they will flourish for her. Sure, she could
try to raise those siblings of hers, she could try to have relationships, she could try
to keep a clean house, but her father always destroys those things with his drinking and
fits of who knows what.

Mrs. Dubose's camillias, on the
other hand, represent that she has forgiven or is haunting Jem Finch for his moment of
wreckless abandon in her front yard.

In the Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass what is the overall impression of his childhood on the plantation?

The overall impression one gets is cruelty.  Douglass goes
to lengths to describe how his childhood was defined by the overall cruelty of the
master.  In the opening chapter, Douglass describes how slaves are whipped and beaten
for disobeying the master, like Aunt Hester.  The overall impression that continues on
is that slave masters and plantation managers enjoyed using violence and savagery as a
means of controlling slaves and ensuring that obedience of slaves was maintained through
subjugation and repression.  The use of whippings, beatings, and being subject to
extremely horrific conditions allows one to fully grasp Douglass' contention that
slavery was a way of life that could not sustain itself and its own demise was evident. 
At some level, the cruelty that it offered compelled Douglass to believe that it will
suffocate itself out of existence.

Key differences between the movie and the book?I mean differences like background, characters etc any visual or information provided.

The differences between a book and a movie take place for
many different reasons. Whereas a book must describe everything in detail so that the
reader can imagine it, the movie has the benefit of video to show in a flash what a book
may take several paragraphs or pages to show.

Many people
are disappointed because the characters in the movie do not look like those the reader
has imagined. Also, some movies are not true to the book and may change the color or
ethnicity of a character. It may be fine for those only watching the movie but it
typically annoys the person that has also read the
book.

The hardest thing to translate is a
person’s thoughts or motives. Thoughts cannot be shown on the silver screen. The
director must turn those thoughts into action including tone and inflection of the voice
as well as facial expressions.

In more “literary” works the
person that writes the screenplay must drastically reduce scenes, characters and
settings that are not germane to the overall story. While this may change the direction
of the story it is often seen as being a necessary
evil.

Those that think they can just watch the movie
instead of reading the book are typically going to be in hot water as the two are rarely
the same.

Summarize A Tale of Two Cities in fewer than four sentences.

As our novel starts, a very businessman-like British
gentleman makes his way into of  href="http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/france/paris/">Paris. He’s on
a very unsettling mission. In fact, it’s almost enough to make a businessman cry. You
see, eighteen years ago, a French doctor was imprisoned without any warning (or any
trial). He’s been locked up in the worst prison of all prisons,  href="http://www.discoverfrance.net/France/Paris/Monuments-Paris/Bastille.shtml">the
Bastille. After almost two decades, he was released – again without any
explanation – and he’s currently staying with an old servant of his, Defarge. Today, Mr.
Lorry (that’s our British businessman) is on a mission to the French doctor back to
England, where he can live in peace with his daughter.
Dr. Manette may be
free, but he’s still a broken man. He spends most of his time cobbling together shoes
and pacing up and down in his dark room. Too accustomed to the space of a prison to
understand that he can actually leave his room, Dr. Manette seems doomed to live a
pitiful life.

Fortunately for Dr. Manette, he happens to
have the World’s Perfect Daughter. Lucie, the child he left eighteen years ago, is now a
grown-up, smiling, blond, perfect ray of sunshine. They don’t have much money (Dr.
Manette’s cash was all seized in France), but Lucie manages to shine her rays of
wonderfulness over their lives. In other words, they’re pretty happy. And they’ve
adopted Mr. Lorry as a sort of drop-in uncle.
As we pick up the story in 1780,
Dr. Manette and Lucie have been called as witnesses in a treason case. Apparently, a
young man named Charles Darnay is accused of providing classified information to the
French government. English trials at the time resemble smoke-and-mirror tricks: Dickens
takes great delight in mocking the esteemed members of the court.
Sydney
loves Lucie with all his heart, but he’s convinced that he could never deserve her.
She’d like to help him be a better person, but he would rather wallow in his misery.
After all, wallowing sounds like so much fun, doesn’t it? Wallow, wallow, wallow. That’s
Sydney in a nutshell.
Charles, meanwhile, fares a little bit better. He
marries Lucie. On the day of his wedding, he tells Dr. Manette a secret: he’s actually a
French nobleman in disguise. A very particular French nobleman, as a matter of fact: the
Marquis Evrémonde. Because everything in a Dickens novel has to fit
into a neat pattern, it’s no real surprise that the Evrémondes were the evil brothers
who locked Dr. Manette up in the first place. The good doctor is a bit shocked, of
course, but he eventually realizes that Charles is nothing like his father or his uncle
(the evil Evrémondes brothers). Dr. Manette is willing to love Charles for the man he
is, not the family he left behind.
(See the link for the rest of
it)

What is the wavelength of blue light if it has a frequency of 6.67 x 1014 sec (Hz)?

We know that for any kind of waves, the  wavelength
multiplied by its frequency is equal to its speed. That
is:

Wavelength x Frequency =
Speed

Or

Wavelength =
Speed/Frequency

The speed of light in vacuum is 299,792,000
meters per second.

Substituting the given value of speed of
light and the given value of frequency in the above equation for
wavelength:

Wavelength =
299,792,000/(6.67x10^14)

= 4494.6327x10^(-10)
meters

Answer:

Wavelength of
blue light = 4494.6327x10^(-10) meters

What were the steps taken to eliminate Plessy v Ferguson?

There were a number of steps that were taken to eliminate
the ruling from this case.  You might want to check your textbook to see exactly how
your book talks about these steps.

The basic strategy was
to start with lawsuits against "separate but equal" in higher education and then work
down until there was a basis for bringing lawsuits to integrate high schools and
elementary schools.

So, for example, the NAACP sued over
whether it was legal for Texas to maintain two different law schools -- one for blacks
and one for whites.  The point of these suits was to argue that it was really impossible
to have separate schools be truly equal.  If separate schools could not be equal, then
the whole doctrine of Plessy (saying that separate schools were equal and therefore okay
under the Equal Protection Clause) would be destroyed.

This
strategy culminated in the Brown case which overturned Plessy.

Given the function f(x) = - 2x + 5 calculate the area of the triangle between x,y axis and the graph of f(x)

To calculate the area of the triangle ABC, we'll have to
determine the x and y intercepts of the graph of the function f(x) = -2x +
5.

To calculate x intercept, we'll have to put y = 0. But y
= f(x).

f(x) = 0

-2x + 5 =
0

-2x = -5

x =
5/2

x = 2.5

The intercepting
point of the line -2x + 5 and x axis is B(2.5 , 0).

To
calculate y intercept, we'll have to put x = 0.

f(0) = -2*0
+ 5

f(0) = 5

The intercepting
point of the line -2x + 5 and y axis is C(0 , 5).

Since the
x axis is perpendicular to y axis, the triangle 0BC is right angled triangle and the
area is the half of the product of cathetus OB and OC.

A =
OB*OC/2

We'll calculate the lengths of the cathetus OB and
OC.

OB = sqrt[(xB-xO)^2 +
(yB-yO)^2]

OB = sqrt
[(2.5)^2]

OB = 2.5

OC =
sqrt[(xC-xO)^2 + (yC-yO)^2]

OC = sqrt
5^2

OC = 5

A =
5*2.5/2

A =
2.5^2

The area of the right angled triangle
OBC is: A = 6.25 square units.

How do we find the integral of (cos x)^n sin x for n not equal to -1 ?

We need to find Int [ (cos x)^n sin x
dx]

First let us put u = cos x
,

we get du/dx  = -sin x

or du
= -sin x dx

Now in Int [(cos x)^n sin x
dx]

replace cos x = u and sin x dx = -
du

=> - Int [ (cos x)^n du
]

=> - Int [ u^n du
]

=> - u^(n+1) / (n+1) +
C

=> - [(cos x)^(n+1)] / (n+1) +
C

Therefore Int [ (cos x)^n sin x dx] = -
[(cos x)^(n+1)] / (n+1) + C

In The Secret Life of Bees, what is the metaphor Lily uses at the end of pg 132?What does she mean?

I think this metaphor is also meant to evoke the Black
Mary, which we learn about in Chapter 4 of The Secret Life of Bees,
in the same scene in which Lily and Rosaleen first meet May. Black Mary is a figure that
is "black as she could be" (70). She has "a faded red heart painted on her breast" (70)
and "a candle inside a tall red glass threw glints and glimmers across her body" (70).
The statue's impact upon Lily is profound, "so big it ached like a moon had entered my
chest and filled it up" (70).  May, of course, is black, as well, with "palms pink like
the bottoms of her feet" (71), which fills Lily with "tenderness"
(71). 

Black Mary and May, with their contrasting blacks
and shades of red, have a strong and positive impact upon Lily, the Black Mary seeming
to confer some serenity and protection upon her, and May making her feel very
protective.  I do not think the metaphor later on in the book is a coincidence at all. 
We are meant to remember that Black Mary's heart is on her outside, providing strength
and hope, while May's heart, on her inside, makes her
vulnerable. 

What is a slave?

A slave is a person who is forced to work for another
person, generally without pay or other recognition for his or her efforts. The slave can
be forced to maintain this position through any number of means: the threat of physical
violence, emotional pain, law, or social pressure. Often, it is a combination of several
factors that enforce slavery.

For instance, in the United
States before the Civil War, slavery was reinforced on an individual level in large part
by the threat (and fact) of physical violence and the force of certain state
laws.

Slavery is still a large, some might say growing,
problem in the world. Modern-day slavery does not always include laws that make the
slave the literal possession of his or her owner, but there may be social or practical
limitations that make it very difficult or impossible to escape from slavery, such as
being in a foreign country, inability to speak the language, social isolation, et
cetera.

What is the process of deciding domestic policies and their priorities?

If you are talking about the president and his (someday
her) process of deciding domestic priorities, every president goes about this in
somewhat of a different way.  This is decided partly based on the president's own
personality and partly based on circumstances.

For example,
Pres. Obama's first priority when he came into office had to be the economy. 
Circumstances forced him to put the economy before all else because the country was in
the middle of a crisis.

When circumstances do not dicatate
what the president must do, he often goes based on what he thinks is most important. 
This can be based on his ideology.  For example, if a Republican wins in 2012, they
might focus on cutting the size of government because that is what their ideology tells
them they should do.

What caused WWI?

Wow, joxy, that is really a question and a half. Whole
books have been written on the subject, so I can't do much more here than give you a few
general causes.

1. The assassination of the
   Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand.  This ultimately led to the demands Austria made on
   Serbia that, when not totally accepted, triggered an invasion (and started
   WWI.)


2. The system of alliances, by which Europe was an
   interlocked net of countries that "had each-other's back."  It went a little something
   like this: Austria declared war on Serbia / Russia and France get ready to declare war
   on Austria / Germany declares war on Russia and France first (to get a jump on them and
   help their buddies the Austrians) / the UK declares war on Germany (because Germany, to
   get at France, rolls through neutral Belgium and won't get out) / Turkey jumps in on
   Germany's side / Italy (though allied with Germany) decides to backstab it by joining
   the "allies" / and finally the Americans stomp there way in to seal Germany's
   fate.


3. New technology and a massive arms build up that
   gave nations an itchy trigger finger.


4. The notion that
   wars were often fought, won, and lost quickly and without significant bloodshed.
   

There are a lot of other, more complex
reasons, but these are really the big ones.  Basically, everyone thought they could win
quickly and everyone had a lot of big friends to bring to the party.  In the end, there
was a whole lot of dying, the re-working of Europe's map, and a bitterness that let to
World War I part 2 about 20 years later.

1. Factor the following: a. 25ab-10ax - 20b + 8x b. by - 4by - ax + 4abc.ax^2 + 2x^3 + a + 2x

a. 25ab-10ax - 20b +
8x 

First we will rearrange
terms.

25ab - 20b + 8x -
10ax

Now we will factor 5b from the first 2
terms.

==> 5b(5a-4) + 8x -
10ax

Now we will factor -2x from the last two
terms.

==> 5b(5a-4) -2x( -4 +
5a)

==> 5b(5a-4) - 2x(
5a-4).

Now we will factor
(5a-4).

==> (5a-4)( 5b
-2x).

c.ax^2 + 2x^3 + a +
2x

First we will factor x^2 from the first two
terms.

==> x^2( a+ 2x) + ( a+
2x)

Now we will factor ( a+
2x).

==> (a+2x) ( x^2 +1)

In Act 2 of Macbeth, who suspects Macbeth of being guilty?

In Act 2, the only suspicion of Macbeth that arises comes
from Macduff.  In Scene 4, the very end of Act 2, Rosse, Macduff, and the Old Man
discuss the murder of Duncan and the flight of Malcolm and Donalbain.  They discuss the
fact that the other noblemen suspect the king's sons of foul play because they have fled
Scotland and now look guilty; however, Macduff does not agree.  When asked whether he
will go to Scone to see Macbeth's coronation, Macduff replies that he will not go and
will instead return to his home in Fife.  This is an outright act of defiance on the
part of Macduff who as a nobleman would likely be expected to attend the ceremony.  So,
Macduff's actions suggest that he does not trust Macbeth.

In To Kill Mockingbird, how is tension created when Jem and Scout get attacked by Bob?

It is in Chapter 28, which concerns before, during and
after the pageant, that narrates the attack on Jem and Scout. Note how this represents a
new moral "low" for Bob Ewell, as, to cowardly to attack Atticus directly, he decides to
move against him indirectly by attacking those who are most vulnerable and unable to
defend themselves - his children.

Lee is very skilful in
how she creates suspense in this chapter - note how it is given a false climax with
Cecil Jacobs jumping out on Jem and Scout in the pitch black. This has the effect of
lulling us into a false sense of security, much as in horror movies there is a false
climax before the "real" horror begins.

It is when Jem and
Scout are returning to their house after the pageant that Bob Ewell strikes. Note how
tension is created immediately by the fact that Jem and Scout are alone and isolated in
the dark. When Jem thinks he hears something and stops Scout and makes her listen, note
how Scout describes the silence:

readability="5">

This was the stillness before a
thunderstorm.

This sentence
clearly indicates that the "storm" is just about to break and danger is going to come
upon the children.

Tension is also raised by the sound of
their pursuer, who Scout names "Shuffle-foot." The sound he makes allows them to tell
when he stops merely following them and begins to run after
them:

readability="10">

Shuffle-foot had not stopped with us this time.
His trousers swished softly and steadily. Then they stopped. He was running, running
toward us with no child's steps.

"Run, Scout! Run! Run!"
Jem screamed.

The
onomatopoeia in the swishing of the trousers and then the realisation that their pursuer
is not a child, but an adult, combined with the screaming of Jem serves to greatly
heighten the tension as we wonder what will happen.

Why is carrying the fire in Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road so significant?

In Cormac McCarth's novel The Road, I
believe that carrying the fire, while it may refer literally to fire, also may refer to
the "keepers of the fire," those who historically were able to survive because they had
the means to make or carry fire; the carrying of the fire is a
metaphor.

Fire was historically used for many things: the
first most important uses would have been to keep warm and keep wild animals away. As
people advanced and were more sophisticated, fire not only cooked food, but enabled
people to work with natural materials to make weapons, crockery and try new
foods.

The true success of early man with regard to fire
was not just to be able to collect it and protect it when it occurred naturally, say
from a lightning strike, but to use materials that would create fire whenever they
wanted it. These were the people that survived, procreated, and moved on to populate new
areas.

When I think of fire in this book, I see the father
and son as "good guys" (as they call themselves): survivors who want not just to get by,
but start a new life. They keep the ideals of the old society, the concept of civilized
behavior, alive, while other members of society have turned to violence and
cannibalism.

This sense of maintaining the course of
civilization is seen with the father speaking to his son about surviving, but in an
honorable way.

readability="7">

Are we still the good guys? he
said.

Yes. We’re still the good
guys.

And we always will
be.

Yes. We always will
be.

Fire can destroy, as seen
with the results of the apocolyptic fallout of the world's destruction. Fire can be
referred to when they build a fire and stay close for warmth during the cold brought on
by the nuclear winter. However, figuratively, I believe "fire" refers to carrying on the
age-old goal of survival by man, and doing what they can to rebuild the world in a
positive way, not by hurting others and stealing from
them.

Acknowledgement of fire tied to goodness is seen in
the quote:

readability="5">

"We're the good guys...and we're carrying the
fire."

This is a new way
seeing life for the father (who has seen the days before the disaster), and something he
passes on to his son (who never knew any world but this one). Even after the father
dies, we can hope that family that takes the son in will continue the father's quest to
find goodness in humanity and rebuild the world. (And based upon the son's desire to
help others, we can be comfortably sure that he will do so.)

In The Crucible why does Elizabeth think that Abigail wants to kill her?

There are several reasons that Elizabeth feels, and
accurately so, that Abby wants to kill her.  One reason that Abby wants to cause harm to
Elizabeth is spite.  Elizabeth, once she suspected the affair between Abby and John,
fires her and kicks her out of the house.  This was damaging to Abby's reputation; when
a girl is fired, the word spreads through town, and rumors started.  Because of those
rumors, Abby couldn't find employment anywhere else, and had to go live at her uncle's
house, the Reverend Parris.  So, all of this makes Abby pretty mad.  She even asks her
uncle, "Do you begrudge my bed, Uncle," meaning, do you regret taking me in?  Then she
goes on to call Elizabeth a "snivelling, gossiping liar" who was spreading lies about
her to keep her from getting employment. So, her anger was so intense that spite was a
definite factor in her getting Elizabeth arrested.

The
second reason that Abigail would want Elizabeth gone is simple jealousy.  Abby is in
love with John; this is very apparent when John visits the Parris household and Abby
throws herself all over him and tells him that she thinks about him every night.  She
loves John, and wants to be with him; Elizabeth IS with him, so she is jealous.  That
jealousy and envy drive her to try to get rid of Elizabeth and take her
place.

The last reason, that isn't quite as obvious as the
first two, is a sense of twisted self-righteousness.  In an optional act that is often
left out of the play, Miller had Abby and John meet in the woods.  John went to try to
talk Abby out of her accusation against his wife.  She refused, and insisted that
Elizabeth was a hypocrite, and that "the world will be white again" when the likes of
Elizabeth--who, according to Abby, professes being a kind, Christian woman but is really
a mean, horrible person--are eradicated from the town.  Abby said that it was she who
was truly deserving of John in marriage, and that it was her personal mission to condemn
all of the hypocrites in the town.  So, she has a rather bizarre and twisted sense of
self-righteousness, like she had been called by God to get rid of Elizabeth. Whether she
really believed that or it was just an act, we don't know, but that is what she
expresses in that act.

I hope that those thoughts helped;
good luck!

What is the setting of "A Christmas Carol"?

The time is Christmas day, here shown as in the coldest
depths of winter, the place allegedly Bethlehem. Yet Rossetti is describing an English
winter (frozen ground, snow falls, ice stony hard, etc.). The bitterness and bleakness
are in sharp contrast with the warmth and glory of the event. And, the location—stable,
manger, adoring Magi, shepherds, and animals —is part of the story of Jesus’ birth as
presented in the Biblical books of Matthew and Luke, and as legend has embroidered it.
The simplicity isessential, theologically, to present the human vulnerability of the
God/Man and yet to remind readers (most of whom, at least in Rossetti’s day, would have
known Christian teaching) that the person born in such poverty was the King of
Kings.

What message is the speaker trying to convey in "On Wenlock Edge"?

What the speaker is talking about is the idea that all
people share the same troubles and that all people's troubles come to nothing in the
end.

The speaker is imagining the feelings of a Roman who
was, centuries ago, in the same place that he is now.  He imagines that the Roman had
the same kinds of concerns that he has and he says that the tree of human life is "never
quiet."  This shows us that people have always had
problems.

But then, at the end of the poem, he also says
that the Roman is dead and buried now.  This implies (whether for good or bad) that the
speaker, too, will one day die and will no longer have to think of his
problems.

In E.E. Cummings, "next to of course god america i" What does the line, "then shall the voice of liberty be mute?" mean?

cummings is mocking patriotic rhetoric.  cummings mashes
cliches that you would typically hear from politicians in speeches or traditionally, at
fourth of july celebrations. this is a satire on a nationalistic or narrow-minded
patriot who "did not stop to think" about their words or actions (war - slaughter).  by
mashing these cliches together, cummings illustrates the parrot-like or brain-washed way
these speeches are strung together and that the quick fire string of patriotic cliches
ultimately shows 'talking without thinking.' this is kind of prescient considering we
now live in an era of media sound bites.

cummings is also
mocking the narrow-minded idea that whoever challenges these concepts or the speaker is
un-american. if the line "then shall the voice of liberty be mute?" is also sarcastic.
the line follows the description of "happy heroes" "rushing to the slaughter" - patriots
who are willing to die for their country. if they die, and they are the ones who fight
for liberty, their voices, the voices of liberty will be mute (dead).  but this is a
satire of those who would rush to war simply in the name of patriotism; or more
directly, the politicians who send soldiers to war.  the voice of liberty may in fact be
those who stop and question patriotic rhetoric and question the rush to war. so, maybe
it is their voices which are muted by the shouting patriot with his mishmash of
cliches.

Word inversion and disordered grammar were part of
cummings' style. in this poem, they satirically resemble the cliched phrasing/structure
of political speech.

This poem has echoes of Dulce et
Decorum Est.