What are the themes in Act 2 and Act 3 of Macbeth?

In Acts 2 and 3 of Macbeth, Macbeth's
greed and ambition begin to take over his character as he tries to procure and protect
his title as king.  Macbeth now fully believes in the witches' prophecy, having been
given the title of Thane of Cawdor after returning from battle.  Macbeth then allows his
own thoughts and those of Lady Macbeth to cloud his good judgement.  He begins to
suspect that those close to him are dangerous to his position, and following his
interpretation of the witches' prophecy, Macbeth sees Banquo as an immediate threat. 
Thus, he decides to have Banquo and Fleance murdered.  Here, Macbeth's actions show that
uncontrolled greed and ambition may lead to one's downfall, a major theme in the play
overall.

What the theme of "The Most Dangerous Game"?

Well, any reader might come out with a different theme
from the same work, so you need to remember that when we think about the theme or the
message of a particular text it is going to be subjective. However, for me, one of the
key themes that I take from this excellent short story is the violence and cruelty of
the hunt. I find it very interesting that at the beginning of the story, when Rainsford
is talking to Whitney about his excitement of being able to hunt jaguars in South
America that they have the following conversation:

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"The best sport in the world," agreed
Rainsford.

"For the hunter," ammended Whitney. "Not for the
jaguar."

"Don't talk rot, Whitney," said Rainsford. "You're
a big-game hunter, not a philosopher. Who cares how a jaguar
feels?"

"Perhaps the jaguar does," observed
Whitney.

"Bah! They've no
understanding."

"Even so, I rather think they understand
one thing - fear. The fear of pain and the fear of
death."

This conversation
becomes highly significant in the light of the rest of the story, as Rainsford's easy
division of the world into the hunted and the hunter is questioned when it is he who
becomes the hunted and is put in the place of the jaguar who he would have been
gleefully hunting. To me, this is one of the most important themes of the story as it
exposes the view of the hunted rather than the hunter and questions the morality of
hunting.

A key question to ask yourself would be how would
Rainsford be different after his experience with Zaroff? I personally don't think he
would give up hunting, but I do think he would have a far healthier respect for his
"prey" and a realisation of what they are going through - because he has been in their
position himself.

In "To Da-duh, in Memoriam," in what ways does the author present the clash of two different worlds?

The clash of two different worlds is evident through the
subtle struggle between the grandmother and her grandchild, the narrator. Almost from
their first conversation together, both seek to show the other how superior their world
is compared to the world that the other lives in. Da-duh has never left Barbados, which
at the time was still developing, and so the stories that her granddaughter shares with
her about America are truly overwhelming and strange:

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For long moments afterwards Da-duh stared at me
as if I were a creature from Mars, an emissary from some world she did not know but
which intrigued her and whose power she both felt and
feared.

The narrator herself
says that she spent most of her time with Da-duh, telling her more and more about life
in America:

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But as I answered, recreating my towering world
of steel and concrete and machines for her, building the city out of words, I would feel
her give way.

Through the new
world that is being described to her through her granddaughter, Da-duh is unable to cope
with or accept the radical change in life that is occurring, and thus her surrender
begins.

What is the experiment going to be ?

Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment is when Dr. Heidegger produces
a dried rose from his intended wedding day and brings it back to life in water from the
Fountain of Youth. The four guests that he had requested to be there sample the water
and return to middle age. With more gulps, they become young and revert to their old
characteristics, madly pursuing the Widow and ending up in confrontations. In their
jostling, they knock over the water and it is gone. The results of the Experiment are
that Dr. Heidegger observes that the guests have learned no wisdom in their old age, and
that they have merely reverted to the same poor practices that once ruined their young
lives. The guests, now returned to old age without the water, all set out to find the
Fountain of Youth so that they can, presumably, remain young and undisciplined
forever.

the crucible-Discuss the relationship between John Proctor and Elizabeth Proctor.It must be under the following headings:Actions of both.Events...

Actions of Both:  Both John and Elizabeth Proctor are
guilty of the break down in their marriage.  They are both stubborn in their marriage
and Puritan beliefs.

Events that Threaten the
Relationship:  John's relationship with Abigail Williams and Elizabeth's arrest for
being a "witch" threatens the marraige.

Love and
Understanding:  Elizabeth's forgiveness for John's sin shows love and
understanding.

Ultimate Strngth of the Relationship:  When
John confesses to his peer's about his relationship with Abigail and when Elizabeth
allows he husband to sacrifice his life for the greater good at the end of the
play.

When starting a business, why may a cheap location for the business not always be the best location?

The reason for this is because there are aspects to a location
other than price that make a huge difference in determining whether that location is good. For a
retail business, the most important thing is the ease with which customers can get to the
location. With a manufacturing concern, a bigger factor might be access to
transportation.

Imagine starting up a restaurant. If you had a
choice between a cheap location out on a quiet street where no one ever goes and an expensive
location on a busy street with lots of foot traffic, which one do you think would be better? Or
imagine if you have a business that needs to get large supplies of raw materials. An expensive
location on a railroad line would be much better than a cheap location away from
tracks.

These types of factors are much more important than price in
finding a good location for a business.

In Act 2 Scene 2 of Hamlet, what is the significance of the meeting between the royal couple and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

First, the scene provides a bridge from Hamlet's
declaration that he will "put an antic disposition on," in Act I, scene v, to this
scene.  Time has passed between these scenes.  We aren't told how much time, but it has
been enough time for Claudius and Gertrude to take note of Hamlet's "transformation" (as
Claudius calls it) and decide to send for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (R & G). 
So, giving the audience the understanding that time has passed is one
significance.

Another, and more important, significance is
to expose the behind-the-scenes sort of machinations that Claudius is up to in the
play.  He has called Hamlet's friends to court to have them serve as sort of spies
against his own nephew.  This exposes how concerned Claudius is that he maintain his
seat as King, since, by true royal lineage, Hamlet should have been next in line for the
throne, not Claudius.  So, politically, Hamlet is a threat to Claudius. And, he seems to
waste no time, upon seeing Hamlet's odd behaviour, in deciding to get to the bottom of
Hamlet's actions.  He couches it in a concern for Hamlet's mental health, but his intent
seems pretty clear:

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. . .I entreat you
both

That, being of so young days brought up with
him,

. . .That you vouchsafe your rest here in our
court

Some little time, so by your
companies

To draw him on to pleasures and to
gather

. . .Whether aught to
us unknown afflicts him
thus

That, open'd, lies within
our
remedy.

These
final lines of his speech indicate that he wants them, like a pair of spies, to give him
information about Hamlet intentions.

Gertrude also supports
the idea that it's business and not friendship they are plotting with R & G when
she apparently offers them money for any information that bring the royal couple.  She
says:

. . .If
it will please you

To show us much gentry and good
will

As to expend your time with us
awhile

For the supply and profit of our
hope,

Your visitation shall receive such
thanks

As fits a king's
remembrance.

Gertrude,
like Claudius, is very good at couching this crass request in polite and oblique terms,
but the events of the rest of the play (when R & G are exposed as basically the
King's henchmen) bear it out.  The King and Queen are engaging the services of R
& G as spies in Act II, scene ii.  And the larger significance of this scene is
that it is quickly becoming apparent in this play that Hamlet can trust almost no one
(except Horatio) at this court.

What prophecies do the Weird Sisters make regarding Macbeth, and how does he react? (Act 1, scene 3)

In William Shakespeare's play,
Macbeth, the Weird Sisters (or three witches) make three
predictions for Macbeth.

First the women address him by the
title of "Thane of Glamis." (A "thane" is like a Scottish earl.) Of course, Macbeth
already has this title, but it is still interesting to note that they know who he
is.

The next prediction the women make is to call him by a
new name:

All
hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of
Cawdor!

This is something
Macbeth does not understand because the Thane of Cawdor is alive, and Macbeth knows
nothing about the circumstances surrounding the traitor's
capture.

Their last prediction
is:

All hail,
Macbeth, that shalt be king
hereafter!

The witches have
just told Macbeth that he will one day be King.

Macbeth is
distracted by their words, contemplating what this could mean to him. (Banquo notices
his preoccupation and points it out to him.)

When Macbeth
then receives the title and lands of the former Thane of Cawdor as a reward for his
valiant service to the King during battle, he begins to believe that the witches' words
must be true. And with this is mind, he anticipates he will be
King.

Whereas Banquo is cautious about the witches'
predictions, seeing them as servants to the "powers of darkness," Macbeth does not
hesitate to embrace what they have promised him (as he sees it), and he begins planning
what must be done.

Solve for t 4cos^2t-1=sin^2t+sint*cost

To solve for t means to find the angle t from the given
identity. We'll transform the given identity into a homogenous equation by substituting
1 by (sin t)^2 + (cos t)^2 = 1 and moving all terms to one
side.

(sin t)^2 + sint*cost -  4(cos t)^2 + (sin t)^2 +
(cos t)^2 = 0

We'll combine like
terms:

2(sin t)^2 + sint*cost - 3(cos t)^2 =
0

Since cos t is different from zero, we'll divide the
entire equation by (cos t)^2:

2(sin t)^2/(cos t)^2 +
sint*cost/(cos t)^2 - 3 = 0

According to the rule, the
ratio sin t/cos t = tan t.

2 (tan t)^2 + tan t - 3 =
0

We'll substitute tan t =
x:

2x^2 + x - 3 = 0

We'll
apply the quadratic formula:

x1 =
[-1+sqrt(1+24)]/4

x1 =
(-1+5)/4

x1 = 1

x2 =
(-1-5)/4

x2 = -3/2

We'll put
tan t = x1:

tan t = 1

t =
arctan 1 + k*pi

t = pi/4 +
k*pi

tan t =
x2

tan t =
-3/2

t = - arctan (3/2) +
k*pi

The solutions of the
equation are the values of t
angle:

{pi/4 + k*pi} U {-
arctan (3/2) + k*pi}

What is x if (log2 x)^2+log2 (4x)=4?

First, we'll use the product rule of logarithms and we'll
re-write the term log2 (4x).

log2 (4x) = log2 4 + log2
x

log2 (4x) = log2 2^2 + log2
x

We'll apply the power rule of
logarithms:

log2 (4x) = 2log2 2 + log2
x

But log2 2 = 1

log2 (4x) = 2
+ log2 x

We'll substitute the term log2 (4x) in the given
equation:

(log2 x)^2 +  2 + log2 x =
4

We'll substitute  log2 x =
t

We'll re-write the equation in
t:

t^2 + 2 + t - 4 = 0

We'll
combine like terms:

t^2 + t - 2 =
0

We'll apply the quadratic
formula:

t1 = [-1+sqrt(1 +
8)]/2

t1 = (-1+3)/2

t1 =
1

t2 = (-1-3)/2

t2 =
-2

We'll put:

log2 x =
t1

log2 x = 1

x =
2^1

x = 2

log2 x =
t2

log2 x = -2

x =
2^-2

x = 1/2^2

x =
1/4

Since both solutions are positive, we'll
accept them: {1/4 ; 2}.

In A Doll's House, if you were a character in the story like Nora, consider how your life would be different if you lived during this story.

It is important to realise that life for women in the
nineteenth century was very different from life for women today. Ibsen really uses this
play to challenge his society's assumptions and forces his audience to look at the
restrictions and expectations with which the women of his day had to cope. At the time
of writing, the majority of middle-class European and American women were legally and
economically dependent on their husbands, and so for a woman today to be transported
through time and place into the action of this play would be an incredibly disconcerting
experience. They would not have independence first and foremost, which is something that
is rightly prized today and has been hard-earned by women. The issues that Nora
struggles with, such as not being able to spend money as she wishes, or if she does, the
need to lie about it and conceal it, would be especially difficult. In his portrayal of
Nora, Ibsen tries to show us how society of the time conspired to treat women as less
than human, as little dolls to be "played" with much as Torvald treats his wife. As such
there is a fundamental lack of recognition of women as equal human beings in their own
right.

Solve and graph y = 5x - 6.

The given expression of the function f(x)
= y=mx+n represents a linear function, so it's graph is a straight
line.

In order to build the graph, you have to plug in
values for x, and find the values for y.

For drawing the
the graph, it's necessary to get two points. That means having 4 coordinates. You know
that a point is defined by its coordinate
(x,y).

y=5x-6

We'll put x =
0.

y = 5*0 -6

y =
-6

The point has the following coordinates:
(0,-6)

We'll put x = -1

y =
5*(-1) -6=-5-6=-11

The point has the following coordinates:
(-1,-11)

Now, in order to draw the graph, we'll draw x,y
rectangular system of axis. 0x is perpendicular to
0y.

We'll take an unit of measure (for example, if you're
working on a math sheet, a unit of measure could be the square from the
page)

The negative values, on x axis, are on the left side
of the origin and the positive values are on the right side. In the middle of the axis
is origin, which has coordinates (0,0) where the two axes
cross.

The positive values on the y axis are above the
origin, and negative values are below origin.

For the point
(-1,-11), we'll number 1 square on the left side of origin and we'll number 11 squares
below origin.

Another way to draw the graph of the line is
to calculate the x and y intercepts.

We'll put x = 0 for y
intercept.

f(0) = 6

The
resulted point has the coordinates: (0,6).

We'll put y = 0
for x intercept.

f(x) = 0

5x -
6 = 0

5x = 6

x =
6/5

The resulted point has the coordinates:
(6/5,0).

What was James Madison's role in creating a virtuous republic?

To me, James Madison's main role in creating a virtuous republic
came from the fact that he was the main author of the Constitution.  To the extent that we have a
virtuous republic, it is the system of government set up in the Constitution that makes us able
to have this positive kind of government.

Basically speaking, the
ideas of limited government with separation of powers and checks and balances are the main
foundations of our government.  These ideas are what make it possible for our government to avoid
becoming tyrannical.  Madison played a huge role in writing the Constitution that embodied these
ideas and which made it possible for us to have a republican form of government that would not
infringe on our rights.

Prove that I(n+2)+2010^2*I(n)=1/(n+1) if I(n) is the definite integral of y=x^n/(x^2+2010^2) for x=0 to x=1 .

We'll write the definite integral of
I(n):

I(n) = Int x^n
dx/(x^2+2010^2)

We'll multiply I(n) by
2010^2:

2010^2I(n) = Int 2010^2*x^n dx/(x^2+2010^2)
(1)

We'll write the definite integral of
I(n+2):

I(n+2) = Int x^(n+2) dx/(x^2+2010^2)
(2)

We'll apply the property of integral to be
additive:

(1) + (2) = Int [x^(n+2) +
2010^2*x^n]dx/(x^2+2010^2)

Well factorize by
x^n:

Int [x^n(x^2 +
2010^2)]dx/(x^2+2010^2)

We'll simplify by (x^2+2010^2) and
we'll get:

Int x^n dx =
x^(n+1)/(n+1)

For x = 0 => 0^(n+1)/(n+1) =
0

For x = 1 =>
1/(n+1)

 We'll apply
Leibniz-Newton:

Int x^n dx = F(1) -
F(0)

Int x^n dx =
1/(n+1)

I(n+2) + 2010^2I(n) = Int x^n dx
= 1/(n+1) q.e.d.

Can anybody help me understand the poem "Heat" by Hilda Doolittle?

First of all, there are several ways to analyze poetry in
order to understand meaning.  I think if you bainstorm answers to a few preliminary
questions, you might be able to come up with an explanation of your own that not only
makes sense, but is entirely plausible.

This poem is short,
it seems to lack an obvious external scene, the
speaker's exact identity does not seem to be entirely important,
and it it written in free verse.  All of these poetic qualities
force this poem (and you the reader) to rely on images in order to
ascertain meaning.  Therefore, a few questions you should answer
include:

1. What main images are used in the poem?
   Hint: heat and fruit; what else do you
   see?


2. On face value (or on first reading) what
   might these images represent?  Give obvious answers here, often poetry plays
   off of actual things occuring in the real
   world.


3. What symbolic
   meaning could these images represent?  Hints: consider emotional
   connections to heat: anger, passion, energy.  Consider standard literary symbolism of
   fruit: it often represents new life, rebirth, and fertility.  It seems in this poem, the
   heat is preventing the land from being fertile.  What deeper meaning could this have? 
   What might exist as heat, preventing newness?  Then, what might "wind" represent (as the
   hero who rids the scene of the
   heat)?

This poem is ambiguous, it is
true, which means you are allowed to bring your personal experience into your
interpretation and analysis (the beauty of poetry!).  I might also encourage you to read
a little about H.D., who lived during both WW1 and WW2, and was reported to be a
bi-sexual.  Perhaps you could include such information in your analysis.  However you
decide to approach it, don't over-think it, and spread the work out over a few days.  I
imagine you'll get a little more out of the poem each time you read it.  It is a great
one.

From what physical handicap does Silas suffer in Silas Marner?

I don't know that I would necessarily call it a
"handicap," but the problem that Silas has is that he is sort of "hunched over," if that
makes sense.  He was a weaver by profession and therefore spent a lot of time crouched
over his loom, which left him with a crooked back.  He also has kind of intense, creepy
eyes, and looks older than he really is (though these aren't really "handicaps" in the
true sense of the word.)

f(x) = 2x^3 and g(x) = x + logx. Find f(g(10).

 Given the function f(x) = 2x^3 and the function g(x) = x+log
x.   

 We need to find f(g(10)).

First
we will determine f(g(x)).

f(g(x) = f ( x+ log
x).

Substitute with x= ( x+ log x ) into
f(x).

          = 2(x+log x) ^3

Now to
find f(g(10)) we will substitute with x = 10

==> f(g(10)) = 2
( 10 + log10)^3

But we know that log 10 =
1

==> f(g(10)) = 2(10 +
1)^3

                    =
2(11)^3

                    =
2*1331

                     =
2662

==> f(g(10)) =
2662

Compare/contrast two characters: Edna in The Awakening (novel) by Kate Chopin, and Nora in A Doll's House (play) by Henrik Ibsen.

Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Henrik
Ibsen's A Doll's House present two strong female protagonists that are at
the same time similar and different.

Edna is a woman looking to find
herself, presented with the opportunity to do so in a society dominated by social conventions, as
well as husbands or fathers. Edna, who is married to a successful business man and has two
children, goes with the family on a vacation. While her husband returns to his job, Edna and the
children stay behind, and Edna becomes involved in a romance with
Robert.

Edna goes through a life-altering experience which changes
the way she views the world and her place in it. However, things with Robert do not work out—how
could they, really, given the time and place, and her responsibilities if not to her husband then
to her children; one day Edna walks into the ocean and never
returns.

Nora is also a woman married to a successful business man.
She, too, has two children, and has a wonderful life.

Like Edna,
Nora also confronts a life-altering event: she risks everything to save her husband's life when
he is ill, but breaks the law to do so. When Torvald finds out what his wife has done, he cares
not that she saved his life, but that it might damage his reputation. For the first time Nora
sees her husband more clearly, as well as the lie that she is living. Like Edna, she awakens to a
new world, along with a new sense of self...or more accurately, the realization that she does not
know herself at all. In both stories, both women choose to leave husband and children
behind.

Whereas Edna chooses to end her life, Nora decides to leave
her husband and family, believing she cannot be a good parent if she needs to grow up herself.
Edna chooses to end it all; Nora looks to a new beginning in her life.

Find the roots of the equation 2x^2-3=5x using factors

We'll re-write the equation having all terms to the left
side:

2x^2 - 5x - 3 = 0

We'll
apply the quadratic formula:

x1 =
[5+sqrt(25+24)]/4

x1 =
(5+7)/4

x1 = 3

x2 =
(5-7)/4

x2 = -1/2

We'll write
the equation according as a product of linear factors:

2x^2
- 5x - 3 = 2(x - x1)(x - x2)

2x^2 - 5x - 3 =
2(x - 3)(x + 1/2)

We can also
re-write the term 5x from the right side as the sum :2x +
3x.

Now, we'll re-write the entire
equation:

2x^2-3 = 2x +
3x

We'll subtract 3x both sides and we'll add 3 both
sides:

2x^2 - 3 + 3 - 3x = 2x + 3x + 3 -
3x

We'll combine and eliminate like
terms:

2x^2 - 3x = 2x +
3

We'll factorize by x to the left
side:

x(2x - 3) = 2x + 3

What is the significance of the last line in the short story "A Day's Wait" by Ernest Hemmingway?

Let's start in the middle to answer this question about "A
Day's Wait." In the last line the father and narrator says, "The
hold over himself relaxed ...." This refers to an earlier
passage:

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'Your temperature is all right,' I said. It's
nothing to worry about.'
'I don't worry,' he said, 'but I can't keep from
thinking.'
'Don't think,' I said. 'Just take it easy.'
'I'm taking
it easy,' he said and looked straight ahead. He was evidently holding
tight onto himself about
something.

The word "hold"
refers to the emotional restraint the boy was bravely exerting in the face of (as he
believed) advancing death. He was holding in fear, worry, perhaps panic; he was holding
his dignity and self-control together. Therefore in the last line, the hold that relaxes
is the hold of self-restraint in the face of humanity's greatest fear and darkest
voyage.

The line preceding the last line is also important.
It states that the boy's fixed "gaze" at the foot of his bed "slowly relaxed." This
indicates that he was letting go of his courageous determination as the news sank in and
he made the mental adjustment to the idea that death would not be his immediate
fate.

The meaning of the last sentence will now be a easier
to get at:

The
hold over himself relaxed too, finally, and the next day it was very slack and he cried
very easily at little things that were of no
importance.

We already
understand the "hold" that relaxed was his courageous determination to die with grace
and not be hysterical about his fate. The next day, his nerves were spent from the
effort and equally from the relief. It happens very often in life that when courage
calls for self-control in the face of great matters, a happy or beneficial resolution
will release a flood of tears of relief: once the need for great courage and strength is
past, the nerves unravel and the depth of the fear or worry or pain roll to the surface.
This is what the boy--very naturally and authentically--experienced: the relief that
showed the depth of his struggle through unprovoked tears.

What national security policies seems to be most necessary for our president to respond at the present time?

It still seems to me that the most pressing problem facing
the US (in terms of national security) is the potential for terrorist attacks.  I do not
foresee any actual nation attacking the homeland of the United States in the near future
and so that leaves terrorists as the major threat to Americans within the US.  Now, does
that mean our president needs to "respond?"  I'm not sure.  Our last two presidents have
been responding, but I suppose that further responses are needed since I do not believe
that we are safe from attacks.

I'll cite two other
potential risks.  Long term, there may be a risk of China becoming too strong.  But they
do not have the military power to threaten major US interests at the moment.  We may
need to respond to their economic and other "soft" power,
though.

Finally, if the drug wars in Mexico start to spill
over into the US, that could be a serious threat to certain areas of the
country.

At what point does the line 2y-3x+5 = 0 meets the line 3y-4x-8 = 0 ?

Given the lines:

2y-3x + 5 =
0...........(1)

3y-4x -8=
0..............(2)

Both line meets at a point, This point is the
solution to the system.

We will use the elimination method to find
the points.

We will multiply (1) by 3 and (2) by
-2

3*(1) ==> 6y -9x +15 =
0

-2*(2)==> -6y +8x +16 = 0

Now
we will add both equations.

==> -x + 31 =
0

==> -x = -31

==> x =
31

==> y= (3x-5)/2 = 3*31-5 /2 = 93-5 /2 = 88/2 =
44

Then the lines meets at the point (31,
44)

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in chapters 18-19, name the couple who run off and get married.

In a true Romeo and Juliet moment, with,
however, a very different ending, Huck discovers that Sophia Grangerford has eloped with Harney
Shpherdson. These two members from feuding families at least manage to escape and find happiness,
however the rest of their family members find anything but as they are left to fight out the
disgrace of one of their family members marrying into the other family, with which they have
feuded for so long. Note what Jack, Huck's slave for the duration of his stay, tells
him:

Miss Sophia's run
off! 'deed she has. She run off in de night some time--bonody don't know jis' when; run off to
get married to dat young Harney Shepherdson, you know--leastways, so dey
'spec.

The resulting bloodbath that
ensues presents Twain's satire on the South and the way that feuds destroy families. What could
have been an opportunity for healing the breach between these two families only serves to divide
them further, resulting in more cause for bitterness and anger.

In "There Will Come Soft Rains," discuss and explain the use of irony in building and making his story.

Irony is crucial to what Bradbury is trying to communicate in
this excellent story that presents us with a future world that is so advanced that human beings
need do nothing, because technologically advanced robots do everything for them. The most
important moment of irony comes when the computer chooses to read the poem that gives the story
its title, "There will come soft rains." It is highly ironic that the computer would choose to
read a poem about the soft, life-giving rains of spring at a time when the "soft rain" of deadly
radioactivity is falling. It is also ironic that the poem should refer to the death of mankind,
not knowing that it would actually happen. Note what the poem
says:

And not one will
know of teh war, not one

Will care at last when it is
done.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor
tree,

If mankind perished
utterly;

And Spring herself, when she woke at
dawn

Would scarcely know that we were
gone.

Note how the poem explains the
natural world continuing unawares, even after a war and the extinction of the human species, much
as the workings of the house continue after the family has
perished.

Irony, therefore, is central to the story on so many
different levels. Humanity is shown to have reached great technological capabilities but also
technological advances have resulted in humanity's own extinction, thus presenting us with a
severe warning about the dangers of technology.

Determine how many red balls are in the box, using the following information.A box has blue and red balls. If there are 20 blue balls, the...

The probability is the ratio between the number of
possible events and the total number of events.

P =
the number of possible events/total number of events

Let's
put the number of blue balls as b and the number of red balls as
a.

But b = 20

The total number
of balls is: a+b = a + 20

Let's consider the balls as being
the events. The posisbility of picking a red ball is
a.

Probability is:

P =
a/(a+20)

But P = 4/6

P =
2/3

2/3 = a/(a+20)

We'll cross
multiply and w'ell get:

3a = 2a +
40

a = 40

The
number of red balls from the box is a = 40 red
balls.

How does the play Oedipus the King provide a catharsis? Sophocles's Oedipus Rex

With catharsis as a term used by Aristotle
to describe emotional release of the feelings of pity and fear experienced by the audience at the
end of a successful tragedy, the readers/audience experience this catharsis at the point in which
Oedipus realizes his role in the plight of the people of Thebes. At the time of his realization,
Oedipus feels great remorse and shame for what he has done: "When all my sight was horror
everywhere."

It is at this same time that the readers/audience
experience their feelings of sympathy and pity. The shepherd, for instance reminisces when he
carried the baby Oedipus and a man took the boy to his country only to save him for such a
wretched fate, "No man living is more wretched than Oedipus!" (4.1117) he exclaims. And, Oedipus
himself says,

O Light,
may I look on you for the last time!

I,
Oedipus,

Oedipus, danmed in his birth, in his marriage
damned,

Damned in the blood he shed with his own hand!
(4.1120)

It is at this point as the
second messenger utters the profoundly true words, "The greatest griefs are those we cause
ourselves" (Exodus,1184), that the readers/audience feels sympathy for Oedipus the King, and
fears what he may do. Then, after learning of his having blinded himself because he has been
"blind to those for whom [he] was searching," the readers/audience experience pity for the once
great man.

What is the mood of the poem "On Another's Sorrow"?

Through the emphasis on images of the lowly and on
confidence in divine compassion (woe, sorrow, grief, falling dear, weeping, groaning,
care, pity), Blake creates a mood conducive to pity and an attitude supportive of the
need for sympathy. The last four stanzas include echoes of biblical passages that
emphasize the loving and supportive role of God, the maker, who mourns with those that
mourn, and who wipes away all tears. By referring to God as the “maker,” Blake
emphasizes God’s divinely creative role. With this word, God is the one who does not sit
on high, but who rather has worked directly with human beings and continues to do so.
The sense is that God the maker is a co-sufferer with people, not a distant monarch, but
a constant and loving presence. The poem’s concluding stanza suggests that eventually
there will be divine triumph, but that until then, God’s role with human beings is to
share their burdens and their grief.

Explain the following: received , internal and electronic curriculum.What do you understand from it?

Reading this question as a teacher, I am guessing that
your professor actually wants to hear your thoughts on these three
types of curriculum.  Part of growth and development as a teacher is coming to a
personal understanding of your job as an educator.  I admit, knowing the difference
between these types of curriculum may never come up once you are in the actual job,
however, I do think it is important for you to attempt to answer
the second part of your question on your own.

That said,
perhaps hearing the definitions again, in different words, will aid your
understanding.

• received
  curriculum refers to the knowledge and understaning the students actually
  walk away with at the end of the lesson.  In a lesson plan, this is the part that asks,
  "What did my students actually learn?"  Received curriculum is measured by adequate and
  tailored forms of assessment.


• internal
  curriculum could also be called "schema" or the prior knowledge of
  students that combines with current lessons to create understanding.  As a teacher, you
  want to tap into students' existing internal curriculum as best as
  possible because when new information is combined with prior knowledge, it is more
  likely that students will retain and apply the new
  information.
  


• electronic
  curriculum is simply using forms of electronics within lessons.  Most
  often this is going to revolve around the use of the internet.  There are mixed opinions
  about the use of electronic curriculum in the classroom.  Arguably, some lessons utilize
  the internet better than others.  It cannot be ignored, however, that with our
  increasingly electronic society, teachers do their students a disservice to leave
  electronics completely out of their
  curriculum.

How does the sub-theme of jazz incorporate itself into Invisible Man?

In Invisible Man, music is a
recurring motif.  Jazz and the blues, more specifically, relate to the writing style and
mood of the novel respectively.  Himself a jazz musician, Ellison has
said:

The
blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience
alive in one's aching consciousness to finger its jagged grain, and to transcend it, not
by the consolation of philosophy but by squeezing from it a near-tragic, near-comic
lyricism.

The novel begins
with lyrics from Jazz great Louis Armstrong's song which says, "What did I do to be so
black and blue?"  In chapter 1, a jazz clarinet plays for the cupie doll white woman in
the ring.  In chapter 2, it's "London Bridge Blues."  In chapter 4, there's "Live a
Humble."  In chapter 6, there's a blues guitar and piano harmonizing.  And so
on...

So the blues and jazz are intwined because they are
the two greatest African-American art forms.  The blues is an emblem of suffering and
jazz is a creative impulse; together, they achieve a duality of the Black
experience.

Stylistically, the novel is written with a jazz
feel of stream-of-consciousness, part of the "Keep that ... boy running" mantra that is
echoed in the first chapter.  Ellison's pace feels furious, then languid, then furious
again.  It's all part of an improvisational and existential look at race and identity.
 Characters, motifs, and themes appear, disappear, and then reappear in the novel like a
riff in a sax or piano solo.

Hamlet's mindset near the end of the play is most like...?A. Ophelia B. Lartes C. the grave digger D. Horatio

Given those choices, I would have to say the grave
digger.  Throughout the play Hamlet has thought a lot about death and what happens after
death.  He has questioned suicide.  He grows in his understanding of the reality of
death and how death is the great equalizer of humanity.  Everyone, no matter how
important or common will eventually die and return to dust.  Alexander the Great and
Julius Caesar are the same kind of dead as the most common beggar.  Once Hamlet realizes
this, it frees him a bit.  As he literally holds the skull of Yorick the jester -- a man
he knew personally -- death moves from theoretical to real.  The grave digger, because
of his profession, has come to this understanding of life and death very early in life. 
He is practical about death.  It isn't a lack of care or concern for the dead, it is an
understanding the dead are gone in spirit and are merely returning to the natural state
of matter.

After Hamlet's conversation with the
gravedigger, he too realizes better that "what will be will be" and that there is only
so much in life that he can control.  He tells Horatio, "there is a divinity that shapes
our ends rough hew them how we will."  The grave digger would certainly the world in the
same way.

What is a thesis statement for Boxer and Napoleon?

Consulting the original assignment and assessing if there
are any stipulations or requirements would be considerably helpful in your task.  You
might have to include some elements that would help you construct your thesis
statement.  Outside of that, I would say that your thesis statement might want to
revolve around the idea of power.  Napoleon holds power over Boxer.  He is able to exert
this power in obtaining whatever he can from Boxer, who is a complete apologist and
supporter of the power structure.  When Napoleon no longer needs Boxer, he arranges for
him to be killed off.  Essentially, when the power structure has extracted what it
needs, it discards those who support it and prop it up.  I think that a thesis statement
around power and hierarchical structures tend to favor those at the top of it at the
costs of those underneath could be a starting point.  Another avenue that your thesis
statement could go would be to the idea of how Boxer refuses to question authority,
inevitably causing his destruction.  The idea of "I shall work harder," ends up being
Boxer's own death warrant.  I think that a thesis statement about how loyalty in a
political system tends to disempower those at the bottom of the order and empowers those
at the top of the structure might be another venue to which the thesis can be
directed.

In The Chocolate War, what does this quote mean from Chapter Seventeen?"Goober felt his eyes were the lens for a televion camera in one of those...

It is important to realise the drama that this chapter contains.
As Brother Leon takes the daily roll call of how many boxes of chocolates have been sold,
everybody, Brother Leon included, is full of tension now that Jerry's Assignment is over and he
can take and sell the chocolates. Thus it is that everyone expects, with relief, Jerry to start
selling chocolates like everyone else. When he chooses to continue to defy the system, therefore,
the shock is immense. The quote you have identified comes straight after Jerry shouts out his
defiant "No!" once more, but this time without any overt reason behind it. The descriptive detail
of the quote you have identified, which compares Goober's eyes to a lens of a television camera,
aptly describes how his eyes would have zoomed in to Jerry's face to focus on his facial
expression. The magnitude of this event is highlighted by the final paragraph of this
chapter:

Cities fell.
Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars plummeted. And the awful
silence.

The sides of a triangle measure 9, 15, and 18.If the shortest side of a similar triangle measures 6, find the length of the longest side of this...

Two triangle are simila if the all the three angles of one
triangle are respectively equal to the angles of the other triangle. Or the ratio of the
correspoding sides of the two triangles are equal.

 9,15 and 18 are
the sides of the one triangle and the shortest side of the similar triangle is
6.

So the shortest sides of two triangles 9 and 6 are the
corresponding sides. So Let 6< x < y . Where x and y are the correspondingsides to
15 and 18 respectvely.

So by the ratio property of similar
triangles,

9/6 = 15/x =
18/y....(1)

Therefore 9/6 = 15/x .

Or
9x = 6*15.

So x= 6*15/9 = 10

Also from
(1) , 9/6 = 18/y.

So 9y = 6*18.

y =
6*18/9 = 12.

Therefore the sides of the similar triangle are 6, 10,
12.

C(m)=300+5m The rate of change of C(m) is 5. explain what this means in the given context.

C(m) = 300+5m.

We can give a
practical meaning to this.

In a  (large)tank , initially
there is 300 litre of water. A water pipe imputs 5 liter of water every minute. So the
amount collected water C(m) , after m minute  is given by the  equation
:

C(m) = 300 + 5m.

The rate
amount of water increase per minute is obviously 5.

By
calculus,  C(m) = 300+5m.

Differentiating with respect to
the variable m, we get:

C'(m) =
{300+5m}'.

C'(m) = (300)'
+(5m)'.

C'(m) = 0 +5.

C'(m) =
5.

Thus the differential coefficient of C(m), or C'(m)
indicates the rate of change with respect to m is equal to 5 in the given
case. 

The terms,  'rate of change' and 'derivatives' are
very much interrelated. So the term derivative gives lot of additional and related
knowledge.

What is the gist of what "On Wenlock Edge the Wood's in Trouble" by A. E. Housman is about?On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble; His forest fleece...

This very interesting and stirring poem by A. E. Housman,
"On Wenlock Edge the Wood's in Trouble," is the poetic speaker's lament for his supposed
fate. It is constructed as a double metaphor that equates a personified wind and woods
bent double to (1) the trouble of life for an imagined Roman in England and to (2) the
trouble of life for himself; he ends with a prophesy of his upcoming fate. The key to
understanding the poem is understanding the vocabulary, so we'll start
there.

Wenlock Edge is an escarpment (steep hill face or
cliff) in Shropshire, England. In the phrase "the wood's in trouble," Housman
personifies the woods growing on the escarpment, which explains "his" of the next line:
"his" equals the woods. "Forest fleece" is the snow covering the woods, so the setting
of this lament is winter. "Wrekin" in "the Wrekin heaves" is the name of a village in
the Midlands sector of England. Wrekin is also personified because it "heaves." Severn
is a river running in East Wales and West England, a river thick with snow and
leaves.

A "holt" is a wood or grove, while a "hanger" is
wood on a steep hill, primarily a beech wood on a chalk hill in Southern England (we
seem to be going all over the map: Midlands, Wales, West England, South England). Uricon
was an ancient Roman city near Shrewsbury, England, which is in the Midlands area.
Finally "old anger" of the personified wind is best understood as the more common
personification of the fury of the wind.

The theme is
embodied in the lines, "The tree of man was never quiet: / Then 'twas the Roman, now
'tis I." The prophesy of his fate is laid out in the stanza following the theme that
equates the speaker with the Roman:

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The gale, it plies the saplings
double,
It blows so hard, 'twill soon be gone:
To-day the Roman and
his trouble
Are ashes under
Uricon.

So to put all this
together, the poetic speaker laments his troubles and his prophesied fate (a fate of
uniquely overwhelming trouble, not just a universal fate of death) by recalling the
immortal inviolable action of the relentless winter wind in and throughout England and
by recalling the history of the Romans in England through the imagery of one isolated
individual Roman. The speaker feels that the wind of his troubles will bow him double
like the saplings on the escarpment and that like the Roman, he will die a merciless
end. Therefore the "Wood's in Trouble" of the title refers to all parts of the metaphor,
including the speaker.

In Animal Farm, how does the battle over the windmill affect the animals?

The destruction of the windmill that the animals have worked so
hard and suffered so much to put up occurs in Chapter 8 of this great novel. The men are
successful in blowing up the windmill, but then the animals turn on them viciously and force them
to flee. However, although they are "victorious" it is clear that this is a hollow victory at
best:

They had won,
but they were weary and bleeding. Slowly they began to limp back towards the farm. The sight of
their dead comrades stretched upon the grass moved some of them to tears. And for a little while
they halted in sorrowful silence at the place where the windmill had once stood. Yes, it was
gone, almost the last trace of their labour was gone! Even the foundations were partially
destroyed. And in rebuilding it they could not this time, as before, make use of the fallen
stones... It was though the windmill had never
been.

In spite of Squealer's cheery
optimism and characteristic warping of the truth, the animals recognise that the destruction of
the windmill symbolises the end of Animal Farm as they know it. Interestingly, earlier on in the
novel, the windmill symbolised the desires of Snowball and the progress and prosperity of the
Farm, but now its destruction indicates how impossible Snowball's desires now are. Therefore the
battle of the windmill represents a crushing defeat in so many ways for the
animals.

What is x if (x+1)^1/2=5-x ?

We'll impose the constraint of existence of the square
root:

x+1 >= 0

x
>= -1

Now, we'll solve the equation by raising the
square both sides:

[sqrt(x+1)]^2 =
(5-x)^2

We'll expand the square form the right
side:

x + 1 = 25 - 10x +
x^2

We'll subtract x+1 both
sides:

x^2 - 10x + 25 - x - 1 
=0

We'll combine like
terms:

x^2 - 11x + 24 =
0

We'll apply the quadratic
formula:

x1 = [11+sqrt(121 -
96)]/2

x1 =
(11+5)/2

x1 =
8

x2 =
3

Since both solutions are in
the interval of admissible values, they are
accepted.

If x ft. of stonewall is used as one side of the field, express the area enclosed as a function of x according to the problem below.A farmer has...

Since the field is rectangular, we'll establish the
dimensions length and width as x and y.

Now, we know, from
enunciation that there are available 600 ft wire to enclose the field and to build more
wire walls, namely 2 inner walls, parallel to the stone
wall.

So, the total amount of 600 ft could be expressed
as:

3x + 2y = 600 (1)

We did
not put 4x because one wall is made of stone and we did not put 2x because we have 2
more inner wire walls, besides the end wall.

To calculate y
with respect to x, we'll subtract 3x both sides, in (1).

2y
= 600 - 3x

We'll divide by
2:

y = 300 - 3x/2 (2)

Now,
we'll express the area enclosed:

A =
length*width

A = x*y

We'll
substitute y by (2):

A = x*(300 -
3x/2)

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

A = -3x^2/2 + 300x

How does the author establish a feeling of mystery in this chapter?I have only gotten through chapter one.

Throughout chapter one, the author tells the alleged story
of Boo Radley through the eyes of a 6 year-old. This is important because 6-year-olds
rarely keep track of enough details to be able to tell a story correctly. Yet, the
details about Boo Radley and his blood-stained hands while he is a peeping-tom on Miss
Stephanie prove that he possesses enough rumors about him to convince children he is a
man of mystery worth keeping much distance
from.

Furthermore, the author builds in some quirky
situations that make us wonder as a reading audience. Scout, the narrator, refers to her
father as "Atticus" instead of dad. The children also come close to the house of this
alleged phantom in Boo Radley. Jem actually touches the house and mystery is built in
Scout's mind when she sees the curtains move just a little bit. This let's us know there
is someone in there, and the timing makes it seem that someone is watching
them.

These unknowns that the author creates build
mystery.

What is the slope of the line that has an x-intercept 8 and a y-intercept 15?

We know that a line is intercepting x axis in the point (x,0)
and it is intercepting y axis in the point (0,y).

We'll write the
general form of a line:

y = ax + b

We
know that the line is intersecting x axis in x = 8.

0 = 8a +
b

8a = -b

a =
-b/8

We also know that the line is intecrepting y axis in y =
15.

15 = b

a =
-15/8

We also know that the slope of the line is given by the
coefficient of x (when the equation of the line is written in the slope point form: y=mx +
n)

Comparing, we'll get a = m =
-15/8

The slope of the line whos x intercept is 8 and
y intercept is 15, is m = -15/8.

In Sense and Sensibility, how does Jane Austen present Willoughby's character early in the novel and do her descriptions give the reader any clue...

When we first meet Willoughby, he is described as carrying
Marianne home in his arms. He is described as gallant, heroic, and handsome, the picture of an
ideal romantic hero. This early description certainly does not give any clue to his true nature.
When he first calls on Marianne, she sees that he is sincere and straightforward, with a happy,
energetic nature. She also learns that he is fond of dancing and music and that, "Their taste was
strikingly alike. The same books, the same passages were idolised by each." He is also described
as being as equally passionate about interests as Marianne. Furthermore, through his daily
visits, Marianne and the family soon learn that he is polite, intelligent, imaginative, and has
"lively spirits, and open, affectionate manners" (Ch. 10).

None of these
characteristics give us any clue to his extravagant nature and want of principles. However, we
know from earlier descriptions of both Elinor and Marianne that Elinor has sense, and Marianne,
while she may have it too, doesn't use it. Therefore, Austen very carefully prepped us to very
soon understand that Marianne is wrong. While she is right about these positive traits and right
to think they are admirable, she is wrong to think that they are all that is needed. They are not
enough. We actually need these qualities plus principles
and sense, just like Colonel Brandon has.

Please explain any bias in this article.http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/11/14/mexico-hotel-explosion.html

In my opinion, there is not really any bias in the way
that the article is written.  That is, the article does not really use any words that I
think are trying to persuade the reader to take any particular point of view.  However,
I think that you could argue that there are a couple of ways in which the article is
biased.

First, the article mentions only Canadians.  This
is not surprising given that it's a CBC article.  However, this can be seen as bias --
it is making it sound as if only Canadians are important.  (This is very common to news
outlets and is not just a Canadian thing.)

Second, the
article seems to be trying to show the Westjet company, and possibly the resort as well,
in a good light.  It gives the Westjet spokesman a chance to portray his company as the
good guys -- he gets to say that they care only about the safety of their
customers.

what is ponyboys personalitty like

Ponyboy Curtis is a member of the Greasers, who are members of
their town's low and middle social classes, as opposed to the Socs, who are members of the upper
class and enjoy its privileges.  Ponyboy is the youngest of the three Curtis brothers; Darry is
the oldest and Sodapop is the middle child.  His status as the youngest child dictates a great
deal of his personality, including his inability to understand Darry's love for him and his
immaturity regarding some matters, such as respecting his well-intentioned, but sometimes
misdirected, guidance.

In addition, Ponyboy is a self-described
"loner" who exhibits a great deal of sensitivity and artistic tendencies.  Despite the often
difficult nature of his relationships with his brothers, Ponyboy loves them deeply and idolizes
them to some extent.  Ponyboy is highly intelligent, but often fails to think reasonably or
realistically.

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...sometimes I just don't use my head.  It drives my
brother Darry nuts when I do stuff like that, 'cause I'm supposed to be smart; I make good
gradesa nd have a high IQ and everything, but I don't use my
head.

In "There Will Come Soft Rains," discuss some "human" verbs that the writer uses to describe the house.

You are right in emphasising the way that, as you call them,
"human" verbs are used in the story to portray the extent of technological development and how we
are presented with a fully functioning house in this great short story with no need for humans to
do anything. Consider how the voice-clock "sings" and the voice tells the absent humans all they
need to do:

"Today is
August 4, 2026," said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling, "in the city of Allendale,
California." It repeated the date three times for memory's sake. "Today is Mr. Featherstone's
birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita's marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water,
gas, and light bills."

With no human
characters therefore, this story is an ironic reflection on the strengths and weaknesses of human
nature. It is also a dire warning about the limits and dangers of technology. By showing us a
house that operates without the need for humans to do anything, Bradbury presents us with a
future level of technological sophistication that amazes us - until we remember that technology
has literally done away with the need for humans - both in the sense that the house does
everything, but also in the sense that technology has destroyed mankind. It is this message that
the use of "human" verbs emphasises in the story.

What is the climax of the short story "A Sound of Thunder?"

The climax for me is somewhat misleading, because it isn't
actually when Eckels comes face to face with the Tyrannosaurus Rex, which is what we
anticipate will be the climax, but it is actually when Eckels comes back to the present
and he realises how his crushing the beautiful butterfly when he went off the path has
had massive repercussions in the future. We are reminded of Travis's words earlier on in
the story:

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"Step on a mouse and you crush the Pyramids,
Step on a mouse and you leave your print, like a Grand Canyon, across Eternity. Queen
Elizabeth might never be born, Washington might not cross the Delaware, there might
never be a United States at all. So be careful. Stay on the Path. Never step
off!"

By disobeying this
cardinal rule, Eckels has changed the future, and it is as he and Travis and the others
realise this that the climax of the story occurs and the falling action begins as we
become aware of the fate of Eckels, combined again with "the sound of thunder" as he is
shot by Travis.

How can I prepare a project or model on vegetative propagation?

Vegetative propagation is a type of asexual reproduction
in plants, by which new plants are produced from the roots, stems or leaves of a parent
plant. Cuttings are usually leaves with a piece of the stem attached. When placed in
water, after a few days, roots begin to sprout from the cut stem. Eventually, this can
be placed in soil and grown. The new plant is an exact genetic replica of the parent.
Runners are another example. Sometimes, a long, sideways stem, runs aboveground and
where it touches the soil, it can send roots into the ground. This is a way for many
weeds to spread around the yard, and the way strawberries spread all over the garden.
Another example is rhizomes, which is like a runner, but it is an underground stem that
spreads in many directions. An example of reproduction with a rhizome is an iris plant.
Bulbs are an example of vegetative propagation. Each plant that comes from the bulb is
identical to the parent plant that produced it. Bulbs are found in onions and tulips,
for example.  If you cut the eye of the potato and place it in soil, with water,
eventually, it will grow into another potato, but an exact replica genetically of the
parent. Another example of vegetative propagation is grafting. You can take a woody
plant that is potted and cut one of the stems on an angle. You can attach a stem from a
different plant, cut on the same angle. Wrap the graft with tape or cover it in wax.
Eventually, the conducting tissues should join together and the graft will take. This is
a way for two different species of plants to grow on one tree. An example is pears,
grafted onto an apple tree.

Assume that this information comes from a standard normal distribution where the mean is 0 and the standard deviation is 1.Find the probability...

Here we are given that the mean is equal to 0 and the
standard deviation is 1.

Now to derive the required
probability we need to use a normal distribution table. First we'll need to convert the
given variables to respective z values. z = (variable - mean) / standard
deviation.

So for 1.05, z = (1.05 - 0) / 1 = 1.05 and for
2.05, z = (2.05 - 0) / 1 = 2.05.

Using a title="normal distribution table"
href="http://www.mathsisfun.com/data/standard-normal-distribution-table.html">normal
distribution table we have the cumulative probability as 0.3531 for z = 1.05
and for 2.05 the cumulative frequency is 0.4798.

Therefore
the probability of values of z lying between 1.05 and 2.05 or the variable lying between
1.05 and 2.05 is 0.4798 - 0.3531 =
0.1267.

Therefore the required probability is
0.1267.

What is an example of an Allegory in Act 1?

The allegory of the entire play is the girls representing
those who would call out names during the 1950s of people who were spies for or
associates of or friendly with the Communist Russians. So, in Act 1, we see this start
to unfold. You could consider the Putnams Senator Joe McCarthy. The Putnams seemed to
encourage the girls to make the accusations, whereas McCarthy was the one who encouraged
others to follow his lead in the House Committee on Un-American Activities. This process
of accusing people to be put to trial would be similar to the hearings that this House
Committee held in order to identify and accuse people of their communist ties during the
Red Scare.

Both scenarioes are often referred to as
witch-hunts and we have had several since and will continue to have them in the
future.

What are some sound devices in the poem "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley?

In “Ozymandias,” Percy Shelley uses alliteration, as noted
above. Like most poets, he also employs several other sound devices that are similar to
alliteration.

In line four Shelley is describing the ruins
of the statue of Ozymandias:

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Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose
frown,

The sound device here
is called “consonance.” Like alliteration, consonance uses
consonant repetition to achieve its effect. However, unlike alliteration, consonance is
not limited to using consonant sounds at the beginnings of words. In the line above, we
have the “s” sound five times, twice as the first letter of a word, twice in the middle,
and once at the end. Poets like to give the work an appealing sound, and this is one way
they do it.

Shelley also uses a couple of different types
of rhyme in his poem. Lines 1 and 3 end with the words “land” and “sand.” These words
are called exact rhymes, because their ending sounds are exactly the same. However,
lines 2 and 4 are a little different. They end with “stone” and “frown.” These words do
not rhyme exactly—they sound similar, but a little different from each other. Rhymes
like this are called by several names: slant, approximate, half-rhyme, and
inexact. Poets use them when the words they want to use do not have an
exact rhyme to pair with, or when they do not want their poem to sound too forced or
regimented. Some poets, like Emily Dickinson, use them almost
exclusively.

Factor the equation 21x^2 + 22x = 8.

First, we'll move all terms to one
side:

21x^2 + 22x - 8 =
0

We'll use the quadratic formula to factorize the
equation:

21x^2+22x-8=0

x1 =
[-b +/- sqrt(b^2 - 4ac)]/2a

We'll identify the coefficients
a,b,c:

a = 21

b =
22

c = -8

b^2 - 4ac = 484 +
672

sqrt (b^2 - 4ac) = sqrt
1156

sqrt (b^2 - 4ac) = 34

x1
= (-22+34)/2*21

x1 = 12/42

x1
= 6/21

x2 =  (-22-34)/2*21

x2
= -56/42

x2 = -28/21

We can
now factorize the quadratic:

21x^2+22x-8 = 21(x - x1)(x -
x2)

We'll substitute x1 and
x2

21x^2+22x-8 = 21(x - 6/21)(x +
28/21)

or

21x^2+22x-8
= (21x - 6)(21x + 28)

why is triangle stronger than the square?explain why please

Let's use the stability of a three-legged table opposed to
the stability of a four-legged table as an example.  A plane is described as three
non-collinear points.  Therefore, the three legs lie in only one plane.  The square
table has four legs.  Four points determine more than one plane which accounts for less
stability.

Is there a controversy in Edward Said's works?

Some of the largest criticism against Said and his work comes
from the idea that he views Western European thought and action as coming from a point of view
that is discriminatory.  Critic Robert Irwin argues as much, when he criticizes what he claims to
be Said's thesis that throughout Europe’s history, “every European, in what he could say about
the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric."  In the end, this
becomes the crux of argumentation against Said.  Others argue that it is time "to look past
orientalism" and move into a realm that transcends the issue of racial and ethnic identity,
something that critics argue Said does not do.  The majority of arguments against Said seem to be
the same ones made against the conflict view of historical narratives, when individuals who
believe in a consensus methodology of history suggest that the alternative seeks to fragment
history and break from a central and unified narrative.  It is in this light that arguments are
made against Said and his work.

What do "A Time for Choosing" by Ronald Reagan and "Daddy's Philosophy" by Jim Hightower have in common?

These two pieces do not have that much in common because
Hightower's is a short anecdote whereas Reagan's is a relatively long speech covering a
lot of different topics.  But what they both have in common is the idea that people
should take care of themselves without expecting the government to help
them.

Hightower extols the way that his father set up a
Little League on his own rather than expecting the government to do things for him. 
Reagan criticizes people for relying on the government to help them out.  These are two
sides of the same idea  -- that people should rely on themselves
more.

The most telling quote from Reagan's speech
is

This is the
issue of this election: whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or
whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite
in a far-distant capitol can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them
ourselves.

He is saying that
the governments that are closer to the people are better.  That idea implies that the
people, and not the government, know best and that the people, therefore, should rely on
themselves rather than building up a large government and relying on
it.

Why does ventricular pressure fall to a much lower level than aortic pressure??

Pressure in the arteries is due to the thick muscular
walls that have a pulse. When the heart beats, the arteries push the blood using the
muscles in the walls. This creates arterial pressure. In blood circulation, the arteries
push the blood away from the heart, towards the cells of the body and the lungs. Veins,
on the other hand, have much less muscle in the walls. Veins return the blood from the
cells of the body, back to the heart. In the veins, there is no pulse. Blood flows in
the correct direction due to valves along the way that insure blood flows back to the
heart. Also, body movements keep blood flowing in the veins. The pressure in the veins
is much lower than in the arteries.

What elements of tragedy are common in both plays: "Romeo and Juliet" and "Oedipus Rex" ?

I think when most people hear "tragedy" as a literary genre, the
first thing that comes to mind is death, which is--ultimately--one
similarity between these two plays, though probably not the greatest.  While there are definitely
distinct differences between Greek tragedy and
Shakespearean tragedy it should be noted that Romantic
tragedies (Shakespeare at the forefront) drew from the traditional tragic elements
that started with the Greeks but then twisted these elements to create something
new.

The similarities, therefore, come down to basics.  Both
"Oedipus Rex" and "Romeo and Juliet" share the element that everyone knows from the very outset
that the play will end tragically (in this way, they both lack surprise endings).  The irony of
"Oedipus Rex" was based on the fact that the audience knows all along that Oedipus is guilty and
headed toward ruin.  In the same way, "Romeo and Juliet" opens with a prologue that foreshadows
the deaths of the main characters.

Also, though the concept of the
"tragic hero" started in Greek tragedy, it could be argued that the characters in "Romeo and
Juliet" are very similar to King Oedipus in heroic qualities and fatal flaws.  Both Romeo and
Juliet possess many of the traditional elements that make up a tragic hero (including nobility by
birth, aiming at propriety, true to life, possessing a tragic flaw that causes their downfalls,
and evoking pity in the reader).  Somewhat against the notion of the "fatal flaw" and "fall,"
others have argued that all three principle characters of these two plays were helpless victims
of fate.  The very idea of "fate" as a factor is common to both
plays.

Other elements that "Oedipus" and "Romeo and Juliet" share,
as dramas, are the use of a chorus (throughout Oedipus and in the Prologue of Romeo and Juliet)
who speaks in "odes" or "verse" and the use of light/darkness symbolism (including blindness). 
Finally, it should be noted, both plays certainly evoke pity (among other strong emotions) from
the audience or reader, which was one of the original and primary purposes for
tragedy.

Discuss the specific point, effect, purpose the speaker has in mind with these uses of hyperbole.point out two specific uses of hyperbole in "To...

In this classic poem, "To His Coy Mistress," Marvell is
warning the woman he desires that if there were endless time available to him, he would
wait as she "plays hard-to-get" (as he sees it) and spend eternity worshipping her body,
but that such is not the case.

The hyperbole appears in the
amounts of time he would wait: loving her ten years before the Flood (during the time of
Noah in the Old Testament), until the Jews were converted to Christianity, worshipping
her for thousands of years.  She deserves, he declares, no
less.

However, he exaggerates also the swiftness with which
time flies: "But at my back I always hear / Time's winged chariot hurrying near."  His
expression brings to mind the ticking of a time bomb: that there is not enough time to
give her the adoration she deserves if they still want to be young enough to enjoy the
experience: so it must be now.

Hyperbole is present, too,
as he argues that at this rate, she can protect her virginity and honor until she dies
and her body turns to dust, but that she will find no satisfaction in death, as if death
will be upon them very soon. This is not the case, as we see in the next
stanza.

His closing argument is that they are now young,
and while this is so, and their passions rage, they should throw themselves into the
experience rather than drag along and waste time.  He assures her that though they
cannot stop time, they can slow time down by enjoying each other
now.

(He is charmingly persuasive; it is to be wondered if
she "bought it.")

What does this Lionel Trilling Quote mean in relation to the novel 1984?“Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually...

Lionel Trilling, the influential intellectual, wrote in the
preface to his 1965 book Beyond Culture
that

Any historian of
the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the
actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing -- he will perceive its clear
purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture
imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps
revise, the culture that produces
him.

In other words, according to
Trilling, modern writers tend to oppose and undermine conventional ways of thinking and feeling.
They tend to write in ways that encourage people to think for themselves rather than merely
accepting what they have been taught to think.

Trilling’s comment is
obviously relevant to George Orwell’s novel 1984. Orwell’s book describes a
dystopian society in which people are not at all encouraged to think for themselves. Instead,
they are expected to follow a rigid “Party line” – a brutally enforced way of looking at the
world. Orwell shows the horrors that can result when individual thought is suppressed. Although
Orwell was clearly using his book to mock the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin, his novel is
actually a timeless warning about the dangers that result when individual, skeptical, free
thought is suppressed anywhere and at any time. Orwell’s novel is a work of modern writing in
precisely the way Trilling describes. It challenges unoriginal thinking by showing the terrible
results of such closed and inhibited habits of mind.

How is Hanneh's husband Jake described in the story "The Lost Beautifulness" by Anzia Yezierska?

Hanneh is a woman who dreams of improving a corner of
their home—the kitchen—in anticipation of her son's return. As the kitchen for many
people, over hundreds of years, has been the heart of the home, this is where Hanneh
invests all her energy. She works for a wealthy woman whose home is beautiful and white.
So by doing extra work, Hanneh saves pennies here and there and paints the kitchen
herself.

Everyone she brings in to see it thinks it is
beautiful, and that the beauty of the room has come from her heart. They are thrilled
and wish her much happiness for this achievement...all except her
husband.

Hanneh's husband has nothing good to say. He tells
her that she should have saved the money she earned for a "rainy day." He criticizes her
for improving her landlord's property: the apartment does not belong to them—they rent
it. Her husband has no appreciation for the beauty she has brought to their home, and
has no words of praise for her.

When the landlord raises
the rent because the apartment is so much improved and can bring in more money for him,
all Hanneh's husband can do is tell her "I told you so." He offers her no comfort and no
encouragement. He nags her to the point that she chases him out of their flat
(tenement/apartment) with a frying pan.

Like the landlord,
Hanneh's husband cannot see the kitchen as a thing of beauty. For both characters, they
cannot appreciate beauty for the sake of beauty: they can only see its value in terms of
how it serves self (landlord) or others (Jake's perception that it does
them no good); neither can appreciate the loveliness of what Hanneh
has accomplished in beautifying the room.

Define the variables and write a mathematical model for this data..?how can I write a mathematical model/equation for this population data?...

From a quick look through the population data, you can easily
see that the population increases from the year 2000 to 2003, but decreases steadily after
that.

Since the decreasing population seems to be the major trend,
you can put this data into a simple graph equation:

1. think about a
graph that would clearly show the population change over time: time as the x-axis and population
as the y-axis.

2. Choose two coordinate points that would show the
decreasing trend: I will choose the points (2004, 82,516,250) and (2006, 82,376,451) for my
example.

3. Find the slope: slope=change in y/change in
x=-139799/2

which gives us a slope approximately equal to
-69900.

4. Now we have to find the y-intercept given as
b:y=-69900x+b; you can plug in any of the coordinate points above into the equation to find b. b
is approximately equal to 2.226*10^8

5. This completes the equation:
y=-69900x+2.226*10^8

Creating an equation from a set of data really
is quite simple, if you just try to understand what kind of trend the data is showing. Then it's
just a matter of setting the x, y-axis and determining the slope.

What are some contrasts between love and war in Act 1 of Much Ado About Nothing?

The most obvious contrast that comes to my mind is Claudio and
his attentions to Hero as he explains to Don Pedro in Act I scene 1. There is a definite
distinction made between the time of war, when thoughts of love are not possible and, indeed, can
be a distraction, and the time of peace, where thoughts of love can be entertained and focused
upon. Note what he says to Don Pedro towards the end of this
scene:

When you went
onward on this ended action

I look'd upon her with a soldier's
eye,

That lik'd, but had a rougher task in
hand

Than to drive linking to the name of
love.

But now I am return'd, and that
war-thoughts

Have left their places vacant, in their
rooms

Come thronging soft and delicate
desires,

All prompting me how fair young Hero
is,

Saying I lik'd her ere I went to
wars.

Note how Claudio before war was
able to "like" Hero, but because he had a "rougher task in hand," liking was not allowed to
become love. However, now that "war-thoughts / Have left their places vacant," war has allowed
space and time to entertain that "liking" might actually be "loving," and thus Claudio is
entertaining marriage with Hero.

What is the purpose of the many repetitions of "night"? to reflect her memory at night time?

Almost every other chapter is entitled "night" because
that is when Offred can be alone and be reflective about her life and the experiences
and situtations that she must face each day.  It is also a time when she can remember
her life before this revolution and complete change in the status of women.  She can be
most truly herself, not a Handmaid.  During the day her speech is restricted to by the
headwear of the handmaids.  Her actions are restricted.  She is restricted in where she
can go and with whom.  At night is when she has opportunities to go back to the past --
perhaps in her memory, but also in her interactions with her Commander.  He brings her
lotion and she gets to put it on; they play Scrabble; she reads old women's magazines
- these are all activities she took for granted before, but now she savors  them because
they are forbidden.  She also, eventually, carries on her affair with Nick in the
night.   Her time at night is her own.  She feels less like the person the new regime
has required her to be and more the person she knows, deep down, that she was and still
is.

What makes an act good or bad, right or wrong, just or unjust?In his Existentialism is a Humanism, Jean-Paul Sartre related a tale told by one of...

This is one of those all-time great questions that
everybody has to think about at least once in their
lifetime.

How does one define "good" and "bad?"  This is
hard because it is so subjective.  What is "good" for one person might very well be
"bad" for another (think about a man getting a lung transplant at the expense of another
man who has been hit by a bus.)  In a more abstract sense it is the "loggers versus the
tree-huggers" argument.  Which is the greater "good"...jobs or owls?  An act is "good"
if it has a positive effect for the individual performing the action, and bad if it has
a detrimental effect.

The interesting thing is that "right
and wrong" sound the same as "good and bad," but there are some subtle differences.
 Whereas good/bad does not always have to do with morality, right/wrong always appeals
to a moral code.  That code may come from the traditions of a society, from a god, or a
personal invention.   How do you know if what you are doing is right or wrong?  You have
to check your action against one of these moral codes.  You may not always get agreement
(especially when in a different cultural group) out of the people around you, but as an
individual you must decide how your action conforms to (or goes against) the moral code
you have chosen to hold it up against.  For example is this old gem: is it right to
steal if your family is starving?  Depending on whose code you use you will get
different answers.

Lastly comes "just and unjust."  This is
another variation but it has more to do with fairness and justification of your actions.
 Think about killing the man who killed your wife/husband.  Is this a good/bad action?
 Hard to say what the emotional/physical consequences of this action might be and
whether the satisfaction would be worth it.  Is it right/wrong?  That depends on what
mirror you hold it up against.  Culturally, that answer will be different around the
world.  Lastly, is it just/unjust?  I think a good number of people would declare it as
"just" because of the "eye-for-an-eye" mentality, but in the eyes of the law it is not
(unless, ironically, it is the state that is doing the
killing.)

So, as you can see, the answer to your question
depends a lot upon what standard you are holding the action up against: your own,
society's, God's, etc...there is no one final answer for that question on a human
scale.

What were the causes of the westward expansion from 1854 to the election of Abe Lincoln?

The causes of westward expansion during this time were much like
the causes of westward expansion at other times.  There was the "pull" factor of cheap land and
the "push" factor that caused immigration from Europe and a shortage of good jobs in the
East.

Most of the reason for westward expansion was economic. 
People wanted to be able to carve out a better life for themselves.  As the west was being
"opened" there was a great deal of relatively cheap land to be had.  This appeared to many to be
a good way to improve their economic situation.

At the same time,
there were many immigrants coming over from Europe as they fled economic and political hardship. 
These negative conditions in Europe (as well as some in the East of the US) pushed people to "go
West."

Contrast Silas' life in Lantern Yard with that in Raveloe in Silas Marner.

Silas was an active member of the town of Lantern Yard.
His life, as part 1 of the novel states, had

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   “movement, mental activity, and close
fellowship”.

This is
important to point out because this will contrast tremendously later
on.

Back in Lantern Yard Silas’s strong fellowship was the
most important thing for him. This is because the fellowship stemmed from the religious
sect to which Silas belonged. This was his niche; in it, he was “highly thought of”, and
people attributed to Silas certain interesting powers. This was after, during a
prayer-meeting, he fell into a lapse of what is described
as

...[a]
mysterious rigidity and suspension of consciousness” that lasted over a hour. After this
incident, people associated Silas to something tantamount to a spiritual leader, guide,
or at least someone who would be respected for his spiritual
abilities.

Moreover, Silas
had a knack for medicinal cures; a gift he inherited from his
mother.

Silas was happy in Lantern Yard. He had a friend
with whom he spent most of his time, William Dane. Silas also had a fiancée, Sarah, whom
he planned to marry once their finances were in order. In their religious group, Silas,
William and Sarah were always together. The problem that happened in Lantern Yard was
that William betrayed Silas by accusing him of stealing from one of their cult’s elders.
As Silas fell into shame, William further turned the knife by also stealing Sarah. Left
with nothing, Silas has no choice but to go away to the nearby town of
Raveloe.

Raveloe is like a purgatory for Silas. He
purposely chooses to remain alone and do his weaving work, which he uses as a form of
therapy. With the exception of one instance where he came out of his isolation to employ
the herbal cures that he was good for, he remained completely isolated, grieving his
past, and living to accumulate money and gold. So different was Silas in Raveloe, that
he even inspired fear. He detested company, and his enigmatic looks (he had huge eyes
and eyebrows) made him stand out even more.

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 ....he liked their intrusion so ill that he
would descend from his loom, and, opening the door, would fix on them a gaze that was
always enough to make them take to their legs in
terror.

The pivotal events
that change Silas were the theft of his gold by Dustan and the subsequent entrance of
Eppie into his life. This is where life at Raveloe really begins for Silas even years
after having escaped from Lantern Yard.

what is mond's best argument for the brave new world society?

The society of Brave New World (BNW) is
filled with peace and contentment. There is no war, there is no want. Nearly every need is met in
advance. Each person fits into their little notch in life as perfectly as a round peg into a
round hole. They were created to fit that hole. People never suffer unfulfilled desires and they
never suffer the depravity of old age. Is this not paradise? Mustapha Mond argues that it
is.

Perhaps it is not paradise, but an objective standard by which
that can be judged is difficult to identify. According to the Savage, Shakespeare, and our
contemporary viewpoint, man has been degraded in this BNW into a slave of appetites and
immediate, mindless gratification. But when challenged with the notion of man’s degradation in
BNW, Mustapha Mond retorts, “degrade[ed] from what position? As a happy, hard-working,
goods-consuming citizen he’s perfect. Of course, if you choose another standard than ours, then
perhaps you might say he was degraded. But you’ve got to stick to one set of postulates” (BNW
236).

This is perhaps Mustapha Mond’s greatest argument for the
structure of his world. From our contemporary point of view the society of BNW is mental slavery,
and many of us would choose anarchy to that slavery. But our contemporary point of view is not
the final word on the human condition. It may be that the structure of BNW is ultimately better
for the species. It is at least arguably so, so long as one doesn’t campaign for a notion of
“inherent qualities” in mankind which are degraded in this new societal structure. Therefore,
Mustapha’s greatest argument may lie in the manner in which he challenges the notion that man is
imbued with inherent qualities that are undermined by the structure of society in BNW. For there
can be no degradation after a belief in those inherent qualities is removed. All that is left is
a society that is functioning at peak efficiency. This at least would be Mustapha Mond’s
argument.

What is : lim t =0 [ (sqrt (t^2+9) - 3) / t^2]

The value that we have to determine
is:

lim
t-->0[sqrt(t^2+9)-3/t^2]

If we substitute t = 0, we get the
indeterminate form 0/0, this allows us to use l'Hopital's rule and substitute the numerator and
denominator with their derivatives.

=> lim t-->0 [
2*t*(1/2)/sqrt(t^2 + 9)*2*t]

=> lim t-->0
[1/2*sqrt(t^2 + 9)]

substitute t =
0

=> (1/2*sqrt 9)

=>
1/6

The required value of the limit is
1/6

Explain the setting of Sense and Sensibity?

The setting of the novel Sense and
Sensibility, by Jane Austen, mainly takes place in the English country side. The plot
is first set specifically in the county of Sussex, which is located in the South of
England.

The Dashwood family's estate of Norland is in the
countryside because it was customary of middle class families at that time to favor the
simplicity of life in the country versus the flashy and expensive city life in London. However,
important parts of the plot do occur in London. Both settings are equally valuable to the story,
and just as important.

This being said, the settings of Sussex and
London are important because Austen uses these places to illustrate the contrast between city
life and country life, and their people. A good example of this is when Mrs. Jennings invites the
Dashwood sisters to visit her house in London and, to add to the newness of it all, to a London
ball. The sisters' excitement allows the reader to sense the magnitude of the event in the lives
of these otherwise simple girls.

The unfortunate treatment that they
receive at the ball by the Willoughby set, however, is what opened the Dashwood sisters' eyes to
the reality of class distinction. The Dashwoods had to realize the hard way that, as country
girls, they would never be welcome in the London circle. This was a good way for Austen to remark
the cruelties of high society against those who are not connected to
them.

As far as the time period in which the plot takes place, we
can see from the time frame in which Sense and Sensibility was published
(around 1811-1815) that the novel is set during the Regency period, which took place between
1795-1837. This is the historical time frame of the ruling "Georges" of England. During this
period England witnessed many changes in literature and other arts, which may have motivated
Austen to indulge in her love of writing. This time period is also considered the "PRE-Victorian"
era. This is important because people loosely classify Sense and Sensibility
as a Victorian novel. If it were a Victorian novel it would be a very archaic one, since many of
the issues present in Sense and Sensibility regarding women were resolved
during the Victorian era.

Conclusively, Sense and
Sensibility is set during the Georgian/Regency era, around the late 1700's and early
1800's in the Southern countryside of England, specifically in Sussex. The plot also extends to
London, where a lot of the rising action takes place, and concludes again in the countryside of
Devonshire after the Dashwood sisters got married. Of course, this time they may be accepted in
London society- because they married rich men. :)