What are 2 external and 2 internal conflicts in Of Mice and MenI need this to help my essay

John Steinbeck's novella Of Mice and Men's
very title hints at the struggles to come in the narrative.  Taken from
Robert Burns's poem, "To A Mouse" which ends with the
line

The best
laid scemes o' Mice and Men

Gang aft angley [often go
awry]

Here are conflicts that
occur in the narrative of Steinbeck's short work:

EXTERNAL
CONFLICTS

1.  Candy is in conflict with Carlson who wants
to shoot the swamper's  dog because the dog "stinks" and is too old to be useful.  After
looking "a long time at Slim to try to find some reversal," Candy "softly and
hopelessly" tells Carlson to take the dog, lying back on his bunk and staring at the
ceiling. (Chapter 2)

2.  Curley creates a conflict with
Lenny and George by being confrontation when he enters the bunkhouse looking for his
wife.  Later, Curley comes in with Slim, who tells him to "look after your own ---wife."
Carlson tells Curley to stop letting his wife hang around the bunkhouse.  When Curley
tells him to stay "outta this les' you wanta step outside," Carlson calls Curley "yella"
and threatens him physically.  Candy joins in with the insults and Lennie laughs.  As
Lennie retreats, Curley hits Lennie with a left, and then smashes his nose with a right
punch.  Still, Lennie does not defend himself because he is afraid.  However, when
George orders him, "Get 'im, Lennie," the big man grabs Curley's fist, crushing it.
(Chapter 3)

INTERNAL
CONFLICTS

1. George has conflicting feelings about Lennie. 
While he has promised Lennie's aunt to look after Lennie, George has encountered
problems as Lennie gets them into trouble and they lose jobs.  He complains that he
could have an easier life without Lennie:

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...if I was alone I could live so easy.  I could
go get a job an' work, an' no trouble.  No mess at all, and the end of the month come I
could take my fifty bucks and go into town and get whatever I
want....

However, after
George has said this, his

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anger left him suddenly.  He looked across the
fire at Lennie's anguished face, and then he looked ashamedly at the flames. (Chapter
1)

2. Crooks the stable
worker has been alienated by the others because he is black.  When Lennie comes into the
barn Crooks is cruel to him in retaliation against the others, taunting Lennie about
George's not returning from town.  At first his face "lighted with pleasure in his
torture," but when he realizes that Lennie is becoming angry, he relents and says "I
didn't mean to scare you."  Then, when Candy arrives "It was difficult for Crooks to
conceal his pleasure with anger."  Crooks wants to be cruel because he has been treated
cruelly, but his is so elated to have company that he cannot be mean. (Chapter
4)

Why does the father throw out the mother's picture while traveling on the road?

On page 15 of The Road, the father
discards all of his former life's identification:

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He'd carried his billfold about till it wore a
cornershaped hole in his trousers. Then one day he sat by the roadside and took it out
and went through the contents. Some money, credit cards. His driver's license. A picture
of his wife. He spread everything out on the blacktop. Like gaming cards. He pitched the
sweatblackened piece of leather into the woods and sat holding the
photograph. Then he laid it down in the road also and then he stood and
they went on.

In the
post-apocalyptic world, all forms of money, credit, identification, and memories are
worthless.  Cannibals can't be bribed.  Road warriors don't take credit.  Even one's
spouse is a figment of the past.  All that matters is the boy, survival, and carrying
the fire.

Also, the mother committed suicide.  She gave up
on the family.  She extinguished her fire.  She refused to walk the road.  Her
photograph is a haunting memory of the father's worst nightmare: that he too will have
to use the two bullets in the gun to kill himself and his son.  Why carry around that
reminder?  Her photograph is a constant reminder of self-annihilation.  It is best
discarded with the other worthless relics of the past.

Write the equation of the line passing through the point (-1;2) and making an angle of 135 with the axis of x.

We'll write the equation of the line that passes through a
given point and it makes an angle with the axis of X.

(y -
y1) = m (x - x1)

We know that m = tan a, where a is the
angle made by the line with the axis of X.

m = tan
135

We'll substitute the coordinates of the point into the
equation:

y - 2 = tan 135(x +
1)

We'll write tan 135 = tan (180 -
45)

tan (180 - 45) = (tan 180 - tan 45)/(1 + tan
180*tan45)

tan (180 - 45) = (0 -
1)/(1+0*1)

tan (180 - 45) =
-1

tan 135 = tan (180 - 45) =
-1

the equation of the line
is:

y - 2 = -1*(x + 1)

We'll
remove the brackets:

y - 2 = -x -
1

We'll add x + 1 both
sides:

y + x - 2 + 1 = 0

We'll
combine like terms:

x + y - 1 =
0

The equation of the line that passes
through the point (-1,2) and makes an angle of 135 degrees with the axis of X
is:

x + y - 1 =
0

Act TWO Scene 1 How would you describe Macbeth's state of mind as he makes his way to Duncan's chambers?

Macbeth is seriously conflicted in his mind as he approaches
Duncan's chamber and considers the deed which he will commit. As soon as he is alone in the
darkness he begins to hallucinate: seeing a ghastly dagger which appears to direct his
actions-

Is this a
dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.

I have thee not, and yet I see thee
still.

Macbeth is under no illusion
that his deed is evil, so is aware of the gravity of his sin -

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Now o'er the one half-world
Nature seems dead,
and wicked dreams abuse
The curtain'd
sleep;

He is however regretful that
Duncan has to die for him to succeed, and his final lines show the confusion Macbeth
has-

I go, and it is
done: the bell invites me.
Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell
That
summons thee to heaven, or to
hell.

Macbeth seems unsure as to
whether he is condemning his king to hell or himself. It is inevitable that they will not both
end up in the same place.

Given f(x) = k(2+x), find the value of k if f^-1 (-2) = -3

f(x) = k(2+x)

First we will
rewrite:

y= k(2+ x)

Let us determine
the inverse .

==> We will divide by
k.

==> (x+2) = y/k

==> x
= (y/k) - 2

Now we will replace x and
y.

==> y= (x/k) - 2

Then the
inverse function is given by:

f^-1 (x) = (x/k)
-2

Now given that f^-1 ( -2) =
-3

==> f^-1 (-2) = (-2/k) -2 =
-3

We will add 2 to both
sides.

==> -2/k = -1

Now we will
multiply by k.

==> -2 =
-k

==> k =
2

What thesis statement should I use for my essay on "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver? Could I write on how the blind man's touch affects his...

I think you are off to a good start here. You have a topic --
the importance of Robert's sense of touch, considering he has lost his sense of sight. Now you
need to think about what Carver is trying to say about the signficance of that fact. What theme
is he trying to convey by having Robert's sense of touch be so important to how his character
interacts with everyone else. Perhaps you could write about how when a person loses a sense, the
other senses become hightened to make up for the loss. You could write about how touch replaces
sight in Robert's ability to connect with other people. You could write about the irony of the
story in that Robert, who can't literally see, actually has been insight into his own nature and
that of those around him. This story is rich with details about the differences between the two
men, and yet has such a powerful resolution with the narrator "showing" through the power of
touch the catherdral idea to Robert, and through that process, learning to let go of his
judgements and close-minded attitude and "see" the real Robert and himself from a new
prespective. Your thesis must argue something that you can then prove with details and analysis
from the story. Make a statement of interpretation of the
signficance of the sense of touch and you should be on your way!

Please provide 3 quotes and their meanings from "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

A gothic story of the tortuous efforts of a woman to resolve the
disturbed musings of her mind, "The Yellow Wallpaper" transports the reader into realms of both
depression and repression. Forced into bed rest and forbidden to engage in any activity until she
is considered well again as she suffers from post-partum depression, the narrator of Charlotte
Perkins Gilman's story feel helpless against the patriarchal forces of both her husband and the
doctor. Intuitively, she knows what is good for her, but she has to be "sly" about it or she
meets with opposition:

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I sometimes fancy that in my condition if I had less
opposition and more society and stimulus--but John says the very worst thing I can do is to think
about my condition, and I confess it always makes me feel
bad.

Indeed, it is this very
repression that drives Gilman's narrator into the obsessive musings about the hideous yellow
wallpaper that covers the interior of the room to which she is confined. She describes it
as

One of those
sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin.

It is
dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough constantly to irritate and provoke
study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit
suicide--plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of
contradictions.

Clearly, this tainted
wallpaper becomes for the narrator a tangible representation of her tortuous, repressed
confinement in which she finds herself. In the efforts of the woman to free herself from her
oppression by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell represented by "a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure"
as a "debased Romanesque" she envisions the wallpaper reaching the grotesque:

All those strangled
heads and bulbous eyes and waddling fungus growth just shriek with
derision!"

Finally, in her desperate
effort to release herself and conquer her mental and emotional imprisonment, the woman tears down
the wallpaper to free the woman--herself--behind it, crawling along the floor from wall to wall.

Discuss the characteristic personality trait of "love" with respect to social workers.

The social work field is very similar to the teaching
field in that success often rides on a lot of emotional stamina, a lot of time, and a
lot of relationship building, and in the end, there is very little
pay.

"Love" is a difficult characteristic to quantify when
it comes to a profession.  I would actually argue that social workers need to have a
certain level of love for what they do, otherwise they will not
last long in the profession.  Simply put, they are not paid enough to just "put up with"
the emotional challenges they witness and experience on a daily
basis.

I have known a number of social workers who worked
(or still work) in the field of child protective services.  Most would describe their
job as "heartbreaking" because they see some of the most horrific situations and
conditions that American children are living in.  I think if you were to ask any of
these professionals if they "love" the children they work for, they would say, "yes,
definitely" but it wouldn't necessarily be a personal love.  It is more of a general,
humanitarian type love.  This is probably the best definition of the kind of love most
social-workers possess.  It simply isn't a field of work that draws glory seekers,
success hounds, or those who desire wealth.  Social work is a professional field made of
humanitarians, who, because of their love for others in general,
sacrifice time, energy and emotion on a job that will never make them rich or
famous.

What is the theme of "The Sphinx Without a Secret" by Oscar Wilde?

No doubt you have studied the sheer
irony of this short story, about a woman whose secret turns out to
be that she does not have a secret at all.  The very thing Lady Alroy uses to attract a
man, ends up driving him away in the end.

The themes of
this story follow the satirical irony.  It is a story that speaks a message about the
sheer irony of love and relationships, and perhaps the so-called "laws of attraction." 
At first meeting, Lady Alroy certainly intends to portray herself as a woman of
mystery.  Her reasons for doing this are left ambiguous, which is likely a comment on
one of the nuances of women that men don't understand.  What is clear, however, is that
her mysteriousness is exactly what attracts Gerald (and possibly other men) to her. 
This seems to be the goal.

It does not seem like Wilde's
purpose for this story was to solve this particular mystery of
women.  Instead, he simply intends to point out the irrationality of women who seek to
succeed in the game of attraction, and when they do, refuse to participate in the
resulting relationship.  No matter what, these women are destructive.  The story
suggests that the thrill of the chase will always end in disappointment, because whether
it ends in success (catching the man) or not, the chase must
end.

When and why does Roger sharpen a stick at both ends?

Roger is the one boy in the group that appears to have
completely accepted his own evil and is completely willing to kill or hurt in order to accomplish
whatever purpose he sees as important.  It is clear as he progresses from playing at being
hurtful and cruel to looking forward to it.

By the time Piggy and
Ralph come to the hunters to ask for the glasses, he has gone over to the dark side and relishes
the chance to drop the huge rock and kill Piggy.

He sharpens the
stick at both ends in chapter twelve, and it is Samneric who tell Ralph about it.  It isn't
entirely clear what he intends to use it for but given their attitude it would appear to be some
kind of torture device.

Why is Mary Warren embarrassed and fearful when John Proctor enters the room in Act 1?

There are several reasons why Mary Warren fears Proctor in
Act 1. First of all, he had forbid her to leave the house. (He is her boss, he has the
right to do that.) Secondly, he seems a rather fearsome character. While Mary Warren
tries to defend herself by pointing out she had just come to see a great wonder in the
world, he threatens her right then and there by
saying:

I'll
show you a great doing on your arse one of these days. Now get you home; my wife is
waitin' with your work.

I
think this proves that Mary Warren was there against the Proctors' will. She knows that
this means trouble for her. Like a child who has done something wrong, Mary is at such a
loss for dignity that she quickly departs.

The way that
Abigail treated her prior to Proctor's entrance might also suggest that Mary had a weak
character to begin with, it is as if she rarely stood up for herself. This is important
to know and understand as the play proceeds.

Prove that the identity is true ln(n+1)=Integral of f'(x)/f(x), if the limits of integration are x=n+1 and x=n+2 f(x) is a polynomial and it's...

Since the polynomial has n roots, we'll write the polynomial
f(x) as a product of linear factors:

f(x) =
a(x-1)(x-2)...(x-n)

We'll note each factor as a
function:

x-1 = f1 => f1' =
1

x-2 = f2 => f2' =
1

.............

x-n = fn => fn'
= 1

f(x) = f1*f2*...*fn

We'll
differentiate both sides, using product rule:

f'(x) =
(f1*f2*...*fn)'

(f1*f2*...*fn)' = f1'*f2*..fn + f1*f2'*f3*....fn +
... + f1*f2*...*fn'

f'(x) = (x-2)*...*(x-n) + (x-1)*(x-3)*...*(x-n)
+ ... + (x-1)*...(x-n+1)

We'll divide by f(x) both
sides:

f'(x)/f(x) = 1/(x-1) + 1/(x-2) + ... +
1/(x-n)

We'll integrate both sides:

Int
f'(x)dx/f(x) =Int dx/(x-1) + Int dx/(x-2) + ... + Int dx/(x-n)

Int
f'(x)dx/f(x) =ln(x-1) + ln(x-2) + ... + ln(x-n)

We'll apply Leibniz
Newton:

Int f'(x)dx/f(x) =ln(n+1)/n + ln(n)/(n-1) + ... +
ln2/1

Int f'(x)dx/f(x) =
ln[(n+1)n(n-1).....2/n(n-1)....1]

Int f'(x)dx/f(x) =
ln[(n+1)!/n!]

But (n+1)! =n!*(n+1) => ln[(n+1)!/n!] =
ln[n!*(n+1)/n!]

Int f'(x)dx/f(x) =
ln(n+1)

The identity ln(n+1)=Integral of f'(x)/f(x) is
true, for the polynomial function f(x), whose roots are
1,2,...,n.

In a series in GP if two terms are 6 and 30.How many mimimum terms would be required between 6 and 30 so that the terms added between 6 and 30 are...

Let us take a =a1 = 6 as the starting term, an = 30 as the
nth term and r the common ratio between the consecutive
terms.

ar^(n-1) = 30.

If there
are no terms , between 6 and 30, then the sum is unique= 6+30 =36
unique.

If there are 1 term a2 between 6 and 30, then r =
x/6 = 30/x.

Therefore x = sqrt(30*6) = +6sqrt5 Or
-6sqrt5.

So there are are two GPs: 6, -6sqrt5 , 30 with r =
-sqrt5 and

6 , 6sqrt5 , 30 with common ratio r =
+sqrt5.

Therefore the GP is not
unique.

When there are 0 or even number of terms between a1
and an ,or  between 6 and 30, then n  is even . Then an/a1 = r^(n-1) = 30/6 = 5 has a
single real solution  as n-1 is odd.

So the minimum number
of terms beteen 6 and 30 is zero for the sum to be
unique.

Also n should be even and not odd sothat the common
ratio is unique which leads to the unique sum.

What is the theme of Midnight's Children?

In Salman Rushdie's story, Midnight's
Children, there are several themes.

One of the
main themes is identity. The main character of this story is Saleem Sinai who begins
telling stories to Padma, and it is with the final tale that we see the conclusion of a
long series of his life's tales that bring him to the present day. The purpose in this
exercise is to find some sense of who he is. His life has been unusual: both interesting
and tragic. He is one of Midnight's Children, an honor—along with his supernatural
powers—but he has also seen loss, death and disappointment as well.  There is a feeling
that he has found a personal sense of peace and satisfaction, in life's small things, by
the story's end.

Find the exact value of sinx/2 if sinx=1/4 and x is such that pi/2

We'll determine sin (x/2), using the half angle formula

sin (x/2) = +/- sqrt [ (1 - cos x) / 2
]

We know, from enunciation,
that:

Pi < x < Pi /
2

We'll divide by 2 the
inequality:

Pi / 2 < x / 2 < Pi /
4

From the above inequality, the angle x/2 is in the 1st
quadrant and the value of sin (x/2) is positive.

Since sin
x = 1/4, we'll apply  the trigonometric identity

(sin  x)^2
+ (cos x)^2 = 1 to determine cos x,

We'll recall that x is
in 2nd quadrant where cos x is negative.

cos x = - sqrt(1 -
sin 2x)

cos x = - sqrt(1 - 1/16)

cos x =
- sqrt(15) / 4

We'll substitute cos x by its value in the formula for
sin x/2.

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

In Night, how does Eliezer's faith in God change throughout the book?

This is a very interesting question because this powerful
novel shows us the change in faith of the main character, Eliezer, who begins the story
as a fervent Jew, but through his experiences, loses his faith in a God that could allow
such immense and unjust suffering. One key experience you will no doubt want to focus on
is the hanging of a young boy for his involvement in the resistance. Note how he is
described:

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This one had a delicate and a beautiful face - an
incredible sight in the
camp.

Just before the boy and
his two compatriots are hung, someone behind Eliezer is heard to say "Merciful God,
where is He?" As Eliezer and all the other prisoners are forced to walk past the
victims, note how the three hung men are described:

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The two men were no longer alive. Their tongues
were hanging out, swollen and bluish. But the third rope was still moving: the child,
too light, was still
breathing...

The child,
because of his lack of weight, suffered a far crueller death, as he is left to choke to
death slowly and excruciatingly. Eliezer reports that it took him more than half an hour
to die, whilst all the time Eliezer and the other prisoners were forced to watch him
die. As the same voice again repeats his question, Eliezer hears within himself an
answer to where God is:

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"Where is he? This is where - hanging here from
this gallows..."

This, then,
has to be the defining point in the novel when Eliezer irrevocably lost his faith in
God, and saw him as dead, strung up like the angelic boy he was forced to watch
die.

What do you think the benefits of the decision are for the Texas vs. Johnson case?Supreme Court Case

In my opinion, the major benefit of this case is that
freedom of speech has been advanced.  Other than that, I cannot really think that there
are any real benefits.  (Of course, protecting a major right is clearly a major
benefit.)

One of the major principles of free speech is
that even speech that is very offensive must be protected.  If we only protect popular
speech, we have very little real freedom of speech.  When the Court made this particular
decision, it helped to illustrate this point.  I think this is the major benefit of this
decision.

For a similar case, follow what happens as the
Court decides what to do about the church that has been holding offensive protests at
soldiers' funerals.

Discuss “A Rose for Emily” through those words “dear, inescapable, impervious, tranquil, and perverse”. How do they contribute to theme?

One theme that I think you can successfully discuss in
relation to these adjectives would be the decline of the Old South after the Civil War,
which was a key theme in all of Faulkner's works. There are plenty of examples of how
this theme is presented in "A Rose for Emily." A major one is how the aristocratic men
of the Old South were incredibly chivalrous and women were depicted as unworldly,
innocent and moral. Thus Colonel Sartoris engineers a story to explain why he is not
charging taxes to Miss Emily. Note too a similar situation occurs concerning the smell
that is developing around the house. The Judge, who is clearly from the same generation
as the Colonel, prevents the issue from being raised, arguing that it would be
completely wrong to accuse a woman of smelling bad.

But
note how these quaint customs change. The word of Colonel Sartoris does not prevent the
new generation from attempting to gather taxes from Miss Emily. Likewise it is the
younger generation that has no problem in accepting Homer and his relationship with a
member of a respected family whereas it is the older generation that finds this
liaison unacceptable. The passing of time and the changes of the norms and values
of the Old South are unavoidable in this work as Miss Emily eventually comes to inhabit
a world to which she is a stranger. Some critics have gone as far to argue that the
secret Miss Emily has guarded for so long is a metaphor for the general decadence of the
Old South.

Thus, you could argue the list of adjectives you
supplied could apply to the theme of the Old South and its decline and replacement with
a very different set of values that isolates characters from Miss Emily's
generation.

In Chapter 21 of To Kill a Mockingbird, how does Lee link waiting for the verdict to the mad dog incident?

As the jury is deliberating on the evidence in the trial
of Tom Robinson, it is taking a pretty long time.  As Scout sits in the courthouse
waiting, she says that the strangest feeling came over her, the same exact feeling that
she got as she was watching the rabid dog Tim Johnson come down the street, waiting to
be shot.  Everyone on the street knew he was there, but shut their doors tight against
him, and they knew that Atticus was out there waiting the help the situation, but in
fear they stayed inside.  Waiting for the dog to come down the street and meet his end
was suspenseful, and had a surreal quality to it.  This is what Scout thinks of as she
is waiting for the verdict to arrive.  She says the entire courthouse is full of people,
just like the street was, but that everyone was perfectly quiet and tense, just like
they were that day with the dog also.  They all knew something important, something huge
was going to happen, that was going to change someone's
life.

The comparisons in symbols are quite a few.  Lee
could be saying that Tom Robinson had no chance, just like the poor rabid dog had no
chance, and that their southern society viewed Tom no differently than that dog.  The
suspense was a suspense of people waiting to hear what they knew would happen--a death
sentence, or at least a sentence akin to a death sentence--to be pronounced, just like
with the dog.    Using that eerie mood of waiting sets the stage for the courtroom scene
quite well, no matter the meaning, and that is how Lee chooses to invoke that feeling of
eerie suspense.

I hope that helped; good
luck!

What examples from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream prove Horace Walpole's quote, "This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy for...

Puck is an excellent example to
prove the first half of Walpole's quote, "This world is a comedy to those that think." Puck is a
witty and independent thinker. As Oberon's court jester, he intentionally goes about performing
all sorts of mischievous antics with the intention of making both himself and Oberon laugh. We
especially see Puck using his witty, thinking mind to have fun with relation to the Athenian
lovers. We might believe Puck when he claims he legitimately mistook Lysander for Demetrius
because he had no idea there were actually two Athenian couples in the woods that night. However,
after seeing the harm he has caused, when Oberon asks Puck to bring Helena to Demetrius so that
he can fix the problem, it seems that Puck may have intentionally induced Lysander to follow
Helena, that way he can observe the "sport" of two men fighting over the same woman. We know that
he is enjoying the show because he states that absurd things please him the most, as we see in
his lines:

Then will
two at once woo one.
That must needs be sport alone;
And those things do best
please me
That befall preposterously.
(III.ii.119-122)

Helena's
love for Demetrius is an excellent example to prove Walpole's other statement,
"This world is ... a tragedy for those that feel." Helena is in love with Demetrius whom she was
engaged to, but for no known reason other than a fickle nature, Demetrius transfers his
affections from Helena to Hermia and begins wooing Hermia instead, even securing Hermia's
father's consent to the marriage. Helena is left brokenhearted and performs absurd stunts in the
hopes of winning him back, such as telling him about Hermia and Lysander's plan to run away from
Athens, and pursuing Demetrius into the woods. 

Why is memory important in Farhenheit 451? "We're remembering. That's where we'll win out in the long run." What does this qoute mean? why...

There are a variety of instances where Montag tries to
remember what life was like before, what his relationship with his wife was like, all
sorts of things but he always struggles.  Everything appears to be caught up in the
present and other characters, like his wife, appear to have it worse.  Their various
devices, the nodes in their ears, the amazingly fancy walls, etc., all help them to just
be totally caught up in the present and unable to
remember.

So the contrast between these people and the men
that Montag meets out beyond the city is stark.  They have committed these books to
memory and in so doing they act as the sort of collective memory for the whole society. 
And in the end, they will be there when everything else is gone.

How can I distinguish between animal and plant cells easily?I have a test coming up and I have been studying but my memory is bad. I was just...

Parts that both have in common include: cell membrane,
nucleus, nucleolus, ribosomes, golgi apparatus, cytoplasm, peroxisomes, vacuoles,
endoplasmic reticulum. However, there are organelles particular to plant cells. The cell
wall which is non-living and protects the plant cell and provides a structural framework
on the outside of the cell is one organelle found in plants, not animals. Also, the
chloroplasts which contain the pigment chlorophyll which allows plant cells to absorb
sunlight and carry out photosynthesis are unique to plant cells. The vacuoles in plant
cells are very large and can store materials such as water. Animal cells have an
organelle called the centriole which aids it during mitotic cell division. Plant cells
do not have the centriole. The vacuoles are much smaller in animal cells. If you
memorize the parts unique to either plant or animal cells and remember that all the
other parts can be found in both, it may simplify things.

What are two incidents that depict a significant rising action, climax, near-climax or conflict in The Kite Runner?

AMIR'S MEETING WITH ASSEF.
Certainly, Amir's return to Afghanistan and his reunion with the Taliban who turns out to be
Assef fits your description. The rising action would be Amir's search at the orphanage and visit
to the stadium before returning to Baba's old home, now a Taliban headquarters. The climax of
this section comes during the fight (conflict) between Assef and Amir, culminating with Sohrab's
accurately aimed projectile from his
slingshot.

HASSAN'S ASSAULT BY ASSEF.
Another example would be on the day of Amir's victory in the kite-flying contest. The contest
itself serves as the rising action, followed by Hassan's attempted retrieval of Amir's winning
kite. The climax of this scene comes when Hassan is attacked and sodomized (the conflict) by
Assef as Amir watches in silence from a distance.

How is the setting different between Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now?

The main difference is in the physical location and its meaning
for the characters. Heart of Darkness is set in the Congo, during European
Colonization, and concerns the monetary desires of the trading companies and the affect that the
primitive, harsh jungle has on the people who enter it. Apocalypse Now is
set during the Vietnam War, and although the Vietnam Jungle has a similar effect on the people,
it is for different reasons; the Vietnam War destroys men through its brutality and the things
that men will do when given governmental carte blanche, not strictly through their own moral
deterioration as in the novel.

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"Going up that river was like traveling back to the
earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were
kings. An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was warm, thick, heavy,
sluggish. There was no joy in the brilliance of sunshine."
(Conrad, Heart of
Darkness,
gutenberg.org)

The settings are
perhaps more similar than different; they are both jungles where seemingly civilized men become
brutal and evil, perhaps feeling that the locality removes the need to be moral, and that their
actions in this far-off land will have no consequences in the "real world." However, it is the
justification for action that differs: Kurtz in Heart of Darkness has been
affected by some unknown part of the jungle--something that Marlow feels he has just glimpsed the
edge of--and has lost himself in power and personal excess; in the film,
Apocalypse, Kurtz has been broken by the horrors of the Vietnam War, and
feels that his actions are as morally justified as any, since the seemingly-moral government that
sent him into the jungle has justified the war's atrocities.

If a person runs 100 meters at 15 m/s, 400 meters at 10 m/s and 800 meters at 8m/s , what is the average speed?

The formula of average speed is the ratio between
the total distance covered and the time needed for covering the total
distance.

To total distance covered could be calculated.
We have to determine the time needed to cover entire
distance.

Total distance = 100 + 400 + 800 =
1300m

We'll use the rule of 3 to determine the time for
each distance covered:

 15m.......................1
s

100m.......................x
s

We'll cross multiply:

15x =
100

x1 = 100/15 s

The time
needed for covering 100m is t1 = 6.6 s

The time needed for
covering 400 m is t2 = 40 s

 The time needed for covering
800 m is t3 = 100 s

The entire time for covering 1300m
is:

T = t1+t2+t3

T = 6.6 + 40
+ 100

T = 146.6
s

We'll determine the average speed for
covering the distance of 1300
m:

av. speed =
1300/146.6

av. speed = 8.86
m/s

In "Thanatopsis," what is a line that proves that this poem could not of been written by a Purtian?

This poem shows that it is definitely not written by a
Puritan in a number of different ways. Key to understanding this point is focussing on
the speaker's view of the afterlife and identifying how sharply it differs from
traditional Christian notions of heaven and a celestial realm where we end up. According
to the speaker of the poem, what happens when we die is that we re-join
nature:

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Earth, that nourished thee, shall
claim

Thy growth, to be resolved to earth
again,

And, lost each human trace, surrendering
up

Thine individual being, shalt though
go

To mix forever with the
elements...

This view of the
afterlife, where we just return to the dust from which we were made, thus stands in
sharp contrast to Puritan notions of heaven and an afterlife spent with
God.

Derivade of: (x((x^2)+1)^2)/square root of (2+(x^2))

To find the devative of (x(x^2+1))^2/
sqrt(2+x^2)

The given expression is of the form f(x^2) =
{x^2(x^2+1)^2}/sqrt{x^2+2}.

Put sqrt(x^2+2) = t. Then x^2 =
t^2-2.

Therefore  differentiating , we
get:

 2xdx = 2tdt. Or

dt/dx =
x/t

dt/dx =x/sqrt(x^2+2).......(1)

f(t^2-2)
= {(t^2-2)(t^2-1)^2}/ t= (t^4--3t^2+2)/t =
t^3-3t+2/t.

Therefore d/dx {f(x^2) =
{d/dt(t^3-3t+2/t)}dt/dx

d/dx f(x^2) = (3t^2-3t-2/t^2)*
(x/sqrt(x^2+2).

Replace t =
sqrt(x^2+2)

d/dx^2 f(x^2) = {3(x^2+2)-
3sqr(x^2+2)-2/sqrt(x^2+2)}(x/(sqrt(x^2+2))

d/dxf(x^2) =
{3(x^2+2)^(3/2) -3(x^2+2)-2}x/(x^2+2).

Therefore d/dx
{x(x^2+1)/(sqrt(2+x^2)} = {3(x^2+2)^(3/2) -3(x^2+2)-2}x/(x^2+2).

In Revolutionary Road and The Great Gatsby, how is the ambitious nature of the characters the main reason for their downfall?

The previous response to this question seems to have taken
for granted that when you asked about "the characters" in these two novels, you meant
the married couples. I think, however, that this question is best addressed in regard to
April Wheeler from Revolutionary Road and Jay Gatsby in
The Great Gatsby.

April Wheeler's
ambition is to have a more interesting and "special" life than her contemporaries. Once
an aspiring actress, the novel finds her as a suburban housewife. In an attempt to prove
that she is "better" than the others resigned to suburban American living at the middle
of the twentieth century, she convinces her husband that they should move to Europe.
Unfortunately, circumstances arise preventing the family from making the move and
April's inability to meet her ambition leads to her ultimate
destruction.

Jay Gatsby's ambition in The Great
Gatsby is motivated by his love for Daisy. Similar to April's unrealistic
fantasy of an exotic expatriate life, Gatsby's obsession with Daisy is unfounded--she
doesn't even truly return his affections. Much as April's inability to meet her ambition
leads to her destruction, Gatsby's realization that the life he desires with Daisy will
not come to to fruition ultimately leads to his destruction as
well.

In both instances, when the ambitious goals of a
single character become their primary focus in life, the end result is never positive.
In addition, in both instances, their aspiration is dependent upon the actions of
another person (for April, her husband Frank must support the family's move to Europe;
for Gatsby, Daisy must be willing to leave her husband for Jay). When one's destiny
relies on the actions of another, it almost always leads to a
downfall.

How does Atticus's statement about "cheating a colored man" connect with the title To Kill a Mockingbird?

Mockingbirds are absolutely innocent. There are other bird
that may actually deserve to be killed for the pests that they become to humans. They
steal seeds from fields and poop all over things. Mockingbirds, however, innocently sing
and create pleasant sound for us.

The black man in this day
and age did nothing but try to create pleasantries for the white man. They took their
unfortunate place in society and tried to earn a decent wage by working for white
men.

Atticus noticed that many white men cheated colored
men because they knew the courts would find white men innocent even though they cheated
black men. Courts were indeed affected by color. Atticus taught his children this
principle and let it also ooze into his closing argument. It is not right to treat a
colored man as any less of a man, Atticus thought. Atticus wanted to see innocence
prevail no matter who the victim was. In this case, we are talking about Tom
Robinson.

What is the mood of the short story "A Christmas Memory"? Is it nostalgia?

Well, let me help you out a bit with this. You are
actually right - nostalgic is the best adjective to describe the mood of this great
story. Now, in my dictionary, nostalgia is defined as "a yearning for past circumstances
or events". As we read the story and are thrust in to a winter morning twenty years ago,
as the first paragraph tells us it is clear that the title of this story is precisely
what we are presented with - a "Christmas Memory." Note how attractive and idealistic
the setting is, in spite of the challenge of the narrator and Queenie to get the
ingredients and send off the cakes. Capote creates amazing descriptions of what the
setting was like that shows his love and attachment to his past, such as
this:

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Morning. Frozen rime lustres the grass; the sun,
round as an orange and orange as hot-weather moons, balances on the horizon, burnishes
the silvered winter woods. A wild turkey calls. A renegade hog grunts in the
undergrowth.

These are
memories that the narrator looks back on with great fondness and love as he remembers
his childhood. However, note too that the mood changes towards the end, as the narrator
tells us of the inevitable passing of time, how he grows up, and how Queenie dies. This
gives the mood a somewhat bitter-sweet feeling, as we are made to enjoy and love the
description of this Christmas preparation, so long ago, whilst at the same time being
forced to admit that these idealistic times do pass inexorably and they become nothing
more than a memory in our lives.

What are the values of sinx and cosx for the acute angle x such that tanx = 4/5 ?

We know that the tangent function is a ratio of the opposite
cathetus and adjacent cathetus.

We'll recall that the opposite side
to the acute angle, in the unit circle, is the y component. But y component, in the unit circle,
is the value of the sine function.

We also know that the adjacent
side to the acute angle, in the unit circle, is the x component. But x component, in the unit
circle, is the value of the cosine function.

tan x = sin x/cos
x

But tan x = 4/5

4/5  = sin x/cos
x

We'll apply the fundamental formula of
trigonometry:

(tan x)^2 + 1 = 1/(cos
x)^2

cos x = 1/sqrt((tan x)^2 + 1)

cos
x = 1/sqrt(16/25 + 1)

cos x = +/- sqrt
(25/41)

cos x = +/- 5sqrt41/41

sin x =
+/-sqrt (1 - 25/41)

sin x = +/-sqrt
16/25

sin x = +/- 4/5

In Robert Frost's "After Apple-Picking" why does the narrator refer repeatedly to sleep?

This brilliantly allegorical poem presents us with a man who is
exhausted after working long and hard picking apples. As he contemplates the dream he expects to
have, he recalls the details of picking apples. He recalls the rungs of the ladder that he
climbed to pick apples, the smell of them, and the sound of the wagons carrying their apples into
the barn. However, less pleasantly, he realises that he has had enough of apple picking and now
finds the bountiful harvest that he had once wanted to be excessive. Likewise, just before he
falls asleep he thinks about the fallen apples that had to be taken away to the cider mill. He
feels his sleep will be troubled more by these failures than by his successes. The poem ends with
the poet's ignorance about what kind of sleep he will enter in to: it may be a form of
hibernation or death.

Sleep is something that is used symbolically
in other Frost poems, such as "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," to refer to death. Many
critics see this poem as an allegory about the art of poetry and being a poet. The speaker has
wished for a successful poetic career and has many poems that have been successes. However, now,
looking back, he sees how this career has made him completely exhausted. He doesn't want anything
else to do with it. He feels his "sleep" will be dominated by the failures, the "apples" or ideas
that he started but never finished, then by his successes. Lastly, he is concerned about the
state of sleep he will enter, and Frost explores different attitudes towards what lies beyond our
death. Will it be a kind of hibernation, where we stay asleep for a time and wake up into a
different world? Or will it be an ending rather than something that heralds a new beginning?
Either way, sleep is focussed on so much because it is what the speaker desires and wants now, as
he is so tired after his toil.

Please describe the differences in setting between the movie Apocalypse Now by F. Coppola and the novel Heart of Darkness?

I think the key focus you should take is the differences between
the context of colonial Africa and then Vietnam during the Vietnam war. What is fascinating about
the film is how relevant the context is to the same kind of ideas expressed in the book - Africa
and Vietnam are both presented as arenas outside of the control of civilisation where the
foreigners there - be they colonialists or American soldiers - are free to do whatever they want.
Thus we have absolutely mad scenes of a ship firing shells into the heart of Africa senselessly
and likewise the battle where American soldiers are surfing in the sea whilst being fired
upon.

However, I guess the focus of Copolla is much more the
weariness of war and its impact on the American soldier - the desire to go home, the friends and
family and loved ones left back home - that drive the action of the film. It could be said that
in the senseless killing that we observe all that is emphasised is the tremendous fragility of
the youth of the American soldiers, who should never have left home, and are put in a position
way beyond their maturity. It is the kind of pressures that they have to cope with through the
setting that breaks them and leads to the kind of insane shots we are presented
with.

What are some examples of literary devices used in Macbeth by Shakespeare?

A major literary device used in Shakespeare's
Macbeth is paradox.  A paradox is a situation
that at first appears false but after some thought shows a significant truth.  In the first scene
of Act 1, the witches end their meeting by saying, "Fair is foul and foul is fair."  At first,
the statement seems false; however, as the events in the play unfold, it becomes clear that the
statement is true:  those who appear good and honorable are really ill at heart.  King Duncan
gives Macbeth much praise for fighting valiantly for Scotland--he calls him his "worthiest
cousin" when he returns from battle.  However, after Macbeth hears the witches' prediction, he
cannot abandon his "blackest desires" and plots with his wife to murder Duncan and take the
throne.  So, Macbeth who appears to be good and honorable is really ill at heart as suggested by
the paradox offered by the witches.

In Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, how does Netherfield reflect the natures and values of the owners, particularly its physical description and...

We actually do not learn a whole lot about the physical
description of Netherfield. We know from Mrs. Bennet's enthusiasm that it is a large estate,
though not as large, or as grand as Pemberley. Also, we know that it has a "breakfast-parlour"
because Elizabeth is shown into the "breakfast-parlour" when she first arrives at Netherfield to
see her sick sister. We also know that it has a formal dining room, or "dining-parlour," because
as was expected of that class of society, the whole household dressed formally for dinner. We
also know that it has a ballroom because Bingley held a ball at Netherfield. We also know that,
as expected for a large manor, the rooms are very large. We see this when at one point Miss
Bingley invites Elizabeth to "take a turn about the room" (Ch. 11, Vol. 1). The number of rooms
and the size of the rooms of course show that Bingley and his party are wealthy, upper-class, who
value their wealth and their social status.

We also know from Bingley and his
party's activities that they are gentlemen and gentlewomen of leisure who do not need to work for
their income. They fill their time with strolling in the garden and entertaining each other with
playing cards, music, and singing. These activities alone do not say much about the nature of
Bingley and his party because these are things that all the leisurely upper-class did to
entertain themselves.

However, we do see Bingley ordering his housekeeper, Mrs.
Jones, to do everything she could to look after Jane. He also frequently had his servants call
for the doctor to tend to Jane. These activities show that Bingley has a very kind and caring
nature.

One thing we see Bingley's sisters do is gossip and make rude remarks
about Elizabeth and her family. These activities show that, typical of the upper-class, the
Bingley sisters were very arrogant and conceited.

Please compare rising action of plot of Heart of Darkness with Apocalypse Now, and find a minimum of three differences.Heart of Darkness -...

In Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, the
main character, Marlow, is an experienced sailor who is instructed by the company for which he
works to travel up the Congo River, into the depths of Africa. His instructions are to bring back
a man named Kurtz. Kurtz has the reputation of being the most successful of the company's
employees to obtain and ship back the largest amounts of ivory, which is the focus of this "ivory
trading company." Marlow makes his journey, finally catching up with Kurtz. The setting of the
story is fearful and unfamiliar to Marlow, but he and his crew are able to carry out the task at
hand.

In Apocalypse Now, the main character is
Captain Willard who has been asked as a part of a "black ops" mission to travel into Cambodia to
kill an insane officer (once considered one of the most promising soldiers in the service) by the
name of Kurtz. The "company" here is the U.S. government and military. The mission is a secret
one that does not really "exist." The film is set in the middle of a war
zone.

Similarities to Apocalypse Now are:
Marlow and Willard have been asked to find someone in a remote area. They have been "hired" to do
so. The character of Kurtz in both stories is insane. Kurtz, in both stories, has embraced the
lifestyle of the culture which he has become a part of. At the end of both stories, Kurtz
dies.

Differences between the two stories are as follows. Marlowe is
a ship's captain, a sailor, who works for a private company, and seems to have his head on his
shoulders. Willard is a drunken, "detached" soldier who has been recruited for a mission by the
U.S. government and the military.

Marlowe is asked to bring Kurtz
back from the jungle; Willard is instructed to kill
Kurtz.

Heart of Darkness is set, for the most
part, on the Congo River and in the jungles of Africa, starting out from the Thames River in
England, probably at the end of the nineteenth
century.

Apocalypse Now is set in the jungles
of Vietnam as Willard travels through Cambodia, in the 1960s during the Vietnam
War.

In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, where did Faber think the solution to the world's problems could be found?

Faber, from the book Fahrenheit 451,
believed that the solutions to the world's problems could all be found in books. The basis of Ray
Bradbury's novel is to imagine a society where free and independent thought is frowned upon, and
even punished. One of the ways in which this is manifested is by making books illegal. In
Bradbury's society, the firemen do not put out fires, but instead they START fires, raiding homes
where books are being secretly housed and setting fire to the books, symbolically showing how
free thinking is also discouraged.

Faber believes that the problems
in the world started after books were banned, so books must have all the answers. Since Faber
himself is a fireman, he has been a first-hand witness to people losing most of their
possessions, and in one instance, a woman's life, simply for the sake of hiding books. He
realizes there must be something to this.

What factors led to the Allied victory in World War I?

WWI was won by the Allies mainly by the fact that the US, with
its huge population and industrial capacity, entered the war.

Up
until the US entered the war, the war had been a real stalemate. The Western Front, where most of
the important fighting was going on, had not moved any significant distance in years. This showed
that the Allies and the Germans were essentially deadlocked.

When
the US entered the war, this all changed. The US had the potential to send millions of men and
huge amounts of materiel into the war. This convinced Germany that it could not
win.

The US entered the war due to its economic and political/social
ties to England. The US conducted huge amounts of trade with the British and had deep historical
ties to Britain. This, combined with the German submarine warfare, brought the US into the
war.

So, the Allies won because they were able to get the US on
their side. The economic and political/social ties between the US and Britain (and to some degree
France) brought the US into the war, changing the strategic balance.

Was there a time during the Roman Empire which can be considered a "high point"? If so, what made it the "high point"?

I would say that the high point or golden age of the Roman
Empire was very early in the actual Imperial period -- during the reign of the Emperor
Augustus Caesar.  During this time, Rome was becoming more and more powerful in military
terms and it was undergoing something of a golden age in terms of culture.  Augustus was
the one, after all, who said that he found Rome as a city of brick and left it as a city
of marble.

Augustus's reign was a time when Rome was strong
and when it was enjoying a fairly good period in terms of the kind of government it had
and in terms of its material culture.  These things combine to make his reign a high
point in Roman history.

What is vertex of x^2-x-6=0?

There are 3 ways, at least, to find the vertex of a
parabola. 

We'll write the function
as:

f(x) = a(x-h)^2 + k, where the vertex has the coordinates
v(h,k)

We'll write the given
function:

f(x) = 1(x^2 - 1x) - 6

We'll complete
the square:

x^2 -2*(1/2) x + (1/2)^2 = (x -
1/2)^2

So, we'll add and subtract the value
1/4:

f(x) = 1(x^2 - x + 1/4) - 1/4 -
6

f(x) = (x - 1/2)^2 - 25/4

We'll
compare the result with the standard form:

 (x - 1/2)^2 - 25/4 =
a(x-h)^2 + k

h = 1/2

k =
-25/4

The coordinates of the vertex are:V (1/2 ;
-25/4)

Another way is to use the first derivative of
the function, since the vertex is a local extreme.

f'(x) = 2x -
1

We'll determine the critical value of
x:

2x - 1 = 0

2x =
1

x = 1/2

Now, we'll calculate the y
coordinate of the local extreme:

f(1/2) = (1/2)^2 - 1/2 -
6

f(1/2) = 1/4 - 1/2 - 6

f(1/2) =
(1-2-24)/4

f(1/2) =
-25/4

Why is she called a "fallen monument" in the first paragraph?Women of the Old South and of a "good family" were often put on pedestals as paragons...

The Old South was ran by families with an equal financial
and social power to the aristocracy in Europe.  Emily Grierson belonged to one of such
families back in her youth. The irony comes after the War, and during the reconstruction
of the South how families that once lived off prestige, pedigree, money, and privileges
had to make do without any of it. Their old colonial mansions fell to the ground and
into oblivion. The old mannerisms, customs, and traditions of old were also succumbing
to the changing times. Emily, like those old, strong plantations, was a thing of the
past gone awry. She is a vestige, a symbol of a past that will not return. She is a
fallen monument for that same reason: All that defined her and put her in the pedestal
of Old Southern magnificence is now gone forever, and she is unable to move on from
it.

In Susan Glaspell's one-act play, "Trifles," what is the resolution?A resolution ties up the various strands of action, answers the questions...

The men have come into the Wrights' home to find anything
that could link Mrs. Wright to her husband's murder.

On
several occasions, with uncaring dismissiveness, the men laugh at the very real
responsibilities that fill a woman's life—calling their worries over their
responsibilities, "trifles." They are critical that the towels in the kitchen are dirty
and that the house is not decorated nicely; they dismiss Mrs. Peters being "capable
enough" to sneak something she should not into the jail, and even make fun of the quilt
Mrs. Wright was making. In all, they have greatly alienated the women, Mrs. Hale and
Mrs. Peters, making the women aware for the first time of the delineation that separates
the world of men and that of women.

The women are neighbors
who have come to collect some things to take to Mrs. Wright in jail. Mrs. Peters is the
sheriff's wife. As they look around, they find an empty birdcage and a dead canary,
wrapped in Mrs. Wright's sewing basket, waiting to be buried. Its wrecked body shows
that it was killed purposely: broken, it seems, by a strong, uncaring hand. They realize
that Mrs. Wright probably killed her husband for destroying the one beautiful element in
her sorry world.

This, then, is the missing piece the men
are looking for. However, as the women think on what they have discovered and their own
personal experiences, they begin to have a sense of solidarity with this woman: that
even though they hardly knew her, they had much in common. They can only imagine what
Mrs. Wright's life was like not having children. And Mrs. Hale can remember when "Minnie
Foster Wright" had once sung so beautifully in the church choir, understanding
now that Mr. Wright killed that in her,
too.

The women, struggling about what to do,
decide to keep what they have learned a secret. They take the sewing box with
them, with the bird still in it, knowing that they will not share what they know with
the men, but protect their "sister" who has tried to hard to survive in the uncaring
world of men. They will not give the men what they need
to destroy what is left of Mrs. Wright.

What is the summary of "Shooting an Elephant"?

Well, first it is important to remember that this is not a
story, it is an essay, and a very fine example of this literary form. In this essay, Orwell
recounts an experience he had while serving as a police officer of the British Empire in colonial
Burma. One day, a frenzied elephant went on a rampage in a bazaar, killing one person. By the
time Orwell arrives on the scene to deal with the matter, a large crowd of Burmese has gathered
to watch. Although he hates his job, which he refers to as "doing the dirty work of the Empire,"
and does not want to kill the elephant, Orwell feels pressurised by the crowd and his position to
take action. If he does not he will risk being laughed at. He therefore shoots the animal
repeatedly and clumsily, giving the elephant a painful and slow
demise.

Key to this essay is Orwell's comment on colonialism -
through this experience Orwell comes to realise that the white man through the power he has taken
actually makes himself nothing more than an "absurd puppet pushed to and fro by the will of those
yellow faces behind." As he goes on to comment:

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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.

Therefore, paradoxically, by
seizing power over others, the white man actually decreases his own freedom, because he is forced
to act in the way that the indigenous population expect.

Hope this
helps you grasp the central points of this fascinating essay. Good luck!

How did Japanese reformers achieve rapid industrialization of Japan?

During the Meiji period, the reformers were able to achieve
rapid industrialization in two major ways.

First, they set up an
environment in the country that was favorable for business and economic growth. They did this by
such things as removing restrictions on trade within the country (things like restrictions on who
could conduct various kinds of business) and by assuring internal stability (preventing wars or
rebellions).

Secondly, the government took a much more direct role
in the economy. They actually helped to develop certain industries by funding research or by
giving aid to companies that were involved in important new
industries.

Of course, it was not just the government reformers who
helped Japan industrialize. It was very important that there were many private individuals who
stepped forward to create new businesses. These were the people who actually made the economy
industrialize, though they did so with a great deal of help from the
government.

What is the distance between the points (0, 5) and (3, 9)?

Let the points be A= ( 0,5) and B =
(3,9)

To find the distance between the points A and B,  we will use
the distance formula as follows:

The distance Between A and B  is
given by:

D ( AB) = sqrt[( xB-xA)^2 + (
yB-yA)^2].

Let us substitute with the coordinates of A and
B.

==> D ( AB) = sqrt[ ( 3-0)^2 + (
9-5)^2]

==> D(AB) = sqrt( 3^2 +
4^2)

==> D(AB) = sqrt(9+
16).

==> D(AB) =
sqrt25.

==> D(AB) =
5

Then, the distance between A and B is 5
units.

How might you examine "A Rose for Emily" and Jackson's "The Lottery" as modern horror stories?How does the use of horror in these stories differ...

"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, and Shirley
Jackson's, "The Lottery," can both be considered modern horror
stories.

Dictionary.com defines horror
as:

an
overwhelming and painful feeling caused by something frightfully shocking, terrifying,
or revolting

Both stories can
be considered horror stories in that they both provide endings to
their stories that are horrifying: revolting, shocking or
both.

The concept of a modern horror story impresses me as
something that is more psychological, and less a physical threat such as Frankenstein's
monster: an evil that does not hide himself under the guise of civilized humanity.
However, Faulkner and Jackson shock their audiences, as the plot takes the reader to an
everyday event or a conservative home, to come suddenly out of hiding, shocking the
reader's sensibilities, when the reader was totally unprepared—where one expects and
depends upon civilized behaviors and rules that hold the monstrous in
check.

In "A Rose for Emily," Miss Emily is a dignified and
respected woman of the elite community in which she lives. She is, in some ways, more a
man than woman, taking a man's freedom and wearing it publicly like a hat; one expects
in the reading of the story that she is well-grounded, if a little eccentric. When it is
obvious that the steel grey hair on the pillow next to the rotted corpse is her
recent hair, the reader is stunned.

In
"The Lottery," the reader is equally unprepared for the story's outcome. The town
gathers together, chatting quietly on a lovely evening, waiting for what one might
assume to be "festivities," to begin. Children run around, laughing and playing. It
could be a night like any other. However, when it is clear that the lottery being
conducted will decide who among the townspeople will be stoned to death, it is appalling
and shocking.

The modern horror story is more "horrifying"
because it has its roots in what could happen, as opposed to older
horror stories that one would not take seriously, though they would still frighten the
reader. In the modern version, this horror could be lurking in a neighbor's home, and
perhaps it is this realization that makes these stories so much more unsettling, even
frightening.

Calculate the area enclosed by y = X^2 and y = x + 2.

y= x^2

y=
x+2

To find the area will need to find the integral for both
equations:

First we need to determine the intersecting
points:

==> x^2 = x+
2

==> x^2 -x -2 = 0

==>
(x-2)(x+1) = 0

==> x= 2   x =
-1

Then we need to find the integral from x= -1 to x=
2

First let us find the area under y= x^2 from x= -1 to
2

==> A1 = intg ( x^2 )
dx

           = x^3/3

            = (
2^3/3) - (-1)^3 / 3

            = ( 8 + 1)/3 = 9/3 =
3

Then the area under y=x^2 from (-1 to 2 ) is  3 square
units>

Now we will calculate the area under y=
x+2:

A2 = intg (x+ 2)

    = x^2/2 +
2x

       = ( 2^2/2 + 2*2) - ( -1^2/2 +
2*-1)

        = 2 + 4) - ( 1/2 -
2)

       = 6 + 3/2 = 15/2 = 7.5 square
units:

Then the area is:

A = A2 - A1 =
7.5 - 3 = 4.5

Then, the area between y= x^2 and y=
x+2  is 4.5 square units

What mistakes did Nixon make in Vietnam?

This depends greatly on your perspective and on what you would
call a mistake.

If you look only at Nixon's own goal, it is possible
to argue that he made no mistakes. Nixon's main goal was "peace with honor." He wanted to get the
US out without looking like it was simply surrendering. He managed this through his process of
Vietnamization and his push for peace talks. Obviously, Vietnamization did not work to create a
stable and strong South Vietnam, but it is hard to argue that this was Nixon's fault rather than
the fault of the South Vietnamese and perhaps of Nixon's predecessors in
office.

You could argue that Nixon's decision to widen the war by
invading Cambodia was a mistake. You can argue that this was a moral mistake because it hurt a
country that was not officially a part of the war. So, if you are looking at things from a moral
standpoint, you can argue that this was a mistake. It might also have been a mistake in that it
helped turn the American public even further against the war. However, it is hard to argue that
the invasion of Cambodia helped cause the US to lose the war.

So, it
is very much a matter of opinion as to which of Nixon's actions were
mistakes.

What is the integral of cosec 2x dx ?

We need to find the integral of cosec 2x
dx.

Int[ cosec 2x dx]

=> Int[ 1/
sin 2x dx]

=> Int[ (sin 2x)/ (sin 2x)^2
dx]

=> Int[ (sin 2x)/(1 - (cos 2x)^2)
dx]

=> Int[ (sin 2x)/(1 - cos 2x)(1 + cos 2x)
dx]

=> 1/2(Int [ sin 2x / (1 - cos 2x) + sin 2x/(1 + cos 2x)
dx]

=> 1/4[ ln| 1 - cos 2x | - ln|( 1 + cos
2x)]

=> 1/4[ - ln(|1 + cos 2x | / | 1 - cos 2x|)
]

=> 1/4[ - ln((1 + cos 2x)^2 / ((1 - cos 2x)^2)
]

=> 1/4[ - ln((1 + cos 2x)^2 / (sin
2x)^2]

=> 1/2[ - ln|(1/(sin 2x) + (cos 2x) / (sin
2x)|]

=> 1/2[ - ln|(cosec 2x) + (cot
2x)|]

=> -1/2( ln | cosec 2x + cot 2x| +
C

The required integral is -1/2(ln | cosec 2x + cot
2x| + C

In Oedipus Rex, suppose King Oedipus had taken Jocasta’s advice and given up on his quest. How might the play have had a different ending?

This is an interesting question because I guess it depends
on a lot of other factors that could somehow influence the outcome. Certainly we can say
that all those who give Oedipus evidence in his quest for the truth do not do so
willingly--Oedipus needs to threaten, cajole and force them to reveal what they know.
Therefore if Oedipus had abandoned his quest it is possible that he could have got away
with it. However, imagine the scene - Thebes is suffering gravely as ever more people
die from the mysterious illness. If Oedipus hadn't found "the truth," then more and more
people would have died and perhaps an Oracle could be found who wouldn't be so shy of
speaking the truth. My own personal feeling is that this is a case where the "truth will
out" whatever happens, and Jocasta, even were she to be successful, would only put of
the inevitable revelation that, at least on some level, she herself is aware
of.

Three funerals are described in Beowulf. Whose funerals are they?

The first funeral is for the King of the Danes, in lines
1-52. This funeral serves as a way to introduce the setting and the
storyline.

The second funeral is for Hildeberg's family in
lines 1007-24. They were killed during Beowulf's battle with
Grendel.

The last funeral they probably want you to mention
is Beowulf's funeral in lines 3137-82. Beowulf is cremated and buried with all the hoard
of the dragon he died killing.

Some commentators have made
the argument that there is really a fourth funeral, that of "The Lay of the Last
Survivor" found in lines 2247-66. Although this is never explicitly called a funeral,
many references are made to rituals that are normally only performed at a
funeral.

How is the prophecy of the carp in Bless Me, Ultima like the Biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah?

The legend of the golden carp is like the story of Sodom
and Gomorrah in the Bible because both have to do with obeying god and rejecting sin.
The legend of the carp was that the gods forbade the people to eat the carp. During a
terrible drought, however, the people disobeyed the rule. One of the gods pleaded for
mercy, so rather than destroy the people, the other gods turned them into carp instead
of killing them. The god who saved the people felt sorry for them, so he became a carp
as well. He is larger than the other carp and golden in color. The legend forbids men to
eat carp for this reason. Eating a carp is a sin. In Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham and
Lot, his nephew, divided up their land because the land could not support both of them,
their families, livestock, etc. Lot chose to move to the city with his family, only the
city was the sinful Sodom and Gomorrah. God had already commanded Abraham NOT to mingle
with the pagan peoples, so Lot was disobeying the command by living right in the middle
of a sinful city. God decided to destroy the cities because of the sin, and Lot was
warned to escape with his wife. They were told not to look back, just like the people in
the carp legend were told not to eat the carp. Lot’s wife looked back, however, so she
was turned into a pillar of salt, just like the one god in the carp legend was turned
into a carp. Another similarity to Christianity is, though, that the golden carp felt
sorry for the people and became one of them. In this way, the carp is a Christ figure,
even though the carp legend represents pagan beliefs to
Anthony.

The golden carp is a religious symbol in this
novel, but it is not connected to Catholicism. The legend associated with it conflicts
with the beliefs of Anthony’s Catholic religion. Cico asks Anthony if he thinks the carp
is a god, and Anthony cannot reply that it IS a god without going against his Catholic
beliefs. The carp would be an example of paganism in the Catholic view, so the legend
associated with it illustrates Anthony’s conflict over what he believes. The carp offers
Anthony a glimpse of other religious viewpoints and while he rejects it outright at
first, he later finds that he can learn from it on his way to figuring out what it is
exactly that he does believe.

What is the significance of Jesus' transfiguration?

Jesus transfiguration represents much to the Christian.
First, it symbolizes the fact that Christ intends to return because during the
transfiguration, he promised he would return again and his body physically left this
earth. Second, it demonstrates that God still loves man and has offered a Spirit,
commonly referred to as the Holy Spirit, here on this earth to be a counselor to all who
will pray and seek him. It also represents that Jesus is in heaven preparing a place for
all Christians to come. The Christian notes that as time goes by, and heaven is still
not prepared, Jesus is at work planning his big party for believers. This moment also
built great responsibility in the disciples to carry Christ's cause forward to
generations to come.

Here is a passage to support these
claims (Matthew 17:2-9):

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2There he was transfigured before them. His face
shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light. 3Just then there
appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus.4Peter said to Jesus, "Lord,
it is good for us to be here. If you wish, I will put up three shelters—one for you, one
for Moses and one for Elijah."5While he was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped
them, and a voice from the cloud said, "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well
pleased. Listen to him!"6When the disciples heard this, they fell facedown to the
ground, terrified. 7But Jesus came and touched them. "Get up," he said. "Don't be
afraid." 8When they looked up, they saw no one except Jesus. 9As they were coming down
the mountain, Jesus instructed them, "Don't tell anyone what you have seen, until the
Son of Man has been raised from the
dead."

Finally, this time
also signaled the completion of Jesus' work here on earth. God's pleasure with Jesus
perfect life, death, and ressurection demonstrate closure to this passage of His
Story.

What is an expanding bullet.

A normal bullet passes through the target it is fired at
with very less energy actually spent in causing damage to the target. These bullets have
a thick layer made of brass or copper which keeps the bullet intact when it strikes the
target. An expanding bullet on the other hand is designed to cause a lot more damage.
Here the outer cover is quite weak or missing. So when the bullet is fired, on hitting
the target it penetrates a little and by then the lead which is filled in the bullet
comes out forming a mushroom shaped structure. Expanding bullets use more of the energy
they have to cause damage to the target.

The Hague
convention forbids the use of expanding bullets and makes their use a war crime, but in
the US expanding bullets are the preferred ammunition and are used by the police and
civilians alike.

How did Truman's decision to use the atomic bomb forever change the nature of international relation?

From the time that the US used atomic weapons against Japan at
the end of WWII, the nature of international relations was changed. This was because all of a
sudden a war between major powers had become much more horrible of a prospect than it ever had
been before.

Before the advent of atomic weapons, war was simply
another part of international relations. Even major powers were relatively willing to go to war
with one another. After atomic weapons were invented and used, it was no longer anywhere near as
feasible to have a major war. Everyone knew that a major war would become a nuclear war, with
disastrous consequences. This changed international relations fundamentally because it removed
war as a serious possibility among major powers.

In "The Catcher in the Rye," what is the poem/song "Coming Thro the Rye" about?

Comin' Thro the
Rye- Robert Burns

O, Jenny's a' weet, poor body,
Jenny's
seldom dry;
She draigl't a' her petticoattie
Comin thro' the
rye.

Chorus:
Comin thro the rye, poor body,
Comin thro the
rye,
She draigl't a'her petticoatie,
Comin thro the
rye!

Gin a body meet a body
Comin thro the rye,
Gin a body
kiss a body,[r] Need a body cry?

Gin a body meet a body
Comin thro
the glen,
Gin a body kiss a body,
Need the warld
ken?

As with all poetic
interpretation, meaning is subjective.  To interpret a poem, a reader is coming with different
knowledge, understanding, morals, etc.  Not all poems are interpreted the same way.  But, to
align the poem with the novel The Catcher in the Rye, here is one
interpretation.

Jenny never seems to be happy (neither does Holden),
because she is always wet( Holden is always unhappy and depressed). She emerges from her walks
through the rye wet and unable to heal herself ("need a body cry"); Holden emerges from every
trial in life blaming others for his inability to succeed. Her knowledge of the world ("warld
ken") is limited, for she is always in the rye. Holden's knowledge is limited given he fails to
see anything in life as it really is, he only sees it from his disjointed point-of-view.  The rye
represents her own limitations- for if she is always there, she is not expanding her views or
horizons.   The rye, for Holden, represents his own limited views on the world-he is too
judgemental of others, while failing to be judgemental with
himself.

While Holden's misinterpretation of the poem directly shows
his concern for others, not himself.  He worries too much about the innocense lost in children,
ignoring the fact tht he is still a child.  Holden drinks, smokes, and is overly curious about
sex.  His innocence is gone.  Therefore, instead of wishing to save himself from the downward
spiral he is on, he chooses to try and save those around him that he deems innocent enough to
save.

In Macbeth, in Act I scene 2, how does Ross describe Macbeth?

I am afraid your question didn't make much sense - no
"terms" are given to describe the post of the Thane of Cawdor. So I have changed it to
refer to what I think you were talking about, which is how Ross describes Macbeth in the
battle against the Thane of Cawdor. What is important to realise in this scene is that
we still have not met Macbeth himself - we are only given information about him by
others. We have just seen the wounded Captain stress how bravely both Macbeth and Banquo
have fought. He said they fought:

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As cannons overcharg'd with double
cracks

This description
clearly stresses their bravery and how valiant they
were.

Now let us focus on how Ross describes Macbeth's
efforts. He reports how Norway and the Than of Cawdor were winning in the battle, until
Macbeth came along. Note how he describes Macbeth as "Bellona's bridegroom." Bellona was
the goddess of war, and so describing Macbeth as her husband clearly gives him great
status in warfare. Let us also see how Macbeth won the battle. We are told that Macbeth
met the Thane of Cawdor and:

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Confronted him with
self-comparisons,

Point against point, rebellious arm
'gainst arm,

Curbing his lavish spirit: and, to
conclude,

The victory fell on
us.

Macbeth, with his skill
in warfare and bravery, turns the tide of the battle and wins it for Scotland and his
King. We as an audience are presented with a noble, valiant man who is loyal to his
King, and yet also shows himself to be war-like and bellicose in his actions - perhaps
hinting at a personal weakness that the witches come to exploit in the rest of the
play.

Does the way Myrtle lives (status, conditions) contribute to her being able to carry on an affair with Tom?Chapter 2 of The Great Gatsby by F....

Fitzgerald's first description of Myrtle makes us realize that
Myrtle is very opposite from Tom's wife, Daisy. She is described as being in her middle thirties,
and "faintly stout, but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can." She is
wearing a navy blue dress and Nick tells us directly there was no "facet of gleam of beauty but
there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her." This description in contrast to the
cool sophistication of Daisy is immediately striking.

In terms of
how she lives, she is married to "blond, spiritless man" who Tom says is "so dumb he doesn't know
he is alive." They live in the apartment above a run-down, not prosperous garage. The garage and
apartment are located in the valley of ashes -- a bleak and desolate strip of land between the
Eggs and New York where the ashes were literally heaped and that resemble a kind of waste land.
Myrtle can get away with this affair because Tom has created a reason to stop by with the promise
to sell the car to Wilson. He is so desperate for the opportunity, he doesn't look beyond that to
what is happening with his wife. She is excited to be in the affair with Tom because even though
they are both married, she gets to escape the reality of the garage and live her pretend life
with Tom in the apartment in the city for a little while. She gets to pretend to be someone she
isn't. The misery of life with Wilson at the garage certainly plays a part in her willingness and
ability to be in this affair with Tom.

The length of a rectangle is two units more than four times the width. What is the length if the perimeter is of 20 units?

We have to specify that the length of a rectangle is
bigger than the width.

We'll put the width of the rectangle
to be a units and the length  be b inches.

We know, from
enunciation, that the width is 2 units more than 4 times it's length and we'll write the
constraint mathematically:

a - 2 =
4b

We'll subtract 4b and add 2 both
sides:

a - 4b = 2 (1)

The
perimeter of the rectangle is 20 units.

We'll write the
perimeter of the rectangle:

P =
2(a+b)

20 = 2(a+b)

We'll
divide by 2:

10 = a + b

We'll
use the symmetric property:

a + b = 10
(2)

We'll add (1) + 4*(2):

a -
4b + 4a + 4b = 2 + 40

We'l eliminate and combine like
terms:

5a = 42

We'll divide by
5:

a = 42/5 

a = 8.4
units

8.4 + b = 10

b = 10 -
8.4

b  =  1.6
units

So, the width of the rectangle is of
8.4 units and the lengths of the rectangle is of 1.6
units.

Since the width cannot
be larger than the length, we'll change and we'll put the length of 8.4 units and the
width of 1.6 units.

What is the significance of Stephen Blackpool in Book the First of Hard Times.

Stephen Blackpool is by far one of the most interesting
and tragic characters in this great novel. Consider how he is introduced: we only meet
him after Dickens has shown us the Gradgrind family and Bounderby, and of course the
juxtaposition of the Gradgrinds and Bounderby with Stephen and his life creates a sharp
contrast to these earlier characters. Stephen is not a rich member of Coketown society,
but he is instead one of the "Hands" in Bounderby's factory whose life consists of
poverty and relentless labour. However, in contrast to the "finer" characters of the
novel, Stephen, although he has to put up with so many difficulties in his life, strives
to remain an honest and compassionate individual.

Note how
he is described as a character who has had more than his fair share of
suffering:

It
is said that every life has its roses and thorns; there seemed, however, to have been a
misadventure or mistake in Stephen's case, whereby somebody else had become possessed of
his roses, and he had become possessed of the same somebody else's thorns in addition to
his own. He had known, to use his words, a peck of
trouble.

Clearly this is a
character Dickens wants us to feel sympathy for, and his wider function in the play is
to show the reality of industrialisation as experienced through the working class - the
day to day workers who have to struggle to survive in a world where the Bounderby's
exploit them at every turn.

Describe three steps in Frightful's training from My Side of the Mountain.

There is not any place in the book where it straight out
says "here are three steps of the way I trained Frightful.  But Sam does talk about
various things that he does to train the bird.

For example,
the first thing he does (so maybe you could call it the first step) is simply to talk to
Frightful and touch her a lot.  He says that this makes a falcon easier to
train.

Then, in the chapter entitled "Frightful Learns Her
ABC's," Sam starts to train her more "formally."  For example, he would put a leash on
her and let her sit on a stump.  He would back up, hold some meat, and whistle to her. 
That was supposed to teach her to come when he
whistled.

The third step that I'll talk about is when he
trains her to attack a lure.  He made sure she was really hungry, let her go, and then
he would throw his lure up in the air for her to swoop down and catch it.  That taught
her to attack prey, bring it to the ground, and wait for him to come and reward her with
food.

What is the climax of the Iliad?

In my opinion, the climax of the
Iliad comes in Book 22.  I think that the climax comes when
Achilles kills Hector. The reason that I say this is because this is the apex of the
rage of Achilles.

I think that much of the point of this
epic is the anger of Achilles.  After all, the poem starts by asking the goddess to sing
of the wrath of Achilles.  We see Achilles' anger cause him to withdraw from the war and
sulk in his tent because his pride has been offended.  Later, we see his anger cause him
to fly into a murderous rage as he takes revenge for the death of Patroclus (which was
caused, you can argue) by Achilles' anger.

So the whole
epic is about the consequences of Achilles' anger.  This anger peaks as Achilles kills
Hector and gets his revenge.  After that, the rest of the epic is really just about
tying up loose ends caused by Achilles' anger.

What is the role or function of the Chorus in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex?

The chorus in
Oedipus Rex represents the Theban
elders. The chorus's interest lies purely in protecting the city; and
with this interest in mind, the chorus shows great respect and admiration for their
king, Oedipus, and also great reverence for the gods. Also, with the interests of the
city in mind, they serve the role of portraying a far
greater understanding of humanity than Oedipus
does.

In each ode, the chorus shows either great reverence for the
gods or great respect for Oedipus. The chorus is well aware that the citizens of Thebes
need the gods' protection in order to be healed from their current plague. The chorus
portrays its belief in the gods' power and calls on the gods to use their power to heal
the city, as we see in the chorus's lines:

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I call: my threefold protection from death
[Zeus, Athena, Artemis], shine forth on me. If ever when madness was set upon the city,
you sent away our burning scourge.
(175-177)  

Not only does the
chorus call upon the gods for the city's protection, the chorus is also far quicker to
recognize irrational behavior than Oedipus is, which also stems from the chorus's drive
to heal and protect the city. In its ability to recognize irrational behavior, the
chorus is better able to perceive the weaknesses of human nature than Oedipus is. One
example is seen when Oedipus reacts to Tiresias's horrible prophecy. Oedipus becomes
furious and even accuses both Creon and Tiresias of a treasonous plot. The chorus is
very quick to recognize that Oedipus is behaving irrationally and that the most
important thing is learning how to heal the city, as we see in the chorus's lines, "To
us it seems that both this man's words are your own, Oedipus, were said in anger"
(424-425). 

However, despite the fact that the chorus
recognizes Oedipus's human failings, they remain respectful to their king and find it
very difficult to believe that Oedipus is guilty. Instead, very rationally they argue
that there is no guarantee that the seer is truly wiser than the chorus is and until
they see proof, they will not allow Oedipus's good name to be slandered. The chorus's
rational mind serves to represent a greater understanding of humanity than Oedipus has
himself.

who is the patriot reffered by robert browning in the poem the patriot?plzz help me

There's no black and white answer and the poem is
certainly open to interpretation.  What is certain is that the speaker (the Patriot) is
someone who was once beloved and welcomed by the public, but has since become hated and
reviled.

Many interpret the poem to be talking about a
soldier.  He speaks of his return from war a year ago when he was celebrated as a hero
and welcomed by everyone with open arms.  However in the present, they are violent
toward him.

Some believe that the "Patriot" is a Jesus
character and that the poem depicts his last days; when he was first welcomed to and
celebrated in Jersualem days before his crucifixion.  Just as the with the Patriot, the
public quickly changed their opinion and went from celebrating them to persecuting and
acting violently toward them.

What role does Mr. Snell, the landlord, take in discussions?

In the novel Silas Marner, George
Elliot ensures that the reader gets the entire picture together of the description of a
typical small town, isolated from society, and that each and everyone of its inhabitants
is as picturesque and has an interesting set of characteristics that would reflect the
bucolic aspect of the story.

In this case, Mr. Snell was
the town's "investigator", but not in a derogatory way. He is the typical small town guy
who He served many roles in Raveloe: Inn keeper, deputy constable, and town's problem
solver. He is smart enough to have a clairvoyance (as it is described in the story) to
visualize things and uses his strong intuitive powers to, like the story says "put two
and two together".

In discussions, he is the no-nonsense
man. He will put the facts together, organize them, categorize them, classify them, and
analyze them with precision to get to the point. He is the one who adds all the clues
and connects all the dots when gossip, myth, legends, or happenings come up in
conversation. He is the town's reality checker.