What motifs are found in "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe?

To my mind, the most powerful symbol that there is in this
chilling short story by Edgar Allen Poe is the black cat itself, which is obviously
important enough to warrant being used for the title. Note how the story progresses it
seems to symbolise for the narrator a constant curse that is always present and always
dogs his every step - a reminder of his murderous instincts that he cannot forget or
ignore:

And
now was I indeed wretched beyond the wretchedness of mere Humanity. And a brute beast -
whose fellow I had contemptuously destroyed - a brute beast to work out for me - for me
a man, fashoined in the image of the High God - so much of insufferable wo! Alas!
neither by day nor by night knew I the blessing of Rest any more! During the former the
creature left me no moment alone; and, in the latter, I started, hourly, from dreams of
unutterable fear, to find the hot breath of the thing upon my face, and its vast weight
- an incarnate Night-Mare that I had no power to shake off - incumbent eternally upon my
heart!

Note the way that in
the narrator's mind the black cat comes to dominate him psychologically in a somewhat
disturbing fashion. As we read on, it is his desire to kill the black cat that leads to
his slaughter of his wife, and it is the black cat that at last condemns him to hell for
his crimes, as the black cat reveals his murder and therefore condemns him to the
gallows.

If a plumber is paid $7.70 per hour, what would she earn in a 35 hour week?

The rate of the earning of the plumber is $7.70. It is
asked to know the earning in a 35 hour week.

It is  just
multiplication of rate of earning per hour  * number of hours  worked that gives the
total earning for the number of hours worked.

Therefore the
plumber earns $7.70 * 35 = $269.5.

The multiplication is
done as follows:

7.70*35 = (7.70)30
+(7.5)*5

7.7*35 =
231.00+38.50

7.7*35 =
269.50.

Hope this helps.

Why did whalers come to Hawaii?

Basically, whalers came to Hawaii because it was there. 
To be a bit more serious, they came there because it was a good place (the best place
between California and Asia) for them to restock their ships with things like water and
fresh food.

In the days of whaling, the whalers had to
spend months away from their home ports.  It took a long time to sail across the ocean
and so they would not want to be going back and forth any more than they had to.  But,
at the same time, they could only carry so much water and fresh food and so they would
need to replenish those supplies.

If you look at a map of
the Pacific, you'll see why Hawaii was a popular place.  The islands of Micronesia are
your only other choice in the Northern Hemisphere for places to stop and they tended to
be way too small to be able to support the number of whaling ships that were out
there.

So Hawaii was an important stop because of the size
of the islands, their location, and the fact that the technology of the time required
ships to stop somewhere to replenish supplies.

How can I write a background info on puns in Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth for my intro paragraph?

You might consider giving some background on the purpose of a
pun. Is it to relate to people? Is it to entertain? Is it to show hyperbole? As a teacher of high
school boys, I find everyday that I have to edit my language just in case they might take my use
of a word and think about it another way. For example, if I want to talk about something that is
standing up rimrod straight, I avoid using the vocabulary of describing it as absolutely erect.
Immature laughs would erupt throughout the classroom if I used that language. So, in writing an
intro, you might think of a similar anecdote wherein you have had to watch your language because
of others, or you might simply define the purposes of figurative as I asked you questions about
above. Whatever your attention grabber or hook ends up being, after that connect the idea to what
you have seen in both Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet.

Another idea might be to have the title:
Words, Worlds, Words. If you look at this quick, you don't notice
the difference between the 3 words, but reading slowly enough, you see a different word in the
middle. That difference is represented by a single character of meaning but it completely changes
things. The same is true when we see a pun or simile, when thought of one way, the connotation of
the word might mean one thing, but when thought of the other way, the denotation of the word
means something else entirely. You may have to use an example to demonstrate
this.

Why is the main character in "The Revolt of the 'Mother." considered a round, dynamic character?

The main character is round and dynamic
because she is fully developed and undergoes a
change.

A round character is one where many
traits are described.  We know that Sarah Penn is stubborn, intelligent, articulate, and
can think divergently.

When looking at the barn and the
house, Sarah feels frustrated.  She sees that the barn is much bigger and
nicer.

The
house, standing at right angles with the great barn and a long reach of sheds and
out-buildings, was infinitesimal compared with them. It was scarcely as commodious for
people as the little boxes under the barn eaves were for
doves.

The barn is where her
husband puts his priorities.  He does not even tell his wife that he is building another
barn.  This infuriates her.  While telling her daughter that she will someday learn that
she will never be the equal of men, she is clearly irritated and
frustrated.

A dynamic character is one that undergoes a
change.  Sarah Penn is a good housewife at the beginning of the story.  She listens to
her husband and fulfills her role as a good wife, but when her husband breaks his
promise to build her a nice house and instead decides to build himself a barn, she
revolts.  This demonstrates her potential for change.

When
her husband starts building the barn, Sarah finally confronts
him.

 I ain't
never complained, an' I ain't goin' to complain now, but I'm goin' to talk
plain. 

When that does not
work, she moves into the barn.  Even when the minister comes, she holds her ground.  She
does not back down, and demonstrates a new strength equal to men, showing her growth as
a dynamic character.

What do you like or dislike about "The Lady of Shallot?" Refer closely to the text in support of your answers.

"The Lady of Shallot" by Alfred Lord Tennyson, has the
three characteristics of a medieval romance: love, magic (the supernatural), and
chivalry. I very much enjoy the romantic mood of the story expressed in these
characteristics within the poem.

The Lady of Shallot has
had a spell cast over her (she knows not why or how) so that she can only view the world
through a mirror: to do otherwise would mean her death. Never can she look at life full
on, and in this way, she can only experience the world around her in a very superficial
fashion.

There seems no way to break the spell, and this is
very sad as she literally watches people pass her by her house each day going to
Camelot. This makes the poem tragic and beautiful at the same time, and in this way we
see the magic at work in the story. The imagery (especially the use of colors) brings
the story alive:

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And sometimes through the mirror
blue

The knights come riding two and
two:

She hath no loyal Knight and
true,

The Lady of
Shallot.

The Lady of Shallot
watches and falls in love with the romantic figure of Sir Lancelot, the handsome, good
and virtuous knight as he travels to and from King Arthur's
court.

"...he
rode between the barley sheaves...His broad clear brow in sunlight glowed... / From
underneath his helmet flowed / His coal-black curls as on he rode / As he rode down to
Camelot..."Tirra Lirra, " by the river / Sang Sir
Lancelot..."

Finally, when
she can take it no longer—as she sees his image flash in her mirror—she decides she
would rather look at the world in all its splendor, including Lancelot, and die, than
live imprisoned any longer.

She quickly leaves the room,
goes outside and sees the world for the first time without the mirror. I love the sense
of her freedom expressed here.

She paints her name on the
prow of a boat and lays down within; as the boat moves along, she dies—and the wooden
craft wends its way down to Camelot. All the people there are saddened by the sight of
the lovely lady within ("...And in the lighted palace near / Died the sound of royal
cheer..."); they are also afraid ("...and they crossed themselves for fear..."). When
Lancelot sees the dead woman in her boat, he notes how beautiful she is, and—just as a
true knight should—calls down a blessing from God for this unknown
woman:

"...She
has a lovely face; /

God in his mercy lend her
grace..."

The rhyme, the
vivid descriptions, the color, use of light and dark, and the elements of the medieval
romance are things I greatly enjoy about the poem.

Please paraphrase the poem "The Wife's Lament" as translated by Ann Stanford.Please when you finish explaining a stanza, tell me that you moved...

Before beginning a line-by-line summary of "The Wife's
Lament," it should be noted that it is very difficult to determine the exact
circumstances the wife in this poem is lamenting.  She has in some way, for some reason,
been separated from her husband and forced to live in some kind of "den in the
earth." 

Stanza 1:

I make this
song sadly.  I am a woman who will tell the griefs that I have had since I grew
up.

I am now in exile.  My husband went away over the
sea. Each day I grieved and wondered where he might be. 
 

My husband's family plotted to divide us as far from each
other as possible.  I suffer from longing from my man.

I
was commanded to move my residence to a land where I had few friends or family
members. 

My heart grieves that the man who was so
well-matched to me should now think of murder.  We used to vow that only death would do
us part, but now this has changed.

Stanza
2:

I now must bear the anger of my beloved, who has sent me
to live in an earthen den in the forest.  It is a joyless dwelling.   I have friends who
are lying in bed while I must walk alone at dawn.  

I will
never rest from my "care of heart."  I hope that my beloved is always
sad-minded.

Woe is to those people who must wait while
longing for their beloved.

O'Brien's face is described as "filled with a sort of exaltation.." Do those remarks in his explanation of reality seem irrational or insane?

O'Brien does seem insane and irrational to us. We are like
Winston, we have the capacity to think, and it seems O'Brien does too, but he is
choosing to believe in Big Brother.

O'Brien feels the need
to explain to Winston the reason for Winston being
there:

Shall
I tell you why we have brought you here? To cure you! To make you sane! Will you
understand, Winston, that no one whom we bring to this place ever leaves our hands
uncured? We are not interested in those stupid crimes that you have committed. The Party
is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about. We do not merely
destroy our enemies, we change
them.

Further on O'Brien
notes:

 I
enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you
happen to be insane.

These
two quotes prove something to me. Because I understand this book to be a dystopian novel
and because O'Brien calls Winston insane and himself sane, I believe O'Brien is
insane and irrational. Also, because his face
lights up at the opportunity to torture, that is irrational because no one should love
the opportunity to hurt another, that is not human.

Explain how the alliteration in the following passage creates cacophonous language.To Heorot came she, where helmeted Danesslept in the hall. Too...

Beowulf is a story-length epic poem
which utilizes the devices of poetry.  Your question assumes there is a significant use
of cacophony in the passage you've given.  Cacophony is harsh, unpleasant sounds;I would
make the case that there is no significant use of cacophony in this passage. 
Alliteration (the repetition of initial sounds) is clearly present; however, most of the
alliteration is euphonic (pleasant-sounding) and not
cacophonic.

Most of the alliteration (and actually
consonance, as well) involves the use of these letters:  d, h ,l ,m, n, f,
b, and s.  These are generally softer and more euphonic,
as evidenced in the following lines. 

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firm held in hand: nor helmet
minded
nor harness of mail, whom that horror seized.
Haste was hers;
she would hie afar
and save her life when the liegemen saw
her.
 

In contrast,
cacophony can be heard in the k or ch sounds,
as in the following three disconnected lines scattered throughout the
passage:

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crested, with keen blade carves
amain....

whom she killed on his couch, a clansman
famous,...

with his clansmen, came where the king
abode....

In a passage of
more than thirty-five lines, only a few of them are cacophonic, making this passage
significantly more pleasant-sounding than harsh-sounding. 

To Kill a Mockingbird character changes.I need to know three characters that change throughout the novel. I need to know what event(s) made them...

Nearly all of the characters in To Kill a
Mockingbird undergo some sort of change during the novel (except perhaps members of
the Ewell family). Boo Radley certainly underwent drastic mental and
emotional changes after he was arrested as a teenager. He seemed to be a normal kid before
falling in with the wrong crowd (apparently some of the Cunninghams). Miss Maudie
says

"He always spoke
nicely to me, no matter what folks said he
did."

Tom
Robinson's changes are even more obvious. A hard-working family man, he is falsely
accused of rape after trying to be a good Samaritan to Mayella Ewell. He is sent to jail, nearly
lynched, found guilty, and is then shot to death by prison guards. Atticus describes Tom's
dilemma during his summation.

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"And so a quiet, respectable, humble Negro who had the
unmitigated temerity to 'feel sorry' for a white woman has had to put his word against two white
people's."

Scout
probably undergoes more change than any other character in the novel. These are formulative years
for any child, but she witnesses many revelations during the story. She is immensely disappointed
with her schooling (and teachers); she falls in love with Dill; she discovers that Boo is not the
terrifying character he is made out to be; she witnesses racism and persecution in many ways; she
discovers the hidden talents and witnesses the strong will of her father; and she is nearly
killed by Bob Ewell. When she stands on Boo's porch at the end of the story, she
discovers

I had never
seen our neighborhood from this
angle.

It was a new perspective
recognized only after the many events that transpired over the past two
years.

Determining the equation of the quadratic function with the points (-1,4), (1, -2) and (2,1)?

We'll write the equation of the
parabola:

y = ax^2 + bx + c

Since the
parabola is passing through the points (-1,4), (1, -2) and (2,1), we'll
have:

f(-1) = 4

We'll substitute x by
-1 in the expression of quadratic:

a(-1)^2 + b(-1) + c =
4

a - b + c = 4 (1)

f(1) =
-2

We'll substitute x by 1 in the expression of
quadratic:

a(1)^2 + b(1) + c = -2

a + b
+ c = -2 (2)

f(2) = 1

We'll substitute
x by 2 in the expression of quadratic:

a(2)^2 + b(2) + c =
1

4a + 2b + c = 1 (3)

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

a - b + c + a + b + c = 4 -2

We'll
combine and eliminate like terms:

2a + 2c =
2

We'll divide by 2:

a + c = 1
(4)

We'll add (3) + 2*(1):

4a + 2b + c
+ 2a - 2b + 2c = 8 + 1

We'll combine and eliminate like
terms:

6a + 3c = 9

We'll divide by
3:

2a + c = 3 (5)

We'll subtract (4)
from (5):

2a + c - a - c = 3 - 1

We'll
combine and eliminate like terms:

a =
2

4 + c = 3

c = 3 -
4

c = -1

a
- b + c = 4

2 - b - 1 = 4

-b = 4 - 2 +
1

b =
-3

The quadratic equation
is:

y = 2x^2 - 3x -
1

Please help me with an outline for a 4-page essay on the Haiti earthquake.outline

This depends a great deal on what you want to talk about in your
essay. We do not know what you are supposed to be discussing or proving. If I were writing an
essay on anything I want that had to do with this earthquake, my outline would look something
like this:

• Size of the earthquake and where it was
  centered.


• The extent of the immediate
  damage.


• The state of the victims
  today.


• Why the damage was so bad compared to earthquakes in other
  countries.


• Why the victims are so bad off even a year
  after.

These would be the body paragraphs. I would, of
course, have an introduction and conclusion. My main thesis would be that the Haiti earthquake
caused more immediate damage and that the survivors are still in a bad situation because of the
terrible weakness of Haiti's government.

What is zero unemployment?

I have changed your question to read "zero unemployment"
because I have never heard of the term "zero employment" and because zero employment (no
one working in the whole economy) would really be impossible.  Zero unemployment, on the
other hand, is a term that is used in economics.

Zero
unemployment refers to a case in which the unemployment rate is zero.  Please do not
confuse this with a case in which every single person in the economy is working.  That
is not what unemployment means.

A person is unemployed if
he or she wants a job and cannot find one.  The person is
not unemployed if they do not want a job -- if they are
retired, for example, or if they stay home and take care of their
kids.

So zero unemployment occurs when there is no one in
an economy who wants a job and is unable to find one.

a summary of paradise lost book 1 (lines 1- 26?to get to know about these lines in a more critical way. thanks for your kind service.

Paradise Lost-Book 1 by Milton Line (1-26) are the
prologue, there are three more prologues in Paradise Lost - (Books III, VII and IX).
Milton follows the classical example of Epical poetry and invokes a
Muse.

A Muse was invoked by a classical poet to help him in
the task of writing his poem. Accordingly, Milton asks his Muse to lead him higher than
the Aonian mount of the classical poets, because the subject of his epic is higher than
theirs. The prologues in the Paradise Lost begin as classical invocations but, with one
exception, they rise to Christian prayers to the Holy
Spirit.

In first twenty-six lines, we are acquainted with
the theme of Paradise Lost, man's first disobedience; we learn that the materials are to
be taken chiefly from Genesis, that Milton is writing a classical epic but that he
intends, with the aid of the Heavenly Muse, to transcend the classical, and in a poem
both Hebrew and Christian, deal with the most profound of all problems, "to justify the
ways of God to men". In twenty-six lines, Milton has fused three great civilizations,
the main sources of Renaissance religious poetry: classical, Hebrew and
Christian.

Reference: Paradise Lost Book I
critical study by Ramjilal.

Name three faults that the DHC finds with Bernard’s behavior. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning's diatribe against
Bernard in Chapter 10 of Brave New World is reminiscent of the
pronouncements of the Soviet Union that was existant in Aldous Huxley's day. With Bernard's last
name as a reminder of the U.S.S.R.--Marx--the mention of Bernard's faults in this allusion is
especially effective. So, when Bernard enters and speaks a little too loudly, the Director begins
his list of offenses against Bernard:

1. He has betrayed the
   trust given to him as an Alpha Plus by his "heretical views on sport and soma."
   [The reader remembers that Bernard does not always take soma and he enjoys looking at
   nature instead of playing Obstacle Golf]


2. Bernard has a scandalous
   "unorthodoxy of his sexlife." [Rather than follow the "everyone belongs to everyone" belief,
   Bernard prefers to be with Lenina for extended periods.]


3. He has
   had lapses from the appropriate "infantile decorum." Bernard has not been infantile in his
   emotional behavior; he is supposed to have an imbecilic
   happiness.


4. Bernard is a subverter of all order and stability, "a
   conspirator against Society itself." [Bernard is too
   individualistic]

While Bernard respresents negative
traits, they are, at least, human traits that suggest human values in an increasingly inhuman
world. Thus, Bernard, flawed as he is, is an invaluable character in Huxley's
dysutopia.



Critically assess the merits and demerits of Audio_lingual Method of English language teaching?plz answer in detail

Audio lingual method of English language teaching was the first
method to be based on atheory of learning whose influence can be seen in avariety of drill based
techniques and exercises.

From the merits of audio lingual method
first, helping students to memorize new structures through many repition drills designated to
familliarize students with sounds and structional patterns of the English
language.

Second ,audio lingual method depend on the concept of
habit formation,of behaviorism .since learner needed to form good hapits lessons involved agreat
deal of repitition.

Third, teach the language,not about the
language.Get learners to develop their skills through drill and
practice.

Demirits of audio lingual method included being inadequte
of both learning process and the nature of language which depends more in comprehention and
active mental process rather than aprocess of hapit formation.

Also
the audio lingual method involved providing sts with components of the language ,in hopes that
they put them all together and speak .so sts might spend several semester repeating after the
teacher as aresult the students lack the most important skill which is the comunication
skill.

Why does Atticus start to get angry at the children after the fire in To Kill a Mockingbird? Chapter 8

There are several emotions that happen the night of the
fire, however, I do not think any of them could be described as "anger," especially not
from Atticus.

One unusual occurrence is that at the end of
the evening, Scout mysteriously has a blanket laid over her shoulders.  Atticus has a
moment of confusion as he tries to figure out how it got there.  He decides Boo Radley
must have done it.  There is a moment where fear flickers across Scout's face and Jem
seizes the opportunity to be a big brother and play into that
fear.

At this, Atticus says, "Don't let this inspire you to
further glory, Jeremy."  Likely, this is the closest Atticus comes to anger that night. 
But even this line isn't said out of anger.  I imagine Atticus speaks in that very
clear, authoritative voice that parents use when they want to speak the message, "This
subject is over and do not even think about carrying it on
further."  He uses Jem's full name, for one thing, and he is successful in ending the
subject.  Both the children knew that Atticus meant business with that
line.

Discuss the status of women in Pinjar by Amrita Pritam.

Pinjar is such an important novel precisely
because of how it conceives of the status of women. Pritam set out to construct a narrative of
Partition from the women's point of view. This meant that Puro becomes the symbol of what women
had to endure during Partition. In a very powerful way, Pritam argues that the violation of the
nation's women on both sides of Partition is akin to how Partition itself violated the nation.
That is to say that Pritam does not see much difference between the Partition's political
violation of the homeland and its consequences of actual violation of women. The status of women
in Pinjar is to symbolize how the nation's status was violated during
Partition. As Pritam recognized that Partition was used as a means to manipulate and consolidate
political power, she also understood that this was representative of women during the time
period. These women had no say in partition, confirming that their mistreatment was both
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is the women's cry in prose against her existential fate and social abuse." It is in this light
that Pritam's work displays the status of women as a result of political and social manipulation,
a situation that cries out and pleads for dramatic and swift change.

What is the significance of the phrase "with full intention" in describing the way Jack hurls his spear at Ralph?

I think the phrase "with full intention" means quite
directly that he was aiming to kill Ralph. Sometimes when people aim a weapon at another
human being, the idea of killing another is just too revolting to actually bring one's
full will to intentionally kill a peer human being. In this case, Jack was full of
animal instinct, he had a vengeful attitude, and he had let his adrenaline get the
better of him. Of course, after just having killed Piggy, Jack's rage is flowing through
his own body with great force. Noting that Ralph associated himself with Piggy and there
have essentially been two forces of boys against each other for a few chapters, this
intentional attempt at murder makes sense.

Earler in the
chapter, Roger throws a rock in between Samneric but aimed to miss. We can assume
Roger's intention was to scare these little boys. Thus, the author drew a contrast
between the different purposes for acting aggressively toward
peers.

What themes are reinforced by the presentation of the Murder of Gonzago?

There are several ideas embodied in the play-within-a-play that
occurs in Act 3 in Hamlet.  The first that comes to mind is guilt.
The "Murder of Gonzago" is designed to "catch the conscience of the king.   Upon viewing the
play, Claudius reveals his guilt in killing his brother.  Claudius' conscience is indeed pricked,
and he attempts to atone for his crime through prayer.  The second theme might be
revenge.  In the play that Hamlet authored, the nephew to the king
is the one who kills the Player-king, not his brother.  Within the play is Hamlet's threat to
kill Claudius.  The next idea is the acting motif.  Everyone in the
play is playing a part--Hamlet plays the part of an insane man; Ophelia stages the returning of
Hamlet's tokens, Claudius plays the part of a concerned step-father; Guildenstern and Rosencrantz
act the part of concerned friends while being on the king's payroll.  No one is who they seem to
be--with the possible exception of Horatio.  The play-within-a-play is an extension and
reflection of the acting that those in the Danish court are involved with.  Lastly, the
spying motif is suggested.  Hamlet is spying on Claudius to
determine his guilt as he is watching the play. This is only one of many instances of spying that
occur in the play.  This motif relates to the ideas of trust and
betrayal.

What does Charlotte Perkins-Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" say about the women and culture at the turn of the century as a feminist text?

The woman in "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a symbol of
oppression. Here we have a woman, obviously in serious need of psychological help,
perhaps suffering a massive case of Post Partum Depression, being taken care of by two
men: Her husband and her doctor. Not knowing neither men what she is really going
through, their answers to her problems are counterproductive: Instead of motivating her
with conversation and socialization, they decide to isolate her. Instead of tending to
her needs, they dismiss them as the tantrums of a
woman.

Basically, in her moment in time, she was literally
at the mercy of the man as the head of the household, and the doctor as a protector of
the family. She would be seen as a second class citizen whose pregnancy problems are now
"a problem". In their heads, though her problems are caused mainly because she is a
woman and women come with issues. However, when she finally snapped in the end and
pulled the yellow wallpaper apart, falling into madness, she was basically sending the
message of wanting to break free from a society of cruel
expectations.

How can I find the values of x that satisfy x^2 - 4x -12 > 0

To find the solutions for the equation x^2-4x+12 >
0.

We first factorise the left side  expression
x^2-4x-12.

x^2-4x+12 =
x^2-6x+2x-12

x^2-4x+12 = x(x-6)
+2(x-6)

x^2-4x+12 = (x-6)
(x+2).

Therefore  x^2-4x-12> 0 implies (x+2)(x-6) >
0.

Therefore both factors should be of the same
sign.

Therefore x+2 < 0 and x-6 < 0
,

Or (x+2)> 0 and (x-6) >
0.

This is possinble only when  x < -2   Or  x
> 6 , the x^2-4x-12 > 0.

Or x must be
in the interval (-infinity -2) Or in the interval (6  infinity).

Were the Mongols bent on world domination? Why or why not? please use these links to answer...

Neither of the links that you provide addresses this
question directly.  You are left to infer the answer from what is actually
said.

To me, the best evidence that comes from either of
these links comes from the one that I've attached below (the mongolia-attractions one). 
In that link, there is a long discussion of the mother of Kublai Khan.  She clearly
intended for her sons to rule large areas.  I do not know if this constitutes a desire
for "world domination" (it's a strange term to use anyway given that the Mongols clearly
could not have dominated the whole world even if they had wanted to), but it is clear
that she, at least, believed that the Mongols should rule large
areas.

She showed her ambitions by having her sons, for
example, learn languages other than their own.  She also taught them to try to get along
with and understand people of various religions.  Both of these things show that she
meant for her sons to rule large areas.

That is the only
answer I can see in either of the links you attached.

Determine the linear function determined by the points (1,2) and (3,5).

The linear function determined by the points (1,2) and
(3,5) is the line passing through these two points .

We
know that the line passing through (x1, y1) and (x2, y2)
is

y-y1 = {(y2-1)/(x2-x1)}
{x-x1).

So the line passing throggh (1,2) and (3,5)
is

y- 2 = {
(5-2)/(3-1)}(x-1).

y-2 =
(3/2)(x-1).

2(y-2) =
3(x-1).

2y-4 = 3x-3.

3x-2y
-3+4 = 0.

3x-2y +1 =
0.

Therefore, the linear function determind by the points
(1,2) and (3, 5) is 3x-2y +1 = 0.

Explain why Daisy changed her mind, and then married Tom anyway in The Great Gatsby, Chapter Four.

It is in this chapter that Jordan relates to Nick the past of
Daisy and Tom and Gatbsy, and how this love triangle apparently resolved itself with the marriage
of Tom and Daisy. However, Jordan remembers on the eve of Daisy's marriage finding Daisy drunk
and clutching a letter. It is then that she drunkenly slurs that the marriage is over. Although
we are not told, we can assume that the letter was from Gatsby. However, once she had been
sobered up, she carried on with the original plan and was married after
all:

But she didn't
say another word. We gate her spirits of ammonia and put ice on her forehead and hooked her back
into her dress, and half an hour later, when we walked out of the room, the pearls were around
her neck and the incident was over. Next day at five o'clock she married Tom Buchanan without so
much as a shiver, and started off on a three months' trip to the South
Seas.

So, presumably, we can infer
that having expressed her feelings and love for Gatsby with her drunkenness, she has managed to
"get it out of her system," and is able to carry on with the original plan, which was of course
to marry someone who was more her social equal than Gatsby.

What is the principle of an electroscope

The principle of an electroscope is based on the atomic
structure of elements, the internal structure of metal elements, charge induction, and the idea
that like charges repel and opposite charges attract.

All elements
are composed of electrons, protons, and neutrons - with the electrons surrounding the nucleus. In
metals these outer electrons are loosely held by the nuclei and are relatively free to move
within the material.

An electroscope has a metal detector knob on
top which is connected to a pair of metal leaves hanging from the bottom of the connecting
rod.

When no charge is present the metal leaves hang loosely
downward.

However, if an object with a charge is brought near the
electroscope, one of two things can happen.

If the charge is
positive, electrons in the metal of the electroscope are attracted to the charge and move upward
out of the leaves. This causes the leaves to have a temporary positive charge and because like
charges repel, the leaves separate. When the charge is removed, the electrons return to their
original positions and the leaves relax.

Likewise, if the charge is
negative, the electrons in the metal of the electroscope are repelled and move toward the leaves
on the bottom. This causes the leaves to have a temporary negative charge and because like
charges repel, the leaves again separate. Then when the charge is removed, the electrons return
to their original position and the leaves relax.

So an electroscope
reacts to the presence of a charge through the movement of electrons either into, or away from,
the leaves. In either case the leaves separate. But the electroscope cannot tell if the charged
object has a positive charge or a negative charge - it is only responding to the presence of an
electrical charge.

What will happen to the supply of soybeans if the demand for corn goes up?If demand for corn increases due to its use as an aalternative energy...

In this case, the supply of soybeans will go down.  Here
is how that works.

First, when the demand for corn
increases, farmers will want to grow more corn.  This will not increase the supply of
corn, but it will increase the quantity supplied because the equilibrium price and
quantity of corn will go up as the demand curve moves to the
right.

Second, the increase in the quantity supplied of
corn will decrease the supply of soybeans.  This is because, as you say, soybeans and
corn are substitutes -- farmers can plant one or the other.  If you are a farmer, and
you know the price of corn will be going up, you will plant more corn and fewer
soybeans.  In such a case, the supply of soybeans will go down because the demand for
corn went up.

For the poem "Bombed Last Night," what are the structures (for example, stanzas, verses, capitalization, etc.)?Bombed Last NightGassed last night...

The poem "Bombed Last Night" is actually a song from the
play "Oh! What a Lovely War!" by Charles Chilton.  Song lyrics are quite comparable to
poems, so the same rules and observations
generally apply.

Your question asks for commentary
regarding capitalization, stanzas, and verses.  In the literary world we call those
things the "conventions" of poetry (or really of any written work).  For example, the
conventions of writing a book title are to capitalize the first, last, and all important
words and then either underline it or put it in italics.  The conventions of writing
dialogue are to use quotation marks in certain ways.  The conventions of poetry are
somewhat dependent on the poem.

In this poem, "Gassed Last
Night," the conventions are quite, well, conventional.  Each line begins with a capital
letter, each line ends with a piece of punctuation, and each sentence ends with a
period. Stanzas two and four are the chorus (this is a song, but poems can have
choruses, as well).  Stanzas one and three are the two verses of the song/poem.  The
rhyme scheme is not particularly complex, as the verses are written in simple AABB
form.  There is not a particularly even metrical pattern for the poem, though as a song
it undoubtedly fits a musical rhythm. 

I've included the
site for the lyrics, below.  From my slight research, I think the poem is actually
entitled "Gassed Last Night"; however, I did not change your question to reflect that
because I'm not certain. 

Two numbers have a sum of 72. What is their product if it is a maximum?

The sum of the two numbers is
72.

 So we assume x is a number and 72-x is the other
number.

Their product  P(x) =
x(72-x).

We have to find the number x such that x(72-x) is
maximum.

We know by calculus that P(x) is maximum  for x=
c,  if P'(c) = 0 or {x(72-x}' = 0 and p"(c) <
0.

P'(c) = 0 gives : {x(72-x)}' = 0. Or {72x-x^2}' = 0, or
72-2x= 0, or 72=2x.  So c = x = 72/2 = 36.

P"(x) = (72-2x)'
= -2.  So P"(c) = -2 which is < 0.

Therefore, if x=
c = 36, then substituting into the function P(x):

 x(72-x)
--> 36(72-36) = 36^2 is maximum.

So the maximum
product numbers whose sum is 72  is 36^2 = 1296 .

In Chapter 1 of The Great Gatsby, how is Daisy presented?

It is clear that in the first chapter Daisy is presented
as a somewhat vain, fun-loving woman who is aware of her own charms. Note how Daisy and
Jordan are first described in this Chapter:

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The only completely stationary object in the room
was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored
balloon. They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if
they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the
house.

Clearly this shows
that Daisy is very aware of the effect of her appearance and the impact of artifice on
others, especially men. Note how she is also presented as something of a flirt, very
aware of how her mannerisms attract men to her:

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She laughed again, as if she said something very
witty, and held my hand for a moment, looking up into my face, promising that there was
no one in the world she so much wanted to see. That was a way she had. She hinted in a
murmur that the surname of the balancing girl was Baker. (I've heard it said that
Daisy's murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that
made it no less
charming.)

Daisy, then, in
her actions, is very flirtatious, having mastered the art of making men feel special and
drawing them in close to her through her
murmurs.

Therefore, from this first introduction to Daisy,
it is hard to ignore the fact that she is a woman who is very aware of her beauty and
also knows how to use her charms to lead men on - which of course sets the stage for the
rest of the novel.

Determine the value of cot15 and sin75.

We know that cotx =
cosx/sinx

==> cot 15 = cos 15 /
sin15

Let us
rewrite:

==> cot15 =
(cos(45-30)/sin(45-3)

We know
that:

cos(a-b) = cosa8cosb +
sina*sinb

==> cos(45-30) = cos45*cos30 +
sin45*sin30

                           = sqrt(2)/2 *
sqrt3/2 + sqrt2/2 * 1/2

                             =
sqrt6/4 + sqrt2/4

                               =
(sqrt6+sqrt2)/4

Also we know
that;

sin(a-b) = sina*cosb -
sinb*cosa

sin(45-30) = sin45*cos30 -
sin30*cos45

                   = sqrt2/2 * sqrt3/2 -
1/2*sqrt2/2

                   = sqrt6/4 -
sqrt2/4

                    =
(sqrt6-sqrt2)/4

Now we will subsitute
:

cot15 = (sqrt6+sqrt2)/4 /
(sqrt6-sqrt2)/4

           =
(sqrt6+sqrt2)/(sqrt6-sqrt2)

            = (sqrt6 +sqrt2)^2
/ (6-2)

               = 6 + 2sqrt12 + 2 )/
4

              = (8+
4sqrt3)/4

                = 2+
sqrt3

==> cot 15 = 2 +
sqrt3

sin75 = sin(90 -
15)

sin(a-b) =  sina*cosb -
sinb*cosa

sin(90-15) = sin90*cos15 -
sin15*cos90

                 = 1*cos15 -
sin15*0

                    =
cos15

==> sin75 = cos15 =
(sqrt6+sqrt2)/4

What is Antonia's response to the idea of raising her child by herself in My Antonia?

Antonia approaches the prospect of raising her child by
herself with an attitude of strength and determination. Mrs. Stevens says about
Antonia,

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"Antonia's got on fine. She'd loved (the baby)
from the first as dearly as if she'd had a ring on her finger, and was never ashamed of
it...no baby was ever better cared for" (Book IV, Chapter
3).

After the man who had
promised to marry Antonia impregnates her and abandons her, Antonia returns home in
disgrace. She accepts the consequences of her mistake with quiet steadiness, working
tirelessly on her family's farm each day like a man, and enduring the abuse of her
brother Ambrosch. She is "crushed," but maintains an unconquerable dignity, and when her
baby is born, she cares for it with love and tenderness, even though her brother wants
to drown it "out in the rain barrel." Antonia is "a natural-born mother," and tells Jim
that, here at home in her beloved countryside, she knows what she must do. Antonia is
going to cherish and care for her baby,
and

"...see that (her) little girl has a better
chance than (she, Antonia) ever had" (Book IV, Chapter
4).

How is evil depicted in the movie "Schindler's List"?

I think that evil is probably best represented through Goeth. 
The movie does an excellent job of being able to contrast the battle of wills between Schindler's
side of seeking to indulge himself, moving himself closer to where Goeth is, and embracing a life
of virtue, which will result in extreme personal sacrifice.  The evil that is shown in the film
is the result of self interest gone awry.  Goeth is motivated only by his own desire to be
supreme as well as advancement of his own sense of self.  His indulgences in this domain result
in evil being perpetrated.  We never get the impression from the film that Goeth is someone who
does what he does in the name of belief in Nazi ideology.  Rather, it is only through the
indulgence of self interest that Goeth engages in what he does and this is where evil resides.
The beatings he perpetrates, the cruelty he displays, and the manner in which he does these
things only reflect his own sense of individual self. The display of evil we see in the film is
one where individual desire is fed and nourished at the cost of social solidarity or social
understanding of larger and more collective notions of the good.

How is love presented in Shakespeare's Comedies?Discuss the various iterations of “love” that exist within these plays: Twelfth Night, Much Ado...

Your question required quite a bit of editing in order to
focus your query.  I have related this version of your question to the Comedies, of
which, Romeo and Juliet is not one.  Please re-frame your question
as it relates to Romeo and Juliet and resubmit for
answer.

Love in Shakespeare's Comedies follows a pretty
strict structural set of rules.  There are lovers introduced in the opening scenes of
the play who sometimes fall in love at first sight.  Sometimes, one character must
attempt to "win" the love of another character.  And sometimes, they are characters
engaged in a battle of the sexes, but who are in love beneath their barbed
words.

In Twelfth Night we have a
variety of these types of lovers:  Olivia and Viola both fall in love at first sight
--Olivia with Viola (who is disguised as Cesario), and Viola with Duke Orsino. 
Sebastian also enters this play and falls in love with Olivia at first sight.  There are
also lovers in this play attempting to win their beloved's affection.  Both Andrew
Aguecheek and the Duke are after Olivia's hand in marriage.  And there is also a bit of
the battle of the sexes going on between Sir Toby and
Maria.

In Much Ado About Nothing, Hero
and Claudio fall in love with each other at first sight, and Beatrice and Benedick are
engaged in a battle of the sexes that masks their true feelings for each other.  Both of
these pairs of lovers have their situations complicated by deceptive tricks that have a
huge impact upon their feelings.

The
Tempest, while not a traditional Comedy, does contain a very traditionally
comic pair of lovers -- Ferdinand and Miranda.  They fall in love at first sight, and
are the vehicle whereby their estranged fathers are reconciled to each other.  The
interesting addition in this play, is the onstage "magic," created by Prospero, that
visibly draws the two lovers together.

Each of the above
mentioned Comedies (and the pair of lovers in The Tempest) is
required to end in reconciliation and at least one marriage.  In Twelfth
Night, all the mistaken identities and mis-applied feelings of love are
sorted out, and the play ends with three marriages:  Viola and the Duke, Olivia and
Sebastian, and Sir Toby and Maria.  In Much Ado, the complications
are sorted out as well, and the play ends in the weddings of Hero and Claudio and
Beatrice and Benedick. And in The Tempest, the play also ends in
plans for the wedding of Miranda and Ferdinand.

For more on
love in Shakespeare's Comedies, please follow the links below.

In Frankenstein, how does society turn the creature into a monster?

In addition to Victor's ill treatment of the creature,
society does bear some of the blame for the creature's downfall. First, when the
creature escapes from Victor's apartment, the first humans he encounters chase him out
of town when they see him. This causes the creature to realize that
appearance is important and that his falls short of what society
expects.

Secondly, the creature learns much about society
and seemingly about human kindness through his observations of the De Lacey family and
his reading. Through them, he realizes again that appearance is important even to the
seemingly benevolent De Laceys when he is run off by Felix De Lacey. After burning down
the De Laceys' cottage, the creature ponders where to go. In Chapter 16, he explains to
Victor that society has so demoralized him that even though he knows that he can
physically go wherever he wants, he thinks,

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"but to me, hated and despised, every country
must be equally
horrible."

Finally, when the
creature kills little William, it is society's final rejection of him. He perceives
William's fear and negativity toward him as another part of society (even such a small
innocent part) discarding him. While he still chooses to approach Victor, by that point,
he simply wants a female monster who will not reject him, and he does not expect
Victor's acceptance.

What is the conclusion of the novel Hard Times?

At the end of this excellent novel, we are shown the
futures that the omniscient and god-like narrator assigns to each of the central
characters. There does seem to be a certain extent to which good characters are given
good endings and "bad" characters are given what they deserve. For example, Bounderby is
exposed as a big fraud and an imminent death, Mrs. Sparsit it sent away to an uncertain
and rather grim future with Lady Scadgers. Tom does escape being arrested but realises
the errors of his ways to late and dies pining for his sister. Sissy, as befitting her
morally good character, lives happily. The one exception is the fate of Stephen
Blackpool. Although it appears he welcomes death as an ending to what has been for him a
rather miserable life, he dies leaving Rachel to face the struggles of life alone
without him.

However, there are some characters who are not
classified into the narrow categories of "good" and "bad," and these characters offer
somewhat more interesting endings to be considered. Mr. Gradgrind for example is
ironically forced to rely on the circus, which he at the beginning of the novel deplored
as the place of fantasy and everything that opposed his fact-based philosophy, to save
his son. He is left at the end of the novel trying to help the poor but receiving scorn
from the very politicians he helped establish.

Louisa as
well is a very interesting example of a character whose fate we might wish to debate. We
are told that she has a very close relationship with Sissy's children and yet no family
of her own. On the one hand, she has her liberty and is not trapped by either Harthouse
or Bounderby, yet on the other hand her lonely existence could be regarded as slightly
unjust, and we are left questioning to what extent she was responsible for her own fate
and how much is her father to blame.

Can you give me a word or a group of letters that I can use for "Word Mine"... it is a game to warm up.I will use it for beginners.

Depending on the age level (not just ability) of the students
with whom you will use this activity, "Word Mine" is a great warm up to use in light of current
events, holidays, or other topics within or outside of your immediate lessons to reinforce
ideas.

If you are an elementary literature or language arts teacher,
this game is fun with words like "HALLOWEEN," "THANKSGIVING," or "CHRISTMAS" right around those
holidays.  You can always make a game of who can find the most words, longest words,
etc.

Other than such obvious examples, I've done this as a warm up
when substitute teaching with students' names in the class (they LOVE it) or the principal's name
(they love this even more) and characters names or places in the book the class is reading.  I
had one class of 5th graders that liked this game so much (the competitive part of finding the
most words was what kept them going) that they started supplying long words to put on the
board.

The possibilities are almost endless and I think you'll find
that your creativity will flow based on the response of your students.  Make it fun and slightly
competitive and they will enjoy it very much.

The link below gives
several ideas and includes how many words can be made out of each
example.

What special talent do people believe Silas has in Silas Marner?

According to the information presented to us on Chapter 1,
the village of Raveloe, being so barren and small (and in many ways narrow-minded) had
decided that the strange eyes of Silas Marner as well as his behavior (aloof, distant,
eccentric) meant that he had supernatural powers. One of these supernatural powers was
the power of curing people, especially of rheumatism. According the the common folk, it
was already now said for two generations that these powers had been attributed to Silas,
and that he had indeed cured people from fits, and many other things. However, he is
mostly thought to have the power of doing such things by staring at people with his eyes
and making it happen. We know, however, that Silas was a foreigner and small town people
always create these shadowy ideas about people whom they cannot relate to, and opt for
making suggestions that are more impossible than plausible. Hence, his reputation in
town was surrounded by mystery and enigma.

Write a cubic function that passes through the points. (-3, 0) (-1, 10) (0,0) (4, 0)Please explain your work, thank you! :)

The curve that describes the cubic function passes through
the given point, if and only if the coordinates of the points verify the expression of
the function.

We'll write the cubic
function:

f(x) = ax^3 + bx^2 + cx +
d

The point (-3, 0) belongs to the graph of cubic function
if and only if:

f(-3) =
0

f(-3) = a*(-3)^3 + b*(-3)^2 + c*(-3) +
d

f(-3) = -27a + 9b - 3c +
d

-27a + 9b - 3c + d = 0
(1)

The point  (-1, 10) belongs to the graph of cubic
function if and only if:

f(-1) =
10

f(-1) = a*(-1)^3 + b*(-1)^2 + c*(-1) +
d

f(-1) = -a + b - c + d

 -a +
b - c + d = 10 (2)

The point (0,0) belongs to the graph of
cubic function if and only if:

f(0) =
0

d = 0

The point (4, 0)
belongs to the graph of cubic function if and only if:

f(4)
= 0

a*(4)^3 + b*(4)^2 + 4c + d =
0

64a + 16b + 4c = 0 (3)

We'll
form the system from the equtaions (1),(2),(3):

-27a + 9b -
3c = 0

 -a + b - c  = 10

64a +
16b + 4c = 0

We'll multiply (2) by (-3) and we'll add to
(1):

3a - 3b + 3c - 27a + 9b - 3c =
30

We'll combine and eliminate like
terms:

-24a + 6b = 30

We'll
divide by 6:

-4a + b = 5
(4)

We'll multiply (2) by 4 and we'll add to
(3):

 -4a + 4b - 4c + 64a + 16b + 4c =
40

We'll combine and eliminate like
terms:

60a + 20b = 40

We'll
divide by 20:

3a + b = 2
(5)

We'll multiply (5) by (-1) and we'll add it to
(4):

-3a - b - 4a + b = 5 -
2

-7a = 3

a =
-3/7

We'll substitute a in
(5):

-9/7 + b = 2

b = 2 +
9/7

b =
23/7

We'll substitute a and b in
(2):

 -a + b - c  = 10

3/7 +
23/7 - c = 10

26/7 - c = 10

c
= 26/7 - 10

c =
-44/7

The cubic function
is:

f(x) = (-3/7)x^3 +
(23/7)x^2 - (44/7)x

Can anyone help me summarize Macbeth?

The play is about a great soldier Macbeth whose fate
is tempted by 3 witches.  He decides with the help of his wife to kill the king in order
to take over Scotland.  Once he kills, his paranoia only gets worse and he continues to
kill in order to stay in power.  His wife, as time goes on, only grows crazier because
of her guilt.  She was pretty insistent in the beginning because of her own greed, but
after taking part in the murder, she is no longer able to sleep and eventually takes her
own life.  Macbeth then becomes so over confident that he doesn't realize that Macduff
is the one who will kill him and end his reign.  After a battle, Macduff kills Macbeth
and the chaos subsides while Malcolm rightfully becomes king of
Scotland.

Find the integral of sin (7x +5).

We have to find the integral of sin (7x
+5)

We first substitute 7x +5 with y. Now differentiate y with
respect to x, we get dy = 7 dx. Substitute these in the given
expression.

Int [sin (7x +5)
dx]

=> Int [sin y * (1/7)
dy]

=> 1/7 Int [sin y
dy]

=> 1/7 (- cos y) +C

replace
y with the 7x +5 again

=> (1/7) [- cos (7x +5)] +
C

=> (-1/7) cos (7x +5)
+C

Therefore the indefinite integral of sin (7x +5) is
(-1/7) cos (7x +5) +C.

log 2 x - log 4 x = 2 find x

The equation `log_2 x - log_ 4 x = 2` has to be solved for
x.

First convert all the logarithm to a common base. As the
numbers here are 2 and powers to two we use the base 2. Use the following property
useful when changing the base of logarithms.

`(log_b x) =
(log_n x)/(log_n b)`

`log_2 x - log_ 4 x =
2`

`log_2 x - (log_2 x)/(log_2 4) =
2`

`log_2 x - (log_2 x)/(log_2 2^2) =
2`

use the property `log a^b = b*log
a`

`log_2 x - (log_2 x)/(2*log_2 2) =
2`

Now `log_b b = 1`

`log_2 x
- (log_2 x)/(2*1) = 2`

`(1/2)*log_2 x = 2`

`log_2 x = 4`

If `log_b x =
y` , `x = b^y`

`x = 4^2`

x =
16

The required solution is x = 16

Briefly tell about Shakespeare's marriage.

It is good that you would like the description of
Shakespeare's marriage to be brief, since very little is known about Shakespeare's life,
his marriage included.

He was married to Anne Hathaway at
the age of 18 when she was already pregnant.  This might suggest that he "had" to marry,
though the reason that he married at such a young age is not known.  In Shakespeare's
day, women often married very young, but men often waited until their work life and
income was more settled.

William and Anne had three
children, one of whom, Hamnet, died (of what, we do not know) at age 11, and there is
questioning about what role his death may have played in Shakespeare's creation of the
character Hamlet.

Shakespeare actually lived most of his
life away from his family in London -- writing, producing and acting in his plays.  When
he died, he famously left his "second best bed" to his wife, a wife that we know very
little about.

What is the central idea of "And of Clay We Are Created"?

This is such a great story - I really like the work of
Isabel Allende. She seems to be able to create worlds that sweep her readers away with
ease and characters that we can relate to. Like most stories, this story seems to have
many different and varying central ideas. Clearly one of the key topics of the story
concerns the relationship between Azucena and Rolf Carle, and the way in which this
experience enables Rolf to face certain memories of his past and childhood. If you are
interested, these are featured in Isabel Allende's novel, Eva Luna.
The traumatic experience of watching Azucena slowly die breaks down the barriers within
Rolf Carle:

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That night, imperceptibly, the unyielding
floodgates that had contained Rolf Carle's past for so many years began to open, and the
torrent of all that had lain hidden in the deepest and most secret layers of memory
poured out, leveling before it the obstacles that had blocked his consciousness for so
long.

The connection between
them and the intimacy which they are forced into means that Rolf recognises how his past
resembles Azucena's present:

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He was Azucena; he was buried in the clay mud;
his terror was not the distant emotion of an almost forgotten childhood, it was a claw
sunk in his throat.

As Rolf
says to Azucena after this night of revelation, he is not crying for Azucena, but for
himself, for he hurts all over.

The title seems to suggest
that for individuals like Rolf, tragedies such as that of Azucena confront us with our
own fragility - we are made of clay - a breakable, fragile substance, even though so
often we try to live our lives as if we are unbreakable and stronger. We finish reading
this story, therefore, wiser if not sadder about our own fragility. This, to me, is the
central idea that we are confronted with in this story.

Consider the actions of Sebastian with Feste, with Sir Andrew, and finally with Oilivia in Act IV, scene i of Twelfth Night. "Are all the...

From the moment that Sebastian enters the play in Act III,
scene iii, the audience has been waiting for just the comic misunderstandings that
happen in Act IV, scene i.  Sebastian and Viola are twins, and so it must be (a comic
rule) that Sebastian will be mistaken for Viola in moments of extremity -- Andrew having
intended to duel Viola (Cesario) to the death over Olivia, and Olivia head-over-heels in
love with Viola (Cesario).  So, in effect, not only are Sebastian and Viola twins, but
Viola is pretending to be a guy named Cesario.  Wheee!  Comic complications
galore!

Sebastian's first confusion involves Feste (or
simply Clown) at the top of scene i.  Feste is insisting that Sebastian is Cesario
(really Viola) and that Olivia has sent him to fetch Cesario and bring "him" to her. 
Obviously, Feste confuses Sebastian for Viola.  Sebastian treats Feste as if he is a
crazy person who has randomly accosted him on the street, and after trying to simply
tell him to get lost, he gives him money.  Sebastian
says:

I
prithee, foolish Greek, depart from me.

There's money for
thee: if you tarry longer,

I shall give thee worse
payment.

Apparently,
Sebastian, unlike his sister, is not afraid of a good
fight.

Which leads us to the next hapless character to
encounter him, Andrew.  The last we saw Andrew he matched Viola in cowardice and was
unable to follow through on his duel against her.  Now the audience will get the violent
payoff that they have been waiting for, as Sebastian vents his agitation against Feste
on Andrew.  Andrew touches off Sebastian's violent side by striking him and saying, "Now
sir, have I met you again?  There's for you!"  While we can well imagine that the
cowardly Andrew merely taps Sebastian, Sebastian responds by beating Andrew to a pulp,
adding, "Are all the people mad?"

Sir Toby must pull
Sebastian off of Andrew, and when Toby claims that he will bring Sebastian to the
authorities, Sebastian draws his sword on the lot of them (by this time he faces Feste,
Andrew, Toby and Fabian).  Toby, not to be outfaced, draws in
response.

At this moment Olivia enters.  She throws herself
in front of Sebastian, whom she must defend out of love, believing him to be Viola
(Cesario).  She chides Toby and shoos everyone, save Sebastian,
offstage.

Here the tone of the scene does a complete 180
degree turn.  Olivia woos Sebastian with her unconcealed affection, and he suddenly
finds himself falling in love at first sight with Olivia, apparently forgetting, at the
drop of a hat, all the early strife of the scene.  He follows Olivia off in a lovesick
swoon.  He says:

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What relish is this?  How runs the
stream?

Or I am mad, or else this is a
dream.

Let fancy still my sense in Lethe
steep,

If it be thus to dream, still let me
sleep!

And so, as eager as he
was to escape the mad dream in the opening of the scene, here he is more than happy to
sleep and dream, if it means that Olivia will be with him.

How does Lama Norbu describe re-incarnation to Dean in Bernardo Bertolucci's movie Little Buddha?

Lama Norbu explains the concenpt of re-incarnation with an
analogy with some tea in a cup. He says that in Tibet they think of the mind and the
body in terms of the contents and the container. While he says this the Lama is pouring
some tea in a white cup. As he finishes his sentence, he smashes the cup (framed in a
close-up by the camera) on the table. The Lama then comments that the cup is no longer a
cup but that the tea is always tea even though it's no longer in the cup but has spilled
on the table and on the floor. "It moves from one container to another but it's still
tea, like the mind . . . it moves from one body to the other but it is still
mind".

Why did Jonas misinterpret the Receiver's job of transmitting memories from the past?

I think that you are probably asking about the part in
Chapter 10 when Jonas first goes to start training for his new "job" as Receiver of
Memories.  If that's what you are asking about, the best answer I have is that Jonas
cannot (at that point) understand the idea that the Giver could carry the memories of
all these times past that Jonas doesn't even know about.

In
the community where Jonas lives, everything has been the same pretty much forever (as
far as anyone but the Receiver knows).  So Jonas doesn't think of the fact that there
could have been other times and other places when things were different.  If everything
has always been the same, what would be the point of having these memories -- they would
all just be the same as things are now (except for little personal memories, which is
what Jonas expects).

So the sameness that Jonas has grown
up in makes him think that the way things are here and now are how they have been always
and everywhere.  Therefore, he can't anticipate what kinds of memories the Giver really
has.

student election 584 students voted for 1 of 2 candidates. Winner received 122 more votes than loser how many votes were cast for each candidate

There are 584 students who will vote for two
candidates.

Then the total votes for both candidates is 584
vote.

Given that the winner candidate received 122 more votes than
the loser candidate.

Let the winner candidates recieves  x
votes.

Then, the loser candidate will receive  x -
122.

==> x + ( x-122) =
584

==> 2x - 122 =
584

==> 2x = 706

=> x =
706/2 = 353

Then the winner received 353
votes.

The loser recieved 353-122 = 231
votes

Why was the Austro-Hungarian government not really concerned whether Serbia itself was involved in Archduke Ferdinand's assassination?

The reason for this is that the government of Austria-Hungary
really wanted a war with Serbia. They did not really care what the truth was. Instead, they
wanted a way to force Serbia to go to war with them.

Austria-Hungary
wanted Serbia destroyed or seriously hurt for two major reasons. First, the presence of Serbia
was serving to inflame pan-Slavic nationalism among Austria-Hungary's Slavic subjects. Serbia was
helping to fan these flames and was even thinking about trying to take Bosnia (a Slavic region of
the empire) away from Austria-Hungary. Secondly, Austria-Hungary wanted more territory in the
Balkans and it specifically wanted to prevent Serbia from gaining a port on the Adriatic.
Austria-Hungary had become more and more worried about both of these issues in the wake of the
Second Balkan War.

For these reasons, Austria-Hungary was eager to
go to war with Serbia. That meant that they would not really care about the truth and would take
any reason they could find to start a war.

In "The Death of Ivan Ilyich," why did Ivan conclude his life ''was not the real thing''?

As Ivan Ilyich moves closer and closer towards his death, he
begins to realise more about his life and the way that he has lived it. His concluding
realisation, that his life was not "the real thing," is based on the way that he is treated by
his wife and family as death comes ever nearer, which exposes the vanity, and the falseness of
the upper-class. Note what the narrator tells us about the appearance of his wife after his last
communion and how this reveals the emptiness and the falsity of Ivan Ilyich's
life:

Her dress, her
figure, the expression of her face, the tone of her voice, all revealed the same thing. "This is
wrong it is not as it should be. All you have lived for and still live for is falsehood and
deception, hiding life and death from
you."

The emptiness of Ivan Ilyich's
life is of course contrasted with the simple acceptance of death by Gerasim, his peasant servant,
who manages to comfort Ivan Ilyich precisely because he is open in his recognition that death is
a part of life, contrasted with his family, who never mention it and do everything they can to
ignore the presence of death amongst them.

What does "Three Years She Grew In Sun And Shower" symbolize?I understand that it is about nature taking a girl's (Lucy) life after having waited...

I think that Wordsworth's "Three Years She Grew in Sun and
Shower" refers to a very young girl who has died. (I surmised she is a a three-year old,
based on the title, though another viewpoint is just as likely to be correct.) Nature
saw her and her beauty and decided to take her life and make her a part of things like
"earth and heaven." Perhaps this is so she would not grow old, but that her beauty would
live on in and make Nature more glorious.

As a Romantic
poet, I think common themes Wordsworth would have written about would have included
nature, enjoying life, the passing of youth, etc. Perhaps the symbolism represents how
short our life is on the planet, and how quickly we become a part of nature again after
death. In light of this, Wordsworth may be suggesting that we enjoy our time and live
fully in the moment.

How does one's viewpoint, or social viewpoint, affect they way history and events and can be recorded?

A person's (or a society's) own particular viewpoint cannot help
but affect the way that history and events are recorded.  People tend to record history in ways
that fit with what they want or need to think about themselves and the
world.

As an example of this, history textbooks from decades ago
tended to portray Native Americans as savages who were in the way of progress.  This was because
Americans wanted to portray themselves as the bringers of civilization.  Nowadays, textbooks tend
to emphasize Native Americans as more of noble people who lived in harmony with their
environment.  This is because the people who write most texts are people who feel that Americans
need to be more protective of the environment.

In this way, the
point of view of the person or society that records the history has a great deal to do with how
that history is recorded.

What is the predominant emotion/mood in "Sonnet 130"?

When we think of the word mood, we associate it with the emotion
produced in a literary text through the choice of words and content. Of course, a mood can change
as a text progresses and so often there may be two or more moods in a given text of literature.
When we think about this excellent sonnet, therefore, it is clear that the mood of the first
fourteen lines is mocking and humorous, as Shakespeare deliberately plays with the conventions of
sonnets and presents his beloved in a less than attractive light with such descriptions as
follows:

And in some
perfumes is there more delight

Than in the breath that from my
mistress reeks...

This is hardly what
Shakespeare's readers would have expected from a love sonnet, and so the mocking tone is
established. However, it is in the rhyming couplet that closes the poem where there is a distinct
shift in mood. The last two lines almost have a defiance and seriousness about them that are in
sharp contrast to the rest of the poem:

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And yet, by Heaven, I think my love as
rare

As any she belied with false
compare.

These two lines affirm the
love that the speaker has for his mistress and also underlines his dislike of exaggerated
conceits. Thus there are two tones in this poem: a mocking tone in the first fourteen lines,
which is replaced by a serious tone in the rhyming couplet that ends the
sonnet.

In "Rip Van Winkle", How has the author used fiqures of speech(personification) to drive the themes of the story?Please explain, using quotations.

In Washington Irving's legendary "Rip van Winkle,"
descriptions of nature are enlived by the author's use of figurative
language:

PERSONIFICATION

As
Rip van Winkle sits in the shade on long lazy summer days, he and the other men talk
listlessly as the "placid clouds" pass
overhead.

When van Winkle decides to pursue his favorite
sport of squirrel shooting, he and his dog Wolf venture up the
"fairy mountains"; however van Winkle becomes exhausted and
lies down on a knoll that "crowned the brow" of a
precipice.  Rip can see at a distance the "lordly Hudson," 
moving with its

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majestic course,
with the reflection of a purple coud, or the sail of a
lagging bark here and there
sleeping on its glassy bosom, and at last losing itself in
the blue highlands.

This
personification elevates nature to a superior importance, one much in keeping with
Irving's Romantic style.  For, the romanticizing of the Kaatskill Mountains and the
"fairy" atmosphere of the little men playing at ninepins in their jekins with long
knives alludes to Henry Hudson and his crew members underscores Irving's motif of the
beauty and joy to be found in nature, which is also home to memory.  Clearly,
Irving's nostalgia for the more romantic world of the prerevolutionary times is
communicated to readers with the author's figurative language and light-hearted humor. 
For, once van Winkle awakens, he is "sorely perplexed" as he is confronted with the
harsh realities of new flags and poles and the "bustling disputatious" tone of the new
inn.  

f(x) = 3x^3 + 5x + lnx find f'(1)

We'll apply delta method to determine the instantaneous
rate of change of y with respect to x.

dy/dx = lim [f(x +
delta x) - f(x)]/delta x, delta x->0

We also can
write:

dy/dx = lim [f(x + h) - f(x)]/h,
h->0

f(x+h) = 3(x+h)^3 + 5(x+h) +
ln(x+h)  

We'll raise to cube x +
h:

f(x+h) = 3x^3 + 9x^2h + 9xh^2 + 3h^3 + 5x + 5h +
ln(x+h)  

lim [f(x + h) - f(x)]/h = lim [3x^3 + 9x^2h +
9xh^2 + 3h^3 + 5x + 5h + ln(x+h) - 3(x)^3 - 5(x) -
ln(x)]/h 

We'll eliminate like
terms:

lim [3x^3 + 9x^2h + 9xh^2 + 3h^3 + 5x + 5h + ln(x+h)
- 3(x)^3 - 5(x) - ln(x)]/h = lim [9x^2h + 9xh^2 + 3h^3 + 5h +
ln(x+h)/(x)]/h 

lim [f(x) - f(1)]/(x-1) = lim (3x^3 + 5x +
lnx - 8 - ln 1)/(x-1)

lim (3x^3 + 5x + lnx - 8)/(x-1) =
(8-8)/(1-1) = 0/0

We'll apply L'Hospital
rule:

lim (3x^3 + 5x + lnx - 8)/(x-1) = lim (3x^3 + 5x +
lnx - 8)'/(x-1)'

lim (3x^3 + 5x + lnx - 8)'/(x-1)' = lim
(9x^2 + 5 + 1/x)

We'll substitute x by
1:

lim (9x^2 + 5 + 1/x) = 9+5+1 =
15

But f'(1) = lim [f(x) - f(1)]/(x-1) =
15

What is the significance of this quote from The Crucible?"If Jacobs hangs for a witch he forfeit up his property- that's the law! And there is...

This quote is crucial to understand a very possible motivation
behind the accusations for the witch trials. Giles Corey says this, and then
says,

"This man is
killing his neighbors for their
land!"

Here's the situation. Giles has
figured out that Putnam's daughter Ruth is the one who encouraged the conjuring of spirits by the
girls that original night. Ruth was only doing so because she was told to by her mother because
Tituba could maybe speak to the dead babies that Ann Putnam bore. After the girls corroborated on
their lie and started accusing people, it is safe to assume that Ruth is still under the finger
of her parents who could be giving her names of people to accuse that would benefit the Putnams
and their land aspirations if those people were dead. Giles has put the final details together
that George Jacobs land would be only able to be purchased after his death by one man in the
town: Thomas Putnam. This quote's possible motivation for the entire tragedy of Salem is one on
which the storyline hinges.

Good luck on your
homework.

Discuss the development of the main character (Amir) in The Kite Runner. Pay attention to the particular events that contribute to this.

Amir goes through quite a bit of change in the span of his
life that the novel covers; however, he lives the majority of this life as a coward. 
Only towards the end of the novel does he truly redeem himself by finding the
self-confidence he so adamantly believed he could never
attain.

We see Amir in the beginning of the story as a
scared boy who runs from conflict and cannot seem to live up to the expectations of his
more powerful father - "Baba", his father, even states, "There is something missing in
that boy."  Further, Amir tries to avoid Assef and his friends and does not help his
"friend" Hassan in his time of need when he is attacked - he even goes as far as framing
Hassan after the event in a pathetic attempt to rid himself of his own guilt.  Later in
the story as Baba is dying, Amir fears being alone rather than being concerned for his
father's welfare.

As the story progresses, however, Amir is
forced to face his darkest fears and emerges as a stronger, more confident adult.  One
way this is developed is when he must return to his beloved homeland and sees what it
has become.  Also, he eventually encounters Assef as he searches for Sohrab: this fight
with Assef somehow helps Amir overcome some of the guilt of his past
choices.

Now that Amir has gained some confidence in
himself, he is able to stand up to others, such as General Taheri.  Amir also
understands the value of friendship and unconditional love, becoming more of a selfless
individual at the end of the novel.

Analyze the figurative language.

This is perhaps Hughes’s best-known poem, principally
because of the memorable third line, which was used by Lorraine Hansberry for her play A
Raisin in the Sun in 1959. The similes in lines 3, 4, 6, 8, and 10 all refer to things
spoiling and rotting, with those in lines 4 and 6 being particularly bitter and ironic.
The last comparison (line 11) suggests how deferring a dream is like nurturing the fuse
of a powerful explosive. The shift to the metaphor in line 11 involves a change from
similarity to actuality. The idea is that the suppression of African-Americans is
creating not an impression of explosive hostility, but is creating real explosive
hostility.

Define the philosophy of phenonenology.

Phenomenology is the study of how we perceive the world;
thus, how we perceive the phenomena in the world. If each of us perceives the world a
bit differently, since we are all subjective, the goal of phenomenology is to understand
the structure and processes of consciousness in order to make more objective,
generalized theories of how we all perceive the
world.

Phenomenology supposes that consciousness has
intentionality or “aboutness.” This means that consciousness is about something. So, if
consciousness is about a tree, the tree is the intentional object and the tree is
constituted (which is the phenomenologist’s way of saying we perceive) via different
methods: perception, memory. Phenomenology is the study of how we experience the world,
so it is not about things, but about how we apprehend
things.

The first main figure in phenomenology is Husserl,
who claimed that consciousness is not in the mind, but it is about the object. So,
consciousness is a kind of reaching out to experience things. Rather than conscious
experience occurring only in the mind, the phenomenologist believes conscious experience
occurs between the mind and the world; an
INTERACTION.

Think of conscious experience
as an arrow directed outwardly from yourself. Things you experience are your intentional
objects. You recognize other subjects (people) as objects and subjects who, like you,
are perceiver. Phenomenologists call this
empathy.

Likewise, you recognize your own body as a
subject, your ‘self” as well as an object. If you touch your right hand with your left,
your are touching an object and being touched by a subject.

In A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, why is Hank happy that Merlin keeps working to cure the well in the Valley of Holiness?

The answer to this question comes in Chapter 22, entitled "The
Holy Fountain." In this chapter the Abbot begs Hank to help fix the fountain, but when he hears
that Merlin is already working on this problem, Hank refuses to help because, as he
says:

"It will not
answer to mix methods, Father; neither would it be professional courtesy. Two of a trade must not
underbid each other. We might as well cut rates and be done with it; it would arrive at that in
the end. Merlin has the contract; no other magician can touch it till he throws it
up."

Thus, because Merlin already has
"the contract" to repair the fountain, Hank is happy to let him do the job as part of his
"professional courtesy." Note here how we have yet another exmaple of Hank's 20th Century
American views being imposed on Arthurian England. The Abbot is at first disconcerted by Hank's
refusal to help until he realises that he can "persuade" Merlin to stop working on the fountain
and thus Hank can be engaged to work on it by himself, much to the chagrin of
Hank.

In the year 1800, what shared beliefs and experiences between the Federalists and Republicans allowed the Republicans to keep the nation together?

In the year 1800, you might have thought the US would become
divided between the Federalists and the Republicans.  This was, after all, the time of the Alien
and Sedition Act by which the Federalists tried to prevent the Republicans from exercising their
right to political speech.  However, I would argue that a shared belief in representative
government and the shared experience of the Revolution helped keep the nation
together.

You have to remember that, at this point, many of the
political leaders in the US (in both parties) had worked together to create the Declaration of
Independence and/or the Constitution.  They had been together during the struggle for
Independence.  This meant that they shared a common dedication to the ideas embodied in the
Constitution.  It also meant that they had been comrades during a very trying time.  Both of
these things evidently meant enough to the two sides to keep them from really splitting into
sides that were openly "at war" with one another.

How does the Revolution affect the individuals of Animal Farm both the leaders and followers?

On one level, the revolution causes great change.  The
humans are no longer in power on the farm.  The animals are able to carry out Old
Major's dream of a social and political order where animalism is present.  To a great
extent, this is something that impacts and influences all forms of life and all aspects
of consciousness on the farm.  Yet, the flip side to this equation is that while the
animals are able to possess political control, there is little real change.  Animals
have replaced humans, and this is something that Orwell brings out to a great extent. 
The abuse of political power and desire to consolidate control over the animals are
realities that still affect those in the position of power, regardless of animal or
human.  One of Orwell's critical points being made is that there is an intrinsic
condition to political power in the modern setting that is predicated upon control. 
This is something that has to be checked and scrutinized at every turn and Orwell brings
this out in his depiction of how the revolution affected both the leaders and followers
of life on the farm.

In Falling Man by Don DeLillo, what does Martin think about terrorism?

Falling Man by Don DeLillo is a story
of living through and then coping with the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the
towers in New York on September 11, 2001. The two main characters are Keith, who was in
one of the towers and survived, and his wife Lianne. Connected to Lianne are her mother
Nina and her mother's long-time lover Martin.

Martin is a
German art dealer with a somewhat secretive past, but here is what we know: his real
name is Ernst Hechinger and he was once part of a terrorist movement in Germany. Though
he was not one of the nineteen members of the group who were wanted for bombings, bank
robberies, and murder, it is likely he was ancillary to them, perhaps part of a sleeper
cell which supported their activities.

This history shapes
Martin's view of the Islamic terrorists, and it is not surprising that he is sympathetic
to their cause. Though he probably does not condone their acts, he does understand their
frustration, their desire to make a statement, and their view of Americans as careless,
hedonistic people. He tells Nina in an argument that these men kill and then people
actually try to understand them, may even get to know their names, but they had to kill
to get their attention. Martin also talks about their commitment to their god as being
equal to anyone else's commitment to theirs.

Not too long
after the incident, Martin and Nina separate after twenty years and travels across many
continents. It was Martin's sympathy toward the terrorists which was responsible for
ending the relationship.

Find the absolute values for z is 3z -i = 2-4i

1) 3z -i = 2 -4i

    4i -i =
2-3z

    3i    = 2-3z

    3i + 3z =
2

    3( i+ z) = 2

        i + z =
2/3

            z = 2/3 -i

2)  3z
-i

    = -3z + i (change the sign)

    
= -3 (z+ i)

    = -3 (2/3) (substitute the value of (i +
z )

    = -2

 3) 3z -i = 2- 4i(
substitute the value above for (3z -i)

          -2 = 2-
4i

            4i= 2+ 2

             i
= 1

4)  3z - 1 = 2 - 4(1)

     3z  -1 =
-2

           3z = -2 +1

             z
= - 1/3 * ( u can check back the answer by substituting z value and i value in the formula
)   The easiest way i know

Write the point slope form of an equation of the line that passes through the given point and has a given slope. (1;3), m=-2 (-6;3), m=-2/3

There are two basic forms of an equation of the line, the
point-slope and the standard form.
(the standard is sometimes also called the
slope-intercept
form). 

Standard:

y
= mx+n (1)

where m - the slope of the line and n - the
y-intercept (the value of y when
x=0)

Point-Slope:

(y-y1)
= m(x-x1) (2)

where m is the slope  and (x1,y1) is the
given point.

We'll substitute the first pair slope-given
point in (2):

Point slope: y - 3 = -2(x -
1)

We'll remove the
brackets:

y - 3 = -2x +
2

We'll put the equation in the standard form by adding 3
both sides:

y = -2x + 2 +
3

Standard: y = -2x +
5

We'll do the same thing with the next
given pair: (-6;3),
m=-2/3.

Point-Slope:
y - 3 = (-2/3)(x + 6)

We'll remove the
brackets:

 y - 3 = -2x/3 -
4

We'll add 3 both sides:

y =
-2x/3 - 4 + 3

y = -2x/3 -
1

Standard:
y = -2x/3 - 1