Why is the western toad darker on the top and lighter on the bottom?

Bufo boreas, or the western toad has
an interesting color pattern. The toads have a dorsal stripe running along their back
which is white or cream. Their upper body has green or gray coloration with dark
blotches and warty skin. The underside or ventral surface is light in coloration. The
difference in the upper and lower surface are adaptations for survival. Toads can
venture on land and therefore, must be able to blend in to avoid predation. However,
when it is time to mate, as in all Amphibians, they must return to the water. If toads
are near the surface of a pond, any organisms below them looking up will not easily see
them due to their light colored underbelly, when the sun is above the pond as well.
Therefore, they are camoflauged and thus protected above and below from
predators.

df/dt = bf × (af – 1), with initial condition f(0) = 1, solve equation for f(t)

df/dt = bf*(af-1).  the initial condition isf(o) =
1.

To solve the differential equation  we rewrite the
equation as:

We rewrite the given equation as
below:

dt = df/bf(af-1).

dt =
df{ 1/2b(af-1) -1/2abf}.

Now we integrate
.

t  = (1/2b){ln(af-1)}/a - (1/2ab)lnf + a constant of
integration.

t = (1/2ab){ln(af-1)/f} +
C

Therefore ln{(af-1)/f} =
2ab(t-C).

Taking antilogarithms, we
get:

(af-1)/f = e^2ab(t-C).

af
-1 = f*e^2ab(t-C)

af - fe^2ab(t-c) =
1

f [a-e^2ab(t-c)] = 1

f =
1/[a-e^2ab(t-C)]......(1)

Now we determine C using the
given initial condition f(0) = 1.

f(0) = 1 implies 
1/[a-e^2ab(0-C)] = 1

1/[a-e^2abC] =
1

1 = a-e^2abC

e^2abC =
a-1

Taking logarithms, we
get:

2abC = ln(a-1)

C =
(1/2ab)ln(a-1).

Therefore from (1) we get: f = f(t) =
1/[a-e^2ab(t- (1/2ab)ln(a-1)]

f(t) = 1/[a-
(e^2abt)/(a-1)^(1/2ab)].

f(t) =
{(a-1)^(1/2ab)}/{(a-1)^(1/2ab) - e^(2abt)}.

What are are some quotes that support the theme of racism (or racist quotes)?

There are too many examples of racism and "racist" quotes
in the book to count.  I will try to give you a few broad examples that will allow you
to choose specific quotes.

Considering the historical time
the book takes place as compared to our world today, there are several quotes that could
be considered (by to today's standards) "racist" quotes.  The use of the n-word is
prevalent throughout the book and this word holds an immediate "racist" and demeaning
connotoation.  Though it was certainly more commonly used in the 1930s than it is now,
even then it was considered offensive.  If you were to skim through a couple chapters of
the book you will undoubtedly run into several examples of its
use.

If you wanted to show the difference between racism
then and now, you could find examples of the use of the word "negro" as a lable for
black people.  Today, this word is not as offensive as the n-word, but it does hold a
negative and certainly a demeaning connotation.  At the time the book was set, however,
it was acceptable.

Finally, if you re-read through the
trial scenes (Chapters 16-20) you will notice the very racist attitude of Bob Ewell and
of course, how it has affected his daughter Mayella.  Also look at the way Mr. Gilmer
(the prosecuting attorney) cross examines Tom Robinson.  He calls him "boy" and treats
him in a manner that could be perceived as racist.

What opportunity did the "Hunterdon Rising" and the subsequent Hessian troop movements create for the Americans? How did Washington take advantage?

The Hunterdon Militia, as it was sometimes called, was a
very decentralized militia in New Jersey, consisting of small bands of volunteer rebels
working outside of Washington's army, in groups as small as three up to whole units of
two hundred or more.

They relied on guerrilla tactics,
attacking Hessian and British patrols only when they were sure they could win, hiding
weapons in easy to reach places and collecting and using them only when an easy target
presented itself.

While these units didn't make a huge
tactical difference in the battles for New Jersey, what they did do was tie down fairly
large numbers of Hessian troops.  Colonel Rall, the Hessian commander, often had to send
50 or 100 soldiers simply to escort a dispatch outside the cities of Trenton or
Princeton, and patrols a short distance outside of town were vulnerable to sniping and
ambushes.  These troops were then not available for the defense of Trenton, while
Washington's army could have relative freedom of movement, and the Hessian/British
intelligence on his whereabouts was limited.

This made it
much easier for Washington to take the initiative and achieve military surprise, the key
to almost all of his New Jersey victories.

Abraham Lincoln promised not to disturb slavery in the South if he got elected. Why did they secede anyway?

The South not only did not trust Lincoln, they hated him. 
Real hatred.  He was not new to the political scene, having been a vocal free soiler in
the House of Representatives.  While he was pragmatic about abolition, and had other
priorities in the short term, the election of 1860 was a litmus test for the country on
slavery and states rights.

Remember, it was impossible for
people to vote for Lincoln in ten southern states, because his name didn't even appear
on the ballot.  When he was elected anyway, southerners pointed to the results as final
proof that the North could dominate the South, and would eventually get rid of slavery
altogether, if not now, then soon.  From their perspective, how could they remain part
of a union where one segment of the country could dictate a way of life to the
other?

Their fears had been building for decades, and
Lincoln's ascendancy to the Presidency was just the last straw for
them.

In chapter twenty-eight of To Kill a Mockingbird discuss the attack and the events that follow.

The attack occurs after the pageant. It is extremely dark
outside and the kids feel a little scared but think may be it is Cecil Jacobs who is
trying to scare them. They feel as if they are being followed. Once under the coolness
of the Radleys tree they can tell they are being followed. Then, because it is so dark,
we have to rely on Scout's senses to tell us what happens. She feels her costume
crunched on her, and then something frees her and she hears Jem's arm crunch. Then more
of a scuffle ensues. Something defeats the attacker and she believes it is Jem. However,
she sees a man later carrying Jem's body to the house, and finds an unconscious man who
smells like whiskey under the tree. We learn that this man was Bob Ewell from Heck Tate
at the end of the chapter and that there was a kitchen knife sticking up under his ribs.
Boo Radley carried Jem to the safety of the Finches home.

In Susan Glaspell's one-act play, Trifles, what are the significant untold dramatic questions?A dramatic question is the question embedded in a...

Well, the biggest question that the play begins with and
is subsequently answered by Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, is what precisely happened to
John Wright and who killed him. It is clear that the play begins with something of a
mystery. Hale begins by narrating to the County Attorney and to the rest of the
characters what happened when he came to the house and how he saw Minnie Wright sitting
on the chair, looking "queer". She then tells Hale that Mr. Wright had
died:

"He
died of a rope around his neck," says she, and just went on pleatin' at her apron. Well,
I went out and called Harry. I thought I might - need help. We went upstairs, and there
he was - lying' -

Mrs. Wright
then tells Hale the somewhat suspicious story that she did not know who killed her
husband, and that she slept through the murder. The rest of the play presents the male
characters' bumbling attempts to find out what happened, whilst the women, disparagingly
dismissed by the menfolk, piece together the motive with ease and prove who the murderer
was - only to hide the truth.

Compare and contrast the three characters of A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.

This is in respect to the ways the three characters deal
with uncertainty and what they have to live for.

The old
man drinks his sorrows away to forget the void in his life: the “nada.” He has already
attempted suicide. He has faced despair and has decided to escape life or carefully
drink away his loss in the comfort of the lighted café. The café is his crutch for
dealing with his loneliness.

The older waiter understands
the old man’s need for the café. And the old waiter accepts the nothing in his own life
and says he has nothing except his work. His work is to be with people and provide a
clean well-lighted place. The older waiter gets comfort in the solidarity of suffering.
Hence, his final line that “many must have” insomnia. He finds comfort in that he is,
like the old man, not alone in suffering; not alone in facing the voids (nothings and
nadas) in life. He is able to appreciate the light but unafraid to face emptiness and
loneliness.

The younger waiter doesn’t get that the light
is a beacon in the nothingness (night). The younger waiter is oblivious to concerns that
are not his own. The old waiter jokes that the younger waiter wants to get home to make
sure his wife is being faithful. The younger waiter’s confidence takes a hit here. The
old waiter says to him, “you have youth, confidence and a job.” Someday, he won’t have
youth; his confidence is shaken, so the young waiter, although he still doesn’t get it,
is (or will be) more like the old man than he thinks.

I
think the old man and the young waiter represent opposite poles; the former is in
despair, living in the past, drinking to forget what he presently does not have. The
latter is just concerned with what he has in the present and, unlike the old man and
older waiter, he has not yet experienced loss which is why he cannot commiserate and
empathize with the old man as the old waiter does.

In comparing accounting net income and operating cash flowname two items you typically find in net income that are not found in operating cash...

The two missing elements are interest and taxes!  Listen
to this:

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Since it adjusts for liabilities, receivables,
and depreciation, operating cash flow is a more accurate measure of how much cash a
company has generated (or used) than traditional measures of profitability such as net
income or EBIT.  Earnings before interest, taxes,
depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) is the best gauge to
evaluatiing a company's profitability based on net working
capital.

 If you want a few
more definitions, here they are:

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Interest:   a fee
paid on borrowed assets.  It is the price paid for the use of borrowed money, or, money
earned by deposited
funds.

Tax:  a pecuniary
burden laid upon individuals or property owners to support the government, or, a payment
exacted by legislative
authority.

Depreciation:  a
decline in the value of assets, and allocation of the cost of assets to the periods in
which they are
used.

Amortization:  the
process of decreasing, or accounting for, an amount over a period of
time.

An additional link is
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amortization">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amortization.

I
hope this information is helpful!

In the novel Great Expectations, how are Pip and Magwitch similar?Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

In Charles Dickens's classic novel of maturation,
Great Expectations, the characters of Pip and Magwitch are
certainly memorable.  While they appear to share few, if any, similarities, there are
yet some:

1. Both Pip and Magwitch are orphans
   although Pip has his sister and Joe Gargery to raise him, while Magwitch grows up as a
   "gamin." 


2. Both Pip and Magwitch are exploited by a
   wealthy person.  Miss Havisham has Pip come and play while she allows Estella to
   practice her cruelty upon Pip.  Similarly poor Magwitch is exploited by Compeyson who
   uses Magwitch as his "tool," having  Magwitch pass forged notes and
   swindle.


3. Both Pip and Magwitch have evil men pursuing
   them:  Pip has Orlick who seeks harm to Pip, while Magwitch is pursued by Compeyson, who
   learns that he is in London.


4. Both Pip and Magwitch have
   hopeless loves.  While Pip longs for Estella, she has no heart, and while Magwitch loves
   his little girl, he loses her because of the anger of the
   mother.


5. Both Pip and Magwitch seek better lives than the
   ones they hope to have left behind.  Pip, of course, wishes to become a gentleman;
   Magwitch wishes to behold Pip as a gentleman.


6. Both Pip
   and Magwitch pursue false goals.  Pip wants to gain wealth so that he can become a
   gentleman, but he learns that to truly be a gentleman, one must have a gentle heart,
   such as that dwells in Joe Gargery.  Likewise, Magwitch seeks to feel some fulfillment
   in his having made Pip into a wealth "gentleman."


7. Both
   Pip and Magwitch experience the love of a friend after traumatic and devastating
   circumstances.  As he recovers from the burns of the fire which ignites Miss Havisham's
   wedding dress, Pip experiences the never diminishing love of Joe Gargery.  Likewise,
   Magwitch is the recipient of tender car and devotion by Pip who remains with him until
   he dies, tending his wounds and broken old
   heart.

How does the novel relate to Robert Burns poem "To a Mouse?"

The Robert Burns poem "To a Mouse" contains a stanza which was
the reason behind the title of the story "Of Mice and Men".

The best
laid schemes o' mice an' men
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief
an' pain,
For promis'd joy

In regular English it would
read:

The best laid schemes of mice and men
Go often
askew,
And leaves us nothing but grief and pain,
For promised
joy!

The relationship is precisely that George and Lennie had "best laid plans"
together. They dreamt of running their own farm, and to be left alone. They wished to get out of
being miserable and invisible to the world. They did not plan to hurt anyone in the process, if
anything, all they wanted was a chance to make a better life.

Yet,
as you can see in the story, their best laid plans went nowhere. Lennie ended up dead, George's
dream disappeared in front of him, and all the hopes they felt they deserved to at least dream
of, were taken away by a realistically cruel society.

In "A Rose for Miss Emily," analyse the character of Miss Emily when her father was alive, when the Board came and after Barron had left her.

Clearly Miss Emily is one of literature's unforgettable
characters, and in "A Rose for Emily" Faulkner presents her development through the eyes
of the townspeople where she lives, leaving us to deduce much about who she really
was.

Whilst her father was alive it is clear that Miss
Emily was victim to his tyrannical power. Note the lasting impression of the townspeople
of this part of her life:

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We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss
Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in
the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip, the two of them framed by the
back-flung front door.

The
description of her father as "a spraddled silhouette," clutching a horsewhip with which
to scare away any suitors clearly reveals the kind of father that he was and how he
forced his daughter to be remote and isolated from the rest of the
community.

The description of Miss Emily when the board
arrives is worthy of attention:

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They rose when she entered - a small, fat woman
in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt,
leaning on an ebony cane with a tarnished gold head. Her skeleton was small and spare;
perhaps that was why what would have been merely plumpness in another was obesity in
her. She looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that
pallid hue.

Note how the
description of her confirms her authority, for the Board rose when she entered, but also
emphasises the sense in which she has been stranded in some past time which she is still
trapped in - she is compared to a corpse that has been in the sea for a long
time.

After the "disappearance" of Barron, this is when
Miss Emily begins to age:

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When we next saw Miss Emily, she had grown fat
and her hair was turning
grey.

Note that now Barron,
her true love, is dead, it is almost as if she has no need to live in the same sphere as
the townspeople any more - she has her beloved next to her, after
all.

After reading Act 2, scene 2, part 1, how do you feel about the accuracy of the representations of Ophelia and Gertrude? Do you believe that...

In Shakespeare's Hamlet, perhaps one of his
best works (and certainly one of the most quoted), the women of the play are used by the men that
surround them when the play opens. I would assume this is the premise on which feminists view
these women, and I have to agree.

During Shakespeare's time, it was
not at all unusual for women to be used as bargaining chips in prearranged marriages that joined
noble houses together. Women generally took all they had into a marriage but were not
independent. There was little work open to a woman to keep her and her children alive if she did
not have the financial support and protection of a man.

Hamlet is
quick to censor Gertrude's hasty marriage to her brother-in-law Claudius upon the death of Old
Hamlet. Hamlet states that the food from the funeral could have been used for the wedding feast,
the marriage was that quickly conducted. (An exaggeration, at best.) However, we see Hamlet's
sense of loss more clearly in this than we do Gertrude's, but he is an independent man, and she
is a widow with limited options in terms of
survival.

Hamlet himself describes the marriage
of his father and mother as a joyful one: two people who adored each other. With this said, it is
important to note that when Old Hamlet dies, Gertrude's future is imperiled. There is no
guarantee that Claudius will care for the widow. She has no belongings other than what has been
given her, and undoubtedly no land of her own or family to return to. Claudius offers her a way
to remain in her home, live as she is accustomed to, and perhaps still provide a place for her
son, who though older, is still at the university
studying.

Gertrude's options are limited and life was harsh for
women at the time: she took the only avenue available to her, and I believe, savvy as she is, she
makes the best of it, even seeming to care for her new husband, who the audience (and Hamlet)
develop only contempt for. It may seem as if she is prostituting herself, but I would suggest she
is simply trying to survive in a man's world.

Ophelia suffers in
much the same way, but she is younger and not as familiar with the ways of the world. The men in
her life use her as well, while treating her like an inferior. Laertes, her brother, is full of
advice as to how she should behave with Hamlet (behaving in a chaste way),
and she is quick to remind him to follow his own advice. Obviously, her character has reason to
believe that he will preach one thing to her, while following a very different, hypocritical path
himself. This is important in viewing how men treated women in general during that
time.

Claudius, and Polonius (her own father), use Ophelia to their
own ends in trying to get a "bead" on Hamlet. Polonius does so to solidify his position with a
new king: for him, the move is politically-centered to protect his "career." Claudius wants to
know what Hamlet knows and is trying to remain unsuspected of his murder of Old
Hamlet.

Claudius will use Ophelia as bait to glean information from
her about the man she loves, and Hamlet, having no faith in Ophelia, and failing to trust her and
take her into his confidence, confuses and alienates her. She does not feel safe with any of
these men.

Ophelia is a pawn in their manipulative games. Hamlet
uses her, pretending to be insane, and insulting her at every turn based upon his inability to
trust her, not on anything she had done to him. She is an innocent. She is fragile and unprepared
to make her way in the male-dominated society in which she
lives.

When her sweetheart (Hamlet) kills her father, she cannot
handle how this act tears her in two, pulling her between the two men that matter most to her;
she goes insane and takes her own life (we think...we cannot be
sure).

The women in Hamlet are used in a
sophisticated way that moves the plot expertly along, but they are used by the men that surround
them; one survives, while the other does not. And in the end, everyone dies because of the
machinations of these men.

Discuss the ways in which setting contribute to The Jungle's effectiveness.

Regrettably, I had to cut down your question to focusing only on
the setting in Sinclair's work. I think that the setting is essential in bringing out the
thematic development of the work. The stockyards and stockyard life is what resonated strongly
with Americans during the Progressive time period. The element of "Muckracking" journalism
present comes from these honest depictions of life in American urban centers, something that was
not either acknowledged or not wished to be acknowledged. At the same time, the setting of
factory life where there was no regulated or standardized practice and what that actually entails
were major elements that motivated Americans to believe that a change was needed. Such attention
to detail can also resonate with the reader of today, demonstrating that the settings evoked
transcend time:

Modern
readers can relate to the dehumanizing effects of boring, repetitive assembly-line labor and of
employers who put profits before the health of their
workers.

Sinclair's settings bring to
light the conditions in which millions of people in America were living and dying. Sinclair's
attention to setting details helped to create a vivid picture of an industrial and capitalist
setting that has veered off the course and become one in needed of absolute change and
transformation.

In "The Sniper", why does the author end the story at this point, without showing us the sniper's reaction?

You have asked a very perceptive question that explains
the power that this short story has. The ending is certainly a definite sting in the
tail - it shocks us and makes us sit up, especially as the last sentence is given a
paragraph all to itself and is very short and
precise:

Then
the sniper turned over the dead body and looked into his brother's
face.

Of course, the way that
Liam O'Flaherty chose to end this excellent short story goes to the very heart of the
theme or meaning of the tale. This story explains and describes first hand the tragedy
and disaster civil war is, especially when it pits brother against brother and family
against family. Key to how this theme is developed is how the ending is foreshadowed in
the text. A vital part of the text for me is when the sniper is victorious and kills his
opponent. We would expect him to be happy, yet this is how he
responds:

The
sniper looked at his enemy falling and he shuddered. The lust of battle died in him. He
became bitten by remorse. The sweat stood out in beads on his forehead. Weakened by his
wound and the long summer day of fasting and watching on the roof, he revolted from the
sight of the shattered mass of his dead enemy. His teeth chattered, he began to gibber
to himself, cursing the war, cursing himself, cursing
everybody.

Given how he has
just shown his ingenuity in triumphing over his enemy this is a great surprise. It
indicates that at least at some level the sniper has recognised how civil war brings
death and destruction to everyone - not just the defeated but the "victors"
too.

How would it be possible to eliminate interest groups in a democracy?American Government2

It's not possible to eliminate interest groups, in nearly any
society, not just democracies, but you can attempt to eliminate or limit their influence over
government and/or elections in a few different ways.

First, if we
were serious and since this is a major problem in the American system of government (in my
opinion) we could move to a complete public financing of all election campaigns.  By having no
donations at all, and removing the need for candidates to solicit those donations (and ostensibly
grant favors and access in return once in office) you free them from all interest group pressures
outside of the individual voters.

Second, we could reform the length
of terms of office so that they are longer, and candidates and elected officials would not need
to constantly run for office, nor need the help of endorsements, fundraising etc. that interest
groups can provide.

A final way to limit the influence of these
groups is to remove all lobbying from taking place in government buildings, to deny them access
to the levers of power, as it were, so that we didn't have such problems with lobbyists for
interest groups actually writing the legislation sometimes, and we could get back to the task of
simple governance.

All of this is fine and dandy, but removing
interest groups altogether short of turning into a dictatorship, is highly unlikely, and some
would say they are at least a necessary evil in a representative democracy with a large
population and economy such as ours.

How does Winston Smith display a sense of courage throughout 1984?

I would say that Winston displays a sense of courage at
most points in the book, right up until the time that O'Brien is about to let the rats
go and eat through his face.  Really, his whole life for most of the book is one long
act of courage.

If you think about it, so many things that
Winston does in the book are putting his life in danger.  Just to give two
examples:

• he starts to keep a diary and he
  starts it with "Down With Big Brother."  Right there, he has committed himself to
  opposing the whole system -- this is an act that will likely lead to his death and yet
  he does it.


• He starts an affair with Julia.  This is
  also something that could get him killed.  Even so, he starts it and he continues
  it.

Just about everything Winston does is in
the book is illegal and can get him killed.  The fact that he continues to do them
demonstrates courage.

How does The Jungle Book explore the concept of belonging?

To me, this whole book is (in addition to being an
exciting adventure story) a story about Mowgli's attempt to find out where he
belongs.

Early in the story, Mowgli's identity is that of a
wolf.  Everyone pretty much accepts that he is one of the wolves.  But then, for
example, he uses fire to defeat Shere Khan.  Everyone knows that wolves don't use fire
and this makes Mowgli and the others wonder what he really is -- what world he belongs
to.

This theme continues as Mowgli is adopted by the woman
who is actually his mother.  He becomes part of human society, but only to an extent --
he clearly does not fully belong there.  The people reject him, for example, when they
think he is a sorceror because of his ability to talk to animals.  So now we have Mowgli
being rejected to some extent by both animals and
humans.

Eventually, of course, Mowgli decides that he is
going to have to be a human being.  But this comes only after a long search in which
Mowgli tries to figure out which world he belongs to.  During this search, we are forced
to ask ourselves what makes a person belong to some group.  We have to think about
whether it is physical characteristics, or behaviors and adherence to custom.  These are
issues that confront all people to some extent in their lives.

Discuss what technological breakthrough has brought a radical change in Human Resources Management?

One technological breakthrough, the use of online social
networking as part of an employee profile and review process of a potential applicant
for a position, has transformed how employer perception has evolved.  Since items that
are posted on the web are issues of what amounts to be public record, it is something
that has altered how potential applicants for positions are viewed.  For example,
provocative pictures, images of questionable judgment, as well as the images that
individuals choose to project are ones that can alter how prospective employees are
seen.  I think that this has transformed both the applicant process and how individuals
are seen.  This is an element of technology that has fostered both more vigilance in
individual behavior as well as their perception on the part of employers.  In this
forum, technology has greatly changed individual perception and the reality that
accompanies it.

What evidence is there that Jody matures from "The Gift" to "The Great Mountains" in The Red Pony?

In “The Gift” Jody is a ten year old, obedient and naïve boy. 
He doesn’t question anything he is told.  He seems satisfied with his
life.

His father was a
disciplinarian. Jody obeyed him in everything without questions of any kind. (ch 1, p
3-4)

When Jody’s pony dies, he is
saddened to the point of not caring anymore.  His father asks him if he knows that the buzzard
did not kill the pony.

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[Billy] lifted Jody in his arms, and had turned to carry
him home. But he turned back on Carl Tiflin. "'Course he knows it," Billy said furiously, "Jesus
Christ man, can't you see how he'd feel about it? (ch 1, p.
34)

As chapter 2 begins, Jody is
“listlessly” looking for something to do.  He begins throwing rocks at Swallow’s nests and
setting mousetraps for the dog to stick his nose in.  He does this not out of meanness, but out
of boredom.  Jody has learned hard lessons about life, but he has also begun to accept life's
difficulties.

Find the value of x if ln e^x + ln e^3 = ln e^5

Given  lne^x+lne^3= lne^5.

We have
to determine x.

We know by definition of ln , the natural
logarithms, that

If e^a = b, then  a =
lnb.

Therfore ln e^a = c implies e^a = e^c implies a =c or a = ln
e^a.

So by definition ,  ln e^a =
a.

Therefore the given equation
becomes:

x+3 = 5.

Subtract
3:

x+3-3 = 5-3.

x =
2.

Therfore the solution of ln e^x+lne^3 = ln 5 is x =
2.

What is Silas' vocation in Silas Marner?

Silas Marner's vocation is shown to us on Chapter 1, and
it states that he is a linen weaver. He appears to be specially talented in this area
since he really catches the attention of the Raveloe boys each time their hear the sound
of Silas Marner's loom. The effect is so profound that they even stop what they are
doing in order to be able to witness Silas doing what he apparently does best. His job,
he does from "a stone cottage that stood among the hedgerows near the village of
Raveloe". It is also known that Silas's vocation is characteristics of emigrants who,
from generations, have had a good hand at linen weaving and are often rejected in the
towns to where they move. Hence, linen-weaving is thought to be a job for people who are
eccentric and lonely.

With close reference to Act One, discuss the presentation of power in "An Inspector Calls"

We are led to believe at the beginning of the play that
the dinner we are witnessing contains the elite of society at the time. Gerald Croft is
the son of Lady Croft, and he is joining the Birling household as he is engaged to
Sheila Birling. Mr Birling indicates to Gerald that he too will be receiving a
knighthood soon.

We are sceptical of Birling's
understanding of society, however, as he makes assertions about the future which we know
to be misguided-

readability="8">

BIRLING:The Germans don't want wa. Nobody wants
war, except sone half-civilised folks in the Balkans....I'm talking as a hard-headed
practical man of business. And I say there isn't a chance of war...There'll be peace and
prosperity and rapid progess
everwhwere.

Birling
and his contemporaries hold the balance of power in the UK, and yet he seems hopelessly
ignorant. His values are also selfish and insular -

readability="5">

BIRLING: ...a man has to mind his own business
and look after himself and his
own.

Birling believes that
his power and influence should have a bearing on the way he is treated by the
inspector-

readability="6">

BIRLING:  I was an alderman for years - and Lord
Mayor two years ago - and I'm still on the
Bench...

However we see that
the inspector does control the investigation in who he interrogates and who he shows the
girl's picture to-

readability="6">

INSPECTOR: You heard what i said before,Mr Croft.
One line of inquiry at a
time.

By the end of Act 1 at
least Sheila has realised that they are all in the control of the inspector, and that
their past indiscretions will all soon be laid
bare-

SHEILA:Why - you fool he knows.
Of course he knows. And I hate to think how much he knows that we don't know
yet.

Today, organizations are exposed to local and international environments. Identify the different factors that affect one organization.

Think about how companies now are exposed to so many more
environments as they try to operate in multiple countries and areas because of globalization. One
example of this familiar to everyone might be Google.

Google has to
think about the environments in many areas. Just three examples are the US, the EU, and China. In
China, Google is affected by the Chinese government's efforts to censor its people's use of email
and the internet. This has already caused problems for Google. In the EU, Google is affected by
the relatively tough anti-trust attitude of regulators. In the US, Google has to pay attention to
those who want Google to get tough with China's government and fight any actions the government
takes towards censorship.

In this way, globalization causes Google
to have to deal with the conditions in many different environments.

Find the circumferece of the base of a cylinder whose volume is 36 and height 4

The volume of the cylinder = 36 and its height = 4. We have to
find the circumference of the cylinder:

The volume V of a cylinder
is given by :

V = Pi*r^2*h, where r is radius of the cylinder and h
is the height of the cylinder.

Put the given values  V = 36 and h
= 4 to find the radius r in Pi*r^2*h = V.

pi* r^2*4 =
36.

Therefore r^2 = 36/4pi =
9/pi.

Thetrefore r = sqrt(9/pi)  =
3/sqrtpi.

Therefore  the corcumference of the cylinder = 2pi*r = 2p*
(3/sqrtpi) = 6 sqrtpi = 10.6347 nearly.

Therefore the circumference
of the cylinder = 10.6347 nearly.

Should voters take a more active role in the political process?

I assume that when you say "voters" you mean people in
general who are not public officials.  I assume you are asking if people ought to do
more than just vote.  I would say that they should if it is at all
possible.

The reason for this is that voting is a very
"blunt instrument" for telling government what you want.  If you voted for Pres. Obama
in 2008, what did it mean?  Did it mean you hated Sen. McCain?  That you wanted to
punish the Republicans for Pres. Bush?  That you agreed with what Obama said?  If so,
which thing?  We can't know any of this stuff.  By participating more actively, a voter
can clarify the meaning of their vote.

So I would say that
voters should get involved.  They should join interest groups to lobby for their
interests.  They should contact their representatives to air their views on important
issues.  They should write letters to the editors of newspapers.  By doing these things,
they can let people know what they really think -- something that just voting does not
achieve.

In The Brief, Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao, how many times does Oscar attemptsuicide?

Directly, once. This incident occurs after he finds Jenni
committing adultery. Oscar drinks heavily and then decides that due to the curse (fuku), he
should throw himself off a bridge.

However, depending on your
viewpoint of what constitutes an "attempt," that number might increase. If you consider his
insistence near the end of his life to be desiring of death--his answer to the Mongoose, for
instance, being "more" indicating that he will push until he is destroyed--then it might be the
case that his murder could be viewed as a successful suicide attempt. However, this would require
a great deal of searching for evidence from the text.

How do the rhythm and meter of "Chicago" contribute to the meaning of the poem's lines?

One of my favorite parts about "Chicago" by Carl Sandburg is the
fact that if you turn the physical poem on it's side, it looks like a city skyline. You may think
that this has nothing to do with the poem's rhythm, but I believe it
does.

The first five lines grab your attention and set a tone of
size and stature. Sandburg's diction, "Hog Butcher," "stormy," "brawling," "City of the Big
Shoulders" are rather intimidating.

In, the second "stanza," the
lines get larger, like the big skyscrapers of Chicago. Remember, that they didn't exist in 1916
when Sandburg wrote the poem, but it makes it easier to understand. The subject matter is
difficult: The city is "brutal," "crooked" and "wicked" and the lines set a rhythm of speed and a
sense of overwhelming presence, again, intimidating outsiders. Meanwhile, the insider, the
speaker, is proud to be a part of Chicago and all the "negatives" that come with
it.

Again the rhythm abruptly halts with a list of five descriptive
and powerful words: "Bareheaded/Shoveling/Wrecking/Planning/ Building, breaking,
rebuilding."

Finally, in the last stanza, the pace becomes
overwhelming again, describing the laughter of the speaker. This serves as the final point, in
which the speaker is "proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with
Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation." The pace, rhythm and diction make the reader feel
as if it is impossible not to pay attention to
Chicago.

What incentives does Nick have for visiting the East Coast in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby?

What struck me about your question was the nuances behind the
word "visiting." Your question implies that Nick never intended to stay in the East, ... that he
fullly intended to move back home to the Midwest. In this regard, I don't agree. Nick was
escaping the Midwest and the trap of his "clan ... descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch." He
wanted to MOVE to the East and not simply visit.

That aside, let's
get to the meat of your question and look at his "incentives" from the text. Directly after Nick
mentions how trapped he feels by being in his particular family clan, Nick talks about his
great-uncle and his involvement in World War I. It is precicely his involvement in the military
that Nick says made himm "come back restless." He expands further to answer your question
directly:

Instead of
being the warm center of the world, the Middle West now seemed like the ragged edge of the
universe--so I decided to go East and learn the bond business, so I supposed it could support one
more single man.

There you go. The
charm of the Midwest has gone in the eyes of the more worldly just-back-from-the-war Nick. Most
likely, he is sick of being around the same "blah" people with solid values. Nick is looking for
something new, vibrant, a whole different way of life. Enter West Egg. Something new? I think so!
Yep, "solid values" sure do go out the window, don't they?

In
conclusion, the irony is that Nick ends up simply "visiting" the East, even thought that wasn't
his original intention. The East was too corrupt a place for little Midwestern Nick. He moved
back where he belonged, clan or not.

Why did the French Revolution become so bloody?

In my opinion, the French Revolution became so bloody
because of the depth of the grievances that the revolutionaries felt and the level of
stubbornness and rigidity that the people in power displayed.  In other words, the
revolutionaries were really angry and the people in power didn't want to give in to them
in any way.

France had been ruled by one of the most
absolute monarchies in Europe.  This meant that the common people had been given little
to no say in government.  They had also been abused in various ways.  Because of this,
they felt strong grievances.  Instead of trying to lessen that sense of grievance, the
monarchy resisted the revolutionaries at every turn.  This led the revolutionaries to
feel even angrier.

So I pretty much blame the monarchy. 
They were too oppressive and too rigid.  They did not give the revolutionaries anything
and that made the revolutionaries violently angry and let the radicals come to
power.

If f(x) = cosx/(1+sinx) find f'(x).

f(x) = cosx / (1+ sinx)

To
differentiate we will will assume that:

u= cosx   
==>  we know that  du = -sinx

v= 1+ sinx  
==>    v' = cosc

Then, f(x) =
u/v

We know that , f'(x) = (u'v-
uv')/v^2

Let us subsitute with u and v
:

==> f'(x) = [-sinx (1+sinx) -
(cosx*cosx)]/(1+sinx)^2

Now let us expand the
brackets:

==> f'(x) = (-sinx - sin^2 x - cos^2
x)/(1+sinx)^2

              = -sinx - (sin^2 x + cos^2
x)/(1+sinx)^2

But we know that : sin^2 x + cos^2 x =
1

==> f'(x) = (-sinx
-1)/(1+sinx)^2

==> f'(x) =
-(sinx+1)/(1+sinx)^2

==> f'(x) =
-1/(1+sinx)

At what rate does heat have to be removed in the following case:A cold storage has 1500 kg of water at 20 degree Celsius that has to be converted...

The cold storage has 1500 kg of water at 20 degree Celsius. This
has to be converted to ice at 0 degree Celsius in half an
hour.

First we have to cool water to 0 degree Celsius. The amount of
heat to be removed to do this is given by Cp*mass*temperature, where Cp is the heat capacity of
water given as 4.1813 kJ/kg*K. For 1500 kg the heat to be removed is equal to 1500*4.1813*20 =
125439 kJ

Once the water has been cooled to 0 degree Celsius we are
not done, now heat has to be removed to convert it to ice. This is equal to the specific heat of
fusion of water or 333.55 kJ/kg. For 1500 kg it is 1500*333.55 = 500325
kJ.

This gives the total heat that has to be removed from the water
as 125439 + 500325 = 625764 kJ

As the ice has to be created in 30
minutes, the rate of cooling required is 625764/30*60 = 347.64 kJ/s or 347.64
kW.

The required rate at which heat has to be removed is 347.64
kW.

Using the quadratic formula, solve for x. A triangle has three angles that measure: (x+17), (3x+28), ?.The exterior angle next to ? is (x^2). What's x

The first step is to set up 2
equations.

The first is the sum of the interior
angles.

(x+17)+(3x+28)+y=180

The
second is the addition of 2 adjacent angles.

x^2 + y =
180

Solve the 2nd equation for
y.

y=180-x^2

Then substitue
into equation 1
giving

(x+17)+(3x+28)+(180-x^2)=180

by
combining like terms you
get

-x^2+4x+225=180

Subtract
180 from both
sides

-x^2+4x+45=0

Multiple
both sides by -1 in order to get x^2 term
positive

x^2-4x-45=0

Now use
quadratic formula

x=(-(-4) (+/-)
sqrt(-4^2-4*1*-45))/(2*1)

simplified

[4
(+/-)
sqrt(196)]/2

[4+/-14]/2

-10/2
= -5     18/2 = 9   answer cannot be negative so x = 9

How does the relationship between Desdemona and Othello deteriorates. How are both Iago and Emila responsible ?

Iago, of course, is primarily responsible.  He calls
attention to Cassio and Desdemona talking together innocently and suggests that
something more is going on between them.  He tells Othello that even though he does not
want to speak his thoughts, he does think that Othello might watch his wife with Cassio
a bit more closely.  He suggests that Othello does not really know how Venetian women
act, and reminds Othello that Desdemona deceived her father and is therefore capable of
deception.  He then clinches his argument with the "ocular proof" of Desdemona's
 handkerchief, telling Othello that he saw Cassio wiping his beard with it.  For the
next proof, he mentions that he overheard Cassio talking in his sleep, saying "Sweet
Desdemona, let us hide our love."  So, Iago is responsible for planting the seeds and
manipulating Othello to think Desdemona is guilty of an
affair.

Emilia is only slightly, if any, culpable.  Emilia
sees that Desdemona's handkerchief has fallen to the floor when Desdemona and Othello
were talking.  Emilia picks it up and gives it to Iago, because Iago had been pressuring
her to steal it.  To Emilia, the handkerchief means nothing.  She doesn't even want to
give it to Iago until he tells her what he is going to do with it.  But he snatches it
away from her and plants it in Cassio's lodging, so that it will seem as if Desdemona
put it there.

Later, when Desdemona is wondering where her
handkerchief is, Emilia remains silent.  Emilia does not know what her husband has done.
 She has no idea that Iago is using the handkerchief to frame Desdemona and
Cassio.

Examine "To Build a Fire" in terms of its theme.

To me, one of the central themes of this unforgettable story of
man against nature is the way that this story reflects the Naturalism of Jack London. Naturalism
is a philosophical idea that presents human beings as subject to natural forces beyond their
control. This idea is clearly one that is central to "To Build a Fire," as the central
protagonist is very over-confident and blasé in his approach to Nature - an over-confidence that
ends up costing him his life. Note how the protagonist is presented as being "without
imagination":

He was a
newcomer in the land, a cheechako, and this was his first winter. The trouble with him was that
he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things,
and not in the significances. Fifty degrees below zero meant eight-odd degrees of frost. Such
fact impressed him as being cold and uncomfortable, and that was all. It did not lead him to
meditate upon his frailty as a creature of temperature, and upon man's frailty in general, able
to only live within certain narrow limits of heat and cold, and from there on it did not lead him
to the conjectural field of immortality and man's place in the
universe.

This quote, it seems to me,
lies at the heart of the theme London is trying to establish: success in surviving the extremes
of Nature, London seems to be saying, necessarily involves some kind of respect for the raw,
elemental power of Nature and also man's place within Nature. Lack of recognition of man's
"frailty" and "man's place in the universe" leads to foolhardy arrogance which puts our lives at
risk. We underestimate the power of Nature and we overestimate our own position in the natural
order of things, London suggests, at our peril.

Critically examine the concluding part of Alisoun's tale and its thematic link with Chaucer's description of the Wife of Bath in the Prologue.Refer...

In Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, the Wife
of Bath's tale directly coincides with what we learn of her in the
Prologue.

All of the characters on the pilgrimage to Canterbury (the
structural device that allows Chaucer to bring together all of these people of diverse
backgrounds and social standings) must tell a tale, thereby passing the evenings at the
inn.

[Note: there are several versions of this tale floating
around.]

The Wife of Bath (Alisoun) tells the tale of a knight who
rapes a woman in Arthur's court. The Queen allows that she will spare his life if he can, over
the next year, find what it is a woman really wants. (This tale obviously has a moral, which the
knight must learn and share on his return.)

The knight searches,
with no success, until the last day of his year's reprieve when he meets an old hag along the
road. She tells him that she has the answer, but that in exchange for it, he will owe her
whatever favor she may ask.

The knight agrees and they return to the
castle. There the woman provides the knight with the answer: a woman wants sovereignty (rule)
over her husband. (In other words, we could say she wants her way in all things with her
husband.)

The Queen accepts the answer and the knight's life is
spared. However, now the hag makes her request of the knight: to marry her. He doesn't want to do
it, but he has given his word, and they marry. After the wedding, the knight unchivalrously
complains that the woman is an old, unattractive peasant.

However,
the hag has magic powers and can turn herself into a beautiful woman. She provides her new
husband with a choice: you may have me beautiful by day and faithless by night, or ugly by day
and faithful at night. This now, is her test of the her husband. He decides to give his wife her
way in choosing what she wants. Having learned his lesson, she rewards
him, becoming beautiful and
faithful.

The Wife of Bath has been married five times and is
looking for husband number six. She is not a beautiful woman: she is large, with a 'gap-toothed
smile,' but she is also, it would seem, a passionate, bawdy woman with much to offer a man in the
bedroom, referred to as "an art..." (love-making) "...in which she knew the oldest
dances:"

In company
she liked to laugh and chat

And knew the remedies for love's
mischances,

An art in which she knew the oldest dances. (lines
472-474)

The Wife of Bath's tale is
directed to those who would judge her based upon her looks, as does the knight with the hag,
rather than what she has that a man would enjoy, though others would not see this in her. She
suggests that potential husband number six, whoever he might be, not judge her by what he sees,
but by what cannot be seen with only one's eyes.

Solve the equation tan x = sin x if x is in ( 0, 2pi ).

tanx = sinx is the given equation to solve  for
x:

Solution:

Tanx = sinx/cosx,
by definition. Substitute this in the given equation.

So
the give equation becomes:

sinx/cosx =
sinx.

Divide both sides by
sinx.

1/cosx = 1.

Cross
multiply.

1 = cosx

cosx = 1
when x = 0 or 2npi, n =
0,1,2....

Therefore,

x = 2npi,
n =0 ,  1 ,2 ,3, ....

How is it possible to have plenty of food yet be poorly nourished?

I think this all depends on what food you are eating. If
you make more bad choices (potato chips, cake, etc) and almost no good choices
(vegetables, fruits, white meats) you are more likely to be poorly nourished.  Eating
good foods like lots of veggies, fruits, & lean meats are just some choices to
help maintain a healthy diet.  You don't need to go crazy and try a fad diet...that's
not what I'm saying.

Always try to add plenty of color to
your plate! Bright green veggies (spinach, collard greens, broccoli) and yummy salad
(lettuce, cucumbers, carrots) are just two great suggestions to get you
started!

Try your best to stay away from processed foods or
preservatives.  Don't understand what I'm saying? A few examples would be pop-tarts,
canned veggies, canned fruits, & sugary cereals. Not only do these have plenty
of preservatives, but they are also packed with salt and sugar!  One way to make sure of
this is to shop the perimeter of the store (This is loaded with whole
foods).

Hope I was able to help! :)

In "Two Kinds", what is the most important element of fiction?

Obviously, everyone will differ in their interpretation of
this story and what is most important, but to me you will want to focus on the ending of
this challenging short story about growing up and gaining independence from your
parents.

The end of "Two Kinds" represents both the end of
the conflict between Jing Mei and her mother that can be traced throughout this short
story and Jing Mei's own self-acceptance of herself as an
individual.

Before her mother dies, Jing Mei is given the
piano by her mother. It is interesting that she describes this as a "shiny trophy" - a
metaphor that clearly indicates her feelings about the piano and about her conflict with
her mother over her piano playing. Jing Mei regards the piano as a "shiny trophy"
because she has won it, but on her own terms, rather than through being forced to do
something by her mother.

Jing Mei's discovery of the
partner-song to "Pleading Child" indicates her own development as an individual and her
arrival at a stage where she is happy with who she is and is no longer trying to be
someone she is not or live her life for someone else (namely her mother). The title,
"Perfectly Contented" clearly suggests that having gone through a stage where Jing Mei
was a "Pleading Child", desperate for her mother's approval, she is now happy with
herself.

Jing Mei's realisation that they were "two halves
of the same song" perhaps indicates that this is a universal struggle that all must go
through: we all go through a stage when we are a "Pleading Child", wanting our parents'
approval and aprobation, yet eventually have to learn to live our own life and make our
own choices, and become "Perfectly Contented." The use of the names of these two pieces
of music therefore to me encapsulate the message of this powerful work of
fiction.

The bullet from a rifle travels at a speed of 3*10^4 cm/s.Work out the length of time in seconds taken for the bullet to hit a target 54m away.

The distance of the terget =
54meter.

Speed of the bullet =
3*10^4cm

Time taken to by the bullet =  distance of the target
/speed of the bullet. But here the speed of the bullet is given in centimeter per second. So we
have to convert this into meter/second  as the distance is in meter. For this we have to multiply
the speed of the bullet by 0.01.

 Therefore the speed of the bullet
in m/s = 3*10^4*0.01 = 3*10^2 m/s.

Therefore the time taken by the
bullet to reach the target = 54/3*10^2 s  = 0.18 seconds.

Therefore
the bullet takes 0.18 seconds to reacg the target.

Please explain Section 119 (1) of the Criminal Code of Canada -

This section of the criminal code is defining what bribery of a
public official means.  It sets out what public officials must not do but does not address what
members of the public must not do.  So it is aimed only at regulating the conduct of
officials.

In general, this section says that no public official may
get or try to get anything of value in return for doing or not doing something in his or her
official capacity.

For
example:

• You can't accept a job for your son in return
  for making a new rule that will benefit the person offerring the
  job.


• You can't take money in order to ignore violations of
  rules.

These examples are not given in the text of the
law, but they are examples of what the law means when it talks about "valuable consideration" and
"in respect of anything done or ommitted to be done."

How the marketing of industrial goods goods differs to that of marketing consumer goods?

Industrial goods are differentiated from the the consumer
goods on the basis of the purpose for which the goods are used and the nature of the
customer. The industrial goods are the purchased by business firms for processing and
resale. These include rat materials, components and consumables used in manufacturing of
other goods. Capital goods purchased by businesses also classify as industrial. Also
purchase of finished or semi finished goods for trading or resale are classified as
industrial goods. Finished goods on the other hand are purchased by individuals and
household for personal use or for gifting.

The marketing of
industrial goods differs from that of consumer significantly in several ways. These
differences are described below.

• Number of
  buyers of industrial goods are fewer in number as compared to buyers of consumer goods.
  However the average size of buyer in terms of value of goods purchased is significantly
  higher for industrial goods. Because of this, marketing of industrial goods is often
  based on more direct and closer interaction between buyers and seller. For example mass
  advertising plays a less important role in industrial goods marketing as compared to
  consumer marketing. Also the sales persons are generally required to make multiple sales
  call to the customer for securing each customer
  order.


• The buyers of industrial goods tend to be located
  in small geographical. For example lot, there is concentration of auto companies in
  Detroit, and there s concentration of IT related companies in Silicon Valley. This kind
  of geographical concentration makes frequent and closer buyer seller-interaction even
  more preferred marketing approach.


• Bigger buyers
  concentrated in fewer geographical locations makes it easier for a company to sell to
  them directly, rather than through distributors. Frequently the industrial buyers also
  prefer to deal directly with the manufacturers, rather than with resellers like
  distributors or retailers.


• Persons assigned to do
  purchasing in business establishments are professional in methods of purchasing. Also,
  often they are more knowledgeable about the technical characteristics of goods being
  purchased. The marketing of industrial goods, therefor, needs to rely more on technical
  consideration and professional methods rather than appeal to personal or emotional
  considerations of individuals.


• Usually there are several
  different persons, with different perspective involved in taking the purchase decision.
  For example the purchase decision may be influenced by representatives from purchasing
  department, user department, finance, and design. Also, while the initial
  investigations, discussions and negotiations may take place at lower levels, the final
  decision may need to be approved by a person at higher level. The industrial marketing
  effort mus be designed to satisfy the requirement of all such multiple buying
  influences.


• The demand for industrial goods is often
  directly dependent on the business volume of the buyer and the specifications for their
  products and processes. This means that the marketing of industrial goods must
  concentrate on getting the maximum share of an elastic demand, rather than try to
  increase the total demand.

What event signifies the climax of the story "The Lost Beautifulness" by Anzia Yezierska?

In Yezierska's short story "The Lost Beautifulness," the
climax occurs when Hanneh destroys the beauty she has created in the
kitchen.

The story revolves around the kitchen she has
painted for her son's return home. Hanneh has saved her pennies over the years by doing
laundry for Mrs. Preston. Mrs. Preston has a beautiful home of great beauty, and it is
from her employer's home that Hanneh gets the idea to paint the
kitchen.

Her husband complains about the waste of money,
but Hanneh is overwhelmed by what she has created. Even her friends and neighbors praise
the wonderful work she has done. And every time she looks at it, she is reminded again
of the gift she has received in being able to create such a thing of
beauty.

When the landlord sees what she has done, he raises
her rent twice. Ultimately, he takes her to court, where Hanneh is told that if she
cannot pay the new rent, she must leave her
apartment.

Returning home, Hanneh is devastated. She shares
her despair with the butcher. His advice is that if she must leave, she should not leave
the beautiful kitchen for the landlord to use to make more money. If it happened to him,
he swears he would destroy it.

That evening, in a moment of
pure rage, this is exactly what Hanneh does: she takes an axe to the walls and burns the
gas high enough to scorch the ceiling black. This is the climax of the
story.

However, after she has done this, she is amazed at
what wildness must have possessed her to do such a thing; she has indeed destroyed the
kitchen, but in doing so, she has destroyed the beauty she created, and she feels as if
she has destroyed her very soul.

It is in this condition
her son finds her, evicted from her apartment, and sitting on the curb, with her worldly
goods on the ground around her.

Given a+b=8 and a*b=12, what is the sum of squares of a and b? What is the difference a^2-b^2?

The sum of squares is:

a^2 +
b^2

If we'll complete the square, we'll
get:

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

We'll substitute in (1) the values of the sum a+b and
the value of the product a*b.

a^2 + b^2 = 8^2 -
2*12

a^2 + b^2 = 64 -
24

a^2 + b^2 =
40

Now, we'll calculate the
difference of squares:

a^2 -
b^2

We'll write the difference of squares as a
product:

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

To substitute the factor a-b by it's value,
we'll have to calkculate a and b.

We'll have the system of
equations:

a + b = 8

a = 8 - b
(2)

a*b = 12 (3)

We'll
substitute a = 8 - b in (3):

(8 - b)*b =
12

8b - b^2 = 12

We'll
subtract 12 both sides:

- b^2 + 8b - 12 =
0

We'll multiply by -1:

b^2 -
8b + 12 = 0

We'll apply the quadratic
formula:

b1 =
[8+sqrt(64-48)]/2

b1 =
(8+4)/2

b1 = 6

b2 =
2

a1 = 8 - b1

a1 = 8 -
6

a1 = 2

a2 =
6

The system is symmetric.

a -
b = 2-6 = -4

a-b = 6-2 = 4

a^2
- b^2 = (a-b)(a+b) = (-4)(8) =
-32

or

a^2 - b^2 =
32

Why did the country club play such a crucial role in the sporting practices of the super-rich?

The American version of the British country club began in
US by the 1880's. It was a recreational place where exclusive people of similar
upbringing, class, and financial resources would meet to network, entertain, and
establish business relationships.

However, the American
country club lacked the expansive history and myriad of diverse entertainment that the
British country club originally possessed, and this is because super huge country
estates of the aristocratic British had with them land big enough to play the sports of
the rich: Hunting, riding, cricket, and more.

When the
American country club developed out of the same interest in providing entertainment to
the elite few, Americans began to find specific places where they could enjoy their
favorite sports in the privacy of their own class: Everything around them would belong
to them, hence, they could pick and choose who goes in and who does
not.

It is the elitism that involves it all, basically,
what makes the country club play a crucial role in the sporting practices (and other
practices) of the rich.

In Death fo a Salesman, what emotions and feelings does willy evoke in the audience by the end of Act 1 and why?

As the first act ends, Willy remains largely sympathetic.
The details revealed about his character thus far suggest a man who is at loose ends,
experiencing difficulty as a parent and as a
professional. 

Willy has been having trouble driving and
trouble selling. He is struggling to make ends meet and struggling to even to simply
continue to work. 

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...the audience discovers that Willy has had
several automobile accidents recently and that he seems to be emotionally
unstable.

Willy varies
between a hopefulness and a despair regarding his working life and the same can be said
for his relationship with Biff. While Biff is clearly the favorite son, he is also a
problem for Willy. 

Willy wants to be close to Biff (and,
ultimately, wants to be forgiven by Biff), he has difficulty communicating with his son.
Willy's advice is driven by a hope that Biff might take Willy seriously and achieve
success in business. This hopefulness is significant in Willy's effect on the
audience. 

Willy lacks professional ability, but maintains
hope. He has a troubled relationship with Biff, but continues to admire his son and hope
that through him some success might be achieved for both (or all) of
them. 

This hope creates sympathy in the audience, as well
as a deeper emotional investment in Willy's troubles, which are not yet clearly Willy's
fault. 

How does Harper Lee relate Scout to readers in To Kill a Mockingbird?Please use evidence such as literary devices and techniques to support the...

Harper Lee made a wise choice to use Scout as the narrative
voice of her novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Although the story is told in
retrospect, from the much older, wiser adult Scout, the author varies the voice between her
childlike innocence (present day tone) and her adult reminiscences. Her inexperienced narration
works perfectly with several of the main themes--innocence, racial prejudice--since the young
Scout does not fully comprehend many of the things she sees and hears. For example, Scout tells
her Uncle Jack "that I ain't very sure what it means" when her cousin, Francis, calls Atticus a
"nigger-lover," but she knows she doesn't like the sound of it. Scout even uses the "N" word
herself until Atticus politely tells her it is "common." To Scout, it is just another word that
she has heard from others, including Calpurnia. There are several good examples of Scout's
inadvertent humor in her youthful narration, particularly about things which she doesn't quite
understand. Examples include: 

• Her story of Mr. Avery's
  "arc of water... splashing in a yellow circle of the street light some ten feet from source to
  earth."


• Her wonderment about strip
  poker


• Asking Uncle Jack " 'What's a whore-lady.'
  "

Do they ever choose to act foolishly on purpose, and if so, why?

Like we've stated before to your question, it depends on which
character you are referring to. The reason for this is because Jane Austen wrote with various
purposes: First, she wanted to entertain. Second, she wanted to inform the reader of the insanity
of her era: How people lived up to appearances, how they seemed to change personalities, how they
switched their main interests in life, and how tradition ruined any chance for progress in
people's life.

All of the most colorful characters are the ones who
did not change, say, for example, Sir William and the rest of Anne's sisters. This, however, is a
technique to reflect the thoughts of the time that the aristocracy could not change (or else)
they would basically give in to the growing bourgeoisie. That would have been an embarrassment to
the Elliots, and this is why Austen brought this up.

How can the mass of the oxygen that reacted with magnesium be calculated in the following scenario?The mass of the crucible to start with was...

The mass of the empty crucible you started with was 9.295
g. And the mass of the magnesium you used was 0.426
g.

After heating the magnesium in the crucible you weighed
it again and found its mass to be 9.733g

The final mass
measured included the mass of the crucible, the mass of the magnesium you used and the
mass of the oxygen that reacted with the magnesium. This was equal to
9.733g.

The sum of the mass of the crucible and the
magnesium is 9.295 + 0.426 = 9.721 g

But the final mass you
got was 9.733, so the extra mass was due to the oxygen that reacted with the
magnesium.

This is equal to 9.733 - 9.721 = 0.012
g.

The mass of the oxygen that reacted with
magnesium was 0.012g.

Consider whether Maycomb is changed by the conclusion. It shapes people and events, but it is also shaped by its inhabitants and their...

While the prevailing attitudes--Maycomb's "usual disease" as
Atticus refers to these attitudes--are yet existant after the trial of Tom Robinson, there has
been an encouraging sign for its cure when the jury remains out for a "few hours."  In Chapter
23, Atticus tells his disheartened son,

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"That was the one thing that made me think, well, this
may be the shadow of a beginning.  That jury took a few hours.  An inevitable verdict, maybe, but
usually it takes 'em just a few minutes.  This
time--"

Atticus intimates that one of
the Cunninghams may have been the one juror who held out for hours before being pressured by the
majority.  So, if there is one such as a Cunningham who can have his attitudes altered, then
there probably someone else will begin to rethink some of his/her attitudes.  For, as Miss Maudie
remarks to the children, Maycomb has paid Atticus "the tribute to do right." And, he has done so
publicly and in a manner that will have a profound affect on the people of the
town:

The handful of
people in this town who say that fair play is not marked White Only; the handful of people who
say a fair trial is for everybody, not us us; the handful of people with enought humility to
think, when they look at a Negro, there but for the Lord's kindness am
I."

Certainly, after people learn of
Bob Ewell's brutal attack upon the children of the trial defender as well as his causing
indirectly Tom Robinson's desperate attempt to run and his unfortuante shooting, many of the
residents may well wonder if it is time for a change.

What precipitates Charles's decision to return to France in A Tale Of Two Cities?

Charles Darnay, ne Charles Evremonde feels the loadstone pulling
him in Book the Second, Chapter XXIV of A Tale of Two Cities. After the
chateau of the Marquis d'Evremonde is burned by some of the villagers who have witnessed the
callous running over of a boy by the carriage belonging to the Marquis, Monsieru Gabelle, the
collector of rent and taxes has his house surrounded.  He is "summoned ... for personal
conference," but he bars his door, and writes to the nephew of the Marquis, Charles
Darnay/Evremonde.

In a desperate letter, Gabelle writes from the
prison of the Abbaye, Paris, informing Charles that he has been arrested for treason.  Even
though Gabelle has told his captors that he has collected no rents or taxes, they insist that he
has "acted for an emigrant, and where is that emigrant?"  Gabelle begs Charles to return to Paris
"to succor and release me." Declaring that he has been true to Charles, he begs Charles to be
true to him. 

Darnay is "roused to vigorous life by this letter." 
He cannot bear to think that the old and faithful servant should be in such peril; therefore, he
sees no alternative but to return to Paris:

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Yes.  Like the mariner in the old story, wht winds and
streams had driven him within the influence of the Loadstone Rock, and it was drawing him to
itself, and he must go.

Darnay
resolves to go to Paris to clear Gabelle of the charges against him by testifying that he has
ordered that the people be spared their debts, be given what fuel could be saved.  Also, Darnay,
who fears no harm to himself since rejected his own nobility, hopes that he can exert some
influence "to guide this raging Revolution that was running so fearfully wild."  This intention
and the fact that he leaves behind "all that was dear on earth...and floated away for the
Loadstone Rock" suggest that Charles Darnay may come into conflict with the forces of
fate.

What is the critical analysis of the poem "Delight in Disorder"?

Herrick uses metonymy; he is referring to the clothes AND
the woman who wears them.  The "disorder" of the dress "kindles wantonness" in the woman
who wears the dress.  He sees a "wild civility" in a careless shoestring.  He describes
the dress but is actually referring to the woman.  Metonymy is a figure of speech in
which a concept is referred to by describing or just naming something that it is
associated with.  In this case, the woman is described via the clothes.  You could also
call this metaphor or perhaps even analogy.  This poem bears some resemblance to the
phrase "let your hair down," in other words relax, be free.  Herrick implies that a
woman who is not perfectly dressed to every detail may be more free, less inhibited and
even more genuine - as if to say that a woman so incessant in attending to every detail
of her dress is compensating for lack of personality, elitism, or some other trait she
is insecure with.  You could draw other inferences here: a disordered dress implies that
she is more interested in more meaningful things or simply that she is not afraid to
look disheveled, not afraid to be "wild" despite what "society" has told her in regards
to how to dress and behave.  The disorder could also be an analogy to one of Herrick's
perceptions on Art itself; that too much attention to detail and effort towards surface
perfection put too much emphasis on form (calling to mind formal and formality) and 
this could mean lack of attention to raw emotion and/or it could mean that if disorder
conveys someone who is freer and not superficial, then she is also more profound or
thoughtful.

One example in the play when Oedipus makes a statement that means one thing to him, but something different to those of us that know his...

While there are several instances in Oedipus
Rex of dramatic irony, a situation in which the audience or reader knows more
than the speaker, one such example is Oedipus's ironic condemnation of himself when he
states his intentions against the man who is the cause of the illness of
Thebes:

I ban
this man, whoever he is from all land

over which I hold
power and the throne.

I decree that no one shall receive
him

or speak to him, or make his
partner

in prayers to the gods or
sacrifices

nor allow to him holy
water;

but instead that everyone must expel
him

from their homes, as this man is the
source

of our pollution as the
oracle

of Pytho has just revealed to me. (ll.
240-249)

Unfortunately for
Oedipus, he has  unwittingly condemned himself to banishment.  For, preceding the
reading or attendance at this play, audiences know the myth of Oedipus Rex; therefore,
they are aware that Oedipus is jeopardizing his own welfare with his
decree.

Should bullies be considered criminals or not?

I do not believe that bullying can or should be made into
a criminal act.  I think that there are already plenty of laws that could be used
against bullies when they commit overt acts.

For example,
if a bully is stealing from someone, they are already liable to being charged for
theft.  If they are physically harming the person, they can be charged with
assault.

Once you go beyond things like that, the line
separating criminal and non-criminal acts is too blurry for my tastes.  What would
constitute criminal bullying?  Would it be simply making fun of other people?  That
would be a really tough one for a school to enforce -- when is making fun of someone
bullying and when is it normal teenage behavior?  It may seem easy to tell the
difference, but when we start talking about how to define bullying legally, it gets
pretty difficult.

Find the Fahrenheit equivalent of 55 Celsius.

This comes out to about 131 degrees Fahrenheit.  Here is
how you find this result.

The formula for doing this
conversion is

F = C (9/5) +
32.

In this equation, F is the temperature in degrees
Fahrenheit while C is the temperature in degrees Celsius.  9/5 comes out to
1.8.

So to find for F we simply plug in 55 to the
equation.

F = 55 (1.8) + 32

F
= 99 + 32

F = 131

So we can
see that a temperature of 55 degrees Celsius is the equivalent of a temperature of 131
degrees Fahrenheit.

Is country risk assessment an exact science?

Certainly not. There is no way that it can
be.

In order to exactly determine the level of risk associated with
any particular country, it is necessary to determine the likelihood of all possible scenarios
that might have an impact on a firm that invested in that country. This is clearly impossible to
do in any exact way. Let us take two examples to show why this is
so.

First of all, let us look at the example of Egypt. Before the
start of this year, very few people would have said there was much risk of the Mubarak government
being overthrown. Therefore, Egypt would have been seen as a politically stable country. Even if
someone did think that Mubarak might be overthrown, it would be extremely difficult to put an
accurate number on that likelihood. You cannot really say that there is a 60% chance (as opposed
to a 50% chance) that a country's government will be overthrown. Therefore, it is impossible to
exactly define how much political risk there is in a country like
Egypt.

Second, look at Japan and the impact of the earthquake and
tsunami. This was a natural event, not a human one, and should therefore be easier to forecast.
However, there is no way to accurately assess the risk of such a disaster happening in any given
year or decade. Scientists don't know with any specificity when an
earthquake will happen or where or how strong it will be. This makes exact assessment of risk
impossible.

There are too many things that can happen to affect a
firm's investment in a country. The variety of things that can happen make it impossible to
exactly assess the level of country risk.

What is the role of old lady in the play"A Street Named Desire"?She is dressed in black that Blanche hallucinates,selling flowers for funerals as...

To truly understand the role of the Mexican woman selling
flowers in "A Streetcar Named Desire", one must translate what she calls as she walks the
streets.

The flower seller calls out "flores para los muertos". This
means "flowers for the dead". Blanche has just had an argument with Mitch and he tells her that
he cannot live with the truth of her past (she was a prostitute.) After Mitch leaves, Blanche
stumbles to the door of Stanley's flat and sees the woman selling
flowers.

The symbolism of this is two-fold. First, Blanche's
language becomes indistinguishable- her words mirror the foreign tongue of the Mexican. This
shows that she is no longer able to be understood, literally and
figuratively.

Second, and perhaps the most profound, is the
foreshadowing that is provided here. The Mexican woman is calling for people to buy flowers to
show respect for their dead. This foreshadows Blanche's own figurative death. Mentally and
physically, Blanche's life is over. Mentally, Blanche has lost it. Physically, she knows now that
her youth, and chances for marital happiness, are gone.

A car covers the first half of the distance between two places at a speed of 40 km/h and second half at 60 km/h . Find the average speed of the car.

The car covers the entire distance that we'll note as
x.

We'll split the distance in half, since the car covers
the first half at the v1 speed, of 40 km/h, and the other half at the v2 speed, of 60
km/h.

The first half of distance is covered in the time t1,
and the other half in the time t2.

We'll write the formula
of speed:

v = x/t (1)

v1 =
(x/2)/t1

We'll substitute
v1:

40 = (x/2)/t1

t1 = x/80
hour

v2 = (x/2)/t2

We'll
substitute v2:

60 =
(x/2)/t2

t2 = x/120 hour

Now,
we'll write the average speed:

av. v = total distance
covered/total time taken

av. v =
x/(t1+t2)

We'll substitute t1 and
t2:

av. v = x/(x/80+x/120)

av.
v = 80*120/(80+120)

av. v =
9600/200

av. v = 48
Km/h

The average speed of the car is av. v =
48 Km/h.

In an argumentative paper, I state Sonny becomes an addictive, jazz musician because of 1950's culture. What could my 3 points be?"Sonny's Blues"...

It seems that your contention is that Sonny's environment is so
difficult for him that he attempts to escape it through his use of heroine. For your points that
will defend the threats that Sonny's environment contains, you may first wish to allude to the
setting of Harlem in the 1950s as an area of darkness. For, as the narrator reflects that Sonny
had probably tried heroine when he was the age of the students that the narrator teaches, he
remarks,

They were
filled with rage. All they really knew were two darknesses, the darkness of their lives, which
was now closing in on them, and the darness of the movies, which had blinded them to that other
darkness, and in which they now, vindictively, dreamed, at once more together than they were at
any other time, and more
alone.

• This
  darkness of the lives of those in Harlem is alluded to often. In a
  flashback the narrator recalls how his father drank to quiet his fear of the darkness. The
  mother, too, sat quietly as she and the father looked at "something a child can't see." And, as
  the narrator speaks with Sonny's old friend, the narrator senses the menace in the darkness of
  his environment. It is this menace that the parents of Sonny and the narrator have feared in "the
  vivid, killing streets" of their childhood. The darkness is the limits upon the lives of those in
  Harlem.


• These streets of Harlem as
  menace take something from the inhabitants. The narrator recalls how
  the mother said, "It ain't only the bad ones, nor yet the dumb ones that get sucked under." Then,
  she told the narrator about his uncle who was killed. The menace is the problem of race.
  


• Finally, there is the suffering that
  one endures in the Harlem of Sonny and his brother. Frequently, the narrator mentions "some
  worry" in Sonny's eyes, a "thoughtfulness" and the music "seemed to be merely an excuse for the
  life he led." It also "makes something real" Sonny tells his brother. But, later the narrator
  finds that the music seems "to soothe a poison out" of the street singers. As he and Sonny
  listen, Sonny remarks,

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"While I was downstairs before, on my way here, listening
to that woman sing, it struck me...how much suffering she must have had to go through--to sing
like that...No, there's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning
in it, to keep on top of it, and to make it seem--well, like
you."

Sonny feels the terrible
darkness, the menace of the streets, and he plays his blues to "soothe a poison out," to get
someone to listen to his expression of suffering and take away his "cup of trembling." Then, he
triumphs, for he is not alone, not in the darkness. His suffering, his artistic expression is
heard and shared. "And his triumph, when he triumphs, is ours," the narrator
remarks.

In Death of a Salesman, Act II, what goes on in the Loman household that is typical of many American familes?

You might find you need to be more specific with this question
as there are lots of activities that typical American families engage in that are depicted in Act
II. What precisely are you referring to? Is it having breakfast? Is it two parents discussing
their children? One possibility is the way in which Linda and Willy talk about money and their
lack of it. Note the way in which Linda is shown to be responsible for the housekeeping and her
quick ability to calculate money. It is she that needs to inform Willy and keep him on track
about the money they need for such things as the Insurance, the payment on the refrigerator and
the last payment on the mortgage:

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All told, about two hundred dollars would carry us, dear.
But that includes the last payment on the mortgage. After this payment, Willy, the house belongs
to us.

Note the way in which this
quote shows that Linda is taking over responsibility for aspects of the family which normally the
man is responsible for. This highlights the way in which Willy is increasingly withdrawing from
real life and not fully engaged in the aspects of day to day living, meaning that Linda is having
to take over some aspects, such as financial management.

For the book Gabriel's Rebellion by Douglas Egerton, is there a clear cut thesis that the author intends to explain or is he simply retelling events?

Every book of history is more than just a retelling of events --
each author retells events in such a way as to try to make a given point.  In this book, Egerton
is trying to make a point about Prosser's motives and about the society of the
time.

Specifically, Egerton wants to argue that Prosser's rebellion
was not so much a racial rebellion as it was a class-based rebellion.  Egerton believes that
Prosser wanted to enlist working class whites to fight alongside with blacks.  The enemy would
not be defined by the color of their skin.  Instead, the enemy was supposed to be the merchant
class of whites who profited from the labor of the workers.

Egerton
is trying to prove this point -- enough so that he chooses to cite evidence to support it and he
downplays evidence that would suggest that the rebellion really was
racial.

In short, then, Egerton is trying to argue that Prosser's
rebellion was one that came out of a form of class consciousness rather than out of racial
animosity.

Equation 3 + x = 24 / ( x + 1 ) is a quadratic equation ?

If it is written in the original form, it doesn't look
like a quadratic equation, but it is.

We have to isolate x
to the left side. For this reason, we'll have to multiply both sides by the denominator
x+1.

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

We'll simplify and we'll
get:

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

We'll
remove the brackets:

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

We'll combine like
terms:

x^2 + 4x - 21 =
0

Since the maximum order of
the equation is 2, the equation is a
quadratic.

 The number of the roots is 2 and
the formula for finding the roots is:

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

x2 = [-b-sqrt(b^2 -
4ac)]/2a

Let's identify
a,b,c:

a = 1

b =
4

c = -21

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

x1 =
(-4+10)/2

x1 =
3

x2
=  (-4-10)/2

x2 =
-7

What is Montag trying to remember on the subway in Fahrenheit 451?

I think that it is actually more accurate to say that
Montag is trying to memorize something on the subway instead of saying that he is trying
to remember.  What he is trying to memorize is a passage from the Gospel of
Matthew.

He is trying to memorize a bit from Matthew 6. 
This is the part where Jesus is telling people not to worry about stuff on earth -- they
should trust in God to take care of them.  Jesus says

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And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the
lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they
spin

But Montag cannot
memorize this because the ad for Denham's Dentrifice keeps blaring away.  This
symbolizes how the society never lets anyone have time to think about anything other
than material stuff.

Discuss the first language acquisition in children and second language aquisition in adults

Primary language development begins at age 5 and is complete by
puberty.

Here are the theories of primary language
acquisition:

Behaviorist Theory: Language is acquired through
enforcement and imitation, i.e.it is a form of operant
conditioning.

Nativist Theory: Humans have an innate language
acquisition device. Once vocabulary is learned, the learner has an innate ability to form
meaningful sentences.

Empiricist Theory: There is enough information
in what a child learns to allow development of the ability to communicate in proper sentences.
There is no need for an innate language acquisition
device.

Interactionist Perspective: This is a combination of
nativist and behaviorist theories.

Second language acquisition
follows the same steps in all adult students, but there is extreme individual variation in time
for each step. Also, upon acquisition of fluency, there will be a considerable variation in level
of fluency, writing ability, degree of non-native accent when speaking, and ability to enter
advanced fluency such as expressing and understanding sarcasm and
humor.

Stages of second language acquisition in adults are as
follows:

Pre-production: Student acquires a vocabulary of up to 500
words, but does not speak, yet can repeat what teacher says.

Early
production: This stage lasts approximately 6 months. The student has an active and repeatable
vocabulary of 1000 words. She speaks in phrases of a few
words.

Speech emergence: Vocabulary is 3,000 words. Student
communicates in simple phrases and sentences.

Intermediate fluency:
6,000 words. Student uses more complex sentences in writing and speech. At this stage the student
uses strategies from her native language to augment abilities in the second
language.

Advanced fluency: This takes 4-10 years. Student has a
near native skill in learning content, but needs assistance in studying history or social
studies, and some assistance in writing.