What are some poetic devices in W. H. Auden's "The Average"?His peasant parents killed themselves with toil To let their darling leave a...

When trying to detect poetic devices in a poem, the best way is
to take a copy of it and to highlight any particular words or phrases that are intriguing or
stand out, then to try and work out if these phrases contain any poetic devices. Reading the poem
out loud can likewise aid in this process, as you can "hear" a number of the sound effects
created which may not be so apparent if you only read the poem. The idea is that by annotating
poems and reading them aloud we interact with them, helping us to understand them better and
"unpicking" some of the devices employed.

With this poem, there is
alliteration in the first stanza in "peasant parents" and "stingy soil." Notice as well there is
also irony in the "smart professions" that encourage "shallow breathing" as opposed to the deep,
worthy breathing of working the land, as modelled by the "average man's" parents. This division
between the worthy job of working the land which is nonetheless scorned by society and more
worthy professions is one that will dominate the poem.

The desert is
personified in stanza three, as it is pictured "glaring" into the "blood-shot eyes" of the
average man, and then we are given a paradox in stanza four:

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The silence roared
displeasure...

Silence of course
cannot literally "roar," but this helps us imagine the pressue this man was under and how he felt
the expectations of his parents and the fear of failure crushing him.

What are three adjectives that discribe Heck Tate from the book To Kill a Mockingbird?

You could certainly get several different answers to this
question as it is purely a matter of opinion, but here is how I would characterize Heck
Tate:

"Local": as the sheriff of Maycomb County, he
dresses, acts, and speaks the part.  He is well known and well respected by most.  He
knows and respects Atticus and does his best to support him throughout the trial (gives
warning of the upcoming mob incident, testifies honestly, etc).  He is also a "local
boy" in that he knows his town and he knows the prejudice that exists.  He does his best
to be honest and just, but he is not a revolutionary.  He does not necessarily attempt
to stir anything up nor be a leader of
change.

"Humble/polite": Heck Tate is not a glory seeking
sheriff.  This is evident by the way he speaks to people with respect even though he is
the sheriff and isn't necessarily required to do this for anyone.  It is also shown in
the quiet evening he is home (instead of at church where most go to socialize) when his
house is vandalized.  His testimony at the trial also reveals his humility.  Though he
is well known in the town, he is almost embarrassed to be speaking in front of everyone,
and so he looks down at his knees.

"Sensitive": Heck Tate
certainly shows sensitivity toward the case and toward Tom Robinson and Atticus in his
support.  The best evidence of his sensitivity however, comes at the very end of the
novel when he refuses to blame Boo Radley for Bob Ewell's
death.

For more on Heck Tate, a couple of chapters that
might help you to review are Chapter 10 (The Mad Dog Incident), Chapter 17 (Tate's
Testimony), and Chapter 31 (Boo Radley Incident).

In the Introduction to The Scarlet Letter, "The Custom-House," in what war did General Miller fight?

In Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet
Letter, the General is a minor character who appears in the Introduction
called "The Custom House." This Introduction, originally written by Hawthorne as an
independent and unrelated short story, sets the frame from which the story of Hester
Prynne, Pearl and Reverend Dimmesdale is told. General
Miller is the head customs collector at Salem Custom House, a government
installation for collecting customs duties on items coming into America through the
Salem seaport. He enters the story because the narrator of "The Custom House," who is
presumed to be Nathaniel Hawthorne himself speaking as the narrator, takes a position at
there and thus meets that General and the other colorful employees, who all shave either
inherited their rather low-key work positions in customs or been awarded their positions
as retirement rewards for other services rendered to the
government.

Typical of this trend, General
Miller was awarded his position for his service in and record as a war
hero of the War of 1812. At the time that the narrator
meets him, he has served twenty years at the Salem Custom
House:

[T]he
Collector, our gallant old General, who, after his brilliant military service,
subsequently to which he had ruled over a wild Western territory, had come hither,
twenty years before, to spend the decline of his varied and honourable
life.

This Introduction is
relevant to the story of The Scarlet Letter because it is at the
Custom House, or "Custom-House" as the Introduction puts it, that the narrator finds the
package that tells the story of Hester Prynne. The General is important to the story
because it can be argued that Hawthorne uses him to foreshadow both the great weight
that an error can have on a conscience imbued with keen integrity and the ability of
some, like Hester and Pearl, to survive great
plights:

His
integrity was perfect; it was a law of nature with him, rather than a choice or a
principle; .... A stain on his conscience, ... would trouble such a man ... though to a
far greater degree ... I had met with a person thoroughly adapted to the situation which
he held.

Did Beka show an appreciation for her culture or the culture of others? Please explain.I just would like to know if came up in the book and how or...

I believe that Beka is evolving. Just like other teens,
she accepts some of the values of her culture and the culture of others, and rejects
others. She is interested in her Granny Ivy's ideas, and Granny Ivy is interested in
maintaining the Creole culture, but she does not accept all of Granny's ideas. She
listens to her father's ideas about the future of Belize, and accepts some of them and
rejects others. She is aware of how the Creoles are not treated equally, and she is
angry about this. She does not like the way the sisters have treated her friend Toycie,
which has partly to do with the fact that Toycie is a Creole. She also realizes that
everyone looks down on National Vellor, and yet, Beka finds some very redeeming things
about National - especially when it is National that saves Toycie's
life.

Beka is a character that hopefully will combine the
best of the past and present from all of the cultures and beliefs represented in Belize
and mold her country's future into something better  for
everyone.

A basketball player dunks the ball and momentarily hangs from the rim of the basket. Assume that the player can be considered as a 95.0 kg...

From the information given, we have a player of mass 95 kg
hanging from the rim of a basket. The behavior of the basket rim can be simplified to that of a
spring with a spring constant of 7.4*10^3 N/m.

The displacement of
the basket rim can be determined using Hooke's law. According to Hooke's law, F = -kx, where F is
the force causing the displacement, k is the spring constant and x is the displacement from the
equilibrium position. The negative sign indicates the tendency of a spring to return to the
equilibrium length when displaced.

The player of weight 95 kg exerts
a force given by m*g where m is the mass of the player and g is the acceleration due to gravity
equal to 9.8 m.s^2. The force is 95*9.8 = 931 N

The displacement due
the force x is given by F/k. Here F = 931 N and k = 7.4*10^3 N/m

x =
931/7.4*10^3 = 0.125 m

The displacement of the basket's rim from its
horizontal position due to the player hanging from it is 0.125 m.

How should I write a thesis for how color is used throughout The Great Gatsby?This is for a literary analysis, and I know what colors I want to...

It sounds like you have a good start. You have already decided
what the colors are that you are focusing on and what each one means. The thesis should be a
statement about the colors and how Fitzgerald used them in the story to tell the reader something
important.

The introduction of an essay is often the hardest part to
write. The thesis is meant to guide what you are going to focus on in your essay. It can be a
sentence or two, and it should be clear and consise.

When I write a
rough draft of an essay, I try not to get stuck on the introduction. Instead I often just write
the thesis, finish the paper and then go back and refine my
introduction.

Make sure that you tell the reader specifically what
Fitzgerald was showing the reader. Try not to be vague. What was he trying to accomplish by using
colors? What did they symbolize? If you start here, you should be able to write the paper. When
you are done, you will be able to refine your thesis and introduction.

Write an equation in point-slope form for the perpendicular bisector of the segment with endpoints A(1,4) and B(-5, -2).

The equation of the line in point slope form is
:

y-y1 = m(x-x1) which has a slope m amd passes through the point
(x1,y1).

A(1,4) and B (-5, -2) has the mid point M (x,y) given
by:

M(x,y) = ( (Ax +Bx)/2 , (Ay+By)/2 )
=

Mx = (1-5)/2 = -2.

 My = (4-2)/2 =
1.

Therefore  M(x,y) = M(-2 , 1).

Slope
of AB = m = (By - Ay)/(Bx- Ax) =  (-2-4)/(-5-1) = 1.

Therefore the
slope a line perpendicular to AB = -1/m = -1/1 = -1.

Therfore the
equation of the line with slope -1 and passing through the mid point M(-2 , 1) of A and B   in
point slope form is given by:

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

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

In "Tell All the Truth but Tell it Slant", what do you think the poem means?

This is one of Emily Dickinson's poems where she
challenges the norm and tries to make us see how we need to modify our approach to
"truth". Dickinson uses metaphors to describe truth as a blinding light - look for
descriptions such as "Truth's superb surprise", "dazzle" and reference to blindness.
Dickinson thus argues that we should tell the truth, but we need to do it "slant" - or
in a way that does not blind people with the harshness and brightness of its veracity.
She commends us to realise that "Success in circuit lies", which means that the way to
tell the truth is not in a blunt fashion but in a roundabout kind of way that does not
"blind" people directly. Dickinson also says something inherent about human nature,
arguing that the raw "truth" is "Too bright for our infirm delight", saying that there
is something about humanity which means we find it hard to accept the truth told
bluntly.

Two examples of symbiotic relationships between species in Temperate Woodlands?

Mycorrhizas, or "fungus root" are fungi that live in a
close symbiotic relationship called mutualism, with trees found in the forest. As the
trees carry out photosynthesis, some of the carbon is given to the fungi. Fungi, on the
other hand provide additional nutrients for the trees and help them get more water than
their own root system can accomplish. Fungi are able to extend the root system of the
plant, enabling the plant to gain access to more water and nutrients than would be
possible alone. Another relationship is between trees and moss or algae. Sometimes, moss
or algae grow on the side of a tree, which is benefical because they can receive more
light than would be available on the forest floor amongst the leaf litter. It is an
example of commensalism because the tree is neither harmed nor helped by this
relationship.

what are the attributes of a transnational company ?

 The attributes of a
transnational company  -

(1) INVESTMENT IN
FOREIGN OPERATIONS : -

Company have investment in foreign
operations i.e. It operates in more than one country /
nation.

(2) CENTRAL CORPORATE
FACITLITY : -

These company
enjoys a central corporate facility in one country. All the individual foreign market
reports to the corporate
facility.

(3) DECISION MAKING
PROCESS : -

All the decision
relating to individual market in different nations are authorized to make decisions
individually.

(4) MARKETING
POWER : -

Each individual
market enjoys the marketing power for its products &
services.

(5) RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
ACTIVITY : -

Research and
Development activity are carried out by the individual foreign
market.

What are some of the traits portrayed by the characters in Act 4 Scene 1 of Macbeth?

In Act 4 Scene 1 of Macbeth, Macbeth
has decided to return to the witches' lair to get another prophecy.  When the scene
opens, the three witches are creating a brew that they will use to cast their spell. 
Hecate, who previously scolded the witches for dealing with Macbeth, is happy with the
witches' new plan.  Macbeth arrives and demands another prophecy.  In the scene, Macbeth
is arrogant and bossy as he tries to force the witches and the apparitions to confirm
his desires.  However, the witches tell Macbeth that he cannot command the elements of
fate and that he must just listen and receive what they have to offer.  The witches
attempt to remain neutral in the scene as they are simply the harbingers of fate and
destiny.  However, a hint of amusement is shown by one of them near the end of the
meeting after Macbeth has asked to be shown the truth about Banquo's sons becoming
king.  He is angry that they tell him that Banquo's sons will indeed take the throne for
many generations, and the witch asks him why he is so surprised.  She says that he knew
this already, and her tone mimics one of a mother mocking the folly of a child.  But
Macbeth feels secure in his state because he foolishly misinterprets the prophecy. 
Here, he is closed-minded and blinded by his own greedy
ambition.

In Susan Glaspell's one-act play Trifles, what are the major discoveries of the play?A discovery is any new information of sufficient importance to...

One major discovery made in the play "Trifles" is the dead
canary the women (Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters) find in the sewing
basket.

Up until this point, the neighboring women who have
come in to gather things to take to the jail have had their doubts about their neighbor
Mrs. Wright, and her innocence in the death of her
husband.

The men who are investigating the house while the
women are there brush aside the importance of the things women do each day as trivial,
as "trifles." This in itself antagonizes the women and makes them more sympathetic,
better able to understand Mrs. Wright's obvious unhappiness living with such a cold,
uncaring husband.

However, when they find the
broken bird cage, and then the dead canary, wrapped as if waiting to be buried, their
sympathy becomes more open between them, and they recognize the separation they feel
from the authority and uncaring attitudes of the men; so much so, that they keep their
discoveries a secret from the men. If the husband killed the bird,
as it seems, they can finally understand that with all she had put
up with from her husband in the past, this act drove her to the brink, and she probably
did kill him. However, in an act of solidarity with another of
their kind, they remain silent about what they suspect.
 Ironically, when they had had no sense of who Mrs. Wright was or her plight in life
when they arrived, they now do what the County Attorney had assumed that had done
earlier, in trying to protect another woman: "Ah, loyal to your sex, I
see."

When a rain falls from the sky, what happens to its momentum as it hits the ground? Is your answer also valid for Newton‘s famous apple?

To answer this question, the momentum (p) equation will be
invaluable:

p = mv

With the
rain drop, m is the mass of the rain drop, and v is its terminal velocity (zero
acceleration) through the air.

When the rain drop hits the
ground the momentum changes.  This can be conceptualized by taking the derivative of the
momentum equation with respect to time.  Remember that "d" simply means "change
in":

dp/dt = m (dv/dt)

Since
dv/dt is the change in velocity over time which is acceleration we can replace it with
"a" for acceleration:

dp/dt =
ma

And as we know, F =
ma

Because the drop decelerates when it hits the ground, F
= ma tells us an impact force is created.  This impact force causes the raindrop to
break apart and splatter in all different directions on the
ground.

However, the conservation of momentum rule
(momentum of the whole drop is equal to the sum of the momentum of the splattered drops)
is not valid in this case because there are energy loses due to the impact
force.

This effect seen with the rain drop is likely what
you would see with an apple.  Depending on the apple's coefficient of elasticity (e),
the ratio of bounce to splatter will differ (an e=1.0 would mean a perfect bounce, where
as an e=0.5 would mean some splatter, and thus, momentum loss due to the impact
force).

Why do you think the author chose to call the main character "the sniper" in "The Sniper"?

I think one of the reasons the author chose not to name
the character in "The Sniper" is to try and universalise the themes of war and emphasise
the way that this civil war caught up so many people in it, not just individuals, but
entire families, towns and cities. Note how the sniper is
introduced:

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On a rooftop near O'Connell Bridge, a Republican
sniper lay watching. Beside him lay his rifle and over his shoulders was slung a pair of
field glasses. His face was the face of a student, thin and ascetic, but his eyes had
the cold gleam of the fanatic. They were deep and thoughtful, the eyes of a man who is
used to looking at death.

I
think it is important to note that the first piece of information we receive about this
sniper is that he was a Republican, thus emphasising the side he was on and the way that
Ireland was literally ripped in two by the Civil War. He is a universal figure by not
being named, and thus his tragedy and the way it shows the horror of civil war is
universalised.

Paraphrase the paragraph on cell growth and cell division below.The cell cycle is required for cell growth and cell division into two daughter...

A eukaryotic cell must replicate its genome (DNA) and
follow the cell cycle in order to divide.  To do so, the cell must go through DNA
synthesis and mitosis. The process begins with the cell going through G1, the gap-1 or
cell growth and preparation of DNA.  Then S-phase, or synthesis, reproduces the genome
inside the nucleus.  Following the S-phase is the G-2 or gap-2 growing the cell in order
to prepare for mitosis and then comes the final phase, M or mitosis in which the
duplicated chromosomes are seperated.

In 1984, how do the tones in parts 1 and 2 differ?

We see this world through the eyes of Winston Smith who
judges the totalitarian society that he lives in. Because of this we easily adopt the
mood he has for the government and society in which he
lives.

In part 1, Winston struggles with the society and
curiously questions on the inside the purposes and motives of the Party. He has this
longing to rebel, but never truly acts on it in the open, only in the privacy of his
mind. Words I would use to describe the tone in this part include:
inquisitive, curious, contentious, questioning, and
tolerant.

In part 2, Winston and Julia
begin a risky relationship and Winston further believes in possible resistance to the
Party. Thus, this tone could be considered more daring, risky, unashamed,
motivated, and
willing.

Can you please paraphrase the three parts of the poem by Langston Hughes titled "Cross"?

The three stanzas of Langston Hughes’ poem titled “Cross” might
be paraphrased as follows:

• STANZA ONE: In line 1, the
  speaker announces that his father is white; in line 2, he announces that his mother is white; in
  lines 3 and 4 he says that if he ever in the past condemned his father, he now withdraws that
  condemnation.


• STANZA TWO: In lines 5 and 6 he announces that if he
  ever in the past condemned his mother and “wished she were in
  hell,”

I'm
sorry for that evil wish
And now I wish her well.
(7-8)

• STANZA THREE: In line
  9, the speaker announces that his father passed away in a nice white house. In line 10 he
  announces that he mother passed away in a small, run-down hovel. In lines 11-12 he wonders where
  he himself will pass away, since he belongs entirely neither to the white race nor the black
  race.

More interesting than the plain meaning of the
poem, however, are some of its possible implications. For example, the phrase “old man” in line 1
at first seems figurative (meaning “father”) but may also be literal (“an aged male”). The fact
that both the father and mother are described as old prepares us for the eventual references to
their deaths. In the first stanza, however, the speaker refers to them as if they were still
living, so that the later references to their deaths come as a bit of a
shock.

In lines 3 and 4, the speaker invites us to wonder
why he may have “cursed” his “old man.” Did he curse his father because of
natural tensions between father and son? Or, since the differing races of the father and mother
have been mentioned and emphasized explicitly, did the son curse his father for making the son a
mulatto, so that he belonged securely to neither race?

Similar
questions are raised by the second stanza, but note that the emotions implied in this stanza are
far more intense than the emotions implied in stanza one. The speaker may merely have “cursed”
(5) his father, but apparently he wished his mother “were in hell” – a wish he now acknowledges
was “evil” (7). Ironically, his very willingness to condemn himself for “evil” thoughts in the
past makes him now seem morally attractive. The second halves of the first two stanzas imply the
speaker’s sense of conscience. He has apparently felt as conflicted in his emotions (torn between
anger and forgiveness) as he is divided in his racial
backgrounds.

From stanza three, it appears that the speaker’s father
was wealthy and that his mother was poor. This fact leads us to wonder how, exactly, this man and
this woman came together to produce their son. Did the father take advantage of the mother? Did
the mother offer herself (perhaps for pay) to the father? Were they in love but prevented by
social prejudice from acknowledging their love?

Apparently the
father and mother never married (which would have been difficult in the early twentieth century).
Presumably the son was raised by the mother. Ironically, did his physical closeness to her make
him all the more bitter toward her? In any case, by the end of the poem the speaker is left
alone. Both of his parents have passed away, and he is left to wonder how he will make his way in
a society he knows is racist – a society in which mulattos may be fully accepted neither by
whites nor by blacks.

Although Hughes’ poem does
not tell a detailed or complicated story, it
certainly implies such a story, thereby provoking readers’ curiosity and
their thoughts.

What is the meaning of the title?***not 14 days

First of all, please remember that this is not the original
title of the book.  The original title was (of course) in Japanese and contained an important pun
that could not be translated.  Therefore, Mishima was given a list of possible titles in English
and this is the one that he chose.

The title refers to what happens
to Ryuji over the course of the story.  Ryuji had all these dreams of glory (glory was part of
the punning Japanese title -- it could be read as "Glory in the Afternoon") but he abandoned
them.  He gave in to the mundane world and married Fusako instead of trying to make his life into
something glorious.  He falls from grace because he abandons his dreams and settles for a banal
existence.

In Homer's Odyssey, "When rosy fingered dawn appeared" is what type of figure of speech?

In general, the line "When rosy fingered dawn appeared..." is
first of all imagery. Imagery is an description that paints a mental image in the reader's
mind.

Specifically, this is also an example of a specific kind of
imagery known as personification. Personification is giving human characteristics to non-human
things. The dawn, actually, is not made of fingers: fingers belong to
people.

This could also be considered a metaphor. A metaphor is a
literary device. Defined, a metaphor is the comparison of two dissimilar things with similar
characteristics, as if they were the same.

In this example, the dawn
is being compared to fingers.

All of these literary elements named
above are known as figurative language. With figurative language, the reader does not take the
description literally, but figuratively.

So the statement is
considered figurative language. Imagery is an example of figurative language, and personification
and the metaphors are examples of imagery (which is a kind of figurative
language).

In Miller's The Crucible, discuss how John Proctor is a modernist character.

Proctor can be seen as a Modernist character in a variety of
ways. In my mind, the most primary way he can be seen in such a light is because he recognizes
that there is no transcendental structure worth upholding in Salem. Like most Modernists, Proctor
comes to the realization that the "fix is in" with regards to the structure of society,
government, and religion. He recognizes that Abigail and those in the position of power are
manipulating the fear of witchcraft for their own benefit. It is because of this that he ascends
a moral stature in a world that does not embrace it. Proctor can be considered Modernist in this
respect, also. He understands quite clearly that since there is no moral or ethical structure
worth upholding around him, he will have to assert this notion of identity in the world with his
own actions. Proctor embraces this aspect of his freedom and autonomy in his ability to construct
moral right and wrong in a setting where such guidance is absent. In another sense, Proctor
represents Modernism in his recognition of how a change has become evident. When Woolf writes
that, "All human relations shifted" and this seismic shift impacts government, religion,
politics, society, and all individuals, Proctor might be the embodiment of such a reality.
Proctor understands that Salem is rapidly changing, devolving into a setting where fear and
paranoia reign supreme. The "shift" in his own actions represents how he refuses to give his
ascent to such a change and through his own voice of dissent, he articulates resistance
regardless of consequence. This is a Modernist idea in that the voice and chords of dissent are
spoken and heard to represent a fundamental disapproval for the world's "shift" in the hopes of
bringing attention to it.

Solve for x ,5^4x = 2*25^x – 1

This is an exponential equation that
requires substitution technique.

First,
we'll move all terms to one side, changing the sign of the terms
moved.

5^4x - 2*25^x + 1 =
0

Now, we notice that 25  =
5^2

We'll re-write the equation
as:

5^4x - 2*5^2x + 1 = 0

It
is a bi-quadratic equation:

We'll substitute 5^2x by
another variable.

5^2x =
a

We'll square raise both
sides:

5^4x  =a^2

 We'll
re-write the equtaion, having "a" as variable.

a^2 - 2a + 1
= 0

The equation above is the result of expanding the
square:

(a-1)^2 = 0

a1 = a2 =
1

But 5^2x = a1.

5^2x =
1

We'll write 1 as a power of
5:

5^2x = 5^0

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

2x =
0

We'll divide by 2:

x =
0.

The solution of the equation is x =
0.

Emphasize Victor's (from Frankenstein) horror at what he has created. Focus on the emotive words. 'Horror' is repeated four times- why? Also, both...

When Victor, in Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, begins to
collect the parts for his creature, he does so with the greatest attention to detail. Victor
desires to create a beautiful creature that will deem him the best "father" in the
world.

A new species
would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being
to me. No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve
theirs.

It is these thoughts which
propelled Victor to create a being which owed both its existence and its beauty to Victor.

Upon realizing his "son" lived, Victor is horrified at the
creature's physical nature.

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His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his
features as beautiful. Beautiful!—Great
God!

Victor had gone through great
lengths to find the appropriate parts which would make his creature beautiful. His recognition
that his creature is not beautiful is utterly shocking to Victor. Instead of being beautiful, the
creature is so hideous that Victor cannot bear to look at him.

The
importance of Victor's horror lies in the fact that Shelley desired to frighten her readers in
the same way she, herself, had been frightened at the monster's creation in her nightmare. Her
1831 introduction defines her desire to frighten her readers.

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O! if I could only contrive one which would frighten my
reader as I myself had been frightened that
night!

Shelley's use of emotive words,
such as horror, ugly and hideous, are used to allow the reader to create an image of a monster so
frightening that they, themselves, will have nightmares similar to her own. Given that Shelley
does not paint a complete picture of the monster, only showing the yellow eyes, she allows
readers to create their own image of a monster. Through Victor's recollection of the monster,
this effect is compounded given he can only describe emotions attributed to fear and not actual
images of fear.

The repetition of the word horror, used four times
in chapter five alone, compounds both Victor and the reader's fright. Given that people tend to
have different ideas of what is horrific, ugly and hideous, the use of these words is meant to
evoke true fear for the reader.

Why is the McCulloch v. Maryland case important?

This case is important because it set up the idea that the
federal government can do more or less whatever it wants.  It set up a broad definition
of the power of Congress under the Constitution.

Before
this case, it was not clear what Congress was allowed to do.  There are very specific
things that the Constitution explicitly says Congress may
do.  These are called expressed powers.  But are these the
only things Congress may do?  This is the question
McCulloch decided.

In this case, the Supreme Court ruled
that the "elastic clause" is what we should pay attention to when deciding what Congress
can do.  It says Congress may do anything "necessary and proper" to carry out its
expressed powers.  In this case, the Court said that this clause allowed Congress to set
up the Bank of the United States even though the Constitution never says "Congress may
set up a bank."

So by ruling in this way, the Court said
that Congress can do whatever it wants as long as that is not
prohibited by the Constitution.  Big difference, right --
Congress can do anything unless the Constitution prohibits
it rather than Congress can do only what the Constitution
explicitly says it may do.

IN WWII, how exactly did the Japanese mistreat prisoners of war. I know how the Japanese were mistreated, but i never really understood what the...

The Japanese treated the prisoners-of-war that came into their
hand harshly. They were viewed as valueless and as useful only for manual labour. As the war in
the Pacific turned against Japan, their sense of desperation only further aggravated such extreme
behaviour - contempt eased the policy of brutality and more atrocities were carried out against
the POWs, who were regarded as merely human charter.

For example, in
Singapore, about 100,000 Allied POWs were forced to live in cramped living conditions and
numerous of them were sent to carry out works, such as cleaning and doing repairs. The usual food
given to these prisoners was thin rice porridge, which resulted in cases of malnutrition and
starvation. Changi Prison, which was designed to hold a maximum of 600 prisoners, was packed in
with over 3000 POWs. Many POWs were also sent under the Japanese regime to constuct a 420
kilometre long railway through the mountainous terrain of Thailand and Burma. Around 60,000
British, Australian, Dutch and American POWs were used as forced labour, which eventually led to
the deaths of around 13,000 of them. 

What are the government actions to deal with an outbreak of influenza epidemic and pandemics? 

It would be hard for governments to deal with a pandemic
assuming that there is not a simple cure for the
disease.

Of course, the first thing to try would be
prevention.  We see governments today encouraging inoculation against swine flu.  With
enough advance warning, governments would want to make vaccines available to the
people.

If there is no vaccine, the next step might be to
close schools.  Schools tend to be a very good way to spread diseases and the government
would want to limit the speed of the spread.

I would think
that the government would also want to set up special facilities that could treat large
numbers of patients.  In a flu pandemic, having medical treatment (IVs and such) would
surely save lives even if the flu itself could not be cured.

In A Tale of Two Cities, who are the hostile witnesses at Charles Darnay's trial in England in Book II?

It is in Chapter 3 of Book II, entitled "A
Disappointment," that we are introduced to Darnay's trial for treason against the
English crown and we also meet the two hostile witnesses that testify against him. The
first of these hostile witnesses is John Barsad, who later on in the novel turns out to
be Miss Pross's long lost brother, Solomon Pross. Note how Dickens introduces an element
of doubt into Barsad's account:

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The story of his pure soul was exactly what Mr.
Attorney General had described it to be - perhaps, if it had a fault, a little too
exactly.

Note the irony in
the description of him as a "pure soul" which is shown by the immediate suspicion that
he is making up his accusations because he has repeated them "too
exactly."

This is a technique that is used to present the
other hostile witness, Robert Cly, "the virtuous servant." Also note the element of
humour that is inserted as Cly tries to prove the "virtuous" nature of his
character:

He
had never been suspected of stealing a silver tea-pot; he had been maligned respecting a
mustard-pot, but it turned out to be only a plated
one.

The ridiculous lengths
that he goes to to try and establish his good character clearly hints at deception
somewhere along the path in his evidence.

So, the two
characters who are hostile to Darnay and testify against him at his trial in England are
Robert Cly and John Barsad. It is important to remember that Darnay suffers two trials
in this novel, and an interesting exercise for you to do would be to compare and
contrast them, identifying similarities and differences.

Would you agree with the statement: "Death is a common theme in Hardy's poetry"?

I must admit, I would want to widen the statement to refer
generally to Hardy's sense of pessimism in his poetry. Death of course is just one
aspect that he touches upon, but you will also want to pay attention to and analyse his
preoccupation with the passing of time, the loss of loved ones, failed hopes and the
decline of religious faith. Certainly the passage of time is a central theme in Hardy's
poetry. At times it is as if he believed it was the fount of all unhappiness. Linked
with this of course is his view of nature as being utterly indifferent to the short
lives of human beings. Hardy's personal philosophy of life was that he considered
humanity to be utterly swamped by the forces of the universe, which resulted in deep
feelings of alienation and struggles with his own personal
significance.

Thus we can see that so many of his poems,
such as "At Castle Boterel" and "During Wind and Rain" feature a massive conflict as the
speaker struggles against the sense of meaninglessness of space and time, and attempts
to reassert what is essentially human against the forces of the universe. Likewise we
can thus see the importance of acts of memory, where the speaker attempts to reclaim the
past. And yet those poems that do try to do so, like "The Voice" and "At Castle
Boterel," end in inevitable failure and a return to the pessimistic tone that
dominates.

Therefore, whilst death is definitely a focus of
Hardy's poetry, I think you would find it more fruitful to examine his pessimism as a
whole, of which the theme of death is one undeniable part.

What are the effects of slavery on the characters in Beloved?Slavery, image of beauty, Sixo's image of trees, the second image of pain for...

I'm not quite sure what you are asking about each of these
items, but I will try to give you some help here.  The novel is about the effects of slavery on a
people.  Most of the items you have listed concern the pain that slavery wreaks on individuals.
 Brother is the the tree at Sweet Home that Paul and Sixo named.  Sweet Home had many beautiful
trees, but Brother was their favorite.  It was here that Sixo experimented with "night-cooking"
potatoes.    When Paul D thinks of this scene and Sixo, he
says,

Now there was a
man, and that was a tree.

But the
memory of this beautiful place and its beautiful trees is very painful to both Paul D and Sethe.
For it was here at Sweet Home that Sethe was molested, Paul D forced to wear a bit, and Sixo was
burned for trying to escape.  These painful memories cause Sethe to murder her own child rather
than have her baby endure the hardship of slaver, and Paul D to lock up his emotions in a tobacco
tin, so that he does not have to remember the horrors that occurred on what was truly a beautiful
place.

I hope this helps.

A triangle has two sides of lengths 8 and 6 cm. Find the length of the third side if its area is 24 cm^2.

The area A of the triangle is given by
:

(1/2)ab sinC = 24, where a and b are the sides and C is the angle
between the sides.

a = 8 and b = 6 and area =
24.

Therefore (1/2)8*6sinC = 24.

sinC =
24*2/(8*6) = 1/2.

Therefore C = 30 degree, or 150
deg.

If C = 30,  c ^2 = (a^2+b^2-
2abcosC)

 c = sqrt(8^2+6^2 - 2*8*6 cos30) = 4.1063
cm. nearly.

If C= 150 degree, then

c =
sqrt(8^2+6^2- 2*8*6*cos150) =  13.5329cm nearly.

What are some "Virtues of Kingship" seen in the play Macbeth?

In Act 4 Scene 3 of Macbeth, Malcolm
details for Macduff the "king-becoming graces" that one must have when he rules. 
Malcolm claims that a king must have "justice, verity, temp'rance, stableness, bounty,
perseverance, mercy, lowliness, devotion, patience, courage, [and] fortitude."  Malcolm
claims to have none of these traits.  However, his father Duncan had several of them. 
For example, when King Duncan realizes that Macbeth has fought valiantly for the
Scottish army, he decides to reward Macbeth by giving him an additional title.  Duncan
exhibits his kingly graces by honoring the man who has fought on behalf of the kingdom. 
Similarly, although Malcolm feels that he has none of these traits, he manages to
exhibit them at the end of the play when the English army rushes in to overtake
Macbeth.  Malcolm is brave and seeks justice for the homeland that has been disgraced by
Macbeth's greed and ambition.

In Death of a Salesman, Act I, except for his love for his boys, what are the things that make us admire Willy?

It's difficult to see many qualities that one can admire
in Wily from Act I.  I think that we see that we have to admire the fact that Wily seeks
out success.  It will come to be a part of his character that helps to cause his
downfall later on in the play, but in the opening act, we have an understanding about
how he views success.  Wily believes in it and transmits these values to his family. 
Another quality we see in Wily is that he is not lazy.  He does work and he works with a
strong ethic.  His travels to other places, the fact that he still is fighting for
success, are all admirable qualities.  Granted we will learn that Wily is fundamentally
unhappy, but in the opening act we see him as a character who is struggling against the
matrix of odds placed against him and struggling to "make it."  In a very admirable way,
we see that Wily possesses the power of memory, something that allows him to transcend
the difficult times that envelop him and see something else that can allow him to
transform, at least from a mental point of view, his condition.  This can be seen as an
admirable qualitiy in his character.

In "Anthem for Doomed Youth," by Wilfred Owen, the antecedent for "these" ( in line 1) is: doomed, guns, orisons, shires, or, browsI...

In Wilfred Owen's poem, "Anthem for Doomed Youth," the
antecedent for "these" does refer to the dying soldiers. However, it seems
that the poem's title provides us with the best answer based on the choices
given.

First, "antecedent" means "one that precedes another."
Grammatically, an href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/antecedent">antecedent is a word that
comes before another related word—one that reflects back to the first word. For example, it may
be a pronoun that is used in place of someone's name. An antecedent
is:

a word, phrase, or
clause, usually a substantive, that is replaced by a pronoun or other substitute later,
oroccasionally earlier, in the same or in another, usually subsequent, sentence.

(I agree, also, with your very
eloquent concern regarding how poetry appreciation and understanding should be approached with
"freedom," especially in that poetry speaks differently to different people. An essay would be a
better assessment tool, but harder for a teacher to grade...)

In any
case, looking at the choices given, "these" cannot refer to "guns," as they do not die. "Orisons"
are prayers, and while they might "die" figuratively on someone's lips, bells would not toll for
the passing of prayers.

"Brows" probably does not need an
explanation: I would consider this the throw-away question that could be deleted immediately.
(Usually multiple choice answers in a block have one of these.) "Shires" are
counties in England. The shires are not dying in the war.

The
biggest difficulty with both "orisons" and "shires" is that some students may not know what these
words mean. The unfamiliar word becomes a stumbling block in choosing the correct
answer.

"Doomed," however, refers to the young men (youth) that are
dying. In this case "doomed" is not an adjective, but a noun. "The" is not in front of the word
to show that it is a noun, but it is the youth who are doomed, and if "these" refers to "dying
soldiers," consequently it refers specifically to those who are "doomed," dying on the
battlefields and in the trenches of World War I. "These" refers back to "the doomed youth," or
simply, "doomed."

Additional
Source:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/antecedent

Determine the antiderivative of 1/(x+5)

To find the antiderivative of
1/(x+5).

Let f(x) =
1/(x+5).

To find the function F(x)  such that F'(x) = f(x)
= 1/(x+5).

We know that d/dx { log (ax +b)} =
(ax+b)'/(ax+b).

d/dx {log(ax+b)} =
a/(ax+b).

Therefore equating a/(ax+b) = 1/(x+5) we
get:

a(x+5) = ax+b

ax+5a =
ax+b

ax = ax.

5a = b . Or b =
5a.

Therefore ax+b =
ax+5a.

F(x) = log (ax+5a) = log
a(x+5).

Or F(x) = log(x+5)
+loga.

Therefore the anti derivative of 1/(x+5 ) is log
(x+5) + a constant.

How can Sula be considered a misunderstood hero when she is portrayed as a villain throughout the whole novel Sula? I'm having trouble considering...

Sula may be considered a misunderstood hero in the novel
Sula because she is continually trying to develop her identity in a
community that is not supportive or accepting of her as a person.  The members of the
Bottom see Sula as a community outcast and are not sad when she disappears for many
years.  Her actions towards her family and friends make her seem a villain:  Sula does
not lament the burning of her own mother and instead watches from the window in awe; she
also does not understand why Nel is so angry with her for sleeping with Jude.  However,
Sula does not have the same views on the responsibilities and obligations that people
have towards others so she does not follow these rules in her life.  Sula attempts to
posit her own sense of identity in the relationships that she has with others, and
therefore, she is a misunderstood hero.

How many soldiers are there in a group of 27 sailors and soldiers if there are four fifths many sailors as soldiers?

Let the number of sailors be x and the number of soldiers
be y.

Then, given that there are 4/5 sailors as many as
soldiers.

==> y = (4/5)
x.

But, given that all together are
27.

==> x + y = 27.

Let
us substitute with y= (4/5)x

==> x + (4/5)x =
27

==> (9/5)x =
27

==> x = 27*5/9 = 3*5 =
15

Then, there are 15
sailors.

==> y= (4/5)x = (4/5)*15 =
12

Then, there are 12
soldiers.

To what extent is romantic poetry the antithesis of neoclassical poetry?I would like to know the different characteristics of both romantic...

In some cases, it would be more appropriate to say
Neoclassical shifted to Romanticism, but there certainly were antithetical moves
there.

Neoclassical poetry is characterized by objectivity,
restraint, order, reason and at times, with the intent to reinvent past classical forms;
not to copy, but to use their example to create new forms of poetry based on those
concepts and even content. Language should be beautiful, restrained passion and it
should reflect the ideal of society.

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“Two principles in human nature
reign;

Self-love, to urge; to reason, and to restrain; (A.
Pope, Essay on Man: Epistle
II).

Romantic
poetry is characterized by subjectivity, emotion, melancholy and nature and as
Wordsworth called it, "the spontaneous overflow of emotion reflected in tranquility."
Language should be real, emotionally free and reflect the ordinary person and his/her
engagement with nature.

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“There was a time when meadow, grove and
stream;

The Earth and every common
sight,

To me did
seem,

Appareled in celestial light.” (Wordsworth,
Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Reflections from Early Childhood.
 

This makes it
sound like Neoclassical is all stuffy and Romanticism is a free spirit. To a large
extent, this is true. But Romanticism was not just a reaction to the restraint of the
individual in neoclassical literature. Romanticism was a reaction to the Historical
moment of industrialization and the disappearance of the individual in capitalist
society. Hence, the Romantics focus on nature. So, the antithesis is more between
Romanticism and historical movement because there are examples of neoclassical poetry
concerning nature and freedom and the focus on mankind (humanism) and the individual;
neoclassical may treat these themes but it is just more characteristically about reason
than emotion.

What is the personal attractiveness/"well-liked" motif in Death of a Salesman?I am looking for a discussion of the importance of the motif...

I adjusted your question so that I could address all the
parts: we can only answer one question per posting.

A motif
is like a recurring theme, and we see this continually throughout Miller's play. Willy
Lohman is obsessed with the idea that being attractive and/or well-liked is the secret
to success. This would include the theme of "don't judge a book by its cover," which is
an idea lost on Willy.

In terms of attractiveness, Willy
believes that his son can do anything because of how attractive he is in terms of his
physical appearance and his charismatic personality.

Willy
has also believed for the many years he has been in sales, that being well-liked gets
one through doors that are closed to others. He sees his past as a time when this kind
of relationship with customers not only served to make  him successful, but gave him a
better chance of acceptance with his old boss and in making new sales
connections.

We get the sense that his brother Ben was
attractive, well-liked, and particularly successful
financially.

The problem with this belief is that it is
based on appearance only and not on substance. As Willy ages, he is no longer a young
and dynamic salesman; the old "methods" no longer work. He has to perform more calls and
drive farther to make any progress. Being someone's buddy is meaningless in the new
sales arena—at least for him, so things don't come as easily on the job: this means he
is not bringing in the profits he needs to. The "good buddy" deals only work for the
younger salesmen. Consequently, Willy's boss can't "carry" Willy if he can't work
outlying areas, and Willy feels too old to handle being on the road. However, business
is business, and making money is what the company is there to do, so Willy loses his
job.

Willy's son, Biff, is someone Willy expects can do
anything based on how attractive and well-liked he is. This perception only exists
within Willy's mind; in fact, a great deal of how Willy sees the world is based upon
perceptions that are many years old and no longer valid. Willy is out of touch with the
present-day world; this includes the reality of his son's potential for success based on
the old "gimmicks" of favorable appearance and charisma. Whatever Biff may have had
going for him in high school, the truth is that he lost his scholarship, never graduated
high school, and was unable to go to college because he failed senior
math.

Willy does not see these things, and Biff spends a
good deal of the play trying or pretending to try to be what his father wants, but he is
unable to do so based on the reality of his life NOW.

The
major conflicts circle around the attractiveness/well-liked motifs. Willy cannot exist
in the present day world and holds onto things the way they were in the past. Biff
cannot live in the past, and finally has to remind his father of the truth of Biff's
life and limited options for success. Willy does not handle these truths well,
vacillates between the past and present, and ultimately takes his own
life.

What suspenseful moments does Edgar Allan Poe create in his short story, "The Black Cat"?

This story in a sense is very similar to another of Poe's
famous tales, "The Tell-Tale Heart", because both feature a murder who has concealed
their victim, and both include a scene where policemen come into the very room where the
body is concealed, and some madness or twist of fate causes the murderer to reveal their
crime to those present.

Certainly then if you are focussing
on suspense, the end of the story is to me the most suspenseful. Note how, "in a frenzy
of bravado", the narrator raps heavily with his cane on the portion of the wall behind
which the corpse of his wife lay buried. His hubris however is met with terror. Note how
he describes what occurred next:

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But may God shield and deliver me from the fangs
of the Arch-Fiend! No sooner has the reverberation of my blows sunk into silence, than I
was answered by a voice from within the
tomb!

This point therefore is
the most suspenseful because we are left to imagine what on earth is making that noise -
is it the wife who perhaps has not died, or is undead? Or what figure could it be? It is
only when the policemen break down the wall that the narrator reveals that the black
cat, which seems to epitomise the curse on his life, has been buried with the corpse and
it is the cat that gave him away.

How might falling sales have influenced the content and direction of Great Expectations?Great Expectations was originally published in 36 weekly...

The most notable effect of the public's disapproval and,
perhaps, dropping sales, comes with the conclusion of Great Expectations.
Because the original ending did not meet with the approval of the majority, Dickens altered his
ending to a resolution of sorts. Pip and Estella walk about and Pip takes her hand, and together
they leave "her hand in mine." This change, then, helped to boost
sales.

To generate interest in the novel, Dickens divided it into
three stages of changes that take place in Pip; also, each stage has a different setting: the
forge, London, and finally, a return to the forge. And, so that the reader knows there is more to
come in the stages, Dickens ends the two stages with words that hint at some conflicts yet to
occur. For instance, The First Stage ends as Pip is on the various coaches which will take him to
London. Regretting that he has left Joe in such an abrupt manner, he thinks he will get off the
stage when it makes the first stop and walk back to spend another night with Joe. However, he
cannot make up his mind before

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We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late,
and too far to go back, an Ii went on. And the mists had all solemnl risen now, and the world lay
spread before me.

Within these three
stages, there are also chapters that end with thought-provoking ideas suggestive of interesting
incidents to follow. For example, at the end of Chapter IX, Pip returns from his momentous visit
to Miss Havisham's with reflections that encourage continuation of the
text,

That was a
memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine
one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you
who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers,
that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable
day.

In addition to creating suspense,
Dickens generates interest in the reader with the sinister characters of Orlick and the man in
the Jolly Bargemen who stares at Pip and stirs his drink with a large file like the one of Joe's
which Pip has stolen. Comic relief with characters such as Wemmick and the ridiculous Pumblechook
and Sarah Pocket, delight the reader and encourage further reading. The reappearance of
characters also arouses the suspense in the reader. For instance, the reemergence of the old
convict of Magwitch at the end of the Second Stage arouses the curiosity of the reader as Pip
faces the dilemma of what to do with his benefactor, who is a condemned
criminal:

I got away
from him, without knowing how I did it, and for an hour or more I remained too stunned to think.
It was not unti I began to think that I began to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in
which I had sailed was gone to
pieces.

At the end of Stage Two, Pip
also has two shattering realizations that will change the course of his life: He has deserted Joe
and life and the forge for expectations that have vanished; and Miss Havisham has never intended
fo him and Estella to marry. The reader wonders how Pip's life will change as a result of these
realizations. In the Second Stage, each of the subplots is expanded--Pip and the convict, the
injury to Mrs. Joe, Pip's love for Estella. While there are new subplots introduced in the Third
Stage, but most are finally resolved.

Show how is the father-son relation progressing throughout Death of a Salesman and discuss the reasons for such a relation.

To a great extent, I sense that the relationship that
emerges throughout the play is one where the son understands better the shortcomings of
the father.  I think that Biff understands that his father's guidance and beliefs are
ones that impact his own chances of being happy.  In critiquing himself, Biff
understands that he is following his father's footsteps.  While his father cannot
necessarily find happiness, Biff seeks to prevent himself from going down the same
path.  The development of their relationship lies in Biff understanding Willy's failures
as a father and as a person.  This is part of how Biff comes to understand that he
should embrace a different path to his life in the assertion that Willy failed by
attaching a dollar or material amount to his dreams' success.   It is not that Biff
becomes closer to his father or seeks to become like him, but their relationship matures
in that he understands his father's shortcomings as the play progresses.  What might
have been seen as his own failure is something that Biff is able to place in the larger
context of their own relationship as the play develops.

How does Seamus Heaney shows his family tradition in his poem "Digging"?

One aspect of Heaney's poetry that is notable is the way that he
uses his background growing up in Ireland and the life of his parents and his descendants as
inspiration for his poetry. To Heaney, the lives of his predecessors are rich veins of gold that
he can mine as inspiration for his poetry. Even though the humble lives of his father and
grandfather seem rather banal compared to Heaney's life as a Nobel Prize winning poet, what
Heaney does in this excellent poem is link the two together, exploring how important the family
tradition is to him and how writing poetry is actually very similar to
digging.

In this poem, Heaney expresses his desire to "follow" his
father in the family tradition of digging, and this is aided by an extended metaphor that
compares digging peat to writing poetry:

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The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and
slap

Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an
edge

Through living roots awaken in my
head.

But I've no space to follow men like
them.

However the poem ends with the
determination of the speaker to "dig" with the "squat pen" that rests between his fingers, thus
following in the footsteps of his ancestors metaphorically.

Was there resistance during to WWII in America once the war began?Specifically, during the war was there resistence (domestic) to the war? It...

I have never read anything about any serious opposition to
this war in the United States (not once Pearl Harbor was attacked).  You are right to
say that this was a very popular war.

The only resistance
(if you can call it that) that I have ever heard of came from some pacifist groups like
the Quakers.  These people were not really so much opposed to this war in particular as
they were to all wars in general.  These people were not very numerous and were pretty
much looked down upon by the majority of Americans.  The pbs.org link has some stuff
about these people.

But in terms of an actual movement
arguing that the US should not be in the war or anything like that, there was
nothing.

I have an essay over a movie about a specific historical event. I ended up with Glory. There is a historical background part that i need some help...

The movie Glory! is a fine film that
documents what may have been the most memorable moment of black soldiering during the Civil War.
The 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment was one of the first Negro fighting units in the war,
and they were decimated following their near suicidal frontal assault on Ft.
Wagner.

Several other battles included Negro troops, but neither of
them resulted in positive results. At the Battle of Fort Pillow, Confederate troops under General
Nathan Bedford Forrest overran the enemy garrison after the Union commander refused to surrender
to a force three times his size. When the Confederates discovered that about one-half of the
Federal troops were Negro soldiers, they massacred most of the survivors of the
attack.

Another battle where Negro troops were involved was at the
Battle of the Crater in Petersburg, Virginia. After the Union troops detonated a large
underground cache of explosives planted under the Confederate lines, Federal troops attempted to
capture the position. Instead of proceeding around the gaping hole left by the blast, the Union
troops marched into the crater. Confederate reinforcements led by Gen. Billy Mahone pinned the
troops inside, and the slaughter began. Two brigades of black troops (who were originally
supposed to lead the charge, but were withheld due to political maneuvering) were ordered into
the crater to reinforce those already inside, but they, too, were decimated by Confederate
artillery and rifle fire.

In the early days of the war, Negro troops
mostly were used in non-combat duty, but by the end of hostilities, tens of thousands of Negro
troops had seen significant action.

What led the United States and the Soviet Union to go from being allies to bitter Cold War rivals?

The US and the Soviet Union were only allies in WWII because
they were both so worried about Nazi Germany. It was not as if the two countries had any natural
reason to be allies. That means that we should not be surprised that they went back to being
rivals after WWII.

The two countries were "natural" enemies because
their systems were opposed to one another. Communist theory held that communism was inevitably
going to take over the world and the Soviets wanted to help that process along. The US,
meanwhile, thought that communism was evil and that democracy was the best system. The US's fear
of communism and its expansionist tendencies had led to bad relations between the two countries
from the time the USSR was established until the early 1930s. This enmity simply came back to the
fore when the threat of Nazi Germany was gone.

Overall, then, these
two countries became rivals because of their political/economic systems. The differences between
their systems overcame any inclination they might have had to be friendly because of their
wartime alliance.

How is efficiency in the context of imperialism presented in Heart of Darkness?

Besides condemning imperialism as a political system fueled by
greed and characterized by unbelievable cruelty, the novel also shows it to be an exercise in
stupidity and inefficiency. As Marlow journeys deep into ivory country, he observes the horrid
effects of colonial policy and condemns them. He is filled with moral revulsion by the inhumanity
he encounters, but sometimes he is simply filled with disbelief as he witnesses the logistics and
application of imperialism in action. Soldiers and clerks placed ashore on the African coast seem
to be flung into "nothingness." Clerks levy tolls, soldiers protect clerks, and the entire system
becomes self-perpetuating.

Marlow sees a French man-of-war firing
into the bush where apparently some natives are hiding. The imagery of the huge ship "firing into
a continent" along a deserted coastline is very effective, suggesting the stupidity and waste of
such great power being leveled at a few helpless natives. At a company station, Marlow encounters
chaos and disorganization. When a shed full of cheap cotton and beads burns, he sees a man run to
put out the fire, but there is a hole in his water bucket. This image is also effective, seeming
to symbolize the stupidity and inefficiency of the European presence in
Africa.

Why is Jem unable to speak about the trial without becoming angered in chapter 26 in To Kill a Mockingbird?

In Chapter 22 of Harper Lee's To Kill a
Mockingbird, after Atticus responds to Jem's question regarding the verdict of Tom
Robinson's trial, "How could they do it, how could they?" by
saying,

I don't know,
but they did it. They've done it before and they did it tonight and they'll do it again and when
they do it--seems that only children
weep....

Atticus's mention of children
weeping points to Jem's having trouble reconciling his childish idealism with his maturing
recognition of reality. When Scout asks about Miss Gates's seemingly hypocritical remarks about
Negroes in light of her school speech on the equality of all people, Jem becomes "furious" as he
is reminded of the terrible hypocrisy of the jury in Tom's trial. Atticus, of course, recognizes
Jem's dilemma and tells Scout that Jem is "trying hard to forget something," but Scout feels that
he is storing the incidents of the trial until he can "sort things out."

Is the poem "The Silken Tent" by Robert Frost a sonnet?

Yes, "The Silken Tent" is most definitely a sonnet--and I
didn't realize that Robert Frost wrote sonnets!

The poem
has all the elements of a Shakespearean sonnet:

a) 14
lines;

b) iambic pentameter: each line contains five
repetitions that "move" in a dah-DAH-dah-DAH pattern;

c)
the rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef
gg.

The poem consists of an extended metaphor,
sometimes known as a "conceit." The poet's lover is compared to "silken tent" that has
been set up in a field.

The tent's "supporting central
cedar pole" seems to stand almost by itself, without the help of "any single cord." 
This "signifies the sureness of the soul"--the lover's confident self-reliance.  The
poem's original title was  “In Praise of Your Poise.”

The
lover is independent but not aloof.  She is

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loosely bound
By countless silken ties
of love and thought
To every thing on
earth

Although Frost uses the
sonnet, a very old form of poetry, his language in the poem is simple and
modern.

Analyze the characterization techniques used in “A and P."specific characterization

The primary source of characterization used by Updike is
indirect. Specific techniques used in "A&P" to provide the reader with a
characterization of Sammy, the protagonist, are listed
below.

Thoughts are enormously
important in this story. Told in third person, limited, we are able to follow all of
Sammy's observations and reasons for his behavior. The story is told from an objective
point of view, so we do NOT receive biased judgments from the narrator, nor is a
physical description of Sammy important to our overall view of his
character.

Physical actions
provide insight into Sammy's character, especially when he stands up for the girls and
then quits his job.

Dialogue
and the judgment of others (how others react to the
character) provides us with the final pieces; most of what we learn of Sammy comes from
his thoughts, but some information is based upon what the manager says to him, and it is
the manager's judgment that foreshadows the change Sammy will go through now that he has
taken his first step into adulthood.

Compare and contrast the two poems' images and themes of "Love Medicine" by Louise Erdrich and "Theme for English B" by Langston Hughes.

Images support themes. Louise Erdich's "Love Medicine,"
and Langston Hughes' "Theme for English B," have similar themes, but the imagery is
specific to each poem. The theme that strikes me most clearly deals with
separation—alienation.

Langston's Hughes' poem, "Theme for
English B," is a homework assignment. The poet writes about his
truth. Hughes (if we assume he is the speaker) describes where he comes from, mentioning
Harlem, and the Y (YMCA) where he has a room. The prevalent reference here is the
connection between people that transcends color: Hughes knows others don't like it, and
that he does not either, at times. People are put off, in this case, with being the
"same."

Hughes is the only man of color in his class, and
his truth is different than that of the other
students.

Hughes' imagery points out much of what he has in
common with others, and his list is "color-blind:" it does not pertain specifically to a
person of any color; the items on his "list" are neutral—things  that most people
enjoy:

Well,
I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. 
I like to work, read, learn, and
understand life. 
I like a pipe... 
or records... 
I guess
being colored doesn't make me NOT like 
the same things other folks like who
are other races.

Noticeable
imagery occurs with the comparison of white and "colored" skin. Here the theme of
separation is clearly presented. Hughes writes to the professor, stating that they will
learn from one another—perhaps Hughes infers that true education defies a separation of
"color."

The theme of separation is constant, supported by
what is common to both races, and what is not. Hughes is alone in
his separation.

Louise Erdrich's poem, "Love Medicine," has
very different imagery, but the theme is the same.

Erdrich
speak about her sister in this poem, and how she fits in better
than the speaker (Louise?).

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This dragonfly, my
sister,

She belongs more than
I

to this night of rising
water.

"Dragonfly" may
simply refer to Erdrich's sister's green halter and chains creating a green iridescence
that catch the eye. However, in Native American culture, the dragonfly is symbolic,
representing "a lesson to be learned" in examining these deeper thoughts. Erdrich may be
looking for these especially because of what happens to her
sister:

...she
steps against the fistwork of a man...and his boot plants its grin / against the arches
of her face.

The rising water
may refer to a threat; the storm that brings it may generally refer to conflict. The
sister leaves her man in his Dodge to
walk about (he then "wears a long rut in the fog" looking for
her), but is punched by a man—a
different man (?!). The fog hides the violence. Erdrich does not
see it, but she finds her sister afterward.

The images
speak again of "separation." There is a separation between her sister and her man,
between Erdrich and her sister, and between sense and confounding
brutality.

For the sake of comparison, Hughes' speaks of
his separation, and trying to understand it even while he and
others have much in common.

Erdrich notes separation that
strikes with cruelty.

However, when
Erdrich repeats "I find her..." in the sixth stanza, this may indicate that the violence
is occurring in other places to other women—she notes that the separation is
wide-reaching. Perhaps when she refers
to "sister," it means all
women.

Erdrich's separation would then refer to abused
women; Hughes' separation seems to refer to the that between
races.

Can you analyze the poem (Ballad)"Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires No. 140, Version B"?I need help with a poetry analysis.

Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires No. 140, Version B
is a poem about Robin Hood's bravery and trickery. Playing tricks is characteristic of
Robin Hood. Saving the day is too.

At the beginning of the poem,
Robin Hood seems to be minding his own business. He comes across a woman who is crying. The woman
explains to Robin Hood that 3 men are going to die. He starts on his way towards Nottingham.
While on his way he comes across an old man. The man explains to Robin Hood why the men are going
to be killed by hanging. Robin Hood, thinking this unjust, asks the man for his clothes. He
decides to dress as the man and continues into town.

Later Robin
Hood arrives to Nottingham and encounters the Sheriff who is tricked into believing Robin Hood is
an old man. Robin Hood takes out his horn and starts blowing it. This is a signal for his men to
come and help. The poem ends with Robin Hood and his men hanging the
Sheriff.

Please explain the following in easy to understand steps.Point P lies on the x-axis. The coordinates of A and B are (3,4) and (5,8). Determine the...

Since the point P lies on the x-axis, then the coordinate
is ( x, 0).

Now given A(3,4) and B(5,8) such
that:

The distance AP = the distance
BP

==> l AP l = l BP
l

Now we will use the distance
formula:

l AP l = sqrt[(xA- xP)^2 +
(yA-yP)^2]

         = sqrt(3 - x)^2 +(4
-0)^2

           = sqrt(9-6x+x^2 +
16)

           = sqrt(x^2 -6x +
25)...............(1)

l BP l = sqrt[(xB - xP)^2 + (yB -
yP)^2]

          = sqrt[(5-x)^2 +
(8-0)^2]

           = sqrt(25-10x+x^2 +
64)

            = sqrt(x^2 -10x +
89)..............(2)

We know
that:

l AP l = lBP
l

==> eq. (1) = eq.
(2)

==>sqrt(x^2 -6x + 25) = sqrt(x^2 - 10x +
89)

Square both
sides:

==>x^2 - 6x +25 = x^2 -10x +
89

==>-6x + 25 = -10x +
89

==> 4x =
89-25

==> 4x =
64

==>x=
16

Then the point P is  (16,
0)

What are some good quotes from characters that show how Dickens expresses the ideas of Social Darwinism in Oliver Twist?

Social Darwinism refers to the way in which Darwin's idea of
Survival of the Fittest was exploited to justify a series of approaches that resulted in social
policies that did not differentiate between those who could support themselves and those who
couldn't, because, arguably, the fittest of individuals would survive and the unfit ones would
die, which would be a good thing for human race. Of course, so much of the writings of Dickens
argued against such an approach and tried to present the conditions and context of the poor which
of course set them at such a disadvantage.

Of course, the way that
Oliver Twist is brought up and the labour he has to do is a perfect example of the picture of
poverty that Dickens was trying to expose to his middle and upper class readership. In
particular, one character who expresses his views about Oliver's fitness for life is the famous
gentleman in the white waistcoat, who again and again refers to the fact that he believes Oliver
will hang because of his unfitness for life and the way in which he has the temerity to ask for
more. He goes a step further after Oliver manages to escape being apprenticed to a chinmey
sweep:

That same
evening, the gentleman in the white waistcoat most positively and decidedly affirmed, not only
that Oliver would be hung, but that he would be drawn and quartered into the
bargain.

Characters such as this
gentleman and Mr. Bumble, by referring to their generosity in providing for Oliver and giving him
a good start in life, whilst ignoring the very real social barriers and issues that Oliver faces,
can be used to express Social Darwinism.

What does the audience learn about Caesar’s character from Act II. sc.ii , and what finally convinces him to agree to go to the Capitol?

Caesar appears in very few scenes in this play that
happens to be called Julius Caesar, so it can be difficult to
arrive at a definitive description of his character.  The scene you mention, Act II,
scene ii, is the scene on the morning of his murder, when Caesar must choose between
listening to the prophesies and bad dreams of his wife that warn him to stay away from
the Capitol and ignoring these signs in order to go forward with his
plans.

In the beginning of the scene, Caesar does ask a
servant to:

Go
bid the priests do present sacrifice

And bring me their
opinions of success.

When
Calpurnia enters, begging him to remain home, Caesar speaks as if he considers himself
invincible.  He says that anything that might fright him, "when they shall see/The face
of Caesar, they are vanished."  He even goes so far as to say that "death, a necessary
end/Will come when it will come."

However, to heed the
augurers and appease Calpurnia, Caesar agrees to say he is not well and stay at home. 
So, though he appears to fancy himself invincible, in this moment we learn that he can
be swayed by his wife.

Finally, Decius Brutus, one of the
conspirators, arrives to convince Caesar to come to the Capitol, which he succeeds in
doing.  Decius Brutus flatters Caesar's vanity by saying that Calpurnia's dreams merely
foretell how important Caesar is to the future of Rome.  Caesar is satisfied with this
explanation and determines that, after all, he will go to the
Senate.

Throughout the scene Caesar seems very willing to
change his mind at the drop of a hat.  This seems to suit him just fine,
since:

. .
.danger knows full well

That Caesar is more dangerous than
he.

We are two lions litter'd in one
day,

And I the elder and more
terrible.

Caesar, it appears
from this scene, considers himself invincible, and so walks straight into his
doom.

In a broad sense, can you explain how otherness is represented in Sherman Alexie's What it means to say Phoenix, Arizona?

The first question for you to ask is who is the other? If
we identify the other as non-indian, non-tribal members, than there are a few encounters
within the story. If you think of the other as simply different from you (or the main
character) than there is a lot to look at in terms of the otherness that both men feel
with each other and within the tribe.

Focusing on the
obvious other of non-indian characters in the story, the first person who comes to mind
is Cathy, the gymnast. The encounter with Cathy is brief, but informative. The three,
Cathy, Thomas and Victor, exchange pleasantries and Cathy talks about her would be
Olympic chance on the 1980 Olympic team that was faltered by the government boycott.
This is a key moment in their interactions. After Cathy complains, Thomas remarks
"Sounds like you all got a lot in common with Indians", and for the first time since the
conversation began, no one laughs. Of course Thomas refers to the many years of the
government refusing to recognize certain Indian rights, but this idea of the other being
similar to Indians makes all parties uncomfortable. This is a good point for you to
begin thinking about the idea of the other. Similarities with the other makes us feel
uncomfortable. After all, there is a reason for the other being the other. What
implications are made when we subjugate someone as the other? At the end of the flight
and they part ways with Cathy, Thomas comments that she was nice, and Victor tellingly
replies with "everybody talks to everybody on airplanes, ... It's too bad we can't
always be that way". This gives further insight to how the men view the world, or
otherness, around them. In certain situations we all get along, but normally we do not.
What makes one situation different from another?

There are
also several random mentioning of the other throughout the story. One that sticks out is
the Fourth of July celebration. Thomas finds it amusing that Indians celebrate
Independence Day, as he points out "It ain't like it was our
independence everybody was fighting for". This comment changes the thinking of the story
a bit. Who is the other? Are we referring to the other as opposed to Victor and Thomas?
What Alexie stresses is that our main characters are the other. They are the other in
this country and the other among their own people. Think about how the two characters
are treated and perceived by the people on the reservation. The Tribal Council would not
pay to have Victor's father brought back. You should ask why? Is it simply because of
money, or is there an underlying cause? Perhaps it stems from the fact that Victor's
father left.

The main point in all of this is think of the
other in terms of Cathy and the other in terms of Victor and Thomas. How are people both
the other and the non-other. I hope this helped.

According to Mill, what are the limits that can be placed on freedom of speech?

In Mill's thinking, it is essentially never acceptable to
place any limits on people's freedom to say what they want.  As Mill says (quote in the
stanford.edu link),

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the only purpose for which power can be
rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to
prevent harm to others.

From
this, we can see what Mill would say about limitations on the freedom of speech.  He
would say that speech may only be limited if the speech would harm other
people.

This is, of course, something of a vague standard. 
We have to ask what constitutes a "harm."   This is very difficult because we will have
to determine what sorts of harm matter and how much they are outweighed (if at all) by
the good that comes to society from the freedom of
speech.

In general, though, Mill says that very few limits
may be placed on the freedom of speech.

Who is the "you" in Durem's "I Know I'm not Sufficiently Obscure"?

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In this poem
Durem’s speaker grants that he does not write poetry that is intellectual and replete
with poetic ornament such as imagery, but rather he believes in poetic commitment—the
poet who expresses outrage and advocates change. The “you” of these lines is a group of
conventional poets and critics who, in the speaker’s eyes, write poetry—and also write
criticism of it—as though poetry should be removed from life, with no political purpose.
In addition, the speaker’s words denigrate imagery that in his eyes creates obscurity
rather than meaning. The fact is, however, that the speaker does indeed express himself
through imagery, such as the woman of line 9 and the soldier of lines 13-15.

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In what way is there a sense of futility in The Outsiders? Support your answers with evidence from the text.

There is an innate sense of futility for both groups in
the novel, and the title leads us, the reader, to feel that the disconnectedness of the
young people involved in the text is not going to
change.

Dallas Winston, we are told, is almost impervious
to emotion at the beginning of the text:

 "the fight for
self-preservation had hardened him beyond caring,"

His only
solace from this social isolation is his friendship with gentle, vulnerable Johnny. We
know that Johnny is too vulnerable for the society in which he lives. Johnny would be
more at home in the days of Gone With the Wind, the text him and
Ponyboy share in Windrixville.

Dallas' love and care for
Johnny is futile. He cannot protect him from the cruel world that they live in, just as
he cannot change his own destiny to die as violently as he
lived.

In Act 4 Scene 1 of Macbeth, what are some literary/poetic devices that are used, and why?They could be very subtle devices, or they could be...

In Act 4 Scene1 of Macbeth, Macbeth goes to
see the witches to get another prediction of events to come.  At the beginning of the scene, the
witches are making a spell to help conjure the apparitions that will show Macbeth his future. 
Just before Macbeth arrives, the second witch says, "By the pricking of my thumbs, something
wicked this way comes" (IV.i.44-45).  This is an element of symbolism
and foreshadowing:  the witches already know that
Macbeth is on his way, so the witch's statement foresees his arrival.  In addition, she calls him
"wicked," and by this point in the play, Macbeth has already shown that he is an evil, selfish
character who will stop at nothing to have his way.  As the witches show Macbeth the apparitions,
the foreshadowing and symbolism continues, and the appartitions appear as symbols of future
events:  the armed head which represents Macbeth's duel with Macduff, the bloody child which
represents Macduff's having been ripped from his mother's womb, and the crowned child holding the
tree which represents Malcolm's ordering the English army to use the trees of Birnam wood to
disguise their approach.

What are some figurative devices in the poem "Ozymandias"?

Percy Bysshe Shelley's classic poem, "Ozymandias," is
remarkably lacking in figurative language such as simile, metaphor, hyperbole, or
personification.

The descriptions of the ruined statue of
Ozymandias use precise, literal language:

"two
vast and trunkless legs of stone";

"half
sunk, a shattered visage [face]";

"frown
/ And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold
command";

"the
pedestal";

"the decay of that collosal
wreck."

The final image of the poem could be
considered a personification: "The lone and level sands stretch far away."  The sand is
likened to a lonely person that
"stretches."

The straightforward style in which this poem's
images are delivered is part of what makes this ironic little story so
memorable.

How do you explain "Fate and free will" in Things Fall Apart?

In Chapter 3 of Things Fall Apart,
Achebe writes:

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Unoka was an ill-fated man.  He had a bad
chi or personal god, and evil fortune followed him to the grave, or
rather to his death, for he had no grave.  He died of the swelling which was an
abomination to the earth goddess...He was carried to the Evil Forest and left to
die.

So, the Ibo tribe has a
way of explaining both physical and supernatural causality using fate by way of
chi instead of in terms of free will.  In other words, Unoka was a
lazy man and died a dishonorable death because of his chi, not
expressly because of his choices.  Unoka was pre-determined to be
agbala, to have no titles, and to be buried in the Evil
Forest.

A Westerner might look at it from another
point-of-view: Unoka had free will because he chose to sing and tell stories and not
work.  Unoka chose not to attain titles because he did not accept the culture into which
he was born.  So, his agbala status and dishonorable death are the
result of his rebellion and not due to supernatural causes of chi
or fate.

Okonkwo attempts to determine his own fate.
 Knowing his father was a failure, he works the yam fields twice as hard to compensate.
 However, Okonwko is also a character in a tragedy, both personal and cultural (both he
and his tribe will "fall apart" and die).  In tragedies, characters are engineered for
downfall.  Obviously, as a character, Okonwko has no control over his and his tribe's
death.  Yet, Okonkwo fights to the death, regardless.  So, in a way, he chooses his fate
by beheading the messenger.  He chooses to be placed in a situation which allows him to
be aggressive and violent so as to cause his own self-destruction by violent means
(suicide).

So, overall, I would say that characters in a
tragedy do not have free will, even though they ironically fight to the death in order
to preserve it.  In tragedy, tragic heroes are victims of tragic fate, which is a
combination of outside determinism and bad personal choices.  Okonkwo's death is
foreshadowed early and often so as to create dramatic irony, the principle device which
guides all tragedy.