Find the length of the side of a square if it's area is 60 more than its perimeter.

We'll note as x the side of the
square.

We'll write the formula for the area of the
square:

A = x^2

We'll write
the formula for the perimeter of the square:

P =
4x

Now, we'll write mathematically the condition imposed by
enunciation:

x^2 - 60 = 4x (area is 60 less than the
perimeter)

We'll subtract both sides
4x:

x^2 - 4x - 60 = 4x -
4x

We'll eliminate like
terms:

x^2 - 4x - 60 = 0

We'll
apply the quadratic formula:

x1 = [4+sqrt(16 +
240)]/2

x1 = (4+16)/2

x1 =
10

x2 = (4-16)/2

x2 =
-6

Since the length of the side of the square cannot be
negative, we'll reject the second root x2 =
-6.

The length of the side of the square is x
= 10.

When did he write this?

It is impossible to date this poem, and therefore all we
can do is surmise that it may have been inspired by the occasion of a trip, upon which
the poet found a need to answer objections that might have been raised to his going.
Readers brought up in the twenty-first century may wonder why a trip should be a cause
of consternation or grief. Readers might need reminding that even a short trip in the
days of horse and sail would require an absence of at least several weeks, and perhaps
several months. More to the point here is the extensive use of metaphorical language,
together with the universally famous concluding metaphysical conceit, or simile, about
the relationship of lovers to a geometric compass. It is of course important to explore
this simile in some detail, for whenever students of literature refer to the
“metaphysical conceit” they invariably turn to this poem and this
comparison.

What is your impression of Macbeth’s state of mind at the end of Act III? It seems like he is not in his right state of mind.

Act III marks a turning point in Macbeth's personality and
state of mind. The once sympathetic and noble Macbeth has become dark, sinister,
paranoid, and filled with blood lust. In other words, he has shifted from 'good' to
'evil' in the minds' of the audience. He is paranoid about his ill-gotten powers, and is
using ruthless violence to protect himself out of
desparation.

Of particular note, Macbeth orders the death
of Fleance (Banquo's son). This would certainly illustrate Macbeth's state of mind.
Ordering the killing an innocent child indicates a complete breakdown of
character.

How has the Watergate scandal had an effect on the American government?

I think people in Congress, but also in the general
public, toss the word "impeachment" around much more lightly since Watergate.  Clinton
was impeached by the House and acquitted by the Senate for things much more minor in
terms of the law than what Nixon did.  Many historians and political scientists consider
the Clinton trial more of a vendetta by the opposing party that would not have been
possible before Nixon's scandals.

Even today, you hear the
word impeachment tossed around about President Obama, without any specific accusations
of law breaking, and in the 1960s, for example, that would not have been politically
possible as the popular backlash against such a move would have prevented anyone from
trying it.

I also think that since Watergate there has been
a continual power struggle between the legislature and the executive over executive
power.  9/11 allowed President Bush to be much more aggressive and powerful than he
would have been otherwise because of this struggle.

In the play Hamlet, how does Ophelia get used or looked down upon by other characters?

Interesting question. Ophelia is, indeed, used or perhaps
mistreated by some characters in Shakespeare's Hamlet. Let's begin with her
own family. Laertes does love his sister, as evidenced both in the beginning as he is leaving for
school and in the end when he jumps into her grave, stricken with grief. But he does lecture her
in a way which leads her to remind him to do as he says for himself, as well. Clearly this has
been an issue in the past; but rather than abuse this is probably classified more as Laertes
simply being a big brother.  Her father, on the other hand, could be considered abusive. He
forces her to cut off a relationship with someone she clearly loves. He sends her out as "bait"
to catch the mad Hamlet (he says he will "release her" to him, a term used for animals but not
generally for humans). He is willing to mistreat his own daughter to keep or enhance his own
power and position.

Claudius, by his acceptance of her use as bait
to trap Hamlet, is tacitly approving of Polonius's abuse of Ophelia.  Gertrude, on the other
hand, does seem to care for Ophelia, as she hopes Hamlet's "madness" is caused by love for her.
Of course, that could also be because she does not want to admit that she may have something to
do with it. She also wants to keep her out of his presence once Ophelia has gone mad, as it makes
her uncomfortable--a fairly hard-hearted sentiment for someone she once hoped her son
loved.

Finally, no one was watching out for Ophelia's best interests
once she went mad. She was isolated from everyone and "put away" as soon as they could reasonably
get her out of their presence. The fact that she made it to a brook and was able to drown herself
is appalling. Someone was able to relate what happened to her, which means either someone was
actually there or was watching from a distance. In either case, letting her drown was the final
abuse.

What view is Hightower expressing in "Daddy's Philosophy?"

I would characterize the point of this commentary by
saying that it is a very populist statement.  It is one that is for what the speaker
probably sees as "common sense" and against the excesses of big government and of the
rich.

Hightower speaks about how people should take more
responsibility for their own lives and the quality of their communities.  This can be
seen in his story about his dad creating the Little League for his
town.

However, he does not say that government has no place
in our society.  After all, he talks about how his father was pleased to pay taxes for
practical things like a public library.  The implicit message is that the common people
know what kinds of things are worth paying taxes for and which things
aren't.

Hightower is arguing that the regular people are
the good people of America (a very populist idea).  They are charitable without being
ostentatious about it (wanting their name on a "granite wall").  They are generous with
their time and money for things that deserve it.  They and their common sense are what
America needs.

Agency agreement is not a legally binding one. Is this statement true or false?

The statement "Agency agreement is not a legally binding one."
is false.

Agency agreements are created when a person wants to give
authority to another party to take actions on her/his behalf. The person giving authority is
called the principal and the person to whom the authority is given is called the
agent.

Once the agreement has been created, the agent has the right
to act on behalf of the principal and sign legal documents which would be treated like they have
been signed by the principal personally. The principal has complete responsibility to ensure that
they are honored.

The agency agreement has to be created after a lot
of thought and due process by the principal as a lot of power is vested with the agent through
its creation

In Araby, if my topic is the beginning of the boy's maturity what could be an example of a point I would want to make?The question concerns my thesis.

Well, one place to start would be to think through how the boy
is compared at the beginning of the story and what happens to him at the end of the story when he
experiences his epiphany and becomes a lot more mature. This will allow you to compare and
contrast how the narrator is developed in the story and crucially how the experience of going to
Araby initiates his process of maturing.

It is clear from the
beginning of the story that the boy is youthful, impossibly romantic and idealistic. He views
what Mangan's sister has asked him to do as a romantic quest with himself as the knight in
shining armour:

These
noises converged in a single sensation of life for me: I imagined that I bore my chalice safely
through a throng of foes. Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises
which I myself did not
understand.

However, this highly
romantic view of his life and his relationship with Mangan's sister is destroyed by the reality
of the bazaar and the darkness that surrounds him at the story's
close:

Gazing up into
the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with
anguish and anger.

He has realised the
falsity of his illusions and is ashamed with how he had looked on life, and now is a maturer
individual after his epiphany.

Why did the author choose the title of Persuasion for this novel?

According to some sources, the novel Persuasion was not
titled by Jane Austen but by her editors, since she died before titling the story.
However, one can see why the title is suitable. The power of convincing, or persuading
people is quite expansive in that the choices one makes as a result affect a lot of
people. Sometimes the choices made after being persuaded are only in the interest of one
party involved, and someone will always come out losing
out.

First, it was persuasion what determined the fate of
Anne when she was persuaded to quit her courtship with Cpt. Wentworth for his lack of
money. As a result, she spent years as a spinster and regretted much having being
persuaded.

Equally, her friend Mrs. Smith was persuaded by
Anne's own father to indulge in their riches to live a pretty much "dandy" lifestyle,
and due to this persuasion, the Smiths became almost bankrupt as well as Anne's father
Sir Walter Elliot.

In all, one could say that Austen is
sending out a message of warning for all the possible moments one will face and people
will try to convince us of doing something that they think may be for our own good, when
in fact it is for their own benefit. In the case of Anne, she would have made her
family, which holds a Baronet, quite embarrassed if she had married Wentworth because he
was poor.  It was not so much for the good of Anne, but for the appearances of the
family that they suggested this to her. For that reason, persuasion is a double edge
weapon and needs to be treated carefully.

What may we infer from this comment ? (quote below)O'brien says " This drama that I have played out with you during these seven years will be...

Furthermore, I think you can infer that the passion and
effort of the Party at this point has such weight, and such staying power, that it will
never be conquered.

Orwell set out to create a horrifying
image of a Party that could control not just the rights of people, but the very thought
and will of them. This positions O'Brien with the ability to portray this growing evil
of the Party. I would also infer from this segment of the text that the strength of the
Party is just going to keep getting stronger.

They have
every intention of eradicating the innate human ability to will and think for oneself.
For people in Julia's generation, it will be easier to believe in the power of the Party
because it is trained and engrained from birth. For each generation after, it will
happen. But for those who like Winston fail to keep their ability to think to
themselves, they will suffer.

Consider the graph of y=9-x^2. At which point(s) on the graph will the normal line to the curve pass through the point (1,4)?

Let (x1,y1) be the point on the curve. Then the y1 =
9-x1^2.

The slope of the curve at x1 is dy/dx at x=
x1.

At x= x1, y1 =
9-x1^2.

Therefore dy/dx = (9-x^2)' =
-2x.

Therefore the slope m of the normal at x1 is given by
m = {-1/(dy/dx) at x = x1} = - 1/(-2x1) =
1/2x1

Therefore the equation of the normal at x = x1 is
given by:

y-y1 = m(x-x1).

y -
(9-x1^2) = (1/2x1)(x-x1)...(1).

Since the normal at (1)
passes through the point (1,4), the ccordinates of the point (1,4) should satisfy the
equation of the line at (1):

4 - (9-x1^2)  =
(1/2x1)(1-x1).

(-5 +x1^2)2x1 =
1-x1.

2x1^3 -10x1+ x1 - 1 =
0.

2x1^3 - 9x1 - 1 =
0.

Therefore x1 = 2.2 nearly 4.4 nearly.Or the normal at
(2.2 , 4.2)

passes through (1,4).

The metrical system in "Drummer Hodge"I just want to confirm; is the metrical system in Drummer Hodge syllabic verse? There are 8 syllables...

In "Drummer Hodge" by Thomas Hardy, Hardy uses a different
metrical system for every other line.

The first, third and
fifth lines of the first stanza has eight beats to it. The stress is on every other
syllable.

In the second, fourth and sixth lines, there are
six syllables in each line, with the stress on every other
syllable.

With this is mind, I believe you are correct. The
variation of rhythm give the poem a swaying motion.

In
terms of the rest of the poem, the rhyme scheme is ABABAB for each
stanza.

As the poem is about "Drummer Hodge," perhaps the
meter is used to mimic the sound of a drum when troops are marching (and as the poem
speaks about Karoo, I expect Drummer Hodge was involved in the war between the British
and the Boer republics in South Africa).

In "The Most Dangerous Game", what are seven adjectives that are used to describe the setting?

You do well to focus on the setting as a key component of
this great and exciting short story. You need to remember that in a sense, Ship-Trap
Island, as Zaroff has called his abode, is created by Zaroff as an environment that will
lure sailors to it so they will be shipwrecked and then can be used as prey by him for
his own enjoyment and satisfaction.

For example, Zaroff has
planted lights to draw ships to the island. Note what he says about
them:

"They
indicate a channel," he said, "where there's none; giant rocks with razor edges crouch
like a sea monster with wide-open jaws. They can crush a ship as easily as I crush this
nut."

So, if you think about
the setting, it has deliberately been created to be deceptive. It is very dangerous and
misleading as it draws sailors in to have their boats crushed. These are the key aspects
about the island as it is described by Zaroff - you can go back and read the story now
and find more descriptions you can use. Good luck!

Find the extreme values of the function f(x) = x^2 - 5x + 3

f(x) = x^2-5x +3.

We proceed
to show that the right side of this equation can be a square expression  minus a
constant.

Let  f(x) = (x-k)^2  - k^2+3
.

We choose ,  k sich that 2kx = -5x. So that k =
-5.

Therefore f(x) = (x-5/2)^2  - (5/2)^2+3 =
0.

f(x) = (x-5/2)^2 - 25/4 + 3 =
0,

f(x) = (x-5/2)^2  - 13/4 =
0.

Therfore f(x) = a square expression  minus 13/4. The
right side is minimum when square expression (x-5/2)^2 is  zero. Otherwise  the squre
expression being positive, f(x) > = -13/4 for all
x.

So f(x) is minimum when x= 5/2 and the minimum f(x) =
f(5/2) = -13/2. So x = is the value when f(x) at the lower extreme. f(x) grows to
infinity as x--> infinity. As such, there is no upper extreme
value.

Is John Updike's "A & P" written from the first-person dramatic point-of-view?

The short story "A & P" is told in the first
person. I have been unable to find any reference to first-person dramatic. "Third-person
dramatic" (or "objective") describes an narrator who recounts a story (using
he, she, they, etc.) but
maintains distance and objectivity. Third-person dramatic cannot move the plot along,
but recounts "just the facts."

With this is mind, I cannot
see the narrator of the story as "dramatic." Sammy (the boy who tells the story) is
emotionally involved in sharing the account of the three girls who visit the store where
he works. One of them has such an effect on him that he stands up to his manager at the
end when the manager chastises the girls for their manner of dress. (At the time, one
didn't walk into a store in a bathing suit. This is still the case in many places
today.) Sammy not only stands up to the manager, but he quits his job on the
spot.

This is an emotional reaction. The girls are gone:
Sammy isn't doing it to impress them. However, he is so overwhelmed by their visit, and
perhaps so changed, that he believes quitting is something he must do on principle, even
though he reasons at the time that it is probably a mistake. Sammy is intuitive enough
to know that after this, things will never be the same for
him.

With Sammy's personal involvement, based on the
definition of "dramatic" as used with third-person, I do not believe the story is told
in first-person dramatic.

(If the term "dramatic" is used
to convey a drama or a play, this also would not apply to Updike's short
story.)

In Hamlet, Hamlet kept on delaying his revenge. What were the the tragic outcomes that occurred?

Hamlet's delayed revenge is the entire premise of the play
itself.  If he had enacted revenge upon his uncle immediately, then the play wouldn't
exist. However, because he says he wants to confirm that his uncle is actually the
killer first, he delays.  Then, when he knows that his uncle did it, and has the chance
to kill him while praying, he doesn't, saying he wants to wait until his uncle is doing
something evil, to gurantee his soul goes to hell once dead.  Interesting reasoning,
which could be passed off as cowardice, but, nonetheless, Hamlet does
delay.

• His delay sets off a huge chain reaction
  that leads mostly to the death of everyone that he knows and
  loves.

• His delay allowed Claudius to
  scheme with Laertes about killing Hamlet; that scheming led to Laertes, the queen,
  Claudius AND Hamlet all dying.  If Hamlet had killed his uncle before this point, the
  entire poison scheme wouldn't have arisen, and they would have
  lived.

• His delay made Claudius
  suspicious; hence, he and Polonius use Ophelia as a spy to figure out what he is up to. 
  This manipulation leads to the further alienation of his relationship with Ophelia,
  plunging her further into depression.

These
reactions are all the major events of the play, all caused by his delay to enact
revenge.  I hope that helped; good luck!

Solve the problem (x+3)^3 + 2(x+3)^2 - 8(x+3) = 0 Do i have to turn into an equation about x?

(x+3)^3 + 2(x+3)^2 - 8(x+3) = 0. To solve the
equation.

We need not turn into an equation in x , as all
the terms are the powers of x+3 and we can treat x+3 itself as one variable t and solve
for t.

So we put  x+3 =
t.

Then the equation changes to t^3+2t^2-8t =
0

We factorise  the
left.

t(t^2+2t-8) =
0....(1).

Consider t^2+2t-8 for further
factorisation:

t^2+2t-8 = t^2+4t-2t -
8

t^2+4t-2t-8 = t(t+4)-2(t+4) =
(t+4)(t-2).

Therefore t^2 +2t-8 =
(t+4)(t-2).

Substituting t^2+2t-8 = (t+4)(t-2) in eq (1),
we get:

t(t+4)(t-2) = 0

Equate
each factor to zero:

t = 0 , t+4 = 0 and t-2 =
0.

t = 0 gives t+3 = 0, x =
-3.

t+4 = 0 gives x+3+4 = 0, x =
-7.

t-2 = 0 gives x+3-2 = 0 , x =
-1.

 Therefore x = -7, x = -3 or x =
-1.

Compare and contrast Benedick's and Beatrice's conflict to Claudio's and Hero's relationship in Much Ado About Nothing.

These two couples are very
different.

It would seem that the relationship between Hero and
Claudio is immature.  They are attracted to each other physically but they really don't know each
other, otherwise Claudio could not be convinced that Hero was unfaithful.  It would appear that
he trusts the word of Don John over his intended.  Don John has not proved to be very
trustworthy, yet the men believe him.  Cleverly Don John plants the seed.  Claudio excepts it. 
When he learns of the deception of Don John, he takes a journey where he grows and hopefully
matures and becomes worthy of Hero's love at the end of the
play. 

In contrast, Beatrice and Benedick don't want to rush into
any commitment.  In fact they can't admit to themselves that they love each other.  They are each
guarding their hearts.  They need their friends to help them realise that they, in fact, love
each other.  In fact Benedick's love for Beatrice causes him to side with her over his best
friend because he trusts her.  If she says Hero is innocent, she must be
innocent.

In the end, it is a matter of trust.  Claudio does not
trust Hero; Benedick does trust Beatrice.   

What is the significance of the title of Twelfth Night and its alternative title, What You Will?

You have asked a very perceptive question. Obviously, the
fact that Shakespeare decided to give this play a subtitle makes us ask what relevance
the subtitle has to the play at large and causes us to try to draw parallels between it
and the action.

Twelfth Night was a festival in Elizabethan
times that was even more important than Christmas itself. It celebrated Epiphany, the
time when traditionally we believe the three kings arrived and gave their gifts to
Jesus. However, in Elizabethan times it was a festival that celebrated excess and chaos.
Heavy drinking, cross dressing and a topsy-turvy social order were celebrated. This was
before the end of the Christmas period and the beginning of January and a new year.
Traditionally we take our decorations down after Epiphany on 6th of January. So,
understanding this festival more allows us to draw many parallels between the action of
the play and its title. Sir Toby Belch and his cronies are celebrating to excess this
festival. When he asks in Act II scene 3:

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But shall we make the welkin dance indeed? Shall
we rouse the night owl in a catch that will draw three souls out of one weaver? Shall we
do that?

We hear the voice of
a die-hard party-goer who is determined to extract the most fun and chaos out of this
season. Because Twelfth Night also featured a topsy-turvy social order, we gain new
understanding as to Malvolio´s hopes. Twelfth Night as a festival featured a reversal in
power: servants would be waited on by their masters and there was general chaos and
hilarity. This adds new emphasis to Malvolio´s hopes that he might have a chance with
his mistress Olivia.

What You Will, on
the other hand, represents a challenge to the audience to try and interpret or make
sense of the chaotic action in the play. What message are we as an audience going to
take away from the action? The title What you Will bestows the
audience with the responsibility of trying to process the chaos, humour and fun they
have just seen. What do we make of Malvolio? How do we interpret the way that love is
seen like a disease or a sickness that we suffer from?

So,
to me, both titles are important to the play as a whole, elucidating its theme and
message and involving the audience in the action. Clearly both need to be analysed
carefully to how they relate to the play and what Shakespeare is trying to say through
this masterful comedy.

In Hard Times, what is the significance of the book structure?

This is a great question! Well done for noticing the
curiously entitled headings given to each section of this great novel. I guess one way
to approach this question is to consider a wider theme within the novel which is that of
clocks and time. Throughout this text, mechanical time and natural time is juxtaposed
and contrasted. In Coketown and in the household of the Gradgrinds, time is severely
mechanised - it is monotonous, structured and inexorable. Consider such quotes as "Time
went on in Coketown like its own machine." Think too of how this concept is symbolised
by the "deadly statistical clock" in Gradgrind's
study.

However, opposed to this ruthless view of time is
the structure of the novel that you have identified that divided the overall action by
natural time. Thus the three book titles, "Sowing," "Reaping," and "Garnering," refer to
agricultural labour and to the natural processes of planting and harvesting in
accordance with the natural passing of time in the seasons. Likewise the narrator
comments on the change of seasons even in Coketown's miasma of smoke and red-brick
buildings. According to the narrator, these changes of season amount to "the only stand
that ever was made against its direful uniformity."

Dickens
seems to create this contrast throughout this novel with the purpose of emphasising how
industrialisation has mechanised the human experience as well as heightening the
opposition between agricultural labour and labour in a town such as Coketown, which, as
we can see through characters like Stephen, only destroys and grinds down
humanity.

Trace the causes of the Great Depression.

Great Depression refers to a major and and long lasting slump in
business and economic activities in the 1930's that affected most of the countries across the
world. It caused a sharp fall in in world trade as each country tried to help its own industries
by restricting imports.

The Great Depression occured because of the
combined effect of multiple causes.  This include the destruction and economic disruption caused
by the World War I. In the United States, the failure of many banks during the 1920's also played
a major part in this - about 550 U.S. banks failed from July 1, 1928, to June 30, 1929,. This was
further aggravated by low incomes among farmers and factory workers. While factors like these set
the stage for the depression, the actual event that precipitated the impending crisis was the New
York stock market crash that occurred in 1929. This crash itself became inevitable because of the
very high and unrealistic increase in the stock prices prior to the crash. Between 1925 and 1929
the average price of shares on the New York Stock Exchange more than doubled. This rise was
totally out of proportion with any improvement in the economic activity.

Find the solutions for the diophantine equation x^2 + y^2 + z^2 = 2xyz

Solution x = y =
z = 0 is obvious.

Let's prove that we
don't have other solutions, so we'll suppose the
opposite.

x^2 + y^2 + z^2 is an even number and at least
one of the numbers x, y, z is even. Considering the symmetry of the equation, then ca
x is even, if x = 2x1.
Then 4|y2 + z2, and this is only when
y and z are even. It's true if
y is even and z is odd, then 4 is not
divisible by y2 + z2. If both are odd then:

y^2 + z^2 = (2u
+ 1)^2 + (2v + 1)^2 =

=4(u^2 + v^2 + u + v) +
2

So 4 is not divisible by
y^2+z^2.

So that x =
2x1, y = 2y1,
z = 2z1 and considering the equation, we'll
determine:

x1^2 +
y1^2 + z1^2 =
2^2x1y1z1.

By
taking the same arguments from the equality above, we'll have 2|x1,
2|y1, 2|z1, so that
2^2|x, 2^2|y, 2^2|z. We
can show that 2^n|x,
2^n|y,
2^n|z for any n belongs
to N. It contradicts the
hypothesis.

So, the equation does have a single solution
and this is (0,0,0).

Please give a summary of "The Destructors."

This story is set in post-war London which has been ravaged by
the German bombing. T., also known as Trevor, takes the leadership of the Wormsley Common gang
away from Blackie when he suggests the organised destruction of a historic house that survived
the German blitz. While the house's owner, Mr. Thomas, who the gang somewhat cruelly calls "Old
Misery," is away, the gang thoroughly demolishes the inside of the house. When the owner returns
unexpectedly early, they lock him in his outhouse. During the night, the gang weakens the
foundations of the house and attach them to a truck that is parked close to the house, so that,
when the driver leaves the following morning, he unknowingly completes the act of destruction
that the boys have started. The driver, bemused by what has happened, releases Mr. Thomas from
the outhouse. Mr. Thomas is completely devastated by what has happened, but the driver only
laughs at the situation.

What do we learn about the differences between the reality of Willy's life and the facade that he presents in Death of a Salesman?

This is an interesting question because it depends on the
context in which you are asking it.  Willie's "facade" isn't really a facade at all. 
Dictionary.com defines facade as "a front or outer appearance, esp a deceptive one"
There is a sense of intentionality here and I think that is absent in
Willie.

Instead, I think the problem is self-knowledge. 
When I think of Willie, I recall the words of "To a Louse" by Robert
Burns:

O wad
some Pow'r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us
It wad
frae monie a blunder free
us

Of all
knowledge, self-knowledge is perhaps the most difficult to achieve.  Doestovesky, in
Notes From the Underground" makes a interesting a relevant
observation:

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"Every man has some reminiscences which he would
not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal
even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are
still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a
considerable number of such things stored
away."

The tragedy
in "Death of a Salesman" isn't that he puts up a facade, but that "he had all the wrong
dreams."  He though that, in the world of business, relationship meant something,
promises meant something ... that he meant something.  He learned, sadly, that man is a
piece of fruit --- you can, and we do, "eat the fruit and throw away the
peel."

]

In Emerson's From Education metaphor "The college was to be the nurse and home of genius." There are two metaphors, explain both.I just need a...

I think you can extrapolate a lot of metaphors from
"nurse." Two that I believe Emerson was going for are "to nurture" and "provide
sustenance or entice."  Emerson may have been describing schools mostly for boys with
male teachers, so he could be expressing the need for a feminine touch to teaching.  In
any case, I think this line implies Emerson's plea for the need of a motherly affection
between teacher and student. 

 "Nursing" connotes different
things: nursing back to health, providing sustenance (breast feeding) and generally
taking care of someone.  "Genius" is, in this context more along the lines of creativity
and potential.  So, nursing this genius is to give it care, to feed it and; here's one
that Emerson may or may not have implied: to entice.  First, to entice in the motherly
way as a baby needs and craves milk; simply, to entice with food which is necessary for
life and, metaphorically, necessary to promote
creativity. 

In the context of the historically
gender-stereotype of nurses being female and the nurse-patient relationship, this
additional metaphor of enticing seems to have a slight sexual innuendo; not necessarily
outright sexual, but within the discourse of enticing.  One is enticed by food, sex,
comfort, and encouragement.  So the idea of enticement in general is simply a metaphor
for encouraging, promoting, feeding and caring for that "genius."  The teacher must not
simply feed the student knowledge; but must entice the student; nurse his creativity. 
And thereby, with this motherly or historically feminine aspect to the more
traditionally "manly" disciplinarian approach where the student is forced to learn the
classics, the student is enticed, encouraged and feels a sense of affection.  Thereby,
the college has a feel that is more like "home." 

Why days are longer in summers & shorter in winters ?Though there is not any change in velocity of earth.

The yearly cycle of variations in length of day - that is
the duration of period between sunrise and sunset - occurs because of a combination of
the the tilt of axis of rotation of the earth.

The earth
spins or rotates around its axis approximately every 24 hours. Different part of the
earth face the sun during this daily rotation, resulting in the phenomenon of day and
night. The earth also orbits around the sun making one circle every one year. The axis
of earth's rotation, which runs between North Pole and South Pole, is tilted at an angle
of about 23.5 degrees in relation to the plane formed by the orbit of earth round the
sun. As a result, the south and north poles are tilted towards or away from the sun to
varying degrees, at different time of the year as the earth circles the sun. In summer,
the North Pole is tilted towards the sun while the South pole is tilted away from the
sun. As a result, areas of the earth in the northern hemisphere are exposed to the
sunlight for longer period each day, resulting in longer daylight time. In winters, as
the tilt of earth's axis in relation to the sun changes, the North Pole tilts away from
the sun resulting in shorter days in the northern hemisphere of the
earth.

It should noted that the cycle of changes in
duration of daylight time in the southern hemisphere is opposite of that in the northern
hemisphere. The southern hemisphere has summer with longer days when the northern
hemisphere has winter. Similarly, southern hemisphere has winter with shorter days when
the northern hemisphere has summer.

It is worthwhile
pointing out that, though the distance of earth changes as it orbits around the sun, it
has no impact on the length of day. Also the effect of this variation of distance from
sun has only minor impact on the changing weather on earth. Thus for the same distance
of the earth from the sun, both summer and winters are experienced in different
hemispheres of the earth at the same time.

According to the article below, what does the US want? Nuclear Fuel Memos Expose Wary Dance With Pakistan on new york times

There are a number of things that the United States wants
from Pakistan that are discussed in this article.  I will mention what I think are the
two most important.

First of all, the title of the article
talks about nuclear fuel.  This is an important issue.  Pakistan has a nuclear program. 
The United States is very worried that nuclear fuel that is produced by the program
might make its way into the hands of terrorists.  This could be used to make a "dirty
bomb."

The other major thing that the US wants is
cooperation from Pakistan in the fight against terrorism.  The US is concerned about A)
Pakistan giving support to the Taliban in Afghanistan and B) Taliban and Al Qaeda
members hiding out in parts of Pakistan that the government cannot really control.  The
US wants Pakistan to crack down on both A and B.

What two epithets does the prophet use to describe Odysseus?

I assume that this question refers to the prophet
Teiresias in Book XIof The
Odyssey. If so, this is a very straight forward answer. Upon
meeting Odysseus in Hades, the blind prophet Teiresias refers to Odysseus as
“master of land ways and sea ways” and as the “man of
woe” (this second epithet perhaps being the most famous “nickname” for Odysseus).
Any basic understanding of the tale of Odysseus makes these epithets easy to understand. Odysseus
is perhaps the most famous traveler in history and has earned the title of master of land a sea.
And as far as the epithet man of woe goes, well…In the annals of literature perhaps only Frodo
Baggins in The Lord of the Rings has suffered as much as
Odysseus.

What are some of the metaphors that are specific to comparing human life to nature?Comparisons of nature to daily life

The previous poster's comments are good. If you are indeed
focusing specifically on Their Eyes Were Watching God and follow
spottedslinky's very good suggestion to focus on the connections between plant life and
the novel's main character, you absolutely must (I write this with a smile!) talk about
the connections between Janie and the blossoming pear tree in Chapter
2.

Janie is experiencing a sexual awakening, I think it's
fair to say, and that awakening is represented through the symbols of the bee and the
pear tree in blossom. Read the passage out loud, slowly, and you're very likely to pick
up on the erotic imagery. Of course, it's important to understand, too, that Janie is
thinking here not just about sex but also about marriage. Throughout the novel she will
be looking for this very thing, a deep and passionate and lasting relationship with
someone whom she loves. She finds that relationship with Teacake, and at a later point
in the novel, she even likens him to a bee visiting a flower.

Can someone please tell me the description of the bunkhouse at the beginning of Chapter 2?I'm supposed to draw a picture for my English class and I...

Hi Idek,

The bunkhouse
describes the squalid living conditions migrant workers faced during the Great Depression, the
era the book is based in. Here are some of the features
inside:

1. It's a long, rectangular building; three of its
   walls have windows, and one has just a door.


2. The walls are
   whitewashed, and the floor is unpainted.


3. There are 8 bunks
   inside.


4. An apple box is nailed above each bed; the opening of the
   box faces forward, so that the top and bottom act as shelves for the men's personal
   possessions 


5. There is a table in the middle of the room, with
   boxes as chairs.


6. There's a black cast-iron stove near one wall -
   it's flue (pipe) goes up through the roof.

If you want
to get a great grade, here are some extra details:

1. Of the
   8 bunks, 5 are made up with blankets, the other three with just burlap ticking on
   them.


2. In the apple box above George's bunk, there is a can of
   powder to get rid of bugs - presumably because the bunkhouse harbors fleas and/or lice - although
   Candy (the "swamper" who cleans the bunkhouse) denies this.


3. There
   are playing cards scattered all over the table.

Good
luck with your drawing!

How does Miller signify tragedy to the audience in Act 1 of All My Sons?

In the first act of All My Sons, the
lightning striking the apple tree in the Kellers' yard signifies the tragedy of the
play.  At the beginning of the play, the characters try to hide the tree from Kate who
will be especially hurt by the collapse of the tree because it is a symbol for her son
Larry.  Kate believes that Larry will one day return from the war, even though the
others secretly believe that Larry has died in battle.  In the first act, the audience
learns that the tree was planted in Larry's birth month, and now it has fallen in his
birth month.  These events symbolize Larry's death and the path that the characters must
take to accept the fact that Larry will not return.  With this, the audience is
introduced to the tragedy of the play.

Compare and contrast the differences between the feature film and the book One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest.Name particular differences between the...

There are many differences between the film and the novel,
as is often the case when a book is taken up by Hollywood and made into a feature film. 
The first reason, in general, for differences, is the completely different animals that
books and movies are.  Another big difference, in general, is that, while a novelist
writes often from a very personal, sometimes controversial point of view, a Hollywood
movie is created to please a mass audience and make money, so novels that are brought to
the screen often arrive with the original author's message very watered-down.  Both of
these differences apply to One Flew Over the Cukoo's
Nest.

First, the point of view in the novel is
first person. It is told by Chief Broom.  Everything one pictures about the other
characters and events of the book are filtered through this character's perception.  In
a film, no one character can provide the point of view, since this is the work of the
camera (and ultimately the audience), so the film cannot give the audience the same
feeling of Chief's point of view as the book does.  Further, the movie was created as a
"vehicle" for Jack Nicholson, and he seems much more the main character of the film. 
This change is a common sort of one for Hollywood, which is a business-driven place and
wants to make sure the audience will buy tickets to come and see a movie star that they
know and like.

The book also creates some religious and
political thematic statements that the movie pretty much does away with.  McMurphy is
created as a sort of Christ-figure in the novel, a theme that all but vanishes in the
movie.  There is also much of the novel that creates an anti-establishment tone, a
statement in response to the political situation when the book was written at the end of
the 1950's, beginning of the 60's.  Since the movie was made in the 1970's these themes
may have seemed a bit out of date.  The movie relies much more on characters and their
interrelationships to drive the film, rather than political or religious
thematics.

Please follow the links below for more on
comparing the book to the film.

What causes rabies?What are it's symptoms and signs?It's effects?How is it diagnosed?What are preventive measures?What animals carry it?

Rabies is a viral disease of Mammals. It most often occurs
in wild animals such as  foxes, raccoons, bats, skunks. The virus attacks the central
nervous system. This results in the death of the animal because the virus attacks the
brain.  Symptoms are first similar to the flu and  include fever, weakness, headache and
then progresses to confusion, fear of water, excitability, excessive salivation and
insomnia. The acute period lasts 2--10days and when the clinical symptoms occur,
survival is rare. Treatment is human immune globulin, which contains antibodies as well
as rounds of rabies vaccine. Transmission of rabies is generally through a bite when an
uninfected animal is exposed to the saliva of an infected animal.  Preventative measures
for rabies is to make sure your pet's vaccines are up to date. Any encounter with a wild
animal is considered a rabies exposure to your pet. Although any mammal can be
susceptible to rabies, coyotes, foxes, raccoons, bats and skunks are important
reservoirs of this disease.

What is the moral lesson George has learned from the one time he ordered Lennie to jump?Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

In my opinion, what George learned is that it is wrong to
bully weaker people.  Put differently, he learned that when you have more power than
someone else, it is not morally right to use that power for your own amusement. 
Instead, you have to consider what is best for those who are weaker than
you.

George says that he used to enjoy pushing Lennie
around.  He got a kick out of using Lennie to make himself feel smart and powerful.  But
then he ordered Lennie to jump in the water, Lennie did and almost
drowned.

At that point, George learned that people with
power over others must not abuse this power (this is something that Curley needs to
learn but has not yet learned).  George is not yet past being mean to Lennie at times,
but he has certainly learned to rein it in more than he used to be able
to.

What caused the economic boom of the Roaring 20's to happen?

I'd also have to add the overwhelming infusion of cash into the
America economy from the arms industries and the production of war material for World War I.  $17
billion worth of arms sales to European empires took place at that time, and this created not
only massive wealth in the hands of a few industrialists, (which they were able to invest later
in new economic ventures) but drove up wages, caused increased consumer spending, and increased
stock prices.  The economy expanded greatly as a result, as did its industrial
base.

Republican laissez-faire administrations over the course of
that decade that kept taxes and regulations low sure didn't hurt, but I believe they merely
accelerated an economic trend already brought about by the vast fortunes of war, and a new
American middle class who wanted to share somewhat in the luxury of the new
economy.

From the first link
below:

Annual incomes
rose steadily, from $580 in 1914 to more than $1,300 by the end of the decade. Thus, World War I
dramatically changed the domestic and international economy and set the stage for the prosperity
of the 1920s.

Why do so many people believe in Tutankhamun's curse?

Of course, no one can speak for each of the people who
believes in this curse.  However, my opinion is that people believe in the curse (if any
really do) because it makes a good story and because many people do not think
logically.

The curse makes a good story because we like to
think that ancient people could do supernatural things.  It sounds exciting and so we
like to believe it.  People then let this take over their brains.  They see that some
number of people connected with the mummy died in "suspicious" circumstances and they
just assume it is because of a curse instead of looking, for example, at the percentage
of people in general from back then who died
inexplicably.

So I think it is a mix of the fact that it's
a good story and the fact that people don't often like to think very
hard.

The link that I have included below gives a couple of
interesting anecdotes and a theory about bacteria on the tomb wall... you might want to
look at it.  Also, the skeptoid.com link gives a really good list of reasons not to
believe.

Find the midpoint of the segment AB is A(2, 7) and B (3,-4)

Let the mid point of A(2,7) and B(3,-4)  be
P(x,y)

We know that  the x and y coordinates of  any
point  P(x,y) that divides  the line joining the points A and B in the ratio m : n is
given by:

Px =  (nAx
+mBx)/(m+n).

Py =
(nAy+mBy)/(m+n).

Therefore , in case of the mid point , m=
n = 1.

So  x coordinate ,Px = (Ax+Bx)/(1+1) = (2+ 5)/2 =
7/2.

y coordinate, Py = (Ay+By)/(1+1) = (7-4)/(1+1) =
3/2.

Therefore P(x,y) = (7/2, 3/2) is the mid point of
A(2,7) and B(5, -4).

In Charles, what do you think of the way the parents deal with Laurie ?

This is, to some degree, dependent upon the reader's
beliefs about how children should be raised.  I, personally, am appalled at the way that
Laurie's parents deal with him.

The two things that stand
out most to me are the way they deal with him when he takes the cookie without
permission and when he tells his father he is dumb.

When
Laurie leaves the table and takes the cookie, his father allows it -- he says "see here"
but Laurie leaves in the middle of it.  A parent must not let a child leave in the
middle of being scolded or told what to do.  That is disrespectful on the part of the
child and weak on the part of the parent.

Similarly, when
Laurie says his dad is dumb, his mom quickly changes the subject.  Laurie's parents must
at least talk to him at this point about what is and is not appropriate to say to
authority figures.

These interactions show that Laurie's
parents do not deal well with his behaviors.

What is the theme of the novel "Passing"? by nella larsenbe specific

Two of the most significant themes are identity and
belonging.  Clare is a light skinned black woman who is passing for white in white
society, so a large part of the novel looks at the idea of how we define ourselves as
individuals and how we let others define us.  Is skin color a part of one's identity? 
How?  Is it a question for all ethnic groups, or some more than others?  What is
revealed about the attitudes of blacks and whites in this novel as it relates to skin
color and identity.

The other important theme is that of
"belonging."  Clare, because she is passing for white, has to be very careful how she
lives her life, and must be constantly protecting this carefully created veneer, but
that leaves her a bit outside of her roots.  She must be careful to not reveal her black
background, or she will lose everything she thinks she has accomplished with her
"passing" for white.  She reaches out to Irene, a childhood friend because she seeks a
connection with the past and with her personal truth.

The
novel also hits on themes of racism, friendship, betrayal, loyalty, feminism, and a host
of others as well.

I need help finding quotations proving that Macbeth is the victim of the three witches in Macbeth. Thanks for any input!!

A good place to look for lines which support Macbeth's being a
victim of the three witches is Act 3 Scene 5. In this scene, Hecate scolds the witches for
telling Macbeth his fate. Hecate calls Macbeth a "wayward son" which suggests that he is too
easily swayed by his own ambition and greed to make the right decisions regarding his future.
Hecate tells the witches that they have been "saucy and overbold" in their dealings with Macbeth
and that they must correct the situation. They all know that Macbeth plans to visit the witches
for another foretelling, and Hecate commands the witches to cast a spell. Since Hecate is
scolding the witches for their dealings with Macbeth, the reader assumes that Macbeth is their
victim.

What does the word "Experiment Uncertainty" mean and discuss its meaning.

Experimental uncertainty accounts for the fact that no
experiment is conducted with perfect conditions.  Despite the degree of sophistication of the
equipment or experimental procedures utilized, there are still ways in which it could be better,
as perfection is humanely unobtainable.  These imperfections in our procedures, measurements, and
equipment leave noise and other random errors in the values that we obtain leaving the true value
an estimation.  That estimation is called the 95% confidence interval, which accounts for this
experimental uncertainty.  This interval indicates that there is only a one in twenty chance that
the true value is not within this interval.

Why does the party insist on "curing" people before they are killed.

This question is one that I always bring up when I use
this book to teach about totalitarian governments.  I believe that trying to "cure"
dissidents is useful for totalitarian governments like that of the Party because it
allows them to maintain what political scientists call
"hegemony."

Hegemony (in political science) is when an
oppressive government controls its people by getting them to believe in its ideas and
its power.  It does not have to kill people because it simply gets them to not even
think about rebelling.  This is why the Party wants to cure
people.

The Party wants people to realize that its ideas
are always right.  It wants people to see that even if you oppose the Party at some
point, you will always come around and "see the light."  This means that it is pointless
to rebel.

So the Party does this so that people will not
even want to rebel -- they will realize that everyone ends up believing in the Party and
that shows that the Party's ideas are correct.  If you realize the Party is always
right, you will not even want to
rebel.

That's why the Party doesn't kill -- imagine the
message it sends if it kills.  It sends the message that it can only control people by
violence.  It sends the message that its ideas are not right.  This will simply make
more people want to rebel.  If they cure people before killing them, they prevent this
from happening.

Describe Mrs. Fairfax's personalityJane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

As Jane Eyre rides in a carriage to Thornfield in Chapter 11 of
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre where she is to be governess, she surmises by
the appearance of this carriage and the servant who takes her that Mrs. Fairfax is not a "very
dashing person." So, when she is introduced to Mrs. Fairfax, a neat, elderly lady in a widow's
cap, black silk gown and white muslin apron, Jane finds her exactly as she has imagined. Mrs.
Fairfax is an obedient and discreet servant of Mr. Rochester's. Politely and warmly, she greets
Jane, "How do you do, my dear?" She orders Leah, the cook, to make a warm supper for Jane who has
been chilled by the cold. A distant relative of Mr. Rochester is "a placid-tempered, kind-natured
woman." However, she is also loyal to Mr. Rochester as she lies about the screams that are heard,
blaming upon an eccentric seamstress, named Grace Poole. And, although she is congenial toward
Jane, she is unable to offer Jane the companionship and intellectual stimulation that Jane
desires. In contrast to Jane, who is candid and honest, Mrs. Fairfax is more the typical
Victorian woman who mitigates the negative aspects of things. For instance, as already mentioned,
she disguises the identity of Mr. Rochester's wife and she glosses over Mr. Rochester's strange
ways, dismissing them by saying he is an eccentric man whose family has a history of some
violence.

What are all the similes in the poem "Harlem?"

Here is the full text of the poem, and below that I
explain the five similes in
order:

Harlem,
by Langston Hughes

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What happens to a dream
deferred?

      Does it dry
up

      like a raisin in the
sun?

      Or fester like a
sore—

      And then
run?

      Does it stink like rotten
meat?

      Or crust and sugar
over—

      like a syrupy
sweet?

      Maybe it just
sags

      like a heavy
load.

Or does it
explode?

A
simile is an unusual comparison using the words "like" or "as."  Hughes is obviously a
fan of using the word "like" for his similes.  I will mention the simile and then
explain the comparison.

The first simile is as
follows:  "like a raisin in the sun." This simile compares the "dream deferred" (the
dream of equality) to a "raisin in the sun."  This definitely gives us an image of a
dried-up dream or one that has withered
away.

The second simile is as follows:  "like a
sore."  This simile compares the "dream deferred" (the dream of equality) to a
"fester[ing]" and then "runni[ing]" sore.  Again we have a very negative image here of
an infected wound that runs with puss.  This is WORSE than a "raisin in the sun" and
implies that animosity is brewing inside as a
result.

The third simile is as follows:  "like
rotten meat."  This simile compares, again, the "dream deferred" (the dream of equality)
to "rotten meat" that "stinks."  This now goes from sight and touch images into smell
imagery.  It is just as grotesque as those
above.

The fourth simile is as follows:  "like a
syrupy sweet."  This simile compares, again, the "dream deferred" (the dream of
equality) to a "crust" of a "syrupy sweet" that has "sugared over."  Again, a negative
image, but this time hidden by a positive one:  that of candy.  But an old candy that
has crusted over is old and disgusting.  One cannot hide "fake" equality with
sugar.

The fifth and final simile is as
follows:  "like a heavy load."  This simile compares the "dream deferred" (the dream of
equality) to a burden that is heavy.  It "sags" while the person bears its weight.  In
short, it AFFECTS the person, just as racism affects the African American
race.

Explain the importance of the past as a theme in the story "This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona"

Sherman Alexie's short story "This Is What It Means to Say
Phoenix, Arizona" concerns two characters reflecting upon and reevaluating their past histories
and experiences. When Victor's father dies, Victor and Thomas travel from their reservation in
Washington to Phoenix to retrieve the ashes of Victor's departed father. The journey offers
Victor and Thomas--who are not necessarily friends and who growing up had a fair amount of
animosity between them--an opportunity to get to know one another better and make some amends for
their previous behavior. Additionally, Thomas and Victor also both reflect upon their own
familial relationships and Thomas commiserates with Victor on the loss of a
parent.

The story is an exploration of that very human experience of
life causing an individual to reflect and see his or her world and past in a new light. Victor
and Thomas both come away from the experience as changed men. They are not suddenly best friends
and it is not suggested that their journey has solved all of the problems between them, but the
reader does sense that they both are now more adept at seeing the world through each others eyes
and understanding better the struggles and challenges each faces into the
future.

What did Loulou come to represent for Félicité in "A Simple Heart"?

While Felicite has "a simple heart," Flaubert is keen enough to
show that love can be complex and can take on different forms. Loulou represents this as he comes
to embody many different elements for Felicite. On one hand, the fact that Loulou comes from
America reminds Felicite of her dearly beloved and departed nephew, who also went to America and
died there. When Madame Aubain gives Loulou to Felicite, he comes to represent another being to
which her love can be externalized. Felicite's fundamental gift is that she has the purest
expression of love and while she does not have a husband or children of her own, Felicite's love
is a universal one. Whoever is the recipient of it is one who experiences the purest and most
authentic form of love that is both universal at the joy of being in the world and specific to
the individual that Felicite loves. Loulou is the last creature to experience this, as Felicite
teaches it phrases, tends to it, and cares for it in much the same way she cared for Madame
Aubain's children and anyone else who required her love. At the same time, the concept of the
bird comes to represent much more for Felicite. The fact that Loulou goes missing is another
example of the world in which Felicite lives is one where the experience of love is not
permanent, but rather fleeting and transitory. In this world, love is like a bird that enters the
gilded cage of consciousness for what seems to be an instant and then flees. The fact that
Felicite suffers a loss of hearing and becomes sick in her attempts to find the bird also
represents how one has to sacrifice greatly in order to maintain the fleeting and transitory
nature of a love in a world that does not validate nor support it entirely. When the bird dies,
Felicite's perception of it as representing the holy spirit itself represents her own
universality of love, the fact that her love is something that is "other worldly" in how it is
transmitted to others. The embodiment of her spirituality, it is with this image in her mind that
Felicite passes into a world where her own nature is more the norm, leaving a world that never
was able to fully understand or authenticate her beauty.

In Beowulf, why is Unferth so hostile to Beowulf?

The epic Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is,
in part, the story of a beleaguered town who is saved by a hero.  For years, Hrothgar
and his people were tormented by the monster Grendel; the marauder had been plaguing the
town and the people, enough that they lived in constant fear.  Along cameBeowulf, a
confident, even arrogant, young man who was convinced he could rid the Danes of their
tormentor.  He offeredhis services to Hrothgar, and soon after Unferth began his
diatribe.

Consider Unferth's position: he is a proud lord
who has to feel some shame and embarrassment at not being able to take care of this
problem without help; he has had too much to drink, so he's speaking more freely than
usual; and he's probably feeling somewhat jealous of someone who is so confident and
fearless.

Unferth acts as a kind of foil to Beowulf.  Where
Unferth is rude and accusatory and boastful, Beowulf is collected and reasonable and
explains what really happened in the incident with Brecca.  One shows honor, and one
does not.  Later, Unferth does seem to have come to his sense of honor by loaning his
faithful sword to Beowulf, and Beowulf honors him by accepting
it.

In Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, where does the opening scene take palace?

Jane Austen never specifies in her narration where the
first scene is taking place. However, since the conversation takes place between man and
wife, we can assume that it is taking place in a drawing room in Longbourn, the Bennet's
estate. Also, while the narration point of view Austen uses for this novel is Third
Person Omniscient, it is also Limited Omniscient because the narration focuses primarily
on Elizabeth's actions. Very rarely does the narrator zero in on other character's
thoughts and actions but generally follows Elizabeth where ever she goes. Hence, it is
safe to assume that Elizabeth is present and witnessing the conversation, therefore it
may be safe to further assume that the other sisters are also present. The fact that
Elizabeth and possibly even her sisters are present during the conversation lends
further evidence that the first scene is taking place in a drawing room at Longbourn,
rather than in a more private room, such as a bedroom or Mr. Bennet's
library.

All in all, we know that this first scene is most likely
taking place at Longbourn, and even more likely taking place in a drawing
room.

In "Things fall apart" what are the merits and demerits of Igbo culture?

Of course the answers depend on one's perspective, and the lack
of the ability of one side to see each other's merits is what leads to most of the conflict in
the story.

The Igbo culture appears to have a great deal of festive
traditions, a powerful emphasis on hospitality and family ties, and they have a powerful
narrative of their place in the world and where they fit in.  They have a way of dealing with
death and difficulty that is very different than the western/christian way the missionaries
approach it.

Some of the harder to understand from a western
perspective aspects of their culture might be things like leaving baby twins out in the forest to
die because they are seen as evil.  Another might be their relative acceptance of some domestic
abuse, we see that Okonkwo is known for having a bad temper and sometimes hitting his wives, but
though it is frowned upon, it is accepted.

Could someone please explain this quote: "Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves"?

This quote is from a speech that Douglass gave in 1863.
Basically, what Douglass is saying here is that, if you want to be free, you have to
make yourself free.  You cannot wait for someone else to do the job for you.  This is
because it is better to die trying to be free than to live in
slavery.

This speech was given to try to motivate blacks to
participate in the Civil War as soldiers.  Douglass was arguing that they would not
deserve their freedom if they did not fight for it.  This idea motivated blacks to
fight, both in the Civil War and (not militarily) later
on.

This is the spirit that, for example, motivated the
people who made up the civil rights movement.  They could have waited for the white
people to decide that it was time to give blacks their
rights.  However, they did not do this.  Instead, they rose up and tried to
take the rights that they deserved.  This is just what
Douglass is advocating--if you want to be free, you have to make yourself
free.

Why does Captain Torres tell the barber all about his plans for the rebels even though he suspects that the barber is a secret rebel ?

 Captain Torres knows that the barber is a member of the
rebel group and has been warned that the barber will kill him if he goes in there.
Torres seems to even invite the barber to kill him by bragging about the recent capture
of a group of rebels and reminding the barber of the barbaric events of the week
before. So why would Torres go to the barber shop? Part of the answer lies in
understanding Latin American culture, especially during a period of violent, political
unrest. Boys were raised to be macho, called "machismo" in Latin America. Even in the
U.S., we have traditionally raised our boys to be tough and macho. In a sense, Torres is
daring the barber to kill him to show the barber how macho he is. Torres knows that if
the barber kills him, the barber will be caught and punished, but I don't think Torres
has a death wish. He's willing to gamble his life that the barber won't be able to kill
him. At the end, Torres says to the barber, "They told me that you'd kill me. I came to
find out. But killing isn't easy. You can take my word for it." Torres seems to be
saying the barber's inaction is cowardice and to throw it in his face. The barber has to
take Torres' word that killing isn't easy because he was unable to kill
Torres.

What does Lux mean by constellation in "The Voice You Hear When You Read Silently"?

When the poet uses the word "constellation" he is using it
to mean a whole array of things -- not just one.  He is saying that when you read
silently to yourself, you are exposed to a variety of different sensations (because he
says that it is a "sensory constellation) not just one
sensation.

When you read to yourself, you experience many
things.  You "see" things, of course, but you also engage your other senses, he says. 
Lux says that you can feel things and smell things.  You can hear the oats as they pour
into the feed troughs.  You can see how dirty the cow's haunches are, and you can
probably smell it as well.

The whole point of saying that
there is a "sensory constellation" is to tell you that reading can be a very vivid
experience that impacts all of your senses (at least in your
mind).

How do people cope with severe setbacks?

People have the tendency to cope with major setbacks by
quickly shifting into what is known as a "comfort zone". This is an area in our mind and
sometimes within our bodies where we run to and try to make ourselves feel better. It is
also a familiar zone, where nothing new can happen to further shift our
life.

In Silas's case, he went straight to the loom. He had
been comforting himself with work ever since the incident at Lantern Yard and his
subsequent entrance to Raveloe. Since he was a weaver by vocation, his mind would
concentrate on nothing but his loom. He would consistently go back to his loom because
this is what he knew, and the anchor of his life. It is what gave him the balance to
move forward, or to simply sit and mourn.

Remember that
Silas's character was very unique in that he awarded confidence, loyalty and
appreciation to the things with which he felt most related to: It happened with his
brown pot, and now it is happening with his loom. These comforting mechanisms allow him
to cope and grief as best as he can.

If the circumference of a circle is 64 cm what is the length of an arc that measures 30 degrees .

The circumference of a circle is  given by the formula 2pi*r
.

The actual length of the cicumference =
64.

Therefore  2pir = 64 cm.

An angle
of 30 degrees = pi/6 radians.

Therefore the length of an arc which
subtends an angle of x radians at the centre should measure x*radius =
xr.

Therefore an arc subtending pi/6 radians should measure
pi*r/6.

But 2pir = 64 cm given.

Divide
both sides by 12 :

2pir/12 =
64/12.

Therefore pir/6 = 64/12 cm  = 5 1/3
cm

Therefore an arc angle of 30 degrees of a circle whose
circumference is 64 measure 5 1/3 cm or 5.33cm nearly.

A rectangle is inscribed in a circle of radius 5 inches. If the length of the rectangle is decreasing at the rate of 2 inches per second...how fast...

Let one side of the rectangle inscribed be x, then the
other side of the rectangle is = 2*times the distance of the side x from the centre =
2*sqrt(r^2- (x/2)^2) .

Therefore area of the rectangle A(x)
= product of the sides = x* sqrt{r^2-x^2/4.

Therefore the
rate of change in area A(x) is A'(x) when x is
incresing.

A'(x) =
{x*sqrt(x^2-/4)}'.

A'x) =
{x*sqrt(r^2-x^2/4)}'.

A'(x) = x*{sqrt(r^2-x^2/4)}'+ x'
*{sqrt(r^2-x^2/4).

A'(x) = x*(1/2)*(r^2-x^2/4)^(1/2-1) *
(-2x/4) +sqrt(r^2-x^2/4}

A'(6) =
6*(1/2)*(5^2-6^2/4)^(-1/2)*(-2*6/4) +sqrt(5^2-6^2/4)

A'(6)
= 3*(25-9)^(-1/2) * (-3) +sqrt(25-9)

A'(6) = (3/4)(-3) +
4

A'(6) = -2.25+4 =
0.5.

Therefore the rate increase in area = 1.75 sq units
when x = 6. 

Why was there so much difficulty with the spreading of crops/animals in the Americas in Guns, Germs, and Steel?Chapter 10

If you want to answer this question, simply look at Figure
10.1 -- the map showing the major axes of all the continents.  You will notice that the
major axis of the Americas runs north and south.   This is in contrast to the major axis
of Eurasia, which runs east and west.  Diamond argues that this is the major factor that
made it difficult for crops and animals to spread in the
Americas.

If a continent's major axis is east-west, much
more of the land mass lies along the same latitude.  This means that it will have more
or less the same weather and more or less the same plants and animals can thrive all
along that axis.  That way, plants that are domesticated in one place can spread along
that long axis.

But with the axis of the Americas, this is
not possible.  That axis covers lots of different latitudes from the equator up to much
higher latitudes.  A crop that was discovered in Mesoamerica would not be able to spread
up and be raised, for example, in what is now Kansas.

The
Americas also had other problems (deserts, thick jungles), but the north-south axis was
the main problem.  This is why Diamond even mentions the term in the title of the
chapter.

Analyze "Young Goodman Brown" by historical and biographical approach.Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown"

According to Hyatt H. Waggoner, author of a biography of
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hawthorne

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continued to note in himself, and to disapprove, feelings
and attitudes he projected in . .. "Young Goodman Brown." He noted his tendency not only to study
others with cool objectivity, but to study himself with almost obsessive
interest.

The Puritan values that
inspired Hawthorne's close observation of people and events contributed to his genius as a
writer. For, his Puritan gloom determines the dark atmosphere of many of his narratives as well
as the overriding shadow of Calvinism which generates a certain pessimism about man. It is this
mixture of objectivity and Puritan gloom which creates the ambiguity that is present in "Young
Goodman Brown." Did Brown witness Faith give herself up to the devil, or did something happen
within his heart?

The setting of Hawthorne's challenging story is a
result of the tremendous historical influence of the Salem Witch Trials. Even in Hawthorne's
time, the nineteenth century, New England was yet reeling from the guilt of ancestry about such a
hysterical time period, while at the same time it rebelled against the Calvinistic morals that
were so constrictive. Goodman tells his wife he is going into the forest primeval "just this one
night" because he wishes to challenge the devil, challenge the Calvinistic belief in the
depravity of man. Yet, as the traveller in the person of the old man with the serpentine staff
hints at his recognition of the darkness of Goodman's soul, Brown claims his innocence and
goodness. Certainly, Hawthorne, whose ancestor served as a judge in the Salem Trials, examines
this dichotomy in his story with Goodman Brown as the personage who represents the conflict of
guilt and rebellion. Indubitably, art imitates life in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman
Brown."

In "Rules of the Game", what is the significance of the story's title?

This is an excellent question because you recognise the
importance of the titles that authors give their work. With this short story in
particular, the title is one of the many master touches about this short story. The
title itself operates on many different levels and is clearly relevant to the struggle
that is ongoing between Waverly and her mother. You need to remember that this short
story in essence is about the desire for independence and the right to live your own
life. Waverly, as someone who is born and bred in the United States, has very different
values and beliefs from her mother, who was born and bred in China and emigrated later
on in her life. What we see in this story is the "Rules of the Game" that Waverly is
playing in her effort to achieve independence.

However,
there are other rules as well. You may wish to consider the rules of Santa Claus about
being a good girl, the rules of chess, the American rules and procedures and the rules
of chess etiquette. For me, one of the most striking set of rules are those that Waverly
and her family have had to learn very quickly in order to
operate:

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"This American rules," she concluded at last.
"Every time people come out from foreign country, must know rules. You not know, judge
say, Too bad, go back. They not telling you why so you can use their way go forward.
They say, Don't know why, you find out yourself. But they knowing all the time. Better
you take it, find out why yourself." She tossed her head back with a satisfied
smile.

This in a sense
captures both the immense struggle it must be for immigrants to settle in the United
States but also the rules of the game that operate in Waverly's family. She is forced to
discover the rules by trial and error in just the same way that her mother has had to
learn the rules of immigration and American life. The ending of the story clearly
displays that Waverly has to learn to live within the restrictions of her mother's rules
- her dream at the end of the story where she imagines playing a game of chess against
her mother, who is personified as "two angry black slits", clearly shows that she has
"lost" this game of achieving independence for now, but the last line clearly states
that the overall game is not over yet:

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I closed my eyes and pondered my next
move.

The cool and
calculating Waverly that we have seen playing chess is not going to be defeated by a
setback, however major, and we can see her determination to continue playing the game
and fighting in her attempt to break free from her mother. Thus the title works on
multiple levels but refers back to the theme in explaining how there are rules in life
that we all have to learn and play by.

In "EPICAC," what is the significance of the poetry?

In this science fiction short story, EPICAC is a super computer
that begins to exhibit human qualities; at first an "it," the computer becomes "he," as the
narrator begins to interact personally with EPICAC. As their friendship develops, EPICAC writes
beautiful love poems for the narrator to use in winning the affection of Pat, the object of his
desire. Along the way, EPICAC himself falls hopelessly in love with Pat and commits suicide by
burning out his circuits in creating 500 anniversary love poems for Pat and the
narrator.

The poetry in the short story is significant in several
ways. First of all, it drives the plot. It is EPICAC's poems that bring the narrator and Pat
together, something the narrator, a mathematician who lacked a romantic soul, could not
accomplish on his own. Also, it is through the poetry that EPICAC is personified in the story,
his personality and humanity developed and revealed. Furthermore, EPICAC's poetry creates
situational irony in the story; how ironic that a computer, a machine, could express human
emotion more deeply and more tenderly than the narrator, a human
being.

Finally, this irony develops an important theme in the story,
suggesting that advanced scientific knowledge and expertise do not represent the highest
achievement in human development. EPICAC is created by man to make war, an example of science
applied in the pursuit of power. In choosing to use his intelligence and his heart to promote
love, and even to die for it, EPICAC represents the best part of humanity; he is far more
admirable than those who created him.

What was Hester's conflict with herself in The Scarlet Letter?

I think the easiest way to answer this question is to
consider how you would feel if you were Hester Prynne.  In order to
do this, you must consider the lengthy list of circumstantial conflicts she
experiences:

1. Married to a man she does not love
   and arrives at the New World without him.


2. Falls in love
   with a man she cannot have and has a baby with
   him.


3. Arguably unfairly punished for her "sin" by a
   Puritan society who never relents in reminding her of
   it.


4. So devoted to her faith/religion that believes she
   deserves her punishment, but devoted enough to the father of the baby that she will not
   reveal his secret (and therefore let him bear part of her
   punishment).

Considering these things,
understand the emotional conflict that Hester must have raging inside her.  She feels
truly guilty and is genuinely repentant for what she has done.  This is obvious by the
way she chooses to live, how she chooses to raise her child, and the fact that she wears
the letter until the day she dies.

On the other hand, she
is still madly in love with the father of Pearl.  This is evident by the fact that she
will not, under any circumstance, give up his
identity.

Putting all of this together, consider how
you might feel if the one person you loved most in the world, you
could not have, and you actually agreed with the (in this case, religious) reasons that
prevented you from having him?  This is exactly the internal conflict Hester
experiences.

Are Dede, Mama, and Papa considered heroes in the revolution in In the Time of the Butterflies?

It is clear from the novel that these three characters are
definitely not viewed as heroes in the same way as the three sisters who are killed for the
revolutionary cause they are working to support. Dede was definite in her decision not to
participate in subversive activities and the sisters' parents likewise were not involved in the
revolutionary movement. After the brutal assassination of the three sisters, the emotion and
support that is unleashed is focussed on the survivors, but at the same time surviving does not
make them heroes of the movement, and they must work very hard to look after all of the nephews
and neices that are left over and need care, compassion and love.

In The Great Gatsby, how does Gatsby introduce himself in Chapter 3?

Chapter 3 of The Great Gatsby
describes the first of Gatsby's parties that Nick attends. Nick narrates how
he was sitting at a table with another couple while he was with Jordan Baker. The man at
the table with Nick thinks he knows Nick from the army, and they start talking about
their experiences in France:

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We talked for a moment about some wet, gray
little villages in France. Evidently he lived in this vicinity, for he told me that he
had just bought a hydroplane, and was going to try it out in the
morning.

Nick says he was
just on the point of asking this stranger for his name when Jordan interrupts him. Then
he tells the man that he has not even met Gatsby yet: "I haven’t even seen the host." It
is then that the stranger reveals himself as Jay Gatsby, saying, "I’m Gatsby, ... I
thought you knew, old sport. I'm afraid I'm not a very good host." Thus it is only by
accident that Gatsby introduces himself and Nick comes to realize who Gatsby
is.

Hanneh and Mrs. Preston discuss the rent situation. What does this suggest about the differences in the lifstyles led by the two women?"Th Lost of...

Mrs. Preston is at a loss to know what to do to help
Hanneh. She has been speaking at some length to Hanneh about democracy, which Hanneh has
fully embraced, but Mrs. Preston has no sense as to how to put democracy into action in
this situation.

So Mrs. Preston, who is wealthy, offers to
give Hanneh money to hold her over, taking care of the problem for the moment. She gives
no thought to the future, for this woman has never had to do so: money is there for the
taking, whenever she needs it.

Hanneh, however, does not
want a moment of charity: she wants justice. She is thinking of the future. A loan today
will still leave her tomorrow facing the unethical landlord who wants more money for the
work Hanneh has done to make her apartment more attractive (and therefore more valuable
to him). Hanneh's frustration is overwhelming as she realizes that she has nowhere to
turn and no one to help her. As she and her husband have always had to work hard to get
by, now they must do so and find another
home.

The reality of the harshness of Hanneh's life of
poverty is glaringly different than the life of comfort Mrs. Preston
lives.

A 3-digit number is the product of 4 prime numbers. Given that the 3 digits of the number are all prime & different and that the sum of ...its...

The prime digits are 2,3,5 and
7.

So we can form only 4! numbers which are different 3
digit prime numbers. So our choice number is from of these 24 numbers. In fact these
could be physically tried. But a short cut is always better. So we proceed as
shown below:

 Since the factors of the number are 4 prime
numbers, which add up to 30, we should have the factors 2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23 and
29.

Examining the different primes from 2 to 29 , no 4
different primes add up to 30.

However , the conditions
given say only different prime 3 digits. But the condition does not say the 4
factors should  be different primes.

If  the  3 digit prime
number allows for 4 prime factors , not neccesarily different, then 2*2*7*19 =
532 is a
solution.

Tally:

Number
of factors are four .

Factors are: 2, 2, 7 and
19.

All are prime factors.

Sum
of the factors: 2+2+7+19 = 30.

The digits of 532 are  5, 3
and 2 are three  distinct primes.

Hope this
helps.

Why is there a distinction made between "Elizabethan Jonson" and "Jacobean Jonson" in regard to Ben Jonson?

English literary periods are named for monarchs, as with the
Elizabethan period, or historical events, as with the Restoration period, or for great literary
times or movements, as with the Middle English or Romantic periods. Ben Jonson wrote during the
two literary periods named for Queen Elizabeth I and King James I. Both of these periods fell
under the broader literary period called the Renaissance
period.

About the Elizabethan period, William Shakespeare was the
preeminent dramatist during the Elizabethan period and, though he lived and wrote after James I
took the throne, is rarely, if ever, associated with the Jacobean period. This is because title="Shakespeare's Work: A Timeline. J. M. Pressle. Shakespeare Resource Center"
href="http://www.bardweb.net/plays/timeline.html">Shakespeare's greatest renown and
the bulk of his work is associated with Elizabeth's reign. Ben Jonson was a contemporary of
Shakespeare's and a friend. As such, Jonson too wrote in the Elizabethan
period.

However, since Jonson (1) emphasized the moral of his plays,
whether drama or comedy, and since (2) his characters were often undeveloped because Jonson
preferred shallow typological characters (character who were types of individuals met in life,
like the clergyman, the swindler, the innocent young woman etc), Jonson's plays were not popular
in Elizabeth's time like Shakespeare's were.

Jonson's greatest work
was written and staged after James I took the throne, especially Volpone
(1605-06), so even though he began writing during Elizabeth's reign and is therefore an
Elizabethan writer, his greatest success was later on during James' reign making him also a
Jacobean writer (Jacobean is derived from the Latin version of the name
James). Since Shakespeare was the predominant influence in the Elizabethan
period and Jonson was not well received then, Jonson had very little (if any) influence during
that period.

After James I took the throne and the Jacobean period
began, href="http://www.bartleby.com/216/0901.html">Jonson's fortunes changed. He staged
Volpone and found he had become an influence for the younger playwrights
coming into their own. Shakespeare was difficult for young playwrights to imitate and model
after, but Jonson had such clear-cut rules for structure and purpose, and his Jacobean plays were
so well received (unlike his Elizabethan plays), that young writers made him their model for
successful play writing.

It is for these reasons that Ben Jonson is
classed as both an Elizabethan and a Jacobean playwright. For added clarification, had Jonson
been as successful as Shakespeare under Queen Elizabeth's rule, he would, like Shakespeare, be
closely associated with only the Elizabethan period. On the other hand, had the preponderance of
Shakespeare's work been produced after 1603, which is when James took the throne (1603–25), then
Shakespeare would, like Jonson, be associated with both the Elizabethan and Jacobean
periods.

What is the conflict in "The Sniper"?

When we think of conflict there are two kinds that we
refer to in the study of literature: internal and external. Internal conflict is
normally used to refer to some kind of internal struggle, for example a climber who
needs to physically and mentally urge himself on to reach the top of a mountain.
External conflict is referred to when the conflict is between a character and another
character.

Clearly, then, "The Sniper" shows us an example
of external conflict, as the story presents us with a grim fight to the death between to
snipers from rival sides of the Irish Civil War, that split the country apart, and also
many families, as some family members took opposing forces. Consider the following
paragraph:

The
sniper lay for a long time nursing his wounded arm and planning escape. Morning must not
find him wounded on the roof. The enemy on the opposite roof covered his escape. he must
kill that enemy and he could not use his rifle. He had only a revolver to do it. Then he
thought of a plan.

This then
presents us with the title character of this excellent short story working out how to
resolve the external conflict he faces and kill his opponent, thereby ensuring his
escape.

Which economic forces were most responsible for the new imperialism that began in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?

There were economic forces that led to a new wave of
imperialism between 1850 and 1920. One of these forces was the desire for resources. As
the industrial revolution expanded, countries wanted colonies for a few reasons. One
reason was they could get resources cheaper from their colonies than they could if they
bought those resources from other countries. Having colonies also gave a country a
guaranteed market where it could sell its goods and make money. This arrangement would
help the colonial power’s economy at home.

Another economic
factor was that having colonies made it easier for countries to protect their merchant
marine and their world trade. Colonies could serve as places for the navy to use to dock
their ships and resupply them. They could also use the colonies as military bases if it
was necessary to take military action to protect their world trade and their merchant
marine. Protecting world trade was important for economic
growth.

By establishing colonies worldwide, a country could
enhance its status as a world power. Being a world power could open other economic
opportunities for the country that may allow their economy to grow. New trade
opportunities could develop or reciprocal agreements could be made with other world
power nations and their colonies. Preferred trading status could be developed through
such arrangements.

There were many economic forces that
encouraged a new wave of imperialism between 1850-1920.