What would be the the disadvantages if we had a popular vote instead of an Electoral College?

The main disadvantage here would be that the states would
come to matter less in our political system.  This would be particularly true of the
little states that do not have all that many voters in
them.

In the Electoral College, the small states are
overrepresnted.  This is because they have the same number of Senators as the large
states (and the number of votes a state gets is equal to the number of members they have
in Congress).  Because of this, there is some advantage to be gained by campaigning in
small states -- you can get more electoral votes there than those states are really
"worth" in terms of numbers of people.

The idea is that if
there were no Electoral College, candidates would ignore these small states and spend
all their time in the big states where all the people
are.

As the link that I have included
says

We would
probably see elections dominated by the most populous regions of the country or by
several large metropolitan areas.

Regarding the concept of "the prodigal son," how is it a parable for the idea of forgiveness?

I would add that the parable adds another dimension to the
traditional idea of forgiveness.  Here's the part that I find
interesting:

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"But while he was still a long way
off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his
son, threw his arms around him and kissed
him.

It seems that
his father was actually LOOKING for him because he was a LONG way off when his father
saw him.  He did not just see him as he walked into the house, or stepped on to the
property, but when he was a long way off.  In my reading, this indicates that he forgave
him BEFORE he saw him.  This is in keeping with the (frightful) injunction of the "Our
Father" --- Forgive us our trespassers as [and only as] we forgive those who trespass
against us."  We actually ask to be forgiven as, and only as, we have forgiven those who
have trespassed against us.

Given that standard,
the father surely will be forgiven.

Cleopatra is neither a scheming politcian nor a wanton whore, but rather a lady in love in Antony and Cleopatra. Comment.

I think that there are several conditions within the statement
that can be debated.  In my mind, the first is that the characteristics offered are all mutually
exclusive.  That is to say that Cleopatra could not be a "scheming politician" as well as being a
"lady in love."  In the end, I think that part of what makes her such a compelling literary
figure is that she is so complex.  She defies simple and monistic characterizations just as she
defies age.  Cleopatra is depicted in such a multi-dimensional manner that one is not really able
to define in her in one strict characterization.  She does demonstrate herself to be a scheming
politician when she makes the decision to call back her ships from what seems to be a loss.  She
proves herself to be in love with Antony in much of what she does and is consumed with her own
appetites at many moments.  In the end, perhaps the statement is not right in its hope for
singularity, but rather has valid aspects of each characterization within
it.

What are some foreshadowing quotes in Of Mice and Men?

In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
that the one woman in the narrative is going to be trouble is clearly suggested in
Chapter 2.  Here are some examples of foreshadowing:

1. One
day as the men glance up, they see a girl standing in the doorway.  Her posture
indicates that she is flirtatious, and her manner suggests that she is looking for more
than Curley when she repeatedly comes around.

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She put her hands behind her back and leaned
against the door frame so that her body was thrown forward.  "You're the new fellas that
just come, ain't ya?"...

She smiled archly and twitched her
body.  "Nobody can't blame a person for lookin'," she
said.

2.  In Chapter 2 after
Candy has told George and Lennie about the pugnacious Curley, George "pretended a lack
of interest.  'Looks like we was gonna have fun.'  Then Lennie mournfully says, "I don't
want no trouble...I never done nothing to him."

Of course,
the reader senses that there will be a confrontation between Curley and probably
Lennie.

3. When Curley's wife comes around the bunkhouse in
Chapter 4,

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Lennie watcher her, fascinated; but Candy and
Crooks were scowling down away from her
eyes.

Then, when Candy tries
to discourage her from staying around, she "flared
up."

"Sure I
gotta husban'. You all seen him.  Swell guy, ain't he?  Spends all his time sayin' what
he's gonna do to guys he don't like and he don't like nobody.  Think I'm gonna stay in
that two-by-four house and listen how Curley's gonna lead with his left twict, and then
bring in the ol' right
cross?"

After George's having
related to Slim how Lennie got into trouble in Weed, the suggestion of more trouble is
evident.

4. A more subtle foreshadowing than the previous
three is the shooting of Candy's old dog by Carlson.  This act  also suggests that Candy
may be put out, too, as he has outlived his usefulness.  In addition, this act becomes
meaningful as a suggestion of the anthropomorphic Lennie's being shot in the same manner
at the end of the novella:

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"The way I'd shoot him, he wouldn't feel
nothing.  I'd put the gun right there."  He pointed with his toe.  "Right back of the
head.  He wouldn't even quiver."

Describe the fish.

The fish is very ugly. It is described in such detail to
give us a sense of its identity and therefore its value. The fish has been caught before
and has, on five previous occasions, broken the line and gotten away. It is a fish of
almost legendary prowess in the battle with its human enemies. The action of the fish is
abrupt, but in the light of the fish’s unusual passivity (a fish hooked and pulled out
of water fights and wiggles desperately) and its almost Olympian refusal to meet its
captor’s eye, release is the only appropriate act. Letting the fish go signifies both
the speaker’s respect for this old fighter and her realization that to have caught the
fish is victory and achievement enough.

In Lord of the Flies, chapter 6, how do Ralph and Jack differ in their actions as they climb the new hill?

In chapter 6, Jack and Ralph and a few others discover
Castle Rock, the coral and rock island on which Jack and his followers decide to make
their fortress.  Castle Rock is high and separate from the surrounding land.  It
overlooks one end of the island.  The approach, which is a rock bridge, is precarious
and Jack hesitates to cross it, so Ralph goes first and Jack soon joins him.  Ralph sees
the island for what it lacks - natural resources that will benefit them in surviving
life on the island.  He notes that there is no fresh water, no shelter, and no food. 
Ralph says it is "...a rotten place." He does not see any potential for the mass of rock
and coral.  Jack, however, sees that the island would be ideal for a fort.  He sees how
easy it would be to defend the island since it has only one main access point and from
the top of it, Jack can see all the way around it.  Ralph sees the island for its
usefulness in helping them survive peacefully, Jack sees it for its usefulness in
helping him gain power and control.

How could IT provide a competitive advantage to a business?

The simple fact that a company has IT cannot provide it with a
competitive advantage because essentially every firm of any size has IT. What can provide a
competitive advantage is IT that is better than that of
competitors.

The link below tells us that there are many advantages
to having IT. It says that

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Examples of IT's benefits to different areas of an
enterprise include:

• timely and efficient delivery of
  products and services


• higher sales through better understanding of
  customer behaviors


• cost savings from fewer staff hours and reduced
  human or machine error


• better resource planning through detailed,
  accurate, and timely financial
  information.

Looking at
this list, you can see where having better IT than your competitors would be
useful.

If your IT system is better, you might have a superior
database telling you what your customers like to buy, at what price, at what time of year, and
other information like that. This could help you to better plan what sort of inventory to have
available. If you have a better IT system, less time will be wasted on mistakes. This will mean
that you will have lower labor costs per unit of output.

Since IT
is, as the link says, the "lifeblood" of any major firm, having better IT clearly is a
competitive advantage.

Why was Salman Rushdie issued a Fatwa after he wrote Satanic Verses?

Satanic Verses is a book by Indian born British author
Salman Rushdie. In the book there is a particular section titled Return to Jahilia where
the author describes the conquest of Jahilia by Mahmound. The Persian named Salman, in
his complaints to Baal stresses on the problems in the absurd sacred verses written by
Mahmound, especially the way women are portrayed in
them.

This section of the book was found extremely
offensive and blasphemous by Muslims around the World, with the spiritual leader of Iran
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issuing a fatwa in the name of Rushdie and offering a $1
million award to anyone who fulfils it.

When a steel company goes bankrupt, other companies in the same industry benefit because they have one less competitor.But when a bank goes...

Usually, when a manufacturing firm goes bankrupt, it is not
considered to be due to a problem with the prevailing rules that regulate and entire industry. It
is merely considered to be a single incident where the way the company operated led to a
situation where it could not make profits and the liabilities increased to an unsustainable
level.

On the other hand banks and companies in the financial sector
do not operate in the way that a manufacturing company would. Here, investments made are highly
leveraged. A small change in the price of the assets with the bank can lead to large
losses.

There is also a much higher role played by risk in the
financial sector. Also, the effect of a bank collapsing is felt by a considerably larger number
of people and at a much larger scale.

This makes regulators
immediately start to look closely at the reasons behind the collapse and they try to create new
rules that are applicable for all banks. As the new regulations are meant to prevent other banks
from collapsing, ways to reduce risk are introduced. These influence the way all banks operate
and force them to make drastic changes which are usually in the opposite direction of how they
had done things earlier.

Solve the equation 5x/(2x+2)=2x/(3x+3)+(2x+3)/(x+1)

Given the equation 5x/ (2x+2) = 2x/(3x+3)  +
(2x+3)/(x+1).

We need to find x values that satisfies the
equation.

First, we need to determine the common
denominator.

Let us factor all
denominators. 

==> 5x/ 2(x+1) = 2x/3(x+1)  +
(2x+3)/(x+1)

Then, we conclude that the common denominator
is 6(x+1).

==> 3*5x/ 6(x+1) = 3*2x/6(x+1)  +
6(2x+3)/ 6(x+1)

==> 15x/6(x+1) = 6x/6(x+1) +
6(2x+3)/6(x+1).

Now we will reduce the
denominator.

==> 15x = 4x +
6(2x+3)

==> 15x = 4x + 12x +
18

==> 15x - 4x - 12x =
18

==> x=
-18

What points of similarity and of difference are there among the air drawn dagger, the voice that cried: "Sleep no more," and the Ghost of Banquo?

Each of these items represent an aspect of Macbeth's
subconsciousness and conscience.  The air drawn dagger appears to Macbeth before he goes in to
kill Duncan.  He is clearly hallucinating.  This dagger that is covered with drops of blood stem
from his "heat-oppressed brain" and represents the difficulty of crossing the  line between being
an honorable soldier and thane to becoming a traitor and an assassin.  The voice that cries
"Sleep no more" is once again Macbeth's imagination.  This cry occurs after he kills Duncan, and
again shows Macbeth's immediate remorse for what he has done.  He feels that he will never sleep
peacefully again.  The last item--the Ghost of Banquo--is another hallucination.  In Act 3,
Macbeth has had Banquo murdered.  And while he outwardly seems to feel no guilt or remores, he
cannot suppress images of the evil that he has had done to his former friend and fellow soldier. 
Each of these images evokes fear and terror in Macbeth, but instead of dissuading him from future
violence, seem to create panic and result in even more violence. 

In Act 5, scene 2 of Hamlet, does Gertrude know that the wine is poisoned and drink it to save her son's life?

This is a great question! There is no specific textual evidence
to definitively say yes or no, but it makes for an interesting discussion of the subtext of the
play and what a director can do with looks, actions, timing, etc. to convey her knowledge or lack
thereof.

Based on the actual text of the play there is no direct
statement that she knows anything is amiss with the cup of wine. For the king to have the cups
out and to toast to his son would be standard form for the day, and his putting the "union" -- a
very large pearl which he claims 4 kings before him wore in the crown -- in the cup of wine would
have been a typical way to pass along the additional reward. It is kind of like a man putting the
diamond engagement ring in the glass of champagne at the proposal. These actions aren't all that
suspicious. Hamlet turns down the initial offer of a drink, and after the second touch by Hamlet
it looks like Hamlet is going to win the fencing match. At this point, Hamlet has been working
hard and looks thirsty and sweaty. Gertrude notices this and takes the cup and her napkin
(handkerchief) to Hamlet. The sequence of the lines really matters here: first she says "The
queen carouses to thy fortune, Hamlet." This means that she is lifting the cup in a toast to him.
He acknowledges the toast with saying, "Good madam!" The next line is Claudius's; he says,
"Gertrude do not drink." This implies that she is just about ready to take a drink herself and
she makes a sharp, potentially brash reply when she responds, "I will, my lord; I pray you pardon
me." This line could be delivered sarcastically, implying that she is enjoying her willful
defiance of the Claudius's command, thus showing Hamlet that she is doing what he wants and
trying to stay away from or stand up to Claudius. No matter how the line is delivered however,
the next implied action of the play is that she offers the cup to Hamlet who tells her, "I dare
not drink yet, madam; by-and-by." If she had known that the cup was poisoned, I don't think she
would have risked offering it to him if there was any chance he would have taken it from her.

Once she starts to feel the effects of the poison her dying words
are a warning directly to Hamlet that the cup was
poisoned.

Now to the supposition that perhaps she knew. Could she
have been suspicious of Claudius's suggestion of the duel and his glowing praise for Hamlet's
fencing abilities? Sure. Could she have noticed that Claudius drank from the cup and
then put the union in? Sure. Could she have found it odd or suspicious that Claudius
warned her not to drink for the cup, so she did so that Hamlet wouldn't? Sure. A director of the
play can only have those ideas played out with facial expressions on the queen's face, and
perhaps the pace and timing of the delivery of the lines. Shakespeare never wrote explicit stage
directions, so the reader has to read the intent of the lines with great
care.

Evaluate the presentation of marriage as it is presented in "The Yellow Wallpaper."

It is clear that throughout this excellent short story exploring
post-partum depression that the husband of the narrator, although he does genuinely love his
wife, feels that it is he and he alone who knows what is best for her and constantly overrides
any opinion that she may have concerning her needs or how her treatment is going. Note what the
narrator tells us:

It
is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me
so.

When she tries, he responds by
saying about his opinion, "I am a doctor, my dear, and I know." When she insists on contradicting
him by suggesting that although she may be better physically, she is worse mentally, note how he
cuts her off:

"My
darling," said he, "I beg you, for my sake and for our child's sake, as well as for your own,
that you will never for one instant let that idea enter your mind! There is nothing so dangerous,
so fascinating, to a temperament like yours. It is a false and foolish fancy. Can you not trust
me as a physician when I tell you
so?"

Thus it is that he effectively
silences his wife. It is his arrogance and belief that he knows what his best for his wife,
better than her, that leads to her continued descent into madness, and her own supreme
identification with the woman who is trapped in the yellow wallpaper that she obsesses over. Thus
it is a marriage characterised by complete dominance on one part and a tremendous
arrogance.

Verify if the function is increasing y = 3x^3 + 3^x .

Given the function y=3x^3 + 3^x.

We
need to determine whether y is an increasing
function.

To verify, we need to determine the first derivative (
y').

If y' is positive, then the function is
increasing.

If y' is negative, then the function is
decreasing.

Now, let us determine the first
derivative:

y= 3x^3 + 3^x

==> y'
= ( 3x^3)' + (3^x) '

            = 9x^2 + (3^x)* ln
3

Now let us analyze y'.

We know that
x^2 is always positive.

Then, 9x^2 also
positive.

Also, 3^x is always
positive.

Then, (3^x)* ln3 is
positive.

Then, we conclude that y' is
positive.

Then, the function y is an increasing
function for all R numbers.

What was Sir Francis Bacon's idea of 'induction' as a scientific method?

I would only add; 1) Bacon’s useful “eliminative
induction” and 2) his difference from the Aristotelian
inductionists.

Bacon’s eliminative induction; For instance,
in order to find the root cause of something (like rain), you would inductively examine
all the elements of many different situations, times and atmospheric conditions when it
is raining. Then you would also look for those same elements and conditions when it is
not raining. Thereby, you could eliminate some elements which do not contribute directly
to the cause of rain. This has been very useful in the development of the scientific
method.

 Bacon's version of induction differed from the
Aristotelian induction.

Think of a ladder to knowledge; you
(inductively) pick up particulars on your way up to the top where you form a general
theory about what you've been investigating and gathering data. Aristotelians say you
could then move down the ladder (deductively) to about the middle and make general
axioms there as well.

Where Bacon differed from the
Aristotelians is that he advocated endlessly moving up the ladder, collecting more data
and eliminating false propositions; as if he wanted to focus on the process itself; for
the sake of the process, rather than for the sake of reaching a general deduction with
which one could then move back down the ladder to apply to more particular things
(general deduction: all new cars are shiny - all new BMW's are shiny). Bacon would say
to take your time and keep moving up the ladder slowly because what if we find out that
not all new cars are shiny; then all the middle of the ladder axioms could be false. His
thinking is logical but not practical. Most scientists have accepted the idea that their
general deductions may someday prove to be wrong, but have accepted that if they are
currently applicable, to use them. For example, Newton’s theory of gravity predicted the
movement of the planets to a great degree and scientists were able to use his theory for
other particular (middle of the ladder) instances of gravity. Then Einstein came along
and improved upon the theory. While we had to rethink all those instances in which we
applied Newton’s gravity theory, it was still more beneficial for us that we did rely on
Newton’s effective theory. (It served us well enough for over 200
years.)

In chapter 7, how does fitzgerald use the weather as a backdrop to the scenes?

The most important element of weather in chapter 7 is the
desciption of the HEAT of the day.  Fitzgerald says the day was "broling... the warmest
day of the summer."  He explains that the sun was "simmering" and on the edge of
"combustion" and that the ladies were "perspiring" with the "deep heat."  The continual
references to heat mirror the heating up of the emotions of the novel to this climatic
chapter.  Daisy is boldly telling Gatsby she loves him at the same time that Tom is on
the phone with Mrtyle.  Tom is aggravated to see the rather bold behavior and talk of
Daisy in regards to Gatsby and sees how she feels about him.  He demands that they all
head to the city for a change of scenery in the hopes of cooling her emotions and
behavior.

At the same time, the emotions of Wilson and
Myrtle are heating up and Wilson will eventually have Myrtle locked up in their rooms
while he prepares to leave town with her in order to cool her emotions towards "the
other man." 

Once they are in the cool of the hotel, the
emotional temperature only soars, and Tom, Gatsby, and Daisy have their huge blow-up. 
Gatsby demands that Daisy say she never loved Tom, and Daisy just can do it.  The whole
scene is infuriating to all three of them.  As tensions run about as high as they can,
Daisy and Gatsby storm out into the overbearingly hot weather and get into the accident
that kills Myrtle.

The actual heat of the weather that day
clearly mirrors the heat and emtions of all of the main characters as the action of this
chapter plays itself out.

Based on "The Chrysalids", write a descriptive paragraph describing the community of Waknuk.

You asked more than one question and so I have had to edit
it down to focus generally on the community of Waknuk. We are given our first
impressions of Waknuk in Chapter 2 of the novel, which is very revealing and tells us a
lot about the kind of setting that this novel has:

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Our district, and consequently, our house as the
first there, was called Waknuk because of a tradition that there had been a place of
that name there, or thereabouts, long, long ago, in the time of the Old People. The
tradition was, as usual, vague, but certainly there had been some buildings of some
kind, for the remnants and foundations had remained until they were taken for new
buildings. There was also the long bank, running away until it reached the hills and the
huge scar that must have been made by the Old People when, in their superhuman fashion,
they had cut away half a mountain in order to find something or other that interested
them. The place may have been called Waknuk then; anyway, Waknuk it had become; an
orderly, law-abiding, God-respecting community of some hundred scattered holdings, large
and small.

Waknuk then is
described as a small but deeply religious district. It is clear that the reference to
the "Old People" with their power to cut mountains in half indicates that this novel is
located in a future time, after the "Tribulation" when the Old People destroyed
themselves and life as they know it. The reference to physical deformities in Chapter 1
also highlight that there must be a high incidence of "deviance" due to nuclear fallout,
but the religion of these people has changed to incorporate this and to eradicate any
form that does not match the "true image" of the human.

What is the significance of the setting in "The Lady with the Pet Dog"?In particular what is the significance/point of Gurov and his daughter's...

Yes, the description of the weather at the beginning of the
fourth section of this great short story is rather curious. Yet, if we read it in the context of
the rest of this section, we can draw some parallels between Gurov's situation and the weather.
The key description to focus on is the way that the temperature is drastically different
depending on where you are in the atmosphere:

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"You see it is only above freezing close to the ground,
the temperature in the upper layers of the atmosphere is quite
different."

This presents the theme or
concept of duality. Just as on the ground, the temperature can be freezing, yet higher in the
atmosphere it can be a lot warmer, so Gurov himself leads a life that is characterised by two
different realities. His public life is the frozen, snowcovered city in which he walks with his
daughter--marked by marriage to a woman that he does not love and the superficiality of
relationships. However, his private life can be compared to the warmth that is not visible but
hidden above the snow-covered scene below:

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He led a double life--one in public, in the sight of all
whom it concerned, full of conventional truth and conventional deception, exactly like the lives
of his friends and acquaintances, and another which flowed in secret. And, owing to some strange,
possibly quite accidental chain of circumstances, everything that was important, interesting,
essential, everything about which he was sincere and never deceived himself, everything that
composed the kernel of his life, went on in
secret...

Thus this quote shows that
the warmer, higher levels of the atmosphere that are hidden from sight find their parallel in the
meaningfulness of Gurov's hidden life and relationship. The snow and frozen landscape of what is
seen by everybody is paralleled by the sterility, cold and emotionally withdrawn nature of his
public life.

Change this equation to vertex form and find the vertex and axis of symmetry: y=x^2-8x+2

The vertex  form of parabola is y = a(x-h)^2+c, where (h, k) are
the coordinates of the vertex.  (1/a)/4 = 1/4a is focal distance from the vertex (h,k), and x = h
is the axis of of symmetry

The given  parabola is y = x^2-8x+2. To
convert this to vertex form we have to complete the x^2-8x into a perfect square by adding 4^2 
so that x^2-8x+4^2 = (x-4)^2.

Therefore we add and subtract
4^2:

y = (x^2-8x+4^2) - 4^2+2.

y =
1(x-8)^2 -18 is in the required form.

The coordinates of the vertex
= (8, -18)

The focal length = 1/4*1 = 1/4 . So the ocus is 1/4 units
above the vertex (8,-18).

The axis of symmetry is  x= 8, a || line
to y axis.

In the poem "We Real Cool," identify the speaker his or her situation. How does the rhythm of this poem reflect the innovations of Langston Hughes?

I am only allowed to answer the first question. Any other
questions must be posted separately.

In the poem "We Real
Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks, there are two notes after the title, before the poem begins
that state:

The Pool
Players

Seven at The Golden
Shovel

I believe these lines are singularly
important to answering your first question. The "Pool Players" are the "we" in the poem.
They seem to be playing pool when they should be in school. "Seven at The Golden Shovel"
most likely indicates that there are seven youngsters, cutting school, playing pool
("strike straight") at the pool hall called "The Golden
Shovel."

These are no choir boys: they "sing sin," and
"thin gin." They stay out late. And the author presents a perception that in doing these
things, the young group of "rebels" believe they are "real cool," though we don't get
the sense one way or the other, as to whether the author agrees with their
viewpoint.

In To Kill a Mockingbird, what is an indirect quote that helps describe how Scout thinks?

When I saw your question, a very specific passage came to me.
When Scout figure's out that she's literate, we readers see an incredible thought process in the
words on page 18, chapter 2 in my book. It reads:

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"I mumbled that I was sorry and retired meditating upon
my crime. I never deliberately learned how to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in
the daily papers. In the long hours of church - was it then I learned? ... Now that I was
compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me ... Until I feared I
would lose it, I never loved to
read."

This shows an incredibly naive
but intelligent little girl. As with so many other things in her life, Scout has so little
awareness that she is on the right track. She sometimes just goes about the wrong way on it.
Learning naturally happens for Scout when she thinks. She doesn't even realize it is going on.
This occurs for her at Cal's church as she is exposed to a new culture, it occurs as she learns
about her father from Miss Maudie, and in this situation with learning to read, she had no idea
it happened. True to her character though, she is passionate about reading as she is
justice.

Write the equation of a circle with endpoints of the diameter at (2, -5) and (-4, 3)

Since the endpoints of the diameter are given, we'll calculate
it's length.

D = sqrt[(-4-2)^2 +
(3+5)^2]

D = sqrt(36 + 64)

D =
sqrt100

D = 10 units.

If the diameter
is 10, then the radius is R = D/2 = 5 units

To write the equation of
the circle, we need the coordinates of the center and the length of the radius. So far, we have
the length of the radius.

Still, we need the coordinates of the
center.

We know that the center of the circle lies in the middle of
the diameter of the circle.

xC = (2-4)/2 =
-1

yC = (-5+3)/2 = -1

The coordinates
of the center of circle are C(-1;-1).

We'll write the equation of
the circle whose center is C(-1;-1) and radius is R = 5 units.

(x -
xC)^2 + (y - yC)^2 = R^2

(x + 1)^2 + (y + 1)^2 =
25

We'll expand the squares:

x^2 + 2x+
1 + y^2 + 2y + 1 - 25 = 0

x^2 + y^2 + 2x + 2y - 23 =
0

The general equation of the circle is: x^2 + y^2 +
2x + 2y - 23 = 0.

Identify the groups that most strongly opposed the New Deal.

The group that most strongly opposed the New Deal was
conservatives. They did so on ideological grounds. To true conservatives, the New Deal appeared
to be a socialist program. To conservatives, it was clearly not the place of the government to
intervene in the economy. Conservatives felt that programs like the AAA or NIRA or TVA
constituted government planning of the economy instead of the free market system that
conservatives prefer. Conservatives felt that government relief to unemployed people was
redistribution of income meant to achieve the socialist vision of a society where everyone has
equal wealth.

To be sure, there were critics of the New Deal on the
left. Critics like Huey Long felt that the New Deal did not go far enough towards helping the
poor. However, I would argue that it was conservatives who most strongly opposed the New
Deal.

In The Devil in the White City, what were some of the architectural obstacles overcome in builing of the Chicago World's Fair?

The Devil in the White City recounts
the saga of creating the World's Fair in Chicago in the late 1800s. There were many
obstacles to overcome in the creation of the Chicago World's Fair, many of them specific
to the architecture but others, as well. One huge obstacle was the weather. The Midwest
in winter is a devilish hazard just to live in; for someone trying to build something as
monumental as these structures, it would have been horrific. A second obstacle was the
Fair's proximity to water. Not only did that make the weather conditions worse, it also
created an unstable foundation for any structure. Third, the great architects in America
(located primarily on the east coast) at first refused to work on the project, insulted
because New York was not chosen as the site for this World's Fair and appalled that such
a "heathen" city would be hosting the world and representing the best of America. Once
they did finally join the project, there was the natural discord of creative people with
disparate visions. This caused countless delays, compromises, and problems during the
course of building the Fair.

There are certainly others, as
you no doubt know from your reading, but these are the primary three obstacles to the
architectural work at this World's Fair in Chicago.

What is an example of personification and metaphors in poem at "Thirty nine" by Alice Walker?

In this poem, the speaker is reflecting on her past
relationship with her father as she thinks about how she has lived her life to date.  It
has a sweet, somber, yet strong tone to convey her sense of herself by the end of
it.

Walker uses a small measure of personfication in the
3rd stanza when she says, "many of my truths must have grieved him."  Personification is
the act of assigning human actions or characteristics to non-human things.  In this
case, truths can't do anything but exist as facts.  In this line, she is commenting on
the truths as having the ability to cause grief, which is certainly a truth of life, but
it's not anything the truth can choose to set out and
do.

Walker uses a clear metaphor in the 5th stanza,
comparing the living of her life to the act of cooking.  She specifically talks about
"seasoning none of my life the same way twice."  She is talking about adding interest
and enhancement to her food by adding salt, pepper, and any other number of flavorings,
but is suggesting that she has done a great variety of things in her life to make it
interesting and unique.  She doesn't do the same things over and over again. 
Ultimately, she thinks her dad would admire what she has done for herself -- she seems
proud of the way she has lived her life.

A 3.0 kg block released from the top of a rough ramp accelerates down the ramp at 1.6m/s^2.If the force of kinetic friction on the block is 10 N,...

When the block is placed on the ramp it experiences a
gravitational force of attraction acting vertically downwards. This can be divided into two
components, one along the ramp and the other normal to the ramp.

The
gravitational force is given by m*g, where m is the mass of the block and g is the acceleration
due to gravity.

If the angle made by the ramp with respect to the
horizontal is x, the component along the ramp is m*g*sin x

The
resistive force due to friction is 10 N. This gives the net force that leads to the acceleration
of the block downwards as m*g*sin x - 10

As the block accelerates
down the ramp at 1.6 m/s^2

m*g*sin x - 10 =
m*(1.6)

=> 3*9.8*sin x - 10 =
3*1.6

=> sin x = (3*1.6 +
10)/3*9.8

=> sin x = 0.5034

x =
arc sin 0.5034

=> x = 30.22
degrees.

The angle of the ramp is 30.22
degrees.

I need an example of a sentence using the word tumultuous.

Tumultuous is used with reference to something that turns out to
be noisy and disorderly, creates a disturbance and uproar and raises a lot of commotion. It could
refer to something as harmless a celebration by students that goes a little out of
control.

For example, "After the tumultuous celebration by the high
school students last year the teachers have decided to not allow the annual event to be held in
the hall this year."

Tumultuous can also be used to describe a lot
of agitation or turbulence in thoughts. For example, “The tumultuous dream that the captain kept
having made it very difficult for him to sleep though the sea was now
quite."

Explain Victor's tense / nervous state of mind "with an anxiety that almost amounted to agony."Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

These words of Victor Frankenstein are from Chapter 5; however,
Victor's anxieties are already suggested in Chapter 4 as he tells Walton how engrossed he had
become in his work. While he has been enthusiastic about his work, at the same time, Victor has
some misgivings about what he has been doing:

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Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became
nervous to a most painful degree; the fall of a leaf staratled me, and I shunned my
fellow-creatures as if I had been guilty of a
crime.

Having "lost all
soul or sensation but for this one pursuit," Victor has lost much of his essence as a person and
become obsessed with only the creation of a man. So, on the November night when he tries to imbue
life into the "lifeless thing" that lies at his feet, he feels "an anxiety that almost amounted
to agony." Wondering what will occur, in what form his long efforts will result, causes an angst
within Victor Frankenstein. He agonizes that he may have exceeded the reach of a human being; he
is tortured by this reach that may not become what he has desired.

Explain the short story "How It Happened"in full detail.

"How it happened" is a very short story written by Arthur
Conan Doyle, in 1918 and is part of a set of stories called Danger! and other
stories.

The story is a first person account of a man who
having bought a new car decides to go on his first drive as he returns one night from
London. In spite of his chauffeur warning him that the gear system of the car is quite
different from the older one he is willing to risk driving it for the first time at
twelve in the night. His 5-mile journey passes over some very hilly terrain and has many
sharp turns that he has to manage.

His drive starts
smoothly but just when he starts to feel he is in control, the new gear system gets
locked; the car is now hurtling down a very steep slope. On trying to slow down using
the brakes even they fail and he now only has the steering wheel to control the car and
manage some very sharp turns. He is successful with the first two but the last cannot be
managed. The car crashes and suddenly the story takes on a new
turn.

The narrator finds himself standing at a distance
looking at the helpers rescue the injured chauffeur and crying out for him. He responds
to their cries but don't seem to hear him and instead are  bending over something lying
in front of the car.

It is evident that the narrator is
dead and is looking at all that is happening in a new form. He then sees his long dead
friend and exclaims in surprise that he died a long time back. The friend's response
provides the final confirmation to what had happened.

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“Stanley!” I cried, and the words seemed to
choke my throat —“Stanley, you are dead.”

He looked at me
with the same old gentle, wistful smile.

“So are you,” he
answered.

What is the length of bar B for steady state conditions? Two rods, one made of metal A that has a conductivity 400 J/s*m and a length 10 cm and...

To get the answer here we need to ensure that the rates of heat
flow through both the rods are equal else steady state conditions will not be reached. Now, we
see that the conductivity of the two rods is different. Let us denote the length of the rod of
metal B by Lb.

Now we use the equation for heat flow through the
rods, and equate them.

ka*A*(100 – T)/ 10 = kb*A*(0 – T)/
Lb

=> Lb (ka*A*(100 – T)) = 10 (kb*A*(T–
0))

=> Lb (400*A*(100 – 25)) = 10 (50*A*(25–
0))

=> Lb (8 * 75) =
10*25

=> Lb = 10*25 /
8*75

=> Lb = 5/12 cm

Notice that
rod B is much shorter than rod A. This is explained by the fact that the conductivity of A is a
lot higher than that of B.

Therefore the length of the
second rod should be 5/12 cm.

What is the solution for 75 = -5t^2 + 40t

We'll use the symmetric property for the given expression and
we'll get:

5t^2 - 40t = -75

We'll
divide by 5 all over:

t^2 - 8t =
-15

Now, we'll have to complete the square from the left side. For
this purpose, we'll add both sides the number 16:

t^2 - 8t + 16 = 16
- 15

We'll recognize the
square:

(t-4)^2 = 1

We'll consider 2
cases:

1) t - 4 = sqrt 1

t - 4 = 1
=> t = 5

2) t - 4 = -sqrt 1

t -
4 = -1 => t = 3

There are 2 solutions for the equation above
(since it's order is 2) and they are: {3 ; 5}.

Compare and contrast between tragedy and the whole truth

In the most broad of senses, I would say that one level of
differentiation between the two is that the whole truth might not be one of tragic
proportions.  I think that the idea of tragedy is one that can be different from the
whole truth.  Tragedy involves some level of transformation, some movement from one
point to its opposite.  For example, Homer's depiction of Hector as one who is poised
between equally desirable ends, but ultimately incompatible ones is tragic because
Hector can never win and must choose a path that he knows lacks totality.  Flaubert's
heroine, Emma Bovary, is one poised in the tragic condition because her desire to
appropriate thr world in accordance to her own subjectivity ends up proving to be
socially disastrous.  These situations are tragic because the characters move in a
circle of pain.  The "whole truth" might not be as tragic because it does not involve
that level of drama and irony combined in pitting an individual in a condition of pain. 
The "whole truth" might simply be a situation that is difficult.

What are the devices used in Once Upon a Time by Nadine Gordimer?PLEASE GIVE EXAMPLES FROM THE TEXT

The frame narrative is the opening literary device that
Gordimer uses in the story.  In true postmodern fashion, she creates a story of which
she is a part.  Her defiance at the "need" to write a children's story coupled with her
own paranoia at what creaks below is what causes the story to form.  Both of these
elements are thematically germane to what we end up reading in the story.  In terms of
the story itself, the thematic repetition of the family's happiness and how they were
content with one another is an excellent juxtaposition to the unknown nature of the
world, and the collision of both settings end up creating the horrific set of
circumstances for the ending.  Gordimer is really adroit at being able to use thematic
and character development as a way to build the plot.  Finally, the allegorical nature
of the story is compelling in how it reflects the desire for perfection revealing a tale
of destruction underneath.  The symbolism of being so insistent on creating a world
where one appropriates it in accordance to their own subjectivity without integrating
the presence of the dialectical "other" in the process is something that Gordimer is
quite deliberate in creating.

In "Shooting an Elephant," what are some examples of hyperbole in the story?

This is a very good question. To me, one of the key
examples of hyperbole comes when Orwell is faced with killing the elephant. When he has
located the "rogue" elephant who has caused so much trouble, Orwell goes to meet it, and
we are told that:

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...practically the whole population of the
quarter flocked out of the houses and followed
me.

Note how later on, when
Orwell is describing how he felt like a "fool," marching off to meet this elephant, he
describes the crowd as an "ever-growing army," highlighting the hyperbole and how to
Orwell's mind he was being observed by an innumerable multitude of Burmese citizens.
Note too how this increases the peer-pressure that Orwell felt and his final realisation
that he had no choice but to kill the elephant. With an audience that big, he had no
choice but to give the Burmese the show they desired.

How did the American victory in the Battle of Princeton change the momentum of the war?

George Washington and his Continental Army were facing
defeat in the Revolutionary War in December of 1776.  After losing Long Island and New
York City earlier in the year, he had been retreating through New Jersey.  By December,
the men in the Continental Army were cold, hungry, tired of the long retreat. They were
ready to go home when their enlistments were up at the end of December.  At this point,
Washington took a huge gamble.  On Christmas night he and his troops crossed the
Delaware River.  On the morning of December 26 he routed Hessian troops fighting for the
British at Trenton. Washington was victorious at this battle.  On January 3, 1777, he
met British troops at Princeton where he again was victorious.  He then wintered in
Morristown, New Jersey.  These two small victories raised the spirits of the Americans
and kept them fighting.  All the British had to show after nearly a year of fighting was
control of New York City.

Find the circumcenter of a triangle with the given vertices. #1) H(5,0), J(0,3), K(0,0) #2) L(0,0), M(-2, 0), N(0, -4)

1)

We see that if we plot the
coordinates on the graph,  the triangle HKJ is a right angled triangle , with right angle at
 K(0,0)  and  HJ as hypotenuse. Therefore the mid point of the hypotenuse HJ is the circumcentre
. The coordinates of  H and J are : H (5,0) and J(0,3).

Therefore
the mid point of HJ  is given by :

Mx = (Hx+Jx)/2 = ((5+0)/2 =
2.5. 

My = (Hy + Jy)/2 = (0+3)/2 =
1.5.

Therefore the circumcentre of the triangle HKJ is  (2.5 ,
1.5).

2)

The triangle MLN is a right
angled triangle with right angle at L(0,0). The hypotenuse of the triangle is MN with M at (-2,0)
and N at (0,4).

So the mid point of the hypotenuse MN is the
circumcentre.

The mid point C of MN  has the coordinates given
by:

Cx = (Mx+Nx)/2 = ((-2+0)/2 = -1.

Cy
= (My+Ny)/2 = ((0-4)/2 = =-2.

Therefore the circumcentre of the
triangle MLN is  (-1,-2).

Please provide an analysis of the poem "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou.

Maya Angelou’s as a writer epitomizes the intellectual black
woman. Her wit and wisdom find a home in her poetry.  The theme of never “giving up or in” to
adversity typifies her view of the black woman rising above the expectations that were once so
understated, something we find in her poem "Still I
Rise." 

Tone

The
tone of the poem implies strength and bitterness.  In addition, the optimism of the poet shines
through as she knows that even if the worst happens and someone is down, she will rise again much
like the Phoenix in Egyptian mythology. Angelou always interjects humor along with a sardonic
attitude, which can be said to be a part of the persona of a black
woman.

Theme

Her
theme is addressed in the title of the poem “Still I Rise.” Nothing can keep the black woman from
getting up from adversity and standing beautiful and strong. Angelou’s poem written in 1978 was
prophetic.  Since the publication of the poem, there have been several black congresswomen.  We
have had a black Secretary of State and United Nations ambassador. These women have risen to the
highest places in the
land.

Form

The
poem does have a rhyming pattern.  It does not follow any set form.  The vocabulary is forceful.
Angelou uses dialogue and some black dialect.  The poem gives several scenarios that place a
black woman or any woman in a compromising situation.
 

Summary

She
seems to speak to white civilization or white men. 

Speaking about
the way that history perceives the black woman in a negative view; the poet says that she will
rise out of the dust. 

The poem implies that black women are sassy. 
Her attitude is one of arrogance, and she walks as though she is very
rich.

Just like the natural world in which everyone knows what will
happen, she will rise like the moon.

The poet lists several
scenarios that this woman has faced.

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Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take
it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back
yard.

Well, do not expect it from the
poet. She does not need anyone’s pity: It is shameful how the black people have been treated. But
this person will rise about it. This strong black woman will rise like the ocean with its tides
and waves swelling… no more fear. When the sun rises, the poet will rise with
it. 

She will bring all of the traits and talents that her ancestors
bestowed on her. The new black woman is the hope of the future. She will
rise.

The poem provides a spirited guide for the young black woman
to follow.  Nothing will keep a person down if she keeps on trying. Rising out of poverty, abuse,
slavery---no one will keep these beautiful, elegant, sassy women from achieving their
goals.

What elements from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice prove that the novel can be classified as a comedy of manners?

The Free Dictionary defines a comedy of manners as a "witty,
ironic form of drama" that ridicules, or pokes fun of the "manners and fashions of a particular
social class or set." The plot must also deal with "some scandalous matter" href="http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/comedy+of+manners">(comedy of manners, The
Free Dictionary by Farlex). In the case of Pride and Prejudice,
using a scandalous marriage between Elizabeth and Darcy, Jane Austen pokes fun of the
demarcations of class distinctions, the arrogance of the upper middle-class, and the vulgarity of
the rising middle-class.

Austen uses the relationship between Elizabeth and
Darcy to poke fun of the commonly restricted social interactions between nobility and the upper
middle-class. Though Darcy is only a gentleman and not titled, he has noble relations, defining
him as nobleman. In contrast to Elizabeth, whose father is also a gentleman, Elizabeth has a few
working middle-class relations, such as the Gardiners and the Philipses. Hence, Elizabeth is not
considered as high on the social scale as Darcy, making their marriage scandalous. Austen wrote
the novel not long after the French Revolution which had a dramatic impact on the British
aristocracy. Not wanting to find themselves likewise beheaded, the British aristocracy began
acting less arrogant and mingling and intermarrying with the English middle classes. Austen's
novel serves as a loose commentary on the heavy lines society was previously drawing between
classes. Elizabeth's scandalous marriage to Darcy served to help erase some of those heavy social
lines.

Austen uses Darcy's initial condescending attitude to poke fun of the
commonly accepted arrogant attitude of the aristocracy. She also uses Lady Catherine de Bourgh to
further poke fun of this social concern.

Finally, Austen uses Elizabeth's
middle-class relations to poke fun of the vulgar manners of the working-middle class. Mrs. Bennet
frequently displays vulgar manners with respect to saying ridiculous things in public and
gossiping. Her working-class sister, Mrs. Philips, is guilty of the same
vulgarity.

1) What are five functions of the human body cell?

Cells are the unit of structure and function for all
living things, according to the cell theory. Therefore, cells can carry out various
functions to promote life. For example, cells can carry out the function of cellular
respiration inside tiny organelles known as mitochondria. Inside the mitochondria,
glucose plus oxygen are converted to adenosinetriphosphate or A.T.P. a high energy
compound which the cells use as energy currency. Another function cells perform is
secretion. There are various secretions cells can produce which get packaged and used
inside the cell, or sent outside the cell to a target location. Secretions are packaged
by the golgi apparatus, an organelle inside cells. Some cells are hormone secreting
cells. Hormones are important chemical messengers and they are transported by the
circulatory system to target organs in the body, causing some type of response to occur.
For example, the hormone insulin produced by the pancreas cells helps convert excess
glucose to glycogen, a storage product, thus maintaining homeostasis in the blood. Cells
can protect the human body. Unbroken epithelial cells on the outside of the body help to
keep foreign bodies such as germs out of the body. There are neurons, cells in the
nervous system that help produce impulses to and from the brain and spinal cord. This
helps keep us alive as we respond to the changing environment constantly. As you can
see, there are many functions that various body cells perform. These are just five
examples.

In “A Rose for Emily” in your opinion, is Miss Emily a woman to blame or to sympathize?

Well, with a question like this you are bound to get a
whole load of different answers - you might want to consider moving this into the
discussion post to gain a wider range of answers. For me, the background information we
are given about Miss Emily and in particular the relationship with her father makes her
a figure to be sympathised with rather than a figure deserving of blame. Consider what
we are told about her father and her relationship with
him:

None of
the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily and such. We had long thought of
them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a
spraddled silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip, the
two of them framed by the back-flung front
door.

Note the inference that
is made in this quote: Miss Emily's father was such a tyrannical figure that he chased
away all potential suitors with his horsewhip. The description in this quote emphasises
the fragility and innocence of Miss Emily, describing her as "slender" and in "white",
with her father being described in terms that emphasise his violence and control over
Miss Emily.

Therefore, although the grisly ending of the
story cannot be excused, we can certainly understand Miss Emily's desperate desire to
have a husband and to love and be loved - whatever the cost or whatever she needs to do
to achieve this.

Help me paraphase the poem "Redemption" by George Herbert.

Paraphrasing serves two purposes. The first purpose may be
to summarize a text or poem for discussion or for studying the meaning, underlying
metaphor and theme, etc. The second is to aid in understanding the text or
poem.

Since poems are compressed expressions of thought
using non-literal and suggestive language, a line-by-line paraphrase in ordinary
language can help break through the difficulty of compressed, suggestive language and
help clarify your understanding. Since paraphrasing a poem changes figurative language
to literal language, poetic paraphrases are almost always more wordy and longer than the
original work. I've provided one possible line-by-line paraphrase of the ironic poem,
"Redemption," by George Herbert.

I was for a long time a
farming tenant of a rich Lord;
I was not successful, so I decided to be
brave
and beg that he grant me 
a new smaller lease contract and
cancel the old one.
In good faith, I went to speak with him at his mansion.

There they told me that he had recently gone
on business about some
land he had purchased
at an earlier date and was ready to take possession
of.
I immediately turned around, and knowing his high social
position,
logically looked for him in expensive resorts,
in cities,
at theaters, in gardens and parks, and at royal courts
Eventually I heard a
loud raucous noise and loud laughter
made by thieves and murderers; it was
there that I finally found him.
Having been found, he immediately said, "Your
request is granted," then died.

Differentiate y= x^3 * tanx

To differentiate y = x^3
tanx.

The right side is a product of x^3 and tanx. So we
use  the product rule to differentiate:

(u(x)(v(x)}' =
u'(x)v(x) +u(x)v'(x).

Here u(x) = x^3 , u'(x) = (x^3)' =
3x^2

v(x) = tanx . (v(x))' = (tanx)' = 
sec^2x.

Therefore y' =
(x^3*tanx)'.

y'(x) = (x^3)'tanx
+x^3(tanx)'.

y' = 3x^2tanx+x^3*
sec^2x.

y' = x^2 {3tanx+xsec^2 x) .

How many TVs will give maximum profit and what is the maximum profit?The daily profit, P, made by a TV manufacturer is given by P = 100x −...

The function for the profit earned per TV manufactured is given
as P = 100x − 0.02x^2. Now we need to find the number of TV's that should be manufactured to earn
the maximum profits. To solve this problem we need to differentiate the function P = 100x −
0.02x^2 with respect to x.

P’ = 100 –
2*0.02x

=> 100 – 0.04x

Now
equating P’ to zero:

=> 100 – 0.04x =
0

=> 100 = 0.04x

=> x =
100 / 0.04

=> x = 2500.

Now, to
determine if manufacturing these many TVs provides the maximum or minimum profit, we find P’’.
This is equal to -0.04 which is negative. Therefore x = 2500 provides the point of maximum
profit.

The maximum profit can be found by substituting x = 2500 in
P = 100 – 0.04x. We get 100*2500 – 0.02*2500 = 249,
950.

The required value of the number of TVs to be
manufactured to maximize profit is 2500. The maximum profit is $249,
950.

Explain the poem "Thoughts on Time" by Allen Curnow stanza by stanza.

Allen Curnow's poem "Thoughts on Time" is in the order of
a riddle, a paradoxical riddle. A riddle is a word puzzle that taxes your reasoning
ability in deciphering its meaning or its answer, if posed as a question. A paradox is
something that appears to be contradictory, incredible or false but is nonetheless
correct, believable and true, for example C.S. Lewis's statement: "One day you will be
old enough to start reading fairy tales again."

For an
example of Curnow's paradoxes, examine the paradox in the final stanza: "Though I am
here all things my coming attend." This is sorted out by recognizing that everyone and
everything exists in time, were built through a duration of time, grew during a duration
of time, developed during a duration of time, yet all things animate and inanimate
attend to the coming of time in anticipation or in progressing dilapidation, like kids
awaiting summer holidays or like crumbling pyramids.

The
meaning of the stanzas are very closely related. In the first, Curnow
equates time with space as in Einstein's title="Einstein's Spacetime. Gravity Probe B: Testing Einstein's Universe. James
Overduin. Stanford University."
href="http://einstein.stanford.edu/SPACETIME/spacetime2.html">theory of
special relativity in which time and space are converted into each other. He also
measures time through the markers of a "water-race"
(picture water running or rain water flowing) and the accumulation of "rust on railway
lines," both of which require time duration in which to occur. Finally, he equates time
with usage, which are changes in space over time: "mileage recorded on yellow
signs."

In the second stanza, time is similarly measured by
accumulaion of "dust" and "lupins"; equated to distance within space; and equated to
activity and life. In the third, Curnow equates time with unseen work or unseen forces
and with overt, seen work, both of which occur in a duration of time. He also equates
time with nature, leisure and emotion: "I am the place in the park where the lovers are
seen." The fourth equates time with places and personal
experience.

The fifth stanza introduces philosophical
speculation by equating time with the infinite and infinity, then reiterating that all
things thus far mentioned comprising the world of experience, including personal
experience, are equated with time, thus equating time with history. He then
contrasts infinite reality with human experience that sees
only a minute thread in the fabric of time. He goes on to state
paradoxically that time calls forth past events of time as
"shapes" that were (e.g., archaeological sites; Hubble images; historic monuments and
moments).

The last two stanzas blend as Curnow ends with
cosmological philosophy by saying time carries the collective consciousness of humanity
while time is revealed in geography, family, work and friends as everyone exists in time
and everyone anticipates future time. In a Biblical allusion to the
Alpha and Omega, time is ultimately equated
with the beginning and the end.

In section three of The Metamorphosis how do his concerns change?

As the story continues, we see that Gregor, in his transformed
state, becomes more and more withdrawn and disengaged from his family and more and more
preoccupied with his own concerns and wants. Even though he is aware of what his family is
suffering, and dreams about asserting himself like he did to "take over the family's affairs," he
does nothing, and instead becomes more and more isolated from his family, only serving to look
upon them and their increasing difficulties as a voyeur would rather than being active and
engaged in the problems his family is facing. The "bony charwoman" who is employed to look after
the house (and, by default, Gregor), is not disgusted by him and it is clear that she would
happily crush him if he gave her an opportunity. The narrator tells us that Gregor hardly sleeps
at all, and that he begins to eat "next to nothing," only playing with a bit of food in his mouth
before spitting it out. We can see that his primary concern is his new position in life as a
hidden outcast whose existence is barely tolerated and who is ignored and repulsive to those he
once loved.

What is the point slope form of the equation of the line that passes through the point (0;2) and it has the slope m = -3 ?

The line passes through the point (0,2) and the slope m =
-3.

Let us write the equation in the standard
form:

y-y1 = m(x-x1) such
that:

(x1,y1) is any point that passes through the line and
m is the slope.

Given the point (0,2)  and slope m= -3 , we
will subsitute these values into the equation:

y-y1=
m(x-x1)

y- 2 = -3 (x - 0)

y-2
= -3x

Now add 2 to both
sides:

==> y= -3x + 2  
is the formula for the
line.

What are two dangers associated with combating bacteria with antiobiotics?

A danger associated with fighting bacteria with antibiotics is
bacterial resistance to the drug. Bacterial resistance occurs when bacteria with a mutation that
provides resistance to an antibiotic is present. The drug will effectively wipe out non-resistant
bacteria but the ones that are resistant will be left alive and capable of transmitting this
resistant gene to offspring after asexual reproduction. Bacteria are also capable of conjugation.
During this process, two different bacteria can exchange parts of their D.N.A. and resistance
genes can be transmitted to bacteria that are not resistant in this way. Antibiotics that were
once very effective in fighting different infections are no longer useful. In a way, selection is
occurring and the selecting agent is the antibiotic which kills off the weaker germs leaving
behind the resistant ones. Another danger is a constant search for newer and stronger
antibiotics.

Why has much of African history been forgotten by the Africans themselves?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBbMxJuAQY0&feature=player_embedded...

I liked one of the opening lines of the video clips. 
"Darkness is not a subject for history" is a really intriguing line.  It cuts in
multiple directions.  On one hand, there is a complete negation of the past in such a
statement.  If one acknowledges a sense of darkness in their past, history is not to
mention it.  This is fairly powerful because African History, in reference to European
influence, is rather dark.  Through no fault of its own, African and Africans, under
this assertion, would not qualify to be part of history because "darkness is not a
subject of history."  In the oddest or ironic of ways, this might be a reason why
Africans forgot most of their history, themselves, as they were told, consciously or
not, that their experiences of darkness are not a part of the "exceptional" historical
record.  Additionally, the reality of slavery might help to explain again why African
History had to be forgotten.  The notion of the past was something in which slave owners
did not revel.  We don't get a great feel that slave owners were concerned with linking
their slaves to their past heritage.  It is not abundantly evident that slave owners
were actively seeking to link their slaves with their past in Africa.  Part of the
American Colonization Society's drive during the Age of Reform to bring slaves back to
Africa was in stark contrast to how slave owners viewed the past of their slaves.  In
the end, this becomes another reason why Africans, particularly those who were involved
in the slave trade or human trafficking of the time, forgot their past.  It served them
no purpose in their specific context and was strongly discouraged.  Finally, the reality
of slavery did much to disrupt the oral tradition that was so much a part of the African
Historical tradition.  Without this, the historical consciousness of Africa, along with
much else, was lost.  Africans themselves might be excused to have their history
forgotten to an extent when over thirty million of their people were actively moved as
part of the slave trade. Such a large number has a profound effect on African History
and those who seek to remember it.

What is the antiderivative of the function f(x) given by f(x)=x*e^8x ?

We'll integrate by parts, according to the identity
below:

Int udv = u*v - Int vdu
(*)

We'll put u = x. (1)

We'll
differentiate both sides:

du = dx
(2)

We'll put dv = e^8x (3)

We'll
integrate both sides:

Int dv = Int e^8x
dx

v = e^8x/8 (4)

We'll substitute (1)
, (2) , (3) and (4) in the formula (*):

Int udv = x*e^8x/8 - Int
(e^8x/8)dx

Int (x*e^8x)dx = x*e^8x/8 - e^8x/64 +
C

Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 summary?

Shakespeare's sonnet begins with a very straightforward
question:  "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"  Then, there is a straightforward
answer:  "Thou art more lovely and more temperate."  And, the rest of the sonnet
supports his argument that the poet's love will remain constant while nature changes. 
For instance, in lines 7 and 8, the poet writes that nature changes its course and
"every fair from fair sometimes declines."  But, "thy eternal summer shall not fade." 
In other words, everything that nature produces--a summer's day, including--is
transitory, but the poet's love is eternalized in verse. Summarizing his argument with
the  sonnet's couplet, the poet writes that as long as men can see and read, the beauty
of his love shall be preserved in his verse.:

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So long as men can breathe or eyes can
see,

So long lives this and this gives life to
thee.

Ironically, however,
the subject of the sonnet receives immortality only because of the verse, and so, in a
sense, the argument for the immortality of the loved one is somewhat
flawed.

In To Kill a Mockingbird, please expalin Scout's feelings about Boo and their games.Scout is growing up. Explain her feelings now about the games...

The Boo Radley games are part of childhood.  They
represent a curiosity, but fundamental lack of understanding, of the world.  As she gets
older the games get more complex and actually involve interacting with Boo, such as the
incident with the tire and the pants.  Boo becomes humanized, and the children no longer
make fun of him.

At first, the desire to see Boo was part
of a game.  Boo was a scary monster, and the children dared each other to go near his
house.  Eventually, they became interested in Boo as a person because he began to
communicate with them.  When the finally meet Boo, they realize that he is gentle and
shy.  He is their protector and saves Scout from Bob Ewell.  Scout returns the favor by
protecting him- understanding him.

When Atticus sees the
games he disapproves, because he realizes that the story of Boo is really a sad one.  He
wants to teach his children to be tolerant.  Atticus may or may not know about the
pants, but he does realize that something has changed in the relationshipe between his
children and Boo.  Eventually, Scout grows to confide in Atticus about Boo, but not the
Boo of her childhood- Boo as a person.

Scout's interest in
current events centers around the economy, the discussion of Hitler, and the trial.  As
Scout gets older, she begins to understand how these affect her and she learns about
them in terms of how people should be treated.

What factors led to the collapse of the Tokugawa government and the Meiji Restoration in 1868?Thank you!!!

There were two main factors that led to the erosion of the
Tokugawa Shogunate and the Meiji Restoration. First, there was the rise of the merchant class and
the decline in the power of the samurai that came with it. Second, there was the pressure from
the West, epitomized by the "opening" of Japan by Commodore
Perry.

As the Tokugawa era came to a close, the merchant class in
Japan had become very powerful. They were very rich and the samurai class depended on them for
money. This went against the formal hierarchy in which merchants were the lowest rung. This
disparity between the formal system and reality eroded the foundations of the Tokugawa
government.

Second, the intrusion of the West, in the form of Perry,
severely shook the foundations of Japanese society. The country, which had thought itself
superior and invulnerable, was badly shocked by the fact that the West was stronger than Japan.
This led to political upheaval as various factions pushed for various different solutions to the
issue.

Overall, then, Japan's feudal society had been eroding for
some time. When Perry "opened" Japan, the structure of Tokugawa government was given a push and
its eroded foundations were revealed. This led to the fall of the Tokugawa and the Meiji
Restoration.

Is Rama an exemplary man for his society?

I think that it is difficult to find that Rama is not the
perfect man for his social setting.  Rama always adheres to his function in society, his
dharma.  He never lets his freedom stand in the way of social obligation.  Whereas
Ravana seems to be the reality of unrestrained and individual freedom gone amuck, Rama
is the archetype of control and focus.  It is no accident that his enemy of Ravana is a
depiction of good vs. evil, judgment vs. irrationality, civilization vs. the jungle.  At
all points in his narrative, Rama is able to stand up for the social values that are to
be embodied.  Even though his father's second wife acts in a duplicitous way, Rama
honors the wishes of his family and spends 14 years in the forest.  While Rama is
battling Ravana, he follows the strict code of being a warrior and only kills when he
absolutely needs to and does so in an honorable way.  Perhaps, the most stunning example
of how Rama represents his society is his exiling Sita, the woman whom he loves, because
he believes his people would not accept their queen having been in the territory of
another man.  The fact that Rama sends his wife away after she was abducted because of
the demands of his society is representative of how perfect a man Rama was for his
society.

What are the advantages and disadvantages in employee hiring?

This question needs to be refined further to truly get the
answer for which you are looking.  As it stands, I can only give you a generic answer.
 When thinking of the advantages of hiring, several ideas come to mind.  Fresh thinking
and approaches can bring successful ideas to a new company.  Another idea is the spark
new partnerships can provoke, thus preventing the company from getting stale.  In
looking at disadvantages, think about the opposites of the positives.  With a new hire
comes training and time to explain procedures.  A new group dynamic has to be created so
that the group functions to the best of its ability.  With whatever industry you are
working with, a new employee creates both advantages and disadvantages.  Now develop
your own ideas, and your essay should work.

In The Chrysalids, in what way does the Spider-Man's story explain Joseph Strorm's behavior?

It is only in Chapter 14 that we find out the true
identity of the "Spider Man". It is when David, Rosalind and Petra are captured by the
men of the Fringes that David comes face to face with the leader of the Fringes, who he
has worked out is his uncle. Note the similarity that is drawn between David's father
and his uncle:

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A figure seated on a stool just
inside the entrance looked up as we approached. The sight of his face jolted me with
panic for a moment - it was so like my father's. Then I recognised him - the same
"spider-man" I had seen as a captive at Waknuk, seven or eight years
before.

During the dialogue
that occurs between the spider-man and David, his nephew, the story comes out. David
tells him:

"My
father had an elder brother," I said. "He was thought to be normal until he was about
three or four years old. Then his certificate was revoked, and he was sent
away."

Looking back at
David's father's actions, this explains a lot. Having had a "mutant" discovered in his
own family as a brother, it is understandable why he is so intent on discovering and
disposing of other mutants. The fact that his own very brother was a "mutant" who
remained undiscovered for four years would have made him all the more desperate and
urgent to root out any form of impurity everywhere - including in his own
family.

Please discuss the poem "Anger Lay by Me" by Elizabeth Daryush.

The speaker in Elizabeth Daryush's poem "Anger Lay by Me"
is a trapped woman. She is trapped by her "lord," but also by society's expectations of
her. It seems that she has been writing and that her lord is not happy with that. He
"stood by me all through the day,/ Struck from my hand the book, the pen;/ He said:
‘Hear first what I’ve to say,/ And sing, if you’ve the heart to, then.’" Writing by
women was primarily frowned upon during most of Daryush's life and this would seem to be
the case in the poem.

The end of the poem illustrates the
second part of my conjecture - that she is trapped by society's expectations of
her.

And can I
cast him from my couch?
And can I lock him from my room?
Ah no, his
honest words are such
That he’s my true-lord, and my
doom.

Here, the speaker is
rather submissive. She calls his words (which we can assume were about her writing or
the song that she was singing) honest.  She calls him her "true-lord," which is an
ironic pun on "true-love" and follows that with the idea that he is her "doom." In this
case, she knows that she cannot lead the life that she wants to lead. She will have to
lead the life that she is supposed to lead, under her "lord's" supervision and
control.

In Heart of Darkness, analyze how on the basis of Kurtz's actions alone he might be considered to be evil or immoral.

Well, if we examine what Kurtz has done based on his
actions alone, it is absolutely obvious that he has done enough to warrant the
description "evil." Consider his actions in dominating a tribe and then leading it on
raids to other tribes to get their ivory. Kurtz deliberately made the natives think that
he was a god to gain power and prestige and enable him to gain more ivory. At one stage,
Marlow comments:

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Evidently the appetite for more ivory had got the
better of the - what shall I say? - less material
aspirations.

Spot the note of
irony at the end of that sentence. Interestingly, this comment is made just before
Marlow examines the house of Kurtz and discovers that what at first he had considered to
be ornamentation were actually heads impaled on stakes and placed around the house.
Marlow interprets these heads by saying:

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They only showed that Mr. Kurtz lacked restraint
in the gratification of his various lusts, that there was something wanting in him -
some small matter which, when the pressing need arose, could not be found under his
magnificent eloquence.

So,
Kurtz, for all his "eloquence" and brilliance, clearly shows the evil nature of his
actions in the "heart of darkness" through his methods of being so successful and the
violence that he caused to gain that success.

In To Kill a Mockingbird, what lifespan stage, and character(s) would you focus on as you look at biosocial, cognitive...development?(Consider the...

I am only allowed to answer one of your questions. Each
question must be listed separately.

To Kill a
Mockingbird is set in 1930s in Maycomb, Alabama, an imaginary town, prior to
the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. The Civil War has been over since 1865, but the
scars and memories are still fresh in this part of the deep
South.

In light of the time period and location of the
story, I would probably select Scout as the character to study based not only on her
stage of life in the story (a girl just beginning to see the world as it really is, and
resenting the social restrictions some people—her aunt—try to place on her because she
is a girl), but also because she tells the story in the
first-person, so we can peek into her thoughts and observe with the clarity of a child
(one of Harper Lee's real gifts in the telling of this story) the curiosities of human
behavior and the hypocrisy prevalent on so many levels and in so many areas within this
community.

For instance, Scout does not understand the
hypocrisy demonstrated by one of her teachers who gets very upset about Hitler's
murderous march through Europe, when her teacher also acts in a hateful way towards the
blacks within their own community. Scout's viewpoint, while seemingly so innocent, gives
voice to very astute and adult observations.

Even when the
townspeople come to lynch Tom Robinson at the jail, it is Scout's childish voice of
reason that turns the mood of the mob around, as she is able to see the individuals in
the mob, rather than the mob as a living entity, and her ability to see
them as individuals reminds Mr. Cunningham, especially, of the
individuality of the man they are trying to kill.

(Note:
the movie and the novel have some very specific major differences. The movie is
excellent, but a great deal of the novel is left out.)

In The Scarlet Letter, what are two reasons Hester's marriage to Chillingworth was doomed from the start?Should be in chapters 13-14

The end of chapter 13 and the beginning of chapter 14 both
reveal one of the biggest reasons the marriage would have never worked well: age. Chillingworth
says:

"Dost thou
remember me, Hester, as I was nine years agone? Even then, I was in the autumn of my days, nor
was it the early autumn."

Yes, some
say love is timeless, but how often really do we see people marry who are 20 years apart. This
separation made it difficult for Hester to ever have found Chillingworth
attractive.

Another reason is perhaps the fact that Chillingworth
was a terrible old devil:

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Old Roger Cillingworth was a striking evidence of a man's
faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time,
undertake a devil's office. This unhappy had effected such a transformation by devoting himself,
for seven years, to the constant analysis of a heart full of torture, and deriving his enjoyment
thence, and adding fuel to those fiery tortures which he analyzed and gloated
over.

Okay, so he wasn't a literal
devil, but the point is that if Chillingworth acted this way never exposing his identity just to
be able to torture Hester, imagine what he would have been like as a true husband. He would have
found reasons to be mad about the simplest things and then played games. No one wants that
relationship.

Another possible reason that their relationship may
have never worked is the fact that Chillingworth was very devoted to his work. He references
himself being quite the scholar and beneficiary of being able to help so many
people.

In "Harrison Bergeron", why don't George and Hazel think much about their son even though he has been taken away?

Remember that in this terrifying vision of a dystopian society,
the big equalling factor is that everyone by law is required to be the same as everyone else - no
one is allowed to be better or more intelligent. Thus, when the narrator tells us about Harrison,
Hazel and George's son, being taken away, he then goes on to explain why his parents are unable
to think about it and get upset about it too much:

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It was tragic, all right, but George and Hazel couldn't
think about it very hard. Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she
couldn't think about anything except in short bursts. And George, while his intelligence was way
above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his
ear.

This handicap, the narrator goes
on to inform us, would send out a sharp noise every twenty seconds or so, meaning that George is
reduced to "average" intelligence. It is because of this that Harrison's parents are unable to
think about him and get upset about what has happened to their son.

If z=x-iy and w=y-ix, how could i find all values of z which satisfy z^2=w?i stands for imaginary

z = x- iy

w = y-
ix

We need to find the value of z such that z^2 =
w

First we will square z= x-
iy

==> z^2 = (x-iy)^2

==>
z^2 = (x^2 - 2xy*i + y^2*i^2)

But we know that i^2 =
-1

==> z^2 = (x^2 - 2xy*i -
y^2)

==> z^2 = (x^2-y^2) -
2xy*i

Now we will compare z^2 =
w

==> (x^2-y^2) - 2xy*i = y-
i*x

==> x^2 - y^2 =
y...........(1)

==> 2xy =
x

Divide by x.

==> 2y =
1

==> y= 1/2

Now we will
substitute into (1).

==> x^2 - y^2 =
y

==> x^2 - 1/4 = 1/2

==>
x^2 = 1/2 +1/4 = 3/4

==> x^2 =
3/4

==> x = +-sqrt3 / 2

Then
possible z values are:

z = x-
iy

z1 = (sqrt3)/2 -
(1/2)*i

z2= (-sqrt3) /2 - (1/2)*i

With what force does the earth atract the moon ?

TO solve the force of attraction between the Earth and the
Moon we use Newton's Law of Gravitation.

The gravitational
force between two objects of mass m1 and m2 placed a distance d apart is m1*m2*G*r^2,
where G is the universal gravitational constant.

So now the
mass of the moon is 7.35E+22 Kg. Mass of the Earth is 5.98E+24 Kg. The Gravitational
constant is 6.67E-11 nt-m2/Kg2.

The distance between the
Earth and the Moon is 3.85E+08 m

Therefore the
gravitational force of attraction between the Earth and the Moon
is:

6.67* 10^-11 nt-m^2/Kg^2 * 7.35*10^22 kg* 5.98*10^24 kg
*(3.85E+08) ^2 m^2

= 1.98* 10^20
N

So the force of attraction between the
Earth and the Moon is 1.98* 10^20 N.

What evidence can you find to explain Leontes' jealousy in Act 1 of The Winter's Tale?

This is a very interesting question, especially because the
eruption of Leontes' jealousy happens so fast. However, Shakespeare’s gives us some evidence that
justifies Leontes’ abrupt and uncontrolled feelings.

In act 1.2, we
learn that Polixenes, having been stayed long enough at Sicilia, wishes to return to Bohemia.
Leontes, in vain, tries to persuade him to stay one week longer, and then, he asks Hermione to
convince his friend, instead:

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Hermione “I had thought, sir, to have held my peace
until

You had drawn oaths from him not to stay. You,
sir,

Charge him too coldly. Tell him you are
sure

All in Bohemia’s well…” (1.2
28-32).

Nonetheless, the lines
exchanged between Hermione, and Polixenes become more and more ambiguous making us to ponder
about an eventual flirt between Leontes’ wife and the King of
Bohemia:

Hermione
“…Force me to keep you as a prisoner,

Not like a guest: so you shall
pay your fees

When you depart, and save your thanks. How say
you?

My prisoner? or my guest?...” (1.2
51-54).

Thus, when finally Polixenes
agrees to extend his stay in Sicilia, this decision is enough to produce in Leontes an intense
suspicion about his wife’s fidelity.

According to some scholars, in
spite of being apparently irrational, Leontes' jealousy is substantiated by the kind of
Patriarchal society existent in Jacobean England. Then, men were undoubtedly heads of families,
but, at the same time they were dependent on women’s reproductive capacities to produce
legitimate heirs. We see that in the play Hermione is nine months pregnant. and that Polixene has
been stayed in Sicilia for “nine changes of the wat’ry star”. This fact is enough to raise deep
suspicions in Leontes.

Lastly, we have to consider the nature of
Leontes and Polixenes’ friendship. As children they had been close friends, but the loss of
innocence had caused a change in this friendship- now, both men are married and have children.
Then, in adulthood, competitiveness might have tarnished their
friendship.

In Romeo and Juliet, what does Lord Capulet's decree show about his attitude to Juliet?

In Act III, scene v, Lord Capulet plans to cheer Juliet
up, whom he imagines is grieving over the loss of her cousin Tybalt, by announcing her
engagement to Paris.  He treats her as if she were a small child who has fallen and
skinned her knee and can be appeased with a piece of
candy.

Though he enters the scene trying to lighten
Juliet's mood, his own mood darkens considerably when she doesn't respond with claps and
kisses to his offer of marriage to Paris.  Juliet
says:

Proud
can I never be of what I hate,

But thankful even for hate
that is meant love.

These
lines basically mean "thanks, but no thanks" -- to which Capulet explodes.  There is no
clear direction of the action here, but Lady Capulet does say, "What, are you mad?" and
Capulet says, "My fingers itch," both indicating the possibility of violence inflicted
on Juliet by Capulet.

Whether there is actual physical
violence in the scene or not, Capulet does give Juliet an ultimatum:  Either marry
Paris, or leave his home.  The second choice is one that Capulet understands the
consequences of very well.  He says, just before he exits the scene, "Beg!  Starve!  Die
in the streets!"  One, if not all, would probably be the outcome if Juliet were thrown
out of her home with no place to go.

However, all that
said, it is hard to say exactly what this says about his attitude towards Juliet. 
Shakespeare was a very aware playwright.  He shows Capulet to be very volatile, but also
very caring.  Capulet does not like to be crossed (as the exchange with Tybalt at his
party in Act I shows), but he can switch emotional gears very quickly.  When Juliet is
found "dead" in Act IV, Capulet is quite movingly
grief-stricken.

The one thing for sure, I would say, that
Capulet's decree shows, is a proud nature that dislikes being crossed by anyone,
especially his family.  He is a very astute rendering by Shakespeare of a father who
loves his child dearly, but is also capable of a very boorish paternal authority.  We
can still, today, recognize this sort of father in our modern
society.

For more information on the two sides of Capulet's
nature, please follow the character analysis link below.

What is Art Deco?About a Paragraph.

Beginning in the mid-1920s, the Art Deco movement was the
predominant style of decorative arts for nearly two decades. Considered highly modern at
the time, its popularity encompassed painting, film, architecture and interior design.
Art Deco proved to be a mix of many previous styles, including Art Nouveau,
Neoclassical, Modernism, Cubism and Futurism. The movement began in France and is
generally based on mathematical principles. After a decline following World War II, Art
Deco's popularity was revived again in the 1980s, particularly in the field of graphic
design; it was later a prominent influence on the Pop Art movement. Two of New York
City's most famous landmarks--the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building--are
among the world's best surviving examples of Art Deco
architecture.