In the novel Lord of the Flies, Piggy's glasses make Piggy seem scholarly, why?

Glasses have long been a stereotypical accessory of the "nerd"
figure in stories. In the first 15 pages of text, I count 5 times when I can find Piggy cleaning
his glasses. At each time that he is cleaning them, he seems to either be thinking about what he
is going to say next, or dealing with the nervous apprehension he has in dealing with Ralph's
teasing. It seems an almost obsessive habit, but for some people repeating a certain act helps
them think.

Another perspective to consider when thinking about the
glasses is that they reveal truths. For Piggy, when his glasses are clean and he places them
squarely back on his nose, he can see the situation clearly. These glasses also reveal truths
about Piggy. For example, when he gets sad and tears start to form the glasses fog
up.

As far as intelligence goes, Piggy has it, and it is often
revealed through an action with his glasses, but most people with glasses look
scholarly.

Read the SYMBOLISM section of the attached link for more
info.

If you are researching for a paper, look in the first 15 pages
for quotes.

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

An oath is something like a promise. The major difference
between the two is that an oath is much more solemn. You would not make an oath that you and your
friend will have lunch together tomorrow. That would be a promise. However, when something much
more important is being promised, that is an oath. That is, for example, why a new president
takes an "oath of office" before he (or someday she) takes
power.

So, you can make a sentence about any sort of solemn promise
like that. For example, "At many schools, students take an oath to obey certain rules like rules
that forbid them from copying their homework."

In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, what is the problem and the resolution?

I think there are several ways this question could be answered,
however through my research and in my opinion the central problem (conflict) in Huck Finn is
Huck's struggle to figure out for himself whether or not slaves are people or
property.

While Huck is friendly with Jim at the beginning of the
novel, he still calls him the N word, and treats him like a child. Huck was taught from early on
that blacks were inferior, and even though he didn't treat them badly, he thought that
abolitionists were horrible because they were breaking the law and stealing other white people's
property.

As Huck and Jim travel down the Mississippi River, they
have fun, but Huck humiliates Jim by making him dress as a sick Arab, he puts him in danger by
bringing the King and the Duke on board the raft, and he nearly sells him to slave traders who
come near the skiff.

However, the turning point (and resolution) of
the novel comes when Huck tries to play a trick on Jim by making him think that he had died. Jim
was so hurt and angry that Huck would do that to his "friend" that Huck finally realizes that
despite their color differences, that Huck and Jim are indeed friends...and
equals.

Using the law of inertia, explain why you must continue to pedal your bike even on a level surface to keep it moving.

The law of inertia, also known as Newton's first law of motion,
basically says that an object will continue doing what it is already doing,
unless an external force is applied to the
object.

What this means, simply, is that once you start moving, you
should continue moving at the same rate forever.  However, even on a level surface you are
encountering several types of forces that try to slow your bike down. These include wind, air
resistance, friction within the wheels of the bike, and probably most important, the friction
between the bike tires and the road.  So you must continue to apply enough force to equal the
various friction forces acting on your bike so that you move at a constant speed.  If you stop
pedaling you will slow down, and if you pedal faster you can accelerate.  All according to
Newton's first law of motion.

In chapter thirty-one of To Kill a Mockingbird,in what way does scout demonstrate sensitivity amd compassion in the previous and final chapter.

She notes that putting Boo on trial would be like shooting
a mockingbird; that is, causing harm to someone who has done nothing wrong (nothing but
providing help or 'singing a song.') There is also the compassionate moments when she
sits with Boo and walks him home. I think one of the most poignant moments is when
Scout, after having walked Boo home, stands on his porch and looks out. This is the
first time she's had this physical perspective of her street and this is analogous to
looking at the world from the perspective of others; particularly those who society has
outcast.

"You never really know a man until you stand in
his shoes." This is Atticus' line and its message is constant throughout the novel: the
Cunninghams, Tom Robinson, Boo, Ms. DuBose, etc.

Discuss the difference between demand & quantity demanded?

People often confuse these two terms and talk about "demand"
when they really mean "quantity demanded."  Here is the difference: demand (in economic terms) is
the amount of a good or service that people are willing to buy at all possible
prices.   In other words, when you graph demand, demand is a
line.

By contrast, quantity demanded is a point.  It is the amount
that people are willing to buy at any given
price.

This matters because when economists talk
about an increase in demand, for example, they mean that people will buy more at
the same price than they would have before.  By contrast, people will often say
"the price went down so demand went up."  This is economically inaccurate because a change in the
price of a good or service only affects the quantity demanded, not the
demand.

Who is the main character in "Desiree's Baby" by Kate Chopin?

Kate Chopin's short story "Desiree's Baby" has at the
center of the conflict the child of Desiree Valmonde and Armand Aubigny.  Yet, the baby
in the title is designated as Desiree's only.  This psychologically slanted title leads
the reader to focus upon Desiree as the main character whose life changes after she has
married and gives birth to a baby. For, the child resembles the mulatto slaves of the
Aubignys, Zandrine and the young boy who fans the baby one
day.

That the responsibility for the baby's appearance is
believed to be because of the mother is due in part to the unknown background of Desiree
who was adopted by the Valmonde's, and also to the patriarchal society of the Creoles in
Louisiana.  For, any consideration that Armand Aubigny's ancestry could be in question
is dismissed by him.  Yet, here lies the irony:  Armand Aubigny, whose father has one of
the great aristocratic names in the area, is the child of a woman of African descent, a
woman who dies in Paris and who has left behind a letter to her husband that reveals the
truth.

As the main character of "Desiree's Baby,"  Desiree
undergoes great conflict and she meets a climax:  Armand wants her to leave his house. 
She does so in despair, never learning that her husband has duscovered the truth about
the baby's appearance.

What does "parsimony", "imputation" and "predominating" mean in "The Gift of Magi"?

These three pieces of vocabulary occur in the first two
paragraphs of the story. First we are told that Della is only able to save the money she has to
buy Jim a present through the "silent imputation of parsimony" that haggling so carefully
indicates. This means the suggestion of stinginess that is obvious by the way that Della is
forced to be so careful with her pennies.

Secondly, Della reflects
that life is made up of "sobs, sniffles and smiles, with sniffles predominating," which means
that out of the three, sniffles occur the most. This is a sad reflection on the state of life
that Della and Jim are forced to live - because of their poverty, every day is a struggle to make
ends meet and luxuries such as Christmas presents, which of course is a key aspect of this
excellent short story, are way above what they are able to afford.

According to Gatsby in The Great Gatsby, how did he become the wealthy man he is?

This is a really interesting question. The reason why the answer
isn't so easy to figure out is because we have to filter Gatsby through the lens of the 1920s. I
could talk all day about the huge amount of "Gatsby gossip" that is in the novel before this
actual moment, but we have to wait (and wait) until the middle of chapter 4 to hear it from
Gatsby. The flappers and gangsters at Gatsby's parties get in the
way.

In fact, the first time we hear something from Gatsby's lips,
he says, "My family all died, and I came into a great deal of money." Of course Gatsby first
insists that San Francisco is part of the Midwest. Um, San Francisco is absolutely not
the Middle West. But I love the use of wording here to avoid a lie, per se. Yes, his
family died. Yes, he came in to a great deal of money. What he doesn't say
is that he didn't come into the money because his family died. Nick, of course, mistakenly takes
Gatsby's statement as a statement of inheritance.

Awww, our little
innocent Nick.

There's another little inkling a bit later when
Gatsby tries to tactlessly ask Nick to go into business saying, "I carry on a little business on
the side, a sort of side line, you understand." Uh huh. Obviously if Gatsby scoffs at Nick being
a bond man and then offers him this "job," then this is a way to make money. How would Gatsby
have know this was a way to make money if he didn't make money that way himself? But are there
specifics here? No.

Even later, Gatsby "clarifies" the situation
with Nick:

"I thought
you inherited your money."

"I did, old sport," he said
automatically, "but I lost most of it in the big panic--the panic of the war. ... Oh, I've been
in several things," he corrected himself. "I was in the drug business and then I was in the oil
business. But I'm not in either one
now."

And yet, even when Tom confronts
Gatsby about his bootlegging, Gatsby responds by saying, "What about it?" This is even after Tom
mentions Chase taking the fall for Gatsby. So, of course, Gatsby continues to be the king of
circumlocution, as esoteric as ever. Gotta love those well-dressed, handsome rich guys who revel
in word play.

Use the Midpoint Rule with the given value of n to approximate the integral. Round the answer to four decimal places. M4 = ? I got the...

The midpoint rule basically estimates the area under a
curve by sampling it a n-1 points, and using the rectangle with height f(Xn) and width
(b-a)/n at each point to give the area under that portion of the
curve.

So,

f(x) = 3x^3 e^-2x ,
 x = [1,5]

dx = 5-1 / 4 =
1

The first point is the midpoint between a and a + dx : a
+ dx/2, or 1.5. Each point after that is spaced at dx =
1.

f(1.5) = 0.68

f(2.5)
= 5.29

f(3.5) = 20.3

f(4.5)
= 55.5

So,

Int( f(x) ) , x =
[1,5] ~~ dx*(0.68 + 5.29 + 20.3 + 55.5) =
81.77

You can compare this with the exact
answer,

3124/(5 e^2) ~~ 84.5575

How does Winston from 1984 question authority?examples, quotes, page numbers, etc. all appreciated. thannks

Winston from the very beginning just thinks to much for the
society he lives in. Complete obedience in thought and deed characterize the control that The
Party has on its members.

Early in the novel, the reader finds
Winston defying the rules of complete devotion to the Party's rules. He writes in a diary. He has
discovered that he can hover in a small spot in his apartment and not be caught by the
telescreen, so he uses his diary to pour out his conflicting emotions. Writing "Down with Big
Brother" over and over shows his true, and illegal, inner
thoughts.

Later, Winston meets a woman who seems to share his views.
They take up a sexual relationship in an apartment room over a prole neighborhood store. While
there, they discuss the possibilitiy of joint a revolutionary group that may or may not exist.

Ultimately, Winston is caught for his acts of treason to the party
and put through a serious combination of torture, betrayal and rehabilitation in order to escape
certain death.

How can I determine the waste energy after a completely inelastic collision?Scenario: how does the initial elastic potential energy affect the...

When there is an elastic collision in a system, both the total
momentum as well as the total kinetic energy is conserved. In the case of an inelastic collision
only the total momentum is conserved, the total kinetic energy is not
conserved.

If a collision is being considered the initial kinetic
energy of all the particles undergoing collision should be equal to the kinetic energy of the
particles after the collision. Any reduction is the kinetic energy can be considered to be
wasted energy.

To determine the energy wasted,
you can calculate the total kinetic energy initially and from that subtract the total kinetic
energy after collision. The result you get is the wasted energy. The wasted energy can be in the
form of heat, sound, or creation of bonds between the colliding
particles.

The scenario you have explained is incomprehensible. Just
remember that the wasted energy for an inelastic
collision is the difference between the initial and the final
kinetic energy.

I need to know about Atticus' character as described in the first four chapters.

In order for you to describe Atticus effectively, you need
to look at some of his most significant quotes that Scout uses to describe him. She
describes his job (pg. 4-5), his relationship to the society in short (pg. 5), and his
relationship with his kids. As the book proceeds, we see more and more details that
demonstrate Atticus raising his children with moral strength but in a detached way.
Perhaps Lee does this because it is the case of most children with their parents. Here
are some quotes to consider reviewing:

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Jem and I found our father
satisfactory: he played with us, read to us, and treated us
with courteous detachment.
(6)

But there came a day when Atticus told us
he’d wear us out if we made any noise in the yard.
(12)

Atticus had said Jem would be delighted to show me
where my room was. I think some money changed hands in this transaction, for as we
trotted around the corner past the Radley Place I heard an unfamiliar jingle in Jem’s
pockets. (16)

Atticus is a
great teacher of his children. We see this as Caroline gets upset that Scout already
reads and writes. We see this as on pages 22-23 Atticus explains how trade works during
the depression.

Look at this lesson he teaches Scout in
chapter 3's end:

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“First of all,” he said, “if you can learn a
simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never
really understand a person until you consider things from his point of
view-”

“Sir?”

“-until you
climb into his skin and walk around in
it.”

We can tell Scout has a
respect for her father, but using his first name certainly demonstrates this courteous
detachment between the kids and their father.

How can I solve this: x^4+x^3+x^2+x+1=0 ? thx

To solve x^4+x^3+x^2+x+1 =
0.

We know that 1+x+x^2+x^4 = 
(x^5-1)/(x-1).

So the given equation is therefore rewritten
as:

(x^5-1) /(x-1) =
0

Multiply by (x-1). So , mind x-1 is our
factor.

(x^5 -1) =
0

x^5 = 1.

We know 1 = cos2npi
+isin2npi.

Therefore ,

x^5 = 
cos2npi+isin2npi

Take the 5 th
root.

x = (co2npi+isin2npi)
^(1/5)

x = (cos(2npi)/5 +isin(2npi)/5 , for n =
0,1,2,3,4....by D'Moivres theorem.Actually after  n=4, for the next integral values the
roots repeat.

x0 = 1  is not the root as we have multiplied
by our factor (x-1) to the given expression (x^4+x^2+x^3+1
).

x1 = cos72+isin72

x2 =
cos144 + isin 144

x3 = cos216 +i sin
216

x4  = cos288 +isin288.

So
x1,x2,x3 and x4 are the solutions.

Describe the difference in a meal prepared by Careme and one prepared by Point.

A fundamental question asked of most culinary students
today, this highlights the unique qualities that one must understand for
today's cuisine. Carême’s meal would feature showpieces, quite elaborately displayed as
in a Japanese sushi style of utilizing everything from the fruit and vegetable such as
creating rose flowers from peels, and dozens of courses, foods that are elaborately
presented in the form of sculptured fruit and vegetable pieces, garnished and sauced.
Point’s meal would be much lighter, many sauces without creme and using broths and
clear liquid soups, emphasizing natural flavors and simpler preparations of no more than
three to five spices or flavorings in each dish.

What is the main difference between "The Most Dangerous Game" and "Leiningen Versus the Ants?"

The main difference between the two stories is their
central conflict.

"The Most Dangerous Game" is a classic
Man vs. Man story. Rainsford is hunted by General Zaroff, and he must survive. The two
characters are similar in their skills and experience, but different in their
motivations. Rainsford fights to survie, while Zaroff fights for the thrill; their
personal conflict is what drives the story
forward.

"Leiningen Versus the Ants" is a classic Man vs.
Nature story. Leiningen needs to fight off the advancing horde of army ants with his own
skills and knowledge. The ants have no intelligence driving them; they are simply a
force of nature willing to destroy themselves to move forward. Leiningen uses his
selflessness and reasoning ability to win, at the cost of replaceable crops. Leiningen
fights to protect his plantation and men, while the ants fight because that is their
instinct.

(4-cos8x)(2+cos2x)=3How to solve this and what is the solution?

We need to find x given (4 - cos 8x)(2 + cos 2x) =
3.

Now, cos 2x = 2(cos x)^2 - 1

cos 8x
= 2(cos 4x)^2 - 1

=> 2(2(cos 2x)^2 - 1)^2 -
1

=> 2*[ 4 (cos 2x)^4 + 1 - 4(cos 2x)^2] -
1

=> 8 (cos 2x)^4 + 2 - 8(cos 2x)^2 -
1

Let cos 2x = y

=> 8y^4 - 8y^2
+ 1

So (4 - cos 8x)(2 + cos 2x) =
3

=> (4 - (8 (cos 2x)^4 - 8(cos 2x)^2 + 1)))(2 + cos 2x) =
3

=> (4 - (8 y^4  - 8y^2 + 1))(2 + y) =
3

=> [ 4 - 8y^4 + 8y^2 - 1](2+y) =
3

=> (3 - 8y^4 + 8y^2)(2 + y) =
3

=> 6 - 16y^4 + 16y^2 + 3y - 8y^5 + 8y^3 - 3
=0

=>  16y^4 - 16y^2 - 3y + 8y^5 - 8y^3 - 3
=0

=> 8y^5 + 16y^4 - 8y^3 - 16y^2 -3y -3
=0

=> 8y^4( y+1) - 8y^2( y+1) - 3(y+1) =
0

=> (y+1)(8y^4 - 8y^2 - 3)
=0

For y +1 = 0 , y = -1

For (8y^4 -
8y^2 - 3) =0

y1 = sqrt [8 + sqrt (64 + 96)] /
16

y1 = sqrt [(8 + sqrt 160) / 16]

y2 =
- sqrt [(8 + sqrt 160) / 16]

y3 and y4 are
complex.

The only valid root is y = -1, the other roots are complex
or greater than 1 and can be ignored.

Therefore cos 2x =
-1

We can find x by taking the arc cos of the values and dividing by
2.

x = 90
degrees.

Therefore x is equal to 90
degrees.

In Ch. 2 of the Great Gatsby, how does Fitzgerald's use of language help to develop characters Tom and Myrtle?

Lets look at Myrtle first. Fitzgerald never names her but
describes her for a few pages. In fact his choice of words
to introduce Myrtle Wilson were: "Tom Buchanan's mistress". He paints Tom
as a little "tanked" that day and then Tom calls her "my girl" as if she is a
possession. When Myrtle actually makes her entrance, as narrator, Nick uses these
beautifully vivid adjectives to describe her: "thickish figure", "faintly stout", "she
carried her surplus flesh sensuously", and "an immediately perceptible vitality about
her". These descriptions serve as the sensory details of
sight or at least imagery. They also give us the idea that
she is a sexual being for Tom, but not the most petite cute little thing
either.

Tom is painted as a forceful individual through
character actions and
dialogue. Nick describes Tom as having a "determination to
have my company that bordered on violence." Later, Tom demands that Wilson hurry up and
get the car ready that Tom wants to buy from him - this set of dialogue between the two
demonstrates Tom's ability to assert himself to anyone. Finally, Tom says to
Myrtle,

"I
want to see you... Get on the next
train."

That's a pretty
demanding command from a man who isn't Myrtle's husband within feet of Myrtle's
husband.

These vivid details help portray the physical
nature of their relationship and they rely on language used figuratively in order to
develop such great characters.

Who are the protangonist and the antagonist in the play Antigone?

When we consider what the central conflict of the play is it
becomes clear that the protagonist and antagonist of the play are Antigone and Creon. As the play
begins, we are presented with a grief-stricken Antigone because she has just found out that
Creon, the ruler of Thebes, has decreed that anyone who died rebelling against his rule must not
be buried or mourned. Antigone is caught between following the gods and their rules and the rules
of Creon - the ruler of Thebes since the death of her father. To break this rule would be
punishable by death:

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Whoever

disobeys in teh least
will die, his doom is sealed:

stoning to death inside the city
walls!

Thus it is clear that Antigone
is the protagonist, trying to struggle to be faithful to her brother and the gods, whilst the
character opposing her is Creon.

Describe the end of the party (when the guests leave Gatsby's house) and its significance in The Great Gatsby.

There is one main scene here that serves both to plant this
novel (again) in the heart of the reckless 1920s "roaring" culture as well as serve as a grand
element of foreshadowing.

Let's describe the scene first and look at
it in historical context. Put quite simply, this scene involves a drunk driver. One of the guests
at Gatsby's party who had too much to drink got behind the wheel of a car and tried to drive it.
Not even off of Gatsby's property yet, the guy crashes into a wall and lands the car in a ditch,
the wheel flying clear off.

The "puzzled" passenger is Owl Eyes
(another minor character in the book) and an unnamed driver. Owl Eyes kind of gets out of the car
and scratches his head. Only after making a few stupid comments does he admit that someone else
was driving the car. You see, a crowd had gathered. They came to gawk at yet another one of
Gatsby's party debacles.

Everyone watches amused (and saying
"Ah-h-h") while the drunken man gets out of the car and says, "Wha's matter? ... Did we run outa
gas?"

Seriously? The roaring twenties at their
best.

Now, the significance of this scene can be defined by one
word: foreshadowing. There are two passages in particular that are notable in this arena. The
first is, in itself, a description of the scene and more specifically of the gawking crowd that
surrounds the crash site:

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As they left their cars blocking the road, a harsh,
discordant din from those in the rear had been audible for some time, and added to the already
violent confusion of the scene.

This
first bit of foreshadowing is a general kind that shows these lavish parties and drunken
debauchery can end in nothing good. Nothing specific about Gatsby here, of course, but after a
"fun" night of dance and drink, ... it was important for Fitzgerald to show us that all of this
"roaring" has consequences.

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The caterwauling horns had reached a crescendo, ... A
sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete
isolation the figure of the host, who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of
farewell.

Now here's the real peach.
In my opinion, this quote directly foreshadows Gatsby's death and is the main significance of the
entire scene. The roar of the twenties and the din of the horns in the background frame the true
nature of the host. He is isolated and empty. That is how he lives (through his parties and
beyond) AND that is how he dies, ... isolated and empty. And the clincher is "his hand up in a
formal gesture of farewell."

Farewell, indeed, Mr. "Great" Gatsby.
Farewell, indeed.

What is the quadratic equation that has roots twice in magnitude of the roots of 4x^2 -21x + 20 = 0

The given is equation 4x^2-21x+20 = 0. To determine the
quadratic equation whose roots the double the roots of the given
equation.

For the quadratic  equation ax^r+bx+c = 0, the relation
between the roots x1 and x2  is given by:

 Sum of the roots x1+x2 =
-b/a and product of roots x1x2 = c/a.

In the given case , a= 4, b=
-21 and c=20.

Then x1+x2 = -(-21)/4 =
21/4.

x1x2 = 20/4 = 5.

Now let  2x1 and
2x2 be the roots of  a quadratic equation.

Then the sum of the roots
2(x1+x2) = 2(21/4) = 21/2.

Product of the roots = (2x1*2x2) = 4x1*x2
= 4(5)= 20.

Therefore the required equation which has the roots
double of the given equation is :

x^2 - (21/2)x + 20 =
0.

We multiply by 2 to get the integral
coefficients.

2x^2-21x+ 40 = 0.

What measures can an employer take to design a customer service job to make it both efficient for the company and motivating for the employee?

In market any employers should think how much satisfaction
their customers are having with their products/Services? Because the main aim of any
customer sevice 's job is to see they are going with a smile.Butr there are some issues
to be considered before thinking of customer's;
satisfactions.

How the satisfaction of a customers derived?
Is only through Customer service processes? I hope there something beyond this.Customer
satisfaction not always linked customer service job of ant company and their employees
efficiency.because,even though the product quality is high and price is affordable yet
customers are limited with their income range and natural basic
needs.

If any product/service quality is good and
affordable customer may not think of how your sevice to them.go with
smile.

If product/service quality are good but not
affordable,even they want to buy, customers look at your service rendered to them.go
with little ambiguity.

If product/service quality are
worst  and not affordable,service rendered to them was excellent then no customer would
come back to you.

For any business the quality and
affordability is prominent and basic tenet for customer satisfaction.only service aims
at to customer's satisfaction is always subservient to the quality and
price.

For Example:

If in any
restaurant with air-conditioned with sexy/polite and efficient employees renders service
but offered three days back left-out food may leads to somany problems for both
employees and employers however effiecient and qualified they
are.

Comment upon the use of symbolism in "Trifles."

In Trifles, Susan Glaspell seems to
use the bird to reflect upon the communication, or lack thereof, Mrs. Wright has with
the outside world.

Mrs. Wright has been accused of
murdering her husband. When the authorities come to gather evidence, two neighboring
women also come along in order to gather some things to take to Mrs. Wright in
jail.

As the men carry on their business, their callous,
unsympathetic and short-sighted observations about the importance of women in a home
alienate the two women; they come to understand Mrs. Wright better, and create a united
front to keep any damaging evidence from falling into the hands of these foolish
men.

One of the things that the women find is an empty bird
cage, stuffed into a cupboard. It seems a questionable piece to find in the house until
the women look in Mrs. Wright's sewing box. There they find the body of a dead canary,
wrapped as if Mrs. Wright had planned to bury it in a little
box.

Upon reflection, the women provide us with a clearer
picture of Mrs. Wright. The house is not a cheery place, but the women agree that Mr.
Wright was anything but cheery. They recognize the absence of children and the
loneliness that must have haunted Mrs. Wright in having no youngsters to fill her house.
They remember that Mrs. Wright had once been young and pretty, and had sung in the
church choir: a much different person than the woman she has become. They recognize,
also, that they could have been better neighbors; that as far as they knew, Mrs. Wright
was cut off from the world, doing nothing but caring for husband and home, with no love,
gentleness, or connection with him (it would seem) or the world at
large.

The last piece of important information comes from
the manner of the bird's death: it seems as if the bird's neck had been broken. The
women assume it was done by the dead husband, and that this could well have been the
reason Mrs. Wright killed him—it was the last straw for her; she snapped and strangled
him in his sleep.

(Mrs. Peters recalls having her kitten
murdered by a boy she knew, and at that minute she had known she could have hurt
him.)

The bird symbolizes joy in the world: music and life.
The bird, the women believe, would have brightened up Mrs. Wright's home and her
attitude. She would have been uplifted and felt a sense of hope and renewal, especially
having been closed in the house alone with an uncaring, uncommunicative husband for so
long. When Mr. Wright kills the bird, he robs her of happiness and renewed
expectation.

Mr. Wright's sullen disposition, as described
by the women at the play's beginning, would provide a sense of the kind of marriage that
existed in the now-empty house. The lack of concern by the men who are searching the
house reinforce the sense that the women in this society are not appreciated as they
should be: their labors are taken for granted and
unacknowledged.

When the bird came into her home, Mrs.
Wright probably felt more alive than she had in years. With is brutal death at the hands
of her husband, she may well have felt as if he had physically harmed her and the bird.
Many years in a desiccated marriage drove her to strike back and kill Mr.
Wright.

In 1984, how does surveillence cause a lack of rebellion?

It is clear that in this terrifying novel we are presented with
a surveillance society where every move of every citizen could be monitored and reported, with
tragic consequences for that citizen should it be deemed that they are involved in what is termed
"thought crime." Lack of rebellion is thus achieved by creating a society of absolute fear - if
you could be watched at any moment, you could be reported and then taken away and punished for
any deviant behaviour. Note how this claustrophobic atmosphere is established very early on in
the novel:

The black
mustachio'd face gazed down from every commanding corner. There was one on the house-front
immediately opposite. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption said, while the dark eyes looked
deep into Winston's own... In the far distance a helicopter skimmed down between the roofs,
hovered for an instant like a bluebottle, and darted away gain with a curving flight. It was the
police patrol, snooping into people's windows. The patrols did not matter, however. Only the
thought Police mattered.

With the
slogan of Big Brother, the citizens of Oceania are constantly reminded that there every move is
being watched and inspected for any form of rebellious behaviour. We are presented with a world
where every second is observed and there is always the tremendous fear of being taken away by the
Thought Police to the ironically named "Ministry of Love."

A parabola with vertex (2,0) and axis of symmetry parallel to the y-axis, passes through (3,1) and (-3,t). Find the value of t.

We first need to find the equation of the parabola that has a
vertex (2,0). Now the equation of a parabola with vertex ( h, k) is given
as

y= a(x-h)^2 + k.

=> y = a(x-
2)^2 + 0.

Now the parabola passes through
(3,1)

=> 1 = a( 3 -
2)^2

=> 1 = a

Therefore the
equation of the parabola is y = (x - 2)^2

Now as the point (-3 , t)
lies on the parabola

t = (-3 -
2)^2

=> t = 5^2

=> t =
25

Therefore the required value of t is
25.

What does Pip share with Herbert besides the Barnard's Inn Chambers and the home in Hammersmith?Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Above all the things that they share, Pip and Herbert Pocket
have a deep friendship with all that such a relationship implies. Before Herbert, Pip humbles
himself and asks the former "pale young gentleman" to instruct him in how to conduct himself
properly regarding table manners, and so forth. Herbert confides in Pip and relates the history
of Miss Havisham and Estella. He and Pip confide in matters of the heart as Pip expresses his
love for Estella and Herbert introduces Pip to his fiance, Clara. When Magwitch appears on Pip's
stairs, Pip confides in Herbert the identity of Magwitch and all the circumstances that his and
the old convict's relationship involves, such as the fact that Magwitch is his benefactor rather
than Miss Havisham.

Herbert assists Pip in the attempt to get
Magwitch out of London, offering both physical and moral support. When they find themselves in
financial straits, Pip feels responsible; so, he goes to Miss Havisham and implores her for help.
She gives Pip enough money to solicit Mr. Clarikker who promises to give Herbert a position at
the new branch bank in the East section of London. When Orlick tries to kill Pip at the old
sluice house, Herbert along with Startop come to his rescue after finding the letter that Pip has
dropped. Finally, Herbert and Clara offer Pip their home if he will come to live with them, and
Pip provides a job for his friend when Pip's fortune is gone. And, when they have a child,
Herbert and his wife name him Pip. Good friends since their introduction in London, Pip and
Herbert share laughter, love, loyalty, adventure, and misfortune together.

Using examples from The Crucible, what happens when individual freedom or theocracy gets out of balance?

This is an interesting question, especially in relation to
The Crucible, because in that play, we see that a theocracy might have some
pretty fatal flaws.  Along those lines, I'll briefly mention some possible negatives when a
theocracy has too much power and control.  In the play, we see that the leaders of their
theocracy were also religious leaders who supposedly had God working on their side.  Those
leaders--Reverend Parris, Judges Danforth and Hawthorne--had too much power, because they could
condemn people to die with no evidence and with no fair trial.  They had that right because they
supposedly had God's will on their side.  Also seen in the play is how people were so fixated on
the religious side of events that anyone who thought differently from them at all, in any way,
were thought of as heretics, and hence punished by the law.  Take Sarah Good for example, who
wasn't married and didn't quite follow their religious customs.  As a result, she was condemned
and judged, and eventually arrested for witchcraft.  Theocracies have very rigid rules, and
strict punishments, and if taken too far, then serious damage can be done.  People are afraid to
speak up, because then they'll be seen as evil, and the law isn't on their side if they are. 
That is what happened in this play, and what led to so many
arrests.

On the other hand, if individual freedom is left unchecked,
it often results in anarchy, or total chaos and destruction.  There are no laws and no order to
keep balance.  People do what they want, when they want, even if it is as the cost of someone
else's safety, well-being or happiness.  Society needs to have some checks and safeguards, some
reassurances that their property and happiness won't be taken from them by someone else. That is
what the law is supposed to protect.  In The Crucible, the law had
overstepped its bounds and were the guilty party in taking property and happiness; they weren't
protecting any longer, they were taking, just like people in an anarchy
do.

The end result of either one of these extremes is a loss of
freedom, total fear, and no one's rights being protected.  I hope that those thoughts helped;
good luck!

Discuss why Jim lacks the respect of his own people in Lord Jim.

Part of Jim's character is to precisely not have the full
respect of anyone around him. White society does not respect Jim because of his past and because
of the fact that he has made his home in Patusan. While the residents of the island do respect
him to an extent, many are more eager to see him go, like his predecessors. Condrad's
construction of Jim's character might be indicative of another reason why Jim lacks a certain
respect. Jim displays a certain discomfort with his identity and who he is. This discomfort comes
from a lack of acknowledgement about his past and a desire to flee from it. Jim has not made
peace with what he did as captain of the Patna and this transmits to others.
This is the reason why Jim demonstrates so much in terms of capitulation to anyone who is a
reminder of his past. It might be in this light that Conrad is asserting that Jim's lack of
respect from others comes from his own lack of respect. His sacrifice in the end, while not
understood by others, might be the one action he takes with a sense of certainty in his actions
and might be reason enough why he dies with a smile on his face. It is only through death that
Jim has moved past the lack of respect that others hold toward him and what he holds toward
himself.

Maria has $350, she spends 2/7 of her money & invests the rest for 2 years at 5% per year simple interest .How much money does Maria have at the...

Spendinfg of Maria = (2/7) of $350
= $100.

The rest of the money  invested = 350-100 =
$250.

The rate of interest  on investment =
5%.

The money after  she gets after 2 years is required to be
calculated.

We use the formula Interest amount =  PTR/100 where P =
amount invested , T = number of years, and R = rate of
interest.

Therefore the interst amount Maria gets after 2 years =
250*2*5/100 = $25.

So the amount Maria should get after 2 years =
Invested amount +Interest accrued = 250+25 = $275.

How would an audience interpret Lord Montague's comments about making a statue in gold for Juliet?

To me, there are two ways to interpret this
statement.

First, you could take it as a truly sincere
statement of regret.  Lord Montague is trying to show that he is sad about Juliet dying
and he is trying to show respect for and reconciliation with the Capulet
family.

Second, you could interpret it as a cynical move on
his part.  He might be trying to outdo the Capulets.  He might be trying to show that he
is richer and more magnanimous than Capulet (because he, not Capulet, is the one raising
the statue).  So if you are inclined to doubt Montague, you can argue that he is doing
this to try to show off how rich and how nice he is.

What sorts of ironies surround Iago in the first act of Othello?

If we take irony to be the discrepancy between appearance and
reality, then certainly Iago is a character in whom irony abounds greatly in Act One. He takes
great pains to appear to loyal confidante of Othello whilst actually working to act against him,
informing Desdemona's father of Desdemona and Othello's elopement together. Note how he explains
the way he must leave before Brabantio descends to Roderigo:

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Farewell, for I must leave
you.

It seems not meet, nor wholesome to my
place,

To be produced, as, if I stay, I
shall,

Against the
Moor.

His whole identity is based on
his hatred of "the Moor" and he takes great pains to appear to be loyal whilst plotting how to
ruin his life. Note how in Act I scene 3, he says in a
soliloquy:

He holds me
well,

The better shall my purpose work on
him.

Friendship and loyalty are just
outward guises to allow him to advance his envious resentment against
Othello.

How do different means of transportation compare in terms of the carbon emission?

All means of transportation do not emit the same amount of
carbon dioxide per person per mile traveled. A rough estimate of the amount of carbon dioxide
emitted by a person traveling a 1000 miles is:

• 206 kg if
  a small car is used


• 414 kg if a large car is used
  


• 86 kg if a train is used


• 48 kg if
  a bus is used


• 276 kg if a plane is
  used

Therefore, it can be seen that the cleanest means
of transportation are bus and train. This is largely to do with the fact that here many people
are accommodated in the same vehicle. Cars are the worst polluters, especially if they are used
with just a single person on board. Planes also pollute a lot due to the nature of the technology
that is used for flying.

Prove the identity (x+y)^5-(5yx^2+5xy^2)(x^2+xy+y^2)=x^5+y^5.

We'll
begin by expanding the
binomial:

(x+y)^5=x^5+5x^4*y+10x^3*y^2+10x^2*y^3+5y^4*x+y^5

We'll
subtract x^5 and y^5 from expansion as well as from the right side and we'll
get:

5x^4*y+10x^3*y^2+10x^2*y^3+5y^4*x

We'll
combine the middle terms and the extremes and we'll factorize
them:

5xy(x^3 + y^3) +
10x^2*y^2(x+y)

We recognize inside the 1st brackets, a sum of
cubes

x^3 +y^3 = (x+y)(x^2 - xy +
y^2)

5xy(x+y)(x^2 - xy + y^2) +
10x^2*y^2(x+y)

We'll factorize by
5xy(x+y)

5xy(x+y)(x^2 - xy + y^2 +
2xy)

We'll combine like terms inside
brackets:

LHS = 5xy(x+y)(x^2 + xy + y^2)=5xy(x+y)(x^2 +
xy + y^2) = RHS

We notice that managing both sides,
we've get the same expression, so the identity (x+y)^5-(5yx^2+5xy^2)(x^2+xy+y^2)=x^5+y^5 is
verified.

hi there! my question goes: Gas fireplaces burn methane using oxygen from the air. If 4.00L of methane is burned,predict the volume of...

Methane has a molecular formula given by CH4. The reaction
that occurs when it reacts with O2 is CH4 + 2O2 --> CO2 +
2H20.

We can use the Ideal Gas Law, PV= nRT to determine
the volume of oxygen required to burn 4.00L of methane. We assume the variables of
temperature (T) and pressure (P) are the same when the volume of oxygen is being
calculated. So from PV= nRT, we get that V is proportional to n or the volume is
proportional to the moles of gas required.

Now the equation
of the reaction between methane and oxygen, gives us that 2 moles of oxygen are required
for each mole of methane. Also, the volume of the gas required is proportional to the
number of moles. Therefore for the complete combustion of 4.00 L of methane we need
2*4.00 = 8.00 L of oxygen.

The required
volume of oxygen is 8.00L.

Hope this
explanation helped you.

In The Chocolate War please explain the last paragraph of Chapter Seventeen.

Chapter Seventeen is actually a very crucial chapter because in
it we find out what Jerry plans to do. This is the day when his "Assignment" has finished and he
can agree to sell chocolates just like everyone else. Yet, astonishingly, he decides to continue
defying Brother Leon and the school by choosing not to be involved at all in the sale of the
chocolates. To do so because it was required of him because of an Assignment is one thing, but to
voluntarily choose to continue to defy the school authorities in such a way is of seismic
importance. Thus it is that the ending of this chapter relates explicitly to Jerry's decision to
continue defying the school:

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Cities fell. Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars
plummeted. And the awful
silence.

Clearly, hyperbole is used
here to exaggerate the importance of this single event, but it does help to capture the sense of
shock and the consequences that Jerry will have to face for this. For the school and for Jerry,
this is an incredibly important moment.

How does the suffering brought upon others by Macbeth contribute to the tragic vision of the work as a whole?Shakespeare's Macbeth

As the violence and murders begin to pile up in the play,
Macbeth becomes more and more immune to suffering, until, by the end of the play, his
very famous "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" speech reveals that life has lost all
meaning for him.  Al the suffering of the play has brought him to the tragic place of
immunity to feeling or caring about life or death -- including the death of his
wife.

In the early scenes of the play, Macbeth is not at
all convinced that he should step into the realm of betrayal and murder by killing
Duncan.  Lady Macbeth plays a huge part in convincing him to take his opportunity for
greatness by murdering Duncan so that he can become
king.

Once Macbeth, crosses the line and commits murder by
betraying the man to whom he has sworn loyalty, there is no turning back.  He murders
his good friend Banquo (and tries to murder his son) and takes out Macduff's wife and
son.  The carnage, once it is unleashed, has no stopping point and the tragic events of
the play are further developed as these gruesome events begin to strip life of its
meaning for Macbeth.

In Act V, scene v, he says
that

Life's
but a walking shadow, a poor player

That struts and frets
his hour upon the stage

And then is heard no more.  It is a
tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and
fury

Signifying
nothing.

In this speech,
Macbeth reveals the real tragedy for him of his actions.  Life is a farce to him now,
full of lots of noise and angst and action, but for all of this, it means
nothing.

Why does the woman that Dr. Manette writes of count to twelve over and over as part of her feverish ravings?A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

In Book the Third, Chapter X of A Tale of Two
Cities, the letter of Dr. Manette is produced in the trial of Charles Evremonde,
called Darnay. This letter is offered as evidence that Dr. Manette has denounced the family of
Evremonde. From the reading of the letter, those listening learn that Manette was taken by one of
the Evremonde twins and brought to a house by an overrun fountain. There a young, beautiful woman
lay with her arms bound to her sides with sashes and handerchiefs. When Dr. Manette looks at her,
he notices that her eyes are dilated and wild; shrieks come from her constantly, and she repeats,
"My husband, my father, and my brother!" Then, she counts to twelve and says, "Hush!" Over and
over she repeats these words that Dr. Manette comes to realize mean the hour of twelve
o'clock.

Her brother, who is dying of a sword thrust tells Dr.
Manette that his sister was recently married. At their home, the husband was ill, and she tended
him. However, the one Evremonde brother admired her beauty and asked the husband to "lend her to
him." To persuade the husband to make his sister willing, they put him in a harness throughout
the day, and kept him in the "unwholesome mists at night." The husband became deathly ill
and

he sobbed twelve
times, once for every stroke of the bell, and died on her
bosom.

When the brother saw the sister
being taken away by the Evremondes, he rushed to tell his father, whose heart "burst" upon
hearing this terrible news, and he never spoke another word, having suffered a stroke. Thus, the
young woman's words indicate her grief over the damages to her wounded brother and her stricken
father, and the death of her husband at the twelfth hour.

What is the theme of "How Much Land Does a Man Need"?

Tolstoy had another reason for writing "How Much Land Does
A Man Need?" He discovered the teaching of Henry George, an American whose book Progress
and Poverty had a strong international influence. Henry George's basic idea is that
nobody should be entitled to own any part of the earth, and that it should be common
property, like the sky and the sea. Everyone who wanted land for farming or building
should pay the annual rental value of the land to the government, and the government
should have no other source of income such as income taxes, sales taxes, and excise
taxes. George and Tolstoy, like Jean-Jacques Rousseau, believed that private ownership
of land was the source of many social ills.

In Tolstoy's
story the protagonist is trying to acquire much more land than he needs. If everybody
acted like Pahom all the earth would be monopolized by private owners who would be able
to force others to pay them just to live on the earth. But if everybody only used as
much land as they actually needed, there would be enough for everybody to live in
comfort and in harmony. Pahom is just like all the others who wish to fence off part of
the earth and make it inaccessible to others while they have no use for it themselves.
This is not greed for land but greed for power and money. It is obvious in Tolstoy's
story that Pahom cannot use all the land he covets. If he had more time he would try to
take in all of Asia.

In Brave New World, what “obscenity” does Linda fling at the DHC?

Chapter Ten features the surprise appearance of Linda, the DHC's
former lover, and the even bigger surprise appearance of someone that, up to this point, the DHC
never even knew existed: his son. Because of the way in which all fertilisation and birth is done
completely scientifically and in test tubes, removing the need of the mother to "bear" the baby
and give birth to it, natural pregnancies are something that belong in the realm of the savages
in their enclosures. Thus, to be a "mother" or a "father" is akin to an obscenity in this strange
world in which Bernard lives. Note what Linda says to the DHC:

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You made me have a baby... Yes, a baby--and I was its
mother.

The narrator comments that
"She flung the obscenity like a challenge into the outraged silence." With these few words, Linda
has just managed to completely ruin the reputation of the DHC. Which is of course what Bernard
was hoping to achieve.

Please provide a simple summary of John Dryden's poem "Alexander's Feast," and please refer to the text of the poem.

“Alexander’s Feast,” by John Dryden, describes the
celebration thrown by the great Greek warrior, Alexander the Great (son of Philip of
Macedon) after Alexander had defeated the Persians in battle in 331 B.C.E.  The poem
opens by referring to this victory and by describing
how

The
godlike here sate [that is, sat]

On his imperial throne 
(4-5)

He was surrounded by
his captains, who were decorated with “roses and myrtles” (7) as “The lovely Thais,” his
Greek mistress, sat “by his side” (9). Repeated lines celebrate the happiness and
bravery of the persons thus far depicted (12-19).

A poet
and musician named Timotheus, accompanied by a choir and strumming a lyre, sings a song
telling the myth of how Jove, the king of the gods, came down to earth and, disguised as
a serpent, impregnated Alexander’s mother, so that Alexander was supposedly of partly
divine parentage. The people at the feast celebrate Alexander’s divinity, and Alexander
nods and thereby (like Jove) seems to produce powerful cosmic effects
(20-46).

Timotheus next celebrates Bacchus, the god of
wine, as if Bacchus were actually present at the
feast:

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Bacchus, ever fair and
young,

Drinking joys did first
ordain:

Bacchus’ blessings are a
treasure;

Drinking is the soldier’s pleasure . . .
(54-57)

The praise of Bacchus
is then repeated, especially since “Sweet is pleasure after pain”
(65).

Subsequent sections of the poem describe how
Alexander becomes passionate when thinking about his victory (66-72) and how Timotheus
manages to soothe Alexander’s proud passions by literally changing his own tune and
mournfully describing the death of the Persian king (Darius) whom Alexander had defeated
(69-83). Alexander is moved by this lament and contemplates the mutability of earthly
existence (84-92).

Timotheus next inspires thoughts of love
in Alexander, who has become drowsy from drinking (92-122). Timotheus therefore uses
music to awaken the king and now inspires in him thoughts of vengeance on the Persians
for having killed so many Greeks (123-54).

The poem ends by
extolling the power of Timotheus’s music and of poetry as well (155-60). Eventually
Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of musicians, invented the organ, thereby excelling the
power displayed even by Timotheus (161-80):

He [that is,
Timotheus] raised a mortal to the skies;

She drew an angel
down. (169-70)

This poem is one of the most famous
celebrations of music in the English language.

Find the smallest value of k, when, a) 280k is a perfect square, b) 882k is a cube.

Here we have to find the smallest value of k for which
280k is a perfect square and 882k is a perfect cube.

Now,
writing 280 as a product of prime numbers, we get 7*2*2*2*5. Writing 882 as a product of
prime numbers we get 3*3*2*7*7.

Now, for 280k to be a
perfect square all the prime factors should be in pairs, and if 882k has to be a perfect
cube all the prime factors should be in triplets. Or in other words 280k should have a
square of every relevant prime number and 882k should have a cube of the same prime
numbers.

For this, we need k to have one factor equal to 32
as 32*8 is a square and 32*2 is a cube. Also k needs to have another factor of 7 as 7*7
is a square and 7*49 is a cube. Similarly, k needs to have a factor of 125 as 125*5 is a
square and 125*1 is a cube. And finally k needs to have a factor of 81 as 81*1 is a
square and 81*9 is a cube.

In this way we
arrive at the factors of k as 32, 81, 125 and 7. So k is equal to
2268000.

We see that 280*2268000 is a
perfect square and 882*2268000 is a perfect cube. This is not possible with any value of
k smaller than 2268000.

What are some dominate personality traits of Simon in the novel Lord of The Flies?

One of the main traits is that Simon is compassionate and
very caring.  He is really the only boy that does not appear to take sides when it comes
to Jack or Ralph and he also makes it very clear that he cares for the littl'uns in a
way that the others do not.

He also has a very serious
introspective streak as he thinks carefully about what is happening and ends up being
the only boy to figure out the real nature of the beast.  He is very sensitive, not only
to the boys but also sensitive enough that he cannot even handle the vision of the beast
and he passes out after the experience.

In "A Visit From St. Nicholas," by Clement Clarke Moore, please answer: "Down" is a simile for: chimney, roof, hoof, reindeer, none of these.

In "A Visit From St. Nicholas," by Clement Clarke Moore, the
best way to understand the question and the possible answers is to be sure to first understand
what a simile is, and secondly to be aware of the meaning of each of the
choices given.

First of all, a simile is a
comparison of two dissimilar things that share similar traits, as if they were the same. For
example, look at "Her skin was as soft as silk." This is a simile. The comparison is between
skin and silk. However, a simile also must use the
words "like" or "as" in making the comparison.

In terms of the
choices, each seems straightforward: the chimney is an opening in the roof where smoke from the
fireplace escapes; the roof is the covering on the top of a house; the hoof is an animal's foot,
tough like a deer's horn; and, a reindeer is an animal much like a
deer.

If you are confused, there is good reason. I believe this is a
trick question. If we study the use of the word "down" in the context of the
poem, we will see two important items missing in terms of the definition of a
simile:

As I drew in my
head, and was turning around,

Down the chimney Saint Nicholas came
with a bound.

First, note the absence
of "like" or "as." This is our first clue. More importantly, there is no comparison of
two things taking place in this segment.

Later in the
poem, note the following simile:

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...And the smoke it encircled his
head like a
wreath.

The two
things being compared are the smoke and a wreath, which
share the same shape. You will also notice that "like" is present in the
comparison.

Therefore, your answer should be: none of
these.

Explain the role that machines played in making factories successful in the U.S. during the industrial revolution.

Machines played two major roles in making factories
successful during the Industrial Revolution.

First, they
allowed factories to produce much larger quantities of th products than could previously
be done.  This allowed companies to enjoy what are called economies of scale -- where it
gets cheaper to make something as you make more of them.  This helped allow the
companies to sell their products for lower prices.

Second,
the machines were much more efficient than working without machines.  This meant, again,
that factories could produce goods much more cheaply than non-mechanized processes
could.  This also allowed these companies to sell their products for lower
prices.

Lower prices, of course, allowed many more people
to buy the products and that allowed the companies that had factories to be
successful.

What is a good thesis statement that ties in the oppression of the nameless narrator and her mental disorder in "The Yellow Wallpaper"?

I think you are spot on with this idea. There is a definite
sense in which the madness or the lunacy of the narrator worsens with the way that her husband
and the doctors that are advising him require the narrator to remain ever-more cooped up and
imprisoned in the room. Her husband, John, is of course doing what he believes is best for her by
ensuring that she does not exhaust herself and is given lots of rest, but the result of this is a
mental imprisonment that forces the narrator to focus even more on the yellow wallpaper and see
her alter ego, a woman trapped, in its pattern. Note the following
example:

I tried to
have a real earnest reasonable talk with him the other day, and tell him how I wish he would let
me go and make a visit to Cousin Henry and Julia.

But he said I
wasn't able to go, nor able to stand it after I got there; and I did not make out a very good
case for myself for I was crying before I had
finished.

Note how it is John who
tells her what she can and cannot do. She is unable to decide or given a voice in this decision.
Thus it is that the mental imprisonment she experiences leads directly to her slide into
insanity.

Thus a good thesis statement you could use might
be:

The increased restrictions that are placed on the female
narrator drive her ever further into insanity.

In "The Most Dangerous Game," are the main characters flat or round?

Flat characters are characters that have one or two
characteristics and are not fully developed, whereas round characters are ones that are
developed and we are allowed to see them as complete characters. Going by this
definition, it is clear that both General Zaroff and Rainsford are round characters -
they are characters who are presented to us in completeness - we are allowed as readers
to understand what is going on inside of their heads, especially Rainsford. Although we
get little information about Zaroff's internal workings, we are shown his motivation for
setting up the "hunt" or the "game" that dominates the end of this
story.

You might like to think about some of the other
characters to enable you to see the contrast. It is clear that Ivan, the Cossack servant
of General Zaroff, is a flat character - we have little access to his thoughts and he
really only serves one purpose which is to look big and menacing and serve
Zaroff.

Hope this helps you understand the difference a bit
better!

In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" what is the question that is never asked?

Alfred Prufrock is shown to be a master of indecision and
procrastination as he heads towards a date with a woman whom he plans to ask "some overwhelming
question" once they have finished their afternoon tea:

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After the cups, the marmalade, the
tea,

Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and
me,

Would it have been worth while,

To
have bittten off the matter with a smile,

To have squeezed the
universe into a ball

To roll it towards some overwhelming
question...

Although we are never told
what the nature of this question is, we can perhaps infer from the constant indecision and
self-doubt and lack of engagement in society expressed by Alfred Prufrock that he is
contemplating asking this woman to marry him. However, as much as he longs for romantic love and
the courage to assert himself, we see that he is bowed down by an intense fear of being
misunderstood and of being ridiculed by others. The poem ends before he reaches his date, and
this perhaps suggests that these fears will keep him isolated and alone and he will never come to
ask his question.

Find the equation of the tangent to the curve y = 3x - x^3 at x = 2 .

To determine the equation of the tangent line to the graph
of y, we'll have to determine the derivative of y at x =
2.

f'(2) = lim [f(x) -
f(2)]/(x-2)

f(2) = 3*2 -
2^3

f(2) = 6 - 8

f(2) =
-2

lim [f(x) - f(2)]/(x-2) = lim (3x - x^3 +
2)/(x-2)

We'll substitute x by
2:

lim (3x - x^3 + 2)/(x-2) = (6-8+2)/(2-2) =
0/0

Since we've obtained in indeterminacy acse, we'll apply
L'Hospital rule:

lim (3x - x^3 + 2)/(x-2) = lim (3x - x^3 +
2)'/(x-2)'

lim (3x - x^3 + 2)'/(x-2)' = lim
(3-3x^2)/1

We'll substitute x by
2:

lim (3-3x^2)/1 = 3 - 3*4 = 3-12 =
-9

f'(2) = -9

But the
derivative of y at x = 2 is the slope of the tangent line to the curve
y.

m = -9

Now, we'll write the
equation of the tangent line, whose slope is m=-9 and it passes through the point that
has x coordinate = 2.We'll compute the y coordinate of this
point:

f(2) = 3x - x^3

f(2) =
6 - 8

f(2) = -2

The equation
of the tangent line is:

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

y + 2 = -9(x - 2)

We'll
remove the brackets:

y + 2 = -9x +
18

y + 9x + 2 - 18 =
0

y + 9x - 16 =
0

What is the relationship between the four plot lines (Athenian lovers, fairies, royalty, rude mechanicals) of A midsummer Night's Dream?

In Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, comedy finds
its way into all four plot lines, though less with nobility, and more with the lovers,
fairies and common-workers-turned-actors.

It may be that
the noblemen, especially the Duke, Theseus, represents that reality of the world: it is
in this world that we learn Helena must marry someone she does not love. If she refuses
her father, based on Athenian law, she could be put to death at her father's
request.

However, once the young people (and the "actors")
enter the fairy realm of the forest after dark, the rule of a parent or a Duke count for
nothing. The world is transformed into a magic place of magic and nature and love: lots
of it, and several different kinds—love embraced, love rejected, and love brought on by
magic.

In terms of the relationship, what seems to move the
plot at the beginning are the Duke's preparations for his marriage to Hippolyta (the
Queen of the Amazons). He has won her in battle but hopes to woo her in
matrimony.

The other plot exists between Helena and
Lysander who love each other. Their love has been rejected by Hermia's
father.

The fabric of the story weaves these two plot lines
with the affairs of the fairy realm, where Oberon, the King of the Fairies and his Queen
Titania are in the midst of a "lovers' quarrel," and the players enter the woods to
practice their play in hopes that it will be selected as the entertainment for the
Duke's impending nuptials.

The play, in some ways, seems at
times like a Chinese fire drill because so much is going on. The Duke's wedding is tied
directly to the players. The players get caught up in the fairy's entertainment. The
fairies are there to bless the Duke's wedding, and the Athenian lovers are supposed to
be directed by the hand of the Duke in affairs of the heart, but end up where they wish
to be, married at the play's conclusion with the Duke and
Hippolyta.

By the play's end, the four plot lines have been
untangled, and life returns to "normal" for both the humans and the fairies. The
crossover between the two worlds seems to be merely a dream to the Athenian lovers, and
Puck apologizes to the "human" audience, hoping no one has been offended by the pranks
the fairies have played on the humans.

I cannot say for
certain why Shakespeare brings all these groups together except that, for one, his
audience would have been made up of the kinds of people in the play (except for the
fairies...). The poorest and the wealthiest would have seats in the same theater: the
nobility would be seated in the "nose bleed section," and the peasants would have had
front row seats. There was something for everyone in this
comedy.

Love is a common theme in the play and this would
be something the entire audience would appreciate. The presence of the fairies would
also have been entertaining to the theater goers.  Perhaps most of all, love and
laughter would have been perfectly paired.

Whereas
Shakespeare once wrote, in The Tempest, "Misery acquaints a man
with strange bedfellows," in this case it would appear that love has done the same in
A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Discuss Tamas as a partition novel.

Tamas has to be considered one of the
strongest examples of Partition on the lives of regular people on the Indian subcontinent.
Partition was a concept designed by individuals in the position of political power. The
machinations and calculations of Hindu, Muslim, and British leaders and diplomats were akin to
carving up the Indian subcontinent. Their decisions made in abstractly politicized vacuums
impacted millions of ordinary people. Tamas depicts this reality. Sahni's
work displays how Partition impacted the common individual in the most horrific of ways. The
riots and communal violence created as a result of Partition is one contribution that Tamas
offered to the discourse of this sad chapter in Indian History. In relocating the story of
Partition from the geopolitical reality to the condition of regular people, Sahni's work serves
as a testament to the idea that the citizens must always deal with what happens on a political
level, and this can take on horrifying forms.

Phease help! Read the case study and reply.Taylor Cape is a sixth grade student who is disrupting not only her learning, but the learning of her...

The first appropriate step has already been taken. The
school needs to respond to this student on an additional level to meet her needs. Their
job will be to determine if the issue Taylor struggles with is behavioral or academic.
Many students who feel inadequate to meet a specific academic challenge will act out
with poor behavior to receive some attention for something other than the fact that they
cannot do the task at hand. Once the team isolates the problem, they can determine (if
the issue is academic) what strategies of modifcation or accomodation the teacher should
employ, or (if behavioral) what incentives and consequences should be put in place to
motivate the student to remain on task during class.

If
this will take some time before the BST will get to Taylor, a classroom teacher will
need to think on her feet. This might mean pulling Taylor out into the hall and speaking
frankly with her. A few conversations starters that have worked for me have
included:

• Hey, it seems like something is
  bugging you today, but I have a class to run and your behavior is making it tough on me.
  Is there something I can help you with right now so we can fix
  this?


• Taylor, I can see you need my attention, so here I
  am. What can I do for you?


• Taylor, I really need your
  help. It seems the kids really listen to you, and today they are focused on you. Could
  you help me get them to listen to me?


• My last
  and final idea is to give Taylor an important task to do that makes Taylor feel
  important. This might be running a note to the office to just get Taylor out of the way
  for a few minutes. You can finish your lesson and then spend a few minutes with Taylor
  when Taylor returns to go over it in terms Taylor
  understands.

Can someone help me in getting the paraphrasing of the poem "The Wife's Lament" which is translated by Ann Stanford.Please I want...

Here are a few ideas on this poem that will give you an
overview. First of all it is important to remember that it was likely written in the 8th century
when life was very hard and dangerous for men and women.  In this poem, the wife is lamenting his
missing husband who has gone and left her alone in a land where she feels like an exiled
stranger.  Her concern and pain are amplified by the fact that she hasn't heard anything from him
or about him and is left to worry.  She is concerned that he is involved in something dangerous
that may go wrong.

She is also upset over the miserable dwelling
where she is lives.  It is gloomy and scary and only serves to intesify her fears and her woe. 
She can't help but think of all the lovers in the world who are together and free to love one
another.  These thoughts only intensify her feelings of despair as she is  separated from her
true love and left to worry about his safety at sea while she is alone and longing for his safe
return.

You can find out more about poems from this period in the
website below.  "The Wife's Lament" is one of the poems found in The Exeter
Book.

In "The Tell-Tale Heart," please can you comment on the use of punctuation throughout the story--especially hyphens?

This is a great question! We need to remember the point of
view adopted in this great story. Poe writes using first person perspective, and in
addition, if you are a shrewd reader, you will notice that he assumes the voice of an
unreliable narrator - a narrator whose trustworthiness and reliability we come to doubt
through what he says and his account of the story. Centrally, it becomes increasingly
clear that we are presented with a narrator who is insane, and this insanity is
presented partly through the use of punctuation in his account, especially focussed on
the use of the dash to indicate his frenzied emotions. Consider this excerpt from the
last paragraph of the story:

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Oh God! what could I do? I foamed - I raved - I
swore! I swung the chair upon which I had been sitting, and grated it upon the boards,
but the noise arose over all and continually increased. It grew louder - louder -
louder! And still the men chatted pleasantly, and smiled. Was it possible they heard
not? Almighty God! - no, no! They heard! - they suspected! - they knew! - they were
making a mockery of my horror! - this I thought, and this I
think.

You would do well to
ask yourself what is the effect of all of these hyphens in this block of text. They seem
to emphasize the heightened emotions of the narrator, especially his intense agitation,
his dislocated thoughts and the way that the sound of the heartbeat is impacting him.
Clearly, then, the use of punctuation could be said to highlight the insanity of the
narrator, underlining his unreliability.

Which of these persons is entitled to claim Roberta as a dependent absent a multiple support agreement?Roberta is widowed and lives in an apartment...

In the absence of a multiple support agreement, no one can claim
Roberta as a dependent.

A person can only be claimed as your
dependent if they are A) your qualifying child or B) your qualifying relative. This means that Ed
and Jose can never claim Roberta because they are not related.

In
order to claim someone as your qualifying relative, you have to provide (in the absence of a
multiple support agreement) at least half of the person's total support for the year. Clearly, no
one is paying half of the $22,000 that constitutes Roberta's total
support.

Finally, a person cannot be a dependent if he or she
receives more than $3650 per year. Obviously, Roberta makes more than
that.

Therefore, it is clear that no one can claim Roberta as a
dependent.

Determine f(x) if f'(x) is (5x-3)/(x^2+4)

To determine the function f(x), we'll have to
integrate  (5x-3)/(x^2+4)

Int  (5x-3)dx/(x^2+4) = f(x) +
C

We'll use the additive property of the
integral:

Int  (5x-3)dx/(x^2+4) = Int 5xdx/(x^2+4) - Int
3dx/(x^2+4)

We'll note Int 5xdx/(x^2+4) = 5
I1

                 Int 3dx/(x^2+4) =
3I2

We'll calculate I1 using substitution
technique.

We'll note x^2+4 =
t

We'll differentiate both
sides:

2xdx = dt

We'll
substitute in the original integral and we'll get:

I1 = Int
dt/t

I1 = ln |t| + C, but t = x^2+4 >
0

I1 = ln (x^2+4) + C

5I1 =
5ln (x^2+4) + C

5I1 = ln (x^2+4)^5 +
C

We'll calculate
I2:

I2 = Int dx/(x^2+4)

I2  =
[arctan (x/2)]/2 + C

3I2 = 3[arctan (x/2)]/2
+ C

Int  (5x-3)dx/(x^2+4) = ln
(x^2+4)^5 + 3[arctan (x/2)]/2 + C

What is the inverse of the function f(x) = [(lnx)-5]/2

Given the function f(x) = [ln(x)] - 5
/2

We need to find the inverse function f^-1
(x).

Let y= [ln(x) -5)/2

We will need
to isolate x.

First we will multiply by
2.

==> 2y= ln x - 5

Now we will
add 5 to both sides.

==> 2y + 5 = ln
x

Now we will rewrite into exponent
form.

==> x= e^(2y+5)

Now we
will replace x and y.

==> y=
e^(2x+5)

Then the inverse function
is:

f^-1 (x) =
e^(2x+5)

In The Kite Runner, what does Amir say about clichés?

This section of the novel comes in Chapter Fifteen, when
Amir goes to Pakistan to meet with Rahim Khan who is close to death. Amir tells us about
what he was taught about the use of cliches in creative writing and then he goes on to
defend his use of the cliche "the elephant in the room" to describe his meeting with
Rahim Khan after so long and how awkward it was. Note what he says about
cliches:

A
creative writing teacher at San Jose State used to say about clichés: "Avoid them like
the plague." Then he'd laugh at his own joke. The class laughed along with him, but I
always thought clichés got a bum rap. Because, often, they're dead-on. But the aptness
of the clichéd saying is overshadowed by the nature of the saying as a cliché. For
example, the "elephant in the room" saying. Nothing could more correctly describe the
initial moments of my reunion with Rahim
Khan.

Therefore Amir defends
his use of clichés and in particular his description of his reunion with Rahim Khan by
arguing that clichés have become clichés for a reason. They correctly sum up a
situation, as in this case both Rahim Khan and Amir initially try to ignore the elephant
in the room.

What is the opression in "The Story of an Hour" and "A Doll's House"?

This is a great question! There are lots of ways that you
can compare and contrast the two central protagonists in these texts, Mrs. Mallard and
Nora. However, the wording of your question seems to identify the central way that you
can explore their presentation. Both characters are oppressed females in a patriarchal
world full of patriarchal institutions, especially marriage, that force them to become
something that they are not. Likewise, both characters experience liberation through the
action of the story, although in the case of Mrs. Mallard, this liberty is short-lived.
Both reveal that the patriarchal institution of marriage has the potential to squash and
inhibit the growth, maturity and development of a female from occurring along natural
lines, as the wife has to meet a whole host of societal expectations to fulfil her
"role" as wife.

Therefore, if you are writing an essay on
this topic, I would explore the nature of the word "oppression" as applied in this case
and the way that both characters reveal. Then I would consider how Nora and Mrs. Mallard
gain liberation. Hopefully the points I have given you above will give you lots of ideas
for what you can talk about. Good luck!

What kind of person do you think Boo Radley is? Why?

Who knows what was going on inside of Boo Radley's head.
(It would be a great question for author Harper Lee to answer herself.) I believe it's
obvious that Boo didn't eat raw squirrels or cats, and he probably did no physical harm
to anyone until he met up with Bob Ewell. Mentally instability no doubt hounded this
very shy and gentle man. Of all the accusations made against Boo, his nocturnal
sightings and habits may have had some validity; no better proof is evident than when
he warmed Scout with a blanket and suddenly appeared to save the children from Bob. Boo
must have seen himself as a protector of his young neighbors, and they brought out his
curious nature for a while. Once they were safe from Ewell, Boo retreated back into the
Radley House, rarely to be seen again.

What are Tom's dreams?

Tom's dream in The Glass Menagerie is basically to run
away from the alleyway apartment and the oppression that his family has him under and be
free to write poetry, read literature, and experience the adventures that he sees in the
movie theatre where he goes to escape from everyday
life.

Tom is a born poet, which is a huge contrast from his
rogue-type job at the factory, where darkness, and a harsh environment are the rule.
Instead, Tom imagines beauty, adventure, color, and freedom. These are his mechanisms of
escapism and is meant to contrast his reality versus his
fantasy.

Show how Shelley's use of language (in Frankenstein) reveals that Victor's dreams have been shattered (when the creature comes to life).

Mary Shelley uses very dramatic and imagery-laden language to
define the shattering of Victor's dreams in her novel Frankenstein. Chapter
four of the novel defines Victor's dreams regarding his "son."

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

Typical of the "new parent,"
Victor's dreams (regarding his son) is that he is able to create a life which would denote him
(Victor) as the most gracious being on earth. It is, undeniably, his dream to birth a child who
will look up to him, as the father. This dream further developed through Victor's meticulous
nature in creating his "son."

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After having formed this determination, and having spent
some months in successfully collecting and arranging my materials, I
began.

To Victor's dismay and horror,
his "son" is not what he dreamt of. Instead, the being is large, ugly, and
horrifying.

How can I
describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite
pains and care I had endeavoured to
form?

Essentially, in the end, the
physical attributes of Victor's son shattered his dream. His son was not beautiful; instead, the
creature was horridly ugly, inarticulate, and horrifying.

How does J.K. Rowling's use symbolism in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone?

The most important symbol in the novel Harry Potter
and the Sorcerer's Stone is the scar on Harry's forehead. The scar represents Harry's
past, his present, and his future.

The scar is representative of
Harry's link to Lord Voldemort. Voldemort is the one who gave Harry the scar as a young child
when he murdered Harry's parents. The scar forces people to become instantly drawn to Harry based
upon the prophecy of his rise.

Another symbol in the novel is the
names associated with each of the different houses at Hogwarts. Perhaps the most telling house is
that of Slytherin. The image of the house is that of the snake. Historically, as far back to Adam
and Eve, the image of the snake represents evil.

One last symbol is
the game of Quidditch. The game not only brings pride to each house, it represents the importance
of values.

Benjamin Franklin as the first fireman in Fahrenheit 451.Why do you think the firemen’s rulebook credited Benjamin Franklin – writer,...

I was actually thinking about this question yesterday, and
I'm a teacher!  ha ha!  I'm not totally satisfied by the answer you have already been
given.  Franklin was very wise...

My mind started to wander
more to the fact that Franklin was partially responsible for bringing newspapers to
America (his brother actually started it), and that Franklin was a BOOK PRINTER,
hello...  The answer has to be in there somewhere.

I was
thinking of two possible things.  1)  people in the book don't know a whole lot because
of the way society is set up, but they would likely know of Ben Franklin, and would buy
him as some kind of authority.  If he is in to what the firemen do, then we can all just
accept it.  or  2)  Since in reality he is a symbol of literacy, maybe they are making
up this lie in order to discredit immediately what a dissenter might say.  For instance,
if Clarisse were to say "well, Ben Franklin said it's really important to read!"  Beatty
would say, "shut up girl, he was the original fireman."

I'd
like to ask Ray Bradbury personally because I'm not all that
sure.

What is at stake in the story?"The Interlopers" by Saki

In Saki's "The Interlopers," more than land ownership at stake
is the pride of each of the feuding sides in their enmity over the "most jealously guarded of
all...territorial possessions."  For this "neighbor feud" has grown into that of a personal one
that has been handed down to Ulrich von Gradwitz since he has become the head of his
family.

Even when Ulrich and his archenemy George Znaeym are trapped
beneath the branches of beech tree struck by the violence of the storm, they cling to this pride
in their feud, boasting each that their men will be the first to arrive and deal with their
enemy:

"So your're not
killed, as you ought to be, but you're caught, anyway," he cried; "caught fast.  Ho, what a jest,
Ulrich von Gradwitz snared in his stolen forest.  There's real justice for
you!"

"I'm caught in my own forest-land," retorted Ulrich.  "When my
men come to release us you will wish, perhaps, that you were in a better plight than caught
poaching on a neighbor's land, shame on
you."

As the men lie pinned beneath
the tree, there is a "bitterness of possible defeat" that courses through each of them until they
finally realize that more is at stake than their prides: other interlopers come--wolves--and now
their very lives are at stake.

In The Hobbit, what are the "call to adventure" and "meeting the mentor" segments of the Hero's Journey?

In the Hero’s Journey, the hero is an ordinary person who
embarks on a journey of self-discovery to become a hero.  In The
Hobbit, Bilbo is a happy-go-lucky and somewhat hapless Hobbit who ends up
going on an adventure because his friend Gandalf the wizard needs a
burglar.

The hero’s journey always begins with a call to
adventure.  The hero can either reject or accept the call.  More often than not, the
hero (who is not a hero yet) rejects the call.  Bilbo rejects Gandalf’s request, and
Gandalf leaves a note on Biblo’s door for the dwarves.  Bilbo is much more interested in
eating and drinking than in adventures, but Gandalf does not allow him to reject the
call to adventure.

Gandalf is Biblo’s mentor for several
reasons.  First of all, he is the one that presents the call to adventure to Bilbo and
does not allow him to reject it.  He also starts Bilbo on his journey, and throughout
the journey he provides him assistance.  In order for the hero to grow he needs to
separated from, and then reunited with, his mentor.  Gandalf leaves Bilbo but does
return later.

How to find the specific heat capacity of a solid (involving a cooling correction)Could you please give me a idea for this experiment?

Well, I can't give you an answer of 600 words, but here is a
general idea on how you can go about it.

First take a liquid of
which you know the specific heat of, water would be ideal to use. Take a measured quantity of
water in a container, so that there is a minimum amount of heat loss. Measure the temperature of
the water.

Now heat the body you want to measure the specific heat
capacity of. Measure its temperature once it has been heated. Then place the body in the
container of water and dip a thermometer in the water. Wait for some time till an equilibrium
temperature is reached.

Once that happens, the heat lost by the body
to decrease its temperature is that absorbed by the water to increase
its.

Now use the specific heat of water that you already know to
find the specific heat of the solid.

I leave it for you to figure
out how that will be done. It’s quite easy and you should know that by
now.

In "The Masque of the Red Death", what chamber is not occupied by the masqueraders and why?

It is important to realise how Poe uses setting
symbolically in this great story. Remember the scene - Prospero has locked himself and
his revellers in a castle in an attempt to cheat death as the mysterious disease, the
Red Death, runs amok outside in the Kingdom killing all in its path. This scenario could
be viewed symbolically as someone trying to cheat death and outrun it, ignoring death's
dominion over human life.

The masque ball therefore is very
significant in terms of its setting. The last, seventh room, is the one where none of
the people wish to enter. Note how it is described:

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The panes here were scarlet - a deep blood
colour... in the western or black chamber the effect of the firelight that streamed upon
the dark hanging through the blood-tinted panes, was ghastly in the extreme, and
produced so wild a look upon the countenances of those who entered, that there were few
of the company bold enough to set foot within its precincts at
all.

Note too that in this
suite there is a massive ebony clock. Clearly this is symbolic of the passing of time
and the approaching death of all the guests. The fact that this black room is the most
western, at the rooms run from east to west also indicates the passing of time and the
approaching death, as the sun rises in the east and goes down in the
west.

These guests are engaged in a quest to try and cheat
death and forget about it, therefore it is highly significant that they do not want to
enter this room, which could be said to symbolise death, with the ghastly red light
signifying the Red Death that is about to come upon them all. Also note that it is in
this room that the masked uninvited guest confronts Prospero and death is admitted into
the castle.

The sum of the digits of a 2-digit number is 7. reversing the digit increase the number by 9. Find the numbers?

Let the numbers be xy =
a

Then the reverse number will be yx =
b.

Given the sum of the digits =
7

==> x + y =
7

==> y=
7-x.............(1).

==> b-a =
9

==> (7-x)x - x(7-x) =
9

==> (7-x)*10 + x =
b

==> 70-10x + x =
b

==> 70-9x =
b...........(1)

==> x*10+ (7-x) =
b.

But b-a = 9 ==> a=
b-9

==> x*10+ (7-x) =
b-9

==> 10x + 7 - x + 9 =
b

==> 9x + 16 =
b..............(2)

We will add (1) and
(2).

==> 86 =
2b

==> b= 43

==>
a= 34

==> Then, the two digit
number is 34.

To
check:

3+ 4 =
7

Also, 43 - 34 =
9