Please give a character analysis of Nora in A Doll's House.

Nora is of course the protagonist of this excellent drama,
and also she is the "doll" in the title. Key to understanding her character is realising
how she has allowed herself to be treated, by both Torvald, her husband, and in the past
by her father. It seems that throughout the play, until the final Act, when she comes to
some inner-understanding of her own identity and worth, she is playing a part that has
been given to her by other people, which she does with aplomb. From her first entrance,
she appears girlish, immature and flighty. Her efforts are engaged in charming her
husband and keeping him happy whilst trying to be the perfect wife. Yet, in spite of
this, she also tries to conceal various secrets and ways in which she has been acting
behind Torvald's back. It appears that deceit is something that Nora has grown into - it
is a habit that she persists in even when there is no perceivable benefit to herself.
She believes that she is in a position of complete dependence on her husband, and this
is a myth that she only realises isn't true by the final act. However, at the end of the
play, she shows great resilience and inner-strength with her determination to seek a new
life for herself:

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When a wife leaves her husband's house, as I'm
doing now, I'm told that according to the law he is freed of any obligations towards
her. In any case, I release you from any such obligations. You mustn't feel bound to me
in any way however small, just as I shall not feel bound to you. We must both be quite
free. Here is your ring back. Give me
mine.

It is this
inner-strength and determination to seek her own life on her own terms that we remember
Nora for, not the childish names that her husband bestows on her. Our lasting impression
of her character is characterised in the sound of the street door being slammed shut as
she leaves all she has ever known to seek out a new
life.

Nora is the "doll" wife of Torvald. She is sensitive,
sensible, and completely unaware of her own worth until the last act of the play. She
initially appears flighty and excitable. Nora is most concerned with charming her
husband and being the perfect wife; she is also secretive and hides her thoughts and
actions from her husband even when there is no real benefit in doing so. Rather,
deception appears to be almost a habit for Nora. Her husband constantly refers to her
with pet names, such as "singing lark," "little squirrel," and "little spendthrift." He
pats her on the head much as one would a favorite puppy. She forges her father's
signature on a loan, lies to her husband about the source of the money, lies about how
she spends the household accounts, and lies about odd jobs she takes to earn extra
money. She is viewed as an object, a toy, a child, but never an equal. Her problem is
that she is totally dependent upon her husband for all her needs; or she deceives
herself into thinking so until the end of the play.

What are some similarities and differences between Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and the opening chapter of Melville's Moby-Dick?

Various similarities and differences (but mostly differences)
exist between Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Young Goodman Brown” and Herman Melville’s novel
Moby-Dick. Here are a few of the
similarities:

• Both works are set, at least initially, in
  New England.


• Both works focus on journeys made by young
  men.


• Both young men have names that prove to be symbolic.
  

Here, however, are a number of significant
differences:

• Melville’s Ishmael narrates his own journey;
  Brown’s journey is reported by a narrator.


• Ishmael, at the time of
  his journey, is apparently unmarried; this is not true of
  Brown.


• Ishmael, in the very first paragraph of the novel, displays
  an attractive sense of humor; Brown is rather humorless throughout his tale. Ishmael is the more
  complex of the two characters.


• Ishmael, at first, is much more
  isolated than Brown. Brown meets a companion in the forest and meets other acquaintances along
  the way, while Ishmael is initially much more of a loner.


• Ishmael
  will be journeying out onto the sea, while Brown will be journeying into the
  forest.


• Brown never seems to have journeyed much beyond his small
  town before, whereas Ishmael is familiar with the large city of New
  York.


• We are offered very little insight, at first, into what
  Brown may be thinking; Ishmael, in contrast, is speculative and openly reflective right from the
  start.


• Because Brown does not narrate his own story, he has no
  opportunity to address the reader, whereas Ishmael addresses his readers in the very first
  sentences of the story, as if beginning an extended exchange with
  them:

Call
me Ishmael. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my
purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and
see the watery part of the
world.

• Brown’s story deals
  quite explicitly with matters of good and evil, whereas the focus on good and evil in Melville’s
  novel is not especially stressed in the very first chapter.


• The
  style of Hawthorne’s story is fairly obviously symbolic and allegorical right from the start; the
  first chapter of Moby-Dick, however is more convincingly and deliberately
  realistic.

Other contrasts might easily be listed, but
these are enough to indicate some of the significant differences between the two
works.

Write a summary and analysis of "The Ransom of Red Chief"?

Bill and Sam are two fugitives who end up in Summit, Alabama
with a plan to make some easy money. They need $2000 to finance another illegal scheme they
expect to execute in Illinois. The plan: They will kidnap the child from a local wealthy family,
demand $2000 as ransom, and head on to Illinois for their next fraudulent move. At first, all
goes according to plans. They kidnap the son of a rich citizen and take him to their hideout. But
things soon go awry. The boy, who demands to be called Red Chief, turns out to be more than a
handful: He is a terror, making his two captors play tiring games, playing tricks on them, and
soon turning the two men into the captives. Red Chief enjoys his stay with the two men and does
not want to go home. After the two men lower their ransom to $1500, they receive a reply from the
father--a money-wise banker--that if THEY PAY HIM $250, the father will take him off their hands.
When the two men return Red Chief to his home, the father warns them to hit the road immediately:
Red Chief still wants to play!

The O. Henry short story is a great
tall tale with the author's signature unexpected twist in the end. It reminds the reader that
sure things don't always go as planned, and that easy money is usually a hard thing to come by.
It also shows that small town folks are not always taken in by the savvy city
slicker.

What is ( 5x^3- 2x) ( 3x^2+x-8) ?

The given expression is a product of the factors that are
2 pairs of brackets.

We'll remove the brackets knowing the
fact that multiplication of numbers is distributive over addition of
numbers.

( 5x^3- 2x) ( 3x^2+x-8) = 5x^3( 3x^2+x-8) - 2x(
3x^2+x-8)

We'll remove the brackets from the 1st resulted
terms:

5x^3( 3x^2+x-8) = 5x^3*3x^2 + 5x^3*x -
5x^3*8

5x^3( 3x^2+x-8) = 15*x^(3+2) + 5*x^(3+1) -
40x^3

5x^3( 3x^2+x-8) = 15*x^5 + 5*x^4 - 40x^3
(1)

We'll remove the brackets from the 2nd resulted
terms:

- 2x( 3x^2+x-8) = -2x*3x^2 - 2x*x +
16x

- 2x( 3x^2+x-8) = -6x^3 - 2x^2 + 16x
(2)

We'll add (1) +
(2):

15*x^5 + 5*x^4 - 40x^3 - 6x^3 - 2x^2 +
16x

We'll combine like
terms:

(5x^3- 2x) (3x^2+x-8) = 15x^5 + 5x^4 -
46x^3 - 2x^2 + 16x

In the end, what does Tom realize about his dreams and how does he come to this realization?

In Tennessee Williams's Expressionistic drama,
The Glass Menagerie,Tom, as narrator and character in the play, realizes that
his passionate search for meaning in his life by using his art of poetry to ease his
pain has been delusionary.  For, he is yet alienated and emotionally overwhelmed by the
memory of Laura that he cannot escape:

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I pass the lighted window of a shop where
perfume is sold.  The window is filled with peices of colored glass, tiny transparent
bottles in delicate colors, like bits of a shattered rainbow.  Then all at once my
sister touches my shoulder.  I turn around and look into her eyes...O Laura, Laura, I
tried to leave you behind me, but I am more faithful than I intended to
be!

The symbolic imagery of
the dimmer light of candles points to the extinguishing of Laura's hope and both Tom and
Laura's dreams in the desperate 1930s of the setting. When Tom tells his sister "Blow
out your candles, Laura," he extinguishes both hers and his search for meaning in life. 
This use of expressionistic techniques reflects the hopelessness of Tom's emotional
sensibilities.

How is figurative language used?

Keats uses both synecdoche and metonymy in the first and
second stanzas. Specifically, however, the metonyms in stanza one are the thatch-eaves,
which represent the people who live in the houses so protected, and the clammy cells of
line 11, which, because they are the location of honey, stand for the honey itself and
the sweetness of the season. In stanza two, synecdoches are hair (line 15), which
figuratively represents the dust of harvested grain and therefore the grain itself;
laden head (line 20), which represents the persons working in the autumnal harvest both
as laborers and as planners of the season; and oozings (line 22), representing
specifically cider but generally the substances made from the year’s produce. These
figures give insights into the intricacy of growth, harvest, and processing, and along
with the personification of autumn, the intention of Nature and life to nurture human
beings.

In the novel Oryx and Crake, what are the importance of fridge magnets?

“You could tell a lot about a person from their fridge magnets,
not that he’d thought much about them at the time," says Jimmy towards the end of the novel as he
comments on the fridge magnets that Crake ironically chose and enjoyed. We are presented with a
world which has been devastated by a killer virus, and language, in all of its senses has been
spliced just like the Crakers. Jimmy desperately and perhaps vainly tries to cling on to words
that are now redundant. Snowman is a classic example. Jimmy says to himself "Hang on to the
words" as if there is some form of liberation in remembering words that possibly no one else on
earth has ever come across. Crake's fridge magnets, however, undercut this view by presenting us
with the way that scientific advances have affected and impacted even the purity of language.
Note the irony in "Little spoat/gider, who made thee?" The deilberate misquote from Blake is
updated to include the rampant splicing and mixing of genes. In spite of Jimmy's best efforts,
not even Blake is sacred.

find the sum and the product of the following equations?find the sum and the product of the following equations:a.) 2x^2-8x+5=0b.)3x^2-9x=0c.)-.5...

Hope it is the sum product of the
roots:

We know that if ax^2+bx +c = 0 , and the roots x1 and x2,
then

the sum of roots is x1+x2 = -b/a and  the product of the roots
is x1x2 = c/a. We apply this to the given equations:

a.)
2x^2-8x+5=0'

Here identify a= 2, b = -8 and c =
5.

Sum x1+x1 = - (-8/2) = 4 and product of roots x1x2 = 5/2 =
2.5.

b.)3x^2-9x=0.

Here a =
3, b= -9.  c = 0 ( c is absent.)

So sum of the roots x1+x2  =
-(-9/3) = 3

Product of the roots x1x2 = 0/3 =
0.

c.)-.5 (in fraction
form)x^2-3x+2=0

 a = -0.5 . b = -3 and c =
-2.

Therefore sum of the roots = x1+x2 = -(-3/-0.5) =
-6/

Product of the roots = x1x2 = -2/-0.5 =
4.

What is the definition of marginal utility

Marginal utility is defined as the extra benefit that a
person gets from consuming or using an additional unit of a
good.

So what does this mean in the real world?  It means
that marginal utility is supposed to be a way to measure how useful to you the
next unit of a good or service is.  Here's an example. 
Let's say that you have a big job interview lined up and you have no formal clothes at
all.  You need a suit badly.  So the marginal utility of buying a suit would be high --
you would get a lot of benefit from it.  But then what if you were trying to decide
whether to buy another suit?  The marginal utility would probably be lower because it
would not be as valuable to you (you don't need it as urgently) as the first
suit.

How important is the setting in "Guests of the Nation"?

The setting of "Guests fo the Nation" is critical to the
short story, in fact, with a very dissimilar setting, it would be a very dissimilar
story: setting and story are inseparable. In Frank O'Connor's short story, which is told
by Bonapartevfrom a first person point of view, a small band of Irish rebels have
captured British soldiers during the Irish Rebellion. Bonaparte is one of the Irish
rebels, so the story comes from the experience of an Irish rebel whom O'Connor presents
as a reliable, trustworthy narrator. The major difficulty in the story occurs because
the British forces are holding Irish prisoners, and if it comes to pass that the British
execute any of them, the Irish rebels will choose to retaliate by executing the English
prisoners. This would be an unsurprising fulfillment of the mentality of war except for
the setting in which O'Connor places the English prisoners who play poker with the Irish
rebels and discuss and argue with them about three most relevant topics: politics and
religion--and capitalists.

In doing so, they spend time
together, think together, play cards together, joke together. In such circumstances--in
such a setting--they come to know and respect each other as joint members of humanity.
When word comes that the British have indeed shot Irish soldiers, including a
sixteen-year-old boy, the decree is handed down that the rebels must retaliate by
executing the British soldiers. Bonaparte describes and embodies the deep conflict
between duty and responsibility, duty and personal feeling that this scenario awakens.
After hope of some alternate course flickers and dies in the forest along with the
British prisoners, Bonaparte is left to try to come to terms with these thematic
questions. The conflict couldn't have arisen in a setting that didn't lend itself to
friendly conversation and  interaction between the rebels and the English. Another
setting couldn't as readily have brought out the personal complexity inherent in the
issues of duty, responsibility and feelings.

How does Shakespeare invite us to compare Hamlet with Laetres and Fortinbras in Act I?

It is very clear that Shakespeare intends for us to see a
correlation between these three men as they are presented in Act 1.  They are all about the same
age and are all, in some way, dealing with the requests (stated and implied) of their father's. 
The most obvious connection is between Fortinbras and Hamlet.  Both of these young men are going
to be trying to avenge their father's deaths and restore honor to their respective kingdoms. 
Fortinbras's father has been dead for some time, killed in a battle against King Hamlet. 
Fortinbras is striking at the this time in an effort to regain the lost lands (and lost honor)
for Norway.  He is acting with aggressive action by hiring mercenaries for his "army" as opposed
to the actual army of Norway.  By the end of the Act 1, Hamlet knows the whole story of how
Claudius murdered his father.  The ghost of his father has told Hamlet to rid the throne of
Denmark of that "adulterate beast."  Hamlet swears that he will do as he has been commanded. 
Both of these young men are on similar missions.

Laertes doesn't get
a lot of time on stage in Act 1, but we do meet him and realize that he is about the same age as
Hamlet, and that he too is still going to school.  A key difference is that Laertes's father is
still alive.  But there is still a connection to be made.  In their scene together, we have
another example of a father giving advice to his son -- telling how the world is and what he
should do in the world.  Laertes says he will do his best to honor his father's wishes.  This is
just like what Hamlet will say later in the act, even though the requests made of Hamlet are far
weightier than those made of Laertes. 

The connection of the three
men becomes even more important in Act 4, when Laertes returns in a fury to exact revenge for his
father's murder by Hamlet.  There we clearly see how differently THREE men handle a similar
situation.  Shakespeare's is setting the stage for that complication in his expositions in Act
1.

In Chapter 11 of All Quiet on the Western Front, why is the orderly "mystified"? Baumer would be mystified since he doesn't know Kat was shot in...

In Chapter 11 of All Quiet on the Western Front,
the orderly's being mystified has nothing to do with the fact that Kat is
dead.  The narrative reads, "The orderly is mystified.  'You are not related, are
you?'"  Paul has agreed to take Kat's paybook and his personal effects.  It is obvious
that Paul is distraught over Kat's death--he has just spent the last few moments in
denial over Kat's death.  Paul was incredibly close to Kat during the time they spent in
the war, and Paul regards Kat as a brother.  Paul treats Kat as if he were family, and
the orderly is mystified by the close relationship that is revealed by Paul's reaction
to Kat's death.  The orderly sees people die regularly--similarly, Paul has seen men die
regularly.  However, Kat's death is not an everyday event--for Paul, the death of Kat is
the end of his hope.

What exactly is the symbolism of the cemented hole in the tree in To Kill a Mockingbird?This is in Chapter 7, where Nathan Radley cements the hole,...

I don't believe Harper Lee had any underlying symbolic motives
concerning the Radley oak tree in To Kill a Mockingbird. The tree and its
knothole simply served as the secret message conduit between the children and Boo Radley. Boo's
brother, Nathan, apparently observed either Boo or the children reaching into the knothole, and
decided to investigate. He cemented the knothole not because the tree was sick, but in order to
keep his brother from having any further contact with Jem and Scout. Jem discovered that Nathan's
story about the tree being diseased was a lie when Atticus pointed out that it appeared perfectly
healthy. I suppose the act of cementing the knothole--a kind of symbolic heart of the tree--could
represent Boo's family's cold-hearted nature in general.

What is an important theme in Macbeth and what motifs support it?Quotes would be cool, if you could add some.

One of the major themes in the play has to do with
Macbeth's ambitious desire for power.  He understands that it is morally wrong to kill
and perform other ill acts to attain power; however, Macbeth convinces himself that he
must press forward to get what he wants.  At the beginning of Act 2, Macbeth
hallucinates the dagger which is a motif for the sense of fear and guilt that Macbeth
feels over his plan to murder King Duncan.  In his soliloquy, Macbeth says, "A dagger of
the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?" (II.i.38-39). 
Later in the play while all are at the banquet and Macbeth hallucinates Banquo's ghost,
Lady Macbeth refers to the "air-drawn dagger" because Macbeth is again expressing his
guilt over having murdered to satisfy his greed and ambition. 

What is the meaning of cataclysm?

The definition of a cataclysm is that
it is a catastrophic event that produces disaster to a monumental extent. Some
cataclysmic events that are known or speculated about by modern science are the volcano
eruption at Pompeii and the theorized meteorological event that led to mass extinction
of prehistoric animals. Sometimes the word cataclysm is used in
association with the Big Bang Theory to indicate an enormous event of massive chemical
reactions that shook the foundations of what was and created what is.
Cataclysm can also be used to refer to massive flooding on the
scale of that memorialized in many myths and religious records. Indeed the word
cataclysm, which was brought into English between 1625 and 1635, is
derived from the Late Latin word cataclysmos borrowed from the
Greek word kataklysmós meaning flood. So a
cataclysm is any huge catastrophic event that devastates and destroys to a massive
degree.

How is the story "The Destructors" restricted in terms of settings?

I find it interesting that you describe the setting as
"restricted" in your question. In my opinion, the setting in this excellent short story
is anything but, except if you mean geographically. It is worth seriously examining the
setting of this excellent short story and in particular how the setting contributes to
the atmosphere. Greene is a master of description and this short story is no exception.
Let us consider the setting as described at the beginning of the
story:

The
gang met every morning in an impromptu car-park, the site of the last bomb of the first
blitz. On one side of the car-park leaned the first occupied house, number 3, of the
shattered Northwood Terrace - literally leaned, for it had suffered from the blast of
the bomb and the side walls were supported on wooden struts. A smaller bomb and some
incendiaries had fallen beyond, so that the house stuck up like a jagged tooth and
carried on the further wall relics of its neighbour, a dado, the remains of a
fireplace.

Clearly, the
centre of the gang's world is a place of destruction. Descriptions such as "jagged
tooth" to describe Old Misery's house clearly paint an image of the horrors of war, and
we are forced to compare the setting to the beaten face of a human, with only one tooth
left in his mouth. Cars parked where houses once stood creates a bleak atmosphere,
symbolising moral desolation. This desolation is thus further developed and
characterised in the figures of the boys, and especially of course in T., who is shown
to express complete nihilism.

So, restricted it may be in
terms of scope, but the narrow geographical focus on the bomb site only serves to
strengthen the theme of the lives that the boys in the gang are living and how morally
they are a bomb site as well.

Analyze the character of Elizabeth Bates in "The Odour of Chrysanthemums" by D. H. Lawrence.

Elizabeth Bates lives in a bleak setting: a small industrial
coal-mining town. In front of her house, trucks “thumped heavily” past her house. The smoke from
the train settled on the grass. The leaves were withered fell to the
ground.

As the story “The Odour of Chrysanthemums” by D. H. Lawrence
begins, Elizabeth picks up a branch of the last of the chrysanthemums, holds it to her cheek, and
places it in her apron. Turning and watching the men trudge home from work, she looks for him,
but Walter does not come.

Elizabeth’s house was small but neat. The
table was set with the tea set and a nice tablecloth. The children and Elizabeth wait on their
father, but he does not come. Looking at their son, Elizabeth sees her sullenness in her son and
his father’s silence and bullheadedness.

Her daughter notices the
flowers in her apron. To Elizabeth, these flowers represent the life that she wishes that she
had. Elizabeth tells her daughter:

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“It was chrysanthemums when I married him, and
chrysanthemums when you were born, and the first time they ever brought him home drunk, he’d got
brown chrysanthemums in his button-hole.”

Her disillusionment is evident in her
description of her life related to the flowers.

Elizabeth is not a
sympathetic character. Her attitude and treatment of her children prevent the reader from feeling
empathy for her plight. She barks commands at them, talks about their father to them, and shows
no affection toward them. Bitterness pervades her speech and facial expressions. Described as a
handsome woman with striking black hair, Elizabeth focuses her attention on her husband’s
tendency to go to the pub after work and drink .

Marriage and a
happy life have not come to Elizabeth. She is a pragmatist who takes care of her home, keeps her
children clean and dressed, and lives in poverty. Her lack of respect for her husband has come
through his neglect both personally and toward his family.

After
several hours of waiting, Elizabeth asks a neighbor to check on her husband. Eventually, she
learns that Walter has been killed in a mining accident. He has been asphyxiated. The miners
bring in his body and place it in the parlor. It will be her job to clean his body and dress him
for the wake and viewing of the body. Her first consideration is not emotional but rather how
will she and her children survive.

As Elizabeth works on her
husband’s body, she makes several discoveries that change her appreciation of her husband. Her
obvious awakening comes from her realization that she does not know her husband. He is a stranger
to her. The only thing that they did together was have sex. Suddenly, Elizabeth realizes that she
did not treat her husband well; furthermore, they had essentially a fake marriage.

Sympathy is all she can feel for Walter. Elizabeth also questions
her behavior as a mother and daughter. She has withheld her love from them. In addition, even
more disturbing to Elizabeth is her recognition that her husband was a stranger to her. Her
attitude turns toward her pity and complete sympathy for not sharing herself with
him.

Again the pragmatic Elizabeth takes over and shuts the door on
this phase of her life. Her heart is heavy. Now, she has to evaluate her future. She turns from
her husband back to the reality of life. Knowing that like everyone else, the true master is
death, and she must live her life more fully.

”The Odour of
Chrysanthemums” by D.H. Lawrence tells the story of Elizabeth Bates, a coal miner’s wife. The
story is told from a third person point of view with the narration primarily seen through the
eyes of Elizabeth.

Described as a handsome woman, she finds herself
feeling put upon and drained by her husband who spends his off time in the bar. On this day, she
seems to have little patience for her children. With pity, the reader realizes that Elizabeth is
expecting another child.

Elizabeth has a desire for beauty which
seems out of place in a coal mining town. Her quest for beauty is further illustrated by the
chrysanthemums in her apron, which she refers to as “such nonsense” when she removes them. Her
dreams and her desire for beauty are in a hostile environment.

The
story feels familiar with the hardworking woman waiting on her erring husband to return from the
bar smelling of alcohol and wanting his dinner. Trapped as a coal miner’s wife and wanting to be
anywhere but this place, her bitterness has crawled inside of her and stayed. Her waiting goes on
as long as she can stand it.

After asking a neighbor to look for
him, her mother-in-law shows up and tells her that she has heard that her son is dead. When the
other miners bring her husband in, they lay the corpse in the parlor for the mother and wife to
clean up. Elizabeth learns that her husband has been smothered to death when the overhead rocks
caved in on him.

The mother is grief stricken but wants to help with
the washing of her son. In her mind, Elizabeth does not know how she will make it. She will get a
little pension, but how will she work with three little children.

As
the women work on the washing of the man, Elizabeth realizes something about herself. It was not
just her husband that caused her unhappiness. She had never given herself to her husband. In the
final analysis, they shared their bed and sex but never shared each other.

When Elizabeth looks at the body of her dead husband she
understands that she had a large role in the failure of their marriage. She did not really ever
see or look at him. Each time he had taken her, they had been two isolated beings, far apart as
now.

He was no more
responsible than she. The child was like ice in her womb. For as she looked at the dead man, her
mind, cold and detached, said clearly: ‘Who am I? What have I been doing? I have been fighting a
husband who did not exist.’

The agony
that she feels for her dead husband contrasts with the earlier harsh view of him. To Elizabeth,
she sees Walter as a human being, rather than simply a difficult burden. Up until now, Elizabeth
has merely submitted to life; but now, she recognizes that death is the ultimate master. She
feels fear and shame for her treatment of her husband.

Can someone tell me exacly what this quote means? "Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reasons."I'm...

I assume that you understand the part about it being the
gravest danger to man and are asking about the rest of
it.

The rest of this quote is saying that racism is very
stupid because there is no reason for it to exist.  That is what the "minimum of
reasons" part means.  The speaker is saying that race is an illusory difference
(scientists say there is more genetic variation within races than between them, so race
is pretty much of a socially constructed idea).  At the same time, however, people hate
each other to the greatest possible degree on the basis of race (maximum of
hatred).

Now, I'm not sure I can agree that people hate
more based on race than on anything else, but this is the meaning of the
quote.

How does the idea of "Breaking Charity" relate to the themes in The Crucible?

The concept of breaking of charity is something that Miller
himself found fascinating in the drama of Salem.  While many ascribe Miller's motives as a
response to McCarthyism, there is a revelation that Miller was equally, if not more, fascinated
with the idea of individuals in Salem simply breaking charity with one another.  When reflecting
upon the material for the play, Miller writes as much:

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... the most common experience of humanity, the shifts of
interests that turned loving husbands and wives into stony enemies, loving parents into different
supervisors or even exploiters of their children... what they called the breaking of charity with
one another.

This is a topic that
fascinated Miller, appealing to him on the basis that Salem was an abdication of the social
contract that bound political and social society, but also of the contract that existed between
human beings on the grounds of simple decency.

It is here where the
theme of breaking charity relates to Miller's work.  The construction of the drama involves
accusations of witchcraft.  Yet, on a larger level, it involves the rapid transformation of
alliances into adversaries, friends into foes, and the utter "breaking of charity" that caused a
town to devolve into madness.  The lack of trust and solidarity that exists between people when
the accusations begin to fly is startling.  It is the only reason that can help explain why
people reverted to what they did.  In this light, Salem was not as much about religious zeal as
much as it was the quick and stunning abdication of connection between one another.  Mary Warren
quickly turns on Proctor in a swift "breaking of charity."  Abigail suddenly and forcefully
points the dirty end of the stick at Tituba, without warning in a setting where charity is broken
off between human beings.   Parris has broken charity with Proctor and anyone else accused out of
fear that people will break charity with him.  The very idea that accusations were made against
anyone and everyone possible was not out of fear of witchcraft as much as it was a reflection of
what happens when a social order dissolves or breaks the bonds of charity between human beings. 
The idea of breaking charity is what helps to explain why the people of Salem, a town supposedly
built on Christian compassion, ends up turning against one another.  It also helps to explain the
timeless quality of Miller's work.  In the end, Miller renders a work that clearly articulates
what happens when the breaking of charity results on a large level and the hopelessness for both
individual and society that results.

how does environmental factors affect gene expression ,give me some examples related to environmental factors on gene expression

Skin color is a polygenic trait, meaning more than one pair of
genes determines skin color. However, it is multifactorial as well because it has a strong
environmental component in the expression of the person's phenotype for skin color. If someone is
in the sun very often, perhaps in a climate closer to the equator, their skin color will be
affected due to more melanin production, as compared to someone in a more northern climate with
less direct insolation. Height as another genetic trait that is polygenic and multifactorial.
Factors in the environment such as proper nutrition, exercise and not smoking all affect one's
height. You can be born with a potential to be a certain height, but your environment will
influence genetic expression also. Multifactorial traits follow a bell-shaped curve in their
distribution, with most of the population around a median value and with less of the population
at either extreme. Another example would be the autoimmune disease diabetes, which is a genetic
trait. If a person has the genetic potential to develop diabetes, their level of exercise, their
food choices and their body weight will definitely affect gene expression for this disorder.
Diet, exercise, weight, even exposure to a virus are all environmental factors that play a role
in triggering this genetic condition.

How can we explicate this paragraph from "In the Region of Ice"?“You could get money. Help me. Give me your hand or something, touch me, help...

This excerpt represents a significant moment in the short story.
It is the last point where Allen and Sister Irene will have any interaction. It is also the last
point where Allen's intense emotional displays will be heard by Sister Irene. There is a pleading
of emotional need that is something that ends up solidifying Sister Irene's decision to withdraw
into her emotionally cloistered and barricaded world. It also represents much about Allen. His
emotional nudity is something that is disarming, especially in light of Sister Irene's emotional
withdrawal. Allen is able to accept his own condition in life as one of emotional pain and
suffering. This is an admission that is too much for Sister Irene. Allen's emotional machine gun
is also pointed at Sister Irene's institutions of the church and academia, realms to which her
retreat is calculated to avoid emotional contact. His attacks on these realms is designed to
bring out the emotional hypocrisy in which Sister Irene lives.

15. BOTH+ DRESS SMART (Use the numbers: 2, 0, 4, 1, 5, 7, 9, 6, 8, and 3) Each letter stands for 1-digit...

This type of problem is considered a logic
puzzle.

1. It is easiest to figure out if anything
   is an obvious zero first. To do this you would have any letter plus another letter
   equaling the first letter.  In this example that does not happen.  Neither B, D, H, nor
   S can be zero.


2. B + R + any carryover from O + E must be
   greater than or equal to ten, because D and S in the 10,000 place are different.  S must
   be one greater than D.  Since D cannot be one from step 1, then S cannot be zero, one,
   or two.


3. At this point you can begin plugging numbers in
   and see if they work or when you would get a conflict. Since there are two Rs and three
   Ss, these are where you will find the most conflicts. 
   


4. The most logical place to start is to substitute 1 for H
   and test numbers 3 - 9 for S. None of these worked. Then test 2 for H and 3-9 for S.
   


5. When you use 2 for H and 8 for S, there are no conflicts
   with the S & R while solving the problem. H + S = 2 + 8 = 10, therefore T = 0,
   carry the 1 and add T + S = 1 + 0 + 8 = 9, therefore R = 9.
   


6. From step 2, you know that D must be one less than S, so
   D must be 7.


7. At this point you can substitute the numbers
   for letters you have solved: __ __ 0 2 + 7 9 __ 8 8 = 8 __ __ 9
   0  


8. The remaining numbers that fill in the blanks are 1,
   3, 4, 5, & 6. There was nothing carried forward from the tens colums, so you
   need to figure out from the remaining numbers what two can add to a third (for hundreds
   place) and also what number added to a nine will equal the last digit with a ten carried
   forward (for the thousands place).


9. If you add 6 + 9 you
   get 15, this would use the 6 and 5 and have the ten carryforward to the 10,000 column.
   Therefore B = 6 and M = 5.


10. You now know: 6 _ 0 2 + 7 9 _
    8 8 = 8 5 _ 9 0


11. For the last three blanks we have 1, 3,
    & 4. The A must be 4 because 1 + 3 = 4. The O and E must be 1 & 3 in
    some order, since there are no other clues, these two can actually fit in either
    way.


12.  B(6)O(1)T(0)H(2) + D(7)R(9)E(3)S(8)S(8) =
    S(8)M(5)A(4)R(9)T(0)

what is the theme in the white stag

One of the main themes in 'The White Stag' is the theme of
national identity, and the idea of origin and development of national culture through
history. In this case that nationalism concerns the nation of Hungary, represented by a
white stag. The book is a mythical story of the formation of Hungary.The author tells
the tale of the migration of the Hun and Magyar tribes from the steppes of Central Asia,
across the Carpathian Mountains, and into the Danube Plains using folk tales and
literature from that culture. There are biblical references and themes such as the idea
of a chosen people, divine prophecy and a Promised Land. There are heroes and leaders,
and much biblical style wandering before the Huns get to the Danube. Early Hungarian
history is presented in a more cultural and more imaginative form, showing how the
Hungarian or Magyar race originated from the Huns of fourth-century Asia. The themes of
epiphany and home-coming could also be examined in the light of this
book.

When 5 g of a nonelectrolyte is added to 25 g of water, the new freezing point is -2.5 degrees Celsius. What is the molecular mass of the . ....

When a substance is dissolved in a solvent it reduces the
freezing point of the solvent. The decrease in the temperature at which the liquid freezes is
given by a relation derived by Ebbing as dT = Kf*cm, where Kf is a constant for every liquid and
cm is the molality of the solution after the impurity has been
dissolved.

For water the freezing-point-depression constant is
1.858.

Let the molecular mass of the unknown substance be m, when 5
g of this is added to 25 g of water the molality is (5/m)/25. The new freezing point is -2.5
degrees Celsius, or there is a drop of 2.5 degree Celsius.

This
gives dT = 2.5 = 1.858*mc

=> mc = 2.5/1.858 =
1.345

(5/m)/25 = 1.345

=> m =
0.1486 g

This gives the molecular mass of the unknown
compound as 0.1486 g

x+y=5 2x-y=1 find x and y values

We'll use the matrix to solve the system. We'll form the
matrix of the system:

        1       
1

A =

        2      
-1

We'll calculate the determinant of the
system:

detA = -1 - 2 =
-3

Since det A is not cancelling, the system is
determinated and it will have only one solution.

x = det
X/detA

             5       
1

det X =

             1      
-1

detX = -5 - 1 = -6

x = det
X/detA

x =
-6/-3

x =
2

We'll calculate
y:

           1       
5

det Y =

           2      
1

det Y = 1 - 10

det Y =
-9

y = detY/detA

y =
-9/-3

y =
3

The solution of the system
is: (2 , 3).

If in the army there is one officer for every 16 privates, how many officers are there in a regiment consisting of 1,105 officers and privates?

There are 16 privates for every
officer.

Therefore if there are x officers in the regiment,
then the number of privates is 16x. So the total number of officers and privates
together it is x+16x = 17x.

But the actual number
of officers and privates in the regiment is 1105. So both 17x and 1105 must be
same.

So 17x = 1105.

We divide
both sides by 17:

Therefore, x= 1105/17 =
65.

x is the number of officers we
assumed.

So the number of officers in the regiment is
65.

What important function does Jocasta play in the play and the film other than being Oedipus mother/wife?

Aside from the fact that Jocasta is Oedipus' mother, wife,
and the mother of his children, she plays a role in the drama unlike the rest of the
characters.  In the midst of his trials, Jocasta is the one voice that seems to support
Oedipus through reason.  She speaks very matter of factly in Act II when she explains to
Oedipus why she does not believe in prophesy.  Unlike the rest of the people in Thebes
(and therefore also the original audience of the play), Jocasta dares verbalize her
disbelief in something everyone else takes very seriously and without
question.

Ironically, while Jocasta's confidence makes her
sound very rational and even somewhat convincing, her actual proof
for why she does not believe in prophesy (the story of the crossroads where Laius was
murdered) turns out to be the exact evidence that confirms Oedipus' mistake and shows
him his own blindness.  She unknowingly convinces him that Tieresias was correct all
along.

When she hangs herself at the end of the play, I
think it symbolizes the fact that Jocasta really thought herself innocent all along.  I
believe it shows that her intentions were pure and only confirms her ignorance.  When
she finds out the entire truth, and realizes how her mistakes contributed to the
tragedy, her guilt is so great that she does not feel worthy to live.  There is
something noble in this decision, despite how much the audience may pity
her.

What efforts did workers make to better the harsh working conditions of the early Industrial Revolution?

If you are asking about the "early Industrial Revolution" then I
assume you are referring to events in England. My answer will reflect
that.

There were at least three types of efforts made by workers to
force improvements in their working conditions. These efforts
included:

• The Luddites. These people attacked the
  manufacturing sector directly by destroying the machines that were putting them out of jobs. They
  hoped to improve their working conditions by reversing the trend towards
  industrialization.


• The Chartists. This movement hoped to improve
  working conditions through political change. They were trying to get more political power for the
  working class by getting England to create a more equitable electoral
  system.


• The labor unions. These sprang up in an attempt to
  organize workers so as to give them bargaining power against the employers. They were meant to be
  able to directly negotiate with the companies for better working conditions, wages,
  etc.

Prove that 1 is the solution of the equation 5^x-3^x=2^x

We notice that substituting x by the value 1, we'll verify the
equation, so x = 1 is the solution of the equation.

2^1 = 5^1 -
3^1

2 = 5 -  3

Now, we'll have to
verify if x = 1 is the only solution for the given equation or if there are
more.

We'll divide the equation, both sides, by the greatest
exponential, namely 5^x:

(2/5)^x= 1 -
(3/5)^x

We'll put f(x) = 1 -
(3/5)^x

We'll calculate f(1):

2/5 = 1 -
3/5 

2/5 = (5-3)/5

2/5 =
2/5

The exponential functions (2/5)^x and (3/5)^x are decreasing
functions (the denominator is bigger than numerator), so f(x) is a decreasing function,
too.

If f(x) is a decreasing function, it could have
only one solution x = 1.

Discuss the social conditions around Myrtle in The Great Gatsby.

I think that Myrtle is a fairly important character in the scope
of the novel. She lives in a lower economic class. This is really important as it helps to
provide the basis for her relationship with Tom. Part of the objectification through wealth that
Fitzgerald evokes throughout the novel is seen in Tom's relationship with Myrtle. Tom is able to
use and abuse Myrtle because he is of a higher class, she is willing to be mistreated because of
this disparity of wealth, and the belief that she can achieve upward mobility through being an
overall concubine for Tom. Myrtle's wife is lived through her willingness to be whatever Tom
wants for her. Tom is able to "buy" her off with small trinkets, like the dog, clothes, and
whatever else will allow her to accept the illusion that she can be "loved" by Tom and that he
will accept her into the pantheon of wealth. Fitzgerald contrasts Myrtle's lack of emotional and
financial presence with Tom's abundance. The objectified reality with which he, Daisy, and Jordan
appropriate the world makes Myrtle and her husband a victim of it. Myrtle's
world

The metal iron is cubic with a=2,86 A and with two iron atoms in the unit cube at 0,0,0 and 1/2,1/2,1/2.How many nearest neighbours does each iron...

To figure out where are located the atoms, we'll draw a
cubic unit hat has the edge of 2,86 A.

We'll reproduce same
cube parallel to the original one and one another and we'll obtain a typical body
centered arrangement. 

In this arrangement, the atom
located at 1/2,1/2,1/2 has to be surrounded by 8 atoms. An atom is the one located in
the origin of the cube (0,0,0) and other 7 atoms at the corners of the
cube.

Conclusion: each atom that has a body centered
arrangement has coordination number 8.

We'll calculate the
interatomic distance d:

d = sqrt [(a/2 - 0)^2 + (a/2 - 0)^2
+ (a/2 - 0)^2]

d = sqrt
(3a^2/4)

d = a(sqrt3)/2, where a =
2.86

d = 2.86*sqrt3/2

d = 2.48
A

The distance between 2 neighbor iron atoms
is d = 2.48 A.

In the book Of Mice and Men, describe Curley's wife. What's the problem about her?

Curley’s wife is very young. One of the men refers to her
as “the kid.” She is called “jailbait” several times. “Jailbait” can only mean a
promiscuous underage girl who can get men sentenced to prison on a felony count of
statutory rape. She is overly made up and overly dressed for the ranch setting,
suggesting that she looks like a young girl who is trying to look older and sexier. When
she is telling Lennie about herself in the barn, she reveals that she almost ran away
from home with a man when she was only fifteen and then married Curley to get away from
her mother. She is probably only sixteen. Why would Curley marry such a young girl?
Well, he obviously has an inferiority complex because of his small size, and he could
conceivably feel inadequate with a mature woman. (He may even be inadequate with his
adolescent bride!)

Steinbeck created Curley’s wife. He must
have made her extremely young for a purpose. Her immaturity would explain why she is so
flirtatious and so restless. Her mother couldn’t control her, and now Curley can’t
control her either. All the men regard her as potential trouble. Specifically, they
think one of the farmhands will get sexually involved with her and then either Curley
will kill him or he will get sent to prison for statutory rape—or even rape, if she
should decide to tell the story that way.

Lennie is
characterized as being obsessed with petting small, soft animals and always killing them
by petting them too hard. He is more likely to be attracted to a young girl than an
older woman, and Curley’s wife is sufficiently naïve and indiscreet to flirt with a
retarded giant in an isolated setting, although she knows he kills little animals and
has maimed her husband. The fact that she is still quite young and undoubtedly has the
build of a frail adolescent girl explains why Lennie could break her neck so easily. An
older woman would not get so close, would put up more of a fight, and would not be so
fragile.

There are many references to an incident in Weed
in which Lennie was accused of attempted rape. The female involved is always referred to
as a “girl,” never as a young woman. She could have been even young than Curley’s wife.
When George sees Curley’s wife’s dead body, he suddenly understands that Lennie is
developing a sensual interest in young girls, and that he is just as capable of killing
them as he is of killing the little animals he
handles.

“I
should of knew,” George said hopelessly. “I guess maybe way back in my head I
did.”

George realizes that
Lennie is a menace to society and that he himself is guilty of the death of Curley’s
wife because he is responsible for Lennie. He helped Lennie escape from the lynch mob in
Weed, but he is not going to help him escape again. That is why he steals Carlson’s
pistol. He intends to kill his friend from the time he leaves the ranch to meet him at
their prearranged rendezvous by the river.

Discuss Wilde's use of Epigram in The Importance of being Earnest.

In the play The Importance of Being
Earnestauthor Oscar Wilde satirizes upper Victorian society through the use of
literary devices such as the application of epigrams to the
dialogue.

The purpose of the epigram is three-fold: First, it brings
irony to a discussion by making a contradictory or conflicting statement in a funny and seemingly
innocent way.

The second purpose is to keep the audience "awake",
that is, to maintain the audience on edge with the knowledge that, at any moment, the character
will produce an epigram that will, in turn, bring out the comedic character of the play.

Additionally, Wilde uses his epigrams to disguise his insults to
the intended target. He detested the snobbery and hypocrisy of Victorian society. Therefore, what
would be a better idea than to disguise an attack in the form of a
joke?

A good example of an epigram would be when Jack and Algernon
discuss the topic of women, and they conclude that:

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All women become like their mothers; that is their
tragedy. No man does; that's
his.

Wilde also took a swing at the
ignorance and petulance of Victorians when Lady Bracknell, the epitome of both characteristics,
says:

To lose one
parent may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose both looks like
carelessness!

Marriage is one of the
most targeted topics in the play of which Algernon, clearly mirroring Wilde's own feelings about
it, says:

I really
don't see anything romantic in proposing. It's very romantic to be in love but there's nothing
romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one might be accepted. One usually is I believe. Then
the whole excitement is over. The very essence of romance is
uncertainty.

Therefore, the use of
epigrams in the play The Importance of Being Earnest, as well as in Wilde's
works in general, has the goal of entertaining the audience, adding spice and comedy to the
dialogue, and disguising the inner thoughts of the writer himself.

How would I cite "Sweat" in my essay? I know how to do the reference page but when I am writing in text I'm not sure the proper format.

As I understand your question, you know how to do the
reference page entry for Zora Neale Hurston's short story "Sweat" but you're not sure
how to do the in-text citations.

I recommend the source
below (the two links to OWL at Purdue) for examples of what are called "in-text
citations." The correct citation format, of course, will depend entirely on which
citation style you are using. I would generally expect you to be using MLA format, but
your term "reference page" (rather than "works cited") makes me suspect that you might
be working in APA format.

In any case, be sure that you use
the correct style (e.g. MLA or APA), as dictated by the
assignment.

If this answer doesn't help, please post again
and give a sample paragraph from your essay, one that uses a quotation from the story.
Someone here will surely be able to tell you if the format for the in-text citation is
correct.

An analysis of one rhetorical strategy Wilde uses in ch 9-12 in The Picture of Dorian Gray.

In The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar
Wilde uses epigrams, aphorisms, rich descriptions, and irony to describe the
transformation of Dorian Gray into this new Hedonistic person that Lord Henry has lured
him to turn into.

One specific ironic moment is Dorian's
reaction to the death of Sybil Vane. When Basil goes to Dorian's house to comfort and
ease him over the death of Sybil, Dorian simply said that Sybil should be proud to have
lived her passion to the last, and that she died like a heroine in a Shakespeare play,
which is what she did for a living.

To this, of course,
Basil reacted in shock, since Dorian made this statement merely a day after Sybil was
found dead and called the incident to be "a thing of the
past".

Additionally, Wilde presents how the transformation
of Dorian is correlated to the deterioration of his picture. It is in chapters 9-12
where you find him at his most hedonistic, and more extreme while the picture is
shockingly hideous. Therefore, the irony of the whole thing is more palpable in this
part of the story and is perhaps one of the place where more rhetorical strategies can
be witnessed in the story.

What are three examples of irony in "The Gift of the Magi"?

The most significant and main use of irony which is
focused on in this story is the situational irony that occurs at the end of the tale.
Situational irony is when we expect a certain thing to happen only to be surprised when
something entirely different takes place. We can see the situational irony in operation
therefore when we realise that both Jim and Della have sold what was most precious to
them--their hair and watch--to buy a present for the other to use with what was most
precious to them.

However, a deeper irony exists in the
story. Although we are tempted to dismiss Jim and Della and their actions as "foolish,"
yet the narrator insists that they were in fact actually "wise" because through their
self-sacrifice and love they represent the original spirit of the
Magi:

But in
a last word to the wise of these days, let it be said that of all who give gifts, these
two were the wisest. Of all who give and receive gifts, such as they are the wisest.
Everywhere they are wisest. They are the
Magi.

Thus Jim and Della,
although apparently "foolish" in the eyes of the world, ironically come closest to the
original spirit of present giving.

What role does Macbeth play? Hero, villain, or both? explain the choice taken

Macbeth is a tragic hero. At the beginning of the play we
encounter a man who has been unstoppable in battle. We hear how he rescued Malcolm. In other
words he is hero but due to several circumstances, by the end of the play he is not only a
villain, he is a tyrant.

First, there is his own ambition which he
tells us about. Secondly there are the predictions of the weird sisters. Finally there is Lady
Macbeth who feels that her husband would be a better king than either Duncan or Malcolm. When she
hears that the king will be coming to spend the night, she sees this as their opportunity. None
of these circumstances alone would prompt him to kill Duncan but combined together, they prove
too much.

Macbeth, as the tragic hero is flawed, and this flaw takes
him from hero to villain/tyrant. Although he knows that if he kills Duncan and usurps the throne,
he will die a violent death, he can't resist the temptation.

It is
said that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Macbeth is a good example of
that statement.

What was the position of women during the Victorian era?Please mention women writers and their work.... ex. Bronte, etc

Named after Queen Victoria of England, a queen who retired from
public view after her husband Albert died and conducted affairs of state behind doors with
intermediaries, placing more emphasis upon her role as mother, the Victorian era was a time of
social and economic pressure for women. Women who were not in the work force were perceived as a
higher class than others. However, since they often were not educated and their lives centered
upon domesticity, they felt the obligation to marry and to procure the best husband that they
could.

In the United States in the 1800s, the common law doctrine of
femme convert was widespread; wives were under the total rule of their
husbands and had no legal control over their earnings from relatives or other sources; they also
had no legal control over their children or belongings. Some states ruled that husbands could
decides such things as where the family would live, and adultery was not sufficient reason for
divorce if committed by the husband. If committed by the wife, it was sufficient reason. While
there were more women in high schools than men, women were permitted to go no higher, and the
only professions open to them were nursing and elementary education. Of course, women were not
allowed to vote during the Victorian era; in short, they had few personal
rights.

One American author, Charlotte Gilman Perkins writes of the
terrible delusion of the Victorian Age that there was no such thing as post-partum depression.
Her short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," exposes the detrimental thinking of Dr. Weirr Mitchell
who believed that women who became depressed after childbirth simply needed quiet, solitude, and
bed rest. Likewise, Kate Chopin writes of the stultifying conditions for women in the Victorian
Age. Her narratives write of the submersion of women into the lives of the males with whom they
live. "Desiree's Baby," a short story by Chopin illustrates how the male considered himself
superior with any negativity in a family as the fault of the mother. When Desiree, an orphan, has
a baby who has African blood in him, the husband expels her from their home when, in fact, his
mother was, unbenowst to him, of African descent. Another work, The Awakening,
deals with the suppression of women in this era. In England, the Bronte sisters
exhibited an independence of spirit in defiance of the era. Charlotte Bronte's Jane
Eyre certainly exemplifies the independent spirit of woman; Jane defies conventions
and is very individualistic and free-spirited.

Why did attempts to achieve utopia during the period (reform movement) tend to fail?

I assume that you are talking about the time in 1830s and 1840s
when there were a number of attempts at building utopian communities.  I would argue that the
utopian communities failed because A) utopia on earth is impossible and B) the systems they were
trying were too radical.

Take, for example, the Shakers.  This was a
community that tried to do away with the selfishness that is so harmful to human life.  They
wanted to have all their property in common and they wanted to avoid any sort of intimacy between
the sexes.  They thought that romance and marriage led to selfishness because those things made
people belong to one another (as a family) rather than to the society as a
whole.

This was very radical -- a place where there would be no
marriage, no sex, no private property.  No wonder it failed -- people don't tend to go in for
things that are that "out there."

Can someone help me with journal response for Life of Pi by Yann Martel?

A journal response is a kind of reflection on something,
in this case a book. I am not sure how long of a journal response you are expected to
write, or whether you are expected to respond to the entire book or just a small section
of the book.  But generally, there is so much to say about a book, it is a good idea to
limit yourself to just one small aspect of the book. 

When
you do respond to one small aspect of the book, you are usually expected to state your
thoughts and feelings and to make connections between yourself and the book.  What did
the book make you think about? Is Pi like you in any way? Is he unlike you in any way? 
Is there an episode in the book that struck you as important in any
way?

A journal entry does not have to be as formal as an
essay, but it should have a little structure, I think.  For example, you should have
some sort of main idea stated in your entry and stick to the that point as you
write. 

If I were writing a journal entry on this book, I
might write about Pi's interesting approach to religion, his idea that it is fine to
have three different religions, all at the same time.  So I might start out a journal
entry with a sentence like this:

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The idea that it is possible to have three
differerent religions, as Pi does,  is a useful idea in today's world, when we are so
divided by religion. 

Do you
see how I am setting the stage to reflect on just one particular aspect of the
book? 

Choose an aspect of the book that you have something
to say about, write a statement, and then keep going.  It is much easier than you
think! 

What is a good argument for the short story 'Killings'?Central Claim? Specific Scene Analysis?

When writing an essay which analyzes a piece of literature, it
is often most effective (and easiest) to write a theme statement and use
this as the thesis statement for your paper.

A theme statement takes
one or more theme subjects from a story, and basically defines what the author's purpose or
message is through those subjects. This sentence should not be written as a statement of advice
and it does not contain any plot elements, but it can be proven using evidence from the
text.

From "Killings," you could examine any of the following theme
subjects: revenge, violence, deception, or the father/son relationship. Using one or more of the
above subjects answer the following questions:

1. What is
   the author trying to say about [subject] in the short story "Killings"? Think in terms
   of cause and effect.


2. How does the author accomplish
   this? Think in terms of literary elements such as character, irony, plot detail,
   figurative language, etc.

Once you've
brainstormed answers to the above questions, you should be able to formulate a one-sentence theme
statement which essentially answers question #1 above in a complete sentence. Then, group the
answers from #2 into three categories, which will then serve as the body paragraphs (and basic
organization) of your paper.

Find the derivative of the function. Simplify if possible. and...... y = 17 arctan(sqrt x) y = arcsin(4x + 2) y = arccos(e8x) h(t)...

1) To calculate the derivative of y = sqrt(3arctan
x),we'll apply the chain rule:

y' = [sqrt(3arctan
x)]'*(3arctan x)'

We'll see 3arctan x as an entity and
we'll differentiate the sqrt:

(sqrt t)' = 1/2sqrt
t

y' = [1/2sqrt(3arctan
x)]*[3/(1+x^2)]

y' =
3/[2*(1+x^2)*sqrt(3arctan x)]

2) We'll
calculate the derivative of  y = 17 arctan (sqrt x) using the chain rule
also:

y' = [17 arctan (sqrt x)]'*(sqrt
x)'

y' =
[17/(1+(sqrtx)^2)]*(1/2sqrtx)

y' =
17/2(sqrtx)*(1+x)

3) We'll calculate the
derivative of  y = arcsin(4x + 2)using the chain rule
also:

y = [arcsin(4x
+ 2)]'*(4x+2)'

We'll see 4x + 2 as an
entity:

y' =
{1/sqrt[1-(4x+2)^2]}*(4)

We'll expand the
square:

y' = 4/sqrt(1-16x^2 - 8x -
4)

We'll combine like
terms:

y' = 4/sqrt(-3-16x^2 -
8x)

4) We'll calculate the derivative of  y
= arccos(e^8x) using the chain rule
also:

y =
arccos(e^8x)

We'll
put (e^8x) =
t

(arccos t)' =
1/sqrt(1-t^2)

y' =
[arccos(e^8x)]'*(e^8x)*(8x)'

y'
=
[1/sqrt(1-(e^8x)^2)]*(e^8x)*(8)

y'
=
8(e^8x)/[sqrt(1-(e^8x)^2]

5)
We'll calculate the derivative of  y = arctan [x+sqrt(x^2+1)] using the chain rule
also:

y = arctan
[x+sqrt(x^2+1)]

We'll put x+sqrt(x^2+1) =
t

(arctan t)' = 1/(1+t^2)

y' =
{arctan [x+sqrt(x^2+1)]}'*[x+sqrt(x^2+1)]'

y'
= {1/{1+[x+sqrt(x^2+1)]^2}}*[1 +
2x/2sqrt(x^2+1)]

6) We'll calculate the
derivative of  y =  5arccot(t)
+ 5arccot(1/t)using the chain rule
also:

h(t)
= 5arccot(t)
+ 5arccot(1/t)

h'(t) =
-5/(1+t^2) - 5/[1+(1/t)^2]

What did the people of Rome do for Julius Caesar after his death in Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar?

After Caesar dies, in Shakespeare's play Julius
Caesar, the people yet again show their fickle nature as they celebrate
Caesar's life. Antony underlines this fickle nature of the people in his funeral speech
for Caeser. So what the people do is decide they need to revenge Caesar's death, which
Antony convinces them can only be done by driving Brutus and his conspirators out of
Rome.

Though the people may have told others and themselves
they were doing this for Caesar, in reality, they did it for themselves. Shakespeare
really goes to great lengths to show how uneducated and reactionary the people of Rome
are.

Who does Montag meet while walking on the railroad tracks? What do they talk about?

Montag's walk along the railroad tracks is the classic symbolic
quest and he is rewarded at the end when he meets a group of learned men--mostly professors-- who
have remained on the fringes of society because they are the keepers of books. Remarkably, thes
men "keep" books in their memories and each man has memorized a book or two that they believe to
be valuable or essential to the human race. These men believe it is their responsibility to hold
what small bits of the past they can so that, perhaps, at some point in the future, when books
and men like themselves are valued, they will prepared and ready to help
rebuild.

Find the center, vertices and foci for the ellipse 4x^2 + 16y^2 = 64

Given the equation of an ellipse is 4x^2 + 16y^2 =
64.

We need to find the center and
foci.

First we need to re-write the equation into the
standard form of the ellipse.

==> x^2/a^2 + y^2 /
b^2 = 1..............(1)

==> 4x^2 + 16y^2 =
64.

Let us divide by 64
.

==> 4x^2/64 + 16y^2/64 =
1

==> x^2/ (64/4)  + y^2/ (64/16) =
1

==> x^2 / (16)  + y^2 / 4 =
1

==> x^2/ (4^2)  + y^2 / (2^2) =
1............(2)

Comparing equation (1) and (2) we conclude
that:

a = +-4 and b=+- 2.

Then
the vertices's are:

(4,0) , (-4,0), ( 0,2)
and ( 0,-2).

==> Then
the center is (0, 0).

==> C^2 = a^2 -
b^2

==> C^2 = 16 - 4 =
12

==> c= +-sqrt12 =
+-2sqrt3

==> The foci is ( 2sqrt3,0 )
and (
-2sqrt3,0)

 

After reading "The Death of the Hired Man," what have you learned about the lives of farmers?

Life of a farmer seems slower than the fast-paced world of
business. They also have to deal with many different people coming to work for them throughout
the year. This poem talks about an old man named Silas who comes back to a former employer at the
end of his life and the farmer and his wife talk about his life and their memories of him.
Through their conversation about Silas, the reader discovers that the farm-hand didn't think too
highly of himself because he didn't have an education; he even tried to convince a younger man by
the name of Harold Wilson not to go to college because he felt working on a farm was how a man
could really contribute to life. From Warren's perspective, the farmer, we see his frustration
with employees like Silas who came in and out of their lives each season and were easily coaxed
into working for someone else for just a little bit more money; not enough money that he would
consider worth trading loyalty for. The life of these farmers also revolved around themes of the
definitions of family, home, and respect for a dying man. A great quote abou home came from
Warren's wife Mary who said, "Home is the place where, when you have to go there,/ They have to
take you in."

Write as a sum of fractions 1/y(y+1)

We remark that the denominator of the given ratio is the
least common denominator of 2 irreducible ratios.

The
final ratio 1/y(y+1) is the result of addition or subtraction of 2 elementary fractions,
as it follows:

1/y(y+1) = A/y + B/(y+1)
(1)

We'll multiply by y(y+1) both
sides:

1 = A(y+1) + By

We'll
remove the brackets:

1 = Ay + A +
By

We'll factorize by y to the right
side:

1 = y(A+B) + A

We'll
compare expressions of both sides:

A+B =
0

A = 1

1 + B =
0

B = -1

We'll substitute A
and B into the expression (1) and we'll get the algebraic sum of 2 elementary
fractions:

1/y(y+1) = 1/y -
1/(y+1)

What are the positive effects of imperialism?

A positive effect is seen in document one called "Modern
Progressive Nations," it shows how the larger nations gave to the smaller colonies. The nations
built them roads, canals, and railways. Showed them the telegraph, newspaper, established schools
for them, gave them the blessing of their civilization, and overall made them economized. They
were part of modern culture after this occurred. Another positive effect is seen in document
three called "Colonial Governments and Missionaries. " It shows how the colonial governments
introduced improved medical care, and better methods of sanitation. There were new crops; tools
and farming methods, which helped, increase food production. These changes meant less death to
smaller colonies, and overall improve the state of living. They now could live longer and have
better sanitation compared to the earlier imperialism.

Who makes the law? AMERICAN GOVERNMENT 2

The conventional answer here is that the legislative
branch makes the laws.  For the United States as a whole, that means that Congress makes
the law.  For each state, it is the legislature that does this.  For local governments,
it is typically the city council (or some other name that means the same thing).  At any
rate, it is the legislative branch that makes laws -- that is the very definition of a
legislative banch.

A more sophisticated answer would take
into account the fact that all branches of government participate in making the law. 
When the executive branch decides how to enforce the law it is, in effect, making law. 
For example, the Congress may have decided what the speed limit on the freeway is, but
it is actually the police officer who decides what it truly
is because they are the ones who decide if you're getting a
ticket.

The judiciary makes law in a similar way -- we
don't know what the Constitution really says, for example, until the Supreme Court tells
us.

So there are at least a couple ways to answer this --
the conventional and the more complex.

How does the Bill of Rights bring to life the Enlightenment philosophy expressed within the Declaration of Independence?

In the Declaration of Independence, we are told that all
people have the inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  But
what do those things mean?  Life is pretty obvious, but what, exactly, are liberty and
the pursuit of happiness?  This is what the Bill of Rights spells
out.

In the Bill of Rights, we are told exactly what
liberties American citizens have that are to be explicitly protected.  We are told that
we have the right to speak freely, to worship as we will, and to be free from
governmental agents arresting us without a good reason (among other rights).  By listing
out these rights, the Bill of Rights is giving a more concrete definition of what our
liberty and our pursuit of happiness (promised by the Declaration)
includes.

What's Calpurnias attitude towards others in chapter 3?

Calpurnia's attitude is somewhat morally superior. He
language becomes what Lee calls "erratic" but I think what Scout hears is Cal's language
she usually uses with black folk. Cal is comfortable in doling out the appropriate
punishment for Scout when Scout criticizes Walter Cunningham. We hear her comfort with
being morally superior in these words:

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“There’s some folks who don’t eat like us,” she
whispered fiercely, “but you ain’t called on to contradict ‘em at the table when they
don’t. That boy’s yo’ comp’ny and if he wants to eat up the table cloth you let him, you
hear?”

“He ain’t company, Cal, he’s just a
Cunningham-”

“Hush your mouth! Don’t matter who they are,
anybody sets foot in this house’s yo‘ comp’ny, and don’t you let me catch you remarkin’
on their ways like you was so high and mighty! Yo‘ folks might be better’n the
Cunninghams but it don’t count for nothin’ the way you’re disgracin‘ ’em—if you can’t
act fit to eat at the table you can just set here and eat in the
kitchen!”

Phew! That's quite
a talking to! You can see that the punishment Cal gives is removing bad behavior from
the rest of the group.

Scout of course is humiliated, but
that's what happens when you are rude. This is the greatest instance in which we see
Cal's attitude contributing to others. It punishes Scout, and gives human dignity to
Walter Cunningham.

In "Farenheit 451" what are some adjectives that describe Mildred and Clarisse.

Clarisse is

Inquisitive: She asks
questions about everything and wants to know
WHY.

Playful: She rubs the dandelion on
herself and Montag to see if they are in individually "in love', and she walks in the rain,
holding her head back to taste
it.

Experiential: (pg 21) When Montag
asks her if she goes around trying everything once, she says "sometimes
twice"

Perceptive and Sensory: (pg 7)
She says," I like to smell things and look at things and sometimes stay up all night, walking,
and watch the sun rise"

Introspective:
She thinks about everything she sees and smells. She says "Do you want to know what I do with my
time. I just sit and think." (pg
23)

Peculiar: (pg 23) as described by
Montag since she does not fit the mold of society. Because she doesn't, she is sent to a
psychiatrist.

Responsible: According to
Clarisse (pg 30)"I do all the shopping and housecleaning by
hand"

Social: This is Clarisse's
description of herself (pg 29). She says "Being with people is nice." She finds it easy to talk
with Montag, even though when he first meets her, she doesn't know
him.

Mildred is the antithesis of Clarisse. She is

Robotic: She does the
same things every day in a trance. She does not think on her
own

Selfish: she has never wanted
children, and she wants another wall of TV, even though they haven't paid for the third wall
yet.

Indifferent and Unfeeling : She
doesn't care if Montag is sick. She insists he go to work. If it upsets her TV viewing, she
doesn't want anything to do with it. When he vomits, she tells him that it is a good thing the
rug is washable. She doesn't care that the old woman died. "She's nothing to
me."

Mesmerized: By the
TV.

Fearful: She is so afraid that they
will find the books, she tries to burn them herself, and she is terrified when the books are on
the floor and the someone comes to the
door.

Obedient: She does not want to go
against any of the rules of the society. She is willing to accept anything the society tells her
to accept.

Why is chapter 5 a crucial moment? What happens in the chapter and how does it impact on the rest of the novel?

Chapter five in Frankenstein is a crucial
turning point of the novel. It is in this chapter that Victor is able to behold "the
accomplishment of my toils". Given that the four previous chapters give Victor's history growing
up, his move to university, and his battle with re-animating life, the fact that (in this
chapter) Victor sees the truth behind all of his hard work come to
life.

After realizing that he has, indeed, re-animated life, Victor
is horrified at the appearance of his creation. Running from his laboratory, Victor unexpectedly
meets his childhood friend Clerval. Clerval has come because Victor has been so obsessed with his
plans to re-animate life that he has stopped all conversations with those around him, even his
family. Victor admits to Clerval that he has been very busy, but
now,

all these
employments are now at an end, and that I am at length
free.

Horrified at the thought of
bringing Clerval back to his apartment, Victor walks apprehensively
in.

Victor, upon realizing that the monster in not there, leads
Clerval into his flat. Victor enters his bedroom and believes he sees the
monster.

Oh, save me!
save me!” I imagined that the monster seized me; I struggled furiously, and fell down in a
fit.

Victor becomes gravely ill and
Clerval must nurse him back to health before they can return
home.

This point in the novel is very important given is is the
turning point for the action of the novel. It is from this point on that Victor realizes the
infraction against society he has created. From this point out, Victor must come to terms with
what he has done, make decisions about the monster himself, and choose to take responsibility for
his "son" or abandon him.

What is the value of a if the area of a circle formed by the points (7, 0), (11, 0) and (0, a) is 36 squared cm.

Since  the points (7,0) and(11,0) are the points on the
circle,

Let (h,k) be the center . Then  the centre (h,k) is
equidistant from (7,0) and (11,0).

So,  (h-7)^2 +(k-0)^2 =
(h-11)^2+k(0)^2 , k^2 gets cancelled on both sides.

h^2-14h+49 =
h^2-22h+121,  h^2 gets cancelled on both sides.

-14h+49 =
-22h+121

22h-14h = 121-49 = 72.

8h =
72, or h = 72/8 = 9.

Also are of the
circle is 36 sq cm.

Therefore pir^2 = 36. So r^2 =
36/pi.

Now since  (7,0) is on the
circle,

(7-h)^2 +(0-k)^2 =
r^2.

Therefore  k^2 = r^2-(7-h)^2 = r^2 -(7-9)^2 =
r^2-4.

So k^2 = (36/pi - 4).

Therefore
k = sqrt(3/pi-4) , Or k = -sqrt(36/pi -4).

To find the value of a if
(0, a) is a point on the circle.

Now the centre of the circle is
(h,k) = (9 , sqrt(36/pi -4) ) or  (9 , -sqrt(36/pi -4) ).

(0,a) is
point on the circle with centre ( 9, sqrt(36/pi -4) )

 (0-9)^2 +
(a-sqrt(36/pi - 4) ^2  = 36/pi

81 + a^2 -2asqrt(36/-4) + 36/pi -4 =
36/pi

a^2 -2a sqrt(36/pi-4) -4 = 0

 a1
= {2+ sqrt { 36/pi-4 +16)}/2 = {1+sqrt(36/pi +12)}

 a2 =
{1-sqrt(36/pi +12).

How is Alida Slade characterized throughout "Roman Fever"?

Above all, Alida Slade seems to be a character who is
characterised by the disparity between what she once was as Delphin Slade's wife and what she now
is as Delphin Slade's widow. As the narrator tells us, "It was a big drop from being the wife of
Delphin Slade to being his widow." We are told that eshe loved the role she played as his wife,
hosting important people and being admired to her "vivacity" and beauty by others. Now, a widow,
she finds herself "unemployed" and even wishes that her daughter would fall in love with the
wrong man so that she, as Jenny's mother, could have a use in helping
her.

However, in addition we are shown that Alida Slade feels
condescening towards and envious of her life-long friend, Grace Ansley, because of the
relationship that she had with her husband. Thus her character is a strange mix of resentment for
what has been, social superiority and envy.

Why does a helium balloon stop rising after it reaches a particular height?

A helium balloon rises upwards due to the force of buoyancy
exerted by the air it displaces. As helium is lighter than air, the total weight of air that the
balloon displaces is more than the weight of the balloon and the helium gas filled in
it.

With an increase in altitude, the density of air decreases. This
reduces the weight of air that the balloon can displace. At the same time, there is also a
reduction in the air pressure which allows the balloon to expand and displace more air. But a
balloon can only expand to an extent that is permitted by the elasticity of material it is made
of.

When the balloon has expanded to its maximum possible volume and
the buoyant force due to air is equal to the weight of the balloon it stops rising
upwards.

Does fate and/or Oedipus' own nature make him a tragic hero?

If we are meant to answer your question based upon
Aristotle's definition of a tragedy and tragic hero as described in his
Poetics, then Oedipus must be the engineer of his own downfall.  A
downfall that has been created by the hero himself is an important component in a
Tragedy, according to Aristotle, as it inspires great fear and pity in the audience. 
The audience can see the role that the hero's nature, his tragic flaw, has played in his
demise, and sensing the inherent humanness of this, they empathize with the hero.  For
Oedipus, the tragic flaw is his own hubris -- his belief that he can outwit the gods and
beat the oracles at their own game.

Oedipus learns, when he
is growing up, that there is an oracle that he will kill his father and marry his
mother.  To escape this fate, he flees his home (which he does not realize is not the
home of his birth, but his adopted home) and travels far away.  During his trip, he
meets a man on a narrow road.  Neither of them will budge.  In a fit of rage, Oedipus
kills the man, who turns out to be King Laius of Thebes, though he does not know it at
the time.  He also solves a riddle and saves Thebes from a plague.  In reward for this,
he marries Laius' widow, Jocasta.

Well, it only takes the
course of the play for Oedipus to discover that he could not outwit the gods.  He did in
fact, murder his real father (Laius) and marry his true mother (Jocasta), all as he was
running away from the man and woman he believed were his mother and father.  It was his
tragic flaw, hubris, that caused him to attempt to outwit the gods, and it also makes
him a tragic hero.

Please follow the links below for more
on Oedipus, the tragic hero and hubris.

If the circumference of a circle is 12pi, what is the area?

Given the area of a circle is
12pi.

Then we will calculate the radius using the circumference
formula.

==> C = 2* pi *r = 12
pi

==> r = 12pi/2pi = 6

Now we
will calculate the area of the circle.

==> We know that A=
r^2 * pi

==> A = 6^2 * pi = 36 pi = 113.1 (
approx)

Then the area of the circle whose
circumference 12pi = 36pi = 113.1 square units.

How are the crime control model and due process model alike?

The only real similarity between these two visions of the
criminal justice system is that both of them exist (according to Packer) within the general
framework of the United States Constitution.

Packer argues that the
two models are very close to opposite in their aims.  However, they both believe in and adhere to
the standards set out in the Constitution.  For example, both models believe that the criminal
justice system must operate within some set boundaries.  Not even the most avid backer of the
crime control model would argue for a police state such as that of Nazi Germany -- one where
there were no limits on what authorities may do.

So the major
similarity is that both models accept the ideas of the US Constitution, even if they do not agree
on exactly how those ideas should be applied.

Why does Shakespeare kill Romeo and Juliet at the end of Romeo and Juliet?I'm doing an essay on this, and I have to have 3 main topics. All I have...

I certainly think that you are on the right track with why
the ending of the play breaks down the way it does.  In trying to show how tragic
conditions and proportions can be applicable to regular people, not only royalty,
Shakespeare has to end up killing both of the children to demonstrate such a truth. 
Within the Elizabethan time period, tragedy and the full dimensions of drama were only
seen in the realm of pure royalty.  While both children are a part of Veronian royalty,
their love compels them to act in a manner distinct from regal traditions.  In this
light, both of them can be seen as regular people and the idea of such individuals being
able to experience tragedy in their own setting might have compelled Shakespeare to have
them both die at the end of the drama.  Along these lines, such a reading helps to
remind us that true tragedy happens as a combination of circumstance and fortune, as
well as fatal decisions.  Neither character demonstrates a form of hamartia or some type
of tragic flaw.  In demonstration of this, both of them have to end up dying at the end
of the drama.

What are the fundamental change in the world political system after World War II?

The fundamental change in the world following the conflict
was the emergence of the two superpowers of Russia and the United States.  It was the
first time that there was little, if any, European presence.  Europe was the stage where
Communism and Western democracy fought for supremacy.  The imperialism and colonization
that had defined world politics for so long came apart, as nations in Africa and Asia,
for example, had declared their freedom.  For their own part, the nations in Europe had
been ravaged through two sets of wars and there was little, if any, exertion on world
affairs that they could guarantee.  The lack of a European stage for geopolitical weight
was one fundamental change in how the world was constructed and how political weight was
distributed.

In The Chrysalids, what is the difference between a Waknukian and a fossil?Chapter 16

This sounds like it is going to be a very good joke.
However, seriously, if you are the woman from Sealand who is desperate to gain Petra and
access to her incredible talent in telepathy, the answer is that there is no difference.
It is in Chapter Sixteen that she expounds her own philosophical approach to the
existence of Waknuk and the particular way that they are trying to hold up the evolution
of humanity with their strict notions of purity and their strictness in dealing with
deviations. One of the messages of the novel is the way in which all life, including
humans themselves, are evolving. Trying to stop that process from occurring is like
trying to stop a rushing river with a tiny dam. Note how she describes Waknuk
society:

"The
Old People brought down Tribulation, and were broken into fragments by it. Your father
and his kind are a part of those fragments. They have become history without being aware
of it. They are determined still that there is a final form to defend: soon they will
attain the stability they strive for, in the only form it is granted--a place among the
fossils..."

Evolution is a
fact of life, and in this novel Wyndham paints one picture of how humanity will evolve
in the future following a terrible holocaust that has broken us into "fragments." Trying
to resist such a natural and powerful process is futile, although the impact of this
process has been massive for David and his group of telepaths.

Find all solutions of the equation in the range [0;pi]. 1+cosx+cos2x=0

We'll start by re-writing the last term of the
equation:

cos 2x = cos
(x+x)

cos 2x = cos x*cos x - sin x*sin
x

cos 2x = (cos x)^2 - (sin
x)^2

We'll substitute the term (sin x)^2 by the difference
1 - (cos x)^2

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

We'll combine like
terms:

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

Now, we'll substitute the last term cos 2x by it's
expression:

1 + cos x + 2(cos x)^2 - 1 =
0

We'll eliminate like
terms:

2(cos x)^2 + cos x =
0

We'll factorize by cos
x:

cos x(2cos x + 1) = 0

We'll
set each factor as zero:

cos x =
0

x = +/-arccos 0

x = +/-
pi/2

Since the range of admissible values is [0 ; pi],
we'll reject the solution -pi/2.

We'll put the other factor
as zero:

2cos x + 1 = 0

2cos x
= -1

cos x = -1/2

x = pi -
arccos (1/2)

x = pi - pi/3

x=
2pi/3

The solutions of the given equation, in
the range [0 ; pi], are {pi/2 ; 2pi/3}.