How is irony shown in Wilfred Owen's poem "Dulce et Decorum Est"?I understand what irony is, but I can't find what is so ironic about this title. I...

Irony is present in many of the literary works that came
out of the first World War, and that's probably not too surprising, given the stark
contrast between what people were told about the war, and how they actually experienced
it. Irony is a device that depends on contrast. We call it dramatic irony, for example,
when the audience knows something that one of the characters doesn't. Then when that
character speaks or acts in ignorance, the audience sees the situation as ironic. Or, a
character may engage in verbal irony by saying one thing, while meaning something quite
different.

Wilfred Owen's poem is ironic in more than one
sense. As a poetic statement made at a specific moment in history, it speaks what so
many people felt as the war dragged on: that they had been misled, lied to, that the war
was being described in one way, but in reality it was something very different indeed.
But irony is also crucial to the way "Dulce et Decorum Est" is written. Everything in
the poem builds toward the last two lines. And those lines are different than anything
else in the poem: they're in Latin, obviously. And for readers who know what they mean,
and even know that they were written by Horace, one of the great classical authors, they
have an aura of tradition, of authority. Owen's purpose, of course, is to undercut that
authority, to make the lines sound hollow, ironic. He does that very explicitly by
calling the lines a lie. But that explicit statement that we should read the Latin line
ironically only reinforces what he has already accomplished. The elevated tone of the
last lines, their "decorum," as language, contrasts violently with the language of the
rest of the poem. Owen's diction is anything but elevated, drawing instead on words like
ugly, guttering, writhing, gargling, obscene cancer, froth-corrupted lungs, bitter as
the cud of vile incurable sores on innocent tongues. After listening to such language,
the dignified Latin can hardly sound anything other than shockingly ironic and
dishonest. In addition to his overarching situational irony, Owen has used verbal irony
to powerful effect.

Explain the effects of the French Revolution.

I would say that one of the effects of the French
Revolution was to display the intense amount of violence that can accompany
revolutions.  Intellectually speaking, one of the strongest effects f the Revolution was
to show how the revolutionary spirit, one that Wordsworth would call "pure bliss," can
morph so very quickly into something awful and horrendous.  The Reign of Terror that
started a year or so after the Revolution was a reflection of this.  The energy and
spirit that led to the overthrow of the monarchy had a very unsightly facade to it
during Robespierre's time.  The use of the government to suppress individual factions
and to do so without any checks or limitations created a state where personal vendettas
were carried out through executive power.  The use of the guillotine in public
executions on such a large scale proved that the French Revolution had strayed far from
its American counterpart.  Tribunals who "determined" guilt started to kill those that
the revolution had actually sought to protect.  Over 70% of those killed were poor
peasants who were sentenced for crimes such as larceny and disturbing the public peace. 
At this point, I would say that the effect of the Revolution was two fold.  The first is
that it showed that authority can represent corrupt ends at any time, and all authority
has to be questioned.  At the same time, this effect brought out the idea that
individuals in the position of power might not have the public interest at the forefront
of their concerns.  In the end, this abuse of power in my mind becomes one of the
significant effects of the French Revolution.

In Of Mice and Men, what are two quotes by Lennie when he is showing childlikeness?(and pages too)

Here is a section the 4th page into my
book:

George
looked at him sharply, "What'd you take outta that
pocket?"

"Ain't a thing in my pocket," Lennie said
cleverly.

"I know there ain't. You got it in your hand.
What you got in your hand - hidin' it?"

"I ain't got
nothin', George. Honest."

The
text goes on to declare that Lennie indeed has something in his hand. It is a mouse and
he just lied to George about it. This demonstrates childlikeness in that a child will
lie to save himself from sure punishment. This also demonstrates childlikeness because
Lennie tried to be "clever" and George, the parent in this situation, saw right through
it.

Later on the next page, George is testing Lennie about
how they are going to act when they go and talk to the boss. After consenting to say
nothing, George encourages Lennie like he would a
son:

Good boy.
That's swell. You say that over two, three times so you sure won't forget
it.

This is how children are.
They need repetition and praise. George knows how to handle Lennie. He knows Lennie
needs each of these for success and Lennie eats it up!

Who offered most revolutionary critique of British form of Government, Thomas Paine's Common Sense or the Declaration of Independence?

In my opinion, Thomas Paine's pamphlet offers by far a
more revolutionary critique of the British form of government.  I would say that
Jefferson criticizes the actions of the
current British government while Paine criticizes the whole
concept of monarchy and of British rule of the colonies.

If
you read the Declaration, Jefferson is actually relatively mild on the idea of the
monarchy.  He simply says that any government has to have the consent of the people and
that it must protect the people's rights.  He does criticize the current king's actions,
but doesn't say that monarchy is always horrible.

Paine, by
contrast, really does say monarchy is always a bad idea.  He says that monarchy is
simply wrong.  For example, he says

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As the exalting one man so greatly above the rest
cannot be justified on the equal rights of nature, so neither can it be defended on the
authority of Scripture; for the will of the Almighty … expressly disapproves of
government by kings….

When
you say "God hates monarchy" it's a lot worse than what Jefferson is
saying.

Why are most large businesses organized as corporations?

Most large businesses are formed as corporations because
of legal statutes that endow the incorporated form of business organization with full
entity status. What this means is that corporations, having full entity status, have
expanded powers of what can be exercise and limited range of
liability.

A corporation is endowed as a separate, legal
entity that has the rights of a "natural person." Corporations can buy and sell, enter
into contracts, instigate law suits (or be sued), form associations with or own other
corporations, own assets, pay taxes or be exempted from taxes, raise capital in the name
of the corporation (as opposed in the name(s) of private individuals with limited
credit-worthiness) (Sucha
S. Ollek).

While these attributes of corporations
benefit businesses of all sizes, large corporations benefit especially because these
attributes allow for growth from a small, private corporation to a megalithic and even
multinational corporation. In contrast, partnerships and sole proprietorships have more
boundaries to growth and growth potential. Kinds of corporations are C corporations, S
corporations and limited liability corporations.

The most
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attributes of corporations making them beneficial for and attractive to
businesses that aspire to becoming large businesses
are:

Limited liability:
Corporations are liable, as separate legal entities, for their taxes, debts and other
financial obligations. Thus owners and chief officers, who receive salaries and
perquisites, are not liable to cover corporate financial obligations from their own
wealth and
income.

Capitalization:
Corporations can more easily attain capitalization from banks than can sole
proprietorships or partnerships since they have the force of independent entity status
that is not complicated by personal credit history or family and personal finances. In
addition, corporations can attract investors and stockholders; they can even attract
venture capital for start-up or growth opportunities. Investors then share in the
profits thus are willing to invest under the limited liability corporate umbrella. Sole
proprietors cannot invite investors since, by definition, all profits must accrue to the
owner or to the partners in a
partnership.

Perpetuity:
Corporations are formed for perpetuity. They do not end upon the death of the owner or
partners as is the case with non-corporate businesses (though an unincorporated business
can be transferred over to a family member through a sale of the business).
Corporations, since they are not linked to any individual or individuals in partnership,
have a perpetual life and continue with renewed chief officers and board of directors
after the originator's
death.

Taxes: Corporations are
taxed differently from individual earners. Dividend income distribution from corporate
earnings are taxed at a lower rate than employment income. In addition, corporation
stakeholders pay fewer kinds of taxes than do owners of sole
proprietorships.

Find the equation of the perpendicular line of 3y - 6x + 9 = 0 and passes through the origin.

Let the equation of the line be
:

y- y1 = m ( x-x1)  where ( x1, y1) any point passes through the
line and m is the slope.

Given that the line passes through the
origin point

Then the line passes through the point ( 0,
0)

Let us substitute:

==> y- 0 =
m (x- 0)

==> y= mx

Now we will
find the slope:

Given the perpendicular line
:

3y - 6x + 9 =0

We will write in slope
form:

==> 3y = 6x - 9

==>
y= 2x - 3

Then the slope = 2

Then the
perpendicular slope = -1/2

Then
:

 y= (-1/2) x

Write the equation of the line with slope m=2/3 and y intercept b=-8

The equation of the line with slope m and y intercept c is
y = mx+c. The line is inclined  to x axis with a slope  of arctanm  and  intersects  y
axis at c units from the origin.

Given m = 2/3 and c =
-8.

So substituting the values of m and c  in y = mx+c, we
get:

y = (2/3)x+(-8)
.....(1)

y = (2/3)x - 8. is the required equation in slope
intercept form. We can write this in ax+by+k = 0 form
also.

(1)*3 gives:

3y =
2x-8*3

3y = 2x-24.

Subtract 3y
and rearrrange:

2x-3y-24 = 0 which is in the standard
ax+by+k = 0 form.

Has this shift made the executive branch LESS democratic?To what extent has the rise in the influence of the members of the executive office...

I would argue that yes, it has made the Executive Branch
less democratic in that it has more power, less oversight, and is less transparent
(records and actions more hidden from public view) than in most previous
Administrations, and certainly less democratic than many of the Founding Fathers were
arguing for at the time.

I argue this because the Executive
Branch in recent times, even when issued a legal summons by Congress to testify, had
often ignored the orders, or deleted and destroyed files, and taken covert actions using
the military and the CIA with very little or no oversight or control by elected
representatives.  In the name of national security, the Executive Branch has been able
to operate, often times, out of the public view, and out of view of the court system. 
This is an expansion of their power and, I would argue, it has made us less
democratic.

I need help understanding how to write an essay based on Gulliver’s Travels being a satire.How does this relate to utopia? Examples of satire and...

I am assuming you are referring to the world of the
Hyoughnyms as opposed to the other worlds which all clearly have problems.  The horses
are more reasonable, less violent, and Gulliver is genuinely impressed by the fact that
whenever these creatures come into another's company, it is necessary to be quiet for a
few minutes to gather one's thoughts before speaking, thus cutting out all the mindless
chatter, the slips of the tongue, the embarrassing faux pas that occur in Gulliver's own
country.  Of course, he then meets and later is mistaken for, a Yahoo.  They are dirty
creatures who only act on impulse and instinct.  They look like people, only care about
eating and mating (like some people), and are incredibly unpolished.  They do not
communicate in anything other than grunts and moans, they are anything but reasonable,
and they care for material goods like the diamonds they dig for which Gulliver also
wants badly.  The satire here is pointing at out the material and selfish side of human
nature.  As long as these instincts and impulses exist, there can never truly be a
Utopia such as the horses have.

As far as your thesis
statement goes, I would focus on the qualities of humanity that Swift is poking at...our
vanity, selfishness, greed, materialism.  These things are absent in the horse society,
but fully present in the society of the Yahoos which Gulliver most closely
resembles.

Why is it important that the piano is a musical instrument?

This is an interesting point of discussion.  On one hand,
the piano represents a particular level of talent and focus required to play it.  This
is seen in Berniece.  While she no longer wishes to play the piano and, on some level,
would agree with Boy Willie about the piano's lack of utility in the modern setting, it
is her talent in terms of playing it that enables a full sense of reconciliation between
past and present in the hopes for a future.  It makes sense that the instrument where
this reconciliation takes place is a musical instrument, something that lies outside of
the realm of words and language.  It is almost as if Wilson is suggesting that there is
some type of experience on a very spiritual or non- linguistic level that enables
individuals to make full peace with the challenges of the past in the light of the
present and the future.  The element of art is a very big construct in this.  At the
same time, it is not lost on the audience/ reader that the piano carries with it the
experiences of the past, both in its most tender and horrific of conditions.  The piano,
a symbol of artistic expression and beautiful in melody and harmony, carries with it the
story of suffering, isolation, and abuse.  In this, Wilson might be making a symbolic
statement about the complexity of one's past and the need for individuals to understand
its own intricate dimensions in light of the present and the future.  An instrument of
art is what enables this sense of peace to be made.  This becomes relevant not only for
people of color, but anyone whose past is marred with multiple visions of pain and
divergence and is one that plays a direct impact on the nature of being in the
world.

Find the indefinite integral of the function y = tan^4x + tan^2x.

The indefinite integral of the given function is
written:

Int [(tan x)^4 + (tan
x)^2]dx

We'll factorize by (tan
x)^2:

Int (tan x)^2*[(tan x)^2 +
1]dx

We'll solve the integral using substitution
technique:

tan x = t

We'll
differentiate both sides:

dx/(cos x)^2 =
dt

We'll write the fundamental formula of trigonometry and
we'll get:

(sin x)^2 + (cos x)^2 
=1

We'll divide the relation by (cos
x)^2:

(tan x)^2 + 1 = 1/(cos
x)^2

We'll re-write the integral, substituting (tan x)^2 +
1 by 1/(cos x)^2:

Int (tan x)^2*[(tan x)^2 + 1]dx  = Int
(tan x)^2*dx/(cos x)^2

Now, we'll re-write the
integral replacing the variable x by t:

Int (tan
x)^2*dx/(cos x)^2 = Int t^2*dt

Int t^2*dt = t^3/3 +
C

We'll substitute t by tan x  and we'll get the result of
the indefinite integral of the function:

Int
[(tan x)^4 + (tan x)^2]dx = (tan x)^3/3 + C

Please explain the causes of World War I.

I am reading a book right now by John Keegan about World War
II.  He discusses a little bit about the causes of World War I because the outcome of it was part
of the cause of World War II.  Keegan says that one reason Germany attacked France was because
Germany was trying to acquire colonial empire and France, which already had a colonial empire was
in its way.

J. F. C. Fuller was a British general who wrote a book
about U.S. General Grant.  In that book, Fuller says that one reason for World War I was the
industrialization of Germany which made England feel that it would no longer be able to make so
much money off of its industry.

Concerning America's entry into WW I
on the side of England and France, I read a scholarly article when I was in college that pointed
out that American financial institutions and business men had made a lot more prewar loans to
British interests than to German interests.

Wars are always the
result of many reasons.  I have mentioned only three.

In "There Will Come Soft Rains," give three descriptions of the setting which contribute to the mood.

The setting is obviously based around a future world with an
unprecedented level of technological sophistication. But your question also points towards the
mood that is created by the description of the setting. It is clear that the description Bradbury
uses creates a desolate, lonely mood, as we are presented with a world in which humans have been
made extinct. Consider the following examples:

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The morning house lay empty. The clock ticked on,
repeating and repeating its sounds into the emptiness. Seven-nine, breakfast time,
seven-nine!

Notice how the
repetition of "empty" and "emptiness" serve to create the desolate mood of a world without
humans.

The sun came
out from behind the rain. The house stood alone in a city of rubble and ashes. This was the one
house left standing. At night the ruined city gave off a radioactive glow which could be seen for
miles.

Here, the description of the
one house left standing in a city of "rubble and ashes" again reinforces that impression of
desolation and destruction. Note how the "radioactive glow" creates an eerie impression of
danger.

This mood continues to be sustained and developed throughout
the story as we are witnesses to the normal daily routine of this household - but without humans.
Again and again the high level of technological sophistication we are presented with emphasises
one of the key themes of the story - the irony that man has reached such scientific heights but
has also managed to make itself extinct through those same advances.

Select the indicated level of measurement. Survey responses of good, better, best. Nominal, ordinal, interval or ratio?

The best answer for this is that the proper level of
measurement here is ordinal.  This is because these possible survey responses are given
in order, but do not really have set number values associated with
them.

Ordinal data are ones that have some natural order
(rank order) to them.  In this case, good is clearly not as good as better and best is
above both of those.

These categories cannot really be
deemed to be interval data because there is no exact interval between them.  We do not
know how much "better" is above "good" and we do not know how much "best" is above
"better."  So we cannot give these exact number equivalents.  Therefore they are not
interval data.

Can someone help me with a physics problem?a) A 3.90 kg ball is dropped from the roof of a building 172.6 m high. While the ball is falling to...

a)

Since the wind force is
horizontal, it has no vertical component.

Hence the verical
acceleration is entirely due to the gravity force. Also the vertical component of velocity is
also entirely due to gravitation.

Using the equation of motion for
the falling body, the vertical distance s covered  is given by:

s =
ut +(1/2)gt^2, where u = initial speed of the ball. u= is zero as the ball is dropped from a
height. s = 171.6 m ,  g = 9.81 m/s^2. We determine the time t with the given
details.

171.6 =
0t+(1/2)*9.81*t^2.

171.6*
(1/2)*9.81*t^2.

t^2 = 2*171.6/9.81.

t =
sqrt(2*171.6/9.81) = 5.91 sec.

b)

There
is no horizontal component of the graviational force which is entirely vertical. So only the
constan horizontal force of 13.1N of force by wind  generate an acceleration a = Forc/mass of the
ball = 13.1N/3.91 Kg = 3.5666.. m/s^2 in the ball.

So the equation
of motion for the horizontal direction is also:

s = ut+(1/2)at^2,
where s is the distance covered and  t is the time the ball is in air till it hits the ground and
a = 13.1/3.9 = 3.3589....m/s^2. t = 5.9148 second as we got in a.

s
= 0* 5.91+(1/2) (13.1/3.9)*(5.91..)^2

s =  58.76 meter away from the
building.

c)

The speed (or rather
velocity) of the ball while it hits the ground is due to both vertical as well as horizontal
velocities.

Vertical vecity v = u+gt = 0+9.81 *5.9148 = 58.0242 m/s
vertically down.

Horizontal velocity = u+at = 0+(13/3.9)(5.9148) =
19.8677

Therefore the combined velocity of the ball =
sqrt(horizontal vel^2+vertical vel ^2) = sqrt{58.0242^2+19.8677^2) =  61.3313m/s^2. The direction
of the velocity is arc tan (58.0242/19.8677) = 71 degree below
horizontal.

What famous family ruled Florence during Michelangelo's life?

Florence in the 15th century was ruled by the famous Medici
family, the most famous member of which was probably Lorenzo de' Medici.  This family was not
only powerful and influential over life in Florence, but they had close ties to French Kings, the
rulers of other Italian city states, and most people of power who were in the know during their
reign knew to deal directly with the head of the Medici family rather than the other parts of the
Florence government.

Lorenzo, also known as Lorenzo the Magnificent,
was very important in the creative and productive history of Michelangelo because he was a very
generous and consistent patron of the arts, and Michelangelo's first patron.  He commissioned
paintings, frescoes and sculptures, and left a lasting impression on the art and cultural history
of Florence.

What joking insult to the English does Shakespeare put into the gravedigger’s dialogue, regarding Hamlet’s madness in Act 5 of Hamlet?

When Hamlet first enters the cemetery he is merely hiding
out with Horatio waiting for the most opportune moment to return to the castle to
confront Claudius.  In the cemetery they see a gravedigger preparing a grave.  Hamlet
has no idea that this will be Ophelia's grave in a few mere
moments.

As he comes forward to talk to the grave digger he
first comments about the nature of the business of grave digging, but he pretty quickly
starts into a conversation about Hamlet, acting as a common man who just has a few
questions about the Prince and what has happened to him lately.  Hamlet asks, "Why was
he [Hamlet] sent into England."  The grave diggers reveals the story that has been put
out about Hamlet -- that he has been sent to England to "recover his wits there."  But
the joke comes in the next sentence when he adds that if Hamlet doesn't recover his wits
there "'tis no great matter there."  When Hamlet asks why it wouldn't matter there in
England, the grave digger says, "'Twill not be seen in him there.  There the men are as
mad as he."  Shakespeare is making the joke that England is filled with crazy people --
so crazy that craziness isn't even all that remarkable.  His audience would have
certainly laughed at the self-deprecating joke.

Solve the system : x + y = 5 x^2 + y^2 = 13

To solve the sytem of
equations:

x+y = 5 ..........(1)
and 

x^2+y^2 = 13......(2).

We we
know   2xy = (x+y)^2 - (x^2+y^2).

Therefore 2xy = 5^2-13 = 25-13 =
12.

Therefore (x-y)^2 = x^2+y^2-2xy = 13 -12 =
1.

Therefore  x-y = sqrt {(x-y)^2 } =  sqrt1 or
-sqrt1.

 x-y = 1. Or x-y = -1.

Or x-y =
1....(3).

x+5 =
5........(1).

(1)+(3):

2x = 1+5=
6.

x = 6/2 =
3.

(1)-(3):

2y = 5-1 =
4.

 y = 4/2 = 2.

Therefore the solution
of the system of equations: x= 3, y = 2,
O

Or 

By using the equations x-y =
-sqrt1 = -1, x+y = 5, we get x = 2 and y = 3.

What literary element or device in the story can used in a thesis for "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"?Samuel Clemens (Mark...

While his customary satire is present in Mark Twain's short
story "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," there is a cloaking of this satire as
Twain's narrator is not directly involved. Instead, the story is related as an epistolary tale.
So, for a thesis about the use of literary devices, you may wish to analyze how Twain's use of
the frame story, or epistolary tale, is his clever way of disguising his satire of the American
West and the American East by giving the story a sense of authenticity with the reporting of the
main narrator.

Another literary device that you could build a thesis
around is the use by Twain of hyperbole. Hyperbole is a figure of speech that involves obvious
exaggeration; it greatly helps to advance the satire of Twain's piece by increasing the level of
humor as Twain ridicules the stereotypes of the East and the West of the United States. Here is
one example of Twain's use of hyperbole for humorous and satiric
effect:

[Wheeler]
never smiled, he never frowned, he never changed his voice from the gentle-flowing key to which
he tuned the initial sentence, he never betrayed the slightest suspicion of enthusiasm; but all
through the interminable narrative there ran a vein of impressive earnestness and sincerity,
which showed me plainly that, so far from his imagining that there was any thing ridiculous or
funny about his story, he regarded it as a really important matter, and admired its two heroes as
men of transcendent genius in finesse.

What does this poem (Grey Glove by Roo Borson) mean? I cant understand it.Grey Glove - Roo BorsonAmong branchesa bird lands fluttering,a soft...

The best way to approach poetry in order to understand the
meaning is to attempt to determine the answers to a few preliminary
questions:

1. Who is the
   speaker? Is it a man or a woman?  How old?  What are
   his/her thoughts, etc?  How do you know?  Remember, the author is not necessarily the
   "voice" of the poem.


2. What is the
   scene?  Where does the poem take place?  Unlike
   setting in prose, the scene of a poem can be internal or
   external.  Also, it can be something very specific, or
   unspecified.


3. What is the
   subject?  What does the poem seem to be mainly about?  Is
   there an object or is the poem more about an emotion?  This might be affected by whether
   the scene is internal or external.

In order to
answer these questions, you must look at a few things going on in the poem.  Namely,
images and figurative
language.  I find that the easiest thing to do is make a list of the
common images, and then as many figures of speech as possible.  Determining the meaning
of figures of speech is easier when you have a list of other common
images.

To help you get started, consider the following
prominent images from this poem:

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bird, branches, land at twilight, swamp,
darkness

Now let's look at
some of the figurative language (metaphors, similes,
personification):

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a soft grey glove with a heart (the
bird)

swamp of black mist...first planet...swordtip (the
land)

Birds have made a simple
bargain

the only song I know I see with my
eyes

Based on these images
and figures of speech, you can probably guess that the scene is external, however, the
speaker is also speaking to someone (the "you" he's not speaking of) which indicates
that this external scene is used to make a point.

It sounds
to me like he's gone to the end of the world (figuratively) to avoid thinking about a
loss, either a death or a break up.  As a result, he is lonely.  The
loneliness/solitude/quiet has given him the opportunity to notice natural things in
detail, which of course only bring back thoughts of the "you" he's trying to
forget.

What is the most important element of fiction in this story?

If I had to choose one of the elements of fiction that was
the most important in "The Lesson," it would be point of
view.

The story is told from Sylvia's viewpoint
and the story's focus, of course, is Miss Moore's lesson.  Had the story been told from
the third person, its impact on the reader would not be as powerful; we would not have
been able to follow the uneasy progression of Sylvia's thoughts.  With the first person
point of view, we know exactly how Sylvia
feels.

The group of students Miss Moore has chosen to try
to teach are either unaware, disinterested, or—as is the case with Sylvia—opposed to her
attempts.  Miss Moore is not trying to teach all these children a lesson; she is
speaking to an audience that does not welcome her intent.  The essence of "The Lesson"
is Miss Moore's hope to reach past the naiveté of someone (anyone)
in the group, and open his or her eyes to a more sophisticated view of the world of
which they are a part—and in doing so, motivate that person to take a personal interest
in his or her life, with positive results.

It is easy to
perceive through Sylvia's internal dialogue that she feels disdain and resentment about
most things.  She is an angry girl. If we could speak to Sylvia, she would probably know
some of the reasons why she is angry, but probably
not all.  It is to this second aspect of Sylvia's intellect that
Miss Moore's words find purchase, and take root.

Can we, as
the reader, know that Miss Moore is specifically speaking for the sake of reaching
Sylvia in particular?  There is no indication from Sylvia to support this kind of
conjecture, though we find out that Miss Moore is very quick to notice Sylvia's grasp of
the "lesson." Miss Moore probably throws her ideas out, like seeds, to see with which
youngster (if any) the ideas "find fertile ground" and start to
grow.

Sylvia is enlightened when she learns of the foolish
way people with money can spend it even while other people are struggling daily to make
ends meet.  As she processes this, we can almost see Sylvia wrinkling her forehead as
she tries to make sense of this seemingly nonsensical
"truth."

Sylvia was unaware (as were the other kids) that
this kind of store—and this kind of disparity between those who "have" and those who
"have not," existed. The unfairness of it jolts Sylvia's social awareness awake enough
to know that something is seriously wrong (though we can also tell that she would not
thank Miss Moore for providing Sylvia with this new
insight).

As Sylvia follows some distance behind Sugar at
the end, she has new food for thought.  As Sylvia tells it, Sugar momentarily seemed to
grasp the situation at the toy store, but then the "light went out" and she let the idea
go.  And although Sylvia does not seem to completely understand the
enormous significance of what she has learned, her awareness has
been tapped.  We can assume that she will never let go of this new world view, and will
never be the same person.  We are able to get a precise sense of Sylvia's state of mind
with the use of the first person point of view.

Explain how two scenes in Avatar are related to Transcendentalist beliefs.

I love this question! I've seen the movie
Avatar, but I don't know it well enough to refer to specific
scenes. Still, I think that I can offer enough of an answer here to get you
started.

Here are some fundamental concepts in
Transcendentalism that apply directly to the film:

1.
Nature is a way for humans to connect with the divine.

2.
Individual wisdom and self-betterment may result from direct connection with and
reflection on nature.

3. Wisdom may (or should) lead to
social action.

Most of the humans in the film
Avatar simply see nature as untapped resources. They're happy to
take, destroy, and move on to the next planet. The few, more enlightened humans in the
movie understand that nature is not only important in and of itself but that it also has
some sort of profound connection to what we call the "soul." They gain awareness through
their direct experiences with a more pure world (full of more pure creatures), and that
awareness drives them to oppose their own people's attempts to exploit yet another
planet.

Suggest one hands-on activity plan (easy language arts) for Black Beauty that reflects critical thinking.

Published in 1877, Anna Sewell's novel Black
Beauty is credited with having effected the greatest changes ever regarding
the treatment of animals.  With this in mind, the children could make a list in one
column of the mistreatment chronicled in the novel and then in another column write what
the ethical treatment of horses should have been.

After
this activity, students can extrapolate the work to consider other animals.  For
instance, students could organize their list and ideas about other animals into a
paragraph which has as its topic The Importance of Ethical (you may need to simplify
this word) Treatment for Animals.  [Let the little artists illustrate, too!]  A simpler
version of this could be having the students write about how they would treat a horse
(or other pet) if they had one.  Demonstrations could involve real pets (?) or someone
pretending to be a pet. [Making use of Halloween
costumes] 

Or, they could write about what animals treat us
since Duchess, Beauty's mother and Beauty himself exhibit patience and other sterling
qualities. 

In Animal Farm, using propoganda, explain why the pigs are justifiable in their actions using ethos,logos and pathos.

Using ethos: The animals must rely on the pigs to run the farm;
no other animals have the leadership skill necessary. They are the most intelligent, the most
cunning, the most ambitious, and the most persuasive. The pigs are the ones who have the mettle
to defend the farm if Jones or anyone else tries to attack it. The animals feel a sense of
security under the rule of the pigs because they know the pigs are the saavy ones who can keep
the farm under animal rule. The pigs always make it their number one priority to keep the farm
safe from outside intruders; therefore, sometimes they must go to great measures, even bending
the commandments at times, to make sure this happens.

Using logos:
The pigs comfort must come first because they are brain animals. They need to have more apples to
be able to utilize their great brainpower to the highest extent. They also have the most
important and difficult job to lead the farm. In order for them to lead effectively and maintain
the long hours it takes, the pigs must be the most comfortable, hence the need to sleep in the
farmhouse. Finally, the rule against making deals with humans was meant to protect the lower
level animals from being taken advantage of. The pigs, being so intelligent, are therefore exempt
from this rule, because the have the mental means necessary to hold their own against the
animals.

Using pathos: The animals only have to look at the hard
lives they live, all the loved ones they lost, and all the valuables they sacrificed to Jones.
Without Jones, those hardships won't exist. You may still feel now, after the revolution, that
these things are still occuring, but they are all for the good of tomorrow. What we sacrifice now
will be our joys and successes tenfold down the road. While we gave and gave and never received
in the day of Jones' rule, the animals will undoubtedly profit down the road from the labors they
put forth now.

What is a passage that is indirect characterization of Scout's courage?To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Thank you so much! Please give the...

In Chapter 15 of To Kill a Mockingbird by
Harper Lee, a group of men visit Atticus Finch at night on a Saturday, expressing their
discomfiture with Tom Robinson's being kept in the Maycomb jail.  Tension increases as they
question Atticus's taking on the defense of Tom; to break this tension, Jem calls to Atticus when
their phone rings.  But, Atticus calmly tells him to answer it.

On
the next day, Jem and Scout follow Atticus to the jail and find him sitting before the door with
long electrical cord and a light on the end of it.  Seeing a large group of men moving toward
their father, the children make their own presence known by stepping forward.  One burly man
tells them to go home, and he yanks Jem off his feet.  Angered by this treatment of her brother,
Scout kicks him; the man falls back in pain as Scout's aim for the shins went a little too
high.

When Atticus tells Jem to go home, the boy refuses.  Scout
wonders why he has spoken so to their father; she looks around and finds Mr. Cunningham in the
crowd of men with upturned collars and jackets on a summer's night.  She speaks to Mr.
Cunningham, but he ignores her greeting.  Persistent, Scout repeats, "Hey, Mr. Cunningham.  How's
your entailment gettin' along?"  At this query, Mr. Cunningham blinks and seems uncomfortable. 
Scout tries to explain,

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"Don't you remember me, Mr. Cunningham?  I'm Jean Louise
Finch.  You grought us some hickory nuts one time, remember?....I go to school with Walter...He's
your boy, ain't he?  Ain't he,
sir?"

Mr. Cunningham's nod is an
acknowledgement, so Scout continues and nervously wonders "what idiocy I had committed"
[indirect quote] until Mr. Cunningham touches Scout and informs her he will
tell Walter that she says 'hello.'  By speaking to Mr. Cunningham, Scout displays her bravery in
contrast to the cowardliness of the mob.  Singling out Mr. Cunningham reminds him of his ties to
the Finch family and what he owes Atticus.  Thus, he becomes ashamed of himself, and tells the
others to "clear out."  In her ingenuous loyalty to her father, Scout has bravely defused a very
tense situation.

What is the easiest way to integrate csc^2x/cotx dx

Here cot x is in the denominator. But it can be seen that the
numerator has (csc x)^2. We know that the derivative of cot x is -(csc
x)

The integral can be solved in the easiest way by
substitution.

Int[ (csc x)^2 / cot x
dx]

let y = cot x

-dy = csc x
dx

=> Int [ (-1/y) dy]

=>
-log|y| + C

substitute y = cot
x

=> - log |cot x| +
C

The required integral is -log |cot x| +
C

In "The Interlopers", what does the final word of the story suggest about the fate of the two men?

It is hard not to be aware of the irony of the situation.
Two sworn enemies by some twist of fate are trapped underneath the same tree unable to
move, and both somehow make peace with each other, and both desire that their men be the
first to come on to the scene so they can demonstrate their newfound friendship and love
for one another by letting the other out and caring for him. It is when Ulrich sees
figures "coming through the wood" that both shout out loudly, and these figures run
towards them. Ulrich is incredibly happy that they are coming so quickly, until he sees
them coming closer and realises who they actually
are:

"Are
they your men?" asked Georg. "Are they your men?" he repeated impatiently, as Ulrich did
not answer.

"No," said Ulrich with a laugh, the idiotic
chattering laugh of a man unstrung with hideous
fear.

It is then that the
final word of the story reveals the true identity of the "figures" that are coming, and
also simultaneously reveals the fate of Georg and Ulrich. The wolves that they have
attracted with their shouts will be able to feast upon the two men as they are trapped
by the tree and unable to defend themselves. A grim, ironic end.

Whats the meaning of 'country pleasures', in 'The Flea'?

The phrase 'country pleasures' occurs in the first verse
of Donne's poem, The
good-Morrow:

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I wonder, by my troth, what thou and
I
Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then,
But sucked on
country pleasures,
childishly?

In this poem, the
lover addresses the beloved in the first person mode with a question which is followed
by more questions that seem to contain answers to the opening one. The phrase 'country
pleasures' is part of the questionnaire.

In the three
verses of the poem, the speaker initiates a journey, a journey from the past to the
present to the future of love. a journey from the body to the mind and thence to the
spirit. The opening question looks back into their past history of love, a sheer bodily
engagement which they mistook for love. They were actually separated while they were
under the illusory impression of union. 'were we not weaned
till then?' is the question that looks back into that state.
'But sucked on country pleasures childishly?'
extends the interrogation. Despite being adult persons, the two lovers
behaved 'childishly' and wanted to enjoy bodily pleasures. By the phrase 'country
pleasures', the lover means the gross rustic pleasures of the senses when the souls were
in a state of slumber.

How would you explain the clandestine relationship between Jay Gatsby and Daisy ending in a tragedy in The Great Gatsby?

I think that a statement might be made about the nature of
hidden relationships ending in disaster.  It seems to me that one of the driving forces
behind Fitzgerald's work is the idea of transparency and being open about reality and
the conditions that surround it.  One of the striking features of this would be the
ending when Nick rejects all of the trappings of the upper class and goes back to the
Midwest, a statement in favor of openness and transparency as opposed to the covert
destruction on personal levels that wealth seems to bring to the people in East Egg.  We
can see this in the relationship between Jay and Daisy.  Both of them pursue their
relationship under "cloak and dagger" circumstances, with each pursuing their own
agenda.  Daisy simply likes to be wooed.  There might be some feelings present, but they
are not strong enough to force her leaving of Tom and his money and the life to which
she has become so accustomed.  Gatsby might be chasing a dream or an illusion, and yet
he does so without openly declaring it.  He is content with its pursuit being done
hidden from the eyes of other.  The clandestine and opaque nature of their relationship
might be a setting where Fitzgerald is echoing Justice Brandeis in that, "Sunlight is
the best disinfectant."  The lack of "sunlight" in the relationship shared by Daisy and
Jay might be an instance where the lack of it caused a disease to grow and fester,
resulting in Gatsby's death due to misunderstanding and a lack of
understanding.

Why does Hawthorne seem to like symbolism so much in both THE SCARLET LETTER and "The Birthmark"?

Although Hawthorne is often considered a novelist, he thought of
himself as a writer of “romances.” “Romances,” in Hawthorne’s sense, are less “realistic” than
novels. “Romances” are more concerned with expressing ideas than with depicting “reality” in a
photographically accurate way.

In this sense, almost all of
Hawthorne’s fiction – even the short stories – are “romances.” They use symbolism because
Hawthorne is interested in conveying, as powerfully and memorably as possible, his ideas and
themes.

Symbolism encourages readers to think about ideas, yet
symbols can also have powerful emotional impact. By emphasizing symbols so strongly in his
fiction, Hawthorne thereby provokes thought while also achieving a strong emotional impact.
Symbols can also contribute to the unity of Hawthorne’s works, especially their unities of mood
and tone.

Given f'(x)=(3x+1)^(-1/5), what is f(x)?

We'll take the inverse operation and we'll integrate the given
function:

Int (3x+1)^(-1/5) dx =
f(x)

We'll replace the expression 3x + 1 by the variable
t.

3x + 1 = t

We'll differentiate both
sides:

3dx = dt

dx =
dt/3

We'll re-write the integral having as variable
t:

Int (3x+1)^(-1/5) dx = Int
t^(-1/5)*(dt/3)

We'll evaluate the
integral

Int t^(-1/5)*(dt/3) = (1/3)*t^(-1/5 + 1)/(-1/5 + 1) +
C

Int t^(-1/5)*(dt/3) = (1/3)*t^(4/5)/(4/5) +
C

Int t^(-1/5)*(dt/3) = 5*t^(4/5)/12 +
C

The requested function is f(x) = 5*(3x+1)^(4/5)/12 +
C

In The Great Gatsby, what arrangements are made regarding the passengers of each car on the trip to the city?

It is in Chapter 7 that Gatsby and his guests decide to go
to town. Remember at this stage that Daisy, Tom's wife, is having an affair with Gatsby
and being very indiscreet about it. It is clear that Tom suspects that something is
going on. Gatsby at first suggests that they all go in his car, but then Tom says Gatsby
can take his car and Tom will drive Gatsby's car. He tries to encourage Daisy to go in
the car with him, however, Daisy tells him to take Nick and Jordan with him and she says
that she will go with Gatsby.

The language that is used
that describes how she moves to Gatsby away from her husband is very important to note.
For example, when Tom tries to get her to go with him, she "moved out from the circle of
his arm." Then, having told him to take Nick and Jordan, she "walked close to Gatsby,
touching his coat with her hand."

It is clear that Daisy is
being very obvious about he affair with Gatsby and almost flaunting it in front of her
husband. Of course, we know that Tom is likewise having an affair with Myrtle, so the
hypocrisy and deceit is something that both people are now
experiencing.

Describe any environmental issues that describe niche, and ecosystem and what is the root, solution and consequences.

A niche is basically an organism's role or job within its
ecosystem. It is also the interaction of that organism within its environment, with other species
in that ecosystem, its usage of resources and any function it fulfills therein. An environmental
issue that involves niche is the effects of an invasive or exotic species accidentally or
purposefully introduced into an ecosystem. An example of this is purple loosestrife, a non-native
plant, which was introduced into the United States and is slowly taking over and killing off
native plants. This in turn, means less food for insects that depend on native plants for
nutrition. It is crowding out native plants and taking over their niche. Another example is when
zebra mussels were acccidentally introduced to the Great Lakes from the Caspian Sea in ballast
water from ships coming from that area. These mussels have taken over the niche of the native
shellfish, robbing the native shellfish of their food supply, causing our native shellfish to die
off. The zebra mussels on the other hand are overpopulating because they have no natural
predators and are causing extensive damage to waterways, pipes and structures all over North
American waterways. Sometimes just clearing land in an ecosystem, thus removing native plants to
grow crops can devastate an ecosystem. An example of this was the American Dust Bowl of the
1930's. Native prairie grasses were removed to raise food crops and drought conditions set in.
The crops were less adapted to these dry conditions than native plants were because the native
plants root system could keep the soil in place during dry spells. The crops eventually died and
the topsoil which is a precious resource was then easily eroded due to wind and was carried away,
creating devastating effects on the ecosystem. The important niche that native grasses filled
couldn't be replaced by crops. For an ecosystem to be sustainable each organism has a niche it
occupies to keep that ecosystem healthy.

In Act I of Death of a Salesman, what do the scenes with Ben reveal to the audience about Willy's frame of mind?

This section of Act I clearly goes on to develop Willy's
delusional state of mind. As Willy plays cards with Charley, Ben, Willy's dead brother
enters. Willy confuses Charley with Ben, and a dialogue with the dead brother follows.
Charley of course leaves, unhappy with Willy's strange responses and his inability to
concentrate on the card game. Willy's replies to his dead brother begin to be confused
with his conversation with Charley. Ben then enters into conversation with Willy and
Linda as if he had returned and was alive.

For the first
time in this play, Willy is unable to distinguish what is going on about him from the
imaginary visit of his brother. Ben is an imagined rather than a remembered character.
It appears that he is a figment of Willy's imagination whose purpose is to reinforce
Willy's ideas. It is clear that Willy suffers from a lack of self-understanding and he
turns to Ben as a substitute father figure. Consider the following
quote:

Can't
you stay a few days? You're just what I need, Ben, because I - I have a fine position
here, but I - well, Dad left when I was such a baby and I never had a chance to talk to
him and I still feel - kind of temporary about
myself.

This quote is very
revealing. Note that Willy says this quote "longingly", indicating his own need for a
figure like Ben to be with him, guide him, advise him and support him. It also shows how
he is opposite to Ben in almost every way. Willy feels "kind of temporary" about
himself, indicating that he is not fixed on one thing or even one identity, whereas Ben
is introduced as "utterly certain of his destiny" - of course, the kind of man that
Willy would love to be.

In this episode therefore we are
shown an insight into the mind and character of Willy. The disparity between the reality
which the audience can perceive and that which Willy can see is greater than ever as we
see Willy "creating" the figure of Ben to gain authority and support for his ideas in
business.

what does an antibody do after its released from a plasma cell?

An antibody(immunoglobulin)is a Y shaped protein that is
released during an immune response. It has a specific shape that recognizes a specific
antigen(foreign or non-self protein) for example, bacteria or virus and attaches to it. The
foreign protein is then either neutralized directly or tagged for attack by other parts of the
immune system. Plasma cells are white blood cells that produce antibodies. Some directly go into
the blood and some are bound by membranes and attach to B cells. This causes the B cells to
manufacture more antibodies or to produce memory B cells. These will remain long after an
infection and will confer immunity to a particular antigen if it is ever encountered
again.

In the play Julius Caesar, analyze the speech made by Brutus and highlight Mark Antony's arguments to refute Brutus charge that Caesar was ambitious.

In Act III, scene i of Julius Caesar,
Antony delivers one of the great monologues in all of literature, using much verbal irony and
clever rhetorical devices to undercut Brutus' empty words:

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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your
ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise
him.
The evil that men do lives after
them;
The good is oft interred with their
bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble
Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was
ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous
fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer'd
it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the
rest--
For Brutus is an honourable
man;
So are they all, all honourable
men--
Come I to speak in Caesar's
funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to
me:
But Brutus says he was
ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable
man.
He hath brought many captives home to
Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers
fill:
Did this in Caesar seem
ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath
wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner
stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was
ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable
man.
You all did see that on the
Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly
crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this
ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was
ambitious;
And, sure, he is an
honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus
spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do
know.
You all did love him once, not without
cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for
him?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish
beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with
me;
My heart is in the coffin there with
Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to
me.

Here, Antony uses
verbal irony, namely sarcasm (saying
the opposite of what he means) to use Brutus' words against him.  If Brutus says Caesar was
"ambitious" and if Brutus is "honorable," then Antony can, by proving the former charge (Caesar
was "ambitious) is false, also prove the latter tag is false (Brutus is
"honorable").

Antony proves both of these using a
repetition of argument,
counter-argument,
sarcasm, and rhetorical questions.  He
repeatedly says "Brutus is an honourable man" in a sarcastic way to prove, obviously,
that he doesn't mean it.  We can conclude, therefore, that Brutus saying Caesar was "ambitious"
is likewise false, but not sarcastic.  So, sarcastic "lies" expose and trump actual lies.  In the
end, Antony pits Brutus's words against what he and the crowd know.  Antony thus
exposes the validity of proof over words and logos (facts) over
pathos (emotion).

I was just listening to a programme on Elgar and not paying complete attention missed the title of a beautiful poem by his wife.I will try to get...

I think you are speaking of
a poem from a collection called the Lute Song. The writer of the
lyrics is C. Alice Elgar, the daughter of Henry Roberts; she was born in India.  She
marries Elgar and contributes a number of her poems to his music. Her influence on him
was very strong as she becomes his inspiration and
partner.

I am guessing the poem in question is
"Love Alone Will Stay," written in three stanzas of three lines with each line rhyming
within the stanza.  I include it below.  It is a simple, yet beautiful verse, and if you
find the music, you may also find that this is the work in question.  It comes from a
song cycle originally called Sea Pictures, and renamed
Lute Song.

According the the
Elgar Society:

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"This collection of five poems [Lute Song] set
to music by Elgar has been criticised on a number of pretexts : the poems now seem
rather dated; apart from the rather superficial link of the sea, there is no thematic
interconnection between the poems, so that the cycle as a whole lacks a coherent
structure; and Elgar's settings make little attempt at a grand portrayal of the sea as
other composers have successfully
attempted.

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"Fortunately, the listening public pay little
heed to such criticisms, for the song cycle remains one of the most popular of Elgar's -
and indeed any composer's - vocal works. The second song is of particular interest. ....
Elgar set the poem some three years earlier, publishing it separately under the title
Love Alone but later incorporated it
into the song cycle, in which it is undoubtedly the most charming of the five
songs."

Alice Elgar did,
however, write other pieces used by her husband, including: "O Happy Eyes" (1889), "The
Snow" (1894), and "Fly Singing Bird" (1894).

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"Elgar honed in on “Love Alone Will Stay" [Lute
Song], a short song for piano and voice that he had composed two years earlier. ... his
wife, Caroline Alice Elgar, had written after a long-ago holiday on the Italian island
of Capri. After she made slight adjustments to the text, he orchestrated the song as “In
Haven.” Alice’s revised poem gave rise to the underlying maritime metaphor that links
Sea Pictures...."

Here is the
poem; I hope this is the work for which you were
searching:

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Closely cling, for winds drive fast,

Blossoms perish in the blast,

Love alone will last.

Closely let me hold thy hand,

Storms are sweeping sea and land,

Love alone will stand.

Kiss my lips, and softly
say,

"Joy may go and sunlit day,

Love alone will
stay."

What would the sequel be for "The Sniper"?

"The Sniper" is about the Irish Civil War between the
Republicans and Free Staters, and we learn in the story that the war has separated
friends and family. At the end of the story, the sniper discovers that he has killed his
brother. With all this in mind, I would assume that in a sequel, O'Flaherty would pick
up on plot development in the first story, and capitalize also on the clues left about
the sniper's mindset at the end of the story.

Although the
sniper is a fanatic—someone who is radically dedicated to a cause—when he first shoots
the other sniper (and still does not know the other sniper's identity), his first
reaction is anger—anger at the war and all the senseless death that comes with it. (This
is when he throws his revolver on the ground, it misfires, and it almost takes his head
off.) Before he even knows whom he has killed, his reaction indicates that the constant
fighting, while a challenge, is taking its toll on the man's peace of mind. Perhaps,
too, he is arriving at a place, especially after his brother's death at his own hand,
that he will start to look within to take stock of where his life is going, and whether
or not he will have any kind of future that does not deal with the killing of others or,
ultimately, his own death.

In a sequel, I would anticipate
the sniper's devastation at what he has done. Not only will he have to face himself in
the mirror, but also his family—his parents—and his friends. What could he possibly say
that could in any way justify his brother's death, in his own
mind?

It would make sense, then, that the sniper would
separate himself from the military. Because the war rages all around him and it is
nearly impossible for civilians, as well as men try to forget the past, to separate
themselves from the bombings and shootings that occur every day, I would expect the
sniper to pack his things and move to the United States. (He could go anywhere, but I
would think work might be easier to find in the US at that time—just prior to the
Depression in the late 1920s.)

In the US, or any other
country, the sniper would be able to begin again. He could probably get work as the
Industrial Revolution has arrived in the US. He would be able to find a place to live,
work hard, maybe meet someone, get married, and build a life that has the promise of a
future. However, in order to fight the ghosts that would haunt him, I would expect that
he would have to find something bigger than himself to help make the world a better
place. It might come in the form of helping others, or finding comfort in religion. Only
in this way do I feel he could find some sense of
inner-peace.

If I were to write a sequel to "The Sniper",
or guess what one might be about, I believe the sniper would try to put his past behind
him and start over somewhere else.

Explain why it is crucial that you identify the sources that you have used in your essay.

There are two reasons for this. One is "legal," or technical,
and the other is ethical or moral.

The first one reason is that you
would not want to get in trouble. From a purely pragmatic point of view, you should identify the
sources that you have used so that you do not get punished for plagiarism. Of course, this is
simply about avoiding punishment; it is not a positive reason why you are ethically obligated to
identify your sources.

The ethical reason is that you should be
honest about what is your work and your ideas. If you simply take other people's work and ideas
and pass them off as your own, you are essentially stealing. You are also lying because you are
saying that something was your own idea when it really was not. Both stealing and lying are
unethical and therefore you should cite your sources.

Overall, then,
you should cite sources both to avoid punishment and to be sure that you are acting in an ethical
manner.

If 8^x=2 and 3^(x+y)=81 then y=?

We'll write 8^x = 2^3x

We'll
re-write 8^x = 2 <=> 2^3x = 2

Since the bases are
matching, we'll get:

3x = 1

We'll
divide by 3:

x = 1/3

We'll use the
product property of
exponentials:

 3^(x+y)=3^x*3^y

We'll
substitute x by 1/3 and we'll write 81 as a power of 3:

 3^(1/3 + y)
= 3^4

Since the bases are matching, we'll
get:

1/3 + y = 4

We'll subtract 1/3, to
isolate y to the left side:

y = 4 -
1/3

y = 11/3

In Lord of the Flies, Chapter 6, where is Castle Rock mentioned?

Ralph and the biguns discovered Castle Rock in chapter six. The
castle is mentioned on page 148 when the boys were approaching the island on the hunt for the
beast.

Ralph dismissed
Simon and returned to his personal hell. They would reach the castle
some time; and the chief would have to go
forward.

Sam and Eric had been tending
to the fire when they allegedly saw the beast. The twins ran away and later informed the rest of
boys. The boys were horrified as the twins recounted their ordeal. Ralph and the older boys
decided to confirm the allegations by going to the only location where they had not explored.
Apart from the beast, Ralph was worried about the signal fire on the mountain, which was
essential for their rescue. He thus agreed to go on the hunt for the beast so they could
establish the true nature of the creature and face it once and for all. Jack led the way to
Castle Rock, which was a smaller island connected to the main island by a rocky
ledge.

He followed
Jack toward the castle where the ground rose slightly. On their left
was an impenetrable tangle of creepers and trees.

Ralph parted the
screen of grass and looked out. There were only a few more yards of stony ground and then the two
sides of the island came almost together so that one expected a peak of headland. But instead of
this a narrow ledge of rock, a few yards wide and perhaps fifteen long, continued the island out
into the sea. There lay another of those pieces of pink squareness that underlay the structure of
the island.

What are ways that Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman relates to his own life?

This is a great question. Certainly one of the key experiences
that shaped Arthur Miller's work was his first-hand experience of the Great Depression, which
could be argued to represent the catastrophic failure of capitalism. Arthur Miller's own father
had a clothing business which experienced tremendous financial problems at this time and Arthur
Miller himself worked as a travelling salesman. In addition, he had an interesting in learning
how to build, and when Willy buys wood and builds a porch, this is an experience taken directly
from Miller's life. Interestingly, Miller also worked when he was a schoolboy in a car parts
warehouse for a pitiful sum.

It is clear that Miller's experiences,
both personally and the experiences of his family, therefore have much in common with the action
of this amazing play. Miller himself admitted that he had a brief flirtation with the ideas of
Communism and Marxism, and while he declares that this play is not an attempt to destroy the
social system of America, we can see that he is trying to expose some of the falsity surrounding
American Capitalism and the American Dream.

What is the equation of the line (in y=mx+b form) that passes through (-3,1) and is perpendicular to the line 2x-5y=-17?

We need to find the line in the form (y= mx +
b).

Given the point (-3, 1) passes through the
line.

The, we will write the line equation in the slope
form.

==> y- y1= m (x-x1) where (x1,y1) is any point
passes through the line and m is the slope.

Then, we will
substitute the point.

==> ( y -1) = m
(x+3)

But, given the perpendicular line 2x-5y =
-17.

We know that the product of the slopes =
-1.

Let us determine the slope of the perpendicular
line.

==> 2x -5y =
-17

==> -5y = -2x -
17

==> y= (2/5)x
+17/5.

Then, the perpendicular slope is
2/5.

==> (2/5)* m =
-1

==> m =
-5/2

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

==> y-1 = (-5/2)x -
15/2

==> y= (-5/2)x - 15/2 +
1

==> y= (-5/2)x -
13/2

Discuss Gatsby character development and how relates to larger themes.

This is a really broad question, but here are a few things
for you to think about in regards to Jay Gatsby.

1.  He
lives on West Egg, the "new money" side of town.

2.  He
throws lavish parties in the hopes of attracting Daisy's
attention.

3.  He is likely involved in gangster activities
as evidenced by his assocation with a man like
Wolfsheim.

4.  He has loved and longed for Daisy for years,
and has accumulated great wealth in an effort to regain
her.

5.  He has actually had grand ambitions since
childhood, so Daisy isn't his only motive.

6. He has a
naive and optimistic view of life -- he even thinks you can repeat the
past.

7.  He is loyal to Daisy, even when it becomes
apparant to us that he will never truly get her back.

All
of these elements of his characterization play into the most salient of the themes of
the novel:  the achievement and decay of the American Dream; true love; reality vs.
illusion; the moral corruption of society, especially of the upper classes; infidelity;
honesty/dishonesty; and the list could go on.

In order
to respond to this task, you need to consider some specific thing you know about Gatsby,
and then connect it to some specific point that Fitzgerald is making throughout the
novel.  You can take the above lists and start making some connections there, and then
you can fill in with other details of Gatsby's character and connect those to a specific
theme or themes. 

What are some symbols in The Good Earth?

In The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck uses
several examples of symbolism.  The pearls that O-lan places between her breasts, the
House of Hwang, and Wang Lung's disabled daughter (the "fool") are all examples of
symbols found in this novel; of course, there are many
more.

When Wang Lung discovers that O-lan has stolen jewels
from the rich man's house in the city, he is adament that the jewels be "put into land
this very day."  However, it saddens O-lan to part with the precious gems, so Wang Lung
feels compassion for her and allows her to keep two
pearls.

Then
Wang Lung, without comprehending it, looked for an instant into the heart of this dull
and faithful creature, who had labored all her life at some task at which she won no
reward and who in the great house had seen others wearing jewels which she never even
felt in her hand once.

Later
in the story, Wang Lung ceases to truly care for his wife and eventually takes the
pearls, which she has treasured, from her.  The pearls are a symbol for their
relationship; Wang Lung gives a part of himself to his wife, but eventually takes
himself from her (loves others and doesn't care for her).  O-lan treasures the pearls,
just as she treasured her husband.  In both cases, she is powerless against her
loss.

The House of Hwang represents temptation and evil. 
As Wang Lung attempts to obtain for himself all of the luxuries he associates with the
House of Hwang, his life becomes filled with material possessions and he loses sight of
its true meaning.  Wang Lung turns away things he should value most, such as O-lan; as
he grows old, however, he realizes that the temptations of the "Great House" were
valueless.

Wang Lung's mentally disabled daughter, the
"fool," is a symbol of happiness.  She wants nothing except what she must have to
survive, yet she is truly happy.  The child is content with a full belly and a patch of
sunshine in which to rest and warm herself.  Her contentment with simplicity stands in
sharp contrast to Wang Lung's attempts to procure material
wealth.

Is there imagery in "London" by William Blake?

I wander thro' each charter'd
street,

Near where the charter'd Thames does
flow. 

And mark in every face I
meet

Marks of weakness, marks of
woe.

In every cry of every Man,
In every
Infants cry of fear,
In every voice: in every ban,
The mind-forg'd manacles I
hear 

How the Chimney-sweepers
cry

Every blackning Church
appalls, 

And the hapless Soldiers
sigh

Runs in blood down Palace
walls 

But most thro' midnight streets I
hear

How the youthful Harlots
curse

Blasts the new-born Infants
tear 

And blights with plagues the Marriage
hearse 

There is a great deal of imagery in
"London," but it is of a very unusual kind. The images are best described as "surrealistic." They
call to mind the paintings of Salvador Dali, especially the blood running down Palace walls.
Blake makes the London of his day seem like a hell on earth. Another painter they call to mind
is Hieronymus Bosch. Blake was a painter himself, and he produced fantastic works drawn from an
imagination akin to that of Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire. Yet another artist who comes
to mind is William Hogarth, a contemporary of Blake, best known for his etchings and engravings
depicting life among the lower classes in London in the 18th
century.

Some of the images in the poem are the
following:

"Marks of weakness, marks of woe." Perhaps
only Blake could perceive these marks in every single face he saw in a crowded metropolis like
London. We can still see such marks in some people's faces in any big American city, but not in
every face.

"The mind-forged manacles I hear." He could
see the manacles in people's voices. He sees what he hears. That is, his
auditory sense is somehow connected to his visual sense. It was the French philosopher
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, one of the writers who helped inspire the French Revolution, who wrote the
famous words, "Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains." How does everyone come to wear
chains? It must be because they are captives of their own
minds. 

"How the Chimney-sweepers cry / Every blackning
Church appalls." Here again what he hears becomes something he sees. What he sees is all the
churches, which are getting increasingly blacker from the soot produced by coal smoke of homes
and factories, looking frightened, appalled, backing away in horror from the spectacle of the
little children who earn their livings by climbing in and out of dirty chimneys, getting blacker
and blacker themselves, and dying at an early age of lung disease. The blackening churches seem
like living beings. Their windows are like wide-open eyes staring in horror at the scene Blake is
painting with words. These churches are ineffectual in changing the miserable lives of the
Londoners, who are addicted to beer and gin as anesthetics and
soporifics. 

"How the youthful Harlots curse / Blasts the
newborn Infants tear / And blights with plagues the marriage Hearse." And again the real curses
he hears make him see the infant's tears already contaminated with syphilis germs and the bride
and groom going off to make more infants who will likewise be infected because the groom has been
consorting with diseased young prostitutes and will pass his disease on to his wife and her
babies.

What is the relationship between mass and high culture?

I think that the relationship that exists between both
expressions of culture is that one envelops the other.  The notion of mass or general culture is
one where individuals are sharing a set of common values or beliefs.  These help to establish an
identity of a particular group or social and collective entity.  The notion of high culture is a
bit different.  This refers to the appreciation and vaulting of cultural products that reflect an
"elevated" sensibility.  High culture is a bit more discerning than a generalized vision of mass
culture.  For example, all culture features art that is a part of its expression.  Yet, not every
culture is privy to the construction and appreciation of work samples that represent high
culture.  In the end, this notion of the cultural expression of elements that represent
distinction and notions that lie above the fray of mass culture is what defines high culture and
its expression.  On some levels, this can sound rather elitist, but I think that proponents of
high culture would argue that there should be acknowledgement of endeavors that represent the
essence of human greatness and the very best of what can be done by human beings' use of freedom
and autonomy.  This becomes the basis for the appreciation of high
culture.

In Lord of The Flies, what does William Golding teach us about power and its abuse?

Without power one cannot abuse.  This is an obvious lesson
brought forth in William Golding's Lord of the Flies.   In this
story, both of the leaders, Jack and Ralph, are able to abuse other boys on the island.
Jack is able to abuse all of the choir boys because of the power Ralph gives him.  At
the same time, Ralph is able to abuse the boys, mainly his constant mistreatment of
Piggy, throughout the book.  However, Golding shows over and over again that power is
most often taken to the extreme.  Jack uses his power to create savages on the island,
leading to the death of two innocent boys.  Power, in the wrong hands, can only be
abusive.  Golding teaches that power must be placed in the right hands, and there must
be a checks and balances to prevent abuse.  Piggy was the balance for Raph,
unfortanately, Jack did not have anyone to balance his power.  Power was all he wanted,
and because of that, the island became a place of evil.

In "To Kill a Mockingbird," what is the relationship between Ewell and Finch? Tim Johnson and the neighbors? In To Kill a Mockingbird what is the...

Before the alleged rape, there was little to no relationship
between these two families. They were not in the same social class and did not mingle except in
school. Scout, at the ripe old age of six, knows that the Ewells attend the first day of school
and then drop out for the year. That way, they get their names registered as students at the
school. Unless Atticus were to defend a Ewell for some crime, they would not associate with each
other. The Ewells lived next to the dump and scavenged what they could to live. Everyone in town
knows of the Ewells, but none associate with them with the exception of Tom Robinson, who felt
sorry for Mayella. She was the only one who took care of anything, and she seemed to have no
help. Tom's compassion got him killed. A black man could never feel sorry for a white woman in
those days.

What are three samples of figurative language that Michael Shaara used in The Killer Angels?

There are endless examples of figurative language in Michael
Shaara's Civil War novel, The Killer Angels. Figurative language can include
a variety of literary devices, including the simile, metaphor, cliche, personification,
hyperbole,
etc.

Examples:

• ...
  the dust hung above the army like a yellow veil. (Harrison, Part 1, Chapter
  1). This simile compares the thick dust to a colored veil.


• ...
  he awoke to a murderous sun (Chamberlain, Part 1 Chapter 2). The sun cannot
  literally murder in this personification, since murder is a human
  trait.


• He felt an eerie fragility, like a piece of thin
  glass in a high hot wind (Chamberlain, Part 1, Chapter 2). This simile compares his
  fragile state of mind to a piece of glass about to be broken in a strong
  wind.


• The great roar was composed of a thousand
  different rips and whispers... like a great orchestra of death (Part 4, Chapter 3).
  The first part is a hyperbole, an exaggeration of the roar of battle; the second part is a
  simile, comparing the noise to an orchestra.

What does the destruction of the second creature in Frankenstein say about the role of women?

The role of women in Frankenstein is quite
delineated: Women are nurturing, loving, supporting, and this is the reason why the creature went
straight to Victor's bride to kill her: It knew that Victor regarded her in such high esteem and
loved her so much that it would devastate him. And it did.

When
Victor destroyed the second creature, he did it under the assumption that the first creature
would procreate with the second one. Victor shrieked at the idea that a new race of monsters
would come out of such morbid union, and decided not build her. Similarly, the monster wanted the
2nd creature to be created using as his argument that he needed company, and he wanted to have
the same chance as Victor to make a life with someone.

However,
destroying that second female creature means that the "monster" kind has come to an end,
therefore, women have the unique role of bringing life into the world, to permeate the world with
life, and to keep the human race going.  Not having a female in the story means that the end is
near.

Explain the poem "The Voice" by Thomas Hardy with full details.

Rather than give you an in depth analysis, I will aim to
provide you with a general summary of this excellent poem. After all, part of the fun of
poetry is analysing it yourself! So to give a brief introduction, this poem is part of a
sequence of poetry that remembers Hardy's marriage to Emma and his love for her. It is
one of many elegies that he wrote after her death as he tries to come to terms with his
grief and the loss of her.

This poem thus begins with Hardy
hearing Emma's voice calling him, saying that she has reverted to her earlier self which
he loved so much. However, the poem raises serious doubts about whether it is really her
or not. Hardy says he wants to see her as she was in Cornwall in the earliest days of
their courtship. But already he has lost his confidence in her reality. Perhaps it was
just the sound of the breeze. Emma is gone forever and he is a desolate old man. In my
opinion, this is one of the bleakest poems in the sequence of elegies. The last stanza,
from my perspective, is incredibly masterful as we are left with the picture of a grief
stricken old man trying to move on, both physically and emotionally, in his
life:

Thus I;
faltering forward,

Leaves around me
falling,

Wind oozing thin through the thorn from
norward,

And the woman
calling.

We are left with a
picture of a man haunted by the possibility of hearing his dead wife and trying to press
on with great difficulty. Note the alliteration that gives this stanza its structure in
"faltering forward" and "falling" and then "thin through the thorn" which present a very
bleak picture. The poem ends where it began - with the tantalising yet haunting voice of
his love on the wind and the speaker of the poem struggling to live with the loss of his
wife.

So any analysis will want to consider how the setting
and in particular the weather ties in with the mood, and also it will want to focus on
the speaker and his state of mind as expressed in the poem.

What is a possible thesis statement concerning the theme of choices & consequences?One that is easy to support using quotes.

In my mind, I think that a possible thesis statement
concerning the theme of choice and consequences might involve how personal commitment is
needed to substantiate these decisions.  Antigone might be the best example of this. 
She is fully aware of the consequences of breaking Creon's order.  Yet, she believes
that she is acting towards a higher end of justice, something that transcends the legal
conditions set forth by Creon's rule.  In her belief of the authenticity of her choices,
Antigone is acting in complete concert with her choices.  She embodies how her decisions
involve a level of personal commitment that requires total and absolute commitment.  She
never wavers in this belief and she understands what is at stake.  The thesis could
surround this reality is that individuals must abide by the consequences of her choice,
from which there is no escape.  Creon must do the same with the realities of his choice
of enforcing his edict at the cost of his family and his own sense of suffering.  Ismene
must also live with the fact that she acted with a stench of cowardice in her ability to
stand for her sister, something that would have tormented her when Antigone dies and she
must live.

A right triangle abc with sinA/x+1=sinB/x^2+1=siny/2x..How could i find all the right triangles which meet the conditions?all saides are rational...

Since the triangle ABC is a right triangle, then one of it's
angles is 90 degrees.

We'll put A = 90
degrees.

That means that B+C = 90
degrees.

We know that sin 90 = sin A =
1.

We'll re-write the condition given by
enunciation:

sin A/(x+1) = sin B/(x^2 + 1) = sin
C/2x

We'll substitute sin A by
1:

1/(x+1) = sin B/(x^2 + 1) = sin
C/2x

We'll take the 2nd and the 3rd ratios and we'll use the
following property:

a/b =
c/d

(a+c)/(b+d) = c/d

sin B/(x^2 + 1) =
sin C/2x

(sin B + sin C)/(x^2 + 2x + 1) = sin
C/2x

(sin B + sin C)/(x + 1)^2 = sin
C/2x

1/(x+1) = sin C/2x

sin C =
2x/(x+1)

(sin B + sin C)/(x + 1)^2 =
1/(x+1)

(sin B + sin C)/(x + 1) = 1

sin
B + sin C = x+1

From all the identities above, we'll get 2x =
x+1.

2x - x = 1

x =
1

The right angle triangles that satisfy the given
constraint have x = 1.

Is Cooum River a boon or a curse for Chennai?

It might be a bit too harsh to call the river a curse.  I
think that the fundamental challenge of the river is that it has become subject to a
great deal of pollution.  The Cooum River is the victim to heavy pollution.  One need
only inhale the air by it and the reality of pollution is brutal.  This is not something
that can be blamed on the river.  It is the fault of people and industries that have
used the river as a dumping ground.  The river itself has become a source of pollution. 
That being said, I also think that people fully grasp the river as a source of relative
location in the city.  Most Chennai folk understand the river as an area of the city, as
it is near or en route to the Central Rail station and adjacent to the beachline.  I
cannot call it either a boon or a curse, but I think that there has to be some
legislative guideline that prohibits its disrespect through
pollution.

How much did it cost to build the Palace of Versailles?

The chef d'oeuvre [major work] of
seventeenth French classicism, the Palace of Versailles, an expression of Louis XIV's
absolute power, was built at great expense to the French people.  It is estimated that
60% of France's revenue [in today's money this would be approximately $2 billion
dollars] was expended on this extragant venture which also cost many of the workers
their lives as they contracted malaria from the swamp land on which the palace was
constructed.  Because there was not enough water for the many fountains the Sun King
wanted to run all the time, messengers ran ahead of him when he took a stroll through
the formal gardens and grounds.  The alerted serants turned the fountains on and off as
the king passed them. 

There were three major figures
involved in the construction of this magnificent edifice which was formed from the
highest grade of materials:  Louis le Vau, the chief architect; Charles LeBrun, the
interior designer; and Andre leNotre, the landscape architect. 

What is the importance of women in Shakespeare's plays?

This, as you are probably aware, is quite a large topic,
one that books, in fact, have been written about.  A book I would recommend for more
detailed research on this question is As She Likes It:  Shakespeare's Unruly
Women by Penny Gay for Routledge Press.

Here are
a few general observations to get you
started:

• Shakespeare worked in a theatrical
  world in which women did not perform onstage.  The use of boys and men to play the
  female characters affected Shakespeare's creation of his female characters, many of
  which are strong and quite masculine in their natures.  Shakespeare, we can assume, took
  inspiration from the underlying real masculinity of the actors playing these strong
  female characters -- characters like Lady Macbeth, Juliet, Beatrice in Much
  Ado, Kate in Taming of the Shrew and
  Cleopatra.


• There are female characters in Shakespeare's
  plays who are important to the story, but who do not have, relative to the male
  characters in the plays, a very prominent speaking part.  Hero in Much
  Ado, Desdemona in Othello and Ophelia in
  Hamlet fall into this category.  These characters are onstage in
  many scenes in which they say very little and are important to consider in that they
  represent, for the most part, the more traditional females from Shakespeare's
  society.


• The women in Shakespeare's plays have had a
  profound effect on characters who have come after them in literature. Also, we still,
  today in 2010, can see many of these characters performed and feel a strong connection
  to and understanding of the situations and feelings of these women.  This speaks to the
  breathtaking universality of the women created by
  Shakespeare.

Please follow the links below for
more discussion of and information about the importance of women in Shakespeare's
plays.

Essay topic: Machines in man's life.As an essay I must give facts.

Though your question is a bit vague, it sounds like you
are looking for ideas for an essay about how machines have affected man's life.  I will
give you a couple ideas to think about.  First, though you clearly must include some
factual evidence, you could write a personal essay and talk about how machines have
affect your life.  You could, for example, compare and contrast the
speed of information in your life to a grandparent's life.  Or, you could simply write
about how your life would be different without things like technology, cars, planes, or
microwaves.

In another direction, you could leave yourself
out of this essay completely and write about the historical progression of machines from
their beginning to where we are today.  Follow the link provided below to see a list of
how machines are classified.  In order to keep this essay as focused as possible, I
would probably choose only one type of machine from the list and go into detail about
it.