Why did the Japanese migrate to Hawaii in the 1800s

Geographers talk about "push" and "pull" factors that cause
migration.  There were both in this case.

In terms of the "pull"
factors that made Japanese want to go to Hawaii, the main one was the availability of jobs.  In
the 1800s, the Hawaiian sugar industry was booming and the plantation owners needed workers. 
Asia was the nearest source of workers and many Asians (Japanese included) went to
Hawaii.

In terms of "push" factors, the main one was overpopulation
and the lack of economic opportunity that went along with it.  Even though the reforms of the
Meiji era were taking place, Japan's economy was not yet doing so well and there were not that
many ways for people to make money in Japan.

Prove that the graphs of the functions f(x)=2x+1 and g(x)=x^2+x+1 have a point of intersection.

The intercepting point that is located on the line
described by f(x) and parabola described by g(x), in the same time,  is the intercepting
point of the line and parabola.

So, the y coordinate of the
point verify the equation of f(x) and the equation of g(x), in the same
time.

2x+1=x^2+x+1

We'll move
all term to one side and we'll combine like
terms:

x^2-x=0

We'll factorize
by x:

x*(x-1)=0

We'll put each
factor as
zero:

x=0

x-1=0

We'll
add 1 both
sides:

 x=1

Now,
we'll substitute the value of x in the equation of the line, because it is much more
easier to compute
y.

y=2x+1

x=0

y=2*0+1,
y=1

So the first pair of coordinates of intercepting point:
M(0,1) 

x=1

y=2*1+1=3

So
the second pair of coordinates of intercepting point:
N(1,3).

So, the graphs of the functions f and
g are intercepting and their intercepting points are: M(0,1) and N(1,3).

What does Thoreau advise people to do to ensure their lives are not “frittered away by detail”?

"Simplicity! Simplicity! Simplicity!" Thoreau ponders the
state of man in his time who feels that the nation must have a government bulging with
bureaucracies--"petty states" as Germany had at the time--commerce, and all kinds of
"progress." Satirically, Thoreau asks,

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If we do not get out sleepers, and forge rails,
and devote days and nights to the work, but go to tinkering upon
our lives to improve them, who will build
railroads? And if railroads are not built, how shall we get to heaven in season? But if
we stay at home and mind our business, who will want railroads? We do not ride on the
railroad; it rides upon
us.

Thoreau refers to many
men who died in the construction of railroads, men whose lives were lost in the name of
"progress"; men whose lives were, in fact, wasted in "such a hurry and waste of
life."

If a society were to keep itself in "simplicity,"
people could live more authentic lives and not be slaves to commerce or the development
of complications of life in the name of "progress." Men will not have to wake up in the
morning with obligations to others; instead, they can live their own lives in a manner
in which they do what is meaningful to them and those that love
them. 

Consider a levee as a flood control method, what is a levee and is it supposed to work?

A Levee is an embankment built along the sides of rivers,
streams and the sea as vertical or sloping walls. They are usually made of mud and prevent
flooding by stopping the water from flowing into areas that lie beside the water body by blocking
it.

To construct a levee a small area along the side of the water
body is cleared. Earth is deposited on this plain area as structures which taper upwards. A small
flat area is also created on top so that additional material could be piled there in case the
water level equals that of the levee. After the earth has been deposited measures have to be
implemented to prevent erosion, both on the side facing the river as well as the opposite
side.

Even if a small portion of a levee fails it is equivalent to
the whole structure failing and large areas beside the water bodies can get flooded. This
requires that the regulations which are meant for construction of a levee are strictly adhered
to.

What is the theme of "Traveling Through the Dark" by William Stafford?I think that it could be Technology vs. Mankind, but I keep being told that...

Given that poems, like all texts, are subject to personal
interpretation, the reader's response to the poem is how a theme is detected. In order to support
one's denotation of a theme, one must have substantial textual and interpretative evidence to
support the theme.

That being said, the idea of the theme speaking
to the problems associated with the battle between technology (mankind) and
nature can be justified.

The poem details the
problems which may arise when nature and mankind meet. If the car had not been driving down the
road, the doe would not have been hit by a car. Herein lies the main conflict: man verses
nature.

One could ponder whether or not man has impacted nature in
such a way as to destroy nature. In the poem, man wins. Not only has a car killed the doe, the
speaker (in the end) kills the baby deer. In this circumstance, man is (by far) more powerful
than nature.

The speaker, though, has a moment where he (assumptive
based upon the gender of the author) stops and allows nature to listen to the decision he must
make. Will the speaker try to save the baby deer or, will he end its life? In the end, the
speaker chooses to end the life of the baby deer.

I have a book by Shirley Jackson inscribed "For Ann and Bern with warmest affection. Shirley, September 1962." Please help me identify the recipients.

WOW! I do believe that the book you possess may be a piece of
true literary history. Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) lived most of her life in New England with her
husband, the literary critic Stanley Hyman (1919-1970). They had many friends in the literary
field and knew many other contemporary writers of the time. It is known that she often
corresponded with Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), the Brooklyn-born
writer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1967 (for The
Fixer). Malamud's nickname was "Bern" and his wife was Ann De Chiara Malamud
(1917-2007). Almost certainly your book was presented by Jackson to either Malamud himself and/or
his wife, Ann, making it a wonderful piece of literary nostalgia that was once owned and handled
by not one but two great American writers.

Examine Blake’s twin poems ‘The tyger’ and ‘The Lamb’ as ‘two aspects of God and two states of man’.Blake’s twin poems ‘The...

Blake published "The Tyger" in his collection entitled
Songs of Experience, and "The Lamb" in his collection entitled
Songs of Innocence. Generally, the two natures depicted in the poem
can be described as savagery and innocence.

Describing God
in terms of these two words is simple. Both poems wonder at creation. In "The Tyger" the
central question is "What immortal hand or eye/could frame thy fearful symmetry?" This
is saying, basically, what could possibly have created such a powerful creature? "The
Tyger" points out the powerful nature of God, and even questions if possibly the devil
could have made such a brutal, fiery creature as a
tiger.

"The Lamb" also relates to creation, but in a
different way. Instead of asking who made the lamb, the narrator is telling the lamb who
made him/her. The lamb's gentle nature is how God is usually depicted in Christianity,
especially by Jesus.

The two aspects of man depicted in the
poems are experience (usually seen as corrupt or evil during the Romantic period) and
innocence. "The Tyger" shows the experience side of man by referring to war: "When the
stars threw down their spears
And water'd heaven with their
tears:
Did he smile his work to see?"
 and industry: "What the
hammer? what the chain,
In what furnace was thy
brain?"

In "The Lamb" the narrator remarks that Lamb and
Man are both made in God's image and called by God's name. "He is called by thy
name,
For he calls himself a Lamb:
He is meek & he is
mild,
He became a little child:
I a child & thou a
lamb,
We are called by his name"

What does George Orwell explain in the three parts of the novel 1984

The breakdown of the novel was described to me in a very easy to
understand way in my high school literature class (many years
ago).

Orwell broke the novel into three parts, which shows Winston
Smith's growth (and possible regression) throughout the novel.

Part
one focuses primarily on Winston's initial realization and rebellion against his society. This
rebellion is made known only in Winston's thoughts. (Rebellion in
Thought).

It is in Part Two that Winston begins to show a physical
rebellion to big brother. Winston begins to take charge of the freedom he feels society should
have: freedom of speech, thought, and action. He dares to fall in love, only to have it all take
from him. (Rebellion in Action).

In Part Three, Winston falls to the
power of the totalitarian society in which he lives. He simply is not strong enough to take on
the entire nation as an individual and regresses to the brainwashing, and "love,  of "Big
Brother." (Failure of Rebellion to Totalitarian Power).

Compare and contrast these two poems by Clifton and Gray.The two poems are Lucille Clifton’s “At the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, South...

I am only able to answer one question, so I will compare
and contrast the themes of these two poems.

The two poems
deal with the topic of death. This is the commonality that they
share.

However, the theme of Gray's poem "Elegy Written in
a Country Churchyard" is that death is the equalizer of all people,
rich or poor, regardless of whether their graves are adorned with
elegance or poor markers. He asks about what separates those who are great in life and
those who die in humble circumstances: is it for want of opportunity that the poor were
never able to achieve the same greatness as others?

The
theme in "At the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, South Carolina, 1989" has a
completely different focus. This poem deals also with death; it draws attention to the
dead at the plantation who were never recognized as ever existing,
as opposed to being relegated to being rich or poor.

This
poem speaks about a plantation of enormous size, and that its history retold never
mentioned the slaves' hands that brought about its grandeur and success. Clifton asks
about the slaves on a tour, but no one seems to know anything...until they look at
"inventories." Inventories note their existence because slaves were considered property,
and female slaves were not counted, as they were not considered of any significance at
all. Clinton cannot fathom that these people who lived, worked and died—who left their
mark through their labors—were not even credited with existing, let alone with touching
the world in which they lived. At least in Gray's poem, the poor were afforded that
much.

In the first poem, Gray speaks to recognition in
death despite being poor or rich, but Clifton speaks to being recognized at all, rather
than ignored as if lives never mattered enough to be recalled at
all.

What is the acceleration? A person running in a moving train accelerates at 1 m/s. What is the acceleration of the person as measured by someone...

Let us assume the person standing on the station measures the
velocity of the person running on the train at two instances of time t1 and t2 to calculate the
acceleration. If the person has a velocity v1 with respect to the train at time t1 and a velocity
v2 with respect to the train at t2, the person on the station measures the velocity at t1 as v1 +
60*1000/3600 m/s and at t2 as v2 + 60*1000/3600 m/s.

Now v2 = v1 +
acceleration* time for the person running with respect to the
train.

=> v2 = v1 + 1*(t2 –
t1)

The observer sees that v2 + 60*1000/3600 = v1 + 60*1000/3600 +
1*(t2 – t1)

we can cancel
60*1000/3600

=> v2 = v1 + 1*(t2 –
t1)

Therefore the observer also measures an
acceleration of 1 m/s^2.

What is a good approach to discussing the ways Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon present conflict in their poems?I also want to compare their...

One approach to discussing the ways Wilfred Owen and
Siegfried Sassoon present conflict in their poems is to look at the ideas of autonomy,
free will and control. In the time of Tennyson, people-including soldiers-were more
subject to class barriers regarding education. Everyone knew their place and stayed in
it and so there was a tendency by soldiers of any age to 'trust their elders and
betters' in terms of officers, obedience and possible insubordination. Those ideas were
still present in the time of Owen and Sassoon, but equality in education was creeping
up, and questions were starting to be thought, if not asked. We can see this in the
development of the war poetry written by both men. At first the conflict is seen as
regrettable but worthwhile in protecting a beloved homeland.However, the means of it's
execution becomes more and more criticized as the poetry matures until eventually the
glory of dying for one's country is held up to scrutiny.

Can three lines intersect each other and form more than one triangle?

3 lines can tersect  at most 3C2  = 3 points only. So 3 points
of intersection  form one triangle.

If the 3 lines are parallel,
then  there is no tersection of lines.Therefore , no triangle is
formed.

If any ewo lines are parallel, and the 3rd is not parallel,
then there one non parallel line intersect the other two parallel line at 2 points. No triangle
is formed in this case.

All 3 lines can pass through one single
point. We say then the  3 lines are concurrent at one point. So there one limitting point
triangle of zero dimension and zero area.

So the in the first case
only the 3 points of intersection  forma triangle. In no case there can be more than one
triangle.

predict which whould have greater biodiversity: a tropical rain forest or the tundra? explain your answer.about a paragraph long. 5 to 10 sentences.

Biodiversity means the amount of species in a given ecosystem or
biome. A tropical rainforest has warmer temperatures, greater amount of insulation throughout the
year and a constant supply of rain. Therefore, a tropical rainforest has greater biodiversity. In
one tree, for example, there can be hundreds of species of insects, birds, reptiles, mammals, and
even other plants growing on top of the tree. In contrast, because of the harsh cold winter, the
short growing season, the frozen ground(permafrost) for much of the year, the tundra is the least
biodiverse. Moss and lichens are the predominant plants, as tree roots could not penetrate the
frozen ground and are not adapted for this biome. There are a small amount of animals adapted to
the climate that can survive here. There are many insects in summer, some birds, some mammals
like the arctic hare and reindeer but the numbers of different species cannot compare to those in
a tropical rainforest.

Discuss three significant actions that Abigail takes in The Crucible.

Regrettably, Abigail can be considered the main catalyst to the
drama in Miller's work. I think that you can find more than three actions that impact the story
in a significant way. For me, I think that some of the most telling moments come in the very
first Act, the very first scene. Consider how Abigail acts towards the girls when the adults are
gone. She is the ringleader, the driving focus behind the rumors and the entire situation
surrounding the accusations of witchcraft in Salem. When the other girls reflect a moment of
weakness in wanting to "come clean," Abigail demonstrates herself to be "the straw that stirs the
drink:"

Abigail,
however, asserts herself as the strongest of the girls, bullying the others into admitting
nothing other than the fact that they were dancing in the
woods.

Another significant action that
Abigail takes would come in the very next scene between her and John Proctor. When both of them
talk, Abigail reveals the fraudulent nature of the witchcraft charges and it becomes quite
evident that she wants John, willing to do anything to rekindle the spark between them. I would
actually jump to the end of the play for another action of Abigail that is quite significant.
When it is found that she has left Salem, robbing Parris of all his money, it reflects Abigail's
character to have started the calamity in Salem and abandon the town in the wake of what she
created. I think that her departure reflects much of her character and also displays that no
matter what, Abigail, as well the townspeople of Salem, will not face a happy ending in their
capitulation to fear, suspicion, and abdication of collective solidarity.

What is a good thesis statement fort the short story "The Sky is Gray" by Ernest J. Gaines?

In order to give you a thesis statement, I really need to
know what the topic is. Are you writing about a particular theme of the story, one of
the characters, or a conflict? This story is so rich in topics, you could write about
many things. One of the main themes in the story is James' change from a boy into a
young man during his trip to the dentist. Over a period of hours, James understands the
importance of maintaining his dignity in the face of racism and poverty. You would then
go on to give examples from the story that show the change in
James.

Another possible topic might be the title itself.
"The Sky is Gray" not only indicates the physical setting in the story but it also
represents the society in which James and his mother live. Their lives are bleak due to
their poverty and the racist society in which they live. There are a number of events in
the story that would support this thesis.

A thesis
statement usually starts with a general statement about the topic of your essay. For
example, if you're writing about the racism in the story, you might say: "People react
differently to the injustice of racism." Then you would introduce the title of the
story, the author, and any character(s) you plan to use as proof of your thesis. "This
is true of the characters in "The Sky is Gray" by Ernest J. Gaines." You could then use
James' mother, the preacher, and the young student as examples to discuss this
thesis.

I hope this helps. I have included links below to
help you further.

B. Discuss the implications of the following: Kant may say: "We have a 'duty' not to throw trash out of the car window on the freeway."

This is somewhat vague and you may get a better answer if you
will clarify as to what sort of implications you are thinking
of...

To me, the major implication of this statement is that it
claims that Kant is concerned with the impact of our actions on society, not simply with whether
they are personally moral.  When we use the term "duty" we tend to refer to things that we must
do (or not do) because of our place in a society.  Duties tend to be our committments to other
people -- we have a duty to our spouses and our children.

By saying
that not throwing trash is a duty rather than a moral imperative, the statement is implying that
Kant would think of this action in terms of its impact on other rather than in terms of our own
personal morality.

Which are the two numbers whose sum is 20 and the product is the maximum.

Let us assume one of the numbers is x. As the sum of the
two numbers is 20, the other number is 20-x

The product of
the two numbers is a function f(x) = x*(20-x) = 20x-
x^2.

Now we need to find the maximum value of f (x). For
this we need the derivative of f(x) and have to equate it to
0.

f’(x) = 20 – 2x =
0

=> 10 – x
=0

=> x =10.

Now f’’(x)
= -2 which is negative at x=10. So f (10) is truly the maximum
value.

If x=10, the first number is 10 and the second
number is 20-10 = 10.

So the two required
numbers are 10 and 10.

What is the purpose of Macbeth's letter to his wife? (Act 1, scene v)

In Shakespeare's Macbeth, there is a
clear purpose to the letter our "hero" sends to his
wife.

Macbeth, first and foremost, has wondrous news to
tell Lady Macbeth. First, he met witches who offered him predictions. One has already
come true, which means they will have more lands, money and honor in the King's court;
the other promises that he will be King, and she will be Queen one day—it seems obvious
he believes the old women after the first prediction came to be. In learning how excited
he is about being Scotland's sovereign, we get the briefest glimpse of his "vaulting
ambition"—his desire to become King that will eclipse everything else of value in his
life.

We learn that Macbeth and his wife are very close.
Not only because of how he addresses her, but also because he shares his news
immediately rather than letting her wait until he returns
home.

The third and perhaps most important purpose of the
letter is to see how Lady Macbeth reacts to this news. We come to see how hard and
calculating she is, and find that she worries that her husband is too kind to do what
must be done if they are to secure the throne for themselves: which means murdering the
King, for she sees no other way in which the crown can come to
Macbeth.

Then she wishes Macbeth home quickly so that she
can tell him what he needs to hear in order to do what he
must:

Hie thee
hither, that I may pour my spirits in thine ear. (I, v,
20-21)

It almost sounds as if
she is casting her own spell: come quickly so I can pour my evil intentions
("spirits") into your ear, so you won't hesitate to follow
through.

It could logically be argued that without Lady
Macbeth's encouragement, Macbeth might have been satisfied with the rewards he had been
given, and not kill the King: he says as much to his wife when he returns. In essence,
this letter galvanizes the plot forward at the hands of Lady Macbeth's
machinations.

What theories can describe the impact of car accident on a teenage girl's lifespan developemt as described below?A 17 year old girl survived a car...

The girl you describe has suffered a trauma that could be
well-related to a mid- to high-level type of post traumatic stress syndrome, or
PTSD.

Since she suffered this accident during her teenage
years, you must consider that her frontal lobe is close to the last stages of full
development, since it is one of the latest corpus' to fully
grow.

Applying theory, you could say that she has made a
connection between the negative experience of crashing and the normal experience of
driving hence making a normal experience tainted with
negativity.

The theorist that used these type of
experiences as ways to study development was B.F. Skinner. One of his hypothesis within
his theory of behavior is averse stimuli. This is likely what happened to that girl: The
stimulus for driving has turned aversive due to her
accident.

What could be predicted about her growth process
is that she would have to resolve this fear through desensitisation and through behavior
modification in therapy where the experience is brought up (along with all its negative
instances) so that all the affect that comes with it is controlled
systematically.

However, if she does NOT resolve the
situation, she would have what Erickson deemed a gap in psychosocial development that
will lead to further misses in her social growth process as a result of her inability to
make a normal connection to a normal necessity which is to transport oneself from one
place to another.

How did the ideas of fate and the gods affect the lives of people in ancient Rome?

To those living in ancient Rome, the will of the gods controlled
the destinies of all. There were deities for nearly every aspect of life such as a god of the
hearth, Vesta, to keep the fire burning. There was a god of love, Venus. There was a god of war,
Apollo, and multitude of other gods who controlled the lives of the people. At the same time,
those gods were prone to the same emotions and feelings attributed to humans. For example, if a
human were to anger a god in some way by not praying or sacrificing to that god, then that god
could take favor away from that human. Ancient Romans had the comfort of believing that as long
as they properly propitiated the gods, then the gods would treat their lives
fairly.

Whenever Rome as a country was suffering, then the people
believed they had not properly propitiated the gods. To ensure that the gods would keep favor on
the country, there were temples built and strict laws for obeisance by the priests and
priestesses. For example, the priestesses for Vesta, Vestal virgins, dedicated their lives to the
worship of Vesta, and any priestess breaking from the bonds of her service to Vesta would face
ultimate death. Service to the gods was necessary for life in Rome to ensure the gods would
supply a good fate.

Can you please help me find examples to show that Willy lacks personal conviction and direction in Death of a Salesman?

To answer this question, you might look more closely at
Willy's own past.  His father deserted his family when Willy was three.  The flute music
that sounds throughout the play in Willy's flashbacks is the reminder of the father that
Willy never had.  Consequently, Willy doubts his ability to be a good father.  In one
flashback, he seeks Ben's approval about the way he is raising his
sons:

Oh, Ben,
that's good to hear!  Because sometimes I'm afraid that I'm not teaching them the right
kind of--Ben, how should I teach them? 
 

Willy desperately wants to
pattern himself and his sons after his father who according to Ben was a "very great and
a very wild-hearted man," yet Willy is not certain that he is following the right course
either for himself or for his sons.  In fact in the same flashback, he begs Ben to stay
longer to help him figure out if he is on the right path with his sons and with his
career:

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. 

Willy is uncertain
that his career in selling would meet his father's approval. 

What purpose do Dogberry and Verges serve in Much Ado About Nothing?

In general, these characters would have been known as the
clowns, since, in Shakespeare's day, comic actors were called clowns.  Shakespeare wrote
for a company of actors, which means that he always knew in advance which actors would
probably play which parts, so we can assume that he actually wrote parts for certain
actors.

Dogberry and Verges would have been played by two
of his company's clowns, so one major purpose that they served was to amuse the
audience.  This pair have some funny lines, but we can also assume that they created
physical humor to go along with their text, since clowns in Shakespeare's day were well
known for their physical comedy.  This is still true today of many comics, actors like
Jim Carey who rely on physicality to create their
humor.

But these characters also serve a purpose when it
comes to the plot.  They are "law and order" in Messina, and they are the ones that
apprehend Conrad and Borachio, after Claudio and Don Pedro are duped by Don John into
believing that Hero has been unfaithful.  Borachio participated in this scheme, and the
bumbling Dogberry and Verges (with the Watch) apprehend them.  They even try to alert
Leonato before the wedding, but he doesn't take them seriously, so it isn't until Hero
has been shamed and has"died" that the truth comes out.

So,
Dogberry and Verges serve two purposes.  As clowns, they are intended to amuse the
audience, and as characters in the story, they serve a pivotal purpose in the plot of
the play.

How do certain key objects, such as the burned house and the old quilts, focus the reader's attention on the basic conflict of the story?

The objects in "Everyday Use" are cultural heirlooms, symbols of
suffering, slavery, and female domesticity.  As such, they are worthless to outsiders, but
valuable to the women inside the family as emblems of status and matriarchy.  So, Wangero
(explicitly) and Maggie (implicitly) compete over them, much like two daughters competing over
their mother's love.  Whoever possesses them by the end will be the next matriarch and family
historian.

Usually, heirlooms are passed down to males by order of
birthright: the eldest son gets the goods.  But, in the maternal world of "Everyday Use," there
isn't a worthy male in a country mile.  So, Mrs. Johnson must decide, de
facto style, who to bequeath the quilts, churn, and--ultimately--the
house.

Originally, Mama expects it to be her older, more beautiful,
more accomplished daughter Dee.  After all, she has taken the name of two former
matriarchs--Grandma Dee and Big Dee.  She has been groomed for matriarchal status her whole life,
but she turns her back on her culture by adopting another: the fad culture of a Black Muslim
nationalist.  She changes her name, appearance, and attitude.  No longer is she a humble
domestic; rather, she is a spoiled, arrogant, albeit educated,
woman.

As such, Mrs. Johnson feels compelled to give the items,
title, and legacy to Maggie, even though she feels unworthy.  Mrs. Johnson knows these
possessions are worthless, but--as a whole--they are meaningful to these women, for they are
living documents of their domestic past.

How is the setting of Trifles symbolic of Minnie Wright?

The setting of the play Trifles by
Susan Glaspell is symbolic of Mrs. Wright.

The stage is set
in a small, dark kitchen in a small house. It does not have any decoration: it is
without color and without warmth. The room is a mess: there are dirty dishes at the
sink, bread is sitting out, and a towel lies on the table rather than being hung. The
house is physically cold. The feel of this place is more a building than a home. It is
rather lifeless, but one expects it would have been that way even had the owners been
present.

Minnie Wright is very similar. Whereas she used to
be a pretty young thing that sang in the church choir, with a beautiful voice, she has
been robbed of the glow of life. She has been beaten down by the circumstances in which
she lives: her heart is cold. Things are out of order: she has killed her husband. And
like the house, she, too, is lifeless: no smile, no spark in her eyes. When the men come
into the house looking for her husband, she is quietly rocking in a chair. She answers
when spoken to, but she has no energy or animation.

The
house and the woman are dark and cold. Both are joyless and empty of warmth or
life.

Emily Dickinson compared to Robert FrostI would like to compare Dickinson's "Because I could not stop for Death" with Frost's "Stopping by Woods on...

Comparing "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening"  by
Robert Frost, and "Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson, have some
similarities and differences in terms of style.

Both poems
are written in four-line stanzas. The meter of both poems is rhythmic and lilting. Each
poem seem to follow a contrived pattern of beats (but the patterns are
different).

The last way in which the poems are the same is
that each author uses personification.

Frost personifies
the horse—

My
little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse
near

and Dickinson
personifies Death—

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Because I could not stop for Death,
He
kindly stopped for
me;

However, the poems are
dissimilar in several ways.

Frost's poem has a clear rhyme
scheme of AABA.

Dickinson's poem does not have clear rhyme
at all. Some lines might have end rhyme following an ABCB pattern, but there is only one
instance of true rhyme ("ground" / "mound"), and perhaps near rhyme for most of the
remaining stanzas (though it is a far stretch, I think, with "ring" and
"sun").

The meter in Frost's poem is distinct, with four
stressed beats per line. Dickinson's poem is different than Frost's. The pattern she
creates for the most part is comprised of alternating lines of four
beats, then three beats, returning to four beats
again.

Source:

<http://www.poemofquotes.com/articles/poetry_technique.php>

In Much Ado About Nothing, what is Leonato's reaction when Claudio rejects Hero?

The rejection of Hero happens as she and Claudio have come
before the Friar (plus all the characters of the play and the audience) to be married in
Act IV, scene i.  The actual line of accusation is
this:

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Claudio

Not
to be married, not to knit my soul

To an approved
wanton.

To which Leonato at
first tries to appease Claudio by suggesting that if he, Claudio, has been the one to
"de-flower" Hero, then --   But he is cut off by Claudio, who makes it clear that it is
not he that has taken Hero's virginity and that she is "more intemperate" than "those
pamper'd animals/That rage in savage sensuality."

Leonato
then attempts to have Don Pedro speak against this, but, of course, Don Pedro stands
behind Claudio.  Leonato says, "Are these things spoken, or do I but dream?"  And he
"charges" Hero to answer truly who the man was that she "talk'd" with "out at [her]
window" the night before the wedding.  Hero, of course, denies -- truthfully -- talking
with any man.  And, as Claudio and Don Pedro storm out of the wedding, Leonato says,
"Hath no man's dagger here a point for me?"

Once Leonato is
left with his daughter, niece, the Friar and Benedick, he sees that Hero has fallen into
a deathly faint and welcomes it.  He says:

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Death is the fairest cover for her
shame

That may be wish'd
for.

Leonato confirms, with
these words, that he believes the Prince and Claudio over his daughter and that she is
better off dead.  He then has a very long speech about Hero's shame (and his own, since
she is his issue), all based upon the assumption that, since honorable men have accused
her, she must be guilty.

Finally, the Friar and Benedick
(also men) are able to convince Leonato to give Hero's story a chance, and he swears
that, if she has been accused falsely:

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The proudest of them shall well hear of
it.

Time has not yet so dried this blood of
mine,

. . .But they shall find, awak'd in such a
kind,

Both strength of limb and policy of
mind

. . .To quit me of them
throughly.

And from this
point, Leonato is Hero's strongest defender.

What is O. Henry's purpose in writing "One Thousand Dollars?"i need to know what his purpose might of been. i know most stories are ment to...

To me, the purpose of this story (other than
entertainment) is to show that people can change their ways and act in ways that are not
expected of them.

In this story, everyone thinks that Young
Gillian is a total playboy and wastrel.  And it really is true.  He has been very much
like that and he deserves what people think of him.

Even
so, he changes his ways by the end of the story.  Instead of being selfish and immature,
he does something that is really very noble.  He acts in a way that is totally different
from what you would expect given what he has shown in the
past.

So I think this is a story of change and redemption,
showing us that it is never too late for us to change and improve ourselves and our
behaviors.

What are the pros and cons regarding the issue of cloning?

There are too many pros and cons to go into full detail
here, but I can get you started with the most controversial aspects of
it.

Pros:

1)  Most people
think of cloning as **Presto!**, here's a copy of a person.  But cloning is at the
cellular level.  We can, in the future, clone tissue such as skin, bone or muscle, not
to mention organs.  This would be a huge medical advance, and instead of looking for
organ donors and taking anti-rejection drugs for the rest of your life, we could
actually clone your kidney or
spleen.

2)  This could save some animal species from
extinction, and potentialy even resurrect some that have already gone
extinct.

3)  We may discover cures or treatments for myriad
diseases and conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease or Multiple Sclerosis, by cloning a
person's healthy tissue and allowing the body to
regenerate.

Cons:

1)  We do
not know what we're doing.  Human life is not to be experimented with at such a basic
level, as this could and would be abused by governments, companies and individuals.  In
other words, we cannot handle such technology.

2)  In
eventually creating another human being from scratch, what legal rights will clones
have?  The same as humans?  What about the early versions of clones that will probably
be imperfect as the technology is still new?

3)  There are
religious/spiritual objections to the idea of cloning, arguing that, in this case, it is
dangerous and wrong to mess with God/Mother Nature and that no one has the right to
create life in this way when there is a natural way.

Explain why F. Scott Fitzgerald titled "Babylon Revisited" as such. What significance does the title have and what does it relate to?

The title is based on an allusion to the ancient city of
Babylon, which was a symbol of orgiastic decadence. Note how this fits into the plot of the short
story - Charlie is returning to France for the first time since the Wall Street Crash. Before
this point, Americans in Paris lived frenzied, decadent lives, and this story is full of memories
of this time:

He
remembered thousand-franc notes given to an orchestra for playing a single number, hundred-franc
notes tossed to a doorman for calling a
cab.

However, as he comments, there
had been a price for this wastefulness - the loss of his daughter, which is why he has returned
to the site of so much folly of waste, to reclaim his daughter.

Thus
the title is based on an allusion that links Paris in its hey-day before the Wall Street Crash of
1929 with the ancient hedonistic city of Babylon and refers to the various excesses that
Americans were able to indulge in at that time.

Explain how the story of Frankenstein developed into a tale of terror.

Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, came
about as part of a pact made between herself, her husband (Percy Bysshe Shelley), Lord Byron, and
John Polodori. The four decided to "each write a ghost story." Mary Shelley details the events
which surrounded the creation of her tale in the 1831 introduction to her
novel.

Mary settled down "to think of a story."
many mornings went by and none of the four had been able to come up with a ghost story. After
many conversations, where Mary sat quiet listening, talk turned to Charles Darwin and his
vermicelli rice grain which moved. That night, Mary had a dream, or, more true, a
nightmare.

Mary dreamed of a "pale student of unhallowed arts," who
toiled over a hideous being, and his success at bringing the creature to life. The student falls
asleep and is soon awakened by the "horrid thing...looking on him with yellow, watery, but
speculative eyes." Here is where Mary awoke from her own
nightmare.

The following morning Mary told the other three about her
dream through the first pages of a short tale. Excited about her story, her husband pushed her to
complete the tale. Mary even gives her husband the credit as being the one who wrote
Frankenstein: "my husband, and yet but for his incitement, it would never
have taken the form in which it was presented. From this declaration I must except the preface.
As far as I can recollect, it was entirely written by him."

How can one make an analogy of a cell to a school?

A cell, although microscopic, is very complex because it
has tiny organelles which each carry out a particular role in maintaining the life of
the cell. A school can be compared to a cell because it too, has various personnel and
offices and equipment that are important to its functioning as well. For example, the
cell membrane can be compared with security at the front entrance, determining what goes
in or out of the cell or the building in the case of a school. The nucleus, which has
all the hereditary information in the form of D.N.A. can be compared to the blueprint of
the building. Mitochondria, where cellular respiration occurs and energy is released for
the cell's use can be compared to the cafeteria, where nutrients and oxygen can both be
obtained to keep students' energy levels up.  The attached article contains a detailed
list of organelles and their functions, where it is fairly easy to make an analogy
between the cell's parts and the school's offices and personnel.

What characteristics did all of the influential women of the 60s have in common?

During the 1960s, there were many, many influential women. 
These include everyone from singers and entertainers (like Joan Baez and Jane Fonda) to writers
(like Erma Bombeck) to politicians in America and elsewhere (Bella Abzug, Shirley Chisholm, Golda
Meir).  Because there is such a wide range of women, I think there is very little that you can
say they have in common.  To me, the only real common thread here is that all of these women were
more assertive than their societies thought women should be.

During
the '60s, there was still a pretty strong attitude that women should be somewhat subordinate to
men and that their lives should be somewhat private and controlled.  In contrast to this
expectation, the women who became intellectual all spoke out aggressively.  All of them put
themselves out in public and demanded to be heard.  I think this is the major attribute they had
in common.

In "Young Goodman Brown", if Young Goodman Brown, as the pious Puritan he is, knows he is setting out on an evil errand, why does he go?This is the...

This is a really fascinating question and one which has
troubled me as well. You are right in identifying that there is no real "reason"
established for Young Goodman Brown deciding to go into the woods and meet with the
Devil. The only reason that I can come up with is that this is Young Goodman Brown's
last frolic with evil before settling down for the rest of his life as a good Puritan.
Note what he says to himself as he leaves Faith who is reluctant to let her husband of
three months go off for his mysterious quest:

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"Poor little Faith!" though he, for his heart
smote him. "What a wretch am I to leave her on such an errand! She talks of dreams, too.
Methought as she spoke there was trouble in her face, as if a dream had warned her what
work is to be done to-night. But no, no; 't would kill her to think it. Well, she's a
blessed angel on earth; and after this one night I'll cling to her skirts and follow her
to heaven."

This seems to
support my conclusion that this is one last fling with evil before he determines to
"cling to the skirts" of Faith (clearly an allegorical character representing Christian
faith) for the rest of his life. Having made this decision, the text then tells us that
he felt "justified in making more haste on his present evil purpose." Thinking of the
future good he will do seems to make him happier about the immediate evil he is
planning.

How is real fear to blame for the murder of Mary in Native Son?Be thoughtful and think of all aspects of fear that lead to the murder of Mary.

In Native Son, fear motivates Bigger Thomas
to murder Mary Dalton.  Even while Bigger is driving Mary, he feels uneasy in her presence.  This
uneasiness stems from Bigger's knowledge of racial stereotypes that suggest white women are the
sexual targets of black men.  Further, Mary's political talk makes Bigger feel afraid--he does
not want to be falsely accused of sharing her beliefs and he does not want to have any knowledge
of her beliefs.  When Bigger takes Mary up to her bedroom, these fears come with him.  He feels
that he will be accused of trying to rape Mary if someone finds him in her room, and he knows
that no one will believe him if he tells them that Mary was
drunk. 

The "real" fear that Bigger experiences stems from
institutionalized racism--Bigger knows that to others in society he is immediately guilty because
of who he represents, not because of who he actually is.  These deep-seated fears cause him to
act irrationally and murder Mary.

Which Europeans discovered America before Christopher Columbus?

Without a specific map or route which specifically
documents proof that "A" long trip was made coming our way, it would be hard to
determine exactly who visited us first.

Also, be careful
with the word "Europeans". References have been made about Norsemen and Celts, Vikings,
and other groups, even Egyptians! (....and, of course,
aliens)

Now, if you want to go on the safe side, it is
accepted that people from Siberia travelled through the Bering Strait (when it was
frozen and people could walk over it)  over 20,000 years ago all the way towards what we
now call Central America and, generations later, developed massive tribes called the
Olmecs, Mayans, Aztecs, and the Incas.

If you reduce your
argument to Europeans, you would be talking about continental Europe, and that is made
of Eastern and Western Europe. No specific information (except for the one I wrote
before) is historically accepted about actual continental Europe voyages to this side of
the ocean.

But that is the beauty of history: There is NO
"final answer."

How to differentiate y= x^(e^x)

y= x^(e^x)

To differentiate,
first we will apply the natural logarithm to both
sides:

==> lny = ln
[x^(e^x)]

We know that: ln a^b = b*ln
a

==> lny = (e^x) * ln
x

Now we will differentiate both
sides:

==> (lny)' =
[e^x)*lnx]'

To differentiate e^x * ln x we will use the
product rule:

[(e^x)*lnx]' = (e^x)'*lnx +
(e^x)*(lnx)'

              = (e^x)lnx + e^x
*1/x

==> (1/y) y' = (e^x)*lnx +
e^x(1/x)

==> (y'/y) =( e^x)(
lnx/x)

==> y' = y*(e^x)*lnx /x

Discuss the story "An Ounce of Cure" by Alice Munro.

The first love is hard to get over especially when the love is
not reciprocated.  Alice Munro’s “An Ounce of Cure” describes a teenager’s reaction to being
dumped by her first boyfriend. How the main character handles her problem is the crux of the
story.

Setting

The
setting of the story is a small town in the 1960s.  This town is conservative and does not
promote alcohol.   The two primary setting are the main character’s home and the home in which
she baby sits—the
Berrymans. 

Narration

The
narration is first person point of view. The narrator is the protagonist of the story: an unnamed
teenage girl.  The story is told primarily as a flashback from the adult narrator.  As a result,
the narrator can tell her story with playfulness, self-deprecation, detachment, and even
fondness.  While the incident caused her genuine pain at the time, she has long since come to
terms with it.
 

 Summary

The
protagonist has been dumped by Martin. She is forced to see him with his new girlfriend which
adds to the pain that she is already experiencing.  Crying all the time, she decides to commit
suicide; however, she stops after taking six aspirins.

Her mother
does not help. Noticing that something is wrong with her daughter, the girl tells her what is
wrong and the mother responds that it is a good thing that the broke
up. 

The girl has to baby sit at the Berryman’s.  When they leave
her, she feels such pain and loneliness.  The Berrymans are new to town, and they do drink. After
putting on some moody, sad music, she decides to fix herself something to drink to kill the pain.
She drinks a full glass of rye with an ounce of scotch.  In the beginning, she feels a little
better.  Then, she becomes drunk and starts vomiting all over the bathroom, herself, and the new
rug.

Realizing that she needs help, she calls her friend to come
over and help her. Her friend brings another girl and two guys with her.  The girls clean her up
and place a blanket around her until her clothes dry.  The Berrymans come home early and discover
the situation.  The narrator tells the Berrymans everything including the suicide attempt.   They
fire the narrator immediately.

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Oh, no, Mr. Berryman I beg of you, my mother is a
terribly nervous person I don't know what the shock might do to her. I will go down on my knees
to you if you like but you must not phone my
mother...

Mr. Berryman drives her home
and tells her that she has to tell her mother or he will.

When she
walks in the door, she falls to her knees.  Finally, she tells her mother everything that has
happened.  After her initial shock and “cry of pure amazement,” the mother handles the situation
rather coolly.  She seems to accept some of the responsibility, perhaps believing she has been
too absent from a daughter’s life—she only heard about all the events the night of the
drunkenness, and she believes that she had made “a great mistake” letting her daughter
date.  

Everyone in school knows about the incident; the narrator
now is ostracized by everyone for a while until another student does something stupid.  The
episode is one of those revealing and embarrassing moments in teenage life when the person is
forced to confront how unsophisticated and how self-absorbed he
is. 

The last incident in the story occurs when the narrator comes
back after college, marriage, and children.  She returns home for a funeral.  Martin is the
undertaker.  They exchange knowing looks. 

In Animal Farm, what are the commandments does Old Major give to the animals? How might each be considered a vice?

Commandment #1: Whatever goes on two legs is an enemy. Men
go on two legs and they abuse and take advantage of animals. If an animal doesn't treat
men as enemies, they are allowing harming of fellow animals. #2: Whatever goes on four
legs or has wings is a friend. All animals (who have four legs or wings), are mistreated
by people in some way, so animals should work and live together as friends. Otherwise,
they won't be able to overcome man's oppression. #3 No animal shall wear clothes.
Wearing clothes is a sign of vanity (showing off). #4 No animal shall sleep in a bed.
Beds are a luxury for rich and lazy men, not for animals. #5 No animal shall drink
alcohol. Alcohol impairs judgment and interferes with the desire to work. #6 No animal
shall kill another animal. If they do, they are no better than people. #7 All animals
are equal. If some think they are superior, then they are thinking and acting like
men.

In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, when and how is the white man introduced? Tracing the chronology of the Igbo people's responses to the...

In Things Fall Apart, the white man
comes in without restraint. The white man brings a new religion, but he does not have
any consideration for the tribe's religious beliefs. The white man insists that the
tribal men change to a new way of thinking. Ther is no regard for the customs and
beliefs that are different than the white man's.

The white
man comes across as disrepectful. The white man clearly feels superior and abuses the
tribal men who do not succumb to the white man's
beliefs.

Who would want a religion that allows the white
man to kill and throw in prison anyone who rejects his way of teaching? What kind of God
would tolerate and justify such violence? What happened to God is love? Where is God in
all the violence?

What does the lord of the flies tell Simon in Lord of the Flies?

The Lord of the Flies, or the pig's head on a stick, tells
Simon what he has already begun to suspect as the most insightful character in the
novel.  As Simon has tried to figure out exactly what the beast is, suggesting an
investigation of the thing that the twins saw and watching the different groups of boys
change as time on the island goes on, he has begin to have an insight that the rest of
the boys lack.

And in his vision of the Lord of the Flies,
it tells him that the reason it is all going wrong is that the evil, the beast is a part
of them, it is inside of them.  Unfortunately the vision does the boys no good as they
accidentally kill Simon in the excitement of him running out of the jungle to tell them
what he's learned.

Find n if the area of the triangle determined by the graph of the function f=nx+n-4 and the x,y axis where is A=n/2.

The area of the triangle whose sides are the graph of f(x)
and x, y axis is the area of a right angle triangle: half-product of
cathetus.

The cathetus of the triangle are x and y axis,
where the values of x and y are the intercepts of the graph with x and y
axis.

A = x*y/2

We'll
calculate x intercept of f(x). We'll put y = 0.

f(x) =
0

nx+n-4 = 0

We'll isolate x
to the left side:

nx = 4 - n

x
= (4-n)/n

We'll calculate y intercept of f(x). We'll put x
= 0.

f(0) = n - 4

y = n -
4

Now, we'll calculate the
area:

A = (4-n)*(n-4)/2n

We
know, from enunciation, that A=n/2.

n/2 =
-(n-4)^2/2n

We'll cross
multiply:

2n^2 =
-2(n-4)^2

We'll divide by
2:

n^2 = (n-4)^2

We'll
subtract (n-4)^2 both sides:

n^2 - (n-4)^2 =
0

We'll expand the
square:

n^2 - n^2 + 8n - 16  =
0

We'll eliminate like
terms:

8n - 16 = 0

We'll add
16

8n = 16

n =
2

In "The Star-Spangled Banner," "The deep" (line 9) means: the sky, the throat, leak, or the ocean?

The second stanza of Francis Scott Key's "The Star-Spangled
Banner" reads:

On the
shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread
silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As
it fitfully blows, half conceals, half
discloses?

In my humble opinion, "the
deep" refers to the ocean; "the mists of the deep" refers to the mist that often rises from the
waters of the ocean.

Referring to the ocean as "the deep" is an
example of calling a noun by an adjective that describes it; in other words, "the deep" is short
for "the deep ocean." Compare this to the contemporary phrase "my bad," which is short for "my
bad move" or "my bad action."

Is this something new? Not at all.
Check out Shakespeare's Sonnet 18:

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And every fair from fair sometime
declines...

In my opinion, the first
word "fair" is a substitute for "fair [beautiful] thing" (the second one is probably short for
the noun "fairness"). The noun (in this case, the poet's beloved) is referred to by the
adjective--"fair"--that describes it.

Which character traits make Fortunato such an easy target for Montresor in"The Cask of Amontillado"?

The character in Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" with the
ironical name of Fortunato is the possessor of personality traits that are, indeed, his
nemesis.  In fact, he is easily duped because of these
faults:

1. He imbibes so much that he is incapable
   of logical reasoning and clear perception.   When, for example, Montresor takes him
   farther and farther into the catacombs, the drunken Fortunato does not stop to wonder
   why they are proceeding so far.


2. He is vain,
   believing  himself a great connossieur of wine, one whose opinion should be valued over
   that of others. 


3. He is petty.  Fortunato does not want
   anyone to taste the Amontillado because he wants to be the one to judge it and take
   credit for having done so. Determined to not let his rival Luchesi taste the wine before
   he does, Fortunato becomes myopic in his thoughts as he risks his health in the damp
   catacombs filled with miter just to prevent Luchesi from tasting the
   Amontillado.


4. He is deluded in his judgment of Montresor,
   suspecting no ulterior motives from a competitor.  As a result, he is easy prey for his
   enemy who lures him deeper and deeper into the catacombs of his family.  When Montresor
   protests, Fortunato foolishly takes Montresor literally, saying that he is fine and
   there is no need to call Luchesi--"[he]is an ignormamus"--and is totally stunned when
   Montresor walls him in.

80 investors were surveyed. All investors had either 1 mutual fund or 2 stocks.50 had 1 mutual fund, and 55 had 2 stocks . How many investors had 1...

We represent the entire set of investors
as I.

Let M be the set mutual fund investors. Let S be the set of
ivstors in stocks.

Then I  = MUS

The
number of investors = n(I) = 80.

the number of investors in mutual
fund = n(M) = 50.

The number of investors in stocks = n (S) =
55.

Therefore, I = M U S

n(NUS) = n(M)
+n(m) - n(N & S).....................(1), where (N&S)  represents  set of
investors investing in both N  and S

Therefore , from(1) , we get:
n(N&S) =  n(M) + n(S) - n(M U S).

Given that n(MUM) = 80 ,
n(M ) = 50 , n(S) = 55,

Therefore n(M &S) = 50+55-80 =
105-80 = 25.

Therefore there are 25 investors who invested in both
mutual fund and stocks.

What do textbooks suggest about the black population who survived under the lash of slavery during the Age of Reform?

During the nineteenth century, the nation heatedly debated on
the issue of slavery white authors generated pamphlets, and published slave biographies and
anti-slavery literature. Well-known authors include Herman Melville, and Harriet Beecher
Stowe.

This literature detailed inhumane conditions for contemporary
slaves and described an unrealistic view held by some slave masters that the slave was ignorant
and therefore happy in his subjugated lifestyle.

Modern textbooks
reveal that the living conditions of a southern slave relied upon the temperament of his master,
as well as the type of home he lived in. In general, domestic slaves received better treatment
than plantation slaves, who worked in the field from sun up until dark. Although some states
passed laws meant to keep black families together, these laws proved difficult to enforce because
the black population remained unable to testify in court.

What does the kite symbolize in The Kite Runner?

I believe it symbolized the coming of age from childhood
to young adulthood. The flight of the kite was the freedom of childhood to be free,
fettered only by the parent of the child. When the kites fought, the symbolism of
success and failure became evident. Without skills and strategy, a kite flyer was doomed
to be eliminated. Success came with practice and determination. The pain of the glass
string cutting the flyer's hands was the experience of set backs that had to be
overlooked to achieve a goal. Amir's success did not achieve exactly what he wanted,
however. It did form a closer bond between him and his father. But, somehow that bond
seemed artificial. His fateful lack of action to save his friend would ruin his feeling
of success and mar his emotional state for years. Even the trophy of capturing the kite
that was downed would pall in its cost to both boys and their
families.

What does the heart beating represent in "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe?

Edgar Allen Poe is the master of the gothic tale, and the
narrator's hearing the heart beat of the old man he killed, dismembered, and buried
under the floor boards, is a classic example of the supernatural element that is so
common in his stories.  In this case, the heart beat comes to signify the guilty
conscience of the narrator.  He tells us that he is not crazy when he kills the man, but
that he was driven to kill him by some urge and that the old man's eyes finally drove
him over the edge.  Once he hides the body, he probably would have gotten away with the
crime, but when the police come on an unrelated matter, he is so consumed by his guilt
that he thinks he hears the heart beating and as it gets louder and louder, just as his
guilt grows with every minute that passes, he eventually blurts out the truth -- he
can't take the sound of the heart beating and must alleviate himself of the oppressive
secret -- and his guilt.

How do car producers choose their distributors? How does this relate to globalization?

The process of selecting and appointing distributors for
cars by the manufactures differs from company to company. However, there are likely to
be some common considerations for all the
manufacturers.

The first consideration is the size of the
market in different geographical location and the ability of existing dealership network
to serve the current and potential market. Based on this the car manufactures decides on
the number and location of additional dealerships to be awarded. This decision also
includes some clarification on nature of dealership in terms of stock of cars to be
maintained and services to provided.

The next step is to
identify people and firms interested in taking up the dealership in each of the
identified location. It should be noted that in most of the cases a person is interested
in taking dealership in some specific geographical location only. As a matter of fact
one of the advantages of appointing dealers is that it gives the company he benefit of
the strengths and advantages enjoyed by dealers in their respective geographical
location.

The next step is to assess and compare the
suitability of prospective parties that have come forward with offer to set up
dealership at each of the location. This is the core of the the decision on choice of
the dealer. It involves assessing the suitability of applicants for dealership on
factors such as, financial capability, technical and marketing capability, managerial
and administrative capability, past experience in the same or related businesses,
willingness to invest sufficient money in facilities and stock of cars, and willingness
to devote personal time and attention to the dealership work. Many a times possession of
a  land or premises at an advantageous location for the dealership outlet is also an
important consideration.

Once a dealer is identified as
most suitable on the basis of evacuation and comparison as above the car manufactures
then, generally, enter into negotiation with the prospective dealer about details of the
dealership arrangement such as agreed location, investment in premises and equipments,
services to be provided and range of products to be sold, and a schedule for
establishment of the dealership.

Choice of dealership has
no direct influence on globalization. However is is quite obvious that a company that
sells is products abroad will have to factor in the considerations of international
business for appointment of dealers for such markets.

Can somebody demonstrate how comic relief is used to heighten the Tragedy of Hamlet.I need some guidance to this question. Ideas and examples please.

The beginning of Act 5 is the best place to how comic
elements actually heighten the tragedy of the play.  At the start of Act 5 two grave
diggers are joking around as they prepare what we know is going to Ophelia's grave. 
Hamlet is at first disturbed by their joking and seeming irreverance for the job, but
realizes that even grave-digging could become a "habit" that becomes common.  Once
Hamlet starts talking to the grave digger there are lots of jokes about the ownership of
the grave and what happens when people die.  All of this conversation just lays heavy on
us as audience members though because even though we are laughing, we know that the
"other foot is going to fall" when Hamlet realizes that Ophelia is dead.  In fact, the
mood changes pretty quickly when Hamlet finds himself holding Yorick's skull -- the
skull of the court jester who he knew so well as a child.  All of a sudden, death isn't
just a theory, it is very REAL.  Hamlet realizes that no matter what you were in life,
when you are dead you are ashes.  It is a rather sobering
thought. 

Death becomes even more real and more devastating
when seeing Ophelia's funeral procession and Laertes' show of grief.  The comedic
elements of a few minutes ago are long gone when Hamlet makes his bold proclamations of
love and grief over Ophelia.  The tragedy is certainly heighten by the juxtaposition of
conversations in this scene.

Identify and explain dramatic conventions used to construct meaning in Much Ado About Nothing.Give specific examples.

The dramatic conventions of Much Ado About
Nothing, would have, when the play was written, conformed to the rules of
performance that were common in Elizabethan England.  In fact, these dramatic
conventions were the structure that helped "construct meaning" no matter which play of
Shakespeare's you might discuss.

The point here is that it
is important to understand that dramatic conventions are not created for individual
plays.  A director of the play, no matter when and where he/she lives and works, will
create a unique staging of Much Ado,
but he/she will follow a set of dramatic conventions or
theatrical rules that exists for him/her in the theatrical
world in which he/she works.

Some of the dramatic
conventions in place during Shakespeare's day that helped him to construct meaning
are:

• All actors were men or boys.  In
  Much Ado, this is interesting when considering a rather aggressive
  and somewhat "masculine" character like Beatrice.  It is also important to remember the
  irony of a line like "Oh, that I were a man," which is spoken by Beatrice after Hero is
  shamed by Claudio.  This line can be seen much more ironically when Beatrice actually
  is a man.


• There was no "fourth
  wall," or imaginary division between actors and audience.  Light came from the sun and
  fell on actors and audience alike, which implies that no one pretended that the actors
  were somehow "alone" in the play.  So, when Claudio asks everyone at the wedding to look
  at Hero and condemn her false-ness with him, he literally meant everyone, including the
  audience.  In this way, the audience is implicated in the scene along with the
  characters onstage.


• Clowns in a comedy provide some much
  needed low-brow humor.  Dogberry, Verges, and the Watch were the clowns of the play, a
  staple of Elizabethan comedy that audiences expected.  Not only was their humor found in
  the text, but they would have used a great deal of physical comedy as well.  This,
  today, cannot be seen in the words on the page, but is often re-created by theatrical
  companies presenting the play.

So, dramatic
conventions that Shakespeare used definitely came into play and had an effect on
Much Ado About Nothing in his day and time, but, today, it is the
specific staging of an individual production of the play that will have the most impact
upon "constructing meaning" in the play.

What happens to the mean of a set of numbers when a zero is added to the set?

The relative value of  the adding zero  with respect to the
existing average counts

If zero is greater than  the former average
, then by adding a zero the average creases.

If the former average
itsef is zero ,  and now a zero is added then the average remains
unaltered.

If the former average is positive , then zero is less
than the former average. So adding a zero decreases the
average.

Example:

a)

The
temperature of a place on two days are -5  degreeeC and -7 degree. So the average of 2 days =
(-5-7)/2 = -6 degree.

The temperature of the place on the third day
is zero. So the average of 3 days = (-5-7+0 )/3 = -4. So the average temperature has increased
from -6 deg C. to -4 deg C.

b)

The
temperature of the place on 3 days are : -2 deg C , 2 deg C and zero deg C. Then the average for
first two days is (-2+2)/2 = 0. And the average for the 3 days = (-2+2+0)/3 = 0. So the average
temperature remianed same.

c)

If the
temperatures of the city  for the 3 dates is : 1 deg C, 3 deg C and zero deg C, then the average
for the  first 2 days is (1+3)/2 = 2 C. The average for the 3 days = (1+3+0)/3 = (4/3) deg C
.

In "The Masque of The Red Death", what are the literal and symbolic meanings of the allegoryI think the symbolic meaning is that they can't escape...

On the literal level, Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the
Red Death" is a tale of terror that has as its setting a terrible plague that leaves red
stains on its victims.  The very wealthy and influential Prince Prospero, like the other
residents of the area, fears the deadly disease.  So, he and members of his court
sequester themselves in one of his old castles that is a "strong and lofty
structure" where they remain for several months.  Finally, the prince decides to have a
masquerade ball, a fete popular for his times.

Each room is
decorated in different colors.  Thus, each room represents a stage of a person's life.
There are arabesque figures, representing the delusionary aspect of the room. The last
room is decorated with black tapestries with red staining the windows. Recognizing the
significance of the colors, the guests are afraid to enter the black room. This final
chamber has another haunting aspect:  a huge ebony clock strikes on the hour, causing
the celebratory guests to pause. When this clock sounds twelve strokes, an unwanted
guest enters this room himself, disguised with a heavy cape.  Incensed that such a guest
as the hideous one in the black cape should have the effrontery to enter his castle,
Prince Prospero accosts him with his sword raised.  Suddenly, the weapon falls to the
ground, as Prospero has entered the room of death.  He falls victim to the Red Death
that he has sought to barricade from his and his guests'
revelries.

As an allegory, Poe's story demonstrates how
people react to their own mortality.  The prince certainly feels that his wealth and
material possessions can protect him while the guests seem to embrace the Roman motto of
"Eat, drink, and be merry; for tomorrow we will die"  as their revelrie only ceases as
long as the clock chimes.

What images do Duncan's words conjure up in Act I, scene iv of Macbeth?

This is really the only scene that gives insight into
Duncan's nature.  He does have lines upon his arrival at Macbeth's castle, but these
words are part of a very conventionally polite exchange and can't really be said to
reveal much that is personal about Duncan's nature.  Act I, scene iv, however, gives
insight into Duncan's perspective.

At the top of the scene,
when he is told of how the rebellious Thane of Cawdor died, he simply
says:

There's
no art

To find the mind's construction in the
face.

He was a gentleman on whom I
built

An absolute
trust.

The image here is of
attempting to understand the mind of a man by his outward actions.  Duncan believes that
this is not possible and admits that he mistakenly "built/An absolute trust" on the now
dead Thane of Cawdor.  This suggests that Duncan is not the best judge of a man's
character.

This is the exact moment at which Macbeth enters
the scene, having just been told by the witches that he will be king.  The rest of the
scene, then, is one in which Duncan's lines are full of dramatic irony, since the
audience has the information of the prophesy that Duncan does
not.

Following are some of the images from Duncan's lines
that stand out in this scene.

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. . .thou art so far
before

That swiftest wing of recompense is
slow

To overtake
thee.

This line comments on
Macbeth's speed and suggests that paying him back for all he has done in support of
Duncan is like a bird ("swiftest wing") that cannot catch up to
Macbeth.

I
have begun to plant thee and will labour

To make thee
grow.

This line suggests that
Duncan sees Macbeth as his protegee, and like a good father-figure or gardener, he will
tend Macbeth's development to see him arrive at his full
fruition.

. .
.he is full so valiant,

And in his commendations I am
fed.

It is a banquet to
me.

These words, again, refer
to Macbeth.  Duncan compares the excellent qualities possessed by Macbeth to food that,
rather than feeding Macbeth, feed him.  He alludes to how many qualities by referring to
their sum as "a banquet."

For more on Duncan and this
scene, please follow the links below.

What does the last sentence of "A & P" mean?

Your question points towards the importance of paying particular
attention as to how authors choose to end their works and how the ending in particular relates to
the overall theme or message of the story as a whole. Let us analyse therefore the last sentence
of this great short story:

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His face was dark grey and his back stiff, as if he's just
had an injection of iron, and my stomach kind of fell as I felt how hard the world was going to
be to me hereafter.

Sammy has just
made a stand for his own personal beliefs and values by walking out of his job because of the way
his boss, Lengel, treated the girls who came into the store in their bikinis. As he walks away,
Sammy looks back and describes Lengel, emphasising his stiffness, as if he "just had an injection
of iron." This triggers off an epiphany for Sammy as he recognises how hard life is going to be
for him if he carries on choosing to follow his own values and principles, which will put him in
conflict with the world's values and principles, perhaps captured in the unyielding description
of Lengel's back. Thus the ending is important because it captures the coming-of-age nature of
this story and the age-old dilemma of being true to ourselves or following the ways of the world
and the consequences of such a decision.

How does Bob Ewell impact the person Jem is at the end of the novel?Like what kind of stuff does Jem learn from him. Explain in detail please :S

I doubt that Bob Ewell made much impact on Jem. Jem knows him
for what he is: an alcoholic, abusive man who does not take care of his children, his home or
himself. He is universally despised by most of Maycomb's citizens. If anything, Jem would lose
his childhood innocence (if he hadn't already) about adults. To the children, an adult was a
person to be trusted and courteous to. I'm sure Jem never encountered an adult male with no
socially redeeming values until he was attacked by Bob Ewell. Ewell wanted retribution for
Atticus showing the town what kind of man Ewell was while he was on the witness stand. To attack
two children in the dark of night while they were returning home from the haven of a school
function surely would let Jem know that not all adults are created equal.

In a baseball game, baseball dimond is a square with sides 27m. how far does the first player have to throw the ball to get a runner out a third base.

The answer to this is that the first baseman must throw
38.18 meters, if he is on first base, to a person standing on the third base bag.  This
can be found by using the Pythagorean Theorem.

If you draw
out a diagram of the baseball diamond, you will see that the baselines from home to
third and home to first make a right angle at home plate.  This means that a line from
third to first is the hypotenuse of a right triangle.

The
two legs of the triangle are each 27 meters. 
Therefore:

27^2 + 27^2 = c^2 (the distance from 1st to
3rd).

1458 = c^2

c =
38.18

In Oedipus Rex, what is the reversal of this play?

It all depends on your specific definition of the term.
For if you simply mean once the character's fortunes change for the worse, then one
might consider the very beginning of the play when Oedipus sends Creon to the Oracle at
Delphi for an explanation of the plague and the horrible conditions of the city of
Thebes. Once Creon returns with the answers and the knowledge that Oedipus is
responsible, Creon requests that they speak in
private:

Speak
out to all. I sorrow more for them than for the woe which touches me alone. (Prologue
99-100)

Considering that
Creon and Oedipus could have known his misfortune privately, it starts a public fallout
for which there is no return. The second reversal of fortune is when Oedipus summons
Tiresias and since Tiresias knows the situation, he had tried to
make himself forget. Oedipus and Tiresias end up arguing with Oedipus accusing Tiresias
of being in a conspiracy with Creon. The reversals are almost
endless.

How many liters of 0.88 M solution can be made with 25.5 grams of lithium fluoride?

The concentration of a solution can be expressed in many ways.
One of them is as the molarity of the solution. A solution with molarity equal to one has one
mole of the solute dissolved in every liter of the solutions.

A
solution of lithium fluoride has to be prepared here and the number of grams of lithium fluoride
available for the preparation of the solution is 25.5 g.

As the
molecular mass of lithium fluoride is 25.939 g/mole, 25.5 grams constitute 0.983
moles.

To make one liter of 0.88 M solution we need 0.88 moles of
lithium fluoride. We have 0.983 moles. This can be used to make 0.983/0.88 = 1.117 L of the
solution.

With 25.5 g of lithium fluoride 1.117 L of 0.88 M solution
of lithium fluoride can be made.

Please explain the way space is organized in Ithaca. What difference does this make to the way human beings interact with one another in those...

If I understand your question, you are asking how the
actions of the characters in the Odyssey interact with the space or
location of Ithaca: how Ithaca fits in to the grand
epic.

Most of Homer's first book,
the Iliad, takes place near or on the Scamander plain (named after
a Greek river god); Troy was located at one end of the plain, while the Greek ships were
on the beach on the opposite end of the plain.  Whereas the war had been fought by
moving around, this part of the battle places the warring parties at two opposite ends
of a flat piece of Trojan land that would serve as a stage of sorts, coming directly at
each other. In this way the intensity of the plot moves more fluidly back and forth,
establishing a greater sense of excitement in the battles. Fighting in the middle, no
one has an advantage.  The closer the fighting moves to one end or another, the better
the advantage for the other side. In a sense, it is like football or soccer, moving into
another team's territory. There is no indication that this ancient battle epic was
duplicated anywhere else, real or imagined.

In that the
story covers such a broad expanse of territory, it is important to note that the Odyssey
deals with Odysseus' departure from Ithaca—where he joins other Greeks to battle the
Trojans—and it is his gift of strategy and genius with the Trojan horse that allows the
Greeks to be victorious. It is his twenty-year attempt to return home that pulls the
action back towards Ithaca. As they say, all roads lead home, which is where the "final
showdown" takes place in Odysseus' hall with the suitors. Even as the action of the epic
takes the story far from Ithaca, inevitably it returns to its origins for the story's
climax, and the resolution of the plot and related
conflicts.

[Troy, Sparta and Ithaca were real places.
Aeaea, Ogygia, and the islands of Aeolus (including the Sirens) are mythological in
origin.]

Hope this is of some help.

What are the components, process, strenghts, and weaknesses of correlational research?

Don Juan Williams

Potential Enote
Editor

April 19,
2011

Components, Process, Strengths’, and
Weaknesses of Correlation
Research

Psychological and educational
research can be separated into three
categories,

1. Historical
   research


2. Qualitative
   research


3. Quantitative
   research.

Number 3, Quantitative research, can also be
separated into three categories,

1. Descriptive
   research


2. Experimental
   research


3. Correlational
   research

Correlational research decides how variables
are related. The data is identified then their relationships are investigated. Data is put
together from various variables and statistical correlation methods are applied to the data.
Correlation does not mean cause and affect like experimental research. At the most, the
researcher will only be able to make small fundamental
inferences.

Correlational Research examines the nature of the
correlation or what one variable has to do with the other which can be either positive or
negative. Predictions are then made that can be tested on samples. For
example:

Hypothesis - Does drinking wine
make you look sexy?

Test the Hypothesis
using correlational research. You can either do a survey or conduct an experiment. The
strengths of a survey are that they are easier to give, you can
survey many people, variables etc. and you can be assured that it is not a real situation.
Weaknesses of a survey would be that some questions you ask may
prejudice responses, participants may not tell the truth when answering questions and even the
survey may be biased.

What are the major characters and events in The Looming Tower?

In Wright's work, there is not really one event analyzed. 
It is more of a study of figures and personalities who played major roles in the
coordination and execution of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.  It does not
seek to recreate what happened on that fateful morning, but rather analyzes the people
and figures who played vital roles in the way that day came about.  Individuals like
Ayman al- Zawahiri, whose organization was committed to Islamic Jihad ended up merging
with al- Qaeda.  Naturally, the bulk of the study is dedicated to Osama Bin Laden.  His
background and rearing, as well as his commitment to anti- West principles all occupy an
important role in the book.  At the same time, the book explores how he grew into the
force that was able to finance and coordinate such an elaborate attack like September
11.  Finally, the book spends a bit of time discussing how American attempts were quite
feeble in a general sense, but also focuses on specific people such as Richard Clarke
and John P. O'Neill who fully understood Bin Laden's threat, but whose words were not
fully heeded until it was too late.

What does "tyrannos" mean in the play Oedipus Rex?

In our culture, we might see "tyrannos" and think "tyrant" which
refers to a leader (e.g., a king) who is a cruel and unjust leader. He rules by force, through
fear, without benefit of a democracy. Tyrants are often seen as murdering rulers who take power
and sustain it through excessively harsh means.

However, during the
time of the early Greeks (and Oedipus was written by
Sophocles, a Greek), "tyrannos" could refer to anyone who came to rule through "unconventional"
means. The ruler was not necessarily one who was harsh or cruel, but who simply gained his power
in an unusual way.

Wikipedia.org provides the association of the
word in the early Greek culture:

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In ancient Greece, tyrants were influential
opportunists that came to power by securing the support of different factions of a  title="Deme" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deme">deme. The word "tyrannos" then
carried no ethical censure; it simply referred to anyone, good or bad, who obtained executive
power in a polis by
unconventional means.

Therefore,
"tyrannos" does not indicate that Oedipus was a harsh or unjust ruler: the story shows that he
was a just man. His guilt over what he has unknowingly done causes him to blind himself and leave
the throne and his kingdom. "Tyrannos" indicates that Oedipus came to the throne in an unusual
way.

How does Keat's "Ode to a Nightingale" explore the question of human suffering and/or the speaker's experience of suffering?

In the poem "Ode to a Nightingale," Keats brings to the
reader's attention two very different worlds.

The first is
that of the nightingale. With beautiful imagery the poet creates the world this songbird
inhabits, with visions of lush plants, sweet smells, soft breezes and, most importantly,
release from the pain of the second place he
describes.

This other world is the one he, and all people,
inhabit during different times of their lives. Keats speaks to the beauty of youth that
fades and the passion of love that dies. He refers to aging and the groans of pain, and
finally of death.

He wishes to be transported to the world
of the nightingale, one that has existed for "emperor and clown in ancient times;" a
voice that does not know death. Keats alludes to the song being sung when the Biblical
Ruth, missing home, stood in the corn fields of others, "aliens"—not in the company of
her own people.

As Keats writes, he wishes to be a part of
the nightingale's world that knows the beauties of nature in ways he can only observe.
Life, even as he dreams of this other world, comes and calls him back to the reality of
his existence...the existence of all people: we live, we love, we suffer and we die, but
he says the song of the nightingale lives on forever, throughout the passage of
time.

As an aside, death would have been something Keats
thought about often. This poem was published in 1818, and Keats died in 1821. He was
unwell for a very long time, and died of tuberculosis when he was only twenty-six,
having also lost his mother and brother to the same disease; the pain of these losses,
his own personal illness, as well as early experiences in his life while working at a
hospital, make up the sad and lonely descriptions he shares in this
poem.

What does the documents of "An Age of Reform" suggest about slavery, abolition and freedom?

The Age of Reform relates in an all encompassing manner with the
abolition movement. This movement to end slavery became increasingly more radical by the mid
1850's. Individuals that led this effort found themselves allying with others that had priorities
in other areas of need. Reform not only existed in attempts rid our nation of slavery but those
involved in this movement also found themselves in religious arenas to make our nation more
"godly." This religious fervor has been historically known as the Second Great Awakening. Couple
these two areas of reform with attempts to curtail alcoholism and the initial women's suffrage
movement and you have the makings of an era of total reform. Take special note to look into the
backgrounds of personalities such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd
Garrison and John Brown. These individuals will provide a quality basis behind the Age of Reform
just prior to the American Civil War.

What is the Silver Age of Russian Culture?

Enjoyed my Russian history courses the most out of my college
experience.  Some have said that the Silver Age is so named because the Golden Age was better.  I
don't think that's true, just that the Silver Age was different in terms of Russian Culture and
its development.

Others would say (and I think this is more
accurate) that the Golden Age was more centered around musical composers, symphonies and novels,
while the Silver Age was more focused on poets and
playwrights.

Mostly we are talking about cultural history in the
late 19th and early 20th centuries, before World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution.  Playwright
Anton Chekhov was during this time period, as was poet Boris Pasternak.  Composer Igor Stravinksi
is also considered part of the Silver Age.

The accompanying link
does a nice job of identifying other artists and musicians that fit into that time
period.

In the beginning of Act 2, Scene 1, of Romeo and Juliet, why were Mercutio and Benvolio following him home?

Actually, Romeo was not heading home. We are told that Benvolio
and Mercutio saw him leap over the orchard wall that they have just leapt over in the grounds of
the Capulet mansion, and they are trying to find him to take him home with them. Note what
Benvolio says:

He ran
this way and leapt this orchard
wall.

However, Romeo, love-struck and
overpowered with his desire for Juliet, hides himself from them until they have gone and he can
proceed with his quest to find Juliet and talk with her some more. As Benvolio and Mercutio
conclude, there is no point trying to find someone who doesn't want to be found, so they leave
him to his amorous thoughts and go back home themselves.