How is Anne's goal of wanting "to go on living even after my death" fulfilled in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl?I didn't get how it was...

I think you are right! I don't believe that many of the Jews who
were herded into the concentration camps actually understood the enormity of the horrible
situation in which they were being placed. Most of them probably could not visualize their own
mass extinction at the hands of their own fellow Germans. Anne probably did not foresee this
either, but she decided to keep a diary to document her daily thoughts and activities. Whether
she ever believed that it would be read at all is uncertain, but she could never have recognized
the power that it would eventually have over the millions that have read it. Her diary has been
translated into dozens of languages, and it's still a relevant documentation of one of humanity's
worst episodes. The fact that it is still being taught regularly in schools throughout the world
has made it a certainty that Anne Frank will never be forgotten.

Calculate the perimeter of the triangle whose vertices are (1,2) (-1,4) and * (-2,3).

Let ABC be a triangle.

Given
the vertices's of a triangle are:

A(1,2) , B(-1,4), and
C(-2,3).

We need to find the perimeter of the
triangle.

First we need to find the length of the
sides.

==> AB = sqrt[( 1+1)^2 + (
2-4)^2)

            = sqrt( 2^2 + 2^2
)

            = sqrt(
4+4)

             =
sqrt8

==> AB =
2sqrt2.

==> AC = sqrt( 1+ 2)^2 + (
2-3)^2

              = sqrt( 3^2 +
1^2)

                = sqrt(9+
1)

                =
sqrt10.

==> AC=
sqrt10.

==> BC = sqrt( -1+2)^2
+(4-3)^2]

             = sqrt( 1^2 + 1^2
)

            =
sqrt2

==> BC =
sqrt2.

==> The
perimeter of the triangle
is:

P = AB + AC +
BC

   = 2sqrt2 + sqrt10 +
sqrt2

   = 7.4 units. (
approx.)

Consider Arms and the Man as a drama of ideas or a problem play.

Shavian drama primarily deals with ideas, using characters as
spokespersons and dialogues/situations as polemical. Arms and the Man is a celebrated example of
the Shavian drama of ideas. The play aims to satirize the long-cherished conventions of love and
romance on the one hand, and those of soldiering and heroism on the other. The victorious
Bulgarian cavalry-charge led by Sergius Saranoff against the Serbian artillery at the battle of
Slivnitza which makes him "the hero of Slivnitza" is actually a gross act of romantic
adventurism. Sergius's heroism makes Raina, his betrothed Petkoff daughter, and her mother
instantly ecstatic, but Sergius fails to get promoted in the army because his act of adventurism
is rightly looked upon as a piece of amateurish idiocy. The Shavian protagonist in the play,
Bluntschli, who enters Raina's bed-chamber secretly, explains Sergius's ludicrous suicidal bid to
the young romantic girl who gathers from the professional soldier what the realities of war
actually are. Raina's "soul's hero" Sergius and the fugitive Serbian artillery-man, Bluntschli,
are a pair of contrasted characters to highlight the conflict of the two ideas/attitudes to war,
heroism, soldiering and patriotism. Sergius, Raina, Major Petkoff and Catherine are all men and
women inclined to the conventional ideas of heroism, adventurism and patriotism. Bluntschli
serves as a typical Shavian ideologue to argue his way in his characteristic serio-comical manner
to lead the entire romantic-sentimental host to disillusionment. Raina gradually discovers that
Sergius is as much an adventurist in the domain of soldiering as he is a hypocrite in the domain
of love. He is found as making secret overtures to the Petkoff house-maid, Louka, behind Raina's
back. Louka, an example of a new woman, is very clever and ambitious to trap Sergius in love and
marriage. At the end of the play, Raina righly chooses to marry her "chocolate-cream soldier"
Bluntschli, and rejects the foolishly and falsely romantic Sergius Saranoff. The play can also be
seen as a problem play on the Ibsenian model. The play presents, analyzes and sarcastically
exposes the problems relating to love, relationships and marriage, problems relating to
patriotism, heroism and soldiering. Characters represent contrary and confronting ideas;
dialogues and situations underscore the problems and the conflicting trajectories. The whole play
does have a strong purpose of criticism and reformation.

What is the use of the character of Margaret in Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen?I have to write an essay on this question and am dyng for...

You are correct in your assumption that Margaret's character
provides entertainment, color and flavor to the story. After all, Margaret is still a child when
the events at Norland develop and the situation among the Dashwood women is way too pitiful to
allow for every single character to dwell in their misery.

Margaret
opens a window into the side of the Dashwood women which is still vital, happy, naive, and
mischievous. She does stir and move the action with her innuendos and her innocent blurts of
information. She is basically the happy medium between Elinor's sense and Marianne's sensibility.
She also allows the tense and stuffy atmosphere in the Dashwood household to soften to her
innocence and her natural curiosity.

In "Through the Tunnel," what is the specific theme in the story?

You are only allowed to ask one question - I will answer
your question by looking at the theme of this excellent short story. By the end of the
story Jerry has gone through a journey from childhood to manhood, symbolised most
stridently in his journey through the tunnel.

At the
beginning of the story we are introduced to a character who is on the cusp of
adolescense, and very clearly feels responsible for his mother due to their enforced
intimacy. Yet despite his feelings of responsibility towards his mother, he nonetheless
feels drawn to the "wild beach", which is away from the "safe beach" and his mother's
attentive care. The wild beach here can be said to symbolise independence and life away
from the protection of a parent figure - note how Lessing describes the two beaches to
draw out this comparison.

His discovery of the tunnel and
the challenge that the French boys set him through swimming through the tunnel spur
Jerry on to train hard and eventually succeed in his attempt to go through the tunnel.
Although certainly at the beginning of the story it is Jerry's need to be accepted by
the older group of French boys that drives his desire to go through the tunnel, it is
interesting that at the end of the story he no longer feels this is the case, as he is
happy to go back home and spend time with his mother. This indicates that the tunnel was
more about a process of self-acceptance and doing something to show he could do it for
himself rather than for any other reason.

His relationship
with his mother likewise has changed by the end of the story. Jerry deliberately
witholds his triumph, only relating his ability to hold his breath. The dramatic irony
in his mother's response ("I wouldn't overdo it, dear") indicates the independence that
Jerry has achieved in his journey through the tunnel - he has now entered an arena where
he has secrets from his mother and is able to engage in activities, dangerous activies,
away from his mother's protection.

Therefore, when we think
and consider the theme of this excellent tale, it is important to realise how Jerry
changes through the course of the story and passes from being a child to an adult,
symbolised most stridently through his voyage through the
tunnel.

What is the difference in characterization of Jocasta in Oedipus Rex and Desdemona in Othello?

While there are some similarities between Sophocles'
Jocasta and Shakespeare's Desdemona, there are some significant differences.  Both of
them support their spouses, but do so in different ways.  Desdemona's affirmation of
Othello's love causes her to break with her family and her social setting to live only
with and for him.  Once they leave together, she does not have much of a role in terms
of counsel or advice.  She loves him fully and with pure transparency, but the role of
Iago and Othello's own self doubt ends up subsuming him and reduces her to an object
upon which his insecurities are projected.  Jocasta is a bit more of an adviser or
counselor to Oedipus.  She is constantly advising him to not believe the prophecies, or
to not succumb to petty arguments with Creon.  At the same time, she does whatever she
can to shield him from the truth, invoking a maternal instinct, as well as defending her
own relationship with him.  Her counsel expires when the spiraling state of affairs
becomes too much for her.  Both depictions of women are different from one another
because they reflect different expressions of who what it means to be a spouse.  The
other significant difference would be their endings, in that one is killed by the hand
of another and the other is killed by her own hand.

What feelings were produced by the annexation of western lands in early mid 1800's?

Before the United States acquired the Louisiana Territory, the
port of New Orleans and the mouth of the Mississippi River were closed to Americans.  Americans
who lived between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River had to ship their produce
and import what they bought from overseas, through northeastern ports such as New York City,
Philadelphia, and Baltimore.  Thus northern and eastern merchants did not want the U. S. to own
the Louisiana Territory because this would make it easier and cheaper for trade to go through New
Orleans than through northeastern ports.

Almost from the start of
government under the Constitution, there were businessmen and politicians in the North who wanted
to use government to aid the growth of business.  At the same time there were politicians and
planters and yeomen in the South who did not want to pay the taxes that government aid to
business would entail.

When Louisiana was purchased, Northern
interests feared that more states would be created out of it that would be controlled by planters
and Southern yeomen and their politicians.  This would mean more senators and representatives who
would oppose Northern interests in Congress.  The Northern interests thought they would thus have
too little power in the federal government.  They were very upset about the Louisiana
Purchase.

When the territory taken from Mexico was added to the
U.S.,  Northern business and political interests tried to pass a law in Congress that would keep
slaveowners out of the new states that would be created from the territory.  This made
Southerners very upset, because whether they owned slaves or not, they did not want to see
Northerners achieve unchallanged control of the federal government.

Tennis balls are stacked four high in a rectangular prism package. The diameter of one ball is 6.5cm. a) Calculate the volume of the...

The  diameter of the balls =6.5cm. Each  rectangular prism
shaped pack contains 4 tennis balls kept high one over the other . So house the
arrangement the required(inner dimension of the pack = 6.5 cm length , 6.5 cm width and
6.5*4 = 26cm high.

a) the volume of the rectangular prism =
length*length*height = 6.5^2*(6.5*4) =1098.5 cm^3.

b)The
(minimum )amount of material to make the fixed shape is (prportional)  equal to the area
of the 6 surface of the rectangular box= 2(lw+lh+wh) = 2(3w^2+2w^2), as l=w and h =
2w .  So the surface area = 10*6.5^2 = 422.5 sq cm.

The
minimum material to cover the 4 balls to keep in the fixed stack   shape  does not
arise.

c)

The amount of empty
space in the box = Volume of the rectangular prism - volume of the 4 boxes = 6.5*2*26 -
2*(4/3)(Pi*r^3^2) = 1098.5 - 2*(4/3)pi(6.5/21006.96)^3 = 523.33
cm^3.

d) We assumed that the material is (proportional)
equal  to the area of the surface .

Give an example of how Willy is his own worst enemy when it comes to trying to live the American Dream.

In the end, Miller constructs Willy as a human being to be
his own worst enemy.  Part of this comes from the fact that Willy is willingly crushed
by the weight of his own dreams.  His inability to understand the construct of the
various matrices that make it impossible for him to achieve success through the narrow
definitions he has allowed himself to embrace becomes the reason why his own state of
being makes him his own worst enemy.  In defining "success" through external means,
whether through money or status, Willy has aligned himself to be unhappy, to not be able
to to live out his own dream.  An example would be how he continues to live in the past
about what being a "salesman" used to be.  The idea of achieving respect from others,
connecting happiness to external means, and defining success not with subjective
criteria but through artificially established and external means makes Willy a person
who can never be happy because his dream, or his conception of it, will never be
achieved.  When he describes his existence as "ringing up a zero," Willy's definition of
happiness becomes external, something that makes him his own worst enemy for he accepts
what society says success ought to be as opposed to defining it for
himself.

Find the electric field between the sheets of the capacitor in the following case after the dielectric plate is introduced.Two sheets of a...

The plates of a capacitor carry opposite charges. Here it
is given that the charge on the plate is 53.1*10^-8 C. The capacitance of the capacitor
is 177 pF and the sheets are 1 cm apart.

We can calculate
the voltage between the plates using the formula C = Q/V, where Q is the charge on the
plates, V is the voltage between the plates and C is the
capacitance.

As C and Q are known, we can rewrite C =
Q/V

=> V = Q/C

=
53.1*10^-8 C / 177 pF

= 53.1*10^-8 C / 177*10^-12
F

= 3000 V.

Now the
introduction of a dielectric decreases this voltage by a factor equal to the dielectric
constant. So the voltage here decreases to 3000/ 3 =
1000V.

The electric field is equal to Voltage / distance
between the plates = 1000 / (1/100) = 1000*100 = 10^5 V/
m.

The required electric field is equal to
10^5 V/m.

A mofif in the book is that if people were given the choice to be happy, but not free or free, but not happy, would they choose the former?

This is an interesting question.  I think that Orwell
concludes two different points on this.  On one hand, there is what Orwell would like to
see in humanity, but there is also what Orwell does see in humanity.  I sense a definite
tension between what is and what should be in Orwell's work.  I do see Orwell as hoping
that individuals possess freedom no matter what, and if happiness is elusive, one can
chalk it up to individual freedom.  That fact that Winston never is able to experience
freedom, in its purest of senses, because of Big Brother and the configuration of
Oceania is testament to this.  Orwell would argue that the government of Oceania is
quite content when individuals are "happy" and willing to sacrifice their freedom as it
substantiates the state and emboldens the government.  This is why Orwell would probably
wish humans to have freedom and strive for happiness, for in this condition, the state
does not possess all encompassing power.  At the time of writing, Orwell believed that
neither superpower was really willing to be happy with freedom of the individual and
that both sought to control the individual and the freedom within he/ she.  In the end,
it is this condition, suggesting that one validates freedom over happiness that Orwell
might like to see in the individual as it decreases the power from the
state.

How did the Berlin Airlift help achieve American goals in postwar Europe?

The Berlin Airlift helped achieve American goals in postwar
Europe by proving to the Soviet Union that the US would not back down on the issue of Berlin and
by pushing West Germany much more firmly towards alliance with Western Europe and the United
States.

In postwar Europe, the US wanted to prevent any expansion of
the Soviet bloc that existed in Eastern Europe. In order to do that, the US had to convince the
Soviets that they would defend Western Europe. The US also had to convince the countries of
Western Europe that an alliance with the US was in their best interests. The Berlin Airlift
helped with both of these things. It showed the Soviets just how determined the US was to resist
communist expansion. It also showed the West Germans that the US would stand up for them and help
them. This proved that there were benefits to alliance with the
US.

In these ways, the Berlin Airlift helped to achieve US goals in
postwar Europe.

How was socialism linked to the industrial revolution?

In general, socialism came as a reaction to the Industrial
Revolution.  It sprang up as workers reacted to the new conditions in which they had to
work.

As the Industrial Revolution began, workers started
having to work in different conditions.  They had to work for someone else instead of
for themselves.  They had to come to work when they were told and leave when they were
told.  They stopped having any kind of control over their working
lives.

Socialism sprang up as a reaction to this.  It said
that workers ought to be their own bosses.  It said that they should not have to work
for others and make others rich instead of working for
themselves.

So socialism started as a backlash against the
changes in workers' lives.  It wanted to give them back the control over their work that
they used to enjoy.

How would you explain the transformation of Indian nationalism from its narrow social base into a mass movement under Gandhi?

If we use Rao's work as an example of this transformation,
the answer would lie in the recognition that Indian independence is both a political and
spiritual quest.  The presence of Gandhi's ideas helped to bring about a watershed
moment in the consciousness of the Indian nation.  While there was a generally shared
consensus that Indian independence from the British was needed, the message that
followed this was murky, at best.  Gandhi ends up providing the clarity to such a
message in his assertion that the liberation from the British is not the foundation of
the struggle.  Rather, he argues, the struggle must be on an ethical/ moral or spiritual
level.  It is this type of transcendent claim that allows the movement of Indian
nationalism to become a broad one.  In Gandhi's mind, the idea of stratification or
discrimination, practices employed by the British, is no different whether an Indian or
an Anglo is perpetrating it.  This causes more people to be brought into the movement,
helping to make the transformation into a mass movement.  For example, examine the women
in Rao's story.  It is only through Gandhi/ Moorthy that they are incorporated as a
vital part of the movement.  It is they who resume the struggle and fight when their men
flee into the jungle.  This is only possible because Gandhi saw that the moral or
ethical transformation of individuals ends up broadening the movement to become one of
human rights, not merely political entitlements.  Given the caste system and tradition
bound edicts that silenced many, this helps to widen the drive for independence,
bringing about a certain unity to millions of Indians.  It is this transcendent call to
action, reciprocal against both aggressor and victim, that ends up widening the call for
independence, bringing more people into the fold.

How does a person's thoughts affect his/her use of language?

The question is a bit vague, but I think I know what you
mean.  Our thought processes involve emotions, mental images and the use of language
itself as many of our thoughts are in phrases, as if talking to ourselves or
others.

The emotion of thought sometimes affects how we
speak, as the language associated with such emotion tends to translate into the spoken
word in a less organized fashion.  That is, the emotion causes us to think less
"clearly", and so the language we end up choosing is usually less appropriate or less
fluent.  If you have ever heard the phrase "Don't speak without thinking", that is
because such language attached to emotion is usually clumsy or socially
awkward.

The menatl images we have, of a hamburger, of our
first house, of our parents or loved ones, all translate into the specific words we
use.  We associate our words with the thoughts, is another way to say
it.

When speaking in public or in a formal sense, we tend
to think through what we want to say ahead of time, word for word, and to speak more
slowly, carefully and thoughtfully.  We want to be clearly understood in these
situations, or we are performing, much as an actor thinks of his
lines.

If there were three things to pick that would convince you that Nat's family would survive in "The Birds," what three things would you pick?

Unfortunately I do not share your optimism. I think that
the ending of this excellent story actually clearly indicates that the birds will
triumph in the end. However, if I were of a more optimistic disposition, I would want to
focus on the following three elements that give hope to Nat's
family.

Firstly, note the following
quote:

He had
a new scheme for the windows, which was to fix barbed wire in front of the
boards.

Nat shows himself to
be ingenious and handy at creating defences against the birds, and the fact that he has
not lost hope is shown through his continual thinking of how to defend the house and his
family.

Secondly, the fact that the birds only attack every
six hours and then rest for six hours gives Nat and his family a chance to restock and
defend themselves once again, going to get food and provisions. In theory, they could
carry on like this endlessly, defending themselves and constructing new defences during
the lull in attack.

Lastly, and most importantly, I would
refer to the strength of the human spirit as demonstrated by Nat and the way that he is
determined to survive and keeps the spirits of his family up, taking care of
them.

How did Mark Twain's life on the Mississippi River affect his story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"?

Interestingly, I don't necessarily think it was Twain's
experience of life on the Mississippi river that gave him the inspiration for this excellent
story of humour and farce so much as his time spent prospecting for gold in Nevada. Twain, during
the Civil War, spent a little while serving as a solder in a company of Confederate irregulars,
but he quickly found that military life was not to his taste and therefore he started his new
life looking for gold. We are told that he found little gold there, but what this stage of his
life did do for him was that he uncovered rich seams of storytelling within himself. This story
is one that he had heard from his time mining from other miners, and Twain transforms it into a
classic of American humour.

Thus whilst this tale owes a lot to
Twain's own experiences in life, it is not his experiences on the Mississippi river that
contributed to the creation of this story, but rather his time spent as a gold miner in
Nevada.

Express 6*(sin x)*(cos x) as a single sine or cosine function.

The question put is to express the 6sinxcosx as the function of
single sine of cosine function.

  As it is, the the given finction
a single function with both sinx and cosx. f(x) = 6sinxcosx.

We can
rewrite the function as a function of  sinx as below:

f(sinx) = 6
sinx(1-sin^2x)^(1/2), as cosx = (1-sin^2x).

We can write the
function purely as a function of  K*sinX  as below:

6sinxcosx =  3
(2sinxcosx) = 3sin(2x)

6 sinxcosx = 3sin(2x) , as  sin2x= sin(x+x) =
sinxcosx+cosxsinx = 2sinxcosx.

We can write 6sinxcosx =  sin(2x) =
cos(90-2x)

We cane write the  6sinxcosx =
6cosx*(1-cos2^)^(1/2).

What changes were occurring with political parties from 1854 to the election of Abe Lincoln to the presidency?

I have edited your question because the original question was
not clear.  I hope this is what you were trying to ask.

The basic
change that was going on during this time is that the political parties were splitting apart. 
Parties that had been national (had support all across the nation) were splitting up into
Northern and Southern factions.

This change can be seen, for
example, in the Democratic Party.  In the 1860 election, this party ran two different candidates
-- one from the Northern "wing" of the party and one from the South.  This also impacted the
Whigs.  The split between Northern and Southern Whigs over the issue of slavery caused that party
to fall apart with the Northern Whigs becoming a large part of the new Republican
Party.

In The Crucible who is the leader of the girls who cried out?

In The Crucible, Abigail Williams is generally viewed as
the leader of the girls. Abigail is the main driving force in the continuation of the
trials, and she gives the girls ideas for their testimonies. This representation of
Abigail is supported by the fact that she lies throughout the play, and her motivation
in crying witchcraft is to try to separate John Proctor (her lover and former master)
from his wife Elizabeth. Abigail is also the first one confronted about the encounter
with Tituba in the woods, and thus the first one to craft the girls' stories. In the
private conversation between the girls in Act I, it is clear that Betty is scared of and
intimidated by Abigail since she drank blood in the woods with Tituba. The girls' fear
of being labeled witches themselves is another factor that motivates them to continue
accusing others of witchcraft.

How did Eisenhower's decision about taking Berlin affect the future relations between the West and the Soviet Union?

I assume that you are referring to the decision made by Gen.
Eisenhower during WWII, the one in which he allowed the Soviet Army to take Berlin instead of
having the Western Allies do so.

Once the Soviet Union had Berlin
and much of Eastern Germany, the basic shape of the Cold War was set. This made it clear that the
West and the Soviets were going to have to "live" together in some way rather than simply having
their separate spheres that did not interact. This led to such things as the Berlin Airlift, the
Berlin Crisis of the late '50s, and the creation of the Berlin Wall. All of these increased
tensions between the West and the Soviets.

In this way, Eisenhower's
decision ensured that there would be tension between the West and the Soviets because they would
have to have a great deal of contact with one another.

For Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, I need to write about how Maria makes a mockery of love.* I already wrote about her thinking that love is shallow...

You might want to look at Act I scene v, when Viola enters (as
Cesario) into Olivia's presence.  Some of the mockery here is a bit inferred and indicated by
action rather than text, but I believe that this scene could also be
useful.

Just before Viola enters, Olivia says to
Maria:

Give me my
veil.  Come throw it o'er my face.

Well once again hear Orsino's
embassy.

This line is important when
considering mockery in this scene, since it shows that Olivia has covered her face when receiving
suitors sent from Orsino in the past.  Are they preparing a ruse that they have enacted upon past
emissaries sent from Orsino before?  This idea that they are, once again, creating a ruse, or
playing a trick, can be inferred upon Viola's opening line:

readability="6">

The honourable lady of the house, which is
she?

With this line, Viola exposes
that she is confused by which of the women is which.  Why does she confuse a waiting woman and
her maid? Does Maria also throw a veil over her head to appear to be the same as Olivia?  It is
often played this way in performance.  And if so, doesn't this mean that she is mocking Orsino
and his "love" for Olivia?

Maria has only one line in the scene,
"Will you hoist sail, sir?  Here lies your way."  When Viola answers this with "Some
mollification for your giant, sweet lady!"  She indicates that Maria is either trying to bodily
throw her out, or is at least threatening to do so, and Viola is appealing to Olivia for help. 
Again, an indication that Maria is mocking Orsino and the messenger he
sends.

I tend to agree with you, that it is difficult to find
support for Maria's making a mockery of love.  But looking at the subtlties of certain moments,
as I have above, can give you more support for creating such an agrument.  Good
luck!

In Chapter 16, what does this passage mean: Coningham mother "was given to looking far away when she sat on front gallery. ..." ...

Describing the day in which the trial begins, Scout
relates how the people arrive with Miss Maudie calling out to the "footwashers," and the
Idlers' Club commenting that Atticus means to actually defend Tom Robinson.  As Scout
gives the spatial relationship of the jury and Judge Taylor at the bench, she remarks
upon the acumen of the venerable judge.  However, there was one time when Judge Taylor
came to "a dead standstill in open court."  This was the time when their was a land
controversy between the Cunninghams and the Coninghams, two families who had
intermarried for generations and had even mingled their names to just
Cunningham:

readability="12">

During a controversy of this character, Jeems
Cunningham testified that his mother spelled it Cunningham on deeds and things, but she
was really a Coningham, she was an uncertain speller, a seldom reader, and was given to
looking far away sometimes when she sat on the front gallery in the
evening.

Apparently, the
Cunninghams and the Coninghams are rather inbred, as they were probably distant cousins
to begin with.  The mother who looks off into the distance from the porch in the
evening has probably very little going on mentally.  She may, in fact, have dementia
from age, or she may have been mentally challenged from the beginning. At any rate, she
is ill-educated and of diminished intelligence.

How is irony used in The Reader?i need to know why it is important and how it connects to the whole story

The main character, Michael, meets Hannah, an older German
woman, when he stumbles into her apartment building, sick, and she takes him in and nurses him
back to health.  This, along with the fact that he falls in love with her and they carry on at
least a physical affair for quite some time is ironic given the later revelation that she was an
SS concentration camp guard during World War II, responsible for the deaths of hundreds.  It is
ironic that someone who was trained not to show pity or remorse does in fact show pity and helps
Michael out of simple kindness.

It is also ironic that he loves her,
even later after he finds out about her past.  He corresponds with her, and helps her in whatever
way he can.  So an SS camp guard, and murderer is truly lovable is another irony: that such a
person could not only give but receive love, could not only show compassion but could accept
it.

Can someone help me understand my assignment? I am a very slow learner. What are they talking about when they say pick one initiative?Primary Task...

Can someone help me understand my assignment? I am a very slow
learner. What are they talking about when they say pick one
initiative?

Primary Task Response: Within the
Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your
thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your
classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your
ideas:

Using your textbook and at least 1 noncommercial Web site (use .gov,
.org, or .edu as examples), review the history of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health
Care Organizations. Make note of key dates and major initiatives that are mentioned. Pick one
initiative and create your own result, using your own words and describe how you would solve one
of the major initiatives. Some questions to ask yourself, is it defunct, has it evolved, or is it
the same as it was at the beginning? Be specific and use details in describing how you would
review the specific agenda or initiative in your own words. Do not copy and paste information
from the site directly. This discussion board response must demonstrate your knowledge and
understanding by the creation of your own ideas and initiatives process improvements
thoughts.

What are numbers whose sum is 4 and the product is -96.

Let a and b be the number such that their sum is 4 and
their product is -96.

Then we will
write:

a + b = 4
...............(1)

a*b = -96
.............(2)

Now we have a system of two equations and
two variables.

We will use the substitution method to
solve.

We will wrtie (1).

a +
b = 4

==> a = 4 - b

Now
we will substitute in (2).

a*b =
-96

==> ( 4-b)*b =
-96

==> 4b - b^2 =
-96

==> b^2 - 4b - 96 =
0

Now we will
factor.

==> ( b - 12) ( b + 8) =
0

==> b1 = 12  ==> a1 = 4-12 =
-8

==> b2= -8 ==> a2= 4-(-8) ==
12

Then, the numbers are 12 and
-8.

Why does business fear sudden changes in government policies?

Business fears sudden changes in government policies because
firms need to plan. Firms need to have assumptions on which they can base their planning instead
of simply not knowing what will happen.

For example, imagine that
you owned an oil company that wanted to invest in Venezuela. When you consider doing this, you
would have to understand that you would be putting a lot of money into your investment. Now
consider the government of that country. At any moment, Hugo Chavez might change the laws and
either take your equipment or reduce the amount of profit you are allowed to make. You would fear
this because your ability to do business might be radically altered without any
warning.

This is an extreme case, of course. But the same thing can
happen on a much smaller scale even in countries that are more stable. Imagine if you were
investing in wind power in the US. You would fear what might happen if Republicans come to power
and suddenly cut subsidies to wind power.

Government decisions can
have a huge impact on the business environment. Firms need to know that their environment will
remain stable so they can plan. Therefore, they fear sudden changes in policy that will upset
their plans and can cause them to lose money.

1) During the early 1800s, many African Americans were free as a result of:I. Manumission provided by slaveholders' willsII. Manumission given to...

All of these are true to some degree.  Manumission was the
practice of freeing a slave in your will when you died, and was a common practice by
those slaveowners who had developed affections for their slaves and did not wish to see
them endure hardship at the hands of another slaveowner.  But due to the growing number
of free blacks in southern states and the concern that created among whites afraid of
uprisings, laws were passed that severely restricted the practice, so that by the early
1800s, it was more rare.

Manumission was promised for many
blacks who fought in the Revolutionary War, and sometimes it was granted and sometimes
not.  Your question states that many African-Americans were free, but keep in mind that
emancipation because of war service was also pretty
rare.

The legal end of slavery in the northern states was
probably responsible for the largest number of free blacks resulting from the three
methods you mention, as slavery simply died out in those because the new industrial and
merchant economy there didn't need them.

AB = 4x (AC = hypotenuse )

AB =4x-15 and BC = 2x+3. AC = 48. AC is the
hypotenuse.

To find the value of
x.

From the given details, ABC is a right angled triangle with AC as
hypotenuse . Therefore AB and AC form a right angle at B.

So
AB^2+BC^2 = AC^2  ....(1) by  Pythagoas theorem.

We substitute the
given values AB = 4x - 15 and BC = 2x + 3 and  AC = 48 in (1) and solve the quadratic equation
for x. :

(4x-15)^2 +(2x+3)^2 =
48^2.

16x^2 -120x +225 +4x^2+12x +9 - 48^2 =
0

20x^2-108x - 2070 = 0....(1)

We use
the quadratic formula : The solution of ax^2+bx+c= 0 is x1 = {-b +or- sqrt(b^2-4ac)}/2a. Here a=
20, b = -108 and c = 2070.

So x1 = {108
+sqrt(108^2-4*20(-2070)}/2*40 = 13.2257 nearly.

x2 =  {108
+sqrt(108^2-4*20(-2070)}/2*40 = -7.8257 nearly.

What were the global impacts resulting from the colonization of the Americas? (15th-18th cent)Both in America and around the world

I would say that the major global impact of the
colonization of the Americas was on the balance of power in Europe.  Because European
countries were dominant, this also affected the balance of power
world-wide.

For example, the earliest colonization of the
Americas helped increase the power of Spain.  Spain's colonies from Mexico on to the
south were immensely rich.  They produced such things as the huge amounts of silver from
what is now Mexico and the Potosi mines in Peru.  These sums of money helped pay for
Spanish wars all over Europe.

Later on, colonization in the
Americas led to an increase in British power.  This happened as what is now the United
States became a valuable source of trade (as did Britain's Caribbean territories).  This
change led to competition worldwide, such as was seen in the 7 Years
War.

So colonization of the Americas impacted the global
balance of power as various countries' American colonies helped to increase their wealth
and power.

Analyze: Who suspects Macbeth? Support your answer with lines from Act 2.

MacDuff suspects Macbeth of having something to do with
Duncan's death.  This is clear in the last scene of Act II when he and Ross are speaking
about Macbeth's coronation at Scone.   Ross asks MacDuff if he plans to go, and MacDuff
tells him he will not go.  Ross replies that he is going, and MacDuff says:  "Well, may
you see things well done there.  Adieu, lest our old robes sit easier than our new!"  By
this line, MacDuff is suggesting that he suspects Macbeth will make a worse King of
Scotland than Duncan did, and things will not go well for them in the near future.  The
Old Man's last words in the Act also reflect that things are "foul" and not "fair" as
they once were.  He suggests by his lines that anyone who attends the coronation of
Macbeth is attempting to "make good of bad and friends of foes."  These words also cast
doubt on Macbeth's integrity and worth as king.

To what extent can we say Othello's tragedy is caused by jealousy in Othello?

On Othello's part, jealousy does not cause his
downfall. While Iago certainly demonstrates jealousy toward both Othello and Cassio and
uses that jealousy to propel his plot against the general and his lieutenant, it is
Othello's poor judgment in trusting Iago that leads to his downfall. He even tells Iago
that he is not a naturally jealous man and asks for "ocular" proof. If Othello had not
allowed Iago to mislead him, if he had not been conditioned by the culture of the time
to feel inferior because of his race, and if Desdemona would have defended her
reputation, then his tragic downfall could have been avoided--jealousy on Othello's part
does not play a part in the poor judgment, racial stereotypes, and naive timidity that
result in such a tragic ending.

What is the effect on the reader that the events in "A Rose for Emily" by Faulkner are not narrated in chronological order?

It is important to realise that flashbacks and disrupted
narration are key tools of gothic writers, who use such narrative techniques as part of
the overall unsettling feeling they wish to produce in their readers. Having a
non-chronological narration forces the reader to jump back and forth between different
time periods and is deliberately unsettling as we have to focus on which time period we
are focussing on, and also we need to be especially aware of how foreshadowing is used
to show how what is revealed to us in the future or the past relates to the
present.

In this short story in particular, jumping back
and forth highlights and emphasises the way that values in the Old South have changed,
which is of course, one of the key themes of this story.

What literary movements were the playwrights in the Italian Renaissance connected to?

The Renaissance, literally ‘rebirth’ is a period roughly from
the end of the Medieval/Dark Ages up to some time in the 17th century. It marked a new phase of
history where there was a surge of interest in  science, politics, philosophy and art and,
paradoxically a rebirth of interest and even nostalgia for ancient civilizations and the
classics; especially Greek and Roman. Humanism is, in its broad concept of focus on man’s place
in the world – a shift from ethereal/metaphysical) is probably the artistic movement most
associated with Italian Renaissance dramatists. So, the Renaissance was a kind of paradox;
progressive in the spirit of technological and artistic advances along with the spirit of
humanism, but backwards in the resurgence of interest in Classical works. The Renaissance was a
kind of ‘neoclassicism’ in this respect but the actual Neoclassical Movement in literature did
not come until mid-18th century; about 100 years or so after the
Renaissance.

Explain the American literary movement known as “Romanticism."

I think that you can start discussing how the overall
ideas of Romanticism in England were present in its American counterpart.  The overall
stress on emotions and how an emotional frame of reference needs to be embraced were
present in both.  A significant difference between both variations was the role of
egalitarianism, something that was not as present in Europe as it was in America. 
Another significant difference in the American version of Romanticism was its
"newness."  America, in contrast to the setting of European Romanticism, was very new
and its definition was still being sought.  Writers like Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman
were seeking to bring a new definition to America.  Their writing is composed with some
fo this idea in mind, that their work could go very far in providing definition and
giving words to the American experience.  I think that the same tenets of seeking to
inject emotions into daily consciousness, the need to assert individuality over the
realm of conformist society, and to ensure that the subjective can bring out the
objective are present in both European and American Romanticism.

Explain the predicament Brutus faces in Act 1 of Julius Caesar.

Brutus must decide how to act in response to the presumed
offering of a crown of rulership to Caesar.  The Roman Senate was a democratic body of
government, and Brutus and others are afraid that Caesar will be awarded special powers of solo
rulership.  He doesn't think that this is the correct form of government for
Rome.

So, his predicament is in how to respond.  Should he allow the
process to take its course and, if the people seem to want Caesar (a man that Brutus does admire)
as king, allow it to move forward; OR does he take sides against this potential change, siding
with the Conspirators, murdering Caesar to keep Rome a democracy ruled by the Senate? 
Assassination is an act of treason however, so, ironically, Brutus must decide whether to act
against Roman law in order to do what he thinks is best for Rome or obey the law and allow Rome
to become the sort of government he thinks is wrong.

Brutus, unlike
Cassius, is a cautious man.  In Act I, scene ii, when Cassius all but lays his cards on the
table, the only indication that Brutus gives of his discontent with the state of affairs is the
following:

Be not
deceived.  If I have veil'd my look,

I turn the trouble of my
countenance

Merely upon myself.  Vexed I
am

Of late with passions of some
difference,

Conceptions only proper to
myself,

Which give some soil perhaps to my
behaviours.

. . .poor Brutus, with himself at
war,

Forgets the shows of love to other
men.

It will be in the later Acts of
the play that Brutus' real feelings and the strain of his decision to murder Caesar is
demonstrated to the audience.

What argument is Orwell making in "Shooting an Elephant"?

In this powerful essay, George Orwell uses the symbol of when he
was forced to shoot an elephant to describe the foolhardiness and inherent weakness of the
colonial endeavour. He describes how the elephant did not need to be shot and how he really
didn't want to shoot it. However, when he finally reaches the elephant, the crowd that is getting
bigger with every moment pressurises him into shooting the elephant and he feels as if he is
being looked at as if he were a "conjurer about to perform a trick." It is this moment that
triggers an epiphany in Orwell's mind about the futility of what Britain is trying to achieve
through her colonial exploits:

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And it was at this moment, as I stood there with the
rifle in my hands, that I first grapsed the hollowness, the futility of the white man's dominion
in the East. Here was I, the white man with his gun, standing in front of the unarmed native
crowd--seeming the leading actor of the piece; but in reality I was only an absurd puppet pushed
to and fro by the will of those yellow faces
behind.

Thus it is that he realises
the cental paradox that lies behind colonialism, that "when the white man turns tyrant it is his
own freedom that he destroys." The narrator feels that people expect powerful action from him as
he is the all-powerful white man who rules them. He cannot free himself from the role in which he
has been cast and thus actually destroys his own freedom. It is this point that this essay so
powerfully makes.

In what terrible way does Macbeth deal with Macduff, one of the noblemen at the court who was suspicious of Macbeth from the beginning?

In Act 3 of Macbeth, Macbeth is crowned
King of Scotland and after his coronation, he holds a banquet in honor of his new title. 
However, two men are missing from the banquet:  Banquo (Macbeth has had him murdered) and
Macduff, who has returned to his home in Fife, refusing to attend Macbeth's coronation.  Macbeth
is angered by Macduff's disrespect, and Macbeth's negative feelings towards the Thane suggest
that he thinks Macduff might be suspicious of him.  When Macbeth later learns that Macduff has
gone to England to see Malcolm, he plans to have Macduff's castle sacked and his entire family
and court murdered.  This is the terrible way in which Macbeth deals with Macduff--even at the
end of the play, Macbeth hesitates to kill Macduff because he says that he has the blood of
Macduff's entire family on his sword.

In the ' Lord of the Flies' is Simon deluded and ill, or has he alone grasped the true nature of what is going on ?Consider the Lord of the Flies'...

In the novel, Simon faces the "pig's head on a stick"--the
Lord of the Flies, and falls into a trance.  Simon is not hallucinating; he is having a
vision.  The vision is his nsight about the beast.  The Lord of Flies tells Simon that
Simon knew all along who the beast was.  It is "not something you can hunt and kill." 
It is the savagery that lies within each of the boys.

The
facts of the novel support this idea.  The boys' most dangerous enemy comes not from
without but from within.  It is their carelessness, fear, power struggles,
and aggression that cause the turmoil on the island.  Simon is being tempted here.  He
can become savage as the others, and survive, or he can refuse and "they will do him." 
Only Simon seems to understand the nature of evil on the island, just as he is the only
one to ascertain the true nature of the beastie:  a dead man with a
parachute. 

By Act 3 scene 5, what has the audience learned is part of the tension created between Lady Capulet and Juliet?

By Act 3 scene 5, the audience has seen Romeo and Juliet
marry and even spend the night together both in secret. No one else in the story but the
Nurse and the Friar know that. Shortly after Romeo leaves Juliet's bed, Lady Capulet
comes in and we can tell she doesn't understand her daughter as the two talk about how
and why she cries. Lady Capulet is sure it is because Juliet lost her cousin. Then, in
an effort to soothe the pain, Lady offers Juliet the opportunity to marry Paris. This
was a total set-up. Lady Capulet (on her husband's behalf) is just using the
circumstances.

Any girl would want to tell her mom about
the true love she found, but Juliet can't because she knows it is a forbidden love.
Thus, there is division between the two. As the scene progresses Capulet gets involved
and Lady Capulet turns on Juliet and her wish to not marry Paris, Lady determines to
take dad's side.

How does religion relate to the major theme of the play The Glass Menagerie?

As an Expressionistic play, The Glass
Menagerie is replete with symbolism and imagery.  Much of this imagery, such
as the religious imagery, serves to underscore the theme of Appearance vs. Reality.
Certainly, the characters exist in imaginary worlds throughout the play.  For instance,
Tom imagines what his future can be, Laura retreats to the imaginary world of the glass
animals, and Amanda romanticizes about her past and imagines the possibilities for Laura
if she can only find a "gentleman caller" for her.

This
idealistic solution of Amanda for her daughter is depicted by Tennessee Williams with
the relgious imagery associated with the scene in which Amanda prepares Laura for the
dinner to which the gentleman caller--a modern day savior--will come.  The set
directions state that "a fragile, unearthly prettiness has come out
in Laura."  Like the Madonna, Laura is detached from reality.  And, like the
Madonna, she awaits the announcement that her savior is coming.  The music in the
background is the Ave Maria as Amanda kneels before Laura,
adjusting her dress "devout and ritualistic."  There is a radiance that emanates from
Laura as she solemnly looks at herself, suggesting the illusions created in her
mind.

After the lights go out because Tom--who refers to
him as "El Diablo"--has not paid the light bill, candles are lighted in a candelabrum,
suggestive of those on an altar.  Stage directions describe this part of the scene as
"the climax of her [Laura's] secret life."  As
Jim talks with Laura, she relaxes and enjoys herself; she has "a warmth and
charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles."  But, the ceremonious
moments end when Jim informs Laura that he is
engaged,

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The holy candles in the altar of
Laura's face have been snuffed out.  There is a look of almost infite
desolation.

The
unearthly night is at its end.  Laura and Amanda and Tom are again faced with reality
and Amanda accuses Tom, "You live in a dream; you manufacture illusions!" Tom escapes
through the fire escape, and Laura blows out the candles, ending the play, and thereby
also ending the illusions of unattainable dreams, as unattainable as the religious
perfection of the Madonna.

Explain why "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" would be labeled as a story for children.

The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World
could be used as a story that can be told to children but, knowing Gabriel Garcia
Marquez's choices for intended audiences it is hardly true that children were his primary target
audience.

However, you can argue that the story possesses certain
characteristics that are quite unique and appeal to the primary traits of children: Naivete,
innocence, and the want to care for others.

The story also uses
literary techniques that are appealing to children because in the genre of magical realism (to
which this story belongs) there are situations that appeal to fantasy and the supernatural.
Marquez, however, has the unique magical touch of making these fantastic and supernatural thing
charming and told from a loving perspective that would also appeal to a younger audience and an
older audience alike.

Yet, for it to be labeled as a story for
children would be to reduce the theme of the story and all of the symbolism within it. I would,
instead, re-state how the story can be intended for a younger audience for its fairy-tale
consonance, for its indulgence in magical realism, and for the main idea which is that everyone
has a capacity to love and care for things, even when they did not think they would be prepared
to do so.

What does the poem "On the Life of Man" by Sir Walter Ralegh express?

"On the Life of Man" by Sir Walter Raleigh has a message
similar to Shakespeare's famous statement in As You Like It Act II
scene vii:

All
the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They
have their exits and their
entrances;

To look at it
closely, let's first clear up some of the phrasing as it is explained on href="http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/lifeman.htm">Luminarium.org: "play
of passion" refers to a dramatic play, meaning a dramatic life; "musick of division" is
the music that divides the acts of a play; "tyring houses" the rooms where actors change
costumes (attiring; changing attire); "spector" is a word play misspelling of spectator
that combines it with specter (ghost), thus bringing up an allusion to audiences living
and dead.

In a poetic conceit (i.e., a long poetic
comparison of two unlike things) comparing life to a play, Sir Walter Raleigh is saying
that life is a drama and that the moments of mirth (happiness and laughter) are fleeting
moments, as fleeting as the music that marks the space between acts of a play. Having
dressed for the drama play in the womb, we enter our short stretch of life, which
Raleigh ironically compares to a comedy. You know it's ironic because the whole conceit
compares life to a painful drama.

The next four lines of
the ten line poem written in five couplets compares God ("Heaven the Judicious sharpe
spector") to the audience at the play, saying God takes note of those who do wrong ("who
doth act amisse").  Sir Walter ends the conceit by comparing the grave, which is a
metaphor for death, to the final curtain ending a play.

In
the final couplet, he indicates that he has described how we march through our dramas to
our final and eternal rest in the grave. His final note implies that while a play has an
end but begins again and even again, our final curtain at the grave is in earnest with
no repeat performances ("we dye in earnest, that's no Jest.").

How can we compare the school to a plant cell?cell wall, mitochondria, ribosomes, vacuole, nucleous, nucleolus, endoplasmic reticulum, golgi...

The cell wall, which is for support and protection, could
be the outside covering, perhaps the bricks on the facade of the school. The
mitochondria, powerhouse of the cell oxidizes glucose to release energy in the form of
A.T.P. Energy is released in a school by the oil burner in the basement. Ribosomes
synthesize proteins according to the messenger RNA instructions. Students carry out
tasks and produce work, according to the daily aim under direction by the teacher.
Vacuoles can store water and food. They can be compared to a refrigerator or supply
closet. The nucleus, which contains all the hereditary information, can be compared to
the computer system or library within the school.  The nucleolus manufactuers rRNA. This
can be compared to a copy machine making copies as the nucleolus transcribes rRNA
according to genetic instructions. The endoplasmic reticulum, is for intracellular
transport and is a system of tubules. This can be compared to the hallways inside a
school. The golgi apparatus packages cell secretions and makes them ready for transport.
This can be compared to the teacher collecting and grading school work from students and
making it ready to be displayed on a bulletin board. The cell membrane allows materials
in or out of a cell selectively. This can be compared to the security at the front desk
of a school. The chloroplast absorbs radiant energy to make it available for
photosynthesis. Solar panels on the roof of a school could be a
comparison.

In "The Case for the Defence," explain "domes of silence muting the court".

I think that what Greene is referring to here is the
impact that mistakes would have on the prestige and honor of the court
system.

The phrase that you mention is given right at the
start of the story.  We are told that the jury is afraid of making mistakes because
mistakes are like "domes of silence muting the court."  Clearly, this is said
metaphorically.

I think what this means is that the court
loses its influence or trust with the people when it makes mistakes.  If this happens,
it is like the court is being silenced.  It is no longer telling the people "don't
worry, we are here to do justice."  That message is muted when a mistake is
made.

What are the differences between Marlow in the book Heart of Darkness and in the movie Apocalypse Now by F. Coppola? Give four examples.Compere

This is a great question! I think the film is an
incredible reflection on Conrad's original novel and has so many comparisons that you
can draw, in addition to so many differences.

For me, the
key four differences between the Marlow in the book and the Marlow in the film are as
follows:

1) In the film Marlow is an assassin whose job it
is to kill Kurtz. In the book he is paid as a pilot to take the steam boat down the
river into the heart of darkness, to Kurtz's station.

2)
Marlow in the book is a very reputable hard-working individual who wants to do a good
job and in a sense keeps himself sane by focussing on his work and his dedication to his
work. In the film, Marlow is shown as a druggie who needs work to stop himself going
into a destructive spiral of drugs and drink.

3) Marlow in
the film is an experienced soldier with lots of field service in a variety of locations.
In the book, Marlow is a stranger to the colonial Africa and the sights that he
sees.

4) Lastly, in the book we get to see Marlow before he
goes to Africa and afterwards, whereas in the film we only see Marlow in location in
Vietnam.

Hope these differences help! Of course, there are
lots of similarities to look at as well...

Could anyone help me to choose a unique topic for my research in literature or any interesting topic? I will be thankful.

We definitely need more information than you have
provided. For example, what type of literature? American, British, World, or a specific
country's literature? Also, what level? Are you a high school student, a college
student? Are you majoring in literature? We need to know what level you are on in order
to be able to suggest appropriate research topics.

Another
thing that would be helpful to us if we are to help you is knowing what your interests
are. Do you enjoy fiction? Poetry? Is there a particular time period in literature that
interests you? All literatures are divided into periods. Some examples are Romantic,
Classic, Realistic, Naturalistic, Modern, Ancient - and many, many more. In British
literature, for example, if you were interested in the Elizabethan Period, in which
Shakespeare wrote, there would be all sorts of specific research topics you could
explore.

Also, what authors interest you? There is nothing
worse than doing research on a topic that is not of interest to you. Which authors have
you read and enjoyed? It is best to choose one of them if you are going to focus on one
author. For example, if you enjoy the novels and short stories of Flannery O'Connor, an
American writer, you could research how she uses her religious faith in her themes. Or,
a current topic that needs lots more research is American diasporic writers - those
writers that come to America from other countries and write a unique form of fiction
that reveals not only their native cultures but also shows how they are integrating, or
not integrating, into their adopted culture. You could also choose two different authors
and show how they treat the same subject - for example how do Ernest Gaines and Maya
Angelou deal with racism in their literature? You might want to explore certain kinds of
themes in literature, such as feminism. You really need to narrow things down in order
for us to help you.

If you could re-post your question and
answer some of these specifics, perhaps we could help you
better.

In "The Tell-Tale Heart", why did Edgar Allan Poe name the story with this title?

Well, this is a good question to think through. Firstly,
the original title uses alliteration with the repetition of the two "t"s in the
"Tell-Tale". However, more importantly than this, I think Poe chose to name this story
"The Tell-Tale Heart" because it is the heart of the man who was killed that forces the
murderer to expose himself. To me, the last paragraph is key, as it appears as if the
narrator has gotten away with it without any problems - the police seemed convinced that
he had nothing to do with it. However, the narrator feels that he hears the heart
beating again where he has stowed the body. This has an incredible effect on
him:

Oh God!
what could I do? I foamed - I raved - I swore! I swung the chair upon which I had been
sitting, and grated it upon the boards, but the noise arose over all and continually
increased. It grew louder - louder -
louder!

It is this continual
and ever-louder volume of the heart that literally forces the narrator to tell his tale
and confess his guilt to the policemen.

Contrast Dally's approach to Cherry and Marcia with Pony's in The Outsiders, and contrast Cherrys response to Darry with her response to Darry's?

I believe you have confused Dally with Darry in the second part
of your post, but here goes.

Dally comes on to Cherry the only way
he knows how--tough, crude and sarcastic. He talks dirty to her, and Cherry eventually throws a
soda in his face. However, we find out later that Cherry is actually taken with Dallas Winston,
and she says that she could fall in love with him if she saw him again. She likes dangerous
types, since her boyfriend is the violent yet handsome Soc, Bob Sheldon. So, though the two never
get together, Dally's approach works on Cherry. Needless to say, Dally likes Cherry's spirit and
good looks, but he knows better about mixing with a Soc.

Ponyboy is
younger and shyer, so he talks to both girls as he would schoolmates. He never forgets that he's
a greaser, but he feels important when the girls tell him they feel safe around him. The girls
think Pony is cute--and his brother, Sodapop, even cuter--and Cherry decides that she can talk to
him about anything. Pony feels the same way about Cherry, and she stands up for Ponyboy later in
court. He considers her a friend, though they go back to their own greaser and Soc worlds at the
end of the novel.

Factorize x^6 – 64.

We could write 64 as a power of
2:

64 = 2^6

Now, we can apply the
formula:

x^n - a^n = (x-a)(x^(n-1) + x^(n-2)*a + .... +
a^(n-1))

We'll put n = 6 and a =
2:

x^6 - 2^6 = (x-2)(x^5 + 2x^4 + 4x^3 + 8x^2 + 16x +
32)

We also could
write:

(x^2)^3 - (2^2)^3

a^3 - b^3 =
(a-b)(a^2 + ab + b^2)

We'll put a = x^2 and b =
2^2

(x^2)^3 - (2^2)^3 = (x^2 - 4)(x^4 + 4x^2 +
16)

But x^2 - 4 is a difference of
squares:

x^2 - 4 = (x-2)(x+2)

(x^2)^3 -
(2^2)^3 = (x-2)(x+2)(x^4 + 4x^2 + 16)

x^6 - 2^6 =
(x-2)(x+2)(x^4 + 4x^2 + 16)

How does the author lead the reader to the "twist ending" in "The Lottery"?

Jackson's use of foreshadowing is powerful and well-played in
The Lottery.  Yes, as discussed above, the beautiful day and the seemingly innocent gathering of
stones by the boys (notice that it's the boys who gather stones - something we'd associate with
boys, not girls), and the general harmonious mood of everyone, definitely lead us to believe that
something wonderful is about to occur.  Further, Tessie Hutchinson's arrival and her seemingly
scatterbrained attitude, mingled with excitement, further mislead the reader.  However, Jackson
also gives us other clues - the predominance of black (the box, the black spot on the paper, even
the names of certain people), not to mention the general air of nervousness and discomfort among
the villagers as the story progresses all serve as
foreshadowing.

One of the most disturbing aspects is that at the end
of the story, when the reader begins to realize that something is VERY wrong, someone hands
little Davy Hutchinson some pebbles - the thought of a 4/5 yr. old child throwing stones at his
mother is anathema to us as readers.  Yet Jackson presents us with this line as a further
foreshadowing of the horror to come, as well as a comment on how no one is
exempt.

(8x^3-27)/(4x^2-9)

To evaluate the expression we'll use factorization. We
notice that the numerator is a difference of cubes:

8x^3-27
= (2x)^3 - (3)^3

We'll apply the
formula:

a^3 - b^3 = (a-b)(a^2 + ab +
b^2)

We'll put a = 2x and b =
3

(2x)^3 - (3)^3 = (2x-3)(4x^2 + 6x +
9)

We also notice that the denominator is a difference of
squares:

4x^2-9 = (2x)^2 -
3^2

We'll apply the
formula:

a^2 - b^2 =
(a-b)(a+b)

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

We'll substitute the differences by their
products:

 [(8x^3-27)/(4x^2-9)] = (2x-3)(4x^2 + 6x +
9)/(2x-3)(2x+3)]

We'll simplify by the common factor
(2x-3):

 [(8x^3-27)/(4x^2-9)] =  [(4x^2 + 6x
+ 9)/(2x+3)]

We can also combine the terms
6x + 9 and factorize them by 3;

[(8x^3-27)/(4x^2-9)] =
4x^2/(2x+3) + (6x + 9)/(2x+3)

[(8x^3-27)/(4x^2-9)] =
4x^2/(2x+3) + 3(2x + 3)/(2x+3)

We'll simplify the last
ratio by (2x+3) and we'll
get:

[(8x^3-27)/(4x^2-9)] = [4x^2/(2x+3)] +
3

What does London representin William Blake's "London"?

Blake's poem "London" is the antithesis of his earlier
poems in "Songs of Innocence."  In the earlier poems, innocent children frolic,nature is
in bloom, and people are happy and loving.  It is a time parallel to the time before the
Fall.  But, in "London" which Blake chooses to attack
specifically the corruption in England's government and church, there is no allusion to
a natural world except the Thames River, which, unnaturally, has been "charter'd"; that
is, owned and bound by British law.

Thus,
London represents the evils of English society as the capital of England
and the center of its culture.  The strength of Blake's poem lies in its
ironic contrasts.  The chimney sweep's cry is an affront to the Christianity that the
Church of England promulgates and the soldier who fights to preserve the monarchy sheds
his blood for only the palace walls:

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How the chimney sweeper's
cry

Every blackening church
appals

And the hapless soldier's
sigh

Runs in blood down palace
walls.

Blake also decries the
institutions of English rule, centered in London.  He writes
that

In every
voice, in every ban

The mind-forged manacles I
hear.

With ironic use of
"ban" for marriage that binds together people who do not love one another, Blake reviles
the one sacrament that should offer hope: marriage.  But the unhappy husband goes to the
harlot, who in turn gives him syphlis that he passes on to his wife, causing "the
new-born infant's tear" as it is blinded.

By walking
specifically through the streets of London, the capital city of England, Blake uses
imagery and irony to point to the egregious conditions of his English government and
church.

What does Benvolio mean when he says, "We'll measure them a measure and be gone" in Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet?

This line occurs in Act I, scene iv as Mercutio, Benvolio and
Romeo are preparing to go, uninvited, to Capulet's feast.  The have, as was a custom of the day,
entered masked, and are preparing to show up for free food, drink, and dancing with the ladies at
their table of the Capulets.

The line you quote appears in context
like this:

We'll have
no Cupid hoodwink'd with a scarf,

Bearing a Tartar's painted bow of
lath,

Scaring the ladies like a
crowkeeper,

Nor no without-book prologue, faintly
spoke

After the prompter, for our
entrance.

But let them measure us by what they
will,

We'll measure them a measure and be
gone.

What Benvolio is doing in the
first part of this speech is commenting on how there won't be a great to-do over their entrance,
no pomp and circumstance, because they are, in effect, uninvited
guests.

In the final two lines, he's playing with the different
meanings of the word "measure."  In paraphrase, Benvolio says, "Let them judge us ("measure us")
however they want, but we're going to give them (""measure them") a dance ("measure") and then
leave."

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

Describe the fall of Enron, according to Drucker's beliefs of an organization in a Post-Capitalist Society?Peter Druckers terms and definitions...

There are some basic elements of Drucker's thoughts that
Enron and "the smartest guys in the room" violated.  I would strongly suggest watching
the film "Enron:  The Smartest Guys in the Room" or reading the book by the same name. 
I think that the most basic element of Drucker's theory which was violated was the
notion of community.  When we hear of CEO Skilling misreading Dawkins' work as a
justification for greed at all costs and the idea of summarily firing the bottom 15% of
employees based on performance evaluations, one is reminded of Drucker's idea that there
has to be a sense of community in business endeavors.  The drive to provide for
employees' social needs and sense of belonging was fairly violated by Enron.  At the
same time, Enron did not see itself as needing to respect the worker or the consumer, as
it bankrolled its own coffers at the cost of both.  When we hear Enron traders mock
about "stealing grandma's savings," one is quickly reminded of
this.

Analyze Hamlet in Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, from psychoanalytic point of view.

One might expect a psychoanalytic study of Hamlet in
Shakespeare's play by the same name might deal with his mental and emotional
issues.

Hamlet learns that his father has been murdered at his Uncle
Claudius' hand, and Hamlet announces his intent to pretend madness to gather evidence. We also
know that Hamlet is plagued by indecision, which is very much based on his need to prove that the
ghost who has accused Claudius is an "honest" one—not a lying demon who might try to trick Hamlet
to lose his immortal soul by killing a king.

One of the strongest
debates about Hamlet is whether he is, in fact, insane or just pretending. Though
he tells the audience that he is only mad when "needed," his behavior is
sometimes so erratic that it is difficult to know for certain if he is as mentally sound as he
insists.

It is during the first half of the twentieth century, that
psychoanalytic theory is applied to Hamlet, by several people—in particular,
Sigmund Freud, the pioneer in explaining "the inner mental forces determining human
behavior."

Based on his study of a variety of literary theories, as well as his
own psychoanalytic theories, Freud does not concentrate on Hamlet's
"madness" as much as Hamlet's sexual href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/proclivities">proclivities, seen
through a psychoanalytic lens...

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Freud concludes that Hamlet has an 'Oedipal desire for his
mother and the subsequent guilt [is] preventing him from murdering the man [Claudius] who has
done what he unconsciously wanted to
do.'

Freud also identifies Hamlet's
desire to kill Claudius as killing the "father figure" who stands in his way. Freud goes on to
explain that Hamlet's repressed sexual desires for Gertrude make him feel as sinful as Claudius,
who Hamlet describes as [a]...

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..."incestuous, murd'rous, damned Dane."
(V.ii.335)

Freud's analysis of Hamlet
has been taken quite to heart and supported by others such as Ernest Jones and Jacques Lacan.
Freud's influence has also had an enormous influence in the way that the Prince of Denmark has
been portrayed over the years by the actors who have chosen to interpret this tragic figure as a
man with an Oedipal-complex.

H. R. Coursen insists that criticism of
Hamlet must be "psychological" in nature. However, he states that
psychoanalysis can only be subjective because it is based upon the perceptions/theories of a
particular psychoanalyst. He explains that no matter how objective the "critic" may be, he/she is
driven to answer the question presented in the first line of the play: "Who's there?" In trying
to be objective, the critic becomes subjective.

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Any claim to critical objectivity signals an inevitable
surrender to unperceived
subjectivity.

Coursen goes on to write
that with Hamlet, all anyone can hope to do is provide a
personal response to Hamlet's character, not an objective
one.

The greatest
critics...admit their [subjectivity] and do not claim to tell us 'what
Hamlet means,' but 'what Hamlet means to
me.'

So while the most "popular"
psychoanalytic evaluation of Hamlet—by Freud—says he is a man with a secret desire for his
mother, Coursen argues that analyses of this nature reveal more about the psychoanalyst than that
of the character of Hamlet. After all, psychoanalysis as a science is a mixed bag at best,
depending on whose theory you accept.

Additional
Source:

http://www.notablebiographies.com/Fi-Gi/Freud-Sigmund.html

find and sketch important points ( i.e, x, y intercept, vertex, etc.)3x^2 - 2y^2-6x-12y-27=0

To sketch  3x^2 -2y^2-6x-12y-27=
0.

We bring this to the standard form (x-h)a^2+(y-k)^2/b^2 =
1.

3x^2-6x  - (2y^2 +12y) =
27.

3(x^2-2y )  -  2(y^2 +6y) =
27.

3(x^2-2y+1)-3 - 2(y^2+6y+3^2) + 18 =
27

3(x-1)^2 -2(y+1)^2 = 27 -18+3 =
12.

3(x-1)^2/(12) - 2(y+1)/12 =
12.

(x-1)/(12/3) - 2(y+1)/(12/2) =
1.

(x-1)^2/2^2 - (y+1)^2 / 6 = 1.

This
is a hyperbola of the form (x-h)^2/a^2 -(y-k)^2/k^2 = 1.

Its centre
is (h,k) = (1, -1).

The length of axes are 2a and 2b  and in our
case 2*2 = 4 and 2sqrt6.

The vertices are at (1+4 ,-1 ) and (1-4 ,
-1) or at (5,-1) and (-3 , -1).

Accentricity is e given by e^2 =
1+b^2/a^2 = 1+6/4 = 5/2. So e = sqrt(10/4) = +or- sqrt(5/2)

Focii S
ans S' are  are at  (ae+h , k) = (4sqrt(5/2) + 1 , -1) = (10 , -1)  and S' = (-ae+1 , -1) = (-
4sqrt(5/2) , -1).

The equations of the directrices : x = a/e Or x=
4/sqrt(5/2) . And x = -a/e . Or x = -4/sqrt(5/2).

The x intercepts
are given by putting y = 0 and solving for x in the given equation of the
hyperbola:

3x^2-6x-27 = 0.

x^2 -2x-9 =
0

x1 = {2+sqrt(2^2+36}/2 = 1+2sqrt10
and

x2 = 1- 2sqrt10.

y intercepts are
got by putting y = 0 in the given parabola and solving for
y:

-2y^2-12y-27 = 0.

2y^2+12y+27 =
0.

 y1 = {-12 +sqrt(12^2-4*27)}/2*2 = - 3 + 3sqrt
3.

 y2 = -(3+3sqrt3).

How did the Constitution itself reflect issues concerning distribution of power?

The Constitution tried to distribute power out as much as
possible -- to give power to as many different groups or people as possible.  This is
one of the fundamental ideas of American Government.

For
example, the Constitution gave some amount of legislative power to each branch of
government.  The Congress gets to pass the laws, but the President may veto them if he
(or someday she) sees fit to do so.  The judicial branch can even get in on the act by
saying that a law passed by Congress and signed by the President is unconstitutional and
therefore invalid.

The Constitution also gave power to the
states as well as to the federal government.  This, too, was meant to make sure that
there would be various centers of power so that no one part of the government got too
much power.

I need to find the recurrence for integral from 0 to pi/2 sin^n(x) * cos(x) dx.I made int 0-pi/2 sin^n(x) *cosx dx=int sin^n (x) *...

We write the integral as:

Int
(sin x)^n*cos xdx

We notice that the derivative of sin x is
cos x. We'll substitute:

sin x =
t

We'll differentiate both
sides:

cos xdx = dt

We'll
re-write the integral in t:

Int t^n*dt = t^(n+1)/(n+1) +
C

But t = sin x

Int (sin
x)^n*cos xdx = (sin x)^(n+1)/(n+1) + C

We'll determine F(b)
for b = pi/2:

F(pi/2) = (sin
pi/2)^(n+1)/(n+1)

F(pi/2) =
1^(n+1)/(n+1)

F(pi/2) =
1/(n+1)

F(0) = 0, for sin 0 =
0

Int (sin x)^n*cos xdx = F(pi/2) -
F(0)

Int (sin x)^n*cos xdx =
1/(n+1)

In Oedipus Rex, select an object and explain how that object could be used to symbolize one of the following characters: Oedipus, Creon, Iocaste,...

I love this question! It really helps you to think
creatively about the various characters in the play and their function. I would pick
Teiresias and the object I would pick would be a mirror. Let me explain: in the play, as
a prophet, he is called upon to explain to Oedipus the reason for the plague that is
causing so much trouble in Thebes and to point a finger at who is responsible. In
response to his reluctance to reveal his information, Oedipus goads him, insults him and
accuses him of betraying him. Yet, in a highly significant dialogue, Teiresias again and
again confronts Oedipus with the truth in Scene 1, and yet Oedipus is blind to it or
does not want to accept the truth of Teiresias's words. Consider the following words
from Teiresias:

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I say you live in hideous shame with
those

Most dear to you. You cannot see the
evil.

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You are the madman. There is no one
here

Who will not curse you soon, as you curse
me.

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But I say that you, with both your eyes, are
blind:

You cannot see the wretchedness of your
life,

Nor in whose house you live, no, nor with
whom.

Note how in each of
these exchanges Teiresias takes what is thrown at him by a desperate Oedipus and turns
it back on to him, confronting him with the unyielding truth just as a mirror confronts
us with our own reflection which cannot be ignored or denied. The tragedy of this play
lies in the fact that Oedipus is only able to accept the reality of these "reflections"
at the end.

What do the illustrations of slavery and freedom suggest about slavery, abolition and freedom?

Photographs or any visual representation of slavery can have
incredible effects on the viewer that other representations, particularly text, cannot have. One
might describe in gruesome detail the horrible practices of abuse and torture that existed on
plantations in the United States or in Jamaica or in South America, anywhere that slavery
existed, and the horror is palpable and disturbing. But they lack the power and focus of visual
images for a variety of reasons.

One, and it was mentioned in the
previous answer, is the way that a visual representation allows the viewer to identify as another
human being with the slave or slaves in the picture. Sometimes this can inspire more empathy than
any description or account, no matter how well written. As visual animals, humans tend to have
more of a visceral reaction to visuals than to other forms of
presentation.

The second important thing that pictures can
contribute are the incredible contrasts between the manner and posture of people enslaved and
free people. The juxtaposition of free man and slave that often occurs in visual representations
of slavery is often an extremely powerful one because the differences are often understated but
also often quite powerful.

Why might a business invest in another company's stock?

A major reason for one firm to buy the stock of another
firm is as a means to move towards merging with or acquiring that
company.

It is not unusual for two firms to merge or for
one to acquire the other.  Firm A, for example, might believe that it can make more
money if it acquires Firm B.  It might believe that it can acquire Firm B, fire many of
its workers (by getting rid of people who are duplicated in Firm A's work force), and
still produce as much revenue as A and B together used to
produce.

As a step towards acquiring Firm B, Firm A would
typically try to buy up as many of Firm B's shares as it could.

What is Thomas Randolph's "A Song" about?

Thomas Randolph's "A Song," is a poem about
nature.

The speaker calls on Music—personifying it, as if
it could create music on an instrument)—and asks that it ("the queen of souls") play a
song on its "powerful lute" (a musical instrument), but asks for a sad "requiem" (which
is a Mass said in the hope that a soul that has passed on will rest
peacefully).

However, the direction and action of the poem
changes when the speaker then asks Music to 'run gentle, nimble hands' over the strings
to change the tempo and mood of the sounds it creates so that even the forest will come
alive: the trees of various kinds (cedar, elm, palm, myrtle, and oak) will dance in a
"jolly train" or line.

Until, and here the tempo and mood
of the poem changes a second time, a sad note is played and the trees become "fixed" and
unmoving once again.

By the way, the poem is written in
rhyming couplets: pairs of lines are joined that have the same rhyme at the end of their
lines ("string" and "sing").

(m+n) + (5m-2)

Since it is not specified what is the request of the
problem, we'll simplify the given expression and we'll
get:

We'll remove the
brackets:

m+ n + 5m - 2

We'll
re-arrange the terms and we'll combine like terms:

(m+5m) +
(n-2)

The simplified expression
is:

(m+n) + (5m-2) = 6m + n -
2

If the request of the problem was to
determine m and n, we'll solve the problem:

(m+n) + (5m-2)
=  0+0

We'll put the first bracket as
0:

m + n = 0 (1)

We'll put the
second bracket as zero:

5m - 2 =
0

We'll add 2 both sides:

5m =
2

We'll divide by
5:

m = 5/2
(2)

We'll substitute m in
(1):

5/2 + n = 0

We'll
subtract 5/2 both sides:

n =
-5/2

Find the polar form of the complex number 7 – 5i.

The polar form of x+yi =  r(cost+isint), where r =
sqrt(x^2+y^2).

cost = x/sqrt(x^2+y^2) , sint = 
y/(x^2+y^2).

r is called the modulus of x+yi and t is called the
aruement or ampitude of x+yi.

Therefore the given complex number,
x+yi = 7 - 5i

r = sqrt {(7^2+(-5)^2} = sqrt(25+49) =
sqrt74.

Therefore  cos t = 7/sqrt74 and sin t
=-5/sqrt74.

Therefore  t =  arc tan (-5/7) = -0.6204 rad
appr.

Therefore  7-5i = sqrt74{ cost+isint) , where t = -0.6204
rad.

7-5i = sqrt74({cos (arc tan (-5/7) +i sin arctan(-5/7)} in
polar form.

Evaluate lim [sin(pi/3+ h) - sin(pi/3)] / h as h---> 0

lim [sin(pi/3 + h) - sin(i/3) / h  as h-->
0

It is obvious frm the definition of the derivtive. we
know that:

f'(x)= lim (f(x+h) - f(x)]/h   as h -->
0

Thenwe will assume
that:

f(x) =
sinx   

==> f'(pi/3) = lim [sin(pi/3 + h) - sinpi/3]
/h  as h-->0

Now we will differetiate
f(x)

f'(x) = cosx

==>
f'(pi/3)= cos(pi/3)

                   
=cos60

                     =
1/2

==>lim [sin(pi/3 + h) -
sin(pi/3)]/ h   as -->  is 1/2

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, how long did it take Huck to apologise to Jim?

The answer to your question can be found in Chapter Fifteen of
this great story. Remember that key to understanding this tale is that we witness the gradual
coming of age and moral maturity of Huck, the central protagonist. The event you allude to marks
a key moment in his moral growth, as he defies social conventions and customs and apologises to a
runaway slave, admitting he was wrong and understanding how he hurt Jim in the process. For a
white boy to do this to a runaway slave shows incredible force of character, as Huck was going
against everything he had learnt and been taught in his upbringing. Note what Huck tells us about
his apology:

It was
fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger; but I done it,
and I warn't ever sorry for it afterwards,
neither.

So, we can see that it took
Huck fifteen minutes to resolve his inner conflict and follow his heart rather than his
head.

Beginning with the serving of coffee Bronte shifts her narrative into the present tense. Why does she do this, and what is the effect on the...

Bronte switches to the present tense to communicate Jane's
heightened state of awareness and sensation around Mr. Rochester, after she tried to convince
herself of the fact that they'll never be together. Prior to this moment, we've read about how
attracted Jane is to Rochester, how strong a connection she feels to him, how much she treasures
and values his differences. Yet Bronte ends this moment with Jane concluding that she must
abandon the hope of them ever being together.

The present tense in
this passage gives the reader a sense of almost being in the room, enriching the words with a
vividness and energy, that it's as if we're in the drawing room as well, looking around at all
the characters.

What is value of the derivative of x^3 + y^3 = 14xy at (7,7)?

Given the equation:

x^3 + y^3 =
14xy

We need to find the value of the first derivative at the point
(7,7).

First we will use implicit
differentiation.

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

==> 3x^2 + 3y^2 *y' = 14[
(x'y+xy')]

==> 3x^2 + 3y^2 y' = 14(y +
xy')

==> 3x^2 + 3y^2 y' = 14y +
14xy'

Now we will combine terms with
y'.

==> 3y^2 y' - 14xy' = 14y -
3x^2

==> y' ( 3y^2-14x) = 14y -
3x^2

==> y' = (14y-3x^2)/
(3y^2-14x)

Now we will substitute with
(7,7)

==> y'(7,7) = (14*7 - 3*7^2) / (3*7^2 -
14*7)

= 98-147 / 147-98

= -49/49 =
-1

Then the value of the derivative is
(-1).

What is the point of view in "The Masque of the Red Death"?

While Poe's story is apparently told from third-person objective
point of view with a narrator recounting an allegorical story, there are other interpretations of
Poe's narrator in "The Masque of the Red Death."

One interpretation
of Poe's narrator is that of Leonard Cassuto who contends the narration is that of the Red Death
himself.  Since Prince Prospero dies about a paragraph and a half before the end of the story,
this interpretation certainly seems plausible.  Added to this, the last line appears to express a
rather victorious view:

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And the flames of the tripods expired.  And Darkness and
Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over
all.

Another interpretation--somewhat
Freudian, it seems--holds that the narrator is the subconscious of Prince Prospero himself. 
Thus, the narrative is the workings of his mind as he wrestles with his own mortality and his
death is not literal, but psychological.  Still, yet another interpretation holds that "The
Masque of the Red Death" is a Biblical morality tale in which God sends a pestilence to punish
the people for their evil and debauchery.  As such, the narrator, then, is a divine
being.

Perhaps, the ambiguity of who is the narrator of his macabre
story make exist because Poe wishes to express what Ugo Betti has
written:

Every tiny
part of us cries out against the idea of dying, and hopes to
live forever.

Compare and contrast the significance of 1789 for the US and France.1789

I would say that 1789 marked a turning point in the
political history of both the United States and France.  However, the turning point for
the United States led to stability while the turning point for France led to chaos that
would last for a number of years before finally resolving
itself.

In 1789, the Constitution of the United States went
into effect.  This was a huge turning point for the US.  Before this, the US had had a
lot of trouble because it did not have enough of a central authority.  Its states had
too much power and this led to instability.  The new Constitution fixed
that.

By contrast, France became less stable in 1789.  The
start of the French Revolution overthrew the monarchy, which is a good thing.  But
France would face decades of hard times before it settled on a new form of government
that would give it internal stability and external peace.