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.