If a credit card company charges 2% per month, how much would a person have to pay in interest for an amount of $1000 pending for a year at the...

The basic approach in the answer #1 above is correct.
However, the rate of interest assumed in the equation used is in terms of per unit
rather than percentage.

Also please that the interest is
compounded every month in line with general practice adopted by credit card
companies.

When:

r =
percentage rate of interest per month = 2

n = number of
months = 12 (given)

p = Principal amount of loan =
$1000

The total amount of principle plus interest payable
after n months is given by:

Total amount = p*(1 +
r/100)^n

Substituting the given values in the above
equation:

Total amount = 1000*(1 +
2/100)^12

= 1000*1.02^12

=
1000*1.26824

=
1268.24

Interest paid = (Total amount) -
Principal

= 1268.24 - 1000

=
268.24

Interest = $268.24

In Frankenstein, what are the main points of Victor's speech just before he dies, especially his advice to Walton?

When Victor realizes that he is going to die, he summons
Walton to his bed and makes several significant points in his final speech. He tells
Walton:

1. That he has let go of his feelings of vengeance
toward the creature but he still believes that the creature needs to die so that he
cannot harm anyone else.

2. He pleads insanity--really he
does! After everything that has occurred, Victor states that he has examined his "past
conduct" and that he believes he is blameless. He chalks up his creation of the monster
to "a fit of enthusiastic madness" and then explains that his duty to his family and
friends superceded any responsibility he should have had for his own
creation.

3. He asks Walton once again, but this time out
of "reason and virtue," to destroy the monster for him. While Victor believes that it is
his duty to mankind to destroy him, he realizes that he is no longer physically capable
of doing so.

4. Victor's final words to Walton demonstrate
that he has gained some self-awareness. He advises Walton
to

"seek
happiness in tranquillity and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent
one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries" (Walton's September 12th
letter to Margaret; pg. 205 in Holt Rinehart Winston edition of the
novel).

These words prove
that Victor recognizes the futility of the glory-seeking ambition of his
youth.

Any idea what is the plot structure used in Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson?

The story opens as we are introduced to Jess, a boy who comes
from a poor family marked by conflict between the parents. As he goes to school, he is looking
forward to hopefully winning a race. However, the race is actually won by Leslie, a new girl who
started his school that day. Jess and Leslie form a friendship and play together in the woods,
forming a magical kingdom of Terabithia which they access by crossing a bridge over a river.
Their friendship deepens. However, tragedy strikes when Leslie dies in an accident when she tries
to cross the river to go to Terabithia herself. The way that Jess has to accept this truth and
come to terms with the end of his childhood marks the rest of the story, which finally ends when
he takes his little sister and introduces her to Terabithia.

Why did Lorraine Hansberry take the title of her play from Langston Hughes's poem?

I don't think it's ever an easy thing to know why an
author does one thing or another. To really know the answer as to why Lorraine Hansberry
used a line from a poem by Langston Hughes, we would have to ask her or review a speech
that she gave, a letter she wrote, an entry she made in her diary, etc. And even then,
all we could be sure of would be that's why she said was the
reason.

The idea of an "author's purpose" is a standard
taught in high schools used across the United States, but it's a very problematic
standard. The New Critics famously argued that the author's purpose is irrelevant to the
meaning in a work, and many later theorists have further problematized the idea of the
author's purpose.

Now, having said all that, I'll take my
shot at answering your question. Please allow me first, though, to rephrase it: ""Why
does the line from Langston Hughes' poem make sense to you as the title of the play by
Lorraine Hansberry?"

The line from Hughes' poem makes sense
to me as a title for the play because the line functions as an allusion. The savvy
reader may recognize the reference to Hughes' poem and may remember that the poem is all
about "what happens to a dream deferred." Hughes' poem has a list of similes that
explore a person's (or a group of people's) possible reactions when their dream fails to
become reality. Hughes, like Hansberry, is a famous black writer. Hansberry's play is
all about the dreams of African Americans -- to own their own house, to own their own
business and make money, to pursue an education and make a difference in the world, etc.
-- and the very real obstacles and hardships that interfere with the realization of
those dreams.

The smallest of the life forms in the play --
Travis, the potted plant, and the fetus in Ruth's belly -- seem to me to most clearly
embody the danger of a dream shriveling up like a raisin in the
sun.

Thinking of a character you have met in The Crucible, what role does greed play in their life thus far?Act II

Reverend Parris is a great example of greed in the play. 
In act one, he argues with everyone about how he shouldn't have to pay six pounds for
firewood; he's the minister, and deserves that firewood for free!  He also claims that
he deserves more than his "sixty-six pounds a year" salary, and refers to how he left a
prosperous business in Barbados to come and preach in humble circumstances.  So
obviously, he cares a great deal about money and wealth.  He even argues at one point
that he should get the title to the churchouse, meaning, that he should be able to claim
ownership of it.  He is so greedy that he wants to be the sole owner of the
church!

Later, in act two, we learn from John Proctor that
Parris fixated on getting golden candlesticks in the church, instead of the pewter ones
that Francis Nurse had made.  He even used that greed as the subject of his sermons, and
whined about it until he had his way and got his golden candlesticks.  Because of his
greed, of which there are numerous examples, he comes off as argumentative, bitter,
angry, whiney and petulant to many members of his congregation, and as a result, they
doubt his true piety and humility as a servant of God.

I
hope that helped; good luck!

What are the main structural elements in "A Good man is Hard to Find"?

Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" is fiction, a
short story.  As such, it can be analyzed, or dissected, into structural elements according to
mainly plot, character, and figurative language.

What you must know,
though, is that O'Connor is a comic writer and a religious writer.  Many readers are confused by
her structure: she seems to be making fun of religion.  Rest assured, she is not.  In fact,
O'Connor is a very serious religious writer who uses caricatures (exaggerated characters) like
The Misfit and the grandmother to expose the relationships between good and evil, nihilism and
revelation, and hypocrisy and salvation.  In the end, all of her characters look flat, grotesque,
and evil, but--as readers--we have to imply that O'Connor means just the opposite of
them.

So, structural
elements:

Flat, static characters: the
Misfit, the grandmother.  They are both religiously confused: the Misfit is a nihilist, and the
Grandmother is a self-righteous Christian.  They change at the very end by touching each other
and realizing their lack of spirituality but not enough to be categorized as dynamic or
round.

Exposition: family readies for
the trip

Foreshadowing: the news about
the Misfit

Rising Action: grandmother
realizes the home she's looking for is in Tennessee and not
Florida

Turning Point: the accident
involving the cat; grandmother recognizes the
Misfit

Falling Action: the family is
escorted to the woods

Resolution /
Climax: the family is shot, one by one.  The grandmother pleads with the Misfit,
but to no avail.  Each character exposes the others'
hypocrisy

Symbolism: the Misfit
(archetype of evil); the gun; the inability to find one's home (spiritual home); the car; Jesus;
the woods

Situational Irony: the
grandmother is looking for the wrong house in the wrong state; the family wrecks and is rescued
by the Misfit; the grandmother thinks the Misfit is "saved," and the Misfit thinks that the
grandmother is "not saved"

Verbal
Irony: just about everything the Misfit and the grandmother
says:

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Misfit: "Jesus was the only One that
ever raised the dead and He shouldn't have done it.  He shown everything off
balance."

Grandmother: "Why you're one of my
babies. You're one of my own children!"

What does the following quote from Fahrenheit 451 mean?"Go on, anyway, shove the bore down, slush up the emptiness, if such a thing could be...

This quote comes towards the beginning of the novel and
describes the machine that Montag sees that is used to flush out his wife's system after she has
taken an overdose and tried to kill herself. This quote helps establish how impersonal and
regular the system is, as we discover that such a process occurs very often in this dystopian
world of emptiness and despair. Note what Montag thinks just before this quote is
said:

The entire
operation was not unlike the digging of a trench in one's yeard. The woman on the bed was no more
than a hard stratum of marble they had
reached.

Note the slightly ironic note
in the quote you have mentioned. Can it really "slush up the emptiness," which is, of course, the
real reason behind Mildred's attempted suicide? Thus this quote seems to point towards the limits
of technology and the way that it is unable to meet the needs of humans--a key factor of this
society.