To what is Malcolm X referring when he speaks of “ballots or bullets?”

Malcolm X was, in his early days especially, a person who held
very different opinions than Martin Luther King, Jr. did. King believed in nonviolent resistance.
Malcolm X did not. That is what he means by "ballots or
bullets."

Malcolm X is also famous for saying that blacks should
seek change and justice "by any means necessary." What this means is that blacks should not
renounce violence as a means for getting what they want. If they can get what they want by
peaceful means such as elections (ballots) they should. But if they can only get what they want
through violence (bullets) they should not be afraid to use
violence.

So, by speaking of "ballots or bullets," Malcolm X is
expressing the idea that blacks should do whatever it takes to get justice, even if that includes
violence.

What is the reason that Granny wants to see George after sixty years in "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" by Katherine Anne Porter?

Granny Weatherall does not want to die. She tells her doctor to
leave her alone and go tend to the sick people. Her life is slipping away as she drifts in and
out of consciousness.

Granny’s story is told through a technique
labeled stream of consciousness. The reader is given access to the thoughts and memories of Ellen
“Granny” Weatherall, an eighty year old lady, and the protagonist for “The Jilting of Granny
Weatherall by Katherine Ann Porter.

In the beginning of the story,
Granny is still semi-lucid and can understand some of what is being said around her. Frustrated
because she can hear her daughter Cornelia speaking, Granny enjoys “plaguing her a
little.”

Unfortunately, most of her directions and comments remain
unstated and just in her mind. As the story continues, she slips farther back in her memories. In
her mind, she prepares her house for after she is gone. She wants to get rid of the letters that
she received and wrote to George and John.

The
jilting by George

The day progresses and Granny goes
deeper into her subconscious finally bringing up a memory that has haunted her for sixty years.
She was jilted at the altar by George. It is unlikely if Granny ever forgot George. If she had
forgotten him, she would not be so anxious to see him now. In fact, George’s jilting of
Granny is a shaping moment in her life. Her life and character were forever changed.

In her mind, she decides that she would like to see
George again. She tells whoever is listening to go and find George for her. Telling George about
her happy family would give her pleasure.

More likely, Granny wants
to see George so that he will be aware of what he missed out on. She wants George to see how she
has survived and prospered, and realize that the loss was really his. It is a form of
revenge.

She had
prayed against remembering him and against losing her soul in the deep pit of hell, and now the
two things were mingled in one and the thought of him was a smoky cloud from hell that moved and
crept in her head…Don’t let your wounded vanity get the upper hand of you. Plenty of girls get
jilted. You were jilted, weren’t you? Then stand up to
it…

Granny remains bitter about her
jilting. Although she had a good marriage with John and she grew to love him, she felt as if
something were missing from her relationship, something George took from her. She is unable to
identify what she lost, but perhaps it is passion or the ability to trust another man so deeply
as to form an intense bond with him.

It is as if the jilting, the
rejection of her so completely by George sixty years before, was so damaging to her self-esteem
that she had to keep everything in her life carefully controlled from that day
on.

Suddenly she feels a pain, and Granny remembers the pains of
childbirth. Near the surface of her consciousness, her daughter tells her that the priest is
there. Moving toward death, there is undercurrent of mental images that represent her death or
the jilting by George.

Prove the inequality 1/3=

We'll prove the inequality, using the following
property:

If the function could be integrated over the range [a;b]
and a < f(x) < b, then Int adx < Int f(x)dx < Int
bdx.

First, we need to determine the monotony of the function over
the range [1 ; 2].

We'll calculate the 1st derivative of f(x) using
quotient rule.

f'(x) = [(3x-2)'*(x+2)
-(3x-2)*(x+2)']/(x+2)^2

f'(x) = [3(x+2) - 3x +
2]/(x+2)^2

f'(x) = (3x + 6 - 3x +
2)/(x+2)^2

We'll eliminate like
termS:

f'(x) = (8)/(x+2)^2

We notice
that f'(x) is positive over the range [1 ; 2], then the function is increasing over the range [1
; 2].

That means that f(1) < f(x) < f(2)
(1)

We'll calculate f(1) = 1/3

We'll
calculate f(2) = 1

We'll re-write the inequality
(1):

1/3 < f(x) < 1

We'll
integrate:

(1/3)*Int dx < Int f(x)dx < Int
dx

We'll apply
Leibniz-Newton:

(1/3)*(2-1)< Int f(x)dx <
(2-1)

(1/3)*< Int f(x)dx <
1

We notice that the given inequality (1/3)*<
Int f(x)dx < 1 is verified, over the range [1 ; 2].

Please,give one or two programmes using do...while loop in c++?

Here is a program on interest calculation
using do while
loop

#include<iostream.h>

#include<conio.h>

float
cal (float amt, int year, float rate=15);

void prn (char
c='*');

void main
()

{

clrscr();

float
amount, interest;

int
year;

cout<<"Enter the amount on which
interest has to be calculated:
-";

cin>>amount;

cout<<"Enter
the number of years:
-";

cin>>year;

interest=cal
(amount, year);

prn
();

cout<<"The interest
on-"<<amount<<"-for the period
of-"<<year<<" years would
be"<<interest<<endl;

prn
('-');

getch
();

}

float cal (float amt,
int year, float rate)

{

int
i;

float
sum=amt;

i=1;

do

{

sum=sum
* (1+
(rate/100));

i++;

}while(i<=year);

return
sum-amt;

}

void prn (char
c)

{

for (int i=0;
i<40;
i++)

{

cout<<c;

}

cout<<endl;

}

Discuss the relationship between the structure, imagery, meter, etc. and the content of Sir Thomas Wyatt's "I find no peace, and all my war is...

In Sir Thomas Wyatt's poem, "I find no peace, and all my
war is done," the reader has a sense of a man conflicted by the world around
him.

This poem is written as a Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet
(with an eight-line octave, and a six-line sestet). The rhyme scheme appears to be ABBA
ABBA CDDC EE, which is a variation of the Petrarchan sonnet. (It is interesting to note
that Wyatt introduced the sonnet form in English, from the original
Italian).

Regarding the structure of the poem in terms of
language, Wyatt chooses contradictions which provide the reader with the author's sense
of being pulled between two extremes, as a conflicted person would feel (back and
forth).

The line below speaks to a man no longer at war,
but unable to find peace.

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I find no peace, and all my war is
done.

The contradictions of
the next several lines demonstrate the "back and forth" motion of wanting to be hopeful,
but being fearful instead (I fear and hope), or wanting the positive, but held back—at
the same time—by the negative:

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I burn and freeze like ice. 
I fly
above the wind, yet can I not
arise;

The next line is
difficult to follow because of the archaic (I assume) use of "season." Used in its
context within the sentence, I feel Wyatt is saying that he has nothing, though the
entire world has been opened to him. ("Nought" means
"nothing.")

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And nought I have, and all the world I
season.

The next lines
indicate that Wyatt sees himself as a prisoner, perhaps of his own perceptions of life,
but not because there is a lock that holds him in
place.

That
loseth nor locketh holdeth me in prison 
And holdeth me not--yet can I scape
no wise--

Wyatt goes on here
to say that he cannot choose to die (perhaps a religious allusion), and yet he is
visited by death in life. (This might refer to death around him, or that he feels like
he is dying.)

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Nor letteth me live nor die at my
device, 
And yet of death it giveth me
occasion.

His next line
speaks to not having eyes, but still seeing (perhaps the sense is either that he closes
his eyes and is still haunted by images in his mind), but also notes he has no tongue,
but still he complains ("plains," which might mean that he has no words to fully express
himself and what does come out of his mouth sounds merely like complaints, rather than
what he wants to say).

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Without eyen I see, and without tongue I
plain.

The following lines
provide even more contradictions:

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"I desire to perish, and yet I ask health" (he
wants to die, but wants also to live)

"I love another, and
thus I hate myself" (Through loving another, he hates
himself.)

I feed me in sorrow and laugh in all my pain; (I
am filled with sorrow, but laugh at the pain, perhaps an ironic or self-despising kind
of laugh.)

The last two lines
refer to the fact that what he finds both pain and delight in, is what causes all of his
discomfort.

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Likewise displeaseth me both life and
death, 
And my delight is causer of this
strife.

The war that Wyatt
describes at the beginning deals with love and its "death," the end of the relationship,
which has left the poet feeling totally torn apart. The structured language that
provides the sense of the back and forth, of being pulled in different directions, is
the poet's struggle to pull his life together again in face of the loss of his
sweetheart. The last lines function as a couplet, a complete thought: in life and death,
this woman, paradoxically, causes him both "delight" and "strife"
(conflict).

Discuss the Aboriginal people’s view of the land. How does it differ from the European view?

The European view of land, especially at the time when Europeans
first came to Australia, was that land belonged to those who occupied and developed it. There was
a doctrine called terra nullius that basically said that any land that was
not being lived on or developed by anyone was unowned and could be taken. To Europeans, then,
land was something to be parceled out, developed (with farms, buildings, etc) and
owned.

To the Aboriginal Australians, land had a more spiritual
significance. The land was not something to be owned so much as something to be lived with. It
was, in a sense, part of their culture and part of themselves. This was a much more spiritual
connection to the land, one that was different from the simple idea that people own and control
the land.

An important problem was that the Aboriginals did not use
the land in ways that the Europeans could recognize. They moved from place to place instead of
settling down in one are. Because the Europeans could not see that the land was being (in their
eyes) owned and used, they took it for themselves.

What is the major conflict of the play Oedipus the King (or Oedipus Rex), and the moral connected to the conflict?

In Oedipus Rex (or Oedipus the
King), the major conflict exists based upon what Oedipus has unknowingly done in his
life to wreak the havoc (in the form of plagues) that now visits
Thebes.

Before Oedipus was born, his fate was already decreed: he
would kill his father and marry his mother. The gods are responsible for defining his actions
before Oedipus takes his first breath.

To avoid the fate the gods
have ordained for the King of Thebes (believing they can do so: the major theme in the story),
Laius and Jocasta agree that the child she has delivered be killed. Oedipus is taken with
instructions that he be disposed of, but the soldier has not the heart to do so. He abandons the
baby, believing the infant will die. Oedipus is found and taken in by a shepherd, and ultimately
finds his way into the palace of the King of Corinth, who adopts the baby and raises Oedipus as
his own son. Oedipus has no knowledge of any of this.

When Oedipus
crosses the path of Laius and his slave, they insult and attack Oedipus, without knowing who he
truly is. Oedipus defends himself and kills Laius, thus (unknowingly) fulfilling the first part
of the prophecy.

Oedipus later solves the riddle of the Sphinx who
has terrorized the people of Thebes (and all travelers in the area) for a very long time; in
doing so, Oedipus is hailed as a hero, and it is suggested that he marry Jocasta, Laius' widow.
Oedipus agrees, once again unknowingly fulfilling the second part of the
prophecy.

He and Jocasta have two children, Ismene and
Antigone.

Years have passed, and plagues have befallen Thebes. The
oracle ("fortune teller") explains that the cause of these calamities is the murder of Laius that
has never been solved. Oedipus, a good and just king, orders that the culprit must be found and
punished.

Herein, I believe, lies the main conflict of the story:
the plagues must be stopped and the murderer found. However, the murderer is, unbeknownst to all
of them, Oedipus. And Oedipus will have to own up to what he has done, if he is truly a just and
noble man and king, although at first he does not believe what he
hears.

Based upon Sophocles (the author) and his culture's system of
beliefs (predestination), the moral of the story is that you cannot evade or escape your fate: it
will catch up with you, and there is nothing you can do to stop it.