Explain what the author's purpose is when she describes Mr. Underwood's participation in the lynch mob scene in To Kill a Mockingbird.Note...

As the editor of Maycomb's newspaper, Braxton Bragg
Underwood serves as a neutral voice of reason in To Kill a
Mockingbird. Underwood rarely leaves his office, and this is one of the
reasons he is silently standing guard over Atticus and the jail on the night that the
lynch mob arrives. It is also possible that, as the eyes and ears of the town, he, too,
has heard the rumor that Tom Robinson will be paid an unexpected visit while Sheriff
Heck Tate is on a "snipe hunt." Because most newspapermen attempt to be fair and
unbiased, Underwood (named after one of the Confederacy's most reviled
generals) probably hoped for a fair trial; in any case, he must have decided that Tom,
at the very least, deserved his day in court.

Atticus'
comment later that "Braxton... he despises Negroes, won't have one near him,"
illustrates even more strongly Underwood's desire for justice. His editorial following
Tom's death shows no sign of his hatred of African-Americans: He is, first and foremost,
a newspaperman who keeps his own personal prejudices out of the
story.

my question is grammatical: Is it correct that should can have the same meaning as if ?nil

While English does not have a conditional tense
per se as do the Romance langugages, including French from which
English is derived (among other languages), there are certain words that used to
establish a conditional situation. 

In informal English,
speakers and writers use the word if to begin clauses that are
conditional. e.g. If this be true, we will
not delay.  Along with the conjunction if,
the subjunctive mood is used for the predicate [be is in
subjunctive mood].  (This is why speakers say If I were you instead
of if I was
you)

Should  is a verb that is
employed as a conjunction like if in this conditional tense,
although it is not used as frequently as if, especially in
America. This avoidance of its usage may be to avoid confusion
since should is used used as an auxiliary verb to express necessity
or obligation.  Here are examples that illustrate the difference between
should as a conjunction (1), expressing a condition and
should as an auxiliary verb in a sentence expressing necessity
(2):

1. Should you
   move out, I will not be able to pay the rent on this
   apartment.


2. I think you should
   move out of this
   apartment.

Therefore, the short answer to your
question of whether should can have the same meaning as if is yes,
sometimes.

What are some examples from Huck Finn that I could use to say the novel is a classic work of literature?i have to define classic and also write a...

Hemingway said, "“All modern American literature comes
from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.”
 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a great American novel
because it addresses America's greatest wrong (slavery) using a hilariously irreverent
and iconic narrator (Huck).  Although it satirizes America, the novel is very
American.

It's a classic because it's a bridge from Old
World (The Odyssey) to New World, because it's written with such a
youthful voice, and because it is the synthesis of rogue and
rebellion:

• The novel is a
  picaresque (a novel told by a rogue, rascal).  Huck, even though he
  lies and ditches his dad and school, is morally superior to everyone in the book, except
  maybe Jim.  Huck becomes the biggest winner by being an outsider (the biggest loser).
  


• The novel is anti-European: Huck dupes the Duke and the
  King (symbols of Europe)

1. most European
characters define themselves in context of family

2. Huck
is saying that he doesn’t define himself with others or the past (birth of the American
rebel)

a. Not defined by
family

b. Not defined by
society

c. Not defined by old world
values

d. Not defined by old
literature

• The novel is very
  antinomian (rebellious), and
  it is descended from the great American spirit of moral, artistic, and political
  rebellion

1. Antinomian definition: “through
faith or experience of God’s grace, you live outside the
law”

2. Jefferson’s Declaration of
Independence: a list of complaints

3. Melville’s
(Moby Dick) “No in Thunder”

4. Henry
David Thoreau’s Walden, Civil Disobedience:
chose to live outside pro-war (Mexican War) society

5.
Hester Prynne (Scarlet Letter) as adulteress, forced to live
outside Puritanical society

6. Huckleberry
Finn: chose to live outside pro-slavery
society

a. Huck says, “I’m so lonesome I could
die”

b. Twain’s intro: “Persons
attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons
attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot
will be shot.”

He's calling out proponents of slavery, the
North, the South, Republicans, Democrats, Christians, parents, schools, whites,
Europeans, and critics of the book.  As such, he's going after nearly
everybody.

If there is collision between the president and Congress, can Congress restrain the president in foreign policy making?

It would depend on the specific issue, but there are ways
that Congress can restrain the President in foreign policy issues. One very effective
way would be to simply refuse to fund the policy, at least if it has the potential to be
expensive. Congress would hesitate to do this, however, as Congress runs the risk of
being blamed for the policy's failure.

If the president's
policy could be interpreted by Congress as "a high crime or misdemeanor," Congress could
begin impeachment procedures. Two presidents have been impeached (Andrew Johnson and
Bill Clinton) although neither was convicted and
removed.

Any foreign policy program that required an action
from Congress in the form of a bill could also be killed in Congressional committees and
subcommittees. It may never get to the Congressional floor for
voting.

However, in at least one important foreign policy
area - the extension of diplomatic recognition to a foreign country - Congress plays no
role. That is at the sole descretion of the president.

What are the high school clicks that Melinda names? Which ones are important to Speak? Why?

The answer to your question can be found within the first
few pages of the novel.  Melinda has entered the Merryweather High auditorium for what
seems to be the first assembly of the school year.  Melinda immediately notices all of,
what she calls, the high school "clans."

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We fall into clans:  Jocks, Country Clubbers,
Idiot Savants, Cheerleaders, Human Waste, Eurotrash, Future Fascists of America, Big
Hair Chix, the Marthas, Suffering Artists, Thespians, Goths, Shredders.  I am clanless.
(4)

Melinda goes on to
explain that her old clan the "Plain Janes" has "splintered," with its members being
absorbed by other clans above.  It is this statement that makes a few of these clans
quite significant (even the one that is now
extinct):

PLAIN JANES:  There
are probably other members of this group, but the main ones were Melinda, Rachel, Ivy,
Nicole, and Jessica (who has since moved to Nevada).  Obviously, their name suggests
that there was nothing incredibly special about them as a group:  average looking girls
doing average things.  That has
changed.

JOCKS:  This clan is
significant because it has absorbed Melinda's "ex-friend" Nicole.  Nicole has always
been athletic and shows lots of promise in the sports arena so she spends the beginning
of school "comparing scars from summer league sports"
(4).

EUROTRASH:  Melinda
doesn't shift Rachel into this group quite yet, but it becomes clearer as the novel
flows.  Rachel begins to be known as Rachel/Rachelle, hanging with all of the foreign
exchange students.  At this first assembly, Melinda something a bit
simpler.

It's
Rachel, surrounded by a bunch of kids wearing clothes that most definitely did not come
from the EastSide Mall.
(4)

MARTHAS: 
This clan is important because it is the precice one that her new "friend" named Heather
tries to join.  They are the ones who always wear matching clothes with accessories and
do volunteer work day and night.

SUFFERING
ARTISTS & THESPIANS:  This is the group that has absorbed Ivy. 
Melinda says that "she has enough personality to travel with two packs" (4).  In my
opinion, it Ivy with her art experience that truly breaks the ice again with Melinda at
the mall, chapters later.

How do Jem and Scout mature throughout the book? What dilemmas do they face that help their thinking better mature?

I think Jem most matures by watching the truth of the
trial and how it affects his father. From the mob in front of the jail in chapter 15 to
the trial's verdict in the early 20s, and his reaction to the trial, this young teen is
getting a taste of the evil of real men. He is protective of his dad by this point
because his dad has been through the criticism of friends and foes alike and has lost
something it was obvious he should not have lost. This makes Jem aware of the world's
inequities. Children have a notion that things should be fair. As many parents say...
Life isn't fair.

Scout's greatest moment of maturity occurs
in the last chapter when she learns through experience the lessons Atticus worked to
teach throughout the book. She learned to walk in someone else's shoes. She examined
from his porch what he must have been watching all along.

In Act 1 and 2, what are some examples of dramatic irony in Hamlet?

Since dramatic irony is the kind of irony in which a
character in the play thinks one thing is so, but the audience or reader knows
better, scenes involving Polonius serve as having dramatic
irony:

• When Polonius speaks with his son
  Laertes, who is about to return to France, the father gives advice to his son.  But,
  buried in conversation are the themes honest vs. deceit and love vs. betrayal as, after
  Laertes leaves, Polonius instructs Reynaldo to spy on his son. (Act
  I,sc.3)


• In his conversation with Ophelia, as well,
  Polonius is deceitful.  While he questions her about Hamlet, he does shown concern for
  his daughter's feeling; however, he later informs the king that after Hamlet is mad
  based upon what Ophelia has told him.  Polonius, then, arranges for Claudius and himself
  to betray Ophelia's trust by spying on her with Hamlet. (Act
  II)

What is probably the most important topic to discuss when explaining this story to a beginning literature class?

The setting and character development are paramount to the
story. The narrator of “Greasy Lake” grows and changes during his adventures is apparent
from the two views of “nature” he voices, one in paragraph 2 and one in paragraph 32.
Early in the story, “nature” was wanting

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to snuff the rich scent of possibility on the
breeze, watch a girl take off her clothes and plunge into the festering murk, drink
beer, smoke pot, howl at the stars, savor the incongruous full-throated roar of rock and
roll against the primeval susurrus of frogs and
crickets.

By the end of the
story, these swinish pleasures have lost their appeal. When, at dawn, the narrator
experiences the beauties of the natural world as if for the first time, he has an
epiphany: “This was nature.”  Greasy Lake is the perfect settin for Boyle’s story. Like
the moral view of the narrator (at first), it is “

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fetid and murky, the mud banks glittering with
broken glass and strewn with beer cans and the charred remains of bonfires. There was a
single ravaged island a hundred yards from shore, so stripped of vegetation it looked as
if the air force had strafed it”
(2).

The lake is full of
“primordial ooze” and “the bad breath of decay” (31). It also hides a waterlogged
corpse. Once known for its clear water, the unlucky lake has fallen as far from its
ideal state as the people who now frequent its shores have fallen from theirs.  Still,
in its way, Greasy Lake is a force for change. Caught trying to rape the girl in the
blue car, the narrator and his friends run off into the woods, into the water. Waiting
in the filthy lake, the narrator is grateful to be alive and feels horror at the death
of the “bad older character” whose body he meets in the slime. His growth has begun.
When at the end of the story, two more girls pull into the parking lot, the subdued
narrator and his friends are harmless. Cold sober, bone tired, they know they have had a
lucky escape from consequences that might have been terrible. Also, the narrator knows,
as the girls do not, that Al is dead, his body rotting in the lake. He won’t “turn
up”—except perhaps in the most grisly way. It is this knowledge and the narrator’s new
reverence for life that make him think he is going to cry.

How has the study of rhetoric helped to improve the social lives and linguistic skills of the people living in today’s world?i will like to...

What you propose is a major undertaking, so my first piece
of advice to you would be to narrow it down some. The study of rhetoric can cover
book-length works (PLURAL) and still not touch on all of the aspects that you have
indicated an interest in.

However, you mention an interest
in the importance of rhetoric and modern society. Integrating a little bit of history
into the equation, the way that we have historically viewed language usage has been
closely intertwined with social status. To put it simply, a lack of sold rhetorical
skills has generally been associated with a lack of intellect or education meaning that
the better able a person is to use language properly, the higher his or her educational
level and social status is usually viewed to be. Of course, this is stereotyping, but it
gives you a precedent and the precedent exists because generally, throughout history,
education at the higher than minimal levels has been restricted to the wealthy. Open
access to education for all is a relatively new
development.

Turning to the modern global society, although
educational opportunities may be broader, expectations have declined and along with them
the importance of language and rhetoric. Freedom of expression took a higher position
relative to the basic structure and form of language. Being creative became more
important than being an effective rhetoritician. Now, as we move away from an oral
communications dominated world into one in which the use of printed words is becoming
more important (as international businesses communicate in text based electronic form
daily) attention is truning back toward the importance of language and rhetoric skills.
This is being reflected to a degree in the educational system, but often it is not until
a student reaches college that it is given any solid
focus.

The way that language skills can be important in
today's society is that the better you are able to communicate the greater your ability
to advance in the world and to connect with people globally. Strong language skills are
something that employers look for, and the use of language is still a determinant of
social perception. People who are able to communicate effectively (without slang or bad
grammar) tends to present a first impression of a person who is educated and capable - a
person who is more likely to get the job or have the greatest impact on the largest
number of people (one of the reasons for Hitlers rise to power was his skill as a
rhetorician, Martin Luther King was able to reach the masses both black and white
because of his gifted use of language).

What are some cons regarding welfare?

The problem that I see with welfare, or public aid, is
that some people take advantage of it. It is meant to improve the financial well being
of individuals who are in a state of financial crisis. Unfortunately, some people
purposely keep themselves at a level of poverty so they do not lose this aid. It is
definitely true that some people are in a current position that require the help of the
government. 

Another problem that I have witnessed with a
few people who use public aid is what they purchase in grocery stores. It should be used
for necessities such as milk, fruits and vegetables, bread, eggs, meat, etc. I have seen
people use Link cards for fillet mignon and this is not
right.

If people stay on welfare because they are lazy and
don't want to work it is not fair to the people who work two or three jobs just to keep
themselves financially stable. It also isn't fair to the people who truly need the
aid.

What is the purpose of Harry Potter being retold in a different media (film)?I am looking for a few points regarding the adaptation of the Harry...

It is no secret that more children's books are borrowed
and sold after an adaptation has appeared - and that this continues over the years,
since DVD and video sales keep the story alive.  But financial advantages is not the
only motivating factor for adapting literature to other media.  If we think of the
earliest literary adaptations to film was Cyril Hepworth's 1903 eight-minute silent film
of Alice in Wonderland, we might agree with those who claim that children's literature
as a cultural form has a historically long and perhaps even a special relationship with
adaptation, which may explain why it is so frequntly mediated and recontextualised
through film, theatre, television, radio and other digital
technologies. 

An adaptation is not vampiric: it does not
draw the life-blood from its source and leave it dying or dead, nor is it paler than the
adapted work.  It may, on the contrary, keep that prior work alive, giving it an
afterlife it would never have had otherwise.  A good story deserves retelling - and
shown again and interact anew - with stories over and over; in the process, they change
with each repetition, and yet they are recognisably the same.

Why is photosynthesis important to the survival of all organisms in an ecosystem?Explain in detail.

Photosynthesis is very important to humans and almost
every single type of organism on earth. First of all if you think about it, a lot of
animals that we eat, eats grass, and other plants. Without plants there wouldn't be
enough animals for us to eat. Cows would be gone meaning most of the animals on earth
will starve too. Before I get into a lot of details about how important photosynthesis
is let me explain what photosynthesis is. I've bet you learned it almost hundreds of
time so I'll shorten this explanation. Plants need a source of energy like we humans
need food for energy they need the sun. They use the sun, carbon dioxide, and water for
energy. They absorb the sun to form hydrogen and oxygen, and as humans breathe in oxygen
we pass on carbon dioxide. It's like trading our air for their air. They suck in the
carbon dioxide and you guessed it. They breath out oxygen, making it possible for us to
breath again.

Now back to the explanation why
photosynthesis is a huge part of our lives. Since without photosynthesis we wouldn't
even be here on earth, meaning no oxygen. Without oxygen no other animals would live
since there would be no plants. Most of them would suffocate in few seconds. I've read
somewhere before in the past that if all of the sudden there was no oxygen the whole
world would probably suffocate in 3 minutes. Most of the people would not be ready for
it, as some coincidentally sucked in air the last second giving them a little more
time.

There isn't much to go into detail with since it's
really easy to understand once you read
it.

Short
Answer:

Photosynthesis is important since
without it most animals would die in seconds from suffocation without oxygen. Without
oxygen means no food too, meaning no animals could eat grass/plants making all of the
other organism on the food chain collapsing down into nothing. The whole world's
organism would come to an end. Basically meaning everything wouldn't exist if it wasn't
for Photosynthesis. Even us.

Hope this answers your
question!

What is learned about Atticus through his dealings with the dog and Mrs.Dubose?"To Kill A MockingBird" by Harper Lee

Atticus displays many positive aspects of his To
Kill a Mockingbird character as well as his parenting skills during the
chapters concerning the mad dog and Mrs. Dubose. Atticus apparently has pledged to never
pick up a gun again following his earlier life as "One-Shot" Finch. But when he sees
that he is the best man for a dangerous job, he rediscoves his deadeye aim once again,
dispatching of Tim Robinson with a single shot to the head. However, Atticus does not
want his children to know of his earlier skills, and cautions Sheriff Tate to "hush." He
is not proud of his skill to kill, but the children soon learn the truth from Miss
Maudie, who explains that "people in their right minds never take pride in their
talents." Atticus' actions display the humility that is part of his
makeup.

When Jem destroys Mrs. Dubose's camellias, Atticus
lets Jem know that his display of destructive temper is not acceptable--no matter the
insults tossed by the old woman. Jem is taught a lesson through his punishment, just as
Atticus expects. He knows the true story behind Mrs. Dubose's request for Jem to read to
her, but he thinks it best not to tell Jem until after her death. As uusual, Atticus
does not mince words with Jem, and the realization of Mrs. Dubose's morphine habit,
coupled with the gift that she has left for him, is almost too much for him to accept.
But Atticus wants Jem to learn from his time spent with her, and his parental wisdom is
just and appropriate.

Explain Pip's character according to structuralism and psychoanalytic theory in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. I just want to know about...

Structuralism is an approach to the human sciences that
attempts to analyze a specific field as a complex system of interrelated parts.  Thus,
meaning is produced and reproduced within a culture through various practices,
phenomena, and activities. Especially after World War II, structuralism rejected the
concept of human freedom and choice; instead it focuses on the way that human behavior
is determined by various structures.

While Charles Dickens
lived much before World War II, his writings evidence this belief in the determination
of human behaior by such various structures.  His character, Mr. Jaggers, often gives
voice to this belief.  For instance, when Pip goes to the lawyer to ask about Estella's
true history, Mr. Jaggers explains why she was given to Miss Havisham to raise; the act
was an attempt to counter the determining control of Victorian society upon the destiny
of the poor:

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Put the case that he often saw children solemnly
tried at the criminal bar, where they were held up to be seen; put the case that he
habitually knew of their being imprisoned, whipped, transported, neglected, cast out,
qualified in all ways for the hangman, and growing up to be hanged. ...Put the case that
here was one pretty little child out of the heap, who could be saved....Put the case
that this was
done....

Likewise, the
history of Abel Magwitch witnesses this determination of behavior for one who is born
into what Dickens termed the "prison of poverty."  He tells Pip that to survive, he had
to be involved in

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Tramping, begging, thieving, working sometimes
when I could...[he was] a bit of a poacher, ...a bit of a haymaker, a bit of a hawker, a
bit of most things that don't pay and lead to
trouble....

When arrested for
his involvement with Compeyson, Magwitch received the harsher sentence although
Compeyson was the more culpable, because Compeyson looked "the
gentleman."

Similarly, Pip is confined to his class in
Great Expectations.  As a boy, he is told that he is "common."  His
story is one of an individual's growth within a strict social order. Pip's craving for
social advancement outside his own culture is cause for his mistaken values on social
prestige and money.  His narrow view of the world, brought on by his initial low social
status, is, however, much improved by his association with the gentleman Herbert Pocket
and Mr. Jaggers clerk, Mr. Wemmick, who both demonstrate kindness and love.  Through his
experiences, then, Pip's "great expectations" of becoming a gentleman socially mature
into the realization that a true gentleman is one who possesses not merely social
status, but also
humanity.

Can you please summarize Stephen Bandy's Criticism "one of my babies" for O'conner story " a good man is hard to find"?thanks

Stephen Bandy basically disagrees with Flannery O'Connor's
explanation of her own short story. He agrees with D. H. Lawrence who says we should
"trust the art but not the artist." He believes that in spite of what O'Connor says
about the message of Christian grace, there IS no redeeming grace for any of the
characters in this short story. He says that while the story's themes center on the
Christian view of faith, death and salvation, the story's message is pessimistic and
"subversive" to the message of Christianity. He says the story speaks for itself and
that the author should not speak for the story.

Flannery
O'Connor has remarked that she was always surprised when people told her the grandmother
in the story was evil. It was her intent to show that the grandmother was able to
exhibit grace at the end of the story. Most people that read the story miss
this.

The "art" of this story is the fact that it is so
deep that it inspires lots of great discussions.

Test the series for convergence or divergence. sum[(-1)^n*(n/ln(n)) n=2..infinity] show steps

To test the convergence of (-1)^n*n/ln for
n=2,3,....infinity,

Solution:

Sn
= (2/ln2-3/ln3) +
(4/ln4-5/ln5)+.....2n/ln2n-9n+1)ln(2n+1)+....

We study the
difference (2n/ln - 2ln2n+1)

We know that (1+x)^n
 >1+nx > nx .Or

n/ln(1+x) > ln(nx) .
Or

n/ln(1+1)> lnn for x=1.
Or

n/ln n >1/ln2. l/ln x is a continuous increasing
function.

Therefore (n+1)/ln(n+1) - n/ln is posititive . So
we can use cauchy's condensation test.

The Series Sn = Sum
(2n+1)/ln(2n+1) -2n/ln(2n) and  sum Vn a^2n {a^(2n+1)/lna^(2n+1) - a^(2n)/lna^(2n)]
where a is a a number >=2 behave alike.

Simplifying
Vn:

Vn = a^(4n){a/[a/(2n+1)ln a] - 1/2nln
a}

=
(a^2n/lna){(a*2n-2n-1)/[(2n+1)(2n)]}

= (a^4n/lna){ 2n(a
-1)+1]/[(2n)(2n+1)]}

= (a^4n/(2n+1){(a-1
 +1/(2n)}{1/lna}

Taking limit a^4n/(2n+1) is unbounded. The
other factor {a-1 +1/(2n){1/lna} is a finite
quantity,

Therefore, Sum Vn diverges.And  Sn = Sum
(2n+1)/ln(2n+1) -2n/ln(2n) should behave
similarly.

Therefore , -Sn = Sum -[(2n+1)/ln(2n+1)
-2n/ln(2n) ] = Sum{2n/ln2n - ( 2n+1)/ ln(2n+1)] should also
diverge.

Why did the Harlem renaissance happen and what was it?

The Harlem Renaissance was a blossoming of African
American intellectual life in the 1920s and 1930s centered in the Harlem neighborhood of
New York City. The movement resulted in an explosion of African American art, music, and
literature and included such names as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurtson, Jean Toomer,
James Weldon Johnson, Aaron Douglas, Billie Holliday, and many, many
others.

Two primary factors facilitated the Harlem
Renaissance: the Great Migration and World War I. The Great Migration involved thousands
of African Americans moving to northern cities and concentrating themselves in
communities where they could support one another. After World War I, industrialization
provided greater job opportunities and more prosperity to support cultural and artistic
endeavors.

How does Bradbury make the Mechanical Hound seem evil, menacing and destructive?

In addition to the above, for me what makes the mechanical
hound seem so menacing and destructive is that, for the most part, it can't be
stopped. 

A real dog, no matter how large and ferocious, is
not as indestructible as the mechanical hound seems to be.  A dog can be fought against,
at least.  A rock or a big stick, whatever, can ward off a dog; not to mention a piece
of meat.  But the mechanical hound does not stop, will not back off, will not lose
interest if you show submission.  The mechanical hound leaves a human with no options. 
That's scary.

Except one, of course:  fire.  But unless you
happen to have a flamethrower with you, you're out of luck against a mechanical
hound--or at least that's how it seems. 

Finally, the
mechanical hound itself is not evil, since it's a machine.  The people who program it
are evil, but the hound itself is not.

What are Pip's 'expectaions' in Chs. 3 and 4 ?

In Ch. 3 Pip is on his way with the stolen food items and
the file to meet Magwitch on the marshes. He loses his way because of the heavy mist. It
is then that we come to know that Pip's expectations are limited to his desire to be
apprenticed as a blacksmith to Joe:

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I knew my way to the Battery, pretty straight,
for I had been down there on a Sunday with Joe, and Joe, sitting on an old gun, had told
me that when I was 'prentice to him regularly bound, we would have such Larks
there!

In Ch.4 on Christmas
day, Pip is very nervous and anxious. He is certain that the theft of the food items
will soon be discovered and that the police will arrest him. The chapter begins with Pip
'expecting' to be arrested by the police:

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I fully
expected to find a Constable in the
kitchen, waiting to take me up. But not only was there no Constable there, but no dis-
covery had yet been made of the
robbery.

What are the major theme, figure of speech, and sound devices in "Blame Not My Lute" by Thomas Wyatt?

The theme of "Blame Not My Lute" is in keeping with the
courtly love poetry that he learned while on a diplomatic trip to Italy and tells of
love within the "love is like war" Petrarchian love conceit. The lute player, and
speaker of the poem, has changed his tune to match the lady's changed behavior; the
music sounds not so sweet to her as formerly, but this is because her behavior seems not
so sweet to him as formerly.

The Lady's response is to
break the strings of his lute. The speaker advises her to cease doing that, informing
her that when she changes back to her former ways, the music from the lute will undergo
a corresponding change and be sweet to her once again. Wyatt is expressing the theme
that blame can't be attributed to someone--or something else--when a person is faced
with the results of a change in them that leads to dishonorable and unloving behavior:
blame not my lute, blame yourself.

Wyatt uses
personification for the lute and strings, giving human attributes of action and
volition: "he must agree," "they must obey," "My lute and strings may not deny." Wyatt
isn't known for metaphor and simile or sensory related imagery (what things taste, feel,
smell like), but here, he does refer to what the flute sounds like "be somewhat
strange," "be somewhat plain." He also uses figure of speech scheme techniques such as
epanalepsis in "spite asketh spite" and repetition in repeating the ending line "Blame
not my lute!" in each stanza as well at the start of the first stanza. There are six
stanzas of a sextain and repeating ending line. The rhyme scheme is ababcc
d.

What is the area of an equilateral triangle if the side length is 12 cm?

You need to know two things to solve this.  First, you
have to remember that the area of a triangle is .5(base*height).  Second, you have to
know the Pythagorean Theorem.

Because we know that the legs
are each 12 inches, we know that the base is 12 inches.  So now we need to know the
height.

We know that one leg is 6 inches (half of 12) and
the hypotenuse is 12 inches.  So 6^2+x^2 = 12^2

36 + x^2 =
144

x^2 = 108

So the height is
the square root of 108.

Now to get the area you take.5
(12*square root of 108).

How is this quote from Hamlet related to political unrest in Shakespeare's time, and,if so,how has he used this quote to target his audience? I...

In the above quote from Shakespear's
Hamlet,Hamlet reflects upon the character of Fortinbras, who is
Norwegian.  He is the son of Fortinbras, whom Hamlet's father, King Hamlet, defeated and
killed for "a little patch of ground."

Fortinbras serves as
the most important foil to the dilatory Hamlet.  For, as Hamlet notes, he is willing to
"expose what is mortal and unsure"--his life-- for "an eggshell"--the battle which he
may easily lose.  For, while their situations are similar in that their fathers were
killed, unlike Fortinbras who acts upon filial duty, Hamlet is given to excessive
self-debate and procrastination. Described by Hamlet as "a delicate and tender prince"
(IV,iv,48), Fortinbras is easily incited to fight in the cause of national pride or
family duty.

With Fortinbras as a character of national
pride, Elizabethan audiences may well have perceived some parallels between the
Danish and the English court.  While the Spanish Armada had been defeated in 1588, there
yet existed the potential of a renewed invasion attempt, just as Denmark fears an
invasion attempt.  In addition, in England, as in Hamlet, anxieties
regarding royal succession also exist.  One critic named Kurland in "William
Shakespeare's Tragedy as a Political Tragedy Rather than a Political Tragedy," contends
that there are echoes of Elizabeth anxiety over succession, accompanied by fear of
intervention just as occurs in
Hamlet:

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...Shakespeare's audience would have been
unlikely to have seen in Hamlet's story merely a private tragedy, or in Fortinbras's
succession to the Danish throne an unproblematic restoration of
order.

Thus,
it does seem that Shakespeare's possibly play alerts his audience to contemporary
issues. Again, the old question of "Does art imitate life, or life imitate art?"
arises.

Does the move to legalize weed for medical purposes count as a step towards the decriminalization of weed in general?

I personally doubt it, but that is obviously just a matter
of opinion since there is no official way to determine whether it's a step towards a
more general legalization.

In my opinion, it is not a major
step because the idea of medical marijuana seems so much different to people like me who
disapprove of the use of marijuana in general.  It seems to me that using a substance
for medical purposes is much different from using it for
fun.

So I can see a lot of people like me being okay with
the idea of allowing it when prescribed by a doctor but not with the idea of just
letting anyone use it because they feel like it.

So I don't
think support for the one implies support for the other.

How is Paul Marshall portrayed differently in the film version of Atonement compared to the novel?

Remarkably, the movie does a pretty good job at staying
true to the character of Paul Marshall; there are even moments when his dialogue is
exactly the same as in the book, in crucial moments.  For example, when offering
chocolate to Lola, he tells her in the book AND in the movie to "bite it...you've got to
bite it," in a very creepy and, if you are paying attention, telling manner.  He is also
the king of the chocolate effort in the war, and drones on and on about his chocolate
bars, even making everyone a chocolate drink.  So, in character, dialogue and
personality, they are incredibly similar.

In appearance
though, they do seem to differ.  In the movie, Paul is fair-headed, whereas in the book,
the description we get is that he is a dark-headed man who has a lot of hair; in fact,
it describes how "a few dark hairs curled free from his eyebrow" and also how hair grew
out of his ears.  So in that sense, the physical appearances are different between the
movie and the book.

Other than that, the Paul Marshall that
is in the book is the same as in the movie; same intentions, same crimes committed, same
creepy penchants.  I hope that helped; good luck!

Is there any relationship between the complexity of a fossil and its age?Please give specific examples to explain your answer.

Scientists from the University of Bath (United States)
come up with new evidence, which seem to confirm a new law of evolution: organisms
evolve in general to an increasing complexity. Of course, such a law of evolution would
seem logical if we accept the premise that life began in simple
forms.

As simply as that, in this case it can only be one
direction in evolution: towards a higher complexity. However, nothing prevents the
bodies to return to a simpler form, once a degree of complexity has been reached. Let us
not forget that all bodies which have evolved and survived until today, are complex.
Bacteria for example, are simple forms of life, but they have adapted very well in
today's complex environment.

Of course, there are no rules
without exceptions. An example is bodies living in habitats such as isolated marine
caves. They seem to regress in their evolution towards complexity. Another example is
some species of parasites.

The fossils of the Cambrian
have a high level of complexity, in the layers of Cambrian, fossils being found
easily.They are very numerous and very diversified. Cambrian fauna includes
representatives of all major groups of invertebrates, that still exists today. Species
alive today are easily recognizable, with all their characters, once they are met in the
strata in which they were fossilized. 

Cambrian strata are
exposing a sudden explosion of species. As the Cambrian strata are examined,
strata which are known to be the oldest containing fossil, we discover that many marine
species have existed at the time, very clearly differentiated from one another. The
world of that time was as complex as that of today. Some forms are different from those
of today, while others are very similar, and in some cases, even identical. In the
latter category are blue algae, sponges and marine worms, for
example.

What happens when Billy sees the movie going backwards in Slaughterhouse-Five?

Watching the war films in reverse, Billy Pilgrim sees war
as restorative and peaceful. The film's action, going backwards, becomes truly inverted.
Instead of planes shooting each other they suck bullets out of one another. Instead of
dropping bombs to destroy cities, planes suck the bombs into their cargo chambers and
make the cities safe. 

The bombers opened their
bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires, gathered them
into cylindrical steel containers, and lifted the containers into the bellies of the
planes.… The steel cylinders were taken from the racks and shipped back to the United
States of America, where factories were operating night and day, dismantling the
cylinders, separating the dangerous contents into minerals … [which] were then shipped
to specialists in remote areas. It was their business to put them into the ground, to
hide them cleverly, so they would never hurt anybody ever
again.

This passage demonstrates at least two
things. First, the nature of warfare is subtly explored. War is seen to be mechanical
and rather blindly destructive. The machines of war are shown to be products of a
military-industrial system, "manned" by automatons. The violence of war is given a
plain-spoken, factual treatment (albeit in reverse). Second, the role of perspective is
emphasized. 

Perspective is a major thematic
element of the novel. Here we see an implied statement that if only we could look at war
differently, we may be able to avoid its horrors. If we could see the mechanisms of war
clearly, perhaps we could assert our humanity against its machines. These concepts are
only implicit, but are clearly present in the passage and can be found elsewhere in the
novel as well. 

What could be one type of literary criticism for Brave New World?

Brave New World can be viewed from
the following
perspectives:

Feminist: how
are women (Fanny, Lenina, and Linda) portrayed?  Why aren't they Alphas?  Why must they
take mandatory birth control?  Does this lead to happiness and
freedom?

Mythological /
Archetypal: Who plays the role of the Hero, Loner, Temptress, Spirit,
Benevolent Father, Comic Relief, Nemesis?  What do colors, shapes, numbers stand
for?

Marxist: What is the role
of socio-economic class system?  Why do the Alphas exploit the lower castes?  Is there
an unequal distribution of labor?

Freudian /
Psychoanalytic: Does John suffer from repression and Oedipal guilt?  Is
his suicide the result of his guilt over having a relationship with Lenina, a younger
version of his
mother?

Existential: how does
the society limit the choices and freedom of the individual?  What role does
individuality have in the face of cloning and genetic
engineering?

Historical: What
are the meanings behind all the names, allusions, and references to science in the
novel?  What does Huxely believe is the role of science and technology in
government?

Why does Jonas feel apprehensive in Chapter 1?why is he careful in chapter 1?

In chapter one of The Giver, Jonas is
feeling anxious. At first he thinks he is frightened, but realizes it is apprehension he
is feeling. The Ceremony of Twelve is coming up, and this is a big deal for all the kids
who are eleven. At this ceremony the kids will find out what their jobs will be, and
they will have these jobs until they have to go to the home for the old. Jonas is
apprehensive about what job will be chosen for him.

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He had waited a long time for this special
December. Now that it was almost upon him, he wasn't frightened, but he was...eager, he
decided. He was eager for it to come. And he was excited, certainly. All of the Elevens
were excited about the event that would be coming soon.
But there was a little
shudder of nervousness when he thought about it, about what might
happen.
Apprehensive, Jonas decided. That's what I
am.

This ceremony is the most
important part of a young person's life, and Jonas is well aware of that. Whatever job
they will be given at this ceremony, they will have until it is time for them to
"retire". Little does Jonas know that the job he gets is going to change his life
forever.

What is the mission of the members of the Roman Catholic Church?

If you are taking a religion class, I wonder if your
particular text has a specific answer you are supposed to give.  I say this, because I
do not remember ever being taught that I, as a Catholic, had some specific mission other
than the mission of every Christian.

As Christians, we have
(or should have) a mission to follow God's word as closely as we can.  We also have a
mission to spread the word of Christ by our words and by our actions.  But these are
not, in my opinion, specific to Catholics.

What is unusual about the speech Hamlet begins to recite (2.2.430-444) and the First Player continues (2.2.448-498)?

Hamlet is meta-drama: it's a play
based on a play, and it has plays within its play.  And everyone's a foil for Hamlet,
even Greek allusions.  Here, in this speech about an act of revenge during the Trojan
War, Hamlet tries to get into character (as an avenger) by reciting it, but he can't
finish it, and so the First Player takes over.  The scene foreshadows Hamlet's
indecision regarding the nature of revenge.

This speech in
Act II, scene ii is an echo of the Ghosts' implicit instructions for Hamlet from Act I.
 Hamlet tells the Ghost: "Speak, I am bound to hear."  As the Ghost is a theatrical
Ghost, a kind of prologue Ghost, the Ghost speaks and expects Hamlet to take over by
honoring his demand for revenge.

This speech is the same
way: Hamlet begins, and the First Player takes over.  One player incites another.  Both
speeches are about the nature of revenge.  Instead of literal revenge, though, the First
Player delivers a kind of verbal revenge against his audience (primarily Polonius, who
will tell later Claudius), in hopes of eliciting a katharsis, the
purgation of pity and fear.  Remember, "the play's the thing to catch the conscience of
the king."

All characters here are foils: Pyrrhus is a foil
for Hamlet; Priam is a foil for Claudius.  Here's the allusion: Achilles killed Hector,
Priam's son.  As revenge, Priam's son, Paris, had Achilles killed.  Achilles' son,
Pyrrhus, takes revenge for his father's death by killing Priam.  It's the same
father-son dynamic as that in
Hamlet.

Pyrrrhus is very much like
Hamlet, since both hesitate before vengeance.  Pyrrhus swings his sword to kill Priam
but misses.  Then, after Priam falls to the ground, Pyrrhus butchers him while Priam's
wife, Hecuba, looks on.

The analogy his clear: Hamlet will
pause when trying to kill Claudius at prayer.  He withdraws his dagger.  Later, Hamlet
will kill Claudius mercilessly while his mother, Gertrude, looks on, a literal and
theatrical vengeance (bloodletting as performance).  And Hamlet will butcher his
victims, like Pyrrhus, having at least five people's blood on his hands by the
end.

So, each hero pauses before revenge, possibly to weigh
the consequences of his actions, but then, when each hero does kill, he becomes a
killing machine ("blood will have blood").

What are the two factors that affect the demand for investment?Are they whether a person is pessimistic about future profits or whether a person is...

Investment in economics refers to economic activity that
forgoes consumption today, with the purpose of increasing output in the future. It
includes spending on tangible assets such as houses as well in intangible investments
such as education.

As mentioned in the answer posted above,
different authors may classify factors affecting investment decisions by individual
firms or companies in different ways. For example, the answer above lists five such
factors. However, economists studying nature of investment in general independent of
specific industry, country, or time classify all these factors in three groups. These
are:

1. Demand for output produced by the new
   investment.


2. Interest rates and taxes that influence the
   cost of new investment.


3. Business expectations about the
   state of economy.

Whether a person is
pessimistic or optimistic about future profits from the investments will very much
depend about his or her assessment of the above three
factors.

If I had to choose only two of the above three
factors, I will opt for the second and the third ones. This is because the first factor
- demand for output produced by the new investment -  can also be considered to be a
part of third factor. This is because demand of output is substantially influenced by
state of economy.

In the book Speak what causes Melinda to finally speak?

Melinda finally uses her voice again near the end of the
novel. When she returns to her secluded janitor's closet to retrieve some of her
belongings, she is confronted by Andy. Andy accuses her of fabricating her claims that
he sexually accosted her the previous summer. He believes she is jealous of the
relationship he has with Rachel. When Andy attempts to assault Melinda again, she
screams at him finding the courage to speak once again. At this point, Nicole and other
members of the Lacrosse team hear her scream and come to Melinda's
rescue.

What is one example of each of the following literary devices used anywhere in Act One?1. Pun 2. Alliteration 3. Oxymoron 4. Allusion 5....

1. Pun: "Ay, the
heads of the maids, or their maidenheads;"

2.
Alliteration: "From forth the fatal loins of these
two foes"

3.
Oxymoron: "O loving
hate!"

4. Allusion:
"Even or odd, of all days in the year, Come Lammas-eve at
night shall she be fourteen"

5.
Metaphor: O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with
you. She is the fairies' midwife,"

6.
Hyperbole: It seems she hangs upon the cheek of
night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too
dear!"

7. Irony:
"What, drawn, and talk of peace!"

8.
Comic Relief: I'll lay fourteen of my
teeth,--And yet, to my teeth be it spoken, I have but
four--"

9.
Foreshadowing: "I fear, too early: for my mind
misgives Some consequence yet hanging in the
stars"

10. Aside:
"[Aside to GREGORY] Is the law of our side, if I say
ay?"

What were the sooial and political outcomes of the end of the Vietnam War? 1. Political Outcomes: 2. Social Outcomes:

The first political outcome of the war was that Lyndon
Johnson did not try to run for president in 1968.  More long lasting effects of the war
include the fact that people trust the government much less than they used to.  This
comes in part from the feeling that the government did not tell the truth about the
war.

Socially, I think the war helped to lead to our
"culture wars" that we have today.  The people who supported the war saw themselves as
the real Americans whose values were under attack by the long-haired, anti-American
protestors.  This has helped lead to the conflict between traditional and
non-traditional people today.

What is the attitude of Friar Laurence toward the lovers' insistence that he marry them without delay?it's somewher in Act 1 scene 4

There are a couple of places where Friar Lawrence gives
his opinion on this.  Neither of them is in Act I, Scene 4, though.  The two places are
Act II, Scene 3 and Act II, Scene 6.

Basically, Friar
Lawrence thinks that they are really rushing things.  He thinks that there is no reason
for them to be hurrying so much.

But eventually, he decides
that it makes sense to marry them even though he's not so sure about it.  He thinks that
by marrying them he might be able to get their families to stop hating each other.  He
says (Act II, Scene 3):

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In one respect I'll thy assistant be;

For this alliance may so happy prove,
To turn your households'
rancour to pure love.

How would you describe Bruno's character in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas? Reference answer to the book, not the movie please.

The story begins with Bruno having to move with his
family. They currently live in Berlin, but his father got a job promotion and they have
to move. Bruno is very unhappy with this, because all of his friends live in Berlin. He
thinks he will never have another friend again.

Bruno is a
very clever and adventurous young boy. He longs for adventure and thinks that in his new
home, he might find some adventure. He is a curious young boy and wants to roam about
the new place. He is also very naive. He doesn't have a clue what his father does for a
living. When he meets Schumel across the fence, he doesn't realize why the young boy is
there. He thinks Schumel is the one getting to have
fun.

"It's so
unfair. I don't see why I have to be stuck over here on this side of the fence where
there's no one to talk to and no one to play with and you get to have dozens of friends
and are probably playing for hours everyday. I'll have to speak to Father about
it."

When Bruno makes this
statement he has no idea what his new found friend's life is really like. Bruno is very
unaware of what is really happening. 

Bruno also is a very
good friend. He and Schumel develop a true friendship. When Bruno sneaks under the fence
to help his friend look for his father, he thinks he is going on another adventure. He
has no idea this will be his last adventure ever.

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And then the room went very dark and somehow,
despite all the chaos that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Schumel's
hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded to let him
go.

This line in the book is
always heart wrenching. The two young boys think they are going on an adventure, but
soon realize that this is the end. Bruno had never touched his friend before, but at the
end, they were holding hands as equals. 

In chapters 1-3, what was Calpurnia's fault?

According to Scout, who is the narrator of the story,
Calpurnia has many faults. It is only later in the story that Scout comes to appreciate
Calpurnia, who is the family's cook. In the first chapter of the book, Scout introduces
Calpurnia. She describes the woman as being nearsighted and having to squint all the
time because of it. Scout describes Calpurnia's hands as being "wide as a bed slat and
twice as hard." This shows that Calpurnia is a disciplinarian around the Finch house,
which naturally a child would dislike and consider to be a fault. Scout considers
Calpurnia to be a bossy woman, and she describes their disagreements as "battles." The
older woman usually wins these battles, much to Scout's displeasure. Calpurnia asks
Scout "why [she] couldn’t behave as well as Jem," and she also calls her home when she
does not want to come in. These are all things that Scout hates. In the second chapter,
Scout blames Calpurnia for having her copy chapters from the Bible in neat penmanship.
Scout's teacher, Miss Caroline, disapproves of this type of handwriting. In the third
chapter, Walter Cunningham comes over for lunch and Scout is rude to him. Calpurnia
confronts her about it, which Scout does not like. The woman gives Scout a smack on her
bottom. Scout asks her father to fire Calpurnia, but he refuses. All of these things are
considered faults of Calpurnia according to Scout.

What are some allusions in "On First Looking into Chapman Homer"?"On First Looking into Chapman" by John Keats

Interestingly, John Keats, at twenty-one, could not read
Greek and was probably acquainted with Homer's Iliad and Odyssey only from having read
the translations of Alexander Pope, which apparently seemed prosy and stilted to him. 
However, after he and a friend found a more vigorous translation by the Elizabethan poet
George Chapman, Keats was enthralled and he and his friend stayed up late to read aloud
this work to each other.  Toward morning Keats wrote the sonnet "On First Looking into
Chapman's Homer" before going to bed.

Of note, too, is the
allusion to Cortez, since Balboa, not Cortez, discovered
the Pacific, as previously mentioned.  Nevertheless, this error does not detract from
the value of Keats's poem.  Another allusion is to Apollo,
the god to whom the Greeks always turned for wisdom.  He was the god of prophecy and
healing; in Oedipus Rex, Apollo is the god whom the seer Teiresias consults at Delphi. 
In the last line, Darien is alluded to; this is an ancient
name for the Isthmus of Panama.  And, of course, Keats refers to
Chapman, whose translation inspired
him.

What is the main lesson of The Little Prince as allegory?

As an allegory Le Petit Prince by
Antoine Saint-Exupery expresses lessons of friendship and altruism.  Saint-Exupery once
wrote, etre homme, etre responsable [to be man is to be
responsible], and this expression of man's purpose is the philosophy of Saint-Exupery's
The Little Prince. The relationship that the little prince has with
his rose on the planet is pivotal to the novel as the prince learns that it is his
responsibility to the rose, rather than his love for its beauty. In fact it is this
responsiblity that drives him back to the planet and that gives his life meaning.  The
prince also learns that altruistic gestures are more rewarding than selfish
ones.

In Saint-Exupery's allegory there are unnamed
characters who symbolize certain phases of human life.  For instance, the king
represents authority, the businessman respresents greed, and the lamplighter respresents
devotion to duty. The flower is a flirtatious woman, the serpent is death, the fox
represents trickery.  For instance, it is the fox who teaches the prince about the
importance of one's responsibility to the loved one.  He explains to the prince that by
taming him, the prince has invested himself in the fox, thereby making the fox more
special to the prince.  Thus, what one gives to the loved one is more important than
what one receives in return.  Because of this lesson, the prince decides to return to
his planet where his responsibility, the rose, needs
him. 

The links below will connect you to another question
and another site on Saint-Exupery's novel which may be of help to
you.

Calculate the mass of water at 20 degrees C needed to lower the temperature of 750g of water at 75 degrees C to body temperature 37 degrees C?

Given that:

750 g (m1) of
water at 75 degrees C (t1) is mixed with m2 g of water at 20 degrees C (t2). This result
in the total mixture of water attaining a temperature of 37 degrees C
(t).

We have to find out the value of
m2.

The weight of total mixture = m1 +
m2

The total heat required to heat a given mass of water to
a given temperature is proportional to its mass multiplied by
temperature.

Thus heat in a given mass of water
=

H x Mass x
Temperature.

Where H = specific heat of
water.

Also total heat in mixture of the two initial
quantities of water is equal to the sum of heat in initial quantities of
water.

Thus:

H x (m1 + m2) x t
= (H x m1 x t1) + (H x m2 x t2)

Dividing all terms of the
equation by H we get:

(m1 + m2) x t = (m1 x t1) + (m2 x
t2)

substituting values of m1, t1, t2, and t in the
equation we get:

(750 + m2) x 37 = 750x75 +
m2x20

2775 + 37m2 =  56250 +
20m2

37m2 - 20m2 = 56250 -
2775

17m2 =
53475

Therefore:

m2 = 53475/17
= 3145.5882
(approximately)

Answer:

3145.5882
g of water

What kind is the triangle ABC, with vertices A(-1,2), B(4,7),C(-3,6)?

To establish the type of triangle we have to check the
measures of it's angles or the length of it's sides.

In
this case, because all we have is the coordinates of the vertices of the triangle, all
we can find out is the values of the length of the triangle's
sides.

[AB] = sqrt
[(xB-xA)^2 +(yB-yA)^2]

[AB] = sqrt [(4+1)^2 +
(7-2)^2]

[AB] =
sqrt(25+25)

[AB] = sqrt
50

[AC] = sqrt
[(-3+1)^2+(6-2)^2]

[AC] = sqrt
(4+16)

[AC] = sqrt 20

[BC] =
sqrt[(-3-4)^2+(6-7)^2]

[BC] = sqrt
(49+1)

[BC] = sqrt
50

Since [AB]=[BC], the type of the triangle
is isosceles.

Write a character sketch of Shylock from The Merchant of Venice that has at least 4 negative and 3 positive traits.

Although critics tend to agree that Shylock is
The Merchant of Venice’s most noteworthy figure, no consensus has
been reached on whether to read him as a bloodthirsty bogeyman, a clownish Jewish
stereotype, or a tragic figure whose sense of decency has been fractured by the
persecution he endures. Certainly, Shylock is the play’s antagonist, and he is menacing
enough to seriously imperil the happiness of Venice’s businessmen and young lovers
alike. Shylock is also, however, a creation of circumstance; even in his single-minded
pursuit of a pound of flesh, his frequent mentions of the cruelty he has endured at
Christian hands make it hard for us to label him a natural born monster. In one of
Shakespeare’s most famous monologues, for example, Shylock argues that Jews are humans
and calls his quest for vengeance the product of lessons taught to him by the cruelty of
Venetian citizens. On the other hand, Shylock’s coldly calculated attempt to revenge the
wrongs done to him by murdering his persecutor, Antonio, prevents us from viewing him in
a primarily positive light. Shakespeare gives us unmistakably human moments, but he
often steers us against Shylock as well, painting him as a miserly, cruel, and prosaic
figure.

Identify one thing Hauchecorne should have said in his defense that might have helped him in "The Piece of String."

The fault of Maitre Hauchecorne of Guy de Maupassant's
"The Piece of String" is his pride, and it is this pride that makes him hide his act of
having been so "thrifty like the true Norman he was" when his rival, Maitre Malandain,
the harness maker witnesses his stooping:

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Maitre Hauchecorne felt a bit humiliated at
having been seen by his enemy scrabbling in the dirt for a bit of yearn.  He quickly
thrust his find under his smock, then into his trousers pocket' afterwards he pretended
to search the ground for something he had lost, and at last he went off toward the
marketplace with his head bent forward and his body doubled over by his aches and
pains.

Then, the tragic
mistake that Hauchecorne makes in his pride, is not admitting what he has really done
when the police sergeant questions him:

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'Maitre Hauchecorne...you were seen this morning
on the Beuzeville road picking up the pocketbook lost by Maitre Houlbreque, of
Manneville.'

'Me? Me? Me pick up that pocket book?....I
swear! I don't know anything at all about it.'

'You were
seen.'

At this point,
were Maitre Hauchecorne to admit that he bent to pick up a piece of string, he may have
been able to redeem himself, especially if he explained why and had witnesses to testify
to his habitually frugal nature.  However, the first action of trying to dissemble what
he was doing as he stooped in order to deceive M. Malandain was probably the cause of
the lack of credibility in anything that M. Hauchecorne declares after
this.

In his story, Maupassant presents the natural
distrust of the peasants for one another; also, as he expressed in his story "The
Necklace," Maupassant implies, "How small a thing is needed to make or ruin us!" So,
perhaps, there may have been nothing M. Hauchecorne could have done because of the
suspicion with which the peasants regard one another. After all, they still suspect M.
Hauchecorne even after the wallet is found.  Nevertheless, his lies are certainly his
further unraveling, for in his desperate attempts to regain his credibility, he is
mentally destroyed as well as socially.

What is the plot of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button?

 

Beginning:
The narrator
refers to an "astonishing story" he is about to tell, and we know that it has to do with
Mr. Button's first born.
Rising action leading to conflict:
Benjamin
Button is born and they realize his face is that of an old man. He is rejected by his
father, and society as a whole rejects him. However, he is taken in a retirement home,
where he is with his "equals".
Continuing action:
The story is not
narrated directly stating that BB is actually getting younger, but as the story grows,
even the main character is surprised by this fact, as so is the
reader.
Climax:
There are several intense moments in the story, from
the moment he met Hildegarde to when he was found as a young kid. For a short story,
this is not as common, and it is very hard to determine. However, the meeting with H.
was what probably created the most suspense prior to its happening.
Falling
Action
The falling action must be after his wedding to Hildegarde, because
everything after that points out to his making the choice of battling what curses him,
and facing it. He knew what was going to happen next, and that at some point he would
have to abandon her. We also know that, the younger he gets, the closest he is to death.
'
Conclusion/End
Benjamin does get younger and younger until his
life ends.
The end is difficult to discern because of the way the author
narrates it. He makes death look like a transition much like birth: It involves light
and darkness, basic emotions and feelings, and the fact that he simply forgot everything
prior, because now he is a newborn (about to die).
It is interesting, however,
how life and death mirror each other in description. It is perhaps the moment of the
story to which somehow we can relate:
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There were no troublesome
memories in his childish sleep; no token came to him of his brave days at college, of
the glittering years when he flustered the hearts of many girls. There were only the
white, safe walls of his crib and Nana and a man who came to see him sometimes, and a
great big orange ball that Nana pointed at just before his twilight bed hour and called
"sun."

[…]

And then he remembered nothing. When he was hungry
he cried—that was all. Through the noons and nights he breathed and over him there were
soft mumblings and murmurings that he scarcely heard, and faintly differentiated smells,
and light and darkness.

What bothers Holden about Mercutio's death in Romeo and Juliet?He seems to take a liking to Mercutio than to Romeo, I never read Romeo and Juliet...

Of all the characters in William Shakespeare’s
Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, it seems very likely that Salinger’s
Catcher in the Rye character Holden Caulfield would identify most
with Mercutio. This is probably why he is bothered by his
death.

Like Mercutio, Holden is not tied up in a
relationship throughout the play, as Romeo is. Mercutio is possibly the most likable
character in the play. Although he doesn’t last long, his speaking parts are filled with
humor—which is another way in which he resembles Holden. Holden’s first person narration
is intended to inform us, but also to be entertaining, and in this vein he makes a lot
of surprising statements. So does Mercutio. Some of Mercutio’s statements are of a
sexual nature, such as:

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Now will he [referring to Romeo] sit under a
medlar tree

And wish his mistress were that kind of
fruit

As maids call medlars when they laugh
alone.

The humor here is in
the word “medlar,” which is a kind of fruit, but also sometimes used to refer to female
sexuality.

Holden makes a lot of sexual references in the
book, and it’s obvious that he has sex on his mind at times. He probably finds
Mercutio’s jokes funny because he seems to be thinking the same
way.

Finally, as the first post above noted, Mercutio is
killed through no fault of his own. Holden sees himself the same way. His problems in
prep school, and he has had plenty, seem to him to always be somebody else’s fault. It’s
the “phonies” who cause his problems, not his own impetuous
actions.

What various techniques does Arthur Miller use to achieve such heightened drama at the end of Act III?

One of the best techniques used is Proctor's sarcasm in
the lines:

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Proctor: laughs insanely, A
fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my
face, and yours, Danforth! ... We will burn
together!

The magistrates
have just asked Proctor for his confession a "final" time and he is giving it. He
doesn't mean it though. He is acting just like the girls and he is "seeing" something
fake.

We also see characters turn near the end of Act III.
Thus, they are being dynamic characters. Mary Warren who
had come to court on behalf of Proctor, is now back with Abby, and Hale who had been on
the side of the magistrates in the beginning is even damning the
court.

Finally, I think John Proctor's
line:

You are
pulling Heaven down and raising up a
whore!

creates great
conflict. This is a true statement, it is metaphorical, and it attacks the very core of
their beliefs. He is trying to show their hypocrisy.

What is Curly's problem? Why does he need to pick on men larger than he?

I do not think he is particularly interested in picking on
men larger than himself unless he is in a position where they cannot fight back.  This
is because Curley's problem is that he is a bully.

Bullies
tend to be people who do not want equal fights.  They want to fight people who really
can fight back effectively.

But picking on people bigger
than him gives him a lot more satisfaction.  He can tell himself that he can beat them
up or dominate them because he is tougher than they are.  In actuality, it's because
he's the boss's son.

So he's a bully who wants to look
tough without having to actually have a fair fight.

Suggest ways in which heat that flows in or out of the house can be minimized.

There are many different ways in which we can prevent
transfer of heat across the interior of a house and its environment. All these methods
aim to increase the insulation effect offered by walls, roof, doors and windows of the
house.

Conduction of heat through walls can be reduced by
making the wall thick, making them with material with high thermal insulation
properties, or lining them with insulation material. It is also possible to increase
thermal insulation effect by making leaving some hollow space within the wall or between
wall and the insulating material.

Roofs can be made provide
better insulation in the same way as walls. One specific mathod of providing better
insulation is to use falce ceilings.

Doors and windows can
also be made thicker and of better insulating material. Wherever glazed windows or other
glazed structures are used, thermal insulation can be increased by using double walled
glass.

It is possible to reduce extreme variations in
temperatures parts of house by constructing underground chambers. These remain
comparatively cool in summer, and warm in winters.

In
addition to above methods, which are based on structural design of house, keeping the
doors and windows closed also helps to prevent heat
transfer.

Also if the objective is to prevent heating
entering the house, rather than prevent both ways conduction of heat, additional
measures can be adopted to prevent the effect of radiation heat. Some of these measures
include, using light colour exterior paints, using blinds on windows, using reflecting
glass and providing a net shade above the roof that reduces radiation reaching the roof,
with minimum restriction of air circulation for cooling.

Choose three of the below themes from Great Expectations. How does Dickens use the characters, actions and circumstances to teach them? Appearances...

Appearances vs. Reality:  Dickens has several characters
that promote the theme that appearances are not necessarily a reflection of one's
character.  Take Magwitch, for example.  He is a dirty, unkempt, uncouth criminal,
right?  Well, he ends up being Pip's benefactor, and someone who was greatly moved by
one act of kindness from a small boy. He also had suffered great tragedy in his life,
and ended up being the father of the beautiful, elegant and well-established Estella.
All of these things could not be predicted by his character.  Dickens teaches that we
should not judge someone on appearances, but rather on their actions.  Magwitch's
actions show a man seeking redemption, and offering
kindess.

The dignity of labor can best be seen through the
character of Joe.  He is an unassuming man without too much intelligence or grace, but
he's a hard worker, and provides a good and solid living for his family.  As Pip rejects
Joe, leaves the forge, and pursues more "worthy" company and tasks, he is utterly
miserable. It isn't until Pip acknowledges the dignity of working with one's hands to
earn a living, and Joe's goodness as a man that he finds happiness.  Constrast Joe's
happiness and station in life to Pip's, after his money--Pip has nothing to do.  He just
reads books, spends money frivolously, and has no dignity because he does not labor.  At
the end of the novel he finally puts his talents to use in business, and finds peace. 
Dickens is asserting that working is a dignified path to happiness, peace and good
character.

The value of friendship is a theme that runs
throughout the novel.  Pip's best friends are Joe and Biddy; when he rejects them, he is
unhappy.  He finds another friend in Herbert Jr., who accepts him for who he is, and Pip
finds great comfort in that friendship.  Dickens has a theme of friendship as being a
key to happiness, and that friendship should be free of judgment and
criticism.

I hope that those thoughts helped; good
luck!

Explain modal auxiliary verbs.Modal Auxiliaries in Advanced English Grammar

The first step is in understanding modal
auxiliaries is to distinguish modal auxiliary verbs from
auxiliary verbs. There are three auxiliary
verbs. These are do, be,
and
have. As described by href="http://faculty.deanza.edu/flemingjohn/stories/storyReader$33">John Fleming of
DeAnza College, auxiliary verbs are used in specific instances and may also
uesd as main verbs.

Auxiliary
have is used to construct the perfect aspect in the
three tenses (past, present, future): Perfect aspect have +
-ed participle. Auxiliary
have is used in all moods and in all
affirmative and negated sentences.

Auxiliary
be is used in
continuous aspects (Progressive and Perfect Progressive):
Progressive aspect be + -ing
participle; Perfect Progressive
have + be + -ing
participle. Auxiliary
be is a significant part of
passive voice sentence construction:
be + -ed
participle. You'll note that the
difference in construction between the progressive aspect and the passive voice is the
form of the participle: progressive aspect uses the present
-ing participle while passive voice uses the past -ed
participle. Auxiliary
be is used in all moods and in all
affirmative and negated sentences.

Auxiliary
do is used in simple
past tense and simple present tense. Auxiliary
do differs from the other two
auxiliary verbs because it is used only in interrogative mood and in negated
sentences.

As taught by href="http://www.eurotp.org/uk/staff.asp">Howard Jackson of Birmingham City
University, and others, modal auxiliaries, in
contrast to auxiliary verbs, are of greater variety. The modal auxiliaries are
can, could, must, may, might, will, would, ought to, shall,
should. Some people add used to, need,
dare, but the addition is not necessarily common.
Modal auxiliaries fulfil a specialized function in English.
They express futurity and probability
along with obligation and
politeness. Some people give a more expanded explanation and elaborate on
the above three categories by saying modal auxiliaries (modals) express
advice, ability, necessity, expectation, permission, possibility
and more, but all of these are subcategories of futurity and probability and
obligation and politeness. Modals establish relationships between
individuals in written or spoken discourse and establish the
distinctions between obligation and discretionary
choice.

English in fact has no
inflected future tense. In English, future
tense is a construct of will, shall, would,
or should with a
main verb: "I will be there." "I shall come to you." "You should work
harder to graduate." "I would run more if I had more time." Therefore modals are
integral to expressing futurity in
English.

Probability, the
degrees of possibility, impossibility, and certainty are expressed with
must, may, can, and might. "The
invitation must have been sent." "It may be lost." "Invitations can be misdirected." "It
might have been misdirected."

Obligation
and politeness are expressed variably
through must, ought to, may, will, could, shall, might (formal),
would, should, can,
and
sometimes
need: "Will/would/could/can you help?" "May/can/might I
enquire your name?" "You must/need to/ought to/should help her."

Define competition and its types.

Competition is commonly referred to the rivalry that
exists between firms for selling their products of a particular category to the same
segment of customers. However it may be defined more generally as rivalry between
individuals and firms to gain greater advantage or superiority over each
other.

Competition may be classified according to many
different perspectives. The most common perspective of classifying competition is the
economics perspective. As per this competition is divided in two broad types - perfect
competition and imperfect competition. Perfect competition exists when no one firm or
consumer in the market is large enough to affect the market price. This is really an
ideal type of completion which does not exist in reality. However many markets may be
quite close to perfect competition.

Imperfect competition
exist when at least one seller or buyer in the market is large enough to affect the
market price. The impure competition may be further classified in different types like
monopolistic, oligopolistic and monopsony markets according to number of dominant
sellers or buyers in the market.

Another popular way of
classifying competition is as per the five force model of Porter, which identifies the
following five sources of competition faced by a
firm.

1. Rival firms in direct competition for the
   company's product.


2. Firms marketing substitute
   products.


3. Firms that are currently not competitors but
   may enter the industry attracted by its high profitability, and therefore may offer
   competition in future.


4. Supplies to the company. They also
   compete with the firms in the sense that they try to increase their profit by charging
   highest possible prices for the products supplied by
   them.


5. Customer of the company. They also compete with the
   firms in the sense that they try to get maximum products and services from the company
   at lowest cost.

1 2 x + 3

Solve inequalities is no different than solving regular
equations.  In both cases, you need to get all the x terms on one side of the equation
and all the numbers on the other.

One way to do this
question is this:

Subtract 4x from both sides.  You now
have

-3.5x + 3 <
-7

Subtract 3 from both
sides

-3.5x <
-10

Divide both sides by -3.5.  Be sure to switch the
direction of the inequality sign.

x >
2.85

If you prefer, you can multiply both sides by 2 to get
your .5x to be x.

x + 6 < 8x -
14

Then you move the 8x and the
6.

-7x < -20

Again, be
sure to switch the direction of the inequality sign.

x
> 20/7

or

x >
2.85

Show how "The Flea" is a metaphysical poem by John Donne?

Metaphysical poetry involves the elevation of a seemingly
common item or action to an almost spiritual level of importance, and John Donne’s “The
Flea” illustrates this definition perfectly.

In
the poem, the speaker equates the “two bloods mingled” within the body of a flea with
the marriage of a man and his wife. Thus, the speaker argues to his lover that they,
from a certain perspective, are “one blood made of two.” From the speaker’s perspective,
the engorged flea is elevated from a pest to a “marriage bed” and “marriage temple.” The
speaker seemingly transfers the sacred characteristics, meanings, and implications of
marriage to a common flea.

However, the speaker
does not stop with this argument. To reinforce his point, the speaker also warns his
lover to not kill the flea because to do so would be “self murder.” By killing the flea,
one would be destroying a part of the speaker and his lover as well as their “union.”
 Thus, the value of the flea is elevated to that of a human life as well.

Closely analyzing Edmund's "Thou, nature, art my goddess" speech in King Lear, explain what Edmund says and what it shows about his character.In...

In act one, scene 2 of King Lear
(lines 1-23), Edmund reconfirms his life's creed and its
goals.

"Thou, nature, art my
goddess":  You, nature (natural selection, survival of the fittest, etc.) are
my inspiration and leader.

"To thy law my
services are bound":  I am not bound by society's laws but by the laws of
nature, (the law of the jungle).

"Wherefore
should I stand in the plague of custom":  Why should I be constrained by the
limitations of society...

"and permit the
curiosity of nations to deprive me":  and allow its particular and arbitrary
rules to hold me back...

"for that I am some
twelve or fourteen moonshines lag of a brother?":  just because I'm 12 or 14
months younger than my brother?

"Why 'bastard'? 
Wherefore 'base'?":  Why am I called a 'bastard' (illegitimate)? Why am I
considered 'inferior'?...

"When my dimensions are
as well compact":  considering that my body is as
strong...

"my mind as generous and my shape as
true as honest madam's issue?":  my mind is as capable, and my looks are as
good as those of a child of some respectable woman? (as opposed to that of a whore, like
my mother).

"Why brand they us with 'base,' with
'baseness,' 'bastardy,' 'base,' 'base'?":  Why do they stamp
us with terms like 'inferior,' 'inferiority,
'illegitimate,' 'inferior,' 'inferior'?...

"who,
in the lusty stealth of nature, take more composition and fierce quality than doth
within a dull, stale, tired bed go to the creating a whole tribe of fops got 'tween
asleep and wake?":  us who, conceived in hot and
hidden sexual passion, are created with more substance and strength than are a whole
tribe of weaklings made by two people in bed who are half
asleep?!

"Well then, legitimate Edgar, I must
have your land.":  Well then, my 'valid' brother Edgar - because you are one
of those weaklings (created in the way I've described above), it is only fitting that I,
the stronger and fitter brother, should have what is now considered
yours.

"Our father's love is to the bastard
Edmund as to th' legitimate":  After all, our father loves me, the 'bastard,'
as much as he loves you, the 'valid' one.

"Fine
word, 'legitimate'":  Fine word,
'valid.'

"Well, my legitimate, if this letter
speed and my invention thrive, Edmund the base shall top th' legitimate.": 
Well, my valid one, if this letter (the fake one I've devised by forging your
handwriting) works and my plan succeeds, I (the inferior one) will vanquish the
'valid.'

"I grow, I prosper.":  I get
stronger, I thrive.

"Now, gods, stand up for
bastards!":  Now, you, the powers-that-be, stand up for us
'bastards''!

Edmund, the son of a whore -- slighted,
neglected and derided from birth -- has become as hard and tough in his heart and mind
as he has in his body.  As the play will show, he will do whatever it takes (deceive,
betray, kill) to get what he feels is rightfully his.