What impact did the Vietnam war have on Vietnam and Cambodia?

Well, of course the Vietnam War was very devastating to
the country of Vietnam.  Both the North and South were hurt badly.  In the North, there
was a lot of bombing by American planes.  There were also lots and lots of soldiers who
were killed in combat.  Finally, the people had to make do with very little in the way
of food and other necessities during the war.

In the South,
the US sprayed Agent Orange to kill plants.  This hurt the people economically (killed
crops) and it led to major health problems for many people.  As in the North, many
people were killed by both sides.  Many people were moved from their homes and became
refugees.

So, as you would expect from a war that went on
for years, it really hurt the Vietnamese people a lot.

When the members stand in magic circle: How does Propspero deal with each four principals in turn? How does each react? Which of the four says...

When Prospero creates the magic circle, he deals with
Alonso, Sebastian, Antonio, and Gonzalo in turn.  Prospero blames Alonso for being blind
and irrational to the crimes going on around him.  He says that Alonso allowed Antonio
to use Prospero and Miranda for his own political gain.  Prospero goes on to blame both
Sebastian and Antonio for consipiring to murder Alonso, and he also blames Antonio for
usurping him from his position as the Duke of Milan.  Prospero believes that Gonzalo is
the only honorable man in the bunch.  After the circle is lifted, Alonso is repentent,
yet Sebastian and Antonio remain quiet; in fact Antonio says nothing while Sebastian
claims that Prospero must have the "devil in him."

How is the American Dream related to Death of a Salesman? How does it relates to some other characters in the book?

the american dream is closely related to arthur
miller'(death of a salesman).willy,the protagonist,has adifferent view about American
Dream.he thinks that success is so easy to come,just be 'well liked' and you will catch
anything in life and ensue success.all his measures about the american dream are
materialistic,to gain much money and good family mean that you achieve success.on the
hand,his son Biff,has adifferent opinion about success,his view about the American Dream
contain passions and feelings,he believes that the real success in life is to happy and
comfortable,not to just cllect piles of dollars.

from my
point of view.the idea of the american dream is considered to be the major message in
(death of a salesman),miller wants ,through his play,to expose the consequences of the
materialistic american dream._willy lives and dies for the illusion of the american
dream,his american dream.

A certain polyhedron has 6 vertices and 9 edges. Determine the number of faces on this polyhedron.

Descates (in 1639) has given us the relation between the 
vertices , faces and edges of any polyhedron  or any plane figure bounded by sraight
edges, plane polygonal faces and vertices.It is popularly known as Euler's formula(Euler
rediscovered it in 1751) or Euler's theorem and proved by Cahchy  also in
1811 :

The number of vertices+ number of faces = number of
edges +2. Or V+F = E+2. Substitute the given values , V=6 and E = 9  and we get: 6+F =
9+2 . So F = 9+2-6  = 5..

I need some quotes from Macbeth, listed with the theme and technique/feature that fits with the quote.

Here are the major themes of
Macbeth:

• Ambition
  can subvert
  reason:

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“From this moment,the very firstlings of my shall
be the firstlings of my hand.” –Act IV, Scene
1

AND

“Thou
wouldst be great; art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend
it.” –Act I, Scene
5

• When
  supernatural powers represent evil, they should be ignored.
  

“But ‘tis strange! And
oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us
with honest trifles, to betray’s in deepest consequence.” –Act I, Scene
3

AND

“Accursed be the tongue that tells me so, for it
hath cowed my better part of man! And be these juggling fiends no more believed.” –Act
V, Scene
8

• The
  natural order is disrupted by any upset in the proper order of human
  society.

“By
the clock ‘tis day, and yet dark night strangles the traveling lamp. Is’t night’s
predominance, or day’s shame, that darkness does the face of earth entomb when living
light should kiss it?” –Act II, Scene
4

AND

“The obscure bird clamored the livelong night.
Some say the earth was feverous and did shake.” –Act II, Scene
3

• Appearances
  do not always reflect
  reality.

“There’s
no art to find the mind’s construction in the face. He was a gentleman on whom I built
an absolute trust.” –Act I, Scene
4

AND

“Our separated fortune shall keep us both the
safer. Where we are, there’s in men’s smiles; the near in blood, the nearer
bloody.” –Act II, Scene
3

• Despite
  prophecies of the future, people are responsible for their own
  actions.

“If
you can look into the seeds of time and say which grain will grow and which will not,
speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear your favors nor your hate.” –Act I, Scene
3

Why was Angela Wexler standing on a hassock in The Westing Game?No.

Angela Wexler is standing on a hassock because she is
having her wedding dress altered. The increased height causes the bottom of her dress to
be raised a couple of feet so that the dressmaker can more easily access it. As Mrs.
Baumbauch, with pins in her mouth, crawls around on the floor adjusting the dress's hem,
Angel herself stands "as still and blank-faced pretty as a store-window dummy," looking
out the window at the lake across the way.

Angela is
engaged to be married to Dr. Denton Deere. She is not as excited about the upcoming
union as is her mother, who considers Dr. Deere to be a worthy match. Grace Wexler is a
controlling woman, and she treats Angela like a fragile, precious doll with no mind of
her own. Mrs. Wexler is supervising the fitting from the comfort of a beige velvet
couch, and when Angela cries out while pivoting in a slow quarter turn according to Mrs.
Baumbach's instructions, the overprotective mother assumes that the dressmaker has
pricked her daughter and cautions her to be more careful. Angela, however, has not been
pricked. She had uttered the exclamation because she had noticed smoke coming from the
Westing house chimney, and was surprised, because the house was supposed to be empty
(Chapter 3).

Comment on the trend of Raina's encounter with the man in her room.It's concrning about the book Arms and the man

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What does the convict tell Pip to bring him?Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

In the exposition to Great Expectations, the "fearful man
in coarse gray" tells Pip to bring him some "wittles," food, and a file.  After having
shaken Pip upside down and telling Pip that he will cut out his liver and heart if he
does not comply, the large, foreboding man terrifies Pip into complying with his wish. 
Yet, the kind-hearted Pip also has sympathy for this poor creature who trembles.  With
concern, later Pip asks the convict if he has the flu, and the convict replies that he
believes so.

Pip's act of thievery from the pantry of Mrs.
Joe's kitchen causes humorous repercussions on Christmas Day when Uncle Pumblechook
drinks from the glass that should contain brandy, but the bottle from which it comes has
been refilled with tar water from a nearby jug by Pip, who was mistaken as to the
contents.

What is the position of the writer? Is she objective or subjective ("The Story of an Hour")?Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour"

Your question concerning Chopin's "The Story of an Hour"
deals with the narrator's tone and manner of presenting the
story. 

Objective, as you use it, refers to the point of
view of the narrator.  An objective narrator relates only the details of the story
without interpretation or judgment.  Fiction can be objective, but this story is
not.

The narrator's attitude toward the protagonist in the
story is sympathetic, and she interprets her character with sympathy.  This is
subjective.

Mrs. Mallard is presented in a positive light. 
If the work were objective, she would be presented in a neutral light.  For example, the
character is "young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a
certain strength."  "Repression" is an interpretation and judgment of the lines on the
woman's face, and indicates that as a wife--even as a wife to a relatively good man--she
suffers repression.  And "strength" is an interpretation, also, as well as
a judgment.

Interpretation and judgment on the part of a
narrator demonstrate that a story is narrated in a subjective
manner.

Notice that I have interpreted your use of "writer"
to mean "narrator."  We can't, strictly speaking, pretend to know what is in a writer's
mind at the time of writing.  We try to refer to the narrator, rather than the writer. 
At the same time, looking at this story and other works by Chopin, you are probably safe
in saying that Chopin, too, is subjective in her approach to a woman's place in marriage
and society.  She is a strong feminist writer, and often reveals the claustrophobic-like
roles women are forced to play in society.   

What evidence do you find in his speech that Dr. King was out of touch with social realities?The March on Washington proved to be a turning point...

From the question, it sounds like you are saying that the
"I Have a Dream" speech was out of touch with social realities at the time that it was
given.  I suppose that you can make this argument, though I would disagree with it to a
large extent.

You can say that this speech is out of touch
because it emphasizes the legal segregation that was going on in the South at that
time.  You can argue that it ought to talk more about the economic conditions in the
ghettoes of the North.

You can argue that King should have
talked less about brotherhood and religious imagery and talked more about how angry
black people in the North were getting.

But to me this is
an unfair criticism because in 1963, the legal segregation was still there.   As long as
that was still there I do not think I agree that other things were the "core of racial
problems." I think you have to get rid of that first and then move on to economic
problems (as King did between the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and his
death.

Why did Scout wear her pork costume on the way home in Chapter 28?

Scout decided to keep her ham costume on after the show in
order to "hide my mortification under it." Scout had missed her cue during the show, and
Mrs. Merriweather had to call out "Pork!" at least three times before Scout finally made
her very late entrance. Her appearance was apparently so hilarious that Judge Taylor had
to leave the auditorium; he was "slapping his knees so hard" that his wife had to bring
him some water and one of his pills. It's a lucky thing that Scout kept on her chicken
mesh costume, because it proved to be the insulation that saved her from the slashing
knife wielded later by Bob Ewell.

What eight English words does Mamacita know in The House on Mango Street?

The eight words (or more accurately, phrases) Mamacita
knows are: He not here, No speak english, and holy
smokes.

Mamacita says, he no
here when the landlord comes which may indicate that her husband pays the
rent and they are sometimes behind in rent.  No speak english is
when anyone who doesn't speak Spanish tries to speak to her, which indicates that she
doesn't have an interest in speaking to anyone who doesn't speak Spanish and doesn't
want to learn English because she misses Mexico.  Holy smokes
likely indicates that she could learn English if she wanted to because it's
an idiom which is a difficult part to pick up in a language, but she doesn't want
to. 

What does equality mean in "Harrison Bergeron"?And what exactly is the author satirizing?

In "Harrison Bergeron," Vonnegut is satirizing our
collective notion that all people must be equal.  In the story, the fictional society
that Vonnegut creates is made to be equal in all ways:  the smarter people are given
mental handicaps to prevent them from thinking, the graceful dancers are given weighted
bags to prevent them from being so graceful, and beautiful people are given physical
props to mask their true appearance.  In the story, the members of society get
nowhere--they cannot even function on a level that makes anyone productive.  The satire
presents the people as absurd and ridiculous to voice the message that our attempts to
always make people equal are similarly absurd and ridiculous.  In the advent of civil
rights and other rights such as equality in the workplace, our society has gone to an
extreme by suggesting that people should be equal in all areas, not simply that we
should be treated with equal respect.  Vonnegut uses the story to suggest that our human
differences are the avenue to our advances.  For example, what would the Olympics be
without superior athletes to engage in competition?  So, "Harrison Bergeron" challenges
the notion of blanket human equality.

What could General MacArthur have done more to stop the using of the atomic bomb on Japan?How did he express what needed to be done to end the war...

In a word, nothing.  This topic has come up fairly often
in recent days, and the consensus seems to be the same: the decision to drop the atomic
bomb was made because of a desire for revenge and to shorten the war.  The decision was
made at the Presidential level, even before we had the bomb developed for testing.  So
MacArthur, while he was the Supreme Allied Commander in the Pacific and had a great
amount of respect and influence on military matters, would not, in my opinion, have been
able to stop the bomb from being used.  He may have been able to influence the
timing of its use, but that's about it.  He later admitted himself
that he had not even been consulted about the use of the
weapon.

That being said, MacArthur did have a military
opinion on it.  He believed it was militarily unnecessary.  As we did not accept an
unconditional surrender of Japan, but a conditional one where the Emperor would retain
his position but not his power, he felt that concession might have prompted the Japanese
to stop fighting without the use of the bomb.  Unfortunately, we'll never
know.

Why does Romeo refer to Paris as a "youth" and himself as a "desperate man" when Paris is older than Romeo in Romeo and Juliet?This is in Act 5...

At this point, Romeo has come to the Capulet tomb to see
Juliet's body and to commit suicide. He has bought a powerful potion from an apothecary
which he will use for this purpose. Romeo is utterly distraught and has decided that he
cannot live without his beloved Juliet, so much so that he has even warned Bathasar to
meddle in his plans, telling him that:

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"But if thou, jealous, dost return to
pry
In what I further shall intend to do,
By heaven, I
will tear thee joint by joint
And strew this
hungry churchyard with thy
limbs:"

Romeo
is clearly a "desperate man", in this instance and this is
exactly what he tells Paris who confronts him as he opens the tomb. Paris believes that
Romeo is about to desecrate the tomb and wants to arrest him. He tells
Romeo:

"Stop
thy unhallow'd toil, vile Montague!
Can vengeance be pursued further than
death?
Condemned villain, I do apprehend
thee:
Obey, and go with me; for thou must
die."

Romeo's
retort clearly shows that he will stop at nothing to fulfill his purpose. He warns
Paris, and it is clear from his language that he does not want to fight
him.

"I must
indeed; and therefore came I hither.
Good gentle
youth, tempt not a desperate
man;
Fly hence, and leave me: think upon these
gone;
Let them affright thee. I beseech thee,
youth,
Put not another sin upon my
head,
By urging me to
fury:'

By addressing Paris as
a gentle youth, Romeo is attempting to
persuade him to leave. The reference also
indicates Romeo's true nature: he is indeed,
also gentle driven to desperate means. Note how the terms he uses are
soft and not as harsh as those he used with Balthasar. The implication is also that
Paris is innocent of any wrongdoing and is not battle-hardened or ruthless and Romeo
does not wish to hurt him and commit 'another sin'.

In
contrast, Romeo is a 'desperate man', intent on doing what
he came for. Although he is younger than Paris, the events of the past few
days have made him a
man: he killed Tybalt, married Juliet, was banished and has
a death-sentence hanging over his head if he should return. Paris has not experienced
such desperate circumstances but Romeo has, and he surely feels hopeless for he has lost
the will to live.  

Who should we admire in the play Odepius?

In Oedipus, we should admire Oedipus,
of course.  He is my favorite tragic hero because of his double blind ambition both to
know the truth and to punish himself for not knowing the truth.  Sure, he suffers from
hubris and anger, but he expresses both only in pursuit of justice.  In the end, he
takes responsibility for his actions and achieves nobility in his suffering.  He refuses
to be a victim; instead, he becomes an emblem of suffering and knowledge, a truly
religious being.

The great author and philosopher Albert
Camus says that Oedipus achieves victory over his punishment, and I agree.  Oedipus'
life was a cruel joke fated by the gods.  Instead of suiciding at the end, like Jocasta,
Oedipus chooses to suffer and know the truth rather than escaping both.  He is a hero
because he hates death, loves life, and scorns the gods.  A lesser man would not have
blinded or exiled himself.

Like the Biblical Job, Oedipus
accepts suffering as a necessary condition for mankind to better understand himself and
the universe.  Because of this, he becomes a blind prophet, like
Tiresias.

What can you tell me about "Strange Meeting"? Techniques used, message, themes,context, and poem structure.i need to know basically everything...

Thank you for introducing me to this powerful
poem.

Wilfred Owen was one of the most important poets to
write about World War I.  "Strange Meeting," like many of his poems, expresses a very
negative attitude about the horrors and futility of
war. 

The poet describes his descent down a "profound dull
tunnel."  He soon discovers that this "sullen hall" is actually Hell.  Although the
place is certainly not pleasant, it seems better than the battlefield from where the
poet has recently come.  He remarks to a man that he meets in
Hell,

"Strange friend...here is no cause to
mourn."

The man agrees that there is no cause to
mourn--except for "the undone years," meaning all that he could have accomplished if he
had not been killed in battle.

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For by my glee might many men have
laughed,
And of my weeping something had been left,
Which must die
now.

He regrets that he must
"miss the march" of the world.

In the last stanza, the man
reveals a shocking secret: he is the enemy whom the poet killed in
battle:

I am
the enemy you killed, my friend.
I knew you in this dark: for so you
frowned
Yesterday through me as you jabbed and
killed.

Although the poet
killed him, the man seems willing to forgive;he says, "Let us sleep now."  He seems to
realize that the war was an absurd form of madness for which no individual can be
blamed.

The poem's four stanzas are written in lines of 10
syllables each.  Although the lines do not rhyme, Owens uses an interesting kind of
semi-rhyme: he often pairs words that share several consonant and vowel sounds.  Some
examples:

hall, Hell

grained,
ground

moan, mourn

years,
yours

wild, world

If you stir a solution can more solute be disolved? ( make it super-saturated?) Or can a solution only be supersaturated if heat is involved?

A solute can dissolve in solution until the open binding
sites are fully saturated. This leads to over-saturation, or super saturated state. Not
all molecules in a solution have exactly the same amount of potential or kinetic energy.
Heat is energy, so therefore, by applying heat, the energy level is increased and more
bonding sites are exposed. When heated, the molecules gain more kinetic energy and
collide more frequently, adding to the exchange of kinetic energy for potential energy.
Upon heating, the molecules must gain enough energy to reach a transition state, so this
will depend on the amount of heat applied to gain the energy
desired.

what are the conflicts in the short story"Dead Men's Path"..

“Dead Men’s Path” enacts in miniature one of the central
themes of Achebe’s novels—the clash between modern European ideas and traditional
African values, progressive international standards and deeply rooted local custom. The
story’s protagonist, Michael Obi, is a well-educated forward-thinking idealist with a
passion for “modern methods.” Quite intelligent and undoubtedly dedicated to education,
Obi is more comfortable in abstract thought than in facing the complexities of real
life. He doesn’t notice unspoken feelings; for example, his wife’s  considerable
disappointment upon learning that the other teachers are all unmarried. His view of the
world is rational and therefore incapable of fully understanding the parts of life ruled
by emotion, intuition, or custom. Obi looks down on the older headmasters of the Mission
schools. Note how Achebe subtly undercuts Obi in the opening paragraphs. Only
twenty-six, the newly appointed headmaster appears much older with his
“stoop-shouldered” posture and “frail” build.

Michael
Obi’s name demonstrates his divided heritage. Michael is a Christian baptismal name of
European heritage. (Remember Obi works for “Mission” schools—as did Achebe’s father, who
was a devout Christian.) Obi, by contrast, is an African name. His name itself embodies
the cultural conflict he is about to enter.

How does Dickens use humour and pathos in his Great Expectations?Please give a detailed explanation.

In his bildungsroman, Great
Expectations, Charles Dickens employs humor and comic relief through the use
of ridiculous and silly characters to whom he gives typically ridiculous names. And, he
evokes pathos from characters who are the unfortunate victims of poverty and the social
"prison" of English
society.

HUMOR

• The
  earliest example of such a character is the pompous Uncle Pumblechook, "the basest
  of swindlers," as Pip terms him. He is a sycophant, who fawns before rich people.  When
  Miss Havisham asks him to find a boy with whom Estella can play, he assumes an
  importance because he believes himself an emissary of hers.  While Pip is poor,
  Pumblechook berateS him; but once Pip has a benefactor, Pumblechook becomes
  fawning.


• Another humorous character is Wemmick, whose
  "post office" mouth merely takes in information and emits it with no personal touch
  added.  However, after Pip goes to Wemmick's home, he finds that the little man has much
  personality and is attentive to his father, whom he fondly calls "Aged P."  With an odd
  house and landscape, Wemmick fires a canon each night for his deaf father to enjoy. 
  Certainly, the relaxation of spending an evening with Wemmick is comic relief for Pip. 
  In addition, Wemmick's quirky character comes out in the scene in which he visits the
  prisoners and talks to the plants as he makes his way to the cells in
  Newgate.

PATHOS

• The
  character who arouses the emotion of the reader is Abel Magwitch.  While in the
  exposition he is "a fearful man in grey," who threatens Pip's life if he does not bring
  him "wittles," Magwitch displays human sympathy after he is captured, by asserting that
  he has stolen the food and file himself.  There is a poignant exchange of looks with
  Pip.  Even Joe sympathizes with the criminal, who apologizes for having eaten the
  pie:

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"God knows you're welcome to it--so far s it was
ever mine...We don't know what you have done, but we wouldn't have you starved to death
for it, poor miserable fellow
creature."

• After
  Magwitch goes to New South Wales and amasses a fortune, he does not forget the simple
  kindness of Pip and Joe.  Having no other to love, he risks death by returning to London
  to meet the grown Pip and tell him that he has been his benefactor for years.  Pip's
  repulsion at the sight of the old convict is cruel to the pathetic victim of the
  restrictive society of London. But, as he relates his history, Pip's heart melts with
  compassion and he realizes that intrinsically Magwitch has never been a bad person;
  instead, he has been victimized by society, especially the upper class Compeyson who
  used him to steal from Miss Havisham.  Much pathos is aroused in Magwitch's story and
  his single desire to have Pip appreciate and love him.


• In
  some ways, Miss Havisham is also a poignant character.  When she begs Estella to love
  her and Estella replies that she cannot because "You made me," the reader feels sympathy
  for the eccentric old woman who finally realizes her errors.  Especially emotive is the
  scene in which she asks Pip to write "I forgive you" for her cruelty to
  him.

Explain why the Communist Party aligned with the Nationalist Party (in China).

The Communist Party co-operated with the Nationalist Party
during World War II as both sides sought to put aside their ideological differences for
the time being to repel the Japanese from their homeland. The collaboration between the
two parties, however, were often merely superficial in nature. The Nationalist Party
government was inherently corrupt - supplies provided by the Allies were often not used
for war efforts against the Japanese, but were rather stockpiled in preparation for
future campaigns against the communists. Similarly, both parties pursued two drastically
different military policies in regards to the Japanese invasion. In response to Japanese
aggression, the Nationalist Party strategy was essentially a policy of retreat, whereby
space would be traded for time. On the other hand, the communists, in the form of the
Eighth Route Army, actively resisted against the Japanese, by seeking to infiltrate the
enemy forces and setting up ambushes.

If you were to write a letter to a family member about the great depression what would you say?

The letter would depend on several factors. Like the
previous writer stated, your age would be an important factor. How old you were would
impact you recollections of the event. Young children would most likely not remember
much of the Great Depression.

If you were of working age,
your profession would impact your letter as well. Farmers were impacted as prices fell.
This would impact their earnings and the amount of work they needed to do in order to
make a profit. The need for government handouts and charity was
large.

Families had to learn to make good with what they
had. That is how depression style cooking came into being. Many recipes from that time
do not utilize flour or sugar.

Many people lost their homes
because they couldn't pay their mortgages.

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"Shanty towns constructed of packing crates,
abandoned cars and other cast off scraps sprung up across the Nation. Gangs of youths,
whose families could no longer support them, rode the rails in box cars like so many
hoboes, hoping to find a job."

Cupcake Catering BusinessHow much would it cost to open up a cupcake catering business?

You did not state where exactly you are located or where
you wish to operate this business.  That will greatly affect your startup and overhead
costs as the above posts have suggested.  You may also wish to consider the viability of
such a business - that is, can it generate a consistent
profit?

Catering is what is called a "niche" industry,
which means it caters to a very narrow range of consumers.  In this case, the niche is
not only those who are having celebrations, but those who are having celebrations large
enough to cater, and who choose to purchase cupcakes as opposed to regular cakes,
wedding cakes, entrees and appetizers, etc.  My main suggestion would be to offer
cupcakes as merely one of your items, and diversify your other offerings so that you can
attract as many different kinds of customers as you can.

As
this is most likely for a high school assignment or a small home business, such advice
may not apply, I realize.  If you are genuinely looking to start up such a company, your
overhead may be very small, but so will your revenues.

In Europe, World War I created what type of society?no

In many ways it depends on which part of Europe you are
asking about.  It de-centralized some "empire" like structures including the break up of
the Austrio-Hungarian empire and led to many of the effects that would see other
European countries losing their colonies (though the real effect there wasn't
necessarily felt until after WWII).

The revolution in
Russia leading to the eventual rise of the Soviet Union was helped in many ways by the
devestation, hunger and economic collapse throughout Russia after the war (along with
the purge of most of the army officers), perhaps worsened the outbreak of the flu that
killed millions thanks to malnutrition and lack of nutrition throughout the
continent.

Many people also point to what they call the
"lost generation" given that most of an entire generation of young men from Europe died
in the war and those who witnessed it never recovered from the aftermath.  There was an
increase in efforts to bridge national borders since many felt that nationalism led to
much of the causes of the war.  There was also a great growth in philosophies like
nihilism since people saw so much destruction and had no faith in humans
afterwards.

Who is Ferdinand in Shakespere's The Tempest?

Hardye has made some good
points in discussing Ferdinand in The Tempest.  Ferdinand does
indeed fall in love with Prospero's daughter Miranda, aided by the magic of Ariel. 
Prospero does also have a "plan" for Ferdinand, which is for him to marry his daughter
and cement the reconciliation between Prospero, right Duke of Milan and Alonso,
Ferdinand's father and King of Milan.

It is interesting to
note that Ferdinand is presented as more passive than his romantic counterpart,
Miranda.  Much like Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Ferdinand is led to
the vow of marriage by a strong-willed and direct girl.  She says, "I am your wife, if
you will marry me."

Miranda's directness may be attributed
to having grown up on a desert island and never taught to "be a lady."  But what about
Ferdinand?  Is he "soft" because he has grown up a Prince?  It's hard to know, but
Shakespeare does have fun with this aspect of his nature, having Miranda take on the job
of hauling wood that Prospero has assigned to Ferdinand, so that he might rest.  Hardly
the behaviour of a classic knight in shining armor.

At the
end of the play, Ferdinand's role as a key figure in the reconciliation of the
shipwrecked royals with Prospero and Miranda is clear.  Ferdinand is reunited with his
lost fellows and father, and Prospero is reunited with the shipwrecked
royals.

The pig’s head and the conch are two very different symbols of power in the novel. Discuss the theme of power and how it is explored in the novel.

If the pig's head is a symbol of one type of power, it is
the incredible power of human nature, in this case mostly for evil.  The beast even
reveals this side of power to Simon.  The boys start to exhibit some aspects of this
type of power as they give themselves over to Jack's tribe, submitting to their more
carnal desires to hunt, to be anonymous through the use of paint and filth, to hurt and
to kill and to feed.  This power becomes irresistable to all but Ralph and Piggy and
Samneric, even as some of the boys under its spell object to the use of that power by
Jack.

The conch stands for the power of civilization, the
power of rules and order and, in this case, the very thin veneer of goodness that it
lends to people.  It only takes a few days for this power to be overcome by the power of
disorder, of inner desire, of the animalistic tendencies of the
boys.

Through the boys, Golding has crafted a commentary on
the influence of both kinds of powers and perhaps what holds it at bay some of the time
in "civilized" society.

What is the difference between essay and presentation?

If you want to compare two things, they should have
certain links, either hidden or over, to make criterions for the
comparisons.

Basically, both essay and presentation are the
ways in which we can express our opinions, ideas to other
people.

However, essay is a written work, while
presentation is accompanied by literally, presentation.

You
have to have main argument, evidence, explanation in your essay, but in case of
presentation, you can just write the main points and explain the details
verbally.

According to Rosh in The Bronze Bow, what is Daniel's fatal flaw?

According to Rosh, Daniel's fatal flaw is that he is not
ruthless enough. Rosh tells Daniel,

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"I've warned you before...there's a soft streak
in you. Till you get rid of it you're no good to the
cause."

Rosh had used Joel as
a spy for the cause. Then Joel had been captured, and Daniel and the others are anxious
to get a group together to secure his release. Rosh, however, has no intention of
sending any of his men on a rescue mission. He says,

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"On this mountain every man is responsible for
himself. That holds for Joel...he was stupid enough to get caught. You think I can spare
eight men - or one man - for
that?"

When Rosh coldly
refuses to consider his entreaties to send some men to save Joel, Daniel's eyes are
opened. He sees Rosh, whom he had once idolized, as the cold-blooded, egocentric killer
that he is. What Rosh calls "a soft streak" in Daniel is really a sense of loyalty and
humanity, which is essential in a leader and which Rosh lacks completely. Although Rosh
says that Daniel's "softness" and sensitivity is a fatal flaw, in reality it is a
strength. The fact that Rosh lacks this trait is ironically the fatal flaw in himself
(Chapter 18).

What kind of friendshipdo Annemarie and Ellen have?

The girls are best friends in elementary school. They both
live in the same apartment building, so they walk to school and back home again
together. After school, they also spend much time together. The story is set during
World War II, and Ellen is Jewish. It would not be safe for her to be out on the streets
alone or after darkwhen Jews were under a curfew. So, the two girls spent time looking
at magazines, gossiping, and role playing with the cut outs from the magazines. They
frequently spend the night together as best friends of that age do. The friendship
deepens when the Jews are being rounded up and Ellen assumes the identity of Annmarie's
dead older sister. The Nazis did not know the details of the dead sister, so Ellen was
able to pass as Lisle with a little prompting from Annmarie and her family. Later on,
Ann Marie saves her best friend's life by a brave act in the face of the Nazis. Ellen's
skill at acting helps Annmarie deceive the Nazis.

Are these sentences phrases, independent clauses, dependent clauses or none ?It seemed that everything old is new again. There were dresses in...

"That everything old is new again" is a dependent clause.
A clause has a subject and a verb. (Everything old = subject, is = verb) To make a
clause dependent, it must feel like it needs something more to complete the thought. The
word that performs that function. Other words that could
have introduced this dependent clause could have been which, what, whatever, who,
whoever, when, because or since... just to name a few.

"in
store windows" is a prepositional phrase. It begins with a preposition and ends with its
object.

"that they'd worn it all before" is a dependent
clause... once again, if it was without the word "that" it would be
independent.

The last one is independent because it can
stand completely on it's own without other phrases or clauses to make it's own complete
thought.

What qualities of Augustan poetry does the elegy "To The Memory of Mr Oldham" by Dryden display?

John Dryden's [1631-1700] elegy "To the Memory of
Mr.Oldham" was published in the year 1684. It is a sober tribute combining praise of
John Oldham's [1653-1683] poetic achievements with a lament for his premature
death.

The most obvious qualities of Augustan poetry which
are evident in the elegy are as follows:

1.
The elegy has been written in heroic couplets. A heroic couplet is a pair
of rhyming iambic pentameter lines:

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One common note on either lyre did
strike,

And knaves and fools we both abhorr'd
alike:

The lines are
end-stopped; that is to say, the meaning does not run on into the nest line or the next
couplet. One couplet forms a complete logical whole. The heroic couplet became the
standard line of verse during the neo-classical age and its popularity reached its peak
at the time of Alexander Pope.

2. Classical
allusions. The neo-classical age is also known as the Augustan Age
because the English poets looked for inspiration and guidance to the poets of the
ancient Augustan period who lived and wrote during the reign of Emperor Augustus (27
B.C.- 14 A.D.) namely, Virgil, Horace and Ovid. For instance Dryden to highlight the
fact that Oldham became more famous earlier than himself alludes to an incident in Book
V of Virgil's "Aeneid" involving Nisus and Euryalus:

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Thus Nisus fell upon the slippery
place,

While his young friend perform'd and won the
race.

3. The
neo-classical poets always privileged reason and intellect over feeling and emotion.
Since Dryden was writing an elegy to mourn the death of his friend we
would expect him express sorrow and grief at the premature death of Oldham. On the
contrary, his elegy is a restrained and careful assessment of Oldham's poetic merits and
his unfulfilled potential with just a hint of regret at his passing away at such an
early age:

O
early ripe! to thy abundant store

What could advancing age
have added more?

Why has there been proposals to expand the number of permanent members on the UN Security Council?What are the reasons for and against doing this...

The United Nations was formed in 1945, immediately
following World War II in hopes of avoiding future such wars.  The victors, the Allied
powers, each received a seat on the Permanent Security Council and an important perk
that came with it: veto power.

In the modern day, Japan and
Germany are democracies and major trading partners with us and the rest of the world, so
they can make a credible claim that the world's second largest economy (Japan) and
largest economy in Europe (Germany) deserve a seat at the same
table.

The problem is, since the current members have veto
power, they can simply veto any proposal to change the current makeup of the Security
Council.  Russia doesn't particularly like Germany and China does not particularly like
Japan, and so their membership has always been vetoed or threatened with veto.  Why
should they vote yes when it diminishes their own power and
influence? 

Another  reason it could cause problems is that
with two new vetoes on board, it would be even more difficult for the UN to get anything
done, when it's already pretty difficult now.

Who were Atticus Finch's first two clients?

The answer to this question can be found in Chapter 1.  We
do not really know the names of the two clients (we know that their last name is
Haverford).  But we do know something about them.  Scout says that her dad's first two
clients were the last two men ever hanged in Maycomb's
jail.

These were a couple of idiots who killed a respected
man in the presence of witnesses and then were too stupid to take the plea bargain that
was offerred to them -- one that would have saved their lives.

Macbeth's fallibility leads to the terrible crimes he commits?

Concerning Shakespeare's Macbeth, I'm
not sure what you're after in your question. 

Macbeth is
certainly fallible, but that can be said of any character in serious imaginative
literature, with the exception of myth or fantasy, maybe.  He is fallible--he makes all
kinds of mistakes.  He is not a god so, of course, he is
fallible.

His ambition, gullibility, and lack of
intelligence (in some respects) directly lead to the crimes he commits and the downfall
that follows them.  Any of those words are more relevant to a discussion of Macbeth than
his fallibility. 

But, yes, he is fallible, and desperately
wants the thrown, is easily manipulated by the witches and his wife, and makes extremely
poor strategic decisions:  he kills the grooms, orders the killings of Banquo and
Fleance, and the slaughter of Macduff's family.  These all cast suspicion on him and
lead to his downfall.  Had he stuck to his wife's plan, and left her in charge of
strategic planning, he might have gotten away with the assassination of Duncan.  In this
sense, his fallibility leads to his crimes and downfall. 

What is a short summary of Chapter 10 or Beka Lamb?i don't have the book and i need to read it maybe if i get summaries on each chapter, i mite get...

I would not be a good teacher If I did not advise you to
get the book and read it yourself instead of relying on chapter summaries. Why don't you
order the book online? There are many low-cost companies and they will ship it to you in
a couple of days.

In chapter 10, Beka goes to her
great-grandmother's funeral. Great-Gran Straker is her mother's grandmother. There is a
long ceremony in the church, followed by the burial at the cemetary. Beka attends with
her family and her Granny Ivy and learns a great deal about famly tradition at this
event and the party that follows. Emilio's mother greets Toycie's aunt, Miss Eila, and
speaks to her in a condescending way. She is not happy that Emilio and Toycie are
boyfriend and girlfriend. She considers Toycie beneath them socially. In this chapter,
the social differences between the Creoles and Spanish are illustrated, but if you have
not read the rest of the novel, you won't have a clue what I'm talking about here. Get
the book, dear.

In chapter 5, what brings Piggy in closer sympathy with Ralph?

One of the main things that bring the two closer together
is the realization of Ralph that Piggy is actually really valuable.  They were all
caught up making fun of his fatness and his awkwardness, but in Chapter 5, ralph
realizes that he has an incredible ability to think through situations and really make
good conclusions about possible courses of action.  He knows he cannot be a leader, but
he feels him importance.

Piggy also expresses a great deal
of support for Ralph when he is struggling with Jack to maintain control and maintain
his position as chief.  Piggy is very vocal about the importance of the rules and of the
order they've decided on.

What does O'Brien say the authorities are most interested in within 1984? How does this compare with other leaders (e.g - Hitler, etc..)Like were...

I am going to refer to the second part of your
question.

To achieve this power, O'Brien focuses on two
types of torture, a mental torture and a physical torture. The mental concerns itself
with lies and anticipation. The physical combines with the mental in that O'Brien chose
the rat cage helmet for Winston. This was one of Winston's greatest fears to be around
rats. O'Brien was going to let the rats eat his face off. The anticipation of this
really messed with Winston, and the pysical experience would have been extreme pain, not
to mention that rats carry innumberable diseases that could spread in that type of
torture.

I find this type of treatment maybe harsher than
Hitler's starvation and labor camp type of treatment, although there may be many things
Hitler did that I am still not aware of. If you look at what Stalin did, he just purged
or killed many people. I think I would rather die quickly as opposed to being studied to
find my weakest points mentally and emotionally and then
tortured.

Power can be achieved many ways, but the most
effective is through fear. This is not right, it is not good, but it is what has most
quickly moved peoples in many of our history's events. I think Orwell uses this book to
teach us a lesson about the detrimental uses so we work to achieve through other means
that are productive and good for all people.

What does Jem think when Atticus calls them from the balcony?

You can find the answer to this at the very start of
Chapter 21. Atticus has just been made aware that his kids are up in the colored balcony
and he calls them down.

When he does that, Jem comes down
and is saying that "we" (in other words, his father and Tom Robinson, but he is
including himself) have won the trial.  He thinks Tom will be
acquitted.

This shows how naive Jem is.  He really actually
thinks that there is a possibility that the jury will decide based on logic and fact. 
He does not understand that the racial dynamics are going to trump everything
else.