Who are the ten characters invited to Indian Island? What crimes are they are accused of?

The guests invited to Indian Island
are:

1. Justice Lawrence Wargrave -Justice Wargrave was
known for for giving out the death penalty pretty freely.  He was accused of unfairly
convincing a jury to convict Edward Seton of murder when there was limited
evidence.

2. Vera Claythorne -She was the former governess
to Cyril Hamilton.  She was responsible for allowing him to swim out to sea and drown
because she hoped that his Uncle Hugo Hamilton would marry her after he inherited
Cyril's fortune.

3. Phillip Lombard -Lomard stole food from
an African tribe, causing them to starve to death.

4. Emily
Brent - Brent was a very strict religious woman who dismissed her maid, Beatrice Taylor,
because she was pregnant and unmarried.  Because of this, Beatrice committed suicide by
throwing herself into the river.

5. General John MacArthur
- MacArthur was a jealous husband.  He assigned a suicide mission to his wife's lover,
Arthur Richmond.

6. Dr. Edward Armstrong -Armstrong was a
surgeon who operated while intoxicated, causing the death of Louisa
Clees.

7. Anthony Marston - Marston like to drive fast.  He
ran over and killed two children

8. William Blore - Blore
was a former police inspector, turned private detective.  After being bribed, he was
responsible for James Lander being sentenced to life in prison even though he was an
innocent man.

9. Ethel Rogers - Helped her husband, Thomas,
kill her employer, Jennifer Brady, by not giving her the medication she needed so that
they could inherit money

10. Thomas Rogers - An overbearing
man who dominated his wife, Ethel, and caused Jennifer Brady to succomb to heart failure
by withholding her medication.

What does Hamlet reveal about himself that in believing the Ghost, he suddenly decides the play can prove Claudius' guilt?In Shakespeare's Hamlet,...

When Old Hamlet first appears to his son in Shakespeare's
Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark is not sure if the ghost is a "good
ghost" or an evil spirit trying to lure him to his eternal damnation by killing a
king.

Elizabethans believed it was a mortal sin to kill a
king, for only God could ordain who would be king. If Claudius has, therefore, killed
his brother Old King Hamlet, then it was a mortal sin. However, if the Ghost is an evil
apparition, then Hamlet feels he needs more proof. Hamlet is accused of being
indecisive: this is his tragic flaw. However, it is easy to be more sympathetic to his
cause when we remember that this young man doesn't want to forfeit his
soul.

The Ghost's biggest complaint is that his brother
killed him with sins on his soul, without the benefit of time to confess his
wrong-doings. Because of this, Old Hamlet must wander somewhere between heaven and hell
(purgatory?). It is this reason only that causes Hamlet to pause when, after the King's
guilty reaction to the play, Claudius seems to be praying—Hamlet will not kill him then,
even with his proof, because he doesn't want Claudius to be able to go straight to
heaven, having just confessed his sins. (Ironically, Claudius
cannot pray in this scene, though he
tries.)

The quote that ends Hamlet's "O, what a rogue and
peasant slave am I" soliloquy in Act II, scene ii, turns his attention from his failure
to act, to his conviction that now is the time to act. He has been
watching the players. He compares his reactions to those of the actors. They play their
parts, only reading lines but without real feeling. He sees that he has been this way
until now: having the information that his father was murdered, but unable to say or do
anything, making his feelings useless because without action, they are
meaningless.

With this in mind, Hamlet decides to get the
proof or information he needs by having the actors play out a specific scene. He has
heard that sometimes, when the guilty party sees his crime acted out in a play, he will
react with such passion as to give away his guilt. Hamlet will have the actors reenact
the murder of Old Hamlet, and Claudius' part in it. Based on Claudius' reaction, Hamlet
will finally have proof to support or refute the Ghost's claim. If Claudius acts
guiltily, then Hamlet will know the Ghost has spoken the truth, and then Hamlet can
proceed without worry of losing his immortal soul.

At the
end of the soliloquy, Hamlet announces that the play will be the tool he uses to stab
Claudius' conscience into exposing this new King's
guilt:

The
play's the thing
Wherein I’ll see the conscience of the king.
(599-600)

In Act 1 scene 3, lines 60-141 and scene 4, lines 1-40 of Hamlet. What symbols are identified and occur throughout the play?

The language in Hamlet is so rich
that any section of the text would provide many of examples of the literary elements
that  you named.  Since your question focused on symbols, I'll confine my response to
these.  My line numbers are slightly different from yours, but the passage you mentioned
includes Polonius's advice to Laertes and to Ophelia, followed by Hamlet's conversation
with Horatio.  One of the major symbols mentioned in this selection is that of traps.
 Polonius warns Ophelia that Hamlet's words are

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springes to catch
woodcocks!

This imagery
becomes quite symbolic as many of the characters in the play are trapped and destroyed
by their own choices.  We see that Gertrude is trapped in her marriage to Claudius;
Claudius feels that his soul is trapped because of the murder of his brother; Hamlet
feels trapped by his mission to avenge his father's death; Laertes himself is caught in
his own trap, killed by the poisoned sword he used on Hamlet, Ophelia is trapped by her
allegiance to her father.

Another symbol mentioned in this
passage is Hamlet's observation:  some men have a "vicious mole of nature" or a "dram of
evil" that corrupts the whole character of the man.  Hamlet here is discussing Claudius'
habit of drinking and partying.  But this mention of a small rotten defect that corrupts
the whole becomes symbolic of many of the characters as well as the Danish court.  A
small imperfection can grow to have a destructive defect.  This reference ties in very
well with Marcellus's famous line

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Something is rotten in
Denmark.

We see that Hamlet's
words can apply to Claudius's murder of his brother, an act that has far-reaching
consequences wreaking havoc on the entire Danish court.

How did America after the Spanish-American war act as a "great power" in world affairs, especially in Asia?

After the Spanish-American War, the United States asserted
its power more in various places around the world.  If you want to talk mainly about
Asia, let us look at four things:

• The taking of
  the Philippines.  The US took the Philippines, first from the Spanish and then by
  fighting Filipino independence fighters.  It then used the Philippines as a colony and a
  military base.


• The "Open Door" in China.  In this case,
  the US demanded equal access (with European countries and Japan) to
  China.


• The Great White Fleet.  The US sent a fleet around
  the world, including to Asia, as a way of showing its
  power.


• Theodore Roosevelt's mediation of the
  Russo-Japanese War.  TR acted as a mediator to put an end to this war between Russia and
  Japan.

In all of these ways, the US was showing
that it felt that it was strong enough to take a leading role in Asia.  It was acting as
a country that deserved to be involved in the affairs of this area, even though it was
far from the continental US.

Discuss the theme of Mary Wollstonecraft's essay "A Vindication of the Rights of Women."

A Vindication of the rights of Woman is Wollstonecraft's
fundamental work where she outlines feminism and her view on the rights of women. It is
often spoken as her most important work and the first definitive work on the subject.
The themes include:

1. the importance of education and the
importance that women be given a more liberal education.

2.
There should be more treatises on the nature and existence of gender
differences.

3. Rosseau, a contemporary philosopher, argues
that women should be taught to obey and please, only educated enough to please men.
Wollstonecraft argued vehemently against this.

4.
Wollstonecraft also argued against Edmund Burke (he argued that men should govern
themselves) using the problems the working classes experienced as her
ammunition.

5. Using the recent admission of the time that
women had souls (!!!!) she uses the following
argument:

She
asserts that because women are immortal beings who have a relationship to their creator,
they must be educated in the proper use of reason. She believes that the quality that
sets humans apart from animals is reason, and the quality that sets one human apart from
another is virtue. Rousseau argues that emotion is the preeminent human quality;
Wollstonecraft contends that humans have passions so they can struggle against them and
thereby gain self-knowledge. From God’s perspective, the present evil of the passions
leads to a future good from the struggle to overcome them. The purpose of life for all
humans, not just men, is to perfect one’s nature through the exercise of reason. This
leads to knowledge and virtue, the qualities God wishes each person to gain. It is,
therefore, immoral to leave women in ignorance or formed merely by the prejudices of
society. An education that develops the mind is essential for any ...
creature.

Wollstonecraft was
the first preemminent "feminist" who struggled to ensure that women were perceived as
"rational" as well as primarily "emotional."

What are the gothic elements in The Picture of Dorian Gray?

Gothic literature is a genre that stems from Romanticism.
It shows the darker side of storytelling by infusing supernatural events to the plot. It
also presents situations that inspire nostalgia, fear, and tension. Additionally, it
evokes darkness and coldness to create an atmosphere of suspense and horror. Last, but
not least, Gothic literature also deals with the theme of the inevitability of fate,
which is our lack of control over our destinies.

In
The Picture of Dorian Gray one can see most of these
characteristics illustrated throughout the story. Dorian Gray's life changed as a result
of a supernatural event: His portrait seemed to have "obeyed" Dorian's wish that the
picture, and not Dorian, would age through time. As Dorian's life continued, his
temperament grew more dark and evil than ever. As a result, the picture became a
reflection of Dorian's soul.

Hence, Dorian lived enslaved
to the terror of seeing his picture, because the it showed the grotesque sins that
Dorian had committed against others. This meant that his fate was sealed: He could not
control his life anymore than he could control the
picture.

Therefore, the Gothic elements mentioned
previously are clearly illustrated through the events in Dorian Gray's life: Individual
lack of control over destiny, darkness and evil, the supernatural, and the feeling of
fear that all these events bring together.

Composition of functions ( f * g )( x ) = ? ( g * f)( x ) = ? f( x ) = 1/( x + 3 ) ; g( x ) = x

In order to find the value of the composition of 2
functions, in our case f and g, we have to follow the
steps:

Step 1: First, we have to find out the expression of
the composition of the 2 functions:

(f*g)(x) =
f(g(x))

To find f(g(x)) we have to substitute x by g(x) in
the expression of f(x):

f(g(x)) = 1/(g(x) +
3)

Now, we'll substitute g(x) by it's
expression:

1/(g(x) + 3) = 1/(x +
3)

f(g(x)) = 1/(x +
3) 

The next step is to calculate
(g*f)(x).

g(f(x)) =
f(x)

g(f(x)) = 1/( x + 3
)

Though the composition of 2
functions is not commutative, in this case the results of (f*g)(x) and (g*f)(x) are
equal.

In "Autumn in the Oak Woods," how can we see the antagonistic sides of the two characters?

"Autumn in the Oak Woods" was written by Yuri Pavlovich at
a time in Soviet history when censorship has eased somewhat and writers revived the
prerogative of authors to criticize their cities and cultures as well as idealize the
country life that exists in opposition to industrialized cities. This time was known as
the "thaw period" and extended from the 1950s to the 1970s. Yuri Pavlovich forged his
own path in this period and neither fell in with the detractors of city life and culture
nor with the idealizers of the antithetical country life. On the contrary, Pavlovich
offers a balanced view that doesn't denigrate the city nor idealize the country, but
rather offers the country life as an alternative to those who seek solace and a quieter
life than what the city offers.

In light of this, Pavlovich
paints both the hero and heroine with equal, balanced strokes because he represents the
country and she represents the city. Pavlov uses them to show the balance he both
perceives and reveals. Therefore, there are no demonstrable antagonistic qualities to
either one, the hero or heroine. If there were, Pavlovich's message would be radically
altered. Either they would represent superiority of country or city over the other, when
his express purpose is to show balance, or they would represent opposition between
equally problematic country and city, when his other purpose is to offer the country as
a viable option to those who seek quietude and
naturalness.

The lack of antagonistic qualities to each
character is demonstrated by her willingness to understand his explanation of why he
won't care about killing the fox; by his willingness to turn his back while she dressed
and to agree to turn the lights out; and by her later comforting remarks that indeed
everything she is seeing is good.

How did William Shakespeare end up when he had finished writing?

Though William Shakespeare (1564-1616) has long been
considered the greatest writer in the English language, little is known about his actual
life. His existing plays and poetry provide a far more substantial amount of written
documentation than that for what is known about his personal life. It is believed that
Shakespeare retired to his birthplace of Stratford-upon-Avon about three years before
his death, but it is also known that he traveled to London. Through existing records, it
is known that he appeared in court as a witness in 1612, and he purchased  property the
following year. He returned to London in 1614 to visit his son-in-law for several weeks.
According to scholars, Shakespeare produced no further plays after 1613. His comedy,
The Tempest (1610-1611), is generally considered to be the final
play written by Shakespeare alone. Two other plays, The Two Noble
Kinsmen and Henry VIII, were apparent collaborations
with John Fletcher and believed to have been written around 1613. Interestingly,
Shakespeare died in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1616 on April 23--believed to be the same day
of his birth.

What lessons can we learn from Daniel Boone?

Persistence through hardship and turmoil certainly was a
trademark of American frontiersman Daniel Boone (1734-1820). Born to a family of
Quakers, Boone's father was expelled from the church, though Boone always maintained a
Christian ethic. As a youth, he maintained friendly relations with neighboring Native
Americans, and when he was captured by Shawnees during the American Revolution, they
thought so highly of him that he was adopted into the tribe. In 1775, Boone was hired to
blaze what became known as the Wilderness Trail from Western Virginia throught the
Cumberland Gap into Kentucky; there, he founded the settlement of Boonesborough, one of
the first towns west of the Appalachians. Despite his earlier friendship with Native
Americans, Boone became famous as an Indian fighter, repulsing many attacks against
Boonesborough. Nevertheless, Boone was court-martialed following his escape from capture
by the Shawnees, but was found not-guilty. He fought in several small battles during the
Revolutionary War (being captured a second time), and he was active in the Northwest
Indian War of 1794. Elected to three terms in the Virginia General Assembly, Boone lost
most of his money in Kentucky land speculation. He moved to Spanish Louisiana (now
Missouri) where he was made military commandant of the district. Once again, Boone was
deprived of most of his land holdings when the area became part of the Louisiana
Purchase. In 1810, at the age of 76, he ventured as far west as the Yellowstone River;
and at the age of 80, he made a hunting trip "to the head waters of the Great Osage,"
where he trapped beaver and other game. Surviving both British and Indian capture--where
he was forced to run the infamous gauntlet--as well as several wars and financial ruin,
Boone died of natural causes just short of his 86th birthday.

In the play "The Importance of Being Earnest" explain the theme of marriage.

You might benefit from widening your discussion of
marriage in this excellent and hilarious play to also referring to the way that Wilde
treats sentimentalism and romantic love. Wilde clearly mocks such extreme approaches to
romance in this play by having Gwendolen and Cecily love a man only because of the name
that he has rather than anything else. Note what Gwendolen tells Jack at the beginning
of the play:

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...my ideal has always been to love someone of
the name of Ernest. There is something in that name that inspires absolute confidence.
The moment Algernon first mentioned to me that she had a friend calle Ernest, I knew I
was destined to love
you.

Both Gwendolen and
Cecily, therefore, only love based on the name of their beloved rather than other
factors such as beauty, wealth and social standing. Of course Cecily takes this even
further, by having "created" an entire relationship between her and Algernon even before
meeting him. Thus it is that Cecily declares to Algernon, when he declares his love to
her, that they have already been engaged for three
months:

Worn
out by your entire ignorance of my existence, I determined to end the matter one way or
the other, and after a long struggle with myself I accepted you under this dear old tree
here.

Thus, in this hilarious
play, the theme of excessive romantic love is parodied throughout by the two principal
female characters, Gwendolen and Cecily, who love only on the basis of the name of their
beloved rather than anything else.

What are the strengths and weaknesses of Lepidus and Cassius in Julius Caesar?

In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, it is ironic that in Act
I Cassius tells Brutus

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Men at some time are masters of their
fates:

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our
stars,

But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
(1.2.145-147)

For, Cassius is
at times master of his fate, and at others is himself superstitious and
weak. 

In Act I, Scene 2, from which these lines come
Cassius persuasively convinces Brutus to join the conspiracy to assassinate Caesar.  In
Act III after the men have slain Caesar, it is Cassius who recognizes the threat that
Marc Antony poses; he advises Brutus to have Antony killed.  But, Brutus tells him that
they will make a friend of Antony.  Wisely, Cassius replies that his doubts always turn
out to be justified,

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I wish we may.  But yet have I a
mind

That fears him much; and my misgiving
still

Falls shrewdly to the purpose.
(3.1.158-160)

Then, when
Brutus gives Antony permission to address the Romans after he does, Cassius warns him
against doing so:  "You know not what you do" (3.1.250),  His suspicions of Antony are
correct, but he defers to Brutus.  Still, he expresses his
anxiety, 

I
know not what may fall; I like it not he defers to Brutus.
(3.1.262)

Of course, Marc
Antony turns against them and becomes their mortal enemy, fomenting a civil war, and
defeating them at Philippi.  Even there, Cassius's assessments are correct, for he
suggests that his and Brutus's troops to remain at Sardis and force the others to
advance so that they will be fatugued and use valuable resources, but Brutus disagrees. 
As it turns out, Cassius again is correct, although he has acquiesced to
Brutus.

But, just before this final battle, Brutus and
Cassius quarrel bitterly.  Cassius accuses Brutus of wronging him repeatedly, and
complains weakly that Brutus no longer loves him:

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Hath Cassius
lived

To be but mirth and laghter to his
Brutus

When grief and blood ill-tempered vexeth him?
(4.3.124-126)

just as he has
been worried in the first act: 

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Brutus, I do observe you now of
late;

I have not from your eyes that
gentleness

And show of love as I was wont to have
(1.2.36-38)

Finally, Cassius
becomes weakly superstitious.  In Act 5 he talks to Messala, telling him that even
though he "held Epicurus strong" and has not believed in omens, now he has
seen

Two
mighty eagles fell, and there they perched,

Gorging and
feeding from our soldiers' hands,

Who to Philippi here
consorted us.

This morning are they fled away and
gone,

And in their steads do ravens, crows, and
kites

Fly o'er our heads and
downward....

Our army lies, ready to give up the ghost.
(5.1.87-93)

In the end,
Cassius still has wisdom, but he is fearful and superstitious, and defers to
Brutus. 

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One
of the triumvirs after the death of Caesar, Lepidus is considered unworthy to be one of
the three rulers of the Roman empire by Marc Antony, while, on the other hand, Octavius
is willing to honor him as "a tried and valiant soldier" (4.1.32).   At the beginning of
Act IV, the triumvirate compile a death list of their political enemies.   Lepidus is
sent to get Caesar's will so they can reduce some of the legacies in it; when he
returns, with a lack of honor, Lepidus  consents to allow his brother to die provided
Antony will sacrifice his nephew.  So, while he may be an excellent soldier, Lepidus
lacks loyalty to his family.

Express the given function as a composition of 2 simple functions (x^3-x^2+2)^7.

In odrer to express the function into two dsimple
fuctions, you need to to:

1. Assume that (x^3 - x^2 + 2)=
f(x)

Now, assume g(x) = x^7

by
replacing x with f(x) you will get g(f(x)) =
[f(x)]^7

  but,  (x^3-x^2+2)^7 = [f(x)]^7 )= g(f(x)so we
can compose the function as follow:

g(f(x)) =
(x^3-x^2+2)^7, while f(x)= 9x^3-x^2+2)^7

Why did so many Americans end up opposing US participation in the Vietnam War?no

Someextra points to add to the many above.  The Vietnam
War was the first truly televised war for Americans.  Instead of gathering by the radio
and listening to motivating speeches and following the Allied forces' progress (as
Americans did during World War II), Americans watched--almost in real time--what was
going on in Vietnam.  The images of bleeding, burned, mutilated, or dead soldiers were
powerful and caused many to question if these losses (which now needed no imagination to
consider) were worth whatever the purpose of the war was supposed to
be.

Similarly, while the war was still in progress,
veterans began speaking out against it publicly.  Some told of the constant changes in
the war's purpose (at least how it was presented to them) which caused them to question
why they were in Vietnam. Others discussed the rules of engagement which differed
greatly from other American wars.  Instead of focusing on offense and victory, soldiers
were told to not fire unless fired upon.

Finally, we have
to remember that many of the men sent to Vietnam were baby boomers (the children of
World War II vets), and many of their parents raised them in the idyllic setting of the
1950s when Americans wanted to put war behind them and give their children everything
that they didn't have.  This type of upbringing resulted in a much different type of
American young person--not one who saw patriotism as all important or who was willing to
go wherever his country called--but one who had already established different goals for
himself or herself which didn't involve military service.  This is not true, of course,
of everyone of that generation (my dad voluntarily signed up and served a tour in
Vietnam), but it does reflect the contrast between generations.

How does Charles Dickens use Madame Defarge to represent the idea of fate?A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Perhaps the most salient reminder of the presence of fate
with the character of Madame Defarge is in her persistent knitting, "to be registered,
as doomed to destruction." In Chapter XV of Book the Second, entitled "Knitting," Ernest
Defarge tells a Jacques that the entire Evremonde family is registered.  When Jacques
Two worries that the coded knitting might be discovered or Madame Defarge may not
remember all the names, Defarge responds to him,

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“Jacques,” returned Defarge, drawing himself up,
“if madame my wife undertook to keep the register in her memory alone, she would not
lose a word of it—not a syllable of it. Knitted in her own stitches and her own symbols,
it will always be as plain to her as the sun. Confide in Madame Defarge. It would be
easier for the weakest poltroon that lives to erase himself from existence, than to
erase one letter of his name or crimes from the knitted register of Madame
Defarge.”

That Madame Defarge
is the agent of fate is also evident in the next chapter which is entitled "Still
Knitting."  For, after John Barsad has come into the wine-shop, Madame Defarge
registers the English spy's name in her knitting.  Then, she counts the coins of their
money and begins to knot the coins in her handerchief in a chain of separate knots.  M.
Defarge complains that "it is a long time" since they have begun their plans for
revolution.  Mme. Defarge retorts that is takes a long time for an earthquake, yet it
comes.  She tells her husband, 

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"Vengeance and retribution require a long time;
it is the rule....But when it is ready, it takes place, and grinds to pieces everything
before it."...She tied a knot with flashing eyes, as if it throttled a
foe.

“I tell thee,” said madame, extending her right hand,
for emphasis, “that although it is a long time on the road, it is on the road and
coming.

"I tell thee it never retreats, and never stops. I
tell thee it is always advancing. Look around and consider the lives of all the world
that we know, consider the faces of all the world that we know, consider the rage and
discontent to which the Jacquerie addresses itself with more and more of certainty every
hour. Can such things last? Bah! I mock you....I believe with all my soul, that we shall
see the triumph.  But even if not, even if I knew certainly not, show me the neck of an
aristocrat and tyrant, and still I
would---"

When Defarge, who
was the servant of Dr. Manette, says that he wishes that Manette and Darnay would stay
out of France, Mme. Defarge remarks that their names are already registered and that
Darnay's "destiny...will take him where he is to go, and will lead him to the end that
is to end him. That is all I know."

In the evening, all the
women of St. Antoine knit; Mme. Defarge moves from group to group, the agent of fate, as
darkness surrounds them.  Dickens foreshadows the coming of the revolution and its
guillotine,

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Another darkness was closing in as surely‚ when
the church bells‚ then ringing pleasantly in many an airy steeple over France‚ should be
melted into thundering cannon; when the military drums should be beating to drown a
wretched voice‚ that night all potent as the voice of Power and Plenty‚ Freedom and
Life. So much was closing in about the women who sat knitting‚ knitting‚ that they their
very selves were closing in around a structure yet unbuilt‚ where they were to sit
knitting‚ knitting‚ counting dropping
heads.

Why was Buck happy running with the wolf? Why does Buck leave the wolf?

In Chapter 7, Buck spends a long time running with a wolf
at one point.  The reason that he is happy to run with the wolf is that he is becoming
more and more interested in being a wild animal.  The old memories (from the distant
past, not his own life) are coming back to him and he is feeling the call of the
wild.

But for now, John Thornton is still a powerful
influence on him.  When Buck remembers Thornton, he leaves the wolf and goes back to be
with the man who he loves so much.

What depreciation expense can be shown in the following case:A company's annual accounting period ends on December 31. During the current year a...

The cost of the asset is $24000. Its salvage value is
$1000. As the company uses the straight line method for calculating depreciation, the
deprecation expense every year is the asset cost minus the salvage value divided by the
useful life span of the asset. Here the asset's useful life span is 6
years.

So we have yearly depreciation as ($24000 -
$1000)/6

=>
$23000/6

=> 3833.33

But
the asset has only been bought in October, so the depreciation expense can be shown for
three months. This gives the depreciation expense as
3833.33*(3/12)

=>
3833.33/4

=>
958.33

The correct option is option b, the
depreciation expense that can be shown at the end of the accounting period on December
31 is $958.33

What often happened at antiwar demonstrations in the early 1970s?Looking to find (2 or 3) specific examples to support your answer.

Colleges were often places where demonstrations were held
and they often turned violent, especially after the Kent State shootings. Some things
that occurred were arson, bombings, and vandalism. An example of the violence that
occurred is what happened at Kent State on May 4, 1970. Four peaceful protesters were
killed by National Guardsmen during a rally, and others were injured. This greatly
angered people.

In response to the Kent State shootings
there was a protest called the Kent State/Cambodia Incursion Protest. It happened in
Washington DC. Thousands of people marched even though it was put together very
quickly.

Strikes were often a result of opposition to the
war as well. An example is the National Student Strike. During this protest, more than
four million students refused to go to school resulting in many colleges being shut down
for the duration. Four hundred and fifty colleges were involved.

What does this document mean? (2006 AP world).Source: Antonio Vázquez de Espinosa, a Spanish priest, Compendium and Description of the West...

When thinking about the meaning of this document, keep in
mind what the question in.  The question was about the social and economic impacts of
the flow of silver worldwide.  This document has to do with the social impact of the
worldwide silver flows on Native Americans in the Spanish
colonies.

The document is written by a Spanish priest, who
might be expected to care about the welfare of the Indians who worked the silver mines. 
He is pointing out how hard the Indians are being forced to work in order to extract the
silver that gets shipped off to other parts of the world.  This document shows that the
shipment of silver all over the world had major impacts on the lives of various people. 
In this case, it meant that these men had to toil away, carrying heavy bags of silver
ore up ropes out of the mines.

So, this document is meant
to make you address the social impact of the silver flows on those who lived where the
silver mines were.

What are the different portrayals of love in Like Water For Chocolate?

The two major kinds of love that there are in this text
are best captured in the different feelings and emotions that Tita comes to have for
both Pedro and also John, the two men in her life. For Pedro, she comes to feel a
passion that is worrying and bewildering in its intensity and strength. For John, on the
other hand, her love for him is characterised in the peace and serenity that she finds
in his arms. The differences between her two emotions with these two men cause her to
doubt what love is, as this following quote
demonstrates:

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Tita was beginning to wonder if the feeling of
peace and security that John gave her wasn't true love, and not the agitation and
anxiety she felt when she was with
Pedro.

In the end, of course,
Tita realises that the sexual passion and chemistry that she is forced to repress is
only to be found in her relationship with Pedro, and she exchanges a much more peaceful
and calm future with John as her husband for a much more difficult and precarious future
with Pedro. Even though in the end her and Pedro's love for each other causes them an
early death, it is clear that for Tita love has to be associated with truly being alive
and exploring sensuality in all of its many forms. This was something that would have
been impossible in a marriage to John. The different forms of love in this text are
therefore explored through Tita's relationship with the two principle male characeters,
Pedro and John, and the different feelings that both evoke in
Tita.

Prove the remarkable limit of the function a^1/n, a>0, lim a^1/n=1 if n approaches to + infinite

To prove this remarkable limit, we'll prove that the limit
of ratio of 2 consecutive terms of the sequence (an) exists and it's value is
1.

lim a n+1/a n = lim
a^[1/(n+1)]/a^(1/n)

We'll use the quotient property of
exponentials that have matching bases:

lim
a^[1/(n+1)]/a^(1/n) =  lim a^[1/(n+1) - (1/n)]

lim
a^[1/(n+1) - (1/n)] = lim a^[-1/n(n+1)]

We'll use the
property of negative power:

lim a^[-1/n(n+1)] = lim
1/a^[1/n(n+1)]

lim 1/a^[1/n(n+1)] = 1/a^lim
[1/n(n+1)]

lim [1/n(n+1)] = 1/+infinite =
0

1/a^lim [1/n(n+1)] = 1/a^0 = 1/1 =
1

The limit of the ratio a n+1/ a n exists and it is
1.

Therefore, the remarkable limit, if n
approaches +infinite, is: lim a^(1/n) = 1.

In Macbeth, in the witches' chant in Act 4 scene 1, lines 1-38, what do all the images have in common?

To understand the function of this part of the text we
need to look at the scene in context. The witches are preparing for the arrival of
Macbeth and the further acts of witchery and deception that they are to practice on him,
thanks to Hecate's commands. Thus the purpose of this scene, where the witches prepare
the spell in the cauldron, is to deliberately prepare the minds of the audience for the
arrival of Macbeth. The list of strange ingredients, ranging from "liver of blaspheming
Jew" to "finger of birth-strangled babe" clearly symbolises the evil of the witches, but
note how the evil of the ingredients and the witches themselves finds a suitable
parallel in the character of Macbeth and the deeds that he has committed and the way
that he has given himself over to the forces of evil. Thus, in a sense, the evil
symbolism of the ingredients foreshadows the arrival of Macbeth: a man who has
relinquished any lingering sense of good to the all-consuming power of darkness within
him.

What are the contrasts from the poem "For Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf" and the movie "For Colored Girls"?I had to...

The foundational element of comparison between both might
be given by Shange, herself: 

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When I die, I will not be guilty,' Shange
proclaimed in an interview with Claudia Tate in Black Women Writers at
Work, 'of having left a generation of girls behind thinking that anyone can
tend to their emotional health other than
themselves.

Both works seek
to articulate the convergent conditions of gender, race, class, and psychology upon
one's identity.  In this light, both the choreopoem and the film are similar.  It is
important to note that the film had a fairly difficult task in transcribing what Shange
created onto film for a couple of reasons.  The first would be that poetry contains a
level of the subjective experience and precision that is difficult to transfer over the
silver screen.  One of the common critiques of the film was that it added melodrama to
what was in the poem.  For example, when an abortion is described with "steel rods," how
can this be shown on screen and convey its emotional heat without an effect that
repulses?  The choreopoem's ability to bring out emotional and intellectual themes that
resonated in both mind and heart is something that was going to challenge the film with
a star- studded cast, where one of the two elements could be addressed, while missing
the other.  I think that the film is certainly quality in attempting to bring out the
condition that the poem brings out, but the poem carries with it a level of depth and
experience in its specific, yet anonymous setting that the film narrows down to the
specific character.  For example, the poem identifies women through specific color and
while the reader/ audience does not know anything about them, Shange is able to bring
out everything about them.  The film allows us to know specific characters with specific
names, not something in the poem, and this allows us to understand their predicaments,
but does not broaden it to others like the choreopoem does.  This might be one specific
difference between both works.

What are some judgments and conclusions that Joe Keller can impact on readers of All My Sons?

Joe Keller's character causes readers to make several
judgments and draw a variety of conclusions.  For example, a reader could judge Joe's
decision to ship the faulty airplane parts as immoral because the decision ultimately
caused the death of many young pilots.  Rather than standing up to the pressure being
put on his business by the government, Joe decides to take a risk.  From this decision,
one might conclude that Joe feels comfortable taking such risks and believes that what
he considers a minor flaw will not have such a big impact.  Joe is a businessman, one
who must take risks of varying proportions on a daily
basis. 

Through Joe's character, Miller asks the reader to
analyze and evaluate priorities.  Joe feels an immediate responsibility to his family,
and he holds their well-being as a priority.  He wants his business to be successful so
that he can support his family and leave a legacy for his children.  However, this
decision led to the death of others.  Should Joe have felt a responsibility for unknown
men as well?  These types of judgments are left to the reader.

What is the difference between force and pressure?

The way I would explain it is that the two are closely
related but that pressure depends on how much of an area the force is being exerted
upon.

To find force, you have to know the mass of the
object and its acceleration.  Once you know that, you have the force because Force =
mass times acceleration.

To convert force into pressure,
you have to know how much of an area the force is acting upon.  Stated mathematically, P
= F/A where P is the pressure, F is the force, and A is the
area.

So the identical amount of force exerts a lot of
pressure on a small area or a little pressure on a large area.  This is why you wouldn't
want to sit on one nail but you could lie on a bed of nails.

I have been told to describe the tone of the poem "Then and Now" by Oodgeroo Noonuccal.I don't understand. Please help quickly!

The tone is nostalgic and melancholy. The speaker
remembers a simpler and perhaps more peaceful time before European colonization in
Australia. The boomerang and woomera were Aboriginal weapons: artifacts associated with
this previous period in Australia's history. The speaker affectionately recalls this
time before European colonialization and industrialization. This was a time when people
were freer, more in touch with nature and, according to the speaker,
happier.

This is a common theme in Romantic poetry. The
nostalgia is for a pre-industrial or pre-civilized time when people were concerned with
the simplicity of live: not so concerned with the rapid pace of historical progress.
This historical nostalgia is analogous to the personal nostalgia for the simplicity and
wonder of childhood. This is also a theme common to many Romantic poems. So, this poem
is nostalgic and melancholy.

But its tone is also resentful
because it is a lament about the European colonization of Australia. Noonuccal was an
Australian poet and activist for Aboriginal rights.

Analyze the rhyme scheme and meter in "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening."

The rhyme scheme is the first, second and fourth lines
rhyming within each set of four lines in the poem.  The third line of the each section
ends with a word that rhymes with the first, second and fourth lines of the next
section.  The exception to this is the last set of four lines, which all
rhyme.

The meter of the poem is four sets of two syllables
in each line, the first unaccented and the second given more emphasis.  The stress
pattern is called iambic meter; four repetitions of that meter is called tetrameter. 
Hence, the technical description of the poem's meter would be iambic
tetrameter.

In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 20, how do you think the jury will react to Atticus' closing statements? Explain.

In Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a
Mockingbird, Atticus Finch is a man of character and moral integrity. Even up
against the seemingly insurmountable task of trying to provide a fair trial for a
wrongly accused black man in the prejudiced South, Atticus does not lose heart. He does
not give up at any point in the trial, and he is not finished until he has delivered his
closing argument to the jury.

Atticus' actions through the
entire court case had proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that Tom Robinson is innocent.
Tom's left arm is totally useless to him, and Mayella was beaten by someone left-handed:
seemingly her father. Atticus has made his case to leave the jury with "reasonable
doubt." And when the powerful and admirable character of Atticus Finch leans into the
jury and pleads, "In the name of God, believe him," we feel that this man has done all
he can. We want to believe that if anyone can save Tom, it is Atticus who is such a
strong and admirable man. The reader hopes, as can be seen in Jem's reactions, that
Atticus has made all the difference.

However, soon we find
that the hearts of men cannot be changed so easily, neither can their prejudices be
altered within a few days in court. And we are distressed, as is Jem, that Atticus loses
Tom's acquittal. However, when Rev. Sykes and the rest of the black community stand out
of respect and thanks for Atticus' efforts, we know that Atticus had done all he can,
and Tom Robinson's friends and community know this as well.

What are the constitutional issues regarding things like prayer in school?

The basic issue in these cases has to do the the
establishment clause in the First Amendment.  This is the part of the amendment that
says that the government cannot make laws "respecting an establishment of
religion."

At its most basic, this means that the
government cannot set up an official state religion.  The clause is also taken to mean
more generally that the government cannot promote religion.  The Supreme Court has set
up a three part test known as the "Lemon Test" to determine when the government is doing
too much to promote religion.  As the link below says, the Lemon Test says that a
governmental action is acceptable if it

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(1) has a secular, or non-religious, purpose;
(2) has a main effect that neither advances nor restricts religion; and (3) does not
foster excessive entanglement, or mixing, between religion and
government.

On issues of
prayer in school, the courts have had to prevent violation of this test while also
preventing the violation of student rights to free speech.  The general rule has been
that any prayers at school events have to truly be spontaneously done by students.  The
prayers cannot be approved of by the school or in any way promoted by the
school.

How does the death of Tom Robinson represent killing a mockingbird in To Kill a Mockingbird?

Tom Robinson is one of the symbolic human mockingbirds of
To Kill a Mockingbird. Along with most of the children in the
story--particularly Jem, Scout and Dill--Tom (and Boo) fit the description of the
songbird that Miss Maudie describes to Scout.

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Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music
for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't
do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a
mockingbird.

The mockingbird
represents innocence and sweetness, childlike attributes that can also be found in Tom
and Boo. Tom is an honest and hard-working married man who comes to Mayella's aid out of
sympathy for her. Poor and crippled, he is a sympathetic character even before he is
unjustly accused of raping Mayella. When he is found guilty, things seem bad for Tom;
but when he is murdered, he becomes even more symbolic of the mockingbird: Innocent of
anything but trying to make people happy, Tom suffers the fate that Miss Maudie warns
Scout about.   

What are the themes in chapters 1-10 of Pride and the Prejudice?

The first 10 chapters of the this novel establish all of
the themes that Austen will then elaborate on as the novel progresses.  The first line
of the novel says that men of fortune much be in search of wife.  That alone establishes
one of the primary themes:  marriage.  Mrs. Bennet's concern in getting any or all of
her daughters married illustrates how important marriage was women in this time period. 
That theme is elaborated when each of the main female characters talks about the
subject.  Jane is a hopeful romantic who would like to marry for love; Charlotte is a
practical woman who doesn't care about love, but is primarily concerned with financial
security; Lydia and Kitty are silly romantics who are more concerned about the shallow
appeal of men in general; and Elizabeth declares that she will only marry for true
love. 

Another important theme that dominates the novel are
the interrelated themes of pride and prejudice, thus illustrating the significance of
the title of the novel.  The two main characters, Darcy and Elizabeth, both demonstrate
personal pride that then makes them act and/or behave in a prejudicial manner.  Darcy is
full of pride in his family name and position in society, so he has prejudices against a
lower class family like the Bennets -- more for the way Mrs. Bennet and Lydia behave
than anything else, but it is a complicated situation for him.  Because Elizabeth's
feelings and her pride were wounded by a mean-spirited comment by Darcy, she is
prejudiced against him.  This is pushed to an even greater degree by the lies that
Wickham tells that completely slander Darcy's character.  This primary conflict is the
what drives the plot line of the novel, but Darcy's and Elizabeth's change of heart
about each other provides one of the most satisfying resolutions in
literature.

Describe Joe Keller from All My Sons as a father, husband, neighbour, and friend.

As a father, Joe Keller thinks that he is sacrificing all
that he has to be a strong provider for his sons.  He keeps the family business strong
so that he can pass it on to Chris and Larry once he is too old to manage it.  Joe tells
Chris that he this went through his head when he ordered Steve Deever to ship the faulty
machine parts--Joe did not want to risk having the business go under for failing to
comply with an order.  On the other hand, one could argue that Joe is not setting a good
example for his sons because he acts in an immoral fashion because he knowingly creates
a deadly situation for the pilots whose planes were equipped with the faulty
parts.

As a husband, Joe uses Kate as a support system.  He
expects that she will keep his secret, which she does, with little regard to her
loyalty.

Joe's neighbors regard him as friendly and
welcoming; however, they do not really trust him.  They are happy to keep his company,
but also hold him on the outskirts of their acquaintance.  Joe, on the other hand, feels
that the neighbors have accepted him as "innocent" and does not understand the inner
workings of the neighbors' true feelings about
him.

Finally, as a friend, Joe's concerns lie only on the
surface.  Steve is serving much time in prison because Joe has lied, and even though Joe
has promised both Steve and his son George a job with his company, nothing can make up
for the years that Steve has spent in prison on account of Joe's
lies.

"With the sleep of dreams comes nightmares" - Is this a Shakespeare quote and if so, which play is it from (the Act and Scene). Thanks.

This particular quote is not a direct quote from
Shakespeare.  The word "nightmare" only appears once in Shakespeare's plays and it is
not in a context anything like this quote.  (This is according to a couple of sites
where you can search all of Shakespeare's works at once.)

I
think that you may be thinking of a famous line that is from Shakespeare and has a
somewhat similar meaning.  It is from Hamlet's "to be or not to be" soliloquy in Act
III, Scene 1 of Hamlet.  In that passage, Hamlet
says

To sleep-
perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub!
For in that sleep of death what
dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal
coil

That sort of means the
same thing -- if you dream, you may have nightmares.

Why was Europe industrialized faster than the other continents?

Pace of industrialization has varied in different regions
of the world at different periods. It is not as if pace of industrialization has been
always fastest in Europe. In pre-industrial revolution era the pace of development of
industrialization in Europe was not the fastest in the world. Also this has not remained
like that ever after. For example, there have been times when the growth of
industrialization has been higher in USA. Then In second half of twentieth century Japan
led the world in industrial growth. Even today the rate of growth of industries in
countries like China and India is higher than that in
Europe.

However, perhaps the question is referring to the
period when the rate of Industrialization was highest in Europe. This is the period of
industrial revolution. One of the major contributor to this is the political domination
of the world by Great Britain at that time which helped it to accumulate capital
required for its industries, and also provided market for its product. Presence of large
deposits of iron and coal also helped industrial growth of Great Britain. In addition It
had easy access to cheap raw material from its
colonies.

The growth of industry in Great Britain than
provided encouragement to other western European countries
also.

A second reason was the faster growth of science and
technology in western European countries during this period. This growth had slowed down
in countries that had earlier led the world in this field partly because of degeneration
of their social system and partly because of political domination of European
countries.

The social sustem such as the feudal system, and
the guild system also contributed to the development of industry in
Europe.

What is the role of catharsis in Macbeth?I just need a few examples of it and how it relates to Macbeth as a story in general. thanks!

Another way in which many of the audience of Shakespeare's
Macbeth pity the tragic figure of Macbeth in his destructive
obsession with ambition.  When he is made Thane of Cawdor by King Duncan in Act I, he is
a hero, admired for his bravery and skill.  But, like so many, he becomes seduced by
ambition and the preternatural world as well, losing his integrity, his wife, and,
finally, his life.  The temptress of ambition takes from him the essence of his being as
a human, leaving him with a meaningless life.  Sadly, Macbeth realizes this in his
soliloquy in Act V as he speaks of life as

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...a poor
player 

That struts and frets his hour upon the
stage

And then is heard no more.  It is a
tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and
fury,

Signifying nothing
(5.5.24-28)

This condition of
the seductiveness of power is also one that is feared by people, for so often the
attainment of power leaves people empty as they have sold their souls to the other world
of evil, sacrificing much of their humanity as does Lady Macbeth in her life as "a
walking shadow." 

In Act IV, Scene 3, it is this very fear
of the evil of power and its effects that Malcolm exhibits in his distrust of the
motives of Macduff who has come to England to seek Malcolm's help in restoring the
rightful ruler to Scotland.  For, he wonders if Macduff is a paid agent of Macbeth; he
questions Macduff as a result and feigns corruption in himself in order to elicit
Macduff's true feelings.  When Macduff exclaims, "O, Scotland!" Malcolm realizes that
the man loves his country and is loyal, so he tell Macduff the truth about
himself.

What keeps Victor Frankensein from killing himself in Chapter 9 of Frankenstein?

Having endured the death of his younger brother and then
the wrongful punishment of Justine which results in her death, Chapter Nine begins by
expressing how Victor, feeling incredibly guilty and responsible for these deaths,
withdraws from his family and society in general. He is so miserable, in fact, that he
contemplates killing himself. However, what stops him from doing so is a feeling of
responsibility towards those loved ones whom he would leave behind. He then sees that
suicide, though satisfying for himself, would selfishly leave Elizabeth and his father
and suriving brother unprotected. Note what he says to justify his
reasoning:

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Should I by my base desertion leave them exposed
and unprotected to the malice of the fiend whom I had let loose among
them?

Note how Victor himself
sees how selfish suicide would be, calling it a 'base desertion.' He clearly realises
that, having given the creature life, he must bear some responsibility towards ensuring
that nobody else is hurt as a result of its anger and rage.

What are some examples of figures of speech in "Sonnet 29"?

Personification is used to
describe heaven as deaf to the speaker's futile
cries:

And
trouble deaf heaven  (line
3)

In line 12
personification is also used when earth is described as
"sullen."

A simile is used to
describe the speaker's joy when he thinks about his
beloved:

. .
.and then my, state,

Like to the lark at break of day
arising

From sullen earth .
.

A
metaphor is used to compare the "sweet love" of the beloved
to "wealth."

These figures of speech serve to contrast the
speaker's melancholy state of mind with his joy when he remembers that he is truly lucky
to have the love of such a one as his beloved.

Explain the meaning of this quote from George Orwell's 1984:"Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of...

This quote explains the government's power over the
children in the dystopian society depicted in George Orwell's 1984.
Parents have no authority over their children, who are influenced from a very
young age by the forces of "Big Brother." The children join organizations such as the
"Spies," where they dress uniformly in "blue shorts, gray shirs, and red neckerchiefs"
and are systematically indoctrinated in the philosophies of the government. The children
are taught to love Big Brother and hate "foreigners, traitors, saboteurs,
thought-criminals," the "enemies of the State;" they are encouraged to attend public
hangings, and as such are desensitized to violence. The children will report to the
authorities anyone who engages in questionable activities or who criticizes the
government, including their parents, and indeed are praised as "child hero[es]" for
doing so. Parents have no control over their children, who have been turned into
"ungovernable little savages" by their training.

There is
no love cultivated between children and their parents; through early and constant
indoctrination, the children's devotion is all directed towards Big Brother. Tragically,
parents actually fear their own children, because they know that their children's
loyalties lie with Big Brother, and that should they even suspect their parents of
deviation from the strict codes of behavior mandated by the government, they will not
hesitate to turn them in (Part 1, Chapter 2).

In The Canterbury Tales what is being satirized in "The Nun's Priest's Tale"?

I think that with this excellent example of an animal
fable we need to be aware of the danger of being distracted by the conflict between
Chanticleer and the fox and pay more attention to the role of Pertelote. Note her role
in bringing about Chanticleer's near-death experience: she deliberately berates
Chanticleer about his dream and the fear that he suffers as a result, shaming him into
carrying on as normal, whereas if he had paid attention to his dream and the message it
was giving him, he would not have met the fox:

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"Get along with you! Shame on you,
faintheart!

Alas!" cried she, "For, by the Lord
above,

Bow you have lost my heart, lost all my
love.

I cannot love a coward, that I
swear!"

Remembering that the
teller of this tale was the Priest in a convent of nuns, surrounded by women every day,
we can therefore perhaps see this tale as a subtle satire on women and how dangerous it
can be to pay attention to their advice. Note that, although not acceptable today, in
the past the woman was portrayed as the cause of man's fall in the Garden of Eden and
therefore was considered as an unreliable counsellor.

Provide a postcolonial reading of Pride and Prejudice.

Post-colonial literature is a term that describes
literature written after a country’s colonial period.  It typically describes how a new
country is formed, and recovers from the legacy of colonialism.  Pride and
Prejudice, on the other hand, is novel of Victorian England.  While England
itself was never a colony, it did have many colonies in Africa, Asia and the Americas. 
Many of the ideas of Victorian England were imposed upon some of these colonies of Great
Britain.  For example, ideas relating to property and marriage were brought
over. 

Pride and Prejudice describes
issues of social class, especially related to property and marriage.  Social class and
marrying to improve one’s fortune were just as common among the expatriates who traveled
from Victorian England to its various colonies.  They brought their prejudices, ideas
and traditions with them.

Is there any other solar system in this Milky Way Galaxy?

Let's compare definitions here astronomically.  A solar
system is a set of planetary bodies orbiting a star.  A galaxy is a massive collection
of stars.  The Milky Way is the name for the galaxy in which our solar system
resides.

So the answer to your question is not only yes,
but repeatedly yes.  Hundreds, thousands, even tens of thousands of solar systems exist
within our galaxy, and within every galaxy in the
universe.

The Hubble Space Telescope has already identified
more than 400 planets outside of our solar system within the Milky Way Galaxy, including
some which appear to have atmospheres and water or ice.

In Ibsen's play, A Doll's House, what are some quotes that express Nora Helmer's attitude towards her family?

[Please note that in different publications of this play,
the page numbers will not be the same.]

In Act One of
Ibsen's play, A Doll's House, Nora shows how important her family
is to her.

Nora confesses to Kristine Linde that she has
done something to save Torvald's life, but he must not
know.

It's
true—I've also got something to be proud and happy for. I'm the one who saved Torvald's
life...I told you about the trip to Italy. Torvald never would have lived if he hadn't
gone south.

Kristine
acknowledges that Nora's father game them the money. Nora explains that her father gave
them nothing, but that she raised the money—all of it—to save her
husband's life.

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Four thousand, eight hundred crowns. What do you
say to that?

At the very end
of Act One, the audience sees how important Nora's children are to her when Torvald
discredits Krogstad and uses his life as an example of what happens
to a person and his/her children if that person is a
liar:

Oh,
I've seen it often enough as a lawyer. Almost everyone who goes bad early in life has a
mother who's a chronic liar...It's usually the mother's influence that's dominant, but
the father's works in the same way, of course....And still this Krogstad's been going
home year in, year out, poisoning his own children with lies and pretense; that's why I
call him morally lost.

Upon
hearing this, Nora is devastated to the point that she does not want to see her
children, for fear that she will "poison" them. She loves her children and her husband
very much and is willing to sacrifice whatever is necessary to take care of them and
protect them.

In both of these situations, the reader sees
that to Nora, her family is of the utmost importance in her
life.

What is the rising action of "The Devil and Tom Walker"?

The rising action in "The Devil and Tom Walker" by
Washington Irving consists of all the events that take place between the devil and Tom
before the turning point of the story when Tom refuses to pay the devil his due share of
the profits.  Tom first meets the devil while walking through a detour in the swamp, and
here their relationship begins.  Later, the devil presumably kills Tom's wife and men in
town who are guilty of bad acts.  The devil senses Tom's greed and proposes that they
strike a bargain.  The action rises as Tom agrees to become a usurer for the devil--Tom
believes that he is going to get rich, while the reader understands that Tom has made an
unbreakable pact with the devil.  Tom does become wealthy, and his greedy acts continue
to make the action of the story rise.  This heightened tension is then challenged when
the devil comes to reclaim the money and Tom must make a choice.  His refusal to submit
to the devil ends the rising action and the turning point in the story
occurs.

What happened to Miss Maudie's house in chapters 8-9 of To Kill a Mockingbird? What was her reaction?

On the night of the unseasonable snow in Maycomb, Jem and
Scout were awakened by Atticus and hurried from their home. Outside they saw that Miss
Maudie's house was on fire. Neighbors were busy saving furniture from the fire, but the
house was nearly a total loss. Miss Maudie seemed surprisingly calm and
unconcerned.

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"Why, I hated that old cow barn. Thought of
settin' fire to it a hundred times myself, 'cept they'd lock me
up."

Cecil Jacobs was one of
Scout's classmates. He became another one of her victims (apparently) after he claimed
that "Scout Finch's daddy defended niggers." Cecil will reappear in one of the final
chapters of the novel.

Write the equation of the circle in standard form. x^2+y^2-6x+8y+9=0.

We'll recall the standard form of the circle
equation:

(x - h)^2 + (y - k)^2 =
r^2

h and k represent the coordinates of the center of the
circle and r is the value of the radius of the circle.

To
reach to this form, we'll have to complete the
squares:

(x^2 - 6x + ...) + (y^2 + 8y + ...) =
-9

We'll consider the
formula:

(a+b)^2 = a^2 + 2ab +
b^2

2xb = -6x

b = -3 =>
b^2 = 9

x^2 - 6x + ... = x^2 - 6x +
9

y^2 + 8y + ... = y^2 + 8y +
16

(x^2 - 6x + 9) + (y^2 + 8y + 16)  -9 -16 =
-9

We'll move the numbers to the right
side:

(x^2 - 6x + 9) + (y^2 + 8y + 16) = 9 + 16 -
9

(x^2 - 6x + 9) + (y^2 + 8y + 16) =
16

(x-3)^2 + (y + 4)^2 =
4^2

The standard form of the equation of the
circle is: (x-3)^2 + (y + 4)^2 =
4^2

How does each character in "Oedipus the King" handle grief? Provide textual evidence for support.Importance of family grief, and how each character...

Oedipus handles his grief in a physical sense by gouging
out his own eyes with the golden brooches of his wife/mother Jocasta. Obviously, he is
consumed with misery as the entire weight of the situation has crashed down around
him.

However, he is not completely without reason. He
thinks of his children, especially his girls, and pleads with Creon, “I pray you, care
for them.”

Jocasta, as the reality of the situation begins
to dawn on her, tries to get Oedipus to stop questioning the messenger. She says to
Oedipus, “For the gods’ sake, if you have any care for your own life, forbear this
search! My anguish is enough.” When Oedipus refuses to stop questioning, she runs in to
the palace and hangs herself.

The chorus, speaking for the
Theban people, after literally singing Oedipus’ praises, says, “Alas, thou child of
Laius, would, would that I had never seen thee!” They feel they would have been better
off if Oedipus had never come to Thebes, despite all the good he
did.

But at the end the chorus, considering the
unpredictability of life, advises the audience to keep their thoughts focused ahead,
“Therefore, while our eyes wait to see the destined final day, we must call no one happy
who is of mortal race, until he has crossed life’s border, free from pain.” This softens
the grief-stricken ending by relating the idea that we will all suffer in this life, but
not in the next.

What plan is devised by Truth and her uncle to locate Robert up north and why are they blindfolded in Who Comes with Cannons?

Truth and her uncle plan to travel north on the
Underground Railroad to locate Robert and bring him back home. Truth, who speaks with an
Illinois accent, will accompany her uncle on the dangerous quest to be his spokesman, as
his Southern accent will arouse suspicion above the Mason-Dixon line. The Underground
Railroad, which is a network of safehomes connected by brave individuals sympathetic to
the abolitionist cause, is by necessity a secret operation. Great care is taken to
preserve this secrecy, and it is for this reason that Truth and her uncle are
blindfolded during their journey. It is important that the two Friends not know the
details of where the safehouses are on the journey, nor should they be able to identify
the people who help them on the way. By scrupulously keeping these details secret, the
operators of the Underground Railroad hope to avoid detection by the authorities, so
that they can continue their work of helping slaves escape to
freedom.

Truth and her uncle have heard that Robert is
being held in a Yankee prison in Elmira, New York. Truth's uncle wants to see for
himself that Robert is there, then he plans to appeal directly to President Lincoln, who
is known to be sympathetic towards Quakers, and who will hopefully secure Robert's
release. As things turn out, Truth and her uncle are attacked by an
angry, Quaker-hating mob in New York, and her uncle is injured badly enough that he
cannot continue on their mission. Truth presses on alone, and, with the invaluable help
of an escaped slave named Squire, she manages to get audiences first with Mr. Frederick
Douglass, and then with the President's wife, Mary Todd Lincoln. Mrs. Lincoln appeals to
her husband on Truth's behalf, and the President gives Truth a letter, instructing the
establishment at Elmira to release Robert. Truth goes on to Elmira, where the
authenticity of the letter is confirmed. Robert is set free, and he and Truth return
home on the Underground Railroad.

Describe three general ways in which enzyme activity can be regulated.

Enzyme activity can be regulated in many ways. Enzyme
activity is dependent to a large extent on factors like pH, temperature, enzyme
concentration, substrate concentration, salinity,
etc.

• One way of regulating enzyme activity is by
  controlling the temperature. Enzyme activity is usually increased at higher temperatures
  and decreases to almost zero as temperatures are reduced. The best rate of activity has
  a narrow temperature range.

• Another
  way of changing enzyme activity is by altering the salinity and pH of the medium that
  the enzyme and the substrate is in.
  

• Enzyme activity is also changed if
  the enzyme concentration itself or that of the substrate is increased. If there is
  enough substrate for the enzyme to act on increased activity is achieved by higher
  enzyme concentrates.

In The Outsiders, why is Ponyboy worried that he did not call out for Darry while he was sick?

Remember that by the time we get to Chapter 10 there is a
pretty serious amount of tension between Ponyboy and Darry.  Darry is, of course, Pony's
big brother and he has been raising Pony and their other brother Sodapop ever since
their parents died.  Pony has felt that Darry is too harsh with him and they have been
kind of mad at each other.

So Pony is worried now that he
did not call out for Darry while he was delirious.  He is worried that Darry will think
that Pony does not love him or care about him.

Can you give a very brief summary of Paradise Lost?

John Milton's Paradise Lost is broken
up into three parts:

• Books 1-4 focus on
  Satan


• Books 5-8 focus on
  Christ


• Books 9-12 focus on Adam and
  Eve.

Milton believes in Monism (one God), so
Satan and Jesus are sons of God.  The epic poem begins with the (1) Fall of Satan from
Heaven: he is an anti-savior who wants to reap converts to Hell using his daughter Sin
and son Death.  The epic then moves on to the (2) creation of the world.  Next, (3) Man
(Adam) is instructed to beware of sin by the angel Raphael.  Then, (4) Adam and Eve sin
in the Garden.  This is the focus of the poem: the fall and eventual redemption of
mankind.  Jesus assumes the form of man to bridge the gap between man and God after the
fall.  Finally, (5) Adam and Eve are foretold their future by the angel Michael.  They
are led out of Paradise, but they are hopeful.  Overall, Milton champions the absolute
freedom of man and individual to choice: "to the pure, all things are pure; to the
impure, all things are impure."

How does Scout's and Jem's understanding of Boo Radley develop?

In the beginning of the novel, Scout and Jem are fearful
of Arthur "Boo" Radley.  This is due to the fact that they do not have any true
understanding of Boo and, because their knowledge of Boo Radley is not based on any
personal relationship with him, they fail to recognize his humanity.  By the end of the
novel, Jem and Scout have come to appreciate and care for Boo as a
person.

As the Finch children begin to interact with Boo on
a personal level, they lose their fear of him and see his kindness.  By the time Boo
saves Scout and Jem from Bob Ewell's attack, Scout has become comfortable enough with
the idea of Boo's existence as a person to be able to feel comfortable, and even safe,
interacting with him face to face. 

Scout and Jem feared
Boo Radley because he was, in actuality, unknown to them.  Once they began to know him
and lose their fear of him, they were able to gain some understanding of
him.

After reading Chapter 16 in A Farewell to Arms, explain how Catherine's character has developed through this point.Please be sure to include which...

Catherine and Henry of A Farewell to Arms
play an elaborate game of seduction, an illusion that sustains them against
the reality of war. In Chapter 4 when Henry first attempts to kiss her, Catherine slaps
him, but apologizes and makes the point, "And we have gotten away from the war."  As
they sit under the trees in the garden, Catherine tells Frederic, "You will be good to
me, won't you?...Because we're going to have a strange
life."

Now, in Chapter 16 Catherine seems more submissive
to Henry as she promises,

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"I'll say just what you wish and I'll do what you
wish and then you will never want any other girls, will you?....I'll do what you want
and say what you want and then I'll be a great success, won't
I?"

Perhaps this moment is
Catherine's "farewell to arms" as she abandons not only thoughts of the war, but
considerations of the male/female roles, becoming for Henry whatever he desires, hoping
in this illusionary role in which she has made Henry "all clean inside and out" that she
can prevent "the strange life" that she has earlier feared. And yet, although she
strives to lose herself in Henry, Catherine still manages some situations.  For example,
she refuses to come to Henry after his operation, telling him he will be sick anyway and
not want her.

In Night, what do we learn about Eliezer based on his descriptions of Moshe the Beadle?

One of the most overwhelming elements gained about Eliezer
in his recollection of Moshe the Beadle is precisely that:  His power to recollect. 
While his experience might have desired to wipe out his memory of life before the death
camps, his mere act of remembering is resistance.  Eliezer does not succumb to the
tendency of failing to recall life before Auschwitz.  Rather, in his act of memory, one
sees resistance against authority in constructing a life that others in the position of
power wanted to remove.  The story of Moshe also brings to light how individuals treat
one another.  The idea that the true terror of the Holocaust was not merely the Nazis
silencing their victims, but that this lack of respect for humanity was perpetrated by
victims against other victims is shown through the village's treatment of Moshe.  When
Moshe comes back to warn the people of Sighet of what he has seen, what he had
experienced, the scorn, dismissiveness, and lack of validation that he experiences
reflects how cruelty is something that cuts across all ethnic lines and all
constructions of division.  In this, Wiesel is unparalleled in bringing out that one of
the most compelling moral and ethical lessons of the Holocaust was to never engage in
the practice of silencing voices.

What caused the Cuban missile crisis?

This depends on how you mean the
question.

The most immediate cause of the Cuban Missile
Crisis was the fact that US U-2 spy planes detected Soviet missiles in Cuba.  The US
felt that this was too much of a threat to US soil and therefore Pres. Kennedy started
to take actions to force the Soviets to remove the
missiles.

If you take another step back, the cause of the
crisis was the fact that the Soviet Union did not have missiles that could hit the US
mainland while the United States did have missiles that could hit the Soviet Union. 
This imbalance made the Soviets uneasy and led them to try to even it out by putting
missiles in Cuba.

What is an example of hyperbole in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

A hyperbole is another word for any intentional
exaggeration for effect. If you think about it, we all use hyperboles every day in our
speech. Consider the following example: "I've been walking for miles!" Mostly we haven't
been walking for miles, but the hyperbole here conveys the sense of exhaustion we feel
and our sense of how long we have walked.

Twain is a writer
that uses hyperbole a lot in his work. Huck Finn, as a character who likes to embellish
and exaggerate, uses hyperbole in lots of instances. Consider this example from Chapter
Sixteen which describes the steamboat that smashes into the
raft:

She was
a big one, and she was coming in a hurry, too, looking like a black cloud with rows of
glowworms around it; but all of a sudden she bulged out, big and scary, with a long row
of wide-open furnace doors shining like red-hot teeth, and her monstrous bows and guards
hanging right over us.

Note
how the description is exaggerated to make the steamboat appear more fearsome and
dangerous than it actually is. The similes and metaphors employed help in this
hyperbole, comparing the steamboat to a "black cloud" surrounded by "glowworms" to
increase the fear that the steamboat instills. Likewise the steamboat increases in size,
with the furnace doors looking like "red-hot teeth," which exaggerates the size and
appearance of the steamboat as it crashes into them.

This
is just one example. Hopefully you will now be able to go back and find some more
examples of hyperbole in this excellent novel. Good luck!

In Macbeth, why does Macduff hate Macbeth?

From early on, Macduff is suspicious of Macbeth even
though Macbeth has not necessarily given anyone any clear reasons to doubt his honor. 
Macduff thinks that things are suddenly going wrong in Scotland and Macbeth is the prime
beneficiary, so he makes it a point to keep an eye on Macbeth's actions.  Macduff
expresses his contempt for Macbeth when he refuses to attend the coronation ceremony,
and from this point, Macbeth just continues to do things that add to Macduff's hatred
(killing his family and court).  These are some of the reasons why Macduff hates
Macbeth.

Why does Charley visit in Death of a Salesman?

Charley is a loyal friend to Willy, and desperately wants
him to accept reality to allow him to have a real future. They have known each other for
a long time, and despite their constant sparring both men know that their relationship
is strong.

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 WILLY [On the verge of
tears] : Charley, you’re the only friend I
got.

It is a great
catastrophe that Willy is unable to accept Charley’s real offer of support but keeps
depending on the fantasy of having a job yet taking money from his
friend.

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 WILLY: I can’t work for you, that’s all, don’t
ask me
why.

Charley
accepts the mercurial nature of his friend, and is able to articulate Willy’s tragic
demise with sensitivity-

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CHARLEY:…Willy was a salesman…He’s a man way out
there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling
back – that’s an earthquake.

Solve the trigonometric equation sin 6x=-cos (3x), using double angle identity.

We'll use the double angle identity to re-write the
term sin 6x:

sin 6x = sin 2*(3x) = 2 sin 3x*cos
3x

We'll re-write the equation, moving all terms to one
side:

2 sin 3x*cos 3x + cos 3x =
0

We'll factorize by cos
3x:

cos 3x(2 sin 3x + 1) =
0

We'll set each factor as
zero:

cos 3x = 0

3x =
+/-arccos 0 + 2kpi

3x = +/-(pi/2) +
2kpi

We'll divide by 3:

x =
+/-(pi/6) + 2kpi/3

We'll set the next factor as
0:

2 sin 3x + 1 = 0

sin 3x =
-1/2

3x = (-1)^k*arcsin(-1/2) +
kpi

x = (-1)^(k+1)*(pi/18) +
kpi/3

The solutions of trigonometric equation
are: {+/-(pi/6) + 2kpi/3 ; k integer}U{(-1)^(k+1)*(pi/18) + kpi/3 ; k
integer}.

In chapter 8 in The Autobiography of Malcolm X, what was Billie Holidays nickname, and why was she called that?

In Chapter 8 of The Autobiography of Malcolm
X, Billie Holliday is also known as "Lady Day."  Look on page 132 to find the
answer.

Malcolm describes how she would come over to his
table at the Onyx Club.  On the night Malcolm had it out with West Indian Archie, "Lady
Day" came over to his table to ask what was wrong.  Malcolm says she knew he was always
high, and on this night, she thought he looked
worried:

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...she knew me well enough to see something else
was wrong, and asked in her customary profane language what was the matter with
me.

Malcolm then describes
her death, which happened years later.  It was drug
related:

That
was the last time I ever saw Lady Day.  She's dead; dope and heartbreak stopped that
heart as big as a barn and that sound and style that no one successfully copies.  Lady
Day sang with the soul of Negroes from the centuries of sorrow and
oppression.

In "A Modest Proposal," Swift doesn't reveal his plan until later in the essay. What is the effect of this delay?

It is hard to avoid the conclusion that this essay has
been very carefuly scripted and drafted precisely to delay the "unveiling" of this very
immodest "modest proposal." It is important therefore to ask what Swift does in the lead
up to the revelation of his plan. Swift is very careful to try and establish the voice
and tone of the essay to present himself as a caring, concerned and earnest individual
who sincerely wants to help alleviate the poverty and terrible famine in Ireland. The
reference to numbers and statistics likewise presents his voice as credible. Note an
example of how this works in practice:

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I think it is agreed by all parties, that this
prodigious number of children, in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their
mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the
kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair,
cheap, and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the
commonwealth would deserve so well of the public, as to have his statue set up for a
preserver of the nation.

Note
how Swift is trying to show his reasonable nature by appealing to "all parties" and
identifying areas of commonality between them all. Having established himself as a
reasonable and even caring speaker, who is concerned for the plight of the poor, the
shock of reading his exact proposal is that much more exaggerated. Thus the proposal is
delayed to lull us into a false sense of security before shocking
us.