What is the summary of "The Love Song Of J. Alfred Profrock" by T. S. Eliot?

The poem begins with an invitation from Prufrock to a
person who is referred to as "you" and remains anonymous. Prufrock takes this person
into the unsavoury areas of London, with various sexual connotations included by
reference to "one night" establishments and the aphrodisiac of oysters. As Prufrock
continues his walk, he pictures his destination: a woman in a sitting room with a tea
set. It is clear that he is heading to this woman, and as he continues he is thinking of
whether he is able to ask her to marry him. The poem traces his various doubts and
issues with this question as he considers himself, marriage, and society as a whole to
explore why he feels so indecisive about what he is planning on doing. As the poem
continues he fluctuates between doubt and desire, and casts himself as various heroic
figures as he thinks about what he is going to do, with references made to Hamlet and
Lazarus, to give just a few. This poem is a masterly modernist work, giving insight to
the doubt, despair and disillusionment of the time by giving us an insight into the mind
of Prufrock, who never actually arrives at his destination and thus therefore is
suspended in his state of inaction.

Write a thesis statement about Ray Bradbury's "The Pedestrian."

This short story places us in a terrifying future world
where life is so controlled and based on fear and surveillance that nobody leaves there
house after a certain time at night. The only man who is brave enough to do so is the
protaganist of this story, Leonard Mead, who braves the squads of dogs that range the
streets of this controlled city at night. Even though this society has seen a massive
drop in crime, so much so that there is only one police car for three million people,
this attitude continues, so that when Leonard Mead is stopped by the police car they
take him in for "Regressive Tendencies." When he says to the police that he walks "for
air, and to see, and just to walk," this is not accepted as a specific purpose, and he
is arrested. Bradbury presents us with a society that has become isolated from itself,
each other and nature.

Therefore a good thesis statement
might be:

In a strictly controlled futuristic world
dominated by surveillance and media, Bradbury shows the perils of forgetting our
humanity in the fate of Leonard Mead.

This thesis statement
would allow you to talk about what impression of humanity we are given and the way that
at night they are said to never go out, but just watch television, sitting "like the
dead." Any human impulse to go out and wander without purpose is regarded as
suspicious.

What warning does Friar Laurence give Romeo foreshadowing future events of Romeo and Juliet?

Friar Lawrence warns Romeo, "Wisely and slow, they that
run fast stumble." He gives this warning after agreeing to marry Romeo and Juliet. He is
essentially warning against the hastiness of their union. They have only just met, and
he is cautioning them against moving too
quickly.

Ultimately, his warning foreshadows their doom.
Romeo's tendency to act without thinking first directly leads to the death of both
characters. The friar states:

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"These violent delights have violent ends. Which
in their triumph die, like fire and gunpowder, which as they kiss, consume."
(2.6.9-11).

The violent
delights, or the love, of Romeo and Juliet, often have violent ends, in this case death.
While their love may be beautiful and powerful, it is also brief and destructive. Thus,
with his words, the Friar unknowingly foreshadows the passionate but brief love of Romeo
and Juliet, which ends in death. 

What are the characteristics and roles of conversations in Pride and Prejudice?

Austen is the queen of detailed, elaborate, flowery,
lengthy conversations between characters.  This is why many people struggle with her
novels, and why others love them.  A conversation can start on one page and ten pages
later still be going.  Consider Austen's background and life herself; living in England
in a time when women were expected to sit around and do practically nothing all day,
what else did they have to do besides talk?

Dialogue helps
relay crucial and important information, shape the characters in the novel, introduce
conflict, and resolve problems.  One major role it plays is in shaping the characters of
the story.  Austen always has a garrulous and excessively chatty character that says
foolish things and is a bore and annoyance to everyone around them (Mr. Collins, as an
example).  She likes to use conversation to shape those types of characters.  Her
heroines (like Elizabeth or Jane) are often more limited and wise in their
conversations, being the listeners as opposed to the
spouters.

Also, consider also how much of the
NON-conversation narration in the novels centers and focuses around conversations that
were just had.  The characters not only have long conversations, but then go home and
sit there and analyze every tiny thing that was said in that conversation for potential
hidden meaning.  So even though they aren't talking constantly, most of the story IS
centered round people talking OR analyzing the talking that has occurred.  It reminds me
of a group of teenage girls talking about a party that a cute boy talked to them at, and
they all analyze and interpret, and read meaning into each and every word that poor boy
said.  That is what the characters do.

So, whether is it
actual talking to shape characters, introduce conflict or resolve it, or if it is the
characters thinking about what was just said, conversation is the main driving force in
Pride and Prejudice.  I hope that helped; good
luck!

I am having trouble finding a boyfriend. What should I do?I want a boy that is friendly, nice, loyal, and that is not a bully.

Stop looking and start taking a good look at who you are
and who you want to become; please spend some time on this.  Because in doing this he
will come to you rather than you finding him or at least it will be a mutual thing.  If
you allow him to start looking for you, someone who is a deep thinker and more of a
human being than a human doer.  You will be happy you did, unless you want to simply go
through the motions.  I admire you for asking the
question.

Here are a couple of books that will help you
along the way:

The Tao of Pooh and Te of Piglet, by
Benjamin Huff spent 46 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List when they debuted in
1992.  It is a two volume set at about 240 paperback pages each.  I just love the way
that Pooh and Huff exchange their thoughts about Taoism.  This is a very easy read that
sheds some light on being while along the way it teaches Taoism, what some call the Way
of Nature.  No need to worry, it is not to replace your faith, but add dimension to
yourself.

The other is a book called Being and Caring. 
This one is a college level psychology book, but it was so good, I purchased it and have
always kept it near just in case I find myself Caring too much for someone that I lose
track of who I am and the importance of my own healthy self
esteem. 

So what I am saying is in your freshman year in
college is if you take the time to spend on yourself and your own healthy self-esteem;
growing more into yourself that soon, you won't be looking for a boyfriend, he will be
looking for you.  You will have developed into a woman with more substance and with
healthy boundaries.  This is so important to learn now instead of by default,
later.

If I could have read one book or met one person
before I became an adult, it would have been Virginia Satir.  A loving woman, she wrote
many books on psychological matters, primarily family systems theory and books on
self-esteem.  She died the year after she wrote my favorite book, "The
Newpeoplemaking".  She had grown up in some tough times where there was a lot of family
dysfunction and so had I, but she had a way of learning how to deal with it and live
past it, that it actually became a virtue of who I am today.  I hope that you will at
least have a look at her book.  It's an easy read with cartoons, I laughed and then I
cried but when I was done, I knew more about who I was and from where I had come and now
where I could go; there was no longer any fear, false expectations appearing real.  I
began diving with sharks and traveling to many untraveled places.  I hope she does this
for you too.  And like I said, it's more important to be wanted than to want someone
else. 

I wish you well and more importantly I wish you a
college career that helps you reach past your fears and into places you never dreamed
you'd have the opportunities to explore.

If there is collision between the president and congress, can congress restrain the President in foreign policy making?The president is the foreign...

I agree with both of the above questions, as they have
great specific examples of the power struggle between the two branches.  I wish to add,
however, what is really in my opinion the most effective tool Congress has to restrain
foreign policy: the power of the purse, or the
budget.

While the Constitution designates foreign policy as
an area of the Executive, when we say foreign policy we often mean wars, or foreign aid,
military aid, etc.  In the case of the Iraq or Vietnam Wars, for example, Congress could
end those wars immediately simply by refusing to write any more checks to fund them. 
The President has a very limited amount of discretionary funding to spend as he sees
fit, and certainly not enough to wage a major war, so he depends on Congress to keep
paying the bills, and there is no Constitutional requirement that they continue to do
so.

What is the rhyme scheme and meter of Sonnet 73 by William Shakespeare?

Sonnet 73 is a typical Shakespearean
sonnet.  Therefore, it is written in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of
abab, cdcd, efef, gg. There are three quatrains that develop the
theme, or action, with a concluding rhyming couplet.

In
Shakespeare's Sonnet 73, in the first quatrain, the speaker acknowledges to his lover
that he is growing older: 

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That time of year thou mayst in me
behold

When yellow leaves, or
none, or few, do
hang....

However, this aging
and possibility of dying--"Death's second self that seals up all the
rest"--should "ignite the fire" in the lover into embracing him and enjoying him more
fully and urgently.

Sonnet 73 is from a subgroup that
includes sonnets 18-77.  While the latter ones relate in theme to time, as does Sonnet
73, the earlier ones relate to the complications that develop with rival lovers. Each
one of Shakespeare's sonnets holds its own beauty, nevertheless.

What does Frederick Douglass mean when he says "Bread of Knowledge"?

Douglass' use of the word "bread" suggests that knowledge
is as necessary to human life as is food.

Furthermore,
Douglass is clearly playing upon his readers' knowledge of the Bible. (His memoir was
intended as an argument against slavery.) In the Bible, references to bread in the New
Testament are numerous, and Jesus' body itself is equated with bread, among other
things.

The Lord's Prayer is Jesus' own words in which he
asks for "our daily bread"--the stuff of life here are again directly equated to our
spiritual well-being.

Therefore, bread, and by metaphor,
knowledge, take on a sacramental, holy quality for Douglass, and, he hopes, in the minds
of his readers.

Knowledge, for Douglass and his audience,
is not merely a matter of literacy, it is also about becoming fully human, and fully
capable of developing spiritually, morally and emotionally.

What were Ralph Waldo Emerson's ideas regarding solitude?

Ralph Waldo Emerson's protégé Henry David Thoreau had more
experience and inspiration with regard to solitude as he spent so much time living in
isolation and seclusion (by choice).

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In March 1845, Thoreau began building a cabin on
land belonging to Emerson beside Walden Pond near Concord. He lived there from July 1845
until September 1847 and kept a
journal...

Emerson was a much
more public person. His writing comes from his journals that encompassed fifty-five
years of writing.

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The Journals of Ralph Waldo
Emerson, written over a period of fifty-five years (1820-1875), were
ultimately the source of everything else [Emerson] wrote. These have been edited in ten
volumes...

Emerson's journals
contained the source of his poetry and essays ("although many of his addresses and
speeches" were not assembled until after Emerson had died). However, Emerson was also a
noteworthy lecturer. In light of a career that saw a more public life rather than a
secluded one, it is interesting, perhaps even amazing, that Emerson was able to so
clearly capture the sense of solitude as he did. However, Emerson was also a man of deep
introspection and self-awareness, and this must have served him in finding a grasp of
seclusion or even isolation.

(It would be difficult to
argue that isolation can be experienced in a theater or stadium when one notes that
isolation can also be found within, and...

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'Emerson takes "solitude" to refer, first, to a
sense of being alone or the acting and thinking conducted within the
self.')

Emerson
was a writer who did not rely on a standard "method of composition:" he was not a
formula writer, as, for example, was Edgar Allan Poe. Emerson relied more on
inspiration. It flowed out of him as his feelings and ideas came to
him.

Using his intuition and his inspiration, Emerson also
relied on "sad self-knowledge," as he put it. His belief was that solitude can be found
anywhere, regardless of where we find ourselves: theater or
stadium.

...we
will be able to summon solitude wherever we are and under whatever circumstances we are
thrust.

Emerson insisted that
a poet may exist in a metropolis but be isolated, for inspiration
provides solituded.

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...'the poets who have lived in cities have been
hermits still. Inspiration makes solitude
anywhere.'

Emerson was able
to find a balance in living his life and the interaction with others while finding the
inspiration that not only provided him with a solitude that enabled him to work, but
also an insight into inner-solitude that inspired his writing on the
topic.

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...[Emerson] constantly juggles the necessities
of life with self and others, favoring a solitude that is refined, mature, enlightened,
and transcendent.

Of the
pieces written by Emerson concerning solitude, three that stand out
are Society and Solitude, Self-Reliance,
and Nature.

How do you find the length of an arc in a circle?

To calculate the length of an arc in the circle you need
to measure the radius (r ), and the central angle (a)

The
central angle is the angle subtended at the center of a circle by two given points on
the circle.

or, the central angle is the ratio of the arc
to the radius.

The length of the arc = radius X central
angle

                  or s= r *
a

Example: in a circle whose radius is 10 cm, and the
central angle is 4/5 ... find the length of the arc

    s =
r * a = 10 * 4/5 = 8 cm

Who was Zheng He?a. was the founder of the Ming dynasty. b. was the author of The Dream of the Red Chamber. c. was the founder of the Qing...

The only possible answer to this question is D, that Zheng
He carried out voyages of exploration.

As the link below
shows, Zheng He was an explorer and an admiral.  He was actually a Muslim who came from
the province of Yunan.  His family must have been at least well to do because both his
grandfather and his father had made pilgrimages to Mecca.  As it happens, Zhen He was a
eunuch.

Zheng He's seven voyages (which took place
beginning in 1405 and ending in 1433) took him as far as the Persian Gulf and the East
Coast of Africa.  These voyages were made possible by advances in Chinese technology in
the areas of navigation and shipbuilding.

What is Romeo's motivation for killing Tybalt? What are the consequences of this action in Romeo and Juliet?

Concerning Romeo and Juliet, I won't
write the paragraph for you--that's your job.  I'll help you with the information you
need.

Tybalt kills Mercutio, though it is in part,
accidental.  Tybalt and Mercutio are playing around, but it is a dangerous game they're
playing.  They're sword fighting, with "live" swords, swords that aren't blunted or
tipped.  There's anymosity between the two, but they're not really trying to kill each
other.

Romeo, in an attempt to make peace and get them to
stop fighting, gets in between them and inadvertantly causes a thrust by Tybalt to be
missed by Mercutio, and the thrust mortally wounds
Mercutio.

Romeo avenges Mercutio and kills Tybalt.  The
consequence is the banishment of Romeo, which of course leads, eventually, to the
tragedy at the conclusion of the play. 

I'll leave it to
you whether or not the killing of Tybalt is justified. 

How were issues of class explored in The Kite Runner?

The diversified and ever-changing Afghan class structure
plays a major if somewhat confusing role in the development of the story line of
The Kite Runner. Baba is a wealthy Pashtun, one of the richest men
in Kabul; his grandfather was a friend of the former Afghani King Nadir Shah. His
servant and friend, Ali, is a Hazara--considered the lowliest of the Afghan tribes. Amir
and Ali's son, Hassan, are very close, but Amir is never able to consider him an equal.
When the Russians take over the country, Baba and Amir are forced to flee, and they
begin a new life in America. There, Baba is reduced to working in a convenience store,
and he soon comes to know the life of the lower- middle class. In California, however,
he maintains close relationships with other Afghan immigrants; Amir eventually marries
an Afghani girl. Although they live in America, their native culture remains all
important. When Amir returns to Afghanistan to locate his nephew, Sohrab, he wears a
disguise to protect himself from the ruling Taliban--most of whom are Pashtuns like
himself. Confounding at times (especially to Americans), The Kite
Runner's story line is nonetheless rich in cultural detail of Afghani
history, life and customs. It should help all readers both understand and sympathize
with the turmoil that pervades present-day Afghanistan and its
peoples.

In which year do profits exceed 200,000 in the following case?A trading company made a profit of 50000 in year 1. The future profits are predicted...

We are given that the company makes profits of 50,000 in
the first year and they are predicted to increase every year in such a manner that a
geometric series is formed. As the common ratio is r, the profits in year 2 are
50,000*r, in year 3 they are 50,000*r^2 and so on. In year n the profits are 50000*r^(n
- 1)

If profits exceed 200,000 in the year n, we
have

50000*r^(n - 1) >
200000

divide both sides by
50000

=> r^(n - 1) >
4

take the log of both the
sides

=> (n - 1)* log r > log
4

=> n - 1 > (log 4)/(log
r)

=> n > [(log 4)/(log r)] +
1

This gives the year n in which profits
exceed 200000, one where n > [(log 4)/(log r)] +
1

What does Foucault mean by "the author-function" in his essay "What Is an Author" ?

Foucault’s essay “What is an Author?” might be seen as an
example of (post)structuralism, if not of the post-human. Foucault is not interested in
the author as a person. That view of the author as a person would be, generally
speaking, the view of pre-critical humanism, in which the author is credited as being
“real” and as being in complete control of the text that the author produces. (Most
readers today, despite Foucault, continue to view the author as in this pre-critical
humanist way. They care about the life of the author, for example, and believe that the
author is the ultimate authority when it comes to determining meaning in a given
literary work.)

Instead of seeing the author simply as a
person who writes, Foucault sees authorship as a function of the writing itself.
Foucault identifies multiple functions of the author:

1.
Author as a legal construction, connected to questions of heresy, slander, and libel.
Today, we might focus on the importance of the author to copyright laws and charges of
plagiarism.

2. Author as a literary construction, connected
to questions of literary merit. A poem bearing my name, for example, simply won’t
receive the same attention as a poem bearing Wordsworth’s name, even if my poem is
better. Wordsworth’s poems have literary merit and mine
don’t.

3. Author as a unifying construction, allowing
seemingly very different texts to be unified under a single concept and allowing new
texts to be evaluated against old texts for consistency of quality. Naming Homer as the
author of both the Iliad and the Odyssey, for example, allows us to overlook the obvious
differences between those two works and to read them as closely related texts that
express deeply held values of the ancient Greeks. Simply put, this function shows our
belief that authors are internally consistent: they write about the same themes over and
over, for example, and they’re either always good or always bad at what they
do.

I’ve always tried to read this essay alongside the New
Critical statements on the intentional fallacy and Roland Barthes’ essay “The Death of
the Author.”

In what way does The Old Man and the Sea appeal to our senses, especially colours, taste and touch?

Your question seems to be referring to the way in which
Hemingway uses imagery in this excellent allegorical novel. Imagery is a term given to
the way in which an author paints an image of what he is describing by appealing to as
many of the five senses as possible: sight, taste, touch, smell and hearing. The more
senses that are appealed to, the stronger a sense of the picture that the author is
trying to paint.

There are a number of excellent examples
of imagery in this deeply descriptive novel. Notice the following example of when
Santiago guts a dolphin that he catches on his epic
voyage:

He
felt the maw heavy and slippery in his hands and he slit it open. There were two flying
fish inside. They were fresh and hard and he laid them side by side and dropped the guts
and gills over the stern. They sank, leaving a trail of phospherescence in the water.
The dolphin was cold and leprous grey-white now in the
starlight...

Notice how, in
this quote, Hemingway combines the senses of touch and sight. He describes the feeling
of the maw of the dolphin and the hardness of the two flying fish, and then the coldness
of the dolphin's corpse, just as he describes how the corpse looks "leprous grey-white"
in the light of the stars. Likewise, when he drops over the guts, we see the trail of
phospherescence in the water. This is a good image because it combines two senses to
helps us see the scene that Hemingway is painting. Hopefully this example will help you
to find other examples in the book. Good luck!

From beginning to end, how does education help improve the lives of the characters in The Color Purple? Please provide quotes as evidence.

Education does not improve the live of the characters in
this novel. There are absolutely no examples of lives being improved through
education. 

The missionaries who travel to Africa with the
intentions to educate the Olinka tribe according to western standards fail to help the
tribe when their land is taken from them and their livelihoods destroyed. The one person
they seemed most likely to help ends up undertaking the ritual scarring and female
circumcision that the missionaries tried to help eliminate. Though Tashi was "educated",
she was not helped. 

Nettie, Celie's bright and educated
sister, fails in her efforts to help the Olinka, despairs over the hurt she causes to
Corrine, and generally is unaided by her education in her
efforts. 

Celie is not educated. She is literate, but this
is the extent of her education. While she is able to find some solace in writing
letters, this is not exactly a benefit of education, per
se. 

Schooling plays only a tangential role in
the narrative of the novel and education is not depicted as salvational or especially
helpful. 

In Act IV, Scene II, lines 12-19 of Othello, Emilia defends her mistress. Paraphrase her words.

Resolved to kill Desdemona that evening, Othello,
distraught, questions Emilia about his wife and Cassio: "You have seen nothing, then?"
(4.2.1) Emilia responds that not only has she not seen anything incriminating, she has
never even suspected adultery. As the unsatisfied Othello presses her for any
recollection of wrongdoing, Emilia mounts an eloquent defense of the faithfulness of her
mistress, saying she would put her own soul on the line for the sake of Desdemona's
honesty:

I durst, my lord, to wager she is
honest     

My lord, I dare to bet she is telling
the truth.

Lay down my soul at stake: if you
think other,

In fact, I would wager my own soul
on it: if you think otherwise

Remove your
thought; it doth abuse your bosom.

Get rid of the
idea; it deceives your heart’s desire.

If any
wretch have put this in your head,

If a villain
has put this into your head,

Let heaven requite
it with the serpent's curse!

Let God punish him
with the curse He placed on the snake after the fall of
man!

For, if she be not honest, chaste, and
true,

If she is not faithful, honest and
true,

There's no man happy; the purest of their
wives

Then no man is happy; the purest wife    

Is foul as
slander.

Is as filthy as
slime.

In her asseveration, Emilia gets the
picture: Some scoundrel - ironically, her husband - has planted these terrible
suspicions in Othello's mind. In her view that person deserves the same divine
punishment visited upon the serpent for deceiving Eve. In other words, Emilia implies
that Desdemona is as innocent as Eve was before the fall. But to no avail, and accusing
Emilia of being little more than a pimp ("simple bawd" [4.2.20]), Othello has Desdemona
summoned to face her death.

How to prove that i don't need to find a discriminant to solve the quadratic y^2+6y+9=0?

Well, it is simple, since we recognize in the given form
of the quadratic a perfect square.

We've had been driven by
the formula:

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

If we'll put a^2 = y^2 and b^2 = 9 => b=3 and
a=y

2ab = 2*3*y = 6y

y^2+6y+9
= (y+3)^2

We'll solve the
quadratic:

(y+3)^2 =
0

(y+3)(y+3) = 0

We'll put
y+3=0

y=-3

The
solutions of the quadratic are real numbers and they are equal: y1=y2 =
-3.

Could you help me begin two letters from Gene in A Separate Peace in which he apologizes?I have to write two letters of apology (pretending to be...

What if you wrote to Finny and then to the other boys at
the school who are close to Finny?  Gene hurts this group the
most.

I would not say "Dear Phineas" because Gene almost
always refers to Finny by his nickname. So after you address him as "Dear Finny," you
could use your first paragraph to discuss what Finny means to Gene and how much he
misses him as his roommate and friend at Devon.  After that, it would be appropriate to
get into the apology--what exactly Gene did, why he thinks he did it, and a petition for
Finny's forgiveness.

In regards to writing the other boys,
Gene could address it to the Super Suicide Members.  This letter should be similar to
the letter to Finny in that Gene admits to what he did, discusses how he realizes that
by causing Finny's injury, he took away someone who was a true friend to all the boys at
Devon, and again ask for their forgiveness.  Since Brinker seems to enjoy formal
processes, Gene could make this letter almost like a resolution listing steps that he is
willing to take in order to make everything right.

Good
luck--it sounds like an interesting assignment.  You might want to use the link below to
get a better understanding of Gene.

How is the first "Green Revolution" similar or different from the current "Green Movement"?

The two terms, "Green revolution" and "green movement"
refer to two very different things. Green revolution refers to rapid increase in
agricultural production in countries like India that took place in second half of the
twentieth century by adoption of advanced farming technology and new varieties of
crops.

Green movement on the other hand refers to a wide
ranging initiatives undertaken around the globe to protect the environment, particularly
the natural resources such as green cover of forests and other flora and fauna of the
world. The word green in both the term is derived from the predominantly green colour of
all kind of vegetation, which is closely identified with agriculture as well as the
natural flora of the world.

I do not think that there is
much of similarities between the two programs. As a matter of fact the two can be
opposed to each other in some areas. For example, increased use of insecticides promoted
in green revolution conflicts directly with the need reduce environmental pollution due
to use of insecticide. Also usually increase in agricultural production may involve
clearing some of the current forest land and other sites of natural vegetation and
converting them in farm lands. This is also directly in conflict with green
movement.

However perhaps there is considerable scope for
collaboration between green revolution programs and green movement to find ways of
developing programs that achieve objectives of both
simultaneously.

Given the triangle OAB, O(0,0), A(10,0),B(6,12),find the dimensions of the rectangle inscrjibed in triangle, with one side on OA ?The rectangle has...

The vertex found on OB is M and we notice that the segment
OM has the same slope as the side of triangle, OB.

We'll
calculate the slope of OB:

mOB = (yB - yO)/(xB -
xO)

mOB = (12-0)/(6-0)

mOB =
12/6

mOB = 2

So, the slope of
OM has the same value, mOM =2. The coordinates of
M(x,y).

mOM = (y -
0)/(x-0)

But mOM = mOB = 2

2 =
y/x

y = 2x (1)

The width of
the rectangle is W = 2x.

The vertex found on AB is N and we
notice that the segment AN has the same slope as the side of triangle,
AB.

We'll calculate the slope of
AB:

mAB = (yB - yA)/(xB -
xA)

mAB = (12-0)/(6-10)

mAB =
12/-4

mAB = -3

So, the slope
of AN has the same value, mAN =-3. The coordinates of
N(x,y).

mAN = (y -
0)/(x-10)

But mAN = mAB =
-3

-3 = y/(x-10)

y =
-3(x-10)

We'll substitute x by x +
L:

y = -3(x + L - 10)
(2)

We'll equate the expressions (1) and (2) to determine
L:

2x = -3(x + L - 10)

We'll
remove the brackets:

2x = -3x - 3L +
30

3L = -5x + 30

L = -5x/3 +
10

The length of the rectangle is L = -5x/3 +
10

We'll calculate the area of the inscribed
rectangle:

A = L*W

A = (-5x/3
+ 10)*2x

We'll remove the
brackets:

A = -10x^2/3 +
20x

We notice that the function of the area is a quadratic
whose leading coefficient is negative, so the parabola will have a maximum point for the
critical point of the function.

We'll determine the
critical point, differentiating the function:

A'(x) =
-20x/3 + 20

We'll put A'(x) =
0

 -20x/3 + 20 = 0

We'll
divide by 20:

-x/3 + 1 =
0

-x/3 = -1

x =
3

The critical point of the function is x = 3, for the
function has a maximum point:

A(3) = -10*3*3/3 +
20*3

A(3) = -30 + 60

A(3) =
30

The maximum value of the area of the
rectangle inscribed in the given triangle is A = 30 square
units.

What is the theme of "Casey at the Bat"?

Teachers have several different ways of looking at the
concept of “theme.” Sometimes we ask students to state a theme as a “statement about
human life or human nature,” rather than as just a single word or
idea.

If we look at theme this way for “Casey at the Bat,”
we have to consider what the crowd at the baseball game expects from Casey and what
actually ends up happening. It is obvious from the poem’s description of Casey that he
is considered to be a great hitter:

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“If only Casey could but get a whack at
that—

We’d put up even money now, with Casey at the
bat.”

The fans at the game
who haven’t left yet are watching, hoping that Casey will get a chance to hit. They
clearly believe that he has a good chance to win the game for the home team. Keep in
mind that in baseball, hitters fail more often than they succeed, even the great ones.
So to be willing to put up “even money” on a hitters’ chances is to express great
confidence in that hitter.

However, as is often the case in
baseball, the best are likely to fail, and the poem ends this
way:

But there
is no joy in Mudville—Mighty Casey has struck
out.

Themes should be
universally true, so we cannot confine our theme to just baseball—we need to make it a
little more general. A statement that encompasses the ideas presented in the poem in a
universal way could be:

Even the best, despite the
expectations of others, are liable to fail sometimes.

This
is a viable theme (although not the only possible theme) because it makes a statement
about human life that is universally true—it applies to all people, everywhere, all the
time.

Why does Gatsby deliver so many goods and services to Nick's house in The Great Gatsby?

Gatsby knows that the only way to Daisy's heart is through
money and objects. He begins his seduction at Nick's, and to do so effectively he must
be sure that the stage is set. It would not so to go back to courting Daisy as a
commoner. He was once at Nick's level financially and Daisy discarded him because of it.
Now, he wants to prove to her that he has all that she desires and can give her all that
she wants. He starts his seduction at Nick's, then brings her to his own home where he
shows her all of his expensive things (think about the scene in the bedroom with the
expensive shirts). Gatsby hopes that, by showing Daisy that he has more than even Tom
has in terms of money and possessions, that Daisy will remember that she was once,
supposedly, in love with him and will return to him.

Why is it significant that the main character has no name in "To Build a Fire"?

The short story "To Build a Fire" has as its main theme
Man vs. Nature.  In this story, the juxtaposition of the man with the dog points to the
strength of animal instinct against the rationality of man.  So, the absence of a name
for the character extends him from the particular to the general--Jack London's intent
in this naturalistic story in which a human being is subject to natural forces beyond
his control.

Against the advice of the "old-timer," the
man, whose "trouble...was that he was without imagination," ventures out on a nine-hour
trek across the Klondike.  With him trots a dog,

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a big native husky, the proper wolf dog,
gray-coated and without any visible or teperamental difference from its brother, the
wild wolf....Its instinct told it a truer tale than was told to the man by
the man's
judgment.

Clearly,
the natural forces, ones that the man ignores, win out against the human who ignores an
intuitive sense that he may have. 

As a naturalist, Jack
London was among a group of writers who went beyond realism in an attempt to portray
life exactly as it is. Naturalists were infuenced by Charles Darwin's theories of
natural selection and suvival of the fittest which held that huan behavior is determined
by heredity and environment.  Relying on new theories in sociology and psychology, the
naturalists dissected human behavior with detachment and objectivity, like scientists
dissecting laboratory specimens.  "To Build a Fire" is the recording of such an
"experiment."  And, as such, there is no need to give the man a name, since he
represents any man who behaves as he did, any man who does not understand that fur and
instinct are necessary for survival in the Klondike in the
winter.

Why should the Department of Education extend the school hour? (8 a.m. to 4 p.m.--8

A longer day at school does not mean that the students
have learned any better, nor any more.

What defines quality
education is not quantity. In fact, the best moment of the day to actually acquire
information is the morning hours. Most students are already tired, their medication
gone, or just not motivated enough in the afternoon.

What
they need to do is shorten the day to 5 full hours of learning, and then take 3 hours of
diverse enrichment and re-teaching if needed, plus good activities for incidental
learning.

"Most of the characters in The Great Gatsby are involved in deception or self deception depending on their perception of what constitutes...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby is at times a
snapshot of The Jazz Age, and, as such the characters reflect the dissolute and the
disembling of this era.  In many ways, they have chosen to create their own realities,
much as people of modern times
do.

Gatsby is certainly
involved in both deception and self-deception as he displays his new wealth in material
possessions and evening gayla with friends whose names he does not know.  Yet, he
himself is deceived in his pursuance of an illusionary "American Dream" of wealth and
love, both of which prove false.  Daisy, whose voice "sounds like money" is impressed
with this many colored shirts and his car, but vacillates in her profession of love for
him.  But, Gatsby, who does have real books inside the leather covers in his library, as
Owl Eyes has discovered, is basically genuine; he chooses the deceptive life in order to
reach the illusionary green light at the end of Daisy's pier, in order to attain
her.

Daisy, like her name
appears pure and sweet in her white dresses that mirror the flower whose name she
bears.  Yet, as the "golden girl" and one who loves money and is materialistic and
shallow, she is much like the center of her flower--yellow, the color of corruption and
gold.

Tom Buchanan involves
himself with deceiving Mrytle Wilson into believing that he actually cares for her and
thinks of her as an equal, but when she dares to criticize his class, he blackens her
eye.  He attempts to deceive his wife with this tryst with Mrytle, of course, while
adding to his deception of others by dressing like the country gentleman in riding
attire. Perhaps, his most villainous deception is that of leading Mrytle's husband to
believe that Gatsby has driven "the death car."  Tom's concept of reality is that it can
be manipulated by those who are most powerful, an idea he certainly suggests in his
promotion of his own race to maintain control of
society.

Meyer Wolfsheim's
name indicates much about him.  He is a predatory man who uses Gatsby to further his own
wealth, caring nothing for the dreamy Jay Gatsby.  As a foil to Gatsby who is loyal to
Daisy, Woflsheim has no deceptions of honor or the like in his morally corrupt soul. His
main deception is in his creation of a business that is outside the parameters of
legitimacy and the real business world, but he knows himself and is wary of others. 
Wofsheim's perception of reality is at its most sordid; he is paranoid as he knows there
are others wolves waiting to devour him.  His cuff links, two molars, suggest this
idea.

In Ode to a Nightingale, what qualities does the bird possess that narrator seeks and how do we see this in the poem?

To know the mind of a bird , one should at least be a
bird. Keats attributes the state of aesthetic -delight on the nightingale .It is
forgetful of the world of suffering , betrayal , and death .It lives in its ecstasy .As
the bird signifies Keats' concept of art and immortality , so does it possesses the
beauty of life .

In the poem no hungry generations tread it
down .From remotest past to the times of the poet , and further , it continues on its
glory of joy .The Biblical Ruth , medieval -emperors , maidens captivated by wicked
magicians , - got soothed and delighted with the bird's music .Certainly , the poet does
not mean an individual bird .From age to age the same trend of music perpetuates .This
implies that the stage of art achieved by an artist remains the same
.

The poet for achieving the state of the bird , tries to
send his senses into sleep .With the wings of imagination , he stations himself to the
bower of the bliss where the bird is singing with full-throated -ease
.

In chapter 3, what is the reason for Nick's breaking the story at this point?

There are a couple of things that could be pointed out as
the cause, but it is difficult to know exactly why without perhaps being able to consult
with Fitzgerald himself, who apparently made all the decisions about the narrative!  In
some ways you might also argue that Nick hasn't entirely broken the story at this
point.

But he does begin to realize that Gatsby isn't
everything he is cracked up to be, given that he remembers him from the war and
previously and knows that his background could be fleshed out but isn't.  Gatsby allows
the rumors to fly.

Perhaps the reason why Nick begins to
flesh things out is that he cannot wait much longer if there is to be a dramatic build
up until everyone else finds out the whole story.  It also helps to set up the reasoning
for why Daisy won't actually totally fall for Gatsby as there has to be a connection to
his less than high-class past for that to become the strong theme that it
does.

What do you understand by Real time assessement?

It would be helpful if you would tell us what area of
study you are asking about in this question.  Real time assessment could refer to a
number of different areas, from education to medicine.

In
general, real time assessments are ones for which it is not necessary to wait a long
time to get results.  For example, real time assessment can be used in educational
settings.  This has become more easily done with the increasing quality of computers.  A
real time assessment might involve a student inputting his or her answers and then being
told right away whether the answer given was correct.  The best of these systems also
have explanations.  These systems can tell the student what the right answer would have
been and can point out commonly made mistakes.

This term
generally refers to assessments that can give feedback instantly.  However, the
specifics vary depending on the field of study that you are talking
about.

What are the characteristics of "The Crucible" which make its story timeless and universal?

Its themes make it universal and timeless. There is fear,
racism, prejudice, superstition, betrayal, love, hatred, lust, loyalty, and power.  All
of these themes are still around today, and play a large role in all of our lives. It
tells a story where a bunch of people, who are afraid of getting in trouble, blame
someone else.  That is something that happens all of the time, that all of us have
done.  Others, who are upset because of their life circumstances, look for answers and
other sources for their pain.  We do that too.

Another
things that makes this play universal is the characters.  They seem like real,
well-rounded characters with strengths and weaknesses that we all can relate to.  John
is a stubborn, proud man who is trying to fix mistakes that he has made and do the right
thing.  He is real, grounded, and relatable.  Abby is a very dynamic and dividing
character, easy to hate and a perfect villian on which to fix our
frustration.

A last way that this story is timeless is that
its major theme, that of a witchhunt, is still applicable today.  In the 1950's, we had
the red scare, in the 1980's we had the cold war, and even today in underdveloped parts
of the world, actual witch hunts are still happening.  Mass hysteria continues to
ransack towns hit by disaster, and even sporting
events.

Because of its applicable themes, great characters,
and recurring situations, this play is timeless, and a great tool for discussion and
connections in classrooms.

Why does Chapter III of The Stranger end with "the blood pounding" in Meursault's ears and "the dog whimper[ing] softly"?Different translations may...

The answer to this question is a complex one partly
because of Camus' innovative psychological style and partly because of symbolism and
foreshadowing. Firstly, Camus believed that the psychological aspects of a psychological
novel were revealed in action, which ran contrary to the popular psychological literary
convention of his day that built psychological development through first-person
introspection and monologues of self-examination. What this means is that in order to
show Meursault's psychology and psychological development, Camus develops actions, which
includes dialogue and first-person descriptions of passing moments--but not passing
thoughts.

Secondly, at least one recurring symbolic motif
is present in the passage you ask about:

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The whole building was as quiet as the grave, a
dank, dark smell rising from the well hole of the stairs. I could hear nothing but the
blood throbbing in my ears, and for a while I stood still, listening to it. Then the dog
began to moan in old Salamano’s room, and through the sleep-bound house the little
plaintive sound rose slowly, like a flower growing out of
the silence and the
darkness.

The symbolic motif
I'm thinking of is flower. There are
at least four places in which Camus likens something to a flower, including Marie's
face: "her sun-tanned face was like a velvety brown
flower." The first use of
flower is when Meursault sits in vigil
at his mother's coffin:

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through the open door came scents of
flowers and breaths of cool night air. I think I dozed off
for a while.
I was wakened by an odd rustling in my
ears.

The
flower symbolizes the existential
absurdity in life, the flower appearing as it does in a completely random and valueless
fashion (1) at the side of death, (2) in a poorly lit and ill-smelling stairwell and (3)
in a beautiful woman's face. When, as in the first two uses (vigil, stairwell),
flower appears with the symbolic motif
of sound rushing in Meursault's ears ("odd rustling in my ears";
blood throbbing in my ears"),
existential absurdity is linked directly to Meursault's life, which leads to the next
consideration, that of foreshadowing.

Thirdly, the scene
set by Camus in the ill-lit stairwell--

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"quiet as the grave, a dank, dark smell ... 
blood throbbing in my ears ... dog began to moan ... through the sleep-bound house the
little plaintive sound rose, like a flower growing out of
the silence and the
darkness"

reflects back on
the earlier scene of the vigil at the coffin echoing the funereal motif of death and
decay, with the dog moaning as mourners may do and as Meursault perhaps ought to have
done at the vigil. This foreshadows what will eventually happen to Meursault largely as
a result of the overwhelming influence of his behavior (or lack of behavior) at the
funeral vigil.

So why does Chapter III of The
Stranger end with the "blood throbbing" and the "dog moaning"? It ends thusly
to express Camus' existential views; to tie random meaninglessness with Meursault's
life; and to prepare the reader for--to foreshadow--the events that will ultimately
follow; and to prepare for the great and significant influence the funeral vigil has on
Meursault's ultimate end.

What did Benjamin Franklin mean when he said, "One who gives up a little bit of freedom for a little bit of safety, deserves neither"?

Ben Franklin, our most charismatic forefather and a very
true American to boot, originated the gist behind the phrase "freedom is NOT
free".

This being said, what he meant by "one who gives up
a little bit of freedom for a little bit of safety" was a way to reinstate that, in
order for any community, group, country, or nation to be given the benefit of safety and
peace, one must have the heart and soul to be willing to do WHATEVER IT TAKES to produce
it, and keep it.

Freedom is not free. And half freedoms or
half safety is simply put a 50% that gives space to another 50% of lack of safety and
lack of freedom. In the times of Ben Franklin things were quite rough and shaky. There
was no way that the new Americans could have given that little to attain something so
great as freedom of speech, religion, creed, and activity- something they never saw in
England.

So, if you take yourself back to the origins of
this message, it was basically a call for action to people who had never experienced the
possibility of being TRULY and RIGHTFULLY free to be who they were without the paradigms
and limitations of a government that did not understand
them.

Therefore, his message was a strong appeal to those
who were still doubtful as to the importance of what was about to happen: The complete
separation from an Empire, and the amazing risk it will take to begin a new one on
nearly no foundation.

I believe that his words are still
valid in the 21st century. For, if this world shall ever again experience the
ruthlessness of a world leader that wants to enslave a certain race or ethnicity, those
affected  MUST step up to the plate and be willing to give up their lives even, iif they
must, to ensure that their dignity , freedom (and those of their families) are preserved
. Most importantly, that the strength of their character is forever marked in the pages
of history as warriors in search of defending what is humanly due to are, which is
freedom and safety.

Is it necessary to apply lotion to your hands after washing each time?

If you are talking about applying antibacterial lotion
after following proper handwashing procedures then I would say no. The skin has natural
oils that help to keep the skin moisturized.

The CDC has a
procedure that should be followed when washing your hands. They recommend applying soap
to the hands and working up a lather, using warm water if possible. Hands should be
scrubbed for at least 15-20 seconds. Dry hands with a paper towel or hand dryer. Also,
use the towel to turn off the faucet to prevent the spread of
germs.

If you are talking about applying lotion in general
then it depends on whether your skin is dry or not. I find that I need to apply more
lotion in the colder months. Otherwise my hands tend to get very
dry.

Calculate maximum values of voltage, charge and force for the following capacitor.A parallel plate capacitor with capacitance C = 45*10^6 F has a...

We have a parallel plate capacitor with capacitance C =
45*10^-6 F and the plates are 1 mm apart. There is paper between the plates. The paper
has a Edis of 1.5*10^7 V/m. The maximum voltage field that the paper can withstand is
1.5*10^7 V/m. As the distance between the plates is just 1 mm, the maximum voltage that
can be applied between them is 1/1000 of 1.5*10^7

=>
Vmax = 1.50*10^4 V

We know that Q =
C*V

As C = 45*10^-6 F

Qmax =
C*Vmax

=> Qmax = 45*10^-6*1.50*10^4
C

=> Qmax = 67.50*10^-2
C

The electric field can be expressed in terms of N/C,
Qmax= 67.50*10^-2 C

Fmax =
1.5*10^7*67.5*10^-2

=> 10.12*10^5
N

=> 1.01
MN

The required values are Vmax = 1.50*10^4
V, Qmax = 67.50*10^-2 C and Fmax = 1.01 MN

In the poem "Success is counted sweetest," what can a soldier of the "purple Host" not do?

This excellent poem by Emily Dickinson explores and
explains the ironical nature of comprehending success. According to Dickinson, success
is only something that can be fully savoured or understood by, ironically, someone who
does not succeed. Note the way the second and third stanza gives an example to support
this argument by referring to a victorious army, the "purple Host," who wins a battle,
yet cannot understand and comprehend success as much as a "defeated" and "dying" soldier
who lies on the ground, listening to the victory celebrations of his
enemies:

Not
one of all the purple Host

Who took the flag
today

Can tell the
definition

So clear of
Victory

Thus, Dickinson
argues, a victorious army is not able to "tell the definition" of their "Victory" or
understand the nature of their success compared to their defeated enemies. To really
understand success, Dickinson seems to argue, you have to paradoxically not attain
it.

Why does Fitzgerald focus so much on Gatsby's past in Ch. 6 of The Great Gatsby? Why is there so much background?What is the meaning of the...

In The Great Gatsby, the history of
Gatsby's relationship with Daisy, and the origins of that relationship, are vital to
understanding Gatsby's dream and illusion--what he is trying to
recapture.

The history in chapter six reveals Gatsby's
naivete and lack of experience--he is enchanted by Daisy's home--Nick tells the reader
that Gatsby had never experienced anything like it, and the home alone suggested
romantic tales and mysteries inside, to Gatsby.

Chapter six
reveals that Daisy is somewhat of a trophy or goal for Gatsby--the fact that numerous
soldiers had sought Daisy's company is a plus for Gatsby, not a
detriment.

The kiss in chapter six makes Gatsby's dream
more concrete, in the way any image makes ideas more concrete.  It shows the reader what
Gatsby experienced, and what he is trying to recapture.  The kiss provides Gatsby's
dream with romance.

Unfortunately, chapter six also
establishes that Gatsby is "out of his league" with Daisy.  And five years and the story
that's narrated in the novel do not change that. 

A sled is being pulled to the left by 5 dogs, each dog pulling with 6 Newtons of force. Find the net force.Is the net force 30N to the left?

No, the answer would not be 30, it would not be
multiplied. In this equation, each dog is independent of the others. If each dog pushes
the sled at  6 Newtons, you would merely add the forces together. (Five dogs, 6 Newtons
each is 5+6=11) In this case, it would be 11 Newtons. The link below should help explain
it a bit. Because all dogs are moving in the same direction, they complement each other.
If any of the dogs were moving in the other direction, you would have to cancel out and
subract.

Explain the purpose of Mrs. Schachter in the book Night by Elie Wiesel.

Wiesel's work is a stunning display of how human beings
treat one another.  From the most elemental view of ethics, one of his arguments is that
the Holocaust was so fundamentally awful because it was a moment where human beings
stopped listening to one another.  This silencing of voices was evident with the Nazi
treatment of their victims.  Yet, Wiesel is profound in his assertion that the real and
true horror was when victims mirrored the actions of the aggressors and silenced one
another.  It is to this end that Madame Schachter is included.  Huddled with the other
Jewish people from Sighet on the train, Madame Schachter screams that she sees "fire." 
As they did with Moshe the Beadle, the villagers do not listen to her, nor do they pay
attention to her words.  Rather, they silence her, eventually tying her up and gagging
her in order to not hear her voice.  Of course, she was right.  The fire she saw was the
crematorium at Auschwitz.  However, the larger point and the purpose of her inclusion
was to show that the Nazis' true crime was to legitimize the practice of silencing
voices and of intimidating others.  When the victims start to do this to one another in
order to emulate some level of power in a life where they lack it, Wiesel is reminding
us that the study of the Holocaust is historical, but it is just as much a study of the
philosophical study of the ethical treatment of human beings.  In this light, the
inclusion of Madame Schachter's character is what helps to make the work a study of
philosophy and ethics.

What should the force of friction be to keep a 10 kg block at rest on a plane that makes an angle of 45 degree with the horizontal?

The force of friction is given as Fc*N, where N is the
normal force and Fc is the coefficient of static friction. There is a force of gravity
acting on the 10-kg block and it pulls the block vertically
downwards.

We can divide this force into two components.
One parallel to the plane it is placed on and the other perpendicular to the plane. The
parallel component makes the block slide down and the perpendicular component acts as
the normal force.

It is given that the plane is inclined at
45 degrees. cos 45 = sin 45 = 1/sqrt 2. This gives the two components as 10*g*(1/sqrt
2).

To prevent the block from sliding down the frictional
force should be equal to 10*g*(1/sqrt 2) = 69.29 N
(approximately)

Which Supreme Court decisions banned racial segregation in the nation's schools?A) Brown v. Board of Education B) Westberry v. Sanders C) Baker v....

The correct answer is A: Brown vs. Board of
Education. Previously, in 1896, the Court had issued the infamous
Plessy vs. Ferguson decision, which said that separate facilities
did not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment so long as those
facilities were "equal."  Hence the famous "separate but equal" doctrine. Schools, and
other public facilities thus had the blessing of the court to remain
segregated.

Brown vs. Board of
Education, a combination of cases which actually began in Williamsburg
County, South Carolina, but combined into the Topeka Kansas case held that separate
schools were inherently unequal and had no place in American society. The decision by
the Court was unanimous. Even so, it took over 35 years for equal education to even
approach reality.

How does the contemplation of a Grecian urn relate to the subject of the poem in "Ode on a Grecian Urn?

Throughout the poem the urn functions as a symbol of
eternity which is compared against the brief and transitory state of man's existence on
the planet. Note how the speaker of the poem refers to the urn in the first
stanza:

Thou
still unravished bride of quietness,

Thou foster child of
silence and slow time,

Sylvan
historian...

These images
have been carefully chosen to emphasise the way that the urn that is being contemplated
is undamaged by the ravages of time and how it preserves history. Thus it is that this
urn and the scenes that the speaker views on it triggers off a series of reflections
about beauty, art and mortality, that are expressed in the last stanza. However, there
is a crucial ambiguity that is created in this stanza that is never resolved. We are
left unsure as to whether the urn is being celebrated as a symbol of the eternal nature
or art and beauty, or whether it is used to make a critical comment on the limitations
of art and the need to turn to life rather than idealised expressions of beauty.
Consider the following quote:

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When old age shall this generation
waste,

Thous shalt remain, in midst of other
woe

Than ours, a friend to man, to whom tho
say'st,

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty"--that is
all

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to
know.

Note how both the
positives and negatives of contemplating the urn as an ideal of art and beauty are
explored. On the one hand, such a contemplation gives us a sense of the the timeless
nature of art. On the other hand, this contemplation only exacerbates our awareness of
our own mortality and eventual death.

Thus you might find
it helpful to consider what the urn symbolises in the poem, and the author's ambivalent
attitude towards the symbolic meaning.

Who actually delivers Gatsby's eulogy at the funeral in The Great Gatsby?Why did Fitzgerald find it necessary to add this particular part into the...

The only other thing that I can think to add to this is
the fact that Nick's final remarks act as a eulogy of sorts for
Gatsby.

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Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic
future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no
matter—to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine
morning——

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne
back ceaselessly into the
past.

In essence, this is
Nick's eulogy for Gatsby. A eulogy does not have to be delivered at the funeral. It is
generally a text of some sort (it can be a poem, even) that honors the dead. In this
case, the entire novel is a eulogy as well, an extended honoring of Jat Gatz his one
true friend, Nick Carraway.

What is the special occasion in the poem "Wellfleet Sabbath"?Wellfleet Sabbath by Marge Piercy The hawk eye of the sun slowly shuts.The breast...

The novelist and poet Marge Piercy lives in Wellfleet,
Maine, which is located in the seaside area of Cape Cod.  In the poem "Wellfleet
Sabbath," Piercy describes the beginning of the Jewish Sabbath in her home by the
sea.

The Jewish Sabbath begins Friday evening at sundown
and continues until nightfall on Saturday evening.  Thus, Pierce's poem begins as
the "hawk eye of the sun slowly shuts"--that is, at
sundown.

Stanzas 1-3 describe the appearance of the bay,
the ocean, and the moon as night, and the Sabbath, take hold.  The most important aspect
of the Jewish Sabbath is peaceful rest, which Piercy alludes to with an
anthropomorphism:

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the sea
stretches its muscles in the
deep,
purrs and rolls
over.

In Stanza 4,
Piercy mentions three important ritual symbols of the
Sabbath:

a) candles, which are lit just before
sundown;

b) roast chicken, which is the main course of a
traditional Sabbath eve dinner; and

c) wine, which is used
to recite a blessing thanking God for the Sabbath.

The poem
ends with a description of how

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the Shekinah
comes on the short strong
wings of the seaside
sparrow raising her song and bringing 
down the
fresh clean night.

"Shekina"
is a Hebrew word roughly translated as the "presence of God"; in Jewish mysticism, it is
often described in gentle,feminine terms.  Here, Piercy imagines it fluttering in on
"the short strong wings of the seaside sparrow."  Like many poets before her, Piercy
finds God in nature. 

What narrative technique does Dickens employ in Chapter X?Book the Third of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

In Chapter X of Book the Third of A Tale of Two
Cities, Charles Dickens employs the literary technique of Back-story with the
letter of Dr. Manette, formerly prisoner One Hundred and Five North Tower of the
Bastille, that is discovered by Ernest Defarge upon the revolutionaries storming of the
old political prison. This letter of Manette's provides background information that is
most significant both to character and to events of the
plot. 

The letter is one that Dr. Manette has written in
his tenth year of incarceration, using the rusty iron point of a nail that he scrapes
into soot and charcoal.  Manette explains the history of his being imprisoned after
having been taken by the Evremonde twin brothers who were armed.  In a type of barn,
Manette finds both a dying young woman and a boy of seventeen.  One of the Evremonde
twins have slain him and caused the woman her death.  After they both die, the brothers
offer Manette money, but he refuses it.  On the next day after his return home, Dr.
Manette finds a bag of gold outside his door; nevertheless, he pursues his intention to
write to privately to the Minister of the past affair.  Before he sends his letter,
however, Manette has a visitor, the wife of one of the brothers Evremonde.  She worries
that God will punish her son for the sins of his father; in her hopes of averting this
punishment she seeks the living sister.  But, Manette cannot help her.  So, he sends his
letter.  On that night, he is tricked into thinking he is called to aid someone ill,
but, instead, is captured and taken to prison, the prison from which he records his
history of the fateful incidents.

Later in the novel, the
testimony of this letter is crucial to incidents involving Madame DeFarge and Dr.
Manette and Charles Darnay.  Dr. Manette's letter as back-story is also central to
clearing up the identities and occurrences involving Madame Defarge and
Darnay.

What makes "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," by Christopher Marlowe, an example of pastoral literature?

Pastoral poetry is characterized by its setting and
subject.  Pastoral poetry is about the "pasture" or rural life in a rural setting. 
Usually these poems glorify the simple life and work of rural/farm/small town life, and
the pleasure that comes from that kind of life.  The settings are usually idealized, as
is the life-style.  In actuality, rural life was demanding--a never-ending list of
responsibilities and duties.  In this poem by Marlowe, he is idealizing the life of a
shepherd.  In reality, a shepherd had a very hard life--lonely, frequently out of doors
in the elements, working for the owner of the sheep.  Marlowe has his speaker try to
convince his love to come and join him for what he claims will be a wonderful life in
the country.

The poem opens with the promise that the two
lovers will "all the pleasures prove," and he goes on to explain the pastoral scene,
stating that they will live amongst the"hills and valleys, dales and fields" while they
just sit around and listen to the "melodious birds sing madrigals."  He promises her a
"bed of roses" and "fragrant posies" "a gown of finest wool" and "fine slippers with
buckles of the purest gold."  The fact is, no shepherd can make grand promises like
"buckles of purest gold"; shepherds would be some of the poorest of the workers in
countryside.  This is where the poem shows its pastoral quality--by glorifying the
natural world and suggesting a kind of naive attitude about this
life.

In Brave New World, why is the Savage disgusted? p160: "But the Savage had suddenly broken away from his companions and was violently retching..."

In Chapter 11 Bernard, in his triumphant manner, takes
John on two fields trips to show him civilization.  In these episodes, Huxley's satire
on the utopian world continues.  At a lighting factory, as he watches each process
performed by a single Bokanovsky Group, John is nauseated by the hundreds of creatures
who all are the same.  With bitter irony, he recalls the line of Miranda in
Shakespeare's Tempest: "O brave new world that has such people in
it."

This line differs now in connotation from what it
meant to John when he first arrived in the New World as he was fascinated by the new
civilization.  Now, it turns his stomach, making him retch as he understands what has
been sacrificed in the name of progress.

Can you give me 35 good numericals on density, relative density and volume which are appropriate for the eighth grade?

The best number to begin with is the density of water: 1 g
per cubic centimeter.

The density of other common materials
can be found on many Web sites by Googling "density"

By
"Relative density" you may be thinking of "specific gravity" which is the density
relative to water.  For example, lead metal has a density of 11.6 g per cc.  Its
specific gravity is = 11.6 g per cc/ 1 g per cc = 11.6.  This means that it is 11.6
times denser than water.

What is the specific gravity of
copper metal whose density is 7.9 g per cc?  It is 7.9!  It is 7.9 times as dense as
water.

What is the specific gravity of ethyl alcohol which
as a density of .85 g per cc? .85.  It is .85 or 85% the density of
water.

I don't know what you mean by
"volume".

In Shakespeare's sonnet 18, what kind of figure of speech is used in the line "Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade"?

In Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, the narrator tells his beloved
that she will live forever if her description is written in "eternal lines" of
poetry:

Nor
shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,

When in
eternal lines to time thou
growest

These lines use two
types of figurative language: personification and
metaphor.

Personification
is when human qualities are assigned to inanimate beings or objects.  In this case,
"Death" is not a person, but the poet talks about it as if it were a person who can brag
and who casts a shadow when he stands in front of the
sun.

Metaphor is a comparison that
does not use the words like or as.  Here the
poet compares someone who is going to die to someone who wanders in the shade of
death.

It is not surprising that personification and
metaphor are used in the same phrase, because personification really is nothing more
than a specific type of metaphor.  For example, when we say "The sun was smiling down on
the children in the park," we are actually making a comparison; we are saying that the
sun was smiling at the children in the park the way a person would smile at
them.

When Lennie said he would go live in a cave, what is George's response in Of Mice and Men?

In Chapter 1 of Of Mice and Men,
after George takes a dead mouse off him, Lennie threatens to run off and live in a cave
like a bear.  George's response is that Lennie won't be able to find any food and,
likely, die.

Steinbeck uses much anthropomorphism
(comparing humans to animals) with Lennie to reveal his Social Darwinian themes.  Unlike
a native bear, Lennie does not have the survival instincts necessary to survive alone in
the wilderness.  He obviously needs a companion, like George, to help him find work,
food, and shelter.

Ironically, in the end, George will have
to put down Lennie like an animal after he kills Curley's wife and the posse is after
him.

Solve the equation square root(x^2-5)-square root(x^2-8)=1

We'll impose the constraints of existence of square
roots:

x^2-5>=0

the
expression is positive if x belongs to the
ranges:

(-infinite ; -sqrt5]U[sqrt5 ;
+infinite)

x^2-8>=0

the
expression is positive if x belongs to the
ranges:

(-infinite ; -sqrt8]U[sqrt8 ;
+infinite)

The common intervals of admissible values for x
are:

(-infinite ; -sqrt8]U[sqrt8 ;
+infinite)

Now, we'll solve the equation. We'll move
-sqrt(x^2-8) to the righ side:

sqrt(x^2-5) = sqrt(x^2-8) +
1

We'll raise to square both sides, to eliminate the square
root from the left side:

x^2 - 5 = x^2 - 8 + 1 +
2sqrt(x^2-8)

We'll eliminate x^2 both
sides:

7 - 5 = 2sqrt(x^2-8)

2
= 2sqrt(x^2-8)

We'll divide by
2:

sqrt(x^2-8) = 1

We'll raise
to square again:

x^2 - 8 =
1

x^2 = 9

x1 = 3 and x2 =
-3

Since both values belong to the intervals
of admissible values, the solutions of the equation are: {-3 ;
3}.

"The heresy of heresies was common sense... "If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself in...

What this means -- what Winston is concluding -- is that
the Party needs people to believe whatever it says.  It needs them and commands them to
disregard what they know and to believe only what it tells
them.

The case of the three men you mention shows this.  It
is clear from the picture he finds that the men did not commit the crimes that they
confessed to.  But this shows Winston how much reality has changed.   He and others who
have his job had changed reality so much that no one would ever take this picture
seriously.

When Winston sees the picture, he realizes how
the rewriting of history makes true memory and use of common sense very difficult in
this society.  People have to just rely on what the Party says.

What happens to each of these as volume increases: total fixed cost, total variable cost, fixed cost per unit, variable cost per unit.

Fixed costs refer to an amount that needs to be spent
irrespective of how many units are manufactured. This includes items like land,
machinery, infrastructure and other factors essential to produce anything. An example
would be the cost of a piece of land on which the production facility is built. If the
land costs $100000, this is fixed as $100000 has to be spent whether 10 units are
manufactured using the facility or 1000.

Variable costs
refer to the costs those that depend on the number of items produced. This would include
raw material, labor, etc. An example of variable costs is the amount spent on buying
metal that is required to build a car. If one car requires 100 kg of aluminum, we need
to buy 100000 kg for 1000 cars whereas for 10 cars only 1000 kg need to be bought. So
the amount spent on buying the metal varies with the number of cars
manufactured.

As volume increases, the total fixed cost
remains the same; the total variable cost increases; the fixed cost per
unit decreases; and the variable cost per
unit remains the same.

Give me at least three examples of popular culture themes, please.

Pop-culture today encompasses nearly everything that is
going on right now in our culture.  Tack on to this the idea that "nothing is new under
the sun" and well, you can see how huge this question really
is.

Because pop-culture is basically the things within a
culture that are deemed "popular," meaning, most-liked by the most people, it is often
considered a "dumbing down" of things that could be truly great.  This may be because
pop-culture is largely media
driven.

Ideas:

• Pop-culture
  in music as driven by American Idol or America's Got
  Talent. Many would say, as a result of pop-culture, the
  music world is settling as anyone and everyone has the chance to be
  talented.


• Pop-culture in TV as driven by
  Reality TV.  Many would again argue that as a result of
  pop-culture, celebrity life is no longer limited to the most beautiful.  No, even fat,
  stupid or easy people can be stars, thanks to shows like "The Biggest Loser," "Jersey
  Shore," and "The Bachelor."


• Pop-culture in fashion as
  driven by Bravo.  (Project Runway, What Not to Wear, etc.)  The
  message sent here might suggest that well dressed men interested in fashion are most
  likely gay.


• Pop-culture in food as driven by
  The Food Network.  And now, if you can cook, you also deserve your
  own talk show, right Rachel?

Do you get the
idea that there are almost endless possibilities here?  We've only covered, what, 5
channels?

How did revolutionary ideas in Europe and Latin America ignite uprisings in the first half of the nineteenth century?No

One of the major forces behind the revolutions in Latin
America was the force of Enlightenment ideas.  These ideas, of course, came from Europe,
but then spread to Latin America and helped to inspire rebellions
there.

For example, Simon Bolivar was an avid reader of
Enlightenment thinkers.  He believed in such things as the idea that science and reason
could explain and should determine human actions.  This led him and others like him to
believe that monarchy was not the best form of government.  It also led them to think
that there was no real reason why people born in Spain should rule over those born in
Latin America -- this did not seem logical or
reasonable.

Because of ideas like these (which also helped
cause the American Revolution) Bolivar and other liberators rebelled against
Spain.

In Chapter 4 of Of Mice and Men, what characters do you like at this point in the story? Why?

"Up to this point," means through chapter four, so you can
probably use anything from chapters 1-4, although you probably want to use mostly
details from chapter four.

Chapter four takes place in
Crooks' room.  You have Crooks, who appears sympathetic because of the prejudice and
segregation he suffers from.  He is also sympathetic because of his reaction to the
dream of owning their own place that he hears about from
Lennie.

Lennie, of course, is also presented
sympathetically.  He, one could say, is not smart enough to be influenced by society, so
he talks to Crooks like an equal. 

Candy, too, is
sympathetic.  He, too, has a marginal place in society and dreams of something
better. 

All three of these characters are misfits,
isolated in one way or another from society.  Any of them are characters that you could
like.

In Life on the Mississippi, what does young Twain jot down in his notebook?

When it becomes clear to Mr. Bixby that Twain is not
"learning the river," he gives his cub pilot some good
advice:

My
boy, you must get a little memorandum book, and every time I tell you a thing, put it
down right away. There's only one way to be a pilot and that is to get this entire river
by heart. You have to know it just like ABC . . .
.

Twain takes Bixby's advice
and soon his notebook "fairly bristled" with information. Twain says he recorded in his
notebook "the names of towns, "points," bars, islands, bends, reaches, etc." It bothers
him tremendously that his book is incomplete since he misses much of the river every
time he sleeps.

Explain how Rip Van Winkle might be seen as a model American romantic hero.What are some of his qualities that can support this?

Rip Van Winkle fits the description of model American hero
in many ways.  First of all he doesn't  conform to the mainstream guidelines of
society.  He operates at his own pace and is uninterested in any criticism thrown his
way.  He also is a nature lover and a deep thinker.  Like many Americans, he yearns to
get away from his problems and his stressful home life.  He makes this escape to the
mountains, the only place he can find solace, where he can relax, contemplate his
situation and seek peace.

When Rip awakes, he sees all his
dreams and wishes have come true.  His wife is no longer around to henpeck him and his
children are grown up, and get along with him.

Rip's
journey is one every person can identify with.  At times, we all would like to go to bed
at night and when we make up have our problems disappear.  That's Rip's adventure and
that is one why one could consider him the model American hero.

How do I create a thesis for the books Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou?

Are you trying to write a thesis that in some way compares
these two books? If so, I would focus on their differences. In
Black Like Me, a WHITE MAN pretends to be a black man and travels
through the south in attempt to experience what prejudice is like. He takes drugs to
change the color of his skin. It is a non-fiction book. In I Know Why the
Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou, a black woman, tells her life story, how she
actually DID experience not only prejudice, but many other traumas because of that
prejudice.

Do you think it is possible for someone
pretending to be black to really experience the depth of prejudice? Griffin, the author,
determined from the get-go that he would not lie to people about what he was doing, so
it was obvious, although well-intended, that he was not really experiencing TRUE
prejudice.

Perhaps you could write about the depth of both
experiences - compare what Griffin experienced to what Angelou experienced - "pretend"
prejudice vs "real prejudice". There are lots of approaches you could take. You could
focus on the "depth of prejudice experienced by Griffin vs the depth of prejudice
experienced by Angelou." You could also focus on the perspective of blacks - do some
research - how did blacks react to Griffin's experiment vs how they reacted to Angelou's
real experiences. The depth of emotion in the Angelou work is far more profound than the
Griffin work, mostly because Angelou's work reads as a novel, even though most of it is
true, whereas Griffin's is more journalistic in its approach. Does the writing style
affect the effectiveness?

I have thrown out some ideas that
I hope will help you. Good luck.

Please explain the meaning: p 157: "But, reconciled by his success,he yet refused to forego the privilege of criticizing this order."Brave New...

Taken in the context of the chapter of Brave New
World and the paragraph that it is in, this sentence is very significant. 
For, it points to the character flaws of Bernard Marx.  While he understands that there
are aspects of his society that are deserving of criticism, he wishes for the adulation
of people and the attention that his bringing of John to the New World has brought him. 
In short, Bernard is a hypocrite:

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Success went fizzily to Bernard's head and in
the process reconciled him (as any good intoxicant should) to a world which, up till
then, he had found very unstisfactory.  In so far as it recognized him as important, the
order of things was good.  But, reconciled by his success, he yet refused to forego the
privilege of criticizing this order.  For the act of criticizing heightened his sense of
importance, made him feel larger.  Moreover, he did genuinely believe that there were
things to criticize.  (At the same time, he genuinely liked being a success and having
all the girls he
wanted.)

 Clearly, Huxley is
satirizing the man who fancies himself a "free-thinker" when he actually is subservient
to a system; he only pretends at criticizing, performing it so he can "feel larger."  In
addition, Bernard's character also supports the flaws to the utopian system since he
does not follow the design of his character.  In contrast to him, Helmholtz Watson is
truly an independent thinker.

What were the causes of European Imperialism in Africa during the period 1750-1914?

I concur with the above answer, and would also like to add
a couple of other factors that influenced Imperialism in Africa during this time
period.

Strategic Advantage -
First, consider the strategic significance of African colonies such as
South Africa and Egypt, which gave Britain control of vital waterways for trade routes
in the Cape of Good Hope and later, in the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean Sea.  This
allowed the British Empire to maintain its dominance of the high seas, especially during
the time period you mention.  These trade routes, it should be said, made imperialism in
Asia and the Middle East more feasible
too.

Cultural Imperialism -
Underlying the desire of these countries to spread their empires was the racist and
arrogant belief that their empires, cultures, languages and religions were also superior
to the tribes and peoples of Africa, and that taking their natural resources could be
justified by "civilizing" such peoples.

How many Americans lived below the poverty line in the 1950s?

The most recent statistic I was able to find for Americans
living below the poverty line in the 1950s places the rate at 22.4%, more than one in
five.  Keep in mind this was before there were anti-poverty programs such as food
stamps, welfare and education programs.  These came into being largely during Lyndon
Johnson's administration in the 1960s and his War on Poverty
programs.

These programs, while expensive and not
addressing the root causes of poverty very directly, cut the overall poverty rate in
half, to just over 11%.  Since that time it has climbed again to nearly one in six
Americans today.

What 3 preparations had Montresor made in order to carry out his revenge?

Montresor has  meticulously planned the time, the place
and the method of his revenge well in advance. The following are the preparations which
Montresor makes to take his revenge on
Fortunato:

1. Time: Montresor
decides to take his revenge at "about dusk, one evening during the supreme madness of
the carnival season," so that every one in his house especially the servants would have
gone out and that he would be able to commit his heinous deed completely unnoticed by
anyone. He had cunningly ensured that the servants would not return home that evening by
lying to them that he will be returning home only next
morning.

2. Place: Montresor
chose the innermost crypt in his vaults so that Fortunato's cries would not be heard by
anyone. He had also arranged to have the building stones and the mortar ready at hand to
wall in Fortunato. When he accompanies Fortunato into the vaults he carries with him the
instrument of revenge-the trowel.

3. The
Method: All the while "smiling in his face" Montresor flatters and traps
Fortunato by exploiting his "weak point" : Fortunato "prided himself on his
connoisseurship in wine," and Montresor deceives him by saying that he does not wish to
trouble him and that he'd rather  seek Luchresi's opinion regarding the quality of the
Amontillado that he has bought. At once Fortunato takes the bait and accompanies
Montresor into the vaults to prove that he is better than Luchresi. Once inside the
vaults, Montresor gets him drunk to slow down his reflexes and then leads him to his
death.