What confession does Victor make to his father and how does he react? Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

After being released from prison because evidence is
produced that shows that he was on the Orkey Islands at the time of Henry Clerval's
murder, Victor is yet ridden with guilt over the deaths of William, Justine, and Henry. 
After his loving father delays their departure from Ireland because Victor is so weak,
they finally leave by boarding a ship bound for Havre-de-Grace very late one
evening. 

With the past hovering about Victor "like a
frightful dream," Victor recalls all that has happened and weeps bitterly.  When the
voyage ends, Victor objects to his father's desire for him to "seek amusement in
society."  But, he finally yields because he believes that Victor is still traumatized
by being put in prison. But, when he tries to shake Victor out of his unreasonable
pride, Victor confesses,

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"...how little do you know me.  Human beings,
their feelings and passions, would indeed be degraded if such a wretch as I felt
pride. Justine, poor unhappy Justine, was as innocent as I, and she suffered the same
charge; she died for it; and I am the cause of this--I murdered her.  William, Justine,
and Henry--they all died by my
hands."

Having blamed himself
for the deaths of his brother and friends, Victor hears his father disputes with
wonderment his claims of guilt,

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"My dearest Victor, what infatuation is this?  My
dear son, I entreat you never to make such as assertion
again."

Victor's father
believes that his son merely speaks out of his own black melancholy, which makes
him feel guilty. 

At 12,000 units of production, a flexible budget would show what?Scott Manufacturing Co.'s static budget at 10,000 units of production includes...

I wonder if you might have made a mistake in typing in the
answer choices.  I would say that C is the best possible answer, but it really should
have variable costs of $52,800 and not $52,000.

A cannot be
the right answer because it has a different level of fixed costs than the budget had at
10,000 units.  Fixed costs are fixed; they do not change as the level of production
rises.

B and D cannot be right.  They both have the same
total costs for 12,000 units as for 10,000.  This is not
possible.

To get the most likely amount of variable costs
for the 12,000 units, we need to find the average variable costs (AVCs) at 10,000
units.  The total variable costs (TVCs) at that output are $44,000.  Divided by 10,000
units, that gives us an AVC of $4.4 per unit.  Multiply that by 12,000 units and you get
a TVC of $52,800.

So, if the AVC at 12,000 units is the
same as the AVC at 10,000 units, then the TVC at 12,000 units must be
$52,800.

So, C is the only possible answer, but I would
think the TVC should be $52,800 and not $52,000.

Decomposition of hydrogen peroxideDuring the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide,if managanese IV oxide is used as a catalyst, how do we know if...

There are a number of ways you could experimentally prove
that the catalyst does not take part in the chemical
reaction.

!.  Very carefully weigh the catalyst that you
are adding to the decomposition reaction at the beginning and at the end.  The weight
should not change unless the MnO2 is decomposing also.

2.
Check for a change in appearance of the catalyst. If the catalyst decomposes, you should
get some manganese metal separating out which would have a different appearance than the
MnO2.

3. Carefully measure the amount of peroxide that you
are adding to decompose and the amount of oxygen that is released. If you get more than
the theoretical amount of O2, then some of the catalyst would have to have decomposed
also.

Who is in the second station in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness?

In Joseph Conrad's novel, Heart of
Darkness, there are three stations that Marlow visits on his trip through the
Congo.

The second station is called the Central
Station. It is at this location that Marlow is supposed to get his ship which
will carry him to the third station (known as the Inner Station) to pick up Mr. Kurtz
who has been in the interior of the jungle for an extremely long time. Rumor has it that
he is ill, but no one has heard from him; the only way the Company still knows that he
is alive is from the shipments of ivory that he continues to send
back.

When Marlow reaches the Central Station, he meets the
manager, the brickmaker, the manager's uncle and a mechanic whom he befriends; he also
finds that his ship in under water. Another (junior) skipper had ripped the bottom of
the ship open on the rocky bottom of the river and it sank. In order to continue his
journey, Marlow will have to repair it, which he expects will take several months. He
finds some difficulty getting parts to complete his task: he continues to order rivets,
but the orders are, mysteriously, never filled. Eventually Marlow enlists the help of
one of the mechanics (formerly a boiler-maker, a widow with six children), and although
the rivets take their time arriving, they eventually show
up.

Marlow is able to complete the repairs to his ship and
resume his journey to find and retrieve Mr. Kurtz.

How does the idea of guilt play into Rahim Kahn's strategy to get Amir to go and look for Sorab in The Kite Runner?

Guilt and redemption are two of the primary themes of this
novel, and Rahim uses Amir's guilt over his abandonment of Hassan during the attack and
his subsequent treatment of Hassan shortly after that to pull him back to Afghanistan to
search for Hassan's son, Sorab.  Amir, as a first person narrator, has revealed to us
from the first page of the novel that he feels guilty about what he did to Hassan back
in their youth, and it is has all haunted him through to his adulthood.  When Rahim
calls to tell him about Hassan's death and the plight of his son Sorab, the past has
"caught up" with the present of Amir's life.  Though Rahim doesn't state anything
directly, he makes it rather implicitly clear that he knows
all that happened back on the day of the kite running contest and
what Amir did to drive Hassan and his father from Amir and Baba's home.  He also reveals
that Hassan was Amir's half-brother, and therefore, Sorab, is Amir's half-nephew.  Amir
always sensed an unusual closeness between Baba and Hassan and his father, but this
explains everything better.  Amir is absolutely compelled to do what he can to do right
by the memory of Hassan, to show loyalty to blood relations, and to right the wrongs of
his past and achieve some measure of personal redemption and relief from the guilt he
has carried around all these years.  It is a wonderful irony that when he does find
Sorab, Amir must fight the attacking bully of their past -- Assef, in order to secure
Sorab's life.  His physical fight with Assef is kind of the fight he should have had
back when they were all boys.  It is also a great irony that Sorab is the one to finally
take down Assef with the use of sling-shot -- a weapon he learned to use from the master
-- his father, Hassan.

How do I write an essay comparing "Boys and Girls" and "Mirror Image" by Canadian authors on the topic of dreams vs. reality? I want to compare...

First of all, you will need to find a common thread
between the two stories.  For example, you might say that both of them demonstrate the
conflict between dreams and reality, or the loss of hope.  Then, you describe how the
authors use characterization, mood and symbolism to explore the theme in each
story. 

Once you have your thesis, I would choose to write
a paragraph for each of the elements you listed.  For example, your first main point
paragraph would be about how the author uses characterization to explore the concept of
__________________ (whatever your thesis is related to dreams and reality).  For
example, you might say that one character is hopeful and another is pessimistic. 
Explore their character traits, and how the authors use those traits to explore the
theme.

Then, your second paragraph would do the same thing
with mood.  How does the atmosphere of the two stories compare?  How does the atmosphere
relate to dreams?  Is one story more realistic to
you?

Finally, choose important symbols from both stories
that mean the same thing or something related.  It might even be the same or a similar
symbol.  Explore how the author uses it to relate to your thesis statement about reality
and dreams.

In The Westing Game, why is everyone surprised when Otis Amber testifies?

The answer to the question can be found on page 163 where
Otis comes out and testifies. The reason why everyone is shocked is because they all
thought that Otis was just some simpleton who worked at the soup kitchen, and they may
have overestimated him. They did not know he was a hired private investigator who was
hired precisely to find out the truth of the heirs. That came to them as a huge
surprise.

"Eveline" by James Joyce, what is meant by the phrase " to keep the home together as long as she could "?

As James Joyce's story, "Eveline" opens, the main
character sits at the window where "she was tired."  Here the implication is that
Eveline is a victim of abuse from her drunkard father.  In her internal monologue, she
reflects that "now she had nobody to protect her" since her brother Ernest is dead and
Harry is always gone "somewhere in the country."

Leaning at
the window, Eveline refelcts upon her life, a hard life, but in contemplating her
departure, she perceives her life as not "wholly undesirable."  On her lap are two
letters, one to her father, and one to Harry.  With the smell of cretonne from the
curtains, and the street organ playing, Eveline is reminded of her dead mother, who made
her promise to care for her father and "keep the home "together," which means to take
care of the father and children as if she were the mother, to replace the dying
mother.

At the station, Eveline is suddenly gripped by a
psychological paralysis that makes it impossible for her to move.  Eveline cannot assert
herself in psychological freedom and, so she surrenders to  the life she knows in order
to keep the home together.

Which of the following correctly describes the election of 1912? The Democrats achieved effective national power for the first time in over...

The correct answer here is 5 -- All of the
above.

I wonder if your textbook is Tindall and Shi's
America: A Narrative History.  If so, you can find all of these
effects of the 1912 election laid out in order at the end of the subsection devoted to
that election (in the edition I have, it's called "The Election of 1912" and is in Ch.
24).

The election was the first time that Democrats had
control of the presidency and both houses of Congress since the Civil War (except for a
brief time in 1893-5 that Tindall and Shi say didn't really
count).

Wilson was a Southerner.  So were 5 of his 10
cabinet members.  This put the South back in power for the first time in a long
time.

The election split the Republican Party.  The
progressive Republicans went with Theodore Roosevelt and the Bull Moose Party.  The more
conservative people stuck with Taft.

Finally, the major
debate of the election was between Wilson's "New Freedom" and TR's "New
Nationalism."

So -- all of those answers are right and
therefore it is all of the above.

What does the boy give up for Sheila in "The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant"? What does he learn from the experience?

The boy gives up the chance to catch "the biggest bass
(he) had ever hooked" for Sheila Mant. The bass is so huge that it is able "to draw a
fully loaded canoe backward - the thought of it (makes the boy) feel faint." Sadly,
Sheila has just expressed an antipathy towards fishing, and the boy is intent on
impressing her and keeping her happy. The boy almost has the bass, all he needs to do is
to grab the rod and reel it in, but in his determination not to do anything that might
ruin his chances with the girl of his dreams, he lets the fish
go.

The boy's date with Sheila ends in disaster. After
paying little, if any, attention to him during the dance, she comes over when the music
has stopped and announces that she is going home with another boy, Eric Caswell. This
conclusion had been evident to all but the narrator, as Sheila had shown no interest
in him throughout the narrative, and had even mentioned Eric twice on their ride to the
dance. When Sheila announces her intention to go home "in Eric Caswell's Corvette," she
looks at the boy for the first time that night and tells him he's "a funny
kid."

After the dance, the boy reflects on what has
happened, and says, "it was these secret, hidden tuggings in the night that claimed me."
The tuggings of which he speaks are the physical and romantic longings set off by a
beautiful woman, which caused him in this instance to sacrifice the chance to catch the
biggest fish he had ever come across. From his experience, the boy has learned that the
allure of a woman is fleeting, but that being true to himself and his own nature is a
call which must be recognized. The boy is a fisherman through and through, and he
regrets his decision to sacrifice the bass for the attentions of a woman who does not
even, in the end, care about him. The boy gives a name to the "tuggings" on his heart,
and resolves never to make "the same mistake again."

Describe the writing and artwork of Emmeline Grangerford. What does Huck think of her pictures and poems?

Basically, the late Emmeline Grangerford's art and poetry
was all completely morbid and sad.  As Huck says about her
poetry,

she
could write about anything you choose to give her to write about just so it was
sadful.

All of her pictures
are of dead or dying things.  She has one of a woman mourning at a grave.  She has one
of a woman mourning a dead bird.  The one she was working on when she died was a woman
about to commit suicide.  Her poetry was also about dead
people.

Huck says that he thinks all of her work is nice
but that he can't "take to it.  It is all too sad and it depresses him to see any of
it.

You can find more details in Chapter
17.

When they finally meet, what is Utterson's reaction to Hyde?

When Utterson meets Hyde in Chapter 2, Utterson is
completely repelled by Hyde.  His reaction to Hyde can be fairly neatly summed up in one
line that Utterson speaks.  He says to himself

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God bless me, the man seems hardly
human!

and then goes on to
say

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...oh, my poor old Harry Jekyll, if
ever I read href="../../dr-jekyll-mr-hyde-text/chapter-2-search-hyde?start=2#prestwick-gloss-str-8">Satan’s
signature on a face, it is on that of your new
friend.

Utterson cannot
really understand why it is that he dislikes Hyde and is so repelled by him.  He thinks
about how Hyde looks a little bit strange and about how Hyde sounds strange.  But he
thinks that these things are not enough to account for how deeply disgusted he is by
Hyde.  He wonders if he just hates Hyde for no good
reason.

Utterson does not realize it at this point, but
what he is seeing (and being repelled by) is the fact that Hyde is purely
evil.

What is accross the board adjustment in real estate?

“Across-the Board-Adjustments” are applied to real estate
appraisals.  Adjustments are made when the subject property is compared to comparable
properties.  Adjustments are in either of two directions, CIA = comparable inferior,
value is added to subject property, CBS = comparable superior, value is subtracted from
subject property.

The ideal appraisal involves actual and
specific evaluation by the appraiser of the subject property and the comparables. 
Adjustments are then based on real and specific differences in the properties such as
property location, condition, curb appeal, lot size and so
forth.

Across-the-board adjustments are based on a general
concept of the differences between the subject property and comparables, and are not
necessarily supported by reality.  Since specific evaluations are not employed, there is
a chance of inaccuracies in either direction (CIA or
CBS).

The reference gives tips on evaluating a real estate
appraisal.  It outlines the danger of across-the-board adjustments.  It instructs how to
examine the appraisal critically in order to detect the likely accuracy (or lack
thereof) of the appraisal.

What are some of Snowball's and Napoleon's character traits in Animal Farm?

Just put something about how the characters tie in to the
Russian Revolution and the roles of each. Napoleon is Stalin and Snowball is Trotsky.
You could also put your opinion on how evil they both are and which you think is more
evil than the
other.

Napoleon:

has
the "secret police" (the dogs)

took Snowball's idea on the
windmill

Squealer is his personal
servant

has gone against or changed every rule that started
Animal Farm

drove Snowball
out

blames anything bad that happens to the farm on
Snowball

tricks people into dying to prove a
point

needs everyone to love him... otherwise they
die

Snowball:

extremely
smart

based everything that he did off of what Old Major
would have wanted

fought in the battle of the
cowshed

risked his life for everyone on the
farm

helped found Animal
Farm

If you search in Google the ties between
the Russian Revolution and Animal Farm that should be enough to write at least two
pages. I wrote 10 pages on just this topic and I had 22 other questions to also
do. 

What effect does Macbeths behavior have on the feast?How does this reflect the situation of scotland

The feast that Macbeth disrupts in Shakespeare's
Macbeth occurs in Act 4.3.  Macbeth puts an abrupt end to the feast
and once again brings his wife's wrath down on
himself.

Macbeth in lines 41-45 continues his strategy of
giving the appearance to others that he doesn't know Banquo is probably dead by now, by
announcing that he wishes all of the "country's honor [were] roofed" at the feast:  all
the honorable men in Scotland were together at this feast.  He specifically mentions
Banquo, saying that he will rebuke Banquo for his unkindness in not being
present. 

Unknown to Macbeth, Banquo is present, in the
form of a ghost, having entered according to the stage directions between the split
parts of line 38.  When Macbeth does notice him a few lines after his speech, the
ghost's presence, in effect, rebukes Macbeth. 

Macbeth
shouts and shrieks and the honors that are present--in bodily
form--"start to rise" according to the stage direction between lines
54-55. 

Lady Macbeth tries to calm the men by lying to
them, saying that her husband is often this way, and has been since his youth.  It is
just an illness, she claims.

Lady Macbeth chastises her
husband--telling him his vision is nonsense, and that it's just like the bloody dagger
he saw just before he killed Duncan (imaginary)--and the feast settles down once the
ghost disappears.

When the ghost reappears, however,
Macbeth panics again, and in Lady Macbeth's words:

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You have displaced the mirth, broke the good
meeting

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With most admired [amazing] disorder.  (Act
4.3.110-111)

Lady Macbeth
then dismisses the men, telling them to exit quickly and not to worry about exiting in
an orderly manner--just to go. 

Once again, Macbeth has
behaved in a way his wife keeps warning him against--in a way that draws attention to
their guilt.

What are some quotes by Walter Cunningham in To Kill a Mockingbird?

There are actually two Walter Cunninghams in Harper Lee's
novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The father is one of Atticus' former
clients who reappears as one of the members of the lynch mob who tries to take Tom
Robinson from the jail. His son, Walter Jr., is one of Scout's classmates at school. She
blames him for her bad start on the first day of first grade, "rubbing his nose in the
dirt" as payback. Jem breaks up the fight and invites him back to the Finches' house for
lunch. The Cunninghams are extremely poor farmers, and Walter is a skinny,
hookworm-laden lad who comes to school each day without lunch or lunch money. The family
is often compared to the Ewells, but in a much more positive way: Though poor,
the Cunninghams are honest and Walter Jr. always comes to school in clean
clothing.

Walter's father says little during the novel, but
he is moved by Scout's innocent conversation and her friendship with Walter Jr. in front
of the jail. Instead of roughing up Atticus and removing Tom Robinson from his cell, Mr.
Cunningham does an about-face.

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   "I'll tell him you said hey, little lady," he
said.
   Then he straightened up and waved a big paw. "Let's clear out," he
called. "Let's get going,
boys." 

Like Jem and Scout,
Walter Jr. is also afraid of Boo Radley, having barely survived one
episode.

  
"Ever hear about him, Walter?"
   "Reckon I have," said Walter. "Almost died
first year I come to school and et them pecans--folks say he pizened 'em and put 'em
over on the school side of the
fence."

Did Emily Dickinson write many poems as "Much Madness is Divinest Sense"?I mean something like this poem, or in the same tone?

There is a passage in To Kill a
Mockingbird by Harper Lee in which Scout asks her neighbor Miss Maudie about
the recluse of the neighborhood, Boo Radley, because she finds him strange.  But Miss
Maudie tells Scout after they discuss the hypocrisy of their town that Boo may just want
to remain inside his house. Certainly,Emily Dickinson lived deliberately having chosen
solitude for contemplation, reading, and writing.  Like Wordsworth, she may have found
"the world too much" with her.  At any rate, she perceived, not "through a glass
darkly," but clearly the foibles of mankind in the privacy of her own
home.

Her poem, "Much Madness is Divinest Sense,"
illustrates the perspicacity of Miss Dickinson who knew that to be different is to be
misjudged, or, as Herman Melville stated, "failure is the true test of success."  In
other poems, also, Miss Dickinson wrote of the incongruities of the mundane populace. 
For instance, she writes a poem about how people cannot handle truth when it is spoken
frankly:  "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant" describes how success at communicating
truth lies in "circuit":

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Too right for our infirm
Delight

The turth's superb
surprise...

The Truth must dazzle
gradually

Or every man be
blind--

This poem has much
the same tone as that of "Much Madness is Divinest Sense."  Another poem that has the
tone, of attitude of the author toward the incongruities and pettiness of people is her
poem entitled "I'm Nobody! Who are You?"

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I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you
nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us -- don't tell!
They'd banish
us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How
public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an
admiring bog!

These poems
mentioned are just a few of the ones that explain why Emily Dickinson preferred her own
company in the solace of her own home, "residing in
indeterminancy."

What quotes from Ibsen's play A Doll's House express Nora Helmer's reactions to pressure from other people?

In Ibsen's play, A Doll's House, Nora
is very good at dealing with pressure from others. With Torvald she can flirt with him,
or distract him.

In Act Two, when Torvald is ready to read
the mail, and Nora is afraid he will find Krogstad's damning letter, she diverts his
attention by striking the first chord of the tarantella, the dance that Nora will
perform at the party. She plays the child, pretending that she just cannot do a good job
unless he helps her.

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No, I haven't practiced at all yet...Oh, it's
absolutely necessary, Torvald. But I can't get anywhere without your help. I've
forgotten the whole thing completely...I can't dance tomorrow if I don't practice with
you...[I'm] so terribly frightened. Let me practice right now; there's still time before
dinner. Oh, sit down and play for me, Torvald. Direct me. Teach me, the way you always
have.

Torvald does not give
Nora credit for being very bright, and it seems ridiculous to even consider that she
might be manipulating him in some way. He falls right in with her plans, coddles her
like a child, and is distracted by teaching her the dance, which she knows quite
well.

In another instance in Act Two, when Nora is showing
Dr. Rank her costume, she innocently flirts with him, showing him the dress, but also
the flesh colored stockings she will wear. At the time, this would have been outrageous,
as women did not let me see their legs, let along their undergarments. She even
playfully slaps him on the ear with them, and then tells him he is
"naughty."

Dr. Rank is dying and begins to think about how
little time is left to him. Unaware of his struggle at that moment, Nora goes about
"testing the waters" to see if she might be able to borrow money from Dr. Rank to pay
off the loan. He is more than a little in love with her and would do anything for her,
but she is unaware. She tells him he is her truest friend. However, when she begins to
explain and tell him that Torvald would do anything for her (or so she thinks), Dr. Rank
steps over the line of propriety (though Nora had just done so herself) and declares his
feelings. Rank says:

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Nora—do you think he's the only one—...Who'd
gladly give up his life for you...I swore to myself you should know this before I'm
gone. I'll never find a better chance. Yes, Nora, now you know. And also you know now
that you can trust me beyond anyone
else.

This confession has
made things very uncomfortable for Nora. In so many ways, she really
is a child. Rank's declarations have upset her. The first thing she
asks the maid to bring in is light, so that the sense of reality returns. Then Nora acts
as a petulant child and scolds Dr. Rank for "being mean" by telling her of his feelings,
and, basically, ruining the "fun" they had been having. Then she scolds him a little
more. When Rank says he should not return, she disagrees, saying he should come as
always. For as soon as the matter is swept away, like a child, Nora pretends that it
never happened.

Nora is excellent at diverting attention
away from a problem at hand either with flirting or by providing a distraction. And she
only uses the tools at hand. She is not consciously manipulative, but treated as a
child, she has learned how to act within those confines.

Is Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman a tragedy in the Hegelian sense of the term?

If Hegel's dialectical path can be evident in Miller's
work, it becomes evident that Willy  is a casualty of this progression.  Hegel's belief
that history is the unfolding dynamic of the thesis and antithesis.  While these terms
never exactly appear in his writing, Hegel's arguments rest upon the understanding of
such ideas

Taking this idea, Willy's predicament is a
result of this collision between thesis and its contradictory antithesis.  Willy
represents the construct of reality that is opposite to the progressing dialectic of
modernity.  The fact that Willy feels silenced and threatened by the modern setting
reveals that he is a casualty of this dialectic, representing the obstacle to synthesis,
or a new thesis emerging.  Willy's lack of embrace of how to function in the modern
setting as well as his inability to make sense of his own place in the modern reality
contributes to his state.  It is in this light that Willy's tragic condition can be seen
as Hegelian

How have the actions of people involved in the Treaty of Waitangi in the past influenced people lives in present day?

Although the Treaty of Waitangi itself does not have any
force in the law of modern day New Zealand, the actions of the people involved in the
treaty still influence people today.  This is because the "principles of the treaty"
have become a part of New Zealand law and have affected the way in which New Zealand
deals with its Maori citizens.

For example, the New Zealand
government has written into law the idea that the Maori tribes should have some level of
control over their resources.  The law also allows for people to claim redress for
violations of the treaty.  Because these principles have been written into law, the
actions of the people involved in the treaty continue to influence New Zealanders
today.  These have led, for example, to significant Maori involvement in the fishing and
forestry industries.  On the negative side, it has led to some amount of conflict
between those who wish to preserve the treaty and those who wish to remove its
principles from the law.

I wanted to know what are two similarities and two differences between our involvement in Vietnam and our 2003 involvement in iraq.

This is a very powerful question whose answers will have
to examined through the lens of political affiliation.  On one hand, some differences
between both conflicts would be that the military escalation of forces is not the same. 
In Vietnam, the conflict experienced a wide escalation or swelling of military personnel
before a deescalation.  In Iraq, this is not present.  The President has committed to
withdraw troops with somewhat of a timetable, but the noticeable escalation of military
presence that was such a part of the Vietnam war is not there with the Iraq conflict. 
Another major difference is the casualty count.  Any and all loss of military life is
extremely painful for which to account.  Yet, the casualty number in Iraq is nowhere
near the count for Vietnam.  When such a number far exceeds 50,000, the situations are
not entirely the same.

Some similarities are present.  The
first would be that the wars experienced an increased in unpopularity.  The Iraq
Conflict and Vietnam Wars were and are unpopular.  The large scale of increased support
from the body politic are not as present in analyzing both conflicts.  Another
similarity would be that each conflict proved to be more difficult than originally
envisioned.  The Vietnam Conflict was seen as the mighty power of America against a
"bunch of people in black pajamas."  Yet, once the war had continued, there was a
distinct complexity that forced America's hand in being trapped between options that
were undesirable.  The same situation presented itself in the immediate stages of the
Iraq conflict.  The notion that America would be "greeted as liberators," that there
would be an immediate reality of a lower price of oil, and that once Saddam Hussein
would be removed from office, democracy could take a quick hold were all false
assertions.  The removal of Hussein and anti- American fervor that developed ended up
allowing multipolar tensions to surface, making "the enemy" that much more difficult to
identify.  Additionally, the removal of Saddam Hussein actually helped to allow Al-
Qaeda operatives to enter the region, causing even more
instability.

What are two external conflicts in Marked, from the House of Night series, by P. C. Cast, and name the conflicts?

Zoe Redbird is the protagonist in
Marked from the House of Night series by P.C.
Cast and Kristin Cast.  She has a conflict with Aphrodite who is an older vampire
fledgling and leader of the Dark Daughters, an elite group at the House of Night. 
Aphrodite wants to be the center of attention and is a bully. Zoe also ends up with
dating Erik, Aphrodite's ex-boyfriend who dumped her.

In
the end, Zoe is given Aphrodite's post as the leader of the Dark Daughters because of a
conflict with an evil spirit that Aphrodite mistakenly summons. It attacks Zoe's
ex-human-boyfriend. Zoe is able to send it back with the help of her friends in a circle
she casts.

In the Catholic Church, why is it important for an individual to be confirmed?

To see the importance of confirmation in the Catholic
Church, remember that Catholics are baptized as infants, not as adults the way many
Protestant sects do things.  Because of this, confirmation is an important way for the
teen (now an adult in many ways) to reaffirm the promises that were made on his or her
behalf at baptism.

At a Catholic baptism, the parents and
godparents of the child make various promises on the child's behalf.  They promise, for
example, to reject Satan and all his works.  The child cannot, of course, participate. 
When a child is 6 or 7 and takes Holy Communion, they are participating more fully in
the Church but are still really not old enough to fully understand their commitment to
the Church.

By the time that a person is confirmed, they
are old enough to really make a commitment for themselves.  This is the importance of
confirmation -- to commit yourself to God and the Church in a way that was not possible
at the time you were baptized.

In The Glass Menagerie, Scene 4 ends with Amanda making a telephone call to sell magazine subscriptions. Explain why the scene ends this way.

To understand this question we need to consider what
happens in Scene Four as a whole and think about how it relates to this tedious job that
Amanda is shown to work at during the play at various stages. Let us remember that it is
in this scene that Amanda tries to convince Tom to find a suitable friend who could
marry Laura so that she can be saved from spinsterdom and can be provided for. Key to
this talk that Amanda has with her son is the following
speech:

I know
your ambitions do not lie in the warehouse, that like everybody in the whole
world--you've had to--make sacrifices, but--Tom--Tom--life's not easy, it calls
for--Spartan
endurance!

Amanda herself
shows her own "Spartan endurance" by working hard at a job that requires her to demean
herself by calling a series of women to get them to subscribe to a magazine and talking
to them about their kidney conditions. This of course is not what she would have wished
or expected from her life, but the scene ends this way to show her resolution, but also
their economic situation.

What is the difference between sex influenced/sex limited and sex linked inheritance?

Sex limited inheritance refers to the inheritance of
traits that are expressed only in either the male or the female offspring due to their
expression being influenced by differences in the anatomy of males and females. For
example if a trait is displayed in organs present only in males, even though a female
also inherits the gene, it would not show in her.

Sex
influenced inheritance is the difference in display of traits due to a differing
biological environments as males and females like the presence of specific sex hormones.
For example, the genes that result in baldness may be present in both males as well as
in females but are more likely to be expressed in males as a result of the male sex
hormones.

Sex linked inheritance is traits carried in
either the X or the Y chromosome. A trait that is due to genes present on the X
chromosome is more likely to be expressed in males as they have only one X chromosome.
The presence of two X chromosomes in females can suppress its expression when one of
them has the genes for the trait and the other does not. X linked traits fall under many
categories like recessive, dominant and co-dominant which influence their expression in
members of both the sexes. A trait due to a gene in the Y chromosome will only show in
males and not in females.

How does Childe Harold's Pilgrimage reflect the characteristic of Romanticism that places emphasis on the value of the unique individual?

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage in 1812
established Lord Byron as the leading poet in England, and the work is a beautiful
expression of English Romanticism in its explorations of antiquity and celebrations of
nature. From his life in England and through his journeys, Harold becomes the Romantic
Byronic hero, a figure who would appear many times over in Western literature to
follow.

One of the primary characteristics of Romanticism
is the emphasis upon the individual; the interior life, particularly in terms of
self-awareness and self-fulfillment are valued more than the individual's role in
society. In American literature in the 1800s, these Romantic philosophies were clearly
expressed in the Transcendental works of Emerson and Thoreau. In Childe
Harold's Pilgrimage,  they create the framework of the poem itself; troubled
and discontent, Harold leaves his home to go in search of truth about human existence,
and in doing so, discovers essential inner truths. Harold's pilgrimage, therefore, is
both external and internal. His journeys into foreign lands appealed to readers'
interest in the exotic, but it is in his exploration, awareness, and development of self
that Byron's Romantic themes are best realized.

Find the coefficient of friction between the particle and the plane in the following case.A particle of mass 0.6 kg is held in equilibrium on a...

For the particle at equilibrium on the inclined plane in
the problem, there are three forces acting on it. One of them is the gravitational pull
of the Earth which acts on the particle in a downward direction. The other is a
horizontal force that is exerted on the particle pushing it towards the plane. These
result in a third force due to friction which is in the opposite direction to that in
which the particle can move.

The frictional force is given
as Fc*N, where Fc is the coefficient of kinetic friction and N is the normal
force.

Here N is the sum of the forces normal to the plane
due to a component of the gravitational force and a component of the horizontal force
being applied.

N = 0.6*9.8*sin 60 + 5*sin
30

The force acting downwards parallel to the plane is
(5*cos 30 - 0.6*9.8*cos 60)

As the force acting downward is
equal to the force acting upward.

Fc* N = (5*cos 30 -
0.6*9.8 cos 60)

=> Fc * ( 0.6*9.8*sin 60 + 5*sin 30)
= (5*cos 30 - 0.6*9.8*cos 60)

=> Fc = (5*cos 30 -
0.6*9.8*cos 60) / ( 0.6*9.8*sin 60 + 5*sin 30)

=> Fc
= 0.1830

Therefore the coefficient of
friction is 0.1830.

In "The Dead", what was the cause of Gabriel's quarrel with his mother and who was proven right?

Gabriel quarrels with his mother over a conception of
Gretta, Gabriel's wife. 

Gabriel's mother is described as a
person with some ambitions for her children and some considerable
pride. 

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Gabriel remembers that she opposed his marriage
to Gretta and that she called Gretta, in a derogatory way, "country
cute.''

This is
the source of the dispute between Gabriel and his mother. Though the text leaves open
the possibility that Gabriel truly disagrees with his mother, it also leaves open the
possibility that Gabriel is upset with his mother's epithet because he believes it to be
true. 

At the end of the story it is the dead who "win".
Gretta's young lover, Michael Furey, died when he was seventeen. Though years have
passed, Michael still seems to own Gretta's affections as demonstrated when Gretta
refuses Gabriel's advances in deferral to a feeling of mourning for Michael. In this
choice, Gretta may prove Gabriel's mother correct. She does belong in the
country. 

To use a common phrase, we might say that her
heart has never left the country. 

Prove that (sin x)^2*[1 + (cot x)^2] = 1

We know, as a consequence of Pythagorean identity,
that:

1 + (cot x)^2 = 1/(sin
x)^2

Let's see
how:

Pythagorean identity states
that:

(sin x)^2 + (cos x)^2 =
1

We'll divide by (sin x)^2:

1
+ (cos x)^2/ (sin x)^2 = 1/(sin x)^2

But (cos x)^2/ (sin
x)^2 = (cot x)^2

1 + (cot x)^2= 1/(sin
x)^2

Now, we'll substitute what's inside brackets by the
equivalent above:

(sin x)^2*(1 + (cot x)^2) =
(sin x)^2*(1/(sin x)^2) = 1

Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, What is the significance of this event?

As you should probably know, this bombing got the United
States into World War II.  It led, therefore, to the defeat of Japan, but also to the
defeat of Germany.

Before Pearl Harbor, Americans were dead
set against getting involved in this war.  They felt it did not have to do with them. 
But once Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Americans were gung ho to join the war and get
revenge.

The Pearl Harbor attack led to Germany declaring
war on the US and that really hurt Germany because US production capabilities (as well
as soldiers) were a large part of defeating Germany.

In the poem "Heart! We will forget him," the heart takes the lead here and has to do with the signficance of warmth and light—true?

In Emily Dickinson's short poem, "Heart! We will forget
him," the speaker uses an apostrophe, speaking directly to her heart. And she also
personifies her heart as something that will, with her, forget him. (Hearts don't have
minds with which to forget.)

According to Dr. L. Kip
Wheeler:

Not
to be confused with the punctuation mark, [an] apostrophe
is the act of addressing some abstraction or personification that is not physically
present: For instance, John Donne commands, "Oh, Death, be not
proud."

At the same time,
personification is:

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A trope in which
abstractions, animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are given human character, traits,
abilities, or reactions. Personification is particularly common in poetry, but it
appears in nearly all types of artful writing. [E.g., The wind
howled through the
park.]

The speaker talks
directly to her heart. Between them—her mind and her heart—they will endeavor to forget
"him," perhaps someone who has broken her/their heart. She tells her heart to forget the
warmth he gave to her; warmth may be the comfort and pampered
feelings she had (at one point) when he was around.

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HEART, we will forget
him!

You and I, to-night!

You
may forget the warmth he gave,

I will forget the
light.

The speaker notes that
she will work hard to forget the light. This may allude to the
sense that in a dark world lacking in love, that his presence, his
love provided a beacon, a lighted signal with which to navigate her
way.

Emily Dickinson often offers some bit of a surprise in
her poems: something playful. Her heart wants to forget his warmth. The speaker is
trying, also, perhaps led by the heart, to dismiss the memory of
his light from her life.

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When you have done, pray tell
me,

That I my thoughts may
dim;

However, the speaker
cautions the heart to tell her when the heart is through so there is no gap in time.
Here the speaker implies that she may not be terribly strong: perhaps she is unwilling
in trying to forget that light. Here comes the playful
twist:

Haste!
lest while you're lagging,

I may remember
him!

She says that if the
heart lags behind too long, the speaker may not be able to stick with her resolve to
forget the light, and may actually remember him regardless of their plan. It seems that
she may still love "him" and being trying hard to get over him: with no guarantee of
success.

In chapter 18, what startling revelation is made about Tom in the book To Kill a Mockingbird?

There are several things in Mayella's testimony that
actually aid Atticus' case, despite Mayella not being one of Atticus'
witnesses. 

   Firstly, Mayella is cross-examined by
Atticus, but she seems to be very unsure of what happened/what she has to say. This
gives the audience reason to believe that Mayella Ewell is lying about what actually
happened in the Ewell home with Tom.

   Secondly, Mayella
unwittingly paints a picture of life at the Ewells' home. It is made clear that she is
incredibly lonely and sad with her life; she has no friends and even thinks that Atticus
is mocking her when he asks her about this. It also shows that Tom Robinson really did
'feel sorry for her' when he came in to help her with her
work. 

Thirdly, Mayella herself casts doubt on the fact
that Tom Robinson beat her, by accidentally revealing facts about her father. Mayella
mentions that her father gets very mad when he's drunk (which we know happens very
often) and this implies that he has beaten her before. This means that it is likely that
Bob Ewell beat his own daughter, not Tom Robinson.

Solve the equation 1/2^(x^2-1)=square root(16^x).

We'll manipulate the left side using the negative power
property:

1/2^(x^2-1)=2^-(x^2-1)

Now,
we'll manipulate the right side, writting 16 as a power of
2:

sqrt(16^x) = sqrt(2^4x) = (2^4x)^(1/2) =
2^2x

We'll re-write the
equation:

2^-(x^2-1) =
2^2x

Since the bases are matching now, we'll apply one to
one property:

-x^2+1 = 2x

x^2
+ 2x - 1 = 0

x1 = [-2+sqrt(4 +
4)]/2

x1 = (-2+2sqrt2)/2

x1 =
-1+sqrt2

x2 =
-1-sqrt2

The solutions of exponential
equation are { -1-sqrt2 ; -1+sqrt2}.

Describe Jem and Scout's relationship through these chapters as Jem matures. Why did Dill run away from home back to Maycomb?

As Jem enters puberty, he becomes more distant and
short-tempered with Scout. When he tells his sister to "start bein' a girl and acting
right!", Scout bursts into tears and seeks solace with Calpurnia. Scout also misses
Dill, who has not arrived yet for his regular summer stay. Jem and Scout are able to
agree on their dislike for Aunt Alexandra, who unites them when she comes to stay with
them at the end of Chapter 12. But the two get into a fistfight in Chapter 14, and
Atticus has to step in. Things get better later that night when Dill makes his
appearance--from underneath Scout's bed. Dill has run away from home, and he claims it
is because of his "new father," who has chained him and left him to die in their
Meridian basement. Since Dill has exaggerated so often about his father, it's hard to
get a straight story about what happened. We do know that he feels unloved by his
parents, who

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"ain't mean. They buy me everything I want...
They kiss you and hug you good night and good mornin' and goodbye and tell you they love
you--"

But Dill's parents
never spend any time with him, so he decides to head to Maycomb where he feels love and
companionship from Jem and Scout.

Who is the winner in The Lion and the Jewel?

At least on a simple level, the Lion is the winner since
he eventually wins the hand of Sidi, the woman for whome he and Lakunle are competing. 
He has to try a variety of tricks before he is able to finally convince her that she
ought to accept his proposal, but in the end, his final ruse succeeds.  Lakunle is very
well spoken but lacks the ability to follow through on much of what he says, eventually
helping Sidi in her decision to marry the Bale.

Why would the man who doesn't want the wall ask the neighbor to rebuild it? Might he want something more than just a hand with repair work?

The speaker asks his neighbor to help him mend the wall.
It's something they do together every year. It seems that the speaker doesn't see any
point in mending the wall, but his neighbor remains behind his old
saying:

He
only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors'. 
Spring is the mischief in me,
and I wonder 
If I could put a notion in his head: 
'Why do they
make good neighbors? Isn't it 
Where there are cows? 
But here there
are no cows. 
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know 
What I was
walling in or walling out, 
And to whom I was like to give
offence. 
Something there is that doesn't love a wall, 
That wants
it down.'

Yes, it looks like
the speaker would want something more, or, at least, he would like to stop mending a
wall which, from his point of view, serves no purpose.

The
poem is a comment on isolation and being stuck with ideas that may have had some purpose
in the past but no longer hold in the present. The speaker sees his neighbor as a
"savage" who moves in "darkness," as someone who is ruled by outmoded thoughts and lack
of originality. It should be noted, though, that most of my students, when we read the
poem in class, side with the neighbor. They agree that "good fences make good
neighbors."

A progressive wave is travelling. How far apart are 2 points (i.e. situated at minimum distance) 60 degree out of phase?Wave Frequency is 500 Hz...

We know that  frequency *wavelength = volcity.
Or

n*L = v.  But frequency n = 500  and  v =
360m/s,

Therfore wave length L = v/n = (360)/500 = 0.72
m.

Therefore in a cycle (one full osciilation of ) 360
degree the wave progress 0.72m. The points onthe a wave with aphase difference of 60
degree are at a distance  of (60/360)*(0.72m) = 0.12 meter
apart.

Analyze and demonstrate the ideological perspectives reflected in the following source? Please explain in detail. Thank you very much!"I think...

There are at least two ideological perspectives in this
quote.  The quote shows aspects of both conservatism and
liberalism.

Liberalism is the idea that societies and
governments must be changing constantly so as to face the challenges of the future. 
Liberalism holds that the old ways should be abandoned when new challenges arise.  This
attitude can be seen in the quote since it talks about the need to be "progressive" and
to "explore the future."

At the same time, there is
conservatism in this quote.  Conservatives hold that the old ways are best.  This is
because they have been tested and been proven to be effective.  They believe that we
should stick with what has worked rather than changing because we
think something else will work.  This is reflected in the
idea of maintaining values that is discussed in this quote.

Which fish can live out of water?

I learned that there is a fish that can actually live in
damp areas- it reproduces w/in  water, but dwells in soggy
areas...

I'm quite sure it's a snake-head
fish... lol

Learned abt it in
bio....

But here's a genuine link to some pretty
neat stuff...

Under the reserve clause, why and how could teams "own" players?

Under the reserve clause, teams could "own" players
because that is what the contracts said.  The reserve clause was a clause in every
contract signed by professional baseball players.  It stated that the team held the
player's rights even after the term of the contract had elapsed.  The player's only
options would be A) to sign another contract with the same club, B) to ask the club to
release or trade him or C) to stop playing.

As to why this
was allowed, that is more difficult.  The reserve clause was, one can argue, allowed
because of the idea that baseball (and other sports) were just games and that the
athletes should be grateful just to have the chance to play.  One can argue that it was
also allowed because players had so much less leverage than owners
did.

In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, how does the magistrate react to Victor's request and how does Victor deal with this reaction?

When Victor approaches the magistrate in Mary Shelley's
Frankenstein, the magistrate (a "criminal judge") listens with his
whole attention. Sometimes he is skeptical, but other times he is
horrified.

However, when Victor calls upon the man to
pursue the monster as is deemed appropriate by the law (based on the creature's
murderous actions), the magistrate balks.

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I would willingly afford you every aid in your
pursuit; but the creature of whom you speak appears to have powers which would put all
my exertions to defiance. Who can follow an animal which can traverse the sea of ice,
and inhabit caves and dens where no man would venture to intrude? Besides, some months
have elapsed since the commission of his crimes, and no one can conjecture to what place
he has wandered or what region he may now
inhabit.

The magistrate
provides a long list of reasons he cannot comply: the monster is too powerful: it would
be a waste of the magistrate's time. No one would be able to pursue the creature,
especially to places that man cannot navigate easily. And too much time has passed since
his crimes: where would they look for him?

Victor insists
that he will be nearby—for who knows the creature and his motivations more clearly than
Victor? Victor challenges the man saying that the magistrate doesn't believe Victor and
therefore will do nothing.

The magistrate immediately
refutes this saying he will do all that he can, but he still believes the creature will
be impossible to capture, and tells Victor to prepare himself for for this
eventuality.

Victor turns to the magistrate and explains
his plans to proceed:

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You refuse my just demand: I have but one
resource; and I devote myself, either in the my life or death, to his
destruction.

Victor intends
to pursue the monster himself. Sensing Victor's intense rage and dedication of purpose,
the magistrate tries to calm Victor like a child, while perceiving (as Victor sees it)
Frankenstein's madness.

In frustration, Victor addresses
the magistrate:

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'Man,' I cried, 'how ignorant art thou in thy
pride of wisdom! Cease; you know not what tit is you
say.'

One last time Victor
chides the man for his lack of vision (though who can blame him in face of this
fantastic story). The magistrate either doesn't believe Victor, or if he does, is sure
that mere men can do nothing to apprehend, hold and/or punish the creature. He makes
excuses of why he cannot succeed.

Victor leaves the
magistrate with a new understanding that if something is to be done, Victor
must do it himself.

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[Victor] Frankenstein vows to pursue the monster
until one of them destroys the
other.

How does the creature say he learned to live in the world in Frankenstein?

He learns the same way we learn-by
experience. Of course, he is at a disadvantage, having no parent there to
guide him through his trials. But he slowly learns to "distinguish [his]
sensations from each other": recognizing forms, light, sound, etc. He
also learns to use tools, wielding fire to his advantage after burning himself
once.

One
day, when I was oppressed by cold, I found a fire which had been left by some wandering
beggars, and was overcome with delight at the warmth I experienced from it. In my joy I
thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out again with a cry of pain.
How strange, I thought, that the same cause should produce such opposite effects! I
examined the materials of the fire, and to my joy found it to be composed of
wood.

Essentially,
he learns scientifically, through observation. These chapters represent a
child taking his/her first steps in the world, slowly discerning each new
sensation.

Define the term ‘obscenity’ used in E-commerce.

The term "obscenity" refers to anything that offends
people's morals.  However, the term is generally used to refer to things that are
offensive in a sexual way.  In other words, a depiction of someone stealing would offend
our morals, but it would not be obscene.  The word has come to be connected mainly
(especially in E-commerce) with pornography.

In the United
States, at least, it is very hard to clearly define what is and is not obscene.  In the
case of Miller v. California, the Supreme Court set up a three-part
test to define obscenity.  They said that something is obscene if
it

• appeals to "the prurient interest"
  


• depicts sexual conduct in a "patently offensive way"
  and


• lacks (as a whole) and "serious literary, artistic,
  political, or scientific value."

As you can
see, this is a very vague rule.  "Prurient" refers to an "excessive" or "unhealthy"
interest in sex.  This is hard to define.  It is hard to say what is "patently
offensive."  It is also hard to define "serious....value."  Therefore, it is very hard
to define what things are and are not obscene, at least in the
US.

How does the following quote show a thematic approach to Hamlet?"We are oft to blame in this - 'Tis too much proved - that with devotion's visage...

This quote by Polonius is applicable to many of the
characters in the play -- first, and most notably, Claudius.  The quote means that
people who are guilty of something ACT in a way that they hope covers up the reality of
their bad behavior.  Claudius ACTS like a devoted father to Hamlet, but he is
responsible for Hamlet's father's death.  Claudius ACTS like he is greatly grieved by
his dear brother's death when he speaks to the court in Act 1, but again, he is the one
who killed his brother.  Claudius ACTS like a devoted husband to Gertrude, but he
doesn't love her enough to reveal the truth about the poisoned cup of wine, and he
allows her to drink it rather than draw attention to his evil plot against
Hamlet.

The theme of ACTING is prevelant throughout the
play.  The actors arrive to put on a play and ACT the parts of a king and queen, but it
is only a story.  Hamlet is struck by how "true" their presentation seems, even though
it didn't happen to them as people.

Hamlet is ACTING crazy
in order to distract and lower the guard of the people of the court, especially
Claudius.  He hopes that Claudius will reveal the truth of the murder of King
Hamlet.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern ACT like friends to
Hamlet in order to try to help him over this difficult time, but they are actually only
doing this in order to curry the King's favor in the hopes of a
reward.

Polonius ACTS like he is concerned about Hamlet's
madness, but is really only concerned with proving his intelligence and worth in
discovering the cause of Hamlet's madness (even though we know he is
wrong).

The theme of acting and artifice in behavior is a
theme that runs through the entire play.  A careful consideration of all of the
characters would reveal many more examples.  The above list can you
started!

How do you divide mixed fractions like 1 1/2 divided by 3 1/4?Im confused Thank You!

To divide mixed fractions/mixed numbers, do the following
steps;

1.  Convert the mixed fractions (mixed numbers) to
improper fractions.

2.  MULTIPLY the first fraction by the
inverse of the second fraction(swap the numerator and
denominator).

3.  Reduce to simplest
form.

IN THIS EXAMPLE:

1.  1
1/2 will be converted to 3/2, and 3 1/4 will be converted to
13/4.

2.  Multiply 3/2 x 4/13 =
12/26

3.  Reduce.  12/26 = 6/13

What are the literary conventions that dominate the writings of the modern playwrights?

Modern playwrights' styles are varied, but some trends can
be found in their diverse work. Generally, modern drama is thought to have started with
Ibsen's A Doll's House. One trend found in modern drama that
certainly shows itself in A Doll's House is the idea that the
playwright leaves the meaning/motivation for actions open to interpretation. The
audience can speculate about Nora's true reasons for her decision, and things are not
left in a neat, tidy package at the conclusion of the play. Absurdest playwrights such
as Beckett, Shepard and Pinter who fall in the modern era take this "open to
interpretation" approach to another level, using circular structure and taking the focus
away from surface-level plot interpretation.

Another trend
can be seen in the breaking of stereotypes for, most notably, female characters. Ibsen,
Shaw, Churchill, Wilde, and Williams are all noted for standout
females.

The inclusion of humor also became more prevalent
in the modern era, especially looking at Oscar Wilde's intricate witty
dialogue.

Theaterpro.com describes the origins of modern
drama in this way:

Modern drama as we know it in the
twentieth and twenty-first century began when Nora slammed the door on her family in
Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. Together with Strindberg and Shaw, Ibsen swept away romantic
melodrama heavy with the passions of stereotypical heroes and heroines to create
dramatic works that presented real-life characters in action that reflected and
questioned prevailing morals and mores. Dialogue, once florid and poetic became sharp,
pointed, and often witty.

Define the difference between Political Culture and Political Ideology.

Political culture and political ideology are two different
ideas. Political culture is more of a general concept. It focuses on values, attitudes,
and ideas that many people have about the government of a country. We believe our
leaders should be elected as a result of a democratic process. In our country, we
believe in the concept of a democratic republic as the way our leaders should represent
us. Most people, regardless of their political ideology, support these
ideas.

Political ideology is much more specific and may
lead to disagreements between people and political parties. The Democratic Party has a
political ideology that is very different than the political ideology of the Republican
Party. The Democratic Party believes the government should have a larger and more active
role in society. They believe there should be many government programs or agencies to
help the needy and to regulate the actions of businesses. The Republican Party believes
the government should have a more limited role in our lives. They want taxes to be
lower, and they want fewer government regulations on businesses. These ideologies are
very different, and they clearly mark the differences between the political parties.
There is a significant difference between political culture and political
ideology.

Was the New Deal an attempt to save capitalism from collapse, a change in anti-government beliefs, or a liberal response to a unique crisis?

I would argue that these things are not mutuallly
exclusive.  The New Deal was a combination of all of these
things.

The New deal was clearly a response to what has so
far been a unique crisis.  The Great Depression was worse than anything before or
since.  The New Deal was a liberal response to that
crisis.

However, this does not mean that the other things
are not true.  There was clearly a worry among Americans that capitalism could
collapse.  There were worries that Americans would feel that capitalism had failed
them.  The New Deal offered a way to prop up the system rather than to see it
fall,

Finally, the New Deal required people to change their
beliefs about government.  The programs would not have been accepted by the populace if
the populace had not changed its views on
government.

Overall, then, I do not think these things are
mutually exclusive.  I think that the New Deal had aspects of all of these
things.

Is there a place where life exists on Earth without being affected by UV radiation?

It's difficult to provide a concrete answer to this
question because we aren't actively monitoring the presence of life and the presence of
UV radiation at every point on the Earth. We also haven't fully explored the Earth to
the point that we can say we know exactly where life does and does not exist. There is
also no guarantee that any point on Earth is completely free of UV radiation at all
times.

However, we can safely assume that there are at
least two environments that would be significantly shielded from UV radiation; the deep
ocean, and underground, such as in caves or in the Earth itself. We know that bacteria
and archaea can exist at extreme temperatures and depths, and explorations of the deep
ocean have shown that life does exist there, albeit sparsely.

It should be noted that, in an evolutionary context, life
probably did not originate in these locations, but expanded into them after developing
in a location with more exposure to UV radiation.

Can the following identity be verified: sec^4 x - sec^2 x = tan^4 x + tan^2 x?

We need to verify that (sec x)^4 - (sec x)^2 = (tan x)^4 +
(tan x)^2.

We know that (sin x)^2 + (cos x)^2 =
1

=> (sin x)^2 / (cos x)^2 + (cos x)^2/ (cos x)^2 =
1/(cos x)^2

=> (tan x)^2 + 1 = (sec
x)^2

Starting with the left hand
side:

(sec x)^4 - (sec
x)^2

=> (sec x)^2[(sec x)^2 -
1]

=> [(tan x)^2 + 1][(tan x)^2 + 1 -
1]

=> [(tan x)^2 + 1][(tan
x)^2]

=> (tan x)^4 + (tan
x)^2

which is the right hand
side.

This proves that (sec x)^4 - (sec x)^2
= (tan x)^4 + (tan x)^2.

Who or what is the real monster in "A Good Man is Hard to Find"?I have to write a paper on this short story and the question is, My thoughts so far...

 Concerning "A Good Man is Hard to Find," first, we need
to clear up a misconception.  The Misfit doesn't say he's innocent, and the story
doesn't suggest that he is.  He says he can't remember doing what he's supposed to have
done.  That's not the same as being innocent.  And he certainly does not act innocently
in the story.  Though he is respectful, polite, and in a warped way considerate, he is
also self-centered, brutal, and destructive.  He has obviously done some thinking, but
his thinking in some ways is still extremely simplistic and warped.  He can certainly be
classified as a "monster," if that's what your assignment calls
for.

The story, however, is really about the grandmother. 
O'Connor believed that Christians like the grandmother are so lost and fallen that the
only way for them to be brought back to God's grace is an encounter with a devil-like
person.  She is egotistical, self-centered, selfish, ignorant, inconsiderate, dishonest,
and sneaky.  The way for her to be reformed is to encounter The Misfit.  Notice that her
epiphany, the moment she changes from the dogmatic and simplistic you should
pray, you should pray to you're a child of God thinking
isn't even when her family is taken off to be killed, but only when she is about to be
killed.  She is not a nice human being, to say the least, though I don't know if you'd
call her a monster. 

Whether or not her epiphany is genuine
or just another ploy to escape death is debatable, but The Misfit accepts it as
genuine.  If he is correct, then the grandmother is reformed by her encounter with the
"monster," though she is killed almost immediately after. 

Evaluate the value of "A Modest Proposal" within its own context and in our contemporary context.

This is a very interesting question that causes us to look
beyond the historical context in which this tremendous treatise was based and see if it
still has any relevance for us today. One of the marks of universal literature is the
way in which it continues to speak to people in a variety of different time periods and
contexts, and the fact that this essay is still studied just as much today as it was
then clearly points towards its inestimable value.

This
essay's historical value is characterised in the satire that it contains. Swift attempts
to show the British how inhumane they are being by ignoring the situation of the Irish
famine by presenting a deliberately monstrous "solution" to solve this social issue. The
abhorrent idea that he presents was meant to act as a mirror to the British so that in
this idea they could see too their own abhorrence and involvement in not doing anything
to appease the situation.

However, this essay has relevance
to any human disasters resulting from bereaucratic incompetence around the world.
Consider the issue of global warming and the lamentable lack of interest that the USA
showed in the Kyoto agreement of 1997. This would be an excellent topic for an updated
"Modest Proposal." Situations such as this show that we still have a lot to learn from
Swift's original essay, and it is still immensely valuable to us for this
reason.

How are Lord Capulet and the Nurse different in Romeo and Juliet?I need a personality/character trait of Capulet that CONTRASTS with a character...

To underscore the excellent answer above, the scene in
which the Nurse discovers Juliet "dead" is very telling of the natures of her and of
Lord Capulet.  In Scene 5 of Act IV, the Nurse enters and finds that she cannot rouse
Juliet.  She exclaims,

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Alas, alas!  Help, help! My lady's
dead!

Oh, welladay that ever I was
born!....

Oh, lamentable
day!....

Oh me, oh me! My child, my only
life.

Revive, look up, or I will die with thee.
(IV,v,15-22)

When Lord
Capulet enters, he claims that Death

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...hath ta'en her hence to make me
wail,

Ties up my tongue and will not let me
speak....

Death is my heir,  I will
die,

And leave him all--life, living, all is
Death's....

O child!...My soul, and not my
child!

Dead art thou!  Alack, my child is
dead,

And with my child my joys are buried. (IV,
v,37-67)

So, while both the
Nurse and Lord Capulet cry that they, too, will die, Lord Capulet demonstrates more
selfishness in his laments, stating that his joys will now be gone as Juliet has died. 
He thinks of his lineage and how the wedding will now turn to a funeral:  "Our wedding
cheer to a sad burial feast."  All the sentiments of Lord Capulet contain his own
reflection in them.

On the other hand, the Nurse simply
expresses her deep sorrow and dismay, wishing herself dead if she no longer can be with
Juliet.  She thinks of nothing else, only "her child."

What is the complication in "The Cask of Amontillado"?

In Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado," nearly every part of
Montressor's plan of revenge goes according to schedule, so there are not too many
complications from his angle.  The only real snag is for the reader, as we are not in on
the plan from the beginning.  We are like Fortunato, oblivious to the plan of
revenge.

Getting Fortunato into his catacombs is easy: the
amontillado does the trick.  The complication, I guess, comes in making him walk deeper
and deeper into its dark passages.

For the reader, the
complication comes when Fortunato debates turning back. Fortunato is ill with a bad
cough, and the nitre of the catacombs only makes it worse.  Even Montressor beckons him
to return:

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"Come," I said, with decision, "we will go back;
your health is precious. You are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are happy, as
once I was. You are a man to be missed. For me it is no matter. We will go back; you
will be ill, and I cannot be responsible. Besides, there is
Luchesi-"

This, of course, is
really part of the plan, verbal irony by Montresor scripted to make it seem like he is a
friend who cares about his health.  This bit of reverse psychology is the only
complication I can see.

At the end of Scene 5 in A Streetcar Named Desire, why does Blanche say, "Sometimes-there's God- so quickly?"

This one is a bit complex.  On some level, it is at this
point in the drama where the tension between Blanche and Stanley is reaching its
zenith.  Stanley has been able to assemble what he needs to discredit Blanche in the
eyes of her sister, his wife.  It is at this point that Blanche needs to establish some
level of social credibility and something redeeming for all to see.  Blanche's line
about God comes when Mitch holds and embraces her at the end of the scene.  The fears of
her growing old and alone, enduring isolation and a sense of loneliness are allayed when
Mitch holds her, giving her for a moment a glimpse of potential happiness and settlement
in a life that has not known either in a real sense.  The idea of God and "quickly"
brings to light how the divine force of benevolence can grant redemption even before one
asks or one feels its presence.  In this case, Mitch's embrace is love and a blessing to
Blanche even before she could articulate it.  Like everything else in Williams' writing,
there might be an insinuation that undercuts this positive reading.  Blanche's reading
of the quick nature of God could also be reflective of the fact that God's presence is
fleeting, for just as he is there "so quickly," he leaves with equal speed or flight. 
In this light, the presence and absence of God is one that Blanche sees as quick and
temporary, a condition that is not transcendent or permanent in a context that is
fleeting and momentary.

How would you do an in-text citation for a website article with no author or page number available in the MLA format?

Online sources often pose challenges when you're including
them in papers in which you use in-text or internal citation. Many of these websites, in
fact, do not include authors or page numbers, so you need to consult guides that
specifically address the use of electronic
sources.

According to Research and Documentation
in the Electronic Age by Diana Hacker and Barbara
Fister,

Your in-text citation for an electronic source
should follow the same guidelines as for other sources. If the source lacks page numbers
but has numbered paragraphs, sections, or divisions, use those numbers with the
appropriate abbreviation in your in-text citation: “par.,” “sec.,” “ch.,” “pt.,” and so
on. Do not add such numbers if the source itself does not use them. In that case, simply
give the author or title in your in-text citation.

Here is an example:

Julian Hawthorne
points out profound differences  between his father and Ralph Waldo Emerson but
concludes that, in their lives and their writing, “together they met the needs of nearly
all that is worthy in human nature” (ch. 4).

Notice that in
this example the author's name is included in the text itself, so no parenthetical
citation is needed. What, however, should you do if you have no
author?

You should cite the title of the web page itself so
the in-text citation correlates with the entry on the Works Cited page. Assuming that
the title of the website is "Emerson and Hawthorne," that title is what you'd put as the
in-text citation---nothing else is needed.

For more
information about this topic, you can check Duke University's OWL (Online Writing Lab)
at the website listed below.

Why is Charles Chestnutt's story "The Passing of Grandison" considered realistic?

Realism was a literary movement that became especially
influential in nineteenth-century fiction, including American fiction of the second half
of that century. Charles Chestnutt’s story “The Passing of Grandison” can be considered
an example of “realism” in a number of ways, including the
following:

• Its rejection of
  romanticism. Chesnutt’s story rejects romanticism not only in its
  emphasis on the grimly realistic fact of slavery but also because of its mocking
  presentation of Dick Owens’ courtship of Charity Lomax. Dick is anything but a
  swashbuckling romantic hero, and neither Charity nor the story’s readers are inclined to
  take him very seriously.


• Its avoidance of
  naivety or idealism in describing characters. All the characters in this
  story – but especially Dick and his father – are described in ways that emphasize their
  very human flaws and foibles. They are objects of humor rather than exalted
  heroes.


• Its emphasis on mundane
  motives. Dick doesn’t try to free Grandison because
  he is committed to any lofty ideals; he merely wants to convince the skeptical Charity
  to marry him. Charity, in turn, is not some naïve Southern belle; she is a shrewd and
  often sardonic observer of Dick’s various
  shortcomings.


• Its emphasis on
  dialect. This trait is especially obvious whenever Grandison or the other
  slaves speak.


• Its emphasis on everyday
  people and everyday events. Dick comes from a privileged family, but he
  is not an impressive, imposing aristocrat. He is simply a young man desperate to please
  an attractive young woman. As the narrator puts it in the very opening sentence of the
  work,

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When it is said that it was done to please a
woman, there ought perhaps to be enough said to explain anything; for what a man will
not do to please a woman is yet to be
discovered.

In other words,
the narrator ascribes to Dick a realistic motive – a motive that many readers will
recognize in themselves: the desire to impress a potential romantic
partner.

• Its
  regionalism. The story is largely set in the south, but much of it also
  takes place in the north, and each region helps call attention, through contrast, to the
  other’s characteristics.


• Its emphasis on
  dialogue. Much of the humor of the story results from the credible
  language the characters use when speaking to one another. They speak as real people
  might, not like lofty characters declaiming on a
  stage.


• Its concern with realistic
  historical events, in this case the issue of slavery and the rise of
  abolitionism.

What comment could I make about "Roman Fever" by Edith Wharton?

Well, I guess a lot of it depends on what kind of comment
you want to make about this excellent short story by Edith Wharton. Do you wish to focus
on characters, themes or setting for example? Either of these elements will provide you
with ample material to make a "comment," as you put it. For example, if you consider the
relationship between the two women and the conflict that emerges as the story
progresses, you should be able to make a comment on the theme of friendship and how it
is presented in the novel.

Note how the two women are
presented as childhood friends. Yet it is clear that they don't actually know each other
very well, and actually, simmering beneath this longstanding "friendship," lies years of
pent up resentment, anger and jealousy. Note what the narrator tells us about Mrs. Slade
as she imagines the success of her friend's daughter's marriage and the easy and secure
future of her friend:

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Mrs. Slade broke off this prophetic flight with a
recoil of self-disgust. There was no one of whom she had less right to think unkindly
than of Grace Ansley. Would she never cure herself of envying her? Perhaps she had begun
too long ago.

Note how this
"friendship" then is actually built on solid blocks of hidden resentment, envy and
jealousy, which of course all comes out as they survey the "great accumulated wreckage
of passion and splendour" at their feet. This would be one possible comment you could
make, but you also might want to think about setting and how that ties in with the
characters and themes of this great short story.

What happened to Syme in the story?

IN this story, it appears that Syme ends up getting
killed.  We do not know this for absolutely sure, but it seems like it must have
happened.

First of all, Winston is absolutely sure that
Syme will end up getting killed.  That is because Syme is clearly too smart to stay
alive in this society.  He thinks too much and has too much insight.  So that implies
he's going to die.

At the start of Chapter 8, Syme is gone
from work.  And his name is gone from the list of people on the chess club.  That
implies he is dead.

Then, at start of Part 2, Chapter 6,
O'Brien seems to confirm it by talking about Syme to Winston, but saying he does not
remember his name.  This implies that Syme has become an unperson -- that he never
officially existed.

Trace Huck's troubled conscience in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Identify what his conflict is, what the irony of the conflict is, where it...

Huck is beset by a troubled conscience from early on in
the novel. When he sees his friends and the widow searching for his dead body, Huck
finds himself in a lonesome place. Soon, however, he meets Jim and his real dilemma
begins. 

Jim makes Huck promise not to turn him in to the
authorities and Huck agrees. In this moment, Huck realizes that he is siding with Jim
against society and the laws of that society. 

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People would call me a low-down Abolitionist and
despise me for keeping mum—but that don't make no
difference.

The way that his
culture works in him, Huck believes that crime is equivalent to sin. This leads to a
deep conflict in Huck as he attempts to justify helping Jim escape to freedom throughout
the novel. In all his efforts, he cannot shake the sense that his actions will condemn
him and that helping Jim, a good friend and a nice man, is a
sin. 

Huck folds to this crisis on one occasion, but
changes his mind at the last minute. He leaves Jim on the raft with the intention of
turning him in, then covers for him when questioned by two men on the river. Here, as
later, Huck is faced with what he sees as two paths - act morally according to society
or act morally according to his own sense of right and
wrong. 

As always, Huck chooses to do what he feels is
right. His native sense of morality works more strongly in him, despite the fact that he
cannot disbelieve in society's moral
authority. 

Ultimately, Huck decides to abandon at least
the agonies of conscience because he cannot abandon this sense that society is invested
with true moral authority. He cannot agree with the morality of certain laws, and so he
cannot follow them. He also cannot escape his sense of the religious potency of these
laws. 

The decision to help Jim escape from the Phelps
represents Huck's final acquiescence to the idea that conscience will harass a person no
matter what he does. One must therefore think for oneself and act. This is his
conclusion. 

The situation that describes the last
iteration of Huck's dilemma is ironic for two reasons. First, Jim is already free. Huck
need not agonize about helping him escape. His crisis is real for him, but false in a
circumstantial sense.

Second, from today's perspective, the
institution of slavery is immoral. Helping someone to escape from an immoral imposition
is definitively moral. 

Is it possible for humans being able to travel faster than the speed of light?

Given our current understanding of physics, it is nowhere
near possible to make anything the size of a human being travel anywhere close to the
speed of light.

The reason for this can be found in
Einstein's famous E = mc^2 equation.  In this equation, E is energy, M is mass and C is
the speed of light.

What this shows is that you would need
a huge amount of energy to make something go at the speed of light.  You would need an
amount of energy equal to the mass of the thing you are trying to move times the speed
of light squared.

This means that you would need an almost
infinite amount of energy -- much more than we are able to
generate.

Can you explain me how to do the Lewis diagram of the Molecular formula CH4 ? and what type of Bond they form?

Carbon has a total of six electrons. Two electrons are
s-type in the first energy level. The next two are s-type in the second energy level,
while the final two are p-type in the second energy level.  However, carbon has the
ability to combine or hybridize the electrons on the second energy level to form what
are called sp^3 hybrids.

Because of this hybridization,
carbon can form four covalent bonds with other elements.  The simplest carbon compound
with four single bonds is methane, CH4 which is your
compound.

To do a Lewis diagram involving carbon, first
write down the carbon atom with one dot at four equal points around the C, showing the
four bonding electrons.  It is convenient to write the dots at 12:00 o'clock, 3:00
o'clock, 6:00 o'clock, and 9:00 o'clock.

Next put one
hydrogen atom (H) with a single dot, next to each of the dots around the carbon atom. 
When you are done you should have four H atoms equally spaced around the central C, with
two dots (bonding electrons) between the C and each of the H's.  And your Lewis diagram
is complete.

How did the characters in Bless, Me Ultima impact Antonio?

Cico, Ultima and Narciso are the three characters that can
be argued to have the strongest impact on Antonio's
views. 

Cico tells Antonio the story of the Golden Carp and
takes Antonio to see it. This experience of nature and the idea of a God of nature both
help to shape and to confuse Antonio's spiritual
outlook.

“If
the golden carp was a god, who was the man on the cross? The Virgin? Was my mother
praying to the wrong
God?”

Ultimately, Antonio's
confusion leads to an enriched perspective and a broader view than he began
with.

Like Cico, Ultima exemplifies a connection to nature
and a humility before nature. She does not instruct Antonio as to what he should
believe, but rather helps to show Antonio what is available to believe, what is
possible, and how to see the world differently. 

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She becomes a mentor to Tony, helping him to
interpret his dreams and negotiate the dangerous terrain of his quest for self
knowledge.

Narciso does not
directly speak much with Antonio, but serves as an example of bravery and other positive
values. Narciso shows Antonio also that reputation is often not founded in reality, as
Narciso turns out to be a noble man despite his reputation as being a weak-willed
drunkard.