Discuss the significance of the "yelda" that Amir experienced in Chapter 12 in The Kite Runner.

"Yelda" is the term given in Afghanistan to describe the
longest night of the year, the first night of winter. As such, Amir remembers staying up
all night with Hassan, as was the tradition and listening to fantastical stories.
However, as an adult, he discovers that yelda has another significance: yelda is the
endless night filled with "tormented lovers" who wait up for the night to end and for
the sun to bring their loved one to them. Thus yelda becomes an important symbol to
describe the obsession and deep love that Amir feels towards Soraya. Note what he says
about how yelda fits into his desires:

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After I met Soraya Taheri, every night of the
week became a yelda for me. And when Sunday mornings came, I rose from Bed, Soraya
Taheri's brown-eyes face already in my head... The morning sun to my
yelda.

Thus this Afghan
festival or important date is used as a symbol of the author's deep feelings towards
Soraya and his attraction and love for her.

Explain why the range of function f(x,y)=square root[100-(x^2+y^2)] is [0;10].

Let's determine the range of 2 variables function. First,
we'll determine the domain of the function.

The domain of
the function has to contain the values of the variables thatsatisfy the function
.

In this case, because of the constraint that the radicand
has to be positive or at least zero, we'll get the domain of the
function:

D = {(x,y) /100-x^2-y^2
>=0}

D = {(x,y) /x^2 + y^2 >=
100}

The domain is represented by the disc whose center is
the origin of the coordinates system and the radius is
10.

We'll determine the
range:

z = {z/z = sqrt(100-x^2-y^2), (x,y) belongs to
D}

Since z>=0 and  100-x^2-y^2 =< 100
=> sqrt(100-x^2-y^2)=<10 (the values of the function could not overstep
the radius of the disc r = 10). That is why the range of the function is the closed
interval [0,10].

The the range of 2 varaible
function is indeed the closed interval [0,10].

How do we calculate the surface area of a cube if we know the volume is 343?

Given that the volume of the cube is
343

Let x be the length of the side of the
cube.

Then we know that V = x^3 =
343

==> x = 7

Now let
us calculate the surface are.

The surface area of the cube
= area of one surface * 6

==> The area of one of the
surface = x^2 = 7^2 = 49

==> Then the surface area =
49* 6 = 294.

Then, the surface area of the
cube is 294 square units.

What is Jerry Cruncher's secret nighttime activity?

There was a long-practiced method of getting bodies for
the scientists and doctors to practice on, and it didn't involve getting the consent of
the deceased prior to them kicking the bucket.  Jerry Cruncher goes out at night and
digs up bodies so that he can sell them to doctors, professors of medicine, etc. for use
in classes, examinations, studies, etc.

The interesting
part of this is that Jerry considers what he does to be an absolutely productive and
important part of society and of life in general while he regards prayer and other such
religious activities as a waste of time.

But don't fret, he
does of course, like many of Dickens' characters, vow to change his life before the
story runs out of time.

How can I compare and contrast the two female characters, Miss Lucie and Madame Defarge?A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Of all the novels that Charles Dickens has
written, A Tale of Two Cities has received the most criticism
regarding characterization. Critics especially remark upon Lucie as the stereotypical
Victorian heroine who is often emotionally reticent and faints under stress. While this
may have been true-to-life for Dickens, critics say, the passage of time has made this
stock character obsolete both as a literary figure and social actuality.  Certainly,
Lucie Manette is a passive character that Dickens has failed to bring to life. For
instance, she inspires love in almost every character around her as "the golden thread,"
but the reader must take this on faith as there is no dialogue or action to point to as
proof of this. So, she is, in a sense, a catalyst for others, inspiring them to
transform themselves.

While Madame Defarge is also in many
ways a stock character as the passionately vengeful revolutionary with an idee
fixe ofdestroying every aristocrat she can, especially the Evremonde family,
she is anything but lifeless like Lucie. In the wine shop, she picks her teeth, raises
her eyebrows, looks suspiciously around, knits relentlessly, ferociously ties coins in
knots, beating them on a table as though they were the necks of the First Estate.  When
her husband has misgivings about including Dr. Manette in the roll of those to be
executed, Madame Defarge interprets his scruple as weakness.  Then, as Ernest Defarge
asks if the revolution will not come too late for them, anyway, Madame Defarge answers
her husband as though she were an element of nature
herself.

“A
long time, I suppose,” said Defarge.

“But when it is ready,
it takes place, and grinds to pieces everything before it. In the meantime, it is always
preparing, though it is not seen or heard. That is your consolation. Keep
it.”

She tied a knot with flashing eyes, as if it throttled
a foe.

“I tell thee,” said madame, extending her right
hand, for emphasis, “that although it is a long time on the road, it is on the road and
coming. I tell thee it never retreats, and never stops. I tell thee it is always
advancing. Look around and consider the lives of all the world that we know, consider
the faces of all the world that we know, consider the rage and discontent to which the
Jacquerie addresses itself with more and more of certainty every hour. Can such things
last? Bah! I mock
you.”

However, although she
is an elemental force, there is in Madame Defarge some of the makings of a rounder
character as she secretly and cunningly arranges for Darnay's rearrest, a plan which
displays intelligence and malice.  Her knitting indicates, too, her patience and her
intense hatred and desire to retaliate. So bent is she upon the destruction of the
Evremondesthat Madame Defarge intrudes upon the Darnay household, seeking Charles so she
can shoot him and fighting Miss Pross until her death. If Lucie acts as a catalyst who
gives new life--physical or spiritual--Therese Defarge is the paraclete of
death. 

In what time period is A Doll's House set?

The setting of Ibsen's A Doll's House
is in the late 1800's Norway. The play was published in 1879 and caused immediate
controversy with its portrayal of housewife Nora and the decisions she makes that shook
her family as well as the country.  The story unfolds in the livingroom of the apartment
of Torvald and Nora Helmer. The opening scene begins on Christmas Eve and ends two
evenings later as Nora exits, slamming the door behind her.

I wish to prove cos^2x-sin^2x=2cos^2x-1.

You can manipulate only the left side of the
equation.

For this reason, you'll use the Pythagorean
identity:

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

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

You'll substitute (sin x)^2 to the left side of the
equation:

(cos x)^2 - [1 - (cos x)^2] = 2 (cos x)^2 -
1

We'll remove the brackets to the left
side:

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

We'll combine like terms and we notice that LHS =
RHS:

2 (cos x)^2 - 1 = 2 (cos x)^2 -
1

What are the main events of Kathryn Stockett's novel, The Help?

In Kathryn Stockett's novel, The
Help, the main events generally center around its three main characters:
Skeeter Phalen who decides to write the book about "the help;" Aibileen, the black maid
who works for Skeeter's friend Elizabeth; and, Minny, the brusque and outspoken maid who
has been fired several times because she cannot keep her mouth closed while working with
the white families who employ her.

Major events that
surround Skeeter include her return from college without a
husband—much to her mother's disappointment. Skeeter dates Stuart, the son of a state
senator, and for a while this delights her and impresses her friends. However, Stuart
has never recovered from an old girlfriend's infidelity, and he cannot deal with
Skeeter's desire to expose the social injustices visited upon the "hired help" in their
town. Skeeter is strong willed; in one instance, while standing up for what she
believes, she has a large group of toilets delivered onto the lawn of a "former" friend
who insists upon degrading the hired maids even further by insisting they have their own
bathroom facilities in the house where they work, insisting that these women are
diseased. Skeeter becomes very close to Aibileen and Minny. And she is greatly
distressed when her friend Hilly arranges for her maid's arrest, along with an unfair
sentence of four years in prison, for petty theft. Skeeter is the original driving force
to get the book published, getting the plan from an idea Aibileen's dead son had
had.

Minny gets fired early on from Miss Hilly's home, and
finds herself working for Miss Celia, who is unfortunate enough to come from a poor and
humble background and to have married Johnny, who had dated Miss
Hilly for a very long time. Hilly was sure they would marry, and
when Johnny marries Celia, Hilly decides that no one in Jackson
will open their home to Celia. Celia tries hard to please her husband, secretly hiring
Minny to cook and clean because Celia can do neither. Minny saves Celia's life when she
miscarries, and Celia saves Minny's life when a crazy, naked man attacks the maid in
Celia's front yard. (Celia's humble beginnings included dealing with a drunk father on a
regular basis, and she flattens the intruder
easily.)

Aibileen is the first woman to agree to work with
Skeeter, and it is her involvement (and extenuating circumstances to be sure) that draw
Minny into the project. Aibileen cares for Miss Elizabeth's daughter Mae Mobley. And
when the child's mother brushes her baby off because she doesn't have the time for her,
Aibileen decides that she will personally spend as much time as
possible in convincing Mae that she is a good, smart and kind child—for Mae, at two
years old, gets no encouragement and little love from her family
members.

Robert, the grandson of Louvenia (a maid), is
beaten with a tire iron because he uses a "whites-only" bathroom that is unmarked. He is
permanently blinded.

Medgar Evers is assassinated during
the course of the book, which devastates the black
community.

The novel the three women put together is
published by Harper and Row. The initial publication is larger than they had expected it
to be, and there is a second printing as well. Skeeter's editor
expects it to be a "hot" item as the country prepares for the Civil Rights Movement's
March on Washington.

The life of the town, the
relationships that develops between these women, and their triumph with the book are
interwoven with life in the U.S. in the sixties.

I am trying to think of a variety of questions I could ask the protagonist(character) in the short novel "The Last Day of a Condemned Man". Any...

There are many different questions one could pose to the
protagonist in Victor Hugo's "The Last Days of a Condemned
Man."

Here are a few you can
consider.

1. How did you obtain your
wealth?

2. What did you dream about when you were in
Bicetre Prison?

3. Why do you think so many people showed
up to your trial?

4. Why did you find the witnesses "stupid
looking?"

5. Why did you compare the spectators in your
trial to ravens?

6. How did you feel when your heard
laughter coming from the Market for Flowers?

7. What do you
think of the little girl who seemed excited about witnessing your
death?

8. Given that you recalled that all men are
condemned to death, why did your fate bother you so
much?

9. Were you satisfied with your death by guillotine,
or would you rather die by another means?

10. Why do you
think that the jailers began to look at you as if you were an
animal?

11. Why do you think that the sentry, in charge of
watching over you, could not take his eyes off of
you?

12.What could you have done to increase your stay in
the infirmary?

13. How did it feel to see the scaffold upon
which you were to die?

14. Why do you think the priest
named you an "Unbeliever?"

15. Why did you send your child,
Mary, away from you?

16. Were you
pardoned?

Is gross domestic product per capita a useful indicator of International Competitiveness in the EU?

I would argue that it is not.  The major reason for this
is that the sizes of domestic markets in the EU vary so widely that it is possible for a
country to have a decent GDP per capita even if it is not particularly competitive
internationally.

For example, France's domestic market is
much larger than that of the Eastern European countries that have joined the EU.  This
means that French companies have had an advantage over Eastern European ones as they
have been able to grow without having to export.  Right now, France has a higher GDP per
capita, but the Eastern European countries are often more competitive internationally
because of their low wages.

So, I would argue that
countries can become rich without being internationally competitive and poor countries
can have advantages in international competition.  GDP and other indicators, like
consumer prices and exchange rates, are all only general indicators that provide only a
rough approximation of competitiveness. Tracking indicators like GDP show only "changes
in relative competiveness" ( href="http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/40/47/33841783.pdf">Mattine Durand and Claude
Giorno).  Therefore, GDP per capita is not a major indicator of international
competitiveness among EU countries.

What is the differences between the Malcolm X in the Autobiography and the Malcolm X Alex Haley describes in his Epilogue?

I think that one of the primary differences is one of
voice.  The Malcolm X that emerges in the Autobiography is told in his voice and through
his own experiences.  This is filtered through the lens of race, socio- political
theory, and background narrative.  One understands this because it is the nature of the
autobiography format.  Yet, the voice that emerges about Malcolm X from the Epilogue is
a bit different.  It shows how the human being was enduring the times of change that
both he initiated and were around him.  For example, the manner in which Haley describes
the last months of Malcolm's life allows the reader to fully peer into what it is like
to live in the brutal shadow of death.  The Epilogue also does a great job of describing
the funeral services for Malcolm X, Ossie Davis' hauntingly beautiful eulogy, as well as
the overall impact Malcolm X had on Haley, an individual who does not fit the profile of
one of Malcolm's followers.  In the Epilogue, I think that the reader gets a better and
more whole vision of Malcolm, one that is both inspired and separate from his own words
and voice.  It is this reason why I think the Epilogue is as valuable as the
autobiography itself.

Identify some poetic techinques Emily Dickinson uses in "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant."

First of all, the title to Emily Dickinson's poem, "Tell
all the Truth but tell it slant," draws the reader's attention to the word "Truth,"
capitalized in the title. So the focus of the poem is on some essence of the truth.
However, where Dickinson generally is straightforward in her ideas of appropriate social
and moral behavior, in this instance, she demonstrates a deep insight into the nature of
human beings. Unpleasantness is not sometime people enjoy. She does not support lying,
but simply appeals to the reader to use a kinder approach in
delivering the "Truth."

In essence,
Dickinson relays our attention to how we tell the truth. We can
throw it in someone's face or tell it on the "slant," coming through the back door
rather than charging in the front. This makes the truth easier to
take.

Imagery used is found in references to light: the
Truth must dazzle, or every man be blind.
These words are chosen to allow the reader to understand that the Truth is bound in
light, something to be desired. However, sometimes the truth can be debilitating when
presented too abruptly. The imagery here also compares the dazzling light which enchants
us, as opposed the blinding light that hinders or damages
us.

A metaphor used is found in referring to the delivery
of truth as a planned activity: it is presented in a concrete terms rather than in
abstracts. The metaphorical comparison is found in telling the Truth with a slant (in an
indirect or circuitous way) in the same way lightening is described to children so they
will not be afraid.

What did Roosevelt mean when he said " the only thing we have to fear is fear itself?"

Franklin Delano Roosevelt made this statement as part of
his first inaugural address. He made the statement in an attempt to calm the panic and
hopelessness that had gripped the American people because of the Great Depression. The
worst days of the depression were actually the period after Roosevelt's election and
before he was sworn in, when more banks failed than at any time during the depression.
This time is commonly called "the interregnum of
despair."

Roosevelt saw that panic and hopelessness were
everywhere, and the first step in relief and recovery from the Depression was to calm
the American people. To follow through on his comment, his first act as President was to
close all U.S. Banks for a "bank holiday." Before they reopened, he conducted his first
"fireside chat," in which he asked people to imagine he was sitting in their living room
by the fire, having a heart to heart talk. He began his first fireside chat by saying in
a calm reassuring voice, "My friends, I want to talk to you about banking." His policy
worked. The next day, over 4/5's of the nation's banks re-opened, and there were no more
runs.

I would like to know which poems of Baroque poets Herbert and Gryphius are the easiest to compare in terms of the imagery they use?

This is an interesting topic you suggest. Baroque
(1600-1750) poets George Herbert (1593-1633, England) and Andreas Gryphius (1616-1664,
Germany) wrote on such vastly different subjects that their styles in using imagery--as
called for by their subject matter--were equally different. Gryphius (latinized from the
original Greif), born and reared in the midst of the Thirty Years' War and eventually
driven from his home by it, writes of destruction and "the maddening music of war, / The
sword fat with blood" and of the Earth that "is empty show" for "What blooms so fair at
daybreak, by noon is trampled low" and of birth and death while "breathing the smoke of
war, ...." These quotes are from Gryphius's poems "Tears of the Fatherland," "The Vanity
of This World," and "Epitaph for Mariana Gryphius," respectively.

In
contrast, Herbert writes of unrequited love, "Therefore my soul lay out of sight, /
Untuned, unstrung: / ... / Like a nipped blossom"; spiritual restoration, "to be Thine
doth me restore, / So that again I now am mine"; and temptations to ungodliness, "When
suddenly I heard one say, / -Do as thou usest, disobey." These themes derive from
"Denial," "Clasping of Hands," and "Artillery," respectively. As a result of the
differences, a comparison of their imagery may yield complex results. I'd suggest you
start with these six poems since each has imagery you can examine and analyse while you
build your theory of the poets’ approaches. Bear in mind that subject matter will at
least in part dictate poetic imagery style.

In 1984, what makes Winston believe that proles are immortal?

Winston is caught up looking at the woman in the yard
below the room over Charington's shop and he is caught in the reverie of trying to
imagine what her life must have been.  He is also struck by what he perceives as her
beauty even though she is old and reddened and fat and hardened over
time.

But it is because of her apparently eternal optimism,
still evident in her singing after years and years of bearing and then caring for
children and then grandchildren and even now as she toils unceasingly she sings.  And so
Winston believes that the proles or the concept of them is eternal, what could ever
destroy this stalwart woman and her kind?

f(x)=x^2-3It's for Functions. How is this done?

(Sice this to be a college level subject from your
address, I would like to cover the answer analysing the perspective of the function and
tracing it by the properties of the function).

f(x) = x^2-3
as a function represents parabola. It is a function of  second
degree.

Also we can write y =
x^2-3.

Symmetry: The curve is symmetrixcal about y axis as
for x and -x  the function gives the same positive y
value.

Vertex : The vertex of the cuve is  (0,
-3)

The cuve is open upwards and goes for positive ifinite
values on both left and right as x becomes large and
large.

The curve, obviously ,has a value of -3 lowest when
x=0. And that y= -3 ids the intercept value of the cuve on the Y
axis.

The curve as crosses the x axis at equal distances of
sqrt3 on the right and -sqrt3 on the left.

The curve y=
x^2-3 Or x^2 = y+3or parabola has Could be compares to
a

X^2 = 4aX a standard parabola. So we can write x^2 =
4(1/4) (y+y). So a= 1/4 is the focal length and (0, -3+1/4) or (0, -11/4 ) are the co
ordinate positions of the focus. And the equation of the directrix is  y = -3-1/4 . Or y
= -13/4 a parallel line to X axis .

Find the center and radius of the circle whose equation is given by: x^2 + y^2 + 6x - 10 y = 9

x^2 + y^2 + 6x -10y = 9

To
find the radius and the center we need to rewrite the equation into the standard
form.

==> (x-a)^2 + (y-b)^2 = r^2 such
that the center is (a,b) and the radius is r.

We will
complete the square for x^2 and y^2.

==> x^2 + 6x +
y^2 -10y = 9

==> (x^2 + 6x +9)-9 + (y^2 -10y +25)
-25 = 9

==> (x+3)^2 + (y-5)^2 =
18+25

==> (x+3)^2 + (y-5)^2 =
43

==> Center = (-3,5) and
radius = sqrt43.

How many different ways can you arrange three songs on a CD? (Show the steps you did please.)

We know we must place three songs on a CD. Let's call our
three songs A, B, and C.

We first must choose the song #1.
Since we haven't chosen any songs yet, we have three choices, A, B,
or C. Say for example we choose A. Next, we must pick the second song, and since we have
already used A, we now have only two choices, B or C. Say we pick
B. This leaves only one choice for the third song,
C.

Since we had three choices for the
first song, two for the second, and one for
the third, the total number of ways to arrange three songs on a CD is
3*2*1 = 6. We could also write this as 3! (3
factorial).

(Using this same logic, you
could see that for example if you had asked for 5 songs, there are 5*4*3*2*1 = 120 ways
to do it. We call this a permutation).

Identify the speaker and his tone in Shakespeare's Sonnet 19, providing supporting evidence.

In Shakespeare's Sonnet 19, there is no way to know who is
speaking, except that it is someone in love: The speaker could be Shakespeare, but does
not need to be. The tone of the speaker deals with the passage of time and all that is
lost because of it. It starts out with a sense of defeat and acceptance on the part of
the poet, but then shifts later in the sonnet.

The first
quatrain href="http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_P.html">personifies time, with
an href="http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_A.html">apostrophe, speaking
directly to it, and it is capitalized to emphasize its power: "Devouring
Time..." The speaker continues by describing things that symbolize
power on earth: the lion's paws; teeth from the the tiger's jaws—time can destroy even
these. Regarding even the mystical or supernatural, like the mythical phoenix, reborn
from the ashes, "said to live about five hundred years," kill it—for "Time" kills all of
these powerful things.

In the second quatrain, as "glad and
sorry" seasons pass (spring/summer vs fall/winter), do your worst, the poet says; and
again, Time, do whatever you want: throughout the world, even with "fading sweets"
(flowers); but one thing you cannot
touch.

This is the end of the second quatrain, and with the
ninth line—the beginning of the third quatrain—the poet's attention to the first two
quatrains shifts. He orders, or pleads, that time leave alone the
face of the one he cares for; draw no lines of age (with "antique pen"); let this
one person's face be spared (remain "untainted") as a pattern of
beauty for all that follow ("For beauty's pattern").

The
rhyming couplet sums up the poet's main point: Time, go ahead, and do the worst you can
because the words written here will allow my love to remain
forever ageless. In this way, the writer will be victorious, and
not Time.

How has Chaucer used his persona to create irony in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales?answer in detail

The primary way Chaucer's persona creates irony is his
naivete.  He seems to accept and praise each of his fellow pilgrims, and in this
acceptance and praise, the reader is able to gather some unflattering information.  We
see this type of irony first in the description of the yeoman who is a "proper forester,
I guess."  The "I guess" at the end throws suspicion on the fact that the yeoman really
is all that experienced.  In contrast to the knight's clothing and equipment, the
yeoman's tools are shiny and bright as if they have never been used.  Later we see this
same type of irony used when the narrator describes the nun's table manners and French
(not the Paris style) rather than the virtues that nuns should have such as piety and
charity. We see this same type of naivete in the descriptions of the friar and monk whom
we learn through the narrator's seeming praise are quite despicable
characters.

How did the Watergate scandal demonstrate the vitality of democratic society?

The main way in which this scandal demonstrated the
vitality of a democratic society was in the fact that the US political system continued
to function throughout the scandal.  Everything was done in a constitutional way instead
of by force.

In a society with different habits, Watergate
might well have led to the fall of the system.  At the very least, it might have led to
some sort of extralegal (not according to law) taking of power from Nixon.  Instead,
oppositional public opinion built to the point that Nixon decided that he had to leave
office.  The presidency was then filled according to the constitutional procedure for
replacing a president.  In this way, Nixon was removed and replaced in democratic ways
rather than by force.

The fact that the US made it through
the scandal without a major crisis and without any extralegal actions by anyone but
Nixon and his staff shows the vitality of democratic society.

In what ways is the traditional grammar approach inadequate in studying a language? Discuss with examples.

When I was in college ('99-'03), phonics was out and the
holistic approach to teaching reading was in.  Since then, I think the pendulum has
swung back toward phonics again.

Anyway, the "traditional
grammar" approach is a lot like teaching phonics.  It is teaching grammar by isolating
parts, rather than looking at how grammar works inside of sentences and paragraphs (and
conversations).  This type of teaching is inadequate when it is never brought back to
looking at the whole.  There needs to be a balance between "traditional" grammar lessons
and big picture "why is this important"
lessons.

Traditional grammar by itself is like teaching
vocabulary lists without any context.  Students may be able to learn rules and
regurgitate answers for a quiz or test, but ultimately, without application (or a reason
to care), they lose it.

I've also
found in teaching writing that students are often able to pick out major grammatical
mistakes without knowing exactly how to fix them, or worse, they cease to catch the
major mistakes.  Again, traditional grammar (isolated focused lessons) makes it hard to
see multiple problems going on at the same time.  However, without the traditional
grammar lessons, problems are identified simply by "it sounds wrong" rather than by an
actual understanding of how the language works.

Why is SEO important for your website or business success?

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to earn revenuee from the website you require visitors for the website, more the number
of visitors - more is the probability of earning revenue from your
website.

Now there are different ways of getting visitors
for your website, but the most effective and cheapest way is through search engines like
google, yahoo and bing. This search engines have their own algorithms and ways of
ranking websites, and this is where SEO or Search Engine Optimization comes
in.

SEO is a technique where-in you optimize your website
for search engines through various activities like link buildings, keywords etc. This
allows search engines to give more value to your website and hence it ranks higher in
search engine results which eventually converts to more traffic and hence
revenue.

Hence, from the point of earning revenue from your
website - SEO is extremely important.

Solve for x x^(lnx/ln2)=6-8/x^(lnx/ln2)

We'll substitute x^(ln x/ln 2) by t and we'll re-write the
equation in t:

t  = 6 -
8/t

We'll multiply by t both
sides:

t^2 = 6t - 8

We'll move
all terms to one side:

t^2 - 6t + 8 =
0

Since the sum is 6 and the product is 8, we'll conclude
that the roots of the quadratic are:

t1 = 2 and t2 =
4

x^(ln x/ln 2) = t1

x^(ln
x/ln 2) = 2

But ln x/ln 2 = log 2
x

We'll take logarithms both
sides:

log2 (x^log2 x) = log2
2

We'll apply the power rule of
logarithms:

log2 (x^log2 x) =
1

(log2 x)^2 - 1 = 0

We'll
re-write the differnce of squares:

(log2 x - 1)(log2 x + 1)
= 0

log2 x - 1 = 0 => log2 x=1 => x =
2^1

x = 2

log2 x + 1 = 0
=> log2 x = -1 => x = 2^-1

x =
1/2

x^(ln x/ln 2) = t2

x^(ln
x/ln 2) = 4

log2 (x^log2 x) = log2
4

log2 (x^log2 x) = log2
2^2

log2 (x^log2 x) = 2log2
2

log2 (x^log2 x) = 2

log2
(x^log2 x) - 2 = 0

(log2 x)^2 - 2 =
0

(log2 x - sqrt2)(log2 x + sqrt2) =
0

log2 x - sqrt2 = 0

log2 x =
sqrt2 => x = 2^sqrt2

log2 x =- sqrt2 => x =
2^-sqrt2

All values of x that verify the
equation are: {1/2 ; 2 ; 2^sqrt2 ; 2^-sqrt2}.

Why do you think Ralph is elected chief, despite Jack's leadership position in the choir?

Jack's choir boys were outnumbered by the other kids on
the island. Although "with dreary obedience the choir raised their hands" for Jack, the
other boys all voted for Ralph. It was obvious to them that Jack's "simple arrogance"
was not a quality of leadership.

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... there was a stillness about Ralph as he
sat that marked him out: there was his size and attractive appearance; and yet most
obscurely, yet more powerfully, there was the conch. The being that had blown that, had
sat waiting for them on the platform with the delicate thing balanced on his knees, was
set apart.

It may have been
more than just choosing the lesser of two evils, since the boys saw something in Ralph
that inspired their vote. His bearing and his possession of the conch were the deciding
factors.

What is a Quarter penny worth in Crispin:The Cross of Lead?

Actually there is a specific answer to this question in
the book.  It is in chapter 3 when the narrator who we later learn is Crispin is giving
us his history.  When at first, Crispin is telling us what a difficult life he and his
mother led, he tells that his mother's wages were.  Hers were a penny a day and she
could buy full loaves of bread on this.  So specifically. a quarter of a penny would be
worth a loaf of bread.

Why does Huxley choose to introduce his 'Utopian' society in such a manner?Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

In one criticism of Aldous Huxley's Brave New
World, the author writes that the New World is an "unsettling, loveless, and
even sinister place."  And, it is because the New World is such a place that Huxley
begins his satiric novel in the manner that he does--to purposely alienate his
audience.  For, Huxley seeks to elicit in his audience disturbing feelings that the
futuristic society has eliminated.  Having described the New World as "a nightmare" in
his Brave New World Revisited, Huxley wants his disutopia to
disturb, not provide any "joyful anticipation."

In his
novel, Huxley hopes to excite his contemporary audience of the 1930s and work on the
complacency of his bougeois audience regarding Communism and "Fordist American
Capitalism" with its concept of mass production.  In addition, Huxley touches on his
audience's revulsion of the Pavlovian behavioral conditioning with the hypnopaedia of
the citizens in the New World.

In short, Huxley seeks to
alert and warn his audience of the dangers of technology, biological and mechanical.  In
his introduction to his novel, he overtly states his
theme:

The
theme of Brave New world is not the advancement of science as such; it is the
advancement of science as it affects human
individuals.

The opening
chapter gives the audience a shocking intoduction to this theme, one that, hopefully,
will move his readers from their bourgeois complacency.

given a^2+3a-1=0, calculate a^4+6a^3+12a^2+9a-4?

We'll re-write the constraint from
enunciation:

a^2+3a-1=0 gives a^2+3a =
1

We'll raise to square both
sides:

(a^2 + 3a)^2 =
1^2

We'll expand the
square:

a^4 + 6a^3 + 9a^2 = 1
(1)

We'll re-write the expresison that has to be
calculated, with respect to (1):

a^4 + 6a^3 + 9a^2 + 3a^2 +
9a - 4

We'll group the first 3
terms:

(a^4 + 6a^3 + 9a^2) + 3a^2 + 9a -
4

1 + 3a^2 + 9a - 4

We'll
re-write -4 = -3-1

1 + 3a^2 + 9a - 3 -
1

We'll eliminate like terms and we'll
get:

3a^2 + 9a - 3

We'll
factorize by 3:

3(a^2 + 3a -
1)

But, from enunciation a^2 + 3a - 1 = 0, so the
expresison to be calculated will be
zero.

a^4+6a^3+12a^2+9a-4 =
0

Why did Sputnik concern Americans?A) Sputnik showed that the Soviets had surpassed the U.S. in technical skill.B) Sputnik could spy on the U.S.C)...

Your best answer is A.  The United States and the Soviets
were engaged in something of a "space race" as an ancillary to the Cold War. Both sides
knew that the first nation to successfully launch an "earth satellite," as it was
called, would probably be the first to use it for offensive purposes against the other.
The Soviets were always quite secretive about their plans and projects, so the U.S. was
shocked when on October 4, 1957, the Soviets announced the launch of Sputnik I. If the
Soviets could launch a satellite, they could build a missile which would reach the U.S.
As a result of Sputnik, defense spending was greatly increased, and a renewed emphasis
on science and mathematics commenced in American schools. It was because of Sputnik that
NASA was created.

How would you summarize the last chapter "The Lives of The Dead" in the novel The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien?

The Things They Carried begins with
death (Lavender's), and the theme hangs over the book like Hamlet's father's Ghost.
 Indeed, O'Brien keeps revisiting Lavender's death, so much so that the reader
understands he is still haunted by it.  Cross and Tim are the most affected by the
deaths that occur, especially Lavender and Kiowa's
respectively.

"The Lives of the Dead" is O'Brien's first
encounter with death.  As such, Linda becomes a Lavender-like symbol, a ghost who haunts
the narrator.  He feels guilty in the way he treated her, and his guilt reawakens during
war.

Some critics even believe Linda is O'Brien's ideal
audience:

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O'Brien's character appropriates the feminine,
becoming an androgynous fusion of pre-adolescent Timmy and
Linda.

The Things
They Carried is an exercise in memory and storytelling, in bringing haunting
memories and ghosts back to life.  Remember, story-truth is truer than happening-truth,
so the truths in this story are more agonizingly wrought than a bearing out of facts.
 Believe it: Linda is real, and her death has real impact.  O'Brien believes in the
paradoxical title of this chapter: the dead live on in his fiction.  And Linda is
O'Brien's first muse.

Regarding Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, what is the significance of the bubonic plague—(during the 1330s)?

Your question regarding the plague, I assume, is
not Mercutio calling a a plague down
on the Capulet and Montague families when he is fatally wounded by Tybalt in
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

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Mercutio:

I
am hurt.

A plague a' both your houses! I am sped.
(III.i.90-91)

The plague,
however, does play a prominent "part"
in the play. When Friar Lawrence sends Friar John to Mantua with a note for Romeo
apprising Romeo of the plans the friar and Juliet have made to avoid her marriage to
Paris, Friar John is unable to leave the city. In Act Five, scene two, Friar Lawrence
receives the news from Friar John that the letter for Romeo was never delivered, and he
explains why.

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JOHN:

Going
to find a barefoot brother out,

One of our order, to
associate me

Here in this city visiting the
sick,

And finding him, the searchers of the
town,

Suspecting that we both were in a
house

Where the infectious pestilence did
reign,

Seal'd up the doors, and would not let us
forth,

So that my speed to Mantua there was stay'd.
(V.ii.5-12)

This is not a
detail lightly placed within the play. Everyone in England, in Europe, realized the
importance of containing the plague. One of the most social gathering places in England
was the theater, and when there was any risk of plague, the theater was the first place
to be closed because it gathered people from all socioeconomic groups, from all over the
kingdom.

The plague knew no barriers based on age, gender
or social prominence. The most popular was the bubonic plague, though there were three
different kinds. It moved swiftly, killing most commonly within a week. Some people did
survive, but a majority did not; it wiped out entire towns. It was known as the Black
Death, and the fact that Friar John was quarantined is no surprise whatsoever. Houses
were boarded up; no one was allowed in or out until contagion could absolutely be ruled
out.

The Italian author, Giovanni Boccaccio, wrote that the
plague so terrified people that family members would abandon one another. The greatest
calamity was that parents would abandon their own
children:

What
is even worse and nearly incredible is that fathers and mothers refused to see and tend
their children, as if they had not been
theirs.

With this information
in mind, there can be little doubt as to why Friar John would not have been allowed to
leave Verona and travel into Mantua, or anywhere else. No amount of pleading would have
helped. To let one infected person through could mean the death of hundred or thousands.
For instance, the Black Death was...

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...the first great pandemic of recorded history,
with death rates reaching and in places exceeding 70
percent.

It is this detail,
fear of the plague, on which the plot of Romeo and Juliet pivots.
Had Friar John made it through, it is safe to assume that Romeo and Juliet would have
been reunited.

What's the history of the CIA? Why was it formed and what was the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949?

The Central Intelligence Agency was formed in 1947 to be
the central spy agency for the United States.  In previous years, there had been many
different intelligence agencies.  For example, the Army would have their intelligence
agency and the State Department would have theirs.  These agencies did not really talk
to one another.

In 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency
was formed to make sure that intelligence would be gathered and shared.  It was supposed
to make sure that there would not be any further lapses in intelligence like the one
that allowed the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor without anyone realizing it was about
to happen.

Two years later the CIA expanded in power with
the Central
Intelligence Agency Act of 1949. This act permitted the agency to use methods
that would otherwise limit the organization from receiving federal funding. In other
words, the CIA was granted special powers and its veil of secrecy, as it was exempt from
disclosing information like its employees' names and salaries. This act was challenged
in 1972 with the court case href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Richardson">United States v.
Richardson but was ultimately upheld.

Where does the climax of the play "A Streetcar named Desire" occur?

To add to what the previous respondent has stated, this
scene is clearly the climax of the play, but Blanche's sanity has been in question long
before this. This is the final straw that finalizes her break from reality that began
when her husband killed himself. His suicide was a reaction to Blanche's discovery of
his homosexuality, but it also led Blanche on a path of self-doubt. She feels that the
only way she can give herself worth is to be attractive to men, and she leads them on in
order to bask in the glow of their affections. This does not work with Stanley. He sees
through her and takes what he wants to take from her, leaving her shattered when the
only illusion that she had to keep her going, her beauty and desirability, is thrust in
her face.

What is the most common cause of abnormal uterine bleeding?

ABNORMAL UTERINE BLEEDING IN
GIRLS:-

• The first period in a girls life is
  always abnormal caused by foreign body or trauma.


• Sexual
  Abuse

ABNORMAL UTERINE BLEEDING IN
ADOLESCENTS:-

• The first menstrual period causes
  irregular bleeding for a few months till a girl's hormonal cycle and ovulation
  normalizes.


• Infection


• Pregnancy


• Coagulation
  disorders


• Malignancy

ABNORMAL
UTERINE BLEEDING IN WOMEN BETWEEN ADOLESCENCE AND
MENOPAUSE

• Vaginal spotting can be caused because
  of abrupt change in hormonal levels


• Women using hormonal
  birth control
  methods 


• Anovulation


• Cancer
  of cervix

ABNORMAL UTERINE BLEEDING IN
MENOPAUSAL WOMEN:-

• Thinning of tissues around
  uterus and vagina


• Side effects of radiation
  therapy


• Infections


• Use of
  blood thinning tablets

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The most
common cause of abnormal uterine bleeding is
ANOVULATION.

Anovulation
occurs when women skip ovulation, also known as anovulatory cycle. In Anovulation,
menstrual cycle is normal but ovulation wont occur. It is common in women in early and
late years of menstruation. 

Common
causes of anovulation are as
follows:-

• Stress


• Eating
  habits


• Overexertion

How was business in the 1920s helped by the Supreme Court?

In the 1920s, the United States Supreme Court generally
became much more pro-business.  It handed down a number of rulings in which it said that
various governmental regulations on business were unconstitutional.  By doing this, it
helped make it easier for businesses to make money.

A major
example of this came from the case of Adkins v. Children's Hospital
from 1923.  In that case, the Supreme Court struck down a law requiring companies to pay
a minimum wage to all their workers.  The Supreme Court reasoned that imposing minimum
wages took away workers' liberty to take work at whatever wage they
wanted.

In this and other cases, the Supreme Court ruled
that government should not make laws regulating business.  Businesses tend to dislike
regulations.  These decisions helped get rid of the regulations and, thereby, helped
businesses.

How would the Marxist theory of commodity fetishism be relevant to analyzing a literary text?

If the question is asking how to find commodity fetishism
in the analysis of a literary text, I think that one is searching for a setting where
objects receive more importance than people.  Marx's idea of a socio- economic setting
where individuals are objectified and objects are subjective enough to assume
personalized qualities would be important in assessing a text on this level.  We can see
this in Marx's understanding of the "fetish:"

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'Fetishism' in this context refers to
symbolic attribution of power to an object to the point where people believe and act as
though the fetish object really has that power, and this power is even regarded as being
intrinsic to (a natural, inherent characteristic of) the object, rather than a human
attribution. In reality, that power is not an intrinsic characteristic of the object at
all.

This idea can
become important in analyzing a literary text in that the study would have to focus on
how objects receive power, and how these objects possess almost human- like importance. 
At the same time, I think that one would also have to focus on how people are viewed in
an objectified manner.  For example, assessing the role of commodity fetishism in
Flaubert's Madame Bovary reveals that people are seen as stepping
stones to external and object- based ends, while objects are seen as ends and not means
to said ends.

How has culture shaped the lives and attitudes of the main character in The Great Gatsby?

If Nick is considered the main character, then the culture
in the quiet interior of the country has made him a practical, rational man who yearns
for adventure and success but who can still see folly and misguided--even
destructive--choices. This is amply underscored by the fact that at the end of his
experiences with Gatsby, after attending Gatsby's funeral, Nick returns to his homeland
in the Middle West, thus leaving the pain of Gatsby’s failed Eastern life behind. As he
says:

On the
last night, [I] looked at that huge incoherent failure of a house once
more.

If Gatsby is considered
the main character, as the narrative is about Gatsby and his self-deceiving
belief

in the
green light, ... that year by year recedes before
us,

then the cultures
represented by multiple backgrounds and mentors has made him a man who lives by
deceptiveness, which he wittingly and unwittingly applies to his dealings with others as
well as to his own personal beliefs. Nick summarizes Gatsby's culturally influenced life
of deception and self-deception by saying:

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his dream must have seemed so close that he could
... grasp it. He did not know that [the future] was already behind him ... borne back
ceaselessly into the past.

In To Kill a Mockingbird, what is a consequence to Atticus raising his children to respect others?For example he wants to bring justice to the...

First of all, Atticus respects everyone.  He does not seem
to see social class or race.  He also treats both rude and kind people with respect.  He
teaches his children to do the same. 

Atticus believes in
standing up for people who have no voice.  For example, in chapter 11 he describes his
decision to take the Robinson case this way:

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This case, Tom Robinson’s case, is something that
goes to the essence of a man’s conscience—Scout, I couldn’t go to church and worship God
if I didn’t try to help that
man.”

He tells Scout that he
did not just take the case because he was told to, which would make it not his fault,
but because he felt it was the right thing to do.  He feels like Tom needs him, and it
is his ethical duty to help.  He tries to explain to his daughter that he would not be
an honest Christian if he didn't.

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“They’re certainly entitled to think that, and
they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions,” said Atticus, “but before I can
live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by
majority rule is a person’s conscience.” (chapter
11)

Atticus also teaches his
children to respect everyone, including those who seem rude or grumpy.  If they don't
understand a person, he urges them to "climb into his skin and walk around in it”
because "you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point
of view" (chapter 3).  He tries to get Scout and Jew to see people for who they really
are, not who they appear to be.

Finally, Atticus teaches
his children that people are not always what they seem.  When Jem crushes Mrs. Dubose’s
flowers, Atticus sends him back to apologize to her and she asks him to come back for a
month to fix the flowers and read to her.  He explains to Jem that Mrs. Dubose has been
fighting a debilitating illness and trying to wean herself off
morphine.

“I
wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a
man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you
begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you
do.  Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died
beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever
knew.”

 Thus, Atticus teaches
his children to respect people, whether it’s popular or not, whether they are your equal
or not, and whether you like them or not.

In the story "Geraldo No Last Name" by Sandra Cisneros, retell the main events of this story as you imagine Marin would have told them to the police.

The first two paragraphs of this vignette should give you
ample information to complete this task. Note how we are told that this is what Marin
told the various authorities, the police and the hospital, "again and again," indicating
the way that she was forced to repeat her story, but also the way that she stuck to the
facts that she was given by him. The first paragraph in particular reveals their
connection:

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She met him at a dance. Pretty too, and young.
Said he worked in a restaurant, but she can't remember which one. Geraldo. That's all.
Green pants and Saturday shirt. Geraldo. That's what he told
her.

Note how the brief,
short style of this narration reflects Marin's sadness at what happened and how she was
moved by Geraldo's death. It also could reveal Marin's own fear about revealing too much
information about a boy who was an illegal immigrant, just another "wetback" or "brazer
who didn't speak English." Thus, Marin's narration of the events would necessarily be
very limited and it would keep to the facts alone rather than going into any other
details that could be damaging both to herself and to Geraldo.

What was the author's purpose in Twenty Years at Hull House?

In this book, Jane Addams was trying to get her readers to
understand the social and economic problems faced by the poor in Chicago (and, by
extension, in the rest of the country).

Jane Addams was one
of the founders of the settlement house movement during the Progressive Era.  Settlement
houses were set up by middle class women like Addams as a way to help poor, usually
immigrant, people deal with their problems and (hopefully) improve their lives.  Addams
wrote this book to publicize the problems that her clientele faced so that people would
push the government to enact progressive legislation that would help the
poor.

Discuss if the story of The Old Man and the Sea can be properly regarded as a tragedy.

I certainly feel that there are some tragic elements in
Hemingway's novel, but I am not entirely convinced that it is a tragedy.  When I think
of a tragedy, I am inclined to consider works that present a narrative of disunity, lack
of totality, and fragmentation where answers are challenging to ascertain as part of the
definition of tragedy.  The idea of being "Destroyed, but not Defeated" is a reflection
of Santiago.  While the old man might have failed, he emerges as a unifying force, an
example of how to stand in the world.  The human predicament is shown to be one where
victory and triumph is present, even if not present in the final results.  I think that
this is why the work is not one of tragedy, but one where the unifying force of comedy
and totality is present.  With the ending of the work, the emergence of Santiago as a
force that asserts his own voice, and the idea that there is a positive force within
consciousness makes this work so comic in
nature:

Yet the struggle to achieve
one’s dreams is still worthwhile, for without dreams, a human remains a mere physical
presence in the universe, with no creative or spiritual dimension. And so at the end of
the story, Santiago, in spite of his great loss, physical pain, and exhaustion, is still
“dreaming about the lions”—the same ones he saw in Africa when he was younger and would
like to see again.

In the poem "Sea Fever" by John Masefield, where do you hear variations in the meter?

Part of the success of this excellent poem is the way that
the author uses meter to enact the sound and the rhythm and the feel of the waves as
they lap against the boat of the speaker's imagination. Of course, the meter varies
tremendously as you go through the poem, with the iambic pentameter at times changing to
spondees that give these lines a definitely different feel. Consider the following
example:

And
the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's
shaking...

The spondee of
"wheel's kick" and "wind's song" and "white sail's" help to enact the sound of the waves
of the sea hitting the side of the boat and the rhythm of the water. This is a technique
that is used not just once in the poem, but in other lines. Now that I have identified
this example try to scan lines 7 and 11 to analyse the use of spondees by the author.
You might want to think about how dactyls are used as well. Good
luck!

I was wondering if Anyone can help me write a thesis statement for my research paper about the Black plague?

Writing thesis statements is really, really hard.  The
key, though, is that as long as you can take a side, you can write a thesis statement
successfully.

Like the previous answerer said, you have to
narrow the focus of your topic a little bit.

For a research
paper, I would plan on having a working thesis statement, meaning that it might need to
shift as you do your research. 

Try starting with a
question: Why was the black plague significant?  How did the black plague shape history?
etc.

Then, your thesis should provide an answer to the
question.

A thesis should have your opinion and then a "so
what, " which explains why your opinion is significant or
matters.

Depending on what grade you are in, your teacher
may want you to provide a "mapping sentence" that lists the two to four items you will
prove (at the paragraph level).  Sometimes, this mapping sentence serves as the so
what.

A more sophisticated paper will find a commonality
between those sub-points or items and use that as the so what.

What is an elegy?What points are necessary to make a detailed note on elegy?

An elegy is a mournful, melancholic poem, usually written
as a lament for someone who has died.

In ancient Greek
poetry, the term elegy referred to a very specific form of poetry. 
Although Greek elegies could be about a wide variety of topics, they had to be written
in elegaic couplets, meaning in pairs of lines that had a very specific pattern of
stressed and unstressed syllables.

In later times, the word
elegy came to mean that the topic of the poem was mournful, even
the form of the poem might be completely unlike the ancient Greek
elegaic couplets.

One of the most famous elegies in the
English language is Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," in which the
poet reflects on the lives of the simple people who are buried in a rural churchyard. 
Although the poem clearly is elegaic in content, it does not use
any of the technical forms of the ancient Greek elegies.

Does Chick, the MaGrath's sisters' cousin in the play Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley, have any redeeming qualities?

Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley
introduces the MaGrath sisters who are all in crisis.  Lenny’s house has been struck by
lightning; Meg, who works in a dog food factory, has come home; and Babe has just shot
her husband Zachery, who survived the injury.

This comedic
yet dramatic play takes place in the grandfather’s house who has just had a stroke. 
Everything seems to be falling down around the sisters’
ears. 

Living next door is the first cousin Chick Boyle. At
twenty-nine, Chick seems to have everything: a husband, two children, a nice house, and
respect in the community. 

Chick actually believes that she
knows what is best for everyone.  She does not hold back any of her opinions or advice. 
When the sisters do something wrong, Chick almost seems happy. On the other hand, she
pities Lenny whom she thinks has the most sense of the sisters. Chick finds her cousins
well beneath her status. 

To her, they are the crazy
McGrath girls.  Chick hopes that she will be able to hold up her head in the community
after the scandal created by Babe and the shooting.  She wants to be a member of the
Ladies’ Social League which means that the family cannot be involved in a
scandal. 

The relationship between Chick and Lenny seems
closest.  Lenny and Chick talk and Chick keeps up with the rest of the family. 
Obviously, she feels comfortable in asking Lenny to do her a favor by buying a pair of
panty hose It is Chick who goes and picks up Babe at the
jail. 

There are some signs that underneath
her arrogance and judgmental attitude, there might be a reasonably good person.  Chick
shows concern  for her children and does seem to have been taught some manners. She
remembers birthdays and shows some concern for Babe and her
plight. 

On the other hand, Chick likes to
bring up the tragedies of the family. For example, she often mentions their mother’s
suicide.  One of the sisters is a prime target for Chick: Meg.  Chick does not like her
because she thinks that she should not have engaged in an affair with the doctor.  She
finds her to be undisciplined and a “tramp.”

When the
grandfather has a stroke, Chick makes a list of people that need to be called.  She
wants to divide up the calling list with the McGrath’s doing half of the list, and she
will call the other half.  Lenny is really not interested, but tells Chick that she will
do the other half. Chick hints that there are three sisters; consequently, they should
share in the burden.

When Chick attacks Meg to Lenny, she
has gone too far. Lenny chases her out of the house with a broom. Remember that family
ties are the strongest. Lenny tells Chick to get out of the
house.

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Chick: You need not have one more
blessed thing to do with her [Meg] and her disgusting
behavior.

Lenny: I said, don’t you ever talk that
way about my sister Meg again.

Chick: Well, my
goodness gracious, Lenora, don’t be such a
noodle---it's the truth!

Lenny: Get out of
here---

Chick: Don’t you tell me to get out! Why,
I’ve had just about my fill of you trashy MaGraths and your trashy ways: hanging
yourselves in cellars: carrying on with married men; shooting your own
husbands!

Poor Chick
will never understand that instead of pulling down the sisters---why not try to help
them! That is not in her character.

Who does Steinbeck side with in In Dubious Battle: with the men (workers), the owners, or the communists, or is there no correct answer?

Steinbeck's greatest affinity is lavished on Jim, the
communist neophyte who connects to the strikers on a metaphysical level, spiritually
identifying with the mass of underprivileged humanity they represent. Jim is not
perfect, yet his motives are pure. He is repeatedly aligned with ideas of
mysticism/spirituality, compassion, and sacrifice.  

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In this book more than in any other, Steinbeck
explores what he called the "group man" theory: the notion that groups are independent,
"living" organisms in which the whole is greater than the sum of its
parts. 

Jim is the
character most fully aligned with this concept, though it is Doc Burton who articulates
the notion most clearly in the novel. 

Outside of Jim,
Steinbeck paints a largely sympathetic picture of the strikers (workers) in this novel,
but does not present them as being completely moral or flawless. The growers/owners are
not presented sympathetically and are seen for the most part from the perspective of the
strikers. 

The other communist party member in the novel,
Mac, is not shown in a sympathetic light as Jim is. Mac is morally complex. He makes
mistakes of calculation and emotion and sullies his character morally on several
occasions.  

find the equation of the parabola with axis parallel to Ox, latus rectum 1, and passing through (3,1),(-5,5)analytic geometry conic sections the...

Let the vertex of the parabola be (x0, y0). As the latus
rectum is 1, a = 1/4. The equation of the parabola is (y - y0)^2 = (x -
x0)

It passes through (3,1) and
(-5,5)

=> (5 - y0)^2 = (- 5 - x0) and (1 - y0)^2 = (
3 - x0)

x0 = -5 - (5 -
y0)^2

substituting in (1 - y0)^2 = ( 3 -
x0)

=> (1 - y0)^2 = 3 + 5 + (5 -
y0)^2

=> (1 - y0)^2 - (5 - y0)^2 =
8

=> (1- y0 - 5 + y0)(1 - y0 + 5 - y0) =
8

=> -4*(6 - 2*y0) =
8

=> 2y0 - 6 =
2

=> 2y0 = 8

=>
y0 = 4

x0 = -5 - (5 -
y0)^2

=> x0 = -5 - ( 5 -
4)^2

=> x0 = -5 -
1

=> x0 =
-6

The equation of the parabola is (y - 4)^2
= x + 6

How does the setting contribute to the plot in "Witches' Loaves" by O.Henry?

With the setting of a bakery, the encounter of Miss Martha
Meacham and the middle-aged German man is initially one of chance, as well as one that
is brief.  Each day he comes for stale bread which he purchases and then immediately
departs the bakery, so there is little opportunity for Miss Meacham to speak with him. 
For this reason, she contrives the posting of a painting so that the German customer
will notice it and react.  In this way, Miss Meacham may be able to determine if he is
an artist as she has suspected.  The next day when the man enters the bakery, he does,
in fact, comment upon the painting; therefore, Miss Meacham believes that he is a
starving artist. In her sympathy and interest, the baker slips some butter into each
loaf intending a kindness.  But, the irony is that the buttered bread destroys the
German draftsman's drawings, causing him financial ruin.  He returns to the bakery,
cursing the baker.

Clearly, the bakery as the setting
controls the actions of the plot.  Only once each day does the draftsman come, and Miss
Meacham can but guess at what he does in his obvious state of penury.  And, since she
only sees the man briefly each day, she does not get to know him well.  That there can
be the misunderstanding between Miss Meacham and the draftsman is entirely possible
within the setting, and, of course, that she can dash all his hopes for success with her
simple loaves of stale bread is also possible in O. Henry's ironic short
story.

What are the conditions upon which Pip will receive his "great expectations" in Chapter 18?

Mr. Jaggers was a lawyer from London, sent by Pip’s
benefactor to inform him and Joe on the offer made and the conditions of the said offer.
The lawyer first informed Joe of the offer to relieve Pip from his apprenticeship. Joe
was not to object to the offer, and he was further asked if he expected anything in
return for the cancellation of Pip’s apprenticeship. Joe did not object, and he did not
request anything in return.

The lawyer then turned to Pip
and sought to communicate the arrangement for Pip’s "Great
Expectations."

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“Now, I return to this young fellow. And the
communication I have got to make is, that he has Great Expectations.” Mr.
Jaggers

The benefactor had
instructed Mr. Jaggers to remove Pip from the place where he presently stayed and
facilitate his training as a gentleman. However, the conditions from the benefactor for
this arrangement were that:

• He continued to bear
  the name Pip.


• The name of the benefactor remained a
  secret until such a time as the person decided to disclose
  it.


• Pip was prohibited from making inquiries about or
  referring to the said benefactor.

Pip did not
object to any of the stipulated conditions, and so they proceeded to discuss the details
of the arrangement as authorized by his benefactor.

I am directing Pride and Prejudice and Kitty said she is having a really hard time developing her character. Any thoughts?

Key to capturing the character of Kitty is to identify how
she begins to differ from her sister, Lydia, who is definitely the leader of Kitty,
after Lydia returns married. Let us remember that at the end of the novel, Kitty is
"civilised" if that is the right word by the good influence of her two eldest sisters. I
personally think that the audience in a stage version of this excellent novel should be
able to see this process beginning when Kitty is separated from Lydia due to her
marriage. Of course, there will be tears and anger from Kitty at the way that Lydia has
married and gained a higher social status because of that, but actually being separated
from Lydia allows her to develop her own character and to escape the bad influence of
Lydia. I would suggest that the person playing Kitty thinks about modelling herself more
on Jane after this stage, as this is the beginning of her process of maturing as a
character.

Why is global warming not a threat?

I think that there are couple of ways to make this
argument.

First, you can argue that it is not really
happening.  Some scientists try to make this
argument.

Second, and I think that this is an easier
argument to make, climate change is not necessarily a bad thing.  Let's say that the
world warms up a few degrees.  This might mean that some crops can no longer grow where
they now grow.  But maybe those crops could be grown somewhere else and new crops that
can deal with the warmer weather can be grown where they used to
be.

In other words, so what if now we have to grow grain in
Alaska and we can grow bananas in Kansas -- there will be somewhere for everything to
grow even so.

Alternately, maybe the growing season will
get longer -- you can grow more crops per year because it will get warm earlier in
spring and stay warm later in fall.

In addition, as one of
the links below argues, people enjoy warm weather more than cold and warm weather is
healthier for people than cold

In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, in Act I, scene v, state the meaning of "gentle sin" as Romeo compares Juliet to a.........

In Act One, scene v, in Shakespeare's Romeo and
Juliet, the two lovers are meeting for the first time at a Capulet party.
Neither of them know that the other is a member of their family's
enemy.

When they meet, Romeo and Juliet flirt first with
words. He compares Juliet to a shrine, and his lips to pilgrims—travelers who visit holy
shrines to give thanks and worship. (These are
metaphors.)

If
I profane with my unworthiest hand / This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: / My
lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand / To smooth that rough touch with a tender
kiss. (I.v.98-101)

Romeo
declares that Juliet is line a shrine—a holy
place.

Dictionary.com defines a shrine
as:

...any
structure or place consecrated or devoted to some saint, holy person, or deity, as an
altar, chapel, church, or
temple.

The extended metaphor
created here between the two as they continue to speak and even kiss, uses references
with a religious motif. Once Romeo identifies the young Juliet as a shrine, he says that
if he has offended her, he will, like "two blushing pilgrims" smooth his offense (his
"gentle sin") with a kiss.

Juliet responds that he is too
harsh regarding the sin of his hands, and continues the discussion with religious
references such as "devotion" "holy palmer's kiss." Romeo goes on in kind with similar
references such as "saint" and "prayer."

In all, Romeo is
comparing Juliet to someone just this side of heaven, to be worshiped and adored, as
pilgrims would worship a shrine.

What would make your hair and nails all of a sudden start to grow rapidly? There has been no change in diet.

One reason for sudden hair and nail growth could be due to
an improvement in your overall health.  There are many vitamin deficiencies that can
cause your hair and nails to grow slowly.  Sometimes these vitamin deficiencies are due
to underlying medical conditions that may have resolved
themselves. 

Some of the important vitamins for hair and
nail health are vitamin C, vitamin E, and B-Complex
vitamins.

One condition that can be difficult to pin down
medically is thyroid disease.  This illness presents with many random symptoms that make
detection a drawn out process.  Some of the symptoms of this are slow growing hair and
nails.

Always keep in mind that your hair, nails, and skin
are key indicators of overall health.  If you ever have concerns I would recommend that
you see a medical professional.

What were the methods used by the government to ensure public support for World War I?

The major method used by the government to ensure public
support of the war was propaganda.  The US government set up a major propaganda
apparatus whose job was to get people to support the war both through their opinions and
by loaning money to the government.

The main part of the
propaganda apparatus was a committe called the Committe on Public Information (CPI). 
The CPI produced many kinds of propaganda.  These forms included posters with patriotic
and anti-German messages.  They also included the mobilization of a huge group of
speakers trained to deliver propaganda messages to public groups.  Other tactics
included the creation of pamphlets and movies.

This sort of
propaganda was the main way in which the government tried to win support for the war (as
opposed to suppressing dissent).

What are views and uses of religion by the character Moorthy in Kanthapura and Gandhi, as expressed in Hind Swaraj and My Experiments with...

In both Gandhi's life and Rao's construction of Moorthy,
religion is seen as a transcendent and universal force that seeks to broaden human
empathy.  In both, religion is not as sectarian or dogmatic, and is not even limited to
one particular branch of worship.  The calls to end untouchability and the need to
embrace nonviolence as a way to approach injustice is driven from a greater
understanding of human experience where one is validated through spiritual acceptance. 
Rao's depiction of Moorthy and Gandhi's own writings value the universality of truth,
and the transcendent belief that spiritual liberation can be facilitated when one
embraces it.  Religion is not seen as a force of division between individuals, but
rather one that embraces a community of people regardless of caste, social condition, or
economic standing.  In both, this call for community is a radical call for change
against both British oppression and traditional notions of the good that lock
individuals into stratified roles.  It is in this light that both Moorthy and Gandhi
posed significant threat to the establishments that enabled such stratification to
exist.

In what ways is the lamb both a literal object and a symbol in "The Lamb"?

The speaker of this poem is a child asking a literal lamb
if the lamb knows who made it, but the Lamb is also a symbolic or metaphorical name for
Jesus Christ who, as part of the holy Trinity, is God.  This child speaker knows that
the Lamb is made by God and is celebrating God's and Jesus's love for all the creatures
in the world.  The literal level of the poem is especially noticed in the first stanza
of the poem where the speaker is talking about the life and experience of a lamb who
"feed / By the stream and o'er the mead," and who would have clothing "woolly, bright,"
and who has "such a tender voice" (baa baa).

In the second
stanza the speaker plays with the seeming riddle of the question "who made you."  It is
like a riddle because the "he" that made the lamb is the "Lamb of God" or Jesus, who is
God.  The speaker says "He is called by thy name / For he calls himself a Lamb."  God
became man, born as a child, when Jesus came  to earth to take away the sins of the
world, and therefore the repition of the final line suggests the two meanings of lamb. 
We should bless the lamb as a creature of God's making, and we should bless (pray to/for
the Lamb who is Jesus, the Redeemer.

The attitude of the
speaker and the delight of the understanding of faith and God shown in this poem
perfectly suit its inclusion in the Songs of Innocence collection
of poems by Blake. 

What promise concerning his past does Darnay make to Dr. Manette in A Tale of Two Cities?

Darnay promises to reveal his true name to Dr. Manette. 
Charles feels guilty for hiding his true identity from Dr. Manette, since he is also a
Frenchman.  He does not feel right about marrying Lucie until Dr. Manette knows the
truth.  Dr. Manette is fully aware of his own fragile psychological condition, and
suspects that the truth of Darnay’s identity might be too much for him and cause him to
suffer a relapse.  When Darnay tries to tell him the truth, he refuses to hear it.  He
finally agrees to let Charles tell him when the two get married, because Charles
insists.  Dr. Manette knows that if he does relapse then, he will have the honeymoon to
recover without Lucie knowing what happened.

In the book Fahrenheit 451 what "fire images" describe the ladies?

When Mrs. Montag invites the ladies to come over for some
mutual television, she answers the door "like a native fleeing an eruption of Vesuvius"
(pg 93)  This is a reference to the volcano that erupted spewing fire over the natives
below.

Montag watches the ladies and says that he saw their
"Cheshire cat smiles burning through the walls of the house." ( pg
93)

He turns off the television or the three walls, and the
three ladies become uncomfortable.  They light cigarettes and are "blowing smoke" (pg
95) while they are fingering their "sun-fired hair" and examining their "blazing
fingernails as if they had caught fire from his look." (pg
95)

Finally, they become so uncomfortable that they are
"burning with tension." (pg 96) The volcano image emerges again with "they might hiss a
long sputtering hiss and explode" (pg 96)

When Mrs. Montag
asks him to read Dover Beach, the room becomes "blazing hot" to him
and he was "all fire".  He feels that the women "sat in the middle of an empty desert"
(pg 99) and, when he read the poem, his voice went out across that desert, but they sat
in their "great hot  emptiness." (pg 99)

How does the housing market affect the economy? (I want lots of material)I know a lot, so don't take time to explain anything unless you yourself...

To look at things from somewhat of the opposite
perspective, other than the loss of construction jobs, if you have a booming housing
market, some of the following happen:

• The first
  is that people generally feel that the equity in their home is increasing, making them
  more comfortable with the idea of home equity loans to pay for various things they don't
  have the cash for.


• People also feel like they don't have
  to worry about tomorrow since tomorrow their house will be worth more, so if things
  really go south, they can sell and be ok.  This generally leads to decreased saving and
  again, increased spending.


• The other thing about the
  housing market is that if it appears to be consistently going up (particularly at the
  rates which it appeared to be increasing) the increase in speculation in terms of
  looking at housing as an investment.

All of
these things can also simply help drive money to go around the economy faster, and if
you read up on your economic theory, faster circulating dollars in a way have a similar
effect to there actually being more dollars circulating around.  This has  all kinds of
interesting effects, among them some positive and some negative, but all you have to do
to find all kinds of great and interesting (and at times frightening) examples is read
up on your recent economic history.

What is the meaning of Othello's expression "goats and monkeys!" in IV. I. 243 of Othello?

It is important to always look at the context of
particular phrases if you are attempting to understand them. In this scene the phrase
you have identified clearly reflects the way that Othello is becoming overwhelmed with
the jealousy that Iago is creating between both Othello and Cassio and Othello and
Desdemona. Thus when Lodovico enters, Othello leaves him with this final line which is
rather puzzling because of the way that the first half seems to have nothing to do with
the second half:

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You are welcome, sir, to Cyrpus. Goats and
monkeys!

This apparent non
sequitur seems to indicate the imagery of bestiality and lust, but also indicate the way
that such imagery that Iago has taunted him with still clearly rings in his ears and how
he is becoming "unmanned" by his jealousy.

In The Kite Runner, why is Assef still treated better than Hassan even though he's a foreigner?

Hassan (the son of Baba's servant, Ali) is a member of the
ethinc Hazara, who are scorned by most of Afghanistan's other social groups. The Hazaras
were generally poor and uneducated (as was Ali and Hassan) and most lived in the
mountainous region known as Hazajarat. They would eventually become one of the prime
targets of future ethnic cleansing by the Taliban. Assef, though blonde and the son of a
German woman, is nevertheless one-half Pashtun--the ruling ethnic group in Afghanistan.
His parents are wealthy and powerful, thus enabling Assef with the belief that he comes
from the ruling class of the land. Combined with his German heritage and love of Hitler,
Assef considers himself and his family to be better than most--and certainly more
privileged than any Hazara. His German roots may have helped his own rise in ranks
within the Taliban, since Hitler's Nazis were defeated by United States--a prime enemy
of the Taliban. In any case, Assef's Pashtun roots gave him a higher social
standing than Hassan.

Discuss Holden's view of the relationship between knowing and feeling in The Catcher in the Rye.

C. J. Jung in his marvelous book  Psychological
Types  identifies four conscious functions. They are thinking, intuition,
sensation, and feeling. Almost everyone will favor one of these conscious functions and
use another of the functions to complement the principal one. Holden Caulfield seems to
rely heavily on intuition and feeliing. This is probably the most striking aspect of
"The Catcher in the Rye." Holden makes snap thumbnail assessments of people based on how
he feels about them--and his judgments are often right. If it were not for this feature
of the novel, it would not be nearly as interesting as it is or as popular as it has
been for over sixty years. His feeling tells him whether he likes or dislikes, trusts or
distrusts a person, and then his intuition gives him more details about that person's
character and even about people in the entire category to which the person belongs. A
good example is in his run-in with Maurice the bellhop, who is a total stranger. After
Maurice robs him of five dollars, Holden actually prophesies the petty thug's future
life:

"You're
a stupid chiseling moron, and in about two years you'll be one of those scraggy guys
that come up to you on the street and ask for a dime for coffee. You'll have snot all
over your dirty filthy overcoat, and you'll
be--"

Holden's primary
conscious function cannot be called "thinking" because he is too immature. But he may
develop into a person who relies more on thinking and intuition than on feeling and
intuition.

Your question about "knowing and feeling" is
perceptive. "Knowing" is the same as intuition (or intuiting), and it is a wonderful
ability to have. It comes, as Jung tells us, from the unconscious, which contains the
wisdom and condensed experience accumulated by the human race during the past two
million years.

Why was the city of Ember created in the book entitled The City of Ember?Nothing - I just need the answers please.

The city of Ember was created in the aftermath of an
apocalypse, presumably a nuclear war. The war had rendered conditions on the face of the
earth unlivable, so Ember was built far beneath the ground to allow survivors of the war
to continue to thrive. Ember is the sole refuge remaining for the human race. Because it
is located so far beneath the earth's surface, it is completely dark, and it is
sustained by a complicated and ingenious system run by electricity. At the time of the
story, over two-hundred years after the Ember's inception, the city is threatened
because it appears that the electrical system is about to give out. If it fails
completely, the city will be plunged back into complete
darkness.

Ember was not intended to last forever. Its
creators had estimated that, after a certain amount of time, conditions on the earth
would improve to where it would be able to sustain life once again. These founders had
written instructions as to how the people could escape from Ember when that time came,
and the instructions had been placed in a box which was to have been passed down from
mayor to mayor of the city. Unfortunately, after a number of years, the box had been
lost, and ultimately forgotten. Now that the electricity system is threatened, the
people are stuck in the doomed city with no way of escape.

Solve and graph the inequality: |x|

To solve the inequality, we'll have to apply the
definition of the absolute value:

|x|<c
<=> -c<x<c

For c = 3 =>
-3 < x < 3

We'll solve the simultaneous
inequalities:

-3 < x and x <
3

-3 < x <=> x belongs to the range
(-3 ; +infinite)

x < 3 <=> x belongs
to the range (-infinite ; 3)

We'll intercept
the intervals and the common solution for x is found in the opened interval (-3 ;
3).