What are the possible dangers of travelling without having legal documents of the individuals involved? Please elaborate on this topic from...

Let's take immigrant workers to the United States as an
example, as opposed to say, the casual tourist who is going abroad without
documents.

Large numbers of immigrants cross the border
without documents each year because of the employment opportunities available here, and
the poverty south of that border.  The dangers involved in this are significant and
physical as well as legal.

About ten percent of my students
are undocumented, and the stories I have heard over the years about their border
crossing experiences are scary indeed.  Paying off coyotes (smugglers) who sometimes
steal their possessions and leave them in the desert, crossing wide open tracts of
desert on foot without adequate food or water, and often with small children, being
robbed or assaulted on the way to the border, being kidnapped and sold into slavery or
sexually exploited.  These are all very real dangers and realities for undocumented
workers trying to cross the southern border into the US, not to mention the chances of
being caught and deported to go through the process all over
again.

What is the slant asymptote of the function y=x^2/(x+1)?

We'll recall the equation of the slant
asymptote:

y = mx + n

We must
identify the coefficients m and n to determine the equation of the slant
asymptote.

m = lim f(x)/x, if x approaches to
+infinite

Let f(x)=y

m = lim
x^2/x*(x+1)

We'll remove the brackets from
denominator:

lim x^2/x*(x+1) = lim x^2/(x^2 +
x)

We'll force the factor x^2 at
denominator:

lim x^2/x^2*(1 + 1/x) = lim 1/(1 +
1/x)

lim 1/(1 + 1/x) = lim 1/(1 + lim
1/x)

lim 1/(1 + lim 1/x) = 1/(1+0) =
1

Since m = 1, we may calculate
n:

n = lim [f(x) - mx] = lim [x^2/(x+1) -
x]

lim [x^2/(x+1) - x] = lim (x^2 - x^2 -
x)/(x+1)

lim (- x)/(x+1) = -1/1 =
-1

The equation of the slant asymptote, if x
approaches to + infinite and - infinite, is y = x -
1.

Why did Jimmy Carter receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Explain.

Jimmy Carter, who had been President of the United States
from 1977 to 1981, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.  He did not win it for any
specific act but rather for the sum of his efforts to promote democracy and human rights
around the world.

As president, for example, Carter was
instrumental in getting the countries of Israel and Egypt to sign a peace treaty.  This
treaty, known as the Camp David Peace Accords, was the first step towards creating a
more stable and peaceful situation between Israel and its neighbors (this process has,
sadly, not continued to work).

Since his term as president,
Carter has been involved in many humanitarian and pro-democracy efforts.  He often heads
groups that mediate conflicts or that observe elections to try to ensure their
fairness.  He founded the Carter Center which is meant to try to promote democracy and
and to generally improve the lives of people in poor
countries.

For all of these actions, Carter won the Nobel
Peace Prize in 2002.

In 1984, what did Julia talk Winston into volunteering to do?

The answer to this question can be found in Chapter Three
of Part Two of this excellent book. In it, we discover Julia's strategy for keeping a
low profile, which is to volunteer for as many things as possible to keep up the
pretense of being a good and loyal citizen of Big Brother. In a world where your every
move is scrutinised and examined, it is worth trying to pretend to play along with what
is happening, allowing your actions at least to suggest a loyalty that has no
correspondence with your internal thoughts. Note what the text tells
us:

She spent
an astonishing amount of time in attending lectures and demosntrations, distributing
literature for the Junior Anti-Sex League, preparign banners for Hate Week, making
collections for the savings campaign, and such-like activities. It paid, she said, it
was camouflage. If you kept the small rules, you could break the big
ones.

Thus it is that she
persuades Winston to enroll himself on a part-time munition work, which involves Winston
spending four hours every week in "paralysing boredom," working to make some form of
bombs for the Party that he despises so much.

What is a good description of Mr. Smith and Mr. Brown in Things Fall Apart?

We aren't actually given a physical description of these
two characters apart from the obvious detail that they are both white. Mr. Brown is said
to wear glasses, but apart from that the main description we receive from them regards
how they tried to establish Christianity in the tribe and the different approaches that
they took. The best comparison between them comes in Chapters Twenty One and Twenty Two,
which clearly detail their approach to the indigenous religion. Note what we are told
about Mr. Brown:

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This growing feeling was due to Mr. Brown, the
white missinoary, who was very firm in restraining his flock from provoking the wrath of
the clan... Mr. Brown preached against... excess of zeal. Every thing was possible, he
told his energetic flock, but everything was not expedient. And so Mr. Brown came to be
respected even by the clan, because he trod softly on its
faith.

The way that Mr. Brown
was respected even by the clan is demonstrated through the many friendships that he
formed and the respect with which he was held. However, Mr. Brown's replacement, Mr.
Smith was very different:

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He condemned openly Mr. Brown's policy of
compromise and accommodation. He saw things as black and white. And black was evil. He
saw the world as a battlefield in which the children of light were locked in mortal
conflict with the sons of darkness. He spoke in his sermons about sheep and goats and
about wheat and tares. He believed in slaying the prophets of
Baal.

Thus we can see that
the massive difference between Mr. Brown and Mr. Smith is that Mr. Smith was far more
antagonistic and harsh towards the indigenous religion, whereas Mr. Brown adopted a more
softly-softly approach.

Compare the tone of Robert Herrick's poem,"To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" and Andrew Marvell's poem "To His Coy Mistress."

The commonality between "To His Coy Mistress," by Andrew
Marvell, and "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time," by Robert Herrick, is that in both
poems, the speaker is using the "carpe diem" theme, which means "seize the day" or "live
for today." Basically, the authors are both saying that time flies by quickly: don't
waste a minute because once time is gone, so are the opportunities that surround us when
we are young.

The major difference I see is that Andrew
Marvell is doing his best to woo the woman he is speaking to into having an affair with
him. He tells her that by saving her virginity, she may end up taking it to the grave
with her: and what a waste! To the typical Cavalier poet, it was
about having fun today without worrying about
tomorrow.

Marvell speaks of the passing of time, as it
races by, and reasons the woman should follow his
advice:

But
at my back I always hear
Time's winged chariot hurrying near;
And
yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall
no more be found,
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing
song; then worms shall try
That long preserv'd virginity,
And your
quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust.
The grave's
a fine and private place,
But none I think do there
embrace.

Like a demon, time
is personified as an entity that races to overcome him, to steal his youth. Vast
eternity awaits us all, but he is speaking as to how she will end
up there: in what state. She won't be beautiful anymore, he and his song will be gone,
her body will deteriorate, as will his lust turn to ash. The grave is all well and good
if you want to "get away" (it's a "fine and private place"), but it lends nothing to
romance.

Marvell is trying to get this woman to come around
to his way of thinking.

Herrick, on the other hand, seems
simply to suggest that every person should enjoy youth while he or she may, and never
take it for granted. He is giving sound advice, but not because there is something
he wants, as does Marvell. Herrick is simply saying youth passes
very quickly and then is gone: don't ignore it or waste it, but enjoy it while you
may.

...the
speaker does not urge “the virgins” simply to frolic adulterously,
[as does Marvell] but to seek union in matrimony, thereby uniting the natural cycles of
life and death with the rites and ceremonies of Christian
worship.

Herrick's take,
then, is different than Marvell's:

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Although a very common theme in sixteenth- and
seventeenth-century verse, and particularly in Cavalier poetry, the association of
Christianity and carpe diem is not a traditional one...perhaps “natural” given Herrick’s
thirty-two year career as vicar of Dean Prior, an appointment originally bestowed by
King Charles I.

In essence,
the topic of both poems is the same, but Marvell wants to get a certain young woman into
bed (with "no strings"), while Herrick is more interested in warning the young to use
their youth wisely, and he is purporting relationships joined
not in lust but by
marriage.

Additional
Source:

http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/herrick/tovirgins.htm

What is goverment?I think chief minister is called goverment. Is it right? Actually sometimes any Minister does anything for public, then it is...

The government of a country is the people who are in
control of that country at a particular time.  The term generally refers to both the
elected parts of the government (the legislature and the executive, for example) and the
unelected civil servants who carry out the laws that are made by the elected
officials.

The term "government" can also refer to the
party that is in power in a parliamentary system.  For example, we refer to the current
"coalition government" in Great Britain.  In this case, we are still talking about the
people who are in control of the country (as discussed above) but we are also talking
specifically about the party that is in power.

Overall,
then, both of the things you are referring to are part of government.  The chief
minister or prime minister is the leader of the government, but all of the other
ministers (and their subordinate civil servants) are part of the government
too.

Which pension insurance was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court when it was first enacted into law?Please enclose URL reference

The Railroad Pension Act of 1934 was declared
unconstitutional in Railroad Retirement Board v. Alton Railroad, 295 US 330 (1935).  The
Act was to establish a compulsory retirement and pension for all rail carriers subject
to the Interstate Commerce Act.   The Supreme Court declared the act as a violation of
the Fifth Amendment due process clause.  The Court
stated:

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That the Act violates the due
process clause is shown by the following
considerations:

(1) All persons who were in carrier service
within one year prior to the passage of the Act (about 146,000) would be entitled under
it to pensions, whether reemployed or not. Among them would be those who had been
discharged for cause, or had been retired, or had resigned to the other gainful
employment, or whose positions had been abolished, or whose employment was
temporary....To place such a burden upon the carriers is arbitrary in the last degree,
and the claim that such largess would promote efficiency or safety in the future
operation of the railroads is without rational support. P. href="http://supreme.justia.com/us/295/330/case.html#348">295 U. S.
348.

The Act
violated the due process clause because all persons who were in service would be
entitled to benefits without paying into the system along with other arbitrary
requirements of the carriers.  The Court held that the pension plan was not a proper
action to be regulated by the Interstate Commerce Act.

What are some generalizations about the 1920's?

Assuming that you are talking about the 1920s in the
United States, the main generalization about this time is that it was the "Roaring
'20s."  This implies that it was a time when people had lots of leisure time and did a
lot of things for fun.  It also implies that the US economy was
roaring.

In other words, that implies the following
generalizations:

• Most Americans had more time
  for having fun rather than working.


• Most Americans liked
  to go to speakeasies and drink illegal alcohol and listen to
  jazz.


• Most American women were flappers and/or believed
  in new visions of morality and what was proper
  conduct.


• Most Americans were getting richer because of
  the booming stock market.

People who know a bit
more about history have a second set of generalizations.  These would
include:

• Most rural Americans disliked the new
  ways.


• Many Americans were worried about how much
  immigration was going on in this time.

Overall
then, the generalizations center around the idea that this was a boom time of economic
growth and people having lots of fun.  There are also generalizations about the idea
that rural, traditional people were concerned about the changes.

In Fahrenheit 451, how does Montag escape from the city and where does he end up?

Montag and Faber try to confuse the Mechanical Hound’s
sense of smell. Montag makes it to the river and the scent is lost when he jumps in. He
floats down the river and the manhunt continues in the city. He floats downstream until
the next morning. He goes ashore and meets Granger and the other “book covers,” a group
determined to mentally record as much literature as they can. Granger offers Montag a
chemical which will change his body’s chemical signature and this will also throw the
Mechanical Hound off the trail. A war has broken out in the meantime and the city is
bombed to smithereens. This completes Montag’s escape. Presumably, now there is no one
left to chase him.

Please describe how in The Cantebury Tales Chaucer fully characterizes, or describes, each of the pilgrims.What makes each character attractive or...

In "Canterbury Tales," Geoffrey Chaucer describes each of
his characters in a very clear and direct way in the General Prologue to the
Tales.

The Prologue is an introduction to the whole work. 
The first section of the prologue sets the scene for the Tales: the narrator was
traveling to Canterbury on a pilgrimage when he joined a group of other pilgrims, each
of whom told a tale.

After that, the narrator directly
describes each of his characters.  There are descriptions of physical appearance, of
styles of dress, of mannerisms of speaking and eating; there are descriptions of the
characters' occupations and the way they carry them out; there are bits of information
about each character's past; and there are opinionated comments by the
narrator.

Let us examine, for example, Chaucer's
description of the Squire.

a) Physical
appearance: "Locks well curled, as if they'd laid in press...In stature
he was of average length."

b) Style of
Dress: "Short was his gown, with sleeves both long and
wide."

c) Mannerisms:
"Wondrously active...Singing he was, or fluting, all the day...Courteous he, and humble,
willing and able."

d) Past:
"He'd ridden sometime with the cavalry / In Flanders, in Artois, and
Picardy."

Most authors allow their characters to reveal
themselves through their actions, and Chaucer is no exception; what is unique is the
amount of time and space he gives for direct description in the
Prologue.

How is Johnsy in "The Last Leaf" characterized?O. Henry's "The Last Leaf"

One of the many hopeful young artists who have flocked to
the quaint Greenwich Village area of New York where Dutch attics and low rents
cohabit, Sue from Maine rooms with Joanna, known as Johnsy.  Because Johnsy is from
California, she is not acclimated to the cold; consequently, she contracts pneumonia. 
Her devoted friend Sue attends to her, but Johnsy
worsens. 

Having made a house call, the doctor tells Sue, "
Your little lady has made up her mind that she's not going to get well."  He asks Sue if
Johnsy has anyone on her mind, who is worth living for.  When Sue replies, "No," the
physician explains "it is the weakness, then," meaning the weakness of her mind which
keeps her ill.  He suggests that Sue get Johnsy interested again in life.  But, Johnsy
resists Sue's encouragements.  In desperation, Sue tells the tenant who lives downstairs
that Johnsy is gravely ill and has begun to count the leaves upon a vine outside the
window by her bed.  Mr. Behrman, the tenant, is enraged that pneumonia could overtake
Johnsy and that she has the "foolishness to die because leafs dey drop off from a
confounded vine?"  Then, he asks Sue how she could allow such silly business to get into
Johnsy's mind.

Yet, Behrman acquiesces to Sue's wish that
he pose for her.  When they look outside at the ivy vine, "Then they looked at each
other for a moment without speaking."  The next morning Johnsy cannot look out the
window because Sue has pulled down the shade.  "Put it up; I want to see," she whispers
to Sue her order.  Sue reluctantly pulls it up.  "There yet stood out against the brick
wall one ivy leaf."

Johnsy says that she thought this lone
leaf had fallen, but it will.  Still it remains on the vine even the next day. Staring
at that leaf, Johnsy is inspired.  She tells Sue that she has been wicked to want to
die.  She is going to live, and asks for some chicken broth.  She tells Sue she will
watch her, and someday when she is well she will paint the Bay of
Naples. 

Johnsy is a character developed through the
indirect methods of revealing her thoughts, and her speech and her interactions with
others.  When old Mr. Behrman climbs from outside and paints the leaf upon the window,
Johnsy feels that if that leaf can hold on through storms, she, too, can weather the
pneumonia.  The power of Johnsy's mind saves her, just as the doctor has told
Sue.

Please comment on motifs in The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Let us remember that motifs are defined as recurring
structures, devices and contrasts that can help develop and inform the major themes of
the text being studied. Clearly, one central motif to this novel which is inescapable is
that of the portrait of Dorian Gray. Note that it is referred to as "the most magical of
mirrors" and reflects his soul by indicating the physical consequences of his actions
and which he is spared from suffering in his own body. This parallels Dorian's
hedonistic quest to live life satisfying his own desires and seeking pleasure first and
foremost by constantly coming to haunt him with guilt and
conscience:

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Eternal youth, infinite passion, pleasures subtle
and secret, wild joys and wilder sins--he was to have all these things. The portrait was
to bear the burden of his shame; that was
all.

In it he sees echoes and
traces of his sins. In particular the cruelty that characterised his relationship with
Sibyl Vane is present there in the smirk that he sees and the blood on his hands after
his murder of Basil.

As with any motif, you would benefit
from tracing the portrait and how it operates through the novel, identifying its
importance and how it relates to other key themes in the text.

How can I describe Amir's internal conflict with the guilt from Hassan, and how was this conflict resolved in The Kite Runner?I'm having trouble...

Amir suffers feelings of guilt from two specific acts that
involved Hassan. First, Amir fails to come to Hassan's aid when he is raped by Assef
following Amir's victory in the kite-flying tournament. Although it would have been a
courageous act to intervene, Amir chooses the cowardly way out and simply hides,
remaining silent as he watches the future Taliban tyrant sodomize his friend. Then, on
Amir's birthday, he plants money under Hassan's mattress to make him appear guilty of
theft because he is jealous of Baba's attention toward Hassan. Although Baba forgives
Hassan, his father, Ali, decides they must leave Baba's home. These two events haunt
Amir for many years, and he eventually discovers that there is only one way to atone for
his sins: When he discovers that Hassan's son, Sohrab--who is actually Amir's nephew--is
still alive in Afghanistan, Amir decides that he must find him and free him from the
hands of the Taliban. It is a dangerous mission, verging on suicidal, but Amir knows
this is the only way his conscience can be cleansed.

Why doesn't Mayella have friends,or even quite know what it would mean to have one in To Kill a Mockingbird?Consider her situation in the family,...

As Scout and Jem sit in the balcony of the courthouse
listening to the testimony of Mayella Ewell in Chapter 18 of To Kill a
Mockingbird, Scout whispers to her brother, "Has she got good sense?"
Then Scoutobserves Mayella give Atticus "a final terrified glance" before continuing her
testimony which has flaws in its credibility. 

Clearly,
Mayella does not have a healthy family life.  With her mother's death, the
responsibilities of taking care of the family has gone to poor Mayella since her father
is a drunkard.  In addition, Bob Ewell is also abusive, and possibly even sexually
abusive to Mayella. Since she has to remain in this sordid home, Mayella has few
opportunities to make friends; besides, she has no nice clothes or money with which to
go to town. Added to this situation, Mayella is a social pariah, labelled by the
townspeople as "white trash," so few opportunities for meaningful socialization are open
to her.

In Souls of Black Folks, is "within the Veil" used to indicate being "black folk" and "without" being white folk, as it also is a mask between them?

In brief, yes, in W. E. Burghardt Du Bois’s
Souls of Black Folk, "within the Veil" refers
to the world of "black folk" and "without the Veil" refers to the world of white folk.
In "The Forethought," Du Bois speaks of the two worlds "within and without the Veil."
Then he very carefully defines, in poetic terms, the worlds within and without. He says
that he "leaves the white world" and that he steps "within the Veil,"which is the
antithesis, or the world of black folk. He goes on to say that the reason he does this
is so that the "Gentle Reader," the white reader, might see the "deeper recesses" within
the Veil: "its religion, the passion of its human sorrow, and the struggle of its
greater souls." In this description, "its" represents a metonymy in which Veil now
stands for the lives of black folk who dwell their whole lives within the Veil. To make
matters even more certain, Du Bois adds at the end of "The Forethought" a most poetic
and poignant self-identification that positions his own life precisely within the Veil:

need I add
that I who speak here am bone of the bone and flesh of the flesh of them that live
within the Veil?

Yet Du Bois'
use of this symbol is far more complex than that, making it all that much more confusing
to understand if you are not alert in following his poetic prose. In Chapter 1, he
defines the veil itself by describing his first instance of recognizing the divide that
separates him and his folk from white folk with "stringy heads." He describes that "it
dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others." He
explains that he was "shut out from their world by a vast veil." He also says he felt
contempt for those white folk on the other side of the veil. So we now we have two
meanings to veil. The first is "the Veil" that contains the souls of black folks "within
the Veil" and the second is "the veil" that separates black folk, who are like white
folk "in heart and life and longing," and leaves them "shut out from their world by a
vast veil."

There are two other uses for "veil" in the
first three chapters. One is the idiomatic expression "born with a veil," which refers
to a condition at birth in which a thin membrane veil covers the face of the new born.
In Du Bois’ allusion to it, this veil refers to an ability in psychic powers. We can
confirm this because "born with a veil" is used in conjunction with "seventh son,"
another idiomatic expression that may mean a son born with special powers. Du Bois links
these special powers to psychic abilities with yet another idiomatic expression, "second
sight," which refers to clairvoyance, a psychic ability that Du Bois has thus attributed
to black folk within the Veil..

The third use for "veil" is
in Chapter 2. Du Bois constructs a powerful metaphor comparing a land "right merry with
the sun" to a "figure veiled and bowed" in the "King's Highways." America of white folks
is the land where "children sing" and the unembraced black folks of the "color-line" is
the figure draped in a veil of shame or mourning sitting in the midst of plenty, bowed
down and with nothing but the veil.

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I have seen a land right merry with the sun,
where children sing, and rolling hills lie like passioned women wanton with harvest. And
there in the King's Highways sat and sits a figure veiled and bowed, by which the
traveller's footsteps hasten as they go. ... the problem of the
color-line.

What are some quotations of dramatic significance in Shakespeare's Macbeth?

Shakespeare was such a gifted writer that all of his plays
seem to offer a wide array of quotations of dramatic significance. In
Macbeth, some of these quotes are found in Macbeth's soliloquies
(actor's speech to self or the audience).

Examples of some
of Macbeth's more popular quotations are in his "Is this a dagger I see before me…"
speech, found in Act Two, scene one, beginning at line 33. It is in this scene that
Macbeth is on his way to kill his King and friend, Duncan, and he sees the image of a
dagger hovering in front of him, almost leading on his way to Duncan's
room.

There is also his "Tomorrow, And Tomorrow" speech at
the end of the play in Act Five, scene five, lines 17-28. This is the speech that
Macbeth delivers when he discovers that his wife has killed herself. He is beginning to
tire of the life he has chosen for himself, as seen in his comment that Lady Macbeth
would have died at some point.

The
previous quotes are of dramatic significance.

There are
other quotes that are perhaps not as often quoted, but are still familiar to students of
Shakespeare, and also offer dramatic significance. The following quote is found in Act
One. It speaks of the Thane of Cawdor and how bravely he goes to his death—dying more
nobly than he lived:

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Nothing in his
life

became him like the leaving of it.

(I.iv.7-8)

This quote is
delivered by Malcolm to his father, Duncan, regarding how valiantly the Thane of
Cawdor—traitor to the Scottish crown— went to his execution. (This scene also
foreshadows the end of the play, in the death of Macbeth—the new
Thane of Cawdor, also a
traitor.)

Another significant quote is delivered by the
Doctor in Act Five, speaking of Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking (and "talking") malady.
However, it is an important theme with regard to who the best healer is for one whose
heart and/or conscience is ailing:

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The patient must minister to himself.

(V.iii.45-46)

The Doctor
reports that if Lady Macbeth is to get well, she needs to do it herself. He doesn't have
any medicine that will heal her heart of her deep sadness and guilt. This could also
apply to Macbeth who has destroyed himself for the love of the
crown—not the love of his country. The statement is almost
prophetic in that the Doctor says what must be done, but we get the sense that Lady
Macbeth—the determined and frightening instigator of Duncan's murder—has gone beyond a
place where she change her situation, inferring that no healing is
possible.

The previous quote is also reminiscent of the
biblical verse found in Luke 4:23 found
below.

Physician, heal
thyself.

Show how Aeschylus builds up dramatic intensity around the homecoming of Agamemnon in his tragedy Agamemnon.

Four tools Aeschylus uses to build intensity at
Agamemnon's homecoming in Agamemnon are Clytemnestra's speech
announcing the end of the Trojan War, the conversation between the Herald and the Chorus
Leader, the Chorus's song, and the controversy between Agamemnon and Clytemnestra over
the tapestries. Clytemnestra's speech builds intensity because she first talks about her
mistaken joy over the rumor that the war was over, then follows immediately with her
assurance that now the war is won and that Agamemnon is soon to return home: "So wild a
cry of joy my lips gave out, / ... / The king himself anon shall tell me
all."

This builds intensity because it adds ambiguity and
controversy to Agamemnon's reported approach. Intensity is further added through her
contemplation of how best to greet him and her protestations of ten years of longing and
fidelity:

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Remains to think what honour best may
greet
My Lord, ... / ... /
Trusty to keep for ten long years
unmarred
The store whereon he set his
master-seal.

Intensity is
increased by the conversation between the Herald and the Leader in which they debate the
hazards of the homeward trip and add doubts of Agamemnon's
approach:

Say,
by what doom the fleet of Greece was driven?
How rose, how sank the storm, the
wrath of heaven?

The Chorus
follows up with an intensity-building digression into Helen's story and the background
of the Trojan War: "Helen, the bride with war for dower / ... / Well named, at once, the
Bride and Bane; ...." In addition, they add to the intensity because some of their lines
provide foreshadowing that is important to setting up the audience for what is to
follow: “The blood-thirst of the lion-race, / ... / And to Fate's goal guides all, in
its appointed wise.”

Intensity is further built in
Agamemnon's entry speech in which he expresses the controversy between himself and
Clytemnestra over the tapestries. This adds to the intensity because it puts them at
odds with each other immediately, during the first moments of his homecoming, and
provides another source of foreshadowing ("I hold such pride in
fear,"):

Not
unto me, as to some Eastern lord,
Bowing thyself to earth, make homage
loud.
Strew not this purple that shall make each step
An arrogance;
such pomp beseems the gods,
Not me. A mortal man to set his foot
On
these rich dyes? I hold such pride in
fear,

Clytemnestra has rolled
out brilliant tapestries that, according to Agamemnon's speech, are the usual province
of gods. Clytemnestra claims this is the right way in which to greet her Lord after ten
years of battle and Agamemnon insists that he is not fit to walk where gods alone should
tred. The intensity built through this controversy moves the plot toward and prepares
the audience for the horrific acts to come.

What is the surprise in "The Lottery," and why do the townspeople stone the person with a black mark on the paper?

The surprise in Shirley Jackson's short story, "The
Lottery," is that unlike lotteries today that give away large sums of money to the
winners, in this story, the person whose name is chosen is not a
"winner," but definitely a loser.

The
person who gets the paper marked with the black spot is the one whose life is sacrificed
as everyone picks up stones and hurls them at that person until he or she is dead. Even
the children are encouraged to participate in the stone throwing. Strangely, the event
first seems like a gathering of townsfolk for a picnic or festival. People chat and act
as if it is any other day. It is not until late in the story that the reader starts to
get an idea that this is anything but a normal
day.

The story is not clear as to why they carry out this
tradition. It has been going on for a very long time—since the
village was first settled. People in town accept it; for example, when Tess, who is
chosen, starts to complain (in an understandable panic), her husband tells her to "shut
up." Some people discuss that nearby towns have been talking about doing away with the
lottery, but this town does not show these signs. When the Adamses convey this
information to Old Man Warner, he replies:

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Next thing you know, they'll be wanting to go
back to living in caves. There's always been a
lottery.

In A Midsummer Night's Dream, the antidote for the love potion is provided by -Oberon -Hippolyta -Helena -Puck mustardseed

Actually, there is no 'antidote' to the love potion that
Oberon gives Puck to use on the Athenian lovers and Titania. What Puck does to sort out
the chaos of the situation between the Athenian lovers is that he annoints the eyes of
the lovers again and makes sure that when they wake up the first person they will see is
the person that they should be with. Note Puck's words at the end of Act
III:

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When thou
wakest,
Thou takest
True
delight
In the sight
Of thy
former lady's eye:
And the country proverb
known,
That every man should take his
own,
In your waking shall be
shown:
Jack shall have
Jill;
Nought shall go ill;
The
man shall have his mare again, and all shall be
well.

So it is that
Puck is the character that resolves the hilarious chaos that has caused the Athenian
lovers to love each other in hilarious combinations, but it is not an 'antidote' as your
question puts it. Rather the magic is used effectively to bring about the happy ending
that Oberon desired.

Please provide an analysis of the poem "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven," by W. B. Yeats.

Although Yeats’ “He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven” is a
very brief poem, it is also imaginatively rich and literally colorful. While the title
describes the speaker in the third person (“He”), the poem itself presents him in the
first person (“I”). For the first four and a half lines, the speaker is the only person
presented; his experiences and perceptions are
emphasized.

We can tell from the opening that he is not
only imaginative but is also capable of appreciating beauty. In both senses, he is a
Romantic, as his detailed word choices suggest. For example, he doesn’t speak merely of
“the sky” but rather of “the heavens” (1), a far more imaginative and evocative word.
Significantly, however, he does not speak of “heaven” (which would imply a conventional
religious sensibility) but rather of “the heavens,” suggesting either a perception of
the sky’s beauty or an ability to conceive of a beautiful, imaginary
realm.

The speaker’s imaginative ability to perceive beauty
is also implied when he mentions the “embroidered cloths” of the heavens, a phrase that
could suggest colorful clouds and that later seems to refer to attractive changes of
light. Words such as “embroidered” (1) and “Enwrought” (2) make “the heavens” seem the
object of some kind of magical or even divine intervention: the beautiful colors are not
merely natural phenomena but are the result of a creative process. In line 3, the
speaker gives each kind of light separate, distinct emphasis, while in line 4 he
combines assonance and alliteration to create a highly musical
effect:

The blue and the dim
and the dark
cloths
Of night and
light and the
half-light . .
.

Until this point, the speaker’s attention has been
focused solely on the beauty he perceives and imagines, but in line 5, another person –
the beloved – is suddenly introduced when the speaker says “I would spread the cloths
under your feet.” Here the phrasing suggests that she is almost majestic, deserving of
the kind of honor shown to royalty, and also deserving what is almost veneration. This
is an expression of idealized, Romantic love with a capital
“R.”

No sooner does the speaker make this grand gesture,
however, than he immediately qualifies it by
confessing,

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But I, being poor, have only my
dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet . . .
(6-7)

Yet the speaker’s
confession of literal, financial poverty only helps highlight, by contrast, the richness
of his imagination and the abundance of his love. The very lines in which he calls
attention to his shortcomings only make him seem even more attractive in his humility
and vulnerability.  Earlier, in line 5, he had promised that he “would spread”
magnificent cloths under her feet; now, in line 7, he says that he has in
fact spread his dreams before her by writing this poem. The final
line – “Tread softly because you tread on my dreams” – once more implies the speaker’s
appealing vulnerability (he is not a smug, proud suitor). Although the speaker’s
perceptions are only “dreams,” they are no less valuable, since they reflect the true
worth of his spirit and soul.

What is the Plot Summary of Autumn in the Oak Woods?It is the story from Yuri Kazakov

The story begins with the young man waiting in his small
mountain home and then heading down to the dock to wait for a woman who is supposed to
arrive by boat.  He is nervous that she won't show, but she
does.

They walk back to his house, and he shows her as many
of the good things about his situation as he can in the dark.  It is very clear that he
is trying his hardest to impress her, to help her feel that he has made the right
decision by living in this place.

The story ends the next
morning as they watch a tug go by on the river.  It has become clear that they both feel
there is something worth being out in the country for, something that they both might be
looking for after a (likely) previous life in a big city.

how to determine the possible gametes for a genotyope? RrTt?? Please help and it would mean a lot if you knew how to find a childs blood type...

The first part of the question has to do with the
Principle of Segregation. When gametes are produced, members of a gene pair separate
into different gametes. Therefore, you must separate the genes Rr and the genes Tt when
producing the gametes. This individual is a dihybrid(heterozygous for two traits).
Therefore, you must place one member of each gene pair into a gamete. The possible
combinations of r's and t's are--RT, Rt, rT, rt. Those are the four possible gametes
this individual can produce. For the second part of the question, blood type is
inherited in the following manner. Allele A and B are co-dominant and allele 0 is
recessive to both. Possible genetic combinations include AA and A0 which produce an
individual with type A blood, BB and BO which produce an individual with type B blood,
AB which produces an individual with type AB and 00 which is the only combination that
produces an individual with the recessive type O.

As earthworms crawl through tightly packed soil, they break it apart, making it more porous. Why would this be good for plants?

Earth worm is called the friend of the farmer and plants.
Because their part is great in the ecofriendly space. The earthworm converts the organic
matters like dead plant parts, leaves etc into humus. The humus is extremely plant
nutrient.The earth worm plows and burrows the earth creating its tunnels. This helps air
circulation and conserve the water content of the soil. The action helps plant spread
the roots farther and deeper in the soil besides having easy acces to their nutrient
resource in the soil.The earth worms are even capable of ingesting rough soil particles
and even small stones (1.25 mm wide) and it is digested and cast out as excreta of
smooth paste. Their excreta is also rich with mineral , nitrogen , phosphate and potash
contents that are a required by plants.

In The Great Gatsby, how are Daisy and Myrtle trapped in their roles in society?

Daisy and Myrtle live in a time in American society when
women generally did not live independent lives, and their relationships with men were of
primary importance. Marriage was their most common "occupation," the means to achieve
status and financial security. Daisy and Myrtle each married believing their husbands
would support them. Tom Buchanan, of course, supported Daisy in a fabulously wealthy
lifestyle, but Myrtle soon realized that George was so poor he had to borrow the suit in
which he was married. From their situations an odd irony develops: Daisy becomes trapped
by wealth, whereas Myrtle becomes trapped by
poverty.

Daisy's marriage to Tom is filled with his neglect
and humiliating infidelity, making her quite bitter, but it does not occur to her to
simply walk away. Daisy had no experience taking responsibility for her own life. She
had lived in her father's fine house until marrying Tom and his money, and the one time
she had tried to act independently, vowing to leave home and go find Gatsby who had gone
off to war, her efforts are quickly squelched by her family. Daisy tells Nick that when
her daughter was born, she hoped the little girl would be "a beautiful little fool,"
thus expressing her own views on the role of women in her society. Deeply unhappy in her
marriage and quite bored with her purposeless life of privilege, Daisy begins her
illicit summer affair with Gatsby, but when pressed to choose between her husband and
her lover, she will not leave Tom; she will not abandon the wealthy lifestyle, financial
security, and social status he provides.

Like Daisy, Myrtle
attaches herself to men to make a life, first in marrying George Wilson and later in
becoming Tom's mistress. Also like Daisy, Myrtle has no education or skills to employ in
supporting herself, and the idea of living independently never occurs to her. Trapped in
a miserable marriage and living in poverty above George's garage, Myrtle sees Tom as her
ticket to the life she has dreamed of, one of wealth and glamour. She clings to the
notion that Tom will marry her, but Myrtle's role in his life will never be more than it
always has been. She is a woman born into the lower class and, like Gatsby, can never
belong in Tom's social circles.

Although their lifestyles
are polar opposites, Myrtle and Daisy are both trapped in their social roles as their
lives revolve around Tom Buchanan. Neither woman has the strength and integrity to break
free and create an independent life, nor does traditional society encourage such
thinking and behavior.

Find the limit (x^2+x-6)/(x+3) when x approach -3.

For evaluating the limit, we'll choose the dividing out
technique.

We'll apply the direct substitution, by
substituting the unknown x, by the value -3 and we'll see that it fails, because both,
numerator and denominator, are cancelling for x=-3. That means x=-3 is a root for both,
that means that (x+3) is a common factor for both.

We'll
write the numerator using the
formula:

x^2+x-6=(x-x1)(x-x2), where x1, x2 are the roots
and
x1=-3

x^2+x-6=(x+3)(x-x2)

We
also know that x1+x2 = -1, -3+x2=-1

and x1*x2=-6,
(-3)*x2=-6

x2=2

Now, we'll
evaluate the limit:

lim (x^2+x-6)/(x+3) = lim
(x+3)(x-2)/(x+3)

Now, we can divide out like
factor:

lim (x^2+x-6)/(x+3) = lim
(x-2)

We can apply the replacement theorem and we'll
get:

lim (x-2) = -3-2 =
-5

So, lim (x^2+x-6)/(x+3) =
-5.

In Act I Scene 4 of Macbeth, what is an example of dramatic irony?

Let us remember that dramatic irony is defined as one
character or several characters and the audience possessing knowledge that another
character or group of characters does not have. What is key to note in this scene is
that it is juxtaposed or placed next to Act I scene 3, which is when Macbeth receives
the prophecy from the witches that has such a big impact on his life. In this prior
scene, Macbeth shows himself to be seriously considering how he might become King as the
prophecy suggests. It is then highly ironic that he plays the role of loyal subject and
that Duncan is so naively trustful of him. Note the intense irony when Duncan comments
about the previous Thane of Cawdor who has just been
executed:

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There's no art

To
find the mind's construction in the face:

He was a
gentleman on whom I built

An absolute
trust--

However, having
realised this valuable life lesson, Duncan goes on to repeat exactly the same mistake.
He does not have the "art" to see what is going on in Macbeth's mind and is taken in by
the act of his loyalty, once again building an "absolute trust" in someone only to be
betrayed, and this time killed, by them. Thus, the dramatic irony serves to emphasise
the good nature of Duncan and his naive character. He has not learnt his lesson from the
treachery of the former Thane of Cawdor and is once again too quick to trust too
quickly, with devastating circumstances.

What is the meaning of "on the blue surface of thine airy surge" in the second stanza of "Ode to the West Wind" by P. B. Shelley?

This poem of course amazingly captures the spirit and
majesty of the West Wind through a series of incredible descriptions, depicting the Wind
as both "Destroyer and Preserver" before imprecating the wind to inspire the speaker to
spread his thoughts and ideas through the world like the dead leaves that are blown by
the wind, that will in turn bring life.

The quote in the
second stanza that you refer to is part of a larger description that describes the
wind's effect on clouds. A series of comparisons are made that will help us understand
the description. Let us just recall what is said:

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Thou on whose stream, 'mid the steep sky's
commotion,

Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves are
shed,

Shook from the tangled boughs of Heaven and
Ocean,

Angels of rain and lightning: there are
spread

On the blue surface of thine aery
surge,

Like the bright hair uplifted from the
head

Of some fierce Maenad, even from the dim
verge...

Thus we can see that
your quote is part of a much larger chunk of this poem that describes the clouds of the
"approaching storm" as "locks" on the head of "some fierce Maenad." The quote you pick
out refers to the way that the wind blows these clouds across the blue
sky.

In chapters 4-7, how does Jem get even with Scout for contradicting him about "Hot Steams?" Why will there be no more surprises in the Radleys'...

Jem was not too happy about Scout's reaction to his story
about Hot Steams. Dill had never heard the term before, so Jem explained that they were
a type of spirit that had not yet reached heaven. Scout discounted the tale, claiming
that "Calpurnia says that's nigger-talk." So, Jem determined to pay Scout back quickly.
When she demanded to be first when they rolled the tire, Jem pushed her roughly and
"with all the force in his body," and she landed on the steps of the Radley
house.

The surprises left in the knothole of the Radley oak
tree ended abruptly when Mr. Radley cemented the niche. He apparently had discovered
that Boo was leaving gifts for the children and disapproved of his son's
actions.

What effect of the quote "whoever controls the past controls the future and whoever controls the present controls the past" did it have in 1984?

The mutability of the past is one of the key ideas brought
out in "1984".  This means that the past can be changed to reflect the ideas of whomever
is in control.  The controlling powers can then make people believe that things happened
that didn't really happen, thus giving the illusion that the controlling powers were
always right and always good.  Winston Smith's job in the Ministry of Truth in the story
was to do just that - rewrite the past.  He would receive little tidbits of old news
stories to rewrite so that the stories now reflected what the Party in Oceania wanted
people to believe.  The quote you refer to supports this idea of the mutability of the
past.  In a power can alter what people believe happened in the past, then they can
control people how people think and behave in the future because of these altered
perceptions.  In order to alter the written history, a power must be in charge in the
current day, thus "...whoever controls the present controls the past."  Oceania
constantly changed the past to make themselves look good.  They would change the facts
about who they were at war with.  One day. it might be East Asia, the next, Eurasia.  If
they were at war with Eurasia, then the Party would rewrite the past to make it say that
they had always been at war with them and that East Asia had always been their ally. 
The next day, the opposite might appear in historical texts and newspapers if the war
had changed fronts.  Oceania might change their predictions, i.e., they might predict
that wheat production would be at 60% and when it actually turned out to be 40%, history
would be rewritten to show that their prediction had actually been 40% and they were
right all along.

In Othello, what is Cassio's relationship to Bianca in regards to the end of act 3?

Cassio and Bianca are at the very least seeing each other
by the end of Act III. The difference between the two is their impression of how serious
the relationship is. At this point in the text, Bianca finds a token in Cassio's room
she thinks is from another woman. This happens to be the handkerchief that was purposely
stashed there by Iago to stir up jealousy. This scene demonstrates he did not get the
jealousy he was looking for, but certainly made Bianca think about who else Cassio might
be seeing.

As they continue their discussion Cassio asks
her to leave because he does not want Othello to see that Cassio can get distracted by a
woman. It is almost as if Cassio views Bianca as if she is just a toy to play with for
now.

They are a secret item, a potential boyfriend and
girlfriend, but Bianca is into Cassio more than he is into her.

Solve the equation: |5x - 2| - 2 = 6

 |5x - 2| - 2 = 6

Since there
is an absolute bar your should know that there should be 2
answers 

First add 2 on both
sides

By adding, your equation should look
like

|5x - 2| = 8 since there's an
absolute value sign,  change your equation
to

5x - 2 = -8 and 5x - 2 =
8 now add 2 on both sides of both
equation

By adding, your equation should look
like

5x = -6  and 5x = 10 now
divide both sides of both equation by 5

By dividing it
should look like

x = -6/5  and x =
2 which are your answers

What did the Pan-African Conference hope to achieve by sending this petition to the Queen of England?

I assume that you are asking about the petition that was
sent to Queen Victoria of England by the delegates of the Pan-African Conference that
was held in London in 1900.  The purpose of this petition was to try to get colonial
powers in Africa to treat their African subjects more
humanely.

The petition asked the Queen investigate and to
work to ameliorate the plight of Africans in African colonies.  It asked her to look
into laws and customs that discriminated against them.  It also asked her to investigate
things like the working conditions that they faced in the
colonies.

Overall, then, the goals of the petition was to
get the colonial powers to be more humane and to bring the injustices that Africans
faced to the attention of the general publics of the colonial
powers.

What are some examples of tone in Great Expectations?How does each example demonstrate tone?

The emotional coloring or meaning of a work, tone is an
important part of the full meaning. Perhaps the best example of Dickens's artful use of
tone in Great Expectations is in Chapters 22 and 23 in which
Dickens is both sentimental and sardonic, playful and satirical, imaginative and
realistic; he even juxtaposes these tones often in single
scene. 

---In Chapter 22, Mrs. Pocket, Herbert's mother, is
the object of Dickens's satire and comic irony of those who envied the upper-class as
she sits reading a book of titles, oblivious to what her young brood engages in while
she reads.

I was made very uneasy in my mind by Mrs.
Pocket... while she ate a sliced orange steeped in sugar and wine, and forgetting all
about the baby on her lap: who did most appalling things with the nutcrackers. At length
little Jane perceived its young brains to be imperiled... coaxed the dangerous weapon
away. Mrs. Pocket finishing her orange at about the same time, and not approving of
this, said to Jane:

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“You naughty child, how dare you? Go and sit
down this instant!”

“Mama, dear,” lisped the little girl,
“baby ood have put hith eyeth out.”

“How dare you tell me
so!” retorted Mrs. Pocket. “Go and sit down in your chair this
moment!”

2. Also in this
chapter, the comic irony of Dickens tone is evinced as in the following passage in which
Pip describes the wedding of the Pockets. 

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The judicious parent [Belinda's father], having
nothing to bestow or withhold but his blessing, had handsomely settled that dower upon
them after a short struggle, and had informed Mr. Pocket that his wife was “a treasure
for a Prince.” Mr. Pocket had invested the Prince's treasure in the ways of the world
ever since, and it was supposed to have brought him in but indifferent interest. Still,
Mrs. Pocket was in general the object of a queer sort of respectful pity, because she
had not married a title; while Mr. Pocket was the object of a queer sort of forgiving
reproach, because he had never got
one.

3. There is a
sentimental tone when Pip describes the rattled Mr.
Pocket,

There
was a sofa where Mr. Pocket stood, and he dropped upon it in the attitude of a Dying
Gladiator. Still in that attitude he said, with a hollow voice, “Good night, Mr. Pip,”
when I deemed it advisable to go to bed and leave
him.

4. In the first chapter,
there is a rather comical overtone to little Pip's solemn reading of the tombstones.
For, when the convict asks him his parents' names, Pip recites them exactly as they are
on the tombstone.

5.The dark, threatening scene of Chapter
I also sets a tone of foreboding with the "fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great
iron on his leg."  The marshes and second convict also serve to lend a tone of mystery,
suggesting the reappearance of the convict. 

6. Pip's first
visit to Satis House is one in which an ominous tone
exists,

 The
brewery buildings had a little lane... and all was empty and disused. The cold
wind...made a shrill noise in howling in and out at the open sides of the brewery, like
the noise of wind in the rigging of a ship at
sea.

7. A comic tone
exists when Pip visits Wemmick's home, especially when Wemmick lights "the Stinger," the
cord to the cannon that he fires for his Aged Parent.

8. Of
course, there is a remorseful tone to Pip's analyses of his behavior after Joe's
visit. (27)

9. Reverent of the nobie dignity of Magwitch
(56)

10. Romantic sentiment in the last
chapter.

What motivates the Nurse in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?I think it might be Juliet because she does so much for her...but I am not sure.

During the Renaissance, the role of nursemaid to the
aristocratic children was often played by poor maiden relatives taken in by
their family.  In such a position, the Nurse has come to love Juliet as a daughter and
is very proud of her.  When Romeo approaches her in Act I and asks who Juliet's mother
is, the Nurse claims that role practically for
herself: 

Marry, bachelor,
Her mother
is the lady of the house
And a good lady, and a wise and virtuous.

I nurs'd her daughter that you talk'd withal.
I tell you, he that
can lay hold of her
Shall have the chinks.
(1.5.119-124)) 

In keeping with her
close bond with Juliet, the Nurse arranges Juliet's and Romeo's nuptial night together
before he is banished.  Thus, she is willing to betray her employer in order to ensure
Juliet's happiness.  It is only after Romeo's banishment that the Nurse fails in her
loyalties as she counsels Juliet to renounce her marriage to Romeo and marry
Paris.  However, she still has Juliet's happiness in mind, believing that Romeo will
never return. 

However, prior to this, when Lord Capulet
insists that Juliet marry Paris, the Nurse does come to her
defense:

God
in heaven, bless her!

You are to blame to rate her so.
(3.5.173)

That the Nurse
loves Juliet dearly is evidenced in the final scene of Act IV as the Nurse is reduced in
grief to a parody of herself as she tries to waken Juliet, speaking nonsensically about
sex:

Go, you cot-quean, go,
Get you to
bed! Faith, you'll be sick to-morrow
For this night's watching.
(4.4.6-8) 

Who else lies in To Kill a Mockingbird to get a negative outcome other than Bob Ewell?

Remember that Scout's narrative in To Kill a
Mockingbird allows for the reader to determine the actual events of the story
for himself. Scout rarely (if ever) specifically calls someone a liar. During the Tom
Robinson trial, most readers probably decide for themselves that Tom's testimony is the
most truthful, and that Bob and Mayella are probably lying about what actually happened.
Bob is particularly untrustworthy, so it is pretty easy to see that his testimony is
untrue.

Aside from the trial, there are other examples of
probable lies. Boo Radley's brother tells Jem that he cemented the knothole because the
tree was diseased, but Atticus tells Jem that the tree looks healthy. Jem, like most
readers, believes that Mr. Radley has lied to him. Dill tells a white lie when he claims
that Jem has lost his pants while playing strip poker; Jem, of course, lost them on the
Radley's barbed-wire fence. Dill also told many other imaginative "whoppers" over the
course of the story. Even Atticus may be guilty of a lie when he tells his family in
Chapter 15 that

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"The Klu Klux's gone," said Atticus. "It'll never
come back."

Of course, the Ku
Klux Klan is still in existence today; Atticus was either quite naive about the KKK or,
more likely, was only trying to calm his family's fears about rumors of a possible lynch
mob.

What is "linin"? Why do people in Calpurnia's church use it?Why does Calp. speak the dialect of the "colored folks"when she is in her church?

Calpurnia lives in two worlds, a white world and a black
world.  She is well aware that she is expected to behave and present a certain way when
she is among each group and those behaviors and speech are very
different. 

Calpurnia is a unique individual but very much
like many women of her day.  She has spent her life taking care of white people and
their children and homes.  Yet, it is clear that she respects Atticus and feels
fortunate to be able to work for someone who respects her color and does not degrade the
black people. 

When she takes the children to the church it
ais an awakening for them because they have the opportunity to learn tha dialects are
cultural and in the south, at the time, race related.  In many ways Calpurnia
demonstrates her high level of intelligence by showing and explaining to the children
the difference between the ways one must present ones self.

how does dickens convey setting in great expections chapter 1?

The book opens with Pip in a dark, gloomy, almost
scary-like cemetery. He is surrounded by tombstones. Dicken's vividly describes the
cemetery, in particular Pip's view of his parents tombstones, to help the reader
understand the gloom in which Pip lives in (literally and emotionally). Dickens further
enhances the setting by describing the marsh country in which Pip has grown up. Its
every present fog reflects the "fog" that hangs in Pip's mind and heart. Pip's feelings
of loneliness are seen in the setting. The cemetery all alone on the outskirts of town.
The marsh, deserted and ever gloomy. Pip's village; one that not many venture too. These
descriptions of setting serve to illustrate what Pip is feeling and thinking as the book
opens. Dickens continues his description of the setting in chapter 3, where he vividly
describes the dew that hangs upon everything and the fog that hides everything from
view.

Please explain Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Vagabond."

Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Vagabond" is a poem which
glorifies travel for the sake of travel.

Robert Louis
Stevenson's (1850-1894)  poem "The Vagabond" celebrates the glorious freedom and
independence of a tramp's life. All the four stanzas of "The
Vagabond" repeatedly emphasize the unrestrained joys of an independent life in the
outdoors free from all its
hassles.

All that the vagabond is
interested in is a life of unlimited travel. He wants to completely avoid all human
associations - "nor a friend to know
me."All that he wants to do is travel and travel from one
place to another without any restraint whatsoever, not concerned about the weather or
material wealth or possessions or anything else around
him:

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"Give the face of earth
around,
And the road before me.
Wealth I ask not, hope nor
love,
Nor a friend to know me;
All I ask, the heaven
above
And the road below
me."

He
would like to spend his entire life in the outdoors even in the cold autumn and winter
months with the sky as his roof:

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Not to autumn will I
yield,
Not to winter
even!

Most
importantly, he wishes for a completely carefree life and is not bothered or frightened
about death at all:

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Let the blow fall soon or
late,
Let what will be o'er
me.

In
the last stanza R.L. Stevenson reiterates what he has already emphasized in the earlier
three stanzas, namely, all that he wants to do throughout his life is to travel and to
travel till he drops dead.

In the second stanza the
verb "seek" would mean 'to endeavor to
obtain.' The action is voluntary, conscious and deliberate. He says that all that he
will endeavor to obtain is a life of travel and travel
only.

Whereas, in the last
stanza "ask" would imply a prayer to
God. All that he asks of or requests God is to give him a life of travel and travel
only.

I need a thesis statement for my essay which examines Harper Lee's theme of bias.i have already have my points and everything but I am not...

In writing the thesis of a five paragraph essay, the
writer must be sure to simply give her statement with three opinions.  This is all that
is necessary in the introduction.  For, the introduction is no more than a presentation
of the direction in which the writer intends to go, not an explanation of anything.  To
begin the introduction, the writer can begin with a quote or an anecdote or a reflective
statemen, such as your first sentence.  With the topic that you have, you may wish to
use Atticus's remark to Scout in Chapter 3 to precede your introductory
statement,

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"You never really understand a person until you
consider things from his point of view---until you climb into his skin and walk around
in it."

After this you can
write your thesis with the three points that you will prove in the body of your essay,
the discrimination by race, socio-economic status, and gender. Form the topic sentences
for the paragraphs with these three points.

In Heart of Darkness, what does it mean about Kurtz that "he had something to say," why is it a victory, and how does it contrast with Marlow?Heart...

In Part III of Heart of Darkness,
Marlowe compares his "extremity," or experience of coming to the brink of death, to
Kurtz's "extremity." Marlowe confesses that in his extremity, if it had proceeded as far
as Kurtz's had (to death), he probably would have found that, unlike Kurtz, he would
have had nothing to say: in the all-important last "pronouncement" of a lifetime,
Marlowe thought he would be without remark. He indirectly (and therefore ambiguously)
explains the meaning of this by discussing the meaning of Kurtz's last words: "The
horror!"

Marlowe explains that in the last moments, with
his eyes wide open, Kurtz took in the aspect of the "whole universe" and, in that
moment, had the courage to pronounce a judgement upon what he perceived. His judgement
was that it was "horror!" In this analysis, made by Marlowe, the horrors of the ideas
and activities of the colonial trading stations become equated with the ideas and
activities of the "whole universe," the whole of civilized humankind's ideas and
activities, and Kurtz judges them with his last breath to all be "horror," ironically
including himself in his pronouncement. The ambiguity arises because it may be that
Marlowe is dramatizing, if he has been found to have any tendencies toward being an
unreliable character and narrator, and that Kurtz didn't mean the whole world but only
the part of the world represented by the colonial trading station and the ideas and
activities forming its foundation, ideas and activities such as Kurtz himself
demonstrated.

In either case, Marlowe states without
ambiguity that the wonder is that Kurtz was able to perceive and to judge: his judgement
was unequivocal condemnation: "The horror!" It is this that Marlowe suggests he would
have been unable to do had his extremity taken him to the final step over "the edge."
Marlowe would not have been able to judge: He would have had nothing to say about the
value and truth of what he perceived. Kurtz could--did. Marlowe
couldn't--wouldn't--wouldn't have any judgement to pass like Kurtz's "The horror!" More
ambiguity enters because Marlowe doesn't indicate whether his silence would stem from a
lack of moral vision and values, a lack of courage, a lack or understanding, or an
unwillingness to pass judgement lest judgement be passed on him likewise. He doesn't
leave a clue as to his revelation of cause behind his expected
silence.

Compared to Marlowe,
Kurtz's ability to make a moral judgement was a
victory of goodness over evil, of light over darkness. On
the other hand, Marlowe's expected silence in his last
breath would be a defeat of moral judgement or vision or
courage or willingness or purity; a defeat of light by darkness.

How is the relationship between the soldiers presented in the movie?

I actually think the movie does a pretty good job of
showing the relationship between the characters and staying true to the plot of the
novel by having Paul Baumer narrate the film like he narrates the
book.

Think about the opening scene where the soldiers are
lined up in a trench.  As the camera comes to a close up on each one, Paul is narrating
information about each character.  This not only serves as a brief introduction to each
character, but it provides necessary background information.  Additionally, it shows
that Paul knows his comrades and friends.  It also shows that he
knows each one equally, despite the fact that he went to school with some and others he
met in the war.

Also, if you review many of the scenes of
"downtime" when the characters are not actually fighting, you'll again be provided with
Paul's narration through flashbacks to school, flashbacks to boot camp and training, and
also present tense versions of conversations these men had with one another when the
stress of combat wasn't immediately present.  Even though the film is a little bit older
and the special effects do not mirror what is being done in film today, this is one
book-to-film adaptation that maintains much of the original plot and
tone portrayed by the author.  The relationship between Paul and the other
soldiers in the film are strikingly similar to his relationships with the same
characters in the book.

Explain the beliefs about Jesus' identity held by early Christians.

Early Christians had conflicting beliefs about the true
identity of Jesus. One group who followed an early bishop known as Arius believed that
Jesus was an extraordinary human being, but was not truly God himself. Arius believed
that since Jesus was born of a woman, he could not have co-existed with God the father,
and therefore was only human. He was later excommunicated for his
teachings.

Still other Christians believed that Jesus was
only God and not human. Since he was perfect and no human can ever be perfect, he could
not be perfect. This group believed that Jesus cast no shadow, and left no foot prints
when he walked. To them, he was merely an apparition, not really
there.

The debate, and particularly the Arian heresy, were
resolved at the Council of Nicea in 325 C.E.  This council declared Arianism to be a
heresy and decided that Jesus was in fact both God and
man.

The Council expressed its holdings in the Nicean
creed, which reads:

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Maker of all things visible and invisible; and in one href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08374c.htm">Lord Jesus Christ, the
only begotten of the Father, that is, of the href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14322c.htm">substance [ek
tes ousias] of the Father, href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608a.htm">God of href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608a.htm">God, light of light,
true God of href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608a.htm">true God, begotten not
made, of the same substance with the Father [ href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07449a.htm">homoousion to
patri], through whom all things were made both in href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07170a.htm">heaven and on earth; who
for us men and our href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13407a.htm">salvation descended, was
incarnate, and was made man, suffered and rose again the third day, href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01767a.htm">ascended into heaven and
cometh to judge the living and the dead. And in the href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07409a.htm">Holy Ghost. Those who
say: There was a time when He was not, and He was not before He was begotten; and that
He was made out of nothing (ex ouk onton); or who maintain that He
is of another href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11726a.htm">hypostasis or another
substance [than the Father], or that the href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14142b.htm">Son of God is href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04470a.htm">created, or mutable, or
subject to change, [them] the href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03449a.htm">Catholic href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03744a.htm">Church href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01455e.htm">anathematizes

Determine the absolute value of complex number z if z-2z'=2-4i? z=x+i*y z'=x-i*y

First, we'll have to determine the complex number z and
then, we'll determine the absolute value, |z|.

z - 2z' = 2
- 4i

We'll substitute z and z' by their
expressions:

x + i*y - 2(x - i*y) = 2 -
4i

x + i*y - 2x + 2i*y = 2 -
4i

We'll combine the real parts and the imaginary
parts:

(x - 2x)+i*(y + 2y) = 2 - 4i (from
enunciation)

Comparing, we'll
get:

x - 2x=2

-x =
2

x = -2

y + 2y =
-4

3y = -4

y =
-4/3

The complex number is:
z=-2-4i/3

It's absolute
value is:

|z| = sqrt[Re(z)^2 +
Im(z)^2]

|z| = sqrt[(-2)^2 +
(-4/3)^2]

|z| = sqrt ((4 +
16)/9)

|z| = sqrt ((36+
16)/9)

|z| = sqrt
(52/9)

The absolute value of the complex
number is |z| = sqrt (52/9).

What is a good hook/catchy sentence regarding the children of the Holocaust?I am writing a research paper regarding the children of the Holocaust....

My best advice is to save your introduction for the very
end.  Write the entire body of your paper first.  I think your hook will present itself
once you've said everything you are going to say.  Not to mention, after absorbing
yourself in the research for such a topic, you yourself might be pretty emotional. 
Hooks come best out of strong emotion - and only you can find
that.

Also thought I'd pass along a great resource for your
research.  There's a book, I Never Saw Another Butterfly, which is
a collection of poetry and art by the children at the Terezin ghetto.  It is wonderful. 
You could probably find it at the library - or talk to some of the teachers at your
school who are most interested in the Holocaust.  I've found it to be pretty easy to
come by if you don't want to purchace a copy for yourself.

How would I start writing criticism on a writer?i want to write a piece of literature which should be a criticism on some specific writing.

As others have noted, the first thing you need to do is
determine your focus. What type of criticism are you writing. For instance, if you are
focusing on a specific writer, you might begin by deciding which writer you wish to
focus on. The, you can proceed in several ways, but two easy options are to choose a
theme that is prevalent in several works by that author or tie that author's place in
history or his or her personal life to elements of the works in question. Essentially,
what you are looking for is patterns. You will find that most writers develop themes
that reappear in all or most of their works, which makes it easier to identify them if
you have read several works by the author in question.

On
the other hand, if you are focusing on a specific work, then the first thing you need to
do once you have decided what work you will be writing about is to look for themes,
images, motifs, something in the plot or characterization that interests you and that
you can make some sort of claim about (this will be your
thesis).

As to research, a look at what other literary
critics have said about the author or the work is a good way to generate ideas as well
as to find proof from other sources that helps to support your ideas. Just remember that
anything that you gather from research must be appropriately
cited!

In The Great Gatsby, what does Daisy say and do that indicates to the reader that she is a "class above" in society?

The text of the novel establishes that Daisy Buchanan is a
member of the upper class in American society. She grew up in her father's fine house,
married an enormously wealthy man, and pursued a privileged lifestyle among other
members of her upper class. On two particular occasions, Daisy's own words and actions
clearly reflect her social position. In Chapter I, when Nick comes to dinner, she
expresses at one point the idle boredom of the rich. When Jordan Baker suggests that
some social activity should be planned, Daisy responds, "What do people plan?" She asks
this in a helpless voice. Daisy has no work to do and no interests to pursue; her only
role in life is to be rich.

Later in the novel, Daisy
attends one of Gatsby's wild parties attended by the kind of people with whom she has no
social contact, particularly "show business" people. She finds their uninhibited
behavior quite bizarre; she is "offended" by them. She observes without participating,
much as one might observe a foreign species. Commenting upon Gatsby's guests, Daisy
makes this assessment:

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Lots of people come who haven't been invited . .
. They simply force their way in and he's too polite to
object.

Daisy feels contempt
for these people, indicating the superior attitude of her social class. Nick says this
about Daisy's upper-class sensibilities:

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She was appalled by West Egg, this unprecedented
"place" that Broadway had begotten upon a Long Island fishing village--appalled by its
raw vigor that chafed under the old euphemisms . . .
.

Daisy is quite
uncomfortable outside her own privileged world and contemptuous of those "beneath" her
social position.

To what extent had the US fulfilled its promise to be a City upon a Hill, by the end of the 19th century?I would just like to know some events...

I think that the starting elements you have featured are
fairly good.  I would also include on this list the articulation of how the nation came
into being.  The Declaration of Independence helped to articulate the vision of what
America is to stand for and the ideals to which it aspires.  In this light, it became
the blueprint for the nation in articulating and demanding freedom.  Other nations have
appropriated this document in their own struggles to be free. Along these lines, the
document's implicit demand for rights on both a political and economic level have also
played a vital role in the demands of freedom in other social and political settings.  I
think that the Washington's Farewell Address might also do much to symbolize how the
nation could be vaulted to the top of a hill.  In reaching out for a political system
that is not predicated upon factions and internal division, Washington helped to show
that political orders can be heterogeneous, but committed to the overall function of a
nation.  In this light, political structures are meant to bring people together and not
drive them apart.

Discuss why Pope does not apply the definition of wit to "The Rape of the Lock?"

The definition of wit is mental sharpness, inventiveness,
and keen intelligence.

This being said, Pope does not
include this idea in "The Rape of the Lock." This work is a social satire. What this
means is that Pope is, simplistically, poking fun at society and mankind as a whole.
Therefore, the use of wit is omitted based upon the fact that Pope is illustrating the
mental weaknesses of society at large.

The work, as a
whole, depicts Belinda (a woman with beautiful hair) as the object of affection of the
Lord Petre. He vows that he will do whatever it will take to obtain her locks for
himself. Petre even goes as far as to create a shine in order for him to pray for the
locks.

Basically, the lack of wit exists given the object
of obsession is a lock of hair. This speaks to the simplistic minds with which Pope saw
society to have.

How do we interpret the novel, Jane Eyre, with the perspective of the psychoanaltic criticism?

In terms of looking at Jane Eyre, by
Charlotte Bronte, from a psychoanalytic perspective, it would appear that the best to do
so is to look at the specific characters within the story, regarding their conscious and
the subconscious actions.

Jane is a woman who has suffered
a great deal as a child, first at the hands of her Aunt Reed, and then Mr. Brocklehurst.
In psychoanalytic terms, both of these characters are particularly
sadistic.

Mrs. Reed is unrealistic about her own children's
shortcomings regarding their character, heaping her hate of the unwanted Jane upon the
child until Reed sends her away to the Lowood Institution. Here, the sadistic leanings
of Brocklehurst in the name of charity and God, teach Jane to bide her time until she is
old enough to take the position of a governess and
escape.

At Thornfield, Jane works for Mr. Rochester. He is
an egomaniac, and does all he can to avoid the restrictions that having a mad wife put
on a man's ability to be happy. In fact, he does his best to repress her existence by
staying away from his estate for long periods of time, having parties when he is there,
and paying someone else (Grace Poole) to care for her. He is also dark and brooding,
suffering from a battle between his conscious and subconscious, based upon what is
socially and morally acceptable. His desire to repress what he knows to be right shows a
level of denial as well.

St. John Rivers, who wants to
marry Jane so they can become missionaries, has allowed his super-ego to take precedence
in his life. The super-ego:

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...plays the critical and moralising
role...

...and this seems to
describe St. John rather closely. He struggles to develop a relationship within his
faith, though he cannot find peace it it.

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St. John has 'a reserved, an abstracted, and even
. . . a brooding
nature'...

Jane refuses to
marry him because there is no love in the
relationship.

Jane seems to be the one who is most firmly
rooted in reality. Based on psychoanalytic theory:

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...the id is the set
of uncoordinated instinctual trends; the ego is the
organised, realistic
part...

...Jane instinctively
knows right from wrong, fleeing when she finds Rochester is already married; the need to
escape the pain of her broken relationship rests with the id: she is looking for a way
to survive, accidentally finding the Rivers family. It is her ability to face reality
(with help of the supernatural, it seems) that finally brings her back to Rochester
after his wife has died.

Additional
Source:

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego,_and_super-ego

Are there any examples of sovereignty in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and if so what?

Yes, there are two distinct examples of sovereignty in the
prose "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight".

Sovereignty, as
defined by Merriam-Webster, is:

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supreme power especially over a political body;
controlling
influence.

Therefore, both
King Arthur and Lord Bertalik both have established sovereignty within their own
kingdoms.

King Arthur rules his own lands- he holds the
supreme power and is the controlling influence over all of those who reside within his
lands.

Lord Bertalik maintains sovereignty in two different
ways. First, as Lord Bertalik maintains sovereignty over the castle which he and Lady
Bertalik reside. As the Green Knight, Bertalik maintains sovereignty over the Green
Chapel. That being said, given Lord Bertalik and the Green Knight are the same person,
basically all lands of Bertalik castle and those of the chapel are ruled by
Bertalik.

i need a reserach proposal on the scientif question how light affects plant growthand my research proposal should contain investigative question,...

I am going to offer you a few suggestions for this resarch
proposal, it is up to you to pick the ones that are more convenient for
you.

You can use different light sources, such as
incandescent, fluorescent, sunlight, and total darkness. Be sure to keep the amount of
time of exposure to light the same for all light sources. You can grow beans or any
other easy to grow plant, and inspect them every 12 hours or so.  Or you can see how
many beans will germinate under each light variable. Be sure to have no variables other
than the light source.  Even the amount of water and the watering schedule has to be
constant.  Soil should be the same and the type of pot and seed and number of seeds per
pot that you use should also be the same.

If you chose to
grow plants rather than to germinate seeds, be sure to include qualitative data as well
as quantitative, by this I mean, not only do you measure the growth of each plant and
the length and width of each leaf, but also you may want to count the leaves and
describe their color, the appearance of the stalk and so
on.

Remember the if and then statement for your
investigative question. If bean plants are grown under various light sources, then bean
plants will grow at different rates under different light
sources.

The purpose of your experiment is to investigate
the effect of different light sources on the growth of bean
plants.

I suggest you plant at least 10 beans per light
source.  This would give you about 40 plants, if all germinate.  If not all germinate, I
suggest that you even out the numbers once they have grown enough to keep their leaves
off the soil.  If you have only 6 that germinate for lets say the incandescent light,
then you should reduce all others to 6 once you have established that they are healthy. 
Once again this eliminates having more variables.

Your
title should reflect the purpose of your experiment so The effect of different light
sources on the growth of bean plants seems appropriate as it is short and to the
point.