What are some examples of foreshadowing in Romeo and Juliet?

Although the Prologue to Act I of the play does contain
foreshadowing, Act III, Scene 5 also contains many examples. In this scene, it is
morning and Romeo and Juliet awake after spending their first night together. Romeo will
leave Verona this day per the terms of his banishment for killing Tybalt. Of course,
they do not want the morning to come and when they realize it is morning, there is a
despairing mood to the scene. It is imperative that Romeo leave Verona that morning or
he will be killed. Romeo doesn't want to leave and he says to Juliet, "Let me be taken,
let me be put to death./I am content, so thou wilt have it so." Another example of
foreshadowing in the scene occurs once Romeo has descended Juliet's balcony and is
looking up at her. She says to him, "Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low,/As one
dead in the bottom of a tomb. Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale." She's
saying that while looking down at Romeo, she got an image of him as laying dead at the
bottom of a tomb and that he looks deathly pale to her. Romeo responds to that by
saying, "And trust me, love, in my eyes do do you./Dry sorrow drinks our blood." He
tells her she also looks deathly pale and that sadness is sucking the life out of
them.

find the limit of the sum (f(1)+f(2)+.....+f(n))^(n^2), if n approaches to infinite?

We'll try to express each term of the sum as a difference
of 2 elemetary fractions.

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

(2x+1)/x^2*(x+1)^2 = A/x + B/x^2 +
C/(x+1) + D/(x+1)^2

We'll multiply each term from the right
side by LCD = x^2*(x+1)^2 and we'll get:

2x + 1 = Ax(x+1)^2
+ B(x+1)^2 + Cx^2(x+1) + Dx^2

2x + 1 = Ax^3 + 2Ax^2 + Ax +
Bx^2 + 2Bx + B + Cx^3 + Cx^2 + Dx^2

2x + 1 = x^3(A + C) +
x^2(2A + B + C + D) + x(A + 2B) + B

Comparing both sides,
we'll get:

A + C = 0

2A + B +
C + D = 0

A + 2B = 2

B = 1
=> A + 2 = 2 => A=C=0

D =
-1

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

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

For x = 1 => f(1) = 1/1^2 - 1/(1+1)^2 = 1
- 1/2^2

For x = 2 => f(2) = 1/2^2 -
1/(3)^2

..........................................................

For
x = n => f(n) = 1/n^2 - 1/(n+1)^2

f(1) + f(2) + ...
+ f(n) = 1 - 1/2^2 + 1/2^2 - 1/3^2 + ... + 1/n^2 -
1/(n+1)^2

We'll eliminate like
terms:

f(1) + f(2) + ... + f(n) = 1 -
1/(n+1)^2

We'll raise to n^2 both
sides:

[f(1) + f(2) + ... + f(n)]^(n^2) = [1 -
1/(n+1)^2]^(n^2)

We'll evaluate the
limit:

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

We'll create remarcable limit
"e":

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

lim -n^2/(n+1)^2 = lim -n^2/(n^2 + 2n +
1)

lim -n^2/(n^2 + 2n + 1) =
1

lim [f(1) + f(2) + ... + f(n)]^(n^2) =
e^-1

lim [f(1) + f(2) + ... + f(n)]^(n^2) =
1/e

The result of the limit of the given sum,
if n approaches to infinite, is: lim [f(1) + f(2) + ... + f(n)]^(n^2) =
1/e.

What contrast can be perceived between Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters in Trifles?

Mrs. Peters, the Sheriff's wife, is small, wiry, and timid
in contrast to Mrs. Hale's larger physical makeup and outspoken nature. From their first
words, the two women reveal the difference in their personalities. Mrs. Peters is the
dutiful wife, quick to defend her husband. When Mrs. Hale makes the comment that she
would not want someone going through her kitchen and criticizing her skills, Mrs. Peters
defends the men by saying that it is their duty. At this point in the play, it seems
that women would disagree on almost everything. However, as the women endure the men's
sexist comments and attitude and discover more about Minnie Wright's miserable existence
on the farm, they begin to ban together, until they silently agree to cover for Minnie
at the end of play.

Is John Proctor a Christian?

The play also shows a John Proctor who is conflicted about
his faith.  There is the issue with Reverend Parris and the money he spends on gold
candlesticks.  As the witch trials heat up, especially since he knows the truth, he
loses faith in some of the church elders and the court, because they cannot see the
farce for what it is.

I don't think Proctor ever abandons
Christianity, per se, but without saying so, he may have abandoned Puritanism by the
end.  But then again, so did a lot of people at that time.  By 1730, a mere 38 years
after the Salem fiasco, there was no Puritan Church left in New
England.

There are 2 numbers whose sum is 53. 3 times the smaller number is equal to 19 more than the larger number. Which are the numbers?

assume that the fsmaller number =S and the larger number
is=L

then, S+L= 53.......
(1)

3 times the smaller number = 19 more than the larger
number

==> 3 S = 19 + L ........
(2)

Now, combining equation (1) and (2) we
have:

S+L = 53

3S = 19  + L
==> L = 3S -19

substitute in eqution
(1),

 S + (3S- 19) = 53

 4S -
19 = 53

4S = 72     divide by
4

S = 72/4 = 18

and L = 3(18)-
19 = 35

What was the significance of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad?

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was not really that
significant on its own.  However, it represents the beginning of the boom in American
railroads, which was hugely significant.

When the B and O
was first created, there was no good way of transporting bulky goods by land.  Canals
and rivers were the only feasible land means of transportation.  This meant that it was
very difficult to move goods from one place to another if there were no navigable
waterways available.  This severly limited the range of areas that were available for
settlement and it placed limits on which areas could trade with one
another.

The B and O represented a first step in changing
this situation.  It was started in 1828, reached a point 73 miles west of Baltimore 4
years later, but did not make it to the Ohio River until 1853.  Meanwhile, railroads in
general started to boom.  The B and O did not really mean that much on its own, but it
started the railroad industry in the US.  Railroads in general played a huge role in
allowing more parts of the country to be settled and creating a larger market for
trade.

What are the main points in Antonys speech, Act 3, scene 2, of Julius Caesar and what effects does it have on the audience?

Only moments after Brutus has convinced the people that
Caesar had to die for his ambition, Antony makes a speech which has the counter effect.
Antony stirs up the people's hearts to a frenzy, a fir of rage over what the
conspirators have done.

He mentions the will that Caesar
did leave and how he had included something for all the people in it. He shares that
Caesar loved the people and proved it by including them in his
will.

Antony holds up Caesar's garment and mentions how the
conspirator's stabbed Caesar. He mentions that Brutus did burst Caesar's very heart
because everyone knows Caesar loved Brutus, the honorable Brutus, Caesar's
angel:

For
Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel.
Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar
loved him!
This was the most unkindest cut of all;
For when the
noble Caesar saw him stab,
Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms,(195)

Quite vanquish'd him. Then burst his mighty
heart...

Antony's speech is
extremely effective. In his words, he causes the people to ban together against the
conspirators.

Antony calls the conspirators traitors. In so
doing, the people began to side with Antony. Just moments after Brutus speaks, the
people are ready to kill him now. A civil war is imminent, and Brutus allowed it to
happen by giving Antony permission to speak.

What is the inclination of the line that passes through the points (8,2) and (12,6)?

Inclination of the line is the angle made by the line to x
axis.

The inclination of the line depends on the gradient
of that line.

The gradient of the line is the ratio between
the changes in y direction and changes in x direction.

The
inclination of the line is the slope of that line.

 m = (y2
- y1)/(x2 - x1)

We notice that the numerator and
denominator represents the legs of a right triangle.

m =
tan a, where a is the angle made by the line and x axis.

x1
= 8 and x2 = 12

y1 = 2 and y2 =
6

tan a = (6 - 2)/(12 - 8)

tan
a = 4/4

tan a =
1

The inclination of the line with respect to
x axis is the angle a = pi/4 or 45 degrees.

Explain the importance of Maleeka's diary in influencing the events of the novel The Skin I'm In.

Maleeka's writing allows her to explore a self with
strength. She reverses her name to Aleekma, and in a sense, reverses her self-image by
creating an alter-ego. Her character faces unspeakable horrors below decks in a slaver
ship. No matter the conditions, she stays strong and fantasizes about Kinjari, a fellow
slave with beautiful eyes who watches her constantly. More than likely, this fantasy
male is the reflection of Caleb, a fellow student who likes Maleeka despite her dark
skin. Caleb is a sensitive, hard-workingstudent who is the opposite of many of his
fellows in an inner city school. From Aleekma's strength, Maleeka can face up to the
demands of Char and the twins and end up doing what is right. Ms. Saunders supports her
is spite of her efforts to resist the understanding that she is beautiful and
smart.

What does this line mean: "Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring?"Shakespeare's Hamlet

Just as Act III, Scene 1 of Hamlet
has involved every major character in a duplicitous act, with the exception of Horatio
and Laertes.  Now, in Act III, Scene 2, there is duplicity; however, whereas the first
scene contains duplicity that it seemingly good, the intent is evil, the second scene's
duplicity is apparently for evil designs, but its goal is
good.

In this scene, Hamlet has altered the purpose of the
Dumb Show of the play that the actors are soon to perform.  For, he has this provide the
synopsis of the play whereas usually the Prologue does this.  When the actor appears who
is the "prologue," he speaks briefly,

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For us, and for our
tragedy,

Here stooping to your
clemncy,

We beg your hearing patiently.
(3.2.131-133)

Upon hearing
this, Hamlet asks, "Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring?"  meaning is this the
prologue or simply a verse.  There is wordplay with poesy here in
the word "posy" that Hamlet uses.  For, it is the idea of a poem being a flower; such
short verses were engraved inside a wedding ring like the one Hamlet had planned to give
Ophelia.  His remark, then, falls in line with the other sexually suggestive and
derogatory remarks to Ophelia, whom Hamlet now believes to be a courtesan of
Claudius.

In Act I Scene ii of Julius Caesar, how are Antony and Brutus contrasted as each appears for the first time?

In Act I, Scene II Antony is depicted as a young, vibrant,
athletic man due to his participating in the Feast of Lupercal race.  Antony seems
carefree, but at the same time, quite loyal to Caesar.  Caesar asks him to whip
Calphurnia as he races and Antony obediently replies, "I shall remember.  When Caesar
says, 'do this,' it is performed" (lines 12-13).

Brutus is
introduced as a more serious, troubled, introspective character.  In the same scene,
when Cassius approaches him, Brutus makes a direct reference to Antony mentioning how
they are so different, "I am not gamesome.  I do lack some part of the quick spirit that
is in Antony.  Let me not hinder, Cassius, your desires.  I'll leave you" (lines
30-33).  Brutus shows a lack of interest in the festivities, preferring to stay off to
the side by himself rather than celebrating with the crowd.  Brutus shows a lack of
support for Caesar, when Cassius asks him if he wants Caesar to become King and he
responds, "I would not, Cassius, yet I love him well" (line
84).

To sum it up, Antony is athletic, carefree, and loyal
to Caesar, while Brutus is more sedentary, serious, and skeptical of
Caesar.

A cylindrical copper cable 1.50Km long is connected across a 220.0V potential difference. (a) What should be its diameter so that it produces...

First, the value of the length of the cable will be
converted to meters.

Therefore, the length of the cable is
L = 1.5*10^3 m = 1500 m.

We know, from enunciation, the
value of potential difference:V = 220 volts

The power is
given and it's value is of  P = 50 Watts

P = V^2/R
=> R = V^2/P

Since the area of the  section of the
cable is circular, w'ell recall the formula for the area of the
circle:

A = pi*r^2 (1)

A =
p*L/R (2), where p = 1.72/10^8 ohm/m

We'll equate (1) and
(2) and we'll get:

pi*r^2 =
p*L*P/V^2

r^2 = p*L*P/V^2*pi

r
= sqrt(p*L*P/V^2*pi)

Diameter is d = 2*r =
2*sqrt(p*L*P/V^2*pi)

d =
2*sqrt1.72*10^-10*15*5*10^3/484

d = 2*sqrt
1.72*10^-7*75/22

d =
1.0325/100

d = 0.010325
meters

The diameter of the cable is of d =
0.010325 meters, such as it is producing heat at a rate of
50W.

What are the African-American aspects that Langston Hughes' poem highlights in his poem, "Harlem?"

Langston Hughes' poem, "Harlem," refers to "dreams
deferred" in the first line:

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What happens to a dream
deferred?

This would apply to
the African-American because of the promises made and inferred with Abraham Lincoln's
Emancipation Proclamation of the 1860s that had still not been delivered by the
1950s.

The image of a "raisin in the sun" may refer to
slaves laboring for years without freedom, to bring wealth to others who had no regard
for them, their families, etc. One researcher proposes that the image is used to suggest
the grape, juicy and luscious, which dries up while left in the sun due to inattention.
This could describe the lost dream,
or the slave. Symbolically, it could
refer to the scourge of slavery that robbed black men, women and children of all the
merits of freedom, aging them quickly, separating families: sucking the vitality from
these people and stripping them of hope.

The image of a
festering sore may relate to the physical abuse the slaves suffered at the hands of
their owners. The abuse was not limited to only the men, and did not always show itself
in physical cruelty. Symbolically, the "festering sore" might be what slavery was,
spreading through the "land of liberty," sordid and
repulsive.

The line "stink like rotten meat" could refer to
the those slaves who were beaten to death or those black men lynched by vigilantes. It
is suggested that...

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Hughes uses this image because blacks were often
sold rotten meat in ghetto
groceries…

"Or crust and
sugar over—like a syrupy sweet" does not denote an immediate
threat...

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...but the image again connotes waste, neglect,
and decay..

Sweets last a
long time, like hopes and dreams, but even over time, they can change in appearance or
even lose their taste—no longer something appealing.  href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onwuchekwa_Jemie">Onwuchekwa Jemie is a
Nigerian poet and scholar. He sees this reference to the sweet as a representation
of…

American
dreams of equality and success that are denied to most African
Americans.

It might be
symbolic of the way that slave owners tried to cover over the shameful light that
abolitionists cast over slavery. Some slave owners tried to use the Bible as a way to
prove that slavery was not immoral.

The line "Maybe it just
sags / like a heavy load" may not just refer to the hard work that slaves were required
to do, but might also allude to the burden blacks carried even when the law said they
were "free and equal." Things like the inability to vote, lynchings and violence,
segregation, and the inability for "equal opportunity employment," among other things,
are burdens the black race carried.

While Langston Hughes,
whose poem was published in 1951, could not have known, the "explosion" mentioned in the
last line of the poem is prophetic, seen with the Civil Rights Movement of the
1960s.

Why didn't the four candidates who were once in the Congress at that time propose the laws they later argued were so vital to the country?Referring...

This question refers to the last election. There could be
many reasons for this, but the most important reason is that the president is supposed
to be the one to come up with and suggest ideas that will truly change the country.  One
member of Congress does not really have this power.

Of
course, any of these people could have introduced legislation on any topic when they
were in Congress.  However, none of them would have had the power or the visibility for
those proposals to have any chance of passing.  If, for example, Sen. Obama (a first
term Senator) had proposed a comprehensive health care plan, it never would have had a
chance.  He was not famous and did not have much
power.

When people run for president, they have to outline
their vision for what they would do once they got the power and visibility that comes
with being the president.  While they are still in Congress, they have very little
chance to get any truly sweeping reforms passed.

How does the apostle Paul attack worldly wisdom, and what Christian symbol does he connect his argument to?

Paul loved the symbol of the cross, but encouraged
followers to view it metaphorically; in other words, do not seek concrete evidence, or
as he termed it "worldly wisdom" when looking for the cross in everyday life. 
Christians must follow on faith, or risk missing what Jesus is trying to show us in our
everyday lives.  By focusing on "worldly wisdom", one is missing the spiritual aspect of
our relationship with God; God is present if we are open to receive him and his
blessings, but when we begin searching overtly for signs and signals, we only make it
more difficult for ourselves to experience His love and spirit.  Paul is trying to
explain to us that seeking the cross means we are seeking to live the way God wanted us
to live; the cross is a symbol to remind us that the ultimate sacrifice that was made
2000 years ago, the one that saved us all, and all we are asked to do is go forth and
live the way Jesus taught us.  

Why are there so many historical real-life characters and settings involved in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter?Hawthorne uses several...

Although Nathaniel Hawthorne professed himself a
Unitarian, there was much of the classically Puritan traits within him, one of which was
a keen interest in the welfare of the community.  Thus, his interest in the history of
the colonies, especially his native Massachusetts, ran deep.  Hyatt H. Waggoner, author
of Nathaniel Hawthorne writes,"Salem was part of him for good or
evil." 

As a historical romance, The Scarlet
Letter evinces Hawthorne's historical concerns; tying these concerns to real
characters such as Goody Cloyse and Deacon Goodkin assisted Hawthorne in his efforts to
create what he called an "authentic" past.  In his essay "The Custom House" that
prefaces the novel, Hawthorne expressed an ancestral guilt that he had inherited from
Judge Hathorne who sentenced several persons guilty of witchcraft.  Because he felt that
the nation both enabled and impeded the lives of its constituents and the telling of its
histories, with the creation of this "authentic" past, Nathaniel Hawthorne hoped to lend
his novel historical importance that would serve to give insight into the past as well
as into the very nature of the human soul.

Explain why the comparison of the poetic speaker's love to a summer's day is not an appropriate one.

Shakespeare, the sonneteer of "Shall I compare
thee," begins his sonnet with a question that he will proceed to answer in the negative.
There are two key lines that reveal this and show that a comparison between "a summer's
day" and the one who is "more lovely and more temperate" than a summer's day is a
negative, or, if you will, an inappropriate comparison. The first
is “Thou art more lovely” and the second is
“But thy
eternal summer.”

The sonneteer explains that while
"rough winds" may "shake the ... buds of May," her beauty is unmarred by either rough
winds or the sun, that "too hot eye of heaven," that is also sometimes dimmed in "his
gold complexion."

The sonneteer further explains that the beauty of
the beloved is not like the beauty of summer and that even Death won’t rob her beauty
because the poet is perfecting her in "eternal lines" where "in eternal lines to time"
she is, to coin a word, eternalized. He promises that as "long as men can breathe or
eyes can see," she will live because this sonnet "gives life" to
her.

It is in these ways that a comparison between his beloved and "a
summer's day" is a negative, or inappropriate, one: (1) Summer
suffers declining beauty even as it revels in its brightest day, while she will never
fade as summer does nor ever die because (2) her beauty is written in a sonnet and the
sonnet will live and she with it.

What is the square root of (-7 + 24i)?

Let the required square root of -7 + 24i be x +
yi

x + yi = sqrt ( -7 +
24i)

square both the sides

x^2
- y^2 + 2xyi = -7 + 24i

equate the real and complex
coefficients

x^2 - y^2 =
-7

2xy = 24

=> xy =
12

=> x =
12/y

Substitute in x^2 - y^2 =
-7

=> 12^2/y^2 - y^2 =
-7

=> 144 - y^4 + 7y^2 =
0

=> y^4 - 7y^2 - 144 =
0

let u = y^2

=> u^2 -
7u - 144 = 0

=> u^2 - 16u + 9u - 144 =
0

=> u(u - 16) + 9(u - 16) =
0

=> (u - 16)(u + 9) =
0

=> u = 16 and u =
-9

y = sqrt u is a real number so we take only u =
16.

y^2 = 16 , y = 4 and y =
-4

x = 12/y = 3 and
-3

The required value of sqrt( - 7 + 24i) =
-3 - 4i and 3 + 4i

What do the stations symbolize in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness?

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is
based upon Conrad's own experience as a steamboat captain in the area once known as the
Congo. Conrad commanded his ship for a short time when he became ill and had to return
home, but he had seen enough of conditions in the Congo. Conrad bases the stations on
actual locations within the Congo.

It is correct in
thinking that with Conrad's work, there is more than meets the eye when studying his
writing:

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Conrad infused his work with psychological and
moral implications. His characters face deep problems, ones with difficult or no
answers. Their response to these questions often determines the course of their
lives...much of his story lies beneath the surface narrative. The adventure is merely
one level of the story...

The
thread that joins all three stations together is the Congo River. The Congo River is
symbolic of the journey a person takes to discover the truth about himself (or herself).
The journey may offer items of beauty: flowers, exotic birds or other wildlife. However,
Conrad's warns the reader of what lies beneath the beauty: mystery, seduction, or
dangerous knowledge: corruption. In each person's soul, it can be found quietly waiting.
In many people it may remain dormant forever; in other cases, it presents itself and a
battle for control ensues. In some cases, even with the light, darkness is triumphant,
and this is at the core of Conrad's novel.

The first stop
is the Lower Station. This symbolizes warning and mental confusion. Marlow is bewildered
by what he sees—a cemetery of old machinery lying about rusting for no reason. Men are
blasting with dynamite; there is nothing in their way, so it is pointless, but they
continue. He notices the natives who are treated like the enemy: they are beaten,
shackled, starving and lacking hope. They have a look of death about
them.

The experience of stopping at the Lower Station is
disturbing to Marlow. Symbolically, it is a warning of an imbalance within society, an
illness that has struck the men working for the Company: it is a moral
disease.

Marlow travels to the Central Station. He finds
his ship is underwater; repairs must be made. Symbolically, this, too, is a warning: an
obstacle stops one from moving further into the
darkness.

Here again, things don't make sense. The parts
Marlow needs do not arrive—repeatedly. He meets a brickmaker, though there are no bricks
in sight. There is a hidden urgency here about Kurtz, and a resentment for him. Again,
the darkness is present, but it becomes more pronounced, harder to predict or pass
through. Marlow is troubled.

Finally, Marlow reaches the
Inner Station, where the darkness is the strongest. He has been attacked by natives
firing on the ship. Kurtz's home is surrounded by heads on stakes. There are signs of
human sacrifice.

Here morality is gone, sacrificed on an
alter of greed and insanity. Here the darkness is at its most dangerous. Marlow is
seemingly able to resist it, but Kurtz has succumbed, so much that his soul has gone
insane and cannot be retrieved. Kurtz is brought out of the jungle by Marlow, but
darkness's evil is too strong to save Kurtz.

Symbolically,
each station represents the journey into the darkness of the heart and mind. That
darkness can lure one in and destroy the soul. This could apply to any situation where
one is tempted to turn away from the light, and allow darkness to enter. To continue
leads to destruction; turning back to the light in time leads to
rescue.

Can you explain the scene of when Abigail in The Lovely Bones cheats on her husband?

One of the fascinating aspects of this novel is the way in
which it presents us with a whole gamut of different reactions to death. Whilst Jack
becomes obsessed with finding his daughter's murderer, Abigail, his wife, seems to just
want to do what she can to move on with her life. Part of this, as narrated to us by
Susie, is the affair that she has with Len, as she feels increasingly distanced from her
husband because of their different reactions to their daughter's disappearance and
death.

It is in Chapter Twelve where the affair occurs,
and, according to Susie, when Abigail asks Len to kiss her it is a "beg for
leniency:

My
mother was moving physically through time to flee from me. I could  not hold her back...
I knew what was happening. Her rage, her loss, her despair. The whole life lost tymbling
out in an arc on that roof, clogging up her being. She needed Len to drive the dead
daughter out.

Thus the affair
that Abigail has with Len is about her need to move on, to "drive the dead daughter out"
and to find "new life" on the other side of her kiss with him. She cannot dwell
permanently on what has been lost and her desire to move on is expressed in her
affair.

Why is theme important in understanding The Misfits by James Howe?

The theme of The Misfits is rooted in
the idea of tolerance and acceptance of others.  It seeks to embrace the idea of what
should be as opposed to what is.  I think that this is important to the novel because
Howe sought to write a work that spoke out in favor of social acceptance and how the
ability to display solidarity can transcend most other fundamental challenges that are
faced by adolescents.  The theme is important because its message is deliberate on the
part of the author:

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In The Misfits and Totally Joe, an
underlying theme that kept surfacing had to do with my own feelings of being different
as a boy and then a man. My own shame about being gay, my own discomfort, my own wish
that I could be open and accepting and be accepted. These feelings kept bubbling up in
my work, which often celebrated difference and feeling good about who you
are.

The theme is
important to the work because it seeks to explore a personal dimension with social
implication.  In this light, the novel's theme is important to understand the literary
meaning and social relevancy of the
text.

The sum of a number and its reciprocal is 13/6. Find the number.

The reciprocal of a number is the number that multiplied
to original number, gives 1.

We'll take the x number and
it's reciprocal, 1/x.

We'll verify the
constraint:

x*(1/x)=1

Now,
we'll impose the constraint from enunciation:

x + 1/x =
13/6

We'll mutliply by 6x all
over:

6x^2 + 6 = 13x

We'll
move all terms to one side:

6x^2 - 13x + 6 =
0

We'll apply quadratic
formula:

x1= [13+sqrt(169 -
144)]/12

x1 = (13+5)/12

x1 =
18/12

x1 = 3/2

x2 =
(13-5)/12

x2 = 8/12

x2 =
2/3

The number could be:x= 3/2 or x =
2/3.

How does the ambiguous nature of the term "carry" introduce the soldiers and themes of the novel?

In O'Brien's novel The Things They
Carried, the description of items in this first chapter, “The Things They
Carried,” moves from concrete to abstract things.  It begins with military necessities
(guns, helmets, radios, ammo, rations) and personal items (comic books, pictures,
letters, drugs) and ends with emotions, memories, family, history, tragedy, heartbreak,
guilt, love.  In this way "carry" is a transitive verb: it requires direct objects, and
O'Brien lists them, and their weights, to give the novel military verisimilitude and to
give the men psychological baggage.

The heaviest thing they
carry, ironically, can't be weighed at all: the “unweighed fear.”  Jimmy Cross, a
Christ-figure (initials J.C.), carries the guilt over Lavender's death.  His mind was on
Martha, girl who symbolizes the comfort of home, when Lavender was
killed.

After his death, Lavender's ghost hangs over the
novel like King Hamlet's Ghost: “ . . . they all carried ghosts.” And “they carried all
the emotional baggage of men who might die.”

In the end, to
atone for the death (again the symbolic Christ-like metaphors), Lt. Cross burns Martha’s
letters and photographs? (p. 23)  Or so we think.

In Of Mice and Men, is Candy lonely and is this worse after his dog is shot?Is candy isolated? find evidence in the text to support this.

Candy is somewhat lonely because his dog was his best
friend. Perhaps his main struggle, however, is his own battle with age. Candy feels as
though he is becoming useless to the farm as he grows older. The death of his dog
parallels this fear within Candy's mind. His dog was old; he was then killed. Candy's
fear of becoming useless is exacerbated after his dog's
death.

Candy's loneliness is aided somewhat by the small
hope he holds that he might be able to take part in George and Lennie's farm with the
addition of his savings.

A better example of loneliness in
the novel is Crooks, though Candy also embodies this emotion to some
extent.

Why does Mrs. Mallard feel so “Free! Body and soul free” in "The Story of an Hour"?

When Mrs. Mallard learns of her husband's accidental death
in Chopin's "The Story of an Hour," she weeps with "sudden, wild abandonment," and then
she goes to her room alone, for "[S]he would have no one follow her."  Alone upstairs in
her room, facing an open window which looks out onto the spring day, Mrs. Mallard
feels

pressed
down by a physical exhaustion that hauted her body and seemed to reach into her
soul.

In contrast to these
feelings, Mrs. Mallard feels "the delicious breath of rain" in the air and hears the
happy singing of birds.  Clearly present in these passages is a subtle conflict.  For,
while downstairs, Mrs. Mallard has abandoned herself in weeping, but then gains control
and retreats to her room.  Now, in her room she sits motionless, but a sob finds its way
into her throat, and she abandons herself again.  However, this time the sob is for
herself as she dully gazes "off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky." a symbol
of the future. The brewing storm of emotions within her, "something coming to her and
she was waiting for it, fearfully," resists any control that Mrs. Mallard can exert
because of her social mores.  She is almost giddy as the realization that her life will
no longer be dictated by the patriarchal society Mr. Mallard represents, under which her
individuality has been repressed, comes to her.  Under her breath, she whispers the
words she dare not shout in joy, "free, free,
free!" 

The contrast between the joy that Louise Mallard
feels as she utters these words and the "look of terror" that follows results from the
repression of Mrs. Mallard as opposed to the newly realized freedom of Louis Mallard. 
Knowing that she is no longer subjugated elates her, but she also knows that she must
act properly for a widow, and she does love her husband.

How does Zaroff stock his island with the "game?"

There are two ways that General Zaroff gets people on to
his island so that he can hunt them down and kill
them.

First, the island is in a particularly dangerous
place in the ocean.  It is very easy for ships to wreck near the island just because
that's the way the ocean is.

Second, though, Zaroff does
not just rely on chance.  He has a light set up to lure ships to go the wrong way.  That
way, he can make sure that some ships wreck if he is running low on people to
hunt.

Here is the relevant
passage:

This
island is called Ship Trap," he answered. "Sometimes an angry god of the high seas sends
them to me. Sometimes, when Providence is not so kind, I help Providence a bit. Come to
the window with me."

Rainsford went to the window and
looked out toward the sea.

"Watch! Out there!" exclaimed
the general, pointing into the night. Rainsford's eyes saw only blackness, and then, as
the general pressed a button, far out to sea Rainsford saw the flash of
lights.

The general chuckled. "They indicate a channel," he
said, "where there's none; giant rocks with razor edges crouch like a sea monster with
wide-open jaws. They can crush a ship as easily as I crush this
nut."

Are there any quotes that show evidence in Jem and Scout's loss of interest in the Radleys in To Kill a Mockingbird?

At the end of Harper Lee's To Kill a
Mockingbird, we can assume that Scout turns a big corner in becoming more
mature regarding Boo Radley. Throughout the story, I feel she is more curious about the
person of Boo, while the boys are more fascinated with the gross
and scary rumors about Boo. Like kids who show off nasty scraped knees, the boys are
fascinated by descriptions of Boo's "sharpened teeth," and his tendency to eat wild
things like squirrels.

Scout's experience with Boo, while
Jem lies unconscious in his bedroom, shows that she sees herself more as a young lady,
and she acts this way with Boo as she walks him
home.

I
slipped my hand into the crook of his arm.

He had to stoop
a little to accommodate me, but if Miss Stephanie Crawford was watching from her
upstairs window, she would see Arthur Radley escorting me down the sidewalk, as any
gentleman would do.

This
passage indicates a change in Scout. She is not afraid of Boo, and now that she has seen
him, she can relax and treat him as a guest—as Aunt Alexandra would have her do. She
will share this impression of this time with Boo, with Jem when he wakes in the morning.
That would have an effect on Jem. However, so much has happened on this night: the
attempted murder of the children by Bob Ewell, Ewell's death, and Boo's triumph is
saving "his" children, that I cannot help but feel they will have changed a great deal.
Their fascination for Boo Radley may not be as strong after coming so close to
death.

We learn, too, in the last chapter, that Scout never
sees Boo again. It does not explain why. And for the sake of the plot, Boo was there,
heroic in his efforts, when they most needed him, but his life will obviously return to
"normal," which Heck Tate suggests would be easier for a man like
Boo.

There is a certain irony at the end where Scout shows
more maturity with regard to Boo and social niceties. She notes
that:

Boo was
our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck
pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree
what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me
sad.

Scout demonstrates a
sense of indebtedness in that she and Jem had taken from Boo and never paid him back. It
is very mature of her to think of being neighborly, especially at her young age, and
with Boo—not their most sophisticated neighbor, though she doesn't see
this.

The irony is that they did give
Boo things in return. He watched and laughed as Scout's rolling tire bounced off the
side of the Radley house; he was aware of them as they crept onto the porch; he was
probably entertained as he watched them play; and, they allowed him—for a short time—to
escape the prison in which his family had placed him, not just to share gifts with them,
but to save them.

In Act III scene 6 of Macbeth, what is Lennox saying in this speech and what does he actually mean?

Well done for spotting the gap between appearance and
reality in this speech, and the sarcasm of Lennox as he comments upon recent occurrences
in the kingdom of Scotland! As Lennox is seen talking to a Lord, he discusses his
suspicions of what has happened and the true nature of events. However, although he
reports the known facts, if we look carefully and what he says and how he says it, we
can see that he is being incredibly ironic, and he does not actually mean what he says
at all. Note his comment on Macbeth and his actions in killing Duncan's two
henchmen:

So
that, I say,

He has borne all things well, and I do
think,

that, had he Duncan's sons under his
key

(As, and't please Heaven, he shall not), they should
find

What 'twere to kill a father; so should
Fleance.

Clearly, Lennox does
not believe Macbeth has done "all things well," as he believes that if Macbeth had
access to Duncan's sons and to Fleance that they would soon meet the fate of others that
Macbeth has had close contact with. Throughout this entire speech, Lennox is discussing
his suspcions of Macbeth, ironically underlining the difference between Macbeth's
actions and his real motives.

Why does George allow Candy to become part of the dream to own a farm?How does this affect the reality of the dream.Give Evidence?

George allows Candy to become part of the dream of "livin'
offa the fatta the lan'" in many ways because Candy is much like them. He is a person
that perhaps much of society finds little use for and has disregarded in many ways; he
has outlived his usefulness in the eyes of some. Candy, like George and Lennie, dreams
of place where he will not be told what to do, where he can be himself, and work on his
own terms.

Candy's offer is one of more than
money:

"S'pose
I went in with you guys. Tha's three hundred an' fifty bucks I'd put in. I ain't much
good, but I could cook and tend the chickens and hoe the garden some. How'd that
be?"

But Candy's money turns
the dream from being some off in the distant future to something being more accessible.
As George says:

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"In one month. Right smack in one month. Know
what I'm gon'ta do? I'm gon'ta write to them old people that owns he place that we'll
take it."

How many days did it take for the river to return to a neutral pH?We're doing a Chemistry Lab, with Analyzing an Acid spill, but I don't understand...

Pure water at room temperature or 25 degree Celsius has a
pH very close to 7. This is known as neutral pH.

An acid
has a pH lower than 7 with the pH decreasing as the concentration of the acid increases.
On the other hand for a base the pH is greater than 7 with the pH increasing as the
concentration of the base increases.

After an acid spill,
the pH of the river is sure to drop to a value below 7 which is the neutral pH or that
of water. As the river flows, the movement of water will slowly replace the acidified
water with fresh water. The pH too will gradually increase and reach that of pure water.
This is the neutral pH of 7.

What you have to determine is
how long it took for the fresh water to replace the acidified water and for the pH to
return to that of 7.

How does Shakespeare depict life and death in Macbeth?Besides Macbeth's famous soliloquoy after Lady Macbeth's death, in what other instances does...

Macbeth's famous soliloquy should not be interpreted as an
expression of Shakespeare's personal view of life and death; it expresses the
character's feelings as he nears the end of his own life. Macbeth's sense of futility is
overwhelming, certainly, as he sees life as "[S]ignifying
nothing."

Shakespeare, however, depicts life and death
through other characters, as well, with far different expressions of feelings and
philosophies. For some, life is seen as an opportunity to act with honor and to die for
a good cause. For instance, after Macbeth has been defeated, Siward receives word from
Ross that Young Siward, his beloved son, has been killed in battle, standing his ground
and dying "like a man." Young Siward's wounds were "on the front," indicating that he
had faced death and fought with courage. Siward takes comfort in his son's bravery and
sacrifice:

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Why then, God's soldier be
he!

Had I as many sons as I have
hairs,

I would not wish them to a fairer
death:

And so his knell is
knolled.

Siward's
view of life and death is quite different from Macbeth's. His son, now "God's soldier,"
had lived and died with honor; his life and death were not without
meaning.

Attempt a feminist reading of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.Please explain.

As a reader, you first read the story for the sake of the
plot events and the style and themes of a work, but as that is happening, you may also
consider alternative perspectives of a work.  When you do this, it is like you are
standing a bit outside the text and looking at it through a specific lens to evaluate
what is happening in the text.  You have been asked to look at this classic novel by
Jane Austen to ask yourself, "What would a feminist say about this novel?  What is
Austen intentionally, or unintentionally revealing about the place of women in
society?"

Feminist criticism evaluates novels for what they
illustrate about the role of women in society; how they struggle to be seen as
independent individuals in a traditionally patriarchal society.  This criticism also
evaluates the relationships between men and women.  Clearly this novel is a bounty for
the reader who wants to create a feminist reading a
novel.

The novel is dominated by female characters and
focuses on their many varied attitudes about marriage.  This right there would draw the
attention of feminist reader.  There are NO women in this novel who can or who are even
interested in living an autonomous life outside the realm of marriage.  Getting married,
for any number of additional motivations (love, financial security, sexual relations) is
the primary subject of this novel.  Austen is drawing a picture of a society in which
women are almost completely dependent on men for financial and emotional security. 
While Elizabeth's quest for marriage for true love only is perhaps more admirable than
Charlotte's practical attitude about marriage for financial security, it doesn't change
the fact that Elizabeth would be absolutely destitute without a marriage of some sort. 
Their father's estate is entitled to a MALE heir, and the daughters will all be
literally out on the street if he should die before the girls are safely married.  (Or
at least one of the girls be safely married to man of enough means who can support the
unmarried sisters.)

To do a complete feminist reading of
the novel, you will need to explore and prove the various similarities and differences
the women in the novel have about marriage.  You could look at how the men treat the
women -- what are their prejudices?  How do the men, ultimately, "hold all the cards?" 
You could evaluate the strength of the female characters in comparison to the failings
of the male characters -- looking specifically at Mr. Bennet, Mr. Collins, and Mr.
Wickham.  You could think about the significance of the fact that this very satirical
novel is written by a woman about the circumstances of women at the beginning of the
19th century.  This novel is filled with angles from which to explore what a feminist
would notice or have to say about it.

I need help writing a newsletter about Hamlet killing Polonius .. someone give me some tips?i have the who what where when why but i dont know how...

If you are allowed to be humorous, you can make an
underground newsletter as there should be a receptive audience since the entire court of
Denmark is corrupt.  This newsletter would, of course, have to be distributed
outside the castle walls.  This would be a satirtic piece, like
those of SNL and Mad Magazine.

For
example, you could have a headline such as Old Windbag Finally
Deflated

Then, this headline is followed by
a lead line and a back-up quote in the manner of jounalistic pieces.  Something
like--

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Polonius, personal advisor to Queen Gertrude,
who seems a bit daft herself, hid in the queen's closet while she spoke with her mad
son, Hamlet. 

When questioned
about the circumstances, the court jester explained, 'It is all very logical.  If you
were foolsih and given to much talk, would you not want to hide and listen to a madman,
yourself?  Polonius was given to loquacity and probably wanted for new
thoughts.'

[Return to the passage in Shakespeare's
Hamlet and find incongruent occurrences that you can use to parody,
if you may use this genre of satire and parody]

Why do Daisy and Tom want to fix Nick up with Jordan in The Great Gatsby?I don't see much indication that Tom is as eager as Daisy to complete a...

Daisy does not like to deal with real issues or with
reality.  She prefers to live in an existence of dolls and make believe where she can
create worlds and lives and alter them to her liking in order to avoid the harshness of
the real world.  This becomes evident almost as soon as she is introduced into the
novel, but it especially becomes clear when she tells Nick, in the first chapter, what
she said when her daughter was born:

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I'm glad it's a girl.  And I hope she'll be a
fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little
fool.

Because of this
attitude, creating a romance between Nick and Jordan is nothing more than a pleasantly
diverting game for Daisy.  Tom does not have the same aversion to reality because he
believes he controls his world anyway.  A romance between Nick and Jordan is irrelevant
to Tom, other than the fact that he likes both Nick and Jordan and sees them as being
worthy of his company.

In the story "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and the story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" how is Arnold Friend similar to the Misfit?

Both Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and
Joyce Carol Oates's "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" are unusual stories that
have their turning points brought about by the appearance of a literary
grotesque.  That is, something or a character that simultaneously
invokes in an audience or reader a feeling of uncomfortable bizarreness.  Certainly, in
O' Connor's stories, the grotesque is often used to effect
the conversion to grace in a character. For, in "A Good Man is Hard to Find," the
grandmother is converted when she recognizes herself in the Misfit:  "Why you're one of
my children," she tells him.  In this case, the grotesque evokes
empathy in the grandmother.

On the other hand, in Oates's
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" the grotesque does not evoke empathy in the
main character, Connie; rather, he causes her great terror.  Nevertheless, Arnold
Friend's appearance changes the world for Connie just as the Misfit alters the
grandmother's world as both men overpower and control the destinies of the older woman
and the teen.  Much like the grandmother's epiphany, Connie has a recognition that she
no longer controls her life,

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She thought for the first time in her life that
it was nothing that was hers, that belonged to her, but just a poiunding, living thing
inside this body that wan't really hers
either.

Thus, the Misfit and
Arnold Friend both take control of the lives of their victims and are responsible for
their demise.  In so doing, however, the victims reach a conversion from
their selfishness. That is, the grandmother recognizes the Misfit's sins in herself and
Connie makes a final act of unselfishness in order to save her family from "any trouble"
and Friend tells her, "...you're better than them because not a one of them would have
done this for you." 

How does Romeo convince the apothecary to sell him poison?

The answer to this can be found in Act V Scene 1. 
Basically what Romeo does is he tells the apothecary "you are so poor, you really need
to sell this stuff to me so you will not starve."

That is
why Romeo picks this particular apothecary to buy the poison from.  He looks around to
find an apothecary who looks like he is really poor and does not have much luck selling
stuff to people.

He tells the apothecary that he can see
that the guy is terribly poor and hungry.  That's why the man is willing to
sell.

What are the figures of speech in "On My First Son" by Ben Jonson?

Certainly the main figure of speech that it is incredibly
important to grasp to understand the poem as a whole comes in lines 3 and 4 of this
excellent poem. Let us analyse these two lines in depth to explore Jonson's own feelings
about his son and God:

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Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee
pay,

Exacted by thy fate, on the just
day.

This is thus an
excellent metaphor in which Jonson compares his son to a loan from God that came due
after seven years. Thus we can see that in this poem that is a poem of grief and
sadness, Jonson is presenting the "ownership" of his son as not really being his, but
being something that has been entrusted to him by God and was never truly "his" in the
first place. This central metaphor acts as the base for the rest of the poem where
Jonson tries to accept the fact that perhaps he "loved" his son too
much.

Find the quadratic function if the parabola passes through points (1,0),(2,1) and (3,2)?

The given points lie on the parabola if the corresponding
coordinates verify the quadratic equation of the
parabola.

We'll recall the standard equation of a
parabola:

y = ax^2 +bx +
c

Since (1,0) lies on the parabola, we'll
have:

0 = a + b + c

We'll use
symmetric property and we'll get:

a + b + c = 0
(1)

Since (2,1) is on the parabola, we'll
have:

4a + 2b + c = 1
(2)

Since (3,2) is on the parabola, we'll
have:

9a + 3b + c = 2
(3)

We'll subtract (1) from (2) and we'll
get:

4a + 2b + c - a - b - c =
1-0

We'll combine like
terms:

3a + b = 1 (4)

We'll
subtract (1) from (3) and we'll get:

9a + 3b + c - a - b -
c = 2 - 0

We'll combine like
terms:

8a + 2b = 2 (5)

We'll
multiply (4) by -2:

-6a - 2b = -2
(6)

We'll add (6) to (5):

8a +
2b - 6a - 2b = 2 - 2

We'll combine and eliminate like
terms:

2a = 0 => a =
0

We'll substitute a in (4):

b
= 1 (4)

We'll substitute a and b in
(1):

a + b + c = 0

0 + 1 + c =
0

1 + c =
0

c=-1

Since the
coefficient of x^2 is cancelling, the quadratic function degenerates to a linear
function y=bx+c: y=x-1

What are traits of M&M from That Was Then, This Is Now?

M&M is Cathy Carlson's 13 year old brother in S.E.
Hinton's teen novel That Was Then, This Is Now. M&M gets
his nickname from his love of the candy of the same name. Unlike Bryon and Mark,
M&M is a young hippie: He has long hair and wears an old army jacket with
a peace symbol hanging from his neck. He seems to be popular with just about everyone
except his father, who nags him relentlessly about his bad grades. Bryon particularly
likes M&M because Bryon is interested in M&M's sister, Cathy.
M&M likes smoking pot, and he eventually runs away from home, ending up in a
"hippie house," where he is given another nickname, "Baby Freak." He eventually turns to
LSD. Bryon and Cathy finally locate him at the house, where he is suffering from a
particular bad trip in which spiders have been eating at him. The bad trip has a lasting
effect on M&M: His grades have gotten worse and he has memory
lapses.

In the poem, "Heart! We Will Forget Him" by Emily Dickinson, what does the speaker want to do?

To answer this question you need to think about the
context of this poem. We are not given any firm details, but we can infer that the
speaker has just found out for some reason that the love she has for a man is not
returned. Thus this poem captures the age long agony of unrequited love, or of love that
is expressed towards someone else but not returned. Trying to move on from this
experience and put the emotions, feelings, thoughts and memories behind you is
incredibly difficult. Thus it is that the speaker expresses her desperate desire in the
first line of the poem:

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Heart! We will forget
him!

Her earnest wish is to
somehow forget the man she was in love with and move on. However, as we read the poem,
we begin to understand that despite this desire, she will find it far more difficult
than she thinks, and "moving on" is not that simple.

How is Blanche represented in Scene 4 of A Streetcar Named Desire?

Blanche's representation in this scene is one of the first
times that she actively begins to campaign for Stella to leave Stanley.  She is seen as
an opposing force, pulling on Stella.  In this light, Stella is poised between equally
desirable, but ultimately incompatible courses of action.  At the same time, Blanche is
shown as an individual who is placing all of her faith in Stella, and the validation
that Stella could give to Blanche.  It becomes evident that Blanche needs Stella to
leave more than anything else, as it would be more support for Blanche than anything
else.  Blanche's depiction as an opposing force in the scene is critically important in
that it starts to establish Stanley as the antagonist to Blanche.  Through Blanche's
representation in this scene, it becomes apparent that she is placing her faith in
Stella, and whether she knows it or not, is moving into an untenable
position.

What thematically related insights do Scout and Dill receive outside the courtroom in To Kill a Mockingbird?

During the Tom Robinson trial, Dill becomes so distraught
that Scout has to escort him from the courtroom in tears. Outside they meet Dolphus
Raymond sipping from his bottle-in-a-bag. He offers Dill a sip, and Dill discovers Mr.
Raymond's secret: It is only Coca-Cola, not whiskey. Earlier, inside the courtroom, the
children have seen for themselves that Tom Robinson is not the terrible rapist that town
rumor has reported, but a humble, quiet man with a crippled arm who could not have
beaten Mayella. And now they realize that Dolphus is not the mentally unstable eccentric
the town believes, but a friendly, sincere man who is kind to children. They have
witnessed two examples of how people are not always what they
seem. 

Why did Emily kill Homer Barron in "A Rose for Emily"?

Although author William Faulkner never specifically tells
us that Emily was responsible for Homer's death, we can certainly assume that she did
so. Why she killed him is more complex. Although most of the townspeople assumed that
the two would eventually marry (Emily purchased wedding-specific items beforehand),
Homer must have told her that he was going to maintain his bachelorhood; or, perhaps,
Emily realized that the marriage was never going to happen. She did not want to give him
up; so, much in the way that she did not want to allow her own father's decaying body to
be removed from the house after his death, Emily must have figured that keeping Homer
with her (even as a corpse) was better than being alone without him. There may have been
an argument that resulted in the murder, or, more likely, Emily poisoned him while he
slept.

How are the men Robert Frost's poem "Mending Wall" good neighbors?

It is possible to argue that the two men depicted in
Robert Frost’s poem “Mending Walls” are genuinely good neighbors.  Here is some evidence
in support of that argument.

• The speaker of the
  poem indicates that he has made repairs to the wall even before involving his
  neighbor:

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I have come . . . and made
repair

Where they [that is, hunters] have left not one
stone on a stone.
(6-7)

• Apparently
  the speaker of the poem is the one who tells the neighbor that the wall needs repair,
  even though it is the speaker who later expresses some skepticism about the need for
  walls:

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I let my neighbor know beyond the
hill;

And on a day we meet to walk the
line

And set the wall between us once again.
(12-14)

• The
  passage just quoted suggests that the speaker has to go to some trouble to alert the
  neighbor, since the neighbor lives “beyond the hill.” The speaker’s efforts to inform
  the neighbor about something that concerns the neighbor suggests the speaker’s genuinely
  neighborly attitudes.


• The speaker uses phrasing that
  might at first suggest distance and separation between the two men, but that separation
  is only physical and literal. It is not figurative or essential, nor does it suggest a
  lack of neighborly feelings. Indeed, the fact that they are separated by the wall – in
  order to work on it together – actually implies the bond that exists between
  them:

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. . . on a day we meet to walk the
line

And set the wall between us once
again.

We keep the wall between us as we go.
(13-15)

• The fact
  that they walk side-by-side increases our sense of their mutual
  cooperation. If they were not truly neighborly, each could have worked on a different
  section of the wall, separate from the other.


• The two
  neighbors apparently share a sense of humor, as when they tell the stones, “‘Stay where
  you are until our backs [emphasis added] are turned.” It isn’t one
  man making this joke; it is both of them.


• The speaker of
  the poem doesn’t directly or vigorously dispute his neighbor’s opinions about walls; he
  merely asks him about it and perhaps even teases him about it
  (27-36).


• Even if the speaker seriously disagrees with his
  neighbor’s opinion (and his actions suggest otherwise), notice that he does not say, in
  line 35, “I don’t like walls” but instead says “‘Something there is
  that doesn’t like a wall’” (emphasis added).


• The way the
  speaker describes his neighbor, when carrying rocks, as resembling “an old-stone savage
  armed” (40) suggests joking affection rather than any real
  mockery.


• The speaker may actually admire his neighbor for
  honoring his father's beliefs (43).


• If there is mockery
  of the neighbor's slight pride in lines 44-45, it is very gentle and perhaps even
  affectionate mockery.

For all these reasons,
then, one can argue that the two men depicted in the poem are genuinely good
neighbors.

Comment on the characterizations in The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.

In Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist, the
characters that are included are a part of the grand scheme of life that the author is
trying to convey to the reader. In some ways, the characters are very much like parts of
a spider web. Santiago (at the center of the web) feels the effect of what each person
does to him or says to him. By meeting each of them—even the young man that robs him—his
life is altered, and he is moved along in the direction in which he must
go.

The characters often offer help, or wisdom, or lives
that are metaphors, serving as examples to Santiago. When Santiago works for the crystal
merchant, he sees a man who has missed his chance to pursue his Personal Legend—an
experience which provides the impetus for Santiago to eventually continue searching for
his Personal Legend.

The Englishman
gives Santiago the opportunity to learn from books rather than from the world around
him. Book learning is worthless to Santiago, and to the Englisman;
where Santiago can see this, the Englishman cannot, and so he makes
no progress in searching for his Personal Legend.

Fatima
represents true treasure, and therefore, happiness. When Santiago meets
her, he realizes that love is one of the greatest treasures in the
world, and Fatima is his treasure. He believes at that moment he
could die and see to Fatima's happiness, as well as knowing he is one with the
world.

The characters in the story either provide, by
contrast, information about the character of Santiago, or they are placed in a specific
part of the story to move the plot along, while developing the story's
themes.

For example, for the theme of "perception," several
characters are instrumental in conveying this message to the reader. The old man
(Melchizedek) allows Santiago to see the world from a new perspective, as does the
alchemist and even the Englishman. The theme of patience is seen when Santiago is forced
to work for the crystal merchant in order to replace the money that was stolen from him.
Santiago must bide his time, though while he is tempted to turn his back on his Personal
Legend.

The characters are formed and "wielded" in a truly
effective way by this master "storyteller." Each one is of particular importance, and
that is one of the aspects of the novel that is so appealing: there is nothing wasted
here, and all the parts provide the perfect balance of "the whole." Paulo Coelho's
characters are the "life blood" of his novel's central theme, which is about reaching
for one's dreams and never stopping until it is done, regardless of life's
obstacles.

What is it about Hamlet that makes it more than just a complicated revenge tragedy?

The revenge play was a popular genre during Shakespeare's
time, one that audiences found quite entertaining. Hamlet features
the many standard conventions of the revenge play, but in Shakespeare's hands it became
an enduring literary masterpiece. The difference between Hamlet and
the revenge plays of Shakespeare's time is found really in your question--the word
"tragedy." Revenge plays were not tragedies, but Hamlet certainly
is, the tragedy developing from one of the most complex characters in literature, the
young Prince of Denmark.

It has been said that Hamlet is,
in fact, the first introspective character in English literature. The power of the drama
develops not from complicated external plot events but from Hamlet's tortured
examination of his own character--his feelings, his vices, his genuine and perhaps
unrecognized motivations. As the basic revenge plot advances, Hamlet is drawn more
deeply into himself, often reacting with confusion, guilt, and even self-hatred at what
he discovers. Unlike other revenge play protagonists, Hamlet shrinks from what he feels
compelled to do; his search for moral certainty traps him in inaction and further
self-contempt. Because of his very nature, he becomes a psychological prisoner of
circumstances he did not create and cannot change. It is the complexity of Hamlet's
character and his tortured introspection that lead to his destruction and elevate
Shakespeare's drama into the realm of unforgettable tragedy.

What are the literary criticisms related to the story of The Doll's House by Katherine Mansfield?

Central to understanding the story is realising how
Mansfield is using the Kelvey sisters and the way they are treated to point out how
cruelly class distinctions lead others to treat those who occupy the lowest rungs of
society. Let us remember that Mansfield was writing at a time when class distinctions in
New Zealand were still maintained very strictly, if not even more than in Britain. Thus
it is that we see a microcosm of society with different social classes. But Mansfield
seems to suggest that there is always a class that is not
accepted:

But
the line had to be drawn somewhere. It was drawn at the Kelveys.... Even the teacher had
a special voice for them, and a special smile for th eother children when Lil Kelvey
came up to her desk with a bunch of dreadfully common-looking
flowers.

Note how even the
teacher, the person who should be treating all of her students equally, is shown to
discriminate against the Kelveys. This raises one of the more sinister and rather
disturbing theme that this story raises: the way that higher classes, including the
children belonging to those classes, enjoy and take pleasure in the cruelty and abuse
that they can inflict on people like the Kelveys. The end of the story, for example,
suggests that Aunt Beryl finds something cathartic in abusing the Kelveys having been
pursued herself about money owing:

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The afternoon had been awful. A letter had come
from Willie Brent, a terrifying, threatening letter, saying if she did not meet him that
evening in Pulman's Bush, he'd come to the front door and ask the reason why! But now
that she had frightened those little rats of Kelveys and given Kezia a good scolding,
her heart felt lighter. That ghastly pressure was gone. She went back to the house
humming.

Note how this scene
finds its parallel in the story when the Burnells and friends make fun of the Kelveys
cruelly, and become 'wild with joy' as a result. Thus any criticism of this story needs
to explore how snobbery and cruelty are legitimised by class distinctions, however cruel
and barbaric that leads people to become in their behaviour.

Can someone please explain "Amends" by Adrienne Rich?"Amends" By Adrienne Rich Nights like this: on the cold apple-bougha white star, then...

This excellent poem concerns the link between moonlight
and humans. We are persented with moonlight personified in various ways, some of them
quite sensuous, as it lights up various aspects of the landscape and finally "dwells
upon the eyelids of sleepers." Note how moonlight is personfied as it "licks the broken
ledge" and "laying its cheek for moments on the sand." The moonlight is presented as
unyielding and able to penetrate and reach everywhere. Note how the poem describes it as
"unavailing" and it has the ability to "soak" through cracks. Moonlight is personified
as a graceful and empathising female figure that seems to bring healing or relaxation to
humans for the sufferings and harships they experience during day time. Moonlight wants
to "make amends," and as we follow its journeying over the landscape to its ultimate
destination of the humans that it finds, we are struck with the idea of the moon being
personified as some form of benevolent goddess who wants to make up at night for the
harships of the day.

What are some of the literary devices in Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee"?

Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee" is a narrative poem, much
like a fairy tale, that transports the reader to a magical "kingdom by the sea." In
fact, this narrative is composed in ballad style, with the
first four lines written with the traditional rhyme scheme of
abab with tetrameter used in the first
and third lines, and trimeter used in the second and fourth
lines.

Adding to the musical quality of this ballad form,
Poe employs repetition and
refrain: 

• The words
  love and loved run throughout the
  narrative


• The beloved "Annabel Lee" is repeated
  throughout the stanzas


• In the third stanza "kingdom of
  the sea" is repeated twice in order to emphasize


• "child"
  is repeated in the second stanza for emphasis on the lovers'
  youth


• "kingdom by the sea" acts as a refrain in the
  second line of the first three stanzas and the fourth line of the fourth
  stanza.

Moving the lines quickly
is alliteration with /l/ in line 9: "But we loved with a
love that was more than love" and /h/ in the line 21: "The angels, not half so happy in
heaven."

Poe also makes use of the
connotation of words. For example, he uses the word
sepulcher rather than tomb, suggesting that
Annabel Lee is from an upper class family; and to suggest the speaker's terrible
isolation, Poe employs the phrases "shut her up" and "away from me" rather than writing
"buried."

There is the effective use of
imagery in the third stanza, suggesting the disturbing
effect of the jealousy of the "seraphs of heaven," who are the fates. This tactile
imagery comes from such words as in the third stanza: "A wind blew out of a cloud,"
"Chilling my Annabel Lee," 

Within "On Being Brought from Africa to America," what literary terms does Wheatley use (similies, metaphors, hyperboles, etc)?

Wheatley uses a simile in line seven when she refers to
the Negros being black as Cain...Cain was marked by God which some believe was a mark of
blackness...He was fleeing for his life after he killed Able; therefore, God marked him
so no one would know who he was...

'Twas mercy
brought me from my Pagan
land,

Taught my benighted soul to
understand

That there's a God, that
there's a Saviour
too:

Once I redemption neither sought nor
knew.

Some view our sable race with
scornful eye,

"Their colour is a diabolic
die."

Remember, Christians, Negros,
black as Cain,

May
be refin'd, and join th' angelic
train.

In line two, she uses a metaphor
in that her soul is darkened or "benighted. She is expressing a comparison to he soul
being black or unenlightened.

In line six, she is using
hyperbole in that her race "is a diabolic die." Diabolic refers to Satan or the
Devil...this exaggeration would be that her race has been colored by the
Devil...

In line seven, she uses a metaphor in describing
the train as angelic...this would be a reference to a heavenly train that takes a person
to eternal bliss...

What is the antiderivative of y=sinx*cos2x*cos3x?

First, we'll transform the product cos2x*cos3x into a
sum:

cos2x*cos3x = [cos(2x + 3x) + cos (2x -
3x)]/2

cos2x*cos3x = [cos(5x) + cos
(-x)]/2

Since cosine function is even, we'll put cos(-x) =
cos x.

cos2x*cos3x = (cos 5x+ cos
x)/2

The function will
become:

y = sin x*cos 5x/2 + sin x*cos
x/2

We'll transfomr the product sin x*cos 5x into a
difference:

sin x*cos 5x = [sin(x+5x) +
sin(x-5x)]/2

sin x*cos 5x = [sin(6x) +
sin(-4x)]/2

Since sine function is odd, we'll put sin(-x) =
-sin x.

sin x*cos 5x = (sin 6x - sin
4x)/2

The 2nd term of y is sin x*cos x/2 = 2*sin x*cos
x/2*2 = sin 2x/4

We'll evaluate the integral of te
function:

Int ydx = Int (sin 6x - sin 4x)dx/4 + Int sin
2xdx/4

Int ydx = Int (sin 6x)dx/4 - Int(sin 4x)dx/4 + Int
sin 2xdx/4

Int ydx = -cos 6x/24 + cos 4x/16 -
cos 2x/8 + C

What is the function of marriage as revealed in the story "The Death of Ivan Ilyich"?

In this tremendous story we are presented with a man who
follows his life trying to do what he feels is expected of him by society. Ivan Ilyich
only establishes "light and playful relations" with his future wife and does not even
think of anything more serious than a dalliance until it becomes obvious that she has
fallen in love with him. It is only then that he asks himself, "Really, why shouldn't I
mary?" Note his reasoning for doing so:

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To say that Ivan Ilyich married because he fell
in love with Praskovya Fedorovna and found that she sympathised with his views of life
would be as incorrect as to say that he married because his social circle approved of
the match. He was swayed by both these considerations: the marriage gave him personal
satisfaction, and at the same time it was considered the right thing by the most highly
placed of his
associated.

Marriage is
therefore seen as a social obligation and a means of gaining wealth, property and social
status. It is only when his wife becomes pregnant that Ivan Ilyich discovers the need to
distance himself as much as possible from his wife and family to continue indulging in
his lifestyle as he desires.

Thus marriage is viewed as an
institution that has very little to do with love, and where the concerns of social
status and expectations are far more important. Ivan Ilyich's wife shows little remorse
or grief over her husband's death and instead seizes every opportunity to try and
extract as much money out of his demise as possible.

In To Sir With Love explain the last lines of Chapter 12."I turned to look at their pleased an smiling faces and said, with a full heart: 'Thank...

This is actually a hugely significant moment in the novel
that marks real progression in terms of the narrator's battle to reach his students and
to teach them. Having had so many problems with them and having had to be very strict,
he finally sees that they are beginning to respond to him, but not just out of fear or
dislike, but through a genuine appreciation and understanding of what he is trying to do
in teaching them, as the gift of flowers that lies on his table demonstrates. Note how
the narrator describes these flowers:

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In the centre of my table was a large vase in
which was neatly arranged a bunch of flowers. Some were slightly bedraggled; all had
evidently been collected from the tiny backyards and window boxes of their homes. For me
this was the most wonderful bouquet in the world; it was an accolate bestowed
collectively by them on
me.

Note how, in spite of
their bedraggled appearance, the narrator sees these flowers for what they represent: an
"accolade" given to him by them, which explains why he is able to say thank you with
such a "full heart." He appears to have finally gained their confidence, respect and
love.

Explain why the mob outside the jail does not finish what it came to do in To Kill a Mockingbird?

I'm wondering if your question has to deal with
Prisoner of Psi or, possibly, with the novel To Kill a
Mockingbird. I will provide you with an answer regarding
TKAM.

The lynch mob goes away
empty-handed because of the unexpected appearance of Jem, Scout and Dill. The mob
probably knew Atticus would be standing guard (or maybe not). They were willing to
forcibly remove him, if necessary, but the group from Old Sarum weren't prepared to deal
with the three innocent children. After one of them tried to forcibly remove Jem, Scout
kicked the man in the groin.

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I intended to kick his shin, but aimed too
high.

After that, Scout's
innocent dialogue with Walter Cunningham Sr. turned the once-deadly mob into a group of
"impassive" men who were shamed into the reality of their deed by a young girl. The mob
may have been ready to kill a black man, but they weren't ready to do it in front of a
group of children who were classmates of some of their own kids.

Solve the system of equations 3x-2y=7 and 4x+2y=14?

We should use the elimination method because it's the
easiest. So first we have to identify the like terms. Which we can
see is
2y.

3x-2y=7

4x+2y=14

The
rule is that if the two terms are the same (-7x and -7x for example then we have to
subtract the equation) and if they're different (-2y and 2y for example) we have to add
the equation. Doing this we can eliminate
y.

Ok so the equation becomes
this

3x-2y=7

+ 
4x+2y=14     Now if we add it we
get:

7x=21 (the y's cancel
out because -2y + 2y is 0)

now to get x on it's own we have
to divide it by 7 because currently it's multiplying by it. We do this to both sides. So
it becomes:

x=21 divided by 7 (the 7's at the other side
cancel each other out)

so we're left with
x=3

Now we substitute x into the 1st equation (though u can
do it to any, it won't matter) which was
3x-2y=7

We
get

3 x
3-2y=7

9-2y=7 ( We want to get y on
it's own so we bring the 9 to the other side. Right now's it's positive, when we take it
to the other side it will become
negative)

-2y=7-9

-2y=-2
(Now we divide the -2 since it's multyplying. We do it to both sides) We
get:

y=-2 divided by -2 which
becomes

y=1

So the final
answer is x=3 and y=1

HOPE IT HELPED
:D

What is the tone of the story "Gimpel The Fool"?

Isaac Bashevis Singer's short story, "Gimpel the Fool" is
written in an honest, literal, simplistic tone, devoid of sarcasm from the narrator.
 Instead, the irony is situational: Gimpel is a fool only because people think it so,
and he good-naturedly believes it too, only because it doesn't matter what people think
of him.

The story is a parable, a kind of morality tale.
 In this way, we have a reliable narrator.  The story, however, is humorous, because
Gimpel is just as he says he is:

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I am Gimpel the fool.  I don’t think myself a
fool.  On the contrary.  But that’s what folks call
me...

And yet, he's not.
 What Gimpel is in public, he is not in private.  When it comes to spirituality and
matters of the heart, Gimpel is no fool.  Rather, he is a believer, an optimist, a man
of his word.  He knows his wife is cheating on him, and yet he still loves her.  He
says:

What’s
the good of not believing? Today it’s your wife you don’t believe; tomorrow it’s God you
won’t take stock in.

Singer's
tone suggests that the reader and the townspeople should reconsider their definitions of
"fool," for a fool in this life may be in heaven in the next.

Do Claudius & Polonius have the same reasons for spying on Hamlet & Ophelia? How are their goals similar in Hamlet? How are they different?

In Shakespeare's Hamlet, Claudius and
Polonius, on the surface, have the same reasons for spying on Hamlet and Ophelia, but
only on the surface. 

Both Claudius and Polonius are trying
to figure out why Hamlet is "mad," or acting insanely.  Polonius believes that Hamlet's
behavior is due to his love for Ophelia being rejected by Ophelia (which he put her up
to in the first place).  He is trying to prove his theory to
Claudius.

Claudius wants to know if this is the reason for
Hamlet's insanity, too.  In this respect, Claudius and Polonius are similar.  But
Claudius has a further motive, as well.  He is trying to keep an eye on Hamlet and
figure out Hamlet's behavior, so he can judge whether or not he is in danger from
Hamlet. 

Claudius, of course, has recently kept Hamlet from
inheriting the thrown by marrying Gertrude, and has also "replaced" King Hamlet
as Hamlet's father, at least technically.  Neither of these make Hamlet happy.  Claudius
wants to know if Hamlet is so upset due to Ophelia's rejection, or due to the other
recent events.  Claudius is hoping that Ophelia's rejection is the cause of Hamlet's mad
behavior.  If that is the case, then Hamlet is no threat to
him. 

Of course, according to Hamlet himself, his behavior
is all an act, a smoke screen, if you will.  Hamlet says that he is only pretending to
be mad, in order to, we assume, keep Claudius busy worrying about his madness, rather
than about Hamlet's plans for revenge.  Hamlet's madness is a
diversion. 

Suggest two possible themes that may be driving the action and plot of Ethan Frome.Discuss briefly how each of these is evident and is a force.

One significant theme of the novel is the affect of
isolation and loneliness on a person.  This theme creates the a significant number of
events in the novel.  It is suggested that Ethan only proposed to Zeena because he was
afraid to face a long winter alone in house after his mother died.  Because this is a
rather loveless marriage from the start, it doesn't have much reason to grow into
anything more.  When Ethan gets to know Mattie he sees how isolated he is even in his
marriage and he starts to imagine how much better his life might be in a new place and
with a new woman.  Mattie too is an example of isolation.  Her family is all dead and
she arrives at the Frome's to help Zeena and because she has no where else to go.  When
Zeena sends her away at the end of the story she is terrified at the thought of being
utterly alone in the world and suggests suicide as means to end it.  She knows that she
can never have Ethan, and that they can never be together any other way, so this seems
like the only option. 

Another significant theme that
affects the story is society/social obligation.  Ethan makes all of his choices in the
novel based on what society tells him is the right and moral thing to do.  He returns
from school to care for his ailing mother; he marries Zeena because it is what young men
should do; he stays with her because he took a vow; he doesn't take the money from the
Hales because it is dishonest; he doesn't leave with Mattie because he would be leaving
Zeena with no viable means to support herself; he cares for Mattie until the end because
he is ultimately responsible for her injuries as a result of the sledding "accident." 
Ethan could have been a lot happier if he hadn't been so moral and conscious of
society's expectations.

State why productivity is important during competition and economic slowdown.Principles of Management 2

High productivity is important under all conditions. It
enables manufacture to reduce cost, and increasing production. Which ultimately means
improved capacity  to deliver more value to customer. The greater value thus generated
bu increased productivity can be shared by the company and the
customer.

However, when there is no completion the
customers are often forced to be content with lower value delivered by the products
purchased by them. The manufactures also manage to survive, although at lower profit.
But in competitive markets the customer will shift their business to competitors who are
able to offer lower prices and higher value because of their better productivity. In a
situation like this a company cannot compete with more productive firms on price
also.

Similarly, firms with low productivity find it
difficult to survive during economic slowdown. In such periods, the total consume demand
is reduced, and the firm that have lower productivity and hence create lower value find
it most difficult to maintain their sales volume, and therefore are the worst hit by
economic slow down, and if the conditions are very bad may be forced to close
down.