Analyze criticism of the �Electoral College� system and the alleged advantages and disadvantages of various reform proposals.

The current system of electing the president ensures that
the candidates do not reach out to all of the states. Presidential candidates
concentrate their attention on a handful of closely divided "battleground" states. In
2008, candidates concentrated over two-thirds of their campaign events and ad money in
just six states, and 98% in just 15 states (CO, FL, IN, IA, MI, MN, MO, NV, NH, NM, NC,
OH, PA, VA, and WI). Over half (57%) of the events were in just four states (Ohio,
Florida, Pennsylvania and Virginia). In 2004, candidates concentrated over two-thirds of
their money and campaign visits in five states; over 80% in nine states; and over 99% of
their money in 16 states, and candidates concentrated over two-thirds of their money and
campaign visits in five states and over 99% of their money in 16 states.

Two-thirds of the states and people have been merely
spectators to the presidential elections.

Candidates have no reason to poll, visit,
advertise, organize, campaign, or worry about the voter concerns in states where they
are safely ahead or hopelessly behind. The reason for this is the state-by-state
winner-take-all rule enacted by 48 states, under which all of a state's electoral votes
are awarded to the candidate who gets the most votes in each separate state.

A candidate has woin the Presidency without
winning the most popular votes nationwide in one of every 14 presidential
elections.

In the past six decades, there have
been six presidential elections in which a shift of a relatively small number of votes
in one or two states would have elected (and, of course, in 2000, did elect) a
presidential candidate who lost the popular vote
nationwide.

The National Popular Vote bill would
guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50
states (and DC).

Every vote, everywhere, would
be politically relevant and equal in presidential elections. Candidates would need to
care about voters across the nation, not just undecided voters in a handful of swing
states.

The bill would take effect only when
enacted, in identical form, by states possessing a majority of the electoral votes--that
is, enough electoral votes to elect a President (270 of 538). When the bill comes into
effect, all the electoral votes from those states would be awarded to the presidential
candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC).

The bill uses the power given to each state by
the Founding Fathers in the Constitution to change how they award their electoral votes
for president.

The congressional district method of
awarding electoral votes (currently used in Maine and Nebraska) would not help make
every vote matter.  A smaller fraction of the country's population lives in competitive
congressional districts (about 12%) than in the current battleground states (about 30%)
that now get overwhelming attention , while two-thirds of the states are ignored  Also,
a second-place candidate could still win the White House without winning the national
popular vote.

See
http://www.NationalPopularVote.com

does vinegar, sugar, oil have an effect on the time it takes for water to boil?i'm doing a scientific experiment and i'm testing how long it takes...

In general, any time you dissolve a substance in water it
increases the boiling point of the mixture.  An example of this is in a car's radiator.
Water alone will boil at 100 degrees C but if you add anti-freeze to it you can increase
the boiling point several degrees higher.

In your
experiment, adding vinegar and sugar to the water should increase the boiling point so
it would take longer than  if you were just heating water by itself. The water without
anything else is your control in this experiment.  You also need to be sure you use the
same volume each time and heat it exactly the same to test your
hypothesis.

However, oil will probably not affect the
boiling point because the oil will not dissolve in the water. If the density is less
than water it will float on top and if the density is greater it will form a layer on
the bottom.

What is the rising action, the climax, the falling action and the main theme of "A Rose for Emily"? please give a specific answer!

The structure of "A Rose for Emily" is a bit different
from most stories in that, in typical Faulkner fashion, the story just ENDS with a
shocking discovery that has been foreshadowed from the
start.

The rising action is the set-up to the story. We are
given all pof the background about Miss Emily, we are given the stories about her and
her father, about Homer Baron, about the rat poison and the smell that came from her
place.

The climax is when they find the hair on her pillow.
Everything in this story leads up to this moment.

The
falling action is unstated, really, as this is told in a flashback format. You could
almost look at it as occurring only in the reader's reflections on what has
occurred.

What is the mood?

Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" is a story filed with
irony and contradictions. The mood, therefore, is very important to the text as a
whole.

The story opens in this
way:

The
morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day;
the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green. The people of the
village began to gather in the square, between the post office and the bank, around ten
o'clock; in some towns there were so many people that the lottery took two days and had
to be started on June 2th. But, in this village, where there were only about three
hundred people, the whole lottery took less than two hours, so it could begin at ten
o'clock in the morning and still be through in time to allow the villagers to get home
for noon dinner.

This leads
readers to believe that the mood is one which is lighthearted given the sunny and clear
day.  Unfortunately, this is not the case.

The mood changes
rather abruptly given one can sense the tension in the air.  The mood then changes from
light conversations and smiles to the following:

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When he arrived in the square, carrying the
black wooden box, there was a murmur of conversation among the villagers, and he waved
and called. "Little late today, folks." The postmaster, Mr. Graves, followed him,
carrying a three- legged stool, and the stool was put in the center of the square and
Mr. Summers set the black box down on it. The villagers kept their distance, leaving a
space between themselves and the
stool.

Here, the mood is
defined as tense and worrisome.  The villagers are worried about something. This is
notated by the distance they keep from the box and
stool.

By the end of the story, readers can see the change
of mood.  It transforms from the opening of the text, where the day is described as
clear and fresh, to the end of the text where the stoning of a villager takes place. 
While the scene is depicted as beautiful, the actions depict anything
but.

Compare the Japanese internment camps to the Nazi concentration camps.

There is no real comparison here, especially later on in
the war.  The Nazi concentration camps were brutal places that, later on, became death
camps.  The Japanese in the United States were interned in relatively harsh conditions,
but were not subjected to any sort of brutality of the sort that was inflicted on the
people in concentration camps in Germany.

The housing in
camps for Japanese Americans was substandard for families, that is certain.  They were
put in cramped conditions and deprived of their liberty.  However, they were not forced
to do slave labor.  They were not subjected to medical experiments.  They were not
killed en masse.

The internment of Japanese Americans was a
stain on America's history, but it was a very small stain compared to Germany's
concentration camps.  There is really no serious comparison between the
two.,

What would be the effects of the heat from a volcano on a cell membrane?

Cell membranes are composed of phosopholipid bilayers. 
This means that there is a polar phosphate chain on the exterior of the membrane and
non-polar fatty lipid chains on the interior.  There are also many surface bound and
embedded proteins in the cell membrane that allow chemicals to pass through or attach to
the cell.  Cell membranes are designed to operate most efficiently at standard body
temperatures.  A significant increase in heat will cause the proteins to denature, or
lose their shape.  When proteins lose their shape they lose their biological function as
well.  An increase in temperature will also allow the cell membrane to become less
restrictive and allow more chemicals to enter into the cell, including damaging
chemicals.  Of course at temperatures on the order of fire (or a volcano), carbon based
compounds will simply combust, or burn into elemental carbon (charcoal), thus destroying
life.

Check if the expression is quadratic equation (x-5)^2+1=3x-4

For the given expression to represent a quadratic
equation, it has to have the following form: ax^2 + bx + c =
0.

We'll begin by expanding the square from the left
side:

(x-5)^2 = x^2 - 10x +
25

We'll re-write the
equation:

x^2 - 10x + 25 + 1 = 3x -
4

We'll combine like terms from the left
side:

x^2 - 10x + 26 = 3x -
4

We'll subtract 3x - 4:

x^2 -
10x + 26 - 3x + 4 = 0

We'll combine like
terms:

x^2 - 13x + 30 =
0

The final result is a quadratic equation
x^2 - 13x + 30 = 0.

A formal written statement of management's plans for the future, expressed in financial terms, is a what?A. Gross profitB. Responsibility reportC....

The best answer of the ones that you have given us here is
C.  A budget report can be seen as a statement of what management plans to do in the
future.  None of the other options really fits this idea.

A
budget report is used to set out what the company wants to do in the future and how it
will pay for achieving those goals.  As the link below says,
businesses

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require financial road maps to show how they will
allocate their resources to achieve their business
objectives.

This is the
purpose of the budget report.  It is a report in which the firm sets out its goals or
its plans for the future.  It is expressed in financial terms so as to set out how the
goals will be paid for.

Compare and contrast the characters T.J. and Jeremy in Roll of Thunder Hear My CryMildred Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

While Jeremy Simms and T.J. Avery are both friends of the
Logans, Jeremy risks much more in this friendship than does T. J., who like the homonym
of his name, aviary, takes flight from difficult situations. 
Jeremy, the brother of Lillian Jean who is so cruel to Cassie Logan, intrepidly risks
castigation from the other white children and punishment by his father, Charlie Simms by
walking with the children to school and by bringing to the house Christmas presents for
the Logans.  On the other hand, the disloyal T. J. does not stand by the Logans during
any of the racial crises.  He is underhanded, as well.  For instance, he tells the
kind-hearted Christopher-John that the coat which Uncle Hammer has given him is too big
for the boy, and, Christoper-John tells his mother,

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"...T. J. said it made me look like a
preacher...and he said since it fit him just right, he'd....take it off my hands till I
grow into it,, then thataway all the guys would stop laughing at me and calling me
preacher."

In his most
egregious act of disloyalty, a disgruntled T. J. reports Mrs. Logan for having begun the
boycott of the Wallace store because she has failed him.  This traitorous act causes
Mrs. Logan her teaching position. 

Certainly, Jeremy Simms
and T. J. Avery are the antithesis of each other as Jeremy is a character who represents
compassion and unselfish friendship--although he does run after his sister Lillian Jean
when Cassie retaliates against her--while T.J. is self-serving and uncaring of
others. 

How does "The Minister's Black Veil" reinforce Hawthorne's belief that society is corrupt?

I think it is more accurate to say that this excellent
short story focuses more on the corruption in individuals rather than society as a
whole. There is a sense in which Hooper's act in donning the black veil is intensely
personal, and if we look at what he says on his death bed, we can see that, in a sense,
it was a result of the sin that he found within himself rather than society that caused
him to wear the black veil for the rest of his life. Note what he says before he dies to
justify why he will not remove the veil:

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"When the friend shows his inmost heart to his
friend; the lover to his best beloved; when man does not vainly shrink from the eye of
his Creator, loathsomely treasuring up the secret of his sin; then deem me a monster,
for the symbol beneath which I have lived and die! I look around me, and, lo! on every
visage a Black Veil!"

Hooper
insists that he is no monster in this quote, as others believe. He has been treated as
such by others because of the way in which his veil reminded others of their own secret
sins, and their own "black veils" that separate them from God and from others. His
donning of the black veil was an intensely personal action and it was with the aim of
being honest before God and humanity. Thus we can say that this story, through the
powerful symbol of the black veil, supports Hawthorne's key belief that it is man that
is corrupt.

What is the tension in the string in the following case:A small smooth ring R of mass 0.1 kg is threaded on a light string. The ends of the string...

In the problem the ring that is threaded in the string has
a mass of 0.1 kg. The string is attached at the ends A and B with the bead hanging in
the middle at point R

The tension is the same throughout
the string. The end AR is inclined at an angle 40 degree to the horizontal. We can
divide the tension T in this portion into a horizontal and a vertical component given by
T*cos 40 and T*sin 40 respectively. As the ring is stationary there is no net force
acting on it. The tension in the other end RB is also equal to T but acts in the
opposite direction. Let the part RB form an angle A with the
horizontal.

So we have T*cos A = T* cos
40

=> A = 40
degrees.

The part RB of the string is also inclined at 40
degrees to the horizontal.

The vertical components of the
two parts add up the weight of the ring.

2*T*sin 40 =
0.1*9.8

=> T = 0.1*9.8 / 2*sin
40

=> T = 0.7623
N

The tension in the string is 0.7623 N, and
the part RB is also inclined at 40 degrees to the
horizontal.

What tender gesture does Atticus make while waiting for Helen?

I believe that you are talking about what happens in
Chapter 25.  In that chapter, Atticus, along with Calpurnia, goes to the home of Tom and
Helen Robinson so as to tell Mrs. Robinson that her husband is
dead.

When he gets there, he finds out she is not home.  He
asks a little boy to go get her.  While he waits, a little girl comes out to the top of
the steps.  She smiles at him but she is too little to walk down the steps alone.  So he
offers her his finger -- she holds on to it and he helps her down the
steps.

In order to make a solution that freezes at -10 degrees celsius, how many grams of NaCl must you add to 3.0 kg?

When a compound is dissolved in water, the freezing point
of the solution decreases to below that of pure water. The decrease in temperature can
be found by using the following equation:

T = Kf * m * i,
where T is the change in the freezing point that is noticed, Kf is known as the
cryoscopic constant which is a constant for water irrespective of the solute and is
equal to 1.853 K*kg/mol, m is the molality of the solute and i is called the van't Hoff
factor which for NaCl is 2.

The freezing point has to be
decreased by 10 degree Celsius as the normal freezing point of pure water is 0 degree
Celsius. We need to determine the weight of salt that has to be added to 3 kg of
water.

10 = 1.853 * m *
2

=> m = 10/ (2*
1.853)

=> m = 2.698

The
required molality is 2.698 or we need to add 2.698 moles of NaCl to every kilogram of
water. 3 kg of water requires the addition of 3*2.698 = 8.094 moles. The mass of one
mole of NaCl is 58.443 g. The mass of 8.094 moles is 58.443*8.094 = 473.09
g

We need to add 473.09 g of NaCl to 3 kg of
water to reduce the freezing point to -10 degree
Celsius.

What are several items of interest that you learned about the author, J.D. Salinger, in the novel Shoeless Joe?

The depiction of Salinger in Kinsella's work is an
interesting one.  It is unique because there is so little known about Salinger that it
allows Kinsella to create a portrait that stirs the imagination about what Salinger
would or could really have been like.  The fact that the Salinger vision featured in
Kinsella's work is a charming and affable figure flies in the face of the reclusive
vision that has been commonly associated with Salinger.  At the same time, Kinsella
brings to light the ultimate hope of Salinger fans in suggesting that Salinger's
experience with the mythical ball field will enable him to write again.  This is
something that strikes at the heart of most Salinger fans who cannot understand how
someone with so much talent would be willing to sacrifice it by not sharing it with an
eager audience.  The experience of the ball field and Ray's desire to "ease his pain" is
what enables Salinger to consider writing again in a "rapture" that is certain to
rekindle the flame of authorship.  Such a depiction gains even more significance and
meaning since Salinger's passing.

A open box to b made by cutting squares from the corners of a piece of cardboard 40 by 40 inches n folding up the sides. What dimensions maximize...

An open box has to be made by cutting squares from the
sides of a piece of cardboard with dimensions 40 inches by 40 inches and folding up the
sides. Let the length of the side of the squares cut be
s.

After the squares are cut and the sides folded up, the
base of the box has dimensions 40 - 2s by 40 - 2s. The height of the box is
s.

This gives the volume of the box as (40 -
2s)^2*s

=> (1600 + 4s^2 -
160s)*s

=> 4s^3 - 160s^2 +
1600s

This has to be
maximised.

Solve for s by equating the first derivative of
4s^3 - 160s^2 + 1600s with respect to s to 0

12s^2 - 320s +
1600 = 0

=> 12s^2 - 240s - 80s + 1600 =
0

=> 12s(s - 20) - 80(s - 20) =
0

=> (s - 20)(12s - 80) =
0

=> s = 20 and s =
20/3

The second derivative of 4s^3 - 160s^2 + 1600s is 24s
- 320. This is equal to 160 for s = 20 and -160 for s = 20/3. The maximum value lies at
s = 20/3

The sides of the squares that are cut should be
20/3 inches.

The dimensions of the box are
(80/3) by (80/3) by (20/3)

What is "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot about?

This can certainly be a challenging poem to understand at
first reading. However, key to understanding this poem is recognising that Alfred
Prufrock is a man who is considering asking a question. This question haunts him, but he
cannot force himself to utter the words needed to ask it. We can infer that this
question is a proposal of marriage to a woman that he is on his way to meet while
walking through the city. He is a man who is preoccupied and concerned about his
personal appearance. He feels confident that he is well dressed, but expresses concern
about the thinness of his arms and legs and his bald
patch:

Time
to turn back and descent the stair,

With a bald spot in the
middle of my hair--

(They will say: "How his hair is
growing thin!")

My morning coat, my collar mounting firmly
to the chin,

My necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a
simple pin--

(They will say: "But how his arms and legs are
thin!")

He is thus a
characted who is dogged profoundly by self-doubt and a lack of self-confidence. He
intensely desires to have the courage necessary to assert himself and is a character
that longs for love, yet he is also constantly in fear of others making fun of him or
being misunderstood. This fact makes real connection with others impossible. In the end
he is forced to concede that his natural timidity and lack of confidence, combined with
his fear of failure will prevent him from achieving his goals and gaining a meaningful
relationship.

"The sexual act, successfully performed, was rebellion. Desire was thoughtcrime." Explain.Explain, with reference to the Party's beliefs &...

In this society, a major goal of the Party is to make sure
that people have no loyalty to anything but the Party.  To accomplish this, one thing it
does is to try to destroy personal feelings  and emotions other than the ones the Party
produces (Two Minutes Hate, for example).

So, if the Party
is trying to get you not to have feelings for other people, then sexual desire and true
sexual intimacy are things that go against what the Party wants (and that makes them
crimes).

Winston says that this is why his life married to
Katharine was not satisfying (emotionally and sexually).  She was too conditioned by the
Party to want to sleep with him.

Why are nursing theories important to nursing?

There was a time when nursing was a two year college
diploma that mainly concentrated on science and mathematics related to health care.
However, nursing has changed over the last ten years or so. More specifically,
curriculum requirements have changed as nurses are being required to fulfill more and
more responsibilities. For instance, you can rarely speak to doctors once you
are admitted into a hospital. The theoretical aspects of the nursing programs are
included into the nursing curriculum to prepare a student for higher level positions
that involve administrative duties. These positions involve writing and communicating
information rather than bed side care of the patients. The academic world includes
theoretical components in all areas; nursing is no different from other programs. Theory
aims to present different perspectives on a particular topic rather than giving a
student a concrete answer to a question.

How is Romanticism used in William Wordsworth's poem "Perfect Women?"

Wordsworth's Romanticism is evident in nearly everything
he wrote.  "Perfect Woman" is no exception.  Consider the opening lines of the
poem:

She was
a phantom of delight
When first she gleam'd upon my sight;
A
lovely apparition, sent
To be a moment's ornament;

In these opening lines, a
couple of Romanticist tenets are evident.  The belief in the supernatural and a
"negative capability"  of a world that lies beyond the sensory realm is evident in the
idea of a "phantom of delight" and "lovely apparition."  The second line brings to light
the subjective experience that was such a strong part of Romantic thought.  The
placement of the personal experience as the defining element to construct reality was of
vital importance to the Romantic thinkers who sought to personalize the expression of
the world.  The ability to draw the parallel between love and subjective experience
being both a part of this world and existing outside of it is another Romantic
configuration of time where rational temporality is suspended in favor of the personal
experience that configures time much differently.  The last stanza brings this out in
using the present tense in the first line ("And now I see with eye serene") and the
closing sentiment, "something of angelic light."  In this idea, the subjective
experience that is such a part of Romanticism is
evident.

What might be the symbolic significance of eyes in Kiss of the Spider Woman?

I think that eyes might be repeated to reflect how
different sets of perceptions clash in the narrative.  The eyes of the revolution is how
Valentin perceives the world.  These eyes perceive the unjust actions of the government
and see the injustice present, causing the need to envision what should be from what
is.  Interestingly enough, these eyes succumb to the morphine based vision that is about
as far off from the pace of the revolution as possible.  It is this vision that allows
peace to be present in Valentin, although he has abandoned the vision of the revolution
in his last moments of life.  In contrast, the "eyes" of the government are always
present, seeking to gain more information and intelligence about the revolutionaries,
only to crush them.  These eyes are also present in how the prison officials use Molina
to gain information about Valentin.  These same eyes are what follows Molina to his
death after his release.  At the same time, Molina's eyes seek to construct a reality
where there is beauty and love, eyes that envision this reality from films that have
been seen and life that seeks beauty and the appreciation of it. These eyes are what
perceive reality as a pursuit of indulgent drama and maudlin sentimentality, yet are
also the eyes that experience a revolutionary's death, shot on the street without any
fanfare and little drama.

At what point does the curve y = 3x^2 - 5x + 3 meet the line y= x.

Given the curve 3x^2  5x + 3 and the line y=
x

We need to find the intersection points between the curve
and the line y.

The points of intersections are the points
that verifies the following.

==> 3x^2 - 5x + 3 =
x

Let us move x to the left
side.

==> 3x^2 - 6x + 3 =
0

Now we will divide by
3.

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

Now we will
factor.

==> (x-1)(x-1) =
0

==> x = 1

==>
y= 1

Then the point of intersection is
(1,1)

In Shakespeare's Macbeth, list the multiple factors which bring about the downfall and death of Macbeth.

In Shakespeare's Macbeth, there are a
number of causes for Macbeth's ultimate destruction.

The
most noted ones are his tragic flaw of "vaulting ambition"—Macbeth says he just cannot
say "no" because his ambition to be king overshadows everything else. Another is the
"false sense of security" brought on by the witches' prophecies, which allow him to
believe he cannot be beaten.

There are, also, other
factors. A prominent one is his failure to remain steadfast within his own value system.
I know that he blames this on his tragic flaw (without saying those words), but if a man
can face raging soldiers and the slashing of swords, etc., on a battlefield between
Scottish and Irish fighters (known for their frightening battle cries), how can this man
not be strong enough to stick to his guns with his wife? This is one aspect of Macbeth's
character that troubles me—how can you be so noble and give in because of the venomous
insults from your wife?

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LADY
MACBETH:

My hands are of your color, but I
shame

To wear a heart so white.
(II.ii.80-81)

Perhaps if
Macbeth had been portrayed as a man obsessed with his wife (like Othello), I could
understand how easily he turns away from his conscience. The fact that his personal
character finds his actions unnatural is further demonstrated with how
conscience-stricken he is just before, and immediately after, Duncan's murder—it amazes
me that he could fall so far.

Macbeth also forgets to use
his common sense. Every member of Shakespeare's Elizabethan audiences would know better
than to place their [complete] trust in the witches. These people lived with the
certainty that witches lived among them, and that their only
purpose on earth was to trick mortals into relinquishing their immortal souls. Even had
Macbeth been ambitious enough to listen to them, he seems savvy enough as a warrior that
he might have exercised caution in placing his entire trust in them. It is only too late
that he realizes he has been tricked.

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MACBETH:

And
be these juggling fiends no more believed,

That palter with
us in a double sense,

That keep the word of promise to our
ear… (V.viii. 23-25)

On the
other hand, perhaps this shows us more clearly how human Macbeth is, and explains why he
loses sight of things most men in his "military capacity" might not overlook (e.g.,
Banquo). Macbeth shows us just how fragile he is, and why Shakespeare has created, to
some extent, a sympathetic protagonist. It is not unusual for people to have the best of
everything and put it all on the line to have more. Macbeth has proven himself to his
peers, has been rewarded (and is loved) by his King, and his future looks bright, yet
the temptation for "the prize" is too strong and he is lured away from all of this.
Being human, of course, is why his ambition drives him so easily, why he gives in to his
wife's nagging, and why he places trusts in the witches when he should not: his is as
imperfect as the rest of us. However, his poor choices bring about his eventual
death.

In Oedipus Rex is Oedipus brought down by arrogance or pride?how oedipus ends his life

According to Aristotle's view of tragedy in his
Poetics, a work which has dominated critical thinking since it was
written, the protagonist's misfortunes result not from character deficiencies but from
what Aristotle terms hamartia, a criminal act committed in
ignorance of some material fact or even for the sake of a greater good.  The criminal
act that Oedipus commits is the killing of the man who blocks his way on a road, a man
who, unbeknowst to Oedipus, is his father.  This act may be motivated by arrogance as
Oedipus desires to show his superiority to the other man; however, his downfall is the
result of hamartia, and neither pride nor
arrogance. 

This arrogance of Oedipus is evident in his
thinking that he can solve the riddle of what causes the plague from which Thebes
suffers.  But, at the same time, Oedipus is a good king and a sound ruler who feels
confident in his problem-solving abilities since he already has solved the riddle of the
Sphinx.

Why does the Board of Aldermen send a delegation to Miss Emily’s house?

The Board of Aldermen of the town send a delegation to the
home of Miss Emily Grierson because they want her to pay taxes.  She does not pay any
taxes on her home and property and they think that she
should.

In a previous generation (in 1894), the mayor of
the town had said that Miss Emily would not need to pay any taxes.  But later, when a
new generation came into power, they thought that this was not how things should be and
they sent the delegation to ask her to pay (since she had ignored
letters).

What connection might there be between what is required of Atticus to shoot the mad dog and his defense of Tom Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird?

This is a very good question. The two events are connected
in the sense that on both occasions, Atticus is forced to do something that he would
have preferred not to do. Concerning the Tom Robinson trial, Atticus told his brother,
Jack, that

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"... John Taylor pointed at me and said, 'You're
it.' "

Judge Taylor appointed
Atticus to take the case and, though he could have turned it down, he--like Judge
Taylor--realized that he was the only man for the job.

The
same can be said for the situation with Tim Johnson. Atticus hated guns, and he was not
proud of his past marksmanship skills. But Sheriff
Tate

...
almost threw the rifle at
Atticus...

leaving Atticus
with little choice in the matter. This time, it was Sheriff Tate who came to Atticus
because he knew he was the right man for the job.

How did the Fascist dictators' continually expanding aggression gradually erode the US commitment to neutrality and isolationism?

In the 1930s, the United States did not want to get
involved in world affairs.  They wanted to remain neutral and isolated.  However, as
Germany and Japan (and to some extent Italy) became more aggressive, President Roosevelt
became less and less committed to neutrality.

The reason
for this is that Roosevelt and some others saw the Germans and Japanese as a threat to
American interests.  They believed that a Europe that was dominated by Germany would be
hostile to the US.  They believed that Japanese expansion might endanger US outposts in
the Philippines and Guam.  As Germany and Japan became more aggressive in Europe and in
China, the US became more and more concerned.

By making the
US fear for its security, the Germans and Japanese eroded the US's commitment to
neutrality and isolationism.  Even so, of course, the US did not completely commit to
war until it was actually attacked.

Find the value of m if the perpendicular bisector of the line that passes through the point (6,8) and (m,2) has slope -2.

We'll remember the fact that the product of the values of
the slopes of 2 perpendicular lines is -1.

We know that the
slope of perpendicular bisector is -2.

-2*a = -1, a is the
slope

a = 1/2

The slope of
the line that passes through points  (6,8) and (m,2) is a =
1/2.

We'll write the formula of the
slope:

a = (2-8)/(m-6)

1/2 =
-6/(m-6)

m-6 = -12

m = -12 +
6

k = -6

The
value of the coordinate m is: m = -6.

How is the theme of love portrayed through Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing?

I would want to argue that you can't just look at Beatrice
alone to explore the theme of love through her character. Let us remember that
Shakespeare presents us with two couples, and interestingly each couple seems to suggest
something very different about the nature of love. Therefore we must include Benedick in
this discussion.

Of course, both start off swearing that
they will never marry, and the "merry war" that rages between them overtly suggests
their mutual dislike. Thus it is that Benedick states that he "loves none" and Beatrice
says that she is of his "humour" in her aversion to marriage. However, thanks to the
good deception practiced by Don Pedro, both Beatrice and Benedick are made to believe
the other is in love with them, which in turn makes them realise that they love the
other.

A key scene for me in the kind of love that their
relationship represents is actually towards the end of the play, in Act V scene 2.
Although at this stage they are clearly in love, the "merry war" of puns and verbal
duelling continues between them. At one stage, Benedick interestingly
says:

Thou and
I are too wise to woo
peaceably.

This in a sense
shows the nature of their love. Compared to the silence and submission practised by Hero
in her relationship with Claudio, Beatrice is never going to be a door mat, and yet,
Benedick says, this is because of her wisdom rather than anything else. A maturer, more
realistic type of love is thus presented to us through the relationship of Beatrice and
Benedick. They will continue to mock each other and to playfully fight, but their
relationship will be the stronger for it.

How does Flannery O'Connor's story titled "Revelation" relate to southern identity and what it means to be a southerner?

• O’Connor wrote about the south because it was
  the region of the country she knew best. She had been born and bred in the south and was
  intimately familiar with its people and culture. (She also spoke with a southern accent
  so thick that often proved difficult for northerners to
  follow!)


• Although O’Connor wrote about the south, she
  tried to deal with “universal” issues – issues relevant to human beings everywhere.  One
  of these key issues, for instance, is pride, which is on abundant display in
  “Revelation,” especially in the mind of Mrs. Turpin.
  


• O’Connor felt that she could only deal with such themes
  convincingly if she gave them (in Shakespeare’s words) “a local habitation.” O’Connor
  could not pretend to know the culture of, say, New England intimately). But she could
  claim to know exactly how southerners of her time would speak and behave.
  


• At the time O’Connor was writing “Revelation,” the south
  was the focus of national and even international attention.  Because of the civil rights
  movement, the south had become an area filled with great conflict. O’Connor often
  depicts racism in her works as just one variation of the common human sin of pride, and
  so the racism that she observed all around her gave her plenty to write about. She could
  deal with an issue that was at once timely and timeless. Mrs. Turpin is a racist not
  because she is a southerner but because she is a proud woman, and racism is just a
  particular form of pride.


• By writing about the south,
  O’Connor also had the opportunity to write about another kind of pride: pride in one’s
  class and social status. Mrs. Turpin is obsessed with making (and preserving) social
  rankings. She thinks even more poorly of “white trash” than she does of many blacks. The
  south, at the time O’Connor was writing, was not only racially divided but also highly
  stratified in terms of class.  Mrs. Turpin, however, is not prejudiced about class
  because she is a southerner but because she is afflicted with pride – as all humans are
  (in O’Connor’s view).


• One more way in which O’Connor
  uses the south to make “Revelation” an effective story is her use of southern dialect
  and ways of expression.  An especially absurd example is when Mrs. Turpin imagines Jesus
  speaking to her in the colloquial jargon of the day, as when he calls people “white
  trash” and uses the “n word” to refer to blacks.  Of course, Jesus would never speak in
  such terms, but Mrs. Turpin has created a Christ in her own
  image.


• Typical of O’Connor’s use of southern speech is
  the reply by the “white trash” woman in the doctor’s office when the “pleasant lady”
  asks her what is wrong with her little
  boy:

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“He has a ulcer,” the woman said proudly. “He
ain’t give me a minute’s piece since he was born. Him and her are just alike,” she said,
nodding at the old woman, who was running her leathery fingers through the child’s pale
hair. “Look like I can’t get nothing down them two but Co’ Cola and
candy.”

The ability to create
such authentic and believable southern speech is one of the great achievements of
O’Connor’s writing, as "Revelation" abundantly demonstrates.

What is abnormal profit?

In economic terms, a normal profit is the profit over and
above a normal profit.  A normal profit is also defined as zero economic profit.  This
is when the firm's revenues exactly equal its explicit and its implicit
costs.

Explicit costs are the costs that a firm actually
pays out.  This includes things like salaries paid to its employees and the costs of the
materialis it uses.

Implicit costs are the opportunity
costs incurred by the owners of a company.  This is the value of the other things they
could do with their resources instead of using them for the business of this particular
firm. For example, if you have a job making $50,000 per year and you quit it to start
your own company, you have implicit costs of $50,000 because you could be making that
much if you weren't running your own company.

When a firm's
revenues exactly match its explict and implicit costs, it makes a normal profit. 
Anything above that can be called "economic profit" or "abnormal
profit."

Given 4cosx+2sinx=0 find tan2x

If we'll divide the constraint from enunciation by cos x,
the expression will become:

4 + 2sin x/cos x =
0

We'll subtract 4:

2sin x/cos
x = -4

sin x/cos x = -4/2

sin
x/cos x = -2

But sin x/cos x = tan
x

tan x = -2

We'll write tan
2x:

tan 2x=tan (x+x)

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

tan 2x =  2tan x/[1-(tan
x)^2]

We'll substitute tan x =
-2

tan 2x = 
2*(-2)/[1-(-2)^2]

tan 2x =
-4/(1-4)

tan 2x =
-4/-3

tan 2x =
4/3

Describe the circulation of deep ocean water.no

I am going to take a stab at this and assume you meant to
write "deep ocean water."  As it says in the article referenced below, "deep ocean
currents are the result of sinking and upwelling water, and termohaline ( href="../../uxl-science-encyclopedia/temperature">temperature and salinity)
differences."

Not a great deal is currently known about
these deep ocean currents and they are being researched by a number of robotic
submarines to try and get more of an understanding of
them.

They are sometimes referred to as "submarine rivers"
and they flow according to changes in density and temperature rather than according to
wind and other conditions that drive currents closer to the surface.  Once water sinks
low enough, the pressure and other factors can actually cause density to increase which
again, contributes to how that water will then move around deep below the
surface.

Generally deep ocean currents are classified as
those below the firs 400m of water.

What are the literary devices used in Hamlet, Act 1 Scene 1?Please answer with the exact line and explanation.

Like the opening of most Shakespearean plays, Act I scene
1 serves to establish the background situation and mood of the story.  In this play,
scene one is out on the grounds of the castle of Elsinore.  The characters on the stage
are all minor characters who through their conversation establish that there has been a
ghost seen two times now that looks like the former king, King Hamlet.  The guards
question the veracity of what they see, so they have enlisted Horatio, a scholar and
friend of Hamlet's, to come are confirm the vision.

Through
the course of the conversation Shakespeare uses several literary devices.  Here are a
few examples:

Horatio claims that the the ghost "bodes some
strange eruption to our state."  This visual imagery of the
literal ground erupting with the dead body of the ghost coming from the grave is very
creative and vivid.  This is also metaphorical because a
state or country cannot literary "erupt" like a volcano might, but it can be unsettled
politically and have the potential to face a terrible
circumstance.

Marcellus asks why "the night is
joint-laborer with the day."  This metaphor explains how
there is little difference between night in day (they work together).  In this case, he
is referring to the fact that the preparations for war are a 24 hour
operation.

Horatio reports that Fortinbras has "in the
skirts of Norway" gathered up some soldiers.  Norway's skirts is a
metaphor for its outer edges, not its major
cities.

He goes on to say that Fortinbras has "sharked up a
list of lawless resolutes."  To shark up is a metaphor to
suggest that he has indiscriminately gathered in (like a shark open-mouthed and
capturing prey) a group of men to serve as a mercenary
army.

Horatio makes an allusion
to the assassination of Julius Caesar when he compares this ghost to the
omens that were the precursors to the Ides of March.  He says this situation is like the
"palmy state of Rome."

In the end of the scene, Horatio
uses personification when he describes the coming dawn by
saying that "the morn, in russet mantle clad / Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern
hill."  Clearly, morning doesn't wear a coat or walk, but he is using personification to
describe the color and action of the rising sun at dawn.

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Remember that Romeo
and Juliet just met for the first time the previous day. Until that time, he was
infatuated with another woman. Juliet is also the daughter of his sworn enemy. It is
understandable that he would be a bit hesitant in entering into a new and rapidly
progressing relationship.

In lines 9-15, the friar has just warned
Romeo that this relationship could easily be doomed to failure. Romeo trusted the friar
and would surely have been shaken by such a strong speech. This is only the third time
Romeo has spoken to Juliet (first at the party and second in the garden/balcony). It
makes sense that he would want some reassurance that she does love him before they get
married.

If you recall Romeo and Juliet's previous conversation
from act II scene ii, Romeo states he has doubts about their relationship because it is
"too flattering-sweet to be substantial." with all the obstacles to such a marriage, we
might think less of Romeo's intelligence had he not asked for a little reassurance.

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How did the play offend the Abbey Theatre audience to the extent of causing the "playboy riots"? Was the production itself partially responsible?

Synge's The Playboy of the Western
World reveals an Ireland in love with violence.  This is the truth the play
reveals.  The characters in the play make a hero out of a man who kills his own dad. 
They put him on a figurative pedestal and celebrate his warped action.  The people of
Ireland have a warped sense of what to value. 

And, of
course, the hero doesn't even really possess courage or ability or anything of the
sort.  He doesn't even finish his dad off, and when the dad reappears, he cowers before
him.

Ironically, the riots caused by the performance of the
play weren't due primarily to the Irish being angry because they are portrayed as so
violent and ignorant in the play.  The riots were primarily the reaction to the swear
words and rough language in the play.  This, too, is
revealing.

Synge reveals the truth about the Irish in
Playboy just as Joyce does in Dubliners.  Of
course, the revelations apply to the rest of us, as well, not just the
Irish.

Give an example of multiplication of 2 imaginary numbers. The result of multiplication has to be a real number.

For instance, if we'll multiply an imaginary number by
it's conjugate, we'll get a difference of squares and the result will be a real
value.

z = a + b*i and the conjugate is z' = a -
b*i

We'll apply the
formula:

(a-b*i)(a+b*i) = a^2 - b^2*i^2, but i^2 =
-1

(a-b*i)(a+b*i) = a^2 +
b^2

We'll put a = 4 and b =
2i

(4+2i)(4-2i) = 4^2 -
(2i)^2

(4+2i)(4-2i) = 16 -
4i^2

But i^2 = -1

(4+2i)(4-2i)
= 16-(-4)

(4+2i)(4-2i) =
16+4

(4+2i)(4-2i) =
20

The result of multiplication of
2 imaginary numbers, (4+2i)(4-2i), is the real number
20.

In A Farewell to Arms, is Catherine Barkley a round, dynamic, or static character?

A "round" character according to E.M. Forster in his
"Aspects of the Novel" is a character who changes not just physically but
also mentally and emotionally throughout the
novel.

Catherine Barkley is certainly a "round" character
who changes dynamically throughout the course of the
novel.

Most modernist novels are existentialist and are
characterised by the fragmentation of the identity of a single character. Hemingway
reveals to us different facets of the character Catherine in the following
manner:

1. At the end of Ch.5 Frederic tells Rinaldi that
he and Catherine are "friends,"

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So you make progress with Miss
Barkley?

We are
friends.

2.
At the end of Ch. 14 they are lovers.

3. In Ch. 18 they are
virtually husband and wife:Catherine says:

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"We're really married. I
couldn't be any more
married."

4.
In Ch. 23 Catherine feels like a whore :

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"But it isn't nice to
feel like one (a
whore)."

5.
At the end of Ch.23 Frederic quotes two lines from Marvell's "To His Coy
Mistress,"

And
always at my back I hear

Time's winged chariot hurrying
near

Was Frederic hinting
that Catherine was like a mistress to
him.?

6. The novel ends with Catherine's death after she
had given birth to a still born child. The physical changes are: when the novel begins
she is just another woman but after she meets Frederic and falls in love with him she
becomes an unwed mother who gives birth to a still born
child.

So Catherine is a character with multiple facets to
her personality and it is impossible to comprehend her fully: she is  friend, lover,
wife, whore, mistress and  mother of a still born
child.

More research would certainly reveal more complex
facets to Catherine's multiple and dynamic personality and
character.

When did the Mirabel sisters get the name butterflies in In the Time of the Butterflies?

The first mention of any of the Mirabal sisters being
referred to as a butterfly comes in Chapter Seven, which is narrated by Maria Teresa.
She goes to stay with Minerva and Manolo, yet one night she is surprised to be awoken by
a knock at the door. A man arrived with a delivery for Manolo. This man asks Maria
Teresa if she is "Mariposa's little sister." Thus it is that Maria Teresa finds out
about the rebel involvment of her sister and her sister's husband in the rebel movement
that is working to topple Trujillo. As one by one the sisters join the rebel movement,
the same code name is used to refer to them, and thus the legend of the mariposas is
born and the novel is given its title.

Does Romeo and Juliet succeed as a romance? Discuss Propp's morphology, ideal romance, ideal hero/heroine, and convention/invention.

I don't know what Propp's morphology is (sorry), so I'm
going with Frye's archetypes (see below).

Romeo
and Juliet is only border-line tragedy, as far as I'm concerned.  I would say
that it's half tragedy, one fourth romance, and one fourth
comedy.

Or, you can break it down by act: Act I and II are
romance and comedy, and Acts III, IV, and V are tragedy.  It's almost too plays in
one.

And, you can break it down by character: Mercutio and
the Nurse are in a comedy/romance, and Romeo and Juliet are in a
tragedy.

According to Frye's archetypal characters, you can
say that the play is a romance and that Romeo and Juliet are on a quest for love, though
I wouldn't say anyone is ideal.

So, the Hero
(Romeo) / Heronie (Juliet) are aided by Helpers on the
Quest (Friar Lawrence /
Nurse).

Enemies of the
Quest are not your typical giants, orgres, or evil madmen.  It is Tybalt,
obviously.  But also Fate ("star-crossed lovers") and the families' Hate, which could be
the same thing, really.

Sprits of nature
are the lark and the nightingale from Romeo and Juliet's bedroom scene
and all of the light, dark, night, and day imagery.  Enough
already!

Realistic
Counter Companion who calls attention to
fear, the jester who deflates romantic ideals is Mercutio, obviously.  His Queen Mab
speech is an attempt to derail or counter the love quest.

Two cars started from the same point, at 5 am, traveling in opposite directions at 40 and 50 mph respectively. At what time will they be 450 miles...

Let us call the cars A and
B.

Car A travels at S(A) = 40
mph

Car B travels at S(B) = 50
mph

We need to know the time T such that the
distance between the cars is 450 m.

1.Let us assume that
the distance car A travels is DA

and the distance that car
B travels is DB

==> D = DA + DB =
450..........(1)

Now let us calculate the
time.

T = D/S

==> T =
DA/ 40

==> T=
DB/50

==> DA/40 =
DB/50

==> DA/4 = DB/
5

But DA + DB = 450

==>
(450-DB) /4 = DB/5

==> (450-DB)*5 =
4DB

==> 2250 - 5DB =
4DB

==> 9DB =
2250

==> DB = 250
miles

==> T = 250/50 = 5
hours,

Then the cars will be 450
miles apart after 5 hours.

What factors led to the economic growth of Japan under the Tokugawa shoguns?

The major factor that led to growth in Japan during the
Tokugawa period was peace.  The Tokugawa Shogunate took control of the country and ended
the "Warring States" period that had lasted for over 100 years.   Starting in 1638,
Japan enojoyed over 200 years in which there was no warfare in Japan and in which there
was no significant political change.

By doing this, the
Tokugawa created stability in the country.  The stability and peace that the Tokugawa
created allowed the Japanese economy to grow since it was not continually being
devastated by war.  In addition, trade became much more possible as the country became
more unified.

By creating a peaceful and stable country,
the Tokugawa laid the foundations for economic growth in Japan.

Three examples of what the others on the ranch think of Slim? (Backed up with quotes) John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men Thank you in advance!

As the heroic character of Steinbeck's Of Mice
and Men, Slim is described in Chapter 2 as a tall man with an ageless hatchet
face.

...and
he moved with a majesty only achieved by royalty and master craftsmen. He was a jerkline
skinner, the prince of the ranch, capable of driving ten, sixteen, even twenty mules
with a single line to the leaders....There was a gravity in his manner and a quiet so
profound that all talk stopped when he spoke.  His authority was so great that his word
was taken on any subject, be it politics or
love.

That Slim, with his
"God-like eyes" that are "level and unwinking," and ears that hear more than is said and
gentle voice is respected is evinced in the way in which all the men speak to him.  The
first to mention Slim is Candy as he welcomes George and Lennie to the ranch in Chapter
2: 

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"....Slim's a jerline skinner.  Hell of a nice
fella.  Slim don't need to wear no high-heeled boots on a grain
team." 

Then, in this same
chapter, Curley's wife stands in the doorway and speakes to Slim, who kindly says, "Hi,
Goodlookin'."  But, when Curley's wife pretends that she is trying to find Curley, Slim
retorts,

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"Well, you ain't tryin' very hard.  I seen him
goin' in your house."

She was suddenly apprehensive.  "'Bye
boys," she called into the bunk house, and she hurried
away.

This passage indicates
that Curley's wife respects and fears Slim because she does not tarry in the doorway as
usual; instead, she scurries away. After Curley's wife leaves, Carlson enters the
bunkhouse and immediately speaks to Slim, showing his respect.  Then he broaches the
subject of Candy's dog, but only after first asking about Slim's
pups,

"Why'n't
you get Candy to shoot his old dog and give him one of the pups to raise
up?"

But, the dinner triangle
rings before Slim can respond.  He tells the others to get something to eat. Here
Steinbeck writes,

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"Carlson stepped back to let Slim precede him,
and the the two of them went out the door."
[2]

Also, in Chapter 2, after
Slim enters the bunkhouse and meets George and Lennie he looks at them with kindness and
speaks gently, "Hope you get on my team."  In Chapter 3, they converse and Slim easily
wins George's confidence.  As George's voice takes on a "tone of confession" to Slim, he
trustingly says before revealing what happened to Lennie in
Weed, 

"You
wouldn'tell?...No, 'course you
wouldn'."

Later in this
chapter, as another indication of the respect and recognition of Slim's superiority,
Whit asks Slim to read a magazine article about one of the former ranch hands in an
effort to attain some approval. 

Then, when Carlson is
going to shoot Candy's dog, Slim tells him to take a shovel, and he responds, "Oh, sure!
I get you." His acknowledgement is a manner of respect.  Later, when Slim when
Crooks, the stable buck, sticks his head into the doorway, he is extremely respectful as
he tells Slim that he has prepared the tar for a mule's foot. When Slim says that he
will be right out, Crooks offers to do the job for him addressing him as mister, "I can
do it if you want, Mr. Slim.

Clearly, the men perceive Slim
as their boss more than they do Curley or his father.  For, it is with great respect
that the ranch hands speak and react to him.  In the conclusion of the novella, no one
says a word when Slim tells George, "You hadda."  This is the final say on George's
shooting of Lennie. 

What is a BIG THEME in the book "The Outsiders"?pick a THEME BETWEEN THESE- Loyalty and Love in Relashionships, or Vulnerability and Growing Up,...

Of these, the easiest one to talk about is "think before
you act."

One clear example of this can be seen when Johnny
and Ponyboy run off after Johnny kills Bob Sheldon.  If you really think about it, it is
not really clear that they would be in any less trouble if they run off.  I don't think
they would have been charged with murder anyway -- it was self defense.  And if they run
away, they're sure to be caught eventually.

A second
example of this is when Pony runs off because of his fight with Darry.  This is what
leads to him meeting Johnny and getting in the fight with the Socs.  If he would have
just thought about it, he would have understood what Darry was trying to do and he
wouldn't have run off.

Who is Cornwall in Shakespeare's King Lear?

The Duke of Cornwall is a minor character in this
excellent tragedy and is Regan's husband in the play. Obviously he has profited greatly
from the half given to Regan of Lear's kingdom. However, he shows himself to be a
ruthless and greedy character. When he discovers the presence of the French in England,
he senses that his wealth and land is threatened and single-mindedly attempts to
discover everything he can about French intentions and whether they are aided by any
English. His thoughts of treachery are spurred on by the letter that Edmund shows to
Cornwall. Cornwall of course at this point shows his true, savage nature, bringing in
Gloucester to be tortured for what he knows about this letter, having his eyes gouged
out. The evident enjoyment that Cornwall takes in this process creates one of the most
disturbing and chilling scenes in all of Shakespeare, as Cornwall gouges out first one
then the other eye of Gloucester on stage:

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Fellows, hold the
chair.

Upon these eyes of thine I'll set my
foot.

As he gouges out the
second eye, he says, "Out, vile jelly!" Clearly the way in which Cornwall tortures
Gloucester displays his true savage and evil nature. So outraged by his master's
behaviour, one of Cornwall's servants challenges him and wounds him
mortally.

Can there be figurative language(similie, metaphor, symbols) in a story that is supposed to be a piece of naturalistic fiction?

Yes. In fact, skilled writers of fiction
and nonfiction use figurative language. Dr. King's "I Have a Dream"
speech is riddled with figurative language, and Emerson's essays such as "Self-Reliance"
feature thought-provoking metaphors.

In regards to
Naturalist fiction, Crane's "Open Boat" relies heavily on similes, especially related to
the author's description of the sea. In the story's opening paragraph, Crane uses the
following simile to personify the dangerous sea.

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"The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and
rose, and at all times its edge was jagged with waves that seemed thrust
up in points like
rocks."

Similarly,
Naturalist works often include symbols which represent Naturalism's themes of survival
of the fittest and fatalism. Jack London's "To Build a Fire" serves as a good example of
Naturalist symbolism.

What is the status of the dream of the farm after the murder of Curley's wife?

At least in the way that George and Lennie have seen the
dream, it is dead.  There is no way that they are ever going to have that ranch
now.

The reason for that is that Lennie cannot possible get
away with what he has done.  He has not really murdered her, but no one is going to
believe that it was an accident.  He is likely to be arrested, convicted, and at least
put in jail for a long time.

So given that, the dream is
dead.  Lennie is going to be killed or put in prison.  If George wants to continue with
the dream, he needs a new sidekick.

What are Atticus's motivations, values, and reactions to situations in To Kill a Mockingbird?

Atticus is an intelligent, compassionate and fair-minded
man, and he generally bases all of his decision-making from these personal traits. His
long family history is one motivation that makes him want the best for Maycomb. He
serves as the local representative to the Alabama legislature, but certainly not out of
a need for power or wealth--the prime motivations of most politicians today. He runs
unopposed each term, probably in part because the community knows he is the best man for
the job; the fact that no one else decides to run probably leaves him believing that has
no choice but to fulfill the wishes of Maycomb's population. Honesty and justice are two
traits in which Atticus believes strongly. He talks to his children in an open manner
and answers all of their questions forthrightly. He believes that all men--black and
white--should be treated equally and fairly, and that a courtroom is the ultimate
setting for unbiased judgment. He does not react to situations reflexibly, but instead
considers the implications of the act and the person before making a decision. His
advice to Scout in Chapter 3 follows this ideology.

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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."

What important roles do Banquo have in the play Macbeth?

You can proceed on the basis of the following
leads:

a) Banquo accompanies Macbeth to victory in the
battle against the rebels and traitors;

b) Banquo
accompanies Macbeth on their way back to the king when the witches appear on the heath.
The witches prophesy about Macbeth's as well as Banquo's future. Banquo notices
Macbeth's awkward responses to the witches'
proclamations.

c) Banquo accompanies Macbeth to appear
before King Duncan who admires both of them, but Macbeth is more profusely rewarded and
acknowledged than Banquo;

d) Banquo accompanies Duncan
during his visit to Macbeth's castle;

e) After the
discovery of Duncan's murder, Banquo mouths pious resolution to 'stand in the hands of
God', but does nothing towards the redressal of the foul crime and injustice
committed;

f) While Macbeth is haunted by the witches'
prophetic soliciting, Banquo is also tempted by the prophecy that his issues would be
the kings of Scotland. He doesn't confront the usurper king, but rather
compromises;

g) Banquo is killed by Macbeth just before the
coronation banquet, but the ghost of Banquo, a hallucinatory product of Macbeth's guilt
and fear, appears at the Banquet to force Macbeth reveal his crime, and to lead him to
the witches for the final round of doom;

h) Banquo is a
foil to Macbeth, a sort of alter image. He is deliberately made an incomplete
characterization.

i) Banquo has been very curiously used by
Shakespeare as a part of the play's elaborate supernatural machinery. Banquo's ghost
proves that dead Banquo is more potent a threat for Macbeth than living
Banquo.

What were the domestic repercussions of the September 11 attacks?

There have been many domestic repercussions of these
terrorist attacks.  Among the more important ones have
been:

• The reelection of George W. Bush in 2004. 
  It is at least arguable that Bush would not have been reelected if it were not for the
  attacks.  The economy was doing badly before the attacks and Bush had not done anything
  to make himself terribly popular.  The attacks, however, made him into a "war president"
  with a high profile and a great deal of credibility with most of the electorate.  This
  helped him greatly in 2004.


• Increased attention to
  security.  Anyone who has been through an airport since 2001 knows that the 9/11 attacks
  had important consequences for the everyday lives of Americans who
  travel.


• Some (arguably) reduction in civil liberties. 
  Because of the 9/11 attacks, we have such things as the Patriot Act which give the
  government more power to intrude on the lives of people suspected of being
  terrorists.


• A higher government deficit.  The attacks led
  President Bush to go to war in Afghanistan and Iraq.  These wars continue to cost
  taxpayers huge amounts of money today, at a time when the economy is
  struggling.

Why is character important to understanding the book The Misfits written by James Howe?From a teaching/recommendation perspective.

The main characters in The Misfits,
like characters in many young adult novels with a targeted audience of middle school
readers, are stereotypical outcasts.

There is overweight
Bobby Goodspeed (who moonlights as a tie salesman in a department store, even though
he's only 12) who is the kind-hearted, level-headed, unusually mature ringleader.  There
is outspoken Addie, an activist for female rights, so to speak, who initiates most of
the action in the story.  Add to these the openly gay and fashion enthusiast Joe, and
dirty and rebellious Skeezie, and you are almost looking at the cast of "Glee" in novel
form.

The characters are key to understanding the main
themes of this novel, which include overcoming social injustice due to diversity,
acceptance of those who are different, and of course, the idea that the underdog has a
chance of "winning" as long as he does the "right
thing."

Generally speaking, the book is a stylistically
unique approach to an otherwise cliche middle school novel subject.  Kids who like this
book, probably enjoy it because it does speak to the most common questions and issues in
the minds of middle schoolers and does so with humor and generally likable characters. 
Unfortunately, through long bouts of narration (from Bobby's perspective) and very
little dialogue (presented in the form of "minutes" from the Floating Forum meetings) it
is difficult for many students to get into this book.  Most claim to like it by the end,
but complain of it dragging the entire way there.

What are the absolute extreme values of the function f(x,y)=x^2-2xy+2y on the rectangle R={(x,y)/0

We notice that the given function is a polynomial and
according to the rule, it is continuous on the bounded rectangle
R.

To determine the absolute extremes, we need to determine
the critical points, first.

We'll calculate the partial
derivatives and we'll equate them.

We'll calculate fx,
differentiating the function with respect to x and assuming that y is a
constant.

fx = 2x - 2y +
0

We'll put fx = 0

2x - 2y =
0

x - y = 0

x =
y

We'll calculate fx, differentiating the function with
respect to y and assuming that x is a constant.

fy = -2y +
2

fy = 0 => -2y + 2 =
0

-2y = -2

y = 1 => x =
1

The only critical point is (1,1) and we'll calculate now,
f(1,1).

f(1,1) = 1- 2 + 2 =
1

We'll calculate the vertex of the
rectangle.

We'll start with the lower left
corner:

L1 = (0,0)

The lower
right corner:

L2 =
(3,0)

The upper right
corner:

L3 =
(3,2)

The upper left
corner:

L4 = (0,2)

We'll
create the function that represents the segment L1L2 = f(x,0) =
x^2

x belongs to [0,3]

This is
an increasing function with the minimum value f(0,0) = 0 and the maximum value f(3,0) =
9.

We'll create the function that represents the segment
L2L3 = f(3,y) = 9 - 4y.

y belongs to
[0,2]

This is a decreasing function and it has a minimum
value f(3,2) = 1 and the maximum value f(3,0) = 9.

We'll
create the function that represents the segment L3L4 = f(x,2) = x^2 - 4x + 4 =
(x-2)^2

It's minimum value is f(2,2) = 0 and it's maximum
value is f(0,2) = 4.

We'll create the function that
represents the segment L1L4 = f(0,y) = 2y.

It's minimum
value is f(0,0) = 0 and it's maximum value is f(0,2) =
4.

Therefore, the absolute maximum value of
the function, on R is f(3,0) = 9 and the absolute minimum value of f, on R is f(0,0) =
f(2,2) = 0.

What is the volume of the cylinder whose height is 12 and cricumference of the base is 20?

Given the height of a cylinder is h=
12

Also, given the circumference of the base is
c=20.

We need to find the
volume.

We know that the volume of the cylinder is given
by:

V = r^2 * pi * h such that r is the radius of the base
and h is the height.

==> We will determine the value
of r from the circumference.

We know
that:

c= 2*pi*r =
20

==> r= 20/2pi =
3.18

Now we will substitute into
V.

==> V = r^2 * pi * h = (3.18)^2 * pi * 12 =
381.97

Then the volume of the cylinder is
381.97 cubic units.

What was the significance of the Erie Canal?

The major significance of the Erie Canal was that it
connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean at New York City.  This gave the United
States a major new water route for trade.

Before the
opening of the Erie Canal, farmers and others in what was called the Northwest
(Illinois, Ohio, etc) had no easy access to the markets of the East Coast.  They had to
send their goods down the Mississippi River to New Orleans and then up the Atlantic
coast.  This was, obviously, very time consuming and
inconvenient.

When the canal was completed, the Northwest
was connected to the East Coast.  This greatly expanded the market for goods from the
Northwest and made that region much more attractive for
settlers.

Solve the equations 3^(3x-3)*5^(x-4)=15^2x/5^7

We notice that we can write 15 = 3*5 => 15^2x =
3^2x*5^2x

We'lldivide 15^2x by
5^7:

15^2x/5^7 =
3^2x*5^2x/5^7

We'll use qutotient property for the
exponentials that have matching bases:

3^2x*5^2x/5^7 =
3^2x*5^(2x-7)

We'll re-write the
equation:

3^(3x-3)*5^(x-4)=3^2x*5^(2x-7)

We'll
divide by 3^2x and we'll get:

3^(3x-3)*5^(x-4)/3^2x =
5^(2x-7)

We'll divide by
5^(x-4):

3^(3x-3)/3^2x =
5^(2x-7)/5^(x-4)

We'll subtract the
exponents:

3^(3x - 3 - 2x) = 5^(2x - 7 - x +
4)

We'll combine like terms inside
brackets:

3^(x - 3) = 5^(x -
3)

We'll re-write the
equation:

3^x*3^-3 =
5^x*5^-3

3^x/3^3 =
5^x/5^3

We'll create matching bases. We'll divide by
5^x:

3^x/5^x*3^3 = 1/5^3

We'll
multiply by 3^3:

3^x/5^x =
3^3/5^3

(3/5)^x =
(3/5)^3

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

x =
3

The real solution of the equation is x =
3.

Why do the animals of Animal Farm want to keep the news of starvation a secret? What do they do to keep it that way?

Starvation loomed for the animals in Chapter VII of
Animal Farm. In addition to the destruction of the windmill, the
bitter winter included much sleet and snow. The animals were afraid that if the humans
discovered how weak they were, that they might try to retake the farm again by force.
So, they decided to take advantage of their only human contact, Mr. Whymper. Animals
would "remark casually that rations had been increased." The store-shed bins were filled
with sand and then feed was placed on top, making them appear to be well stocked. When
Whymper saw them, he reported to the humans that the animals were
thriving.  

"The Monkey's Paw" is a horror story. How does the setting create a mysterious and frightening atmosphere?

In "The Monkey's Paw," written by W.W. Jacobs, the
author's description of the setting contains key elements necessary for creating a
setting that adds to the horror of the story.  In the first paragraph, Jacobs writes
that 

...the
night was cold and wet, but in the small parlor of Laburnam Villa the blinds were drawn
and the fire burned
brightly..."   

Immediately,
the reader is given a mental image of a dark, stormy night in which an intimate
gathering takes place in a secluded setting.  These details create a sense of distance
from safety, as well as being surrounded by an atmophere in which anything is possible,
particularly anything evil.  Had the setting been a Southern front porch on a warm
spring day, the element of horror would have been significantly more difficult to
convey.

The author's description of a room illuminated by
firelight also contributes to the notion of mystery and fright.  Shadows and darkness
are virtually synonymous with fear.  The power of the mind to create scenarios
and dreadful possibilities is what creates the power of horror stories.  Flickering,
unsteady firelight is perfect for a scary story. 

What was Cuba's involvement during World War II?

Your question is not very specific, but here are a few
facts about Cuba's participation during World War
II.

Fulgencio Batista (1901-1973) became the Cuban army
chief-of-staff during the mid-1930s, and he was elected President of the nation in the
1940 elections. Cuba was officially a member of the Allied nations during World War II,
declaring war on, first, Japan, and then Germany and Italy shortly after the bombing of
Pearl Harbor. Although Cuban troops saw little combat during the war, Batista did
promote an invasion of Spain that would have included the participation of Cuban troops.
Batista's reign as President ended in 1944, but he became Cuba's leader again in 1952 in
which he took power in a U. S.-backed coup, serving until Castro's takeover in
1959.

At least seven Cuban ships were sunk by German
U-boats between 1942-1944, resulting in the deaths of at least 80 Cuban Marines. In
1943, a Cuban submarine "overturned" a German U-boat near Nuevitas. There were at least
four internment or concentration camps located on the island, including one for women at
Arroyo Arenas.

A German spy, August Heinz, was apprehended
sometime after his arrival on the island in 1941. Information he relayed back to Germany
caused the sinking of at least two ships.

Discuss the Tense System of English.English lanuage and grammar

As the word tense means
time, Modern English has 6 tenses (3 are simple tenses and 3 are
compound), with 3 forms of these tenses.  These tenses are formed from the 4 principal
parts of verbs: 

1. the infinitive (often called
   the present form)   e.g. to see, to walk


2. the present
   participle   e.g. seeing, walking


3. the past
   form             e.g. saw, walked


4. the past
   participle       e.g. seen, walked ( the auxiliary verbs has, have,
   had, or will have are used with the past
   participle)

In the BASIC form, the 3 simple
(meaning one verb is used) tenses
are

1. Present tense
   (formed by using the infinitive minus "to"-principal part #1) is used to express what
   occurs at the moment [Susie reads well], used to express what one does on a regular
   basis [Susie rides the bus to school],
   and sometimes used to express future action when accompanied by a time word [You know,
   Susie goes to the dentist
   tomorrow.]


2. Past tense -
   (formed by using the past form -principal part #3) is used to express an action that has
   been completed in the past. [Susie
   went to the
   dentist.]


3. Future tense -
   (formed by using principal part #1 plus the auxiliary (helping) verb
   shall or will) is used to express an action
   that will be completed at a later time. [Susie
   will not
   be home
   Tuesday.]

The three compound tenses (the Latin
word perfect means completed)
are

1. Present Perfect
   - (formed by using the past participle (principal part #4 and the auxiliary verb
   has or have) is used to express an action that
   began in the past, but is completed in the present [Susie has
   finished her
   homework]


2. Past Perfect -
   (formed by using principal part #4 and had) is used to express an
   action that occurred and was completed prior to another in the past. [Susie
   had just
   opened the door as the phone
   rang.]


3. Future Perfect -
   (formed by using principal part #4 and will have) is used to
   express an action that will be completed in the future. [By June, Susie
   will have
   completed junior high
   school.]

The PROGRESSIVE form for all the 6
tenses uses the auxiliary verb to be, conjugated in the appropriate
tense, with the present participle.  Thus for the verb to run the 6
tenses would look like this:

1. I am
   running                Present Progressive Tense


2. I was
   running               Past Progressive Tense


3. I will be
   running            Future Progressive Tense


4. I have been
   running      Present Perfect Progr.Tense


5. I had been
   running        Past Perfect Progr. Tense


6. I will have been
   running   Future Perfect Progr. Tense

The
EMPHATIC form is only in the Present tense and the simple Past Tense.  The auxiliary
verb do/does is used with the present form of the main verb for the
Present tense, and the auxiliary verb did is used with the present
form of the main verb for the Past tense.

Present: 
Susie does speak well.  Susie
did speak clearly on the stage.   [Do
not confuse the use of do and did in questions for the Emphatic form.  They are just
auxiliary verbs in those cases in the Basic Form.  e.g.  Didn't Susie speak well
yesterday?]

Describe how Louise Erdrich portrays politics in her novel, Love Medicine?

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich tells
the stories of two Native American Chippewa families, the Kashpaws and the Lamartines.
The stories flow in the telling of the husbands and wives, the lovers, and the children
that they have.

Lulu Lamartine describes two "flavors" of
politics in the book: the tribal government and "Uncle Sam's" government—with no
distinction between the two. In "The Good Tears," she describes how the members of these
families do not fare well with politicians—often their lives are especially hard because
they are "Indians," not Americans. Specifically these "powers" decide who the land
belongs to, or not. Lulu's biggest problem is that the politics of
the tribal government are too closely tied to the white's man's government, particularly
in the person of Nector Kashpaw, a man that Lulu had loved when she was very
young.

After her husband Henry dies, Nector begins to visit
Lulu at night. Even though he is married, it continues for five years. Lulu bears Nector
a child—her youngest son. Lulu declares that the relationship might have gone on longer,
for she was content.

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But then the politician showed his true stripe, a
lily-white, and the love knot we had welded between us
unbent.

Lily-white may allude
to the flower symbolic of death—perhaps of their love? The love-knot is a pledge
"welded" between them: like liquid metals joined, seemingly strong enough to withstand
anything. But Nector "bends" their pledge because politics matter more than his love for
Lulu.

Prior to the fire, Lulu explains her hostility for
politics and the government of the whites. She feels the census, which is
said to be a help to "Indians," is only the government's way of
counting how many Indians need to be disposed of; and Lulu and Henry never worried about
"owning" their land. If one were precise about ownership—Lulu
felt—everything belonged to the Indians, as they had been around
first.

The furor begins one day when Lulu finds a legal
document—a "regulation," signing her land away—on her
doorstep.

It
was signed with Kashpaw's hand as representing the tribal government. In turn, that was
the red-apple court representing Uncle
Sam.

Nector has signed it,
and then shows up that night trying to tell Lulu it is meaningless, but she sets the
dogs on him.

I
was the blood that pounded in his temples. I was the knock of his heart. I was the
needle of desire. I worked my way through his body and sewed him up. Yet he was willing
to turn me from my
house.

Lulu refuses to
move—part of a race that had been moved so many times, also with countless politicians'
promises. When Henry's brother (Beverly) comes around and asks Lulu to marry him, she
agrees. She sees Nector in town and tells him—and his eyes are "hate
pits."

A love
so strong brews the same strength of
hate.

Lulu thinks he may
intend to kill her or Bev, but then thinks that maybe the threat
she saw means nothing...until the "tribal mob" reveals itself at the tribal council. Her
own people turn on her. Lulu recalls:

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Indian against Indian, that's how the
government's money offer made us
act.

Government Indians were
ordering others off their land to build a modern factory that would make beads, "plastic
war clubs" and tomahawks. Nector, the politician, tells Lulu she must move. The ex-lover
and "traitor" in Nector burns her house down, expecting her to be in
it.

For Lulu, politics seem stronger than love; whether
tribal or white, politics are no good for her or the Chippewa
people.