Can (sec x - cosec x) / (tan x - cot x) be simplified further?

Given the expression ( sec x - csec x ) / (tan x - cot
x)

We need to simplify.

We
will use trigonometric identities to simplify.

We know
that:

sec x = 1/cos x

csec x =
1/sin x

tan x = sinx/cosx

cot
x = cos x/ sin x

We will substitute into the
expression.

==> (1/cos x - 1/sin x ) / (sin x / cos
x - cos x/ sin x)

==>[ ( sin x - cos x) / sinx*cosx]
/ [ (sin^2 x - cos^2 x)/ cosx*sinx

We will reduce
similar:

==> (sinx - cos x) / (sin^2 x - cos^2
x)

Now we will simplify the
denominator.

==> (sin x - cos x) / (sin x - cos
x)(sinx + cos x)

Reduce similar
terms.

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

Then the expression ( sec x - csec
x)/(tanx - cot x) can be written as : 1/(sin x + cos
x)

the coifficent of {r-1}th ,r th ,{r-1}th term in expansion of {x+1}n are in the ratio 1:3:5,find n&r.

The problem provides the equations that relates the
binomial coefficients of the `(r-1),r ` and `(r+1)` terms, such
that:

`(C_n^r)/(C_n^(r+1)) = 1/3 => (C_n^(r+1)) =
3(C_n^r)`

Using the factorial formulas
yields:

`(n!)/((r+1)!(n - r - 1)!) = (3n!)/((r!)(n - r)!)`

Since `(r+1)! = r!(r+1)` and `(n-r)! = (n-r-1)!(n-r)`
yields:

`1/(r+1) = 3/(n-r) => 3(r+1) = n-r`

`(C_n^(r+1))/(C_n^(r+2)) =
3/5`

`3(C_n^(r+2)) = 5(C_n^(r+1))`

`3(n!)/((r+2)!(n - r - 2!) = 5(n!)/((r+1)!(n - r -
1)!)`

`3/(r+2) = 5/(n-r-1 )=> 5(r+2) = 3(n-r-1)`

You need to solve for n and r the system of simultaneous
equations, such that:

`{(3(r+1) = n-r),(5(r+2) =
3(n-r-1)):}`

`=> {(4r - n = -3),(8r - 3n = -13):}
=> {(-8r + 2n = 6),(8r - 3n = -13):} => -n = -7 => n = 7 r =
(n-3)/4 => r = (7-3)/4 => r =
1`

Hence, evaluating r and n, under the given
conditions, yields `r = 1` and `n = 7` .

What main events happen in Chapters 34-36 in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain?

These are the final short chapters of the Twain classic.
After Tom and Huck return from finding the treasure, they also find that the Widow
Douglas has a house full of people and some news of her own: She is going to adopt Huck.
But before she can get Huck's response, Tom blurts out that they are rich. Tom brings in
the sacks of gold and when they count the money, they find that it totals $12,000. Tom
and Huck became the biggest celebrities in the town. The Widow Douglas and Aunt Polly
put their boys' money in the bank "at six per cent," and even gave them a gigantic
allowance (for the time!) of $1 per day. But such life was not for Huck, and the two
decided to get their gang back together--with an initiation at
midnight.

In Act III, scene 2, why may the establishment of Claudius's guilt be considered the crisis of the revenge plot?

The crisis of a drama usually proceeds and leads to the
climax.  In Shakespeare's Hamlet, the proof that Claudius is guilty
leads to Hamlet's decision to not kill Claudius while he's at prayer--and that is the
climax of the play.

Hamlet, until he sees Claudius's
reaction to the "play within the play," isn't entirely sure Claudius is guilty.  He has
no real proof--only the word of a ghost, who, he says in Act 2.2.565-572, could be a
devil trying to deceive him (as, by the way, the witches do to Macbeth in his play of
the same name).  Hamlet needs proof.  He is too reasonable to act like Fortinbras or
Laertes and just jump into revenge without thinking it
through.

The king's reaction to the murder scene in the
play gives Hamlet the proof he needs, though, and he sets off to kill the king.  He gets
an opportunity but decides not to take it.  Why?  Because he thinks Claudius is
confessing (he isn't, but Hamlet doesn't know that), and killing him immediately after
he confesses his sins would send Claudius straight to heaven.  And Hamlet doesn't want
to send Claudius to heaven, not when his father is suffering in a purgatory-like state,
and when Hamlet might be sent to hell because he kills
Claudius. 

The problem is, though, that when Hamlet decides
not to kill Claudius because he doesn't want to contribute to his salvation, he is
playing God.  Salvation is God's business, not Hamlet's.  Hamlet is messing where he
shouldn't be messing.

The result--you see it in Act 5:  the
sight Fortinbras says doesn't belong in a castle, only on a battlefield.  Death
everywhere. 

When Hamlet walks away from his rightful
revenge, by playing God, he dooms himself and so many others.  This is the climax. 
His receiving proof of Claudius's death could be considered the crisis, and Hamlet's
refusal to kill Claudius while the king's at prayer is the climax.  One leads to the
other.  

Explain Shakespeare's pun on the word "arms" in Act 5 of Hamlet?

Even though the setting of this scene is a graveyard,
Shakespeare interjects some humor in the scene in order to relieve the tension of the
previous act where Claudius and Laertes plot Hamlet's death and the coming end of the
play where there will be inevitable deaths of at least some if not all of the main
characters.  There is a kind of "dark humor" in the fact that funniest person in the
play is the man who digs graves for a living.

The pun you
are referencing is in a conversation between the two gravediggers.  A pun is a play
onwords when two different meanings of a word are used together.  The first speaker says
that gravediggers hold up (continue) Adam's profession.  He is referring to Adam (and
Eve) the first humans.  The second clown asks, "Was he a gentleman?" The pun starts when
the first clown replies "The first that ever bore arms."  He means had arms with which
to work, but the second clown retorts, "Why he had none."  He is using the second
definition of arms -- meaning weapons.  Clearly, Adam didn't have any weapons.  The puns
is extended when the first clown comes back to "his" definition and asks, "Are you a
heathen? The scripture says Adam digged.  Could he dig without arms?"  This short scene
is a clever and silly respite from an otherwise heavy and depressing
situation.

Explain what happened to Japanese-Americans once they were freed from the camps.

In general, the Japanese Americans who were released from
the camps were left to fend for themselves.  They had to figure out what to do and how
to put their lives back together after they were
released.

Some of the Japanese Americans went back to their
homes and tried to go back to their former lives.  In Farewell to
Manzanar, for example, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston tells about her family's
attempt to do this.  They were unsuccessul and eventually had to move to a different
town as her father tried to find a different job.

Other
Japanese Americans settled in places where they had not lived before.  My area of
Central Washington has a number of Japanese American families who originally came here
out of the internment camps.

Some few Japanese went back to
Japan.

Overall, then, there was nothing official done with
the Japanese American internees.  They were simply let out of the camps and left to fend
for themselves.

What are some symbols in "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings?"

One symbol is the infestation of crabs in Pelayo's house.
During the strong rains, the land crabs hide indoors so they won't drown; Pelayo kills
them and throws them into the water. The crabs symbolize both Pelayo's poverty -- he
can't afford a better house -- and the instinct of all animals to survive under
pressure. When the angel shows up, it is lying in the mud, trying to move but stuck.
Just like the crabs, the angel has the instinct to survive, but it is too
old:

...before
going to bed [Pelayo] dragged him out of the mud and locked him up with the hens in the
wire chicken coop.
(Márquez, "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,"
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Although
they do not treat it well, Pelayo and his wife offer the angel sanctuary to live through
the winter; its instincts, if it sought them out specifically, were sound. After gaining
money, Pelayo builds a new house, this time with barriers to keep the crabs out; the
symbol of the crabs has been replaced by the angel, which now lives in the unchanged
chicken coop, representing the poverty that Pelayo and his wife used to live in. The
crabs, therefore, have served their purpose, and are no longer
necessary.

In the poem "Same Song" by Pat Mora, what purpose does the stanza break serve?

Neither the poem nor the author have their own group, so I
will leave this question in the general Literature
group.

In this excellent poem there is a sense of division
and parallelism that is created through the stanza break. I am sure you have worked out
that both stanzas focus on different people. The first stanza focuses on the speaker's
daughter, whereas the second stanza introduces us to the speaker's son. Although they
are obviously very different, both in terms of appearance and what they do, for the girl
applies make-up and the boy exercises rigorously, both are shown through the stanza
break to suffer from the same feelings of inferiority and unhappiness about their
appearance. This is what Mora achieves through the stanza break: she shows how both
genders suffer from the same sense that they are not "good enough" as they are and how
both genders feel the need to improve themselves to be beautiful. Note how this is
achieved with the repetition of the allusion to Snow White with "mirror,
mirror."

How do people feel about Roberto being released in Chapter Four of The Giver?

It is Larissa who tells Jonas about the Celebration of
Release for Roberto in The
Giver.

"It was
wonderful."

Roberto's life
was discussed in detail prior to his Release. He had been an important man before
becoming Old. He had been an instructor of Elevens, a member of the Planning Committee,
and the landscape designer for the Central Plaza. He had raised two children as well.
After the telling of his life, a toast was made, and the anthem was chanted. Roberto
gave a good-bye speech, and others made farewell speeches to
him.

"He was
thrilled. You should have seen the look on his face when they let him go... Pure
happiness, I'd call
it."

Jonas had one important
question for Larissa: He wondered where Roberto was sent when he was released, but
Larissa did not know.

Give examples of how the United States has been a force for good and evil in the 20th century.

This is, of course, to some extent a matter of opinion. 
Good and evil are to some extent in the mind of the
beholder.

I would argue that the clearest example of the US
as a force for good might be World War II.  The Nazis were one of the clearest examples
of evil in the history of the world and the US helped to defeat them.  The Japanese
empire, at that time, was also willing to commit atrocities like the Unit 731 horrors in
China.

It is harder to argue that the US has been a force
for evil.  Perhaps the best argument has to do with US support for nasty regimes during
the Cold War.  The best example of this was the apartheid regime in South Africa which
the US supported regardless of its record on human rights.

How can carbohydrates be bad for the human body?

All carbohydrates are not equal. Some carbohydrates
support a strong, healthy, slender, energetic body (we'll call these "good
carbohydrates"), while other carbohydrates actually increase your overall risk of
coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes and many other degenerative diseases (theseare
"bad carbohydrates").Bad carbohydrates are high on the glycemic
scale.

The term "glycemic" refers to the amount
and speed a food will raise your blood sugar and insulin levels. A high glycemic
carbohydrate raises blood sugar levels quickly. This is typically not preferred, except
when stored glycogen level;s are already depleted. are mainly found
in: Pastries, Candies, Sodas, Fruit Drinks White bread, White rice, and other low fiber
processed foods.

The sugars from simple  carbohydrate foods
are rapidly absorbed into your blood stream, causing blood sugar problems. A diet high
in simple carbohydrates has been shown to interfere with weight loss and contribute to
weight gain, diabetes and coronary artery
disease.

Whole grains, beans, fruits,
vegetables, and other naturally intact healthy carbohydrates do just the opposite. A
diet of good carbohydrates has been proven to promote excellent
health.

Please answer these questions about Lennie and the deaths he causes in Chapter 5 of Of Mice and MenONLYCHAPTER 5,How does Lennie react to...

In Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men,
Lennie also tries to cover the puppy up and hide it.  If he can keep George from finding
out that he has killed the puppy, he won't get into trouble.  He is also somewhat
comforted by Curley's wife, who tells him the pup is nothing and can easily be
replaced.

In contrast, Lennie, after killing Curley's
wife, very quickly sneaks out of the barn and, the reader learns later, goes to the spot
George told him to go to if he gets in trouble. 

This does
demonstrate that Lennie understands the difference between killing a puppy and killing a
human being.

In "Anthem for Doomed Youth," "the bugles" are likely to be playing a: -reveille -taps -retreat -attack -none of these

As with any of these kind of questions, it is very
important to read the word or phrase you are trying to define in the context of the poem
as a whole and especially the sentence in which it occurs. Contextual clues can help
reveal the meaning of such phrases, and so if you can detect those contextual clues this
will help you greatly in your understanding of such works of literature. Let us think
about the immediate context of this phrase then:

No mockeries now
for them; no prayers nor bells; Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, –The shrill,
dementedchoirs of wailing shells; And bugles calling for them from sad
shires.

Thus the "bugles" come as part of the poem that mourns
angrily how the dead soldiers are only remembered by the "choirs" of "wailing shells"
and the "bugles calling for them from sad shires." The bugle is a musical instrument
that is normally played at military funerals, and thus the author is imagining the
funerals that these dead soldiers will have back in England. As "taps" means a bugle
call sounded at military funerals, this is the best answer to your
question.

What is the best way of structuring an essay when comparing 4 poems?

I think having four poems is a bit much.  You might want
to limit it to 2.  Not knowing what the poems are, it is a little difficult to answer. 
What are you comparing them based on?  I would choose a common topic or theme, and look
at how the poems treat it similarly and differently.  Let's say the four poems are about
love.  One might be optimistic, the others pessimistic.  Two might be about romantic
love, while the others are about pessimistic love.  Your overall thesis would be related
to how love is explored in the four poems.  If you have a choice, you might choose 4 by
the same poet at different times in his life and take a chronological approach.  For
example, look at how the poet's view of love changes.  In that case, your thesis might
be that the poet became more pessimistic as he aged.

If I
were you, I would post some more questions, with more specifics.

Discuss the role of the U.S. in political affairs of other countries and the U.S. and Soviet responses to each other during the Cold War.i need...

The topics that are the focus of your paper seem to take
US history from the time of early imperialism under Teddy Roosevelt in the first decade
of the 1900s to the time when the Cold War was beginning to heat up in the late 1940s
and early 1950s.

So with those two larger topics in mind -
imperialism and the Cold War, you may want to talk about the development of the
first:

* how the United States became an empire and
expanded its territories to include the Panama Canal, control over the Caribbean, with
heavy influence over Latin America and the Philippines.  Include why the US would do
this - for world power in competition with other empires, and for control of resources
which would aid our economy

And the beginning of the Cold
War second:

*how our goal of expanding our control as an
empire changed into a foreign policy of containing the Soviet empire's expansion, and
controlling more resources and influencing other countries with economic and military
aid so they wouldn't be communist, or so the Soviet Union would not gain access to their
resources.

What are two events in "Winter Dreams" that demonstrate the effects of Judy’s casual decisions or behavior on Dexter’s life?

From the time he first meets Judy Jones, Dexter's life is
determined by what she represents to him--the romance of wealth, beauty, glamour, and
excitement. He first meets her when she is a spoiled child about eleven years old, and
he is fourteen, caddying at the Sherry Island country club. The difference between their
social classes is evident. With her new golf clubs and her "white linen nurse," Judy is
obviously the daughter of a wealthy club member.

Dexter is
aware of her beauty, knowing she would become very beautiful in time. He finds her
intriguing; even her spoiled behavior is amusing to him, making him laugh without
realizing it. It is at that moment that Judy calls to him: "Boy!" Dexter stops in his
tracks:

Beyond
question he was addressed. Not only that, but he was treated to that absurd smile, that
preposterous smile--the memory of which at least a dozen men were to carry into middle
age.

As a result of this
encounter with Judy, Dexter quits his job that very day. It is an enormous decision for
him, one that frightened him; coming from a poor family, Dexter needed the money he
earned caddying at the club during the summers. His impulsive decision to quit he
attributed to having received "a strong emotional shock." Judy's rich life and her
addressing him as a servant had reminded him of his own status, and he rejected
it.

Years later he returns to Sherry Island as a wealthy
young man and falls into a summer romance with Judy. She breaks his heart. Dexter
eventually gives up the idea of her and becomes engaged to another woman, Irene
Scheerer. One evening when Irene could not go out with him, Dexter goes alone to a dance
where he encounters Judy again. After reminiscing, they leave together, and Dexter
drives her home. Judy cries, telling Dexter she would like to marry him. "I'll be so
beautiful for you, Dexter," she says. His reaction is one of emotional
intensity:

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Then a perfect wave of emotion washed over him,
carrying off with it a sediment of wisdom, of convention, of doubt, of honor. This was
his girl who was speaking, his own, his beautiful, his
pride.

When Judy invites him
to come inside with her, Dexter hesitates, then says "I'll come in," with a voice that
trembles. Dexter renews his romance with Judy that night and breaks his engagement to
Irene, changing his plans for the future the moment Judy calls him back into her
life.

Beside the work on the windmill, what other hardships do the animals have to face in Chapter VII in Animal Farm?

Chapter 7 is really one of the low points for the animals
of Animal Farm.  As you mentioned, they have to work really hard trying to build the
windmill.  But there are other things going on as
well.

• The winter is a really hard one --
  terrible weather.


• They did not have enough food.  Their
  corn ration was cut back and the potatoes that were supposed to make up for that
  spoiled.


• The other thing that I see as a hardship is all
  the executions and the fact that Napoleon is forcing the hens to allow their eggs to be
  sold.

What happens to aggregate demand when the dollar depreciates?and what happens when households expect lower prices in the future?

When the dollar depreciates against foreign currencies,
exports should increase and imports should decrease.  This is because our products get
cheaper for foreigners and their products get to me more expensive for
us.

In such a case, there gets to be increased demand for
American products.  That means that aggregate demand goes
up.

If households expect lower prices (I assume for all
goods and services) in the future, AD goes down because people will wait to buy until
the prices actually do drop.  In other words, if you think the car that you can buy for
$25,000 is going to cost $20,000 in 6 months, you really ought to wait if you
can.

How did the 14 Points reflect the ideals of progressivism?

The major aspects of the 14 Points that Woodrow Wilson
proposed were:

• Open diplomacy with no secret
  treaties.


• Freedom of the
  seas


• Free
  trade


• Self-determination for national
  groups


• Creation of the League of
  Nations

These ideas are generally in line with
the ideals of progressivism.  The progressive movement in the US was concerned with
mainly social justice.  Wilson's 14 Points were generally concerned with that as
well.

The 14 Points were concerned with trying to prevent
war and with trying to prevent strong countries from abusing weaker countries.  This can
be seen as an attempt to implement social justice on a global
scale.

Both progressivism and the 14 Points were meant to
end a system in which the strong took what they wanted and the weak suffered.  In this
way, the 14 Points reflected progressive ideals.

In A Raisin in the Sun, how do the two men interested in Beneatha represent conflicting dreams of the characters in the play?

This is a great question because it shows that you have
identified how George and Asagai respectively represent two different approaches to
being African-American in the play. Perhaps the conflict between these two different
views is highlighted most clearly by George when he comes to pick up Beneatha to take
her out and finds that she has cut her hair short and let it be curly, rather than
straightening it and keeping it long. This of course is thanks to Asagai's influence in
encouraging Beneatha to embrace her African roots and not assimilate. Note how George
responds to this statement of Beneatha's and her comment about assimilationist
Negroes:

Oh
dear, dear, dear! Here we go! A lecture on the African past" On our Great West African
Heritage! In one second we will hear all about the great Ashanti empires; the great
Songhay civilisations; and the great sculpture of Benin--and then some poetry in the
Bantu--and the whole monologue will end with the word heritage!
(Nastily) Let's face it, baby, your heritage is nothing but a bunch
of raggedy-assed spirituals and some grass
huts!

Asagai represents
Afro-Americans who are trying to reconnect with their African "heritage," rejecting the
customs of the white majority. George is a man who has made a success of himself by
deliberately learning how to be successful in the white world. As Walter says, he has
studied the ways of the white man, and is successful by acting "white," and following
the laws and customs of the most powerful majority, rather than rejecting them and
trying to be successful in his own right.

Chapter 21 summary?chapter 21

In chapter 21 of the novel Beka Lamb,
Beka and her family visit her friend Toycie in the Belize Mental Asylum.
Toycie has been expelled from school for being pregnant, her boyfriend refused to marry
her, and she has lost her mind. She acts like she is sitll in school, waiting for the
recess bell. Beka's Granny Ivy is dismayed that Toycie has lost her mind just because
she has become pregnant and the reader finds out later that Granny herself had the same
thing happen to her, and yet she did not "degrade herself" like Toycie seems to be
doing. Beka reminisces back about how she and Toycie used to take walks along the sea
wall. Beka remembers how Toycie's Aunt Eila told them folktales - about the evil
Tataduhende who goes around tearing thumbs off little girls and
boys.

Aunt Eila wants to move Toycie out of the mental
institution to her brother's home at Sibun River, a Creole settlement that Beka refers
to as "the bush." Eila thinks Toycie will get better there, among her people, where she
belongs.

Toward the end of the chapter, Granny Ivy
decorates the Lamb house with the blue and white flags of the Peoples' Independent Party
but Daddy Bill makes her take them down and put up the flags of the British colonial
empire, the Union Jack.

This is an important chapter
because it shows the continuing conflict of "be'fo time" and "nowadays" in Belize,
illustrates the continuing conflict of Creoles vs Panias (represented by Emilio and
Toycie), and the political conflict of colonialism vs
independence.

What caused the collapse of the German monarchy after Word War One?

The Hohenzollern dynasty collapsed because Germany was
suffering an economic collapse during the war. The allies had blockaded German ports, so
no foodstuffs could enter the country.Germany gained a brief respite after the surrender
of Russia at Brest-Litovsk. Shortly thereafter, the Germans launched a major offensive
against French lines, but the offensive was turned back within 35 miles of Paris at the
Second Battle of the Marne. Allied success was largely the result of the infusion of
fresh American troops who did not suffer from the war weariness that plagued the other
forces. Both sides were weary of the war, but it was the Germans who cracked
first.

The German people were forced to eat turnips; which
had previously been grown only to feed to livestock. Wilhelm II contacted President
Woodrow Wilson and asked for terms of peace; but Wilson replied that he would only
negotiate peace with the democratically elected government of the German people.
Revolution broke out in Germany after the surrender of Austria-Hungary, Wilhelm
abdicated and a Social Democratic majority government was elected.The German Social
Democrats accepted defeat and ended the war as soon as they took power. This ended the
loss of morale among the troops and prevented the regular army from
disintegrating.

Who is the most intelligent boy in the group in chapter 1 of Lord of the Flies?

As evidenced by the ideas that he puts forth and his way
of reasoning things out, most readers point to Piggy as the most intelligent one of the
group, or at the very least the most rational.  In some ways his character is meant to
represent a boy that has intelligence and the capability of reason but little else as he
is too shy to go in front of the group and certainly too fat and weak to be a leader in
the way Jack is.

Some might point to Ralph as being
intelligent thanks to his ability to navigate his way to leadership, but it is really
Piggy in his ear that guides him to that post.

In "Sonny's Blues," what are the differences between Sonny's personality and his elder brother's? James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" Explain in...

There are those who have read James Baldwin's powerful
story who have also felt the musicality of the words and the arrangement of time.  And,
just as there is both the intellectual and the sensual perception of this one narrative,
so, too, are the narrator and his brother two parts of a whole.  In a manner of
speaking, then, Sonny is the darker side of the
narrator.

For, it is the sensual personality, suffering in
his private world, seeking escape in heroin, meaning in music that is Sonny; while it is
the intellectual personality, the Algebra teacher, fighting logically against his Harlem
neighborhood by living in a better building, by being educated, by attempting to dwell
in the cerebral areas that is the narrator.  With the age and personality difference
between them, little communication and understanding is
effected.

Not until his daughter Gracie dies does the
narrator begin to realize that he and Sonny share anything:  "My trouble made his
real."  After having been in drug rehabilitation, the narrator talks with Sonny, now
living with him, who tells him what he has realized as he has just listened to a street
singer,

"...it
struck me all of a sudden how much suffering she must have had to go through--to sing
like that. It's repulsive to think you have to suffer that
much."

I said:  "But there's no way not to suffer--is
there, Sonny?"

At this point,
the narrator realizes that Sonny has needed "human speech to help him."  As they talk,
however, Sonny points out their difference:  the narrator is "hung up" on the way some
people try to deal with their suffering.  The narrator explains that he does not want
Sonny to die from heroin or drugs in his attempt not to suffer. Touched, Sonny tries to
explain that there is a "storm inside" that he tries to play, but he realizes sometimes
that "nobody's listening."  Nevertheless, knowing that his brother
is now listening Sonny bares his soul to him, confessing that even though he ran from
the drugs in Harlem, he was "at the bottom of something" on heroin.  "I had to try to
tell you," he says.

The narrator listens, he thinks about
what Sonny has said.  Whereas his intellectualism and emotional distance has kept him
from understanding Sonny, now he begins to feel what is in the heart of his brother,
having suffered himself from the loss of his daughter.  In the nightclub as the narrator
listens, hearing the evocations of the music; he begins to
understand,

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But the man who creates the music is hearing
something else, is dealing with the roar rising from the void and imposing order on it
as it hits the air.  What is evoked in him, then, is of another order, more terrible
because it has no words, and triumphant, too, for that same reason.  And his triumph,
when he triumphs, is ours.

As
Sonny fills the piano with his own "breath of life," the narrator recognizes that Sonny
becomes part of the "family" of musicians playing.  And he is the listener, the other
side:

Freedom
lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us to be free if we would
listen, that he would never be free until we
did.

Both Sonny and his
brother, the narrator, suffer from the blues.  But it is for Sonny to tell of this
suffering, for he feels it so poignantly; and, it is for the narrator to listen to the
darker side of his being so that he can share in his brother's burden and give meaning
to both their sufferings, emotional and intellectual.

In the more intense passages of Of Mice and Men, how does Steinbeck use language to create the mood?Regarding situations such as Curley's wife...

In John Steinbeck's novella, Of Mice and
Men, the author uses language in several of the more emotionally intense
passages, to enable one character to "beat down" a weaker character in a show of
superiority.

When Crooks confronts Lennie out of Crooks'
own sense of isolation and loneliness, his tone is threatening, and
fear is a major component of the
discussion between the two men. Crooks uses his words to exercise power and control over
the weaker Lennie, at least until Lennie's erratic emotions frighten the older man.
Crooks suggests that George might abandon Lennie, awakening in Lennie a sense of
terror.

His
voice grew soft and persuasive. 'S'pose George don't come back no more. S'pose he took a
powder and just ain't coming back. What'll you do?...I said s'pose George went into town
tonight and you never heard of him no
more...'

Crooks suggestion of
the fear of loneliness not only reflects Lennie's fear, but the
fear of members of American society after the Great Crash of 1929. Lennie denies the
possibility, but Crooks, knowing he can bully Lennie, continues until Lennie grows
frightened and angry, denying the possibility:

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'I don' know. Say, what you doin' anyways?' he
cried. 'This ain't
true...'

Crooks presses on
threatening Lennie with life in an asylum until Lennie scares
Crooks.

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Crooks bored in on him. 'Want me ta tell ya
what'll happen? They'll take ya to the booby hatch. They'll tie ya up with a collar like
a dog.'

Crooks has gone too
far, and backs off at Lennie's aggressive response:

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Suddenly Lennie's eyes centered and grew quiet,
and mad. He stood up and walked dangerously toward Crooks...Crooks saw the danger as it
approached him.

Crooks backs
off and tries now to explain his own loneliness without resorting to the intimidating
tactics he has used till now. Lennie's fear is
palpable.

Curley's wife, ironically, does the same thing to
Crooks when the black man tries to stand up to her. She is almost
as powerless as Crooks, but she reminds him that he is
black and that she holds a greater power over him than she does
anyone else: that of death. She manipulates Crooks with fear, but in this situation she
does so to exercise authority in a world where she has no power at all. She, too, is
isolated and lonely, but her mean streak is more deadly than
Crooks'.

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'Listen...,' she said. 'You know what I can do
to you if you open your trap?'

Crooks stared hopelessly at
her, and then he sat down on his bunk and drew into himself...[he] seemed to grow
smaller, and he pressed himself against the wall.

'Well,
you keep your place then...I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain't even
funny.'

Crooks had reduced himself to nothing. There was no
personality, no ego...'Yes ma'am,' and his voice was
toneless.

Steinbeck uses the
words of Curley's wife to strike terror into the heart of Crooks, knowing that she can
easily destroy him—he will not only be quiet and accommodating, but
she can feel the power she wields only with
him because with her husband and the rest of the men, she is
nothing.

Steinbeck uses the language of these two
characters to instill fear within other, weaker characters. Whereas Crooks demonstrates
power over Lennie, he becomes the target when Curley's wife does
the same thing to him.

Anthony Robbins , the peak performance coach, once said,``I dont motivate the people , I just inspire them.``What is the difference between inspire...

Motiviating means to propel people to act, to impel them
to move, to provide incentive. To motivate seems to suggest that people will receive a
reward from the performance that they do for their
motivator.

Inspiring has to do with arousing, influencing,
producing, or animating (making come alive). This to me, sounds like gaining an
intrinsic or internal value from the speaker that drives one to work or perform from
within. Motivation sounds more like an external or extrinsic force must act upon a
person to make the work or performance occur.

A coach would
be happy with inspiration as opposed to motivation because once you get inside someone,
they continue to motivate themselves.

What would be a good thesis for an essay about religion in A Farewell to Arms?

A Farewell to Arms is viewed
primarily as a war novel or as a love story, Hemingway's Romeo and
Juliet, but religion plays a very significant role in it. A good thesis, and
one that would be easily supported from the text, would be to state that religion is a
major motif in the novel.

Internal research shows that the
major characters, and the minor characters, as well, bring numerous discussions of
religion into the story at various times and in differing situations. Frederic discusses
religion with several characters, including Catherine, who tells him that he is her
religion. On one occasion, Frederic draws a distinction between being religious and
being like Jesus. Count Greffi and Frederic have an extended discussion about religious
faith; the Count reminds Frederic that love is "a religious feeling," and both he and
Frederic hope to eventually find faith in God. The priest speaks often of religion, and
when Passini is horribly and mortally wounded in battle, his suffering is expressed in
terms of religion. As Catherine lays dying, Frederic prays desperately for her to
live.

Taking notes over every religious reference in the
novel would make it possible to categorize them in some way so as to develop a working
outline to support the thesis. Some possible outline divisions might be conventional
expressions of religion, unconventional expressions of religion, the search for
religious faith, the rejection of religion, and religion born of suffering, to think of
only a few.

Can someone analyze the significance of Marbury vs. Madison?i need it for tomorrow please help!

When Thomas Jefferson (a Republican) won the election of
1800, John Adams (a Federalist) quickly appointed a number of his own party members to
fill key positions as his outgoing action. John Marshall, his Secretary of State, was
supposed to fill out papers finalizing these appointments and give them to the people
who had been appointed. Their appointments weren't official until they got their papers.
Marshall did not get the papers to several of the appointees in time but he assumed that
Madison, who would be taking his place in the new administration, would do it for him.
Jefferson, seeing an opportunity, told Madison not to give them their papers,
essentially making those appointments invalid leaving him with the ability to fill those
positions with members of his party, One of those people who did not get his papers was
Marbury. Marbury sued Madison and took the case all the way to the Supreme Court in an
attempt to force Madison to deliver his paperwork to him as Adams had promised. This
case is significant because it established a precedence of judicial review. It also
established that Marbury had a right to his commission, even though he didn't get it,
and that there was a means by which he could argue his case in the courts. Essentially,
this means that the Supreme Court is entitled to review acts of Congress. In this case,
however, it was a no-win situation for the court because even if they found in favor of
Marbury, Jefferson would not honor the decision and that would lead to animosity between
the President and the Supreme Court. The answer they finally came up with was brilliant
in that they acknowledged in writing that yes, in fact Marbury deserved his commission,
but they could not force Jefferson to acknowledge it. It was Marshall's error that cause
him to not get the commission, and the courts would be acting unconstitutionally if they
attempted to force Jefferson to honor Adams' unfinished
appointments.

Quelles choses étranges Sherlock Holmes voient-ils dans la chambre d'helen ?

Puis-je répondre en anglais? Si tu ne comprends pas,
dites-moi et je répondrai encore une fois en
français.

Holmes and Watson do not go into Helen’s room.
They go into the sister’s former room where Helen is now sleeping and they discover some
strange things. First, they notice that there is a bell rope on the ceiling that is
supposed to be used for calling a butler. However, when they pull the rope, they realize
that it is fake. It is not attached to anything and does not ring any bell. Next, they
notice a ventilator in the room. Holmes decides he and Watson must spend the night in
Helen’s room because they suspect her stepfather is planning some evil deed. So, Holmes
and Watson then spend the night in the room where Helen is now
sleeping (her sister’s former room). Helen has not been sleeping in her original room
because her stepfather has told her he needs to make some repairs, which is a ploy to
get her out of her room and into her sister’s former room. At the end of the story, the
reader learns that the rope is for the poisonous snake to crawl down through the
ventilator, bite the girls and kill them. Holmes suspects this and when he hears the
snake hiss, jumps up, hits it, it flees up the rope through the ventilator and bites the
stepfather, killing him. Elementary, my dear
Watson!

Ooops........sorry.........two teachers must have
been working on the answer to this at the same time.

Please answer these questions from this poem. What image of death do you get from it? in third stanza of the poem, the carriage passes the...

Contrary to what is often published about Emily Dickinson,
after having studied her life through her letters and journals in order to play her on
stage and after taking graduate seminars in her poems, I have come to the understanding
that she is quite often misunderstood. She was definitely a woman ahead of her time both
with regard to her feminist leanings as well as her educational level and intellect.
That said, while she was occasionally depressed by life and by the fact that her sister
Vinnie was the pretty one, and while she decided to leave the church and was labeled as
one without hope of salvation by her boarding school marm, she was actually very
spiritual, believed in God, and felt that the saddest part about death (particularly
after the loss of her father and an unknown man who she loved who is only referred to as
master) was felt by those who were left behind. The message of the poem, then, is that
death will come for us all, whether we want him to or not. When he comes, he will be
civil, a gentleman, and he will take us on one last pleasant journey before taking us to
our new home. The key to the hopefulness in the poem lies in the final
lines:

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Since then 'tis centuries, and yet
each
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses'
heads
Were toward
eternity.

Time is said to fly
when we are having fun, and it appears that Emily feels that time will pass so quickly
for her after death that it will seem shorter than a day when in reality centuries have
passed.

As to your question regarding the specific objects,
these are things that Emily would have been familiar with. The school represents
childhood, the fields of grain the maturing part of the season or middle life, and the
setting sun represents the end of the cycle of her life and the promise of a new day
tomorrow in the afterlife.

How has The Iliad contributed to our notion of civilization?

I think that one way Homer's work has contributed to our
notion of civilization is through its storytelling merits.  Homer's story is a great
one, replete with challenges from Gods, struggles between human beings, and ensuring
that human problems are powerfully compelling and yet seen in an accurate context in
terms of their impact on others.  Within this storytelling element arises some
wonderfully rich characters.  Achilles as a brooding, yet skilled warrior is contracted
with the honor- bound, yet sad Hector.  These two characters have helped to configure
where human consciousness can lie and how tragedy can be seen as an inseparable part of
the human experience.  The book is also powerful in reflecting how a society based off
of war is not one to be glorified.  It is difficult to gauge if this was Homer's intent,
but the work stands out as one of the most defiantly anti- war writings.  It reflects
how societies that are based off of war are doomed to fail, and in doing so, almost
repudiates the Classical standard of warfighting as being socially
acceptable.

What was Fortunato's crime?

As Poe's "The Cask of Amantillado" begins, Montressor
says:

THE
THOUSAND INJURIES of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon
insult.

During the story,
however, Montressor neither divulges any of the injuries nor the insult.  Since
Montressor is Italian and has a coat of arms whose symbol and motto are symbolic of
revenge, the reader must assume that Montressor comes from an honor culture which prides
itself on revenge in response to any individual or familial insults.  The crime could
have been something as trivial as a breech of manners; regardless, it is so negligible
that Fortunato never suspects any offense, even when he finally realizes his
doom.

Just as Iago never gives a good enough reason to take
revenge on Othello, so too does Montressor never divulge his motivation.  In this way,
he is a vice character who prides himself on duping and taking advantage against his
supposed enemies purely out of spite.  It's a kind of
game.

The reader must admit that Fortunato's crime during
the story is drunkenness and gullibility.  He arrives at Montressor's catacombs
inebriated and with a bad cough.  To venture far into the vaults, given the nitre, is
foolish.  In this way, he puts his health in jeopardy.

His
main crime is materialism: he must have the amontillado.  It is a rare possession that
he, a connoisseur, must have, at all costs.  To put his life in danger for the sake of a
vintage wine violates the cardinal sins of pride and envy.

What is the significance of the quilts to Maggie and her mother?

In the short story "EVeryday Use," the quilts symbolize
Mama's heritage. The quilts have been passed down from generation to generation. The
quilts have been sewn by loving hands of Mama's
ancestors.

When Dee decides she wants the quilts, Mama says
they have been promised to Maggie. Dee is upset by this. Indignantly, Dee states that
Maggie will use them for everyday use. Mama replies that that is exactly why she is
giving them to Maggie.

Mama cherishes the fact that the
quilts are precious heirlooms, but she wants Maggie to use them for the purpose that
they were made. Dee desires to hang them up as a item of decor. Mama has already
promised them to Maggie.

The quilts symbolize the hard work
and effort that loving hands have wrought. Maggie appreciates the quilts the way Mama
does. Dee is not connected emotionally with the quilts. She is superior now to her
humble upbringing:

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Dee, on the other hand, has been ambitious and
determined since girlhood to rise above her humble
beginnings

She has detached
herself from her Southern heritage. She has separated herself from those who stitched
every single stitch in the quilts. Mama does not approve of Dee's attitude. Plus, she
had already promised the quilts to Maggie. Maggie appreciates Mama's sentiments on the
quilts.

In "Shooting an Elephant," why does the thesis statement have nothing to do with elephants?

Well, it is important to remember that in this excellent
essay the elephant of the title is a powerful symbol that is used to support the
author's thesis statement. If we want to pick out that thesis statement, we would need
to look at the following quote:

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I perceived in this moment that when the white
man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he
destroys.

Orwell discovered
through the incident when he was forced to shoot the elephant the truth of this
statement. He, apparently, was the man in charge, the man with the power, and yet, he
realises that he had no choice but to shoot the elephant even though he felt that it
didn't need to be killed and he didn't want to do it. Ironically, becoming a tyrant has
actually resulted in limiting and restricting the freedom of white men, rather than
increasing it.

Thus, you are right in a sense when you say
that the elephant has nothing to do with the thesis statement, however it was the
incident that triggered the powerful epiphany that Orwell experienced about the colonial
exploits of the "white man." In a sense, there could have been a number of incidents
that would have sparked that same sudden understanding, but Orwell chose to base it on
his own shooting of an elephant.

Why are we feeling hot when outside temperature is 36C? Isn't our body temperature 36C?

In normal health, our body maintains internal temperature
of about 37 degrees celsius, irespective of the temperature around us. Thus our feeling
hot or cold is not related to the temperature of the body, but to the amount of extra
heat we need to generate to keep the body warm in cold environment, and the extra heat
we need to remove from the body to keep it cool in hot
environments.

Our body is constantly generating energy to
maintain its internal functions as well as for doing external work. Additional heat
generated in this process must be released to the environment to to maintain the body
temperature at 37 degrees Celsius, even when the outside temperature is 37 degrees or
lower.

Humans, wearing light clothing, and not engaged in
any vigorous physical activity, feel most comfortable when the environmental temperature
is about 20 degrees Celsius. At temperatures lower than this, we feel cold and need to
protect ourselves by means such as extra clothing. As the environmental temperature
rises above 20 degrees we start feeling less comfortable, as body needs to employ
additional mechanisms such as air circulation and sweating to maintain the body
temperature at the optimum level.

What are the reasons Indian families continue to have large numbers of children?

For a long long time, Indian family system has been very
traditional and unified.Only in the last couple of decades, things are showing some
changes. At the back of Indian families being big and having large number of children,
you may find the following reasons:

1) traditionally
agriculture-based society, and more hands are required to work in the fields and at
home;

2) lack of education>lack of awareness in
family planning>lack of motivation in using
cotraception;

3) families being run by patriarchs, women
don't have freedom to exercise choice in the matter of
child-birth;

4) prevailing preference for a boy rather than
a girl-child, may also be a reason of giving birth to more children if the first issue
happens to be a girl;

5) long-cherished cultural values
associated with family love and relationships may be a good reason as
well.

On the whole, old, agriculture-based,
not-so-modernised, male-dominated societies like the Indian society do tend to have
families with a large number of children.

Give a condition when Snell's law fails.

Snell's law gives the relation between the angle of
incidence and the angle of refraction when a beam of light moves from one medium to
another. If the angle of incidence is Ai and the angle of refraction is Ar, the two are
related by sin Ai / sin Ar = V1 / V2, where V1 and V2 is the velocity of light in the
first and second medium respectively.

The law does not give
correct values in case there is total internal reflection. Total internal reflection
occurs when the ratio of the speed of light in the second medium to that in the first
medium is greater than 1. For example if the ratio of the velocities V2/ V1 is given by
1.5 and the angle of incidence is 60 degree, we have sin Af = 1.5 * 0.8660 = 1.299 which
is not possible as the value of the sine of an angle cannot exceed
1.

Who was the gossipy neighbor who seemed to know everything in To Kill a Mockingbird?

The "neighborhood scold," Miss Stephanie Crawford lived
nearby the Finches and seemed to have her nose in everyone's business. If there was
gossip in the neighborhood, Miss Stephanie was bound to know about it, and many of the
terrible rumors about Boo Radley came from her. In fact, Miss Maudie tells the children
that most of the rumors are " 'three-fourths colored folks and one-fourth Stephanie
Crawford.' " We know that she is pushing 60 and is a bit overweight. When the children
build their snowman, they note that it resembles Miss Stephanie. After Miss Maudie's
house burned down, she relocated temporarily in Miss Stephanie's
home.

I need Critical appreciation of the story 'The postmaster' by Rabindranath Tagore.

Excerpt from:

Lago, Mary M. "Tagore's
Short Fiction." Rabindranath Tagore. Twayne, 1976. 80-114. Rpt. in
Short Story Criticism. Ed. Justin Karr. Vol. 48. Detroit: Gale
Group, 2002. Literature Resource Center. Web. 28 Apr.
2010.

Examinations of the psychological
distance between the rural and urban appear again and again in
Tagore's stories, of which three may be considered here as
being splendidly representative: "The Postmaster"
["Postmastar"] (1891),
"The Return of Khokababu"
["Khokababur Pratyabartan"] (1891),
and "The Troublemaker"
["Apada"] (1895).8 All three convey
the message that not all of society's strengths are to be found in the Westernized
society of the cities. Each of these stories brings a citizen of Calcutta into close
contact with a person from the countryside, in a situation with possibilities for
genuine communication; in each, for various reasons, the opportunity is
wasted.

"The
Postmaster" has particular importance as the first of
Tagore's East Bengal stories to speak out clearly with the
voice of Rabindranath, the writer of modern short fiction. The genesis of the story is
well documented. At Shelaidaha the estate post office was in the
Tagore house. The only circumstance transferred literally
to the story is that the Shelaidaha postmaster was a lonely
young man from Calcutta. In 1936 Rabindranath recalled that the Shelaidaha
postmaster "didn't like his surroundings. He thought he was
forced to live among barbarians. And his desire to get leave was so intense that he even
thought of resigning from his post. He used to relate to me the happenings of village
life. He thus gave me material for a character in my story:
Postmaster."9 To this rusticated young man, Rabindranath
added details from the rural scene and a village orphan waif like so many he had
observed during his travels from one part of the estate to
another.

The Shelaidaha
postmaster had Rabindranath to talk to. The fictional
postmaster has no
one:

 Our
postmaster belonged to Calcutta. He felt like a fish out of
water in this remote village. ...The men employed in the indigo factory had no leisure;
moreover, they were hardly desirable companions for decent folk. Nor is a Calcutta boy
an adept in the art of associating with others. Among strangers he appears either proud
or ill at ease. At any rate, the postmaster had but little
company; nor had he much to do.At times he tried his hand at writing a verse or two.
That the movement of the leaves and the clouds of the sky were enough to fill life with
joy--such were the sentiments to which he sought to give expression. But God knows that
the poor fellow would have felt it as the gift of a new life, if some genie of the
Arabian Nights had in one night swept away the trees, leaves and
all, and replaced them with a macadamised road, hiding the clouds from view with rows of
tall houses.

In The Merchant of Venice, why does Antonio never smile?

Shakespeare never reveals why Antonio is so
melancholy--even from the play's beginning.  Personally, I believe that his depression
results from loneliness and from his realizing that he has spent his life making money
and belittling his competition (Shylock) and has nothing to show for it. Even though
Antonio seems to be well-respected and considers Bassanio a friend, the audience must
wonder if he has any true friends.  Bassanio is always asking something from Antonio,
and the only time that he tries to help Antonio is when Antonio is put in the dangerous
position of forfeiting a pound of flesh (a position that he is in because of his own
foolishness and because of Bassanio's borrowing money from
him).

Similarly, at the end of the play when Antonio's
suggestion for Shylock is upheld and all the couples are reunited, Antonio has no one. 
Granted, he still has his wealth, but he has no one to share it with, not even a
friend.  I think that Antonio realizes that he is not unlike Shylock, someone whom he
constantly berated and disdained. For, like Shylock, Antonio is wifeless, childless, and
perhaps even a little faithless after the trial.

What is meant by flashbulb memory?

Flash bulb memory refers to a recollection of events
around the time when people are witness to something that involves them emotionally in a
strong way. Examples of these could be something that has a lot of consequence for the
person or which is very surprising, shocking or disturbing in
nature.

During these events people are able to vividly
recall where it occurred, what was happening when they heard or saw it, who told them
about it, how they and others around them reacted and what happened
subsequently.

Flashbulb memories are very deep and are
usually not forgotten even after a long duration of time.

What clues does Harper Lee give to show Scout who the real countrymen are in To Kill a Mockingbird?

I'm not sure I understand your question, but I assume you
are talking about the group of citizens who attempt to release Tom Robinson from the
jail in Chapter 15 of To Kill a
Mockingbird.

Atticus is warned about this
possibility at the beginning of the chapter when a group of concerned neighbors visits
him at his house. Jem and Scout only hear part of the conversation, but they realize it
is something serious since

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In Maycomb, grown men stood outside in the front
yard for only two reasons: death and politics. I wondered who had
died.

Link Deas tells Atticus
that it is " 'that Old Sarum bunch I'm worried about.' " Later, inside, Atticus mentions
the Ku Klux Klan, and Scout seems to know a little about the group from a previous
altercation in Maycomb. Scout seems mostly clueless about the earlier meeting, but Jem
tells her that " 'I'm scared.' " When the children meet up with Atticus at the jail the
next evening, she sees that most of them are "strangers"--"cold-natured" and dressed in
overalls. But she does recognize Mr. Cunningham--Walter Cunningham's father. She knows
that most of the Cunninghams are farmers who live in the country outside the city
limits. She innocently engages him in a conversation, and the men eventually leave. She
has no idea that they are a lynch mob bent on freeing (and then probably hanging) Tom
Robinson, and that her little talk with Cunningham may have saved Atticus from taking a
beating--and Tom's life as well.

Did Judy Blume write the story, Forever..., because it is from her own life?

Apparently, none of the content of Judy Blume's
controversial teen novel, Forever, was based on any of her own
experiences. It appears to be a true work of fiction. However, the author is on the
record concerning how the book originated. According to Ms. Blume, her daughter, Randy,
requested a tale about two "nice kids who have sex without either of them having to
die." In earlier books her daughter had read, the girl who had sex "was always
punished." Blume wanted to publish a story where true love existed in a beautiful way,
without lies, detachment, abortions, irresponsibility and "ruined
lives."

"I
wanted to present another kind of story--one in which two seniors in high school fall in
love, decide together to have sex, and act
responsibly."

Unsurprisingly,
Forever (1975) became one of Blume's most popular novels and, like many
others, found its way on to the banned books list in many school libraries because of
the frank content.

How is Kant's "Categorical Imperative" view different from Mill's utilitarianism?

The major difference here is that Mill's utilitarianism is
a consequentialist theory of morals while Kant's is emphatically not.  Mill says that
the morality of an action is determined by looking at the impacts that it has on
people.  By contrast, Kant says that the morality of an action is determined by the
intention behind it.

To Mill, an action is moral if it
brings a net gain in happiness to people.  The intention behind the action is
irrelevant.  Kant's categorical imperative says that the actor must always act in such a
way that the rule behind the action could be made into a universal
law.

To Mill, an action could be moral even if the person
taking it was trying to do something bad.  To Kant, an action could be moral even if it
ended up creating bad effects.  This is the major difference between these two
views.

How has DNA technology improved methods of identification?fact

One of the newest processes used of establishing identity
of persons is DNA Fingerprinting. This process uses analysis of genetic material
contained in some substances such as blood, hair, or semen to identify the person from
whom these substances have come.

DNA is the genetic
material, called deoxyribonucleic acid present in most cells of living organisms. The
DNA structure varies greatly from person to person, and it is highly unlikely that DNA
structure of two person will be exactly alike. However the variation in DNA structures
is not random. Rather thee is close resemblance in DNA structure of a person with his
parents, children and siblings. Utilizing these characteristics of DNA, the technique of
DNA fingerprinting analyses and classifies the structure of DNA extracted from evidence.
This pattern can then be compared with similar pattern of known person to identify the
original source of the evidence.

This techniques is used
for various purposes such as identifying criminals or victims of crimes. This techniques
is also used to establish parentage of of people.

In the 1954 version of Lord of The Flies, where is the quote, "The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away?"

The 1954 version of William Golding's Lord of
the Flies is the first edition and there have been many editions since and
two movies; one in 1963 and another in 1990. The book's ability to expose human nature
and its failings, regardless of the generation in which the story takes place, ensures
that this novel is a piece of classic literature. 

By the
time the story reaches chapter five, Beasts from Water, the boys have certainly faced
many uncertainties and difficulties. In chapter one, there is the conch and all it
stands for; good order and civilization;  and there is Ralph, the natural leader. In
chapter two, with no "grown ups," and having established that the island is
"uninhabited," there is a need for shelter and a rescue fire. There is also the first
mention of a "beastie," a "snake-thing," and Jack's ironic comment that "After all,
we're not savages. We're English..." Things are already showing signs of getting out of
control, such as the fire and the presumed loss of the "littlun" with the mark on his
face. 

In chapter three, Jack begins to unsettle the group
with talk of meat and is anxious to make his first "kill." The rescue seems secondary to
Jack and his hunters. Jack, in chapter four, paints his face to camouflage himself and
is delighted that he looks like "an awesome stranger." He has neglected the fire and
there is no way, therefore, of alerting a passing ship to their whereabouts. He has
however, killed his first pig. 

Now believing that the
beast may come out of the sea, there is much discussion and even the possibility that
the beast is "a ghost." Ralph is anxious to "stick to the rules" but talk of the beast
and the approaching darkness have intensified the problem, at this point in chapter
five, and Ralph feels despondent as he considers: "The world, that understandable and
lawful world, was slipping away."

How does Shakespeare capture Juliet's awkwardness and isolation from Paris at Friar Laurence's cell in Romeo and Juliet?

In this scene (Act IV scene 1), Juliet's lack of interest
in Paris--and in fact her frustration with his professions of love--is apparent in her
ambiguous speech.  Juliet's comments upon finding Paris with the Friar may sound
courteous on the surface, but they mostly serve as a screen for her true feelings.  If
you look closely you will find that many of Juliet's lines have a double meaning, often
revealing her true indifference to Paris and her loyalty to
Romeo.

After expressing concern that Juliet's tears have
marred her face, Paris adds, "They face is mine, and thou hast slandered it." Juliet
replies, "It may be so, for it is not mine own" (ln
37).

In the above line Juliet admits she is not being
herself--that she has presented a false face to Paris.  The dashes that follow indicate
that she quickly turns to the Friar as a means to escape further conversation with
Paris.

What is an explanation of Macbeth's reaction to the new prophecies in Act IV Scene I?I'm trying to translate these lines, 125-137, to reenact in a...

Macbeth sees the final apparition after seeing three
apparitions that frankly make him feel very confident. He feels indestructable when the
apparition notes that no one of woman birth can harm him and it won't be until the woods
come to the castle that he die. It seems as though Macbeth may be
immortal!

However, this final apparition plays on Macbeth's
biggest fear, that he will have no children succeed him as king. Remember, the witches
told Banquo that Banquo's kids will be king. Well, here the apparition shows ghostly
figure after ghostly figure that all resemble Banquo. Each of these men hold scepters or
royal staffs indicating their place on a throne. Finally at the end of this line, Banquo
appears, bloodied, smiling, and mocking Macbeth. Although Macbeth had Banquo killed,
Banquo still gets what Macbeth was trying to prevent, a long line of
royalty.

Throughout the announcement of what he visually
sees, he begs the "filthy hags" or the witches to explain what is going on. This tone he
takes with them shows his fear.

Verify if sin25+sin35=cos5

Supposing that 25,35 and 5 are degrees, we'll transform
the sum of matching trigonometric functions into a
product.

We'll use the
formula:

sin a + sin b = 2sin
[(a+b)/2]*cos[(a-b)/2]

According to this formula, we'll
obtain:

sin 25 + sin 35 = 2sin
[(25+35)/2]*cos[(25-35)/2]

sin 25 + sin 35 = 2sin
[(60)/2]*cos[(-10)/2]

sin 25 + sin 35 = 2sin
30*cos(-5)

Since the cosine function is even, we'll
get:

sin 25 + sin 35 = 2sin
30*cos(5)

But sin 30 =
1/2

sin 25 + sin 35 =
(2/2)*cos(5)

sin 25 + sin 35 = cos
5

What is Firs' attitude about emancipation of the serfs and why, in The Cherry Orchard?

In this play, it is important to consider how Firs is
compared with his grandson, Yasha. Firs is portrayed as the faithful servant of the
Ranevsky family, who, because of his deep and enduring loyalty to the family,
voluntarily opted to stay after the emancipation of the serfs. He longs for a return to
the past, and simpler, less complicated times, and therefore is shown to be opposed to
the emancipation of the serfs because of the profound changes it has brought to society.
His existence is defined by his relationship to the Ranevsky family, and he is unable to
cope without that relationship. Of course, his son, Yasha, completely disagrees with
this position as he is a character who longs for social mobility and intends to exploit
to the full the options that are now open to him because of the emancipation of the
serfs. Thus Firs is against the emancipation because it represents a massive social
change that he is unable to embrace or to comprehend. He, like other characters in this
excellent play, dwells only in the past and is not able to face the changes of the
present.

How Does George Orwell adress the topic of The Empirical Habit of Thought?

The term "empirical" was originally used to refer to
certain ancient Greek practitioners of medicine (Empiric school) who rejected adherence
to the dogmatic doctrines of the day (Dogmatic school), preferring instead to rely on
the observation of phenomena as perceived in experience Nineteen Eighty-Four (sometimes
written 1984) is a 1948 dystopian novel written by George Orwell, about an oligarchical,
collectivist society. Life in the Oceanian province of Airstrip One is a world of
perpetual war, pervasive government surveillance, and incessant public mind control. The
individual is always subordinated to the state, and it is in part this philosophy which
allows the Party to manipulate and control humanity. In Chapter IX of the book , Orwell
describes the empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of
the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc: “ There
was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole
world, you were not mad.”The face of Big Brother faded away again and instead the three
slogans of the Party stood out in bold capitals: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH Emmanuel Goldstein's book, The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical
Collectivism explains that the super-states' ideologies are alike and that the public's
ignorance of this fact is imperative so that they might continue believing in the
detestability of the opposing ideologies. Positive nationalism: Oceanians' perpetual
love for Big Brother, who may be long dead or even non-existent from the beginning;
Celtic Nationalism, Neo-Toryism and British Israelism are (as Orwell argues) defined by
love. Negative nationalism: Oceanians' perpetual hatred for Emmanuel Goldstein, who like
Big Brother may or may not exist; Stalinism, Anti-Semitism and Anglophobia are defined
by hatred. Transferred nationalism: In mid-sentence an orator changes the enemy of
Oceania; the crowd instantly transfers their hatred to the new enemy. Transferred
nationalism swiftly redirects emotions from one power unit to another
.

What do Piggy's glasses and the conch have in common in the book, specifically for Chapters 1-2?

Both the glasses and the conch serve as a reminder of the
civilized world that the boys in Lord of the Flies have left
behind. Piggy's glasses serve two purposes: They allow him to see clearly, and they
serve as the all-important fire-starter to keep the signal smoke going. The conch also
symbolizes democracy and civilized behavior, allowing the person who holds it to be
heard and his words recognized by the others. They also become important objects for
whoever possesses them. When the boys take the glasses from Piggy, they leave him weaker
and unable to see clearly; the new owners then possess the power of the
fire.

Describe the home of Krebs in "Soldier's Home."

We aren't given much physical description of the home of
Krebs in this story, but it is clear that the home is a source of conflict in the story,
as it does not feel like "home" and represents many of the emotions and desires that
Krebs has now rejected because of his wartime
experiences.

Note the way that initially at least the home
starts off as a tranquil place for Krebs. He is allowed to follow his own routine,
getting up later, reading books, playing pool, practising his clarinet and enjoying the
worship of his younger sisters and love of his mother. However, as the story progresses,
we see that his mother and father are increasingly uncomfortable about their son's
inability to "settle down," until his mother confronts him about their concerns
openly:

"Your
father is worried, too," his mother went on. "He thinks you have lost yoru ambition,
that you haven't got a definite aim in life. Charley Simmons, who is just your age, has
a god job and is going to be married. The boys are all settling down; they're all
determined to get somewhere; you can see that boys like Charley Simmons are on their way
to being a real credit to the
community."

Note how Charley
Simmons is contrasted and used as a foil for Krebs. Simmons has a job, is going to get
married and is "settlign down." Simmons represents a normalcy that is completely alien
to Krebs who desires to do anything he can to avoid commitment. Such pressure turns the
mood of the "home" of Krebs into one that makes it not a home, and it is highly
revealing that the final paragraph refers to his abode not as his "home" but as the
"house," reflecting the way in which to Krebs, his home has become merely a house. The
asssociations that we have of a "home" and warmth, security and safety are now gone and,
in its stead, Krebs is left with an impersonal world.

Discuss the Taliban's stoning the adulterers in the soccer arena in The Kite Runner.

The ultimate disgrace in the stoning of the couple is not
the act of adultery.  Rather, it is the rule of the Taliban.  There is much in way of
hypocrisy that is shown.  The players have to play soccer in long pants, while the
Taliban official who is stoning the couple to death is wearing "John Lennon style
sunglasses," a reflection of Western fashion by a member of a supposedly traditionalist
regime.  Additionally, Assef is the official who is stoning the couple for their sins. 
Yet, Assef is probably the most impure character in the novel, embodying how the
individuals in the position of power are not worthy of their position and abusing
it:

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Assef, Hassan's rapist and the bully
who becomes a high-ranking Taliban official, embodies the consequences of the abuse of
power for power's sake and the violence and repression of the Taliban regime. Assef is a
sociopath who thrives in an atmosphere of chaos and
subjugation.

It
becomes a very fitting statement that the most impure of characters is speaking about
"purity" of the couple in stoning them to death.  Hosseini does an excellent job of
making the case that the Taliban should be one of the last people to speak of impurity
and transgression with all that has been done on their watch.

In The Namesake, how does Gogol's relationship to his family influence the development of his identity?

Gogol's identity is enhanced by the fluid relationship he
holds with his family.  At first, Gogol's identity is enhanced with distancing himself
from his family.  This is seen in the choices he makes and the overall demeanor he
possesses:

This change in name and
Gogol's going to Yale, rather than following his father’s footsteps to MIT, sets up the
barriers between Gogol and his family. The distance, both geographically and
emotionally, between Gogol and his parents continues to increase. He wants to be
American not Bengalese. He goes home less frequently, dates American girls, and becomes
angry when anyone calls him Gogol... He is rather stiff personality-wise, perpetually
angry or else always on the lookout for someone to make a stereotypical comment about
his background.

In this light, Gogol
defines his identity against that of his family.  It is within this frame of reference
that Gogol constructs who he is in the world.  His relationship with Maxine is an
extension of this.  With the death of his father and the reevaluation of his behavior,
his family plays a role in his identity as he spends more time with them, even
entertaining the idea of marrying the Bengalese girls, Moushumi.  When this relationship
sours, Gogol's embrace of his name with the reading of a collection of the writer's work
helps to establish that Gogol is more of a centered human being as he has made peace
with who he is in the world, something that includes embracing his own familial
background.  He has merged his identity with
theirs.

Discussing slavery in the colonial period - who were the slaves, what work did they do and how did they differ from indentured servants?

All slaves during the Colonial period were African
American. The distinction between indentured servitude and slavery was a legal one:
indentured servants were obligated for a number of years; slavery was for life. Children
of indentured servants were free; children of slaves were themselves slaves. After the
indenture was served, former servants were entitled to land of their own, typically 50
acres, as if they had paid passage across the Atlantic. Some few did quite well; in fact
Benjamin Franklin's mother came to the U.S. as an indentured servant and later married
her master.

Both slaves and indentured servants were
treated brutally. They were ill fed and clothed, and were frequently beaten. Both tended
to run away in time; but could be legally recaptured. Both were subject to horrendous
treatment if captured; however the Indentured Servant might see the time of his
servitude extended.

Work for both was primarily
agricultural. Slavery and indentured servitude thrived in the South because of large
scale production of tobacco, rice, indigo, etc. Some few slaves served as household
servants, but this was rare. Others worked as tanners, blacksmiths, etc. Some few slaves
were extant in all the colonies, but the practice was most prevalent in the South;
because the climate, soil, and agricultural practices lent itself to
slavery.

Indentured servitude had been the common practice
in the early Colonial days; however with improved economic conditions in England and a
rebellion of mostly former indentured servants led by Nathaniel Bacon, slavery became
more commonplace, and eventually superseded indentured
servitude.

What is a good element to compare/contrast in the poems "The Flea" by Donne and "Porphyria's Lovers" by Browning?A most important point relating to...

I would look at the comparison, or metaphor, created
between sex and violence in "The Flea." First, the flea bites both of them. Their blood
is intermixed in the flea and this is the speaker’s rationalization that they should be
intimate since their fluids are already together. When she kills the flea, the speaker
indicates that this is a murder of three: the flea and the two of them. When the flea
dies, the speaker concludes that since he and she have not been diminished in any way,
that their love is also undiminished. Therefore, premarital or merely physical intimacy
won’t diminish their love or their lives. There is also the indication that this
sacrifice of the flea has proven that any intimate act is not sacrilegious. This is all
part of the speaker’s rationalization.

In “Porphyria’s
Lover,” the speaker strangles Porphyria in order to immortally preserve their love. The
speaker in “The Flea” goes through all these rationalizations to convince his lover of
his objective. He even uses the violent act of killing the flea as evidence for his
position. Similarly, at the end of “Porphyria’s Lover,” the speaker notes that “God has
not said a word!” He says that the lack of God's retribution proves his actions are not
to be condemned. So, just like the squashed flea, this violence is not to be
condemned.

You could go with the metaphor angle. The
violence of the flea bites, the flea’s death and Porphyria’s strangulation are all used
as evidence of the purity of love. In other words, both speakers use these violent acts
to prove and sustain their love. Clearly, they are deluded by their own passions and
they will use these metaphors of love to prove the rightness of their love and
desire.

In "The Yellow Wallpaper," discuss the (social, mental and physical) "traps" that the narrator has to endure.

In the short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," by Charlotte
Perkins Gilman, the circumstances surrounding the protagonist's recent birthing of a
baby, and her ensuing post-partum depression, affect her mental, physical and social
well-being.

First, the unnamed protagonist is brought by
her husband, along with her sister-in-law and her new baby, to a summer home where the
woman is supposed to do nothing: she is not allowed any stimulation at all. Her mental
state is not treated, but ignored, and her husband controls his wife. Ironically, part
of her problem is that her husband is a
doctor.

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...and
perhaps…perhaps that is one reason I do not
get well faster. You see, he does not believe I am
sick.

John "takes all care
from me," by controlling every aspect of her life. She tries not to think of her
problem, but she has little to distract her. She believes that some
kind of work would help her, but it is forbidden. She has nothing to do. John does not
allow her even to write, so she keeps her diary in
secret.

Her room is at the top of the house, once a
nursery—then a playroom and gymnasium. There are bars on the windows, certainly once put
there for the safety of children, but now it too much resembles a
prison.

The woman's illness is the result of several
factors—it take its toll. She is physically exhausted as her situation and her
"nervousness" chip away at her. Keeping things secret (like the diary) tires her. She
reports that it is exhausting to try "to dress and entertain, and order things." She
feels like a burden to her husband, and admits that the situation is difficult to
manage. As for her husband...

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He knows there is no reason to suffer and that
satisfies him.

She thinks
about the baby, glad her sister-in-law is so good with him, but she is not allowed to
see the infant—because he makes her
nervous.

Mentally, the woman's
depression worsens because of the reasons already mentioned, as well as because of the
wallpaper. She wants it gone, and her husband
had planned to change it, but then—like a tyrant trying to prove
something, John changes his mind.

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…afterward he said I was letting it get the
better of me, and that nothing was worse for a nervous patient than to give way to such
fancies.

The woman tries to
"fight" the peeling yellow paper, but John decides to take a "tough love" approach,
making her face her "fancies." Her mental condition begin to noticeably change. When
they first arrive she says of her room:

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I should hate it myself if I should have to live
in this room long.

With more
time spent there, she says it isn't so bad, but the
paper:

It dwells in
my mind so.

John's constant
control forces the wife to remain in that room, and she imagines
she sees things in the wallpaper—becoming obviously obsessed by
it.

Her depression worsens on a social level. She sees
little of her husband—as a doctor, John is often gone a great deal, during the days and
sometimes at night. She cannot spend time with the baby. She spends too much time alone.
She doesn't take callers, or sit and sew with her
sister-in-law.

All of this leads to her deepening
depression. No one notices—not even John. She believes he does everything out of love,
but it's a need to control. Then the smell comes, and the faces with their eyes appear
in the paper. The woman rips down the paper, and soon creeps along the walls. In her
descent to madness, she doesn't even know John, but is freed from reality
and the paper—trapped by depression and
insanity.

Overall, what weaknesses led to the collapse of the Qing dynasty?

There were at least two main weaknesses that led to the
collapse of the Qing (or Ch'ing) Dynasty ( href="http://www.artsmia.org/art-of-asia/history/dynasty-ching.cfm">1644-1912). 
The government was incompetent and corrupt and its military was too weak.  These two
interrelated problems led to its fall.

Over the centuries,
the population of China grew rapidly, putting more pressure on the government to police
and care for the population.  However, the government did not expand or modernize. 
Instead, it kept to its old ways which had been more adapted to a smaller population. 
Thus, as the population grew and social and economic problems resulted, the government
was unable to deal with those problems.

At the same time,
the weak military allowed foreign countries to dominate China wherever they met.  The
Opium Wars were the clearest sign of this.  This domination by the West disenchanted
many Chinese.

Overall, then, the government was too
corrupt, ineffective, and weak to police, protect, and care for its growing population. 
This led to widespread dissatisfaction and the eventual collapse of the
dynasty.

What was Jem's punishment? What did Jem learn from his encounter with Mrs. Dubose and following her death?

Jem destroys all of Mrs. Dubose's camellia bushes, which
she adores, because she is an unlikeable person who is constantly criticizing Scout and
Jem and berating Atticus for defending Tom Robinson, who is African-American. To punish
him, Atticus makes Jem read to her every day for a
month.

At the beginning of Chapter 11, Scout narrates the
following about Mrs. Dubose:

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"Jem and I hated her. If she was on the porch
when we passed, we would be raked by her wrathful gaze, subjected to ruthless
interrogation regarding our behavior, and given a melancholy prediction on what we would
amount to when we grew up, which was always nothing" (page numbers vary according to the
edition).

Mrs. Dubose seems
like a hateful woman, and she regards Scout and Jem as entirely
unpromising. 

When Jem has to read to her, Scout and Jem
regard her with distaste. Her house smells bad, and she has saliva on her mouth. She
also spends a great deal of time berating the children. After Jem spends a month reading
to her, his penance is over. 

Atticus tells Scout and Jem a
short while later that Mrs. Dubose has died and that she was addicted to the drug
morphine but kicked her addiction before she died. Atticus explains in Chapter
11: 

“She
said she was going to leave this world beholden to nothing and nobody. Jem, when you’re
sick as she was, it’s all right to take anything to make it easier, but it wasn’t all
right for her. She said she meant to break herself of it before she died, and that’s
what she did” (page numbers vary according to the
edition).

Mrs. Dubose could
have taken morphine until she died, but she decided to go through a great deal of pain
and agony by choosing to quit. Jem's reading to her to help her pass the time and forget
about her pain. Through his experience with Mrs. Dubose, Jem realizes that even people
who seem detestable have secret struggles that others don't know about and that everyone
deserves empathy and understanding, even those who don't at first seem likable or
understandable.