Monday, February 4, 2013

What comment could I make about "Roman Fever" by Edith Wharton?

Well, I guess a lot of it depends on what kind of comment
you want to make about this excellent short story by Edith Wharton. Do you wish to focus
on characters, themes or setting for example? Either of these elements will provide you
with ample material to make a "comment," as you put it. For example, if you consider the
relationship between the two women and the conflict that emerges as the story
progresses, you should be able to make a comment on the theme of friendship and how it
is presented in the novel.


Note how the two women are
presented as childhood friends. Yet it is clear that they don't actually know each other
very well, and actually, simmering beneath this longstanding "friendship," lies years of
pent up resentment, anger and jealousy. Note what the narrator tells us about Mrs. Slade
as she imagines the success of her friend's daughter's marriage and the easy and secure
future of her friend:


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Mrs. Slade broke off this prophetic flight with a
recoil of self-disgust. There was no one of whom she had less right to think unkindly
than of Grace Ansley. Would she never cure herself of envying her? Perhaps she had begun
too long ago.



Note how this
"friendship" then is actually built on solid blocks of hidden resentment, envy and
jealousy, which of course all comes out as they survey the "great accumulated wreckage
of passion and splendour" at their feet. This would be one possible comment you could
make, but you also might want to think about setting and how that ties in with the
characters and themes of this great short story.

Sunday, February 3, 2013

What happened to Syme in the story?

IN this story, it appears that Syme ends up getting
killed.  We do not know this for absolutely sure, but it seems like it must have
happened.


First of all, Winston is absolutely sure that
Syme will end up getting killed.  That is because Syme is clearly too smart to stay
alive in this society.  He thinks too much and has too much insight.  So that implies
he's going to die.


At the start of Chapter 8, Syme is gone
from work.  And his name is gone from the list of people on the chess club.  That
implies he is dead.


Then, at start of Part 2, Chapter 6,
O'Brien seems to confirm it by talking about Syme to Winston, but saying he does not
remember his name.  This implies that Syme has become an unperson -- that he never
officially existed.

Trace Huck's troubled conscience in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Identify what his conflict is, what the irony of the conflict is, where it...

Huck is beset by a troubled conscience from early on in
the novel. When he sees his friends and the widow searching for his dead body, Huck
finds himself in a lonesome place. Soon, however, he meets Jim and his real dilemma
begins. 


Jim makes Huck promise not to turn him in to the
authorities and Huck agrees. In this moment, Huck realizes that he is siding with Jim
against society and the laws of that society. 


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People would call me a low-down Abolitionist and
despise me for keeping mum—but that don't make no
difference.



The way that his
culture works in him, Huck believes that crime is equivalent to sin. This leads to a
deep conflict in Huck as he attempts to justify helping Jim escape to freedom throughout
the novel. In all his efforts, he cannot shake the sense that his actions will condemn
him and that helping Jim, a good friend and a nice man, is a
sin. 


Huck folds to this crisis on one occasion, but
changes his mind at the last minute. He leaves Jim on the raft with the intention of
turning him in, then covers for him when questioned by two men on the river. Here, as
later, Huck is faced with what he sees as two paths - act morally according to society
or act morally according to his own sense of right and
wrong. 


As always, Huck chooses to do what he feels is
right. His native sense of morality works more strongly in him, despite the fact that he
cannot disbelieve in society's moral
authority. 


Ultimately, Huck decides to abandon at least
the agonies of conscience because he cannot abandon this sense that society is invested
with true moral authority. He cannot agree with the morality of certain laws, and so he
cannot follow them. He also cannot escape his sense of the religious potency of these
laws. 


The decision to help Jim escape from the Phelps
represents Huck's final acquiescence to the idea that conscience will harass a person no
matter what he does. One must therefore think for oneself and act. This is his
conclusion. 


The situation that describes the last
iteration of Huck's dilemma is ironic for two reasons. First, Jim is already free. Huck
need not agonize about helping him escape. His crisis is real for him, but false in a
circumstantial sense.


Second, from today's perspective, the
institution of slavery is immoral. Helping someone to escape from an immoral imposition
is definitively moral. 

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Is it possible for humans being able to travel faster than the speed of light?

Given our current understanding of physics, it is nowhere
near possible to make anything the size of a human being travel anywhere close to the
speed of light.


The reason for this can be found in
Einstein's famous E = mc^2 equation.  In this equation, E is energy, M is mass and C is
the speed of light.


What this shows is that you would need
a huge amount of energy to make something go at the speed of light.  You would need an
amount of energy equal to the mass of the thing you are trying to move times the speed
of light squared.


This means that you would need an almost
infinite amount of energy -- much more than we are able to
generate.

Can you explain me how to do the Lewis diagram of the Molecular formula CH4 ? and what type of Bond they form?

Carbon has a total of six electrons. Two electrons are
s-type in the first energy level. The next two are s-type in the second energy level,
while the final two are p-type in the second energy level.  However, carbon has the
ability to combine or hybridize the electrons on the second energy level to form what
are called sp^3 hybrids.


Because of this hybridization,
carbon can form four covalent bonds with other elements.  The simplest carbon compound
with four single bonds is methane, CH4 which is your
compound.


To do a Lewis diagram involving carbon, first
write down the carbon atom with one dot at four equal points around the C, showing the
four bonding electrons.  It is convenient to write the dots at 12:00 o'clock, 3:00
o'clock, 6:00 o'clock, and 9:00 o'clock.


Next put one
hydrogen atom (H) with a single dot, next to each of the dots around the carbon atom. 
When you are done you should have four H atoms equally spaced around the central C, with
two dots (bonding electrons) between the C and each of the H's.  And your Lewis diagram
is complete.

How did the characters in Bless, Me Ultima impact Antonio?

Cico, Ultima and Narciso are the three characters that can
be argued to have the strongest impact on Antonio's
views. 


Cico tells Antonio the story of the Golden Carp and
takes Antonio to see it. This experience of nature and the idea of a God of nature both
help to shape and to confuse Antonio's spiritual
outlook.



“If
the golden carp was a god, who was the man on the cross? The Virgin? Was my mother
praying to the wrong
God?”



Ultimately, Antonio's
confusion leads to an enriched perspective and a broader view than he began
with.


Like Cico, Ultima exemplifies a connection to nature
and a humility before nature. She does not instruct Antonio as to what he should
believe, but rather helps to show Antonio what is available to believe, what is
possible, and how to see the world differently. 


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She becomes a mentor to Tony, helping him to
interpret his dreams and negotiate the dangerous terrain of his quest for self
knowledge.



Narciso does not
directly speak much with Antonio, but serves as an example of bravery and other positive
values. Narciso shows Antonio also that reputation is often not founded in reality, as
Narciso turns out to be a noble man despite his reputation as being a weak-willed
drunkard.

Friday, February 1, 2013

Since Brutus has no personal grudge against casser of what must he convince himself before he can take part in casears assassination

In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar,
Brutus is the conspirator that is also a noble Roman and has the good of Rome in mind. 
The other conspirators appear to be motivated by ambition or envy or greed--at least the
ones we get information about.


Brutus, as you say, does not
have a personal grudge against Caesar.  What Brutus must convince himself of is that
Caesar may become a tyrant and turn Rome, if he is crowned emperor, into a dictatorship
instead of a republic.


Brutus weighs the possibilities and
ultimately decides that the risk is not worth taking.  He will not take the chance that
Caesar will become emperor and then a tyrant.  He joins the conspirators in
assassinating Caesar.


Brutus may be wrong or he may be
right, but given the terrible decisions he makes throughout the rest of the play, one
might suspect he decides in error here, as well.

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 ...