Should the good effects of alcohol be promoted?

If there are good effects of alcohol (like the effect that
small amounts of wine are supposed to have on heart health) that can be proven true,
they absolutely should be publicized.  Now, this is not something that the government
should be doing.  The government should not be promoting alcohol, but if there are
true benefits to using alcohol, it would be dishonest and
unethical to ban scholars or even the alcohol industry from publicizing them.  The truth
in such matters should never be banned.

So, I would say
that the good effects of alcohol should be promoted but that it is up to private groups
and not up to the government to promote alcohol.  It would also be wrong for the
government to suppress the truth if there are real benefits (as yet, it is not 100%
clear that there are) to drinking alcohol.

Describe the main setting of the novel. Explain the effect of the setting on the character.Think about expectations/beliefs of the society and how...

Other settings to consider include Auchwitz or Buchenwald.
These are concentration camp locations that left significant marks on the main
character's physical and emotional states. Upon pulling into the first one, Eliezer
recalls the woman's constant references to the great fire images she was
imagining because a great fire burns with a stench that is entirely distinguishable:
human flesh. I cannot think of a more impressionable aspect of setting that would impact
the author. This was disgusting and nauseating. To consider what was happening to the
humanity around him considerably hurt, but prior to their arrival, the thought of the
war and the Jewish removal felt surreal.

Part of his belief
system was not to fight back. This felt counter-human to him, but he went along with
what he was told and did not fight at that point.

In Henrik Ibsen's play, A Doll's House, what are areas in the play where Tovald Helmer's blameworthy behavior is noted? Looking for bad or guilty...

In Henrik Ibsen's play, A Doll's
House, Torvald's in-admirable behavior is brought up several
times.

Though no one speaks of it, Ibsen points out
Torvald's impatience when Rank stops by after the masquerade party. Nora knows that Rank
has been looking into an illness his father had (a wayward, wild-livng man) that seems
to have been passed on to the innocent Rank. When Rank comes by, Torvald is less than a
gracious friend:

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RANK:
(outside)

It's me. May I come in a
moment?

HELMER:
(with quiet irritation)

Oh, what does
he want now? (Aloud.) Hold on...Oh, how nice that you didn't just
pass us by?

One might wonder
if there isn't the slightest bit of sarcasm in Torvald's comment. Then when Nora asks
about the doctor's scientific research, Torvald pompously belittles her capacity to
understand anything serious, treating her like an idiot, when (ironically) she knows so
much more about Rank's illness that Rank's best friend,
Torvald.

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HELMER:

Come
now—little Nora talking about scientific
research!

Another incident is
when Nora and Torvald are "notified" by Rank's card in the mailbox with an black "cross"
on it, that he has left them for good, to lock himself in his rooms to die. Torvald
hardly seems to care.

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HELMER:

You've
heard something? Something he told
you?

NORA:

Yes.
That when those cards came, he'd be  taking his leave of us. He'll shut himself in now
and
die.

HELMER:

Ah,
my poor friend! Of course  I knew he wouldn't ve here much longer. But so soon—And then
to hide himself away like a wounded animal...I simply can't imagine him gone...He with
his suffering and loneliness–like a dark cloud setting off our sunlit happiness. [It's
all about Torvald: what a gross
comparison.]

NORA:

Now
you must read your mail,
Torvald.

HELMER:

...I
want to stay with you
dearest.

NORA:

With
a dying friend on your
mind?

TORVALD:

You're
right...there's ugliness between
us.

Nora has to redirect
Torvald's attention. Returning from the party and Nora's dance of the tarantella,
Torvald has become passionate, eager to be with his wife. Even after learning of his
friend's imminent death, Nora has to remind him that other things are more important in
face of this new development. (I find it strange that he does not offer to go to Rank,
even though Rank told Nora he did not want it.)

Finally,
Torvald's reason for disliking Krogstad is not (as one would expect from a "pillar of
moral virtue" like Helmer) Krogstad's fall from grace—morally and socially—but the fact
that he calls Torvald by his first name:

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HELMER:

There's
something that rules Krogstad right out at the bank as long as I'm the
manager.

NORA:

What's
that?

HELMER:

His
moral failings I could maybe overlook if I had
to—

NORA:

Yes
Torvald, why
not?

HELMER:

...he
was a crony of mine back in my teens—one of those rash friendships that crop up again
and again to embarrass you later in life...we're on a first name basis...[he] makes no
effort at all to hide it in front of the
others.

Torvald's concern is
how Krogstad's sense of familiarity will look to his friends and associates at the
job.

Torvald displays
behaviors throughout the play that show how shallow a person he is: he gives no thought
to the plight of others, he is not at all tolerant or compassionate of other's failings,
he is a poor friend, he treats his wife like a brainless...doll, and he cares more about
what others think than anything else. By the time the play comes to an end, it is hard
to have any sympathy for the man.

What kind of rights did Henrik Ibsen have in mind when he remarked that his play A Doll's House is more about human rights than women's rights?

When Henrik Ibsen attended a meeting of the Norwegian
Association for Women's Rights, Ibsen announced that he "must disclaim the honour of
having consciously worked for women's rights...to me it has been a question of human
rights" href="http://www.helium.com/items/1121047-henrik-ibsen-dolls-house">(Literary
Analysis, Ravenscroft).

When Ibsen made this statement he
was referring to the fact that it did not make sense to him to separate the rights of
women from the rights entitled to all human beings. Ibsen believed that all human beings
were entitled to earn enough money to make a living and take control of their own
financial situations. For instance in A Doll's House, Ibsen used
Christine's poverty to denounce society's control over what sort of jobs women should be
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I). Ibsen also used Nora's difficulty in being able to acquire a loan to
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1). He believed women were capable of making their own financial decisions and
caring for their own financial well-being.

Beyond finances, Ibsen
believed that like all human beings, women were entitled to the right of an education
and the right to have and share their own thoughts and opinions. Ibsen used Nora's
protests of being uneducated and against having to adopt first her father's opinions and
then her husband's to show just how imprisoned women were in his society title="fullbooks.com" href="http://www.fullbooks.com/A-Doll-s-House2.html">(Act
III).

Henrik Ibsen saw society treating women as less than
human beings and it disturbed him greatly. He saw no need to distinguish between the
rights of men vs. women because both sexes were equally human beings and both should be
treated with regards to their basic human rights.

How were people in the 1930s treated jobwise?

Workers in the 1930s faced the economic realities of the
Great Depression and 25% unemployment.  Workers were expendable - easily replaced by any
of the other hundreds of thousands of Americans looking for work.  So wages went down,
it was easier to get fired, work was more temporary in nature and had none of the
insurance or benefits we have come to expect today.

Migrant
agricultural workers came, not from foreign countries, but from economically devastated
US states like Oklahoma and Arkansas.  The migrants were white families looking for any
way to make ends meet.  Pay was low, working conditions were sometimes dangerous or
difficult, and workers had no way to pressure their employers to improve those
conditions.

How much would 125,000 solar panels generate electricity in a country were the daily mean temperaure is 18.6 and precipitation is 55.33 cm per...

This is a problem in scientific estimateion. Since the
problem isn't very specific we will have to use reasonable
numbers.

First we need to estimate how much power this
array might possibly generate.  Since there is no size given for the panels we will
estimate that each panel is 2 sq. meters in area.  This gives 2x12500=25,000 sq.meters
of collecting area.  Panels are typically 10%-15% efficicent, meaning that only a
fraction of the solar energy striking the panel is converted to electrical work.  We
will use the higher 15% estimate.  Solar energy flow (power) is 1000 kW per sq. meter. 
The best we can get out of this array is:

25,000 x 1000 x
.15=3.75x10^6 kW

We will use the usual electrical work unit
of kW-hr.  Now all we need to do is estimate how many hours per day the panels are in
operation over the course of a year.  55.33 cm per year is not a high number of inchs of
precipitation per year (roughly 20 inches/year) and 18.6 C average temperature would
place our panel in the drier midwest climates.  We will assume that on the 365-84=281
days of the year with no precipitation the panels are working all day.  The angle the
Sun strikes the panels is important as the power absorbed goes down with the sine of the
strike angle.  Also the latitude plays a part in that the Sun is not high overhead for
much of the day or the year.  We can estimate that all these factors together might
reduce the power output by 50% without further information.  This means that the total
hours of operation are 281x12x.5=1686 hours per year.  This gives a yearly estimate of
electrical work as:

1686x3.75x10^6=6.3x10^9
kW-hr

The per capita power consumption in the US in 2007
was 13,652 kw-hr per year.  This means that this array can supply yearly power
for

6.3x10^9/13652=463,000 households for an entire year. 
That's seems pretty impressive.

In The Swiss Family Robinson, what good uses did they put the shark's skin to?

In this book, the family takes all sorts of things that
they get from nature and puts them to good use.  For example, at one point, they kill a
porcupine and they end up using its quills for needles and for the tips of arrows, among
other things.  The shark's skin does not get used for anything so vital (at least not
that we are told of).

In Chapter 2, Fritz shoots a shark. 
In Chapter 3, they come across the dead shark and the father tells them to get some of
the skin because it can be used like sandpaper or a file.  However, we never see them
actually use it for that purpose.  Instead, the only time we see them use the skin is
when they wrap it around their legs to help them climb trees more easily in Chapter
7.