What is the first thing Daisy says in The Great Gatsby; in what different ways could you interpret her comment?

The first thing Daisy says in the novel is when she tells
Nick on the phone that their move to East Egg was a permanent
one.

"This was
a permanent move, said Daisy over the telephone, but I didn't believe it--I had no
sight into Daisy's heart but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking a little
wistfully for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football
game."

Nick makes the call
not long after his arrival in West Egg. The purpose was to arrange a dinner date
with Daisy, his cousin, and Tom, whom he had known in
college.

Nick expresses doubt about Daisy's veracity and
mentions that he did not know her heart, "I had no sight into Daisy's heart ...".
Although Nick focuses on Tom in the rest of the extract, the remark is typical of Daisy.
She has the tendency to say things as a matter of convenience and is
careless in what she says. There is no real meaning to her words, since she does not
feel obligated to attach any real purpose to her remarks. Daisy is spoilt, uncaring and
reckless. She is shallow and
materialistic. 

Daisy wanted immediate
resolutions to her problems and so it was when Gatsby, after a month of romance with
her, went to war and did not return soon enough for her. Since she wanted resolution,
she married Tom, discarding Jay. Although she seemed regretful later, she still went
through with the wedding.

After Jay's confrontation with
Tom, she acts in a similar fashion when she tells Jay that he "wants too much" and that
she loved him too. It is Tom who blurts out that Daisy is lying. Daisy later agrees with
Jay that she would be leaving Tom. She does this with "visible effort". However, it soon
becomes clear that she has no such intention, since she, after the accident in which
Myrtle is killed, seems to plot with Tom.

After Jay's
murder, she leaves for some obscure destination with Tom, providing no contact details,
typically indicating how little credence even she attaches to what she
says.

Would you exactly identify the necessary process of foreign policy decision making? What are the steps to be taken when foreign policy is going to...

Agreed in that there is no one way in which foreign policy
decisions are made, although the Constitution clearly designates the President as being
in charge of this area of government.  In the present day, the President relies on a 
group of key Cabinet advisors to help him with foreign policy advice.  They meet,
usually daily, in a room in the White House called the Situation Room.  One type of
decision making process within that room might look something like
this:

1) The CIA Director presents the latest information
on a situation

2)  The National Security Advisor assesses
the threat to the United States in that situation

3)  The
Secretary of State gives advice about what the US decision/position should
be

4)  The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs reviews what our
military options are

5)  The Secretary of Defense advises
what our military posture in this situation should be

6) 
The President makes a decision on a course of
action

Sometimes this process happens several times a day. 
Sometimes the Vice President will be in the room to offer his perspective and so he will
be up to speed on the latest situations in case he has to take over for the
President.

Why/how is theme important to understand the book Eyes of the Emperor written by Graham Salisbury?

Keep in mind here that theme means a
core subject or main idea of the book.  This particular novel, as a work of young adult
fiction, draws on a couple of universal social and historical
themes.

The book is similar to Snow Falling on
Cedars (Gutterson) and All Quiet on the Western Front in
its realistic portrayal of political and historical events/realities which shed a
negative light both on our countries government, and the institution of
war.

Some themes which contributed to this negativity in
Eyes of the Emperor
include:

• The a graphic focus on the
  prejudice which exists in America's history (specifically here, for Japanese American
  soldiers in WW2).


• Human destruction (emotional and
  physical) as a result of the military.


• The struggle to
  maintain a sense of pride and basic humanity in the eyes of adversity and
  prejudice.

Some of the more positive themes
which are also present in the book
include:

• Comaraderie and relationships which are
  built only through enduring a similar struggle.


• The
  growth and change which occurs as the result of overcoming adversity and
  challenges.

What are themes of the short story "The Landlady" by Roald Dahl?

Theme refers to a universal idea or message that runs
throughout a story. A story may have more than one theme, or a major (central) theme and
other sub- or alternative themes, which may or may not be linked to the central
theme.

We find a number of themes in the story,
The Landlady, by Roald Dahl.

The
central theme is deception. The landlady appears to be a
good soul, kind-hearted, caring, generous and, most importantly, benign. She easily
deceives Billy Weaver and he is taken in by her seemingly innocuous appearance and
gentle, kind words as illustrated in the following
lines:

She
was about forty-five or fifty years old, and the moment she saw him, she gave him
a warm welcoming smile.
"Please come in,” she
said pleasantly.

She had a
round pink face and very
gentle blue
eyes.

She seemed terribly
nice. She looked exactly like the mother of one’s best school friend
welcoming one into the house to stay for the Christmas
holidays.

She looked up at him out of the corners of her
eyes and gave him another gentle little
smile.

After all, she was not only
harmless – there was no question about that – but
she was also quite obviously a kind and generous
soul.

As
the story progresses, the reader becomes horribly aware that the gentle landlady is
anything but. She is a cold and calculating serial killer, who carefully selects her
victims and like, a spider weaving its pernicious web, carefully ensnares her chosen
victim by being especially kind and caring. The unsuspecting Billy Weaver is soon
trapped and when he drinks her almond-flavoured tea, we the readers, realise to our
dismay, that that is probably the last cup of anything he will ever
have.

Another theme which features strongly
is irony.

There are many
examples of both verbal and situational irony featured in the story. The example of
deception mentioned above, is one such. A few other examples from the text are the
following:

readability="5">

Certainly it would be more comfortable than The
Bell and Dragon.

The fact
that Billy was impressed by the pleasant image of the apartment, with its
yellow chrysenthamums, the fireplace, the parrot and the 'pretty little dachshund', is
ironic, since this seemingly comfortable adobe was nothing like it seemed. It was a
place of murder most foul. He would have been better off going to The Bell and
Dragon after all. 

readability="9">

He had never stayed in any boarding-houses, and,
to be perfectly honest, he was a tiny bit frightened of
them.

The
irony here is obvious. If Billy had acted on his fear, he would have saved his
life.

“You
see, it isn’t very often I have the pleasure of taking a visitor into my
little
nest.”

Neither
Billy or the reader, at this juncture, is aware of the irony contained in these words.
The reader only realise later, the implication of what the landlady says here. her
boarding house is a veritable nest for her victims. She preserves and stores their
bodies there, just as she had done with her dog and her
parrot.

...
I'm inclined to be just a teeny weeny bit choosy and
particular – if you see what I
mean.”

The verbal irony lies
in the fact that the landlady knows exactly what she means,
but the unfortunate Billy does not. She carefully selects her
victims.

Thirdly, naivete (or inexperience) is also a
theme.

Since Billy is only seventeen and therefore lacks
much knowledge of the world, he is quite gullible. If he had known more, he would have
definitely noticed the tell-tale signs of the landlady's evil and her intent, such
as:

... and
her blue eyes travelled slowly all the way down the length of Billy's body, to his feet,
and then up again.

He noticed that the bedspread had been
taken off the bed, and that the bedclothes had been neatly turned back on one side, all
ready for someone to get in.

“I’m so glad you appeared,”
she said, looking earnestly into his face. “I was beginning to get
worried.”

He noticed that she had small, white, quickly
moving hands, and red finger-nails.

But I think he was a
trifle shorter than you are, in fact I’m sure he was, and his teeth weren’t quite so
white. You have the most beautiful teeth, Mr Weaver, did you know
that?”

There wasn’t a blemish on his body.”
“A
what?” Billy said.
“His skin was just like a
baby’s.”

It is tragic that
Billy hadn't noticed the particular and very specific attention that the landlady paid
him and that she was so precise when speaking about her earlier guests, or even that her
wearing red nail polish was incongruous. In his naive estimation,
she

appeared
to be slightly off her rocker ... a little
dotty.

Poor
Billy.

How would the rest of the play change if Lady Macbeth were also be able to see Banquo's ghost?Macbeth by William Shakespeare

The fact that only Macbeth perceives the ghost of Banquo
in Act III, Scene 4 indicates to many critics that Banquo's ghost is the embodiment of
Macbeth's guilt, a manifestation of his sub-conscious, much as the bloody dagger of Act
I was before he killed Duncan.  Thus, the ghost is employed by Shakespeare to indicate
the paranoia of Macbeth, a paranoia which will lead him to commit other rash acts such
as his stating before Ross and Lennox and the other
lords,

Thou canst not say I did it: never shake

Thy gory locks at me. (3.4.63-64)

If
Lady Macbeth were to see this ghost also, she may not have encouraged Macbeth to not
think of the ghosts; she may not have been able to excuse Macbeth's behavior so glibly. 
However, whether these two factors would make a great difference upon the future events
of the plots is dubious.  For, Macbeth has already aroused the suspicions of the other
lords of Scotland with his words that are quoted above even if his paranoia were reduced
by Lady Macbeth's having seen the ghost as well. Besides, it is soon after this scene
that Lady Macbeth who is not as forceful in the last two acts as she is in the first
three, herself succumbs to the agonies of her own conscience in Act V.  Therefore, mad
as she becomes, Lady Macbeth can alter what Harold Bloom terms "devouring time" no
better than can Macbeth himself, and neither is sure of anything but the present
moment.  And, in the final act, Lady Macbeth loses her certainly on even that as Macbeth
loses his hold upon his reign.  There is no character who has power of mind over the
universe of death in Shakespeare' play.

In chapter 23-24 ,Discuss Hester and Dimmesdale as pawns of fate?The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In William Shakespeare's Julius
Caesar, Cassius tells Brutus,

readability="9">

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our
stars,
But in ourselves, that we are
underlings."

This astute
observation of Brutus holds true for Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale, as well. 
While it was out of Hester's control that her husband abandoned her, and while it is
chance that she and Dimmesdale possess the passionate natures that they do, it has
certainly been their choice to fall in love and consummate this love.  So, since they
are responsible for their own predicaments, it does not follow that Fate makes them
victims.

Nevertheless, Hester and Dimmesdale do fall
victims. But, it is not to Fate; rather, they are the victims of the cruel doctrine of
Puritanism, a doctrine which does not permit sin. Since Hester's sin can never be
forgiven, she lives in ignominy with the scarlet letter marking her as an adultress; in
addition, she suffers great anguish from having kept secret from Dimmesdale that
Chillingworth is her husband.  And, with his secret sin whose ignominy he hides in his
heart, Arthur Dimmesdale suffers both great psychological and spiritual anguish.  This
anguish that Hester and Dimmesdale experience because of the Puritanical law is what
drives them to attempt escape in the hope of finding themselves and resolving their
conflicts.

So, when Hester books passage for herself,
Pearl, and Dimmesdale in the later chapters, she essays for them to escape their
alienated life in the Puritan community by returning to England with the father of her
child, hoping to reclaim happiness.  However, as Chance would have it, in Chapter XXI
Hester learns the devastating news that Roger Chillingworth has booked passage on the
ship on which they have hoped to escape.  Thus, their fates, so to speak, are sealed. 
Still, they are in this position because of the paths which they have taken much, much
earlier in the narrative.

if your given the midpoint= o,-3 and point A= 0,5 algebraically how do you find the other point?

Given the midpoint M(0,-3) . One end point is A(0,5). To
find the other end
point.

Solution:

Given the end
points whose coordinates are (x1,y1) and (x2,y2), the mid point is given by ( x1+x2)/2 ,
(y1+y2)/2. We use this idea when mid point  and one end point is known is
known.

So M(0,-3 ) = ((x1+x2)/2 , (y1+y2)/2)...(1)  Given (
x1, y1) = A(0,5) . To determine (x2,y2). So substituting x1= 0 and y1 = 5 in eq(1), we
get:

M(0,3) = ((0+x2)/2 , (5+y2)). Now equate x coordinates
on both sides  and also do so for y coordinates on both
sides:

0 =(0+x2)/2 . Or x2 =
0

-3 =( 5+y2)/2. Or 5+y2 = -6. So
y2 = -6-5 = -11.

So (x2,y2) =
(0,-11).