Saturday, August 31, 2013

Why did the relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia break down?

In this drama, it is crystal that Hamlet loves Ophelia whereas she avoids declaring her love for him. She is caught up in different serious problems that inhibit her. Hamlet’s love is based on truth and frankness. Before the death of his father he was caught in her love. In his love letters he uses terms of affection. Ophelia discloses it to Laertes and Poloinus.


If we read her words, it seems that she has given her heart to Hamlet, though she may not declare herself, for she had sucked the honey of his vows. Later, her persoanl dejection created a huge reason not to declare her love. For Hamlet and Ophelia, love is changed by the cruel role of circumstance when Hamlet’s father dies and his mother marries his uncle, Claudius.


When the ghost reveals and discloses the truth, Hamlet feels hatred at this nature and transfers his feelings from his mother to all women and hates all women kind. Ophelia betrays Hamlet because Laertes and Polonius were worldly wise and poisoned her mind. Whenever Hamlet comes near to her, she remains silent and then discloses all to her father whatever happens.


Simultaneously Hamlet’s behaviour is very strange. He is depressed and abhors his tragic life, burdened by the choices he has to make: to be true to his religion or his father's culture; to be believe a ghost or to believe it is a demon sent to entrap him. The world to him was "weary, stale, flat and unprofitable."


They both are possessing weaknesses. By virtue of these, they can not join each other in love as happened in Romeo and Juliet. Their love casts strange effects on the audience.

What are some themes in Seabiscuit?How are they used in the book?

There are many universal themes displayed in Seabiscuit. The horse mirrored the average American man of the time: desperate, overlooked, impoverished, but a good fight lurked within--it just took patience and an opportunity.



People of that time identified with Seabiscuit, an unlikely hero that was a victim of situations beyond his control.



There is search for better life as people looked for inspiration in someone or something in a desperate struggle for a better life and the American Dream: hard work and desire = opportunity and prosperity.



Seabiscuit was the embodiment of persistence and pluck, the criteria often cited as fundamental to achieving the American dream; thus, he served as a role model of sorts.



More specifically, Seabiscuit exemplifies the sacrifice of athletes, specifically the jockey's sacrifice of weight control and what they are willing to do "for the love of the sport."


Given the fact that the main characters, in addition to the horse itself, struggle with internal and external conflicts, one could certiainly include the overcoming of pain as a major thematic message in this powerful true story.



Howard suffers through the death of his son and... guilt he feels at supplying the means of that death... Smith surrenders his isolation...to deal with the press and the fans. Seabiscuit and Pollard both overcome mistreatment and extensive physical injuries to triumph in the end.



Seabiscuit was a horse that only one believed in. And Red Pollard was the jockey that only one believed in. Together they believed in each other, and through sacrifice, struggle, and belief, they made their own American Dream together.

Henry Cabot Lodge's Objections to Article 10 of the Treaty of Versailles (1919)Why do you think the Senate was more receptive to these arguments in...

To me, the major difference here is that, in 1945, the US was essentially in control of the making of the United Nations and could set it up as they wanted. In addition, I think that they used this power to set the UN up in a way that would not have the same "problems" that the League of Nations had.


Specifically, the UN was set up so that the five permanent members of the Security Council each had a veto on any action taken by that Council.  This meant that any of the five countries (including the US) could veto a military action by the Security Council.  That way, the US could not be dragged into a war against its will in the way that it might have been under the League of Nations.

Which is the minimal value for the function f(x)=x^2+2x?

To calculate the extreme value for a function, minimum or maximum, we have to differentiate the function,which, in this case, is:


f'(x)= (x^2)' + (2x)'


f'(x)= 2*x + 2*1


f'(x)= 2x+2


Now, we'll calculate the root of the first derivative, this value being the value for the function f has the minimum value.


2x+2=0


2x=-2


We'll divide by 2:


x=-1


The minimum value of the function is


f(-1) = (-1)^2 + 2*(-1)


f(-1) = 1 - 2


f(-1) = -1

Friday, August 30, 2013

What is GERD?

GERD stands for gastroesophageal reflux disease.  This condition occurs when stomach acids back up into the esophagus.  This backup of acid causes a burning sensation and irritation.


The cause of GERD is when the muscles at the end of the esophagus do not constrict the back flow.  This could be due to a loosening of the muscles, a hiatal hernia, and pregnancy. Obesity, alcohol, and smoking have also been linked to an increase in GERD.


Complications associated with GERD are barrett's esophagus (a change in the lining of the esophagus that can increase the risk of cancer), bronchospasms, chronic cough, hoarseness, dental problems, esophageal ulcers, and  Stricture (a narrowing of the esophagus due to scarring from the inflammation.  


Treatments include avoiding foods that cause heartburn, eating lighter meals, avoiding bending over after eating, stress reduction, and antacids.

What is unusual about how long it takes the jury to reach a verdict? Is the verdict predictable or not?This answer will be found in chapter 21 in...

Atticus knew that Tom was going to be found guilty. He was, after all, a black man trying to get a fair trial in the small southern town of Maycomb. Atticus knew exactly what was going to happen. He knew that he had proven without a doubt that Tom was innocent, but being a black man, he was already judged guilty. 


When the jury takes longer than usual, there is a silent sense of hope. Atticus hopes that the people of the jury will realize they are about to convict an innocent man. The members of the jury have already made up their minds, and are just talking in the jury room. The outcome of the verdict is very predictable. Everyone knew that Tom was not going to have any justice. Bottom line was he was a black man, and to the eyes of most of the people in Maycomb, that meant guilty. 


What is the saddest of all, is that a man like Bob Ewell, who is cruel and vindictive, gets some kind of justice, just because he is white. Being a black man in Maycomb, was a dangerous thing, and being accused of rape of a white woman, was a death sentence. Atticus had proved that there was no way Tom could have committed the crime, but just because he was a black man, the verdict was concluded long before the trial even began.

What is the theme of "The Ballad of Father Gilligan"?

I would say that the theme of the poem is the idea that
God cares about the least members of his creation.  In the Bible it talks about how God
knows if even one sparrow dies.  This poem's theme is the same as the idea that is in
that quote.


In this poem, Father Gilligan is worn out
emotionally and physically.  So when he tries to pray for the "poor man" who sent for
him, he falls asleep.


When he wakes up the next morning
very early, he goes to the poor man's house and finds that an angel in his own form had
already been there.  The angel helped the man die
happy.


Gilligan says this shows that God cares even for him
and the poor man and that is the theme of the poem.

I was unable to finish the book and was wondering if anyone could give me a summery of it?

The novel sets out in the year 1664. 16 year-old Griet is living with her family in the Dutch city of Delft. Her father went blind through an accident at work and therefore he isn't able to work any more. For this reason Griet is forced to take up work as a maid for the famous painter Vermeer and his Catholic family. Already when he observes her preparing vegetables, Vermeer discovers her artistic talent. However, this talent has no meaning for a maid. As soon as she arrives at Vermeer's home she gets her tasks assigned by the senior maid, called Tanneke. Griet has to do housework of any kind. However, her special task is to clean Vermeer's studio without moving anything. The items which he is just portraying have to stay exactly at their place.




Catharina is Vermeer's wife. When she sees Griet the first time she already dislikes her because her husband pays Griet all his attention and she is jealous.




Griet has a lot of work with the five children, four girls and one boy, from a toddler up to a ten year old. Cornelia, one of the girls, is very moody and always wants to annoy Griet.




At the beginning the whole situation is very tiring for Griet because everything is very new to her and she is feeling alone because she can't laugh with anybody.




Griet's only place of refuge is the studio, which she normally has to clean. She likes being there and contemplates the pictures the master is painting.




From the butcher's son Pieter, who is interested in Griet, she learns that her own family have been put in quarantine because the plague has broken out in their street. At the end of the summer, Agnes, her ten-year-old sister, dies of the plague.




On Sundays it is difficult for Griet and her brother Frans, an apprentice, to visit her parents, since the mood is very sad. One year before there were three children, now none of them is at home any more.




Inspired by Griet, Vermeer resumes his painting after having sold the picture which he had been working on for a long time. From now on Griet is his personal assistant, but nobody should know. She is the only person he has confidence in. Vermeer is willing to show her how to properly mix the colours and he also appreciates a lot of her suggestions for the improvement of his paintings. Prior to getting to know Griet, he had never thought that he could learn anything from a maid.




When Van Ruijven, Vermeer's rich client, sees Griet, he orders Vermeer to paint a picture of her. Catharina should not learn anything about this project. Therefore, he paints Griet in secret. Vermeer is not happy with the picture since something seems to be missing. After a while he realises that these are the unique pearl earrings of his wife, and he insists thatGriet should wear them. Catharina becomes aware of the picture and gets very angry. She attacks her husband for painting Griet and not herself. Griet turns on her heel and leaves the house and she knows that she will never come back.




Ten years later Griet is married to Pieter, the butcher's son, and has two children. She learns that Vermeer has recently died and in his last will it is put down that she should getCatharina's pearl earrings.

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Ultra-nationalism help please? Thank you very much! What is Ultra-nationalism and how does it emerge in a society? What is the importance of this...

Nationalism is a sense of belonging people have towards
their country nation.  It inspires feelings such as loyalty to the nation, and pride in
its past and present. This feeling of nationalism has become more pronounced in 1700's,
That has influenced international relations. The rise of nationalism accompanied the
development of concept of nation as a group of people who share a common culture,
history, or language and have a feeling of national unity.  A nation-state exists when
such a group of people occupy an area of land with independent
government.


Ultra-nattionalism or extreme nationalism is a
form of nationalism in which the loyaly and pride in in ones own people, culture, and
history gets converted in to unhealthy sense of superiority in your own type of people
and hatered or fear of others. This is the kind of Nationalism that was promoted by
people like Hitler and Mussolini.


While nationalism gives
people a sense of belonging and pride, and a willingness to make sacrifices for their
country.  ultra-nationalism creates unhealthy rivalry and tension between nations,
promoting desire for for national glory based on domination and exploitation of other
nations or people.  Extreme nationalism promotes feelings of racial hatred and
encourages persecution of minorities.


Extreme nationalism
may arise when one group tries to dominate and exploit others to achieve power and
prestige for themselves.  Ultra-nationalism is often encouraged on the basis of religion
accompanied by lack of tolerance for religions other than one's own. Extreme nationalism
promotes prejudice by encouraging people to regard people from groups and culture, race,
or religion other than yours as inferior. Unfortunately Such prejudice is often passed
from generation to generation. Children acquire their prejudiced outlooks from their
parents and teachers. These prejudices then also get embedded in institutions, laws, and
customs of the society.

John's annual salary after a raise of 15% is $45,000. What was his salary before the raise?

When an original amount or any other quantity is increased or raised by a given percentage the relationship between the original and the increased amount is given by the following formula.


x' = x*(100+p)/100   ...   (1)


Or


x = x'*100/(100+p)   ...   (2)


Where:


x = original amount


x' = increased amount


p = percentage increase


In the question it is given that:


Salary after raise = x' = $45000


Percentage raise = p = 15


We have to find salary before raise, that is x.


Substituting values of x' and p in the formula (2) we get:


x = 45000*100/(100 + 15) = 4500000/115 = 39130.43



Answer:


John's salary before raise was $39130.43

In Chapter 17 of "To Kill a Mockingbird," why is it ironic when Mr. Ewell says he says black people "devalue" his property?

Mr. Ewell is the epitome of "poor white trash," and his family lives in what amounts to a junkyard:

"Maycomb's Ewells lived behind the town garbage dump in what was once a Negro cabin....Its windows were merely open spaces in the walls, which in the summertime were covered with greasy strips of cheesecloth to keep out the varmints that feasted on Maycomb's refuse." 

If he cared so much about the value of his property, he would take some pride in it and clean it up.  The close proximity of the black people in the neighborhood has nothing to do with the poor value of his house and land. Had prejudice not been so rampant at this time and place in history, people could have recognized that the presence of the black neighborhood - better cared for than the Ewell's place - actually improved the property values.

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Please explain the last two lines of "Sonnet 18" by William shakespeare.

Shakespeare's sonnet 18 is by far the best known (for those outside of literature circles) and one of the most quoted.  It is written in the traditional Shakespearean (or English) style of sonnet.  It contains three quatrains and followed by a rhyming couplet.  The couplet section is the portion that this questions is about.


Let's walk through a brief summary of the three quatrains before we address the couplet.


Quatrain 1: The poem begins by addressing the beloved, whom the entire poem relates.  The beloved is being compared to a summer's day.  Shakespeare says, "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,/And summer's lease hath all too short a date:" In this, he is saying that love and summer both are fleeting and can easily be shaken by "rough winds" that come their way.


Quatrain 2: Quite literally, this section says that sometimes summer (and love) are too hot and can decrease the beauty of the beloved.  In the line, "And every fair from fair sometime declines," discuss the changing course of the season.  Quite literally, the change from summer to fall (the change of love in youth to age).  He says that nature will not halt these changes.



Quatrain 3: "But thy eternal summer shall not fade," the beauty of the beloved shall never fade, like the real summer does.  In the eye of the speaker, the beloved shall always be beautiful and lovely.  And, the beloved shall never find death or lines of age.


Couplet: "So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee"


As long as there are readers, breathing and seeing, the beloved shall always live.  The sonnet shall always live, and it will keep the beloved (and their love) alive.



I hope this summary of a great work helps :)

Discuss how the theme of wealth and poverty plays an important role in the novel The Great Gatsy( please follow following to answer it, please)

This is a great question. Examining wealth and poverty in this novel, can be compared to and contrasted with real life issues. Back in the 1920's, or the roaring 1920's as many refer to it, the economy was doing quite well. People would party a lot, drink, dance, and most importantly: spend money. As seen in the book The Great Gatsby, which takes place in the 1920's, people certainly behave this way. Gatsby always has these types of parties and gatherings where people mingle, eat, drink and just have a good time living life.


However, we can not forget about or ignore the other side of the spectrum. More importantly, poverty is also a driving factor of an economy, as well as the well-being of many individuals. One has to understand that money and wealth are not keys to happiness, as clearly evidenced in this book. Whereas many people may be well off and rich in this book, there are also various poverty driven moments, people, and places that are also described in this novel as well.


Paying close attention to the detail of both the wealthy and the poverty driven societies in this book, is critical in understanding the lesson Fitzgerald was trying to get at. 

solve the equation: 2^(2x-1)= 8^x

To silve 2^(2x-1) = 8^x


The LHS has a base 2 and the RHS has a base 8.


We can have acommon base and then equate the powers.


We know that 2 = 8^(1/3). So we convert the LHS to the base 8.


LHS = 2^(2x-1) =(8^(1/3)) ^(2x-1) = 8^((2x-1)/3) = RHS = 8^x , (as a^m)^n = a^(mn). Now the original equation is rewritten as:


8^((2x-1)/3) = 8^x. Nowboth sides have the same base 8and we can equate the powers on both sides.


(2x-1)/3 = x. Or


2x-1 = 3x.


2x-3x = 1.


-x = 1


x = -1


Let us check: 2^(2x-1) = 8^x . Put x = -1, then


LHS : 2^(2x-1)2^2 = (-2*1-1) = 2^-3 =1/8


RHS: 8^x= 8^(-1) = 1/8.

What is a signficant quote in Act 2? Explain its importance.

Othello Act II is all about honor
culture and male reputation.  Once on the wild island of Cyprus, then men lose all
reason and resort to blatant sexism and morbid jealousy against women.  If Venice was
racist, then Cyprus is certainly sexist.


Iago, who played
the racism card in Venice in Act I and lost, now resorts to the reputation card in Act
II to gain victory.  His first victim is Cassio; soon, it will be
Othello.


He gets Cassio drunk and into a fight.  After
Cassio is stripped of his rank as Lieutenant, he
says:


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Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I
have lost

my reputation! I have lost the immortal part
of

myself, and what remains is bestial. My
reputation,

Iago, my
reputation!



Here,
we see how men view themselves.  It's all about status.  Reputation is the immortal
part.  It is their soul.  They think their name is the only thing that lives on.  They
think their gender is a kind of god.  That which is left is only bestial.  Without
gender, they are damned.  Without their male reputations, they might as well be
women.


This scene foreshadows what will happen to Othello.
 When he thinks Desdemona has lost his love (the handkerchief), he will lose his
reputation.  She is a status symbol for him, a trophy wife.  After he loses her, he will
turn bestial and reify her.  He will lose all reason and language.  And then he will
murder her.


After reputation is gone, it's downfall at
break-kneck speed.

What religious spiritual journey does Samuel Coleridge and William Wordsworth embark on in their writings and give me some examples?

The spiritual is the word I think and not religious. It is too private a flight to be called religious in a sense of public discursivity. In both Wordsworth and Coleridge, the journey is towards a realization of the godhead through the phenomenal world of nature that opens onto the noumenal in being the most delightful creation of God, the creator. The omnipresence of God is thus a major theme in both the poets. This access is also a journey toward poetic eternity where the transcendental order is supposed to be glimpsed.


In Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey and the long poem Prelude and even The Intimations of Immortality, this is the journey that we see. The maturation of this journey is also related to the development of the poetic faculty in Wordsworth.


In Coleridge's poems, much like Keats, there is a failure, more often than not, in this journey. There is a level at which the divinity remains incomprehensible. This is a pattern we locate in the Conversation Poems, Frost at Midnight and so on. Even the end of Kubla Khan is about the awe of this journey. It is forbidden in the final run, though there is a need to undergo it.

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Why is Hamlet so cruel to Ophelia immediately after he gives the famous "To be or not to be" speech? Act 3

In addition to the many mixed emotions Hamlet is dealing with, there are a few other interpretations of this scene that are worth noting.


The Kenneth Branaugh film depiction of the play suggests that Hamlet knows that he is being spied on at that very minute by Claudius and Polonius.  I think this interpretation has a lot of validity - and makes his behavior even more accounted for.


When Hamlet asks Ophelia in line 103, "Ha, ha!  Are you honest?" the footnote suggests he means to not only ask if she is at-that-moment telling him the truth, but is she also "chaste" and "modest."  The interpretation here is that Hamlet and Ophelia have already carried on a sexual relationship - but that Ophelia is hiding this truth from her father and everyone else.  If you look at it this way, it is almost like Hamlet is saying, "Are you lying to me about your true feelings just like you've been lying to your father about your virginity?"  Perhaps Ophelia hasn't directly lied.  But she's not living in complete honesty with anyone (including herself) so Hamlet has reason not to trust her.

How did Increased Consumerism effect the 1950's??why did it grow during this era?

The Post-World War II economy boomed for several reasons. 
Americans had saved all through rationing during the war and had money to spend on
consumer goods, and we were also aggressively arming for the Cold War, which created a
large number of jobs and spin off jobs that paid well.


The
middle class grew significantly in this time, and a generation that had survived the
Great Depression and World War II wanted to live a little.  One income in those days was
enough for a family to live on and buy a house, and home ownership
increased drastically, stimulating the housing market.  We saw two car families become
much more common and the Big Three automakers employed hundreds of thousands, and people
moved to the suburbs and took vacations every year.  We had the first credit cards in
the 50s (Diners Club), and the first fast food chain
(McDonald's).


Some did criticize our society, as they did
in the 1920's, for being too materialistic and conformist.  Partly out of this
discontent came the roots of the counterculture backlash of the
1960s.

Monday, August 26, 2013

Which is the value of the sum x1+x2+x3, if x1, x2, x3 are the solutions of the equation x^3-3x^2+2x=0?

We'll use the first Viete's relation, in order to calculate the sum x1 + x2 + x3.


For a polynomial  ax^3+bx^2+cx+d=0,


x1 + x2 + x3 = -b/a


We'll identify the coefficients from the given polynomial:


a = 1


b = -3


c = 2


d = 0


So, calculating the sum, we'll get:


x1 + x2 + x3 = -b/a = - (-3/1)


x1 + x2 + x3 = 3

In act 1 scene 2 what is Cassius concerned about in the coversation between him and Brutus

"Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus..."

Cassius has noticed Caesar's growing power and believes that he could be dangerous if given absolute power.  Cassius is different than Brutus is these fears and concerns, though.  Cassius is riddled with jealousy about Caesar's new found power.  Several times he reminds Brutus how equal they should all be according to their stations in life and how easily one of them could be in power also.

Even with that jealousy, though, Cassius understands what the Roman republic is all about.  He questions what kind of a country they have become when one man holds all the power.

In the story "Young Goodman Brown", what are some examples of his use of reversals?

One reversal is in how the young married couple deals with the night in question. Brown and Faith are apart from one another one whole night, yet they react in different ways.

While Brown is unable to get past his suspicion of Faith's attending a black mass, Faith forgives her husband's absence for a whole night. Brown has no true proof, because he cannot determine whether he experienced a terrible dream or real event, he still holds her "supposed" fall from grace against her.

Faith, on the other hand, definitely knows her husband disappeared for the whole night, but she forgives him this indiscretion.

In Step Across This Line by Rushdie, how well does the author achieve his goal for writing?I need to point out the theme of the book and show how...

The collection of essays in his work does not directly deal with the issue of Salem as much as it focuses on the basic idea of how the post Cold War world is shaped and formed through ideas and political control.  That being said, I do think that one can use the ideas being formed in "Step Across This Line" and tie them into Salem.  Rushdie's fundamental premise in the essays and demonstrated in his closing Tanner Speech on Human Values is the idea that the "frontier" has always been a part of defining human consciousness.  There is an awareness of this border, this line of demarcation that allows division to occur.  Yet, in the course of human experience, this line becomes blurred as a new one is formed.  Thus, human experience is one where we constantly "step across this line" into a new realm.


Salem might very well have defined this in its own right.  On one hand, those who created the hysteria of witchcraft with false accusations did so through the idea of creating their own "frontier" or "line."  Something was marked as "bad" or "unholy" and it existed in the realms of the Titubas of the world as well as those who were "different."  That was the line of witchcraft, of demonizing.  There were supposedly clear references and distinctions between what was "good" and what was "evil."  Rushdie's thesis of how the frontier is constantly moving and the lines are constantly being crossed would be proven with what happened after this initial demarcation was made.  After supposedly clearly defining what was deemed as "good" and "bad," the line became crossed when people used their own agendas to accuse others of witchcraft.  A line was crossed at this point, the line that demarcated "good" and "bad" was now being used to define "us" against "them," power against the powerless, elites versus the majority.  There were more lines crossed in terms of public interest and private pursuits and theocratic government with fanatic fear and paranoia. These lines all became blurred and part of the reason why the Salem Witchcraft Trials descended into madness and sheer anarchy would be due to the fact that these lines bifurcated and intersected with one another, proving that the initial lines ended up proving to be useless.  The idea of being able to "step across this line" ended up defining human and civil experience as Salem and its trials became a "new line" that represented how bad bad political leadership can be.

Sunday, August 25, 2013

How do men and women interact in the World State? Who holds the power in social situations, in the workplace, and in the government? in a complete...

Clearly, the men hold the power in the World States. The new students at the Hatchery are all male, therefore it is clear to see that no women are allowed to be educated there. They also sterilize female fetuses when the need to control reproduction arises, but they never sterilize the males.

While sexually, the men and women do appear to be equal, in positions of power and government, the men are in charge.

How many grams of Fe2O3 react with excess Al to make 475 g Fe?no

To determine how many grams of F2 O3 react with Al to make 475 g of Fe.


Solution:


We know Fe2 O3 +2 Al  --> 2Fe + A2 O3. So,


(One mole of F2 O3) + (2 mole of AL) = (2mole of Fe) + (one mole of Al2 O3).


So, by mass ,


(55.85g*2+16g*3) + (2*26.98g) = 2*58.85g Fe +..... ..  Or


(159.7g of F2O3) + 53.96 g of AL = 111.7 g of Fe.+..... So to get 475 g of Fe, the right side we have to mutiply 475/111.7.


This requires a multification by 475/117.7 both side of the equation.


Therefore, to produce 475g of Fe = (111.7)(475/111.7) Fe  requires  165.7*475/111.7 gram  of  Fe2 O3 to react with 2*26*98*(475/111.7)g of Al.


So the required F2 O3 = 159.7*(475/111.7) = 679.1181737gram


The required Aluminium = 2*26.98*475/111.7 = 229.4628469gram.

In To Kill a Mockingbird why does Lee have Scout comment on the view from Boo's porch? What threads does it tie together?

In this scene, Scout is able to see everything as Boo had seen it for the past few years.  She is finally able to fully understand Boo's perspective, and look at the world that she had been living in through his eyes.  Lee writes a very touching sequence of what Boo must have seen as he sat inside his house, looking out the window.  From his porch, she can see their house, Miss Maudie's house, and she realizes that Boo must have been able to see much of what had happened in her life in the past several years.  He had been as much a part of her life as anyone else, and as it turns out, a true friend.


The sequence highlights that we really don't know people at all until we have walked in their shoes and seen things from their perspectives.  Boo saw much more than they had realized; they just thought he was only a creepy guy who had stayed holed away from society.  In fact, he had been a part of their lives, living vicariously through them, and because of his constant presence, he had been able to save them.  It ties the threads of everything that had happened to Scout and Jem together, along with a major theme of the book, which is to not judge people on appearances or rumor, but on first-hand experience of their lives. I hope that helped a bit; good luck!

What was Oogruk's final decision in Dogsong?Chapter 5

Oogruk's final decision is choosing the way he will
die.


Russel, the young Eskimo who lives with Oogruk,
prepares to go on a hunting trip, and surprisingly, Oogruk decides to go with him. As
they are getting to leave, the old man stares across the ice, and says that he smells
the sea. When the two hunters get to within a couple of miles of the sea, Russel tells
Oogruk that he will leave him with the dogs and continue on foot, but Oogruk
says,



"No. It
is time to talk one more time and I must leave you. But I wanted to come out here for it
because I missed the smell of the sea. I wanted to smell the sea one more
time."



Oogruk then instructs
Russel not to go home. Instead, the young man must "head north and...see the
country...run with the dogs and become what the dogs will help (him) become." It is in
this way that Russell will become a man. Oogruk tells Russel that he must leave him
there "on the ice, out (there) by the edge of the sea," and when Russel balks, Oogruk
insists. He tells Russel,


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"An old man knows when death is coming and he
should be left to his own on
it."



Oogruk is so forceful in
his command that Russel does as he says, letting the dogs "(surge) away," and not
looking back. After awhile, however, he can stand it no longer, and he turns the team
around, returning to the place where he left Oogruk. Russel finds Oogruk sitting very
still on the ice, staring out to the sea. Oogruk's eyes, however, are lifeless; his
spirit is gone, having "flown, out and out," past the edge of the ice and beyond. Russel
tearfully places his harpoon on the old man's lap so that he will be able to hunt seals
in the spirit world, and as he leaves to discover his identity and his destiny as Oogruk
has instructed, he turns back to the old man and says, "I will remember you" (Chapter
5).

Saturday, August 24, 2013

Give the name or formula of two products of the reaction between PCl5 and ethanol.

The balanced chemical equation for the reaction between ethanol and phosphorous (V) chloride is:


`C_2H_5OH + PCl_5 -> C_2H_5Cl + POCl_3 + HCl`


Here, ethanol reacts with phosphorous chloride to produce ethyl chloride (also known as chloroethane), phosphorous trichloride and hydrochloric acid. This reaction takes place at 23 degrees Celsius. 


This is a balanced chemical reaction since the number of atoms of each species is same on both sides (that is, reactants and products) of the reaction. For example, there are 2 atoms of carbon on the reactant side. Similarly, there are 2 atoms of carbon on the product side and hence the reaction is balanced in terms of carbon. Similarly, we have 6 atoms of hydrogen on both the reactant and product side of the equation. We can check for balance of other atoms as well.


Hope this helps. 

If we have two sets A = { x belongs to Z, with property 3/(x-2) belongs to ZB = {x belongs to Z , with property ( x-2)/3 belongs to Z . Find A,...

x is an element of A  where x belongs to z


That means that x should be an integer (1,2,3...)


We have 3/(x-2) is an integer , then (x-3) should be divided by 3.


Then (x-2) should be either 3,-3, 1, or -1


x-2=3 ==> x=5


x-3=-3 ==> x=0


x-2=1 ==> x=3


x-2=-1==> x=1


Then A elements are 0,1,3, 5


A= {0,1,3,5}


Now for B. B elements should verify (x-2)/3


Since x belongs top z, then x-2)/3 should be an integer, that means (x-2) is a multiplex of 3


(x-2)= 3n where  n=...-3,-2,-2,1,0,1,2,3....


x-2= 3(-2) ==> X=-4


X-2=3(-1) ==> X=-1


x-2= 3(0) ==> x=2


x-2=3(1) ==> x= 5


x-2=3(2) ==> x=8


x-2=3(3) ==> x= 11


==> B = {...-4,-1,2,5,8,11,...}


Then A-B elements are all elements in A without elements in B:


A-B = A - (A intersect B)


A-B    =  {0,1,3,5}-{5} = {0,1,3}

How is the topic, 'Justice is better determined in a court of law' present in The Crucible? Or do you disagree with this statement from the book?

There are two opposing views here.  One view suggests that Arthur Miller is states just is best left to the court, as opposed to the public.  The other view is that Miller portrays the failures of the court system.

In supporting the court system, Miller shows the hysteria of the town.  Revered  Hale is the minister of the court, trying to find honesty, but the town's hysteria, and the girls (particularly Abigail) hinder the his cause.  The court tries to allow the accused townspeople to defend themselves.  However, the hysteria of the people has led to dishonesty and perjury, preventing Hale's efforts.  Remove the town from the courtroom and justice would be better served.

The other side goes as follows:  The court of law fails to provide justice, being too concerned with appearance.  In this argument, the judges are to blame for their desperation to "solve the case".  They cajole and bully the accused into signing documents they themselves know to be untrue.  The court is at the mercy of the townspeople, and the townspeople worked into a frenzy at the court's slightest decision.  Never is this more clear than in the last act, when Hale admits that things in Salem got out of control, but works to convince Proctor to sign a confession.  His reasoning is this: the townspeople won't let it be otherwise.  Therefore, the court has no real power.

Which countries had the WWII Axis powers taken control of by 1939?

The answer posted above is partially misleading as it
equates attack on or partial invasion of a country with controlling the
countries.


Austria was annexed to Germany on March 13,
1938. This was really before the start of World War II. Similarly Ethiopia was also
annexed by Italy in 1936, before the start of World War II. Ethiopia again became
independent in 1941. Albania was initially occupied by Italy in April 1939 before start
of World War. Later in September 1943 was occupied by
Germany.


Bohemia and Moravia in Czechoslovakia were
occupied by Germany in March 1939.


China and Japan have a
long history of conflict, and as a part of this conflict the two countries were at war
since 1931. But this war did not at any time result in Japan occupying substantial part
of China.


Poland invaded by Germany in September
1939.


Finland was attacked bu USSR in November 1939, and
June 1941.


Denmark and Norway invaded by Germany in April
1940.


Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg invaded by
Germany in May 1940.


France surrendered to Germany in June
1940.


Japan occupies Northern Indochina in 1940. This
region forms parts of Laos and Vietnam.


Greece was invaded
by Italy in October 1940 and occupied by Germany in April
1941.


Estonia Occupied by USSR in June 1940. Germany
occupied it in September 1941. It was re-annexed by USSR in
1944.


Iceland occupied by Great Britain in  May 1940 and by
USA in July 1941.


Yugoslavia occupied by Germany in April
1941.


Greenland occupied by U.S.A. in April
1941.


Thailand surrendered to Japan in December
1941.


Germany invaded eastern parts of USSR in June 1941
and completed the blockade of Leningrad in 1941. The last of the Germans in Stalingrad,
USSR surrendered in February 1943.


Singapore and
Philippines, occupied by Japan in February
1942.


Netherlands Indies occupied by Japan in March
1942.


Philippines occupied by Japan April
1942.


Most of Burma controlled by Japan by May
1942.


Tunisia Occupied by USA in
1943.


Italy secretly surrenders to the Allied forces
September 1943.


Northeast frontier area of India invaded by
Japan in early 1944.

Friday, August 23, 2013

In chapter 8 of To Kill a Mockingbird, how do people react to the fire at Miss Maudie's house?

The fire scene also shows how the town functions when one of their own, a white woman, needs help.  All of the men in the town show up to cart out Miss Maudie's furniture.  We also see how small and poor the town is for one reason the fire consumes the house is that the old fire truck "killed by the cold, was being pushed from town by a crowd of men." And then when it finally reaches its destination, "the hose burst an water shot up, tinkling down the pavement." The (white) people in this town can be loving and they do form a real community in spite of their differences, yet they are ill prepared for any real tragedy, which presages the tragedy they will face when Tom is falsely accused of rape.  Fire consumes them as racism consumes them, hurting different people in different ways.

Calculate the value of the expression: (1/1 + i) + (1/1 - i)

1/(1+i)+1(1-i)


To evaluate this, we need a common denominator. The easy way to get a common denominator is to multiply the two denominators together like so:


(1+i)*(1-i) = 1+i-i-i^2


Combining like terms gives us a denominator of 1-i^2 (the positive and negative i's cancel each other out).


Multiply each numerator by the denominator of the other fraction as we just multiplied the denominators of the other fractions by each other and we have:


((1-i)+(1+i))/(1-i^2)


Combine like terms in the numerator and we have 2/(1-i^2)


Recall that i^2 = -1 and the denominator becomes (1-(-1)) or (1+1) or 2


Our fraction is now 2/2 = 1

Thursday, August 22, 2013

May I please have some help analysing the poem, Green Beret by Ho Thien?http://www.caterina.net/paw/archives/000049.html thanks in advance

The surface meaning of the poem is about a Vietnamese village boy's experience with the American troops during the conflict in his nation.  There is an obvious clash of cultures within the battle between both nations.  As both clash, they meet, in this poem, at a village where the Green Beret troops believe the boy knows where the opposing Viet Cong forces are hiding.  In the attempt to extract information, they hold the boy's father as a hostage and threaten to kill him if the boy does not divulge information.  The boy doesn't, the father is killed, and the Green Berets believe that they have killed unnecessarily as the boy cries.  Yet, the second stanza of the poem reflects that the boy's cries might actually be a signal to the Viet Cong to escape and plan a counter strike against the American forces.  The poem's tone is very informational in the first stanza, almost like a news report.  When you reread look for hints that reflect this "reporter's" or "correspondent's" temperament.  This is enhanced in the second stanza and you can search for words and verses that bring this out as well.  The mood of the poem, like the conflict itself, is confusion and an ambiguity on what constitutes "right" and "wrong."  Unlike wars that preceded it, the conflict in Vietnam was difficult to assess, even more challenging to identify where blame and culpability lie.

Why do plants need so much water and how do plants "pump" water from their roots to leaves that can be hundreds of feet high?

Plants need so much of water because, by weight most of
the weight of all plant consists of water. Further, please remember that the total water
that we may use for watering plants in a garden is not absorbed by the plants. As a
matter of fact most of the water either through watering the plants, artificial
irrigation, and natural rainfall is absorbed by the soil and through a long and
complicated process gets converted back into clouds that give us
rains.


There are some specialized methods of irrigation,
such as drip irrigation, which enable growing of plants with very limited amounts of
water by minimizing the loss of water through absorption of soil and evaporation in the
atmosphere.


The water that is present in the soil is first
absorbed by the roots of the plants through the process of osmosis. The water containing
nutrients needed by the plants so absorbed is then "pumped" or "raised" to leaves
through process of capillary action, which causes liquids to rise up in very thin tubes
or passages, called capillaries. to rise up the capillaries because of the forces of
attraction that exists between the liquid and the walls of the
capillaries.

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Who is the antagonist and protagonist in "A Piece of String" by Guy de Maupassant?

In this story, I think it is quite clear that the
protagonist is Maitre Hauchecorne.  He is the one that we sympathize with in the story
and he is the one we are really concerned with -- hoping things come out okay for
him.


I think you can say that society (and specifically the
peasants in general) is the antagonist.  It is society that refuses to believe Maitre
Hauchecorne and that eventually causes him to go crazy.  The author thought peasants
were too suspicious of one another and he is trying to show that by having peasants in
general be the antagonist in this story.

In To Kill a Mockingbird, why does Scout disapprove of Jem's and Dill's plan of looking in at one of the Radleys' windows?

Jem, Scout and Dill have made it their mission to get Boo out of his house. It is all they can think about and they are consumed with the idea of it. Atticus is tired of the kids disturbing the Radley's and warns the children to stop bothering them. Jem and Dill still want to go ahead with their plan of looking in the windows of the Radley house, but Scout is against the idea. She doesn't want to disobey and disappoint Atticus. 


The kids have been so consumed with the idea of Boo Radley, that this is all they can think about. Atticus realizes what they are doing and wants to put a stop to it. Atticus has known the Radley's a long time and just wants people to leave them alone, he especially wants his children to not become a part of the people who torment the Radley's. By the time the trial starts, the children have gotten over trying to get Boo out. They are focused on more important things. 


What Jem and Scout don't realize, is that Boo Radley is watching them, as well. They can't even begin to imagine the nightmare they are about to be a part of, and the role Boo will play in all of this.

what causes kidney disease?

According to the National Kidney Foundation, there are multiple causes of kidney disease. The kidneys may be affected by other ailments such as high blood pressure or diabetes. It may also be congenital which means that an individual was born with a kidney abnormality.


Diabetes is the leading cause of kidney disease. High blood sugar levels present in the body can cause many different problems. High blood pressure (hypertension) also has an affect on the kidneys. If these conditions are controlled there is a decreased chance of developing kidney disease. Glomerulonephritis is another condition that affects the kidneys. This means there is inflammation of the glomeruli which are small filters within the kidneys.


Polycystic Kidney Disease is the most common type of inherited kidney disease. Cysts form over time and can cause damage to the kidneys, or even kidney failure.


Certain drugs can also cause kidney damage.

What is "The Masque of the Red Death"'s chronology?

This short story by Edgar Allen Poe opens with a
commentary on what had happened recently to the land where the story is based. It has
been plagued by a disease called The Read Death that was sudden and quick in killing
those it infects. However, Prince Prospero seems to be a character who thinks he can
cheat death. He gathers together a thousand of his courtiers and together they lock
themselves in a deserted abbey with all the entertainment they need to divert
themselves. After 5 or 6 months of their seclusion, he holds a very special party. This
party is based in 7 rooms. Each has a different colour and run one after the other,
going in the following order: blue, purple, green, orange, white, violent, black. Each
room is cleverly covered with light of that colour by means of a brazier behind a
stained glass window of the according colour. The one exception is the final room, which
has a red stained glass window. This room is so ghastly that few venture in to it. There
is also in this room a giant black clock. Whenever it struck the hour, it produced a
momentary silence in the revels before people began to party again. It is after this
clock strikes twelve that many become aware of one guest who is described as
representing the Red Death. So outraged by this intruder, Prospero orders that he be
unmasked and punished, yet no-one is able to grasp him as he moves from the blue room
and begins to walk through all of them to the read room. Prospero, enraged, runs after
him himself with a dagger drawn. He meets him in the seventh room, where Prospero drops
dead with a cry. The other guests arrive, grasp the intruder, only to find that there
was no one there underneath the disguise. It is then that the guests realise the Red
Death has penetrated the castle and all of them die within the
hour.

How did Truman's Fair Deal contrast with Eisenhower's "Modern Republicanism" approach?

I think that you should probably look in your text because
it probably gives you a particular answer you are supposed to
remember.


To me, there is not a huge difference between
these two approaches.  The texts I use to teach out of in my college classes say the
same.  They point out that both Truman and Eisenhower were interested in keeping the
government pretty involved in the economy.


For example,
Eisenhower did not try to end social security and labor laws and farm programs. 
Instead, he actually extended them to some extent.


So, to
me, the difference between the two is very small.  Eisenhower was more concerned with
keeping costs down than Truman was, but he was not really interested in cutting
government back to a large degree.


As one of my books says
Eisenhower's


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presidency in the end served to legitimate the
New Deal by keeping its basic structure and premises intact during an era of
prosperity.



So if your
question is saying there's a big difference between the two, your book clearly disagrees
with mine...

Give at least 2 reasons why Hester does not leave the colony in The Scarlet Letter.

The answer to your question can be found in chapter V, titled "Hester at Her Needle".


Hester Prynne certainly could have avoided a lot of problems by simply leaving the village. However, as Hawthorne writes:



Her sin, her ignominy, were the roots which she had struck into the soil.



What these words entail is that her actions, and the consequences of them, have changed Hester so tremendously that she basically was reborn again into another woman. Although this woman has less than an ideal life, it is life nevertheless and Hester felt a moral responsibility to embrace it and live with it. Therefore, that first reason can be attributed to moral responsibility to abide by whatever comes her way. 


The second reason is Dimmesdale. 



another feeling kept her within the scene [...] one with whom she deemed herself connected in a union, that, unrecognized on earth, would bring them together before the bar of final judgment...



Even after the humiliation, the loneliness, and the terrible treatment that Hester has endured from the villagers and the aldermen alike, the fact remains that Hester not only feels love for Dimmesdale, but also a spiritual connection that keeps her bound to him. It is almost unbelievable to the modern reader that Hester would harbor any love inside of her for the man that has left her to suffer in silence for actions committed by the two of them. Moreover, that this man is faking his righteousness and still acts like a man of God makes her connection to him all the more awkward. However, those are exactly the reasons why Hester decides to continue a sad life in the village facing society head on.

Explain the dark meaning and implications of winston Smith's final words: "He loved Big Brother......"

I would think that there can be many approaches to taking
this particular phrase and its meaning in the work.  The idea of Smith's "love" towards
Big Brother is quite the opposite.  It simply means that he has stopped resisting the
government.  Throughout the novel, Smith's development as a character has emerged
through his desire for freedom and acting against the authority structure.  Yet, with
his brainwashing, this part of him has died.  In the end, his "love" for Big Brother is
actually quite the opposite.  Love would imply complexity and intensity of emotion. 
Rather, this "love" is simply acquiescence.  He no longer lives his duality of resisting
the party as this has been overcome and with this overcoming, "love" results.  In the
end, this contains dark and sinister overtones because so long as surrender is evident,
individuals can be deemed as possessing "love" towards the
government.

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

I need a quote that shows Scout's youth and innocence.

Atticus tells Scout that "it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." Scout is unsure of his meaning, and asks Miss Maudie. "Your father's right," she says. "Mockingbirds [only] sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." (Chapter 10)


Scout still doesn't understand what Maudie and Atticus mean. This is a demonstration of her innocence and youth. It isn't until the final chapter of the novel, when she is saved by Boo Radley, that Scout understands. Tate and Atticus agree to the lie that Bob Ewell fell on his own knife, and Scout observes that allowing the town to gain this intimate knowledge of Boo would be akin to killing a mockingbird.

A car wheel has a 14 inch-radius. through what angle(to the nearest tenth of a degree) does the wheel turn when the car rolls forward 2 ft?the...

What you have to do to get to this answer is to use the
formula for the circumference of a circle.  Once you have that, you need to know what
percent of the circumference of the wheel is represented by 2 feet.  Given that, you
then need to multiply that percent by the number of degrees in a circle.  Here are the
steps:


The circumference of a circle is equal to pi times
the diameter.  Since the radius is .5 of the diameter, the radius here is 28
inches.


28*3.14 = 87.92.


Now
divide 24 inches (2 feet) by this circumference.


24/87.92 =
.27


So 2 feet is .27 of the
circumference.


There are 360 degrees in a
circle.


360*.27 = 98.2

Monday, August 19, 2013

In A Streetcar Named Desire, why is Stanley the best character to tear the paper lantern from the bulb?

Stanley is the only logical choice to commit this act of ultimate revelation.  He alone refuses to buy into Blanche's ruse of youth and beauty, manners and sophistication. 

However, in order to fully understand the importance of his act, one must consider the lantern in earlier scenes.  In Scene 3, Blanche insists that Mitch, one of Stanley's poker buddies, cover up the harsh light from the bedroom's unshaded bulb.  Blanche has marked Mitch for her next beau, and fears that the light will reveal her age and flaws.  Mitch, her willing victim, is more than ready to accept her explanation:  "I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action."  It makes him feel like he is "special" enough for Blanche. 

By Scene 10, the lantern is a crucial component of the rape scene.  Stanley growls:  "I've been on to you from the start!  Not once did you pull any wool over this boy's eyes!  You come in here...and cover the light bulb with a paper lantern and lo and behold...you are the Queen of the Nile!" 

When Blanche, broken and revealed, finally leaves, Stanley has no pity.  When Blanche makes an attempt to come back into the apartment, he bellows:  "You've left nothing here but spilt talcum...unless it's the paper lantern you want."  He rips it off the bulb and Blanche "cries out as if the lantern was herself." 

Describe the setting of the Radley house in To Kill a Mockingbird. What is the Radley place like? (The yards and surrounding yards.)

Chapter one of To Kill a Mockingbird introduces us to the story of Boo Radley. Jem and Scout first encounter Dill Harris and tell him all about Boo. Dill is beyond excited about the idea of Boo. The children plot many ways to see Boo. They are consumed with the idea of Boo. Harper Lee's description of the Radley house is so real, you can almost picture it if you closed your eyes.



The Radley Place jutted into a sharp curve beyond our house. Walking south, one faced its porch; the sidewalk turned and ran beside the lot. The house was low, was once white with a deep front porch and green shutters, but had long ago darkened to the color of the slate-gray yard around it. Rain-rotted shingles drooped over the eaves of the veranda; oak trees kept the sun away. The remains of a picket drunkenly guarded the front yard- a "swept" yard that was never swept- where johnson grass and rabbit-tobacco grew in abundance.



The description of the Radley place fits perfectly with what the children have made Boo out to be. To them, he is the local ghost story in the town. When the story comes full circle the children will realize that the real ghosts are the people they thought they knew, and the heroes might just turn out to be the 'ghosts' they so long ago created.

What promise does Scout make in Chapter 2 of To Kill a Mockingbird?

I'm not so sure Scout made any promises in Chapter 2 of
To Kill a Mockingbird. Jem made it clear to her that she was not to
have anything to do with him while they were at school: "I was to stick with the first
grade and he would stick with the fifth."


However, in
Chapter 3, Atticus gets Scout to promise him that if she continues to go to school, they
would continue to read together each night. It must be a secret kept from Miss Caroline,
though, since Atticus "wouldn't want her after
me."

What new things do Scout and Jem learn about how the black people at Calpurnia's church?In chapter 12.

They learn that Calpurnia's congregation in To
Kill a Mockingbird
 are human beings, no different than most others. Although
it is unusual to see white faces in the church, Jem and Scout are treated well. They
initially have a run-in with Lula, who objects to their presence, but they are made to
feel at home for the remainder of the service. The children learn that the congregation
is poor and mostly illiterate; there are few hymnals since they can't afford them and,
besides, most of the members cannot read. So, Calpurnia's son, Zeebo, leads them in
"linin'": he reads the line, and the congregation repeats it. The children also find
that the members are supportive of Tom Robinson. Although they are quite poor, the
collection plate--actually, a coffee can--is passed around repeatedly until Reverend
Sykes determines that enough money ($10) has been collected. In the end, Jem remarks
that Reverend Sykes is "just like our preacher."

What right does John claim?Chapter 17 Brave New World

You can find the answer to this question at the end of
this chapter.  The answer is that John the Savage tells Mustapha Mond that he claims the
right to be unhappy.


John has been talking to Mond about
philosophical issues.  He wants to know if it is not important to have danger and anger
and sadness at times in human beings' lives.  Mond tells him those things are important
but that you can get their benefits with the VPS and not have to have the down
sides.


John responds by saying that he claims the right to
be unhappy.

Sunday, August 18, 2013

In Lord of the Flies, Why is Jack so enthusiastic about the possibility of creating rules?

One of the many questions that has plagued political thinkers is the question of the legitimacy of power. In most societies, some people  power over others. Some issue commands that others are expected to obey.  The question arises as to what constitute their authority, and here there are many answers. Jack then, is authoritarian man. Like Hitler and Mussolini, he came out of an authoritarian tradition; himself a Satanic figure with his red hair and black cape, he was also the leader of a black-capped and black-cloaked gang that marched in step something dark [that] was fumbling along and followed orders. His was the voice of one who knew his own mind, and when it was suggested that there ought to be a chief he immediately and arrogantly demanded that position for himself. Defeated in an election, he took command of the hunters, the forces of naked power. We'll have rules! he cried excitedly. Lots of rules! Then when anyone breaks 'em .”  He creates rules in order to have power over people—rules legitimate his power and gives him reason to exercise it in cruel ways.

Saturday, August 17, 2013

What are amino acids and explain their importance?

Amino acids are commonly referred to as "building blocks" of the body.  Proteins, which make up our muscles, tendons, organs, glands, nails, and hair, are composed of these chemical compounds.  Amino acids contribute to the healthy functioning of the nervous system, muscular structure, hormone production, and vital organs, and are necessary for the growth, repair and maintenance of cells in the body.


There are two types of amino acids.  Essential amino acids must come from the diet as the body cannot make its own.  These include arginine (necessary for children, but not for adults), histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, and valine.  The body does not store excess amino acids as it does with fats and starches, so essential amino acids need to be part of a person's daily diet.  Non-essential acids are those which the body can manufacture from other sources.

Are shingles contagious?

Short answer, yes. Shingles is contagious when the blisters are open and oozing; after the blisters crust over, it is no longer contagious. Most of the time, though, people develop shingles as a re-activation of their own case of chicken pox. The two are caused by the same virus, Varicella Zoster. The really nasty thing about viruses is that they can stay in your body cells' own DNA, replicating along with the rest of your DNA. Then, when you are under some kind of stress, the virus portion becomes active, and makes more viruses. This is why people have cold sores repeatedly, in the same area of their body (different virus, though).


Most of the time the varicella virus does not become re-activated for many years; most sufferers of shingles are over the age of 50. However, my own daughter developed a case right before her high school senior prom. It is not just itchy, it is quite painful.

How can you use this against Hamlet? Use quotes throughout the play to support this.Frailty thy name is not woman.

Concerning Shakespeare's Hamlet, arguing for or against the prompt--Frailty, thy name is not woman--is a bit beside the point.  I assume you're asking for evidence that women are not frail in the play, in an attempt to prove Hamlet wrong.  One can argue that easy enough:  Gertrude is trapped in a man's world and must marry to keep her position in society, and even then her position is not paramount.  Claudius clearly rules.  This doesn't make her weak, however, it makes a woman's role in a patriarchy weak.  One can argue she is pragmatic and practical, not frail. 


She repeatedly stands up for her son against Claudius, and walks a line, so to speak, between her husband and her son.  Gertrude is gullible, of course, and is duped by Claudius in numerous ways, but that doesn't mean she's frail.  And Hamlet even contradicts his own statement later himself, when he says that surely Gertrude didn't marry Claudius for sex, because she is past the age when that is important to women. 


But, again, that's a bit beside the point.  One can legitimately discuss this issue on two fronts.


First, when Hamlet says that frailty thy name is woman, he is revealing his state of mind.  What's at issue is Hamlet's melancholy or depression, and his obsession with his mother's hasty and incestuous remarriage.  Hamlet is projecting his personal view of what his mother has done onto his view of all women (this type of projection is a sign of depression).  Because his mother is frail, in his view, all women are frail.  This is faulty logic, of course, and demonstrates Hamlet's frame of mind.  His obsession with his mother's actions are, perhaps, a bit unusual or unnatural.  Hamlet has suffered the death of his father and the loss of the throne for himself.  Yet, he appears to be bothered much more by his mother's remarriage.  His statement that women are frail characterizes Hamlet.


Secondly, one can discuss Hamlet's statement from the veiwpoint of feminism.  The issue is:  does the play present women in a negative light?  Are the women genuine human beings in their own right, or are they only valuable in relation to the men?  Answers to these questions and others like them reveal what Elizabethan society's views toward women were--at least in theory and in part.  This is a legitimate discussion point concerning Hamlet's statement.


Looking for evidence from female characters in the play that proves Hamlet wrong, though, is not really legitimate.  Although the play is not in any way a realistic play (it's written in iambic pentameter, for instance), the characters are complex personalities.  Though the play is not realistic, the characters' personalities are lifelike.  As such, of course they are frail.  Human beings are frail.  But they can also be intelligent and creative and greedy and stupid, etc. 


In other words, Hamlet's statement doesn't have to be disproved.  That's not the issue.  Hamlet's state of mind is the issue.  But if the characters, including Hamlet, and the play itself, present stereotypical, prejudicial views and depictions, then that can tell readers about Elizabethan's beliefs about women.   


For instance, we know today of course that female sex drives do not dissipate as women age, and about that, at least, Hamlet is dead wrong.  But you won't find evidence of that in the play. 

Friday, August 16, 2013

How does the reaction of the mother and father change about the monkey's paw ?

During the course of the W. W. Jacobs short story, Mr. and Mrs. White's view of the paw undergoes several changes. When the old soldier first reveals the paw, they are curious. Their fascination grows as his story about the paw's origins continues. When their son, Herbert, retrieves it from the fireplace, they show skepticism and some trepidation, but their desire for its possible riches allow them to keep it in their possession. After Herbert's death, their horror at the paw's possibilities grows. After the second awful wish seems to have also come true, they are no doubt resolute to the paw's capabilities. The final wish becomes a wise one, eliminating the horrors that it has created and returning them to their previous life--albeit without their beloved son. 

What does Victor dream and what does the dream grow out of?about frankenstien story

I assume that you are talking about the dreams that Victor
has at the start of Chapter 5.


Victor dreams here because
he has just finished creating the monster.  It has just come to life and this really
affects Victor.


Victor has all sorts of terrible dreams
that have to do with death.  He dreams of Elizabeth.  He dreams that he sees her walking
down the street but when he goes to kiss her, she is dead.  He dreams that she turns
into his dead mother and he sees the grave worms crawling in her
shroud.


I think that this is foreshadowing all the death
that will happen because he has created this monster.

Are there any clues as to what Rainsford looks like in The Most Dangerous Game?

Connell gives us great physical descriptions of both Ivan and of General Zaroff, but he leaves Rainsford's physical description, pretty much up to the imagination. We can imply a great deal from Connell has given us, but there is nothing that says for certain what he looks like. We know that Rainsford must have tanned skin because he has spent the better part of his life outdoors hunting game. He probably has a rugged weathered look about him. He has good eyes because we know his aim is good or he wouldn't be a world renowned hunter, but we don't know the color. We know he must be physically strong and somewhat muscular or at least has muscular tone to his body because he swims a great distance to Ship Trap Island and he is not averse to surviving in the wilderness. He walks and runs a great deal while he is being hunted as well so it would take someone physically strong to do that for a sustained amount of time. He has a disarming smile that he uses when he first meets Ivan and General Zaroff. Other than that we don't really know much at all. 

What is the major conflict of Huckleberry Finn?

How can you narrow it down??! Well, the conflict of social inequity is certainly at the forefront of this novel. The theme of justice certainly ties into this, as well. The Widow Douglas tries to instill christian and family values in Huck, yet she owns Jim and is treated as property. Ironically, Jim has the only true family and morally conscious family in the novel. Huck struggles with his own feelings of right and wrong on this issue, at times understanding the injustice of owning human beings, but breaking the law in helping Jim escape.

Jem gallantly walks Scout to the pageant as they cross the school yard. They discuss Boo and comment, "Haints, hot steams... vanish with our...

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee's bildungsroman, or novel of maturation, has neared its conclusion.  The children now have put away the things of a child such as the superstitious belief in "haints," and their fixation with Boo Radley; Jem considers himself too old for Halloween, as well.  As the symbol of innocence, the mockingbird sings, the reader becomes aware of the changes that have been effected in Jem and his sister Scout, who later recounts, "There wasn't much else left for us to learn, except possibly algebra."


Nevertheless, there is an atmosphere of foreboding with the cries of the mockingbirds. and the news that Bob Ewell has become a threat to poor Helen Robinson, walking behind her, "crooning foul words."  After she telephones Mr. Link Deas, the store manger tell Ewell to stop leaning on his fence and get away.  This encounter further fuels the fire of resentment in Ewell, a resentment that he aims toward Atticus Finch, foreshadowing what occurs to Scout and Jem.

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Explain the theme of the loss of innocence in "The Flowers" by Alice Walker and what the theme shows.The theme of loss of innocence in "The...

The theme was loss of innocence.


In the beginning, Myop, the 10-yr old girl main character of the story sees only the beauty of life, which is represented by the summer in the story.


The summer was described beautifully giving impression to the readers as happy and cool. Myop gathered common ferns.


Then when Myop wandered in the woods in her own way getting farther and farther in their house, she picked strange blue flowers on the way.


These different plants represents the little girl's wants in life. At first she discovers common things that is significant in her childhood days, then by and by, she came to a group of strange flowers which are the things that represents the things we encounter later in our teen age lives. These includes the problems we might possibly encounter and the difficulties that we are about to solve.


Myop continued walking until she stepped on the remains of a man.


Now, if that would happen to you, wouldn't you be afraid? But Myop reacted differently. Instead of being afraid, she just picked the only pink flower beside the skeleton. She wasn't afraid or frightened at the least. She took a hold of something, and that something was maturity. Her loss of innocence was replaced by her gain of maturity.


The story began with summer and it ended as: "Then the summer was over." The summer in the story represents Childhood. Myop's childhood. At first she was only aware of the bright side of things, at the middle of the story, her eyes were slowly being opened by the reality. The reality of having the balance of good and evil, of happiness and sadness, of coolness and gloominess. Alice Walker's style in this story explained these by using contrast.


So yeah, this is my understanding of the story's theme.

Can I please have a summary of Chapters 1-6 from Small Steps?I'm doing a project.

Small Steps is the sequel to Louis Sacher's book Holes.

In Chapter 1, Armpit is back home after serving time at Camp Green Lake.  He is trying to get his life back on track, one "small step" at a time.

In Chapter 2, X-Ray, a friend from Camp Green Lake, arrives with a plan to make some money scalping concert tickets - buying them at regular price and reselling them for more.  He tells Armpit that tickets to Kaira DeLeon's concerts have been resold for as much as $750.

In Chapter 3, Armpit walks with his friend Ginny, who has cerebral palsy.  Armpit helps Ginny learn to do things despite her disability, and Ginny "(gives) his life meaning".  Although Armpit's parents are suspicious and unsupportive, he and Ginny help each other learn to take "small steps" toward becoming confident, whole individuals.

In Chapter 4, Kaira DeLeon asks her agent how much money she has made.  It seems that the adults surrounding her are exploiting her for their own gain.  Her agent admits that he planted the story about tickets to her concerts selling for $750.  

In Chapter 5, Armpit and X-Ray wait in line to get their tickets.  They meet a group of professional scalpers, who offer to buy their tickets from them.  Armpit and X-Ray refuse, thinking they'll make more reselling them on their own.

In Chapter 6, Ginny shows Armpit her stuffed animal collection.  Each animal has a disability of some sort, just like Ginny.

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Santiago imagines himself in the position of the marlin he has hooked. List two other times Santiago imagines himself in this position. in The Old...

In The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago
uses direct address that functions as an apostrophe (direct address to a person or thing
not present) and anthropomorphism (giving human qualities to animals).  He calls the
great marlin "brother," an epithet that matches Santiago's connection to his nemesis.
 Throughout the novella, there is great respect between the hunted and the
hunter:



If I
were him I would put in everything now and go until something broke. But, thank God,
they are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and more
able. (63)



The quote above
addresses the fish in the third person masculine, even though he does not know the
gender.



Fish,
you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?"
(92)



AND


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Fish, I love you and respect you very much. But I
will kill you dead before this day
ends.



As the fight wages on,
Santiago warms up to his opponent: gone is the third person; instead, he uses the
familiar and intimate "you."  In these two quotes, Santiago addresses the fish more
directly.  He bargains with the fish during a moment of crisis, and then he solemnly
resolves to win the mortal battle himself.

To what extent is The Hound of the Baskervilles a "whodunit"and to what extent is it a gothic horror?I have written an essay on this but i'm really...

In order for a novel to be considered part of the gothic genre, it usually has a medieval-type setting. Baskerville mansion fits the bill for this. Even though the time period of Hound of the Baskervilles is not set during the Medieval period, the legend of the hound originates centuries before the current time period, so could be considered Medieval in origin. Next, the novel must have a gloomy setting, which this one does. There is often a woman in distress that needs to be rescued (Stapleton’s wife), and there is an evil villain. Since we don’t know who the real villain is until the end, this does not totally fit the genre, but when we find out that it is Stapleton and that he has beat up his wife and tied her up, we get a little glimpse of his evil nature. The novel contains supernatural events that are later explained by Holmes’ scientific method of inquiry and observation. There is often an evil prophecy in a gothic novel and this one has the hound legend. A gothic novel is scary, and this one certainly is that. There is the sense of terror throughout and both physical and psychological terror. The gothic novel deals with dreams or nightmares or disturbed minds. Throughout this novel, this type of fear is built up and the reader is led to expect that something sinister is going on. It takes place on the moor, which is a typical setting in gothic novels. In the end, however, it is all about the money, so it is sort of an affront to the gothic genre. Perhaps this was the author’s intent? When Holmes discovers how Stapleton carried out his plot, it is all a devious scheme and what we are left with is a great “who-dun-it” that has a gothic feel to it.


I’m not sure what your thesis is, but I always think that a cool way to conclude a paper such as this is with a dynamite quote from the novel itself. A really good quote that kind of sums up the gothic and “who-dun-it” aspect of the novel is this one:


“The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?”


As far as a quote for proving that the Stapletons were married, when Holmes and Watson discover the tied-up Mrs. Stapleton, she asks "Is he safe?" Holmes thinks she is talking about Stapleton, but she replies:



"No, no, I did not mean my husband. Sir Henry? Is he safe?"


How are symbols used to underscore freedom and opression in A Long Way Gone?my thesis for my essay is Ishmael Beah uses symbols to underscore his...

In A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah uses recurring symbols to represent oppression and freedom.  For example, fire and smoke are often literally and figuratively associated with the oppression that Beah experienced during raids and war.  Fire and smoke represent destruction, and Beah comments on this at several points in his memoir:  the initial raid on a neighboring village, raided villages encountered on the journey, and the suprise attacks in the north near his uncle's home.  Similarly, Beah uses the image of the flag to represent freedom.  When he is removed from the war by UNICEF, he sees the flag in the capitol city.  This move to the rehabilitation facility was Beah's first step to freedom.

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

WHEN BANKS "CREATE MONEY," DON'T THEY, IN REALITY, JUST RECYCLE THE MONEY AROUND?no new money (cash) has been created. People are taking money...

Especially in today's world, the amount of cash in the
system is relatively irrelevant to the concept of money supply.   We use electronic
transactions for so many things that the amount of cash compared to the amount of liquid
money is really quite small.  So I would say you should not think about cash in this
context.


When banks create money, they really create
money.  When I deposit my money and they loan some of it out to you, there is more
liquid money than there was before they loaned it to you.  It is not just
recycled.


If I deposit $1000 from a paycheck and $900 of it
gets loaned to you, where did that $900 come from?  It's not coming out of my money
because I still have $1000 in the bank.  It's not coming out of the money that anyone
else has -- the loan to you does not decrease the balance in the account of any other
depositor.


So you can't say it's recycled -- it is new
money created by the loan.


The actual physical cash is, of
course, recycled.  And banks don't create physical cash.  But they do creat
money.

In what way did the Civil War's outcome realize or fail to realize the founding principles of this nation?

In the Declaration of Independence, it declares that "all men are created equal" but the founding fathers did not all believe that this applied to slaves. Many of them owned slaves. It took a Civil War to effect this change, but it did not happen right away. Although slavery was abolished and the Constitution amended, it took much longer to change the hearts of people. Slavery was outlawed, but Blacks were certainly not treated equally, especially in the Jim Crow South. It wasn't until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s that this was changed.


Although slavery was a key issue in the Civil War, it was not the only reason for the war and many historians believe that slavery was only one part of the real reasons for the war -- sectionalism. Therefore, I will give you a perspective that you might not have considered.


In the South today, some people still refer to the Civil War as "the war of northern aggression." The Declaration of Independence also states this:



That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.



This founding principle is what led the southern states to believe that they could secede from the Union. The southern states were not “consenting” to what the government was doing, so therefore their needs were not being addressed (economic being a big one regarding taxes, tariffs, as well as the slavery issue which was at its core, an economic issue) and they could abolish the government and form their own. The southern states favored states’ rights over the rights of the federal government. The northern states felt just the opposite, favoring a “federalist” position (remember The Federalist Papers?). The South lost the war, so from their point of view, the founding principles were not successful.


I am playing the Devil’s Advocate here because I am not from the South, but this is a differing viewpoint. Perhaps some southern colleagues can chime in with opinions to give you some variety for your answer.

IN TERMS OF THE CONSUMPTION FUNCTION WHY IF THE GOVERNMENT GIVES A RICH PERSON A TAX CUT THEY MIGHT SAVE IT INSTEAD OF SPEND IT.BECAUSE ACCORDING...

Consumption function is the relationship between the
disposable income of an individual or a household and the total consumption and saving.
This function is usually depicted in form of a table or a
graph.


No two individual or households in an economy behave
exactly alike in terms of their consumption and saving behavior. However, when we look
at the general behavior some common patterns emerge.


The
total consumption of a person expressed as a percentage of the total disposable income,
tends to decrease, and that of saving increases as the disposable income rises. Of
course the sum of expenditure plus saving always equal to the disposable
income.


When the disposable income is zero, a person still
has to spend something to survive, and therefore the actual spending is more than the
income. This entire spending, exceeding the disposable income, can be seen as negative
spending. As the disposable income rises the expenditure  rises also, and the negative
saving gets reduced till the income and expenditure reach a break even point where
income exactly equals expenses and saving is zero.


When the
income is increased beyond this break even point, the expenditure is less than the
income. The difference between the two is the saving. The percentage of saving as a
percentage of total disposable income increases with the disposable income. At very high
income it is possible that almost entire increase in the income is used for saving and
very little for spending.


A rich person is thus at a level
of income where the saving percentage is high. Thus when the disposable income of a rich
person is increased by tax cuts, the chances are that a larger portion of it will be
saved rather than spent.

Monday, August 12, 2013

A circle has a centre at (-3, 1) and point P(0, 5) is on the circle. What is the area of the circle,in units squared?

The radius of the circle is equal to the distance between its center and any point on the circle.


For the given circle the center is at (-3, 1) and a point on it is P(0, 5).


Therefore the radius of the circle is equal to the distance between these two points. To calculate the distance we use the formula:


Distance = [(y2 - y1)^2 + (x2 - x1)^2]^1/2


Where the coordinates of two points are (x1, y1) and (x2, y2)


Thus distance between center and point P = Radius


= [(5 - 1)^2 + (0 +3)^2]^1/2


= (4^2 + 3^2)^1/2


= (16 + 9)^1/2


= 25^1/2 = 5


Now we calculate the area of the circle using the formula:


Area = pi*r^2


Where:


pi = a constant with value equal to 22/7


r = radius of circle


Substituting values of pi and r in the equation for area we get:


Area = (22/7)*5^2 = (22/7)*25 = 78.5714 (unit of length)^2

What are some symbols in Seabiscuit by: Laura Hillenbrand?I would love it if you added the chapter that you got that from. Thanks ((=

I would say that the most overwhelming symbol in Hilebrand’s work is the horse itself. When placed in the context of 1930’s Depression America, so much of what Seabiscuit, the horse, represented was symbolic. The fact that the horse was meant to be more than it was and then discarded as a failure when it could not meet such lofty expectations could be symbolic of the typical American that emerged from the 1920s America into the realm of the 1930s, where economic hopes were met with economic despair. The fact that the horse was a fighting horse, with an irrepressible spirit is symbolic of what leaders like Roosevelt saw America at the time, a force that cannot be denied. Hollywood leading men of the time were constructed in a very similar way to Seabiscuit, the horse. The leading men of the time period were “ordinary guys” or “shy guys” who were capable of extraordinary accomplishments. The idea of regular people being called upon to do amazing feats was similar to the construction of the horse itself, as a horse that no one counted upon being called to do great things, as well. In the end, the horse that “no one wanted” is called upon to be a symbol of the American spirit of the time period.

What evidence is used to support Abigail Williams's assertion that Elizabeth Proctor is guilty of witchcraft?

The main piece of evidence that is used to back up Abigail
Williams's claim that Elizabeth Proctor is a witch is the "poppet" that is found in
Proctor's home.  This is a doll that Proctor has allegedly been using like a voodoo
doll.


Abby says that Proctor has used the doll to bewitch
her.  She screams with pain and says that Proctor has done something to make her stomach
hurt.  When the men go and find the poppet and Proctor's home (it was put there by Mary
Warren) they find it has a needle stuck in its stomach.  This is the proof they need to
arrest Proctor.

Sunday, August 11, 2013

What are some procedures for collecting physical evidence at a crime scene such as blood?facts

The very first thing that must be done at all crime scenes is securing the scene. Law enforcement officials must limit access to the area/scene, this is done to maintain the integrity of the evidence that may be at the scene. You don't want scores of people trampling on the evidence.


If the evidence to be collected is blood, it must be determined by field test that the sample is in fact blood. This is accomplished by a simple test tube test using phenol derivatives. A small sample of the material is collected on a sterile cotton tipped applicator, it is then placed into a test tube with a known chemical reagent. A color change will occur if the substance is blood. This is called a confirmatory field test for the presence of blood.


Most blood samples at crime scenes are collected by this same procedure of swabbing with a sterile applicator then transported to the crime lab. Larger samples are collected differently. If blood is covereing a large area, say soaking a carpet, pieces of the carpet may be cut out by the crime scene technician and then placed in seperate bags for transport.


Chain of custody is important to all evidence collected at any crime scene. Essentially, this means that one individual affirms that the collected evidence never left his control until it was transferred to the crime laboratory.

How does the audience' view of Eddie Carbone change from the beginning to the end of A View from the Bridge?

As the play opens, Eddie is a sympathetic character.
Though he remains somewhat sympathetic to the very end, his behavior, his moral
standing, and his persona all suffer a fall. Eddie becomes more a vehicle for pathos
than sympathy. 


When the audience is introduced to Eddie,
he is a caring man taking care of his family, willing to raise an adopted niece and to
harbor two cousins who are immigrating from Italy. These generous impulses quickly
degenerate into selfish impulses however, even in the opening scene as Eddie doles out
heavy-handed advice to Catherine. 


Eddie's greedy and
improper affections for Catherine become clear over the course of the play, yet Eddie's
attempts to find an acceptable way out of his predicament suggest that he is still not a
bad person.


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Eddie visits Alfieri, the lawyer, seeking some
legal protection for his
family.



He wants to free
himself of his conflict by finding a way to avoid it. 


This
weakness in his character eventually comes to dominate, rendering Eddie a pathetic
character in the eyes of the audience, powerless over his own passions and
impulses. 


Ultimately, it is not Eddie's feelings for
Catherine that will characterize the view the audience holds of him. His morally low
actions regarding Rodolpho (and Marco) become the final
comment.



 In
desperation, Eddie places the call to the immigration office, an act he soon comes to
regret.



This act effectively
removes Eddie from a position allowing real or pure sympathy from the audience and
places him instead in a position of pathos. The audience is sorry for him in the end,
but would not imagine doing what Eddie has done. 

Explain how a manager might deal with making decisions under conditions of uncertainty.

There's a line from one of "The Matrix" films:  "We cannot see past the choices we don't understand."  In the end, I think that this statement says a great deal about managing through periods and conditions of uncertainty.  Managers do not possess a transcendental point of view that allows them to see everything beyond what is present.  In periods or instances of uncertainty, managers must take as much information as possible that is available to them and make decisions that will operate in the best interests of the organization.  They have to live with perpetual doubt and some insecurity in such periods of time.  In the end, managers can only make decisions that they see in front of them and the periods of uncertainty will test this ability to ensure this.

Saturday, August 10, 2013

Why did John Steinbeck decide to write The Pearl?

In order to assist you with this question, and without giving you my personal answer as this appears to be a question requiring a student to deeply think about context and purpose, it's important to consider the themes of this captivating novel.  If one concludes that ultimately Steinbeck's The Pearl is a novella about the consequences of greed and the dangers of extreme wealth, then one can easily draw a logical conclusion of his ultimate purpose for writing.

Is there any regularity in the meter of Robin Hyde's poem "An Absent Face"?Robin Hyde: from Houses by the sea, The Beaches III An Absent Face An...

There definitely is regularity in "An Absent Face" by New Zealander Robin Hyde. There is also irregularity where Hyde varies the base rhythm and meter with opposing rhythm and meter. The poem starts out in iambic (^/) pentameter, which is five metrical feet of one unstressed count followed by one stressed count (^/):


An^ ab' / -sent^ face', / re^ -mote' / and^ sharp', / as^ far'


The third line varies this pattern by adding an incomplete end foot creating iambic hexameter. Lines four and five pick up the original iambic pentameter, with an elision of an unaccented syllable in "different" to render "diff'rent" in the last foot of the fourth line.


Line six varies quite a bit to accommodate "Ganges" and "Juma," both of which have accented first syllables. The result is two feet of dactyls (/^^) followed by three feet of trochees (/^), though still in pentameter. In addition, the second foot makes use of an oft overlooked component of English poetry and incorporates a pause, denoted by the comma, as a rightful part of the rhythmic structure.


Gan' -ges^ and^ / Jum' -na^,^ / half' the^ / par' -rot’s^ / pla' -ces^


Line seven repeats the pattern of line three with iambic hexameter and an incomplete end foot. Lines eight and nine reestablish the base iambic pentameter, but line ten reverses that with a trochaic pentameter with an incomplete end foot:


Ra' -ges^, / fiz' -zles^ / red' at^ / ev' -ery^ / one'.


Line eleven echoes line ten, iambic pentameter with and incomplete end foot. Lines twelve, thirteen, and fourteen return to the base pattern of iambic pentameter. Line fifteen is awkward.


The one ahead of it, line fourteen, ends with an enjambment and an newly begun thought ("but one") broken short to be picked up on line fifteen with "Thinks your ... ." This line is problematic because it can be scanned one of two ways.


It can be scanned as iambic: Think^ your' / clean ^ tooth' / -brush^, home' / -work^ neat' / -ly^ done' . Or it can be scanned in keeping with Hyde's other variation patterns: Think' your^ clean^ / tooth' -brush^ / home' -work^ / neat' -ly^ / done'.


When scansion is emphasized, it may be more neatly scanned as iambs. However when the thought is emphasized, "but one thinks, your clean toothbrush, homework neatly done," said in conjunction with asking questions of the stooping shadows of line thirteen, then the variation of combined dactyls and trochees makes more sense, particularly when the line then echoes Hyde's other variations, even having an incomplete end trochaic foot:


Think' your^ clean^ / tooth' -brush^ / home' -work^ / neat' -ly^ / done'


Line sixteen is varied by having iambic tetrameter (four feet), with an elision between "say" and "A" on an unaccented count in the second foot. Lines seventeen and eighteen return to the base pattern of iambic pentameter, with no variations.
So then, yes, there is regularity while there is also systematic variation of the regular pattern.

Friday, August 9, 2013

What is the significance of the play's title All For Love by John Dryden?

In his "Preface" to All for Love--which is an original structure that combines a "French classic tragedy" style with a deep characterization reminiscent of Shakespeare--Dryden explains his view that the love between Antony and Cleopatra is an "illegal love" based on "vice," which engenders little pity on its own because it was a purely voluntary choice as opposed to being compelled by some external circumstance. Therefore, both Antony and Cleopatra gave up all--their positions, their roles, their allegiance and duty, and their lives--for the pleasure of unjustifiable love; they gave All for Love. Dryden emphasizes this with the meeting between Cleopatra and Octavia. He refers to Octavia in his "Preface" as "virtue and innocence," saying that Octavia would want to triumph over Cleopatra when, at least for a time, virtuous love triumphs over the love stemming from vice.


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What is the definition of "Civilized" and "Uncivilized" in Brave New World?

Civilized as defined in Brave New World by Mustapha Mond is not what people in the United States or Great Britain consider civilized.  After all, the reader finds that, in the end, Mond himself realizes the consequences of the New World and its mores; that is, he is fully aware of the sacrifices of the New World's civilization to the humanness of its citizens. He even tells John the Savage that God does not change, but civilization does.  Now God has been replaced by the good of society.


The motto over the door of The Central London Hatchery reads, "Community, Identity, Stability."  The civilization of the Brave New World exists within a totalitarian word.  Community, one's identity, and stability are all manufactured by the government and defined within controlling parameters.  There are no individuals, thus there is no freedom.


So, to answer the question which asks, "What is the definition of the word civilized in Brave New World?" civilized means that a member of the New World has been conditioned correctly, acting in accord with his/her caste, adhering to the standards of consumerism and "solidarity."  There is absolutely no real choice of actions or thoughts--all actions and thoughts are dictated by the state through biogenetics.


However, all is not perfected in the New World.  There are yet atavistic yearnings for motherhood that must be relieved with drugs to simulate feelings of pregnancy, there are moments of discontent that must be subdued with soma, and there are cases of Alphas who, in their intelligence, realize the flaws of their society and yearn for what is truly human.  Mustapha Mond is such a man, but because his is the Controller, he can secretly satisfy the yearnings of his heart and intellect through reading while he enjoys his power in the New World.

What did Frederick Douglass mean by "fruit of abolition"?

To add a little to the above, Douglass says that when he first hears the phrase, he does not understand what it means.  He hears it often, so he decides to use the dictionary to look up the phrase.  The dictionary affords him little help and understanding, so he waits until he can read a newspaper for information.  In the newspaper, he learns the meaning of abolition.  He recalls the situations during which he has heard the phrase "the fruit of abolition," and indeed it refers to situations that proponents of slavery consider bad:  slaves running away and succeeding in their efforts, slaves killing masters, setting fire to barns, or anything else considered "wrong" by the slaveholders.  People regard the abolitionist movement as a source liberal ideas, one that gives slaves the notion that they can, and should, be free and that others in the movement believe in their right to be free.

How far is Iago justified in hating Othello?

Iago hates Othello for some of reasons. First reason could be that Othello promoted Cassio in his place; however, Iago wants it and he cosid...