Aristotle considers Sophocles' Oedipus Rex as the perfect example of tragedy. Explain why.With examples from the play please.

In Aristotle's Poetics, he outlines
the major principles of tragedy, citing Sophocles' Oedipus as the
paragon of the form.

Aristotle's reasons are clear: to be
the perfect tragedy the play must have a perfect plot.
Oedipus follows the classic Aristotelian triangle of
rising action, climax, and falling action.  The play is full of dramatic irony (the
audience knows more than the tragic hero) and verbal irony (the use of sarcasm,
understatement, and overstatement).  It has the classic "reversal of
fortune" in which Oedipus thinks he is innocent, but then soon realizes
he is guilty.

The play must also have the
perfect tragic hero.  He cannot be perfect; otherwise, his
fall is not warranted.  Conversely, he cannot be a criminal who rises to power--that too
is unrealistic.  So, Oedipus avoids these two
extremes: Oedipus is a great man, but he also suffers from two great
vices (anger and pride), so he is ripe for both greatness and a great
fall.

Lastly, the play has the three unities,
which leads to the greatest level of
catharsis (purgation of pity and
fear):

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The unity of action: a play
should have one main action that it follows, with no or few
subplots.

The unity of place: a play
should cover a single physical space and should not attempt to compress geography, nor
should the stage represent more than one
place.

The unity of time: the action
in a play should take place over no more than 24
hours.

What are the similarities and differences between Elizabeth Bennett's and Charlotte Lucas' family?I need to know more information and details about...

1.  They're both "country" folks.  Now, by modern American standards, this might imply poverty or poor manners, but during Austen's time, it simply meant that they were not part of the aristocratic elite (like the Bingleys and Darcys who own several homes and divide their time between London and the countryside).

2. Both Charlotte and Elizabeth are part of families which rely upon the daughters to marry well.  Austen does not supply as much information about the Lucases, but the reader knows that because Mr. Bennett has no sons, his "estate" will go to a more distant male hier, and the girls must marry well to help provide for their parents.  Charlotte is in the same situation and marries Mr. Collins (Elizabeth's distant cousin) in order to provide "independence" for herself.

all in all what moral does the canter burry tale's give to each of us?i was ask to make a book report about the canter burry tale's and after...

Chaucer's tales are chiefly (but loosely based) on biblical morality.  Characters are either punished or rewarded for their adherence to moral law.  The audience should take something away from the lessons learned by each character.  (Though it should definitely be pointed out that Chaucer has his gripes with clerical rule.)

Consider for example, the Physicians tale.  He concludes his story with the biblical maxim, "the wages of sin is death."  The Prioress, who considers cold-blooded murder, must die.  The Friar tales stories about people whose greed leads to their downfall.  For every moral sin, a punishment is doled out.  For example, while promiscuity itself is not often punished, the sinner is punished nonetheless in some other way.  For example, the Miller who attempts robbery is punished by having those he tried to steal from sleep with his wife.

Can someone discuss the plot of "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" as opposed to the plot in a fairy tale.

Perhaps the greatest differences between Katherine Anne Porter's "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" and a typical fairy tale are the plot structures, the main characters, and the denouements.

PLOT STRUCTURE

In the traditional fairy tale, the personages are often stock characters, or characters of limited traits.  However, Granny Weatherall is not the person that she seems to her children and others around her.  Granny has, like her name, been through much and survived:  she has been jilted, her second husband has died, and her children are all adults of some age.  But, to her children she has appeared independent and strong.

MAIN CHARACTER

Granny Weatherall's character also does not follow the usual plot line.  For instance, if she were a character in a fairy tale, when she falls in love with John, he should become her "prince" and she will live happily ever after.  However, Granny's thoughts run in a stream of consciousness as she remembers how she always has put things in order, how she plans to go through old love letters that she has saved, how she wishes she could again see George, and, ironically, have Cornelia tell him that she has forgotten him, and how she desires to see Hapsy as well as how she needs to divide her possessions.  In short, Granny's mind jumps from present to future, to past, and back to the present.

DENOUEMENT

In most fairy tales, the complication always has a resolution--a happy one, at that--that punishes the bad and rewards the good, who lives happily ever after.  On the other hand, Porter's story ends with a character who is unprepared for the denouement.  For, she has not resolved her conflicts, having thoughts to the end of her first love, George, as she finds herself dying, a point of light in the darkness that is she:

For the second time there was no sign.  Again no bridegroom and the priest in the house.  She could not remember any other sorrow because this grief wiped them all away.  Oh, no, there's nothing more cruel than this--I'll never forgive it.  She stretched herself with a deep breath and blew out the light.

For Granny Weatherall, who reviews in her mind all that is important to her, there is no "happily ever after."  Death comes for her, unprepared and incomprehensible.

What surprise does Billy find when his father and the judge push the hollow box elder down in Where the Red Fern Grows?

When Billy's father and the judge push the hollow box elder down, they discover three big coons which roll out of the broken old trunk. With their hiding place destroyed, the coons each head off in different directions; Old Dan catches one and Little Ann nabs another, while the third coon climbs up a steep bank close to Billy. Although he falls from the top of the bank and goes after Billy when the boy throws a stick at him, the coon eventually tries to get away again, and temporarily makes it, over the bank and into the thick cane.

When hunters arrive, they are stunned to hear that there are three coons holed up in one tree. Upon examining the inside of the hollow box elder, they discover that it is half-full of leaves and grass, "a regular old den tree." One of the men remembers a similar occurrence, over in the Red River bottoms, when four coons were found by two beagles in an old hollow snag.

When Old Dan and Little Ann have each dispatched a coon, they take off after the third one and refuse to give up on it, even though they are almost frozen in the wake of a fierce blizzard. Everyone is amazed that they have stayed with their prey so tenaciously, and some wonder if they somehow sense that they need to get one more coon for Billy for him to win the prize. Mr. Kyle thinks it is more than that; he believes that the hounds sacrifice themselves just because of their love for Billy, "the deepest kind of love" (Chapter 18).

In Brave New World, what evidence have we seen so far that proves that there is an all-powerful state?Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

From the incipience of his narrative, Aldous Huxley
exposes the irony of his title taken from Shakespeare's The
Tempest.  For, there is nothing of the heart--nothing "brave"--at all in the
society of the New World.  The most basic of human actions, that of physical
reproduction and all that it entails has been removed.  Not only has this regenerative
act which makes men human been removed, the urge to do so has been negated and made vile
to the inhabitants of the New World.  Through hypnopaedia, the "treatest moralizing and
socializing force of all time," the citizens are made to believe that giving birth
naturally is a repugnant act.  In fact, there is nothing intimate or personal regarding
the act of intercourse; citizens are encouraged, in fact, to be promiscuous as, in this
way, "everyone belongs to everyone else," and, therefore, no one belongs to anyone; no
one person has any real value.  The individual does not exist, for the individual in a
society--one who thinks for him/herself--is often
dangerous.

All thoughts, all actions are controlled in the
New World.  In the Hatchery, a limited number of Alphas are manufactured as are
calculated numbers of other mental and physical denominations.    The limited number of
Alphas ensures that there are not too many thinkers to disturb the order of the
society.  And, so that there is no mixing of the more intelligent with the lesser,
hypnopaedia conditions Betas to hate Gammas, for
example.

Emotions, too, are controlled.  Whenever one feels
a twinge of discontent, soma is taken.  In fact,
soma is given to people regularly as a preventative against any
insurgency.  There is no true religion, either, which could give rise to ideas and
feelings, nor any recordings of past history.  All is in the present of the New World. 
Consumption is the activity; the years are counted from the assembly line manufacture of
the Ford.  B.C., standing for "before Christ," and A. D. "anno dominum, or year of our
Lord," have been eradicated.  The inhabitants of the New World know no more than what
they have been conditioned to know.

What sign does Montresor give Fortunato to prove he is a mason and how does Montresor's proof foreshadow the crime that is about to occur?

The sign that Montresor gives Fortunato to prove he is a mason is a trowel, a tool used to smooth and spread mortar between bricks and also a symbol of the masons.  The trowel proves to be not only a symbol but an instrument of foreshadowing in that this is the very tool that Montresor uses to lay the bricks that encase Fortunato within his brick tomb once they are inside the catacombs.

What is the hepatic portal circulation?

Another name for the hepatic portal system is the portal venous system. The purpose of hepatic portal circulation is to deliver blood from some parts of the gastrointestinal tract to the liver. In other words, blood is drained from the digestive organs (and the spleen, gall bladder, and pancreas) and the blood is then delivered to the liver. The vein that is used for this process is the hepatic portal vein.

The hepatic portal vein also transports other things to the liver as well. It transports absorbed nutrients, white blood cells from the spleen, poisonous substances that were absorbed in the intestines, and waste products.

What is pneumonia, how is it caused, and how can it be prevented?

Pneumonia is a disease characterized by inflammation of
lungs. It is caused by infection from different type of micro organisms like virus,
bacteria, and fungi.  Pneumonia may also be caused by allergic reaction to inhaling
irritating chemicals. Conditions like emphysema, heart disease, alcoholism, and deceases
that weaken the body's resistance of infection increase the risk of getting pneumonia,
and make recovery from it difficult.

Pneumonia is generally
caused by the infectious micro-organism present in the air inhaled. It is also caused by
the bacteria normally present in mouth, nose and throat getting into lungs. These
infectious micro organisms lodge in the air sacks of lungs where the blood interacts
with the air inhaled to exchange its carbon dioxide for oxygen. Here the microbes
multiply quickly. To wight this infection the blood produces white blood cells, causing
the air sacs to get filled with these.

Treatment of
Pneumonia requires bed rest until at least two or three days after the fever due to
pneumonia ends. For pneumonia caused by viral there is the main treatment. In case of
bacterial pneumonia suitable antibiotic drugs are
administered.

Pneumonia caused by influenza, can be
prevented by influenza vaccination. Similarly pneomococci vaccines protects the body
from this type of pneumonia. Such vaccinations are generally required only for patients
with long term illness or who have high risk of contracting
pneumonia.

What are the major differences between banking and problem-posing education according to Paulo Freire?

According to Freire, education that oppresses people is typically this "banking" education.  He says that this kind of education happens when students are simply given facts and figures to memorize.  He believes that they learn these things by rote without having any understanding of how the facts impact their lives.

By contrast, the sort of education that Freire advocates is one in which students work to create their own realities.  They look at the facts and try to understand what those facts meant for them.  They try to understand the assumptions that other people have made so that they can accept or reject those assumptions with their eyes open (rather than having the assumptions just put into their heads unquestioned).

Is there a theme in In Cold Blood?

First of all, of course there is a theme.  All works of literature have them.  Theme can be defined as "a general statement of universal truth."  When reading In Cold Blood however, you should be struck by the fact that there isn't just one truth.  In this book, Capote is urging us to recognize that life is complicated, as is his novel, and cannot often be summed up with pat maxims.

In Cold Blood contains many themes, and one of them is this "nature vs. nurture" idea.  Capote is a Post-Modernist writer who is building on the ideas of some Modernists who looked at character (personality) as something that can be created by several things: heredity, social conditions and environment.  Capote builds on the ideas of earlier writers, who created fictional situations in which this could be true, by showing the reader that it may be true in real (non-fiction) situations as well.

Another theme in In Cold Blood must surely be the complicated nature of compassion.  Throughout the book we are asked to have compassion and sympathy for so many of the characters--the Clutters, the town that will never again be as innocent as it was on the day before the murders, Al Dewey, Dick Hickock, Perry Smith, the Hickock and Smith families--indeed, nearly every character in the book deserves the reader's compassion.  Yet this is complicated, since many of the people we feel compassion for are murderers or people whose actions clearly caused their own downfalls.

Help me discuss how Soyinka in his play The Swamp Dwellers dramatizes man's struggle against a hostile environment.

To start with, the setting of Soyinka's most simple and first play The Swamp Dwellers symbolically establishes the themes of rural social decay and humankind's quest for salvation. According to John Nkemngong Nkengasong, Ph.D., of the University of Yaounde, Soyinka uses African myth, idiom, and ritual to examine humanity's absurdist struggle against a hostile environment, thus representing life's ever-present problems and contradictions and humanity's unending quest for salvation. Nkengasong points out that the setting contrasting swamps and the arid North represents the existential predicament of living in an environment that can not be explained and presents a continual hazard. The central dilemma lies in choosing whether to placate an impotent god (the Serpent) on the hope of bringing order to a hostile environment or to abandon the hope of salvation altogether, while knowing full well that salvation is a central quest of humankind.

Explain this statement, ''No food, no civilisation.''

This is a question that I always address when I teach history.  It applies both to ancient civilizations and to the impact of agricultural improvements on our own more modern society.

The major reason to me that food is necessary for civilization (other than that food is necessary for any life at all) is that civilizations need surplus food so as to support all the people who perform the various tasks that make a people civilized.
In order to have a civilization, you need to have government and education, you need to have scribes and merchants. If you have no surplus food, if your farmers produce only enough food to feed themselves, how can you feed scribes and teachers and merchants? All you can have is farmers struggling to stay alive (or hunter gatherers doing the same).

So, the way I always teach this is that surplus food allows for people to do specialized jobs. These specializations allow civilization because these specialized jobs make complex civilizations possible.

What are the reasons why we do not use current technology to move towards alternative energy sources (i.e. nuclear energy source instead of coal)?

The previous posts are entirely accurate in that there is a great deal of cost associated with pioneering new technologies and that there is a relatively low cost in using oil and burning fossil fuels.  I am going to take this in a different direction, though, and focus a bit on why the United States is so dependent on oil. This might sound conspiratorial, but I think that there might be some level of validity present.  According to statistics produced, 42% of all oil production is domestic.  This is a sizable chunk and this particular segment possesses enough political and economic capital to ensure that their voices are heard in government.  They utilize the ability to petition the government quite effectively.  The remaining comes from abroad, and in particular what lies in the Middle East, in particular Saudi Arabia.  In my mind, the relationship between the United States government and the oil producing nations, such as the Saudi Arabian government helps to make certain that our dependence on oil will not be precluded by investment in new technologies.  At this time, the Saudis provide about 13% of our total oil supply.  Yet, the amount of oil reserves sitting in the Saudi Kingdom and adjacent to it totals about 255 billion barrels of oil.  The amount of oil in the United States is nowhere near that amount, and even if it were, it lacks the institutional capacity to produce this much.  This means, that the United States, with its dependence on oil, has to look to the Saudis in order to provide it.  There is a reason that the Saudis price their oil in US dollars, the only nation to enjoy that benefit.  Additionally, the relationship between the US and Saudis has enjoyed complete stability, even though an overwhelming of the hijackers from September 11 came from Saudi Arabia.  In the end, the dependency on oil is what guides our interests in the region.  The fear is that if there is an investment in other resources outside of oil, then this oil can be taken by another producing nation such as China.  In order to prevent this level of growth and to ensure that there is a steady supply to feed the US dependence on oil, there cannot be a full fledged investment in alternative resources.  There is a wonderful movie that articulates this phenomenally well called "Syriana."  The relationship between the US and Saudi government and how there might exist a collusion based relationship between the oil business and government policies is brilliantly articulated.  This might also help explain why we do not use current technology to move towards alternative energy sources.

Who is the major character?

The major character, about whom the story revolves, is
Minnie Wright, who is suspected of murdering her husband. But in the development of the
story, the major acting and speaking character is Martha Hale. She is the limited
point-of-view character, and the narration and dialogue exist only because she is
involved in them in some way. For example, paragraph

9
concerns Martha’s feelings when she enters the Wright farmhouse. The men, who are
technically the principal investigators of the murder, enter and leave, while Martha
remains as the focus of our attention. We also realize that Martha is the major source
of information about Minnie and about Wright, the dead husband. It is because of
Martha’s questions, observations, recollections, and responses that we develop sympathy
for Minnie. For example, Martha justifies Minnie’s housekeeping just as she also
develops a justification for the murder. Not only is Martha sympathetic, but also she is
the major figure concealing and destroying the evidence that points conclusively to
Minnie’s guilt. She is, therefore, the most important character in the
story.

Explain the meaning of the quote:, "Scrooge had often heard it said that Marley had no bowels."

"Bowels" used in this sense at this period of time refers to compassion or pity. In general, bowels were considered to be the "tender feelings". This archaic meaning is no longer used for the word "bowels".  Therefore, Scrooge is referring to the comments made by others regarding Marley. He supposedly was not a generous man either. Perhaps Scrooge is justifying his own behavior.

Forces of evil and atheism along with the theme of penance play an important part in the tragedy of King Lear. Discuss.

I'm not sure what you mean when you say forces of evil and atheism.  The story of the historical King Lear pre-dates Christ.  The play is set in a pre-Christian world.  If religion did play a part in the play, it would be Druid.  Penance is also a Christian concept that would be alien in the world of the play.

It is true that Shakespeare wrote the play during a period when religion played a strong role in everyday Elizabethan life.  There is however a difference between reality and the world of the play.  When characters do speak of gods, they use a plural reference or in Edmond's case, he calls upon Nature as his goddess.

Do evil things happen in the play?  They do.  Are Goneril and Regan evil or are they trying to protect themselves against their father who has become a tyrant.  (There are no easy answers in Shakespeare.)  They had seen how easily he had disowned, Cordelia, his favorite and exiled Kent for his honesty.  They had played daddy's game and lost.  He was suppose to live full time with Cordelia.  Now Lear would be under foot for long periods of time with all his men.  If they did anything to displease him, what would the volatile old man do to them?  Who of us wouldn't want to protect ourselves under these circumstances.  Do they go too far?  Of course they do.  Once an action like this starts, it is like a snowball rolling down a hill, hard to stop.

More important thematically is how does one be a good king and a good father?  At the beginning of the play, Lear is neither.  He is a foolish old man who wants to be flattered and ego stroked.  He doesn't know how to retire.  Both Goneril and Regan understand and give him what he wants.  Is this love?  Since Lear doesn't know how to love or what is love for that matter, probably not but it passes for love in the Lear household.  Do these two women love their father?  In their own way they probably do but like many of the father/daughter relationships in Shakespeare, the fathers have difficulty expressing their love.

Does Cordelia know how to love?  She does so that when asked how much she loves him she finds that she cannot find the words, "I cannot heave my heart into my mouth."

The storm scene is one of the most amazing scenes in the play as Lear goes mad and challenges the raging storm.  Yes, he does mention sin but in the context of that world.  It during this that for the first time, the old king thinks about somebody other than himself.  He sees the suffering of the Fool.  When he encounters poor Tom, he sees the "mad" Edger as a wise man.  He strips off his clothing to discover that in the flesh, so to speak, we are all alike.  "...man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal..."  For the first time he understands suffering and the human condition.

When Lear and Cordelia are reunited, Cordelia's gentle love brings him back not only to consciousness but to sanity.  Does the old king learn?  Eventually, but their joy is short lived.

Is there a lesson here?  There are many.  The play is rich with ideas.

We cannot judge the world of the play by today's values and standards but we can accept it and learn from it.

What does Jordan Baker's leaving "a borrowed car out in the rain with the top down" and her golf tournament "scandal" reveal about her?

One of the primary themes of the novel is carelessness of
people in general, but especially the upper classes.  There are numerous examples of
shallow, careless behavior throughout the novel.  There is the description of guests
behaving with a "simplicity of heart" as if they were in a an amusement park.  There is
the car accident scene at the end of Chapter Three.  There is the behavior of party
guests at Tom and Myrtle's flat in Chapter Two, and of course, there is the ultimate
condemnation of behavior in the novel when Nick decries Tom and Daisy in Chapter 9,
"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then
retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept
them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. . .
." 

Jordan's behavior is just one more example of careless
people who don't consider the consequences of their behavior.  Remember, Nick is in
search of a world at some sort of "moral attention."  The people of the East certainly
are not a part of that world.

What are some similarites and differences between Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" and Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self Reliance"?I actually already did...

I would say that it would be appropriate to focus on the time period or literary movement in which both works are immersed.  Both works help to enhance the notion of self within literature.  The idea of exploring the subjective experience as a way of gaining more insight into the world around us is of vital importance to the movement, and something upon which both Whitman's work and Emerson's writing places emphasis.  Both works are part of a movement that praised and valued emotions and the emotional exploration of self as critical to understanding in the world.  This is not a literary movement that sought to explore objective truth through science or rationalism, but rather did so through the idea of self and what that entails.

When did artifical intelligence research start?

The creator of Artificial Intelligence studies begins with
the work of pioneer computer scientist Alexander Turing (1912-1954) who in the 1930's
evolved a concept of a "Turing Machine."  This was quantified as a device that could
manipulate symbols and derive an answer to computations if a set of rules where in
place. About a decade later, the first machine that we would recognize as the
grandfather of the modern computer was built based on Turing's principles.  One of the
more interesting concepts he promoted was the idea that a device would pass the "Turing
Test" if an operator, in interacting with the device, couldn't determine if the machine
was computing on its own, or if there was actually a human controller behind it.  If
operating on its own, the machine would then be acting "intelligently,"  and, of course,
"artificially."

Examining poster help please? Thank you very much! Analyze and Interpret the following source. Explain the ideological perspective reflected in...

This Canadian recruiting poster from World War I is an
excellent example of the use of nationalistic symbology in order to achieve a goal, in
this case getting more men to enlist in the military in order to reinforce the forces
already deployed on the Western Front.

Websters dictionary
defines Nationalism as “loyalty and devotion to a nation...” href="#_ftn1">[1] Although this can be taken to extreme lengths, Nazi
Germany and the Japanese Empire during World War II are the most obvious examples of
Nationalism being carried into a master race mentality, in most cases Nationalism is
exhibited in an individual or community display of patriotism, such as the display of a
flag.

In this poster we see the Canadian flag of the
period, on this flag are written four place names that were the sites of battles in 1914
and 1915 in which Canadian troops saw action. An army officer shows this flag with its
battle honours and asks “Will you be there?” The use of the flag, the uniform and the
call to duty for your country are used to stir up the nationalistic fervour of the
viewer, with the subtle hint that if you will not “be there” then you are not only
letting down your country, you may also be a coward.

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What are some of the similarities and differences of the novel and the two movies, Of Mice and Men? Any extra help is appreciated.

There are always differences between original novels and the movies on which are based because of the visual drama required for a screen version. There have been two movies based on Of Mice and Men, the most recent in 1992. The story behind George and Lennie and their efforts to escape homelessness and poverty because "Guys like us... they ain't got nothing to look ahead to" (chapter 1) remains consistent and is an ideal that they can never attain. George must care for the simple-minded Lennie who is a big man but unaware of his physical strength. Lennie feels comforted when the men talk about their dream and the fact that "I got you to look after me..." He wants George to remind him that they are going to have their own place and "live off the fatta the land." Lennie will get to look after the rabbits. The themes generally consider their dream versus their reality, the men's friendship and the trouble that the unchecked Lennie gets into because George is powerless to  make him understand. 

The movie version shows the vast open space and allows the reader to visualize the lives of itinerant farm workers and their almost helpless quest of bettering themselves. It is also quite apparent how hard their work is. The book is more centered on the personal struggle of these two men and how restricted their choices are which adds to George's feelings of being trapped. Some of the additional points about the differences can be seen when, in the book, the men have traveled by bus but in the movie they travel by train. In the book, Lennie's obsession with rabbits leads to hallucinations but there are none in the movie. In the movie, Curley's prowess with a punching bag while his wife looks are is a sign of trouble ahead and gives the viewer an uneasy feeling but this does not take place in the book.

What is the main differenece between the Sympathic & the Parasympathic Nervous System?

Autonomic nervous system or internal life,vegetative system  coordinates the activities of internal organs and autonomic functions of the body (nutrition, breathing, circulation, excretion, etc.).

Autonomic nervous system consists of two components which, are functionally antagonistic: sympathetic nervous system and parasympathetic nervous system, the first being a "consumer" and the second being the repairing one.

The two aspects of the neurovegetative system, which is the metabolic regulator, the sympathetic nervous system, which is the dynamic group and the parasympathetic nervous system, which is the anabolic group or relaxing group, are closely correlated with critical events which are evolving between activity (matter's wear) and standby (regeneration of matter). In functional terms, these two antagonistic systems work like pedals of a piano, which strengthens or suppress it sounds.

In the novel The Great Gatsby, what does white symbolize?I know that it symbolizes purity, but I need more key points to write a full essay. Please...

Actually, I think that white does not symbolize purity in
this particular book.  Of course, you are right to say that white typically does
symbolize purity, but in this book I think the symbolism is turned on its head some.  In
this book, I think white symbolizes impurity or is being used in some ironic
way.

Take, for example, how we see Daisy and Jordan in
their white dresses in Chapter 1.  But we know neither of them is pure.  I don't just
mean this sexually -- I mean that they are impure at heart.  Jordan is a cheater, for
example, and Daisy has married a man she does not love just because of money -- they're
both sort of false people.

In the story "Bartleby the Scrivener" by Herman Melville, what is the significance of the setting? What could be some examples of a thesis about...

Melville's title itself, "Bartleby the Scrivener:  A Tale of Wall Street" indicates the significance of the setting as well as characterizing it.  For, the lawyers chambers look upon a white wall of the interior of a spacious sky-light shaft and a lofty brick wall, while the other chambers have little if no views.  Bartleby works in a corner by the folding doors behind a screen and has a window that "commanded at present no view at all.   After Bartleby works under these conditions for some time, he begins to say "I would prefer not to" when asked by his employer to perform certain tasks.  Eventually, the "inscrtable scrivener" retreats whenever possible "into his hermitage" of folding wall and viewless window. 

Even when the lawyer moves to another office and the screen is folded leaving him the "motionless occupant of a naked room," Bartleby does not move.  He haunts the building until he is taken the the Halls of Justice.  There at the prison, Bartleby merely stands facing a high wall; he loses all will to live and dies, huddled against a wall where the lawyer discovers him with his eyes open.  The walls that have closed Bartleby from human contact and from seeing nature outside have deprived him of one of man's most basic needs, that of companionship.  Sadly, Bartleby accepts this isolation, even "prefering" it.  But, it kills him.  After his death, the lawyer learns that Bartleby had worked in the Dead Letter Office at Washington, from which "he had been suddenly removed by a change in administration." There, too, he was isolated.

The walls around Bartleby--his environment--affect   him greatly, reducing him to a passive man.  This desolation in Bartleby even begins to affect the other men who start to use his word prefer, and it affects the lawyer who himself becomes passive about ridding himself of Bartleby.  As the walls close in on Bartleby, he retreats into himself more and more until, in his isolation behind walls, he dies, tragically huddled at the base of a wall. 

Melville's subtitle "A Story of Wall Street" conveys the distant and often conflicting relationships between employers and employees that occurred in his time. In a way, Bartleby becomes symbolic of the growing distance in the late 1800s between employer and employee; as he is set apart by folding walls and viewles windows, his depersonalization occurs a result of this isolation; he is the estranged worker in an uncaring system.  A thesis for Melville's story could establish the relationship between the walling out of Bartleby from his employer and his passive resistance and eventual retreat.

x+2y=1 2x+y=8 find x and y

x + 2y = 1

2x + y = 8   

First multiply everything in the first equation by 2. By multiplying, you should get

2x + 4y = 2

2x + y =   8 now subtract 2x with 2x ( which means subtract 4y with " y " and 2 with 8

By subtracting,  you should get

3y = -6 now divide both sides by 3 

By dividing, you should get 

y = -2   which is your answer for " y " 

Now plug -2 into one of the equation

x + 2 ( -2 ) = 1 multiply 2 with -2

By multiplying, you should get

x - 4 = 1 now add 4 on both sides

By adding, you should get

x = 5.  which is your answer for " x " 

So your answer is x = 5 and y = -2

How does Iago trick Othello into thinking Cassio was gloating and bragging about his affair with Desdemona?

It's important to note that at this point in the play,
Othello is a frothing, jealous madman who is already convinced of Cassio and Desdemona's
infidelity and has already sworn to punish them both for it.  So, at this point, Iago is
really just taunting him further to make Othello even
crazier.

Othello hides, and Iago carefully starts a
conversation about Bianca with Cassio.  Bianca is a courtesan/prostitute that Cassio had
taken up with.  Not having any idea of Iago's machinations, Cassio laughs uproariously
and vulgarly talks about sleeping with Bianca, even making gestures.  Needless to say,
Othello thinks Cassio is talking about Desdemona.

List the safety precautions you should take during severe weather alerts.

Yes, there are different kinds of weather alerts such as tornado, flood, etc. It is also very important to follow the instructions that are given. For example, usually when there is a tornado warning or watch, they tell you go indoors immediately. You are to go the lowest floor (basement if you have one) and stay away from windows, etc. In addition, you should go to an interior room.

It is always a good idea to prepare an emergency kit. This kit should include items such as a flashlight, radio, first aid supplies, etc. Every family should also have an emergency plan as well. This will allow all family members to know what to do and how to contact one another should an emergency occur. It is always good to prepared.

In regards to "The Lesson," explain what Ms. Moore means by saying "where we are is who we are."

In my opinion, what Ms. Moore means is that people's lives
and personalities are totally shaped by the circumstances and surroundings in which they
live.

We can see that in how the kids behave in this
story.  Because they are all relatively poor, their outlooks on life are very different
than those of the people who can actually shop at FAO Schwartz.  The kids only know
poverty.

This is something that Ms. Moore is trying to
fight against.  She wants the kids to see that where they are should not be permanent
and that they should fight what she sees as injustice.

What is the dramatic significance of the quote, "It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood" (Act III, scene iv)?

In an interpretive manner, "blood will have blood" is a double entendre. For, its first meaning is in reference to the predictions of the three witches who have told Banquo that his "blood" will have "blood" (sons)--"Thou shall get kings"--while the second meaning is that the shedding of Banquo's blood will have to lead (get) to the shedding of his sons blood as well because the prediction was that Banquo should be the father of kings. 

When Macbeth utters these words, he uses the phrase more in this second meaning that his bloody path of murder must lead to other murders. Having killed Duncan and become king, he must now eliminate Banquo and his progeny to ensure that he remain king. This idea, too, is in line with the Elizabeth Chain of Being: whatever affects one thing affect others. Thus, there is an interconnection of one bloody deed and another. In fact, Macbeth even alludes to the sons of Duncan earlier with the word "bloody":

We hear out bloody cousins are bestow'd
In England andin Ireland, filling their hearers
with Strange invention. But of that tomorrow. (3.1)

I wondered how the theme of nature is expressed in Oedipus the King?

In Oedipus Rex, nature is used as a pathetic fallacy or an objective correlative.  In other words, the external plague in nature (disease, starvation) is symbolic of the internal corrupt nature of royal family.

The play begins with children suffering from the plague.  Notice, the priest connects the suffering with a crime within a house:

Armed with his blazing torch the God of Plague 
Hath swooped upon our city emptying 
The house of Cadmus, and the murky realm 
Of Pluto is full fed with groans and tears.

"Land" is mentioned 25 times in the play.  The priest goes on to say:

This land, as now thou reignest, better sure
To rule a peopled than a desert realm.
Nor battlements nor galleys aught avail,
If men to man and guards to guard them tail.

Creon says:

fell pollution that infests the land,
And no more harbor an inveterate sore.

The Chorus calls upon the gods (Zeus) to defend them from the disease of the land:

If in the days of old when we nigh had perished, ye drave
From our land the fiery plague, be near us now and defend us!

Oedipus, ironically, looks to the land for the murderer instead of within himself.  So, suffering in nature is symbolically juxtaposed to inward suffering and blindness.  So says Oedipus:

But if an alien from a foreign land
Be known to any as the murderer,
Let him who knows speak out, and he shall have
Due recompense from me and thanks to boot.
But if ye still keep silence, if through fear
For self or friends ye disregard my hest,
Hear what I then resolve; I lay my ban
On the assassin whosoe'er he be.
Let no man in this land, whereof I hold
The sovereign rule, harbor or speak to him;
Give him no part in prayer or sacrifice
Or lustral rites, but hound him from your homes.

How do conflicting perspectives generate tragedy and controversy in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar?

While the characters Brutus and Cassius are friends, they
often do not share perspections, a difference that effects considerable conflicts in
William Shakespeare's Julius
Caesar. 

Early in the play, Cassius persuades
Brutus that Caesar is dangerous because he seeks
power:

Why,
man, he doth bestride the narrow world

Like a Colossus, and
we petty men

Walk under his huge legs and peep
about

To find ourselves dishonorable graves.
(1.2.141-144)

He, then,
convinces Brutus to take action instead of thinking that there is nothing he can do by
telling Brutus that

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Men at some time are masters of their
fates:

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our
stars,

But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
(1.2.145-146)

Of course,
Cassius's differing point of view, although able to persuade Brutus into joining the
assassination, has disastrous results.  For, Brutus does not take Cassius's advice to
kill Marc Antony; instead he allows Antony to speak, and the civil strife that ensues
after Marc Antony's differing perspective on Caesar persuades the Roman mob to riot, is
far worse than the reign of Julius Caesar.

During this
civil strife in which Marc Antony, Octavius Caesar, and M. Aemilius Lepidus form the
triumvirate who combat against Brutus and Cassius, the "evil that men do" continues as
Antony dispenses brutally with Lepidus as of no more worth than his
horse. Before battle, Octavius and Antony go to the field to exchange insults with
Brutus and Cassius in Act V. 

So, too, do Brutus and
Cassius continue to disagree.  When he expresses reluctance to go into battle because he
has seen signs--a superstitious reaction more like that of Brutus--such as two eagles
that have fallen and

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Gorging and feeding from our soldiers'
hands,

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Who to Philippi her consorted
us.

This morning are they fled away and
gone

And in their steads do raven, crows, and
kites

....their shadows seem

A
canopy most
fatal....(5.1.88-94)

Brutus
has argued previously that

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There is a tide in the affairs of
men

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Which, taken at the flood, leads on to
fortune; (4.3.244-245)

When
Cassius wants to wait, Brutus desires to attack.

In the
ensuing battle, the growing conflict between Antony and Octavius has been foreshadowed
by their earlier exchange about Lepidus.  When Antony tells Octavius to fight on the
right, Octavius refuses to be ordered and does not.  Antony's insults to Brutus and
Cassius also have their effect. For, Cassius takes the opportunity, then, to tell Brutus
that he was always right about Antony:

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Now, Brutus, thank
yourself!

This tongue had not offended so
today

If Cassius might have ruled
(5.1.93-94)

By not waiting
for the enemy troops to advance as Cassius has suggested, the troops of Brutus are
enervated and become defeated.  Because of their disagreements from beginning to end,
Brutus and Cassius are defeated.  And, because of his selfish intentions and
disagreements with his triumvir, Antony is isolated from Octavius.  Indeed, conflicting
perspectives have led to tragedy.

Discuss the ending of The Cay? Are you satisfied with the author's point of view? Why?

In the book The Cay, Timothy and
Phillip have been stranded on an island by themselves with very few supplies.  Phillip
and Timothy are very different people.  Timothy is an older black man and Phillip is a
young white boy. 

Phillip was blinded when he was hit in
the head after a torpedo wrecked the boat he and his mother were on heading towards
America after the German subs were located off the Island where he had
lived.

On the island the two are faced with a terrible
storm and Timothy survives but is weakened from protecting the boy during the storm. 
After setting up a coral guide for Phillip to follow to the sea, Timothy dies.  Timothy
is sad and buries his friend who had helped him.

Philip is
later rescued and returns to the island where he finds his mother has lived and he
returns to live wth his dad.  The author takes the point of view of Phillip looking back
on the events that ahd happened and is now finding hat he is too mature after the
experience to enjoy the things other boys his age are
enjoying.

The author's point of view is the way that a
young boy who had been through a trauma would behave.  He would be sad but also have
grown up significantly from the event and have trouble relating to children his age who
had not been through a similar trauma.

What does each character plant in the garden?

In the book Seedfolks different people come together one by one to plants parts of an empty lot in Cleavland.  None of the people know each other but together they become a cohesive unit working the sections of the vacant lot as they live their lives. 

Kim, a 9 year old Vietnamese girl, begins by planting lima beans in memory of a father she has never met.  She hopes he will see what she has planted and will be pleased.

Virgil and his father plant lettuce which the bugs begin to eat.  Their dreams were to be able to sell the lettuce to make some money.

Leona wants to plant goldenrods in the garden.

Wendell and his wife had a son who was shot and killed.  He only helps initially to water the little beans Kim had planted.  Later he gets a shovel so he too can plant.

Sae Young, a middle aged Korean woman, plants peppers like the ones she had grown in Korea.

Sam hires a boy to work his section of the garden because he is 78 and can not do the work.  The book does not say what he plants.

Curtis plants beefsteak tomatoes.

Mr. Myles plants hollyhocks, poppies, and snap dragons. 

How do I set up a persuasive essay, and finding reliable sources?My topic: Children should wear school uniforms at public schools. Help me with an...

Steps you need to go through:

1.  Brainstorm a list of reasons you think students should wear uniforms.  Start with a bunch of ideas that are all yours.  Then, research, and add examples of real facts you found that support your first ideas.

2.  Organize your list into three categories.  (Example: physical reasons, social reasons, emotional reasons, academic reasons, etc.)

3.  Outline your essay (body paragraphs first):
Category 1:
Example 1 (from research - use a real fact)
Example 2

Category 2
Example 1 (from research - use a real fact)
Example 2

Category 3
Example 1
Example 2

NOW, your intro will be easy.
Sent. 1: hook
Sent 2: Thesis statement (Students should wear uniforms for several reasons.)
Sent 3: 3 categories of reasons (These include _____, _____, and __________.)

How does this book show the meaning of identity? How does Jack personify the guy from the country and the guy from the city?How does he act...

In order to properly address the question, one must
understand Wilde's world.

It was the 19th century Victorian
London and the Queen had made a point to instill in society a very exaggerated sense of
family and morality to counterarrest the debauchery that existed in the English court
centuries before her coronation. She gave her name to an era: The Victorian era. With it
came pictures of the Queen with her family, her showing a sort of cheesy admiration for
her husband, Prince Albert, and a lot of other stuffy and over-accentuated details that
put England back behind the Bible, and under a myriad of physical and psychological
limitations, all in the name of morality.

Wilde hated that.
Indeed, he produced entire works dedicated to his disagreement with this new way of
thinking, which directly put artists, actors, poets, performers, and even painters under
a "neighborhood watch" where they could not even express themselves without some
complaint.  Wilde would comment on this phenomenon in  An Ideal Husband, The
Picture of Dorian Gray,The Decay of Lying, A Woman of No Importance, and
(sadly) he also applied this hatred of conventionalism and superficiality to his
personal life.

The Importance of Being
Earnestis the equivalent of a modern day satire of a weak reality show. In
it, Wilde sent a powerful blow to society in the person of Jack Worthing, who is a
fatherly figure, warden, and head of a country estate. Yet, this same Jack detests the
conventional life in the country and comes to London under the persona of Earnest to
meet with his equally double-life cronie Algernon, so that he can run high bills at
restaurants, cause havoc, and be the rebel he is at
heart.

The poignant point here is that, of all names he
could have chosen to come to London to be a bad boy, he chose "Ernest." Semantically,
this is an irony as "earnestness" is a quality of dignity and morality. Even more
ironically, it causes a mysterious effect on the main female characters, Cecily and
Gwendolyn, who just fell in love with the name, and not the man behind
it.

Hence, Jack is the symbol of the masks that Victorians
would wear at home, while seeking pleasure and sin outside of it. He is Queen Victoria's
ideal of an earnest man.....but just in the country. His double life represents what
Wilde argued of his generation: That morality cannot or should not be imposed because
once it becomes a rule to be followed,it also becomes a rule to be broken: And once it
is broken (as Wilde did himself) it will tax the emotions and feelings of a lot of
unsuspecting parties.

Where is the setting of "The Monkey's Paw"?

i'm not intirely sure,but the defenition of a setting is:

the time, the place, the social conditions, the weather and the characters.

the time is:                probably around the time it was written                                         which was: 1902

the place:                   lanburnam villa

the social conditions:   women were treated less respectfully than                                      men (at the time)

the weather:                 start's out rainy/wet and cold

the characters:           mrwhite, mrs.white, herbertwhite, sergeant-                                  major morris, lawyer from maw and meggins

What are some major ideas in "Shooting an Elephant"?

In his essay "Shooting an Elephant," Orwell examines the effects of imperialism on the imperialist. A representative of the British government, the narrator has authority in Burma that he must uphold, and he feels uncomfortable in doing this. Indeed, he feels inadequate. When he is called upon to shoot the elephant, he must fire the gun again and again, while he knows he is doing something cruel.  He must save face, however. Although he only brought the rifle to defend himself, the pressure of the crowd--what they expect from him as part of the British Raj--compels him to shoot. The last sentence carries the irony of the experience:  "I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool." In condemning himself, he shows the "trickle-down" effect of the immorality of imperialism.

What was the long-term strategy of the United States during the Cold War?

Basically it was containment via the Truman doctrine and
marshall plan.

Only the method in which those policies were
implented changed ro rather became aggressive after the Korean war and the cuban missile
crisis. Both incidences marked the militarization of the cold war and alerted both the
superpowers the danger of the nuclear weapon than any other period of the cold war
history.

During the early stage of the cold war, the us
employed containment policy in western europe so as to curb communism influecen. It was
more of an economic and political approach rather than military. Also the containment in
Asia was marked by large sum of aid. But with the start of the cold war, and the cuban
missile crisis, the militarization of the two superpower became
prominent.

These means were not only curb communism but
also build informal US empire in which the ideology and economic system that US deem
right is most prevalent. Until the cuban missile crisis, us believe such us hegemony was
possible, but after 14days of crisis, us had to admit that they can not totally
eradicate the soviet union but to find ways to co-exist
peacefully.

According to Chapter 17, is there any instinct in this society?Chapter 17 Brave New world

In chapter 17 of Brave New World,
John the Savage and Mustapha Mond discuss the emotional need for
God.

John asks the World Controller, "...isn't
it natural to feel there's a
God?"

Mustapha Mond
replies:

"You
might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's trousers with zippers," said the
Controller sarcastically. "You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley.
He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by
instinct. As if one believed anything by
instinct! One believes things because one has been
conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad
reasons–that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned
to.

So, Mond's response is
that the Utopians have no instincts, at least not for God.  He says that he has
conditioned the citizens of the Brave New World not to be unhappy; therefore, there is
no need for God.

Mond finds the idea of God emotionally
unsatisfying.  He thinks that the desire to seek God is a kind of emotional response to
suffering and pain.  Since he has eliminated all suffering and pain, he has eliminated
the instinct for God by extension.   God is like a zipper.  One doesn't have the need
for it if he doesn't know it existed in the first
place.

Mond believes humans to be empty vessels.  Before
and shortly after birth, his labs fill them up with all the feelings and thoughts they
will ever need.  Instinct is to be averted, like books, nature, and family.  All
instinct is replaced by genetically engineered "bliss."

Discuss Jane Austen's art of characterization with reference to the following characters: Mr. Collins, Charlotte Lucas, Wickham and Lydia Bennet.

Austen identifies specific Regency/Victorian behaviors typical of the society in which she worked: The preoccupation with social class, the need for distinction, the necessity for marriage as a symbol of social status, and the double face of society. She also characterizes women by the weakness of the times: They were property and half educated. This was a particular problem Austen loved to bring out.

Charlotte Lucas exemplifies this latter point. She was a mindless puppet of her family who decidedly chose to marry Collins admittedly because it will at least bring her some form of stability, security, and income. She even admits that he is "tolerable" and that she feels it is the properly expected thing to do.

In Mr. Collins, she characterizes the first element: His overactive admiration for Lady Catherine just for being an aristocrat, his assumption that he was in a position of privilege under her mentorship, and his ridiculous regard for himself are typical of the mentality of class distinction and separation. When he married Charlotte, he viewed the entire thing as his obligation and as a favor to her more than anything else, after all, women were the property of their husbands.

Lydia is the traditional co-dependent and unintelligent female whose parents did not do their job in bringing her up correctly, was consistently feeding herself with fantasies and ended up living them up by eloping with the horrible Wickham and disgracing herself in society.  However, right when she was in the epicenter of shame, her luck was made by Darcy's intervention, she was able to marry Wickham and returned to Longborn with a totally arrogant behavior, and flaunting her marriage status as if it were a victory over her sister. Equally, society seemed to have "forgotten" all about her shameful elopement and happily accepted her back in- all because of the marriage.

Mr Wickham was the typical heartless man who lied and lived up as a high minded Captain of the Army when in fact he was a double dealing hypocrite whose reputation was only made by his rank, and because he was connected to Darcy's family. He abused his stay in the Darcy family and he showed a lack of morals in eloping with Lydia, whom he didn't even love. Eventually he, too, returned back in the positive only because of the intervention of Darcy's money.

I would like to know, what is your view on the topic "Battle of the Bulge."

I am thinking that you are talking about the popular term
referring to the ongoing battle against obesity. If I am wrong, ignore my answer. Here
is what I think:

It is a very contradictory thing. Right
now on American TV there are around 5 celebrities getting paid high dollars to advocate
Jenny Craig, Atkins, Weight Watchers, Nutrisystem, the Organic Juice and the South Beach
diet.  On the same token, we have highly paid Chefs advocating for "foodies" and food
shows featuring all kinds of food are hitting the HD
market.

So, common sense tells us that moderation is key.
But yet, there is another market always attacking- The fast food
market.

In the US, for example, gourmet and healthy food is
extremely expensive compared to the $10 dollar and $5 dollar pizza deals from Pizza Hut
and Little Ceasar's respectively. Every fast food restaurant as a very convenient
"dollar menu" now, for which an average college kid could get a 5 course, highly
caloric, and extremely junkie meal for $7 including tax.

On
top of that, every commercial linked to an upcoming holiday is about the chocolate,
candy, junk, or outrageous meals you could be eating.

So,
on one hand we have paid sponsors telling us to join a diet plan while another is
telling us to love food, and the mainstream media is telling us to save money by eating
junk.

Bit ironic, isn't it?

In Macbeth, we do not see Lady Macbeth for two Acts. What do you think has happened in the interim?How can you explain the changes in her character?

My own humble opinion is that she was the third murderer, to aid her husband as she continually did throughout the play, and in her meddling she saw them kill Banquo, she aided them in killing Banquo, and therefore she'd seen the blood herself. Just as her husband before her, the actual act of holding a knife in her hands and being an essential part of the deed being done shook her. She mentions earlier that she didn't perform the murder of Duncan herself because he appeared like her father- this seemed a little too much like an excuse to me. So, if this is how events actually unfolded, then it may just be that the killing of Banquo had the same affect on her as the murder of Duncan had on Macbeth - at least immediately. That could have been the reason that ultimately led to her demise, but of course this is just my opinion.

What is the role of humour in As You Like It with special reference to Jaques and Touchstone?

Touchstone and Jacques represent two different kinds of humor in As You Like It. Touchstone is the duke's fool, which means he is allowed to say anything he wants to say and get away with it.  In fact, the fool, or clown, in Shakespeare's comedies, often has the best lines. One of the jobs of a jester in the days of kings and queens was to keep the monarch from getting  too big for his/her britches.  So Touchstone is very broad, bawdy humor, and is someone the lower classes can relate to.

Jacques, on the other hand, is just a fool. He has a rather jaded, silly outlook on life and is amusing without trying to be, rather than funny because it's his job to be. He does deliver the famous "All the world's a stage" speech, and thus, speaks directly for Shakespeare, but Jacques is more often the butt of the humor rather than its instigator.

The two characters, with their different approaches to the idea of what's funny, actually complement each other, and Sahkespeare plays them against one another's styles to comic effect.

Use Hughes's poem "Dreams" as model to write your own poem. Begin your poem: Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Then create your own...

As you know, we cannot write your assignment for you, but I can help you. This is a poem by Langston Hughes, so I have moved your question to that group. If you read this short poem, you will see that the author uses similes and metaphors to compare to broken dreams - "a broken winged bird that cannot fly" - "a field frozen with snow" so you must do the same. The poem emphasizes that it is important to have dreams, to not let them go - hold fast to them. You could also write about lost dreams.

Think about a dream that you once had that did not materialize. How did you feel? What images came to mind? If you have not experienced this, then you will have to make something up. Think about something that someone your age would possibly really dream about - getting into a good post-secondary school, having a boyfriend/girlfriend, getting a spiffy new Apple iPad, or it can be something loftier like world peace, the end to the war on terrorism. Once you come up with the basic idea of the unrealized dream, then you can conjure up some images for what it represents to you. Once you get your mind working about dreams, you will come up with some images. Think about dreams and how important it is to have them, whether or not they can always be realized, how you feel when they are not realized, is it worth having them? Are they realistic? Does it matter if they are realistic? Can it be hurtful to have them?

You can make it funny as well, although this poem is not funny -- I'm not sure if this will be OK with your teacher, but you will know this. Also, do you have to follow the rhyme scheme of the poem? You will know this as well.

So for example:

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die

Life is a storm cloud high in the sky

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams fade

Life is a sugarless, tart lemonade

OK, I know this is totally LAME -- but you can do much better. I just wanted to give you an example that you would not be tempted to "borrow" since it is so lame.

Of the three sections in Fahrenheit 451, which section is the most significant?How does each section connect to plot development, characterization...

I don't see how one section could possibly be more important than the other; they all work together, hand-in-hand, to develop the entire storyline.  The first section, The Hearth and the Salamander, establishes the main characters, the background exposition for the setting and the society, and lays the foundation for what is to come next.  We meet Montag, who on the surface appears to be happy, but soon realizes that he is miserable.  His misery sets him in a quest for understanding.  We meet Mildred, who also appears to be happy, but through her suicide attempt, we know that she isn't.  We also meet Clarisse, who is truly happy. Clarisse is an essential catalyst in Montag's own journey of self-discovery and enlightenment.  All of these elements are crucial for building to the next section.  The themes of shallowness, oppression through entertainment and happiness through individuality are all introduced.

In The Sieve and the Sand, Montag develops dramatically as a character, whereas most of the other characters remain static.  Mildred doesn't change.  Clarisse, unfortunately, is gone.  We meet Faber and together with Montag, they plan their rebellion.  For the first time, Montag feels excited and happy, and isn't as confused anymore.  He starts to lash out against the system.  Bradbury's themes of ignorance are developed through Mildred's friends.  We see a turning point in Montag's life and character.

The last section, Burning Bright, is where everything that has been developing to this point comes to a head.  Montag makes crucial decisions that change his life for good.  With the murder of Beatty and his disillusionment with his society, he consciously makes the choice to be an outcast.  The bombs and destruction of his city are secondary to the evolution of Montag's character, which completes itself in this section.  He has gone from a confused, frustrated, blind character to an empowered, driven and decisive one.  He understands the nature of his society now, and is willing to sacrifice all to change it.

So, all work together, hand-in-hand, to fully develop the characters and themes.  I hope that helped; good luck!

log(2x) + log(x+5) = 2

First, we'll discuss the constraints of existence of logarithms:

2x>0 and x+5>0

x>-5

x>0

So, for both logarithms to exist, the values of x have to be in the interval (0,+inf.).

Now, we'll solve the equation, using the product property of logarithms: the sum of logarithms is the logarithm of the product.

log(2x) + log(x+5) = log [2x(x+5)]

The equation will become:

log [2x(x+5)] = 2

But 1  = log 10

We'll re-write the equation:

log [2x(x+5)] = 2 log 10

log [2x(x+5)] = log 100

We'll use the one to one property:

[2x(x+5)]  = 100

We'll open the brackets:

2x^2 + 10x - 100 = 0

We'll divide by 2:

x^2 + 5x - 50 = 0

We'll apply the quadratic formula:

x1 = [-5+sqrt(25+200)]/2

x1 = (-5+15)/2

x1 = 5

x2 = (-5-15)/2

x2 = -20/2

x2 = -10

Since the second value of x is not in the interval of convenient values, the equation will have only a solution, namely x = 5.

What are some insults in Romeo and Juliet ?

Start with the first act of Shakespeare's play and scan
the lines; you will easily spot the insults that Gregory and Sampson hurl at Abraham. 
For instance, Sampson says that "a dog of the house of Montague moves me" (I,i,10), and
Gregory derides Sampson as a "weak slave."  Gregory replies that he will be a "tyrant"
and will either cut off the head of the maid or take their "maidenhead." He continues,
saying that he will "frown as I pass by, and let them take it as they list."  Sampson
asserts,

Nay
as they dare.  I will bite my  thumb at them;

Which is a
disgrace to them, if they bear it.
(38-40)

As Benvolio enters,
he shouts, "Part, fools!"  But, Tybalt calls the Montague servants "heartless hinds,"
and challenges Benvolio, calling him a "coward." Then, when the old men, Lords Capulet
and Montague hear, they rush to engage in the fray with Montague calling out, "Thou
villain, Capulet..." (I,i,75)

Angered by the reignited
conflict, Prince Escalus insults the men,

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Rebellious subjects, enemies to
peace,

Profaners of this neighbor-stained
steel,--

....you men, you
beasts

That quench the fire of your pernicious
rage

With purple fountains issuing from your
veins....(I,i,77-81)

Furthermore,
the Prince tells Montague and Capulet that they are partisans who possess "canker'd
hate."

In a later scene, Romeo arrests the rambling
Mercutio's monlogue with insulting words, "Thou speakest of nothing."
(I,iv,102)

In the next scene, Tybalt espies Romeo and
declares,

It
fits, when such a villain is a guest:                I'll not endure him.
(I,v,64-65)

Capulet tells
Tybalt he is "a saucy boy," and he is a "princox."

In the
next act as Mercutio and Benvolio search for Romeo, who has snuck into the Capulet
orchard, Mercutio refers to Romeo's previous love, "that same pale, hard-hearted wench,
Rosaline (II,iv,4), and does not spare Tybalt his disparagement, either: "More than
Prince of Cats, I can tell you" (II,iv,19). When Benvolio notices that Romeo approaches,
Mercutio then calls to Romeo, "O flesh, flesh,/how art thou fishified!" (I,iv,38) and
Romeo continues the battle of wits with Mercutio telling him that he has "more of the
wild goose in one of thy wits than ...I...(I,iv,70), and Romeo eventually tells Mercutio
that he is "far and wide a broad goose."

Distracting them
from their banter is the nurse, whom Romeo sees as an object of sport and ridicule: 
Here's goodly gear! (I,iv,92) with Mercutio joining in the raillery by exclaiming, "A
sail!  a sail!" as she possesses so much material that her servant Peter much carry it. 
He then refers to the nurse as "a bawd" and "a hare," punning on the word
whore.

Then, of course, there is the
fiery encounter between Mercutio and Tybalt in the first scene of Act III as Mercutio
again names Tybalt the "Prince of Cats," and initiates an argument with
him:

Thy head
is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of

meat, and yet
thy head hath been beaten as addle as an egg for
quarrelling...(III,i,24) 

 
When Romeo appears, Tybalt tells him, "thou are a villain" (III, i,60),but Romeo refuses
to fight; Mercutio turns his cholera upon Romeo, "O calm, dishonorable, vile submission!
(III,i,72), drawing his sword and calling Tybalt "a rat-catcher."  When he is wounded,
Mercutio expends his remaining anger on Romeo, who has come between him and
Tybalt:

...a
dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat, to sscratch a man to death!  a braggart, a rogue, a villain,
that fights by the book of arithmetic!
(III,i,

More insults are
hurled in the final act when Paris enters the tomb of Juliet and discovers Romeo. 
Believing that Romeo has come to defile the grave, Paris speaks harshly to
him,

Stop thy
unhallow'd toil, vile Montague!....

Condemned
villain....(V,iii,54-55),

From
beginning to end, Romeo and Juliet is replete with passages in which the "two
households" exchange insults.

Solve the equation sin x - cos x=0.

To solve sinx-cosx =
0.

Solution:

Since
sin^2x+cos^2=1 is an identity, cosx = (1-sin^2x)^(1/2). So replacing cosx in the given
equation we get:

sinx +(1-sin^2)^(1/2) = 0.
Or

(1-sin^2x)^(1/2)=-sinx. squaring both
sides,

1-sin^2x =
sin^2x.Or

1=2sin^2x. Or

sin^2x
= 1/2. Or

sinx= sqrt(1/2) or sinx = -sqrt(1/2)
.

So x = pi/4 or 3pi/4 Or x= -pi/4 or 5pi/4 Or n*pi/4,
where n is an integer.

Or x= 45 degree, 135deg,225 deg or
315deg . or  n*45deg where n is an integer.

In the story Red Wind by Raymond Chandler, why are the pearls so important to Lola?

There are some reasons. First, poor Lola really thought
the pearls were real. We find out that they were actually fakes made with bohemian
glass. Secondly, they had been the gift of a lover who passed away, and she always held
cherished memories of him. The pearls, she thought, were like an utmost symbol of love
and status. When the pearls were stolen, she was much worried about their
whereabouts.

Why did Arthur Miller write The Crucible?

The most obvious reason Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible (or anything else, really) is because he had a story to tell. Without that, he would not have been inspired to write. It is true, however, that what inspired him to write this particular story is quite personal.

As a Jewish man, Miller was a political advocate against the inequalities of race in America, and he was vocal in his support of labor and the unions. Because he was such an outspoken critic in these two areas, he was a prime target for Senator Joseph McCarthy and others who were on a mission to rid the country of Communism.

Miller was called before the House Committee on Un-American Activities because of his connections to these issues but refused to condemn any of his friends. This experience, a rather blind and sweeping condemnation of anything even remotely connected to Communism without sufficient (or any) evidence, is what prompted him to write about the Salem Witch trials. 

In a later interview, Miller said the following:

It would probably never have occurred to me to write a play about the Salem witch trials of 1692 had I not seen some astonishing correspondences with that calamity in the America of the late 40s and early 50s. My basic need was to respond to a phenomenon which, with only small exaggeration, one could say paralysed a whole generation and in a short time dried up the habits of trust and toleration in public discourse.

However, the more he began to study the tragic events in Salem, the more he understood that McCarthy's hunt for Communists was nothing compared to the fanaticism which reigned in Salem in the 1690s.

In time to come, the notion of equating the red-hunt with the witch-hunt would be condemned as a deception. There were communists and there never were witches. The deeper I moved into the 1690s, the further away drifted the America of the 50s, and, rather than the appeal of analogy, I found something different to draw my curiosity and excitement.

Anyone standing up in the Salem of 1692 and denying that witches existed would have faced immediate arrest, the hardest interrogation and possibly the rope. Every authority not only confirmed the existence of witches but never questioned the necessity of executing them. It became obvious that to dismiss witchcraft was to forgo any understanding of how it came to pass that tens of thousands had been murdered as witches in Europe. To dismiss any relation between that episode and the hunt for subversives was to shut down an insight into not only the similar emotions but also the identical practices of both officials and victims.

In his note about the historical accuracy of the play, Miller writes:

I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history.

Though his interest in the comparisons between the trials and McCarthyism began with his own experience, it was the horrific nature of the trials themselves which motivated Miller to write The Crucible. 

Here's a great interview with Arthur Miller about why he wrote the Crucible and its parallels to modern life:

In the play Everyman, what is the message and technical means by which it is dramatized?Would you please analyze it in short and simple English ?...

Everyman is a Medieval morality play, written in obvious allegory.  Each of the characters has a name which represents the quality they have (for example, Beauty is concerned about outward appearance).  Allegory makes it easy to understand each character's role in the story. 

In this play, the main character is Everyman--someone who literally represents each of us.  God sends Death to get Everyman; Everyman tells Death he is not prepared to face God and give his final accounting, as would probably be true of most of us.  Everyman asks for more time and he asks to bring some friends along; he gets both requests but must set out on his journey to meet God.  All the "friends" he thought he had are not interested in the journey or the destination. Among others, Beauty leaves him, Five-Wits (his five senses) leaves him...none of them are willing or able to accompany Everyman to the next life. 

The only person (the only thing) Everyman finds to take with him is Good Deeds.  This is the principle taught by the Medieval Church--you must do good deeds (good works) while you're living in order to find favor in the next world (heaven).  The theme of the play is dramatized by the use of allegory, as it's difficult to miss the point when the names and character traits are so obvious.

Hope that helps!

Did Victor Frankenstein try to create life in a test tube?Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley's original title for Frankenstein
was Frankenstein, or the Modern
Prometheus; Prometheus was the Titan god who was entrusted with the task of
molding man out of clay.  Added to this concept of creation from matter, Mrs. Shelley
and her husband both were intrigued with the ideas of Eramus Darwin, a scientist whose
ideas concerning biological evolution prefigured those of his more famous grandson,
Charles Darwin.  Also, Mary and Percy Shelley attended a lecture by Andrew Crosse, a
British scientist whose experiments with electricity greatly interested
them.

With these influences in mind, as well as the
historical context of the novel, it seems more appropriate to believe that Frankenstein
molded his creature and charged him with electricity than having created him in a test
tube.  After all, Dolly the sheep was "created" much later than Shelley's time.  In
fact, in the novel itself, Victor relates how he used cadavers' flesh and bones to
create his creature:

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I collected bones from charnel-houses; ....The
dissecting room and the slaughterhouse furnished many of my
materials....

Frankenstein's
more "filthy creation" as himself calls it serves Shelley's gothic theme, as well as the
Romantics antipathy for science.

What is the summary of The Swiss Family Robinson?

I do not disagree with anything that the first answer says, but I would emphasize that the novel is not really meant to be simply an adventure.  Instead, it is meant to convey a moral message.  The author is trying to get across to the reader how important it is to A) be educated and resourceful and B) be religious.

In the book, the family survives and thrives largely because of the wisdom of the father (it is a very male-supremacist book).  He seems to know everything and be able to figure out a way to make anything.  The family also prays and thanks God at regular intervals in the book.  The book really emphasizes the importance of God to the family.

In Martin Luther King's speech "I Have a Dream" Which parts are weak and need to be improved? I hope you can please help me,...

I agree with the earlier posting - there is very little,
if anything, to criticise about this speech. Many teachers and academics use it as an
exemplar to illustrate technique, delivery, effect and social impact. King did deliver
some speeches which were less successful - in one using the metaphor of abortion to a
church gathering - but this one is excellent.

I would ask
your teacher which techniques s/he considers exemplify a good speech and find examples
of these from the text. There is no shortage of repetition, assonance, alliteration,
anecdote, use of personal pronouns, emotive language, imagery and metaphor to name just
a few. I would be interested what criticisms could be levelled at this
work.

What is Jem thinking when Atticus calls them from the balcony? To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

In Chapter 21 of To Kill a Mockingbird,
Harper Lee portrays the contrast between the idealistic thinking of the boy
Jem and the realistic reasoning of his father.  First of all, after Mr. Underwood tells
Atticus,

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They're right up yonder in the colored
balcony--been there since precisely one-eighteen
P.M.

Atticus is upset that
the children have heard all the testimony by being in the courtroom, so he calls to his
son, "Jem, come down from there."  As the children approach, Calpurnia looks "peeved,"
Atticus "exhausted."

Then, the idealistic Jem, "jumping in
excitement," does not notice the weariness of his father, or the exasperation of
Calpurnia as he exclaims, "We've won, haven't we?"  Nor does he understand Atticus's
curtness:

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'I've no idea,' said Atticus shortly.  'You've
been here all afternoon?  Go home with Capurnia and get your supper--and stay
home.'

But, Atticus relents
and allows the children to return after eating supper "slowly."

I need a character sketch of some characters of A Tale of Two Cities.please I need four characters and a quote that best describes that...

While Dickens does not develop his character in A Tale of Two Cities as well as he does in his other novles, he has created some memorable ones such as Sydney Carton and the infamous Madame DeFarge.  Here is what the reader reader about some:

1.  Jarvis Lorry - An unobtrusive elderly "man of business" dressed in brown, who is the representative of Tellson's Bank, Mr. Lorry is shrewd, capable, and mild-mannered  Whie reserved, he is fiercely loyal to the Mannette family, kind to the doctor and fatherly towards Lucie.  Parallels are drawn between him and Dr. Manette as Mr. Lorry is practically a prisoner in the dark confines of Tellson's while Dr. Manette has been imprisoned in the Bastille for fourteen years.  As the agent of the bank, Mr. Lorry travels between London and Paris, the two cities of the narrative.

A face, habitually suppressed and quieted, was still lighted up under the quaint wig by a pair of moist gright eyes that it must their owner, in years gone by some pains to drill to the composed and reserved expression of Tellson's Bank.  He had a healthy colour in his cheeks, and his face, though lined, bore few traces of anxiety....[Chapter 4, Book the First]

2.  Madame Defarge - One of the great villains of literature, she is the sister of the girl ravished and the brother who defended her who were killed by the twins Evremonde.  She lives solely for revenge against them and all their class (the aristocrats) as the source of the evil which caused her family's deaths.  Much like a natural force, Madame Defarge bides her time, "seeing, but not seeing," as methodically and relentlessly she knits, the names of those to be killed.  This knitting, thus, represents her urge to retaliate, as well as her deadly patience.  She is both a personage in the narrative and a symbolic character as she represents the blood thirst and vitrolic intensity of the French Revolution.

Madame Defarge was a stout woman...with a watchful eye that seldom seemed to look at anything, a large hand heavily ringed, a steady face, strong feature, and great composure of manner.  There was a character about Madame Defarge, from which one might have predicated that she did not often make mistakes against herself in any of the reckonings over which she presided.  Madame Defarge being sensitive to cold, was wrapped in fur....[Chapter 5, Book the First]

3.  Jerry Cruncher- A character who provides comic relief with his spiked hair that a frog would fear jumping over, Jerry is the messenter for Mr. Lorry at Tellson's Bank.  His anger over his wife's "flopping as she prays for him in her knowledge of his nightly outlings after which he returns with muddied boots and his euphemistic naming himself "a resurrection mans" skewers the them of resurrection into a ghastly parody.  Still, Jerry figures seriously into the plot as he is instrumental in Sydney Carton's admission into Charles Darnay's cell after he learns of the identity of the spy called John Barsad.

He had eyes that assorted very well with that decoration [his hat], being of a surface black, with no depth in the colour or form, and much too near together--as if they were afraid of being found out in something, singly, if they kept too far apart.  They had a sinister expression, ....Except on the crown, which was raggedly bald, he had stiff, black hair, standing jaggedly all over it, and growing down-hill almost to his broad, blunt nose.  It was so like smith's work, so much more like the top of a strongly spiked wall than a head of hair, that the best of players at leap-frog might have declined him, as the most dangerous man in the world to go over. [Chapter 3, Book the First]

4.  The Marquis St. Evremonde - A stock villain, the cynical, polished rake, Evremonde is a crude class-symbol and exemplifies the predatory and sang-froid nature of the aristocrats.  He is the cause of the tragedy of Madame DeFarge's family and of Dr. Manette's, a witness of the cruel deed.  Now, however, he has no influence at Court and is viciously frustrated.  Symbolic of his cold brutality the Gorgon's head on the chateau surveys all the property of the Marquis.

He was a man of about sixty, handsomely dressed, haughty in manner, and with a face like a fine mask.  A face of a transparent paleness; every feature in it clearly defined; one set expression on it.  The nose beautifully formed otherwise, was very slightly pinched at the top of each nostril.  In those two compressions, or dints, the only little change that the face ever showed, resided....[Chapter7, Book the Second]

Comment on the following statement: "Not to know T.S. Eliot is to be ignorant of how poetry has affected modern life."

T. S. Eliot is often considered one of the most important – and also one of the most emblematic – literary figures of the twentieth century. As a leading proponent and practitioner of literary “modernism,” which represented a radical break with the kind of writing that had preceded it, Eliot was an enormously influential author, both as a poet and as a critic. Many other poets (such as Allen Tate, to mention just one example) tried to imitate Eliot, and even poets who deliberately rejected Eliot’s example (such as William Carlos Williams) were nevertheless reacting against Eliot and thus showed the impact of his writings.

Thus, if modern literature is an important part of “modern life,” then not to know Eliot is to fail to comprehend a crucial figure in the culture of the twentieth century.

Another way in which Eliot is emblematic of the modern period lies in the fact that he was an American writer. Although he lived in Britain for much of his life and became a British citizen, he was born and raised in the United States and came from a prominent American family. Eliot thus represents the impact that the United States was beginning to have on the culture of the rest of the world, especially in Europe, during the twentieth century. In the nineteenth century and earlier, few Europeans had taken much serious interest in American writers. Eliot’s importance, however, was such that he symbolized the new prominence of the United States on the world stage. No one could by then deny the economic and even military importance of the United States, but in Eliot the U. S. had also produced one of the most influential figures of the so-called “American century.”

Yet another way in which Eliot can be considered a key figure of the modern era derives from the subject matter of some of his most famous poems, especially The Waste Land and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” In works such as these, Eliot depicts modern life in dark, gloomy, and even depressing ways. He thus gives voice to a kind of alienation and disenchantment that many people felt as they faced the less appealing aspects of life in the industrialized, urbanized twentieth century.  Thus, in the famous opening lines of “The Love Song,” Eliot depicts life in a modern, impersonal, grimy city by referring to how

. . . the evening is spread out against the sky

Like a patient etherized upon a table (2-3)

Similarly, in The Waste Land he describes how

Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,

A crowd flowed over London bridge, so many,

I had not thought death had undone so many. (61-63)

One rarely reads an Eliot poem for cheer or good humor, and yet by the middle of the twentieth century Eliot was regarded as perhaps the most important poet in the English-speaking world, if not beyond. He was a winner of the Nobel Prize in literature; one of his poetry readings was held in a football stadium; he appeared on the cover of Time magazine; and anyone who was entirely ignorant of Eliot’s work and influence thus truly could indeed be said to be ignorant of a very important aspect of modern life.

Describe the launch of Auk XII in October Sky. Who was there and what happened? What was a "theodolite?"

Auk XII was the first rocket the boys
launched that was loaded with the fuel they called "rocket candy." It was built to the
same design as its predecessors, and would be the first rocket to be launched with an
electrical-ignition system. When Sonny touched a wire to an old car battery the boys had
rigged up, the rocket rose high into the air and then faltered and began to fall. When
it landed on the slack, the boys ran to get it, and discovered that the rocket's nozzle
had blown out. Further examination showed that the weld was still intact; the center of
the nozzle had simply been eaten away, causing the rocket to lose its
thrust.

A theodolite was a crude instrument invented by
Quentin to measure the highest altitude of the rocket. It was made from a broomstick
with an upside-down protractore attached on one end and a wooden straightedge on the
opposing side that rotated around a nail. By jamming the stick in the slack and
squinting along the straightedge at the rising rocket, then noting the angle the ruler
made with the protractor at the rocket's highest point, Quentin could, by using
trigonometry, calculate the altitude of the rocket's flight. In this manner, Quentin
estimated that Auk XII reached a height of seven hundred and sixty
feet.

Thanks to posted notices and a series of articles
written about the Rocket Boys, a group of about fifty people were on hand for the the
launching of Auk XII. The audience included several members of the
high school football team, who were hostile and derisive, angry at having the attention
of the community focused on the Rocket Boys instead of on themselves. The rest of the
spectators, however, were excited and highly supportive. Some of them even began to
cheer for the Rocket Boys, just as they would at an athletic event (Chapter
11).

Discuss the differences in the way language is used in different cultures or the ways in which the language reflects the culture and its...

According to Albert Bandura's Social Learning theory, and
Vygotsky's theory of constructivism, language is a tool of communication that promotes
learning in terms of acquiring intelligence, expressing emotions, and analyzing
information.

In a culture, any culture, it is through
language how you acquire the idiosyncrasies of your culture, the mannerisms that are
unique to your heritage and, most importantly, it is through language that you pass on
the knowledge, folklore, information, and traditions from one generation to
another.

It is a powerful tool that is still studied by
cognitive psycholinguists in the way that its intonation or changes in it, produces
affect in other people: For instance, a stern tone of voice causes fear at
times.

In the Spanish culture, I can tell you a quote that
once I heard: "You train dogs in German, You speak to Women in French but you pray to
God in Spanish"- Surely that sounds totally biased, but the person who quoted this must
have been very keen on the power of language. We are very dependant on our language
particularly in our non-verbal language. This is why you may have heard that Spanish
people "talk with their hands"- What really happens is that we are very passionate and
hot blooded individuals, and we use our entire bodies to convey
communication.

This latter is an example of how through
language we have conveyed those behavior qualities that make us
unique.

Using specific examples, discuss the theme of appearance versus reality in Macbeth.

Another example to add is when Lady Macbeth plans out the murder for King Duncan. She tells Macbeth to hide their true intensions.

Lady Macbeth: "Only look up clear;

To alter favour ever us to fear."

Meaning raise your eyes and look confident. A change in the way one looks reveals fear and further arouses suspicion.

Macbeth as well tells himself: "False face must hide what the false heart doth know."

Also when Macbeth and Banquo arrive and meet the witches for the first time, Macbeth says: "So foul and fair a day I have not seen."

When Macbeth is told the 3 prophecies he will possess by the witches, he is unsure. Banquo says: "Good sir, why do you start, and seem to fear things that do sound so fair?" Meaning why do you fear of these great titles when they sound so good.

Little do they know, in order to get the third title, king of Scotland, Macbeth goes through countless dangerous actions and is soon lead by his downfall.

When Malcolm and Donalbain flee the country after their fathers death, suspicion is put on them for the murder.

When Macduff leaves to England to seek help from Malcolm, Malcolm is unsure of Macduff's loyalty. Therefore he tests Macduff, and in the end Malcolm learns that Macduff truly is loyal and wants what is best for his country.

Also the apparition of no man born of woman can harm Macbeth. Macbeth is convinced that no one can harm him since every human being is born of a woman. But Macduff was not naturaly born of a woman. Either caesarian or premature delivery occured therefore he ended the life of Macbeth.