When Nick returns from the war, why does he decide to go East in The Great Gatsby?

As the previous post says, ostensibly it was to sell bonds
on Wall Street and escape the known and predictable land of the
midwest.

In a larger sense, it was obviously so that the
story could happen.  The midwest was, as I said, predictable, honest, not intriguing. 
The creation of Jay Gatsby needed the midwest as a place where the idea was born, but he
couldn't reach out to the world and attempt to squeeze into the world he wanted to be a
part of in the midwest.  So Nick had to move out east so that he could (and we by proxy
could) meet Gatsby and tell the story.

It isn't all that
different from our impression of the Midwest today.  It is a place where things are
bound by tradition, values, things move more slowly, etc.  Though many of these are
simply perceptions and impressions, again, the story couldn't have happened there in
Fitzgerald's mind.

Ronald Frankz and McCandless establish a father-son type of relationship in Into the Wild. Identify one benefit or drawback that each gets out of...

In McCandless, Franz finds the sense of family he lost years ago, when his wife and son died. Since then, he'd sponsored local children, and even paid for some of them to go college. When he meets McCandless, he finds someone he can connect with, someone he can worry about, somebody who cares about him. When McCandless leaves for Alaska, he gives Franz something to look forward to (his return), but when Franz hears of McCandless's death, he gives up his faith and starts drinking again.

In Franz, McCandless finds sort of a father figure, someone to look up to and get advice from. McCandless's anger at his own father kept him from respecting him, and perhaps Franz filled that void. Still, Franz does the same thing McCandless's parents did; he tries to reign McCandless in, to make him see reason and be careful. Perhaps this is why McCandless pushed Franz away, and evaded the issue so smoothly when Franz asked to adopt McCandless.

Is Fahrenheit 451 written in third person limited or omniscient?

For most of the book, it is written in third person limited-focusing on Montag's own views, action, and perceptions. If it were universal-we would know all, not just the way in which Montag interprets things.

Third person limited is that in which we are not given all perspectives and do not have all the facts, only a character's interpretation of the events. Omniscient would bring the reader all the facts that are not known to the other characters.

Yet, there are times when descriptions of character conversation and detailed setting descriptions are used to move the plot along and give the reader another viewpoint.

What is the poem, "My Last Duchess" about, and what is the theme?

Browning's "My Last Duchess" is a dramatic monologue in which the single speaker talks to a representative of his fiance's father. 

Ostensibly, the conversation is preparation for negotiations concerning the amount of the fiance's dowry, but, at least in the Duke's mind, his name is of such great worth that money will be no object for the father, and the Duke will get whatever he asks for.  Thus, the negotiations are really about the expected behavior of the fiance once she becomes the Duke's wife.

This is why the portrait of the Duke's last Duchess, his now deceased wife, is featured.  The monologue is an implied threat that if the fiance doesn't behave as the Duke insists, she'll end up just like his first wife--executed. 

The Duke's first wife, as a portrait, now behaves perfectly, according to the warped Duke.  She is passive and just hangs around (literally and figuratively), reflecting back on to the Duke.  This is what the Duke wants for a wife.  He wants the ultimate trophy wife--a beautiful woman to give him and only him all of his respect and attention.   He wants his wife to be a snob just like him. 

His former wife was courteous and pleasant to other people (as well as the Duke), and found pleasure in little things, like nature.  This was insulting to the Duke. 

The poem is framed in works of arts:  the portrait in the beginning and the sculpture of Neptune at the end.  Thus, the theme of art and reality is revealed.  Pride, the Duke's, is also treated.

Zoology Question: How do we distinguish the terms hypothesis, theory, paradigm and scientific fact?Discuss the differences.

A scientific fact is an observation that can be made by anyone and can be reproduced under similar conditions.  If I say water extinguishes certain kinds of fires this can be done over and over again both here and anywhere else on Earth.  If it is based on a single event, such as the sinking of the Titannic, we have documents in the form of diaries and ship'slogs, plus physical evidence that serve as the facts.

A theory is a tentative explanation that explains all the facts using logic.  A scientific theory must be based upon scientific facts and be composed of measurable variables.  It must be testable by allowing experiements to verify it or disprove it.  (It seems ironic that a valid scietific theory must be able to be disproved!)  It must make predicitions as to future observations.

A hypothesis is a testable predicition based on the theory.  It is generally in the form of an IF...THEN... proposition.  IF we do X THEN Y will happen, be observed.  An experiment is then carried out to test the hypothesis.  Again, for this to done all the variables must be definable and observable.

A paradign is an overall guiding philosophy or point of view of groups of theories and the way experiments are done.  For three hundred years from the time of Newton until the time of Einstein physics was dominated by classicalphysics which worked well on a macroscopic scales and at everyday speeds.  At the turn of the century science advanced to the atomic scale and experiments were done test phenomena at the speed of light.  Classical physics made incorrect predictions and so a new way of thinking about physics was needed.  This gave birth to quantum mechanics and relativity which has dominated this century.  It isn't that classical physics is wrong.  It works fine for the big and slow everyday world.  One test of these modern theories is that when things are big and/or slow you get the classical result. However, our everyday world is incorporating more and more the fruits of modern physics.  Take the laser which was developed in 1960. Today lasers are cheap and found in all sorts of things such as  computers, CD and DVD players.  Much of the development of the ideas of a paradigm are the work of Thomas Kuhn.

Would you please criticize "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost from a Deconstructive Approach?Criticize it in a paragraph or so.

In contrast to structuralism, which holds that a literary work has specific meaning, deconstruction is based on the premise that language, or "signs," can never be nailed down to a single meaning, and that truth is impossible to determine because "meaning is irreducibly plural." Although this approach to literary criticism, pioneered by Jacques Derrida, stops short of a philosophy of complete nihilism, which denies the existence of meaning, its basis is the idea that "meaning is always uncertain." In a deconstructive approach to analyzing literature, it is the job of the critic not to illuminate meaning in a given text, but to look for "slippage," or breaks from the linguistic and thematic rules it has set up internally.

In the poem "The Road Not Taken," Robert Frost describes himself at being on a crossroads where he has to choose between "two roads (which diverge) in a yellow wood." Knowing that he cannot travel both, he makes his decision with a realization of the momentousness of his choice. Frost knows that he most likely will never come to this point again, and after his choice is made, he will never know what would have happened had he taken the road he does not travel. Frost notes the significance of his decision, concluding that that fact he took "the one less traveled by...has made all the difference."

Using a deconstruction in analyzing this poem, it must be considered that perhaps it does not matter which road the author chooses. The course his life would have taken had he chosen the road more commonly traveled does not exist, having been negated the moment he decided not to go in that direction. It is impossible to predict what might have happened had the author chosen the other road at the crossroads. The important focus in this poem is not which road the author chooses to follow, but the fact that he makes the choice at all in determining the course his life will take.

Which are the animals disappeared from earth?

The list of animals that have gone extinct goes on and on. Not only are there many different kinds of animals that have gone extinct but there are many different kinds of plants as well.

Like the previous responder stated, dinosaurs are type of amazing animal that has gone extinct. For example, the Tyrannosaurus Rex went extinct about 65 million years ago.

In 1883, the Quagga went extinct. This magnificent animal was half zebra, half horse. This is a very famous animal that once lived in Africa. It's front half looked like a zebra and bak half was brown.

Another amazing animal that has gone extinct is the Thylacine. It went extinct in 1936 and is also known as the Tasmanian Tiger. It was natively found in Australia and New Guinea.

What are the different types of clouds?

Clouds are classified according to height and form. A few examples are:

Low clouds: below 6,500 ft.

1. cumulonimbus-associated with thunder storms.

2. cumulus- dense, billowy clouds.

3. stratocumulus-soft gray clouds that form pathches or rolls.

4. stratus-low clouds that look like fog.

Middle clouds: 6,500-20,000 ft.

1. altostratus-stratified thin veils that produce light rain.

2. altocumulus-white to gray in color "sheepback" clouds.

High clouds: above 20,000 ft.

1. cirrocumulus-thin and white that appear as ripples or waves.

2. cirrostratus-thin white clouds that appear milky.

3. cirrus- the highest clouds, appear thin and delicate.

My brother is executor of Dad's will. He can't fulfill his duties, the lawyer says my stepmother picks next executor. Is this true?My brother was...

Whatever state you are in, go see an attorney, now.  Explain the situation, and seek his or her advice on how to stop it.  It seems logical that if your father named your brother executor and your brother can not fulfill his duties, that the next choice should be either you or another of your biolgical siblings should you have one.  Also, consider checking with your attorney about whether or not your brother, the currect executor, has the right to name an executor with power of attorney in his absence.

I have included some links below which may prove useful to you.  I am sorry for your loss, and hope that you and your family can preserve the family estate for years to come.

Good Luck!

Why might a satirist offer ironic, rather than direct, criticisms of institutions like church and state?

To me, there are at least three reasons that I can think
of:

1. It makes for a more interesting piece of
   writing.  If you were just to write an essay about what you thought was wrong with
   government and religion in England, people would not be too likely to buy it.  Make it
   into a fun book like Gulliver's Travels and more people will
   buy.


2. It makes people think.  If you read the book and you
   have to think about what it is saying (you have to figure it out) you're more likely to
   really remember and take it to hear.


3. It might be less
   likely to make people angry.  It doesn't directly attack things and so people who like
   the institutions might not get as mad.

How can we use nature as a way to understand romanticism?

Nature was not only an important theme for the Romantic poets but it was a philosophical reservoir for them. A certain kind of shift of emphasis from urbanity to nature is part of the shift from Neo-Classical to Romantic poetics.

1. Rousseau's idea of a ' return to nature' was adopted as a slogan. The French Revolution, especially its philosophical background had a profound influence on the Romantics.

2. Nature and its focalization also meant a radical de-elitization of poetry from intellectual closetedness. The poet was now a regular language-user and a man talking to men, as Wordsworth said.

3. Nature was related to the omnipresence of divinity, in the minds of Wordsworth.

4. To Keats and a host of the Romantics, nature contained the paradox of static immortality and dynamic mortality. Fruition was death, as Keatsian Autumn would suggest.

5. Nature was related to the expansive power of imagination and humanistic emotion. Natural landscape in perfect blend with the rural folks is a typical Romantic theme.

6. As in Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey, nature was seen in tandem with human nature--the creative psyche and its poetic development.

7. Nature was related to revolutionary change and the myth-making prowess as in Shelley's poems on the West Wind and the Cloud.

8. Nature was an 'addition of strangeness to beauty' to the Romantics and it had an intense bond with their mystical outlook.

What are the types of bacteria?

There are various groups of bacteria, which belong to same family and are evolved from same bacteria (ancestor). However, each types of bacteria posses its own characteristics (those which are evolved after separation from the original specie).

Classification of Bacteria:
Bacteria are mainly classified into phylums (phylum is a scientific classification of organisms). For simplification, bacteria can be grouped into the following groups:

Bacteria classification based on shapes:
As already mentioned, before the advent of DNA sequencing, bacteria were classified based on their shapes and biochemical properties. Most of the bacteria belong to three main shapes: rod (rod shaped bacteria are called bacilli), sphere (sphere shaped bacteria are called cocci) and spiral (spiral shaped bacteria are called spirilla). Some bacteria belong to different shapes, which are more complex than the above mentioned shapes.

Aerobic and anaerobic bacteria:
Bacteria are also classified based on the requirement of oxygen for their survival. Bacteria those need oxygen for their survival are called Aerobic bacteria and bacteria those do not require oxygen for survival. Anaerobic bacteria cannot bear oxygen and may die if kept in oxygenated environment (anaerobic bacteria are found in places like under the surface of earth, deep ocean, and bacteria which live in some medium).

Gram Positive and Gram Negative bacteria:
Bacteria are grouped as ‘Gram Positive’ bacteria and ‘Gram Negative’ bacteria, which is based on the results of Gram Staining Method (in which, an agent is used to bind to the cell wall of the bacteria) on bacteria.

Autotrophic and heterotrophic bacteria:

This is one of the most important classification types as it takes into account the most important aspect of bacteria growth and reproduction. Autotrophic bacteria (also known as autotrophs) obtain the carbon it requires from carbon-dioxide. Some autotrophs directly use sun-light in order to produce sugar from carbon-dioxide whereas other depend on various chemical reactions. Heterotrophic bacteria obtain carob and/or sugar from the environment they are in (for example, the living cells or organism they are in).

What was the secret omen?

The "secret omen" the children had been waiting for is a shooting star, signalling their ability to return to Egypt.    In my edition, this occurs on pg. 96. 

Here's an excerpt:

"A shooting star!"  Everybody repeated it in whispered unison as if they'd been rehearsed.  Then everybody looked at April.  She nodded.  "The secret omen," she said slowly, making every syllable heavy with significance.  Marshall started turning around and around, smelling the air. 

In Beowulf, why does Grendel become angry with Hrothgar and the men in the hall?

The noise from the building of the great hall, Herot, as well as the noise generated from the many parties held there irritated Grendel who was used to having control over this area...so Grendel did what every neighbor does when you're angry about too much noise; tear their limbs off.

What's the relationship between Hrothgar and his retainers or vassals in Beowulf?

Hrothgar is the King.  His people are "retained" through loyalty and love.  In Anglo-Saxon times, loyalty and family ties meant everything.  Hence, Grendel is such a monster mainly because he is descended of Cain, who murdered his own brother.  Crimes against family, blood, and loyalty oaths were considered unforgiveable.

So, anyone fighting to protect Hrothgar would have received the pledge that the King would take care of him as Hrothgar expected the warrior to protect the King.  As payment for a warrior's loyalty, Hrothgar often gave rings or other trinkets of wealth.  This is how the kings of the time period came to be known as "the ring-givers".   The bond can only be honorably broken through death.

What factors contribute to an electrochemical gradient?

In layman's terms, an electrochemical gradient is a substance that contributes to cell exchange of proteins and lipids through a cell membrane.  It stands to reason that positive-  charged ions or molecules will behave in much the same manner as electrons behave in producing electricity.  Where a negative situation exists, positive substances will rush in to fill the gap.  At this point the situation returns to a neutral state until the negative situation builds up again.  This process is what happens to move the necessary water and nutrients from cell to cell. 

What factors contribute to the exchange?  I quote the following from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrochemical_gradient under the subheading Ion Gradients:

1) The difference in the concentration of the solute between the two sides of the membrane 

2) The charge or "valence" of the solute molecule 

3) The difference in voltage between the two sides of the membrane

Not only is the process carried on in an electrical sense, but the exchange seems to be chemically and biologically produced as well.

A chemist would have an elaborate array of formulas, difficult terms and processes, and present it in a much more effective method than I have here, but for those of us with simpler brains and understandings, this explanation will suffice!

What is a period? List some precautions you should take when measuring the length and the period of the pendulum.

Pendulum is an object that, due to action of gravitational force, swings back and forth at a regular rate around a fixed point if it is pulled aside and let go.  A simple pendulum consists of a weight hanging at the end of a string or wire.  The path travelled by the weight is called the arc of the pendulum.  The period of oscillation is the time it takes the weight to pass back and forth once over this arc. The length of the pendulum is the distance between the point at which the pendulum is fixed, called pivot, and the center of gravity of the weight at the other end of the string or wire of the pendulum.

The period of oscillation of a pendulum depends on the gravitational pull acting on the pendulum and the length op pendulum.

To eliminate error in measuring the period, it is better to time multiple swings, say 10 or 20, and then calculate the average period of 1 swings. Also first few swings after setting the pendulum in motion should not be timed. Also timing and counting of number of swings should be started when the pendulum weight is at one of its extreme points.

Why did Billy bury Old Dan on the top of the hillside in Where the Red Fern Grows?

Billy buries Old Dan on the top of the hillside because it is a beautiful place where the wild mountain flowers grow. Billy says,

"I had a purpose in burying my dog up there on the hillside. It was a beautiful spot. From there one could see the country for miles, the long white crooked line of the river, the tall thick timber of the bottoms, the sycamore, birch, and box elder. I though perhaps that on moonlight nights Old Dan would be able to hear the deep voices of the hounds as they rolled out of the river bottoms on the frosty air."

Billy had loved his dog beyond measure, and burying Old Dan at the most beautiful place he can think of affords him a bit of solace at his loss. When Little Ann dies shortly thereafter, Billy buries her there too, and marks the spot with a piece of sandstone on which he carves the dogs' names. The following spring, when the family moves away from the mountains and into town, Billy returns to the graves to say good-bye to his dogs. He is amazed to find that, between the two little mounds,

"a beautiful red fern had sprung up from the rich mountain soil...fully two feet tall...its long red leaves...reach(ing) out in rainbow arches curved over the graves of (his) dogs."

According to an old Indian legend,

"only an angel could plant the seeds of a red fern, and...they never died; where one grew, that spot was sacred."

Billy has chosen the spot for his dogs' graves well. As it turns out, he does not return to the Ozark Mountains and the land that he so loves, but in his heart he believes that the red fern has continued to grow, covering the graves of Old Dan and Little Ann, keeping their remains secret and safe beneath its long, red leaves (Chapters 19-20).

What are the symbols of the conflict between good and evil in the novel?I have the houses already of course but what else is there?

I really don't think that Wuthering Heights is about the struggle between good and evil. 

Although Heathcliff is pretty darn nasty, it's hard to see him as evil incarnate; he's more a case of a person overcome by obsessive love and jealousy.

Catherine (the elder) is certainly no saint with her two-timing of Heathcliff and Linton.  Edgar Linton is a decent fellow, but a whiner, at least in his youth.  Catherine (the daughter) is at times deliberately cruel to Hareton.  Her cousin, Linton Heathcliff, is a pathetic crybaby who is an accomplice to Heathcliff's plot to kidnap Catherine and Nelly.

The only character whom I truly admire is Nelly.  She is caring, loyal, and intelligent.

I suppose you can look at Wuthering Heights as a symbol of evil and Thrushcross Grange as a symbol of good.  I, however, would prefer to see them as symbols of decay and civilization, respectively. 

What are some treatments for prostate cancer?

Some types of prostate cancer are treated by ablation therapy. This is when the prostate tissue is destroyed by hormones, drugs, chemicals, or electrocautery.

A prostatectomy is when the gland is surgically removed because of cancer.  A radical prostatectomy is when the gland is surgically removed through an abdominal incision.

A transurethral prostatectomy or TURP is when the gland or tissues are removed through a resectoscope (endoscope).

Radiation therapy is also sometimes used either as a sole treatment or in conjunction with another procedure.  

The Murder in the Cathedral is about a martyrdom that occurred in 1170. Does it still have meaning for a contemporary audience?

Absolutely!  This play is not just about the killing of Thomas a Becket, it is about standing up for what is right in the face of unpopularity.  Henry wanted Thomas to allow him to use his friendship and his church title to abuse the power of the church for Henry's benefit.  Thomas would not allow this abuse of power to happen--a very honorable and courageous display of not giving into peer pressure.

Who among us is not faced with that on a daily basis?  We need not fool ourselves into thinking that someone as powerful as Henry II is breathing down our necks, but we do face these challenges--gossip at the office or nip it in the bud? Go with friends to a New Year's Eve party and drive home inibriated or stand up for the right thing to do and call a non-impaired friend/family member to come pick us up? Do drugs to fit in, or "Just Say 'No'" and risk being unpopular?  Join a gang or dare to remain independent?  Show my intelligence at school or be "cool" and act dumb? 

The power struggle may not be the same, but the issues are very real and extremely relevant to today's world. 

Alternative lifestyle, define and explain using some examples

Another "alternative lifestyle" of today that breaks a
previous social norm is non-traditional families.  Once, the "nuclear family" was
considered normal: a working father, stay-at-home mother and two
kids.

Consider the television progression.  Are you young
enough to remember The Dick Van Dyke Show or Leave it to
Beaver?  Even The Simpsons and Family
Guy portray this traditional family (although Family Guy
adds a talking dog and grown up baby, so that might be a bad
example).

Now families come in sorts of socially
acceptable varieties.  Two moms, two dads, unmarried men and women living
together, mixed races, adopted children.  Shows like Brothers and
Sisters, Two and a Half Men, or Will and
Grace portray non-traditional structures of what could be argued as more than
just roommates, but families.

Why does Atticus suggest they go to the porch instead of the living room, and why does Scout seat Boo in a chair in deep shadow?To Kill a...

That Atticus has Scout and Boo move out to the porch
rather than in the living room in Chapter 30 of To Kill a
Mockingbird, is evident, certainly, for the reasons already defined. 
However, knowing also what a timid character Boo Radley is, as well as the fact that he
has not been around anyone other than his own parents in years, may enter into the
decision of Atticus.  For, Boo is almost like an inmate who has been in solitary
confinement, and being seated in a room with four walls and in the midst of others may,
perhaps, be traumatic to such a man. 

By being out on the
porch, Boo does not feel confined, and he has both the opportunity of walking away if he
wants as well as the opportunity of viewing surroundings familiar to him:  his house and
the street that he watches the children play and walk near.  Thus, Atticus's action to
move Boo onto the porch underscores one of the themes of Harper Lee's novel that Scout
reiterates at the end of the chapter:

readability="6">

Atticus was right.  One time he said you never
really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in
them.

In "My Brother Sam Is Dead'',what are the main events?

I have read this book while teaching junior high English,
but my memory on it is not very good due to the lack of interest in Revolutionary
literature.

I do know of an excellent website though that
has basically an expert author on the novel...

href="http://mybrothersamisdead.historyofredding.com/">http://mybrothersamisdead.historyofredding.com/

I
hope this is helpful - I may have to pick up the book and read it again
though.

I know that Life of Pi is based on true events. However, how much of the novel is fact and how much is fiction? The author's notes lend credibility...

It's probably impossible to tell, without author explanation. Certainly, events like the shipwreck are most likely fiction.  In fact, the author "sprinkles the novel with italicized memories of the "real" Pi Patel and wonders in his author's note whether fiction is "the selective transforming of reality, the twisting of it to bring out its essence."

Ultimately, it may not matter which is which, as the author is successful in explaining his tale.

What's a good hook to start an essay about the play Macbeth focusing on the theme Appearance vs Reality?

The appearance-reality dichotomy is at the heart of Shakespearean theatre, not just the tragedies, but the comedies too. In a tragedy like Macbeth, it is this dichotomy that builds up the tragic destiny of the protagonists. It also makes prominent the operative function of the tragic irony, especially that of words.

There is an appearance-reality conflict in the equivocation of the witches who say only to seduce and cheat.

Lady Macbeth's chastising of Macbeth is all about teaching him the art of this dichotomy, how to be an innocent flower apparently and be a serpent under it.

When Lady Macbeth is greeting Duncan at Inverness or when the porter in his drunkenness mistakes Macbeth's palace for hell, when Macbeth laments Duncan's death in a great rhetorical flourish or earlier still when Duncan talks about the impossibility of reading the mind's construction from the surface of the face regarding the Thane of Cowdor's betrayal and the ironic way it applies to Macbeth as well----all these are relevant instances.

What is the role, or function, or relevance of the Virgin Mary in this poem?Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Throughout the poem, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,"
Sir Gawain encounters numerous trials testing his religious faith and his devotion to
Christianity.  When Gawain go forth on his journey to find the Green Chapel, he
discovers that he has become lost; it is only after praying to the Virgin Mary that he
finds his way.  As he, then, continues, Gawain suffers from anguish that he must
inevitably encounter the Green Knight.  However, rather than praying to Mary as he has
done before, Sir Gawain decides to use the girdle given to him by Bertilak's
wife.

From the Christian perspective, Gawain has fallen
from grace.  After he suffers the consequences of his lack of faith, Gawain is forced to
reevaluate his faith when the Green Knight points out his betrayal.  Gawain's rejection
of assistance from the Virgin Mary indicates his human fraility and his
sin.

In addition, when Sir Gawain sets out upon his quest
for the Green Knight he has a shield that has a pentagon on the outside and the picture
of Mary on the inside.  The five points of the pentagon represent a set of his virtues,
his five senses, his fidelity founded upon the five wounds of Christ; and his force,
founded on the five joys of Mary, and the five knightly
virtues.

As the fair maid inspires the knights to courtly
love and chivalrous deeds, Mary inspires Gawain to be a good
Christian. 

What does John's attempt to stir the Delta workers into rebellion by throwing away their Soma symbolize?

I completely agree with the above editor about the
Biblical allusion.  That is a very astute response.

Also,
this passage in Brave New World is Huxley's attempt to stir us, the
readers, into a rebellion.  As a member of the counter-culture, Huxley wants his readers
to throw away their soma in all its various forms as
well.

So, what is modern-day soma?  And how can we throw it
away?  For sure, it's that which is frivolous, addictive, and distracting--that which
enables us to escape reality.  I see it as entertainment in general (TV, movies,
internet, video games, sports, pop music).  Also, it's that which is habit-forming
physically: junk food, smoking, alcohol, pharmaceuticals (legal and illegal).  Aren't
these materialistic things that which our culture values
most?

If Huxley were still with us, would he not agree that
we're losing the will to rebel against modern-day soma?  Just as Jesus might be
disappointed that we've turned our temples (bodies) into dumping grounds of materialism,
I think Huxley would be angry that we're all regulated by pleasure and
entertainment.

If the age at which students can dropout of high school is increased from 16 to 18, what happens to production possibilities and unemployment rates?

Increasing the age for allowing students to drop out from
school from 16 to 18, will definitely mean that people can start seeking regular full
employment at the age of 16 rather than at 18. This is assuming that thee are no other
legal constraints on employment of people under 18 as a part of child labour or any
other law. Thus number of people seeking employments with this will definitely tend to
increase by this change.

The impact of this increased
availability of people depend on the extent to which production of goods and services in
the economy was constrained by shortage of this kind of manpower. If an economy is
already facing a situationof high employment rate, it is quite likely that the
production is being constrained by factors of production other than manpower. In such
there may not be any significant extension in production possibility
frontier.

The impact of rate of unemployment will also,
similarly, depend on the impact of increased availability of manpower in increasing
production. An economy constrained by manpower shortage may be able to increase its
total production with the availability of added manpower. Under favourable conditions,
this may create a multiplier effect which could actually reduce the unemployment rate.
But in adverse conditions, the economy may not be able to provide jobs to the increased
number of job seekers, and the unemployment rates may increase.

How are Romeo and Juliet's feelings for each other infatuation? Explain.

Infatuation is a passion that is most often defined by these characteristics: unreasoned, foolish, short-lived, over-powering.

Romeo and Juliet don't know each other.  They have spent no time discussing their interests, beliefs, goals, or dreams.  They have not spent time together, period.  They spnd moments together.  They are carried away by their initial meeting, by physical attraction and the excitment of initial interest.  After this first meeting, they have a short exchange when Juliet is on the balcony.  Again, they don't get to know each other - they just spend time discussing their love for one another and then make a date to marry.  That's certainly quick!

Without considering how to best make their love work, they rush into marriage.  Juliet at first tries to temper Romeo's passion by showing concern for his safety and caution for their feelings - she is shortly overcome by the power of her infatuation and agrees to marry him.  They lie and encourage others to lie for them.  They have lost sight for anything or anyone but each other.  When Tybalt is killed, Juliet has but a momentary thought for her cousin.  She is more concerned about her new husband, whom she has known for just a day now. 

Their love is so over-powering that they give up their own lives for it.  Forgetting their families and their friends, their infatuation steals their sense and they react foolishly.

Which characters in the first three chapters inform Scout about proper behaviour, and how do they tell her to act?

Scout's teacher Miss Caroline tries to tell Scout how to behave; more specifically, she tells Scout her father should not read to her at night for he will not teach her properly. Calpurnia tells Scout how to behave when she invites someone to lunch, for she is not polite to the little Cunningham boy when he pours molasses all over his food. Atticus tells Scout she needn't tell Miss Caroline they read at home, explaining that "you never understand a person until you consder things from his point of view."

I need a summary of Fareed Zakaria's “The Rise of the Rest.”

What Zakaria is saying in this essay is that we are wrong when we worry about the United States falling behind in the competition for power (economic, social and political).  He says that we are not falling behind.  Instead, he says, the rest of the world is catching up.  And this is, he says, a good thing.

We have worked hard to create a world with free societies where people could have economic opportunity.  Now these societies are starting to exist all over the place.  We should be happy.

He says that the rise of these places can be really good for the US because we are an open and flexible society.  Immigrants can come here and help our economy (as in the example of engineers).  We can sell our knowledge and innovative abilities to these rising countries.

In other words, this is not a zero sum game.  The rise of the rest will help us too.

Calculate the limit of the function, if it exists? limit (x^2+x-6)/(x-2), x->2

We couldn't calculate the lim, by substituting x=2, because f(2) is not defined.

We cannot apply the Quotient Law, also, because the limit of denominator is 0, too.

We'll factorize the numerator, after finding it's roots

(x^2+x-6)/(x-2)

x^2+x-6=0

We'll use the quadratic formula:

x1=[-1+sqrt(1+24)]/2

x1=(-1+5)/2

x1=2

x2=(-1-5)/2

x2=-3

(x^2+x-6)/(x-2)=(x-2)(x+3)/(x-2)

After reducing the terms:

lim (x^2+x-6)/(x-2)=lim (x+3) = 2+3 =5

In The Canterbury Tales, which pilgrim is described as an epicurean, a person who lives for pleasure?

You could probably make a case for many of these characters to fit that description, but the main guy you're looking for is the Franklin. The Franklin is said to be a man who loves the finest food and drink and is never short on either. In my translation, you would be most interested in lines 345-348:

"He lived for pleasure and had always done,

For he was Epicurus' very son,

In whose opinion sensual delight

Was the one true felicity in sight."

How are plastic surgery, hair transplants, and breast implants related to Brave New World?Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, the men speak of Lenina and other women as "pneumatic."  Since there is no attraction of one person for another that is other than superficial and physical, this term is the highest compliment.  The smooth skin and "cushy" feel compose sensuality for the women of the New World and little else makes them attractive to men. 

Nowadays in our youth-oriented and sensually-geared culture, appearances have taken on significant meaning.  So, in order to be judged as adequate as the woman in Brave New World are, women have cosmetic surgery.  Likewise, since "perception is reality" for all, men seek to remain young-looking.  As in the New World, when people begin to look old, younger people give them little or no credibility and, in essence, throw them away just as the aged in the New World are terminated.  The aged, like Linda, are repulsive to the children at the hospital, and they ignore her and the others who are dying.

what are Ralph's feelings on meetings?This is from chapter 3.

Ralph feels that meetings are essential to maintain order. They are necessary to establish rules and to hear the thoughts and ideas of the group as a whole. They are Ralph's way of communicating with his tribe. However, he soon finds that the meetings are somewhat ineffective. The other boys don't seem to want to follow the rules, even the ones they agreed were necessary. Ralph finds it difficult to communicate the need for fire, shelter, and order. The meetings quickly become focused on the more savage interests of the tribe, such as the beast and hunting. Ralph feels like the meetings are full of discord and that the other boys fail to see their importance. He is distressed that the boys don't seem to follow through with tasks agreed on in meetings.

In the poem "Problems with Hurricanes" by Hernandez Cruz, how does the poet create a humorous tone about a serious subject? What other meanings...

Victor Hernandez Cruz creates a humorous tone about a serious subject in the poem "Problems with Hurricanes" by first being a bit capricious with the title of the poem. The title “Problems with Hurricanes” sounds a bit flippant, and does not have the seriousness to it that a title such as “The Destructive Force of Hurricanes” has, or something similar.

In the first stanza, as noted above, the humorous tone is created by referring to small fruits that sail on the tempestuous winds in town and cause havoc. Here, Cruz is saying that it’s not massive sheets of plywood or crashing bricks and stones that can kill or injure someone – a simple tender fruit can be just as lethal. This is black or dark humour here, meant to convey a real truth through the sheer oddball way that a hurricane can wreak its destruction.

In the second stanza, the poet continues the description of death by something as benign as fruit. Again, the reader may find his or herself stifling a chuckle when reading that a family member must relate to someone that a family member “… got killed by a flying Banana.” You catch yourself almost feeling guilty at recognizing the humour because the subject of hurricanes and the death and injury they cause is such a serious matter.

Into stanza three, the disgrace of being killed or maimed by a piece of flying fruit continues. The poet Cruz says that dying by drowning or being slammed by torrential winds is more honorable than being killed by “…a plantain hitting your Temple at 70 miles per hour…” Again, the humorous tone of this poem is maintained by pointing out that bizarre occurrences involving minor objects can be a reality in life.

In the final stanza of the poem, Cruz continues the tongue in cheek tone against the backdrop of a serious weather event by saying beware of mangoes, more so than noise or water or wind when it comes to hurricanes. The humour here is that no one would typically think of this when a hurricane hits. To have this mentioned elicits chuckles until one realizes that death by flying fruit can happen and is a serious condition to take note of and prepare for when a hurricane threatens.

Other meanings about life that the poem has include us not taking life for granted. In a split second, at any time, tragedy can befall anyone, even from situations that do not at first appear life-threatening. In the case of this poem, someone may prepare for a hurricane and batten down the hatches on the home front and board up the windows, and set up sand bags to prevent flooding, only to step outside and be killed, as the poet says, by a flying banana.

Furthermore, another meaning concerning life in the poem is that human beings, despite their best efforts, are still often held in the grip of forces greater than we are, whether we like to think that way or not. We can do all we desire to prepare and confront weather systems, only to be tossed aside by the immense power of such forces.

Images:

Image (1 of 1)

In the story "Sweat" by Zora Neale Hurston, discuss has Delia's character changes.

Delia Jones has been abused by her husband since the beginning of her marriage.  In “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston,   a woman strikes back against her oppressively harsh husband.  Finally, he pushes her one step too far.

Delia is a sensitive, hardworking woman who washes clothes for the white people in a nearby town. She takes great pride in her work.   Delia lives in an all-black town called Eatonville, Florida.  She goes to church and comes home and works.  Her work week begins after church on Sunday.  On the other hand, her husband Sykes does not work.

Often, he degrades her job which provides the money for the house that they live in.  Suddenly, tired of his verbal abuse, Delia screams at Sykes reminding him about how hard she works.  To emphasize her point, she picks up an iron skillet from the stove with the intention of striking him.  This shocks Sykes because his wife is normally non-aggressive. 

Sykes squires his mistress around town and humiliates Delia.  He wants Delia out of the house, so he can move his lover into the home.  Sykes knows Delia’s greatest fear is snakes. He will use this as the ploy to try to get rid of his wife any way that he can. 

Sykes begins by wrapping a bullwhip around the neck of Delia.  This scares her because it looks like a snake.  Later, he comes in telling Delia that he has gotten something for her.  It is a rattlesnake in a wire cage.  Sykes has fed it, so it is not moving.  Delia tells him to get it out of the house; however, he refuses saying that it is his pet.

The snake stays for three days.  Finally, Delia gives Sykes a warning.  When she gets back from church, the snake needs to be gone, or she will tell the white folks about it. When Delia comes home, the snake is gone.  Delia is relieved until she goes in to sort the clothes to wash.  There she finds the snake placed in one of her wash tubs by Sykes.

Delia runs from the house and waits in the yard.  Late in the night, Sykes comes home.  He gets rid of the snake’s cage.  He goes into the house making a lot of noise.  The snake bites him several times.  Delia does not help Sykes.  There is really nothing that she can or will do to help him.

Through the incidences concerning the snake, Delia attains an empowerment. Delia represents all women who face the hardship of living with an abusive spouse.  It took her many years to stand up against him.  When she threatens Sykes, surprisingly he had to use an outside force to hurt her.  He wanted her dead but with impunity. The table is turned on Sykes:

She saw him on his hands and knees as soon as she reached the door.  He crept an inch or two toward her—all that he was able, and she saw his horribly swollen neck and his one open eye shining with hope. ...she waited in the growing heat while inside she knew the cold river was creeping up and up to extinguish the eye…

Now the reader knows that she will survive.   Sykes will not survive, and it is because of the choices that he made.  After all the years of emotional and physical abuse, Delia will go on and prosper through her spirituality and determination.  Nothing will hold her back now.   

Is the ending of "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" humorous or tragic? Why?"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber

While Walter Mitty is a pitiable character, he is yet one
who rises from the ashes of his henpecked life with his imagination.  So, there is
something wrily humorous about him, yet heroic at the same time.  To this day, when
someone who is an unknown, ordinary, quiet and retreating, invents something or makes a
success of his/her life, newcasters will call this rise to fame, "a real Walter Mitty
Story."

So, at the end of "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
the repressed Walter does fail at his attempts toward independence and respect as his
wife dismisses his declaration, "Does it ever occur to you that I am sometimes
thinking?" with "I am going to take your temperature when I get you home."  However, as
"that faint, fleeting smile plays about his lips," Walter, again in fantasy, succeeds in
his dreams as he departs with his wife, 

readability="7">

proud and disdainful, Walter Mitty the
Undefeated, inscrutable to the
last.

What makes a person on hemodialysis have the feelings of chills after treatment?

There are several reasons one feels cold after hemodialysis.  The main reason is that the blood is put through a filter outside the body and that lowers the blood temperature. Although the machine does warm the blood back up , it is important that the blood not get too hot and so it is a little cooler than normal body temperature. A second reason is that the dialysis centers are kept cold and patients must sit still for 3-4 hours during dialysis.  A third reason is that most dialysis patients are anemic, which makes them easily chilled.

Paraphrase "Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul."

What Thoreau is saying here overall is essentially that money cannot buy happiness.  It cannot buy what you really need in order to be a fulfilled human being.

The first sentence can be paraphrased something like this:

The only thing that you can buy with money you don't need is things that you don't need.

The second sentence can be paraphrased something like this:

The one thing that your soul really needs is something that cannot be bought with money.

So overall he is saying that we should not try hard to get a lot of money.  This was a major idea of transcendentalism -- if we chase money too much, we will never become truly happy.

What are the principal distinguishing characteristics of the bones of the various regions of the vertebral column?

I don't know if you're a medical student, but I certainly am not, so I'll try to answer your question in layman's terms!   The vertebral column is comprised of 33 bones, divided into five main regions:  cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and pelvic.  In the following paragraphs, I will give the most distinguishing characteristics of the bones in each region and discuss what functions they serve to the body.

Cervical:   There are seven bones in this section.  We will call them C1-C7 for identification purposes.  C1, the Atlas, is the topmost vertebrae connecting the skull to the rest of the spine and is the pivot for nodding the head.  It has no body because it's fused to C2.  C2, the axis, is the pivot upon which the head turns side to side.  It's the first bone to have a bony protruberence, and it sits on top of and slightly overlapping C3.  C3-C6 have smaller bodies and are broader from side to side than front to back, and each one slightly overlaps the one beneath it.   C7, or vertebra prominens, is different because it has a very prominent bony protruberence. "The cervical spine is comparatively mobile, and some component of this movement is due to flexion and extension of the vertebral column itself."

Thoracic:  There are twelve bones in this section.  We will call them T1-T12.  These bones are basically all the same:  heart-shaped, thick, and broad, getting progressively larger in size as they go down the spine, and overlapping each other like tiles on a roof.  What makes them unique is that they all have special plates, called "costal facets" on either side of them for attachment of the ribs.  Because the ribs are not permanently fused to the vertebra, but joined by ligaments and connective tissue,  the chest can lift outwards and expand when we breathe. 

Lumbar:  There are five bones in this section.  Their names are L1-L5.  (Some people have six bones in this section.)  By far the largest and strongest of the bones in the vertebral column, they carry the weight of the whole body, are the source of most body motion, and enable us to stand erect.  Each lumbar vertebra is wider from side to side than front to back, and slightly thicker in front than in back. 

Pelvic:  The pelvic region is composed of the sacral bones (five fused bones) and the coccygeal bones (3-5 fused bones), commonly called the "tailbone."  This is the region of the body where the hips attach, so these bones are important to the rigidity, flexibility, stability, and function of the skeleton. 

It is important to note that the curves of the vertebral column are important as well  They enable us to stand erect, balance, walk, and move in the many different ways we do. 

I used several different sites on Wikipedia to gather my information. ( In addition to the reference listed below, I looked up articles on cervical, thoracic, and lumbar.)

What is hemodynamics?

Hemodynamics is the study of the forces involved in the circulation of blood throughout the body, including cardiac function and peripheral vascular physiology.

Hemodynamics can be monitored with noninvasive and invasive methods. One noninvasive method or technique is the use of a blood pressure cuff.  This encircles the arm and measures internal blood pressure.  This is noninvasive because it does not require any surgical procedure to utilized.

An example of an invasive method is the use of a Swan-Ganz Catheter.  This method requires a catheter to be introduced into the body through a large vein. It is than threaded through the heart and into the pulmonary artery. This method provides a measure of central venous pressure.

To what extent were the Nazis committed to improving the lives of the germans in the 1930s?

The Nazis were committed to improving the lives of the German people -- to a point; that point being to the extent that they could convince the people that this truly was their main goal, not the absolute control and power that was their real goal.

The German people were devastated and defeated after World War I (they were on the losing side), so Hitler was able to come to power in many ways because of his forceful personality and his many promises that he would restore Germany to its rightful place in the world, as an important and strong world power. To make good on this promise, the Nazis had to take measures to put people back to work. Unemployment after the war was rampant. They had some governmental programs at first that did this – the Reich Labor Service that trained unskilled workers for jobs, the German Labor Front that replaced labor unions and made the people think that everyone was “working for the good of the country.” The Nazis also established rewards for those that worked hard and some could win cruises! Hitler also tried to make Germany self-sufficient with regard to raw materials, agriculture, etc. (known as “autarky”). This is what led the Nazis to seek “living space” (“Lebensraum”). They way they could obtain “living space” for the German people was by invading other countries.

Once Hitler established his power, however, he continued to conduct rallies and patriotic Nazi parades and displays while slowly turning Germany into a police state with his SS (Secret Service), Gestapo and such pro-government groups as The Hitler Youth and The League of German Girls. The German churches at first supported the Nazis because they opposed communism, but as the churches began to see people being falsely arrested and sent off to concentration camps, they began to oppose the Nazis. Groups such as Catholic Youth were declared illegal and women were discriminated against and often forced to leave their jobs so that they could be at home producing the next generation of the Master Race. It went from bad to worse.

What about the characters and setting is stated in the book 1984?

There are several things stated in the book both about the characters and about the setting. This is a very general question.

Setting is spoken of when Orwell describes the city, for example when he describes Victory Towers, which is an ironic name because the apartment building where Winston lives is described as run down, dingy, and falling apart. The room above the antique shop where Winston and Julia meet is described as very run down and full of antique items like a bed with a mattress. Winston feels like everything is always a little bit dingy and covered in dirt. Everything is like this, even the air, except for O'Brien's apartment (and everyone else in the Inner Party) which is in pristine condition.

As with the setting there are several places that give details about each character. Winston is 39 and has a varicose ulcer in his leg. He is skinny and looks older than he is. He smokes, he drinks, he commits thought crime. Julia is young and supple. She has naturally reddish looking lips, she wears a red Junior Anti-Sex League sash that accentuates her waist. She has dark hair and she too commits all sorts of crimes against the Party. Parsons, Winston's neighbor reeks of sweat and always wears athletic apparel. O'Brien is intelligent looking. He wears spectacles which he resettles on his nose often and Winston believes it makes him look rather safe to talk to.

Give a detailed analysis of the "essential elements of the novel."Introduction to English literature

A novel is a work of fiction in prose. The following are
the essential elements of a novel:

a) Story> a novel
tells us a story in the form of a narrative;

b) Narrative
Mode> the mode in which the story is told--by a narrator in the first person, or
by a second/third person narrator; there may also be more than one
narrators;

c) Plot> the structure/organization of
the narrative; there may be just one plot, or one main plot with one or more
sub-plots;

d) Characterization> personages as they
are presented in the novel; chracters may be 'round'/'flat', 'static'/'dynamic',
'types'/'individuals'; how the chracters behave, cofront one another, develope in the
course of the plot;

e) Setting> whatever happens,
happens at a place; it is called the setting; often the setting contributes to the
bahaviour of the characters, becomes more than a mere
place;

f) Style, Tone, Language> these are also very
significant elements in the making of a novel.

What happens in Chapter 2 of the book Lyddie?

Lyddie is the story of a farm girl whose family falls apart.  When her parents are gone, the children are unable to make ends meet.  Lyddie goes to the city of Lowell to become a factory girl.  Lyddie is a work of historical fiction.

In chapter two, Lyddie and Charlie complete the necessary household chores for leaving the cabin and prepare to go on to their new lives.  They had found out that they had been sold as indentured servants to a tavern and a mill, and their property was to be let to help pay off the remainder of the debt.  They gather the animals together and stop at the Stevens' farm in hopes of selling the calf, which they decide really is theirs, not their mother's.  Farmer Stevens buys the calf and invites them to supper, then his son, Luke, drives them in his wagon to drop off the remaining animals.  They drop Charlie off at the mill, but Lyddie doesn't want Luke to drive her all the way to the tavern because she thinks it might not look right.  At the end of the chapter, she has just arrived and is preparing to go in.  

How would you characterize Miss Maudie and other characters in To Kill a Mockingbird?I am trying to say that through characterization, Lee...

To me, it seems you are trying to write an essay that may
have 3 body paragraphs, one about Atticus, one about Bob, and you're considering Miss
Maudie for the 3rd, but are open to other characters.

If
you are looking for someone exactly in the middle of good and evil, you should use Boo
who by all evidence appears evil, but by the end, Scout sees and learns that he is
indeed good. And this is a learning experience for her as she experiences him saving her
brother, and stands on the porch looking through his eyes or perspective. This way you
could take Atticus' notions about walking in someone's shoes, or walking around in
someone's skin and work that throughout your paragraphs from two different vantage
points: Atticus' instruction, and Scout's experience of this moral value (through
Boo).

Another idea I have for you is to take Maudie's
ability to education those children morally as an entire paragraph. She used the cakes
to entice them to dialogue with her about the value of what their father said and who he
was. She used simple gesture at the Missionary Tea to help Scout know not to say
anything bad. Through example, she endured the loss of her house. She held her head up
and kept going. She didn't let it get her down. She says really neat things about
Atticus that allude to the fact that Atticus does the right thing while the rest of us
pretend to. She slams the religion of some as ritual wherein it should be experience.
This is a tremendous lesson to the kids because anything worth doing is worth doing
right.

I hope reading between the lines of your request
actually hit a little of what you were looking for.

Why does Jabez Wilson come to see Sherlock Holmes?

Jabez Wilson not only needs money but is characterized as, among other things, a man who deals in money as a pawnbroker and who is very tight with his money. A detective as famous as Sherlock Holmes would charge a lot for his services, but Jabez comes to him because he has heard that Holmes will take cases on a pro bono basis if they interest him. As Wilson explains:

"I did not wish to lose such a place without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right away to you.”

This may still not satisfy the discriminating reader, who will wonder why Wilson is going to such trouble when he should realize that the Red-Headed League, if it ever existed, is now defunct. So Holmes tells him he hasn't lost anything but is actually thirty pounds richer. This brings out a further explanation of Wilson's motives. He says:

"But I want to find out about them, and who they are, and what their object was in playing this prank—if it was a prank—upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it cost them two and thirty pounds.”

It cost them two and thirty pounds, but Wilson may have only netted about thirty pounds after paying for the ink and paper. In addition to losing a profitable job which he was enjoying, Wilson is chagrined at the thought that somebody has apparently made a fool of him. A man with such blazing red hair must have been subject to many little jibes ever since his boyhood, and this could have led to Wilson's being overly sensitive.

It is mainly because of Wilson's parsimonious character that Holmes has the opportunity to get involved in a case involving the theft of 30,000 gold Napoleon coins from the underground strong-room of a bank. It would never occur to John Clay, who poses as Vincent Spaulding, that his employer would ever think of going to Sherlock Holmes for advice and assistance. And Wilson does not tell Clay about his visit to the detective because his suspicions of his assistant have been aroused by the questions Holmes has asked about him as well as the way Holmes has responded to the answers.

“What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?”

“Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon his forehead.”

Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. “I thought as much,” said he. “Have you ever observed that his ears are pierced for ear-rings?”

“Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he was a lad.”

How does Victor change in "This Is What It Means To Say Phoenix, Arizona"?

In Sherman Alexie's story "This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona" Victor must go to collect his father's remains. His father left when Victor was a child and he hasn't seen or heard from him in all that time.  He is filled with bitterness and anger, and that anger is often directed toward Thomas Builds-the-Fire, whose character is almost a polar opposite of Victor's, yet who also had a kind of relationship with Arnold, Victor's dad.  Through the process of his journey with Thomas, Victor gains awareness of what happened to his father, why he left, and why he has let his life go in the direction it has gone.  He learns forgiveness and acceptance, and, although he is still conflicted and has to deal with the same situations at home that he left when he went to Arizona, he has matured and his relationship with Thomas has also shifted to the point that he understands Thomas a little better along with a new understanding of himself.

How is hope like a "dog's ear when it hears the refrigerator door open?"

First of all the phrase is a Simile, comparing hope to the action of a dog when it anticipates what will be coming out of that refridgerator once it opens. The phrase is essentially comparing how we (humans) dogs etc anticipate, yearn, hope for something in life. When a dog hears the refrigerator door opening, its ears perk up, mouth begins to salivate, and its eyes are wide with expectation. It is the same basic manner in which humans act in anticipating, yearning for something.

What are Hamlet's real feelings for his mother?

In Shakespeare's Hamlet, Hamlet is obsessed with his mother.

Even though the Ghost tells him to not

...let thy soul contrive

Against thy mother aught.  Leave her to heaven,

And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge

To prick and sting her... (Act 1.5.85-88)

he cannot do so.  Often, his mother's remarriage seems to bother him more than his father's murder. 

Furthermore, he's obsessed with Gertrude's sexual relations with Claudius.  In Act 3.4, after he's mistakenly killed Polonius (thinking it's Claudius), and after the Ghost has reappeared to him to urge Hamlet to not forget his "almost blunted purpose" and to tell him to comfort Gertrude, her sexual relations still dominate his words.  He instructs his mother to:

...live the purer with the other half.

Good night--but go not to my uncle's bed.

Assume a virture, if you have it not.

And he even gives her specific advice on how to go about achieving this abstinence:

...Refrain to-night,

And that shall lend a kind of easiness

To the next abstinence; the next more easy;

For use almost can change the stamp of nature,

And either curb the devil, or throw him out

With wondrous potency. 

And when Gertrude specifically asks him what she should do, although he ultimately tells her to tell Claudius that he is mad so that Claudius does not know he is faking, he prefaces this with:

Not this, by no means, that I bid you do:

Let the bloat king tempt you again to bed,

Pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse,

And let him, for a pair of reechy kisses,

Or paddling in your neck with his damned fingers,

Make you to ravel all this matter out,...

This is obsession, not just normal love or concern or hurt feelings.  Some suggest it is unnatural, and some performers perform it as such. 

Incidentally, you probably don't need the word "real" in your question.  Hamlet's disgust for what Gertrude has done, his hurt, his disdain, his condescension, his obsession, as well as his love, are all quite apparent.  His words and actions to and toward his mother are quite revealing to the reader/viewer, even if Gertrude doesn't understand.       

How does Hawthorne feel about Hester Prynne?

Hawthorne depicts the character of Hester as a woman with many heroic qualities. While in this novel of puritanical times, Hester is an adulterer who has a child out of wedlock, Hester is the character given the greatest number of admirable qualities.

Hester's "sin" is a matter that is ridiculed by the community, her punishment is public, and yet, she endures it without crying, anger, or naming the father. Hester does not subject the father of her child to the humiliation that she must endure.

Hawthorne also has the Hester's character experience redemption of a sort, in the way the townspeople who once were so harsh, now look to her for advice, and see her scarlet A as "able" rather than an "adulterer".

Hester was written a strong, kind woman who endured terrible hardships, yet remained charitable of spirit and action.

Using what you know about anti-transcedentalism, tell why forgiveness isn't an option in Chapter 14.

Just as transcendentalism has a positive focus on an ideal spiritual reality, anti-transcendentalism is concerned with the darker side of human nature.  Anti-transcendentalists believe that man has the potential for evil as well as good, and that nature is unforgiving. When Hester asks Chillingsworth to forgive Dimmesdale and her their transgression, he responds that it is not in him to forgive.  He believes that he is at the mercy of his own fallen nature, and that they are all just playing out the course of evil events that was started with Hester's infidelity.  He is not in control of what happens, and he places no blame, saying "since that moment, it has all been a dark necessity...it is our fate...let the black flower blossom as it may" (Chapter 14).

How does Antony respond to the conspirators immediately after Caesar’s murder?

With a handshake and an assurance that if the conspirators can effectively show why Caesar had to die, Antony will support their actions.  What he doesn't say, though, is that he really doesn't mean it and he's only biding his time until he has substantial troops to force them out of power.

By appearing to be friendly to the conspirators, he is able to take some focus away from himself, providing him the necessary time to recruit Octavious in seeking for some revenge.

What does Hamlet call Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Hamlet?

In Act II of Hamlet, Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern act as foils for Polonius, whom Hamlet has just dismissed, and Horatio.
 Whereas Hamlet trusts Horatio as his only friend in the play, Hamlet resents the King's
spies Polonius and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern.  As a result, he acts "crazy"
(antic and sarcastic) toward them, knowing they will report his odd behavior back to the
King.

Hamlet calls his two (former) friends Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern:

"These tedious old fools!" (as they
approach)

AND

"My
excellent good friends!" and "dear friends"
(sarcastically)

AND

"Good
lads" (again sarcastically)

Later, after the
play-within-the-play, Hamlet will call them "players," although he never uses the word,
per se:

readability="0">

Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing
you make of
me! You would play upon me; you would seem to
know
my stops; you would pluck out the heart of
my
mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note
to
the top of my compass: and there is much
music,
excellent voice, in this little organ; yet
cannot
you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I
am
easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me
what
instrument you will, though you can fret me, yet
you
cannot play upon
me.

How to explain each quotes in a sentence? “The lack of interaction with others is the worm that eats away a person’s sociability, making...

I would take each of your sentences and make a little list
of the things you think it might be saying. Make sure not to just summarize or restate
what it is saying. In making your list of ideas, think of how you would finish these two
sentence starters:

• This quote
  shows...


• This quote is important
  because...

In looking at your first quote, I
might have a list that looks like this:

• Man must
  thrive on human interaction.


• The stage in life wherein
  that interaction has potential to drop is in elderly years, after
  retirement.


• Lack of interaction cripples the elderly
  possibly more than disease or faulty muscle tone.


• Living
  alone deteriorates one's social ability


• Potential
  struggles may be depression, anxiety, and fear.


• Getting
  lost in their own mind may even be one of their
  struggles.

After looking at all the ideas I am
capable of generating, I mix up about 3 of them in one sentence to make myself sound
intelligent and show some interpretation of the quote I am
using.

You try with your second
quote.

WW2 Question - please see below! Why could it be argued that Soviet actions during the Second World War & the immediate post-war years were not...

One can argue anything for the argument sake. But how
credible the arguments are is quite another thing.

Fact is
that, even before World War II, Stalin of Russia had been following a strategy of
aggression and had a treaty with Germany in which the two countries had agreed to divide
Poland between two of them. Thus both Germany and Soviet Russia had adopted a policy of
aggression from the beginning. If later, Germany felt that it can over power Russia also
and attacked, just as it has attacked so many other countries, that does not provide
some special justification for Russia to act aggressively towards its own allies or
other countries.

Further aggression of Hitler as well as
Napoleon were not directed against Russia alone. If, other countries, facing the
consequences of aggression of Hitler and Napoleon, did not feel threatened by Germany or
Japan, when these two persons responsible for aggression were no longer there, what is
the justification for Soviet Russia alone to use that as an excuse for its own
aggressive?

It is important that two major enemies of
Allied forces during the World War II, Germany and Japan, enjoy very good relationship
with countries like USA and UK. If these countries find no reason to force their will on
these two countries. what can be the justification for Russia to force its will on any
other country?

What are the most important themes of In the Time of the Butterflies, and what are some points that can support the themes?

There are many themes in the novel In the Time of Butterflies. Some of the more important ones include change and transformation, and courage. If you think about what those themes mean within the novel, you can gather some points that support the theme.

Alvarez focuses on the changes in the Mirabal sisters as they progress toward their revolutionary activities. This is the mean point of the theme of change and transformation. As one would expect of a book with the word butterfly in the title, transformations play a big role in the story. Alvarez shows that though change can be painful, it frequently allows individuals or even a nation to discover stronger, richer, and more courageous versions of themselves.

Finally, courage plays a big role in the themes of the novel, linking with the other two already noted above. Clearly, the Mirabal sisters are testaments to the power of courage. In Alvarez's rendering, the sisters also reveal fragility because they are not always courageous and self-assured. Their very fears make them all the more admirable. Trujillo and his men are shown as the counterpart, as the coward

Describe how Death of a Salesman is an "anatomy" of the American dream

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is an anatomy of the American Dream. The American Dream is what Willie Loman is trying to achieve. He believes that if one works hard enough, he will be rewarded. His brother Ben is a perfect example, having owned large sections of forest land and a diamond mine when he was alive. Willie believes that he, too, should be rewarded; however, this play is not about achieving that dream, but failing to realize it. In reality, Willie's American Dream is a "myth." He believes that this dream can be achieved through "material wealth," but it cannot be, and because of Willie's tunnel vision, he loses touch with those around him—losing sight of what really makes a man "successful."

Through his main character, Willy Loman, Miller examines the myth of the American Dream and the shallow promise of happiness through material wealth.

The American Dream is like a false façade on a movie set: underneath the surface, there is nothing. For Willie, the dream that his brother Ben realized is what Willie wants, but all we know is that Ben was materially successful. The promise of wealth and happiness is an illusion. This illusion drives Willie's downward spiral in the play. As Willie continues to fall apart, it only supports Miller's assertion of the emptiness of the dream. There is no American Dream, Miller demonstrates, for the average man. There are only disappointments, "missed opportunities" and "compromised ideals."

Much of [the play's] success is attributed to Miller's facility in portraying the universal hopes and fears of middle-class America.

In trying to achieve the "dream," Willie becomes distanced from his wife, Linda, who is completed devoted to him. Willie has a mistress for a time, and Biff accidentally stumbles upon the secret—which further isolates this father and son. The disillusionment, frustrations and failures that Willie experiences are the true elements of the dream for most Americans.The harder Willie tries, the more disappointed he is.

The play is an anatomy of the American Dream as it demonstrates one man's destruction in putting the dream before all else, and losing everything. Willie never quite accepts that the dream is "an empty promise." He fails…

...to honestly face the facts of his life.

He takes the blame, as he sees it, upon himself, and in the end takes his life in the hope that his insurance money will help his family—serving them with his death, as he feels he could not in his life.

What is the theme/meaning of 'The passionate shepherd to his love?'

"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," by Christopher Marlowe, is a beautiful example of pastoral love poetry; that is, it depicts love in a rural, countryside setting.

The entire poem is an invitation, spoken by the shepherd to his beloved, to "Come live with me and be my Love."  The shepherd promises that if his beloved will come live with him, they will enjoy together "all the pleasures...That hills and valleys, dale and field, And all the craggy mountains" can offer.

The shepherd begins by setting the scene in which he and his beloved will live: they will "sit upon the rocks...By shallow rivers" and listen to the songs of "Melodious birds." 

He then promises to make a variety of gifts for his beloved.  Among the gifts are: "a cap of flowers"; a "kirtle [dress or skirt] / Embroider'd all with leaves of myrtle"; "A gown made of the finest wool"; "A belt of straw and ivy buds."

The shepherd also describes how he and his beloved will eat from silver dishes set on an ivory table.

He concludes with a proposition:

If these delights thy mind may may move,

Then live with me and be my Love. 

In other words, if you are emotionally touched by the prospect of these pleasures, then please come and be my Love.

Are all these pastoral pleasures meant as metaphors for sexual pleasures?  That is for each reader to consider.

The poem consists of 7 stanzas, each containing 4 lines.  Each line has 8-9 syllables.  Each stanza uses a simple AABB rhyme scheme.

The poet rhymes the word "love," with "prove" and "move"; it is likely that he pronounced the word "love" more like "loove."

How does Henry's mental status and well-being change over the course of The Red Badge of Courage?

The protagonist of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge
of Courage, Henry Fleming undergoes many of the emotional trials that many
young men suffer during extreme pressure. At the beginning of the novel, he displays an
anxious nervousness of how he will respond to his first combat. Fear overtakes him as
his unit prepares for the first attack, but after his regiment initially turns back the
enemy, he feels relief. It is only short-lived, however, and during the second
Confederate charge, his fear returns in the most awful way. His guilt after
"skedaddling" overwhelms him, and he spends the day trying to come to terms with his
cowardly actions. After his crime is covered up by his story that he has been wounded,
he again feels a profound relief and determines to make up for his deceit. During the
next day's action, impulsive recklessness causes him to move into the open, daring the
enemy to deliver a true "little red badge" that will redeem him in his own eyes. His
actions are considered inspired heroism by the rest of his unit, and it prompts the
others to bravery that many of them did not know could be summoned. After the battle, he
again feels guilt at his perceived bravery, and when he confesses to his friend, he
absolves himself of the false bravado (and the previous lack of courage) of which he had
little control. As he moves out to the next skirmish, he is light-hearted, for he has
"passed the supreme test," and the unknown emotional trials of before have been
answered.

What three phrases are repeated in JFK's inaugural speech

On Friday, January 20, 1961, John F. Kennedy delivered his inaugural address as President of the U.S.A.  One of the rhetorical devices that Kennedy used in his speech was anaphora; that is, he repeated certain phrases at the beginning of sentences.  Below are three of the phrases that he repeated, with some examples.

1) "We pledge":

This much we pledge—and more

we pledge the loyalty of faithful friends.

we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny.

To those peoples in the huts and villages across the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves

2) "Let both sides":

Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.

 Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors.

3) "Ask not":

ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.

ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

What does the fact that Tom conducts his affair in public say about him as a person in The Great Gatsby?

In The Great Gatsby, Tom likes to
show his wealth off.  I'm answering your question based on how it originally appeared,
when it read "affairs" instead of "affair."  I take "affairs" to mean finacial goings
on, like flaunting his polo ponies.  The fact that he flaunts his wealth reveals his
character.  He is on the top of the food chain and likes people to know it.  He sees
himself as superior to others and is a part of the bourgeois, middle-class status
quo. 

Your original question also contained a question
about the green light losing value to Gatsby once Gatsby had Daisy.  The green light on
Daisy's dock is a symbol of what Gatsby doesn't have, and of what he wants.  It's his
dream.  It's what he longs for.  That's why he stares at it.  It's also a sign of how
close Gatsby is to finally achieving his dream.  He can actually see it across the
bay.

If you're correct about the green light losing its
significance, it would do so because Gatsby has the real thing, at least in part.  Once
he has Daisy, or thinks he does, he doesn't need to stare at the light anymore.  He has
what the light represents.

In To Kill a Mockingbird, how can the reader see Scout change during chapter 9?

For one thing, she doesn't punch Cecil Jacobs when he insults her father because Atticus told her not to.  She understood that to do so would have let her dad down, and even though she didn't understand everything going on around her, she at least could grow up enough to handle walking away from a fight.

But she's a little girl and old habits die hard...she did beat up her cousin Francis at Christmas because he called Atticus a "nigger-lover", and although she was punished for it, later she managed to give a very good defense for her actions to her Uncle Jack.

Ultimately, we can see that Scout is beginning to lose her innocence and to understand that things aren't always fair, but her desire to do what Atticus wants and needs her to do is admirable and a sign that she is growing up.

Maslow's need hierarchy is an important theory of motivation.Piease explain this theory by taking the example of a fresher who joins a company and...

Maslow's theory of need hierarchy holds that that all human motivation can be divided in five categories arranged in a hierarchical levels of needs in terms of development of their strength and importance in influencing behaviour. These five types of needs are:

1. Physiological need


2. Security need


3. Affiliation need


4. Self esteem (ego ) need


5. Self actualization need.

Any individual is initially motivated by a lowest level need in the hierarchy, till that need is reasonably satisfied. The next level need develops or becomes strong only when all the previous level needs have been satisfied.

Thus, a person whose physiological needs such as that for food, shelter and clothing are not met, will be predominantly motivated by these needs. However once these needs are satisfied, the person is no longer motivated by such needs. The individual is then become concerned with satisfying the security needs, that is the need to preserve and protect the self including life as well as other possessions.

The next level need for affiliation, that is need to become part of social groups and be accepted as member such groups. begins to influence behavior only when the needs at two lower levels have been satisfied. Similarly the the need at fourth level in the hierarchy, the self esteem need grows strong enough to influence behaviour only when the needs at three lower levels have been satisfied. With the development of this need the person becomes motivated by the desire to feel important and better than others among the eyes of other. This can also be described by saying that the ego of the person becomes stronger.

At the highest level of need hierarchy is the self actualization need, which develops only when all lower level needs have been satisfied. When self actualization needs develops a person seeks pleasure in achieving his potential. An individual motivated by self actualization need, is no longer dependent on appreciation from others to feel happy. The individual feels happy by his or her personal assessment of job performed, or for having done something worthwhile, or for becoming what one is capable of becoming - that is actualizing the potential of the self.

Maslow's theory applies to all the activities of an individual that often span his or her entire life, not to a small part in life of a person in a limited role. However, to illustrate the theory, we will try to build an example based on a fresher joining a company.

A fresher joining a company is initially concerned about what kind of physical life he or she will have, and how difficult the work routine will be. He will thus be concerned about things that affect how comfortable and convenient the work will be.

When reasonably assured about these matters, he or she will become concerned about maintaining his or her position, in terms his position and earnings in the company. After spending some time in the company he will start developing personal relationship with some of the people in the company to meet the affiliation needs. Next the employee will try to impress people in the organization just to feel important and be admired by them. Once the ego needs have been sufficiently satisfied in this way, he or she is likely to engage in the same old activities not to impress other but because he or she enjoys those activities, and for the purpose of producing something worthwhile.

Where can I find facts about Malcolm X ?

One thing you have to remember, is that anyone as famous
as Malcolm X will have any number of things written about them, and some are more true
than others, but you should be sure to check the nature of your sources as you search. 
If you search online, there are a huge variety of websites and a long entry on wikipedia
among other places.  If you go to print resources you will likely find more reliable
types of information, but you can also find a listing of his speeches and be able to
listen to him and make some decisions for yourself about his agenda, his thoughts, and
his character.

In The Kite Runner, why do you think Rahim Khan went to find Hassan and invite him to come live with him in Baba's house once more?

 In the book The Kite Runner Rahim
Kahn had been best friends with Baba and Amir.  After Baba had escaped to Americahe had
asked Rahim to keep care of his place.  Rahim is also aware that Hassan is Baba's son.

When Hassan was a child Rahim Kahn had watched him grow up
and knew that he deserved to have more.  However, he was also aware hat the boy could
not get his fair due because he was born illegitimately from a Hazara woman. 

Rahim Kahan was the one Hassan had told about his rape as
a child.  Rakim is left alone and older and I believe that he wants to give something to
Hassan.  He wants him to come and stay in the big house, but Hassan will not do it.  He
is very honorable and will only stay in the house in which he was born on the property. 
Through bringing Hassan back Rakim Kahn gains a family as well.

Discuss the significance of idealism and truth in an individual's life? Thank you very much!

This depends a great deal on the individual person.  Also, idealism and truth may well have different levels of significance for a given person.

For me, the only place where idealism really comes into play is in my dealings with my family.  I am absolutely idealistic when dealing with my wife and kids.  What I mean by that is that I try to do what I think is right, not what I think is convenient.

As for truth, I do value telling the truth in all important things.  I do not really think that it is important to tell the absolute truth all the time, but I do think you should always tell the truth to important people on important subjects.

What is the dominant point of view in the story "The Catbird Seat" by James Thurber? Why?

Although not a first-person narrative, "The Catbird Seat" is told from the point of view of Erwin Marin, the protagonist of the short story. It is done primarily because he is the man who has concocted the plan to kill his nemesis, Ulgine Barrows. We find that Martin has been planning his murder for a week, and the story picks up on the night that he plans to commit the act. We also get expository information concerning Barrows' hiring and her tumultuos stay with the company. If the narrator had told the story from another character's point of view, the reader would know little or nothing about the prospective murder plans. Ms. Barrows was certainly unaware of Martin's plan until he appeared at her apartment. At that point, Martin's plan changed, and he decided to sandbag her instead of killing her.

To what is Slim's opinion compared in Of Mice and Men?

The author says,

"Slim's opinions were law."

He makes this comparison between Slim's opinions and law when the men are debating whether Candy should have his dog euthanized. Candy, who is very attached to his dog and has had him for a long time, does not want to let him go, but the other men are bothered by his smell, and argue that the dog, who is very old and arthritic, would be better off dead and gone. When Slim weighs in with his opinion, that the dog should be put out of its misery, Candy knows that the decision has been made for him. He looks helplessly at Slim, knowing he is beaten, because the men consider Slim's opinion to be law.

Slim is a smart and capable man, "a jerkline skinner, the prince of the ranch." He is a man of quiet wisdom and authority, whose eyes are described as "God-like;" there is "a gravity in his manner and a quiet so profound that all talk stopped when he spoke." Slim's "word (is) taken on any subject, be it politics or love...his ear hear(s) more than (is) said to him, and his slow speech (has) overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought." It is to Slim that George reveals the story of how he and Lennie have come to be traveling together, and it is Slim who fixes it so that Curley, whose hand has been crushed by Lennie in a confrontation instigated by Curley himself, will not tell what has happened and get Lennie in trouble. It is also Slim who understands the gravity of what has happened when George shoots Lennie at the end of the story, and tries to comfort the distraught man. 

Why does Prospero decorate the rooms like he does in "The Masque of the Red Death"?

Poe's seven chambers in "Masque of the Red Death" symbolize the stages of life.  The first room is blue and is located in the east.  The sun rises in the east, signifying the birth of each new day as well as the birth of man.  Blue is a calming color that symbolizes the serene life of infancy.  The next room, purple, is a deepening of the blue hue mixed with the red of experience... this is childhood when the baby gains some experiences in life (learning to walk, talk, how to relate to the world around him).  As the child grows, the third (green) room could symbolize youth.  The child begins school, and his world experience grows and blooms.  The fourth room is the orange of angry adolescence.  The fifth is white, symbolizing new beginnnings as the adolescent begins his own life as an adult.  A wedding is a new beginning, and the bride traditionally wears white.  After the white room is the violet room, or a return to childlike ways in retirement and old age.  Retired people remember what it is to "play" now that they have earned the right after years of work.  At some point in old age, the person must be cared for much like he had been during his first visit to a purple room in childhood.  The final room (located in the west) is black, symbolizing death.  The clock in this room marks the passage of time, and its chimes can be heard in all the rooms, even in the east. This shows that death is ever present.

How are haploid and diploid cells different?

The body contains two types of cells - haploid cells and diploid cells. The difference between them is the number of chromosomes that the cell contains.

All animal cells have a fixed number of chromosomes in their body cells which exist in homologous pairs (2n). Each pair of chromosomes consists of one chromosome from the mother and the second from the father. During the process of meiosis (cell division for sexual reproduction), the sex cells divide to produce "gametes" which then contain only one set of the chromosomes (n).

When the male and female gametes fuse during fertilization and zygote formation, the chromosome number is restored to 2n again.

Haploid cells are the gametes which contain one set of DNA (n), which is 23 chromosomes in humans, whereas diploid cells are the body cells that contain two sets (2n), or 46 chromosomes.

When we see crooks, what is he doing to his back?no

Crooks is rubbing salve on his back. He earned the nickname Crooks because a horse kicked him and now he is permanently crooked- hence "Crooks". This seems like a fairly unimportant event in the story, but in fact it is this injury that binds Lennie and Crooks because they both have deficiencies. In a way Crooks' injury comforts Lennie and George because they don't feel like such outsiders at this job, in fact they both think this is a place that they can stay for a while, hopefully long enough to build their stake for their ranch. 

x-2 is a factor of p(x)=x to the 3rd power -xto the second power +2x-8Use the factor theoem to tell whether the statement is true or not. If the...

p(x)= x^3-x^2+2x-8

(x-2) is a factor??

Solution:

To determine if (x-2) is one of the function's solution, we use the factor theorem. If (x-2) is a factor, then the remainder of dividing p(x) by (x=2) IS ZERO.

Using synthetic division:

   2 l     1      -1       2     -8                     

                     2      2       8

     --------------------------     

            1        1      4      0

The remainder is 0, then (x-2) is a factor of p(x)

Then the statement is true and the other factor is X^2+x+4

Then P(x) = (x-2)(x^2+x+4)

True or False? A neuron contains more than one axon.Please explain. Ty!

Neurons have different shapes and sizes, but all have the
same basic structure. They have a central core, located in a roughly spherical area of
the neuron, called cell body. From the cell body come out fine branched extensions.
These extensions are called dendrites. From the cell is detaching a
single, long fiber, called the axon, the main fiber which
provides the leading of the signal to the nerve.

So, the
statement that a neuron contains more than an axon is false!

What are 5 characteristics of capitalism?

I will answer the first part of your question as it pertains to the United States however, you do not identify where you are from therefore I cannot possibly answer how the U.S. economy has played a role in your nations' economy.

Capitalism or Free Enterprise is the system in the United States where by the means of production are privately owned. (However there are several U.S. government regulated corporations, among them the Post office and Amtrak)

The characteristics of Capitalism:

1. means of production are privately owned

2. founded on the principle of private property- the people have the right to own property

3. profit motive- the right to earn money

4. consumer sovereignty- people have the right to buy what they want...as long as they have the money to pay for it

5. competition- the rivalry between sellers