What is the main theme of the Little Prince?

There are several. The theme of narrow-mindedness is one. Throughout the novel, many are guilty of being short-sighted. The narrator complains of the grown-ups not being able to interpret his painting.  The adults are often incapable of accepting anything other than what can be immediately seen.The little prince is the symbol of open-mindedness.

What is a summary for Chapters 26 and 27 in The Shakespeare Stealer?Can someone sum up the important events that happened in these two chapters?

Mr. Armin prevents Widge from drowning in the river. When
they are back on land, they continue their search for Nick. Widge reveals to Mr. Armin
that he knows who hired Nick to take the play he stole, but he does not know where that
person can be found, other than that he comes from Leicester. This information does give
Mr. Armin enough of a clue so that they go to Aldersgate, and there, with the help of a
beggar, they find Falconer. Mr. Armin confronts the man and, telling him they suspect
him of stealing Mr. Shakespeare's play, begins to search his saddlebag. A duel ensues,
and while the men are fighting, Widge takes the playbook from the saddlebag, and
although he entreats the men to stop their fight, they pay him no heed (Chapter
26).

Although it seems that Mr. Armin is on the defensive
during most of the violent duel, in the end he deals Falconer a death blow, driving his
sword through his opponent's midsection. Dying, Falconer peels off his makeup to reveal
that he is really Mr. Bass, and he communicates the lifelong frustration he encountered
as an extremely talented but unappreciated theatre man which led him to become a thief.
Falconer then dies, and the constable comes to take away the body, acquitting Mr. Armin
of wrongdoing when he learns the details of the duel. Mr. Armin and Widge return to the
Chamberlain's Men, and when Widge's situation is explained to them, they are lenient and
permit him to stay on as a prentice. Grateful for the chance to make something of his
life, he works frenetically through the summer and fall, and his only regret is that he
does not know what has happened to Julia.

One day just
before Christmas, Widge, Sander, and Mr. Pope run into Julia on the street. She has
learned that in France, women are allowed to become actresses, and has saved her money
and will be leaving for that country in the morning. Widge is happy for her good
fortune, but devastated to see her go, and for the first time since he was a child,
allows himself to cry. After Julia has left, Widge reflects on the new concepts about
which he has learned since coming to the Chamberlain's Men. He realizes that the most
important ones have to do with "honesty and trust, loyalty and friendship...family...and
home" (Chapter 27).

What is polydipsia and what is it a sign(symptom) of?

Polydipsia is extreme thirst that can't be quenched. One group of people that suffer from this are undiagnosed diabetics. The renal system can't conserve glucose properly because blood glucose concentrations are too high. The kidneys "spill" glucose into the urine (glycosuria). When this happens water follows glucose into the urine by osmosis (passive process), this results in a net water loss from the body (polyuria). Because of the water loss from polyuria, the person stays thirsty (polydipsia).

The good news is that if we regulate the blood sugar better, all these symptoms will disapear because you will no longer be dumping glucose into the urine.

Evidence for the lessons taught by Atticus Finch.I chose Courtesy, Integrity and Tolerance. I'm having trouble gathering evidence for courtesy and...

Tolerance:

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." (Atticus, Chapter 3)

Integrity:

"Atticus Finch is the same in his house as he is on the public streets." (Miss Maudie, Chapter 5)

Courtesy:

"Atticus is a gentleman, just like me!" (Jem, Chapter 10)

Why is Pip able to obtain a boat?

Okay, at this point, Magwitch is back in England.  Pip and
Herbert and Wemmick are hiding him.  But they have a plan for helping him escape
(because he will be executed if he is discovered back in England after having once been
transported).  So Pip is supposed to buy the boat as part of the
plan.

The plan is that they will carry Magwitch away by
boat.  In the meantime, Herbert suggests, Pip should buy the boat and row around on the
river a lot.  The idea is that if people get used to seeing him rowing around all the
time, they won't notice anything unusual when he actually takes Magwitch
away.

Sketch out the position of the writer of fiction in the 20th century with reference to Lawrence, Conrad and Rushdie.

I think that more clarification is needed in the question.  The "position of the writer" is a bit on the vague side for me in terms of these three writers.  Part of the challenge is that two of them, Conrad and Lawrence, are writing in the same time period and the other one, Rushdie, is writing in a vastly different one.  To that extent, the position of the writer for Conrad/ Lawrence might hold some similarities to one another.  In this paradigm, I think that the position of the writer was to explore the motivations and psychology of the individual.  National and historical implications in plot development and story are secondary to the development of the context of the individual.  In both of these writers, the individual's battle for moral and ethical understanding takes place in a situation that seems to be apart from cultural identity and context.  The writer, in this setting, is meant to focus on the nature of human beings in their own right, away from contingency.  I see Rushdie as being completely different.  Emerging from the moment of Indian independence, when one nation became multiple ones, and living in England, one foot in one cultural setting, another foot in "the other," Rushdie sees the position of writer as still being able to examine motivations and ethical notions of truth, but having to do so in a cultural context and narrative that sees contingency as being very important.  This is why the narrative voice in Rushdie's work is interrupted and imprecise, at times, because the cultural context of the protagonist is exactly the same.  In Conrad or Lawrence, there is a sense of totality that allows the reader or character to fully make judgments and "objective" assessments of characters and events.  Marlowe allows us to understand who Kurtz is and we grasp the judgment that needs to be made upon him.  Lawrence is able to make transcendent claims about humanity and statements that are totalizing in effect.  Both of them are able to provide a sense of "objectivity" because this is what they view as the writer's role.  Yet, Rushdie strays from this.  In part due to the fact that culture, as a concept, is far from defined, far from totalizing.  Rushdie's characters are not able to really exact a distinct and final judgment.  They are, like culture is, ambiguous, vague, and imprecise.   In Rushdie's setting, the writer's position has to be one of reflection of contingency and context, elements that define who we are and what we do.

If you have been diagnosed with hypertension in the past and haven't taken medicine in a while but feel fine, is that OK?

Hypertension or high blood pressure is called the silent killer. Most people that have hypertension have no symptoms, some people do have symptoms such as headaches, dizziness,even blurred vision.

Unfortunately, what you have described in not uncommon. A person will be diagnosed with hypertension, be prescribed medication, take it a while then stop. They "feel fine" so they wrongly think the medication is no longer needed.

Never stop taking a blood pressure medication without checking with your physician. Your blood pressure may or may not be controlled now. The person's physician should make the decision whether they need to continue to take the medication or not.

Hypertension has serious short and long term effects such as increased risk for stroke(CVA) and heart attack(AMI).

Have the witches make a mistake about Banquo's sons becoming kings?Because it did not happen that way. Instead of Banquo's son, Malcolm, king...

No, they have not made a mistake. In Act 1, they tell Macbeth and Banquo that Macbeth will be king and that Banquo "shalt get kings, though thou be none". Later, Macbeth realizes that he has to kill both Banquo and Fleance, Banquo’s son, to prevent this prophecy from coming true. Macbeth plans to have both Banquo and Fleance murdered, but when the two men are ambushed, Banquo fights off the attackers and tells Fleance to get away. Fleance escapes. When Macbeth learns of his escape, he is quite upset:

"Then comes my fit again: I had else been perfect, / Whole as the marble, founded as the rock, / As broad and general as the casing air: / But now I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confined, bound in / To saucy doubts and fears.”

At the end of the play, the witches meet up with Macbeth again and show him the vision of a long line of kings descended from Banquo, so although Fleance is not the king right now, the witches show that his descendants, indeed, will one day rule Scotland.

If one is not aware of the reference an allusion makes, is the impact of the phrase lost?please help me about this, the question is about the...

This is quite a question!  I really have no idea what you mean by a "visual allusion," and the entire question is a bit of a mess for me to understand.  That being said, I'll tell you what I know about traditional literary allusions in answer to what I think you're asking, which (if I'm right) is an interesting concept to consider.

An allusion is a figure of speech which makes an indirect reference to something outside of the literature.  It's generally used to heighten or shorten a description or picture for the reader or viewer--a kind of shortcut, if you will.  Allusions almost always come from mythology, the Bible, or other works of literature.  Let me give a few examples.

Biblical allusions - He was like David facing Goliath (he was the righteous underdog who was up against a terrifying giant, yet he did so without fear).  Or, like Job, he was plagued with trouble.  (Of course, Job was afflicted by Satan with every conceivable loss--his entire family, all his possessions, excruciataing sores on his body.)

Mythology allusion - He was acting like Zeus.  (Chief of all gods, Zeus was a jealous, self-centered, and arrogant character.)

Literary allusion - She walked into the room, and everyone stared at her as if she were wearing a scarlet letter (obviously a reference to Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter and the fact that she was the source of conspicuous gossip because of the sin she committed).

So, your question (I think) is whether the impact of the allusion is lost if you don't know the original reference--if the meaning is lost if you've never heard of David, Job, Zeus, or Hester.  The answer has to be at least a partial yes.  Of course the impact of anything is diminished if you don't understand it; if not, why bother to use it?  At the same time, we've learned to make guesses about any references with which we aren't familiar.

Television shows, even silly ones, consistently use allusions to common or popular characters or works; and we've gotten pretty good at figuring out the gist of them even if we don't know the specific reference. So we kind of understand, even when we don't really know for sure. In literature, the allusions may or may not be more complex; however, we're generally pretty good at assessing the context surrounding the reference when we read, as well.

What I tell my students is this:  the more mythology, literature, and Bible they know, the richer their reading and viewing experiences will be.  When they hear a reference to something they've read, they're so excited to tell me they "got it."  Before, they enjoyed the show or the book or the movie, but now they feel as if they're "in" on the inside joke--and they didn't miss it until they knew better. The full impact of the allusion was lost on them until they learned the application. 

Understanding an allusion is like having an extra color in the rainbow or an extra layer of frosting on the cake.  You can still appreciate the rainbow or enjoy the cake--it's just more colorful or flavorful. The impact may not be lost, but it certainly will be diminished.

If this was what you meant, great.  If not, forgive me for wasting your time. 

What did Rev. Parris catch the girls doing in the woods?in details please.

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Is Huck gay?

I'm guessing that your question is prompted by all the time that Huck and Jim spend naked on the raft together.  You may also be puzzled by the term of endearment, "honey," that Jim uses towards Huck.  What you should remember is that there is a big age difference between Jim and Huck.  Jim watches over Huck, is loyal and protective, and loves him.  Calling him "honey" indicates his affection for Huck, but not in a sexual way.  It's also common to address someone as "honey" in informal situations.

And now for the time on the raft: Twain is commenting on Eden, not on homosexuality. You may remember that "everything is free and easy" on a raft. There's no judgement, no rules, just floating and equal respect. The nudity helps symbolize the equality between Jim and Huck.  You may recall that Adam and Eve were naked before they ate the fruit and recognized their difference from eachother.  Every time Jim and Huck hit land, they get dressed again, indicating that difference once again matters.

What is the function of the Polonius-Ophelia-Laertes family in this play? What parallels exist between their situation and that of the ruling...

In some ways, Polonius, Ophelia and Laertes serve as foils to Claudius, Gertrude and Hamlet, but it isn't quite as clear cut as that.  Both Claudius and Polonius are trying to scheme their way into power and to maintain their influence, but Claudius is generally far more effective and less bumbling.  Polonius in some ways serves to show the ineffective side of their planning, etc.

Epecially if you get into the incestuousness of Hamlet's relationship with Gertrude, Ophelia serves as his other love interest, the acceptable one, but also one driven mad by the incredible circumstances around her.  In some ways too she acts as a foil even to Hamlet because she is willing to take action and kill herself while Hamlet debates constantly whether to do or not to.

Laertes is impetuous and rash and very much a man of action, again acting in some ways as a foil to Hamlet who cannot do more than think and talk about it instead of acting.

What were the main features of the nuclear arms race?

The term 'Nuclear Arms Race' refers to the race for supremacy between the two super powers the U.S.A and the U.S.S.R. to manufacture and stockpile nuclear arms. The race was both quantitative, that is, who will possess more weapons and qualitative, that is, whose weapons will be more lethal and destructive.

In the initial stages the U.S.A., especially after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, dominated the race. They unlike the Soviets possessed delivery systems which could bomb targets in faraway Russia with ease.

However, this changed when the Soviets successfully tested the ICBM in 1957  resulting in the "Missile Crisis" in America.

In the next phase America gained an exponential advantage with the introduction of the MIRV capability in their ICBMS. With this technology The ICBMS of the U.S.A. could destroy multiple Soviet targets simultaneously. The Russians however mastered this technique by 1974.

In the 80's with the introduction of Regan's 'Star Wars' program the nuclear arms race entered the space era.

By the 90's with the collapse of the Soviet Union the nuclear arms race had ended and on 24th September 1996 the U.S.A. and other nuclear weapons states along with 60 other non-nuclear states signed the CTBT thus formally ending the nuclear arms race.

Large firms in an industry have cost advantages over small firms in same industry.Explain condition for this statement to be true. cost advantage

Large firms tend to have cost advantage over smaller firms engaged in supplying the same product because of the economy of scale enjoyed by larger firms.

Economy of scale refers to the reduction in per unit cost of a product because of the economies achieved because of higher level of production. Such economies of scale my accrue to a firm due to various factors such as higher utilization of manpower and capital equipment, lower raw material prices because of quantity discounts, the fixed overhead costs getting distributed over a larger production, and use more economical mass production technology.

However it must be noted that not all industries offer equal scope for economy of scale. Also for any given product there is a limit to which economy of scale can be achieved. Raising production beyond an optimum level can increase per unit cost.

Appearances vs Reality: Boo, Tom, and DolphusI'm writing an essay about how these three characters are misinterpreted for who they really are. Any...

Boo: This community in Maycomb believes Boo to be a malevolent phantom. If you read the description Jem gives of Boo in the middle of the first chapter, the portrait is painted of a guy who mutilates animals, stabs his parents with scissors, runs with the rebellious crowd, and is a peeping tom to all the ladies in the town. In reality, he is a guy who cares about the Finch children as if they were his own and shows it by showering them with gifts and saving them from death.

Tom: The town sees Tom as their stereotypical Negro perception of a man. That means he must be a cheater, a liar, and dangerous around white women. The truth is he is a God-fearing man with a compassionate way willing to help a struggling woman even though it means he risks the impression of not doing what he should be. He is a family man and a hard-worker.

Dolphus Raymond: This guy is the most easily understood example of the difference between perception and reality. In reality, he drinks Coca-cola out of a sack. However, he allows the community to believe he's a drunk. He perpetuates this perception because they are more comfortable with believing that than they are believing he could actually want a black woman.

Your Intro: I would recommend writing a hook about an item that doesn't always appear to be what it really is. Consider a mirage, or looking into a mirror at a funhouse. Then transition into your thesis by stating that often, the same is true of people. We don't necessarily see the truth on the outside, there is something much different on the inside. Make sure your thesis uses these character names, your topic, and the title of the work.

Mr. Dolphus Raymond is evidently a complicated and interesting person. Describe his way of life and comment on its affect upon the town. To Kill...

Mr. Dolphus Raymond, who lives outside the society of
other whites and blacks, as well, acts somewhat like the Chorus of a Greek Play.  In
Chapter 20 of To Kill a Mockingbird, the reader discerns a part of
human nature that lies below the social codes that are taught.  Mayella Ewell has done
the unspeakable:  she has kissed a black man, and an evil side of man has been exposed
in the testimony of Bob Ewell.  Realizing that this evil has been exposed, Atticus Finch
tries to appeal to the morality of the jury in his closing arguments in spite of Link
Deas's validation of the character of Tom Robinson having been silenced as the judge
calls for the removal of Deas  from the court, even though he does nothing to mitigate
the racial prejudice that permeates
the proceedings.

Outside the courtroom, Mr. Raymond acts as
a Chorus to be the moral mirror of the drama within.  For, his behavior, albeit outside
the social code, too, is not immoral; nevertheless, he is scorned.  He simply prefers
the company of the blacks because he finds white people too hypocritical and one-sided
in their thinking.  Since it is against social mores to live with blacks and have
children who are mixed, Mr. Dolphus Raymond  mocks the townspeople's hypocrisy by
pretending to be a drunkard as he carries around a Coca-Cola in a brown wrapper.  Like
the jurors in the courtroom, the townspeople who see Mr. Raymond are satisfied and
content if they can maintain the status quo by rationalizing the eccentric behavior
of Mr. Dolphus and by condemning him as a drunk.  As in the courtroom in which Judge
Taylor does not address what is at the core of the problem, the townspeople cover the
social rebellion of Mr. Raymond with a label. 

Only
children will cry, Mr. Dolphus tells Dill and Jem and Scout; only children will cry at
an injustice.  For, he knows too well the social mores must remain intact even if it
means fabricating evidence against a man.  Like the Chorus of an ancient play, Mr.
Dolphus Raymond comments upon the morality of the actors in the play of the courtroom of
Macomb, Alabama. 

Just as the court refuses to accept the
undeniable implications of the evidence in Tom's trial, so does it refuse the
implications of the way of life that Mr. Raymond Dolphus has chose and the reasons he
has made this choice.

What do Tolstoy's stories tell about the Russian person of the 19th century and of the Russian "soul"?I'm currently reading "The Death of Ivan...

The Russians were not geographically or culturally akin to
Western Europeans until Peter the Great developed an expanded world view by visiting
continental European countries and England. Then he chose to envision Russia as being
part of, an extension of, the greater European community. He initiated drastic cultural
changes in clothing and grooming trends (particularly as regards to men's facial
hair...) as well as intellectual trends that introduced Western European ideas of art,
philosophy, religion (though Russian Orthodoxy's strength was not threatened by the
awareness of Western religious views), etc.

In a way, Peter
the Great's changes initiated the historic quest for the Russian soul because Russia's
isolation and deeply entrenched cultural beliefs and practices were overturned and
subject to upheaval, an experience that began in major cultural centers, like Moscow and
St. Petersburg and slowly, over a couple of centuries spread to the villages, even
arriving in villages after the 1917 Revolution.

Tolstoy's
fiction reveals the conflicts between the old Russian ways and the newer Western-Russian
ways, a conflict of both bad and good. For instance, stories like "The Death of Ivan
Ilych," "Family Happiness" and "The Kreutzer Sonata" show the uneasy alliance between
pursuing the Western style careers, such as in the bureaucracy, and social standing
while sacrificing deeper, age-old Russian values of family and community. Whereas
stories like "Master and Man" show the conflict between growing Western philosophies
propounding the freedom and dignity of humanity and the Russian cultural tradition of
serfdom, a version of feudalism, whereby serfs are attached to the land as part of the
estate and are therefore inheritable and counted as property, not as
humans.

These stories reveal that a major emphasis Tolstoy
draws out in his stories is that men and women in social positions suffer confusion as
to the expression of their souls within society that seemed to Tolstoy to require
selfishness, pettiness and self-absorption. The complementary emphasis is that peasants,
mistreated and wrongly thought of as inhuman property have sincere values of goodness
that can teach "the master" of Russia to be human and to honor humanity as is seen in
"Master and Man."

How are the family units created in the community?

The first step in forming a family unit happens when an adult applies to receive a spouse.  An applicant might wait for months or even years before a Match is found and approved.  Factors such as disposition, energy level, intelligence, and interests must correspond perfectly for a Match to be sanctioned by the Committee of Elders.  After the spouses are joined at the yearly Matching of Spouses ceremony, the Match is monitored for 3 years by the Committee before the couple can apply to receive a child.

Children are born to Birth Mothers, women who serve in that capacity for three years and then are assigned to be laborers for the rest of their lives.  The children are raised collectively by Nurturers until they are a year old, at which time they are distributed by assignment at the yearly Naming and Placement ceremony among those Matches who have applied for children and been approved.

Solve the equation 4^x + 2^x + 1 = 80

4^x+2^x+1 = 80. To find x .

solution:

4^x = (2^x )^2

So  the given equation is equivalent to:

(2^x)^2+2^x+1-80 = 0. Or

y^2 + y -79 = 0. or

y1 = [-1+sqrt(1+4*79)]/2 or y2 = [-1-sqrt(1+4*79)]/2.

 Or taking the positive root,

2^x = 8.402246907

x log2  =  log(8.402246907) , or

x = 8.402246907 / log2 =  3.070775181. The root is imaginary.

1. Find examples of humor in Animal Farm. Explain what purpose humor served in the novel. How does it support Orwell's theme? This is another...

Since the whole idea of animals taking over a farm from humans, winning military victories against humans, and then undergoing human characteristics is rather absurd to begin with, a bit of humor is needed here and there maintain a proper human touch. Examples include:

• The cats (in the real world not known for their loyalty but instead for their indifferent nature) are found to have voted on both sides.


• Mollie is presented in a comic way, worried more about her appearance and the ribbons in her hair.


• The misspelling of "freind" (even animals had problems with the " 'i' before 'e' rule).


• The cats trying to lure the sparrows within their grasp by preaching that all animals were brothers, and that it would be safe to come perch on their paws.


• Napoleon's comic rant after getting drunk for the first time.

In Chapter 1, what does George tell Lennie to do if he gets in trouble at their new job site in Of Mice and Men?

In Chapter I of Steinbeck's Of Mice and
Men George tells Lennie:

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"Well, look. Lennie--if you jus' happen to get
in trouble like you always done before, I want you to come right here an' hide in the
brush."

"Hide in the brush," said Lennie
slowly.

"Hide in the brush till I come for you. Can you
remember that?"

We know that
Lennie got in trouble in the town of Weed for making a girl think he was trying to rape
her, but we don't know what other kinds of trouble George is referring to. George says
"like you always done before." This sounds as if Lennie has caused George many problems,
so many that George is actually expecting him to cause another problem when they start
working at their next job. We wonder whether Lennie's other misbehavior also involved
girls.

Steinbeck evidently has George tell Lennie what to
do if he gets in trouble because George will be the only one who knows where Lennie is
to be found when the men at the ranch go hunting for him. That means that in the final
chapter George will be able to get to Lennie first and will have the opportunity to kill
him with the German Luger he stole from Carlson. This is to be a mercy killing to save
Lennie from being tortured and lynched by the angry
mob.

George does not intend to shoot Lennie when he tells
him where to hide. He intends to get to Lennie and help him escape, as he did in Weed.
However, after seeing the dead body of Curley's wife in the barn and realizing that
Lennie is becoming a potential rapist and killer, George steals the Luger and goes to
find Lennie with the intention of shooting him with it. George feels personally
responsible for the girl's death, since he brought Lennie to the ranch and had to plead
and argue with the Boss to get him his job.

George has many
reasons for wanting to kill Lennie now. He feels he can no longer control him, and he
can't be watching him all the time. He could get lynched himself. Or else he could get
arrested as an accessory--especially if he tried to help Lennie escape. This is a far
more serious situation than the one in Weed which almost got them lynched. This is
murder. At least it looks like murder in connection with attempted rape. The law would
be after them if they tried to escape together. Their names and descriptions are known.
They would have to find work somewhere. They couldn't just hide in the mountains
indefinitely.

So George had no idea when he told Lennie to
come to this spot by the river and hide in the brush that he was going to kill his
friend there. That is characteristic of Steinbeck's realistic writing. The novelette is
heavily plotted, but it is plotted in such a way that things just seem to
happen.

What causes a bone spur?

A bone spur is a tiny growth of bone on top of normal bone.  A bone spur is the body's response to some kind of trauma.  The trauma could be due to pressure, rubbing or stress that continues over a long period of time. The spur is usually smooth and can cause pain.  The pain is typically due to the growth pressing on the soft tissues of the body such as ligaments, tendons, and nerves.  The most common places for spurs are in the feet, shoulders, spine, knees, hands, and hips. 

I have suffered from a heel spur for many years.  When I was younger I did not wear the best shoes and this tended to irritate the spur.  This was because the spur was due to the tissues in the bottom of my foot straining.  With the proper heel support this would not have been a problem.  I now wear shoes with adequate arch support. The results of not having the arch support was inflammation and difficulty walking. 

How does Ivan serve Zaroff in "The Most Dangerous Game"?

Ivan is an enormous man who not only acts as a sort of butler to Zaroff. He answers the door to the lost on the island and makes sure that they are well taken care of. His brings out the food and prepares the rooms for guests. He watches over the latest captives and prepares Zaroff and the others for the hunts. Ivan is not just a house boy to Zaroff, he is employed to do anything that is asked of him including torturing and killing any person who does not agree to play the game.

Ivan ends up meeting his demise when Rainsford sets a trap for him because Zaroff asked that Ivan help him hunt down this worthy adversary.

Compare Protestantism with Catholicism showing five characteristics that set them apart from each other.

There are many differences between between Protestants and Catholics. Here are a few more:

1. Catholics look to scripture and tradition for authority while Protestants look to scripture only.


2. As far as free will goes, Catholics believe people are free to both good and evil while Protestants believe that people are free to do only evil.


3. Catholics pray to Saints while Protestants do not.


4. Purgatory exists in Catholicism while Protestants deny it.


5. Catholics receive salvation through baptism but may be lost through sin. It can regained again through penance. Protestants believe that salvation is the result of divine grace and unworthy of merit.

Find the 2009-th derivative of the function f(x)=1/(x^2-4). Calculate for x=0.

First, we notice that the denominator of the function is a difference of squares, so we'll re-write it as:

 f(x)=1/(x^2-4) = 1/(x-2)(x+2)

Now, we'll write the function as a sum or difference of 2 irreducible ratios.

1/(x-2)(x+2) = A/(x-2) + B/(x+2)

We'll calculate the common denominator, to the right side and we'll multiply each ratio with the corresponding amount.

1 = Ax+Bx + 2A - 2B

After factorization we'll get:

1 = x(A+B) + 2(A-B)

The expression from the left side could be written as:

1 = 0*x + 1

So, for the identity to hold, the both expressions from both sides have to correspond.

A+B = 0

2(A-B) = 1

A-B = 1/2, but A=-B

2A = 1/2

A=1/4

B=-1/4

1/(x-2)(x+2) = 1/4(x-2) - 1/4(x+2)

Now, we'll calculate the first derivative:

f'(x) = [1/4(x-2) - 1/4(x+2)]'

f'(x) = 4/16(x+2)^2 - 4/16(x-2)^2

f'(x) = 1/4(x+2)^2 - 1/4(x-2)^2

We'll calculate the second derivative:

f''(x) = 8(x-2)/16(x-2)^4 - 8(x+2)/16(x+2)^4

After reducing the terms:

f''(x) = 2/4(x-2)^3 - 2/4(x+2)^3

And to establish a final form, we'll calculate the third derivative:

f'''(x) = 2*3*4(x+2)^2/16(x+2)^6 - 2*3*4(x-2)^2/16(x-2)^6

After reducing the terms:

f'''(x) = 2*3/4(x+2)^4 - 2*3/4(x-2)^4

It is obvious that:

f(x)^(2009) = 2009!/4(x+2)^2010 - 2009!/4(x-2)^2010

Now, we'll calculate for x=0

We'll factorize:

f(0)^(2009) = 2009!/4(1/2^2010 - 1/2^2010)

f(0)^(2009) = 0

explain clearly the love-story of Touchstone and Audrey.it is from act III, scene 3

As You Like It owes its charm and beauty to the favour of love that pervades throughout the play. The play may be called a fountain of pure and sweet love where the lovers attain an unending joy and relief. It is love and only love that injects life into play. There are four love-couples in the play. Touchstone-Audrey love-couple is one of them.

Love between Touchstone and Audrey is without romance, idealism, and glamour. Audrey is ugly, but he does not mind that. In her very presence, he refers to her as 'a poor virgin, an ill-favoured thing'. Audrey has no beauty, charm, wealth, or intellligence, yet Touchstone goes into matrimony. Even before he has married her, he thinks of divorcing her. Probably, Shakespeare has in his mind to present a contrast between romantic love of Rosalind and Orlando and the coarse and bestial love of Touchstone and Audrey.

What did Ralph find when he hid in the thicket?

Good one. It's right at the very end of the book, and therefore is a moment that isn't much commented on - despite the fact that it's actually (I think, at least) very important for any essay thinking about the symbol of the Lord of the Flies himself - the pig's head on a stick.

Some context first: Ralph is now the only one left who hasn't been killed (Simon, Piggy) or encompassed into Jack's savage tribe. They're hunting the island for him, and haven't yet found him. So he's hiding in the greenery and trying to watch them without being watched. And interestingly, at one point, travelling across the island, he stumbles into Simon's 'place', the covered sheltered leave hideaway where the candle buds grow and where the Lord of the Flies on his stick argued with Simon shortly before Simon's death.

Golding makes it quite clear that it is the same place:

The slanting sticks of sunlight were lost among the branches. At length he came to a clearing in the forest where rock prevented vegetation from growing.

The darkness of Jack and Roger, though, has spread across the island:

Now it was a pool of shadows and Ralph nearly flung himself behind a tree when he saw something standing in the centre; but then he saw that the white face was bone and that the pig's skull grinned at him from the top of a stick. He walked slowly into the middle of the clearing and looked steadily at the skull that gleamed as white as ever the conch had done and seemed to jeer at him cynically. An inquisitive ant was busy in one of the eye sockets but otherwise the thing was lifeless.
Or was it?

Ralph stands face to face with the Lord of the Flies - the symbol (and see elsewhere in my answers to this group for more on this) of all evil and the devil himself. It is - symbolically - man versus evil.

He stood, the skull about on a level with his face, and held up his hair with two hands. The teeth grinned, the empty sockets seemed to hold his gaze masterfully and without effort.
What was it?

Ralph somehow knows that there is something deeper to the meaning of the pig's head on a stick:

The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won't tell.

And then, just like in the novel, Ralph decides to fight evil head on:

A sick fear and rage swept him. Fiercely he hit out at the filthy thing in front of him that bobbed like a toy and came back, still grinning into his face, so that he lashed and cried out in loathing. Then he was licking his bruised knuckles and looking at the bare stick, while the skull lay in two pieces, its grin now six feet across.

It's an ominous moment. What happens when man tries to take on evil forces? Evil gets worse: the grin spreads from one foot to six feet. Trying to destory evil has made it somehow larger and more powerful (both Simon and Piggy would agree with that sentiment).

This deeply symbolic and interpretable little moment - where Ralph finds the Lord of the Flies in the thicket - shows us the key theme of hte novel: the strength and power of evil. The darkness of man's heart spreads.

Has anyone ever heard of Rett Syndrome? Thank you

Rett's Disorder is a disintegrative disorder that affects toddlers. These children have normal developmental patterns up until about 5 months.They also had a normal perinatal period.These children have normal psychomotor development through the first 5 months of life. These children may or may not be mentally retarded. Between 5 and 48 months of age they start to exhibit the following:

1. deceleration of head growth

2. loss of hand skills, characteristic hand movements that resemble hand wringing or hand washing.

3.loss of social engagement

4.impaired language development

5. severe psychomotor development

Rett's disorder has only been diagnosed in female children.

1. What issues concerning urban politics does Steffens’s The Shame of the Cities raise, and how did political machines disfranchise voters?I'm...

Lincoln Steffens's The Shame of the Cities collects a series of articles on the social and political wrongs of American cities originally published in McClure's. Steffens was part of the Progressive movement which tried to reform American society at the beginning of the twentieth-century. The Progressives were mostly middle-class and addressed a lot of important questions in different fields such as education, labor, politics and health care. Contrary to laissez-faire capitalists, Progressives thought that government must intervene in social and economic issues. The political context in which they operated was changing fast: party loyalty eroded and voter turnout diminished.

Steffens's journalism is often defined as muckraking and voices the concerns of the Progressives' as far as urban politics and corruption are concerned. The introduction to the collection contains a typically Progressive attack on "big business". "Big businessmen" are the main source of political corruption and put their own interests before the common good. "The commercial spirit," writes Steffens, "is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle." These big businessmen are often interested in politics for their own wealth.

Muckrakers like Steffens argues that American people must rediscover the values of an active citizenship. They should not accept the decisions of political parties passively but should be active in the selection of political candidates. The connections between politics and economics, between politicians and big businessmen ultimately disfranchises voters.

You can read the introduction to The Shame of the Cities here http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5732/

Interesting critical work on Steffens is included in The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter and in The New Radicalism in America, 1889-1963 by Christopher Lasch. A general criticism levelled against Steffens, and more generally, against the Progressive is the middle-class bias that surfaces from their works. When Steffens talks about "the American people" who does he include? Does he include ethnic minorities? 

What are three possible negative effects of the terms of peace reached after World War II?

The division of Korea and the assignment of Vietnam to France were certainly not very good in the long run.  These were just two portions of the almost inane way that the world was divided by the victors after the war.

If you look at Africa, the Middle East, Asia, etc., the divisions were made along arbitrary lines rather than ethnice or historical ones and have led to immense amounts of conflict in many if not all of those regions.

You could point to the incredibly terrible condition of North Korea even today and the hardships that have been visited upon the population there simply because of an arbitrary division of the country.

Who are the main characters, and what is the main idea of the story?

The main character is Louise, "the fat girl", whose identity is tied up in issues of weight and eating. All the other characters essentially revolve around Louise such as her friend Carrie, her parents, and her husband Richard. 

The main idea of the story is an examination of one woman's drive to find love and acceptance both from the outside world and from herself. Through her constant struggles with weight and overeating, she finds her true identity and comes to terms with herself and her body issues. 

Who shows more manliness in 'Macbeth', Lady Macbeth or Macbeth himself?

The term "manliness" can be interpreted both as
masculinity and courage. Macbeth, in William Shakespeare's Macbeth,
is obviously more courageous and heroic than her
wife.

From the very beginning, Macbeth seems to
have a hidden ambition in his mind to gain control over the royal power, but it is just
like a sleeping wish or dream. It is his better half who pours oil into the fire. She
persistently provokes Macbeth by ridiculing his valour, or sometimes by comparing his
courage with hers. Her excessive cruelty is expressed directly in act 1,
scene 7, when she utters:

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I would, while it was smiling in
my face.

Have plucked my
nipple from his boneless
gums

And dashed the brains
out, had I so sworn

As you
have done to
this.

When
Macbeth drowns into dilemma about killing Duncan, Lady Macbeth
derides:

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From this
time,

Such I account thy
love,. Art thou afeard

to be
the same in thine own act and
valour

As thou art in desire?
Wuoldst thou have that

Which
thou esteem'st the ornament of life,

And live a coward in thine
own esteem.

In
response to such cruelty in a woman, Macbeth says her to "bring forth men
children only". Lady Macbeth almost breaks the traditional image of
femininity - soft, kind and motherly.

Yet, Lady
Macbeth fails to surpass the boundary of womanliness. She fails to murder Duncan with
her own hands. Besides, neither she can tolerate constant murders going on, nor can
endure the guilt. Much earlier than her husband, she gives up by committing
suicide.

It is Macbeth who is much more heroic.
He, once being resolute to achieve his goal, goes on heroically. We find that his wife
and collaborator leaves him away forever in the time of crisis, almost all the
countrymen go against him, and more than that, he realizes at the end that he has been
totally deceived by the evils. Yet, he does not give up till
death:

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I will not
yield

To kiss the ground
before young Malcolm's
feet...

Yet I will try the
last.
(5.7)

Thus
is the heroism in Macbeth. It is the true courage and valour not to accept defeat in
life easily, but to try till the last moment. Delivering daring speeches and instigating
others does not prove anybody "manly". Action proves the
feature.

A character's manliness depends on his
or her firmness in the personality and resoluteness in the actions, which definitely
Macbeth has.

According to the pardoner, what is the theme of all his sermons?This is from the story "The Pardoner's Tale" in The Canterbury Tales.

According to the Pardoner, he always uses the same text
for his sermons (in a sermon the preacher is supposed to use some Biblical text -- he's
supposed to talk to the congregation about the meaning of the passage that he has
selected).  The Pardoner says that the text for his sermons is always the famous passage
that says that the love of money is the root of all evil (this is from 1 Timothy Chapter
6).  So presumably he is talking about how greed is
bad.

For I know all by rote that I
tell.
My theme is always one, and ever was;
Radix malorum est
cupiditas.

This is pretty ironic
because he himself is a pretty greedy man and pardoners as a group were known for being
pretty greedy.

do you lose braincells when you get older?

The short answer is yes.  But you don't have to wait until you get older, it's actually happening right now, and has been since you were 18 or so.  Brain cells do not regenerate, and we lose them at a slow rate over the course of our entire adult life.  Not to worry, though, as you have billions of them, and as we age, it is usually other disorders and issues with our brains that cause us to lose function or memory rather than cell loss.

One of the reasons stem cell research has been so intriguing is that it is one o the few treatments we have found over time that may be able to reverse diseases of the brain such as Alzheimer's.

Please give a critical appreciation of The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

In "The Road Not Taken," Robert Frost discusses the long-reaching effects of decisions.

Frost does this by telling about a time that he came across two roads "that diverged" (split apart) "in a yellow wood."   He knew that he could not "travel both," so he "looked down one as far [he] could."  Then, he took the other road, which was not as well-travelled as the other: "it was grassy and wanted wear."

Frost considers the option of returning someday to the other road, but he knows it is not likely to happen:

knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

He realizes that his decision will have an effect for the rest of his life:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Like most of Frost's poems, "The Road Not Taken" has a regular meter: each line contains approximately 9 syllables.

The poem rhymes, in an unusual ABAAA rhyme scheme.

It uses one fairly simply image, that of the two roads diverging in the woods. 

What is Winston's dream about his mother and how does it make him feel?

Winston dreams about his last vision of his mother.  He remembers how the spirit of life seemed to go out of her when his father disappeared when Winston was just a young boy.  Life was difficult and food was scarce.  When a chocolate ration is given to the family, Winston wants more than his share and finally snatches the portion Winston's mother gave to Winston's little sister.  Winston ran from the apartment as his mother called for him to come back and give the chocolate to his sister.  When he looked back, he saw his mother put her arm protectively and comfortingly around his sister.  That was the last glimpse he had of either his mother or his sister who were both gone when he came back to the apartment.  Winston remembers another dream he had of his mother where she was in a sinking ship looking up at Winston with the same look in her eyes as she had when Winston fled their home with his sister's chocolate.  Winston has been filled with guilt ever since that day and the protective gesture, so seldom seen in Winston's current life, haunts him.

In Chapter 8, what does Jack tell his new tribe?

Jack begins by telling them, "We'll hunt. I'm going to be chief," in this way immediately distinguishing his style of leadership from that of Ralph, and "the crisis passed easily" by him taking command in this way. He then tells them they won't dream in this portion of the island, and after that he tells them they will hunt pig and give some of the kill to the beast. When they raid Ralph's camp for the fire, he tells his tribe "Go on--now!" and then repeats that order.  Two boys raise their spears and respond,"The Chief has spoken," implying that Jack has ordered them to behave in this way to give recognition to his leadership.

How do people who live on the leeward side of a mountain climate differ from those who live on the windward side of the same mountain?

I am not sure what exactly you are asking here, as the people on the two sides of a mountain range are not necessarily going to be any different from one another.  What I assume you are asking is how their weather is going to be different.

If that is what you are asking, the people on the leeward side of the range will see much less rainfall than those on the windward side.  The reason for this is that the mountains will force the air upwards.  This air will be relatively full of moisture.  As it rises, the moisture will condense and fall.  The air that crosses the mountain will be dry.

I have seen this effect most clearly when I lived in Hawaii.  O'ahu, for example, has a windward side that is much more rainy and green than its windward side.

Why does Gregor cling to the picture of the woman in furs on the wall?

Gregor clings to the picture on the wall because he is clinging to his past.  His sister, Grete, comes in and tries to move all his furniture, thinking it would be easier for him to crawl around the floor and walls if it were gone.  Gregor likes the furniture because it reminds him of when he was normal, but he can't do anything about the fact that his sister and mother are removing it.  In an attempt to do something, he climbs the wall and clings to the picture so his sister cannot remove it.  Ironically, he displays obvious bug-like characteristics in order to cling to his human past.

How did the abolition of slavery impact African American literature?

The abolition of slavery was the first time that African
American writers were read by a wide spread audience.  It was also the first time that a
large white audience was able to see the gifts of the African American abolitionist’s
ability to write.  African American writers were able to advocate against the cruelty of
slavery.

Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was a good
writer and speech maker.  He had been a slave and he could give voice to the
people.

"that the children of slave women shall in all
cases follow the condition of their mothers"

Examine Hamlet, Laertes and Fortinbras – their parallel situations in this play and how each seeks restitution for the death of a father.I'm...

In Shakespeare's Hamlet, of the three characters who have fathers' deaths to revenge, Laertes is certainly the least honorable. 

Laertes is brash and rash and unthinking as he sets out to get revenge.  He loudly forces his way into Elsinore, apparently, without even knowing exactly what happened to his father.  He goes after King Claudius, who actually is innocent of Polonius' death.  Then he allows himself to be manipulated by Claudius into performing deceitful and treacherous acts toward Hamlet.  Laertes apparently agrees with Claudius that revenge should have no bounds, or limits. 

Laertes, again, is the least honorable of the revengers in Shakespeare's revenge tragedy. 

Can the lessons learned from Harriet (Emma), Eliz. (P & P), & Anne (Persuasion) be applied to the experiences of woman today?

Anne is caught up in the world of peer pressure.  She is swayed by the interests of her closest friends to give up on a man she deeply loves.  Those interests are focused upon status and support - can a man support you?  This issue is still one that plagues women.  In a world where the mother is still expected to be the caretaker of children, and where women still make $0.77 on the $1.00 of what men are making, a woman is practical to consider livlihood when choosing a partner.  However, Captain Wentworth was capable of providing for her.  He just wasn't "good enough" based on her friends opinions.  This is a good lesson for both men and women, to have more confidence in your own feelings and judgement, and rely less on others.

Women today, especially teenage girls, are often swayed by the inticement of the "in" crowd, of moving themselves up socially based on the status of wealth and fashion.  Truth of this is evident in the media, both fictional shows and the exploits of stars.  Harriet is such a girl, she allows her desire for "status" to overwhelm her judgement, like Anne allowed love of friends to do.  She relies too heavily on Emma and must stand on her own before achieving happiness in the end.

act4.sc1. what is the irony of the witches' statement"Something wicked this way comes?.what evidence is there in this scene that macbeth has become...

The irony in the witches' statement lies in their own wickedness. These evil, wicked witches are predicting that "something" is approaching that will bring wickedness as if evil isn't already present in the witches themselves. That "something" turns out to be Macbeth, the first reminder that he has become wicked because of Duncan's murder. 

As the apparitions appear one by one, Macbeth believes that the predictions are reassuring, yet he says he will kill Macduff to make sure that this enemy will not pose a threat. Then Macbeth is very interested to see the fourth apparition to determine if Banquo will have any descendants who will become king, as the witches had predicted for Banquo. Macbeth's horror at the show of eight kings followed by a bloody Banquo shows that he now believes Banquo's prophecy will come true. He will question why he has killed Duncan so that Banquo's children can be king. It appears that more killing will follow as Macbeth demonstrates just how wicked he can become.

Read the scene carefully beginning when the apparitions appear and the witches offer their interpretations. Macbeth's responses reveal his character. Follow the link below. 

What reason does Odysseus give Calypso for wanting to return to Penelope?

Odysseus' reasons for wanting to leave Calypso to return
to his wife Penelope are only partially expressed by Odysseus' own
words. 

In Homer’s The Odyssey, the
story’s hero, Odysseus, struggles for 20 years to make it home to
Ithaca.

Late in his journey, after losing all of his men,
Odysseus finds himself stuck on the island of the immortal sea-nymph Calypso. Calypso
takes great interest in Odysseus and wants to keep him for
herself.

Meanwhile, back in Ithaca, Penelope’s suitors
continue to harass her and plot against Telemachus.

Against
this backdrop, Athena addresses Zeus at a gathering of the gods, pleading on behalf of
the stranded Odysseus. Zeus then orders Hermes, the messenger, to fly to Calypso and
instruct her to set Odysseus free.

As the above post noted,
Odysseus himself does not have a lot to say about it beyond confirming that he wishes to
return to Penelope even though she is mortal and less “comely” than
Calypso.

However, Odysseus' own words are not the only
evidence of his desire to return home. It is also worth noting how the poet describes
Odysseus’ behavior just prior to learning that Calypso will release
him:

Him she
found sitting on the shore, and his eyes were never dry of tears, and his sweet life was
ebbing away, as he longed mournfully for his return, for the nymph was no longer
pleasing in his
sight. 

Although these are
the poet’s words and not those of Odysseus, they still show how Odysseus is affected by
his absence from Ithaca and Penelope. Despite living with the love of a beautiful
immortal, he still wishes to return to his home and wife. Although he doesn't explicitly
say so to Calypso, he no longer finds her "pleasing in sight." Of course, this also
implies that Odysseus has the usual male weakness for beautiful women, because he did
find her pleasing earlier in the story. 

How do Dickinson, Howells, and Twain seem to reflect a specific "turning away" from traditional religion? (Orthodox Christianity)

Dickinson: While Dickinson
does discuss matters of life and death and the soul in many of her poems, her view
differs greatly from the American Romantic poets before her.  While their poems are
filled with praise for God and a desire to perfect the soul in order to please God (See
Holmes' "Chambered Nautilus" as an example of this.), Dickinson focuses more on personal
experience and human emotions.  Her "Heart! We will forget him" and "Because I could not
stop for death" demonstrate that Dickinson was interested in the typical human
experiences--healing a broken heart and pondering death--but her interest is much more
human-centered than "heavenly"
focused.

Howells: Howells
represents an even more distinct rebellion against traditional religion.  His
A Modern Instance discusses the breakup of a marriage, which
according to traditional Christian beliefs is sacred and a symbol of Christ's
relationship with the church.  While Howells' predecessors like Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow praised the virtues of their spouses and idolized purity of spirit in
marriage, Howells strove to portray humans as common folks who struggled with flaws and
practical, everyday life.

Twain:
Of the three authors mentioned in your question, Twain is arguably the
most obvious satirist of traditional religion.  Almost all of his novels mock the
hypocrisy in Christians from Twain's time period (The Widow Douglass owning slaves even
as she is a "good Christian woman" who tries to help civilize Huck; or Huck's struggle
to do what his conscience dictates rather than what his "moral," religious society tells
him is right--to turn in a runaway slave who will then be sold and separated from his
family.)

All three authorswrote after and in response
toAmerica's Idealistic Romantic period in which religion was praised, moral virtue
upheld, and nature extolled.  Their writing as Realists (or in Dickinson's case as one
of the founders of New American Poetry) focuses on the gritty reality and practicality
of life.

How, for example, does it relate to the players? To the spectacle as a whole? You may want to consider such devices as address, stage positions,...

Anouilh uses the chorus in much the wame way as Sophocles did - though with some twists.  As in the classical play, the Chorus comments on the action, gives some background information, and sets the tone of the tragedy.  Also, like the classical model, he rarely interacts with the other characters, but gives his observations in soliloquy.

Anouilh's Chorus remains generally neutral, whereas in Greek tragedy, the chorus would frequently take sides in the drama, give advice, and react negatively or positively to the action going on around them.  Anouilh's chorus does so only a very little.

 Significanly, the Chorus's two long speeches at the beginning include a commentary on the nature of tragedy, and he predicts the fates of the characters.  Such was not so in the classical.  This has the effect of emphasizing that this is an old tale retold, not something invented for propaganda purposes.  It also prepares the audience for the play that is to come; emhasizing that everyone's fate has been dicided, and yet strongly implying that "fate" is a direct result of character.

As the poor left the bakery with their dinners, the spirit sprinkled each dinner with what? From his?

As the poor people leave the bakery with their dinners, the Spirit of Christmas Present sprinkled each dinner with incense, or the Spirit of Christmas, from his torch. He does this for the poor because the poor are the ones who need the Spirit of Christmas the most. In addition, his torch was very unusual in other ways, as it had the power to also shed drops of water from it and restore good humor to those it touched immediately. For example, should travelers jostle each other and become angry, a few drops of water on them from the torch would restore them to good spirits. The Spirit of Christmas Present was essentially spreading the peace and joy of the holiday, although Scrooge did take issue with him and even argued with him a bit.

the comparison between USA and PRC

There are some similarities between United States of
America (USA) and Peoples Republic of China (PRC). But essentially these are two very
different kind of countries. The similarities between the two countries are in terms of
large geographical area and very high GDP. But there are many differences in political,
and cultural nature of the two countries.

While USA
represent the best of the capitalist form of economy and government with very high
levels of personal freedom, PRC represents the most successful case of communist form of
economy and government in which personal freedom is highly restricted. Also in spite of
very high GDP of PRC, it lags behind USA considerable because of its very high
population.

Culturally china represents one of the oldest
culture in the world. In comparison, USA is comparatively a very new nations with no old
cultural roots. Also people of USA come from a wide range of ethnic background. In
comparison, population of PRC represent more homogeneous ethnic
background.

Currently PRC economy is developing much faster
than that of USA. However the PRC economy is dominated by labour intensive economic
activities and is still very much dependent on exports to developed countries. In
comparison USA economy is dominated by technology and capital intensive activities and
domestic consumption.

According to the AS/AD Model and the wealth effect, as the price level falls, ceteris paribus, people will in effect be richer and will

I believe that the answer that you are looking for is that people will spend more money by buying more goods and services.  This will cause aggregate demand to increase.

The reason for this is that people will feel richer.  They will feel as if they can afford to buy more things.  Since consumer spending is a huge part of aggregate demand, an increase in consumer spending will lead to a great deal more aggregate demand.

Consumer confidence, which is affected to a large degree by such things as the wealth effect, is a major influence on the level of aggregate demand.  So a decline in the CPI, which will increase consumer confidence, will lead to more spending as well.

How does Jeanne describe the public attitudes toward the Japanese in California in Farewell To Manzanar?

The answer to this question can be found in Chapter
2.

I guess you could start with the people who felt like
they could make money of the Japanese who were having to move.  An example of this is
the guy who wanted to buy the china for only $15.  So some of the public's attitude was
just to get what they could from the Japanese.

But mostly
what Jeanne says is that white Californians started to become suspicious.  You can see
this where she is talking about her teacher.  She says that the tolerance that Americans
used to fear changed to "distrust and irrational fear."

So
I suppose the best answer is to say that she says that the public felt "distrust and
irrational fear" towards the Japanese Americans.

What is the nature of man and God in Madame Bovary?

Like everything else in Flaubert, there is complexity in this particular question.  Human beings are depicted in a variety of manners in the novel.  I do think that one particular present theme would be the idea that all human beings feel particularly challenged by the weight of their dreams.  Flabuert is not attempting to argue that dreams are useless and should not be envisioned, but rather that this disappointment and challenge is a part of human consciousness.  Emma is a great example of this as her dreams help to animate her spirit and sense of being.  Yet, she is constantly crushed underneath the weight of these dreams.  Charles is much the same way.  In the end, human beings are shown as individuals who strive for the garden and wind up in the desert.  In terms of God, I think that Flaubert is attempting to make a profound statement about the nature of religious worship in a time period where there is much in way of skeptical belief about the power of divinity.  Homais might be a good example here.  Flaubert displays as the only character who enjoys a "redemptive" ending.  This might appear to be good on the surface, but Homais, the pharmacist, comes to represent the horror of rationality, a form of existence that seeks to take away the mystery, wonderment, as well as the unique characteristics that allow us to be able to not take the form of the world around us, but rather transcend it.  Religious worship, spiritual identity, and faith in something larger than human consciousness allows us to do this.  Yet, with Homais' victory against the church and those who stand in the way of "rationality," Flaubert might be saying that a way out of the pain of our dreams and the terror of Homais would be to engage in a sense of religious drive and worship.  This might be the only way to transcend the pain of our own consciousness, and the way to allow our dreams to not condemn us, but rather liberate us.

Why is it ironic that they are rescued by the military in Lord of the Flies?

Ralph tells the boys in the beginning of the novel that his father is a Naval officer. The military is symbolic of adults, of society. When the boys are stranded on the island, due to their inherent evil nature (which Golding believes we all have in our hearts), they resort to the "beasts" that they are, in their hearts. All mankind, left to his own devices, resorts to evil, Golding seems to be implying. It is not society that it is evil, it is man. The only thing that keeps this evil in check is society, rules, or on a higher level, morality and God. Golding attempts to show this by having a group of innocent children, uncorrupted by society, turn evil when they are not under the constraints of society. The fact that the children can turn into beasts shows that evil is within us all.

Therefore, it is irony when a symbol of that very society shows up to rescue the boys. As soon as the Naval officer appears, the boys immediately become children again and start crying. Plus, the appearance of the officer with his ship in the distance proves that the war is still going on, another irony because the boys are removed from society's war, but they have been engaged in another war - a battle that takes place on a spiritual level.

What is ironic about Mildred saying "I understand that one" in Fahrenheit 451?

I guess you can say that this is ironic, although I think
you can also argue that it isn't.

If it's ironic, here's
how.  What she says this about is when there is the quote in the book saying "that
favorite subject, myself."  What is ironic about this is that, you can argue, Millie
does not even care about herself.  She is so unaware of herself that she doesn't even
realize that she almost killed herself.  All she wants to do is watch the parlour walls
and she has no self-awareness.

So it's ironic for her to
say that she understands being interested in herself.

Compare and contrast industrialism in Lowell and Cincinnati in the early 1800's.

Comparing Lowell to Cincinnati would be like comparing a Volkswagon to a Cadillac!  The only thing the two towns have in common is they are both located on a body of water and in Southern Ohio.  Lowell is located on the Muskingum River and Cincinnati is located on the Ohio River and near the Miami-Erie Canal, which connected the Ohio River to Lake Erie.  Though no longer in use today, the Miami-Erie Canal was an important shipping route until the advent of modern rail and automotive transportation.  Geographically speaking, too, the terrain of the locations of Lowell and Cincinnati are as different as night and day!

First of all, Lowell is a sleepy, little, rural town in Southeastern Ohio, with a population of about 1,000 people!  Mostly a farming commmunity on the Western edge of the Appalachian Mountains, it is in the heart of the coal mining district.  If you wanted to call that industrialism, I guess you could! 

In contrast, Cincinnati is the third largest city in Ohio, and located in Southwestern Ohio on the Bluegrass Section of the Interior Low Plateau.  Because it's linked to nearby Lake Erie by railroad, major industries like Proctor & Gamble (the soap makers), Kroger's, Macy's, and Chiquita Brands International are able to ship their products via the Great Lakes Seaway.  Cincinnati is mostly known for its arts and beautiful Italianate architecture, leading thousands of tourists to flock to the city every year to take in the enchanting sights and sounds. 

Industrialism comes in many shapes and forms, and to a marked degree, the whole state of Ohio is an industrialized state.  However, there are isolated areas within the state where life hasn't changed much over the last two hundred years.   Ohio is  definately a "must-see" state!

Note:  I looked up the following in several different encyclopedias and on Wikipedia.com:  Lowell, Cincinnati, Ohio, Miami-Erie Canal.

How can you relate Myrtle Wilson's and Jay Gatsby's deaths?

In The Great Gatsby, Myrtle and
Gatsby are both Alazons, impostors who move from rags to riches and
who live above their socio-economic classes.

Myrtle jumps
classes through infidelity.  Myrtles lives in the Valley of Ashes with George where she
is low class.  But, with Tom in their apartment in New York, she lives like the
upper-class Daisy.  She buys expensive dog collars and throws posh
parties.

Gatsby jumps classes through criminal activity:
bootlegging and gambling.  He comes from a modest background, but after he meets Dan
Cody, he reinvents himself and changes his name.  He partners with other gangsters to
make money during Prohibition.

Also, both are killed by
mistake.  Myrtle is run over by Daisy, but Myrtle thinks it is Tom's car come to rescue
her.  Gatsby is shot in his pool because George think he is Myrtle's lover and the one
who ran her over.

In the end, the American dream has no
room for opportunists and impostors.  Those who go from rags to riches end up in the
grave.

What is the importance of the flashback scenes in the play "Death of a Salesman"?

In Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, the flashbacks are crucial scenes that reinforce the play's emphasis on questionable nostalgia and Willy's own distorted vision of what constitutes the American Dream. Indeed, the flashback functions to show how Willy Loman has always valued a warped idea of the American Dream and brilliantly juxtaposes the harsh reality he exists in the present day of the play. The flashbacks tend to have a rosy tint to them; everything was better in the "good old days," and Willy has a nostalgic affection for these times. However, there are obviously dark points lying just beneath the surface of these flashbacks, and they eventually surface as the play continues.

One of the key figures in Willy's flashbacks is his brother Ben. Uncle Ben ventured into Africa, into the so-called "jungle," and became incredibly wealthy from diamond mining. Willy has always regretted not joining his brother in his adventure, and this illustrates Willy's idea of the American Dream. Willy's expectations are unrealistic; one cannot get by simply by being "well-liked" as Willy likes to think. Therefore, the flashbacks are essential scenes that give viewers an insight into Willy's flawed character. 

Are there any pros and cons with the two major consequentialist theories: egoism and utilitarianism?

I would say that the major pro of these two schools of thought is the fact that they focus on the results of actions rather than their intent.  You can argue that this brings more of a realistic focus to philosophy.  Instead of thinking about how your actions would be made into universal laws, you simply think "is this action going to help me (or help people in general).

I would say that the con here is that it is easy to use these theories to rationalize bad behavior.  If you misunderstand your self interest, or if you misunderstand what the common good is, you can easily justify to yourself actions that do not seem good at all.

HE IS DEFICIENT ....................... COMMON SENSE.FILL IN WITH SUITABLE PREPOSITIONS.

In American English, at least, the only preposition that would really go in this blank would be "in."  So we would say "He is deficient in common sense," which means that he does not have enough common sense.

I do not know if, in British English, you could say that someone is deficient at common sense or deficient of common sense, but neither of these would sound correct in American English.

I cannot think of any other prepositions that would even make sense in this sentence.  "In" is clearly the preposition I would use to fill in this blank.

What are 3 passages in act V, scene i, that suggest lady macbeth's mental state?

Lady Macbeth has been sleepwalking as a manifestation of her guilt. She acts out pieces of her crime in these episodes.

On one occasion, she rises, goes to the closet, and reads, writes,  and refolds a sheet of paper, before returning it to the closet and going to bed.

Another instance, she continually rubs her hands together and cries about how the "spots" will not leave her hands.

She also relives the night of Duncan's murder, speaking to her husband as if he were there.

Act 3 scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet: Explain how this scene is a feature of tragedy (how it shows juliet will die in the end)?please help its for my...

This scene from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet foreshadows the tragic events to come.  For instance, as they bid farewell, Juliet has a terrible premonition:

Oh, God!  I have an ill-divining soul

Methinks I see the, now thou art below,

As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.

Either my eyesight fails or thou look'st pale. (3.5.53-56)

The mood of this act is clearly one of tragic foreboding as Juliet's mother enters after Romeo has gone; she informs Juliet that she is going to send someone to poison Romeo in Mantua.  Then, she tells Juliet that she has "joyful tidings":  Juliet is to be married to Paris early next Thursday.  Of course, these tidings are anything but joyful to Juliet who replies in an emotionally charged retort:

He shall not make me there a joyful bride.

I wonder at this hast, that I must wed

Ere he that should be husband comes to woo.

I pray you tell my lord and father, madam,

I will not marry yet. (3.5.53-58)

Of course, this response angers her father who tells her she will marry or she will no longer be allowed to live with them--"Or never after look me in the face."(3.5.166)--as he will put her in the streets to beg.  In desperation after he leaves, Juliet tells the foolish Nurse who suggests she marry Paris when she knows that Juliet is already married that she is going to make her confession to Friar Laurence.

Before she leaves, Juliet feels the forces of fate as she curses the devil:  "Ancient damnation!"(3.5.245)  She talks to herself, considering suicide.

I'll to the Friar, to know his remedy.

If all else fail, myself have power to die (3.5.252-253)

A turbulent scene, Act III, Scene 5 clearly paves the way for the tragic events that follow it.

In Death of a Salesman, why do so many readers consider Biff to be the true protagonist, rather than Willy?

One reason why Biff could be considered the true
protagonist is because his character is more dynamic in terms of the current story line
than Willy. What we know about Willy Loman we only witness through the memories of Biff
and the delusional ramblings of Willy. Willy may have been dynamic in his past, but as
of the present, Willy does not change at all throughout the current
story.

Biff, however, does change eventually as a result of
the events that took place once he faced his father and tried to call it a truce for the
second time, without success. His character obtains an additional dimension that we
cannot apply to Willy.

I, however, still think that the
protagonist in this story is the salesman, Willy. It is his story and his own
pre-conceived notions of success and the American Dream what landed his fate, and that
of others, of course. But he was the one who came defeated amongst them
all.

Give 2 examples of dramatic irony in Oedipus Rex. Explain what the audience knows and the effect that knowledge has on the reader.

Going into any reading or viewing of Oedipus
Rex, the audience would know
that:

• Oedipus has already killed his
  father


• married his mother (committed
  incest)


• fathered four children who are also his siblings
  

Oedipus is a universally known myth, and all
of the background information (or antecedent action) is common knowledge.  I don't know
if those count or not, since they have taken place before the play
begins.

During the play, we (the audience) know more than
any of the characters on stage, except for Tiresias.  The play is driven by dramatic
irony, and here are the main ironies of part I
only:

• We know the cause of the plague in Thebes:
  incest and murder


• We know Oedipus' curse on the murderer
  of Laius will lead to his banishment


• We know that
  Oedipus' search for the murderer will lead to his knowledge of his own
  crimes


• We know that Creon is telling the truth, that he's
  not a traitor


• We know that Tiresias is telling the truth,
  that Oedipus is the murderer


• We know that Jocasta will
  know the truth sooner than Oedipus, and her suicide will finally confirm the
  truth


• We know that Oedipus will gouge his eyes, an ironic
  punishment for not knowing or seeing the
  truth

The effects lead to
katharsis (purgation of pity and fear) in the audience.  We pity
Oedipus for seeking to know the truth only to have that truth backfire on him and make
him suffer.  We fear that his plight might be our own: not that we will commit his two
crimes necessarily, but that we may never know the truths about ourselves and our
families, and even when we do, it leads only to pain and
suffering.

Why did critics think that the policies of the Federalists were a threat to the young nation?

The greatest fear of the revolutionaries in the years following the conflict was that the government of the United States would simply turn into an imitation of the British monarchy.  In the 1790s, several things happened under the Presidencies of George Washington and John Adams to further their suspicions.

While it's true that Washington was, for the most part, beloved by both Federalists and antifederalists, that doesn't mean they let him off the hook. In 1794, his Chief Justice, a Federalist named John Jay, was sent to England to negotiate an agreement about our borders with Canada, British troops still present in the Ohio country and freedom of the seas.  Just to be diplomatic, he kissed the Queen's ring when he arrived.  When news reached home, the antifederalists were frothing at the mouth, thinking it was treason to show such subservience to the country we had just won independence from.

An armed rebellion in that same year took place in western Pennsylvania, mostly by farmers who were angry over Hamilton's tax on whiskey.  After a few days of rioting, Washington's army of nearly 13,000 arrived to restore order, except most of the rebellion was over by this time, and it looked an awful lot like something the British would have done, sending in such a large force against their own countrymen.  Grumbling continued.

Then under John Adams in 1798, a federalist Congress passed, and the President signed, the Alien and Sedition Acts which, among other things, forbid open criticism of the government under threat of arrest, a clear violation of the 1st Amendment.  Now the government was trying not only to stifle dissent, but it was clearly aimed at antifederalists unhappy with Adams' government.  They felt the Revolution was slipping away.  Fortunately they were wrong.

In "The Raven," what does the narrator expect when he opens the door to his chamber?

The speaker expects to find a visitor there. He had been reading to take his mind off his sorrow at losing his love Lenore, and had fallen asleep. Initially, when he hears the noise, "as of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door" (Stanza 1), he is startled, but he calms himself by repeating the most logical explanation for the noise to himself. Surely, "'tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door (Stanza 3).

Solve for x, 4^x - 2^x = 56.

This is an exponential equation and we'll solve it using the substitution technique, but, for the beginning, we'll write 4^x = 2^2x.

2^2x - 2^x = 56

We'll substitute 2^x by t:

t^2 - t - 56 = 0

We'll apply the quadratic formula:

t1 = [1+sqrt(1+224)]/2

t1 = (1+15)/2

t1 = 8

t2 = (1-15)/2

t2 = -7

But 2^x = t

So, 2^x = t1

2^x = 8

2^x = 2^3

We'll use one to one property:

x = 3

2^x = t2

2^x = -7 is undefined because 2^x>0.

So, the equation has only one solution, which is x=3. 

What is the significance of the play's title?

Quite a bit has been written about this title, and I suppose there are several subtle and surprising things that can be gleaned from it.  There are a few clues, linguistically, that the title gives us, and certain pointers from history that can help.

Midsummer in England during Shakespeare's time (right now, in fact, around the summer soltice, is what they called "midsummer", and midsummer eve was a time of magic and enchantment in the pagan calendar and still believed in long into Christian times) was a time for feasting and enjoyment -- and for getting married!  Then, as now, June was favored for weddings (partially because it was after both the Lent and Easter seasons of the church, when weddings were not performed as often, and also after the month of May, the Virgin Mary's month, when not as many weddings were perfomed because the month was supposed to be dedicated to the honoring of Mary), and the festival atmosphere of midsummer in the late-medieval and Renaissance times was conducive to romance.  These connotations could lend themselves, quite easily, to comedy -- and especially a comedy surrounding romantic love and marriage.  Midsummer implies that this is a time --and a play-- of certain frivolity and gaiety, which this play certainly is. 

Also, it was believed that certain plants were magically healing, especially when picked on this night.  This ties in with the whole drug/love potion theme of the play.  There are also the enduring fertility myths surrounding this time, which of course relate to the subject matter of this play.

The "Dream" part of the title has certain easily discerned meanings.  The whole story of the fairies is the supernatural, and therefore related to dreams.  It could be argued that Bottom really only dreamed his whole night with Titania, the queen of the fairies, and that it could not possibly be real.  Also, the action of the drug on the people who it was given to made them see and feel things that were dream-like -- in only certain cases they were lasting (like Demetrius).  Also, the play the rude mechanicals perform can be likened to a dream (in that it is not real, but only a visual show, such as a dream is).

The fact that Shakespeare titles it "A" Midsummer Night's Dream implies, perhaps, the trifling nature of this comedy.  Compare "The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark", with its definite tone, to the relatively innocuous title of this play.  It is only "a" dream -- not one dream, an important dream, or even "the" dream.  It is a play of lightness, humor, and imagination, and the whole play can be, even with the Hippolyta and Theseus and Rude Mechanicals stories, thought of as one person's dream after a night of merry-making.

How does Gatsby's failure represent personal failure? What are Gatsby's gestures and social mistakes? How does the weather reflect Gatsby's...

Gatsby's life failure is that he can't get what he wants,
although he went to great lengths to get it and by many people's standards he is likely
thought of as successful. After all, he's filthy rich. He failed because you can't do
anything with your money if you are dead, and you certainly can't participate in the one
thing you worked so hard for, a relationship with
Daisy.

During the scene in chapter 5 before Daisy and
Gatsby got together, it was raining. Then, after their relationship seems repaired, the
sun is shining. In the end, on the day of the funeral, when all hope gone, it rains
again. Rain often represents failure, depression, or even evil. When Gatsby's dream was
achieved, the weather was good.

Gatsby wants Daisy to say
that she loves him, and that she never loved Tom, or if she did love him even for a
moment, he wants to know that she loved Gatsby more.

What are some similes in Romeo and Juliet?

Simile is used in Shakespeare's Romeo and
Juliet at the beginning of Act 1.4.

Romeo,
Mercutio, Benvolio (of the house of Montague) and others are in the process of entering
the house of Capulet to join a party.  The boys, who are "crashing" the party, are
joking about whether they should be announced or should just enter without
apology.

Benvolio says:

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We'll have no Cupid hoodwinked with a scarf [no
blind Cupid introducing them--the presenter at events like this would sometimes be
dressed as Cupid],

Bearing a Tartar's painted bow of lath
[a bow shorter than the traditional English long
bow],

Scaring the ladies like a
crowkeeper,...

Crowkeeper is
simply a scarecrow.  Thus, Benvolio says that the boys will not be introduced at the
party by a presenter dressed like Cupid, carrying a small bow, who will
scare the ladies like a scarecrow scares crows.  That is a
simile. 

The presenter scaring the ladies is compared by
the use of the word, like, to a scarecrow scaring crows. 

In Act 4, explain the paradox of the apparitions.

The paradox of the apparitions occurs in how Macbeth views what they show him and how the audience views their predictions. Macbeth needs to quell his fears that doom is upon him, so he takes the visions at face value. To the audience, the apparitions are symbols that foreshadow how the prophecies will be fulfilled. The armored head suggests war or rebellion, while the bloody child obscurely refers to Macduff's cesarean birth. Macbeth takes the comment at face value, and therein lies the irony. The crowned child is Malcolm and refers to the tree branches his soldiers will carry from Birnam Wood. The procession of kings reveals the future line of kings, all descended from Banquo.

Macbeth believes only what he feels will benefit him. He can no longer make rational judgments, and Hecate knows this. The contradictory nature of the apparitions will go right over Macbeth's head, and he will take from the apparitions only what he wants.

one of the themes of the book is silencing. What forces contribute to silencing? What help break silence? What is the role of listening in...

The silence in the book is caused by the racism that Chinese- Americans had to deal with. The men in Kingston's family were also given, like almost all Chinese Americans at the time, the most difficult labor. In Hawaii, they were forced to do the back-breaking labor in sugar cane fields, and on the mainland, they had to do the most dangerous jobs building the railroad.

Acceptance by society certainly helps to break the silence, but it's also important for society to do more than just accept you. Society must also recognize that you are a valuable asset to society, both recognizing and celebrating your differences. True cultural understanding can only occur when each person respects the beliefs and customs of groups from other countries and cultures. We must listen to others if we are to ever understand them.

Why is the Socs always written with a capital letter in the book and the greasers with a small one?

That's a great question.

As
you know, capital letters are used for proper nouns -- the names of things -- while
lower case letters are used for common nouns.

To me, what
is going on here is that the word "Soc" is always used in this book to mean a member of
that particular gang.  So that means it's a proper noun just like it would be proper to
call someone from the Republican Party a Republican.

By
contrast, the word "greaser" is being used to describe a general type of person.  The
author uses it to mean someone who dresses and wears their hair a certain way -- not
necessarily a member of the gang.

I think that it is also
possible that the author is doing this to make a point.  She may be doing it to give the
idea that the Socs are important and that the greasers are not.

What metaphors and similies are in The Witch of Blackbird Pond?

Clearly, any good work of fiction is going to use many metaphors and similes as examples of figurative language and aids to their descriptions. Metaphors and similes help create pictures in the reader's mind of what the author is trying to describe by comparing something with an object or a thing that we would not normally think of. By forcing us to see the points of comparison, the metaphors and similes give us a very strong mental image of what is being described.

In Chapter 1, therefore, an excellent simile is used to describe Kit's thoughts at standing on the soil of the land she is voyaging to for the first time:

Her spirits bobbed like the whitecaps in the harbour as the boat pulled away from the black hull of the Dolphin.

Note how this conveys Kit's excitement to be finally close to her end destination and also her sense of expectation.

A metaphor is used later on in the same chapter to describe Kit's anger at the way she is being ignored when Prudence drops her doll into the sea:

When a thin whimper from the child was silenced by a vicious cuff, her anger boiled over.

Of course, anger literally can't "boil over" - her anger is being compared to a pot on a stove that is boiling over to express her sense of outrage.

These are just two examples from the first chapter. Go and have a look for more examples of similes and metaphors in the other chapters. Good luck!

What is the moral of this story?

To me, the moral of this story is that people need to fight to keep their humanity.  If they do not care about intellectual and emotional life, it will be taken away from them.

In this story, Guy Montag and people like him have very unhappy lives.  They do not have serious thoughts and they do not have emotional relationships.  Why is this?  It is because people have stopped caring about stuff like that.  People have chosen mindless entertainment over things that will make them think.  They have chosen to watch the parlor walls and things like that instead of hanging out with friends and family in the real world.

So Bradbury is warning us -- if you don't think, you will lose the option of thinking.  If you just watch TV and stuff instead of interacting with people, no one will care about each other.  He is telling us that we need to think and to care about other people or we will end up in a dystopian world like Montag's.

How to write A LETTER TO MY ENGLISH teacher that I don't deserve this LOW score and you I WANT to see MY EXAM paper?

So you are trying to write a letter in which you ask your teacher if you may look at your exam paper?  You have not actually seen the exam paper and how the teacher marked it?  If so, here is how I would write the letter:

Dear ________:

I was very disappointed to see my score on our English exam.  I had hoped that I would do better than that.

I would like very much to understand what I did wrong on this exam so that I can do better in the future.  To help me with this, would it be possible for me to see my exam paper and your comments on it?  I believe that this would help me learn from whatever mistakes I made.

Thank you very much...

I don't think that you need to talk about whether you deserved the low score yet if you have not seen the paper.  I think you should write a letter like this that emphasizes wanting to learn.  Your teacher will like that.  If you still disagree with the score after you see the comments, then you can go from there.

Was Albert Einstein born great, achieve greatness or had greatness thrust upon him?Does Albert Einstein fit in all 3 or only 2 or only 1? Please...

Like all new born babies, Albert Einstein was also born as
a small helpless infant, weighing, may be, around 4 kilos or less, unable to read,
writer, or even talk. But like most of the new born babies he had a great potential.
Perhaps, his body and mind had some physical characteristic that gave him some better
aptitude for the profession of a mathematician and a scientist that he took up later.
But all of these definitely did not qualify him to be considered to be great from birth.
I am not sure if he was even different enough from average new born babies to be called
exceptional.

Whatever, capabilities and achievements,
qualify Einstein to be considered great were acquired as he grew up. Thus, I would say
Einstein achieved greatness by his efforts, in which perhaps he was assisted by others
like parents and other family members, teachers, friends, and professional associates.
Thus I would say that He achieved greatness.

The case of
greatness being thrust upon a person happens when a person is placed in a situation
where he or she is forced to act in ways which are not typical of his or her normal
behavior, and such actions lead to great achievements. In life of Einstein no such
events have occurred. Therefor, we cannot say that greatness was thrust upon
him.

What is the resolution to the story the "Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe?

The resolution of the story comes when the narrator convinces himself that the old man's heartbeat is audible to everyone and will eventually point him out as his murder, so in a fit of guilt, the murderer breaks down and confesses everything to the police.  He even leads them to where he has hidden the body parts.

Discuss the characterization of Della in "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry.

In the book "The Gift of the Magi" Della is a young woman who is very much in love with her husband.  She is proud of her hair and vane about it because she finds it to be her best feature.  Yet, she is very unselfish.  She is of meager income and prides herself at being able to save money from her weekly grocery money.  She is thrifty. 

She is a simple woman of simple beauty probably not from a wealthy family in her early 20's.  She is a sweet and endearing wife who is supportive of her husband and as of yet , blind to any flaws he may have.