Not all employees seek self actualization as their ultimate goal. Do you agree? support your answerself actualization as their ultimate gole

I agree completely with this statement.  I also agree with
the first answer -- I agree that many people will work only for the money and that there
is nothing wrong with that.

I want to add only that there
are many jobs in our society that must be done but that are unlikely to bring self
acutalization to the people who do them.  I have had at least three that I can think
of.

First, I prepared food at McDonalds.  Second, I shelved
books in libraries.  Third, I worked in a factory in which honey was extracted from the
frames where the bees deposited it.  None of these jobs involved anything that could be
self actualizing for very many people.

This means that
there have to be people who work only for money.  Otherwise our economies would
die.

What ar the activity and significance of these early figures (Moses,Judges,Kings,and Prophets)?early figures in the history of the Jewish people

Moses is the most important figure in the first five books
of the Hebrew Bible, often known as the Five Books of Moses.  He led the Hebrews out of
slavery in Egypt.  He received the Torah from God at Mount Sinai.  He led the people
through their forty years of wandering in the desert prior to entering the Promised
Land.

After the Hebrews entered Canaan (the Promised Land)
under the leadership of Joshua, Moses's disciple, in approximately 1200 B.C.E., the
Hebrews formed a loose confederation.  That is, there was no central government, but at
times of crisis, leaders arose to defend the people from enemies.  These leaders were
called Shoftim, which translates roughly as Judges.  Some of the
better-known Judges were Deborah, Gideon, Jepthah, Samson, and Samuel.  The Israelites
were ruled by the Judges for app. 1,000 years.

In app.
1,000 B.C.E., the Israelite tribes were united under the rulership of their first King,
Saul.  For app. the next 400 years, the Israelites were ruled by a succession of kings. 
They include: David, Solomon, Jehoshaphat, Ahaz, Hezekia,
Ahab.

Although there were prophets even in the days of the
Judges, the prophetic books of the Hebrew Bible deal mostly with those prophets who
lived during the reigns of the Kings.  One of the main jobs of a prophet was to guide
the King in righteous behavior, and to rebuke him when he strayed.  The prophets also
guided and rebuked the people at-large and warned them that improper behavior could lead
to national destruction.  Some of the prophets are: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Nathan, Obadiah,
Elijah, Jonah.

How does Peter get the bread which Elli forgets to bring upstairs?

Peter goes down to the main office and "crouches in front of the door to make himself as small as possible and crawls towards the steel lockers...so as not to be seen from outside, gets the bread".  After this he wants to disappear back into the annex, but Mouschi the cat has escaped and Peter cannot lure him back in.  After trying and failing to retrieve the cat, Peter gives up and returns to the annex with the bread but without the cat.

(Diary entry Friday, 20 August, 1943)

In Shakespeare's Hamlet, what does Hamlet mean by saying "O my prophetic soul!" in Act 1, Scene 5?

Hamlet is actually describing what is a common experience. We have all had moments of insight in which we realized that something we only felt or sensed was a glaring and sometimes menacing reality. We pick up clues intuitively, but it often takes time, or some new development, for the truth to break through into our consciousness. Here is how Henry James describes this truly very common experience in his excellent short novel Washington Square:

A sudden fear had come over her [Catherine Sloper]; it was like the solid conjunction of a dozen disembodied doubts, and her imagination, at a single bound, had traversed an enormous distance.

Hamlet had been sensing that there was something more to his father's death, his uncle's coronation, and the marriage of his uncle and his mother than had been thoroughly explained. There may have been many clues he picked up intuitively but hadn't pieced together into a picture until the Ghost gave him the one missing piece of the puzzle. For example, his uncle and mother were showing unusual concern about what he was thinking and feeling. Claudius was acting much differently than his uncle had acted in the past, and the new king was doing an unusual amount of drinking. The story about a serpent killing Hamlet's father was fishy enough in itself. Such a thing might happen in India or Borneo, but how often do poisonous snakes kill people in a cold climate like Denmark's? In fact, are there any poisonous snakes in Denmark at all? 

Hamlet is sincerely overwhelmed with grief at the death of his father. He is also disgusted with his mother. He has plenty of things to occupy his mind without focusing on his feelings, or suspicions, or vague intuitions, about Claudius. Hamlet might have picked up clues long before his father's death that would make him sense that his uncle might be sexually attracted to Gertrude and might have sinister ambitions. Our unconscious minds will often give us warnings in our dreams. It might be said that we all have "prophetic souls," but most of us often fail to heed them. This, in fact, was true of Hamlet. He was all wrapped up in his studies of languages, ancient history, and philosophy at Wittenberg and didn't pay attention to practical matters at home. Otherwise, he might have become king instead of his wicked and cunning uncle.

What does it mean to study English lit. in India ? Do you learn any skill at all in this course of study?How different it be to study lit. written...

Studying literature in the English language in India as
opposed to other languages is a significant concept, because India was colonized for
three centuries by the British. Inevitably, both cultures were affected by the other,
but one can argue that because the British were physically present in India, more
significant and far reaching changes took their root in Indian culture, changing it
intrinsically.

English is a colonial legacy, and
postcolonial Indian people now use it extensively. In the same way that other
postcolonial cultures (ie African) have used the colonizer's language to empower
themselves and celebrate their dual heritage identities, Indian people too can
understand the colonial history and how it affected their present cultural identity by
understanding English Literature.

Of course, it would be
limiting to say that only postcolonialism defines the Indian student's relationship with
English Literature. In an increasingly globalized world, all kinds of literatures are
more and more accessible, and a student who is exposed to so many fields of study may
very well be attracted to the multilayered and interesting centuries of English
Literature.

To understand what I mean by dual heritage, and
the conflicts as well as convergence that can characterize a postcolonial identity, you
can read the poem "Piano and Drums" by Gabriel Okara.

I need help with a background/lead for my thesis on "nature of man."Book: The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain Thesis: It is man's nature to...

Central to the theme of Mark Twain's social satire,
The Prince and the Pauper, is the boys' struggles--what the boys do
with their chances.  In the streets of London, Tom has dreamt of having royal power and
he is given his chance when the Prince of Wales offers to trade places with him so he
can have the chance to meet his subjects.

The famous
director, Elie Kazan, once stated that no one truly becomes anyone of worth without a
struggle, for it is in the struggle that one's character is formed.  Perhaps, then, the
writing of this paper could be directed at how the psychological, physical/social, and
spiritual struggles develop the two characters, who, of course, later prove to not be so
dissimilar as appearances first make them.

Let your thesis
contain three points that express an opinion about Twain's work.  Each topic sentence
will be formed from one of the three points in the thesis.  (In general, a topic
sentence expresses an opinion by the writer, as well as his/her attitude about this
general statement.)  See the site below on paragraph writing.

Horatio is represented as being a scholar. How does Shakespeare reveal this characteristic in Hamlet?

Hamlet is an allegorical hero.  He interacts with other
characters who reflect his possible options in taking
revenge:

1. Laertes reflects the limitations of
   instant revenge


2. Fortinbras reflects the limitations of
   political revenge


3. Ophelia reflects the limitations of
   madness


4. Horatio reflects the limitations of
   talk

From the very first scenes of the play,
Horatio establishes himself as a talker.  When he first hears of the Ghost, he
says:

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Of that I shall have also
cause to
speak,
And
from his mouth whose
voice will draw on
more;

• Horatio
  doubts the supernatural:

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Tush,
tush, (quiet, quiet) 'twill not
appear.

And

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Well,
sit we
down,
And let us hear
Bernardo speak of
this.

• Marcellus
  says this about Horatio:

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Thou art a
scholar;
speak to it,
Horatio.

And

Question
it,
Horatio.

• Horatio
  tells the Ghost:

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by heaven I charge thee,
speak!

And

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stay!
speak, speak! I
charge thee,
speak!

And

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If thou hast any
sound, or use of
voice,
Speak
to me:
If there be any good thing to be
done,
That may to thee do ease and grace to
me,
Speak to
me:

Later,
after Marcellus says, "We do it wrong, being so majestical,
To offer it the show of violence;" Horatio knows that dialogue and
not violence is the only way to deal with the
world.

When Hamlet sees the Ghost, he follows it.
 Horatio warns against this.  Thus, Horatio is a passive scholar and a doubter.  He is a
man of books, a college student who only believes what he sees, and he can only engage
is discourse, not action.  He is no soldier (like the Ghost), no general (like
Fortinbras), and no passionate reactionary (like Laertes.  In this way, he only offers
Hamlet his advice in words.

Hamlet, thus, makes the mistake
throughout the play of engaging others in dialogue (Polonius, his mother).  Other times,
he doesn't engage in dialogue at all (silent interview with Ophelia).  Certainly, words
contribute to much of Hamlet's delay.

How would you describe the role of women in Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums," Hurston's "Sweat" and Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"?

In all three of the stories you ask about – “The Yellow
Wallpaper,” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman; “The Chrysanthemums,” by John Steinbeck; and
“Sweat,” by Zora Neale Hurston” – women are presented mainly as dissatisfied
victims.

• In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the woman is
  rather economically privileged, but it is partly this privilege that leads to her sense
  of social and mental isolation.  She is undergoing a “rest cure” that involves no real
  work and no real mental stimulation, but this supposed “cure” helps lead to an
  increasing mental breakdown.  Ironically, if the woman in this story were outside,
  working, interacting with other people, and feeling productive in some way, she might
  feel more mentally healthy.  Her husband (who is, ironically, a doctor) exercises great
  control over her life, and she has very little contact with others, especially other
  women.  Her husband seems to mean well, but he has no idea how the “treatment” he
  endorses is contributing to his wife’s mental collapse. At the end of the story, the
  woman has literally been driven crazy by her role as an oppressed female.
  


• In “Chrysanthemums,” Elisa Allen does do physical work
  outside (unlike the woman in “The Yellow Wallpaper”) and also seems less isolated from
  her husband. They are not a wealthy couple (unlike the couple in “The Yellow Wallpaper”)
  but might instead be considered members of the lower middle class. Even in this story,
  however, Elisa feels somewhat isolated and unappreciated; she is not especially content
  with her drab, routine existence. Thus, when a travelling male “fixer” stops at her
  farm, she is intrigued by this representative from the outside world and they engage in
  extended conversation. A talented gardener, she eventually gives him some
  chrysanthemums, which he seems to admire.  Only later does she discover that the flowers
  have been tossed onto the road, although the tinker has kept the pot. At the end of the
  story, Elisa, accompanied by a husband who loves her but cannot appreciate her needs,
  weeps in loneliness.


• In “Sweat,” a poor black woman named
  Delia Jones, who works harder than either of the other two women, is married to a
  genuinely abusive husband named Sykes. Unlike the men in the previously mentioned
  stories, he is deliberately and almost sadistically unkind; he makes no pretense of even
  caring for his wife but instead treats her like a slave. Of the three wives in the three
  stories, Delia is by far the most obviously oppressed, as she herself implies in the
  following passage:

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"Looka heah, Sykes, you done gone too fur. Ah
been married to you fur fifteen years, and Ah been takin' in washin' for fifteen years.
Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and
sweat!"

Similarly, of the
three husbands presented, Sykes is by far the least attractive and most purposefully
malicious. The husband in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is well-meaning but ignorant; the
husband in “The Chrysanthemums” is well-meaning but a bit obtuse; but the husband in
“Sweat” is a genuine (if somewhat cartoonish) villain for whom the reader finally feels
little if any sympathy.

• The three stories, then,
  present oppressed women whose oppression varies greatly according to their invididual
  circumstances.  The stories offer many opportunities for detailed comparisons and
  contrasts.

In chapters 36 to 48 of Great Expectations, what is the first thing that Pip does with his yearly allowance?

Well, within these chapters the first thing that Pip does with his yearly allowance (since he has turned 21 and now handles his money affairs himself) is to set up a job and partnership for Herbert. Pip goes to Walworth to meet with Wemmick and arranges through Wemmick that Herbert will become the partner of a young merchant in exchange for Pip's giving the merchant 250 pounds and regular payments. It will remain a secret that Pip is the one financing the arrangement.

In A Tale of Two Cities, Book II Why does Sydney Carton love Lucie?Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities

       I think it would be a good idea to refer to René
Girard's theory of "mimetic desire". It is assuredly of some relevance here because of
the strange relationship that exists between Sydney Carton and Charles
Darnay.

       As a matter-of-fact, René Girard's
interpretation of desire in The Violence and the Sacred rests upon
the idea that desire does not really lie either in the subject or in the object but that
it imitates another desire. Indeed, the subject models himself after another subject, so
that the sense of  rivalry turns the desire into an obstacle to be overcome and
eventually sought for.

      Consequently, in the case of
Carton, the frustration is due to his unconscious desire to be other which reveals the
desire to be and beyond the lack of
being.

      Thus, it is his passionate desire
and love for Lucie that turns the antagonistic (which largely results from their social
positions and the clash of interests it implies) into the agonistic (the exhilaration in
spite of or because of the pain, because of the suffering). His love becomes something
unparalled, unprecedented, unheard of.

      I think This
is probably why he loves Lucy. 

What are some main points in T.S. Eliot's essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent"?

T.S Eliot's essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent" is
very metaphysical in its concepts; definitions of his main points are only understood
within the context of the quantum metaphysical realm. Some of the main points in T.S.
Eliot's essay are tradition, isolation, knowledge, and catylyst. By "tradition" Eilot
means that all past poets comprise a simultaneous existence and order into which the new
poet or artist is immersed or joined: tradition are those long historical lines of poets
who stretch back through Spenser, Chaucer, Petrarch, Boccacio and all of them to Homer.
This suggests that no poet ever writes in true isolation--the true meaning of an
artist's work--is valued according to the whole tradition. Eliot suggested that at any
given moment the tradition, the historical whole of past poetic or artisitic work, is
complete, is an organized whole. When a new poem or other work of art is created it is
subsumed by all that have gone before--the organized whole past tradition--and in being
subsumed alters the nature of the whole: Each added piece of a created work of art or
poetry alters and enriches the tradition, which is always an organized
whole.

Eliot contends that knowledge--upon which
inspiration and creation depend and from which the creative work attains excellence--is
the collective wisdom and experience of all past poets, and the attainment of knowledge
by the new poet is the submersion of self and ego into the collective tradition. Eliot
uses this to state that the mind of the poet or other artist is a catalyst for the
creative process, not the controller of the creative process. A catalyst is the
initiating event that causes a thing--in this case creative art or poetry--to happen.
The mind is a catalyst that stores up impressions until they ripen into an inspiration
for the production of art or poetry. The poet or artist doesn't express personal self or
personal traits, instead the poet or artist expresses a collective experience or emotion
that is based on all the tradition that has existed before and is descriptive of the
human emotion and experience that is present at the moment of the poem's or art work's
creation.

To what extent is the theme of loneliness presented in Come Back, Little Sheba?

Lola's husband, whom she annoyingly calls "Doc," is lonely too. He fell in love with her when she was young and pretty. But after they were married he came to realize that she was unintelligent and incapable of understanding him or sharing any of his intellectual or cultural interests. He had planned to become a medical doctor, but they were forced to get married because she became pregnant and he was the kind of man who would do the right thing. Instead he has become a chiropractor and does not feel like a real doctor, so every time she calls him "Doc" it is like a tiny stab, a reminder of his lost hopes. He has had a very serious drinking problem because he was obviously drinking to drown his regrets and perhaps especially to forget his fury at his dumb, well-meaning, fading wife, who trapped him into marriage and then couldn't even provide the baby or any future babies. Evidently he has vented his repressed anger at her in the past when he was drunk, and she lives in fear that he will fall off the wagon again and attack her with verbal abuse and threatened physical abuse again. They are two lonely people being lonely together. This is common in a lot of marriages, although it may be more or less concealed in most. 

In Leo Tolstoy’s famous story “The Kreutzer Sonata,” the narrator says:

“We were like two convicts fastened to one chain, hating each other, each poisoning the life of the other and striving not to recognize the fact. I did not then realize that ninety-nine per cent of the married people live in the same hell as mine, and that it must be so. Nor did I then realize that it was so of others or true of myself."

Little Sheba was a toy dog that went missing. It either represents Lola's lost youth or her lost baby--or both.

In Poe's poem "The Raven", what does the speaker think when the raven first say 'Nevermore"?

The speaker first tries to rationalize the raven's answer.  The word "nevermore" seemed to answer the question the narrator had just asked, which is "what is your name"?  The way the narrator explains this coincidence is to assume that the raven is repeating what a previous owner said.  Here are the lines from the poem:

`Doubtless,' said I, `what it utters is its only stock and store,
Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster
Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore

The narrator also assumes that the raven will fly away the next morning.  He is wrong in both assumptions.

In what directions are the rooms laid out in "Masque of The Red Death"?

The rooms are laid out from East to West and they are done so as a metaphor for life. Many people use the sunrise and the sunset as a metaphor for life. The sun rises in the East the world lights up and so life begins. The sun shines brighter until midday and then the light begins to wan just like life. Finally the sun sets in the west and the world goes dark, just as when we die. The rooms in the abbey are also set up as such and the colors represent each stage of life that we pass through.

1. State all the non permissible values of the following rational equations: a. (x-3)(x+4)/(x-3)(x+2)=1/x b. 2x-5/x^2+x+5 PLEASE HELP!!!!

a

(x-3)(x+4)/[(x-3)(x+2)}=
1/x. To find non permissible values of x.

x-3 both in
numerator and denominator gets cancelled. So we can write the
expression:

(x+4)/(x+2) = 1/x. Since the zero in
denominator implies division by zero which is not permissible, x+2 = 0 or x=-2 is not
permissible. Also there is x in denominator . So x= 0 is not
permissible.

b

Actually
2x-5/x^2+x+5 and  2x-(5/x^2)+x+5 are same.In such a case, x^2 = 0 or x = 0 is not
permissible.

If you mea (2x-5)/(x^2+x+5). Then if the
denominator x^2+x+5 = 0, then the roots of the equation (if they are real ) are not
permissible.

But since the discriminant , (square of
coefficient - 4times product od coefficient of x^2 and constant term) = 1^2-4*1*5 = =-19
is negative, there are no real roots and so the expression x^2+x+5 is non zero. So there
are no non permissible real values for the given rational
expression.

Where are some indification that Hamlet delays his actions of revenge due to his thinking?Helppp I need quotations and expansions please.

Just to give you a look at one specific speech that
demonstrates Hamlet's thinking and suggests the possibility that his thinking
contributes to his delay, I'll briefly add to the exceptional answer
above.

In Hamlet's famous "To be or not to be" speech (Act
3.1.56-87), he ponders the state of existence.  To be is to exist. 
Hamlet wonders if existence, with its "slings and arrows of outrageous fortune," is
worth the trouble. 

He thinks about the perils of existence
compared to the possible perils of the afterlife.  He concludes that if one did not have
to be afraid of what might come after death, one would be smarter to not exist at all. 
But, since the afterlife is an "undiscovered country" from which "No traveller returns,"
it is better to bear the "ills" we know, than to take a chance on those we
don't.

The details of his speech present Hamlet's capacity
for thinking, but for your purposes you need not even go into the details.  What matters
in answering your question is that Hamlet is thinking about the general issue of
existence here, rather than thinking about the specific issue of his
revenge.

If you want to make the argument that Hamlet's
thinking gets in the way of his revenge, this speech is a possible piece of evidence. 
Hamlet can't just seek revenge, one could argue, he must first consider every angle. 
One could say that Hamlet should be planning revenge, here, not contemplating
existence.  You may or may not be correct if making this argument, but if this is your
assignment this speech may help.

In Chapter 3, why do you think Ponyboy and Cherry told each other things they never told anyone else before?please, i need help !!! :(

Of course, we cannot know for sure why Pony and Cherry
tell each other these things.  But my feeling is it is because they are not really part
of the same social circle.  They can tell each other "secrets" and assume that the other
person will never tell anyone who matters.

Cherry, for
example, will also not have to worry about hanging out with Pony and having Pony know
her secrets.  It's like a one time thing -- they're meeting, talking, but not having to
deal with how things will be in a long term relationship.  Pony won't have to worry
about what Cherry thinks of him now that she knows this stuff -- they'll essentially
never interact again.

In the short story "The Cask of Amontillado," about how many days would it take for Fortunato to die?

Poe leaves it somewhat unclear whether the stone wall would cut off Fortunato's air supply entirely. If so, Fortunato would die in a few minutes, as the answer by clane says. But Montresor wanted a terrible revenge. He would not have wanted his victim to die in a few minutes but to die a long, lingering death. Therefore it seems to me that--even though Poe does not say so--there must have been enough air to keep Fortunato alive. Montresor refers to the dampness and dripping water many many times throughout the story. For example:

“Pass your hand,” I said, “over the wall; you cannot help feeling the nitre. Indeed, it is very damp. Once more let me implore you to return. No? Then I must positively leave you. But I must first render you all the little attentions in my power.”

The wall to which Montresor refers is the one to which his victim is chained. This seems intended to show that Fortunato could get some water but would have to do so by licking it drop by drop off the granite wall. Montresor also refers to the nitre many times. The chemical formula for nitre is KNO3. Without knowing much about chemistry, this seems to me to indicate that the catacombs are full of nitre which contain three parts oxygen. So the place, which as Montresor says is under the river, seems to be full of oxygen and water.

“The nitre!” I said; “see, it increases. It hangs like moss upon the vaults. We are below the river's bed. The drops of moisture trickle among the bones. Come, we will go back ere it is too late. Your cough—”

Poe seems to be taking pains to assure the reader that Fortunato will have enough water and enough foul air. This suggests that Fortunato will starve to death. As clane says in her answer, this means he could stay alive, albeit in total misery, for about three weeks. That would suit Montresor just fine.

How can be described and evaluated the Geneva Convention rules of war?I want to know how well they are implied and if they really work?

The Geneva Conventions set the standards for humanitarian
treatment of people in time of war. They consist of treaties and protocols (or
amendments). The most recent one was ratified in 1949, after World War
II.

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Protected persons are entitled, in all
circumstances, to respect for their persons, their honour, their family rights, their
religious convictions and practices, and their manners and customs. They shall at all
times be humanely treated, and shall be protected especially against all acts of
violence or threats thereof and against insults and public curiosity. Women shall be
especially protected against any attack on their honour, in particular against rape,
enforced prostitution, or any form of indecent assault. Without prejudice to the
provisions relating to their state of health, age and sex, all protected persons shall
be treated with the same consideration by the Party to the conflict in whose power they
are, without any adverse distinction based, in particular, on race, religion or
political opinion. However, the Parties to the conflict may take such measures of
control and security in regard to protected persons as may be necessary as a result of
the war.

This
treaty was signed by 194 countries.

The Geneva Conventions
apply to countries who have agreed its terms. However, there are issues with regard to
your second question as to whether the conventinos work or not. When the Geneva
Conventions apply, countries must give up part of their national sovereignty to comply
with international law. These laws may not be in accordance with their own country's
consitution, values or other laws. Many critics argue that the Conventions offer many
rights to individuals but not to governments and governments are therefore hesitant to
accept the Convention's responsibilities.

Also, there are
all sorts of ways "around" the provisions of the Conventions. For example, currently the
United States is involved in "armed conflicts" in the Middle East. But, are they really
wars? What is the definition of "war"? In the U.S. Constitution, war has to be declared
by the Congress, and all of the U.S. conflicts have not offcially been wars. Plus, what
about countries that are not part of the Geneva Conventions? Just because the U.S. may
respect its provisions, does not mean that other countries will. Also, has the United
States complied with the provisions of the Geneva Convention at Abu Ghraib? It's
debatable. Were the terrorists imprisoned there "victims of war" or "enemy combatants"?
If they were "enemy combatants" then the U.S. has a right to protect itself, but if they
were "victims of war" then the Geneva Conventions were supposed to
apply.

What is a major theme in To Kill a Mockingbird? How is it developed through different characters?

A major theme in this novel is prejudice, and not just racial prejudice.  This is a small town in the 1930s south, and despite the fact that there are some liberal folks there who believe people should be treated equally (Atticus and Miss Maudie, for example), there are still an awful lot of people who think blacks have their place and should just stay in it.  During the trial of Tom Robinson, it is shown that even though progress has been made (think of how hard Atticus worked to defend Tom), they still have a long way to go when there is overwhelming evidence to acquit Tom of the rape charges against Mayella Ewell - and yet the jury still finds him guilty.

I said above that the book isn't just about racial prejudice.  It's also about intolerance of any kind.  Boo Radley is someone who Scout and Jem learn to respect and treat the way they would want to be treated, even though he and his family is vastly different from their own.

Check the link below for more information about the themes of this great book.  Good luck!

Characterize Dee from "Everyday Use." Using the Longman anthology, is she flat, round, static?

Dee, at least in the story proper, is a static character:
she doesn't change.  Her goals are to take the Johnson family artifacts (quilt, butter
churn) as museum pieces for which to brag about her rural Afro past.  Her mother does
not grant her either the heirlooms or even a voice.  She is passed over and silenced,
much like a stepsister in Cinderella.

As such, I think Dee
is a flat character as well.  First of all, this is a short story, and Dee only appears
in half of it.  Because her mother does not grant her wishes in the end, she does not
develop enough, even though her name has been changed.  Name alone does not a round
character make.

Dee is also an archetypal
Alazon, an impostor, one who thinks she is better and more
deserving than she really is.  She is driven by whim, fancy, and passion instead of
substance, courage, and humility.

What are the themes in Lysistrata?

One of the themes in Lysistrata is obedience. The women are no longer willing to be subservient to the men. This shocks the men when the women are vocal about their discontent, and willing to fight about it if necessary. They are giving up the usual, traditional roles of wife and mother to fight.

Another theme is that of sex. The women are using sex as a weapon to fight the men. They band together and withhold sex in an attempt to weaken the men and have them give in. It is one of the few true weapons that these women have in their arsenal.

I have to do a presentation about word parts- suffixes and prefixes- academic one- help!

There are a few things you could note about prefixes,
roots and suffixes to make a stellar power point for your
assignment.

First of all I would do a search on this
website's documents just in case a teacher has already put something together that you
might be able to gather ideas from, of course ultimately creating your own. Likewise, in
the documents section, you might note that teachers have made handouts on word parts.
They might be of value.

A few of the things I point out
when teaching word parts include
these:

• prefixes and suffixes both change
  meaning


• only suffixes change part of
  speech


• prefixes and suffixes are usually English language
  derived; roots are often from Latin/Greek

If
you are doing a presentation that requires some action, you might consider a slide with
a list of prefixes, roots and suffixes (without meanings). Have your audience make up
crazy words.

On the next slide, provide definitions of the
word parts and create meaning of the crazy words they
made.

Good Luck!

How does a doctor verify if someone has strep throat and be certain that they have prescribed the correct antibiotic:

There are several signs which leads to the conclusion of
having strep throat, so, if occure the followings: swollen  and red tonsils and the
lymph nodes on the neck's sides, throat which is presenting red or white
patches,difficult swallowing, headaches and
stomachaches,fever,sick,nausea.

To establish the correct
diagnosis, not just one based on evidences, the doctor can test if it's strep throat, by
taking a sample of fluids, which collects them from the back of the throat and in about
5 minutes can find the result. If the result is a good one, despite obvious signs of
strep throat, the doctor could send the sample to the lab for a throat culture, which
will establish, in about 2 days, the proper diagnosis.

How does the setting function as more than mere backdrop in "A Good Man is Hard to Find"? How does the setting affect the story and the...

The setting of the murders is significant as well. Here the family goes off the main highway, down a dirt road which is "hilly and there were sudden washes in it and sharp curves on dangerous embankments.  All at once they would be on a hill . . .then the next minute,they would be in a red depression with the dust-coated trees looking down on them." They are looking for a house that the grandmother remembers, but after the accident she remembers it was in fact in a different state altogether. They are, in short, lost. The "dirt road" signifies the primitiveness of the surroundings; they are away from civilization where rules would otherwise apply. Here, with no rules, they meet the Misfit, a man who does not play by any rules. The "red depression with the dust-coated trees looking down on them" seems to suggest their smallness in the universe, in that nature cuts them down to size so that they can no longer think of themselves as people with control over their destiny. The grandmother dies in a ditch, with "her face smiling up at the cloudless sky," an ironic portrayal of her gruesome death, for in death she becomes innocent and childlike, and the "cloudless sky" suggests this.

Would Hamlet have been a good King? What qualities does he possess that a just and wise ruler would need?

Hamlet is a good person, but he would not necessarily have been a good king. He is a thinker, not a ruler. He spends too much time considering questions of morality, and not enough time acting.

This would make him the type of person I wish would rule, but, also (unfortunately) not the type of person destined to hold power. The qualities that Hamlet does possess that would have made him a good king: loyalty (he is both fiercely loyal to his father and actively angry at what he sees as his mother's disloyalty); morality (he has a clear sense of right and wrong); wit (although some might argue that intelligence is not necessarily a quality essential in a ruler...); sufficient powers of observation to know where his friends are and are not (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, for example); the ability not to act impulsively but to plan revenge carefully (the play); and, in an Elizabethan world, moral superiority... quite simply he is the person in the play closest to God, the one who is most likely to have had the divine decree to rule, for he is just and wise. I would also argue that his apparent failure to act decisively might also be a point in his favour, for his actions are not rash, but are delivered after much deliberation and after sufficient planning as to appear justified.

Describe the dream which Robinson had during his illness.

I believe that you are talking about the dream that
Robinson Crusoe has in Chapter IX.  This is a dream that really begins his religious
conversion.

In this dream, Crusoe sees a man descending
from the heavens to the Earth.  The man comes towards Crusoe, holding a weapon in his
hand.  He tells Crusoe that he is going to kill him because all of these things that
have happened to Crusoe have not been enough to make him repent and turn to
God.

The dream inspires Crusoe to pray -- he says it is his
first real prayer ever.

How does the juxtaposition of the description of the Salinas valley and the bunkhouse contribute to Of Mice and Men & support themes/message?

In Chapter 1 Of Mice and Men, the
Salinas River Valley is a Garden of Eden, pristine, green, idyllic for sleeping under
the stars.  It is a place of freedom and natural wonder.  There, the American Dream
seems possible.  George and Lennie are lords of
creation.

However, it also a place for animals.  Lennie
threatens to run off and live in a cave like a bear.  He laps the water up with his huge
paws.  And, in the end, he will be put down on its river bank like a horse.  In short,
the river valley is the secret world only George and Lennie know about, but ultimately
unlivable, like the American dream.  It is a fantasy, a place only to camp, a future
scene of Lennie's mercy killing.

The bunkhouse, however, is
a place where men compete over things: women, jobs, bragging rights.  When Candy shows
George and Lennie around, they find the place crawling with bugs (lice).  It's infested,
unnatural.  It will also be a place of violence, where Lenny crushes Curley's hand and
where Carlson takes Candy's dog to be
shot.

Notice: only one location, the
bunkhouse, is meant for human dwelling, and its accommodations are awful.
 The animals in the barn live better.  The rest of the locations in the novel are more
or less for animals (barn, river valley).  So, both the river valley and the bunkhouse
support the theme of animalistic violence and the impossibility of the American
dream.

What does the word juxtaposed mean in relation to Romeo and Juliet?

In literature, juxtaposition refers to placing passages of text close to one another in order to imply a connection or a contrast might be found between the two parts. I'm not sure what your teacher is after here, but there are several instances in the play when the juxtaposition of one scene with another leaves the reader with something to wonder about. For instance, Romeo's rant about how he'll never love another girl but Rosaline is juxtaposed with the scene where Paris is asking for Juliet's hand in marriage. Both scenes involve thwarted love: Romeo is stopped from getting near Rosaline because she will not be bought or sweet-talked; Paris is stopped from getting to marry Juliet because her father insists that she is too young and inexperienced. Viewers might wonder how the two scenes relate because it is not obvious the first time through, but the placement of scene 1 beside scene 2 suggests that there is some connection to be made.

In a different vein, Shakespeare also juxtaposes the marriage scene with the murders of Mercutio and Tybalt. The juxtaposition of these two scenes heightens the emotional intensity of the fight and viewers feel the conflicted emotions much more acutely than we would if the marriage and fight scenes were farther apart. Similarily, within the final scene, juxtaposing Juliet's awakening with Romeo's suicide not only increases the emotional intensity of the scene but also heightens the tragedy.

What lesson or lessons does the story teach?

Everyone can take different things from the story, but one
possible lesson is the idea of being content or happy about one's situation in life, in
this case particularly about the age.  The old men become young and then compete for the
beauty of the (now) young woman in the group.  They are absolutely horrified when they
grow old again and plan to seek the water for themselves because they cannot be happy
with their current dilapidated state.

It was easy for the
doctor to watch them and learn the lesson, but much more difficult for the subjects that
actually felt the change and felt the vigor of youth and then desperately longed to
continue the experience.

Calculate tg a if a belongs to interval (pi, 3pi/2) and sin a = -4/5?

If a belongs to the third qudrant, that means that the values of the tangent function are positive.

The tangent function is a ratio:

tg a = sin a / cos a

We have the value of sin a but we don't know the value of cos a.

We can calculate the value of cos a, using the fundamental formula of trigonometry:

(sina)^2 + (cosa)^2 = 1

Because a is in the third quadrant, cos a<0.

cos a = -sqrt[1 - (sina)^2]

cos a = -sqrt(1 - 16/25)

cos a = -sqrt [(25-16)/25]

cos a = -sqrt (9/25)

cos a = - (3/5)

tg a = sin a / cos a

tg a = (-4/5) / (-3/5)

tg a = 4/3

In "The Speckled Band" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: 1. What is the speckled band? 2. What role does it play in the story? 3. In what way is...

1. The speckled band pertains to the stripes, or bands, on the extremely poisonous snake from India, a swamp adder. Its owner, Sir Grimesby Roylott, killed his wife with this snake which he sent through the ventilator. Before this discovery, however, Holmes and Watson believe the eccentric Roylott may have some odd musicians around since he harbors on his property exotic animals such as a cheetah and a baboon.

2. The snake is essentially "the murder weapon."

3. Sherlock Holmes has nothing to do with the murder of Roylott's wife or of Helen's sister Julia; for these murders, Dr. Roylott is responsible. But, when he tries to kill his daughter Helen so that the wife's money will not go to anyone but him, Holmes becomes involved as Helen has hired him after her twin sister is killed.

At first Sherlock Holmes is on "an entirely wrong scent" because of the idea of "the presence of the gipsies." But when he discovers that a bell-rope that hangs down to a bed that is bolted to the floor is a "dummy," Holmes becomes suspicious and thinks of a snake since Roylott has been furnished with creatures from India. Further, a snake could deliver a poison so rapidly that the victim would instantly  be killed. And, the two little punctures which the snake would make would be barely visible. This snake could be put through the ventilator. 

All of these conditions Holmes realizes as he stands in the dark room when Helen is supposed to be sleeping. Hearing the snake hiss, Holmes instantly lights the light and attacks it, "with the result of driving it through the ventilator."  After Roylott dies, Holmes comments,

"In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to weigh very heavily upon my conscience."

Please elaborate on Federalism vs Confederalism.

Federalism is a concept applicable to a county or a
nation, while confederalism refers to the practice of cooperation and collaboration
between countries.

Federal system refers to a system of
government in a country in which the power of government are divided between a central
government and several regional government. The United States of America, and India, for
example, are countries run by federal system of
government.

The opposite of federal system may be called a
unitary system of government in which all power is vested in a central government.
Regional government machinery derives all its powers by delegation from the central
government.

In a true federal system powers in some matters
are reserved for the regional or state governments, while power in other matters the
central government has power over the people of all the country. The respective powers
of the state and the central governments are decided by the constitution of the country,
and neither the central nor state governments have the authority to unilaterally change
such division of powers.

As opposed to this feature of
federalism, a confederation can only act through its individual member states. The
confederation has no authority to directly control of action of people in different
member countries. It can do so only through government of individual member states or
countries.

x^2 -4x

First of all, let's solve the expression like an equation. For this reason, we'll put:

x^2 -4x = 0

We'll factorize and we'll get:

x(x-4) = 0

We'll put each factor equal to zero.

x = 0

x-4 = 0

x = 4

Now, we'll follow the rule: between the solution of the equation, the expression will have the opposite sign of the coefficient of x^2, that means that x(x-4)<0, outside the solutions, the expression will be positive.

So, the conclusion is that the expression is negative for values of x which are in the interval (0,4).

What is the significance of the names in Billy Collins’ poem “The Names”?

In “The Names,” our speaker is reflecting on all the people who were victims of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York.  Collins speaks to the everlasting impact of this event by suggesting that these names are inscribed into every facet of life and nature – all that endures:  “Names printed on the ceiling of the night…Twenty-six willows on the banks of a stream.”  And indeed he gives a name for every letter of the alphabet, A through Z, with “X stand[ing], if it can, for the ones unfound.”  This is a further symbol of the ubiquity of the effects and the thoroughness of the tragedy; they stretch from the very beginning to the very end, they touch every element across the entire spectrum of humanity.  Nothing and no one was left untouched, unaffected, by the unwitting sacrifice of the victims.

And as “A boy on a lake lifts his oars./A woman by a window puts a match to a candle” – as life goes on – these names will be remembered in memoriam,

One name spanning a bridge, another undergoing a tunnel.
A blue name needled into the skin.
Names of sisters, brothers, mothers, and fathers,
The bright-eyed daughter, the quick son.
Alphabet of names in a green field.

Thanks to these names, to their lives, to their lives lost, those living on will be reminded – will learn from the tragedy, will feel sorrow and strive for peace – the peace of “a green field.”  The names are symbols, unforgettable, sobering, and inspiring.

Explain why Volpone is a comedy of humours.

The comedy of humours is comedy based on the exaggeration of the greek explantaion for health -the body was balance by the four humours black bile, yellow bile/cholor, blood and phlegm. If any of these were out of balance, the body and the personality were influenced.

Volpone is lustful - sin of meloncholia (too much black bile)

and decietful - sin of sanguine (too much blood)

Mosca is covetous - sin of choloric (too much cholor/yellow bile) reference 1

the characters also draw from beast characters, and the italian commedia del arte (italian commedia del art reference

T.F. Heck, 1988, Commedia dell’arte: a guide to the primary and secondary literature, IUniverse, New York, p155)

Ben Jonson does move away from the strict comedy of humours after 1603, but they still remain a basis for his characters - refence . O. Brockett and F. Hildy, 2008, History of the Theatre, 10th edition, Allyn & Bacon, Boston , p110

What was Scout's real name and why did they call her Scout?

Scout's real name is Jean Louise Finch. There is no place
in the novel where Harper Lee describes why her nickname is Scout, but as the reader
comes to know her, it becomes obvious that it is a fitting nickname for
her.

Scout is a curious tomboy, and since scout's in real
life need to be both tough and curious in order to do their jobs, this nickname makes
sense for her. 

Nicknames are common in the book and many
characters, especially related to the children, have
nicknames.

Scout's brother, Jem, is really named Jeremy
Atticus Finch.

Boo Radley's real name is Arthur. Boo seems
fitting for him as well, since he is basically the town's boogeyman and tales of him
scare small children.

Dill's real name is Charles Baker
Harris, but he smells like pickles, so he is called Dill
instead.

Interestingly, in To Set A
Watchman, the book told from Scout's adult perspective about her adult life,
she no longer goes by Scout, but still refers to Dill and Jem by their childhood
nicknames.

Prove that the equation of the tangent line to the graph of function f=e^(x^2)/x, in the point x=1, is y=x*e.

First, let's write the equation of the tangent line to the graph, to see what elements we have and what we have to find out.

y - f(1) = f'(1)*(x-1)

It's obvious that we have to calculate f(1), f'(x) and f'(1).

Let's begin with f(1).

We'll substitute x by 1, in the expression of the fucntion f(x).

f(1)=e^1/1

f(1)=e

Now, we'll calculate the first derivative of the function, using the product rule:

f'(x) = {[e^(x^2)]'*x - e^(x^2)*x'}/x^2

f'(x) = [2x*e^(x^2)*x - e^(x^2)]/x^2

We'll factorize and we'll get:

f'(x) = [e^(x^2)(2x^2 - 1)]/x^2

Now, we'll calculate f'(1).

f'(1) = [e^(1^2)(2 - 1)]/1^2

f'(1) = e

Now, we'll substitute the values for f(1) and f'(1), into equation of the tangent line, to verify if it's expression is the same with the one given into enunciation.

y - f(1) = f'(1)*(x-1)

y - e = e*(x-1)

We'll open the brackets and we'll get:

y - e =e*x - e

We'll reduce the similar terms:

y=e*x   q.e.d.

What unique ability do DNA molecules have and why is it important?

DNA, the double-stranded molecule, has the unique ability
to replicate itself. That is, DNA can make exact copies of itself. This is important,
for instance, for the function of biological reproduction and cell growth. The
replication function occurs when the hydrogen bond that exists between nucleotide bases
is broken, which results in the two DNA strands existing as separate single strands of
DNA.

The cell then makes available two new complementary
bases (the original nucleotide base having broken hydrogen bonds) that are paired with
the two single DNA strands. The result is the formation of two new double-stranded DNA
molecules built from the original but separated strands plus new
bases.

Could these examples work? Essay on To Kill a Mockingbird. Help, please?Prompt: Throughout Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout is on a...

I might throw this out there:

You have great specific examples that should be used within your body paragraphs, but support a broader idea.  I usually encourage students to come up with 3 broad topics (topic sentences) that can be supported by two specific pieces of text - quotes or paraphrases.

Your thesis sets you up perfectly with "gains a new understanding on issues..."  Instead of using the three specific examples listed as your three topic sentences, come up with broader topics that define three different "issues."

Examples: from your specific examples you could say one issue she gains a mature perspective on is "racism" (this would nicely tie in your second example).  Another is "class distinction" or something with socio-economics (which works with your third example).  The first example you have is the most broad... sounds like you'd go into some detail with Boo Radley on that one... so maybe the issue is understanding people who are different in some other way besides race and money.

I love what you have here - I'd encourage you to come up with 2 textual examples within each topic to fully support your ideas.  Also - when it comes to the final order of your paper - put your best body paragraph last and your worst 2nd to last.

Identify three incidents that reveal Pip as a truthful storyteller. Then, identify an incident in which Pip seems to withhold information.Why do...

CANDID AND HONEST MOMENTS

 1. In Chapter 44,during Provis's stay with him, Pip learns that Estella has gone to Satis House.  Pip departs and arrives to find Estella in the room where the dressing table stands.  Pip replies to Miss Havisham's inquiry of "what wind...blows you here Pip?" with his intention to address Estella, an address that will not displease her. "I am as unhappy as you can ever have meant me to be." 

Pip reveals to Estella all that he has felt for her, concluding,

"... You are part of my existence, part of myself.  You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy who poor heart you wounded even then, Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil....Oh, God bless you, God forgive you.!"

2. In Chapter 58 as Pip ventures back to the forge to ask Biddy to marry him, ironically he finds her on her wedding day.  So, instead of proposing, Pip gives them his "humble thanks" for all that they have done for him, and all that he has "so ill repaid."  He tells them that he is going abroad and he thanks them for the money that have sent to keep him from debtors' prison.  In a most poignant passage, Pip reveals his deepest feelings,

"But I must say more.  Dear Joe, I hope you will have children to love, and that some little fellow will sit in this chimney corner of a winter night who may remind you of another little fellow gone out of it forever.  Don't tell him, Joe, that I was thankless; don't tell him, Biddy, that I was ungenerous and unjust; only tell him that I honred you both, because you were both so good and true, and that, as your child, I said it would be natural to him to grow up a much better man than I did."

MOMENT OF WITHHOLDING THE TRUTH

 One incident in which Pip is less than honest and withholds information, but for honorable reasons is in Chapter 37 as Pip's plans to arrange for Herbert to be a clerk at Clarriker' House, a branch bank, so that he can get out of debt and marry Clara.  With the help of Wemmick, who talks to the brother of Miss Skiffins, his fiancee:

The upshot was that we found a worthy young merchant, not long established in business, who wanted intelligent help...and who in due course of time would wnat a parner.  Between him and me secret articles were signed of which Herbert was the subject...

 After Herbert is given the position, he talks with pleasure about his success.  Pip feels that he has done some good through this deception since he has helped his friend.

Explain Julius Caesar's pride in the narrative?William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

In the first act of Julius Caesar, Caesar triumphantly enters Rome after having defeated Pompey.  The crowds cheer him as he approaches, but a soothsayer steps forward and adjures him to "Beward the ides of March."  Caesar dismisses him as a "dreamer," and continues to walk down the streets receiving the adulation of the crowd.  When Marc Antony offers him a crown, Caesar makes a great show of refusing it thrice, in order to display his great humility; however, Cassius and others perceive it as a demonstration of Caesar's arrogance.

In Act II, before he is set to go to the Senate, Caesar is warned by Calpurnia to stay home as she fears he will be murdered, and Caesar responds with his bravado:

The gods do this in shame of cowardice:

Caesar should be a beast without a heart

If he should stay at home today for fear. 

No. Caesar shall not:  Danger knows full well

That Caesar is more dangerous than he.

We are two lions littered in one day,

And I the elder and more terrible,

And Caesar shall go forth. (2.2.41-48)

Ironically, since he has professed disdain for superstitions, Caesar acquiesces to Calpurnia's wishes and agrees to her superstitious fear.  He tells her that Marc Antony will say that Calpurnia is not well.  However, Decius, one of the conspirators, appears and reinterprets Calpurnia's dream to favor Caesar's going to the Senate.  He also appeals to Caesar's pride, saying that the Senators might think he is afraid if he does not attend:

...Besides, it were a mock

Apt to be rendered, for someone to say

"Break up the Senate till another time,

When Caesar's wife shall meet with better dreams."

If Caesar hide himself, shall they not whisper

:Lo, Caesar is afraid"? (2.2.98-103) 

Clearly, Caesar's allowing himself to be induced to attend the Senate by Decius lends verity to the old adage of "Pride goeth before fall."

In The Kite Runner, why do you think Amir ran away from Hassan after the tournament? Was he hiding from the bullies or from himself and Hassan?I...

There is no doubt that Amir runs away in fear. A boy his age is immediately going to be afraid that if he interferes, the other boys will rape him as well. Part of it is also his jealousy over Baba's feelings for Hassan. Amir wants to become closer to his father and resents it when Baba takes notice of Hassan. I think this adds to the guilt Amir feels and why he's willing to plant "stolen" money and objects in Hassan's bed. True, he wants to be rid of Hassan because he's a reminder of Amir doing nothing to help Hassan, but I think this also proves that Amir is willing to sacrifice Hassan and their friendship for whatever Amir wants.

Why does Hamlet hesitate over whether or not he should kill the king, his uncle Claudius?

Several things probably keep Hamlet from "doing the deed."

1.  What Hamlet says is he doesn't want Claudius, the murderer of his father, to have more preparation for death than Claudius allowed King Hamlet.  The Ghost reveals to Hamlet that he died with his sins unconfessed; Hamlet is reluctant to kill Claudius as he is confessing. That would not be the purest form of revenge. The irony is, of course, that Claudius is not actually confessing his sins, so it might have been a perfect time for action.

2.  Hamlet also says he would rather "catch" him doing something else when he chooses to take his revenge.  He knows Claudius is a man of the flesh, and if he catches him in some frivolous or lustful pursuit Claudius will most certainly meet his demise in a sinful condition.

There are several other, more human nature kinds of considerations which may have prompted Hamlet to hold back his hand of revenge when presented with the opportunity.

3.  Hamlet is reluctant throughout the play and has demonstrated his ability to be--at least to some degree--a man of no action.  He is all hyped up for revenge, yet he has to check and re-check and ask a friend (Horatio) to bolster his certainty that the words of the Ghost were not a lie.

4.  Hamlet is not God, and taking a life is a mortal sin according to his religion.  Eternal personal damnation would, I think, give one pause.

5.  Hamlet is as certain as one can be by the time he sees Claudius alone with this opportunity in front of him, yet he has to be wondering how he would live with himself if he killed his uncle and then found out he was wrong.

6.  Revenge is always sweeter, they say, when the person who has done the wrong knows he's being repaid for his crime.  That might have happened in this particular scenario, though it's not likely unless Hamlet told on himself.  The more public end to Claudius, though unplanned, is much more gratifying, for then all knew of his perfidy and crime.

Hamlet could but does not exact his revenge at this moment in the play; this choice determines nearly everyone else's fate, including his own.

What are Cassius' feelings toward Caesar? What does he want of Brutus?

In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar,
Cassius is jealous and envious of Caesar.  He sees Caesar as just an ordinary man, like
himself.  He tells the story of a time when he rescued Caesar from drowning, which
demonstrates, in his own mind, anyway, that he is even Caesar's superior.  Yet, Caesar,
not Cassius, is praised by the Roman crowd and offered a crown by Antony.  Cassius, of
course, is also ambitious himself, and is interested in personal
gain.

Brutus is Caesar's loyal supporter and a preeminent
man of power in Rome.  He has both power and influence.  He is politically of higher
rank than Cassius.  Cassius needs his approval in order to go ahead with something as
grand as the assassination of Caesar.  Cassius needs Brutus's
support. 

Ironically, while Cassius needs support from
Brutus to go ahead with his plan, he'd have been much better off leading the conspiracy
himself, once the assassination was over.  Cassius makes sound decisions, while Brutus
causes the civil war and the eventual destruction of the conspirators. 
  

What is the main conflict in the book Treasure Island?

The primary conflict in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island is a simple one: Who will get to the buried treasure first? We never fully understand why Billy Bones never attempts to return for the loot himself, but it could have been because he was wary of being followed by his former mates. After Jim Hawkins and his mom find the map, Squire Trelawney agrees to finance the voyage and cut Jim in on the treasure. After the squire's loose lips spread the word around Bristol about the voyage for treasure, Long John Silver becomes the main adversary for the squire's men. Silver and the majority of the crew mutiny and, after several battles with the loyal crew, they head for the treasure. Unbeknownst to them all, Ben Gunn has been marooned there, and he has already found the treasure. Eventually, Ben teams up with Squire Trelawney's men; Silver's men turn on him; the squire's group returns to the ship with Gunn and the treasure--and Silver; and the remaining pirates are left behind. Gunn receives a small share; Silver steals a small amount before disappearing; and Trelawney, Dr. Livesey, and Jim return to England--rich men all.

Please argue why Romeo and Juliet's love might be considered impure or not true.

The fact whether Romeo and Juliet's love was pure or not is often debated. Some people, for example, believe in love-at-first-sight; others do not.

An argument that their love was not pure might be that they didn't know each other long enough to know if it was a long-suffering love, or if it was pure infatuation.

Romeo, in Act I, scene v, certainly demonstrated he was taken with Juliet because of her looks. The friar confirms this possibility in Romeo when in Act II, scene iii he tells Romeo that men care more about women's appearances than their intellects. Juliet even confesses that a commitment between the two of them seems too rash, too sudden, and too ill-advised. Juliet seems to be acting against her better judgment with Romeo because she even worries that he will think she is too easy (Act II, scene ii).

These are several reasons why they may only be acting on infatuation instead of love.

In The Great Gatsby, why do Nick’s feelings towards Jordan change?

A good example of how Nick comes to see Jordan is revealed in an early chapter when he is driving with her in her car.  She is reckless and a very bad driver.  When he tells her that she should be careful, she responds by saying why should she be careful; there are other drivers on the road—they can be careful.

After all the events of the novel, especially the death of Myrtle when Daisy leaves Gatsby to take the blame, Nick comes to a realization that their kind (Jordan, Daisy, Tom, etc.) are careless people.  They are careless drivers (there are a number of car accidents) and careless with people's lives and feelings.  Nick eventually realizes that he cannot be with someone like that and he comes to dislike Jordan like the rest of the them. 

What does the pig's head (Lord of the Flies) reveal about evil and Jack?William Golding's Lord of the Flies

The pig's head surrounded by flies represents Beelezebub, whose name in Canaanite is "Lord of the Flies."  He is one of the fallen angels, who destroys by means of tyrants, arouses desires, brings about jealousies and murders, and instigates wars.  In Golding's allegory he is the manifestation of the evil that lies inherently in the boys.  This is an evil that Jack has embraced fully.

When Simon goes to his secret place in the forest, he encounters the Lord of the Flies, whose

half-shut eyes were dim with the infinite cynicism of adult life.  They assured Simon that everything was a bad business.

He talks to Simon and ridicules him by saying,

Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill?,,,You knew, didn't you?  I'm part of you?  Close, close, close!  I'm the reason why it's no go?  Why things are what they are?

The laughter shivered again.

The intuitive Simon perceives the evil, the savagery, that Jack has masked, but truly allows to rule him as he leads the others in anarchy, stealing the fire, and hunting Piggy and Ralph, and eventually killing Piggy.  As he loses consciousness, Simon hears the Lord of the Flies tell him that they are going to "have fun on this island!"  The evil inherent in man has gained control.

What metaphors are found in the poem Old Ironsides, by Oliver Wendell Holmes?

Old Ironsides, a poetic meditation on a shattered, sunken warship, by 19th century American poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, is replete with metaphors. In order they include:

1. ...many an eye has danced to see/That banner in the sky.                                                                Here the poet likens the movement of the eye watching the ship's fluttering flag ("banner in the sky") to a dance.


2. The meteor of the ocean air/Shall sweep the clouds no more.                                                           Holmes compares the ship's flag - the "tattered ensign" - to a brilliant meteor rushing across the night sky.


3. The harpies of the shore shall pluck/The eagle of the sea! 
   In the second stanza of the poem, Holmes piles one metaphor on top of the other. He images the waves crashing onshore as harpies, the crazed and monstrous bird-like beasts of Greek mythology. And these "harpies" destroy the ship, likened, in another avian metaphor, to the noble eagle.


4. In the same stanza, Holmes personifies Old Ironsides as herself vanquished and vanquisher respectively with the metaphors of feel the victor's tread,/Or know the conquered knee.


5. Her thunders shook the mighty deep,...
   And give her to the god of storms,
   The lightning and the gale!                                     In the final stanza, the poet compares the sound of the ship's cannon to thunder; he continues the storm metaphor in the concluding lines of the poem, where he likens the destruction of the ship to an oblation offered to the god of storms.                                                                          

What is the significance of the “Golden Country” and why is it important to Winston?

In Chapter Three of 1984, George Orwell’s depiction of a then-futuristic dystopian totalitarian society where the government, Big Brother, monitors your every action, the Golden Country is a presented as Winston’s dream-like fantasy world, where he can stand among nature’s beauty and appreciate the nonchalance of the naked dark-haired girl’s gesture as she flings her clothes away.  Orwell describes this dream world as follows:

“The landscape that he was looking at recurred so often in his dreams that he was never fully certain whether or not he had seen it in the real world. In his waking thoughts he called it the Golden Country. It was an old, rabbit-bitten pasture, with a foot-track wandering across it and a molehill here and there. In the ragged hedge on the opposite side of the field the boughs of the elm trees were swaying very faintly in the breeze, their leaves just stirring in dense masses like women’s hair. Somewhere near at hand, though out of sight, there was a clear, slow-moving stream where dace were swimming in the pools under the willow trees.”

Later, in Part II, Chapter Two, Winston and Julia are seeking refuge in the vast open spaces of the outdoors, away from the otherwise omniscient presence of Big Brother and the Thought Police. 

“‘Isn’t there a stream somewhere near here?’ he whispered.

‘That’s right, there is a stream. It’s at the edge of the next field, actually. There are fish in it, great big ones. You can watch them lying in the pools under the willow trees, waving their tails.’

‘It’s the Golden Country—almost,’ he murmured.

‘The Golden Country?’

‘It’s nothing, really. A landscape I’ve seen sometimes in a dream.’”

The Golden Country is Winston’s ideal of how the world should look, although he remains tightly linked to the government and its strictures regarding speech and thought.  Late in the novel, Winston having been taken under Big Brother’s direct control, and being subjected to interrogation, resigns himself to his fate, which he anticipates will be a bullet to the back of his head.  He takes comfort in knowing how it will all end, and there’s a certain comfort and serenity about knowing his fate, at least in his dream:

“One day—but ‘one day’ was not the right expression; just as probably it was in the middle of the night: once—he fell into a strange, blissful reverie. He was walking down the corridor, waiting for the bullet. He knew that it was coming in another moment. Everything was settled, smoothed out, reconciled. There were no more doubts, no more arguments, no more pain, no more fear. His body was healthy and strong.”

Winston is back at the Golden Country.  He is dreaming again of an existence he has never, and will never know, and, startled awake, he is terrified, calling out for Julia.  His abysmal existence will continue, but at least now he will be resigned to it, which can be comforting.

In Chapter 25 of To Kill a Mockingbird, what does Bob Ewell mean by Tom's death being "one down...two more to go."

We learn early on that Bob Ewell is not a very nice man. He is vindictive and wants to make those pay for things that have happened to him. He blames Atticus for all of his problems, and he knows the only way to make Atticus pay is to go after Jem and Scout.

Now that Tom is dead, Bob knows that the only two left to deal with are Jem and Scout. He knows that by hurting and even killing them, this is the only way to really make Atticus pay. Bob feels like Atticus is the one for all of his problems. He sees that the only way to get Atticus out of the way is to take away what matters most to him, which is his children. He attacks Jem and Scout after the Halloween pageant and nearly kills them. Boo saves Jem and Scout that night and Atticus thanks Boo for his children. Atticus knows exactly what kind of man Bob is. 

When Bob says "One down... two to go" he is talking about getting rid of Jem and Scout. He has already taken care of Tom and feels that getting rid of Jem and Scout will teach Atticus his final lesson. 

Is Juliet a complex character? What different side of personality do you see in her in Act 5?

Act 5 reveals a Juliet that the reader has witnessed in
previous parts of the play Romeo and Juliet. Juliet's character
changes from an obedient, young, and immature child to a mature, self-righteous,
developed young woman.

Although Juliet is not dreaming of
marriage at the beginning of the play, in Act I, Scene 3, after Lady Capulet advises
Juliet to consider Paris as a possible husband, Juliet obeys her mother's
suggestion.

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I'll look to like, if looking liking
move;

But no more deep will  I endart mine
eye

Than your consent gives strength to make it
fly.

However,
after Juliet encounters Romeo at the Capulet masquerade, her character begins to
transform. In Act II, Scene 2, Juliet contemplates the idea of being with Romeo, who is
a Montague. Juliet fights for what she believes despite all the odds which are against
her and her true love. In Act III, Scene 5, after her mother announces that Juliet will
marry Paris on Thursday, she quickly dismisses the idea by stating that she will not
marry on Thursday.

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I pray you tell my lord and father,
madam,

I will not marry yet; and when I do, I
swear

It shall be Romeo,whom you know I
hate,

Rather than Paris. These are news
indeed!

 She has evolved into
a courageous and brave lover. Juliet is persistent in her love for Romeo. Act V is
simply an extension of Juliet's maturity. For instance, when Juliet sees Romeo's
lifeless body on the floor of the Capulet tomb, she refuses to leave with Friar
Laurence. Inevitably, in order to be with Romeo, Juliet kills herself by stabbing
herself with a dagger.

What is Scout's assessment of Jem's changed behavior after he won't let her kill the roly-poly?help my on the question please.

The answer to this can be found in Chapter
25.

The brief answer to this is that Scout says that Jem is
becoming more like a girl. Jem has said this about Scout at times in the book, but now
she is saying it about him.

I assume that what is going on
with Jem is that he is feeling bad about what has happened to Tom Robinson.  He feels
that Tom got killed even though he never hurt anyone.  That is why Jem tells Scout to
leave the bug alone.  He tells her the bug never bothered her and so she shouldn't kill
it.

How does Lee use Miss Maudie's conversation with Jem and Scout the morning after the fire to illustrate the theme of racism?Chapter 8

Miss Maudie is outside in the cold when the children go and talk to her. When Jem finds that she has been out in the cold all morning trying to get her garden cleaned up, he takes her cold and dirty appearance in, and suggests that she hire "a colored man" to do the job for her. Jem does not consider that the colored man would be just as miserable out in the cold, nor does he suggests merely hiring "someone" to do it. It is indicative of racism that Jem would suggest that such an undesirable task be relegated to a man of race.

The 17th and 18th century slave trade had the greatest impact on which part of africa? A. the Sinai B.West africa C.Sub-Saharan Africa D.South...

If you just think about the geography of the world, you
will be able to think of this answer for yourself.

First,
which area of the world was importing slaves?  As you know, most of the slaves were
being taken from Africa to the Americas (mostly the Caribbean and
Brazil).

Given that, which part of Africa would be most
likely to be affected?  Of course it will be the part of Africa that is nearest to the
Americas.

Because of this, the correct answer here is B --
West Africa was most impacted by the slave trade.

In the novel "The Great Gatsby" what scenarios indicated the corruption of the police force and the government?

The main scene that shows this sort of corruption is the one in which Gatsby gets pulled over for speeding by a motorcycle police officer.  This happens in Chapter 4 as Gatsby and Nick are driving in toward New York City.

The police officer pulls Gatsby over.  But then Gatsby shows the officer something from his wallet -- a white card.  After that, the police officer starts to act all deferential and respectful.  He apologizes to Gatsby for pulling him over.  This is because the commissioner of police owes Gatsby because Gatsby has done him a favor.  This shows that the high officials and the police can be bought.

In "The Masque of the Red Death" describe the black room.

The last, most fantastic room is black with red trim on
its window. These colors suggest the fusion of human blood and the darkness of death.
The black room contains the large ebony clock, which is imposing in appearance and
confounding in its hourly tolling. The guests are disconcerted, pale, confused, and
tremulous at these sepulchral sounds (paragraphs 5, 7, and 8). The eerie black light
together with the dull sound is suffcient to explain the effect of uneasiness. This room
is on the most western side and symbolizes death or the end of
life.

Should congress enact more FDA regulation of tobacco products even if it adds to the competitive advantage of Philip Morris?

That's hard to say, given that we don't the know the
content or purpose of the regulation you describe in your question.  Cigarettes and
other tobacco products are already heavily regulated in the United States, in terms of
their manufacture and content, how they can be advertised and to whom, licensing
requirements to sell tobacco, and what age you have to be to buy them.  The only way I
could see more regulation adding to a company such as Philip Morris' competitive
advantage would be if the products they currently have in the pipeline already comply
with the new regulations.  In that case, the advantage would be short term, and I would
be fine with the regulations giving them that advantage, as long as those regulations
also better protected consumers and the public.

Also keep
in mind that most tobacco companies, American and otherwise, have a more reliable
customer base in Europe and Asia than in the US, where a much higher percentage of the
population smokes, and make the bulk of their profits elsewhere, where laws passed in
America do not apply.

What judgments does Iago pass on women in his conversation with Desdemona and Emilia? What is the purpose of his statements?

In Othello Act II, Iago uses verbal
irony to reveal his misogynistic attitude toward
women:

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Come on, come on; you are pictures out
of doors,
Bells in your parlors, wild-cats in your
kitchens,
Saints m your injuries, devils being
offended,
Players in your housewifery, and housewives' in
your
beds.

AND

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You rise to play and go to bed to
work.

It is clear
that Iago relishes his male reputation, as it affords him the voice to make such damning
statements about women in front of women.  They cannot retaliate, only laugh it
off.

The Elizabethan culture was overtly sexist, full of
double standards.  Men could talk; women were to remain quiet.  Men were educated; women
were not.  Men could have affairs; women were to remain virgins.  So, Iago is saying
that women are deceivers: they only toy with men, pretending to be domestic housewives
("rise to play"), but really all they want it sex ("go to bed to
work").

In this way, Iago characterizes these otherwise
pure women as common prostitutes, even in marriage.  The irony, of course, is that Iago
is the deceiver who will have these two women murdered in a bed by the play's
end.

How are the Beales from the East Side and the Pickwells from the west side similar and different?

Both families have children, and both sit down to meals together. Neither family is wealthy, but they do manage to feed and clothe their children, keeping a watchful eye on them. Both sets of children are encouraged to talk about their day at the table, and each set of children have chores after dinner. Both families struck me as a loving family unit.

The Pickwells frequently have down and out company at their dinner table which I believe is a ping pong table. This family has more children than the Beales. Spaghetti is a frequent meal due to the large number of people in the family and those whom they invite.  They are white.

The Beales didn't have as much company at dinner other than Maniac. Their family was also smaller with only three children. Spaghetti wasn't as frequent a meal. The Beales are black.

Why does Miss Maudie compare watching the trial to a Roman carnival?

Miss Maudie says this in Chapter
16.

I think that she is comparing the trial to the
gladiatorial contests that Romans used to watch.  I think that she is saying that the
people of Maycomb are like the Romans were.  I think that what she is thinking is that
both the Romans and the people of Maycomb are getting entertainment by watching other
people fighting for their lives.  She thinks that it is disgusting to do that sort of
thing for fun.

I'm not convinced she's right, though.  The
Romans watched other people that they didn't even know dying.  The people in Maycomb
actually care what happens -- most of the whites probably think it will be a good thing
if Tom Robinson is killed.  They think it will preserve their way of life.  So I don't
think they're just watching for fun the way the Romans did.

What are the similarities between the Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights?Also, is a piece of paper considered to be a 2D object or 3D object?

The main question and the supplementary question are two
very different questions from two very different fields. I will answer here the
supplementary question. That is:

Is a piece of paper
considered to be a 2D object or 3D object?

Strictly
speaking a paper is a three dimensional (3D) object, as it has length, with and
thickness. However, for most practical purposes, the thickness of paper being very small
as compared to its length and width, paper is considered to be a two dimensional (2D)
object. Further when we consider paper as as something to write or print on, we are only
interested in the two side or surface of the paper, and these surfaces have no
thickness. This is another reason why a paper is considered to be a 2D
object.

Without going into details of the first question,
that is, similarities between Magna Carta and bill of rights, I will say that the tow
are about as similar as a freshly laid egg and the chicken that comes out of this egg.
Magna Carta represents one of the earliest form of legislation that placed some checks
on absolute rights of the King, that over a period of centuries developed into various
legislation such as Bill of Rights, intended to define and protect individual rights and
freedom.

How are aspects of humor displayed in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird?

I think Scout can be quite funny.  She has a quick wit and a fearlessness that is endearing.  Think about the incident with her teacher in Chapter Two, in which Scout tells Miss Caroline that her brother Jem believes she was switched at birth and that she could read the newspaper as soon as she was born. 

Other humorous incidents include Atticus' indulgent but amused listening to the problems of childhood, and the childish games Dill, Scout, and Jem play when they challenge one another to approach the Radley home. 

Although the novel is serious, the lightness of childhood, with all of its innocence and playfullness, is infused throughout. 

Explain the key differences between Democratic and Whigs and their basis of support

several events and issues helped destroy this newfound spirit of political unity and fostered the return of the two-party system. First came the financial panic of 1819, which cultivated newfound suspicion of neo-Federalist economic policies. Next came the contentious election of 1824, during which John Quincy Adams gained the presidency despite General Andrew Jackson's winning the popular vote; this event caused many ordinary Americans to feel a new sense of distrust toward the political system. However, the true death-blow to the Era of Good Feelings came with the election of Andrew Jackson in 1828. A staunch "man of the people," Jackson detested anything that even remotely smacked of corrupt bureaucracy or elitist aristocracy; he espoused an extreme form of laissez-faire economics and advocated policies that would democratize the political system and give power to ordinary people. (Jackson, incidentally, dropped the "Republican" from "Democratic-Republican"; his party simply became known as the Democratic Party.)

Somewhat paradoxically, Jackson implemented his democratic philosophy by seriously stretching the bounds of presidential power--a very undemocratic way of acting. From his war against the National Bank to his authoritarian handling of the nullification crisis in South Carolina, Jackson's actions quickly led to his opponents' dubbing him "King Andrew." They also led to the rise of a strong political opposition, eventually named the Whig Party. A diverse coalition of anti-Jacksonians, the Whigs tended to advocate greater federal authority and more governmental control of the economy. They supported the National Bank and a policy of protectionism, and they contemptuously considered the Jacksonians' "democratic" philosophy as mere class warfare rhetoric. An 1845 article in the American Whig Review said of the Democratic Party, "By its stupid cry of aristocracy, it has sought to engender the most unnatural war between those natural allies, the poor and the rich..

I want an acrostic poem on the drug of ecstasy please help?please help by writing donot say what it should be focusing on

Well, we are not allowed to do your homework for you, that
is why people suggest what it should focus on. Think about the
characteristics of the drug, though -- then you should be able to come up with something
beginning with each letter that is a characteristic of the drug that you could
incorporate into a poem.

So, for example, with ECSTASY,
some words and phrases that you might use are:

Exposure to
the drug is dangerous, Evil

Cardiovascular failure, Cruddy
feeling, Causes death

Sharp increase in body temperature
(see below)

Toxic, Terrible, Taste-destroyng, Temperature
rising

Altered judgment, As bad as Alcohol poisoning,
Awful, Atrocious, After effects

Symptoms, Sweating, Silly,
Sinful, Soul-wrenching

You are playing with fire; Yellow
skin, Yellow teeth, Yogurt breath

So, the poem could start
out:

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Everybody is not doing it! Why, then, should
I?

Can't you just leave me
alone?

Stop it! I'm cool, I don't need to get
high

Too smart am I to get
stoned!

You need to write the
rest of it yourself. This is a kind of lame poem, but you can do better. We teachers get
in trouble if we do too much of the work for you! So, go for it!

I need some help with analysing a poem by george orwell about an italian soldier. I need some ideas on what it means and techniques that arew used...

When analyzing poetry - it is easier to look at techniques used first, then interpret how they are used to figure out the overall meaning of the poem.

A few preliminary questions you shoud answer are:

1. what is the subject of the poem?


2. what is the general tone? *this will help you figure out what the author is trying to say about his subject.

Then:

1. Below, examine the bolded portions in depth.  These are figures of speech (similes, metaphors, personification).  Ask yourself what is being compared to what or what do you think these mean?  (Do this for each one.)


2. "Translate" the meaning of each stanza in a sentence or two.  This should help you see the overall gist of the poem.  In this step - look for images that could be symbolic of a deeper meaning.

The Italian soldier shook my hand
Beside the guard-room table;
The strong hand and the subtle hand
Whose palms are only able

To meet within the sound of guns,
But oh! what peace I knew then
In gazing on his battered face
Purer than any woman’s!

For the flyblown words that make me spew
Still in his ears were holy,
And he was born knowing what I had learned
Out of books and slowly.

The treacherous guns had told their tale
And we both had bought it,
But my gold brick was made of gold —
Oh! who ever would have thought it?

Good luck go with you, Italian soldier!
But luck is not for the brave;
What would the world give back to you?
Always less than you gave.

Between the shadow and the ghost,
Between the white and the red,
Between the bullet and the lie,
Where would you hide your head?

For where is Manuel Gonzalez,
And where is Pedro Aguilar,
And where is Ramon Fenellosa?
The earthworms know where they are.

Your name and your deeds were forgotten
Before your bones were dry,
And the lie that slew you is buried
Under a deeper lie;

But the thing that I saw in your face
No power can disinherit:
No bomb that ever burst
Shatters the crystal spirit.

"Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops." What does Vonnegut mean?

Vonnegut is referring to two things in his typical acerbic way.  For one thing, Americans often think that "things" will buy them happiness, and frequently these "things" are useless pretty junk. 

But more importantly, I believe Vonnegut is criticizing the platitudes found on gift shop trinkets, philosophically dumbed down phrases that have little or nothing to do with thinking.  For example, "Grow where you're planted!"  or "If you love something, set it free.  If it comes back to you, it's yours!" ... things like that. 

By purchasing these items with their words of dubious wisdom, we try to give the appearance of caring and thought, and fork over the $9.99, and hope it works.

survey various types of bank accounts and the rate of interest offered??no

Right now interest rates are being held down by the fact that the Federal Funds rate is targeting 0%  Normally banks are able to get money from a central bank or from deposits at a low interest rate and then lend them out at higher interest rates and make money on the difference.

If you search rates right now you might find things like:

checking accounts interest rates (if they are paying interest) below 1% and often very close to 0%.

Certificates of Deposit between .75% and 2% though you might be able to find some slightly higher, I've been unable to find anything higher than 2.5%

Savings accounts also are offering very low interest because banks cannot charge very high interest on their other products like mortgages or business loans so they have to keep the interest they are paying out low as well.  You might be able to find a savings account that is paying between 1 and 2%.

What is one example of foreshadowing?

Elizabeth Bowen's "The Demon Lover" is a complex story that can be read as a psychological thriller, a ghost story, or a murder mystery.  And though readers and critics alike debate Bowen's intended meaning, they can recognize examples of foreshadowing regardless of which interpretation they favor. 

First, the title itself serves as an example of foreshadowing; it is an allusion to an English ballad of the same name in which a scorned lover, back from the dead, comes to his ex fiance's wedding (to someone else, of course), to claim her for himself.  Readers familiar with this reference can expect, once they begin reading the story, that Mrs. Drover's ex-fiance, who was "missing, presumed dead," might return for her.  Such a reading would suggest that Bowen intended to construct a ghost story in her writing of "The Demon Lover."

Other critics, disagreeing with the ghost story interpretation, suggest that "The Demon Lover" is a psychological drama that shows the effects war can have on an already-fragile psyche.  In this case, direct characterization of Mrs. Drover tells readers that her "most normal expression was one of controlled worry."  Furthermore, we learn that Mrs. Drover, as the result of a serious illness that coincided with the birth of a child, has an "intermittent muscular flicker to the left of her mouth."  Those who view Mrs. Drover's encounter in the cab as a hallucination--the result of a psychological breakdown--might have viewed her worry and muscular flicker as signs of a nervous disorder.  In this case, Mrs. Drover's history of such signs foreshadows her breakdown at the end of the story.