Should the U.S continue to trade with china or should they stop trading until china fixes their human rights? why?

It would be wonderful to have a country in the world that
knows what is best for the world, wants to ensure that the world does what is best for
it, and is in a position to force the world to do this. If USA meets all the three of
the above criteria, it should definitely meddle in the way China or any other countries
governs itself and enforce its views and will on all of
them.

However, as things stand now, USA falls short of all
the three requirements. Most certainly is not right all its views of how to manage the
world. Many a times it is proven to be wrong in managing its own internal affairs also.
There are enough human right violation and practice of racial discrimination in USA
also. Also I am not sure to what extent USA is more interested in good of the entire
world rather than its own. Finally, USA has been quite unable to control other countries
the way it wants. One example that comes to my mind is its inability to to ensure that
some of the arms and other aids it gives to some of the countries are no used for
conducting terrorist attacks.

There is no harm if
selectively USA refuses to to trade in some of commodities with some of the countries in
the name of human right violation. However it is not going to be in the interest of the
USA to apply this rule too strictly.

In the book Maniac Magee, what does Maniac eat?

Because he is essentially homeless, Maniac Magee pretty
much eats whatever he can get his hands on. His most favorite food is Tastykake
butterscotch Krimpets, and, oddly, he is allergic to
pizza.

Among the things that Maniac eats in the book are
spaghetti at the Pickwells', "carrots, apples, and day-old hamburger buns" at the deer
shed at the Elmwood Park Zoo, and a bite of Mars Bar Thompson's candy bar which was
offered as a challenge. When he initially is living with the Beales, Maniac tries pizza
for the first time in his life, and breaks out in "round, red blotches" all over. At the
East End Fourth of July block party, he feasts on grilled chicken and ribs and
sweet-potato pie, and at Cobble's Corner, he has orange soda and is introduced to what
would become his favorite food, butterscotch Krimpets.

When
Maniac, near starvation, is rescued by Grayson at the zoo, the first thing he eats is
some chicken noodle Cup-a-Soup. He also has a zep, which is like a hero sandwich, and
more Krimpets. When Grayson takes the unbelievably hungry boy to a diner, Maniac
"wolf(s) down meatloaf and gravy, mashed potatoes, zucchini, salad, and coconut custard
pie," and one morning, in the bandshell, the old man brings him "an Egg McMuffin and a
large orange juice." On Thanksgiving, Grayson and Maniac cook a magnificent dinner on
two hotplates and a toaster oven. Their bill of fare is "a feast of roast chicken,
gravy, cranberry sauce, applesauce, SpaghettiOs, raising, pumpkin pie, and, of course,
butterscotch Krimpets."

Are Macbeth and Lady Macbeth equally tragic or is one more tragic the the other?

If we understand the tragic hero in the traditional Aristotelian sense, I would argue that Lady Macbeth is a good deal less tragic than her husband. We do not see her as a complicated individual who is good, better than most, great in fact, but with a flaw that results from her greatness. We see her as flawed and evil from the first moment we meet her. Macbeth, however, is great: he is a courageous warrior, and those virtues which make him that are what bring him down: his violence in particular. That, and his ambition (which also makes him a great warrior), and other things--such as the temptation of the witches and being seduced by his wife. From the first moment we meet Lady Macbeth she seems evil--we have no exposition that she might have been a good person before the events of the play. We can not measure her "fall" as tragic unless she begins at a "height," and I do not think she does.

What is the multiplier effect? What is the expenditure multiplier?

In economic terms, a multiplier effect happens when
something like a tax decrease or a bank deposit has an effect on GDP or the money supply
(in these two cases) that is greater than the actual amount of the tax break or bank
deposit.  In other words, through the multiplier, a $100 billion tax cut might increase
GDP by $700 billion.

The expenditure multiplier is one that
measures the effect on aggregate production of some autonomous expenditure.  In other
words, it is supposed to allow an economist to know how much GDP will grow if, for
example, Microsoft spends $1 billion developing and creating a new operating
system.

This multiplier exists because Microsoft will pay
its employees.  They will go out and buy products from people who will in turn use the
money to go out and buy from others -- the money gets "recycled" causing a multiplier
effect.

In Chapter 8 of Lord of the Flies, what does Ralph think of as a solution, and how does Piggy respond to this emergency situation?

In the novel Lord of the Flies by
William Golding, the author presents Piggy as a boy whose qulaities are not at first
apparent - but rather disguised by his chubby bespectacled sweaty frame, which is
unappealing to some. Gradually, Golding shows us how Piggy's calmness, bravery and
logical reasoning are qualities of value - particularly in a crisis. The real sadness is
that Ralph does not realise the true magnitude of the gift of Piggy's friendship and
moral support until the end - even being disloyal to him and betraying the secrecy of
Piggy's nickname. When the other boys abandon Ralph and his rescue plan, compromising
the fire beacon effectiveness, Piggy does not cry over spilt milk but gets on with the
job of starting again. In normal circumstances, this would have worked but as the attack
shows, they are not dealing with reasonable people and the only option when threatened
and outnumbered would have been self-defence in the form of
attack.

What exactly is desired when asked to explain what a metaphor means?I have to give examples of metaphors in "Ode to the West Wind" and explain what...

Concerning your question on Shelley's "Ode to the West
Wind," to analyze the meaning of a metaphor you just break it down and tell what is
being described (the tenor) and what is being used to describe it (the
vehicle).

First, I believe the line you quote is actually
personification, rather than metaphor.  The wind is given breath
and Autumn is given being.  Don't feel badly about mixing the two
up.  Personification also involves comparison, as does metaphor.  Metaphor, in fact, is
actually an umbrella term that, when used broadly, covers all figurative language, since
all figurative language uses comparison. 

But for your
purposes we'll stick to the traditional definition of
metaphor. 

In line 54 of the poem, Shelley
writes:

I fall
upon the thorns of
life!...

This is a metaphor
in which falling on or meeting or facing the difficulties of life (the tenor) are
compared with falling on the thorns of a bush (the vehicle). 
Thorns or thorns of life form the metaphor. 
And experiencing the difficulties of life is like falling on
thorns. 

If you need more than the above for your writing
assignment, simply elaborate on the ways in which the two parts of the metaphor are
alike.  Or, to put it another way, elaborate on how experiencing life's difficulties is
like falling on a thorn bush.

What are the different aspects of words?

In English there are PARTS OF SPEECH: nouns, adjective,
adverbs, verbs, articles, etc...

There are ANGLO-SAXON
WORDS and GREEK & LATIN-ROOT WORDS: Anglo-Saxon words comprise 70% of our
vocabulary:"sing," "sang," "sung."  Greek and Latin-root words comprise a large portion
of the rest.  They are the language of academia, medicine, and law ("hemophiliac,"
"chloroform," etc...)

There are HIGH FREQUENCY and LOW
FREQUENCY words.  High frequency are words we use daily ("I," "the," "you," "is").  Low
frequency words are words we only use occasionally ("trident," "kumquat,"
"interdenominationalism").