What are the details from Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of A Brave New World?Why are some females allowed a normal, sexual development? What...

One of the most important ideas in these chapters centers around the application of the principles of mass production and human reproduction.  The endless references to "Our Ford" remind us of his application of the assembly line to manufacturing.  The first two chapters of the novel take Ford's discovery and link it to birth ... so much so that the trip down the assembly line is made to echo the more "normal" trip through the birth canal.  The normal, if somewhat uncontrolled or random birth process, has been replaced by a totally controlled, totally planned "scientific" process.

This is the Brave New World where nothing happens without a purpose, even though they do not know enough science to make sure it works all the time.  From the very beginning of life, the trip through the imaginary birth canal, control is the main issue.

George Herbert Love III . love bade me welcome ..........please explain and paraphrase this poem ?

This is a love poem, but it is about the love of
God.

Love called to me, yet I was reluctant (my soul drew
back), the author says. What drew him back was the guilt of his sin. But Love (God) drew
him to God again, sweetly, providing for his needs (asking if I lacked anything). He
tells God he is unworthy to even look at Him (I cannot look on Thee), yet God lovingly
took his hand and said, “I was the one that created your eyes!” The poet replies, “Yes,
but I have ruined them” (with his sin), and God replies, “Who bore the blame?” This is a
reference to the Christian belief that Jesus bore the blame for our sins by dying on the
cross. The poem ends by the author telling God that he will serve him, and God inviting
him in to “taste my meat.” This last part is a reference to Christian growth. The Bible
says that when we are new in our faith, we are like children and can only drink milk (we
are only ready for the most basic tenets of the faith), but as we grow and our faith
matures, we are ready to chew on the “meat” of really understanding the
scriptures.

Why is the gang important to Johnny?

Also, the gang protects Johnny.  When he was beaten up by the Socs and left almost dead, the gang were the ones to find him and the ones to care for him.  From that point on, they look out for him.  They prevent each other from doing anything to hurt Johnny's feelings.  Dally turned on Ponyboy, hitting him, when he angrily yelled at Johnny.  Also, they make sure that Johnny doesn't go anywhere alone so that he doesn't get jumped again.

What is the theme of Auden's "Musee des Beaux Arts"?What is Auden's attitude toward this theme or what is the tone of this poem?

Poets are visual artists with their imagery just as the
great masters replicate scenes with paint.  W. H. Auden feels  admiration for the Old
Masters which he expresses in his poem “Musee des Beaux Arts.”  The title of the poem
refers to the Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels,
Belgium. 

The painting that Auden refers to is “Landscape
with the Fall of Icarus” by Pieter Brueghel the elder. The painting reflects the myth of
Icarus who made wings from wax and went to fly.  His father warned him not to go to
close to the sun or the wings would melt. Icarus in his enthusiasm goes to close and
falls into the water.  The picture portrays the scene with everyone ignoring the
disastrous fall. The only indication of Icarus’s problem is his legs sticking up out of
the water.

Auden’s poem reflects understanding of mankind
in the paintings of the great artists of the past.  The poet notes that these artists
had a special  intuitive insight into the reactions of man to disaster. He refers to
three different paintings: the painting portraying the birth of Christ; the crucifixion
of Christ; and the painting of the death of
Icarus.

Theme

All of these
great paintings have something in common that the Old Masters
understood: man’s indifference to man.  When there are
paintings that portray the suffering of Christ or his birth, there will be children or
people in the picture who seem not to care what is happening in the rest of the
picture.  People eat and drink, dogs continue to act like dogs, and children continue to
play unconcerned that in the middle of the scene some great tragedy is
occurring.

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…and the expensive delicate ship that must have
seen 
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, 
had
somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on. It turns out that when bad things happen to
people, other people are usually looking the other
way.

In extending this theme
 promoted within the poem, the poet's addresses
the passivity that some people feel with regard to the
suffering of others.  Children may  be expected not to understand the “human condition”
in a tragic situation.  On the other hand, adults who bury their heads in the sand so
that will not have to address the difficulties of other people shows an unacceptable
coldness.  

There are other people who handle others’
sorrows by saying that they are minding their own business are displaying a marked
indifference to their fellow man. A person does not need to be a hero, but he should at
least show some degree of empathy and
assistance.

To add to his theme, Auden
points out that man’s lack of support for another is not a new
issue. Humanity has been  indifferent since ancient Greek times to the
time of Christ to the world today. Disasters, tragedies and sufferings are a part of
life; they happen any time. But life has to go on.

Analyze the way in which the buzz saw is characterized in Robert Frost's "Out,out--.Address the relationship between people and their objects of...

Frost's poem is based on a true incident which is believed
to have happened in April 1915; Raymond Fitzgerald, the son of Frost’s friend and
neighbour, lost his hand to a buzz saw and bled so profusely that he went into shock,
and died of cardiac arrest in spite of the best efforts of the doctor.  Frost’s title
invites us to compare the poem’s shocking story with Macbeth’s speech on learning of his
wife’s death:

The key to understanding the theme of Frost's
"Out, out-" lies in the intertextual reference to Shakespeare's "Macbeth"
Act V Sc.5, where Macbeth soliloquizes bitterly on the futility of life
after he learns of the death of his wife:

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Out, out, brief
candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor
player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is
heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and
fury,
Signifying
nothing.

Frost's poem
ironically comments on the death of a small boy who dies tragically at such a young age
because of an accident when he was sawing wood.  His life is compared to a "brief
candle."

When the boy's sister announces that it's supper
time, the boy is distracted and even before he realizes it the saw has cut off his
hand:

His sister stood beside them in her
apron
To tell them "Supper." At the word, the saw,
As if to prove
saws knew what supper meant,
Leaped out at the boy's hand, or seemed to
leap—

Frost has anthropomorphized
the inanimate object 'saw' by giving it human attributes - 'knew' and 'leaped.' the word
'buzz-saw' itself is an example of onomatopoeia - the buzzing sound of the machine
saw.

The last two lines contain
the message or moral which Frost wants to convey to his readers. Frost's message is that
anything can happen at any time. There is no absolute safety or security for human life.
The next minute is not ours and we may be alive one minute and dead the very next
minute. The only thing that we can do is to go on with our lives. Just because the small
boy died it does not mean that all the others will die in a similar fashion. The death
of the small boy cannot be an excuse for inaction. So, the others continue with their
work and lives even after the death of the boy:

No
one believed. They listened at his heart. Little--less--nothing!--and that ended it. No
more to build on there. And they, since they
Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.

Describe Gunpowder.

Gunpowder is Ichabod Crane's horse.  The old steed has clearly seen better days.  Iriving writes:

He was gaunt and shagged, with a ewe neck and a head like a hammer; his rusty mane and tail were tangled and knotted with burrs; one eye had lost its pupil, and was glaring and spectral; but the other had the gleam of a genuine devil in it. Still he must have had fire and mettle in his day, if we may judge from the name he bore of Gunpowder.

Crane's horse may well be a reflection of the man himself:  past his prime a bit short-sighted.  Like his horse, Crane still has some "genuine devil" in him, as his actions reveal.    

In "The Most Dangerous Game," what is the internal conflict of Rainsford/Zaroff and how does it affect them?

Let's take a moment to review what an internal conflict is...  

A conflict is the struggle between two opposing forces.  Stories have external conflicts, like character vs. character / character vs. nature / character vs. society / or character vs. himself (outward things he or she does that hurt him/herself).

However, you are asking about internal conflicts, so let's move on to those.

Internal conflicts occur when a character has a decision to make.  The struggle he/she encounters while deciding what to do is an internal conflict.

I like to tell my students that an internal conflict takes place within a character's heart or head. 

Therefore, when considering "The Most Dangerous Game," the most significant internal conflicts occur 

• when Zaroff decides whether or not to include Rainsford as a peer and fellow hunter of humans or hunt him like he has hunted the other shipwrecked men who have washed up on his island


• when Rainsford has to decide whether or not to join Zaroff in his hunt(s) as a means to save his own life

We can look into each of these further to prove the depth of their internal conflict.

When considering the first example, the reader knows that Rainsford's presence at Zaroff's table presents to the general a very unique and thrilling circumstance.  Zaroff respects Rainsford's famous hunting skills and has read his books. In his mind, he is likely thinking that Rainsford will understand his new hunting technique if anyone will. His internal conflict is evident when the narrator says, 

"But there was one small trait of the general's that made Rainsford uncomfortable.  Whenever he looked up from his plate he found the general studying him, appraising him narrowly."

Why would he be doing this?  Because he is trying to decide whether Rainsford is the kind of hunter who could appreciate the new form of hunting that he has "invented."  If he is, then Zaroff has found an admirable companion for his new sport; if he is not, then Zaroff will have to treat this fellow hunter with the same disdain that he does all the other men who find themselves shipwrecked upon his island.  It is that contemplation--that decision--that is his internal conflict.

When considering the second example, Raisnford converses with Zaroff about his sport for quite a while, mostly because he cannot believe that he has run into such a man. He calls Zaroff's implication that he hunts humans a "grisly joke."  Further, he says he "will not condone cold-blooded murder." In spite of this protest, and probably because it had little effect on Zaroff, Rainsford has trouble sleeping over night.  This evidence suggests that Rainsford has to decide how he will go about saving his own life: should he join Zaroff, though it literally repulses him, as a means to spare himself?  How will he get himself out of this predicament? This struggle is his internal conflict.

The beauty of internal conflicts is in their link to the human condition--we all have moments when we struggle with what to do and/or how to do it. Sometimes it's our heads that cause our angst, and sometimes it's our hearts.  

For more insight into Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game," see the link below.