In To Kill a Mockingbird what are some examples in which problems were solved using reason and intelligence?

MR. RADLEY
& THE KNOTHOLE.  Sadly for the Finch children, Boo's father
solves the problem of his son's communication via the knothole by simply filling in the
not-so-secret hiding place with cement. By eliminating the knothole, Boo no longer has a
way of leaving presents for Jem and Scout, and vice versa. Mr. Radley obviously did not
approve of Boo's growing interest in the Finch children, so this was a cruel but
practical solution.

DILL
THE RUNAWAY.  When Jem and
Scout discover the runaway Dill under their bed, Jem surprises Scout by informing
Atticus of the situation. Jem knows that Atticus will know what to do, and he is right.
He first tells Miss Rachel that Dill is hungry but safe, and that it would be best for
Dill to stay at the Finch home for the evening. Dill could deal with his parents in the
morning. It was a memorable evening for Dill and Scout, who innocently share her bed for
the night. 

In Chapter 3 of Elie Wiesel's Night, what are some acts of kindness and signs of hope in the midst of the brutal inhumanity?

Chapter 3 is one of the most pivotal in the novel because this is where Elie is separated from his mother and sisters and essentially where the ties to his childhood and former life officially are severed. Kindness and hope take on new faces in within the walls of the camps. A prisoner helps Elie and his father stay alive and together by offering the tip to lie about their ages. Elie finds that he's been blessed by the mud God created to keep his own shoes, even if it is only for a little while. There is one Polish guard who tells the men that, "Hell doesn't last forever". He also tells the men to stick together and honor their camaraderie because that will help them survive what is to come. Elie reflects that this guards words were, "The first human words." Up until that point, for more than a week they had been treated like animals, at best. After that first night, Elie and the others took comfort in the sunshine and the people who they recognized. Elie offers hope to a man in search of his wife and children and Elie gives him false hope so that he has the will to live, if only for a little while longer.

What reason was there for Jem to cry in To Kill a Mockingbird, and why didn't Scout hear him?Does it have anything to do with Jem's growing up in...

This question actually refers to Chapter 7 of To Kill a Mockingbird. Jem has discovered the ugly truth about why Mr. Radley cemented the knothole, eliminating the children's direct way of communicating with Boo. When Jem asked Mr. Radley about it, he was told that the tree was dying.

"You plug 'em with cement when they're sick. You ought to know that, Jem."

But later, when he asked Atticus about the tree, his father told him

"Look at the leaves. They're all green and full, no brown patches anywhere--"

Jem knew Atticus would not lie to him, but he realized that Mr. Radley had. Radley had cemented the knothole dliberately to prevent Boo from making any more contact with the kids. When Jem returned inside the house, Scout tells us that

... I saw he had been crying; his face was dirty in all the right places, but I thought it odd that I had not heard him.

Why doesn't the naval officer seem more shocked at the death of the two children?

When the naval officer arrives on the island in the book
The Lord of the Flies,  he sees the boys and sees that Jack and his group are dressed in
war paint and barely clothes.  Ralph is crying and on the ground.  He has no idea that
the scene is almost Ralph's death at the hands of Jack and his
hunters.

The naval officer probably believes that the boys
were playing in the forest and around the island some adventure game.  He has no way of
knowing that Roger had shoved Piggy off the rocks with a boulder or that Simon had been
attacked and continuously savagely kicked and beaten.  Remember, both Piggy and Simon's
body were washed out to sea.

What quote from Act 3 of Romeo and Juliet best expresses that the two main characters are willing to die if they cannot be together?

In the scene that Juliet learns of Romeo killing Tybalt,
she expresses that she is more hurt by the fact that Romeo is being banished and
says:

Wash
they his wounds with tears: mine shall be spent,
When theirs are dry, for
Romeo's banishment.
Take up those cords: poor ropes, you are
beguiled,
Both you and I; for Romeo is exiled:
He made you for a
highway to my bed;
But I, a maid, die maiden-widowed.
Come, cords,
come, nurse; I'll to my wedding-bed;
And death, not Romeo, take my
maidenhead!

Here Juliet is
saying if she can't be with Romeo, she'd rather die than let any other man have
her.

Later in scene iii, Romeo confesses willingness to
kill himself figuratively:

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As if that name,
Shot from the deadly
level of a gun,
Did murder her; as that name's cursed hand
Murder'd
her kinsman. O, tell me, friar, tell me,
In what vile part of this
anatomy
Doth my name lodge? tell me, that I may sack
The hateful
mansion.

Drawing his
sword

Here, he was
asking the friar where and how he should kill himself for the wrong he has done to
Juliet by killing her cousin.

Both Romeo and Juliet show
their desperation in these scenes. Their willingness to kill themselves shows the
passion they must have had to be together.

What is an example of irony in Romeo and Juliet?

One of my favorite ironic moments of the play is Romeo's
tragic lines about hot alive Juliet looks before he drinks the poison to kill himself
because he thinks she is dead.

She is just about to wake
from her fake-death, and Romeo spends 30 lines or so in Act V, scene iii to tell her
seemingly dead body how alive it actually looks. He notices the color coming back to her
cheeks, the warmth of her body, and the beauty that has not been altered by Death's
presence.

So he kisses her alive body and takes the poison
to kill himself.

NOT THIRTY SECONDS LATER, Juliet wakes up
wondering where Romeo is. Boy, that really stinks.

The
greatest irony though is the fact that the hate between these two families was destroyed
by true love.

In Frankenstein what university does Victor attend?

In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein,
Victor Frankenstein attends the University of Ingolstadt in Germany, where he, under
professor M. Waldman, studies the sciences interrelated to creating his Monster:
biology, electricity, Galvinism, pseudo-genetic engineering, and early
genetics.

At the beginning of Chapter 3, Victor begins the
frame story, narrating thusly:

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When I had attained the age of seventeen, my
parents resolved that I should become a student at the university of Ingolstadt. I had
hitherto attended the schools of Geneva; but my father thought it necessary, for the
completion of my education, that I should be made acquainted with other customs than
those of my native country. My departure was therefore fixed at an early date; but
before the day resolved upon could arrive, the first misfortune of my life occurred--an
omen, as it were, of my future
misery.

He leaves Geneva and
arrives at the University of Ingolstadt in 1788.  Four years later, in the Spring of
1792, after four years of study, Victor discovers the secret to animating
life.

After the creature is "born," Victor's friend Henry
Clerval will rescue Victor from Ingolstadt and nurse him back to health in
Geneva.